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CARTERSYILLE, GA. f I TILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS YV in Bartow county, the Superior Courts of the Cherokee Circuit, tne Supreme Court and the United States Court for the Northern District of Georgia. decl9-4mos T. AY. H. HARRIS, A X X O 14 XT IS Y-AT-LAW, CARTERSYILLE, GA. ORACTICES IN ALL THE COURTS OF I Bartow and adjoining counties, and will faithfully attend to all business entrusted to him. Office over postoffice. decs-ly K. W. MURPHEY, A X X O RNEY'-AX - X A AV , CARTERSYILLE, GA. OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor ner of Main & Erwin streets.* julylß. J. A. BAKER, A X X O 14 XT IS Y-AX-LAW, CARTERSYILLE, GA. \VTILL practice in all the courts of Bartow ami adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to till business entrusted to his care. Office in Bank Block over the post office, j illy 18. K. D. GRAHAM. A. M. FOUTE. GRAHAM & FOUTE, AX X O RN IS YS- A X -LA AV. CARTERSVILT.E, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Supreme Courts at Atlanta. Office west side public Square, up-stairs over W. W. Rich A Co’s. Store, second door south of Postoffice. • julylß. T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR. MILNER & HARRIS, AX TO 14 NE Y S-AT-L A AV , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. july!B F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokelv & Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. I WILL Fir. j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, and put iu teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit the times. Work al. warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. •nglS-ly. r. Iff. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERSVILLE, GA. UTILL sell Watcnes, Clocks and Jewelry. Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated, Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can he bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done by me warranted to give sati-faction. Give me a call. julylS. CHAS. B. WILLINGHAM, Stenographic Court Reporter. [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. | I MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, taking down the testimony entire; also, ob jections of attorneys, rulings of the court, and the charge of the court, without stopping the witness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis faction guaranteed. Traveler’s Griiicie. COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION. ' On and after December 10th. 1878, the following schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO LIA or ETOWAH BILL: Leave Rome Tuesday ........Bam Arrive at Gadsden \\ ednesday .... 0a tn Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7 p m Arrive at Rome Thursday 5 j) m Leave Rome Friday 8 tun Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7 a in Arrives at Greensport Wain Arrive at Rome Saturday H p m J. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup’t. ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this Road will run as follows: DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY. Leave Rome 8:10 am Arrive at Rome • • . 12:00 in SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION. Leave Rome 5:00 pm Arrive at Rome • • 8:00 p m CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Monday, April 7, 1879, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave. Cartersville 2:30 pm Stilesboro 3:20 p m 3:25 p m Taylorsville. ..... 3:45pm 4:ospm Rockraart 5:00 p m GOING EAST. „ „„ Rock m art 6:00 am Tavlorsville 6:50 am 7:15 am Stilesboro 7:20 a m 7:45 a m Cartersville 8:15 am WILLIAM MacRAE, Sup’t. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. B. The following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 2:45 pm Leave Cartersville 4:3^pni Leave Kingston :03 p m Leave Dalton p m Arrive at Chattanooga 8:25 p m NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:15 pm Leave Dalton 7:05 p m Leave Kingston 8:34 pm Leave Cartersville 9:00 pm Arrive at Atlanta 10:55 pm DAY PASSENGER—CP. Leave Atlanta a m Leave Cartersville 7:09 a m Leave Kingston 7:35 a m Leave Dalton 8:47 am Arrive at Chattanooga 10:5b a m DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 7:05 a m Leave Dalton 9:06 a ni Leave Kingston 10:39 a m Leave Cartersville . . . . , . . .11:06 am Arrive at Atlanta 1:00 p m cartersville accommodation— up. Leave Atlanta 5:00 pm Arrive at Cartersville • 7:20 pm CARTERSYILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN. Leave Cartersville 5:55 am Arrive at Atlanta . 8:35 a m S. J. FRANKLIN, EAST MAIN STREET, Cartersville, ----- Georgia, —DEALER IN DRY GOODS AND FAMILY GROCERIES, Keeps on hand all kinds of staple Dry Goods and Family Groceries. He keeps also a line stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, of which he proposes to sell at the lowest cash prices. He invites th© patronage of his ( la( * the public, guaranteeing satisfaction to all who trade with him. decl9-tf VOLUME I. E, J. Hale & Son’s STEPHENS’ HISTORY A Compendium of the History of the United States, For Schools and Colleges, By Hon. ALEX. H. STEPHENS. (513 pp. 12rn0.) 17 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK. “The pith and marrow of out history.”— Ete- President Fillmore. “Straightforward, vigorous, interesting and im pressive.”—y. Y. Christian Union. “Its tone calm and judicial; its style clear and good. We recommend it to be* read by all Northern men.” —Boston Courier. “A work of high excellence; well adapted to supply a long felt want in our country.”—Con necticutt School Journal, (//on. W. C. Foicler. L. L. D.) “Worthy of high praise. It will of necessity challenge attention everywhere.”— N. V. 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SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS, PUBLISHED BY Iverson, Bhikenuui, Taylor & Cos., NEW YORK, R. E. PARK, General Agent, rpiHIS series comprises among others, the fol- I lowing well-known STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS: New Graded Readers, Robinson’s Mathematics, Spencerian Copy Books, Well’s Scientific Works, Riddle’s Astromics. Dana’s Geology, Woodbury’s German, Kerl’s Grammar, Webster’s Dictionary, Swinton’s Histories, Swinton’s Word Books, Swinton’s Geographies, Pascmell’s French, Gray’s Botanies, Bryant & Stratton’s Hook-keeping, ' Cathcart’s Literary Header, etc., etc. Correspondence respectfully solicted. Address ROBERT E. PARK, General Agent. Care J. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia. Clio n pest jiikl Best. HOWARD HYDRAULIC CEMENT. MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUN TY, GEORGIA. TT'QUA.L to the best imported Portland Ce- Ej ment. Send for circular. Try this before buying elsewhere. Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West, Presi dent Cherokee Iron Company, Cedartown, Ga., who lia; built a splendid dam, (cost $7,000.) using this cement and pronouncing it the best be ever used. Also refer to Gen. Win. Mcßae, Superin tendent W. &A. Railroad Company, who has been using it for piers of bridges and culverts on his railroad, lor two years; also to Capt. John Postell, C. E. Also to John Stone, Superinten dent of Bartow Iron Company, Bartow, Ga., who has bui;t several large reservoirs with it, w hich are perfect; to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., of Rome, who have made a splendid pavement with itt to Capt. M. it. Grant, or Mr. Gilbert Butler, of Savannah, who have used it with great success in stucco work, or Major Bryan, of Savannah, Mr. J. J. Cohen, of Rome, to Messrs. Grant, Jacksonville, Ala., who have used it for fountains, pavemeuts, llsh ponds, cel lar floors, etc- T. C. Douglass, Superintendent East River Bridge, New York, who pronounces it equal to the best Imported Portland Cement. A IdressG. 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga. sepl2- ly. Fashionable Barber Shop. CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, Upstairs, Over Xew York Store, Bank Block, By JOI'X rAVLOK. HAS BEEN IN THE BUSINESS 35 YEARS, an 1 is one of the most accomplished bar bers in he South. His shop is well and comfort ably furnished. He is the only barber in the State who uses Phalou’s Celebrated Chemical Hair In vigoratorf to prevent baldness and dis eases of the scalp. All who have tried it know it to be i specific. He also uses the celebrated Russian Couissan Shavinj. Soap, which is known to be the best soap in the w orld. It has the invaluable property of prevent ing pimples and all cutaneous eruptions. To th< se who shave twice a week, he w ill fur nish a private soap and lather cup, free of charge. The patronage of the public generally is iu vited at l respectfully solicited. Polite, courte ous and gentlemanly treatment is observed to ward all, and satisfaction guaranteoed. julylß JOHN TAYLOR, Proprietor. ,1. C. & S. F. MILAM, Commission Merchants, COTTON BUYERS, Dealers in. Standai’d Guanos, AGENTS FOR Metropolitan Works, Richmond, Va. CNAN FURNISH ANY KIND OF AN EN j jmie from four-horse power to one hundred and fifty. SAW AND GRIST MILLS, THRESHERS, And in fact any kind of machinery. Please see us before purchasing. Office at T. A. Foote’s store, West Main street, Car tersville, Ga. feb27 THE STAR SALOON. BAlt AND BILLIARDS. MORT E. PAINE Has oped for the spring and summer business and will keep always on hand TIIE VERY" FINEST LIQUORS, BRANDIES, WHISKEY AND WINES, Which will be manipulated into FANCY DRINKS OF ALL KINDS. flggßeer on draught.^® Cigars of the best brands. The public respect fully invited to call. mayl_ ACTUAL BUSINESS I Students on Change Moore’s BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA. rpil E BEST PRACTICAL BUSINESS SCHOOL in the country. Students can enter at a time. Total expenses for tlmce months, includ ing tuition, stationery, board, etc., $115• lld for circulars. B. F. MOORE, president. aprs4-3m. _ DUFF GREEN HOUSE, Dalton, Ga. THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL On the Kcnnesaw Route. BREAKFAST ANd“sUPPEII HOUSE FOR PASSENGERS. Special Attention Given to the Comfort and on venience of Lady Passengers and guests. Readir g and Sample Rooms for Commercia Travelers. Board per day, $2.00; Meals, 50 ets. *¥*>Railroaders, County and Stock men, halt fare. 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. 9 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, • NUMBER 36. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted stt tlie rates oj One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents tor each additional insertion. CONTR ACT R ATES. Space. lino. 3 mos. 6 mo*, lyear. One inch, $2 50 $5 00 $7 50 flO 00 Two inches, 375 •50 12 50 18 00 Three inches, 500 10 00 17 50 2-> 00 Four inches, 625 12 50 2‘- 50 •>'- *0 Fourth column 750 15 00 2-> 00 40 00 Half column, 15 00 25 00 40 00 60 ihi One eolumn. 20 00 40 Oji io QQ Ji’Alill- 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.