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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! y / .•< 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. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of One Dollar per ineh for the first insertion, and Fifty (. exits for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. One inch, 1 month, $2 50 ; 8 months, $5; 6 months, $7 50; 1 year, $lO. Fourth column, 1 month. $7 50 ; 3 months, sls; 6 months, $25; 1 year, $3(3. Half columns, 1 month, sls; 3 months, $25; G months, S4O; 1 year, SGO. One column, 1 month, $25; 8 months, S4O; 6 months, $!j0; 1 year, SIOO. Address all orders to This Free Press. 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.