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THE FREE PRESS.
MR. HILL’S SPEECH.
Face to Face with the Great Questions
Relating to Free Government.
The foHowiug is an extended synopsis
of the great speech of Hon. B. H. Hill In
the senate on the 10th inst.
He proceeded to speak with reference
to that part of the bill proposing new legis
lation with regard to jurors, supervisors
of elections, etc. He said the majority in
congress declare from this time forward
that the army and navy shall not interfere
with elections. They hut re-enact what
the custom, practice and law were before
the act of 1865. The country was to be
told that the democrats wanted to destroy
the jiower of the government to enforce
the laws. The speech ot the senator from
Vermont ought to be studied, as it show
ed the great questions of difference be
tween tiie two great parties new strug
gling for the mastery, and the assump
tion that there could be no protection to
the country save by the military arm.
It tliis should unfortunately ever be be
lieved by the country, the republic would
lie at an end.
Mr. Hill then alluded to persons who
had sojourned in the south, and gone
north to deliver lectures on the subject of
southern wrongs and outrages, their state
ments being of a grossly exaggerated
character; and also referred to those who
instigated the movement of negroes to
Kansas under false pretenses and for
their own personal benefit, as they be
came sharers in the money contributed
for the relief of the sufferers. The south
had been maligned in a hundred different
shapes and forms, for the purpose of an
tagonizing the north and to secure the
republicans in the possession of power.
There was a persistent, earnest, arbi
trary, and dictatorial purpose to induce
the president to veto the bill prohibiting
military interference at the polls. He
never heard that the president would ve
to the bill. He did not believe the pres
ident would lend himself to any such
scheme. The president signalized his
administration by the removal of the
troops at the south; and, therefore, did
not believe that the president would be
guilty of inconsistency by vetoing this
bill. The president declared iu his in
augural address that the man who best
served the country best served his party.
He hoped that the president would rise
above the clamor of those who are seek
ing to revive sectional agitation. If he
should do so, he would for the second
time in his administration show himself
worthy of the position he holds. But if
he should veto the bill for party ends,
the time would come when the two par
ties would be face to face on the great is
sue, and which the democratic party
would meet with moderation, but firm
ness. The republicans, Mr. Hill repeat
ed, resort to the veto because they want
military force to control elections, in or
der to keep themselves in power.
Mr. llill affirmed that the tremendous
contest now before the country had its
origin and meaning in the purpose of the
republicans to obtain absolute control of
the states by force, in order to perpetuate
their power, whether the people are wil
ling or not; and in furtherance of their
purpose, almost every republican speak
er has been seeking to impress the coun
try with the idea of great danger to come
from what they call “confederates in
congress.” The senator from Xew York
(Conkling) had pointed out the number
of senators and representatives who were
in the confederate service, saying that,
because of this, the people of the north
were alarmed. But all the charges that
they were not loyal and could not be
trusted, were based on the assumption
that they were enemies of the union, and,
should the government pass into their
hands, there would be great danger to
the public liberties. If the assumption
was true, the result was inevitable. If
they were enemies of the union, they
had no right in congress —no business
here; and if they were honorable men
they ought to leave. The people of the
north ought to understand these things.
lie granted what the senator from Xew
York intimated. This gush will not do,
as the senator said, and that this walking
arm-in-arm and the shaking of hands by
confederates and union men in public as
semblies was well enough for Sunday
school teachers. Statesmen, he said,
want reason. The representatives of the
south weie not enemies of the union, arid
therefore ought to be present here. The
republicans oppose the repeal of obnox
ious laws under the pretence that the
south is not to be trusted. How could it
be that the south was not to be trusted,
because it was proposed to repeal laws
that had not been on the statute book for
seventy-live years, before they were en
acted? Was the south not to be trusted,
because it wanted intelligence and virtue
in the jury-box, and because it wanted
the army taken away from the polls?
and because the south, through its repre
sentatives, wished to prevent the control
of elections by deputy marshals and su
pervisors? The southern men went to
war in vindication of their convictions.
The south did not secede irom the union
because they were enemies of the consti
tution and the union. It was driven in
to secession, by the extremists of the
north. The senator Irom Xew York
(Conkling) called the representatives of
the south “confederates,” and then noti
tieil the north that they ought to be alarm
ed, because the legislation was proposed
by the same kind of men who were here
before the war. He (Mr. Hill) had been
making a count, too, and strangely as
the senator might think of it, of the nine
representatives and two senators from
Georgia, nine—certainly eight— were op
posed to secession.
Mr. Conklin asked: When?
31 r. llill replied: Till it came; and
then they stood up in that dark hour like
men for their convictions. They had no
apology to make. Of the ninety-three
southern representatives and senators
about seventy-five were opposed to seces
sion. lie mentioned this to show how
sound the southern people are. They are
willing to be represented by men true to
the union. He then proceeded to relate
some of his personal history. South ( ar
olina seceded in December, 1860. The
people of Troupe county, in which he
lived, requested him to serve as their
delegate in the state convention of Geor
gia. " He accepted the trust in a letter, in
which he would consent to the dissolution
of the union as he would to the death of
his father —only from necessity; that bad
and extreme men were fighting the union
which never harmed any one, and that
he would never ask any* more from those
who were destroying the government in
their folly than to give his children a
better one. The people sent him to the
convention without opposition. In Jan
uary he had the honor to make the last
speech against the resolution in favor of
secession. On the nineteenth of that
month, when the ordinance was framed,
he wrote a letter to a friend telling him
the deed was done, and that Georgia that
day left the union. The streets were
wild with excitement; a party came to
serenade him ,*as it had done others; but
his room was dark, his heart sad and Ins
tongue silent. Xo matter who was in the
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1879.
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wrong, he said in that letter, the union
had fallen.
In 1868 lie had a correspondence with
that great and good man, Horace Gree
ley, who did more to build up the repub
lican party than any man in America.
Air. Greeley was honest in his convic
tions, and boldly declared them. In his
letter to that gentleman, in reply to some
thing that had been said concerning him,
he wrote that lie was entitled to an audi
ence of the readers of the Tribune, having
in the winter of 1800 warned the people
against secession, and told them that war
would come —an unequal, fierce, vindic
tive and desolating war. Many of the
free-soilers of the south desired to secede if
it could do so in peace. The people of
the south did not secede because of hos
tility to the constitution. They pledged
themselves to form anew one on the
model of the old. The south seceded be
cause war was made on its constitutional
rights by the extremists of the north to
destroy its property, and because the
northern people, through their republi
can leaders, said that secession should be
accomplished in peace. Air. Greeley said
they wanted no union pinned together
with bayonets. There were hundreds of
thousands of persons who believed that
tiie only way to avoid a war was to se
cede. They believed they had a right to
protect and preserve their slave property.
If they had believed that war would re
sult they never would have seceded.
The Georgia convention sent him to
the provisional congress. The people
believed that if there could be a delay of
a few months, war could be averted.
Virginia had not then gone out of the
union; and she issued a proelation for a
peace conference. His heart warmed
and he hoped for success. Seven states
had then gone out, and therefore they
could not participate in such convention,
but they watched every movement with
interest. Those very men who make
charges of infidelity against the southern
people went to Washington to defeat the
purposes of Virginia. In proof of this
lie read the following letter:
“Washington, February 11, 1561.
Ary Dear Governor: Governor Bingham
and myself telegraphed to you on Satur
day, at the request of Massachusetts and
Xew York, to send delegates to the peace
or compromise congress. They admit
that we were right, and they were wrong;
that no republican state should have sent
delegates, but they are here, and cannot
get away. Ohio, Indiana and Rhode Is
land are coming in, and there is danger
of Illinois; and now they beg us, lor
God’s sake, to come to their rescue and
save the republican party from rupture.
1 hope they will send stiff-backed men,
or none. The whole thing was got up
against my judgment and will end in
thin smoke. I hope, as a matter of cour
tesy to some of our erring brethren, that
you will send the delegates.
Truly your friend,
Z. Chandler.
Ilis Excellency Austin Blair.
To this letter a postscript was added,
saving the northern people think that a
fight would he awful, but “without a
little blood-letting this union will not, in
my estimation, be worth a rush.”
The representatives of the south must
lip trusted. The south sought to avert
the war, while the north tried to bring it
on. He (Air. Hill) knew the republican
claim to have saved the union; but if
there had !>een no republican party the
union would not have been in peril, and
there would have been no secession, no
returning boards, and no electoral com
mission.
It had been said here that if the people
of the north have another war it will cut
deeper than the first one. Would they
make war because the people want puri
ty and intelligence in the jury-box, to
keep troops away from the polls, and be
cause they wanted to say to the states,
“You are able to control your elections,”
and because the representatives of the
south stood here as a bulwark against
those who would destroy the constitu
tion by destroying the state ?
If you must have a war, they would
maintain their rights in the union. But
he trusted there would be no war. The
men of the south would go with the stars
and stripes—the flag of their country.
The people would take charge of the
question. He assured those who heard
him that the north need not he alarmed
on account of the south; but they had
cause to be alarmed by such threats as
have been made by the leading republi
cans. The democrats would take the po
sition to promote the glory of the union,
and perpetuate its honor. They were
going to the people in favor of the con
stitution which Madison framed and
Webster expounded—in favor of 1 reedom
at the polls, intelligence in the jury-box,
and the independence of the states in the
management of elections hereafter. The
people would answer north and south.
So far from decreasing the democratic
majority in this body, these measures
would increase it. As to another war,
the men who lost all in the late war
would not risk it again. We owe noth
ing to republicans. It was through the
very agency of the authority and sover
eignty of the state, which you thought
you had destroyed, that we are able to be
here to-day—not through intimidation
and fraud. It is not true tlnft we are
solid against the north. We are solid
against the republican party. Why
should we not be? Can you wonder?
1 will not speak of the past. Do you
think we are going to love you for the
speeches you have made during the last
four weeks, criminating and slandering
us in every form? You may not know
it, but we are men. Ever} vile story of
fraud, no matter how unworthy of be
lief, is paraded against the southern peo
ple ; but no matter how much testimony
of good men we bring to refute these
falsehoods, that testimony is cried down.
We regard the republican party as
merely sectional. We join the demo
crats of rhe north because we admire their
course during the war. We had a terri
ble ordeal, but they had one, perhaps,
worse. The fidelity to the union they
believed in led them to fight against us,
but after the war they met us as men,
and that is why we go with them. If
the south was solid against the constitu
tion it would be reprehensible, but they
were not. We are solid for preserving
the constitution and its principles. It is
not we, but northern men who seek strife
and who are against the union. It was
not the republicans, hut the northern
democrats who saved the union, and
they will preserve it. We could not help
them to save it, but we are here to help
them preserve it.
Air. Iliil said he was horn a slave
holder, but never bought a slave, except
one who asked him to do so, and he was
not ashamed of that. He would never
willingly deprive a human being of any
of his rights. Born and reared among
the traditions of slavery, lie yet wished,
when secession was proposed, that slav
ery should perish rather than stand in
the way of the maintenance of tiie union.
In disunion he saw anarchy, horror, the
destruction of the states, and only des
potism. Disunion in any form was noth
ing but bloody waste and ruin to all races
and conditions of men.
THE PRESS CONVENTION.
What They Have to Say of our Town
and County.
The Constitution.
The members leave to-night for their
homes. They ae delighted with their
reception at Cartersville, and give great
praise to Air. C. H. C. Willingham for
liis untiring efforts to make them com
fortable.
Rome Courier.
The citizens of Cartersville were really
sumptuous in their hospitality, and made
all feel happy and at home in their midst.
They gave them an excursion to Taylors
ville on Wednesday afternoon, and a hop
at the St. James hotel that night. All
were delighted with their visit to that
beautiful town, and the down-country
editors, we are sure, will hereafter have a
better opinion of the Cherokee country.
Atlanta Constitution.
Almost all of the delegates left in the
afternoon for their homes. The few who
have remained will leave to-day. One of
the editors yesterday expressed a determi
nation to go back to Cartersville and spend
a few days in that locality. Evidently
he had found other attractions in Carters
ville that were superior to the press con
vention or any other meeting of a like
character. The editors speak in fine
terras of Cartersville and the hospitable
manner in which her citizens entertained
their guests.
Atlanta Globe.
The session of the Georgia press asso
ciation just hein at Cartersville, was one
of the most-interesting conventions of the
kind ever held anywhere in this country.
All those who were in attendance declare
that they will long cherish the remem
brance thereof as one of the most pleas
ant reminiscences of their lives. Willing
ham, of The Free Press, indefatigable
in his efforts to render all comfortable,
has placed the entire fraternity under
lasting obligations to himself. H*e is the
father of tiie association, ahd lie took
“care of his children.”
Macon Telegraph.
This morning Governor Brown placed
at the command of the association, a
handsome train of cars, and chaperoned
by the clever and impressible B. W.
Wrenn, our party moved off and were
soon flying along through the heart of
the lofty hills and over the_ rich valleys
of Cherokee Georgia. Here again the
crop prospect was all that the husband
man could desire, and the yield of wheat
will be almost unprecedented. It is all
headed out and rtve could detect no trace
of rust. The stands of corn and cotton
too, are excellent. Of fruit, there is next
to none. It was about 10:30 a. m. when
the train reached this beautiful and flour
ishing little city, and the whole party
were captured instanter by its hospitable
people, lead by her clever journalists
who vied with each other in ministering
to the comfort of their brethren. Soon
places were assigned to all, our fortunate
lot being cast with the genial host of the
St. James hotel. Of this excellent hotel,
more anon, as time and space is failing
fast. At 11:30the members of the asso
ciation and a large concourse of citizens
met at the opera house, which isaperfect
gem of a little theatre, and there Bill
Arp was appropriately introduced.
Atlanta Constitution.
Hon. Mark A. Cooper then read a val
uable paper on the resources of Bartow
county. A summary of it is out of the
question. The people of Bartow should
have it published just as it was read, for
a more comprehensive statement of their
undeveloped mineral wealth could not be
desired.
At this point, a wreath of roses, the
gift of Airs. W. H. Felton, now in Wash
ington, was brought upon the stage. On
motion of Air. Frank Gordon, the secre
tary of the association was directed to
thank ADs. Felton for the beautiful gift.
After appointing a committee of five
on credentials, the association adjourned
until to-morrow morning at 8:30 o’clock.
The hospitality of Cartersville is un
bounded. It being court week, the ho
tels are full, but the members of the asso
ciation are not losers on that account.
They are handsomely entertained in the
homes of this prosperous city, and are
enjoying themselves as they never did
before at a press convention. After din
ner, the entire gang were carried up the
rich valley of the Etowah to Taylorsville,
which is at the head of the narrow-guage
track of the Cedartown extension; and
as I write they are attending a ball at the
St. James given in their honor. I can
not give the programme for to-morrow.
Griffin News.
After the formal opening of the conven
tion, the address of welcome was deliv
ered by Maj. Smith, better known to the
world as Bill Arp. The welcome was
tendered in the happiest style of the cele
brated humorist, and while full of humor
and sparkling bon mots, was so thorough
ly permeated with cordiality and good
will, that the gentlemen of the press felt
heartily glad to be the guests of the good
people of Cartersville.
Hon. Mark A. Cooper was then reques
ted to address the association on the re
sources of Bartow county, and that ven
erable and distinguished gentleman read
a paper giving valuable information of
the extensive resources of the county.
The paper was very much enjoyed.
A notable feature of the morning ses
sion on Wednesday, was the presentation
of a very handsome wreath of flowers,
sent the convention from AVashington
City, by Airs. W. H. Felton. The wreath
was very gracefully presented by Mr.
Frank Gordon, of Atlanta.
In the afternoon the association enjoy
ed an excursion on the Cherokee railroad,
up the Etowah, which consumed the af
ternoon. At night the press was tender
ed a complimentary ball at the St. James,
which was a grand affair. Many of the
editors, chiefly, however, the younger
ones, abandoned themselves to the pleas
ures of the dance. The ball room was
thronged with the beautiful and charm
ing ladies of Cartersville and Bartow
county. Airs. Felton’s handsome wreath
of flowers ornamented the head of the ball
room and was much admired. An invi
tation was accepted from the citizens of
Cartersville to a carriage drive along the
Etowah yesterday afternoon, which is
decidedly one of the handsomest of drives.
The scenery along the river banks is
beautiful, and at times grand, and is one
of the great attractions of the pleasant
little city.
Atlanta Phonograph.
Wednesday afternoon an excursion was
made up the Cherokee railroad to Tay
lorsville, and we will undertake to say
that Georgia does not contain better
lands than is found in these valleys. The
wheat, oat, corn and cotton crops are
looking splendid. Late in the afternoon
the happy party returned to the city, and
immediately begun making preparations
for the hop at the St. James, given by
the young men of Cartersville in honor
lof the press. We do not remember ever
; seeing, anywhere, a more charming as
sembly of youth and beauty than was
I displayed on this occasion. The arrange
ments were perfect, and everything {Miss
ed oft' as pleasantly as could be desired.
Among the many beautiful young ladies
present we mention the Misses Parrott,
Miss Erwin, Miss Beck, of Kingston,
Miss White, Miss Field and Miss Hattie
Smith, daughter of “Bill Arp.” True,
there were many others we did not know.
Atlanta was represented by four young
ladies, Misses Lillie Beall, Maggie Harris,
Mollie Keith and Mollie Biggers.
Thursday afternoon quite a number of
the press gang enjoyed a pleasant ride
over the mountains. For natural gran
deur and beauty, aside from historical
| associations, these mountains cannot be
' excelled in Georgia. The road leads
i along the banks of the roaring Etowah,
| which winds through these majestic
mountains like a stream of molten silver,
going on forever like the brook spoken
of so beautifully by Tennyson. Along
the route clirystal springs are found,
where our party stopped several times to
enjoy the cold, sparkling water. In the
mountains, cascades and glens, cut out
and formed as they seem from solid rock,
and “curtained round by cliff and cave,”
elicited the unbounded admiration of
every passer by. Gigantic cliffs reach
up and up until their tops seemed as it
were, to mix with the flying clouds,
while down their perpendicular sides one
gazes at the clinging vines, laurel, white
and blue violets, wild blue hare bells,
snowy wood anemones, pale golden prim
roses and modest daisies pied on the
ground, one imagines himself in the
tower of some old castle that legend has
made famous. Xo pen, however elo
quent, can do justice to the scene. Our
fair companion, the belle of the city,
added much to the pleasure of the ride.
We visited the ruins of the old armory,
where small arms were made for the
Confederate government. In the bowels
of these mountains millions of dollars’
worth of the finest iron ore in the world
lies imbedded, waiting for the hand of
capital to convert it into files, razors and
other useful articles.
The hospitality of the people was with
out limit, and every member of the Geor
gia press will carry home a fond and
happy recollection of the many courtesies
extended him on this occasi tn. We e -
der our heartfelt thanks to Messrs. Will
ingham, W. H. Wikle, Joe Stephens,
Col. Ab. Wofford and all, wlio in any
way, contributed to our pleasure.
MR. COX’S TRIP TO MARYLAND.
An Adventure of Col. Alston’s Assailant
Many Years Ago.
Philadelphia Times.]
When Captain Ed. Cox was a boy he
had a love affair that gives his history a
tinge of romance to which the murder of
Col. Alston, in Atlanta, Ga., is not ap
propriate ending. When Cox was a
young man his father died, leaving an
estate of considerable value and three
children to share it. The eldest, a girl,
married a lawyer in Atlanta, and her
husband became the guardian of the af
fairs of Edward. At the beginning of
the fall term of 1859 of Colonel Hyatt’s
Delaware military academy, at Wilming
ton, Edward Cox’s name appears in the
roll of the lower class.
On the 20th of May he ceased to be a
student of Colonel Hyatt’s school and it
was between the date of his arrival at
Wilmington and the 20th of May of the
following year that he added the roman
tic chapter to his life’s history by eloping
in the most approved style with one of
the pupils of the Misses Grimslmw’s se
lect school for young ladies in Wilming
ton. When young Cox came to Wilming
ton his youngest sister, Mollie, came also,
and entered the select school of the Mis
ses Grimshaw, where she had for a room
mate Miss Louisa Watkins, from East
Tennessee. Miss Watkins, although not
a beautiful girl, is described as being one
of those toward whom all persons she
came in contact with were irresistably
attracted. Bright and witty in conversa
tion, graceful and pleasing, she formed
acquaintances only'to make friends.
Louisa —or Lulu, as she was more gen
erally called —was a romantic girl, and
her French exercises and tasks and bota
ny were often neglected that she might
peruse the novels that about that time
fell so abundantly from the pens of Mrs.
E. I>. E. X. Southworth, Marion Har
land and Caroline Lee Ilentz. Mary Cox,
her room-mate, was also of a romantic
turn, and a lady in this city, now married
and the maternal head of a large family,
but who was a school-mate and a confi
dante of the two Southern girls, relates
that it ivas Miss Mollie w ho proposed the
match between her brother and her room
mate.
The course of true love ran smoothly
till one day—the 20th of May,lß6o—young
Cox, talking with Capt. Nonis, one of
his instructors, said : “I want to intrust
you with a secret, and 1 want you to give
me your word of honor as a gentleman
that you will never divulge it.”
“Well,” said the captain, smiling at
the earestness of his favorite pupil, “as I
hike it for granted that you haven’t mur
dered or robbed anybody, nor committed
arson, I suppose I will have to promise
silence.”
“On your word as a gentleman, prom
ise,” insisted Cox, and laughingly the
captain promised, and Cox went on: “I
am going to marry Lulu Watkins to-day.”
“Nonsense; you are not going to do
anything of the kind. Why, I sha’n’t
permit you to make such a foolish step at
your age; preposterous!”
“Well to stop me you will have to tell
somebody, and you are a gentleman and
cannot break your word,” replied Cox,
doggedly, and all expostulation was use
less to shake him from his resolve.
“If you do try to stop me, why 1 will
take her on the train to Philadelphia.
Nobody can hinder me from doing that,”
and so the impulsive young fellow went
on.
A FRIEND INDEED.
His friend seeing there was no use of
attempting to dissuade him from his pur
pose, wisely concluded that if the thing
must go on he would see the girl proper
ly and legally married before the couple
left the city.
It may be mentioned here, as showing,
perhaps, that Cox had no difficulty in
inducing Miss Lulu to go with him, that
she had had experience in elopements, or
at least in arranging them. Twice before
her path crossed that of the young man
she presently married, had her affections
centered upon another young man in her
native town. Twice had it been arrang
ed that she and her lover would fly to
some place where distance would render
parental opposition ineffectual, but before
that point of safety had been reaened, in
both instances, the young woman had
been drawn under the domestic wing at
home and snugly detained there.
The instructor and his pupil walked up
the street that day in May, 1860, talking
over the important matter that Cox had
engaged in, the hot-headed lover turning
a deaf ear to all remonstrances of the
older and wiser man. It does not appear,
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however, that the ex-army officer was
not lacking a spice of romance that in
case w as a fellow-feeling, and made him
wondrous kind to his pupil.
“How shall 1 get the license?” queried
Cox.
“1 guess you can get it there,” said the
captain, directing the youth to the proper
office, and presently, the legal paper l>e
ing procured, the couple strolled on up
King street. A little further on they met
the young lady, who is now a Philadel
phia matron. She, too, was a party to
the scheme.
“You will be expelled for this,” said
the captain.
“I can’t help it if L am. I am going
to see this w edding through.”
THE KNOT TIED.
Presently the two met Miss Watkins
. and Miss Cox, and the quintette thus
formed proceeded to the house of'an old
and well known Methodist circuit-rider
of that day, the Rev. William Barnes, ir
reverently called “Billy” Barnes by the
academy boys, whom he used to exhort
wherever and whenever he could find
them. Mr. Barnes examined the license,
pocketed the fee, tied the knot in due
form, and so the pair were married. Mr.
and Mrs. Cox went at once to the depot,
where the husband w rote a note to the
Misses Grimshaw, of the select school for
young ladies, which ran in about these
words:
“Ladies: I was married this afternoon
to Miss Louisa Watkins, one of your pu
pils. My wife and I leave on the train
for the south on our wedding trip.
Very respectfully,
Edward Cox.”
This note fell like a bombshell in the
select school for young ladies, and a dis
patch to the train conductor brought back
the answer that Mr. and Mrs. Cox had
left the train at Havre de Grace. The
chief of police of Wilmington who went
after them has been dead many years,
but before he was laid away in final rest
he often told the story of his meeting Cox
at the hotel" in Havre de Grace. The
young couple had arrived about three
hours ahead of the officer and had occu
pied rooms at the hostelry nearest t lie
depot.
Cox responded to policeman Moody’s
call, and, with a smile on his face, said :
“You are too late; besides, what business
have } r ou got to interfere with me in Ma
ryland ? You had better go home.”
Moody takes up the story: “I couldn’t
say nothing. I looked at him and lie
gave me a hard sort of laugh, so I says to
myself, says I, ‘all right;’ and 1 says to
him, says I, •! ain’t agoing to interfere.’
And I didn’t, and I come home.”
In a day or two Cox returned to Wil
mington with his wife, and stopped at
Allmond’s hotel until he got money from
home. He tlien left for the south, and
has never since visited the north except
once, and that was when, as a captain in
the confederate army, he fought at Get
tysbuig. His marriage is reported to
have been a happy one, but of all those
who w r ere intimate with the very early
history of his wedded life, not one knows
anything definitely of him or his affairs,
except the tragic story of the fatal shoot
ing affray for which lie is now' on trial
for his life.
THE SOUTH’S ADVANTAGES.
Chicago Herald.]
That the south can compete success
fully with the northern and eastern states
in the production of every class of goods
and machinery is settled beyond question.
In fact it has many natural advantages in
its favor which will in time give it Use
ascendancy. The raw material from the
fields, forests and mines can be delivered
direct to the factory and furnace, thus
saving the heavy cost of long carriage
and return; hence the manufacturer is
not subjected to the necessity of keeping
large stocks of raw material. Water pow
er for driving machinery is abundant,
and the latter is never stopped or in any
way affected by frost. The days are long
er/and, therefore, less outlay is necessa
ry for artificial light. The mildness of
the climate lessens the cost oi living to
the operatives, and enables them to work
cheaper. There is an impression at the
north that the class of labor required for
factories cannot be obtained in the south
—which is absurd. A residence of many
years at the south, and a close study of
the people, justifies us in saying that no
people are quicker to learn or more skill
ful than the white laborers of the south
ern states, and none are more teachable
or so thoroughly devoted to the interest
of their employers when fairly treated.
Asa proof of the superior advantages of
the south for the location of manufacto
ries, it is only necessary to refer to the
flourishing condition of the cotton facto
ries of Georgia, and the iron furnaces and
mills of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and
Jefferson, Texas, as compared with the
present prostrate condition ot similar es
tablishments in most of the northern and
eastern states.
A review of the business transacted by
the supreme court of the United States
during the term which has just closed
shows that the court has considered since
last October 293 cases, in addition to 28
passed and continued and 6 ordered for
re-argument. One hundred and seventy
six of the cases brought before it w'ere
argued orally and 117 submitted upon
printed briefs. The number of cases
finally disposed of, including those
brought over, pending decision from the
previous term, is 379. In 210 of these
cases the decisions of the lower courts
have been affirmed, and 79 are reversed,
the remainder having been docketed and
dismissed, or settled by agreement be
tween the contending parties. It thus
appears that two cases of every five ac
tually decided have resulted in a reversal
of the judgments of the courts below.
New York has paid $10,000,000 for a
state house, one-eighth of whose roof is
only completed. The appropriation for
this building for 1879 is $500,000. The
lieutenant-governor calculates that it will
take ten years and ten half million dollar
appropriations to complete this edifice—
nearly twice as much as the great Erie
canal cost. After it is finished the buil
ding will continue to be a heavy expens*
to the state. It will cost $20,000 a year
to heat, $15,000 to guard, and other large
sums for ventilating, cleaning, etc.; and
with all this the building is so deficient
in acoustic principles that nobody can be
heard in it.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Central Union Telegraph company
held in New York Thursday, officers
were elected for the ensuing year and
headquarters were established at 145
Broadway, in that city. It was decided
to file the company’s acceptance of the
act of congress in 1866, which grants to
the companies accepting that act the
right to construct and maintain lines
upon the public domain and upon all
post roads of the United States.
Savannah is to have anew laundry.
The Sparta cemetery is in excellent
condition.