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If ATE* OF SFBS< RIPTION*. One copy one year, - - - - $2 00 One copy six months, .... 100 One copy three months, - 50 *"? GLUB RATES. Five copies one Venr, - - - - f8 75 Ten copies one year, .... 15 00 Twenty copies one year, - - - 25 00 Fifty copies one rear, - 50 00 To be paid for invarriably in advance. \ll orders for the paper must be addressed to THE FREE FRESS. ’ Professional Cards. W. T. WOFFORD, A T T ORNEY-AT-LA W, AND— dealer in real estate, CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA*. S. TIMLIN, A T T O U NJp V - AT - I, TV W. CARTERSVILLE, GA. \\riLL I'RACTICK IN ALL THE COURTS \ V in Bartow county, the Superior. Courts of the Cherokee Circuit, the Supreme Court and the I niteil States Court for the Northern District of Georgia. decl9-4mos T. XV. It. HARRIS, attorney-a r r -LAW, < JLLE, GA. I PRACTICES IN ALL TIIE COURTS OF 1 Bartow and adjoining counties, and will faithfully attend to nil business entrusted to him. < Mlire over postoffice. decs-ly JOHN L. MOON, AT 'V ORN kY - -A. r r -LA w . Office at the store of P. L. Moon & Son, East Main Street. • , CARTERSVILLE, GA. ulyW c* *_ J R. W. MUIU’HEY, A r U TO It NEY-A r i? -XjA. NV % CARTERSYILLE, GA. OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor ner of Main A Erwin streets. July 18. J. A. BAKER, A T T ORNEY-AT-LA W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. \\ J ILL practice in all the courts of Bartow \ V and adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to all business entrusted to nis care. Office in Bank Block over the post office. jnlvlS. E. I). GR AH AM. A. M. FOUTE. GRAHAM & FOUTE, at r r oii isr tc ys -at-l aw. 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 Postoffiee. jtilylß. T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR. MILNER & HARRIS, ATTO RNEYS-AT-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. july!B F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over 3tokely & Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. I WILL FILj TEETH, EXTRACT.TEETH, and put in teeth, or do any work iu my line at prices to suit t lie times. Work al. warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. auglS-1 y. F. M. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERSVILLE, GA. W r ILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, and will sell %h?n| as cheap they ean be bought affvwtterd! WartaWed hr proVfe as represented. All work done by me warranted to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julyls. CHAS. B. WILLINGHAM, Stenographic Court Reporter. [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. I 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 GriiicLe. _ GHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Monday, June 10, 1878, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave. ; Uartersville 1:30 pm Stilesboro 2:15 p m 2:20 p m Taylorsville 2:45 pm 8:00 pm Rockmart 4:00 pm GOING EAST. Rockmart G :00 am Taylorsville 7:00 am 7:15 a m Stilesboro 7:40 a m 7:45 a m Uartersville 8:35 am WILLIAM MacRAE, 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 9atn Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday 7am] Leave Gadsden Tuesday Bpm Arrive at Rome Wednesday 6 j> m Leave Rome Thursday 9am Arrive at Gadsden Friday 7am Leave Gadsden Friday 6 p in Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm J. M. ELLIOTT Gen’l Sup’t. 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 Home 8:00 pm WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 2:45 p m Leave Uartersville 4:38 pm Leave Kingston 5:04 pm Leave Dalton 6:50 pm Arrive at Chattanooga 8:25 pm NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:15 pm Leave Dalton 7:06 p m Leave Kingston 8:34 pm Leave Uartersville 9:00 pm Arrive at Atlanta 10:55 p m DAY PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 6:25 am Leave Uartersville 8:16 am Leave Kingston 8:43 am Leave Dalton 10:20 am Arrive . t Chattanooga 11:55 a m DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 7:10 a m i.eave Dalton 9:06 am Leave Kingston 10:39 am Leave Uartersville 11:06 am Arrive at Atlanta 1:00 pm CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP. I.eave Atlanta . . 4:20 p m Arrive at Uartersville • 6:35 pm C ARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN. Leave Uartersville 6:25 am Arrive at Atlanta . . . . . . 9:15 am The Nashville American. T piIE REA DERS OF THE FREE PRESS W ILL 1 find in the Nashville AMERICAN, a first class newsprper. In news, it enjovs all the ad vantatagesof the Eastern and Western Press Associations, thus securing the latest telegraph ic news from all parts of the United States and the rest of the world. Its market reports are full, and includes all articles in the mercantile lists of the country. It has Dr. Daniel Lee for Agricultural Editor, who gives it special value to the farmer. the AMERICAN is Democratic, and its discussions of the current political questions are ahie, and challenge even the respect of adversa ries. The miscellaneous columns of THE AMERI CAN embrace all that is interesting and useful, in the various fields of human enterprise; and it can lie safely commended, as a most excellent and valuable paper in the Household, the Work shop, the Store-house, and to all people of every vocation, T* l ® AMERICAN prints three editions— Daily, Semi -Weekly and Weekly—specimen copses ff which will be sent on application. 1 he,terms are, per annum—Daily, slo.Gft; aTi™, y ' * J,iV ss sasayfft • Nashville, Team VOLUME I. SUCCESS ! SCROFULA CURED! P The North Georgia Medical In stitute Discharges Another Scrofula, Patient! My lititle boy now four years of age was af flicted with the loathsome disease, Scrofula, which exhibited external symptoms at about six months of age. He became very weak, his skin presented a peculiar yellow appearance—had no appetite, became so very poor in flesh that he * ** 5* * > H* O • AJ was really unpleasant to look at. Large swell ings appeared under ins rigid arm, and Anally they broke.and continually discharged the most fearfully offensive odor—almost unbearable—liis mother could hardly bear to wash and dress the deep-running sores. After the disease had gone on for about a month, we called in our family physician, a man who bore the reputation of be ing a learned and skillful physician. After treating the case for a number of months, he told us that it would take two or three years to perform a cure. However, lie continued to treat the child, but with no manner of benefit as we could see. Indeed, with the painful lancing and unpleasant internal medicines the poor little creature seemed, to grow more restless and a ■+ -< • great deal b eaker. About this time myself and wife came to the determination to change physicians, but were greatly troubled as we then knew of no one -whom we could trust with more confidence than the one engaged. Happily, through the advice of a friend—one who deeply sympathized with us in our dire distress—we wore directed to see and consult Drs. Memmler & Johusonf who had established an Infirmary in Uartersville. Our consultation with those gentlemen resulted in our turning over to them the treatment of the little child, whom we deemed beyond the skill of any earthly physician; hut our love for the dear child, who had gone through so much suffering, prompted us to leave nothing undone that prom ised the least relief. After thoroughly examin ining their patient, Drs. Memmler & Johnson began treatment. We had given only three doses of their medicine, when we noticed consid erable improvement, and every day thereafter improvement went rapidly on. With nothing but internal remedies, no sore, no plasters, no lancing was resorted to by the above named gen tlemen. Simply their internal remedies, after hardly three months’ treatment have performed the cure which it was said required years to ac complish. And now, in conclusion, I invoke the richest blessings of the Great Physician—who looks over all things—to bless and prosper them, and to the afflicted world we feel that we could wish them no greater earthly blessing than to fall under the care and treatment of these gentlemen. If any desire to hear from me directly, they will ad dress me at Uartersville, Ga. Most respectfully, his NIMROD X HOWREN. mark. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of February, 1879. J. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P. All Chronic Diseases Cured and Surgical Operations Per formed at the North Georgia Medical Institute. MEMMLER & JOHNSON, Proprietors. UABTJ3WYILLK Ga THE FREE PRESS. YEGETINE. Iler Own Words. Baltimore, Mn., Feb. 13,1877. Mr. 11. It. Stevens: Dear Sir.—Since several years I have got a sore and very painful foot. I had some physi cians, but they couldn’t cure me. Now I have heard of your Yegetine from a lady who was sick for a long time and became alf well from vour Yegetine, and I went and bought me one bottle of Yegetine; and after I had used one bot tle, the pairs left me, and It began to heal, and then I bought one other bottle, and eo I take it yet. 1 thank God for this remedy and yourself; and wishing every sufferer may pay attention to it. It is a blessing for health." Mrs. C. KRABE, (538 West Baltimore St. vegFtine Safe and Sure. Mr. 11. It. Stevens: In 1872 your Yegetine was recommended to me, and yielding to the persuasions of a friend, I con sented to try it. At the time I was suffering from general debility ami nervous prostration, superinduced by overwork aud irregular habits. Its wonderful strengthening and curative prop erties seemed to affect my debilitated system from the first 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 Yegetine my most unqualified indorsement, as being a safej sure and powerful agent in promoting health and restoring the wasted system to new life and energy. Yegetine is the only medicine I use; and as long as I live I never expect to find a better. Yours, truly, W. If. CLARK, 120 Monterey Street, Alleghany, Penn. V E Gr ET INE The Best Spring Medicine. Charlestown-. 11. li. Stevens Dear Sir—Thi,} U to certify that I haye used your “Bkg>d Preparation” in my family for sev eral years, and think that for Scrofula or Cank erous Humors or Rheumatic Affections, it can not he excelled; and as a Blood Purifier and Spring Medicine it is the best thing I 4ave ever iffied, aim I have used almost everything. I can cheerfully recommend it to any one in need of such a medicine. Yours, respectfully, Mrs. A. A. DINS MORE, 19 Russell st. VEGrETINE What is Needed. Boston, Feb. 13,1871. If. R. Stevens , Esq. Dear Sir—About one year since I found my£ self in a feeble condition from general debility. Yegetine was strongly recommended to me bya 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. BETTENGILLJ “fa Firm of S. M. Petteugill & G 0.,/ < No. 10 State st., Boston. V E Gr E T 11ST E All Have Obtained Relief. South Berwick, Me./ Jan. 17,1872. * 11. li. Stevens. Esq. Dear Sir—l have had dyspepsia in its worst form for the last ten years, and have taken him-' dredsof dollars’ worth of medicates without ob taining any relief. In September las^* I menced taking the 'Vegetinc, siiice which time my health has steadily fmproteif. My food di gests Well, and I have gained fifteen pounds of flesh. There are several others in this place taking Vegetike, and all have obtained relief. v ours, truly, r THOS.E. MOORE, Overseer of Card Room, Portsmouth Co.’s Mills. VE Gr E~T 11ST E Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. YEGETINE Is sold by all Druggists. 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, &c., &c., Crockery, &c M &c., AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. TO SUIT THE TIMES. Call and Examine tbeir Goods and Prices Before Buying. J. A. ERWIN & SON. Uartersville, Ga., Sept. 19th, 1878. MORNING NEWS SERIALS. A IV EW STORY BY A SAVANNAH LADY. -IN THE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS OF FEBRUARY IST. Will be commenced a New Serial Story of ab sorbing interest, entitled WARP AND WOOF ! BY MISS It. J. PHILBRICK. rpiIIS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND IN- L teresting store, illustrative of Southern character and Southern life in town and country, will run through several weekly issues of the News. Without anticipating the' interest of our readers, we can promise the lovers of well wrought fiction a rare treat in its perusal. Tee Weekly News is one of the largest and handsomest newspapers in the country, boirig an eight page sheet 38 by 52 inches. Among its new features we invite attention to a series of arti cles on the Orange Culture, written expressly for its pages by Mr. C. Uodrington, of Florida, which -will be found interesting and valuable to those engagedin orange growing. Another feature of especial interest to our lady readers Is our New York Fashion Letteas, by an accomplished lady writer. The aim of the New ais to be thorough in all departments of a comprehensive newspa per. Its Agricultural Department, its careful compilation of the news of the day, foreign and domestic, its reliable market reports, editorial comment, and choice miscellaneous readings, mukp the Weekly News one of the most instruct ive, entertaining and valuable newspapers. New subscribers desiring to commence with the new story should send u_ their names at once. Subscription, one year, $2. Weekly News and* the Southern Farmers’ Monthly on*"year, $3.50. Address J. H. ESTILL, thtvaohfth, Ga. CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20. 1879. THE TREE IMW A RDM ESS. We told the readers of The Free P.rfss last summer all about the trade with J. E. Bryant, who bought out Mr. Iloltz claw in the interest of the Lester faction. Col. Bryant went up the state road in company with a liQted politician and straightway Iloltzelaw was nominated We can give the proof. A copy of the Indianapolis Journal hits just fallen into our hands, dated October 24th, 1878. The dispatch that attracts our notice is headed thus: “The Democrats buying up Cheap Republicans in Northern Georgia to Op pose Felton for Congress.” It has leaked out that the congressional demo | eraitc committee lias been furnishing money to , certain obscure republicans in northern Georgia to aid them in making a diversion in opposition to the re-election of congressman Felton, inde pendent democrat. Perhaps it is the first time on record when democrats have furnished money to aid the canvass of a republican, but as Felton has always received the republican vote in his district they hope to defeat his re-election by furnishing means to ostensibly aid the elpction of one Holtzclaw, a self-appointed candidate who is thus aiding the election of Lester, the regular democratic nominee in the seventh dis trict. It may be the first time “on record,” but it is not likely the first time it has happened. Now, friends, we leave it to your candid judgment to say, why and ; wherefore this effort was made in our district. Not only was the state house j enlisted—not only were the federal offi cials in the state used and sought to be used —not only did the state executive committee use its force and authority, j but the national executive committee in Washington furnished money to he used by Bryant to help the? so-called organized democracy of Georgia. What are we coming to? Did we not tell you that /the alliance for public plunder w as gen eral between the rfifflical wings of both parties ? We have always criticized the republi can party severely for the use of money in elections, and there was a wholesale outcry w hen every official in Washington w r as assessed to carry the Hayes and Wheeler ticket. Here we have the fact , that so-called democrats w ere fighting us here in the seventh district, wifih money placed in J, E. Bryant’s hands to help *Lester. Talk about freedom at the bal lot box! What a fafee is this? It will all leak out, and there is more behind; w T e judge from what has gone before. . Watch! ' . OEM. SII ERMA M'S LETTER. The Free Fress was not included in the favored of the press of the state in re ceiving advanced copies of Gen. Sher man’s letter last week from the Constitu tion office; but, nevertheless, the same will be found on the fourth page, for which we ask a careful perusal. The letter is certainly candidly written. It bears the impress of honesty, clearness and incisiveuess. The general gives the proper meaning of the term “carpet-bagger,” a breed of political blizzards we hope never to greet in the south again ; but he says the term is not so well understood, and it has the effect of keeping the people there away from the south who woidd otherwise come here to live because of the superior advantages offered for agriculture and enterprise. The letter of Gen. Sherman will doubtless do much to dissipate such a misunderstanding of the term “carpet bagger” in the minds of northern people. There has not been the time since the war when the good people of the south were opposed to immigration to t-his>sec tion of all good citizens in the north who desired to make their home amongst us. Population, capital and enterprise are what we need more than anything else in the development of the vast and va rious resources of wealth in the south. These we desire to the extent of wel coming all who will come. With these the south would become an empire of wealth, in the course of time, unparallel ed in the history of the world. If the northern papers would do jus tice to the southern people as General Sherman has done, there would be an influx of immigration here that would add millions of wealth to the country and unexampled prospertv to all classes of the people. Will they do so? Or, do they fear the depletion of their own population ? These may be reasons why the northern press continue to keep up the war prejudices against the south. And now the Augusta Chronicle is aroused with serious alarm. The ghost of Felton haunts its distorted imagina tion. It sees an apparition in the shape of him for governor next year. We tell our friends, seriously, not to be frightened at all, Dr. Felton don’t want to be governor. The Atlanta Constitu tio'i ought not to have so excited the fears of the Chronicle. But, if General Toombs or General Wofford should be induced to run for governor by a loud call from the people next year, won’t we have fun ? If some of the papers don’t quit talk ing about Dr. Felton running for - gover nor, behanged if we don’t put him on the track and let him go any how, al though we know lie doesn’t want to lie the chief magistrate of the state. Some of our brethren of the press don’t know what to do with Senator Hill. They have to kill Ben. every now and then—on paper. But, they resuscitate him always at the right time. It is political heresy in Georgia to say a word in opposition to any member of the Kirkwood mutual admiration society. Wilhelmj has turned loose the flood gates of witticism of the Georgia press, much of which is very flat. The best and truest friends of The Free Press are those who subscribe for it and pay lor it promptly. If TLX AND COLQUITT AGAIN. rr by tl,e treatment that Don. B, ii. J till has received, it is more °us here in democratic Georgia to expose than commit fraud. For the last few months the press has pouted out up*on j tlle distinguished senator abuse hardly . surpassed in amount t*-rancor by tha*t heaped upon Bullock, Blodgett and “Fat ty" Harris during the worst days of the radical reqime. And for what? Because lor sooth, he has called the attention of the people of Georgia to the fact that a cor pora t ion has been taxed to the amount of eight thousand dollars by an underlin 0 * of the treasury department for gettnm to do what in law he was required to do! His Excellency has chosen to consider his honor and honesty impugned. .He called upon the legislature to examine his motives, and the committee in their ! reports—which might have been, and for we know were written before their ap pointment—have laid on the whitewash tnick enough to satisfy the laVgest vanity. Not only did they exonerate the govern or, which thej T were perhaps right in do-* ing, hut they also exculpated the treas ury clerk, which they could do only by going full in the face of facts. These re ports were preceded and have been fol lowed by a clamorous shout from three fourths of the press, of “Gov. Colquitt is emaculate and Ben Hill is a villian.” Now, we believe that Gov. Colquitt’s honesty would pass muster as honesty goes these degenerate clays, and we would not feel inclined to stake too heavily on that of Senator Hill. But we insist that the character, motives and intentions of Mr. Hill have nothing to do with the matter in hand. He has brought to no tice to the people the fact that a great wrong has been done, a foul piece of cor ruption practiced under the very nose of the chief executive of the state. * It is the duty of the people—more especially of the democratic party, to condemn that wrong unsparingly* and unequivocally. The evil that may be now corrected by driving J. VV. Murphy from office, strip ped of his ill-gotten gains and with the brands of dishonesty upon him, may in a few years become incurable. If the governor makes common cause with Mur phy, the people must tell him candidly that his good name, were it twenty times fairer, cannot shield him from their con demnation. If the house at their meet ing in July adopt either report ol the committee, tlie people should let them know at the next election that men are not fit to be their representatives who in one breath declare a thing not at all wrong,'and the doer of it not the least guilty, and in the next say that the thing should not be done again.* We do not be lieve that either the fierce onslaught on Senator Hill or the loud vauntings of Gov. Colquitt’s integrity will blind them to the facts or distract them from the real issue. The question is not about Hill’s patriotism and honesty or adout Gov. Colquitt’s freedem from corruption. It is simply whether or not clerks in any of the departments under the control ofthe executive have the right to extort money from citizens of the state for procuring the governor’s signature to instruments of writing which he is in law bound to sign. Presented to the people thus without any disguise of words or mixture of irrelevant issues, we have no doubt of their answer.— Crawfordville Democrat. THE CATOOSA SPRINGS. We learn with pleasure that one of the most popular and famous of our southern resorts —probably the most beautiful of them all—Catoosa springs, has been put under auspices that will insure to it a bright and successful future. Through various reverses this enchant ing place has lost much of its prestige, all of which it will now regain. Mr. B. W. Wrenn, whose name is a synonym of en ergy and who pushes everything he un dertakes to success, has effected a lease on the entire property for the term of ten years. It is probable that it will be run by Mr. J. R. Campbell, of the St. James hotel, Jacksonville, Florida, and late of the Kimball house. Mr. Camp bell is one of the most capable hotel men in the country, and his St. James is the best of Florida hotels. He put the Kim ball on its feet by an administration of a few months, and will doubtless do more than this lor old Catoosa. There is no spot in the south that for beauty of scen ery, salubrity of climate, variety of pleas ure, strength ot diversity of mineral wa ters,, and general natural advantages can near equal Catoosa. Under the leaseship of the indomitable Wrenn and the man agement of Colonel Campbell, we shall be surprised if it* does not go to the very head and front of the Georgia watering places during its first season. We are sincerely glad to see it in such capital hands. It lias always deserved such management as it is about to get. — Atlan ta Constitution. THE PENSION ARREARS DILEMMA. Secretary Sherman receives many in quiries from persons interested in the re cent pension bill, asking why the large coin reserve in the treasury .cannot he ased to pay arrears of pensions without issuing a fresh lot of greenbacks, or in creasing the bonded debt. The secreta ry’s reply was that there is no coin avail able to pay these pensions, and not a dollar will be paid until a specific appro priation is made. The coin is mainly a resumption fund, and to use it would be to hazard the permanent success of re sumption. There are but three ways to provide for demands made by the arrears of pensions bill—levying in small annual installments, or issue bonds, or increase taxation. One of three, in the secre tary’s opinion, must be done, especially as reduced tax on tobacco is threatened, which will cut down revenues $9,000,000 annually. Referring to the proposition made in many quarters to issue $40,000,000 addi tional currency, the secretary said it would be “disastrous, destroy confidence, send gold upward, and destroy the re sults we had labored so long and suffered so much to achieve.”. Gen. Thomas Ewing having, in a re cent interview, declared that it would be futile for the democratic party to attempt to outlaw the greenback, and that the masses of the democratic party every where are in hearty accord with the na tionals on their two great ideas—the un limited coinage of the old silver dollar, and the substitution of legal tenders for bank notes, the New York World says that “if General Ewing is correctly re ported, and if, being correctly reported, he reports correctly the opinions and wishes of the ‘democratic masses’ of the west, nothing but the conservative inter position of the ‘solid south’ can prevent the disruption of the democratic party as a national organization.” The monument to Victor Emanuel which Italy desires to raise will cost, it is estimated, not less than $2,000,000. It is to consist of a colossal equestrian statue mounted on a triumphal arch, aud the competition is to lie thrown open to all the world. SOUND CHEDIT. L W ashington Special to Cincinnati Commercial.] It i> lemarked hone as a lktie singular tnut the only corporations, outside of the l nited states government, able to tloat a tour-per-cent, loan at par, are the city ot Boston and the State of Georgia. The excellent credit of Boston is a matter of history. She has always been able to noi row money at a lower rate than any pther American city, for she never ai ; ‘dued an-obligation to go to protest, and etery item ot real and personal property In the city is Ikiblo for the. city’s debt, no matter to whom it belongs. The holder ot a dishonored coupon can levy upon a block of stores for bis debt and get it. l'hese are the reasons given in explana tion why the credit of Boston is equal to * that of the general government. Among the States, and 'particularly among the Southern States, the credit of Georgia stands pre-eminent; Every ob ligation is met with “spot cash”.in ad vance of maturity. The State treasurer recently passed through here from a visit to New York, where lie was offered all the money he wanted at 4 and 5 per cent, Georgia is now floating a 4 percent, loan at par. The bonds are flve and ten dol- I lars, with coupons attached, calling for interest at 4 per cent. She is the first I State in the Union to float a loan at par at this low rate of interest. Since the war the rate of taxation has been flve mills or above, which has kept her credit up to a high plane. Besides, the State owns the Western ct Atlantic railroad, running from Chattanooga to Atlanta, j 138 miles, which pays a rental into the j treasury at the rate of one thousand dol ! lars a day. The completion of the Cin | cinnati Southern road will nearly double the value of this property and muke it j worth eight or ten millions of dollars, a sum equal to the entire debt of Georgia. Georgians in public life here are very proud of the financial standing of their State, one of them remarking the other day that he would rather see the tax rate raised from five to fifteen mills than a single obligation should go to protest or the financial fame of the State tarnished. “MY DEAR GENERAL.” The following *i s a copy- of President Hayes’ letter to General Merritt: Execu tive Mansion, Washington, February 4, 1879 —My Dear General: I congratulate you on your confirmation. It is a great gratification to me and very honorable to yon and will prove, I believe, of signal service to the country. My desire is that the office he conducted on strictly business principles and according to rules for the civil service which were recommended by the civil service com mission in the administration of General Grant. I want you to be perfectly inde pendent of mere influences from any quarter. Neither my recommendation nor that of Secretary Sherman, or any member of congress, or any other influ ential person, must be specially regarded. Let appointments and removals be made on a business principle and according to rules. There must, I assume, be few confidential places filled by those you personally know to be trustworthy, hut restrict the area of patronage to the nar rowest limits. Let no man he put out merely because he is a friend to Mr. Ar thur, and no man be put in merely be cause he is our friend. The good of the service should be the sole end in view. The best means yet presented, it seems to me, are the rules recommended by the civil service cfttnmissioner. I shall issue >io new order on the subject at present. I am glad you approve of the message, and 1 wish you to see that all that is ex pressed or implied in it is faithfully car ried out. Again congratulating you, and assuring you of my entire confidence, I remain sincerely, R. B. Hayes. THE COTTON CROP. A report from the agricultural depart ment has just been issued. Among other items it gives the prices of the cotton crop, concerning which, it is said, we are guided by the prices received by tle planter, which have ruled excessively low this winter, the average for the whole country being about 8% cents per pound. The prices to the war in 1859 and 18G0 of the amount imported into Great Britain from the United States were four-fifths of their whole importa tions. During the war it fell ofl to less than two per cent. Starting in ISG6 at thirty-seven per cent, we find that in 1878 we had regained the position we Held prior to 1861, and that four-fifths of the cotton used and manufactured in Great Britain came from the United States. The proportion of our total crop exported to foreign ports was 3,340,000 bales out of a crop of 4,750.000 bales during the year ending September 1, 1878; The production of this great sta ple seems to he too large and the result is shown in the glutted markets and low prices, the large crops of 1878 being worth less than that of the preceding year. Basing The calculation on prices returned by the producer, we find the value of the crop of 1878 to be $194,700,- 000, and 1877, $240,000,000; while the number of hales was 4,750,000 in 1877, and 5,200,000 in 1878. ♦♦♦ The comptroller of the currency re ports that the total amount of bonds held by national hanks as security for circu lating notes on the Ist of February was $348,939,200. Of sliis amount $68,901,-: GSO were G per cent, bonds, of which $53,907,500 arc Gs of 1881, $5,054,000 Pa cific railway Gs, and $9,000,150 are 5-20s. The banks also hold $184,856,300 of 5 per cents, of which amount $65,319,850 are 70-40s, and the remainder, $119,530,150, 5s of 1881. There are also held by the hanks $43,578,550 of per cents, and $52,542,700 of 4 pe r cents. The comp troller reports an increase in national bank circulation for the last three months of $1,939,054. The amount of national bank circulation outstanding on the Ist inst was $322,930,849. Mrs. Eliza Langhorn died in Louis ville, Ky., February 7th, aged eighty-one years. She belonged to families' well known in the history of Virginia and Kentucky. Her grandfather, William Payne, had a personal difficulty with General Washington, during ' which Payne knocked the father of his country down the Alexandria (Va.) court house yard. . | The London Standard's correspondent says that various prelates in Rome have been lectured about the queer company they keep, and priests have been forbid den to wear lay attire and frequent the aters. The present Pontiff is a discipli narian. —i A hill has been introduced in the New York legislature providing that all at torneys admitted to practice in the su preme court of that state shall he em powered to perform the duties of notaries public. The proprietors of the skating rink at Worcester, Mass., have been Bued for re fusing to allow colored people to skate. RATES OF, ADV KRHS&&G. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of One Dollar per meh for the llrst insertion, and r ifty Cents for each additional insertion, CONTRACT RATES. One inch, 1 month, $2 50; 3 months, fG; fi months, $< 50; 1 year, $lO. Fourth column, l month. $7 50 ; 3 months,sls; 6 month. , s*s; 1 year, fO. Half columns, 1 mouth. sls; 3 niffhths, $23- 0 months, S4O; 1 year, SOO. One column, J month. Address jfiTbrders to The Free Press. NUMBER 32. THE NEW HAMPSRJRf XJ^VafP^AM Section l. Any jjersou going about from place to place lagging and asking, or subsisting on charity, snail be taken and deemed to be a tramp, and shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the state paison not more than fifteen months. Sec. 2. Any tramp who shall enter any' dwelling house, or kindle any fire on an t highway or oir4.be huxi ©t : atioritavy with out the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall bo found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, ot shall threaten to do any injury to am person, or to the real or personal estate of another, shall he punished by impris onment in the State prison not more than two years. Sec. 3. Any wlio shall willfully and maliciously do guy injury to any person, or to the rcpl or personal, estate of another, shall he punished by impris onment in the State prison not more than five years. See. 4. Any act of beggary’ or vagran cy by any person not a resident of the state*, shall be evidence that the person committing the same is a tramp within the meaning of this chapter. Sec. 5. Any person, upon view of any offense described in this chapter, may ap prehend the offender and take him before a justice of the peace for examination, and on his conviction shall he entitled to a reward of ten dollars therefor, to lx* paid by the county. See. 6. The mayor of every city and the selectmen of every town are hereby authorized and appoint spe cial constables, whose duty it shall be to arrest and prosecute all tramps in their respective cities and towns. Sec. 7. This chapter shall not apply to any female or minor under the age of seventeen years, nor to any blind person. Years ago a barefooted hoy floated down the Susquehanna on an humble raft, and arrived at Harrisburg, Pa. He came from the north, and belonged to a large family; all his worldly goods were tied up in a little pocket handkerchief. He sought and obtained employment in a printing office as an apprentice. From an apprentice to a journeyman, from a journeyman to a reporter, from a report er to :m editor, the printer hoy worked his way against obstacles which the suf fering poor only know. The young as pirant became printer of the state, and by frugal management was soon enabled to accomplish the object nearest his heart —the establishment of his mother in a home above want. Ilis brothers were his next care, and in a few years they too, with his sisters, were independent of the world; the once barefooted printer boy was in possession of affluence surrounded by a young and affectionate family. He rose in honor and office until he was elected a United States senator. tfiTbis man was Simon Cameron. THE STATE PAIR, Editor Chronicle and Constitutionalist: In your strictures on the state fair meeting, to have been held at the ex change last Saturday-, the public may he misled as to the position of this ex change in reference thereto. I therefore merely wish to state that the friends of said fair who called the meeting never consulted with the exchange, nor did they ever notify any* officer of the ex change that they desired to hold a meet ing there; therefore 1 am^noU"surprised that so few persons were present, as the exchange had not even been asked for the use of their rooms. To-day a com mittee of the county fair asked the priv ilege of holding a meeting on Wednes day, and it was cheerfully granted, as it would have been also to tjie friends of the state fair. Yours, respectfully, . Wm. C. Sibley, Vice-President. Augusta. February 10, 1879. Butler’s sarcastic lling at the loyalty of the claims law applies just as well to Edmunds’ constitutional amendment. Where did the south recruit its armies if all the proved loyalty existed in the south? Perhaps it was only pretended loyalty which was touched into activity by the republican claims law.— Nashville American. The Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise devote an hour to family devotions each evening, half an hour in the morn ing and a quarter of an hour at noon. The marquis reads from the church of England service, and the princess re sponds. The committee on ways and means, de cided that they have not time at this ses sion of congress to make an investigation into the kid-glove case requested by A. T. Stewart & Company, a request concurred in by Secretary Sherman. The medical men of New 'York are working for severe laws against the adul teration of food.' Sand, terra alba, blue clay and muriate of zinc%re unsettled, and close at a decline. The heirs of Napoleon the third have been defeated in their action against the governmbnt to recover the Chinese mu seum and arms at the Chateau Pierre fonds, or their value. The commercial national bank of Pe tersbnrg, Va., the last institution of that kind in the city, have gone into liquida tion. No losses will result to any one. The approaching Mardi Gras pageant at New Orleans will be both attractive and elegant. Reports of the existence of yel low fever in the city are denied. Neal Dow’s latest public appearance is as the advertiser of a tape-worm remedy. Warranted by the Boston Herald not to contain anything intoxicating. The assistant attorney general of the post office department has decided that members of congress elect are not enti tled to the frank ling privilege. Five hundred laborers have been brought into Liverpool. Fourteen hun dred have arrived from Scotland alone since the strike began— The young Prince Napoleon is said to be dangerously ill at Oiiiselhurt. Ilis ill ness is attributed to an irregular and dis sipated life. The Tennessee senate rejected the proposition of the bondholders, by a vote of 12 to 9. ♦ President Grevy will get a salary of SIOO,OOO a year and 50,000 for household expenses. “Between Grant aud Bayard, always for Bayard,” says Secretary Schun’s pa per. ' ' * _ r T , ■ | • Reports of the domestic infelicity of M. Grcvv, president of France, are denied.