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THE FREE PRESS. An Independent Democratic Journal. C. H. C. WILLINGHAM, Emtok. The Free Press is an Independent Democrat ic Journal, opposed to all Kings, Cliques and (. ombinations, of whatever sort, organized to de feat the will of the people in all public matters or interests in whatever shape presented. ( artersTille, Georgia, December 19, 1878. Special Notice. Subscribers receiving their papers with a cross mark opposite their names will understand that they owe for it and that we want the money at once. We cannot and will not continue the pa per to those who do not pay up. THE SECRET IXVESTIGA TION. We have on our desk the Atlanta Con stitution, of December 11th. The report er, speaking by authority of one of the committee investigating the Northeast ern bonds, says “the report will be unani mous, and the legislature will be unani mous; that Colquitt is all right; that Murphy is all right; Hill is the only man in doubt, but he will also be satis fied; everything is lovely and the gates ajar.” Didn’t we tell you so? Without seeing the report, without a single item rthe testimony to influence us, we said it was too thin. The people of Georgia are not fools. If it is all blameless and lovely, why this great ado about nothing ? Why all this expense and secret investi gation ? You will understand that we are not the champion of Mr. Hill, nor are we the prosecutor of Governor Colquitt or Mr. Murphy. We think there is blame Pi each and all. In the first place, Mr. Hill should have said nothing about it if he did not intend to pursue the inves tigation to the end. When he blamed Mi Murphy to Gov. Colquitt, and the Governor refused to indict Murphy or dismiss him from the State house, he should have explained that street alterca lion, and made the matter plain in the public prints over his own name, and with a full statement of his reasons. Whether a member of Congress is to be allowed to practice law and take fees in such matters, we are not prepared to de cide. We say there ought to be a law to prevent any member of Congress and of the State legislature from practicing their profession while they fill these seats in an official capacity. Unless they can withdraw from their profession, while they sit in judgment on the interests of the whole country, we say let them re tire and give place to more liberal-mind ed public servants. We understand that Mr. Hill did argue the case before the court, and the court rendered its judgment —that it had no jurisdiction n the case—that it pertained entirely to the legislature and the gover nor. This promised fee to Mr. Hill was in reference to the courts, which he was to receive whenever the governor placed his endorsement on the bonds. Now, Mr. Murphy gotthe fee. He says he got it; the committee admits he got it. Now what court did he practice before ? “He o-ot it for n consideration that satisfied the other parties.” We quote the words of this reporter, speaking for the com mittee. Remember Murphy got it for a con sideration.” We are obliged to under stand that all the “other parties” want ed was the “governor’s endorsement.’ Murphy procured that endorsement, or he deceived the “other parties.” Evi dently, he was paid for that work. Now', in the name of justice, honor and digni ty, is the official action of the governor of Georgia to be hawked about as a mar ketable commodity? Is the legislature to endorse such a precedent ? Suppose the governor did not share in the eight thousand dollars grab, is he to allow the State house clerks to anticipate his offi cial action and trade on it for money ? Great God! what does it mean? Where will it end? Literally, the ser vant is before the master. What securi ty have the people of Georgia that their money is safe anywhere, when the gov ernor can sign away $20,000 again t the advice of previous legislatures, against the advice of legal minds who hold the position of attorney generals, and who signs them in obedience to a subordinate clerk in the treasury department, who sells his information to interested par ties for a moneyed consideration ? Where is the system to end ? We understand that Mr. Hugh A. Har alson, Gen. Gordon’s brother-in-law, makes the bold statement that Mr. Mur phy paid Gov. Colquitt one thousand dollars for tw'O positions in the State Capi tol, and that he has the proof. So it seems that the governor is a trading character. If Murphy had bought two positions, he had a precedent to sell Gov. Colquitt’s official action. He had full authority. Hugh Haralson published an open card, which our readers will re member, that Govei nor Colquitt expect ed him to do things to obtain an office that he could not do. Was it to buy the coveted position ? Why was not Haral son called on to testify ? His charges are no secret in Georgia or elsewhere. Did Bullock ever do more ? Did he ever do so much? Patriots, Georgians, rebuke this wrong! The legislature may pro nounce Gov. Colquitt all right, but is this right in any sense of the word ? Because shere is none of the eight thousand dol lars (which Murphy got, and the com mittee admits he got) found in the gover nor’s hands, shall the legislature endorse this system —this outrage upon the high position of governor ? Bullock and the republicans of Georgia arc being vindi cated very fast. They did what they could for personal advantage, and for the help of their friends, (among whom are some so-called democrats, who were •warmed at the fire of their generous abundance, and who turned, serpent like, upon their benefactors when their day of help was past); but history does not chronicle a more deliberate raid upon the treasury of the State for the private advantage of a clerk in the office of the treasurer. yjHoti’fc cbmplain hereafter if great swin dles develop themselves. Mink at the wild land frauds w hen high officials buy in the market with a view to private ad vantage; endorse all you see; commen all you hear; pay your taxes meekly, humbly ; be thankful for permission to stay at home; bow down in humble de ference to “the powers that be;” when a dish of “whitewash” is offered, swal low it instantly: “agree with thine ad versary quickly, lest he hail to the offi cer,” and you find yourself stranded in poverty and ruin. “All is lovely and the gates are ajar.” Before Belshazzar saw the handwriting on the wall, “all was lovely ’ in the ban queting house. Alas! alas! the Chal deans have carried oft the golden of our honor and State pride! M e are so poor there are none to call us great or good. The glory has departed. A TEXAS VERDICT. In the result of the Northeastern bond question it may be said “nobody’s hurt” on either “side.” The governor came out all right. Mr. Hill wasn’t touched and West Murphy passed unscathed. It eft all “lovely and the gates ajar” for all parties interested. The devil would have come out the same way if he had been interested and was a good “organized Democrat and belonged to a ring of the Democratic family. The result was cu rious, to be sure. We don’t know that the committee could arrive at the “true inwardness” of the whole transaction any better than they did. The two re_ ports were similar to the verdict of a lex as jury. Both said, “You are innocent, but don’t do it any more.” But the people have their own idea of things* They know “there is something rotten in Denmark.” If it was right to sign them why were the parties interested required to pay eight thousand dollars before they were signed. In the name of common honesty, how' w r as it necessary that the eight thousand dollars had to be paid at all w hen it was the duty of the Governor to sign them anyhow ? What is the matter with Democratic Georgia, with her eighty thousand Democratic majority, with the 'Texas banner to boot, w hen eight thousand dollars have to be paid out for even-handed justice before the Governor performs his duty ? These are the questions the people naturally ask. Well the committee made two reports according to the evidence, and both w'ere like the Texas verdict. How* could the committee do otherwise when the bsst and truest evidence, perhaps, were in terested parties in the eight thousand dollar grab ? Neither report of the com mittee denied the fact that somebody un justly received eight thousand dollars be fore the Governor performed his sworn duty—that is, before the bonds were signed. Gentlemen of the jury ! People of Georgia! There is something very rotten in this Georgia Denmark of our’s. That eight thousand dollar grab is still unexplained and the devil will be to pay sometime or other. If we had a free and independent press in Atlanta the matter would be unearthed. We are glad the Legislature refused to pass upon the matter until July next. That w r as eminently right. They were incapable of taking correct action with out reading the evidence and there had been no time toj read the volmdous docu ment just the day before adjournment. Time is necessary to review the testimo ny and to act justly in the matter. Had we been a member of the Legisla ture we should have resigned had action on the reports of the committee been forced last w eek. We pplaud the course of Mr. T. W, Milner, one of the represen tatives from Bartow, w'ould have taken in such an event. He declared to his friends he would resign if no time had been al lowed to read andstudy the evidence in the matter, It was right that action should be defered. There is guilt some where, not withstanding the character of the two representatives, both bearing the impression (?) significance of the 'Texas verdict. WALL STREET A GA IXST DR. FELTOX. We reprint elsewhere the text of the bill introduced by our representative last Monday* It proposes to make National banks, (as institutions chartered by the government) stand by their contracts. With resumption just before us, the ef fort is now being made to resume with gold coin. The banks intend to quadru ple their profits and to diminish the re sources of the stifferiog poor of this tax ridden land. Dr. Felton introduced a bill to make them take standard silver coin of 412% grains as the legal tender of the government, and to revoke their charters if they refuse to do it. Now you will see a howl go up from Wall street. No wonder Wall street de sired his defeat. No wonder Jay Gould sent his emmissaries into the Seventh dis trict. Dr. Felton is the breakwater be tween the injustice of the bloated money power, and the struggling labor of Amer ica. Last winter the New York Tribune called Dr. Felton the “blue-ribhon idiot” of the House, when he electrified the na tson with his great speech on Finance. Now, the New York Herald derides and abuses him, because of the introduction of this bill. All right, Doctor! Go ahead! Stand by us and we will stand by you! Stand by the people who watch this raid upon the Treasury of the nation with fear and trembling! Because Tilden has a long purse, we are to be traded off in 1880. to obtain the “supremacy in the government” Gen. Gordon says, we must not hurt Tilden’s feelings.” Tilden is hard money to the core. He paid out hard money to con trol the other election according to “ci pher dispatches.” Now we must be traded off to the money power. We must be bankrupted as a nation. We must see our little patrimony melt away, and become “hewers of wood and drawers of water” for the Wall street aristocracy, which is based on money and money alone. Thanks to your faithful representation for this effort to shield us from this “de struction that Vaffieth at noneday.” Thte abuse the New York Herald heaps upon von, is only the malignant hate of a thwarted conspirator. They did their best to slay you this fall. Their abuse is the highest eneomium they can place upon your integrity and ability. Keep the silver afloat, for w ithout it we are financially blotted out in the United States and the poor man becomes the slave of his masters in Wall street. TIipSE KEW CLOTHES. Uncle Pete Lawshe, of the Gainesville Southron, wants to borrow our new clothes every other Sunday. We neiih lend or borrow' —clothes, especiallj these. Listen to Uncle Pete, that vile indepen dent democtat, that ugly “Minnesota yankee,” who is brave enough to stand by the right and support Emory Speer. This is what he says: Charley Willingham, of the Cartersville Free Press, is blowing about anew suit of clothe* the Felton ladies of his town have given him. You old wretch what right have you to good clothes? You’re nothing but an editor, and didn’t spend more than four months on the watch-tow er of the people’s rights, working like a criminal iu the pump-pool of a prison, why arc you en titled to new clothes? Charley, don’t you say clothes again, to me, unless you will agree to express them to me every other Sunday, so that I can put on airs over them half the time. ‘‘Do you mind that now.” Now, what we have to say to Uncle Pete is, that the Speer ladies of Gaines ville will have to present him with a new' suit of clothes, as we know no indepen dent, honest democratic editor is able to buy a suit of clothes these hard times. An ineurruptible paper don’t make money these times. Uncle Pete, whisper to the Gainesvill ladies that The Free Press says that they must buy you a nice suit of clothes. Let nobody hear you tell them so. A correspondent w rites to us over the signature of “Georgian,” that “General Gordon is published as going to Boston to make a speech for charity,” and adds, “Will you be kind enough to ask the General to go, also, to Georgia and speak for the poor convicts on his farms in Taylor county. Let charity begin at home.” Well, well, we don’t know what to say except that “the General” would rather come up to the Seventh and beat “old Felton.” If “the General’s” charity speech in Boston don’t pan out better than his speeches in the Seventh, we are sorry for the objects of charity in Boston. The latest new r s from Gov. Hampton last night represents him as better in every wry. The condition of his wound is somewhat improved. His situation may be regarded as more hopeful than on Tuesday when it was feared he could not survive. GEORGIA AFFAIRS- Some Questions the People Desire to have Answered by the Georgia Legislature. When you employ an agent in a bank ing house he must make an yearly, monthly or w'eekly exhibit, just as the di rectors decide, and their books must bal lanee or the directors will dismiss this agent, who acts for them. Not only must they ballance nominally, but every item must show for itself. Ilis word will not do, no matter how honest he is. The proof must be there. Now, we have a good deal of money in oui State treasury. We common people know that we pay in more and more, year by year. We have no voice in our assessment. We give in our little homes and small income at a value we are not ashamed to lay out before us and ask God to bless our humble undertakings. W'e give in this value to be taxed bj' the proper authorities. We see stranger things. When we are perfectly quiet. No new enterprises on hand, no court house or jail to be built, no expensive bridges to be built, no new expenses that fall in the range of our vision; yet we find our taxes increase all the time. We paid $7 on the thousand under Bullock, while he “and his crew” were said to be robbing the State, and we pay our $lO on the thousand under Colquitt and “the men who saved the State.” Now we want somebody to‘explain this item to our comprehension. We ask our law makers a clear, simple state ment for our satisfaction. We are not captious, w r e are not partizans. We are simply ettizens who desire our stew ards to render an account of the trust in their hands. Don’t palaver us with a long harrangue about the “nice system of book-keeping.” Tell us where our money has gone. Tell us why we pay more to keep up the State government now than we did in 1868-09 or even ’7O. Article 4, section 12, paragraph 1, ex pressly says “bonded debt of the State shall never be increased, except to repel in vasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State in time of war.” This new Constitution took effect in December, 1877. Gov. Colquitt endorsed the North eastern bonds ofterwards, thus increasing the “bonded debt.” Aside from the in vestigation of the Murphy fee, w r e desire the Governor to explain this matter. Why did he increase the bonded debt? The new' constitution says “no money shall be drawn from the treasury except by appropriation made by law.” Will this Legislature allow Governor Colquitt to draw* money from the Treasury with out any authority of law ? What protection have we, the tax-pay ers of the State, if these things be al lowed? The Constitution says all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives. Who gave Col. Colquitt this authority ? Let these mem bers of the legislature take this matter into consideration. We intend to place our money and watch it, hereafter. When Congress allowed the State of Georgia $200,000 to pay her for damages in the case of the Western & Atlantic Railroad against, the State. Who did that money belong to ? It came out of the treasury of the United States by “au thority of law. Only $150,000 went in the Treasury of Georgia! What right had Gov. Colquitt to pay out one-fourth of that $200,000 before he, (acting as agent of the State) turned over the w'hole amount into the strong vault of Georgia ? You may talk about lobbying contracts until your head grow*? grays with age— but the people of Georgia will never rec ognize the right of any man or public j officer to pay out money belonging to the State, “except by appropriations made i by law.” Gov. Colquitt referred the payment of a much smaller sum to the action of the State legislature only a few weeks before, a sum due to lawyers acting in a legal ca pacity for the interests of the State. This legislature must explain this mat ter to the clear understanding of the tax payers, or they may shoulder the burden of neglect of duty. It is folly to excuse this matter by saying “Georgia would have gotten none of the $200,000, if it had not been for Garlington and Alston.” If that is so turn out the inefficient mem bers ot Congress and put in these omni potent lobbyists. If they do so much be hind the scenes, let us have the benefit of their open air ability. Gen. Gordon, we recollect, published a statement, “that the bill could stand on its own merits” and dissuaded against employing legal help. We want to know who has the first right to the money of the people, lobbyists or the people themselves ? If they had earned this money why not al low the appropriating power of the State to say how and when they should be paid ? Gov. Colquitt has only the power to exe cute the laws. He has no right to help greedy railroads nor lobbyists, without proper direction from his masters —the people. + It is perfect folly to plaster over these sores in the body politic. The people are awake —they are sensitive about their property in these days of suffering and poverty. This money, when turned into the State treasury, is still the property of the people. They have only delegated the right to appropriate it, to men chosen in each county as their agents. It is not the Governor’s money, ihe Secretary of State’s money, the Treasurer’s money, nor the Comptroller General’s money. Ex cept their salaries they cannot use one dime of it, and they must get these sala ries by a regular course of procedure and authorit y of law, without fees or perqui sites. No swell-headed aristocracy is al lowed in a free government, which pays its servants for services performed and for nothing else. The officials of any State should act cautiously as the re sponsible guardian of a delegated trust. Their daily walk should defy criticism, their conversation should be above re proach, and their hands should be clean. Not only must they be honest, but the world should see their honesty. Then display should not exceed their income, because the people are sensitive about this matter. No legislative investigation is worth a baubee in the eyes of the pop ulace, when investigation employs the same words and procures the same result invariably. We common people—tax payers—are anxious for the truth —only the Truth. THE SILVER DOLLARS. Tlie Two Bills Introduced in the House Concerning Them. In the House of Representatives, on the 9th inst., Hon. W. H. Felton, on leave, intrrduced the following bills, both I of which were read twice, referred to the | committee on banking and currency and I ordered to be printed : A BILL to make trade and Mexican sil ver dollars a legal tender for all dues at their nominal value, and to require their recoinage into standard silver dol lars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, That the silver dollar, authorized by act of Congress, known as the trade dollar, be made, from and after the passage of this act, a legal tender, at their nominal value, for all dues, public and private; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be required to have the same recoined into the standard silver dollars authorized by act of Febru ary twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seqenty-eight, as fast as they, the said trade and Mexican dollars, are received at the treasury of the United States. A BILL to compel national banks to rec ognize and receive the standard legal tender silver dollar as equivalent in value to the gold coins of the United States, Whereas, The banking institutions char tered and authorized by the acts of Congress should be permitted to con tinue \ their existence and granted powers only so long as they are loyal to the laws of the United States and comply with the requirements of the government: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act the Secretary of the Treasury, on receiving satisfactory proof that any national bank in its corporate capacity is making any destinction in matters of deposits or in payment of any debt or debts due said bank between the gold coins of the United States and the standard siiver dollars au thorized by the act of the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and seven ty-eight, entitled “An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender characters”; or that said bank is refusing to pay or re ceive balances between said national bank and association of banks known as clear ing houses, either in gold or in United States legal-tender notes, or in said legal tender silver dollars; or if said bank is prohibiting payment ot balances at clear ing houses in said silver dollars, except ing as subsidiary coin in small sums or that said bank, in any of its fisical trans actions with individuals, corporations, or associated banks is making or propos ing to make a distinction between the gold coins of the United States and said legal-tender silver coins as equal and equivalent to each" other in value, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall be au thorized and required to place said nation al bank in process of liquidation, ana j shall at once wind up the business of said i bank according to sections fifty-two hun dred and thirty four, fifty-two hundred and thirty-five, and fifty-two hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United states, and according to otner sec tions or parts of sections of the national banking act which provide for the liqida ticn of national banks. All laws and parts of laws which con flict with this act are hereby repealed. PENNSYLVANIA’S GREENBACK VOTE, i In an interview* with the editor of the Washington Sunday Republic, Judge Kel ley thusexplaius the comparatively small Greenback vote cast in Pennsylvania at the November election “The explana tion,” said Judge Kelley, “is to be found in the utterances of the new -found mem bers of the national party. There are some wild talkers who have attached themselves to the organization and pressed to the fndnfc, declaring for unlimited pa- per money, and other things equally fool ish and absurd. Although these men in no sense represented the Greenback movement, yet their utterances were ea gerly seized upon by the opposition. The, Greenback agitation does not mean wild inflation; it means the establishment of a scientifically regulated legal tender cur rency, at all times equal to and as good as gold, which can never depreciate in value, and which must always be equal to the demands of business—no more and no less. This is not inflation; there is nothing wild in the idea. On the con trary it is supported by the best expe rience of modern finance; yet the vaga ries of professed Green backers are seized upon by the opposition and placed to the credit of the party. It was this that frightened off many sensible but timid men in Pennsylvania, and reduced the national vote by one-half.” J. J. HOWARD Ac Son, Exchange and Deposit Bank. Deposits received subject to sight drafts. Interest allowed on deposits according to agreement. Collections made in all parts of the United t ates and Canadas. Sight Exchange on New York and Atlanta bought and sold. Foreign exchange bought and sold. Buy aud sell Gold, Stocks and Bonds on order. Prompt attention given to commercial collec tions. iuly!B. FINANCE AND COMMERCE. COTTON MARKET. CORRECTED BY J. J. HOWARD & SON. There is a good demand for all grades of cotton from spinners at the following quotations: Good Middlings : : : : : 7% Middlings : : : : : : 7 Stains : : : : : : 6@7 COUNTRY PRODUCE. CORRECTED BY A. R. HUDGINS. CORN—SS to 65 cents per bushel. WHEAT—New, choice, white, 90c.; amber 85; rod 75c. OATS—per bushel, S3 to 40 cents. HAY—7S cents per cwt. RYE—CO to 70 cents. POTATOES—Irish, 50 to 60 cents. ONIONS—SO to 65 cents. FLOUR—SS 00 to $6 00 per barrel. POULTRY—Spring chickens 10 to 12 cents. EGGS—Per dozen, 15 to 20 cents. BUTTER—Per pound, 20 to 25 cent; BEESWAX—Per pound, 20 to 25 cents. HlDES—Green, 4 to 5 cents per pound; salted 6 cents; dry salted, 8 to 10 cents. FEATHERS—Live geese 40 to 50 cents. TALLOW —Per pound, 4 to 5 cents. RAGS—Cotton, per pound, 2>£ to 3 cents. APPLES—Per bushel, 40 to 50 cents. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, NOTICE. Rave your photograpas taken now, so as to be ready to pay your Christ mas gifts. W. M. BOSWELL, Artist. W. T. WOFFORD, ATTOR -NT E Y-AT-L A W, —AND— DEALER IN REAL ESTATE, CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA. roll SALE OK EXCHANGE. THE “CENTRAL HOTEL,” ADAIRSVILLE, Georgia—a three-story brick building; large yards, garden and orchard attached. Address J. C. MARTI N, deol9-tt Adairsville, Ga. G. S. TUMLIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. CA RT KRSVILLE, GA. TT7TLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS V V in Bartow county, the Superior Courts of the Cherokee Circuit, the Supreme Court and the United States Court for the Northern District of Georgia. decl9-4mos ESSEX CHOICE, The “Old. Reliable” Barber, STILL CONTINUES THE TONSORIAL ART. He is now running four chairs—three on the east side of the square, and one over the Store ol J. A. Stephens, West Main street. This latter shop is in charge of W T illiam Johnson, an excel lent young barber. As heretofore, Essex guar antees satisfaction to his customers, and will leave nothing undone to please them. Call on ESSEX CHOICE. CHRISTMAS HOODS! A. D. VANDIVERE IS STILL AT THE HEAD, LEADING THE van, and keeping the choicest Confectioneries, Cakes and Family Supplies at his place of busi ness cn West Main street. I make a specialty of cake-baking for suppers and par-ties. A. D. VANDIVERE. AUCTION SALE I CLOSING OUT! CLOSINC OUT! ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON NEXT, AT two o’clock, I will sell, at auction, the goods remaining of the stock of N. Gilreath & Son, bankrupts. This is a favorable opportunity to buv goods at a low price. I take this occasion to make the Last Call to Persons indebted to the estate of said bankrupts. The notes and books of account can be found at my law office. A. M. JFOUTE, dec,l9-lt Assignee. S. J. FRANKLIN, EAST MAIN STREET, Cartersville, ----- Georgia, DRV GOODS AND FAMILY GROCERIES, IT EEPS ON HAND ALL KINDS OF STAPLE L 1 >rv Goods and Family Groceries. He keeps also a fine stock of LOOTS SHOES, All of which he proposes to sell at the lowest cash prices. He invites the patronage of his friends and the public, guaranteeing satisfaction to all who trade with him. decl9-tf FARMING LANDS —ANP — City and Village Property —FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR— ATLANTA REAL ESTATE I AM BUYING AND SELLING FARMING lands and Cartersville and village property in Bartow (formerly Cass) county. I have for sale fifteen farms, most of them near the railroad depot, rtnd convenient to post-offices, churches and schools. These lands produce cotton, all the grains and grasses, and water and timber good and abundant. This village is fifty-three miles north of Atlanta. Ga., and eigty miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn. Address WM. T. WOFFORD, Attorney at Law and Dealer in Real Estate, Cass Station, Georgia. TJT7CT business you can engage in; $5 to X3 JUiio X S2O per day by any worker of either sex, right in their own localities. Particulars and samples worth $5 free. Improve your spare time afc this business. Address STINSON & DO., Auguatu, Maine. feb2S-ly CARTERSVILLE High School.| TTTILL BE OPEN FOR THE ADMISSION V \ of pupils, of both sexes, on MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1878, And continue six months. Tution, from $2 to it per month, payable monthly. Patrons are ear- : neatly desired to enter their children at the be ginning of the session. Pupils prepared for any class in college. R. JOHNSTON, Principal. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following passenger schedule took effect July 14th, 1878: NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 2:00 pm Leave Cartersville 3:54 pm i Leave Kingston 4:2lpm Leave Dalton 6:10 pm Arrive at Chattanooga 7:47 p m NIGHT PASSENGER —DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:10 pm Leave Dalton 6:58 pm Leave Kingston 8:27 pm Leave Cartersville 8:53 pm Arrive at Atlanta 10:40 pm DAY PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 6:25 am Leave Cartersville . ~ 8:16 am Leave Kingston • B:ia a m Leave Dalton 10:20 am Arrive at Chattanooga 11:55 a m DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 7:10 a m jueave Dalton 9:06 am Leave Kingston . . .' 10:39 am Leave Cartersville 11:06 am Arrive at Atlanta DOO p m “The Most Widely Quoted Southern Newspaper.” 1879. THE 1879. ATLANTA DAILY_ CONSTITUTION, ttte have few promises to make for the Cou- W stitutiou for 1879. The paper speaks for itself, and upon that ground the managers oiler it to the public as the best, the brightest, the newsiest and the most complete daily journal published in the South. This is the verdict of our readers, and the verdict of the most criti cal of our exchanges. The managers will he pardoned for briefly al luding to some of the features which have given the Constitution prominence among Southern papers. I. It prints all the news, both by mail aud tele graph. 11. Its telegraphic service is fuller than that of any other Georgia paper—its special dispatches placing it upon a footing, so far as the news is concerned, with the metropolitan journals. 111. 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Layton, Gardner Shaw, I. D. Bowdon, and others. * decs SUMNER HOUSE, (Corner Main and Tennessee Streets,) Cartersville, Georgia. MR. SUMNER HAVING REMOVED FROM the Foster House back to the old Sumner House, and having spent considerable time and money in refurnishing and fitting up nis hotel, is now prepared to accommodate the traveling public In the most acceptable manner. Terms Very Low and in Keeping with the Times. BOARD can be obtained at this house cheaper than anywhere else in North Georgia. Stop and see for yourselves. sepo. Notice. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIRE ments of the constitution of Georgiy in refer ence to local legislation. I hereby give notice, that I will introduce to the Legislature, which is now in session, the following bills, to-wit: AN ACT, To repeal an act creating a county court for the oonntv of Bartow. Also, AN ACT, To ammend the charter of Car tersuille; the purpose of this amendment is a reduction of the Board of Aldermen from eight to four, that is one for each ward; and providing for the election of the marshal of the city by the j people at the time the mavor and aldermen are , elected. This theLth October, 1878. Nov2B-30d THOMAS W. MILNER. j Public School Teachers. AND AFTER MONDAY, THE 11th instant, I will be ready to pay off Teachers at the store of Messrs. Stokcly & Williams. THEO. E. SMITH, C. S. C. Christ in a s NX ill ing r y! MISS LEO SHOCKLEY TXFORMS THE LADIES THAT SHE HAS I in st received a fresh mstallm nt of-MILL. XFRY especially suited to Christmas times. Many novelties, which the ladies should exam- — home-made goods. T7ROM THE EAGLE & Jsßbrtinir h (Columbus.) Plaid and Striped SUirting -a new article. HEAVY JEANS, for tbe tor, which every Southern ettWagt horn? industry. T. B. SHOCKLEY. SUCCESS ! THE DREADED CAMCER CURED, The North Georgia Medical In stitute Discharges Another Cancer Patient! STATEMENT OF O. C. CAMPBELI : Duriug the year 1860, a small; dark-brown speck appeared on the skin, between my left cheek and nose, and continued for abo it six months, when it dropped off, leaving a small, red spot on the skin. Gradually the little row speck re-formed on my cheek, aud enlarged a little. After forming and dropping off in this n aimer several times, and enlarging a little ever, time, the scab began to loosen a little around, the edges and adhere in the middle, and would bleed a little w hen pulled off. After this I cou I dis cover a small quantity of yellowish matter form ed uudsr the scab when it was pulled oil'. This state of tilings continued on until the year j 1869, when the scab had enlarged to the sire of a i grain of coffee. Din ing the year 1870, 1 had a se vere spell of fever, which settled in m> head, and this spot on my cheek became very much in flamed, and ran into my left eye, inflaming it also. Becoming alarmed, about this time, I con sulted several eminent physicians, all of whom pronounced it a cancer, and told me it would j finally put out my eye. I then tried a patent medicine, recomn.ended ! by a physician, but without any good rosuhs. ' Mv next resort was to the conjurers am faith doctors, two of each, without receiving any bene ficial results, the cancer all the while growing gradually worse. During the year 1874, or 1875, two physicians, claiming to be able to cure cancers, ci me to 1 Rome, Ga., and advertised themselves as cancer doctors. Having called ou them, and placed myself under their treatment, they exa ained me and pronounced my affection cancer. They put me under a course of treatment, which lasted about five weeks, but resulted in no material benefit. The cancer, in the meantime, had grad | nally increased, until it entirely surrounded my | left eye. About the middle of September last, I learned from Mr. M. E. Cooper the fact that F. W. Memmler, M. D., had located at Cartersville, Georgia, and that he professed to cure cancers. By advice of Dr. Marion J. Dudley, of Gordon county, who was my family physician, I came to Cartersville, consulted Dr. Memmler, and placed myself regularly under his treatment; and i ; will avail myself of this opportunity to express gratitude both to Mr. Cooper and Dr. Dudley for the information and advice, which I look upon as nothing less than Providential instruments in bringing me under the treatment sf Doctor Memmler. After the preliminary examination which Dr. Memmler made of my case, he frankly told n>e that he could not promise me a permaneu and thorough cure without the amputation of my left eye, which operation he was afraid I would be unable to survive, in consequence of my ad vanced gge, I being then about seventy years of age. lie said, however, that he could give me relief by Mopping the cancer pain and am ding its future eating into the flesh around nr eye. After treating me about two weeks, be info med me that, as my constitution was stronger than he had at first supposed, and I had stood the toeat meut better than he had expected, he could do more for me than he had at first promised. I have continued under his treatment from that time until the present, and I now consider that he has done far more for me than he promised. I think now that my cancer is entirely subdued, the pain is relieved and my eye-sight is unhurt. In conclusion, I offer this certificate as a free testimonial to the professional skill of Dr. Memmler, and tender him my heartfelt tfc mks for the inestimable benefit conferred upon me, and would earnestly advise all persons afflicted with cancers to avail themselves of his treatment. O. C. CAMPBELL, Postoffice: Calhoun, Gordon county, Ga. The above certificate was sworn to and sub scribed before me this December 14, 1873. J. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P- All Chroilie Diseases Cured and Surgical Operations Per formed at the North Georgia Medical Institute. MEMMLER & JOHNSON, Proprietors* OARTERSVILLE Ga