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HATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year, - - - - $ 2 00 One copy six months, .... 100 One copy three months, - 50 CLUB BATES. Five copies one year, - - - - $8 75 Ten copies odc year, .... 15 00 Twenty copies one year, - - - 25 00 Fifty copies one year, - - - 50 00 ‘ To do paid for invarriably in advance. All orders for the paper must be addressed to TIIE FREE PRESS. Professional Cards. W. T. WOFFORD, A. TTOItiN E Y - A T -la A AY, —AND— DEALER IN REAL ESTATE, ( ASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA. G. S. TUMLIN, A r r r r 6I t IST EY-AT -la A AY. CARTERSVILLE, GA. "TTI TILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS > V in Bartow county, the Superior Courts of the Cherokee ( ircuit, the Supreme Court and the United Status Court for the Northern District of Georgia. decl9-4mos T. W. H. HARRIS, A T r i' ORNEY-A T-laA AY , CA RTERSVILLE, GA. FLACTICES IN ALL THE COURTS OF Bartow and adjoining counties, and will faithfully attend to all business entrusted to him. Office over postoffice. decs-ly JOHN L. MOON, ATTORN E y-AT-LA AY . Office at the store of P. L. Moon & Son, East Main Street. CARTERSVILLE, GA. ulylS __ R. W. MURPHEY. ATTORNEY -A T - Y A AY , CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor ner of Main & Erwin streets. JWIB - A. BAKER, A r U TO Tt IST TC Y-AT-LA AY , CARTERSVILLE, GA. * it ILL practice in all the courts of Bartow V\ aud adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to ail business entrusted to his caie. Office in Bank Block over the post office, julyw. E. I). GRAHAM. A. K.FOUTK. GRAHAM & FORTE, A T TORN PC YS- Aa'- L A AY. CARTERSVILLE, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Suprc me Courts at Atlanta. Offiiuavest side public Square, up-stairs over W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of Postoffice. j nly 18. T. W. MIL NEK. J. tV. HARRIS, JR. MILNER & HARRIS, ATTO R N E Y S-AT-LA AY , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. jutylß F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokeiy & Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. TWILL FIL . TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, anil put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit the times. Workf.l. warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. aug 15-ly. F. M. JOHN SON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre * Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERSVILLE, GA. WILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, mid will sell them as cheap as they can he height anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done by me warranted to give satisfaction. Give me a call. jnlyis. OH AS. B. WILLING HAM, Stenographic Court Reporter. [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.I T MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, I ta king down the testimony entire; also, oh jeetioes of attorneys, rulings of the court, and the charge of the court, without stopping the witness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis faction'' guaranteed. Traveler’s Griiide. "CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Mondav, June IP, 1878, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave. / arter- ville .... 1:80 pm Stilosboro. ! 2:15 pm 2:20 pm Tavlo; ,ville 2:45 p m 3:' 0p m Rock mart 4:00 p m GOING EAST. Rock mart 6:oPam Tavtorsville 7:00 am 7:lo a m Stilesb >ro 7:40 a m 7:40 a m Cartcrsville 8:35 am WILLIAM MacRAE, Sup’t. ~ COOBA RIVEIi NAVIGATION. On and after Mondav. November 80th, the fol lowing schedule will be run by the Steamer MAGNOLIA: Oom Leave Rome Monday Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday < a 111 Leave Gadsden Tuesday * P 111 Arrive at Rome Wednesday P 1,1 Leave Rome Thursday Jam Arrive at Gadsden Friday l am Leave Gadsden Friday b p m Arrive at Rome Saturday . . . • • • 6 P m J. M. ELLIOTT Gen’l Sup’t. ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this Road will run as follows: BAY TRAIN— EVERY DAT. Leave Rome *8:10 a m Arrive at Rome 12:00 m SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION. Leave Rome Arrive at Rome • ■ . 8:00 p m WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following passenger schedule took effect July 14th, 1878: NIGHT FASBENGER —UP. Leave Atlanta 2:00 p m Leave Cartersville 8:54 pin Leave Kingston 4:21 p m Leave Dalton .6:lopm Arrive at Chattanooga 7:47 p m NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:10 pm Leave Dalton 6:58 p m Leave Kingston 8:27 pm Leave Cartersville 8:53 pm Arrive at Atlanta 10:40 p m DAY PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 6:25 am Leave ( artersville 8:16 am Leave Kingston 8:43 am Leave Dalton 10:20 a m Arrive at Chattanooga 11:55 a m DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 7:10 a m Leave Dalton 9:06 am Leave Kingston 10:39 am Leave Cartersville 11:06 am Arrive at Atlanta 1:00 pm a lecture to Young men. .Just published in a sealed envelope. Price six cents. A lecture on the nature, treatment and radical cure of seminal weakness, or spermator rhoea, induced by self-abuse involuntary emis sions, impotency," nervous debility, and impedi ments to marriage generally: consumntion, epi lepsv and fits: mental-and physical incapacity', Ac.—Bv ROBERT J. CULYERWELL, M. D., author of the “Green Book,” Ac. The world-renowned author, in this admirable lecture, clearly proves from his own experience that the awful consequences of self-abuse may be effectually removed without medicine, and withou dangerous surgical operations, bougies, iustnir ents," rings or cordials; pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which every sufferer, no matter what his condi tion may he, may cure himself cheaply, private ly and radically. ' fi&r-T his lecture will prove a boon to thous and# and thousands. Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, on receipt of six cents, or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers, THE CL IA ERWELL MEDICAL CO., 41 Ann Street, New York City. Post Office Box 4586. july 18. LITCHPIELD HOUSE (Acworth, Georgia.) E. L. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor. C'IONVENIENTTO THE DEPOT, AND ITS j tables supplied with the very best the mark t affords. augS. VOLUME I. SUCCESS ! THE DREADED CANCER CDRED, The North Georgia Medical In stitute Discharges Another Cancer Patient! STATEMENT OF O. C. CAMPBELL: During the year 1860, a small, dark-brown speck appeared on the skin, between my left cheek and nose, and continued for about six months, when it dropped off, leaving a small, red spot on the skin. Gradually the little brow speck re-formed on my cheek, and enlarged a lit. le. After forming aud dropping off iu this manner j several times, and enlarging a little every time, tlu scab began to loosen a little around the edges and adhere in the middle, and would bleed a little when pulled oil'. After this I could dis cover a small quantity of yellowish matter form ed undsr the scab when it was pulled off. 1 his state of things continued on until the year 186 , when the scab had enlarged to the size of a j grain of coffee. During the year 1870,1 had a se- J vere spell of fever, which settled in my head, ant this spot on my cheek became very much in flamed, anil 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 Anally put out my eye. I then tried a patent medicine, recommended by a physician, hut without any good results. My next resort was to the conjurers and 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, came to Rome, Ga., and advertised themselves as cancer doctors. Having called on them, and placed myself under their treatment, they examined me and pronounced my affection cancer. They put .ne under a course of treatment, which lasted about flve weeks, but resulted in no material benefit. The cancer, iu the meantime, had gracl 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 liis treatment; and j will avail myself of this opportunity to express grat tude 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 Men mler. After the preliminary examination which Dr. Memmler made of my case, he frankly told me that he could not promise me a permanent and thorough cure without the amputation of my left eye, which operation he was afraid I would be Uj.able to survive, in consequence of my ad vanced age, 1 being then about seventy years of age. He said, however, that he could give me relief by stopping the cancer pain and arresting its future eating iDto the flesh around my eye. After treating me about two weeks, he informed me that, as my constitution was stronger than lie had at first supposed, and I had stood the treat ment 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 thanks for the inestimable benefit conferred upon me, and would earnestly advise all persons afflicted with -ancers to avail themselves of liis 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 Chrome Diseases Cured and Surgical Operations Per formed at the North Georgia Medical Institute. MEMMLER A JOHNSON, Proprietors. CARTERSVILLE Ga Bartow County Sheriff’s Sales. HULL BE SOLD before the court house door in ♦V Carters' iie. Georgia, on the first Tuesday in • 'ebnuuv next, lat, between the legal saie hours the following described property, to-wit: Lots of land numbers 384, 38.>, 38b, 088, 38ft, .190, 01, 330, 331, 332, 336. 337, 338, 311, 312, 313, 318 and >5, and fractional lots numbers 392, 329, 333,334, :<35, 317, 320, 319, 257, 258, 259, 260, 240, 247, 88., 103 end 414, ail lying and being in the Eta district ind 3rd section of originally Cherokee, now bar t nv county, Georgia, containing in the aggregate 1180 acres, more or less, described and conveyed i.i a certain deed of mortgage executed by John J. Calhoun aud Nathan C. Sayre to Joseph p. W. Marshall, bearing date June 19,1869. Levied on and will be sold as the property of John J. Calhoun and Nathan C. Sayre to satisfy one Bar l*w Superior Court mortgage fi. fa. in favor oi Samuel S. Marshall, trustee and assignee, vs. John J. Calhoun and Nathan C. Sayre. Property pointed out and specified in sail! mortgage fi. fa., and in possession of defendants. Also, at the same time and place, lot of laud number 188, in the 23rd district and 2nd section of Bartow county, containing 160 acres, more or les-. Levied on and will he sold as the property o ; James W. Riddle and 11. J. Finley to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court fi. fa. in favor of Thomas Hutcherson vs. said James W. Jtiudle and H. J. Finley for the purchase money. Prop erty in possession of defendants. Also, at the same time and place, lot of land number 718, in the 4th district and 3rd section oi Bartow county, containing 40 acres, more or less. Levied on and will bo sold as the property of the estate of Robert M. Stiles to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court fi. fa. in favor of Planters and Miners’ Bank vs. Margaret W. Stiles, ad ministratrix of Robert M. Stiles, deceased, and Tnomas Tumlin and Eli Barrett, indorsers. Property pointed out by Mrs. Margaret \V. Stiles, administratrix, and in her possession. Also, at the same time and place, twelve and one-half acres off the northwest corner of lot of land number 210, in the 6th district and 3rd sec tion of Bartow countv. Levied on and will he sold as the property <>' C. W. Whitworth, one of the defendants, to satisfy one Bartow Superior Court fi. fa in favor of Z. T. Terrell vs. J. H. Denman andC. W. Whitworth, principals, and R. C. A J. E. Roberts, indorsers. Property pomted out by C. W. Whitworth and in his pos se sion. A. M. FRANKLIN, Sheriff, JAS. KENNEDY, Deputy Sheriff. . aaMßw—i vmasmmmmmmMmammmmßmmmmmmm Commissioners’ Saie. J. Nelson Tappau, Trustee, &c. vs. The Cherokee Railroad Company and others. In Equity, iu the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia. E Y VIRTUE OF A DECREE IN THE CAUSE t above stated, the undersigned commission ers, duly appointed bv said court, will, on the Fourth day of March, 1§79, it being the first Tues dav in si id month, before the court-house door i:i the city of Cartersville, in the county of Bar ton', Georgia, during the usual hours of public sales, sell at public outcry, the following prop erly of the defendant, The Cherokee Railroad Company, to-wit: Its railroad, situate in the counties of Bartow and Polk, Georgia, from its terminus at Cartersville, in said county of Bartow, to the terminus at Prior’s station, on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, in the said county of Polk, with its franchises, rights, privileges aud immu nities, including its road-bed, bridges, trestles and iron and its locomotives, cars, trucks, with all : ts appurtenances, and all its other property, real, personal or mixed; this sale not to include anv peronal property not now in the possession of Daniel S. Printup, the Receiver in said cause, or money or choses in action. Terms—Five thousand dollars to be paid down immediately at the close ol' the sale and the bal ance of the purchase money to be paid within tiiirty days from the day of sale, with interest from the‘day of sale at the rate of ten per cent, pci annum, and to be paid in the city of New York or the city of Atlanta, Georgia. If the cash payment of five thousand dollars is not made promptly the commissioners will be at liberty immediately on the same day at the same place to re-sell said property under the same terms of sale; and if the deferred payment is not made within the time above specified all money paid on the purchase and rignt of the purchaser to the property sold or possession will be forfeit ed, and the commmissioners will have the right to take possession of said property and to re-sell the same. Said sale will bo made subject to confirmation by ■ aid c< arton the report of the commissioners. Possession will be given? as soon as the purchase money is a'l paid. T.tles will be made by the commissioners un dar and by approval of said court, when all of the purchase money is paid. DANIEL S. PRINTUP, WILLIAM F. DRAKE, j a a2-td Commissioners. Great Bargains. J. A. ERWIN & SON ARE OFFERING AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS, FALL AND WINTER GOODS, CONSISTING OF Dry Goods, Clothing, Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Boots and Shoes, Crockery, Ac., Ac., Crockery, Ac., Ac., AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. TO SUIT THE TIMES. Cjil and Examine tlieir Goods and Prices Before Buying:. J. A. ERWIN & SON. Cartersville, Ga., Sept, 19th, 1878. NORTH GEORGIA MEDICAL INSTITUTE Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga. F. Wa MEMMLER, M. D.,1 piionrietor* LINDSEY JOHNSON, M. D..1 x loprietor . THE GREATEST DISCOVERY KNOWN Fi R CURING CANCERS. • CANCERS AND ALL CHRONIC DISEASES Successfully treated. We cure cancer without tlie use of the knife unde: Dr. Memmler’s great internal cancer rein ed'. Payment after Cancer is taken out and healed. All kinds OF SURGICAL OPLR ATIO: S PERFORMED. COISTSTJLTATION FREE ! Office hours: 9t012 a. m.; lto6 p. M. nov2B STI MN ER II OUS E, (Corner Main and Tennessee Streets.) Carersville, : : : : Georgia. Mil. 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 his hotel, is now prepared to accommodate the traveling public In the most acceptable manner. Terr is Very Low and In Keeping with the Times. BOARD can be obtained at this house cheaper than anywhere else iu North Georgia. Stop and soe for yourselves. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 9, 1879. A WORD TO THE TAX-PAYERS OF GEORGIA. To the Free Press: We have allowed the material inter ests of Georgia nd the management of her resources (delegated to State author ities) to be manipulated by a set of ring politicians, until we are almost ruined by ever-increasing taxes and the State absolutely disgraced by the quarrels and exposed corruption of the men who con trol her business. This corruption and use of the State's means by these men has been going on ever since Bullock took his seat as Gov ernor. Then we. saw the immense sum collected into the treasury, thrown'broad caat among the tricksters who gathered around the capital either as lobbyists, members of the Legislature, as Slate offi cials or as clerks and subordinates. La ter administrations show the full work ings of a system, then successfully inau gurated. After Democrats got into power the same men plundered with equal fa cility and ability. They took the alios of Democrats and pile *, the party la is to hold ti eir ill-gotten ga: until t -day Georgia’s capital is filled with men who are “on the make” and the most success ful man, is he who has accumulated the most money, thereby enabling him to confer pecuniary advances and thus con trol the men who receive these accommo dations. The State is like a fat carcass under the manipulation of these birds of prey. They fight aud gorge and only are agreed in keeping *iY outsiders and in concealing the spoils. A hand of “or ganized plunderers.”* The railroads for which the Bullock legislature endorsed and issued their bonds, wore managed by both parties. The State road was leased then, but is to-day the grandest monopoly in Georgia. Gov. Brown “oat Heroded Herod’ in the Radical party, but he is “boss” and in the organized Democratic party to-day, with his mon ied monopolies. You may examine every scheme in ful blast in Georgia, and it is equally the property of both sides, except that the Republicans keep quiet and the Demo crats cry “stop thief,” to hide the pecu lation and thievery. There are some monopolies in the State that will have to be curbed unless the pup pie are willing to sell ‘ueir birthright to these men, not for so much as a “ mess';* r pottage,” but forthe noor privilege •> going fir -t h ' pauper house, for the ffme is fast "ap proaching, .when that will he the-last al ternative. The wa ; ad •to lease the State road musi bd made a business matter alone: and “to take it out of polities.” What was the result ? It is enriching the lessees every hour at an enormous ratio, find the State has lost iu actual money the I we.nty years. Did it take itself out of politics '? Let us see. There was an excursion tram sent irom Marietta the day before the election in November composed of fourteen passen ger coaches, intended to take colored vo ters out of their respective counties and leav e them outside until the da} r of voting had passed. That train was loaded with a barrel of whisky and two tin cups. These voters were to be made beastly drunk and turned loose on the public of Dalton, until they were cheated of their votes in the lower counties. Was that an evidence of the road being out of pol ities ? When a telegram was sent to every employee on that road that “you are expected to vote an open ticket.” Was that taking it out of polities? When Air. Lacy was deprived of his position at Kenesaw because he voted for Felton and an order issued that no trains should eat there until he vacated the house. Was that taking the road out of polities? When every lawyer and every legisla ture member who belongs to the ring has a free pass on that road, is that, taking it out of politics ? Tax-payers, do you see where you have been swindled? When the Legislature appointed a committee to investigate the Dade coal mines with its three hundred convicts what do you see? This railroad was made to play its part. Gov. Brown placed two line drawing room coaches at the disposal of the com mittee and asked permission to accom pany them, which, strange to say, was granted. When they got on board they found five gallons of sherry wine; five gallons of whisky, a basket of cham pagne; sugar and lemons ad libitum, sev eral boxes of cigars, a euchre table and a colored waiter. When they reached Dalton there was a band of music and a banquet. [This we get from a member of the committee.] Here were two mo nopolies managed by one set of men, each headed by Gov. Brown, and the States business was engineered by these men in the charge of Gov. Brown and “everything was lovely and the gates ajar!” Examine the report yourself and you will -ee the result. Now 1> <>k at the plain facts in the cr>se. Gov. Brown pays out at the highest aver age, 26 cents per day for these three hun dred convicts, everything included. Each one must get out ivuety bushels of coal or be severely punished ; he there fore gets his ninety bushels of coal mined for 26 cents, where other labor cannot be had to do the same work for less than $2.75 per day, because the market price for mining coal is three cents a bushel. The State of Georgia gives these men this efficient labor to break down the other labor of the country. The State of Georgia gives these men her railroad to haul it to market and the poor people of Atlanta and elsewhere who pay such out rageous taxes to convict these criminals must pay these monopolists any price for the coal they ask, and be entirely at their mercy or do without coal. These mon opolies are breaking down honest indus try wherever they go. When they make brick they can break up any rival estab- hshment in the State, and so on to the end of the chapter. The politicians of Georgia control the convicts to keep their pockets full. Gor don, United States Senator, has two camp- on his land, and carries a share for Gov. Colquitt, or did do it, a short time i go. Renfro and Murphy have the Treasury in their hands and they have also a penitentiary. The Comptroller loner \1 lias a share if he has not lately lisposed of it, and many others likewise. We suffer great wrong, and it is Injustice to every tax-payer io bear these things In silence. Bartow county’s jury and jail fees are enormous. Each regular term of the court costs us about $5,000. This money is paid to convict criminals, who, i 1 turn, are used by a set of politi cians to perpetuate their pow er over us. We are ground down by these monopo lies, and yet—are not “respectable” if we do lot fall down and worship! Bartow. i- wTionmwni THE WiM) lAMIS. '1 he Suggestions of the Enormous Con spiracy. Ihe Best Way to Fight it Off—The Posi tion of the Comptroller-General—Some Sound Advice that Wasn’t Taken — A ul That’s Why we are Hav ing Trouble. For some time past there has been a g.od deal of uneasiness in regard to the deposition that is being made of the ! wd.d If lids of the State. It has been charge* that there is a great “ring” that s getting possession of these lands, at ,uch low prices, afid in such quantities, a. to demand speedy.legislation. AM EXPOSING STATEMENT. in th ; Constitution of last Wednesday there appeared a full statement of the ci.se, in which it was shown that for $l3B over 8310,000 acres of these lands have fallen into the hands of a few r speculators. Li is e’ timed that in many cases these lands were sold under incorrect levies, and wi bouf the knowledge gf the own ers. This is an astounding-Statement, and if i is true, and we presume it is, it certainly calls for reform. * l’lie r 3form needed is simply this: That ti e Comptroller General shall himself be empowered to get up the list of defaulted wild lands; that they shall be taxed in the county in which they are situated, ami tha the law requiring the transfer of tax fi. fus. shall be amended .-o as to ex cept the 11. fas. on wild lands. As the law now stands REFORM IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE. The tax lists are sent up to the Comp ile* General from the various receiv and he has nothing to do except to these lists. All errors arc there in i• ■ ■.: to the tax receiver or the eiti hr. Goldsmith has nothing to do .. i , it, and. can have nothing. The .'v at trouble about the speculators has ur sen from this fact. The law requires th it if any person comes in and pays the am'WfGt’ot tax due- on a fi.’fa., the fi. fit. s;h 11 bo transferred to the person so pay ing- law certuiA. per., i;.- Ifr-Ve gbnc'Jo the Comptroller, and taken up the fi. fas. covering thousands of acres of land. The Comptroller General, at first, did not consent to make these trans fers. He determined, if possible, to avoid making the transfers, and there for.? appealed to the Attorney General for an opiniin upon rise subject, Upon this point, the Comptroller Gen eral sa cs in his last report: ‘Whenever any person, other than the person against whom the same has issued, shall pay any execution issued for State, coumy or municipal taxes, or anyothtr execution issued without the judgment of a court, under any law, the officer whose duty it is to enforce said execution, shall, upon the request of the party so paying the same, transfer said execution to said party; and the said transferee shall have the same rights as to enforcing said execution and priority of payment as might have been exercised or claimed before said transfer.’ Code 1873, §B9l. “The Hon. Attorney-General gave it as ids opinion, that this law embraced wi and land li. fas. issued by the Comp troller General. Under the law as con strued by the Hon. Attorney-General, I lm:e transferred most of the fi. fas. to parties who came forward and complied the re wit i. I had no option in the mat ter, as the law was mandatory, ‘shall transfer, etc.; but it was my sworn duty to exec u:e the same. Ido not think it right. J believe the State should keep control of all such fi. fas. The trans feree can hold the transferred 11. fas. un til the ch 11 summer months, and serious ly i apair the bidding thereon. This is about tilt only evil enect I can see likely to grow out of such transfers, as I have, by instruction to sheriffs, thrown around such sales all the safeguards I thought the law gave me. “I embrace the first opportunity to re spectfully recommend the modification of this section of the code, so as not to include wild land fi. fas.” HOW SHOULD THE REFORM BE MADE ? It is, therefore, plain, that as the law now stands there is no escape from this enc unions speculation. The law should be (‘hanged. This is plain. But we find that the Comptroller lias already recom mended he change. Indeed, to show how repe itedly the Legislature has been warned on this subject, we quote from the repor of Comptroller Madison Bell. It says: Extract from Comptroller-General’s Report submitted to the Governor, Jan uary, 1870; “Entermining the views that I do in reference to the perplexing subject of wild lands, 1 would feel that I had been dm leet in official duty were I to with -1 the expression of my convictions i ■ he wild land law of 1866 ought to ! v -pealed,” A v g wing his reasons for asking the repeal of the wild land law of 1866, he proceeds: “I believe, therefore, that justice and economy require the repeal of the law, and that returns of land should be made in the manner and form practiced before its passage;-that is, to return by district, number and section, when practicable, and if not practicable, then by such des ignation as may be practicable to the tax payer.” On July 20, 1871, the following letter, from Mad son Bell, Comptroller-General, to Governor Bullock, was published in the papers and laved before the Legisla ture : “if these lands were brought to sale, lant speculators would form rings and cliques to purchase them and these lands would pass from the hands of the inno cent and unwary to the possession of spe< ulators for merely nominal sums, in adequate, perhaps, to pay the taxes; and thus the sales of these lauds would inure the benefit of real estate dealers, without benefitting the State or mater: illy in creasing the revenue?.’ ’ But there was still further warning, i Comptroller Goldsmith m ide plainly the | same point in his report of '77, as see below: . ‘1 respectfully recommend that the present law, approved February 28th, 1871, he so amended as to allow the ' Comp roller-General to make up a list of all mi eturned wild lauds and improved lands, and upon these issi e fi. fas. We have t lousands of acres of wild land in Georg a which are not returned for taxes, and w'lich can, with some trouble, iw re quired to be returned for taxes, or sold, and then returned by the new pureha er. Much just complaint has been made that fi. fas. from this office are against lands which have been regularly returned and taxes paid thereon. I am in no way re sponsible for such mistakes I issued the 11. fas. on the list of unreturnc 1 lands sent ip by receivers, and either citizen or receiver has committed the error. “If he law is changed as above sug gested. then the responsibility will be placed on this office. It is hardly right t;o require an officer to adopt the work of •n :" . * a:;* an thereon, r.-i hold him u spon fible for the errors* mistakes, etc., < resulting therefrom.” But there was yet another warding. In his report of 1878, Comptroller Gold smith again put tl. mutter nefore the Legislature, and again Urged the repeal or atne ulment of the ofnoxious law. He said: “1 rcsjectfnily call youi attention to n y report submitted to your Excellency on the first of ‘January lat; and to the recommendations thT*;v>in contained ; and, especia.lv, to thin one i; relation to amending and t*erfecting the present imperfect wild, laintf daw. I liopethat this lav will receive’-the attention of the Legisla arc at its.ensuing session. “In this connection it is proper to re mark t ut, in some parts of the State, I have been Censured for the manner in which he wild land law has been exe cuted. Errors ami mistakes have oc curred and incemeniencei many citi zens. Some good people blame me for these disagreeable troubles. The trans fer of v ild land fi. fas. unde • section 891, of the c xle of 187 p, has beci regarded by some as unwarranted by law. In .view of the above, I earnestly request the. Legisla ure> to appoint a committee to look into this matter and ascertain if the wild land law has been correctly and faithful y executed by me, and whether I aril to blame for .the errors and mistakes which 1 ave been made.” A at ST AND APPROVING REPORT. It is ! o wonder, then-, that i report of the committee of the Legisbttlmy ap-y pointed to investigate the wild land busi ness, should indqrse, in strong terms, the administration of the Comptroller. fit could not have been otherwise. The Comptroller, by' repeatedly asking fork repeal of the law, has cleared hk hailds. of ail re; Therefore, the coin nvttee said :• “Mr. Bpeak er— l The task assigned you-* - committee ligs-'been no small c ue. - Tie* limited ime they have had uas blot been sufiiciePb jro perform Satisfactorily to. tie nisei-es the TiivesSgat'on contem plated in the resolution of the House of fered k> the gentleman from tfiineh. V 8 find the Comptroller General has is u 4 tag; fits, to the amount of m vend ITT<'■jr.W-Tftgainst' Wild lands in the differ* ent coui ties in this State. These ti. fas. have, in some instances, been sent direct ly to the sheriffs of the counties where the land lies, to be sold ; bur the majori ty of them have been transferred to par ties who have no interest in them, ex cept to make money outoDih mi. Undei the resolution before mentioned, your committ ?e was required to ascertain if these fi. fas. are issued legally. This is question the courts should decide, Yet the Comptroller General certainly could nor b• c unplainc-! offer act! lg as h<- did vln the fi. fas., when we t ike into con sideration the fact that he was acting un der the advice of the State’s legal adviser. We doubt if it was the intention of the framers of the act of 1871 that they should be transferred; but when taken, in con nection w ith the code, it was not an un reasonable construction of that law (in on - opinion). Your committee not being satisfied with the information to be ob tained in the Comptroller General’s and the wih. land office, have had before them several of the transfeiees of these fi. fas., besides other w iinc • The in formation gathered from these witnesses entirely exonerates the Comptroller Gen eral and wild land clerk from even the suspicion of fraud upon their part. “They have, in the execution of this law, had to contend with difficulties w hich were insurmountable, and with w hich none of their predecessors have had to contend, and the fidelity with which they have watched the State’s in terest and ‘serves commendation at our hands.” ti:e precious meials, Wells, Fargo & Co.'s annuj 1 statement of the precious metals produced in the States an 1 Territories west of the Missouri river, including British Columbia, and the receipts in San Francisco from the west coast of Mexico during 1878, shows aggregate products as follows: Gold, $38,950,211; silver $38,740,391; lead, $3,452,000; the total being less by $17,- 267,132 than for 18*7. California shows an increase in gold of $2,078,000, but a decrease in silver, etc,, of 1,323,000. Nevada shows a total falling off of $16,- 398,341, the yield from the Comstock be ing only $21,295,043, as against $37,911,- 710 for 1877. Montana shows a marked increase, all in silver. Utah falls oil over $2,01K),000, but nearly $1,000,000 of it is caused by a reduced valuation of silver and lead bullion, Although Col orado shows $1,680,802 less than for 1877, the yield has been really greater, as the reports for 1877 duplicated the product of certain localities, but the duplication was not discovered soon enough to be corrected in the statement for that year. The prod uction by States and Territories, is as follows: California, $18,920,461; Nevada, $35,181,949; Oregon, $1,213,724; Washington, $73,311; Idaho, $1,868,122; Montana, $9,763,640; Utah, $6,064,613; Colorado, $6,232,747; New Mexico, $453,- 813; Arizona, $2,287,983; Dakota, $2,- 215.804: Mexico (westcoast), $1,594 U;is: British Columbia, $1,283,460. 4'iie bul lion from the Comstock Lode- contained 45 percent, of gold and 55 per cent, ol silver. Of the so-called base bullion from Nevida, 30 per cent, was gold, and of the whole product of the State, 35 per cent, was gold. All probabilities now indicate that the yield of gold and silver from all sources named, for 1879, will not greatl y exceed $40,000,000. # ♦— ; The Ph iadelphia Press desci ibes an or ganizatioi or institution in that city of what it calls “jury tixers.” Their occu pation is to operate on jurors, mostly in civil cases, to return verdicts, or a con sideration in favor of the plaintiff or de fendant in certain suits. The Press de scribes them as common to all the courts In Philadelphia. OATES OF ADVERTISING. Adv u-tisemente will be insert 'd at the rale One Dollar per inch for the fust insertion, nt Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. COX Tit ACT RATES One inch, 1 month, $2 50; 3 months, $5; '• mor ,hs, $7 50; 1 year, $lO. Fourth roluriu month. $7 50; 3 months,f 15; 0 months, $25; yea 133. Half columns, 1 month, sls; 3 months, *2 <5 months, $10; 1 year, S6O. One column, 1 month $25; 8 months, $4<R 6 months, S6C; 1 year, SIOO. Address all orders to Ths Free Press. NUMBER 26. THE DEAD OF A "STEAK. The mournful record of 1878 embrace many well spent lives, taken from aim* every walk of life. In our own State nor a dew have been taken whose places wdi be hard to till. Among these m be mentioned Mass Maria Mclntosh, Savannah, whose stories for children air pi.ilaiithropv endeared her o a wide eu dc; Miss Louisa W. King, of Augusta, whose devotion to the amelioration c mfiering will keep her memory green: Cc lonel Miller Grieve, of Milledgeville Judge Barney Hilt, of Macon; Judg- George TANARUS). Kice, of I.awrenceville; Judg Jo m l'. Clark, of Americas : Col. Wiliian fit Kir:lev, of MiUedgeville Prof. Mil Ha u Heniv Waddell, of Athens; Hon . J. Collier, of Dooly: Hon. Absalom H Chappell, of Columbus; C< . Janies in Mattlu ws, of Oglethorpe; Colonel Win. Henry. Stiles, of Cartersvilic ; Cohinci V Salisbury, of Columbus; Co'or.el t home Perry, of Rome! Henry Willi: m- Esq., of-Savannah. and l)r. il. L.Roddt < f Monroe. In ti e great world outside of Cue Sfciu the dread destroyer was also.po respect* f persons. It; the vhim-he w ere sn. t m down Pope Pies IX and Carom;* 1 Frj.nct i, ais see re buy of Stare; Ar--I bishop t oupanloup, of Paris l>r. < hari- - Hodge, an eminent Presbyterian of Princeton; Rev. Samuel S. Isaac, i ; leading representative of A mfirica fi on 1 1 j ilox Judaism; Rev. Nehemi: h Adams, Lotion Congregational preacher and ; u thor; Right Rev. Bishop Wilrner, ; I ovfisiarta,and Right Rev. George Seiu*. and Ufibop >f Litchfield, England. khe halls of royalty were not exemp iVoyn the-sad summons, Italy has been pjj roaming for Victor Emanuel, Spa: f\*r "the young Queen Mercedes and Queen ( luistb na, Queen Dowagi r, Englan • a Jd’German courts are d< j during th ■ loss of Ifiincess Alice, yf Hesse Daru,- slatt, Queen Victoria’s daughter. 'l'h- A uftrfans miss Francis Charles Josepn, Archduke of Austria and ft her of th.* p -e-out emperor. Prince Napoleon Lu ciei Charles Murat, of France, is gone. 50 i Iso >. the king of Burmah, the suß u ■of Morocco ahd the young heir apparem t< tie throne of Japan. Tire 'people, of d-ite ti are lamenting th late ex-Empi e- S adorn, ue, who died but a few week ago Prince Jalmndur Shah, of Afghan ista b was dyiqg when the British troops were ippruaching his stronghold. • George- V' ctf’Hanover,*has gone to hi last abode.; Don Manuel Pai to, ex-piv? idea t . of Guatemala, died- during th ye-i.;,- tli ■ .farmer'meeting a violent deatit at the h.-tnas of an assassin, Tire’.mortality among arn v and m.vy u.xm-i -ns unusually.h *>-. .iu :i;u! : e,, R .yd Aj'niirais Hoff afia Paulding on die retired ‘ fist; 'Count 'At-hillee, d’llilliev.-. ir- .rdial of France.: General <le la 3.1 a r.nbivr, of theHftdiaii ‘army; General Sir -U lliianr llaiy; coiijHwjndetf-of the Eng * i‘h forces in, , Qyaud. Mars-i i L:i*Fue ite, lughcsL otm:er of the Peru vdatP-amif ; • General l Hei*fh.;nd, of ike and isdan forces; Meliemct Air, the Turk rt'i con nuuider- who ;vvas-assassinated, u 1 Count de Paliko, of I'rgi.ee. V nong f thb scljoliiy? :l n l jear .- li-' . a no die ! diiriugghe yearsho i'd be m<-u --u-udd 1 rofessor Henry, of tl e’lSmith'i - .il in institute; Dr. Petermuu, tHe m eminent geographer of P‘ ; e age.; 'R. iv-ntfi (T, fiVesident of Vass if colh ge : Wiliiam Cullen Bryant, ]>oet: Bn Toy or, poet and dipioaiati-1 : U Reid f, poet, who met a violent d-.-r -•. Samuel Bowles,, journalist; George Hen ry f ewes, author; Sir William Sterling and ixwell, novelist; Henry Vincent, au thor and lecturer, and Sir Edward S. Cieasy, historian. Fi uni the bench were taken William F. Allen, associate justice of the New Yorfi court of appeals; Alexander S. coin son, circuit jud?re of ihc l r nitisl Slates cc-urt at Utica, New York; W. li. 51 gnu, of the New Orleans supreme court Of II inois; William Keogh, chief justice of Ireland, and Russell Gurney, recorder of London. The hand of death fell hem iiy among public men. Five members of the house of representatives died during ine ye.u . and from the senate was taken Mr. Mor ton. Of Ihe other illustrious i cad should lie mentioned i-lon. J. Glauey Jon on .-e minister to Austria;ex-Beaator Ben Wide;F.arl Russell, once prime mim ter; Lord Chelmsford, who was lor-i eh in.-ciot; Deputy Raspail, the no: -u advocate and communist ; Seuor Ilevero, tin leader ot thr Spanish progressioui -is, ani Demetrius Guigaris, premier < G-ree e. A fist of the painjtcfs and artists who di and luring the year would filia column. A: iO-ig tile most prominent arc Janus Hamilton, the marine painter, ot li t finest in the world ; Giv tave Cour bet, the French communist, who decreed tut destruction of the Column Veadome; M. Ixiuis Riesener, France, lie painter of mythological subjects; Henry Huert elotq , Bilgium,a taientoa wat ;rcoloii-; ; Je- u Antique, of France, and Robert Yf nil s, one of the best know a and ac complish‘l of English iamlstape paint ers. George Cruikshank, tin world-re no Vi ed (•-arieaturist, also died in the spring. liany ushers have died who?a memorv will lie’green for time to eomc. Among them may be mentioned lion. Tolu; Alii son, of Pennsylvania, register of the treasury; Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy under Lincoln; William Orton, piv-ifieiit Western Union telegraph com pany; Tcomas Winans, the Baltimore contractor and millionaire; Theodore Roosevelt, New York’s merchant prince.; Major-General Dakin, capta ii of the Ainerieat rifle team at the Creed men-.* competition; Colonel John O’Neill, th Fenian leader, of Canada raids notoriety ; Mrt. Commodore Nutt, and Capt. Hugh Kennedy, champion chess-player of the world. — Atlanta Constitution. According to a return just published by ihc liailroad Gazette the number of miles of r ulroacls constructed in the past year exceeded, but only slightly, th construction of 1877. In 1872 . 7,34 J miles of railroad were built in the United Stales; in 1873 the mileage fell, to 3,883; in 1874, 2,025 miles were built, and it was not until 1875, two year- after the great era>a, that construction of Un kind touched bottom with 1.501 mile.-. In 1876 here was an increase to 2,460 miles in 1877 it fell again to 2,281, nod in 1878 it rose to 2,720, the largest mi leage finer 1873. During th ■ year Is; Minmsota built 338 miles; lowa, 2' Colorado, 193, of which 80 were of three foot gauge; Pennsylvania, 182; New York, 142; Texas, 112; Texas, 11S; and at t e other extreme, New Jersey, but three miles; Massachusetts. 6, and A a kansa , 7. -* The worker of an ariieie in the ynrtnight ly say =; “The Englishman individual]?, is U o most expensive animal cm the face of the earth; and though he hre learned, to bid)ole a cant as to liking a cheap gov ern, eat, it is cant merely. I have heard a most experienced person sav: If yoi want t. cheer in the house of commons make a speech on general economy; i: you want to be beaten in a vote proposi particular saving. 1 ”