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fffE FREE PRESS!
An Independent Democratic Journal.
C. H. C. WILLINGHAM, Editor.
The Free Press is an Independent Democrat
ic Journal, opposed to all Rings, Cliques and
Combinations, of whatever ftoil, organizedto de
feat the will of the people in all publio matters
or interests in whatever shape presented. t
Cartprairiii?,/Georgia, February 13, 1879.
BUSINESS NOTICE.
There is a large numlier of subecribere to Tre
1 uee Press who are behind in payment for it.
VS e have notified them of the fact repeatedly by
the-cross mark on the margin. Very few have
responded. We ask, Is this right? It requires
cash to publish every number of the paper, and
our patrons should see the justice of paying
what they owe. We desire to reduce our busi- -
ness to a cash system, and hope all will pay up
and in advance without delay.
“ the difference between vs:'
U uder the above heading our neighbor
of'the Express last week read us a kindly
lecture. All of that is well enough if the
editor had lived among us long enough
to understand, the temper of our people.
In this he is mistaken. We know noth
ing of the bitterness he so greatly deplores
among our neighbors and friends. We
diliter as to what is democratic policy in
the affairs of the seventh district, but
there is no difference between us as to
genuine democracy. Both sides are equal
ly honest and are good citizens. Under
stand, we are speaking of the rank and file
of the people and do not refer to a certain
class of politicians, both great and small,
who essay to be leaders and masters of the
people. The great body of the people are
opposed to these and there has been some
bitterness created by these insolent and
arrogant attempts to read these indepen
dent democrats out of the party an ostra
cising them as radicals, etc.
“How is it so many distinguished
Georgia democrats have become cor
rupt?” asks our mildly inclined neigh
bor. We do not know how corrupt they
have become, even if they have become
so. Some of the so-called leaders have
resorted to a great deal of trickery and
sharp political practice to keep themselv
es and friends in power. Some of them,
again, were very tender-footed, cautions
and calculating in the days of reconstruc
tion and the Bullock regime. When that
had all passed away and democracy as
serted its supremacy in the state they then
threw thefnselves into the breach after
the fight was over, secured that suprem
acy and called themselves the only true
democrats, and have been successful in
nothing else and have failed to relieve the
people of the heavy taxation inaugurated
by radical rule.
. The independent democracy are not of
fice-seekers as a general rule. They have
lmt few leaders, but lead themselves.
They have no masters and do not heed
the crack of the party whip. They are
not to be lashed into the support of
the measures they do not endorse and have
no bitterness towards those who yet sub
mit. They vote for whom they please,
whether organized or independent, so
the candidate suits them best as a public
servant. They have the independence to
exercise the rights of the electiye fran
chise accordingly as conscience dictates,
have no desire to interfere with the rights
of those who feel it their duty to vote ac
cording to the behests of organized dic
tation. Whenever necessary to concen
trate to defeat bad men or measures they
will be found solid. They don’t flicker
in the discharge of public duty nor sub
mit themselves to the slavery of con
science that acknowledges masters.
Well, we are not afraid of Grant any
more than if we were none of us inde
pendents. Ulyses has seen his day as
president of these United States. And
we repeat that there is no republican par
ty in Geoagia in organized vitality. Ev
en if there should be, we don’t see how it
can overcome eighty thousand democrat
ic majority with the Texas flag Hung in.
Grant would not get an electoral vote in
the state. Come, neighbor, don’t try to
scare us in that innocent way. We have
met the enemy when the other party was
in power and attempted to suppress our
paper and imprison us. We didn’t scare
worth a cent then.
No, neighbor, there is no bitternes
among the masses, though they may be
divided as to real democratic duty.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD.
We copy on the first page of The Free
Press this week a well written editorial
article, copied from the Rome Tribune ,
in regard to the management of the above
road. These comments we most heartily
endorse. Indeed, we had intended be
fore to have written something on the
same subject, but neglected to do so until
now. Rut the Tribune has done so well
that there is little for us to add if we can
add anything. While we condemned at
the time, and still do condemn, the man
ner in which the state road lease was let,
we must be fair enough to do justice to
the successful management as a great
highway, giving to the traveling public
the best railroad accommodations known
in the south.
We should like to have seen the state
get a higher rental on the lease; but as
the matter now stands, we greatly prefer
the lease to the management of the road
by the shite government under which it
never paid but little into the treasury.
If the lessees will only keep the road in
fluence free from political bias, the lease
will be satisfactory to all classes of our
citizens. As the property of the state it
should be so conducted. So conducted
there will be no attempt to interfere with
the existing lease.
The lessees have spent a great deal of
money to improve and properly equip
the road, surpassing any institution of
the kind in the south. While serious ac
cidents were of common occurrence be
fore such improvement and equipment,
we seldom hear of such a thing now,
notwithstanding it is the crookedest and
most heavily graded road in the south.
We are “ready to meet the whirlwind
of Grant’s return,” as brother Cun
ningham puts it. We have met right
smart of his presence in the past:
rtnr wffrfSf*
Whenever the stout old hen ofi the At
lanta Constitution lays an egg-stn aonlin
ary egg she cackles most lustily and one
would think there was a snake in her
nest. The stout old hen has just laid the
solid egg of a “ Grant wedge.” The
thing will never hatch. It is a moral as
wtell as physical monstrosity, and no
" i!l dli; T to the merry cluck
of the stout old hen of the Constitution
in this instance. We think some poultry
dealer might, sell the Constitution a trio
of a different breed of fowls.
The Constitution has become very
much alarmed. It is overwhelmed with
fear and horrified at some spectre more
terrible than Hamlet’s Banqud’s ghost.
Tlie tall, angular form of Dr. P”elton,
with his sharp and expressive honest
countenance, is the frightful apparition
that constitutes the Constitution's “Grant
wedge.” .That paper copies the follow
ing paragraph from the Washington
Republican as a “sign-board to indicate
the conclusion that Dr. Felton is the
point of this Grant wedge, which is ad
vanced against the democratic line in
Georgia, and which, threatening this
state, therein threatens the whole south
and the whole country, in the opinion of
all who dread the dynasty of a military
president surrounded by an imperial
court of corrupt sycophants like Robe
son, Belknap & Cos.” The “sign-board”
reads as follows:
Hon. W. H. Felton appears to be made of a
material that does not easily succumb to the Wily
influences of such men as the convict-hiring
senator from Georgia. Indeed, Mr. Felton ap
pears to lie one who can with impunity snap his
Ungers at Georgia democratic caucusses, and the
political “tricksters and trimmers” of that state
have no terrors for him. In the late contest he
defied the host led on by Gordon, and defeated
both the democratic and republican nominees in
his district. Now that Colquitt has had a bribe
saddled upon him, and Gordon lias been so badly
smirched in connection with the “convict lease,”
Felton looms up as the most available man in
public life in Georgia; and, unless all signs fail,
he will be the next governor of that state, and he
won’t be the choice of the “straiglitout” demo
crats, either.
Now, Dr. Felton does not desire to be
governor, nor will be, so far as we know,
eonsent, under any circumstances, to
make such a race. The mere surmises
of the Republican is no sort of indication
as to the future purposes of Dr. Felton.
He is a democrat, and should he ever be
governor the people will have a chief
magistrate who will administer the state’s
affairs ably, honestly and with wisdom.
The far-fetched attempt of the Constitu
tion to make what the Republican may
say as a “sign-board to indicate the con
elusion that Dr. Felton is the point of
this Grant wedge” is a gratuitous exuda
tion of a fervid but diseased and morbid
imagination, if hot made as an insidious
thrust at an honest, faithful and true
democratic representative in congress.
Now, will the Constitution tell us or
indicate what kind of an egg its stout old
hen will lay next? The Constitution had
better cultivate the bantam breed of
chickens. More of them can be raised at
the same expense.
STATECRAFT AND MILITARY GENIUS.
It is seldom that the two elements of
statecraft and* military genius are com
bined in the same person. These ele
ments are so distinct that they may be
considered antipodal. Now and then a
military genius exhibits something of
statesmanship; but more infrequent is it
that it ever shines resplendant in the
civil affairs of government. Occasion
ally, the statesman, under extraor
dinary influences, becomes famous in
military service. Botli are rare instances
—so rare, indeed, that great care should
be taken in transposing the positions of
the two in the affairs of government.
Washington was a patriot, hero and of
military renown. He left evidences on
record of proper conceptions of good
government, but left no great impression
of superior statesmanship or statecraft.
The impress of his life outside of mili
tary service is that of a good, honest and
faithful public servant. Upon the other
hand, there are few statesmen who ever
left the service of civil government to
enter the military who ever acquired
great military renown. In these refer
ences we allude to our own country, the
history of which is best know n to our
readers.
Whatever of reputation won by mili
tary men as statesmen has been the re
sult of their martial fame. The laurels
of military glory overshadow whatever
is lacking in statesmanship in the popu
lar mind. Gen. Taylor’s made him pres
ident, but not a statesman. lie could
not write his own state papers, and yet
he occupied the highest position in the
realm of civil government in this coun
try. These facts are briefly alluded to
for the reason there is too great a ten
dency to place men in political positions
they are unfitted for either by education
or on the score of talent.
Our greatest and best statesmen were
never, in the history of this country, men
of military genius, or who had devoted
themselves in earlier life to the profes
sion of arms. Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe, were the greatest of our statesmen
in its early existence. At a later period,
Webster, Calhoun and Clay were the
greatest. At the present time, Stephens,
Toombs, Bayard, Thurman rank the
highest. Neither of the men mentioned
ever aspired to martial fame. They will
go down to posterity as our ablest and
most distinguished statesmen.
Those who are the greatest babblers in
state affairs or politics are not statesmen
in the true sense of the term. To be in
terviewed by every straggling newspaper
reporter and written up every few weeks
is the greatest evidence of the lack of
statesmanship; but it is the way many
men are made great—on paper. Men of
great mind speak only when they have
something usefid to say, and it doesn’t
require oyster suppers and champagne
to have their views made known or to
make their reputation.
—__—
“Our neighbor of The Free Press, in
his last issue, mentions, kindly, that he
‘don’t think there is much difference be
tween us.’ ” So says the Express. We
still think so. If there be, will our neigh-,
bor explain it ? .* k . - I
MR. SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
The signs of the times at the federal
capital are to the effect that considerable
manoeuvring is going on to bring out Mr.
Til den as'the’demoeratie nominee for the
presidency. Asa successful failure Sam
uel J. Tilden was a success. He she
ceeded in being elected by the people,
but failed in reaping the results of sue-
Therefore, w e do not think he is
the man for democratic success in 18S0.
Hence, in our humble way of thinking,
we think it is time for the people to take
their political interests out of the hands
of trading politicians and take care of
themselves. There is comparatively
little difference between democracy and
republicanism now. Democracy, in its
true meaning, is government by the
people, but It is becoming to mean the
government of the people by ."the few 7
partisan tricksters and political traders.
The latter are the men who are trying to
foist Tilden Upon the people again. We
are opposed to tlieir schemes of self-ag
grandizement.
There are better men than Tilden.
Hancock, Thurman or Hendricks would
suit our people. We mention Hancock
because we think he would be the first
choice of the southern people. Tilden is
a large bondholder, and the toiling peo
ple have but little sympathy for non-tax
able wealth. The people are tired of
shouldering the burdens of government
while the money lords roll in luxury
and contribute nothing for the support
of the government that protects them.
We hope Tilden will not be the man.
The democratic party is becoming
more a party of expediency than of cor
rect principles or honest policy. Let us,
for heaven’s sake, once more have a presi
dential race of honest old time principles.
Let us be done with dickering to certain
classes of men who have no sympathy
w ith nor for the mass of the people. Let
us return to the ways of good and honest
government.
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.
There seems to be considerable feeling
on the part of planters and farmers in
different parts of this state and South
Carolina, in regard to the high prices of
manipulated commercial fertilizers. In
order to give our readers an idea of that
feeling, we publish several sets of reso
lutions in regard to the matter from the
points referred to. In view 7 of the low 7
prices of all kinds of agricultural pro
ducts the rates demanded for these fer
tilizers are too exorbitant, and it would
be ruinous to the planting interests to
continue their use.
We think monopoly ought not to take
advantage of its pow er over the public in
any manner. 'The principle of “live and
let live” should characterize transactions
in all kinds of business. When monopoly
undertakes to oppress it becomes ji tyr
anny tlie people ought not to submit to.
Prices in all commodities have gotten
down to “hard pan,” to use an ordinary
expression, and tlie monopolists should
recognize the fact and not ruin tlieir own
business in an attempt to oppress others.
The time w 7 as when manipulated com
mercial fertilizers were unknown to our
people. We. do not see that they are so
prosperous in tlieir farming operations
with them as they were without them,
and it is w 7 ell enough tor the people to
look into the subject, calculate the ad
vantages ai.d act accordingly.
In conclusion, w r e call the attention of
our agriculturalists to the resolutions re
ferred to and act for themselves. We
simply desire to give them tlie benefit of
what is passing on the subject.
TIIE GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The members of this body will assem
ble in convention at Cartersville the first
Wednesday in May. The occasion will
be an important one for our little city
and to this section of Georgia. It is but
little more than two months before that
meeting occurs, and it w ill soon be time
for our citizens to meet together and de
vise “the w ays and means” for a proper
and creditable entertainment of the
“knights of tlie quill.” This, of course,
will be done by them, and handsomely
done, and our brethren of tlie press will
find their w elcome no less cordial than
the invitation extended for their meeting
here.
In the meantime w 7 e hope all “true
knights” w ill make up tlieir minds to be
present at roll-call to answer to tlieir
names, and that no place prepared at tlie
feast shall be made vacant by absence.
We do not yet know what kind of an en
teatainment w 7 e shall give them. It may
be a ball or it may be a banquet or both;
or it may be some other mode will be
adopted to give the boys a good jolly old
time of hilarious hospitality and lively
cheer.
There will be nothing left undone that
our people can do to make the next May
meeting of the Georgia press one of the
most agreeable of all their meetings, in
cluding even the “artillery punch,” if
we can find out the ingredients in the
proper proportions and how 7 to mix them
to the right consistency, and give the
punch the Savannah flavor and effect.
“A GOOD JOKE ON SNIDER .”
That was a good joke on the Atlanta
Constitution. On Tuesday last Mr.
Clark Howell, brother of the editor,
bought a neatly done up package of un
claimed freight sold at auction by the
Southern Express company, paying sev
enty cents for the same. The package
was carried to the office and carefully
opened and found to contain about one
hundred copies of The Free Press. Oi
course, that office hasn’t had such a vast
amount of good reading before. The
papers were published during the late
campaign.
We have not learned to whom the
package was sent or who sent it; but we
are certainly glad it fell into the hands of
the Constitution where, we trust, it will
be preserved with care. If the Constitu
tion would like to have copies of other
editions of our paper during the same
period we can let it have a few.
Brother Cunningham asks, “What is
the trouble?” We don’t know, we must
: confess. Will he please answer his own
question ?
THE STA TE UNI VERSI TY.
Although we did not enjoy the privi
leges of an education at the State univer
sity in early life, w 7 e have ever felt the
warmest solicitude for its success. H e
have watched the ebbs and tides of its
progress w 7 ith much earnestness and so
licitude for* the reason that it should be
the pride of ever} 7 true Georgian. It is
the alma mater of the great bulk of our
most eminent and distinguished men who
have illustrated the grand old State with
proud distinction on the forum, in the
field, on the bench and in ail the higher
efforts of intellectual life.
A few 7 months ago, when the prospects
of the university seemed to be on the
wane, about to take the “dry rot,” as it
were, under injudicious administration,
we felt sad. But it is fortunate that Dr.
Mell was called to the chancellorship,
and we are glad to learn that the old and
honored institution is rapidly regaining
its former prestige and that w e may find
soon its venerated walls filled with the
hopeful sons of beloved old Georgia and
with many from other States.
We w ish Dr. Mell every possible suc
cess. We hope the press will unite with
the faculty in efforts to breathe into old
Franklin anew and vigorous life, and as
she grows older her prosperity will in
crease until there shall be none better on
this continent.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
We are not so extremely opposed to the
payment of southern claims as Senator
Hill. There are many of those claims
that ought to be paid by the government.
We do not ask anything from the govern
ment as a so-called rebel. But there are
good and true men in the south who lost
property and were for the Union. These
acted from conscientious motives, no
doubt, although we admit ourself w 7 e do
not see how they did it. We could not
take position against our native State,
and would not do so if the late war w r as
to be repeated fifty times. We w 7 ere
never a secessionist, but stood by the
Union to the last. We went with our
state, and, as we have said, would do so
again under the same circumstances.
We know men, however, whose con
scientiousness prevented them from go
ing with the south. They lost property
by the federal invasion, while they w T ere
friends of the Union. To tell the truth,
we think tiie government ought to pay
for all property wantonly destroyed out
side of the necessities of war. There
must be, after the passions of the war lias
subsidy!, some allowance made for hon
est convictions during tlie w ar.
Gen. W. T. Sherman has written a most
admirably tempered letter to tlie Atlanta
Constitution, in which he discusses the
material wealth and possible develop
ment of the South. Tlie letter is full of
facts, made so plain as not to be misun
derstood in any section of tlie country.
We shall lay it before our readers next
week and comment upon tlie same.
The Calhoun Times mentions tlie sad
death of Willie Fain, the second son of
Colonel J. C. Fain, of that town. It seems
that the little fellow 7 was out where some
colored men w ere clearing, and a small
pine tree they had cut fell upon him while
he was looking in a hollow 7 log for a rab
bit. He was about eleven years old.
In the death of Oliver H. Jones, Atlanta
lias lost one of her best citizens. We knew
him since 1852 w hen he was a poor boy
struggling for a place in tlie w 7 oold. We
are glad that tlie people of Atlanta paid
a proper and just tribute to his memory
on the occasion of his funeral last w r eek.
Green grow 7 the turf over his grave.
We are glad to observe that the Union
and Recorder has greatly improved of
late in its general “git up and git” en
ergy. It is now a better paper than it
ever was. It seems to have been inspired
with renewed youth, and we hope to see
its editor at the press meeting in May.
The Rome Courier hasn’t cooled off
yet. It never has a kind word for Dr.
Felton, but grips every opportunity to
fling a little spiteful though impotent
paragraph at him. Well, Jedge, that’s
all right; if you can stand the effort, Dr.
Felton can stand the effect.
Tlie Atlanta Constitution continues to
be a right stout newspaper. It is splen
didly printed and its news w 7 ell collated;
but it has not yet proved sufficiently stal
wart to tell us who will he our next gov
ernor.
Brother Cunningham says “let both
sides cross the line for reconciliation.”
We shall not cross the dcmocoatic line
to reconcile with the enemies of true de
mocracy.
Now, if the Griffin News will copy our
reply to the Express as to “the difference
between us,” it will be guilty of a neat
piece of fairness.
Mr. E. P. Speer has retired from the
Macon Ledger. Where Gene will turn
up and how 7 he will turn up remains to
be recorded.
CIPHER DISPATCHES.
What Connection Senator Gordon had
with Them.
To the Free Press :
The country has a remarkable pano
rama of political trickery, now being un
rolled before its astonished eyes, and the
daily prints are ftdl to overflowing with
the published reports of the committees,
one sitting In Washington and the other
in New York. We confess to painful
disgust that we have “conic to this com
plexion at last.”
Nephew Pelton ingloriously shoulders
all the odium to save the uncle, and he
must, therefore, become a literal know
nothing to save himself. He did it all.
He promised the money when he had no
authority. He directed the manipula
tors in Florida, Oregon and South Caro
lina. He, and he alone. Some of the
committee had so little respect for him or
his words as to tell him to his face they
did not believe him. It is all bad—on all
sides. Nobody touched the pitch that
has not been blackened by the operation.
It.is a dirty mess for both parties. Our
great General Gordon, as usual, had his
nimble finger in the pie. Pel ton tries to
shield him, but it is all bosh. He was
there, busy as usual. To place matters
fully before our readers we will state the
facts as they appeared in the Nety York
Tribune, and our readers may decide for
themselves on Gen. Gordon’s share in
the ciphers. As you can get Weed’s
testimony and compare, you will not ex
pect us to draw your conclusions ftr you.
We have our private opinion, hut that
shall not influence yours.
Smith M. Weed, of Plattsbnrg, N. Y.,
and a particular friend of Mr. Tilden,
went to Columbia as sson as it appeared
how doubtful was the result of the elec
eion; registered there under a false name
and reported frequently to Henry Have
muyer in cipher. As soon as received in
Yew York at his house, they were sent
to PeltsoiKi.iHe early reported trouble in
Carolina, but hinted that money might
procure a different issue.
November 13th he asks: “If a few
dollars can be placed in returning board;
what say you?” Later that day he asks,
“If returning board can be procured ab
solutely will you deposit thirty thousand
dollars?” Nov. 14th, “Shall I increase
to $50,000 if required to make sure?”
To this the answer came, “You can go
to fifty if necessary.” Nov. 18th Weed
sent this dispatch, “Majority of board
have been secured; cost is $80,000.” La
ter in the day lie. says, “You must have
the money at Barnum’sin Baltimore ear
ly Monday morning. I go at ten to
night.” He registered at Barnum’s in
Baltimore on Monday the 20th.
Pelton was in Baltimore that morning,
and went to Barnum’s Hotel. That day
Weed telegraphed from Baltimore in ci
pher to Gordon in Columbia, “Matters
arranged by returning board agent. In
form Haskell and telegraph news.” La
ter in the day he again telegraphed Gor
don, “Have the court hold on to the
electoral votes, until fixed or failure.
May be a little delay.” The same day
Pope (who is understood to be Gordon)
telegraphed to Weed, who had now' gone
on to New York, “Send $5,000 imme
diatelp to Haskell. * * * This will
make court all right.”
On the 22nd, “Pope” thus telegraphs
to Weed, “Have democratic friends in
New York inform their friends by tele
graph in New Orleans that court is firm,
and prospects of electoral vote bright.
* * Answer about $5,000 telegram.”
Oil 23rd he telegraphed to Weed, “Ex
pense too heavy for the electoral ticket
unless money is sent to Haskell. * *
Telegraph Haskell to draw immediately. ”
No wonder the General is very un
easy about telegrams. We should be un
easy in his place. All this occured in
November, 1870. In February, 1877, he
was just as busy meddling with John
Young Brown and Chas. Foster to seat
Hayes. He was hardly off with the old
love before he was on with the new.”
Bartow.
GENERAL NEWS.
Gathered Here and There from Our Ex
changes.
Gen. Butler has bought a large interest
in the Boston Globe, which was his or
gan last year.
Tw r oof the newly elected Southern
Senators are first cousins, Wilkinson
Call, of Florida, and J. D. Walker, of
Arkansas.
The St. Louis Journal of Commerce
publishes interviews with leading busi
ness men, representatives of every branch
of trade. Nine-tenths of them agree that
business this year will be much better
than it has been for three years past.
Bruce, the Senator from Mississippi, on
Saturday, introduced a hill to provide for
the improvement of the Mississippi river,
and the protection of its alluvial lands.
He gave notice that he would call it up
at an early day.
At the burial of Ashburton Webster, at
Marshfield, last week, the lid of the cas
ket containing the remains of his grand
father, the great statesman, Daniel Web
ster, was opened, and his face, the body
having been embalmed, was perfectly
recognizable.
The fiscal agent of the State of Loui
siana w rites to a bank oflieer of New
York city: “There will be no repudia
tion; the entire proceeds of the mill
tax w ill be devoted to the payment of the
coupons due Jan. 1, 1870.”
The Knoxville Chronicle says: “A
private letter received in this city states
that some parties at Water Valley, Miss.,
recently took up a yellow' fever corpse
for re-interment, and those parties are
now' dll down with the yellow fever.”
Senator Burton, a colored member of
the Texas Legislature, sends money to
Virginia to assist his old mistress, who
raised him and taught him how to read,
and who is now' living in poverty.
There is a colony somewhere in North
Carolina of nine hundred negroes. They
are engaged in working a quarry. They
have organized a local self government,
and the whipping post is the principal
penal institution.
It is said that Miss Jackson, the daught
er of the Alexandria inn-keeper who kill
ed Colonel Ellsworth,/ of the Zouoves, in
18G2, was kept in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington by Colonel Mosby
until he left for Hong Kong. Since his
departure she has lost her place.
The Globe-Democrat's Leavenworth
special says that the Cheyennes, who
left Fort Robinson, a few days ago, to be
turned over to the State*authorities for
trial for raiding and murdering citizens
in western Kansas, have arrived in Fort
Leavenworth under a strong cavalry
guard and are confined in the guard
house. The time for trial is not yet set.
The majority report of the House Na
val Committee, signed by all the Demo
cratic members, cites numerous alleged
violations of the law by ex-Seeretary
Robeson and some of his official asso
ciates. The report arraigns as guilty of
acts which should receive punishment,
Robeson, W. W. Wood, ex-chief of the
bureau of steam engineering, Isaiah
Hanscom, ex-chief of the bureau of con
struction, and the officers, John O. Brad
ford and J. 11. Watmough. •
Rumors in relation to the next Presi
dential nominations are flying greatly
and in great variety. For instance: It is
reported that Hon. Horatio Seymour will
be pot forward, in order to divide New
York State with Tilden, and thus to
practically kill the latter’s candidacy;
that Senator Bayard is Mr. Tilden’s sec
ond choice; that Vice President-elect
Hendricks will not accept a re-nomina
tion; that Mr. Tilden and Tammany
Hall have reconciled their differences,
etc., etc.
lion. Samuel J. Tilden was before the
sub-committee investigating the cipher
telegrams on Saturday. He was exam
ined and cross-examined at great length
in regard to his connection therewith,
but throughout he maintained the posi
tion that he knew nothing whatever of
any such dispatches or the action of any
friend of his in the matter. He declared
that not for a minute did he ever enter
tain the idea of obtaining possession of the
office to w hich he had been elected by
venal inducement. Said he: “lo the
people who 1 believe elected me presi
dent of the United States, to four mil
lions of citizens who were defrauded, 1
owed it as a duty to proclaim I w ould not
yield one jot or tittle of my right. W hat
ever evils may result from this subver
sion of the electoral system and of free
government, I resolved I would enter en
ter into no auction for the purchase of
the chief magistracy.”
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EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
The select senate committee, appointed
to investigate the best means of prevent
ing the introduction and spread of epi
demic disease, submitted their report
through Senator Harris. After detailing
the operations of the board of experts
who visited Memphis and New Orleans,
the committee strongly incline to the
opinion that neither yellow fever nor
cholera is indigenous to any part of the
United States; that the majority^if not
all, the epidemics of- the diseases with
which the country has suffered result
from importation. The committee is of
the opinion that the best and only cer
tain means of preventing the introduc
tion of these diseases from the other
countries is absolute non-intercourse with
the ports where the disease exists in an
epidemic form. The next best means is
a well regulated national quarantine. To
this end the committee report a bill pre
scribing duties to be observed by vessels
arriving in the United States from in
fected ports, establishing a bureau of
health in lieu of the marine hospital ser
vice. which it proposes to abolish. The
bill also contemplates co-operation w'tli
the state and municipal authorities w ith
out interfering with their respective sys
tems. The report, in conclusion, recom
mends the enforcement of strict sanitary
measures in every city and town.
THE NATIONAL BANKS.
The comptroller of the currency re
ports that the total amount of bonds held
by national banks 4s security for circu
lating notes on the first of February was
$308,939,200; of this amount $09,901,050
w ere 6 per cent, bonds, of which $53,907,-
500 were sixes of 1881, $5,054,000 Pacific
railway sixes, and $9,000,150 are five
twenties. The banks also hold $184,850,-
300 of 5 per cents, of which amount
$05,310,850 are 10-40 sand the remainder,
$119,530,450, fives of 1881. There are
also held by the banks $43,578,550 of 4%
per cents, and $62,542,700 of 4 per cents.
The comptroller reports an increase in
national bank circulation in the month
of November, 1878, of $840,441; in De
cember, an increase of $007,995, making
a total increase tor the last three months
of $1,939,054. For the months of Sep
tember and October, 1878, there was a
decrease in national bank circulation of
$1,024,447. The amount of national
bank circulation outstanding on the Ist
inst. was $322,930,849.
A STRANGE STORY.
The yellow' fever experts discovered
that the yellow fever was introduced into
New Orleans on the ship Emily B. Sou
der, from Havana, which brought two
passengers sick of yellow fever, one of
whom w r as the purser of the ship. The
quarantine physician, w ho had never had
any experience in the yellow r fever, passed
the sick men w ithout inspection. The
officers of the ship had brought one of
the patients from a sick bed, wrapped
him in a cloak and placed a newspaper
in his hand in order that he might ap
pear to be well. This was the purser,
w'ho, upon arriving at New r Orleans, was
taken to the quarters he died, and where
soon after the yellow fever made its ap
pearance. The ship was detained but
five hours in quarantine. The New' Or
leans authorities, although notified by a
northern passenger on the boat of the
fact that yellow' fever was brought on
the vessel, paid no attention to it.
THE TOBACCO TAX.
The senate finance committee took final
action upon a house bill amendatory of
the internal revenue laws, and authorized
the chairman to report it to the senate.'
The committee, by a vote of fivo against
four, decided to recommend concurrence
in the house provision reducing the tax
on manufactured tobacco, to 16 cents per
pound. The committee fixed the tax on
snuff at 24 cents, and strike out all pro
visions relative to the tax on cigars, che
roots and cigarettes, thus proposing to
leave them subject to taxation at existing
rates. The house provision repealing
tax 011 matches is' stricken out and the
committee have also entirely omitted the
tobacco bonded warehouse clause. The
bill is further amended by an addition of
a section to remit all taxes upon insolvent
savings banks, and to exempt from taxa- 1
tion two thousand dollars on each deposit
made by one person, or association in any
savings institution.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE NEW BARGAIN STORE.
New Store, New Goads, New Prices,
West Side 3?ulL>lic Sauare,
(opposite depot.)
The undersigned would respect
fully inform the citizens in general that we
are now opening a store in (Jartersville, consist
ing of
STAPLE DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
Shoes, Hats, Notions,
HARDWARE, TIN, CROCKtRY, GLASSWARE, ETC.
In fact, all articles usually kept in a first-class
general store. Having paid The Cash for the
entire stock and getting the large discounts, we
are prepared
TO OFFER IT Y.K. GRAINS
-i Mi 3 i. 1 ... * J.- v ' .
In every line of goods. Our motto will alwsysbe
“Quick Sales and Small Profits.”
IJIUTIIJfO. STRICTLY CASH,
1 lifllulJ i Or Country Produce.
The highest market prices paid for all kinds of
Country Produce, or taken in exchange for
goods.
Give us a call and a trial.
NX. L. FLOWERS & CO.
feb!3
COUCH HOUSE,
(Kingston, Georgia.)
This large and comfortable
House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. The
traveling public will And good, plain accommo
dations. Parties wishing-board through the
summer will find Kingston one of the healthiest
and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three
or four families can get comfortable rooms in
view of trains. Terms very reasonable.
jlv2s. W. W. RAINEY.
VEGETINE.
Her Own Words.
Baltimore, Mb., Feb. 13, 1877.
Mr. 11. R. Stevens:
Dear Sib.—Since several years I have got a
sore and very painl’ul foot. I had some physi
cians, but they couldn’t cure me. Now 1 have
heard of your Vegetinc from a lady who was
sick for a long time and became all well from
your Vegetine, and I went and bought me one
bottle of Vegetine; and after I had used one Kit
tle, the pains left me, and it began to heal, and
then I bought one other bottle, and so I take it
yet. I thank God for this remedy and yourself;
and wishing every sufferer may pay attention to
it. It is a blessing for health.
Mrs. C. KItABE, 638 West Baltimore St.
VEGETINE
Safe and Sure.
Mr. 11. R. Stevens:
In 1872 your Vegetinc was recommended to me,
ami yielding to the persuasions of a friend, I con -
sensed to try it. At the time 1 was suffering
from general debility and nervous prostration,
superinduced by overwork and irregular habits.
Its wonderful strengthening and curative prop
erties seemed to affect my debilitated system
from the lirst dose; and under its persistent use
I rapidly recovered, gaining more than usual
health and good feeling. Since then I have not
hesitated to give Vegetine my most unqualified
indorsement, as being a safe, sure and ]>owerful
agent in promoting health and restoring the
wasted system to new life and energy. Vegetine
is the only medicine 1 use; and as long as I live
I never expect to find a better.
Yours, truly, W. H. CLARK,
120 Monterey Street, Alleghany, Penn.
VEG ET 11ST IE
Tlie Best Spring Medicine.
Charlestown.
11. R. Stevens.
Dear Sir—This is to certify that I have used
your “Blood Preparation” in my family for sev
eral years, and think that for Scrofula or Cank
erous Humors or Rheumatic Affections, it can
not be excelled; and as a Blood Purifier and
Spring Medicine it is the best thing I have ever
used, and 1 have used almost everything. I can
cheerfully recommend it to any one in need of
such a medicine.
Yours, respectfullv,
Mrs. A. A. DINSMORE, 19 Russell st.
VEGETINE
What is Needed.
Boston, Feb. 13,1871.
11. R. Stevens , Esq.
Dear Sir —About one year since I found my
self in a feeble condition from general debility.
Vegetine was strongly recommended to me by a
friend who had been much benefited by its use.
I procured the article, and, after using several
bottles, was restored to health, and discontinued
its use. I feel quite confident that there is no
medicine superior to it for those complaints for
which it is especially prepared, and would cheer
fully recommend it to those who feel that they
need something to restore them to perfect
health. Respectfully, yours,
U. L. PETTENGILL,
Firm of S. M. Pettengill & Cos.,
No. 10 State st., Boston.
VEGETINE
All Have Obtained Relief,
South Berwick, Me., Jan. 17, 1872.
11. R. Stevens , Esq.
Dear Sir—l have had dyspepsia in its worst
form for the last ten years, and have taken hun
dreds of dollars’ worth of medicines without ob
taining anv relief. In Septemlier last I com
menced taking the Vegetine, since which time
my health lias steadily improved. My food di
gests well, and I have gained fifteen pounds of
fiesh. There are several others in this place
taking Vegetine, and all have obtained relief.
Yours, truly, THUS. E. MOORE,
Overseer of Card Room, Portsmouth Co.’s Mills.
V E GETIN E
Prepared by
H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
"V E <jt E TINE
Is sold by all Druggists.
Grarden Seeds !
ONION SETS !
Buist’s Warranted Garden Seeds
Are sure to germinate true to name, and sold as
cheap as unreliable seeds put up by other
houses. Purchasers of BUIST’S
WARRAN TED GARDEN
SEEDS will be given a copy of
BUIST’S GARDEN MANUAL,
FREE OF CHARGE.
Call early, make your selection, and secure copy
of the Garden Manual before they are gone.
Philadelphia Crown Onion Sets,
Red and White, sold at bottom prices. When
purchasing your seeds remember the name—
“BUIST’S,” and take no other.
SOLD BY
DAVID W. CURRY,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
juiyis
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:45 p m
Leave Cartersvilie 4:38 pm
Leave Kingston 5:04 pm
Leave Dalton 6:50 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:25 p m
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:15 pm
Leave Dalton 7:05 p m
Leave Kingston 8:34 pm
Leave Cartersville 9:00 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 10:55 pm
DAY TASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 6:25 a m
Leave Cartersville B:l6am
Leave Kingston 8:43 am
Leave Dalton 10:20 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 11:55 a m
DAY PASSENGEJt—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 7:10 a m
Leave Dalton . A 9:06 am
Leave Kingston 10:39 am
Leave Cartersville 11:06 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:00 p m
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta . . 4:20 pm
Arrive-at Cartersville • 6:35 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN'.
Leave Cartersville 6:25 am
Arrive at Atlanta 9:15 am
FA liMIJSTCT Xj.A.JN JDS
-and—
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City and Village Property
—FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR—
ATLANTA REAL ESTATE
I AM BUYING AND SELLING FARMING
lands and Cartersville and village property
in Bartow (formerly Cass) county, i have for
sale fifteen farms, most of themne'ar the railroad
depot, and convenient to post-ofliees, churches
and schools. These lands produce cotton, all the
grains and grasses, and water and timber good
and abundant. This village is fifty-three miles
north of Atlanta, Ga., ami eigty miles south of
Chattanooga, Tcnu. Address'
WM. T. WOFFORD,
Attorney at Law and Dealer in Real Estate,
Cass Station, Georgia.
TKTJGW BARBER SHOP.
WILLIAM M. HARRIS,
AN EXCELLENT BARBER OF ROME, HAS
recently removed to Cartersville ami
has fitted up an elegant shop in the St. James
Hotel, first door. He guarantees satisfaction to
those who give him a trial. Orders for work : t
private houses filled promptly. William John
son is also connected with my shop.
j )YJCJ I'D business you can engage in; to
l )Tjkj L S2O per day by any worker of either
sex, right in their own localities. Particulars
and samples worth $5 free. Improve your spare
time at this business. Address STINSON A Cv)o
Augusta, Maine. leb2S-ly.