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—AND—
DEALER IN REAL ESTATE,
CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
G. S. TUMLIN,
attorney-at-law.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
in Bartow county, the Superior Courts or
the Cherokee Circuit, the Supreme Court and the
United States Court for the Northern District of
Georgia. decl9-4moa
T. W. H. HARRIS,
attorn e Y-AT-LA w ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
FiACTICES IN ALL TIIE COURTS OF
Bartow and adjoining counties, and will
faithfully attend to all business entrusted to him.
Office over postoffice. decs-Iy
JOHN L. MOON,
ATTORNE Y-AT-LA ~W .
Office at the store of P. L. Moon & Son, East
Main Street.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
nly!8
R. W. MURPHEY,
ATTORNKY-AT - LA.W,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor
ner of Main A Erwin streets. J ul y ia -
J. A. BAKER,
uYT’XOItISJ'LiIY-.AT-L-A W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
WILL practice in all the courts of Bartow
ami adjoining counties. Prompt atten
tion given to all business entrusted to his care.
Office in Bank Block over the post office.
julylS. -
jL. D. GRAHAM. A. M. FOUTE.
GRAHAM & FOUTE,
T T ORNEYS - A T-LA W.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the
Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the
Supreme Courts at Atlanta,
Office west side public Square, up-stairs over
W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of
Postoffice. July 18.
y. W. MILNER. J. w - HARRIS, JR.
MILNER & HARRIS,
ATTO RNEYS-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office on West Main Street. Julylß
F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely & Williams store.)
Cartersville, Georgia.
I WILL FIT. j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suit 1 he times.
Work al. warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county.
augls~ly. F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(Ai Sayre & Co.’e Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
WILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can
be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as
represented. All work done bj me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. july!B.
CHAS. B. WSLLINCHAM,
Btenographic Court Lieporter.
[ROUX JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.]
I MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES,
taking down the testimony entire; also, ob
jections 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 Gruide.
CHEROKEE .RAILROAD.
On and, after Monday, June 10, 1878, the train
on thisKoad will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave.
Cartersville 1:30 pm
Stilesboro 2:15 pm 2:20 pm
Taylorsville 2:15 pm 3:00 pm
Rockmart 4:00 p m
GOING EAST.
Rockmart 6:00 am
Taylorsville 7:00 am 7:15 am
Stilesboro 7:40 a m 7:45 a m
Cartersville 8:35 am
WILLIAM MacIIAE, Sup’t.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after Monday, November 30th, the fol
lowing schedule will be run by the Steamer
MAGNOLIA:
Leave Rome Monday 9am
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday 7am
Lea ve Gadsden Tuesday Bpm
Arrive at Rome Wednesday 6pm
Leave Home Thursday 9am
Arrive at Gadsden Friday 7am
Leave Gadsden Friday 6pm
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm
J. M. ELLIOTT Gen’l SupU.
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
* Leave Rome 8:10 am
Arrive at Rome 12:00 m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Rome 5:00 pm
Arrive at Rome 8:00 pm
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following passenger schedule took effect
July 12th, 1879:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:00 p m
Leave Cartersville 3:54 pm
Leave Kingston 4:2lpm
Leave Dalton 6:10 p m
Arrive at Chattanooga 7:47 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:14 pm
Leave Dalton 7:05 pm
Leave Kingston 8:34 pm
Leave Cartersville 9:00 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 10:55 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 6:25 a m
lajave Cartersville 8:16 am
Leave Kingston 8:48 am
Leave Dalton 10:20 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 11:55 am
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 7:10 am
i>eave Dalton 9:06 a m
Leave Kingston 10:39 a m
Leave Cartersville 11:06 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:00 pm
A LECTURE to YOUNG MEN.
Just published iu 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: consumption, epi
lepsy and fits; mental and physical incapacity,
&c.—By ROBERT J. CULVE R W ELL, M. D.,
author of the “Green Book,” &c.
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
without dangerous surgical operations, bougies,
instruments, 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 be, may cure himself cheaply, private
ly and radically.
J6S“ > This lecture will prove a boon to thous
ands 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 CULVER WELL MEDICAL CO.,
. 41 Ann Street, New York City.
Post Office Box 4586. julylß.
LITCHFIELD HOUSE,
(Ac’worth, Georgia.)
IE. L. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor.
C CONVENIENT TO THE DEPOT, AND ITS
J tables supplied with the very best the mark
et nffords. augß.
VOLUME I.
Bartow County Sales.
WILL BE SOLD before the court house door in
Cartersville, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in
February next, 1879, between the legal sale hours
the following described property, to-wit:
Lots of land numbers 384, 885] 386, 388, 389, 390,
391, 330, 881, 332, 336, 337, 338, 311, 312, 313, 318 and
405, and fractional lots numbers 892, 329, 333,334,
335, 317, 320, 319, 257, 258. 259, 200, 246. 247, 387, 403
and 414, all lying and Doing in the 17th district
and 3rd section of originally Cherokee, now Bar
tow county, Georgia, containing in the aggregate
1180 acres, more or less, described and conveyed
in a certain deed of mortgage executed by John
J. Calhoun and Nathan C. Sayre to Joseph W.
W. Marshall, bearing date J une 19,18(19. Levied
on and will be sold as the property of John J.
Calhoun and Nathan C. Sayre to satisfy one Bar
tow Superior Court mortgage ti. fa. iii favor of
Samuel S. Marshall, trustee and assignee, vs.
John J. Calhoun and Nathan C. Sayre. Property
Eointed out and specified in said mortgage li.
i., and in possession of defendants.
. Also, at the same time and place, lot of land
number 188, in the 23fd district and 2nd section
of Bartow county, containing 160 acres, more or
less. Levied on and will be sold as the property
of James W. Riddle and H. J. Finley to satisfy
one Bartow Superior Court fl. fa. in favor of
Thomas Hutcherson vs. said James W. Riddle
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 of
Bartow county, containing 40 acres, more or
less. Levied on and will be sold as the property
of the estate of Robert M. Stiles to satisfy one
Bartow Superior Court li. fa. in favor of Planters’
and Miners’ Bank vs. Margaret W. Stiles, ad
ministratrix of Robert M. St i * s, deceased, and
Thomas Tumliu and JSli arrett, indorsers.
Property pointed out by Mrs. Margaret W.
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
laud number 210, in the 6th district and 3rd sec
tion of Bartow couuty. Levied on and will be
sold as the property of C. W. Whitworth, one of
the defendants, to satisfy one Bartow Superior
Court fl. fa in favor of Z. T. Terrell vs. J. H.
Denman andC. W. Whitworth, principals, and
R. C. &J. E. Roberts, indorsers. Property
pointed out by C. W. Whitworth and in his pos
session.
A. M. FRANKLIN, Sheriff,
JAS. KENNEDY, Deputy Sheriff.
Commissioners’ Sale.
J. Nelson Tappan, Trustee, &c. vs. The Cherokee
Rgijroftd Company and others. In Equity,
in the Circuit CPJjrt pf the United States for
the Northern District pf Georgia,
BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE IK THE CAUSE
above stated, the undersigned commission
ers, duly appointed by said court, will, on the
Fourth (lay of March, 1879, it being the first Tues
day in said month, before the court-house door
in 'the city of Cartersville, in the county of Bar
tow, Georgia, during the usual hours of public
sales, sell at public outcry, the following prop
erty 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, jn 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 and immu
nities, including its road-bed, bridges, trestles
and iron and its locomotives, cars, trucks, with
all its appurtenances, and all its other property,
real, personal or mixed; this sale not to include
any peronal property not now in the possession
of Daniel S. Printup, the Receiver jn said cause,
or money or <• hoses m action.
Terms —Five thousand dollars to be paid down
immediately at the close of the sale and the bal
ance of the purchase money to be paid within
thirty days from the day Of sale, with interest
from the day of sale at the rate of ten per cent,
per 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 tWfelerred payment is not
made within the time above specified all money
paid on the purchase and right of the purchaser
to the property sold or possession will be forfeit
ed, and the commniissioners will have the right
to take possession of said property and to rc-sell
the same.
Said sale will be made subject to confirmation
by said court on the report of the commissioners.
Possession will be given as soon as the purchase
money is all paid.
Titles will be made by the commissioners un
der and by approval of said court, when all of
the purchase ifloney is paid.
DANJKL S. PRINTUP,
WILLIAM F. DRAKE,
jan2-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.
Call and Examine their Goods and Prices
Before Buying.
J. A. ERWIN & SON.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 19th, 1878.
NORTH GEORGIA
MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga.
F. Win. MEMMLER, M. D.,| Pronrietors.
LINDSEY JOHNSON, M. D.,| 1 ropneto
TIIE GREATEST DISCOVERY KNOWN FOR
CURING CANCERS.
■
CANCERS AND ALL CHRONIC DISEASES
Successfully treated.
W 'q cure cancer without the use of the knife
under Dr. Memmler’s great internal cancer rem
edy Payment after Cancer is taken out
and healed. All kinds of surgical oper
ations PERFORMED.
con sxji.. r ration free:
Office hours: 9tol2A.mglto 6p. m. nov - s
BARTOW HOUSE,
(Cartersville, Georgia.)
MB. SUMNER HAVING REMOVED FROM
the Foster House back to the old Sumner
House, and having spent considerable time and
monev in refurnishing and fitting up his hotel,
is now prepared to accommodate the traveling
public In the most acceptable manner.
Terms Very Low and in Keeping with the
Times.
BO \RD can be obtained at this house cheaper
than anywhere else in North Georgia. Stop and
see for yourselves. sepo.
THE FREE PRESS.
SUCCESS!
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THE DREADED CAl£ CODED.
The North Georgia Medical In
stitute Discharges Another
Cancer Patient!
■ f . . 4 . . 7 f, . .*.....
STATEMENT OF O. C. CAMPBELL:
During the year 1866, a sipalj, dark-brown
speck appeared on the skin, between my left
cheek and nose, and continued for about six
mouths, 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
little.
After forming and dropping off in this manner
several times, and enlarging a little every time,
the scab began to loosen a little around the edges
and adhere in the middle, and would bleed
a little ivjieu puljed of. After this I could dis
cover a small quantity of yellowish matter form
ed under the scab when it was pulled off.
This state of things continued on until the year
1869, when the scab had enlarged to the size of a
grain of coffee. During the year 1870,1 had a se
vere spell of fever, which settled in my 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
Anally put out my eye.
I then tried a patent medicine, recommended
by a physician, but 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 me under a course pf treatment, which lasted
about five weeks, but resulted in no material
benefit. The cancer, in the meantime, had grad
ually inert ased, 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. Dudloy, of Gordon
county, who was my family physician, I came to
Cartersville, consulted Dr. Memmler, and placed
myself regularly under his treatment; and j
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 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 unable 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 into the flesh around my eye.
After treating me about two weeks, he informed
me that, as my constitution was stronger than he
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 lias 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 w ould earnestly advise all persons afflicted
with cancers to avail themselves of his treatment.
O. C. CAMPBELL, '
Postofflce: Calhoun, Gordon county, Ga.
The above certificate was sworn to and sub
scribed before me this December 14, 1873.
.T. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P.
All Cliroiiie Diseases Cured and
Surgical Operations Per
formed at tlie North
Georgia Medical
Institute.
MEMMLER A JOHNSON,
Proprietors.
CARTERSVILLE Ga
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1879.
SQUEEZE!
To the Free Press:
In the kingdom of Japan they have an
institution called Squeeze. A late writer
on that country says it is an institution
all over the Asian coast of the Pacific and
may spread. If a man goes to the shop
with an interpreter and buys anything,
the interpreter goes back to the shop and
has a squeeze out of the price paid—just
as much as he can squeeze. It lie squeezes
too hard he may spoil his own market—
if on the Other hand the shopman ob
jects, the combined interpreters refuse to
bring customers to that shop and take the
strangers to the other shops, If they
bring things to the house, then the ser
vants squeeze. If a man travels with a
servant, the servant tells the landlord
what to charge, who then takes it out of
the guest, the servant squeezes the land
lord, and the landlord the guest. In all
eases the man who owns the money gets
fastened in the squeezing apparatus.
The military or factory contractor sub
mits to be squeezed, while he in turn
squeezes the government* and the man
wl)0 (aits the rations must also be
squeezed—the last man must lighten his
girdle and squeeze himself, as there is no
body left to squeeze. This able writer is
an Englishman, and was Hot perhaps fa
miliar with certain American institutions,
or h*e would not have said the custom
might spread, he would have certified to
its existence on our shores.
In Georgia we are well acquainted with
the institution of squeeze. When the
national tariff gets up oi down in the
scale, it does not afflict t-tjjj middle man,
it falls on the man “klm gats the
rations.” When money gets scarce as
it is now, it does not hurt the Treasury
or banks, it squeezes the producer and
the laborer, who sells the produce at a
high or low figure according to the de
cree of the money lords, oi the national
squeezer. When the taxes* gets high as
they are at present, and produce low—
when tax money must be squeezed, the
people are always pressed, not the offi
cials who assess the taxes,,and who puts
the screw* on the squeezing apparatus.
It goes even into the official relations
of men. The Governor grants patronage
to officeTseekers, then the office-holders
procure votes for the Governor, which is
called their “influence,” but might more
properly be called their squeeze. Gov.
Brown, in State road lease squeezed the
State of Georgia, and allowed himself
squeezed by certain lobbyists and news
papers. One newspaper squeezed about
eight thousand dollars out of this able
financier arid his opponents together.
Another newspaper in Macon squeezed
out $2,000, and so on. When he carried
the convict investigating committee to
the Dade coal mines, they squeezed a lot
of fine sherry wine, champagne, whisky,
cigars, etc., out of ffie Governor, but he
squeezed out a favorable report, whit#*,
more than accounted for the difference.
Mr. Murphy was the interpreter be
tween Gov. Colquitt and the rolling mill
and we see how cleverly he squeezed the
latter to the tune of SB,OOO, How the
Governor will retaliate and squeeze
Murphy has not yet been chronicled.
Gen. Gordon was a very effective Senator
in getting through the claim of Georgia
against the United States on account of
the military occupation of the State road.
He squeezed the National treasury, with
the aid of his less expert colleagues, to
the tune of $200,000. That seemed to be
a very good squeeze for Georgia, but be
fore that sum went into the treasury of
the State Garlington and Alston had
squeezed twenty-live per cent, of it out of
the Governor, and common report says
Gen. Gordon was able thereby to squeeze
these lucky gentlemen himself for the
amounts they owed to him, because they
had to hold the money before they could
be squeezed. You know “you can’t
squeeze blood out of a turnip.” It seems
to he a squeeze within a squeeze instead of
a wheel within a wheel.
The State of Georgia engages Mr. Mur
phy as Treasurer’s clerk at a nominal
sum, but Mr. Murphy squeezes the State
in the convict matter until the girth
hurts the old commonwealth so badly
andshe howls with pain.
Gen. Gordon has a similar apparatus,
and also Gov. Brown. Between them
and amongst them they have reduced the
poor old State from a plethoric habit to
the misery of cadaverous leanness. As
the last and most unprotected she is
hearly squeezed to death. The great
University Publishing Company squeezed
all its subscribers, but Gen. Gordon liter
ally squeezed it until it w r as extinct, ditto
the great Mutual Insurance Company,
which squeezed all the poor Confederate
soldiers’ money, but Dr. Sangrado never
practiced his art of depletion half so suc
cessfully on Gil Bias, as did the General
on this magnificent body, with its fine,
taking title and handsome income. The
Doctor aforesaid took a moderate fee, and
allowed the patient to live awhile, while
the General absorbed a magnificent salary
and left it lifeless.
When the history of the Stete is fairly
written, it will be seen that Bullock com
menced the institution, but it was better
organized under Smith, and has been in
successful operation under the present
administration. Bartow.
A Washington special says: “There is
a prospect of two investigations of a sen
sational nature. In examining into the
affairs of the patent olfiee the committee
on appropriations assert that they have
discovered some fifty female sinecure
clerkships. The public printer will also
be rigorously investigated, and some cu
rious discoveries are anticipated.”
A telegram from Paris published in
London states that anew French cable
company has been eonstituteu. The
company propose to lay two cables, one
from Brest to Cape Cod and the other
from Lands Ends to Nova Scotia, both
by the way of St. Pine.
DEMOCRATIC LANDMARKS.
Open Letter to Representative Buckner.
Washington, Dec. 3, IS7B.
Hon. A, 11. Buckner , Chairman of the
Committee on Banking and Currency :
Sir : I have read, with some surprise
and much regret, your letter in the Wash
ington Gazette, of the Ist insta.it, in
structing your constituents that the plat
form on which they re-elected you is er
roneous and unconstitutional, in this that
it asserts the power of Congress to make
treasury notes legal-tender. I regret to
see in a Democratic leader, occupying so
prominent a position, so wide a departure
from the old Democratic land-marks.
One of those land-marks had reference to
the relations existing between the repre
sentative and his constituents. It vested
the right of instruction in the latter and
imposed the duty of obedience to their
will on the former. You reverse this re
lation: and, having been re-elected on
the sth of November, on the Ist of De
cember you assume the right to Instruct
them, from Washington City, that the
measures they re-elected you to carry out
are unconstitutional. I am surprised
that you preface your instructions by
openly avowing that, while your re-elec
tion was pending and uncertain, you,
“/or olvious reasons, studiously abstained
from any discussion of the merits or de
merits of this disagreement ” with them.
I am told that it has become by no
means unusual for members of Congress,
soon after reaching Washington, to adopt
views diametrically opposed to those of
their constituents, and some of the means
used to effect this are legitimate and some
illegitimate.
I learned- my Democracy forty years
ago, when Jackson was fighting “the
monster”—the money power, as organ
ized tlrough the United States bank;
and Calhoun was contending for an issue
of treasury notes, as a means of “restor
ing the circulation to the nation to whom
it belonged,” as £*§s6n§d by Jefferson.
This was before that “separate moneyed
interest, ?2 which Calhoun’s prophetic
vision foresaw WwqW grow out of the
banking and funding systems, had de
veloper! into “the European Grand Coun
cil of the International Finance”—be
fore that Grand Council had obtained
p.nnti;ni*/W organization of both the
great political parties of this country,
and before it had made the agent of the.
Rothchilds the chairman of the National
Democratic Executive Committee.
For thirteen years I have been labor
ing in my sphere as a private citizen to
rescue the Democratic organization from
the control of that Grand Council and
bring it back to where it stood in the
days of Jackson and Calhoun-*—opposed
to bank monopolies and ready to protect
the people from the * -money changers.”
Therefore it is that I so much regret such
wide departures from the old Democratic
laud-marks.
You rest your instructions to your con
stituents oe the opinions of Webster and
Calhoun.
First, as to Mr. Webster. It must be
borne in mind that lie bad peculiar pro
fessional and personal relations to gen
tlemen connected with ttbe United States
bank, that “monster” for whose special
and exclusive benefit this “monstrous”
doctrine was then advocated. He was a
practicing attorney-at-law as well as a
senator. He was their retained counsel
and personal friend. Ido not question
his genius and great ability— much less
his integrity; hut when Democrats quote
him as authority on this point, I insist on
that well-established principle w hich dis
qualifies a judge from sitting on a case in
which he is counsel.
As to Mr. Calhoun. You say:
“Mr. Calhoun, in his speech on the
bill authorizing the issue of treasury notes
in 1837, takes it for granted that Congress
possesses no such power as our State
platform demands shall be exercised.”—3
Calhoun’s Works, p. 102.
The power referred to is that of mak
ing treasury notes legal-tender. I re
ported that speech of Mr. Calhoun. I
was then a mere youth; but, that I un
derstood what lie" said and intended to
say, is evidenced by the fact that, in
speaking of my report, he said that he
would rather have me to report his
speeches than any professional reporter
then in Washington. I have read that
speech frequently since. I have it be
fore me now, and am unable to find in
it, or in any other of liis speeches, a sin
gle sentence that, taken in connection
with the context, justifies the assertion
that he “took for granted” that Congress
had no power to make treasury notes le
gal-tender. There are passages in his
speeches where, speaking of gold and sil
ver as compared to bank notes, he as
serts that, of these two, the former are the
only constitutional currency. But it is
only by violently wrenching a part of
what he said from the context necessary
to explain his meaning that what he said
about bank notes can be made to apply to
treasury notes. As I understand him, he
at times waived discussion of this ques
tion, as not being “necessary” or “suita
ble to the occasion;” but never did he
“take for granted” that it was a question
settled negatively.” On the contrary, a
careful comparison of what he said at dif
ferent times in the progress of the dis
cussion will show that he asserted, and
proved by irresistible logic, that Congress
has that power.
January 13,1834, on the removal of the
deposits, vol. 2, p. 336, he said:
“Whatever the government receives
and treats as money is money in eflect,
and if it be money, then they r have the
right, under the constitution, to regulate
it. Nay, thoy are bound by a high obli
gation to adopt the most efficient means,
according to the nature of that which
they have recognized as money, to give
it the utmost stability and uniformity of
value.”
March 21, 1834, on Mr. Webster’s
proposition to re-charter the United States
bank, vol. 2, p. 368, he said *
“I do not deem it necessary to inquire
w hether, in conferring the power to coin
money and to regulate the value thereof,
the constitution intended to limit the
power strictly to coining money and
regulating its value, or w hether it in
tended to confer a more general power
over the currency; nor do I intend to
inquire whether the word ‘coin’ is limit
ed simply to the metals, or may be ex
tended to other substances. * * * I
pass these points. * * * * All these
questions I leave open; I decide none of
them. There is one of them, however,
that I will decide. If Congress has a
right to receive anything else than specie
in its dues, they have the right to regu
late its value, and have a right, of course,
to adopt all necessary and proper means,
in the language of the constitution, to
effect the object. It matters not what
they receive—tobacco, or anything else —
this right must attach to it. Ido not as
sert the right of receiving, but I do hold
it to be incontrovertible that if Congress
were to order the dues of the govern
ment to be paid, for instance, in tobacco,
they would have the right, viay, more,
they would be bound to use all necessa
ry and proper means to give it an uni
form and stable value —inspection, ap
praisement, designation of qualities, and
whatever else would be necessary to that
object. So on the same principle if they
receive hank notes, they are equally
kounc to use all means necessary and
proper, according to the peculiar nature
i-w su bjcct, to give them uniformity,
stability and safety.”
Volume 2. p. 330, he said:
“They (the banks) are, in point of fact,
the mint of the United States. They
coin the actual money, for such w r e must
call bank notes, and regulate i issue and
consequently its value.”
Volume 2, p. 320, he said .
“The very receipt of bank notes on the
part ot the government in its dues would,
it is conceded, make them money, as far
as the government may be concerned,
and, by a necessary consequence, would
make them, to a great extent, the curren
cy of the country*”
Now, vou admit as Calhoun contend
ed, that Congress nas the right to issue
treasury notes and “make them receiva
ble for public dues,” Calhoun contend
ed that such receipt by government
would make them money, and that the
right to regulate their value “mu*t at
taeh;” nay, more, that Congress was
hound by a high obligation” to prevent
their value from being depreciated by
the money-changers. The only way to
do thal is to make them iegal-tender.
Put let us see what Calhoun did say jo
that speech of 3rd of October, 1837. to
w hich you refer. It w r as urged by the
advocates of the banking system that un
less the hanks were permitted to furnish
the cui rency for the country, the people
would be reduced to the alternative of
having no money but gold and silver,
Which, Calhoun declared, had not only
become in this commercial and trading
era “insufficient for circulation,” but
also “insufficient to form the basis of the
widely extended system of banking.”
In reply lie said, vol. 3, p, 121 i
But, Mr. vam not driven
to such alternatives. lam not the ene
my, hut the friend of credit—-not as the
substitute, but the associate and assistant
of the metals, j n that capacity I hold
credit |q possess in many respects a vast
superiority over the metals themselves,
i object to It In the form it has assumed
in the banking system, for reasons that
are neither light nor few, and that nei
ther have been nor can he answered.
The question not Whether credit can
he dispensed with, hut what is its possi
ble form, the most stable, the least liable
to abuse, and the most convenient and
cheap. I threw out some ideas on this
important subject in my opening re
marks. 1 have heard nothing to change
my opinion. I beilove that government
credit, in the form I suggested, combines
all the requisite qualities oi a credit cir
culation m the highest degree, and also
that the government ought not to use any
other credit but its own in its financial
operations. When* the Senator from
Massachusetts made his attack on my
suggestions I was disappointed, I ex
pected argument, and he gave us denun
ciation. It is often easy to denounce,
when it is hard to refute; and when that
Senator gives denunciation instead of ar
gument, I conclude that it is because the
one is at his command and the other not.
“We are told the form I suggested is
but a repetition of the old continental
money, a ghost that is ever conjured up
by all who wish to give the banks a mo
nopoly of government credit. The asser
tion is rot true. There is not the least
analogy hetweeu them. The one was a
promise to pay when there was no reve
nue, and the otther a promise to receive
in the dues of government when there is
abundant revenue.
“We are also told that there is no in
stance of a government paper that did
not depreciate. In reply, 1 affirm that
there is none, assuming the form I pro
pose, that ever did depreciate. When
ever a paper, receivable in the dues of
government, had anything like a fair
trial, it has succeeded, Instance the ease
of North Carolina, referred to in my
opening remarks.”
So far from this being to “take for
granted” that Congress has nopporerw r er to
make treasury notes legal tender, I un
derstand it to he, w hen taken in connec
tion with 7 the passages above quoted, a
direct and positive assertion that Con
gress has that power.
As tc the form of the treasury note
contended for by Calhoun, he advocated
its issue as absolute money receivable for
all public dues; that it should read:
“This is ten dollars,” and not “The
United States promise to pay ten dol
lars.”
On this point he said, vol. 3, p. 83:
“It is then my impression that, in the
present condition of the world, a paper
currency in some form, if not necessary,
is almost indispensable in linancial anil
commercial operations of civilized and
extensive communities. In many re
spects it has a vast superiority over a me
tallic currency, especially in great and
extended transactions, by its greater
cheapness, lightness and the facility of
determining the amount. The great de
sideratum is to ascertain what descrip
tion of paper has the requisite qualities of
being free from fluctuation in value and
liability to abuse in the greatest perfec
tion. 1 have shown, I trust, that the
bank notes do not possess these requi
sites in a degree sufficiently high for this
purpose. Igo farther. It appears to
me, after bestowing the best reflection 1
can give the subject, that no convertible
paper—that is, no paper whose credit
rests on a promise to pay —is suitable for
currency. It is the form of credit proper
in private transactions between man and
man, but not for a standard of value, to
perform exchanges generally which con
stitute the appropriate functions of money
or currency.”
Jefferson denounced the pretense of
convertibility of bank notes into specie
as a fraud , Calhoun declared it to be a
delusion. (See vol. 3, p. 107.) And his
chief objection to a convertible paper,
either governmental or bank, was that
that delusion makes our financial system
a part, and a weaker part of the Euro
pean system; so that whenever one of
the parties , inseparable from a 'system
based on that delusion, comes, “ the ca
lamity must fall on us as constituting the
weaker pan of the boiler. (See vol. 3. p.
618.)
By referring to the pages I have cited
you will see that Calhoun clearly indors
ed what you call the “pernicious heresy
of absolute or fiat money,” and that he
never sanctioned the doctrines promul
gated in your letter of instruction to your
constituents. Nevertheless, it cannot be
said that he did not sustain the doctrine
of States’ rights on all proper occasions.
Respectfully,
Bex. E. Grekx.
New York, January 10.—Treasurer
Renfroe to-day closed a contract with the
American Bank-Note company to en
grave the plates for the new four per
cent, bonds. He received bids from the
National Bank-Note company, and the
Continental Bank-Note company, also,
but the American’s bid was the lowest
and hence was accepted by the treasurer.
It is thought that the bonds will be fin
ished by the 25th inst., and be ready for
sale by the Ist of February.
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MJMBER 27.
DEATH OF HON. JUEIAN HARTIUI i
Savannah Morning News, 10th inst.]
It becomes our painful duty to record
the death of Hon. Julian Hartridge, rep
resentative in congress from this district,
w'hieh melancholy event occurred in
Washington city yesterday morning. A
brief dispatch, received Tuesday night,
conveyed to us the first intimation of his
illness, and in such terms—owing, it
seem, to an error in its transmission—as
caused no apprehension of immediate
danger. But a few weeks ago our hon
ored representative left us to return to
his field of duty in his usual fine health
and spirits, bearing with him the good
wishes and cordial esteem of an admiring
constituency, and a large circle of devot
ed personal friends, having before him,
in the range of human probability, the
prospect of a long and brilliant career of
usefulness and honor. Under such cir
cumstances the telegram that announced
his death yesterday was in the nature of
an electric shock to our entire communi
ty*
Mr. Hartridge was born in Savannah
on the 9th of September, 1829, and was,
therefore, in the fiftieth year of his age.
He graduated at Brown University,
Rhode Island, at the age of nineteen
years, at the Harvard law school at the
age of twenty-one. Shortly after this,
he w r as made solicitor-general for this cir
cuit, and in 1858 was elected a member
of the lower house of the assembly of
Georgia.
At the breaking out of the late war ho
was a lieutenant of the Chatham Artillery
of this city, and with his command en
tered the service of the Confederate
States. While in the service he was
elected a member of the Confederate con
gress froui tids district, and served w ith
such satisfaction that he was re-elected
to a second term, In which capacity lie
remained until the end of the war.
At the oiose of the conflict he return
ed to Savannah, and forming a partner
ship with Judge W. S. Chisholm, under
the firm name of Hartridge & Chisholm,
resumed the practice of his profession.
Though frequently again so-licitied to be
a candidate for congress, he steadily de
clined, until 1874, when he'consented to
run. Asa result, he w-as elected by a
large majority over J. E. Bryant, his
radical opponent, and in 1876 he was
again returned by the democracy of this
district, and this latter term he w r as serv
ing at the time of his death.
During the reoent congressional cam
paign in this district, he positively de
clined to be a candidate for re-election,
but gave his influence mid active support
to the regular nominee, Hon. John C.
Nieholls. His last public effort before
his fellow r -eitizens in our city was in the
theatre, where he made an eloquent
speech in advocacy of Col. Nieholls elec
tion—an effort highty spoken of at the
time, and which contributed greatly to
the subsequent success of that gentle
man.
Besides the public positions herein
mentioned as having been filled by him,
Mr. Hartridge was chosen a delegate to
the Charleston democratic convention in
1860, a delegate from the State at large
to the National democratic convention
held in Baltimore in 1872, which non i
nated Hon, Horace Greeley, in which
year he w as also a Presidential elector on
the democratic ticket.
In 1853 Mr. Hartridge married a
daughter of the late Robert M. Charlton,
who, with six children, survives him.
To them tne entire community offers the
si newest sympathies in their bereave
ment, and with them, mourns the loss of
a devoted husband and father, as well as
a useful, public spirited, able citizen.
In this hurried sketch ot the public
services of the deceased we have not at
tempted to portray those characteristics
and qualities of intellectual and. moral
worth for wdiich he has so eminently
distinguished, or to give expression to
the sentiment of deep sorrow which his
untimely death has caused in the commu
nity by which he was so universally es
teemed and honored. That grateful task
we leave to abler hands.
THE FROZEN NORTH.
It is said, ail signs fail in dry times,
but there are certain indications of a hard
winter at the North. The editor of the
Kalamazoo Telegraph has been engaged
to edit the frozen column in a comic al
manac, and the following is his first ef
fort :
If signs can be relied upon, the coming
winter will be the coldest since the last
glacial period when Ivalamzoo was buried
under five thousand feet of ice accumula
tion and Michigan was a part of the solid
North. We notice numerous signs of
coal in large quantities, and more coming;
the size of the regulation cord of fuel is
smaller: the bark on the dog is deeper,
longer and more defined; the tramp has
hair on his teeth, and we see in our ex
changes numerous receipts for making
flannel cakes. An authority also re
marks that the squirrels are getting in
their winter anthracite, the beavers arc
putting heaters into the basements of
their lodges, the bees have killed oil - all
their drones and lined their hives with
sheet iron, snakes are getting down into
men’s boots, the muskrats are flying
South, wild ducks are committing suicide,
the goose bone is black sixteen inches deep,
Western editors are soliciting wood in
exchange for subscriptions, and poor fam
ilies are buying an extra dog. Surely
these are forerunners that the prudent
man will not despise.
Liverpoot, January 10.—This week’s
circular ol the Liverpool cotton brokei’s
association says: “Cotton was in exten
sive demand in the early part of the past
week, and some descriptions advanced,
but since yesterday the trade has been
dull. American was in very good de
mand at the opening and prices advanced
a sixteenth, but vs the supply increased
inquiry fell off, and it is now a sixteenth
to an eighth below last week’s prices. In
sea island there was a fair business at
previous rates. Futures opened strong
and advanced an eighth to 5-32d., but on
Saturday a greater portion of the im
provement was lost. Monday prices
were again at their best. Since then
there has been a gradual decline, the
market closing a sixteenth below last
Thursday.”
Large numbers of arrests for intimida
tion are to be made in north and north
east Louisiana as soon as the processes
can be prepared. Many of the most
prominent men of these sections are on
the list, persons who have been hereto
fore undisturbed. The Attorney-Gener
al is preparing special instructions con
cerning these cases, based upon reports
made him by United States officials lately
in the regions mentioned.
The northwestern farmers admit that
the severe weather has killed their peach
es, but they are rejoicing in the fact that
the deep snow is the best possible protec
tion of the winter wheat. They antici
pate an unexampled crop of wheat next
summer.