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Office over postoflice. decs-ly JOHN K MOON, TT O I* JNT K Y - A T -TAW. Office at the store of P. L. Moon A Son, East Main Street. CARTERSVILLE, GA. nlylS 11. W. MURPHEY, A T T O RNJC Y*AT - TAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFIC I (up-stairs) in the hriek building, cor ner of Main A Erwin streets. j|iflylß. J. A. BAKER, A T T ORNE Y-AT-IjA "W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. VITILL nructieein all the courts of Bartow V V ana adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to all business entrusted to nis care. Office in Bank Block over the post office. julyJS. F.. I). GRAHAM. A. M. FOUTE. GRAHAM & FOUTE, AT r r ORNEYS-AT-TA W. CARTERSVILLE, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Supreme Courts at Atlanta. office west side public. Square, up-stairs over W. tV. Rich A Co’s. Store, second door south of Poatoiftpßt * julylS. T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR. MILNER & HARRIS, ATTO BNB Y S-AT-TA W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. julylS 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. \\7IT.L sell Watenes, Clocks and Jewelry. \ V Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done by me warranted ?ai i-d'ai-l ion. Give me a call. julylS. CHAS. B. WILLINGHAM, S t Court Reporter. [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.! I M AKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, taking down the testimony entire; also, ob jections or attorneys, rulings of the court, and the charge of the court, without stopping the witness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis faction guaranteed. Traveler*s Gruide. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after 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 The Nashville American. THE READERS OF THE FREE PRESS WILL L find in the Nashville AMERICAN, a first i-lass newsprner. In news, it enjovs all the ad \antatagcsof 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 able, and challenge even the respect of adversa ries. The miscellaneous columns of THE AMEItl < A > embrace all that is interesting and useful, in the various fields of human enterprise; and it can be safely commended, as a most excellent and valuable paper in the Household, the Work shop, the Store-house, and to all people of everv vocation. . r 1 I ,M IK AMERICAN prints three editions— ancl Weekly—specimen >pht s of which will be sent on application. c.** 1 , 0 terms are, per annum—Daily, $10.60; eekl .v, $4.20; Weekly, *2.00, postage paid. Address THE AMERICAN, 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 THE FREE PRESS. VEOETINE. m 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 sick for a*long time and liecame all well from 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; and wishing every sufferer may pay attention to it. It is a blessing for health. Mrs. C. KRABE, 638 West Baltimore St. VEGETINE Safe and Sure. Mr. 11. R. Stevens: In 1872 your Vegetine 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 and nervous prostration, superinduced by overwork and 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 1 have not hesitated to give Vegetine my most unqualified indorsement, as being a safe, sure and powerful agent in promoting health and restoring the wasted svstem to new life and energy. Vegetine is the only medicine I use; and as long as 1 live I never expect to find a better. Yours, truly, W. H. CLARK, 120 Monterey Street, Alleghany, Eeun. VEGETINE The 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 he excelled; and as a Blood Purifier and Spring Medicine it is the best thing I have ever used, and 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. 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, j 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 j lnittles, was restored to health, and discontinued i its use. I feel quite confident that there is no | medicine superior to it for those complaints for j which it is especially prepared, aud would cheer- i 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 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 gests well, and 1 have gained fifteen pounds of 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 H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. VEGETINE 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, Ac., See., Crockery, Ac., Ac., AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. TO SUIT THE TIMES. Call and Examine their Goods and Prices Before Buying. J. A. ERWIN & SON. Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 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 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, make the Weekly News one of the most instruct- entertaining and valuable newspapers. New subscribers desiring to commence with the new story should send a. theirnamesatonce. Subscription, one year, *2. Weekly Mews and the Southern 1 arm era’ Monthly one year, $3.50. 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 lood. j RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate* of One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and I my t ents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. One inch, 1 month. $2 50 ; 3 months S.V r. months, $7 50; 1 year, $lO. Fourth column, i month, $7 50 ; 3 months,sls; (1 months, |25; 1 year. S4O. Half columns, 1 month, sls; 3 months' t> months, S4O; 1 year* S6O. One column, 1 month. S2O; 3 months, S4O; 0 months. S6O; 1 year. SIOO. Address all orders to The Free Press. 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.