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—AND—
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CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
Cl. S. TUMLIN,
A r J' TO li IST KY-AT- LA W.
CARTEUSVILLE, GA.
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AT r r ORNEYS-AT-TA W.
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F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely A Williams store.)
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
T WILL FIL. TEETH, EXTRACT TEETII,
.1 and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suit the times.
Ziitv?" Work al. warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county.
auglS-ly, F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre A Co.’s Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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\ V Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
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CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Mondav, June 10, 1878, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave.
Cartersville 1:30 pm
Milesboro 2:15 pm 2:20 pm
Taylorsville ". 2:45 pm 3:00 pm
Itockmart 4:00 pm
GOING EAST.
Ilockmart (>:00 a m
Taylorsville 7:00 a m 7:15 a m
Stilesboro 7:40 a m 7:45 a m
<; artersv ill e 8:35 a m
WILLIAM MacRAE, Sup’t.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after Mondav, November 30th, the fol
lowing schedule will’be run by the Steamer
MAGNOLIA:
Leave Rome Mondav 9am
Arrive ai Gadsden Tuesday 7am
Leave Gadsden Tuesday Bpm
Arrive at Rome Wednesday opm
Leave Rome Thursday ....... 9am
Arrive at Gadsden Friday 7 ant
Leave Gadsden Friday 6pm
Arrive at Rome Saturday 0 p m
j. m. Elliott GenT Sup’t.
ROWE 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
Arri ve at Rome 8:00 pm
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present paasenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:45 pm
Leave Cartersville 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 7:05 pm
Leave Kingston 8:34 pm
Leave Cartersville 9:00 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 10:55 p m
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 6:25 am
Leave Cartersville . . 8:16 am
Leafe Kingston 8:43 am
Leave Dalton 10:20 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 11:55 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave < hnttanooga 7:loam
i.eave Dalton 9:06 am
Lyave Kingston 10:39 am
Leave Cartersville 11:06 am
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
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Nashville, Tenti-
VOLUME I.
SUCCESS !
i SCROFULA CURED!
The North Georgia Medical In
stitute Discharges Another
Scrofula Patient!
My litttle hoy now four years of age was af
flicted w.ith the loathsome disease, Scrofula,
1 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 flesff that he
was really unpleasant to look at. Large swell
ings appeared under his right arm, and finally
they broke and continually discharged the most
fearfully offensive odor—almost unbearable —his
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, he continued to treat
the child, hut 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 weaker.
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 were directed to see
and consult Drs. Memmler A Johnsonf who had
established an Infirmary in Cartersville. 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; but 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. Alter thoroughly examin
ining their patient, Drs. Memmler A 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
hut 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 Thysician—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 Cartersville, Ga.
Most respectfully,
liis
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 Nleclieal
Institute.
•
MEMNIVER A JOHNSON,
Proprietors.,
CARTERSVILLE Ga
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VEOETINE.
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Her Own Words.
Baltimore, Md., 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, hut they couldn’t cure me. Now I have
heard of your Vegetine from a ladv who was
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your Vegetine, and I went and bought me one
bottle of Vegetine; and after I hail used one lx>t
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;
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it. It is a blessing for health.
Mrs. C. KRABE, 638 West Baltimore St.
VEGETINE
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sented to try it. At the time I was suffering
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VEGETINE
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Yours, respectfully,
Mrs. A. A. DINS,MORE, 19 Russell st.
VEGETINE
What is Needed.
Boston, Feb. 13,1871.
11. R. Stevens, Esq.
Dear Sir—About one year since I found my
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U. L. PETTENGILL,
Firm of S. M. Pettengill A 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 nave taken hun
dreds of dollars’ worth of medicines without ob
taining any relief. In September last I com
menced taking the Vegetine, since which time
my health has steadily improved. My food di
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flesh. There are several others in this place
taking Vegetine, and all have obtained relief.
Yours, truly, THOS. E. MOORE,
Overseer of Card Room, Portsmouth Co.’s Mills.
VEGETINE
Prepared by
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VEGETINE
Is sold by all Druggists.
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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., See.,
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AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES
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Call and Examine their Goods and Prices
Before Buying.
J. A. ERWIN & SON.
Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 19tli, 1878.
MORNING NEWS SERIALS.
A. NEW 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 I
BY MISS.R. J. PHILBRICK.
rpiIIS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND IN
-1 teresting store, illustrative of Southern
character and Southern life in town and country,
will run through se.veral weekly issues of the
News. Without anticipating the interest of our
readers, we can promise the lovers of well
w rought fiction a rare treat in its perusal.
Tee Weekly News is one of the largest aud
handsomest newspapers in the country, being 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 Air. C. Codrington, of Florida, which
will be found interesting and valuable to those
engagediu orange grow ing. Another feature of
especial interest to our lady readers is our New
York Eashion Letteas, by an accomplished lady
writer. The aim of the News is to lie thorough
in all departments of a comprehensive newspa
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compilation of the news of the day, foreign and
domestic, its reliable market reports, editorial,
comment, and choice miscellaneous readings,
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New subscribers desiring to commence with
the new story should send a. theirnamesatonce.
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Address J. H. ESTILL,
s*v*toah, Ga.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1879.
’Gene Speer hasn’t yet turned up in a
newspaper. Make haste, boy, we feel
loneseme without you.
If Gen. Toombs were to run as an in
dependent candidate for governor the im
maculates (?) would swear he wasn’t a
democrat.
We are indebted to the lion. B. H. Hill
for a copy ot the speech of Hon. Jno. T.
Morgan, senator from Alabama, in reply
to senator Edmunds.
When they don’t have murders and
suicides in Macon, Cell. Thornton rum
mages around through his fertile imagi
nation and gets up one anyhow.
Ham’s characteristic salutatory was in
.the last Gainesville Eagle. He will im
part a vigorous life into the stalwart old
sheet if he can have his way about it.
The Savannah JVews is certainly the
largest daily paper in'Georgia and as
good as any in the south. It- is edited
with ability, it is newsy and it is well
printed.
The Atlanta Constitution is a live news
paper. It is always readable and excel
lent news journal. Politically, we can’t
always agree with it; but, nevertheless,
we could not well do without it.
Aud now, hoys, don’t worry about Dr.
Felton so. He don’t want to he govern
or. If you see a hobgoblin it isn’t Fel
ton. Its another man. You must quit
playing Hamlet on the political stage.
The Monroe Advertiser says it “can see
that there is a fine opening for the inde
pendent.” You bet there is! Expect
they'll have the next governor and he
will be one of the soundest democrats in
Georgia.
Dr. T. O. Powell has been elected su
perintendent of the Georgia insane asy
lum to succeed Dr. Green, deceased. He
has three assistants, the third one having !
been added in consequence of the large 1
increase of patients.
--
We wish Bridges Smith would write
something for the Macon Ledger, not that \
we are tired of Thornton’s suicide reci
tals, but we want to see something from
old Bridgestone of the wittiest writers
on the Georgia press.
Mr. J. H. Worrill announces himself
to be one of the editors of the Talbotton
Standard. We don’t see what a big, fat
man like Mumford wants with an assist
ant. However, we welcome the gentle
man to Georgia journalism.
The Monroe Advertiser says “it is rath
er too early to talk of the next candidate j
for gubernatorial honors of Georgia.” !
Why, bless your soul, friend, was not j
that subject talked about four years be
fore the last gubernatorial election !
Whenever “A. W. R.” brushes off the j
basement of his immaculate trowsers, i
and has a little conversation with Milord I
Gordon, his master, it is there known he
is preparing to “stwike’em with a fed
dah” and the person always “stwuck” j
is poor Felton. “Hit ’em with a wose,” 1
next time, Andy.
The Selma Tunes has a red hot editorial
on the officers ot the Selma, Rome and
Dalton road who allowed the rotten
bridge which occasioned the late accident
to stand in its state until so .many lives
were lost. The bridge was built during
Wilson’s raid through Alabama and has
been notoriously rotten for several years.
The ever-faithful have quit trying to
kill Ben Hill already. They like his
southern claim speech now. How those
fellows jump from Ben Hill and then
jump to him again! We tell ’em they
don’t know r what they are doing. And
yet Ben still survives all of their squirrel
shot.
Bill Moore does right in trying to keep
the provincial journals near him straight.
But the McDuffie Journal doesn’t like it,
and refers Bill to the man in Texas, who
made the fortune attending to his own
business. Sullivan ought not to kick when
he puts the possessive pronoun “here.”
Pay attention to Bill and you are all right,
Sully. _____
Anderson Reese’s pitiful little story
about some person in this district writing
to the republican executive committee
for funds to be used in the interest
of Felton in the last campaign has fallen
Hat. It was a sweet morsel under no
tongue but that of the Constitution which
licked it up too quick. The decent pa
pers of the state are cillingupon the dap
per little man to give names which the
sw'eet protege of Gen. Gordon can’t do.
Andy, resume your datv of puffing your
master, Gordon, and send no more such
lies to Georgia.
Mr. M. Stanton, superintendent of the
Rome, Selma and Dalton road, who was
hurt in the late horrible accident on the
road, has died from his injuries. Mr.
Stanton’s death will be a heavy loss to
the state of Alabama. He w r as a north
ern man and had been in Alabama since
the war. It was known that Mr. Stanton
for some time past hail been urging upoh
the men having charge, the imperious,
absolute necessity of rebuilding and re
pairing the bridges, and we are informed
that within the past few' days he tele
graphed Mr. Tucker that unless funds
were furnished to do the required work
he would resign his position and sever
his connection with the road.
A Paris dispatch to the London Times
says that the new r French cable company
have under serious consideration the pro
posal of the anglo-American cable com
ply for an understanding w'hereby com
petition between the two companies may
be considerably reduced.
THE CONVICTS AGAIN.
To the Free Press.:
II e read the following words in the
Atlanta Constitution of Februarv 15th:
“Can the state provide no better way of
liberation than that of sending forth a
man without a cent in the world marked
with a badge of shame?”
A poor negro had served out his sen
tence, and he was turned loose in his
stripes and was arrested before he had
traveled a mile, and these continued ar
rests were all lie could expect, and which
he constantly received, until a charitable
man had pity on his hard fate.
The state of Georgia suffers a foul blot
on her fame to allow these convict leases,
with their atrocities, to burden her stat
ute books, longer tlian the next session
of the legislature. Fraud vitiates all
\ contracts, and there was fraud in the
getting up, and the convicts should lie
; returned to the state at once, and anew
deal made in honesty and justice. Where
is the company that offered SSO per
capita ? Why was less than half that
hid accepted? Our courts sit week after
week, and the criminal docket takes up
fully one-half the time. We pay enor
mous jury and jail fees. We turn the
convicted criminals over to the governor
and executive authorities, and they
“turn them over to the avarice” of cer
tain politicians, and when the criminals
are good slaves, they are kept under whip
and spur, and when they are not availa
ble they are allowed to go loose to pillage
and destroj' at their good pleasure. When
a poor creature serves his time, he is
turned loose in liis stripes, the badge of
his disgrace, because these task-masters
and shifty politicians will not spare a de
cent suit out of their hoards of blood
money.
The United States senate and the treas
ury of Georgia are co-parceners in this
wrong—Georgia’s property turned over
to public contractors who hold high offi
ces in the state. Shame! where is thy
blush!
The report testifies to the failure of the
executive to collect a single fine. Five
hundred escaped convicts are now at
large, and a fine of S2OO is placed on
every negligent escape, and not one dol
lar-exacted from these royal contractors,
who sit in “high places.” Would
Toombs or Berrien have soiled their sen
atorial hands with these jobs? Has any
other treasurer of Georgia ever managed
a convict camp? With all their ill-gotten
gains, they will not allow a suit of clothes
to a poor wretch who has served them by
force force for long years, and is turned
loose to constant arrests acid a continu
ance of his disgrace and downfall. With
out a crust or a cup, and branded with
his stripes. Bartow.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
To the Free Press:
Will you allow a few words in your
paper, from your old friend “Wool Hat ?”
—a cognomen I greatly appreciate. I
promised to give you an item of news
occasionally, but other duties have pre
vented until now.
As an old friend of the Coosa river,
you will be glad to hear that she has an
appropriation of $43,000, passed by the
house of representatives to-day. When
the coal fields of Alabama are well de
veloped, you will see the unfailing result
from cheap coal —an increase of manu
factories, foundries, mining, and all
other material improvements..
Poor old Georgia has no pensions to
speak of—the edict lias . passed against
southern claims, whether just or other
wise—but she will get a share from the
general government when “Old Record”
is able to help her. Savannah had no
immediate representative, and nobody
expected more than $50,000 to that port,
’but Dr. Felton took her cause in hand,
and she gets one hundred thousand from
the house. If the senate confirms it,
she will have the best appropriation she
ever had.
The spiteful organs of the “ trooly or
ganized''’ may sneer and snarl at “Old
Record,” but the truth will appear at
last, and the credit will be given to a
faithful represenrtative by the honest
people of Georgia.
The money allowed to Georgia will be
spent in her boundaries, and will stimu
late trade thus far. Every dollar will
help to stir her depressed industries. It
will give a market to farmers, it will give
employment to labor, and Georgia’s com
mercial highwaj r s will be open to unbprn 1
generations. Georgia pays her taxes
freely and honorably. . She deserves a
full share of these public benefits. The
north made strides in river navigation
before the war while the south combated
improvements. “ Old Record” has done
faithful service for his native state. With
kindest wishes, I am your ancient
friend, Wool Hat. *
A FEW PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
To the Free Press:
I have been much interested in the
criticisms on some of our public men, in
your independent paper. There is one
other little matter that • deserves notice,
and knowing the report to be founded in
fact, we desire to know whether a cer
tain United States senator ever borrowed
a large sum of money from a well-known
bishop in one of our large southern
cities? Did he tell the bishop he would
give him good collaterals? Did the
bishop sell those collaterals to a well
known railroad man in Georgia? Did
the bishop sell those famous mining
stocks for one hundred cents in one hundred
dollars? Is this false, malicious or con
temptible. Let us hear from this sena
tor who is too high for a reply to a lady’s
criticisms, and who has not “stooped” to
clear himself of damaging charges by
this contemptible rude and majnaaiy
stratagem. It he fails to answer we can
tell who is reported to have bought the
collaterals and why the bishop sold them.
There was no woman to instigate that
sale - Plaindealer.
GOOD WORDS FOR THE SOUTIt.
Its Present Condition as Described by a
Northern Man.
New York Star.
Upon the arrival in this city of Col.
Julian Allen, of Stateville, X. C.,a num
ber of business men met in the produce
exchange and decided to ask the views of
the distinguished visitor upon southern
topics. The colonel was agreeably sur
prised to find the following letter await
ing him at his hotel:
Xew York, Feb. 13, 1870.
Colonel Julian Allen:
Dear Sir —Will you permit us to ask
you your impression as to the condition
of the south ? We desire especially to
be informed with reference to the securi
ty of property invested by northern men
in the south, and the protection of north
ern men to locate there. There is con
siderable controversy among northern
men as to the present disposition ot
southerners upon these questions. Your
well known reputation here gives any
thing which you may say .the greatest
weight, and we avail ourselves of the Op
portunity during your visit here to ask
of you as full a statement of your expe
rience in the south as your time and in
clination will permit you to give. With
respect, your obedient servants,
E. T. Backhouse,
President Kings County Fire Ins. Cos.
Edmund Briggs,
President Williamsburg Fire Ins. Cos.
John H. Baker,
President Mechanics’ Fire Ins. Cos.
A. C. Davis,
Attorney at Law, Xew York.
R. K. Cooke,
Chairman Ex. Com. Produce Exchange.
X. COTHREN,
Attorney at Law* Xew York.
The following reply of Colonel Allen
speaks for itself:
Xew York, Feb. 15, 1879.
lloi. E. T. Backhouse and others:
Gentlemen —Your letter of the 13tli
inst. is received, and I take pleasure in
complying with your request, as it af
fords mean opportunity of saying a word
on behalf of the restoration of confidence ;
and kindly relations between the south
and the north—an event Which has been
so long, so needlessly, and I tnink I may
say so unjustly retarded and restrained
by a grievous misconception in the minds
of many northern men.
I left Brooklyn three years ago to take
up my permanent residence in Xorth
Carolina, and have since resided at
Statesville, in that state. I have during
that time become well acquainted with
the social, political and financial condi
tion of Xorth Carolina, and I know that
there is nothing in the history of that
state during the time that I have resided
there which can justify or in any manner
excuse hostile or unkindly feeling on the
part of any northern man. Xorth Caro
lina is a state of extraordinary resources,
peopled by as noble and patriotic men as
can be found in the union. There is an
excellent state government, the laws are
faithfully and impartially administered,
and all classes are fully protected in their
civil rights. There is scarcely a trace of
ill-feeling noticeable between the whites
and the blacks. Xorthern men who
settle there are met with that warm cor
diality and hospitality which has always
characterized the people of the south.
I assure you that northern men and
northern capital are equally protected
with southern men and southern capital,
and I may add that it will be difficult to
find a more promising fieid for the em
ployment of northern capital and enter
prise. The state is rapidly' recovering
from the disastrous effects of the war,
and those familiar with her present con
dition and resources are unanimous in
predicting that she is now entering upon
an era of unexampled thrift and pros
perity.
While residing in Xorth Carolina, 1
have visited many other portions of the
south, and have taken pains to study the
condition, not only of the people, but of
the country in that section of the union.
So far as I have been able to ascertain
the facts, I believe that what I fiave said
of the condition and disposition of the
people of Xorth Carolina applies equally
well to the south generally. They are
anxious for peace and the restoration of
fraternal feeling with the people of the
north, and are laboring zealously and
patriotically to promote the welfare and
protect the rights of all their citizens, re
gardless of past differences.
These statements, of course, apply to
the great masses of the people. Ii the
south, as in the north,.there are unscru
pulous politicians who seek oftentimes to
accomplish their ends by unjustifiable or
unlawful means, and in’ like manner the
ignorant classes are often victimized by
demagogues and political tricksters. But,
whether these men be democratic or re
publican politicians, the masses of the
people of the south should no more be
held responsible for their action than
should the people of the north be stigma
tized because the same class is found in
all political parties here.
.The negroes, uneducated as they are,
are unquestionably too often the victims
of these designing and treacherous self
constituted leaders, and are sorely in need
of good heads and good hearts to guide
them in the exercise of their recently ac
quired political rights and privileges; but
I deny that the great mass of the south
ern people manifest the slightest desire
to deprive them of their civil rights or to
oppress them in any manner. I reiter
ate that the laws are faithfully and im
partially executed, and that life and
property are to-day as safe in Xorth Car
olina as in any state in the union, and
that the government of the state is as
conscientiously and intelligently admin
istered.
I hope I shall soon see some or all of
you at my house at Statesville, where
you may observe the condition of our
affairs for yourselves, and learn how un
just are all the clamors which are raised
in the north against southern men,
which, whatever "may be their purpose,
ean only result in postponing that return
of confidence and fraternal feeling be
tween the north and the south, so essen
tial to the prosperity and happiness of
the whole country. I have the honor to
be, gentlemen, your friend and obedient
servant, Julian Allen.
During the second session of the forty
third congress the senate spent in one
month $640.75 for lemons, $75.25 for tea,
and consumed 1,352 pounds ot sugar.
Secretary Gorham also reports the pur
chase of 435 fans, being an average of
over four to each senator. The same
session the house made away with 60
pounds of tea and 367 pounds of sugar.
That session both houses were under re
publican control.
The hardest snow storm of the season
was in progress last week in New Eng
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NUMBER 33.
SOUTHERN EDUCATION.
Dr. Orr’s-Atldress Refore the Liberal a?l
Scientific Association.
Dr. Orr delivered his address on “tin
needs of education in the south,” Tues
day night in the hall of the above-named
association before a select audience. In
order to show the educational work of
the south, he sketched the ante-bellum ed
ucational history of Georgia, thus acting
on the Latin motto, ex uno, disce omnes.''
All the ante helium constitutions of Geor
gia contained liberal educational provis
ions. The same was true of the laws.
Provision was made for endowing tin*
’ university as far back as 1784.
In 1821, $250,000 was appropriated to
the support of county academies, and the
same sum was set apart as a poor school
fund. This last sum, added, added to
$200,000 previously appropriated, made
the poor school fund $450,000.
The higher educations of males was
provided for in the state university and
| in Oglethorpe and Mercer universities,
j and in Emory college. These institu
tions graduated befoie the war 1,835
i alumni. Each of them gave partial edu
| cation to at least double its number of
alumni, thus preparing about 5,500 men,
more or less, thoroughly for the great
battle of life.
Georgia was the first state in the union,
: and, perhaps, the first in the world, to
| establish a college in which degrees were
conferred on women. This pioneer fe
male college was the Wesleyan female
college at Macon. This institution sent
out before the war 456 alumnae. It was
chartered in 1836. Other similar insti
tutions soon followed. The number rose
to nearly twenty in ante-bellum times.
The speaker had no means of knowing the
aggregate number of their alumnae, lie
knew, however, that at one time before
the war there were about 1,600 pupils in
actual attendance upon them.
The weak point in our ante-betlum edu
cational system was the elementary edu
cation conducted in the “old field
schools.” The teachers in these schools
were all independent—there was no sys
tem in their work—they were without
supervision—and these inferior sehools
were quite inferior.
In this grade of school work we were
very much behind the states of the north
ern portion of the union.
The speaker soid in thus sketching
Georgia, he draws a picture of the entire
south, tor all the southern stifles were
alike. He admitted, further, that in the
higher education we are not equals of the
better of the northern states. Still he
declared that if we might judge by a sin
gle comparison, the comparison* of * J e
men in public life in the two sections, we
were not so far behind as many imagine,
for so long as the truth of history is writ
ten it will be recorded that the men of tin*
south exerted a controlling influence in
the national councils for more than half a
century.
The speaker then showed the great
changes wrought by the war. He drew
a general picture of the losses sustained
by the south in the fleeing of the slaves,
the destruction of other property, and the
blotting out of the currency.
He next spoke of reconstruction in the
south and the manner in which new con
stitutions were adopted.
He declared, however, that it was his
main purpose to show the effect of these
changes on education. Free schools were
provided for in all the new constitutions
at the south and laws have been enacted
to carry into effect these constitutional
provisions. These are great obstacles,
however, to the introduction of public
schools. The first of these was in the
great destruction of property and the
great increase in the number of the help
less to be provided for educationally, lie
showed by staetistics that in the fifteen
southern states the aggregate of all prop
erty was in 1860, while the utterly desti
tute at the former date was one-half of
the whole population.
The same estimate made for the cotton
steles showed that that property was re
duced in the same decade to three-eights
of its value at the beginning of the de
cade, while the number of helpless to be
provided for educatoinally was two
thirds of the entire population. These
figures showed the greatest obstacle.
The speaker, however, spoke of others.
The first of them was the manner in
which the public school policy was put
in the new constitution.
The second was the slowness of people
of Anglo-Saxon descent to make changes.
A third was the lack of knowledge ev
en among intelligent men of the princi
ples upon which the public school policy
rests.
A fourth was the presence among us of
African descent.
It was not hostilit3 r to this people that
made their presence an obstacle—no such
feeling is to be found among the mass of
the white population. It was a feeling
of hardship that, when so impoverished
that they could not provide for educating
their own children, they were required
to provide also for the education of the
children of those who had been then
pro party by the laws.
Another reason that made them a hin
drance was a feeling of hopelessness in
relation to making useful citizens out of
the material which this race furnishes.
All these objections, except the first,
viz: the greatly increased numbe&of the
helpless, and our diminished ability* to
provide for them, have been well-nigh
given up. That, however, still remains,
and this stern, hard.fact is at the bottom
of our great educational need—more
money.
The above is a mere skeleton of an ad
dress filled vvitn strong thoughts strong
ly expressed. It was listened to through
out with the most profound attention by
the very intelligent audience present.—
Constitution.
The census bill which was passed by
the senate on Thursday is different in
some important particulars from the one
which was introduced by Mr. S. S. Cox
in the house of representatives. It pro
vides for the payment of six dollars a
day to the enumerators instead of so
much a name. This latter plan would
offer a premium on inaccuracy, since the
more names returned of imaginary per
sons the greater would be the compensa
tion. The supervisors are to be appoint
ed by the secretary of the interior upon
nomination by the superintendent. The
other bill provided for nomination by
governors of states, though it would lx*,
hard to say why they should have any
thing to do with it. Another wise change
is the withdrawal from the enumerators
of duties relating to manufacturing, rail
road and similar statistics, which are to
be entrusted to special and expert agents.
This will help to secure the first and
most important thing, a correct count of
the inhabitants of the country; while
the other information is likely to be more
satisfactorily furnished.
Dr. William Pierce, a well known phy
sician, near Waverly, New York, about
a week ago deserted his wife and eloped
with the wife of a journeyman carpenter.
After ho left, his wife died under cir
cumstances which Indicated that he had
Poisoned her.