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THE FREE PRESS.
An Independent Democratic Journal.
( • H. Ok WILLINGH AM. Kiutok.
The Free Press is an Independent Democrat
ic Journal, opposed to all Kings, Cliques and
Combinations, of whatever sort, organized to de
feat the will of the people in all public matters
or interests in whatever shape presented.
Cartersville, Georgia, May 22, 187$)
THE OUTLOOK FOR 1880.
While the ‘‘confederate brigadiers,” the
democratsgenerally, and good men all,
are endeavoring to restore national good
feeling between the sections and are try
ing to wipe out all the animosities of the
late war, the leaders of the republican
party in congress are doing and saying
all they can to arouse old prejudices and
to *tir up strife, contention and discord.
Their raidings are but the ebulitions of
rag- in view of final defeat next year.
Their course is making their cause more
and more hopeless. Their rage is simply
w eak and impotent, and their rantings
and votings are placing them fairly upon
record before the people. If the demo
crats will wisely and judiciously continue
their present policy in congress, a case
will he made up against the republican
party that will sweep it from the face of
the earth. Asa leader in the house, much
will he due to lion. A. 11. Stephens next
year in a proper and successful arraign
ment of the present administration of the
federal government and its adherents.
Even the president has deceived Ids con
servative friends, both republicans and
democrats, in his yielding to the section
al demands of the stalwarts of his party;
and when the honest people of the coun
try understand his perversity in refusing
to give Ids official support to the removal
of the bayonet from tiic ballot-box, it will
forever damn his party in their eyes and
send him to the darkest political obscur
ity.
But when men are mad they lose all
discretion, common sense and honesty,
and every step they take hut involves
them in deeper trouble. The stalwart
republicans in congress are mad, and the
further they go the blinder and more per
verse they are. Had the democrats al
lowed themselves to he lashed into fury,
obstinacy, bitterness and retaliation, the
opportunity of forming the lines for a
successful fight next year would have
been lost. As we have intimated, it is
only necessary for them to persist in
their efforts in a calm way to meet the
ends of good govenment and maintain in
violate the great fundamental principles
of public liberty in this country. In
time the great body of the American peo
ple will see who are truly the best friends
of our free institutions. Seeing, they will
act accordingly in the support of the par
ty endeavoring to carry out these objects.
The people will always do l ight when
they see the right and understand the
wrong. The democracy is the party of
the people, and it’s only necessary that
its representatives in congress shall vindi
cate true democratic principles in federal
legislation. The bitter asperities of the
war would long since have subsided, had
it not been for the interference of men
who kept them alive for sellish purposes,
bet a southern man go north and he hears
nothing of the old bitterness, and it is so
in tiie south when a northern man comes
here. The great body of the people in
both sections have shook hands over the
“bloody chasm.” It is only the violent
leaders of the radical wing of the repub
lican party in congress and their organs
and satellites who strive to reopen the
wounds of the past. They are enemies
to the country and foes to the people.
These facts are being fast developed to
popular view,and the conspirators against
the public peace will soon be annihilated.
hive the people the ballot, free from
intimidation or surveillance by the bayo
net, and they will preserve the box.
Elections to be free, the polls must not
he surrounded with bayonets. Civil au
thority in free government is adequate to
enforce order and to secure to all entitled
to it the unjramnieled exercise of the
elective franchise. If the president and
his party arc not willing to accord to the
people and civil government in this coun
try these virtues, then the people should
tell them next year that they will demand
their recognition at the ballot box in spite
of them. Let our democratic representa
tives in congress put their opponents up
on the record so indellibly that it cannot
he rubbed out. Let them supply the
means for the support of the government
and leave the responsibility of refusal to
remove all obstacles to a free ballot for
the present to Air. Ilayes and liis party.
A firm, but conservative, course by the
democratic members of congress can and
will form a line of action for next year
that cannot fail of glorious success against
the enemies of public liberty. With a
good ticket for the presidential contest,
the honest people will rally to it with en
thusiasm. The republicans, properly ar
raignd for violations of constitutional
rights and corrupt management of the
government, will not be able to withstand
the shock of battle that will .be hurled
against them.
Says the Dalton Enterprise: “A paper
worth anything to the general public
should be independent and has no more
right to feed its subscribers upon one doc
trine, because it likes it, than a hotel
keeper to cram down the throats of his
guests beans simply because his pallet
leans that way.” Politics are not beans
nor any other kind of vegetable. We
suppose, our friend, independence means
neutrality in polities—that is to say,
it purposes to give its readers politi
cal grub from all sides. We still have
hope our confrere will finally land into
the ranks of independent democracy.
Anew evening paper is to he started in
Atlanta the first of June to he called the
Dispatch. It is said to be backed by plen
ty of money and Mr. John H. Martin,
the veteran of the Columbus Times, will
he the editor-in-chief, and Mr. Howard
Williams will be one of the local staff.
The Dispatch will, doubtless, be a first
class journal. We wish if the greatest
success.
OX THE RIG JIT LIKE.
\\ e copy the following from the Augus
ta News, of Tuesday evening last:
Brother Willingham, of the Cartersville Free
Press, need not get so mad when an attempt is
made by a few soreheads to rule him out of the
party. lie is himself the embodiment of the
“organized,” and the exponent of the genuine
democracy. All those papers which have been
shying stones at Willingham for expressing his
vievfs and denouncing ring trickery are rapidly
coining over, and not a coriioral’s guard is left.
Kven the venerable Chronicle and Constitution
alist. of this city, who, last year, was the most
implacable and stubborn, and who denounced
Mr. Stephens, Ben Hill, Dr. Felton, and all other
genuine democrats who refused to be led by the
“ring,” is now an out-and-out simon-pure dem
ocratic paper, and admits, in its issue of to-day,
that the views held and expressed by Mr. Ste
phens and Dr. Felton will lie eventually pursued.
It takes some of these papers a long time to get
on the right track, but when they do, it is fun to
hear the music they make. We hope Willing
ham will extend the right hand of fellowship to
these converts who have been groping so long in
the dark.
We have not seen the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist of the date mentioned at
this writing, hut we are exceedingly glad
to learn that it is ranging itself on the
right line. We hope to see others of our
democratic papers respond to the key
note of success in the next presidential
election, and we tell them if they will
give .more attention to the views of such
men as Stephens, Ilill and Dr. Felton,
as well as those of The Free Press, they
will make fewer blunders in polities. We
take pleasure in giving the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist “the right hand of fel
lowship,” and trust its chronic and con
stitutional habit ot yielding to everything
called democratic because organized by
“ring trickery” may be speedily cured,
and that it wilLever hereafter stand by
the best democracy whether independent
or organized. Such is the only safe line
to pursue in order to keep the party puri
fied and free from the manipulations of
designing politicians who are democrats
only to subserve the purposes of them
selves and their peculiar friends who aid
them in deceiving the people under the
whip and spur of organization.
We remember that our much esteemed
contemporary was hostile to what it
deemed Mr. Stephens’ independent can
didacy for congress last year. It virtual
ly, if not literally, attempted to read Air.
Stephens out of the democratic party. In
the same way, Dr. Felton has been at
tempted to be read out in this district and
throughout the state. We are glad to see,
however, there is but one paper in the
seventh still attempting the same thing.
The Rome Courier, in a dyspeptic way
and feebly, is still trying to align the doc
tor with the republican party. Its
feeble efforts are so futile that they excite
nothing more than pity for a venerable
and respectable journal that is growing
into the habits of peevishness peculiar to
old age. Our great respect for it forbids
anything like criticism, except in the
spirit of levity and with a view to occa
sional amusement.
The foregoing, of course, will not suit
the “soreheads.” With such staunch
journals as the Cnronicle and Constitu
tionalist, and others, coming over to the
democracy of the people, and leaving the
rotten hulk of the so-called organized
democracy, we have hope of taking the
party out of the hands of the “political
shysters and thimble-riggers” in Georgia
and restoring it to the control of the peo
ple. Let all true democrats say, Amen
and amen! to the democratic outlook in
Georgia.
THE LATE PRESS CONVENTION.
\V r e give much of our space this week
to the reproduction of what the quill
drivers have to say of their visit to Car
tersville last week. This we do that our
home readers may see what our late
guests think of our country and of their
visit among us. Our people will be glad
to know that our friends were pleased
and went away with a good impression
of Cartersville and Bartow county. We
can assure our brethren of the press that
they have made a most agreeable im
pression in this community, and that all
will be glad to welcome the Georgia press
association again. Their presence here
will be long remembered by our people
with the most pleasant memories. They
are only sorry they did not remain
longer.
Speaking for ourself, no similar event
of a newspaper experience of more than
thirty years has been more gratifying to
us than to have our editorial brethren at
our home. However much we may dif
fer with them on public questions, we
have never entertained aught else than
the most fraternal and grateful regard
tor each and every one—for in all our
misfortunes the past six years we have
received the most indubitable evidences
of personal consideration from the fra
ternity, a class of men more given to acts
of kindness and forgiveness than any we
ever knew.
j Naturally enough, there is always a
warm place in our heart of hearts for
those who are engaged in the noble pro
fession ot journalism, a field of labor full
of responsibility and beset with many
trials and occasions foi the exhibition of
the noblest manhood. For one and all
we implore the blessings of heaven in all
their efforts to maintain.the dignity of
the press and the honor of their profes
sion. May their hearts, as ever hereto
fore, continue to be actuated by love of
country and deeds of patriotic labor for
tbe grand and beloved old-commonwealth
of Georgia.
In conclusion, we wish all the greatest
prosperity in business, happiness in life
and a home beyond the sky, where the
faithful and the true shall forever dwell.
The Rome Courier is howling again for
the Felton-Ferry letter. Haven’t we
told the editor where he could get a copy
of it? Will Col. Yeiser furnish us with
a big wet sponge when we get to Rome
to-day.
Brother Davis, of the Sandersville
Courier, made a temperance speech at
the press convention. As it was out of
the line of the association, it was not a
very successful effort.
The ways and means committee of con
gress have indefinitely postponed the con
sideration of the subject of adjournment,
recently referred to that committee.
WHA T A LITTLE COTTON MILL CA X DO.
A few weeks ago we copied a short
paragraph from a North Carolina paper,
showing what a little cotton mill at West
minster, S. C., is doing. It cost only
twenty-five hundred dollars and is run
by eight bands. A mill owner furnished
the water power and a company of far
mers raised the money to buy the machin
ery. These farmers manufacture their
own cotton without ginning and turn out
twenty-five dollars worth of yarns per
day, even at the lowest price cotton has
sold for in fifteen years. Twenty-five
dollars per day would doubtless pay run
ning expenses, pay for the cotton and in
addition would pay the largest per cent,
on an investment that could possibly be
made in anj r other venture.
We also read in another exchange that
a small cotton mill in Natchez, Atiss., has
proven so great a success that the stock
holders propose to increase its facilities.
Our object in calling attention to what
small cotton mills are doing elsewhere is
once more to call attention to the mag
nificent water powers on the Etowah riv
er and our creeks. An ample supply of
cotton right here could be delivered
without expense of ginning, packing,
bagging and ties, and without expense of
freight charges to distant points. Under
such favorable circumstances it is folly
to say that mills on these streams could
not compete with mills in the northern
states, to which the cotton must be haul
ed from the south more than a thousand
miles. Alills, at these locations, would,
beyond a doubt, pay handsomely, and
we hope some abler writer will give this
move a shove in the right direction
through our columns.
SHERMAN VS. GRANT, ETC.
A Washington dispatch, of the 20th,
says that many of the more sagacious
democrats believe that John Sherman is
a much more formidable party candidate
for president than Gen. Grant. The rea
son assigned is that the extraordinary
ability the secretary of the treasury in
refunding the national debt at the lowest
rate of interest ever known in America
is acknowledged by all democratic lead
ers. By this refunding scheme Air.
Sherman has commended himself to the
business and general commercial world
as a man of wonderful financial sagacity.
We have not believed that Grant would
be tlie man. Sherman has the advantage
for the reason that the revenue, customs
and internal, is collected by Sherman’s
agents, and that the men whose places
are most valuable are those who collect
the revenue.
This is the position taken by the most
sagacious democrats in Washington as
telegraphed as above stated. Sherman
is, therefore, backed by a powerful in
fluence which cannot be overcome by
the friends of Gen. Grant. He will have
millions of money to sustain him in se
curing the republican nomination. Once
nominated, there will be no lack of funds
with which to prosecute the campaign.
It will require the best the democracy
can do to defeat him.
The great hope of democratic success
lies in the proper arraignment of the re
publican party on its violations of con
stitutional liberty and its subversion of
the interests of the country in the pro
motion of partisan purposes. AVith the
democratic lines properly and judiciously
formed, with the right men on the tick
et, an appeal can be made to the people
that even Sherman and bis money and
hordes of official dependants cannot over
come.
DOX'T KXO W HOW IT'LL BE.
Our good friend, Col. 11. H. Jones, of
the Macon Telegraph, speaking of the in
dependent democracy of the seventh dis
trict as “bolters,” says they “are still
democrats heart and soul,” and adds:
“In 1880, w© venture the prediction that they
will stand shoulder to shoulder with their demo
cratic friends all over the state in defense of the
principles of our great democratic organization,
and prove zealous supxiorters of its nominee.”
Of course, we do not know what nomi
nee our friend refers to. We shall stand
by the truest and purest democracy,
whether organized or independent. We
shall certainly adopt the best mode of
maintaining genuine democracy. If such
an issue comes up as we had in the sev
enth last year, we shall certainly act in
dependently in behalf of the best man
and truest democrat, whether for presi
dent, governor, congressman or any other
man. The independent democracy will
not surrender their “inalienable right”
to vote for whom they please. They will
decide for themselves as to the best man,
for whom they will cast their ballots.
We thank brother Jones for an expres
sion of confidence in the genuinenness of
the democracy of the “bolters” of the
seventh district. We have so often been
called radicals and scallawags that it is
some degree of pleasure to have our de
mocracy endorsed by so eminent an “or
ganized” democrat as the editor of the
Telegraph.
Yes, brother Jones, we assure you the
“bolters,” as you call them, “are still
democrats heart and soul.”
Americus gives its local papers ten or
twelve columns of home advertisements.
Think of that and look at The Free
Press. Comment is wholly unnecessary.
Words would not suffice to do the subject
justice.
A vice-regal council has been specially
summoned to consider the draft of the
Afghan treaty. The Ameer has agreed
to such terms as w ill secure the chief ob
ject of the British policy.
The New r England reform league held
special session in science hall, Boston, on
Monday. Most radical socialistic ideas
were embodied in the resolutions adopted
and tbe addresses delivered.
We have received a copy of the
Americus Recorder, anew paper just
started by M. Callaway & Cos. The pub
lication exhibits industry and energy.
The Augusta Chron. & Con. endorses
the course in congress of Mr. Stephens,
Ben Hill, Dr. Felton and other demo
crats.
The Augusta Chronicle endorses Dr.
Felton and the Rome Courier don’t. Oh.
my!
THE PRESS CONVENTION'.
Wliat They Have to Say of our Town
and County.
Savannah News.
The reception of the members has been
most cordial. About one hundred papers
are represented.
Gainesville Southron.
The press meeting at Cartersville last
week was the most sueessful and pleasant
one ever held in the state—successful in
all its aims and purposes, recreation, fun,
social enjoyment and reunion. The peo
ple of Cartersville entertained, without
money and without price, and erected a
monument to their own princely hospi
tality as enduring as the lives of those
who received their lavish bounty. Every
man’s door stood open, and every heart
gave a welcome warmer than we can find
words to express. We are too full for
utterance —in fact have been since we
started on the trip.
Columbus Times.
Unquestionably the press association
of Georgia gathered in one of the finest—
if not the very finest—counties of the
state at its late session. From all that
we could hear, the farming lands of Bar
tow county are more in demand and sell
higher than of any other county in the
state. The valley and bottom lands bring
readily S3O to SSO per acre —some selling
much higher—and it is hard to find farms
for sale at that. The cause is the great
fertility of the soil, which is a reddish
loam, aed its adaptability to the most pro
fitable crops. Blue grass grows as finely
here as in its most congenial section in
Kentucky, and clover is as luxuriant and
lasting a crop as in any northern state.
The western states are not productive of
corn, and cotton grows with a luxuriance
not excelled by our richest bottoms in
“the belt,” but the season being shorter
an abundant fruitage is not so certain.
The yield to the acre, however, is gener
ally very good. There is now a consid
erable cotton crop planted in the county,
and the plant looks fully as large and
vigorous as with us, notwithstanding the
late cool season. Peaches generally are
killed in Bartow county, and the other
fruits greatly injured.
The valley of the Etowah, down which
the association ran for many miles on the
excursion from Cartersville to Taylors
ville, is certainly one of the richest in the
south. So extensive and unbroken a
body of land of the highest fertility is
seldom to be found outside of the prairie
regions, and as these lands possess all the
fertility of the prairies, besides wood and
water in which the latter are deficient,
they are of course preferable.
Bartow is also a county remarkably
rich in minerals of the most valuable
kinds. The iron ore found here is un
surpassed in quality, and the business of
smelting was formerly extensively car
ried on. But the great depreciation in
the price of iron everywhere and con
sequent depression of the business, lias
sadly damaged this important interest in
Bartow as well as elsewhere. Instead of
huge piles of pig iron at all shipping sta
tions along the railroad, only small rem
nants are here and there to be found.
But the ore remains in almost inexhausti
ble quantities and superior quality, and
with the revival of the business elsewhere
its prosperity in Bartow will return. But
the burning of lime is still extensively
carried on, and anew industry in the
mining of manganese has of late assumed
considerable proportions. In all of these
minerals Bartow county abounds, besides
having gold, slate, etc.
Here is a combination of exceedingly
rich lands and valuable and varied min
erals rarely to be found in one county,
and they conspire to make Bartow a
county of almost matchless resources and
assured prosperity.
The people of Cartersville and of Bar
tow county extended a cordial welcome
and most generous hospitality to the
members of the press, and the “gentle
men of the fourth estate” reluctantly took
their leave with the best feelings and
kindest recolletions of the noble men and
women who so agreeaply entertained
them..
Macon Telegraph ami Messenger.
Before the adjournment, a letter from
Airs. Felton from Washington to the con
vention was read, accompanied with the
gift of a beautiful wreath of flowers.
Thanks to the courtesy of the good peo
ple of Carterville, whose attentions were
innumerable and unremitting, the entire
convention enjoyed a trip through the
lovely valley of the Etowah river over
the broad gauge road, a distance of twelve
miles, and still beyond upon the narrow
guage, which extends as far as Cedar
town. The track lay through one of the
most fertile and charming valleys to be
found on the continent. On one side me
andered the beautiful Etowah, its swift
waters breaking and bubbling o’er numer
ous reefs of rocks, and fringed with a
pretty growth of trees and shrubbery,
arrayed in living green.
The land on the other side spread out
for a mile or more in width into a rich
valley, level as a billiard table, and in
cluding many thousands of acres, all un
der the highest state of cultivation. A
very large per centage was devoted to
wheat, which stood in serried rank, dense
as a jungle, and rapidly ripening for the
sickle. Under a proper system of rota
tion of crops, good culture and the timely
application of fertilizers, this valley, with
its limestone formation and deep soil,
might be converted into a perpetual gar
den spot which would ever delight the
eye of the beholder. The surroundings
of the valley in every direction are high
ly picturesque and beautiful. Lofty bills
and mountains clothed with verdure to
their summits form a most agreeable set
ting to the emerald picture beneath.
These mountains abound with iron,
manganese, and other minerals. At one
point we could discern the quarries where
the famous Ladd lime is manufactured,
and the finest alabaster may be procured.
The manganese, so essential in the pro
duction of steel, and yet a very rare min
eral abounds in the mountains of Bartow
and Polk counties. It is a deep blue,
rocky substance, heavier than iron,which
when taken from the quarry is first thor
oughly washed, then hauled to the stamp
ing mill, broken into small pieces,ground,
and exported in barrels. The price of
the article at the mill, we believe, is about
eight dollars per ton.
Cartersville contains several of these
mills, and hundreds of barrels of the pre
pared manganese were awaiting shipment
at the railroad depot.
Our trip extended over the narrow
gunge into Polk county, where the most
extensive deposits of slate are to be found,
which is of the purest and finest quality,
and can be split with facility into the
most attenuated thicknesses. With prop
er railroad arrangements this valuable
material for roof covers could be made to
supersede in all our crowded towns and
cities the combustible and perishable
wooden shingle. It will endure forever,
and at present the transportation consti
tutes its principal cost.
Bartow boasts also a cement quarry,
near Kingston, on the place formerly
owned by Rev. Wallace Howard. Here
au article of cement for cisterns, wells,
and all masonry under water, is prepared,
which experience and the testimony of
the most competent builders unite in pro
nouncing to be equal to the best in Amer
ica. It has been tried in Macon, and af
forded perfect satisfaction.
An examination of tiffs curious little
highway (the narrow gauge, the first the
writer had ever seen), satisfied him that
where the centre of gravity is made low r
to prevent capsizing, this mode of trans
portation is as safe as any other. The
difference in cost between the broad and
narrow guage roads, including equip
ments, etc,, is said to be one-third in fa
vor of the latter, and the carrying capaci
ty of the two is about in the same ratio.
We suppose tiny' will always be confined
to short routes for specific purposes, and
when tile freights and transportation are
not likely to be very heavy.
About nightfall the whole party return
ed in safety to Cartersville, delighted with
what they had seen, and deeply impressed
with the agricultural and mineral resour
ces of this favored region.
The ball at the St. James hotel, that
followed on the same evening, was one
of the most brilliant affairs that ever oc
curred in the state. The spacious dining
room of the hotel had been cleared of its
furniture and georgeously decorated with
wreaths, festoons and vases of lovely
flowers, and a fine band of mnsic was in
attendance.
About nine o’clock, the company began
to arrive, and soon the apartment was
thronged with the youth and beauty and
fashion of the town who had turned out
to greet their visiting guests. It is safe
toiiftirm that a brighter galaxy of beauty
was never seen at any similar entertain
ment in Georgia.
The toilets of many of the ladies were
exquisite, and the party seemed to enjoy
themselves immensely. The knights of
the fourth estate pitched in, too, with
might and main, and showed that they
were quite as nimble with their heels as
they are with their pens. We would be
tempted to particularize a little but for
the fact of bringing a nest of hornets
about our ears. Suffice it to say the
twinkling feet never ceased to move until
the faint blush of advancing light told
of the advent of another day.
Cartersville is litterally cradled among
the adjacent mountains, and as Bill Arp
says, the good old county seat of Cassville
died in giving birth to her. But the bant
ling has far eclipsed its mother, and now
stands forth a rising, beautiful little city
of 3,5000 inhabitants, with two excellent
hotels—the St. James and Bartow houses
—four neat churches, tall blocks of brick
stores, the neatest opera house outside of
the large cities to be found in the state, a
stately court house, a railroad branching
out into the rich mineral region only just
beginning to be developed, and two live
and well conducted newspapers.
With such a start, her future prosperity
would seem to be an assured conclusion.
Asa summer resort, too, few places pos
sess greater attractions. Health, conve
nience. of access to the mineral springs of
the country, beautiful drives, cheap board,
an abundance of table comforts procluced
at home, lovely Scenery and commodious
hotels, offer every inducement to the sea
board wayfarer to pause and tarry.
The citizens of Cartersville showed
themselves to be generous and hospitable
entertainers. Every door, and all the
hotels of the town were thrown open to
the members of the press association, with
out money and without price. The edi
tors and proprietors of The Free Press
and the Cartersville Express , were nota
bly foremost in their efforts to anticipate
every want of their brethren. There was
not a trace of independentism in the vet
eran Willingham in his treatment of the
“organized,” for he fairly boiled over in
the exuberance of his welcome to them,
and hardly ate or slept in his desire to
serve his democratic guests in every way
possible. Reduced to its “last analysis,”
we are glad to know that the bolters of
the seventh district are still democrats,
heart and soul, the only question with
them being wholly a personal one between
the democrats.
“BILL ARP.”
His Report of tlie Meeting of tlie Georgia
Press Association.
From the Atlanta Constitution.]
We are all right now. The crisis are
past. A hundred editors have rubbed
agin us and partooken of our hospitality.
A hundred stars have illumined our at
mosphere like a fall of brilliant meteors.
They have gone. They picked up their
tents like Arabs and silently stole away.
And now a hundred papers will soon
ring peans to our people. We felt right
proud of them, and I think they felt
right proud of —them too. Brother Bry
ant spake feelingly to me when he said,
“Brother Arp, this are the most intellec
tual body of gentlemen I have ever saw
except once and that was a Baptist con
vention some six years ago, and I was a
member of that.”
Good sakes, how they did scribble and
scratch. All the time that business was
going on they were taking notes and
making memorandums, and it was al
most impossible for Father Estill to get
their attention. He talked to them like
a patriarch, but they heeded him not.
When he spoke of the importance of pre
serving a “free press” brothers Perham
and Willingham seemed to catch the tail
end of the idea and thanked him for cone
plimenting their papers. When he said
something about the success of the “en
terprise” brothers Hansell and Jenkins
and Si Hawkins stopped writing and ex
claimed, with unaffected zeal, “that’s so,”
“its doing as well as could be expected,”
“the people appreciate it.”
He continued by remarking that at
this important juncture of our political
relations the people more than ever need
ed “sentinels and heralds,” whereupon
there was a tumultuous uprising. Broth
er Littlefield said Jessups Sentinel was on
the watehtower, and brothers Benns and
Medloek and Peeples said “the Herald
was all right”—“best weekly in the
state”—“only two dollars a year.” When
the president advised them to be wide
awake and keep up with the “times,” old
father Marthi never looked up but mut
tered audibly “they cant do it.” Broth
ers Triplett and Christian smiled a
thoughtful assent. Brother Hancock
rose to a pint of order. The president
added, “In your march onward always
keep your paper up to the “standard”—
whereupon brother Mumford lifted up
his corporosity hugely and said “that’s
me—l’m him—boys, keep your eyes on
the boss.” Brother Hancock rose to a
pint of order. The president urged them
all to obey the rules and by laws of the
association and be always governed by
the “constitution,” whereupon brother
Hemphill rose forward with all the dig
nity of a Chesterfield. Placing his right
hand upon his left heart he bowed a lord
ly bow and said, “The Constitution will
endeavor to guide them aright. I pre
sume it is hardly necessary to state that
it is admitted to be the best paper in the
south.”
Brother Hancock here rose to a pint of
order.
While the president was speaking about
the wonderful advance of science and
art he remarked that the “telegraph”
used to be considered a miracle of won
der. “It is yet,” said brother Jones.
“But,” continued the speaker, “now the
‘phonograph’ looms up ahead,” and im
mediately brother Thornton threw up
his hat and exclaimed, “That’s so—with
that endorsement I’ll go ahead and never
quail any more.” At the ball that night
he called on the band for Captain Part
ridge’s quickstep and slung as lively a
number ten as I ever saw for the size.
Brother Gormane looked at his old sil
ver bull’s eye and said he thought it was
about time to adjourn tor dinner—that
dinner was an institution handed down
from the barons of England along with
magna charta and the bill ot rights—that
when he last visited Europe he investi
gated its origin—that it was a meal of
great dignity and ceremony, and was
never called by the scandalous name of
hash or grub.
Whereupon Mr. Grubb' rose to a ques
tion of privilege, and informed the gen
tleman that just as soon as the anti-pistol
sensation subsided he should hold him
personally responsible. Brother Han
cock rose to a pint of order. Brother
Dwinell then stretched forth bis voice
and remarked that, speaking of Euro
pean dinners, he had been over there
himself, and his book of travels Mould
throw great light upon—Brother Han
cock again rose to a quart of order.
Brother Willingham said he hoped the
association would adjourn, for he had
been on his legs for 43 hours out of 40,
and needed rest. Brother Carey Styles
said he wanted to urge the convention
once more to visit the city of Canton;
but brother Hansel objected, saying that
the federal relations between this coun
try and China M ere not altogether pacific;
whereupon brother Styles M anted to know
what in the devil that had to do w T ith it.
Brother Weston then informed brother
Hansel that brother Styles alluded to the
little village of Canton, with 75 or 80
clever people, someMhere over here in
the woods. Brother Hansel was apolo
gizing, when brother Hancock rose to a
half gallon of order. Brother Styles
swelled up with tumultuous indignation,
and busted two vest-buttons. Brother
Mumford cachinated two more off of
liisen, and again moved an adjournment
—and the hotel bell just then seconded
the motion. By the time the hall was
cleared, Father Estill put the motion and
declared the convention adjourned.
After the adjournment an envelop was
picked up addressed to the Count Johan
nes B. Gormane, and on the back M'as
written : “Great people—glorious people
—generous Cartersville—bootiful village
—splendid ladies—handsome children—
lofty mountains—lovely valleys, and vit
tels fit for a king—see dictionary for
other adjectives.” A poem m :is picked
up beginning—
Hard by Etowah’s glassy stream
I ate a qt. of strawberries and cream;
1 feel as good as any fellah—
These lines are writ by J. M. Bellah.
Then there M as “a ode to Cartersville
“Hail, happy land! Thy mountain bree
zes bloM’ soft as zephyrs on a sylvan
lake, ye grand old hills. How tame and
spiritless is Okeefeenokee’s dismal
swamp, M'here the alligator howleth and
the muskeeter singeth his little song;
where all around is one ‘unbroken plane
ironed flat upon an endless board, then
sprinkled over M ith sand and narry hump
on nature’s surface higher than a SM’eet
tater hill.” Dupont.
“Okeefeenokeefeean.”
On the ball-room floor M as found a lit
tle editorial ditty beginning—
Bartow girls, cant you come out to-night,
Come out to-night, come out to-night;
Bartow girls, cant you come out to-night,
And dance by the light of the moon.
I reckon it Mas an accident, but it mas
w ritten on the margin of the Christian
Advocate. I’ve been afraid that Block
case would demoralize somebody.
Yours, Bill Arp.
P. S.—The convention was to have set
another day, but the president announced
that the members w r ould be called on
next morning for their annual dues of
two dollars each, and that’s why
They picked up their tents like the Arabs
And as silently stole away.
B. A.
MR. STEPHENS’ VIEWS.
A correspondent of tlie Augusta Chron
icle reports to that paper the following as
part of a conversation with Hon. A. 11.
Stephens:
Correspondent—What think you, Mr.
Stephens, of the veto, and what will be
the result? What will the democracy
now do ?
Mr. Stephens—The message is a so
phistical evasion of the issue presented
by the bill vetoed. The president says
distinctly that he is opposed to military
interference at the polls; that he thinks
no additional legislation is necessary to
prevent it; that he himself while in office
never will have the military used. But
his object to the bill as passed is that it
goes farther than what is expressed in
the title, and even the body of it in its
sweeping, concluding repealing clause—
cuts too deep, and repeals and annuls, in
several particulars, the acts 1792-95 of
Washington’s administration, and 1807
of Jefferson’s, etc., etc.
All this I think is utterly w ithout just
foundation. The bill as passed repeals
nothing but all law’s and parts of laws
that authorize the interference ot troops
at the polls. The president must know
that there is a statute in the revised code,
passed in 1865 (2002), which does author
ize the use of the military at the polls.
It is true this authority is by implication.
The law', as it stands, declares that troops
shall not be used at elections, except lor
certain specified purposes, or “to keep
the peace.” Hereon hangs the whole
tale. Under pretext of keeping the
peace at the polls, the president must
know' that troops have been used. They
were so used throughout the southern
states during the reconstruction process.
They were so used throughout South
Carolida and some of the other southern
states in the election of 1876, and though
he says chat he will never so use them
himself, yet he knoMS that they havelieen
so used, and may be, unless positively
forbidden by Lum\
Now, if the president be sincere in
M’liat he says, it seems to me that the dif
ferences between him and congress are
narrou ed down to a very plain and dis
tinct issue. I Mould say let another
measure be presented to him, either as a
proviso to the army bill, directing and
restricting liom’ the money thereby used
is appropriated, or as a distinct section,
or as a separate and independent measure
expressly repealing any and all laws and
none other except those authorizing the
use of the military at the polls, under the
pretext of keeping the peace. Mr. Hayes
has virtually said in his veto that this is
what he M ants. This is certainly all that
congress wants, and, therefore, I say,
that the issue should be once more pre
sented to him so that he cannot evade it
on any special or technical pleading. If
he again vetoes, of course the democracy
can properly offer no factious opposition.
They M ill have done all that they can do
to secure a tree ballot to the people of the
United States.
The issue will be clearly and distinctly
made to the country between the democ
racy and republicans on this great, vital
question of public liberty—free ballots on
the democratic side and bayonet ballots
on the republican. What .course the de
mocracy will take, however, on this sub
ject Ido not know. There has been no
conference on the subject. So far as I
have heard any expression of opinion
they seem to be very calm and deter
mined, not passionate, but firm in never
abandoning their position for the mainte
nance of a free ballot and against bayonet
rule at the polls. They will hasten slow
ly, perhaps, in the development of their
future policy. They will do nothing
rash or in a rage, as the republicans and
centralists are endeavoring to provoke
them to do.
GEORGIA EPISCOPAL, CONVENTION.
This body, which has been in session
at Marietta, adjourned Friday last to
meet in Columbus on the third Wednes
day in May, ISBO.
The committee on the state of the
church urge upon the rectors the im
portance of a more careful preparation of
their reports. The total number of com
municants is several hundred less than
the number reported to the last conven
tion, though the increase in the baptisms
and confirmations is hopeful. This is
due to the fact that several parishes have
been revising their lists. Some parishes
are lapsing into debt. Only the parishes
of St. James, Marietta, and of Macon
have sent offerings to the Appleton Home.
They recommend that the parochial re
ports to next convention shall contain a
statement of the date and the nature of
such incorporation and how incorporated;
and set forth, if it exist, any conflict with
the constitution and canons.
Canons adopted provide missionary
operations shall be under charge of a
board composed of the bishop, the deans
of the several convocations, and a lay
man for each convocation; said board
shall meet at conventions, select a secre
tary and equalize apportionments; that
the bishop shall divide the dioceses into
four missionary conventions, with a dean
appointed by the bishop as a presidiou
officer, m hose term shall be for four years*;
the dean shall overlook the work of his
district; each convocation shall have
charge of the M r ork in its district, and
elect a secretary and treasurer. If any
station is not filled by the central board
such money shall remain intact. Each
convocation shall hold two meetings a
year, and each clergyman must attend.
The bishop shall have power to remove
and appoint missionaries. No rector
shall receive appropriation unless he has
spent four Sundays in a year missionary
work outside his parish under the dean of
his convocation. There shall be offertory
for missions in every parish in the months
of January, April, J uly and October. At
conventions collections must be taken up
and a treasurer appointed. Deans must
report quarterly. The folio Ming were
elected:
President—the bishop. Deans—Revs.
Wm. U. Williams, Atlanta convocation;
Wm. U. Hunter, Macon convocation;
F. G. Weed, Augusta convocation; Thos.
Boone, Savannah convocation. Laymen
—Judge Underwood, Atlanta convoca
tion ; W. L. Wells, Macon convocation;
Frank Miller, Augusta convocation: Jno.
11. Johnson, Savannah convocation. Rev.
Thos. Boone Mas elected secretary and
John R. Johnson treasurer.
The following officers and committees
were elected:
Diocese treasurer —John S. Davidson,
Augusta.
Treasurer of the fund for the support
of the Episcopacy—Alfred Hayward, Sa
vannah.
Register of the diocese —W. S. Bogart,
Savannah.
Standing committee of diocese—Rev.
W. C. Williams, Rome; Revs. R. C.
Foute, Atlanta; E. G. Weed, Augusta.
Laymen—B. Conley, T. E. Walker, Z.
I). Harrison, Atlanta.
Resolution o'fiered by W. C. Williams
that the bishop and standing committee
shall recommend to the favor and patron
age of the university of tlie south.
Resolved, by Colonel Whittle, that the
bishop assess the diocese SSOO for the
benefit of the university.
There is another speck of Mar visible
on the congressional horizon. Hon. W.
H. Kitchin, of North Carolina, is said to
be after his fellow-member from the tar
heel state, Hon. D. L. Russell, green
backer. The trouble between these gen
tlemen greu' out of some charges of fraud
made through the official medium of the
Congressional Ilecord by the Hon. Rus
sell, which the Hon. Kitchin concluded
referred to him, and which, it will be re
membered, he accordingly resented, a
few' days ago in a very energetic speech
on the floor of the house. Hon. R. M.
Arm field of the same State, lias Mr.
Kitchin’s honor in charge, and has placed
himself in communication M itli Mr. Rus
sell’s friends, with a view of arranging
their differences according to the rules of
the code, or otherwlse. It is to be hoped
that the affair will not result in staining
with blood the heather of Bladensburg.
The new company, formed to operate
the Cincinnati southern railway, organ
ized on Tuesday, under M’hat is known
the Stone franchise, elected temporary
officers and increased their capital stock
to $1,000,000, which was taken at once by
their stockholders. It is expected the
transfer from the old company to the
new r will be dehiyed but a few days long
er. Permanent organization Mill lie ef
fected when the new’ company assumes
control of the road.
THOMPSON’S
Restaurant and .Ladies’ Cafe,
(4 Whitehall St., James Block)
ATLANTA, : : : : GEORGIA.
Creat Reduction in Prices.
Meals at all Hours of tlie Day at 35 cts.
ICE CREAMS AND ALL THE DELICACIES
OF THE SEASON.
The ladies’ cafe is elegantly fitted up and is
one of the popular resorts for the ladies.
’ aprtt R. G. THOMPSON.
THE NATIONAL HOTEL,
The only lirst-blass hotel in
DALTON, GEORGIA.
Rates per day : : : : : : $2 00
Rates per week : : : : ; : 800
Rates per month : : : ; : 25 00
Large Sample Rooms for Commercial. Travel
ers. I’ostollice in the building.
■iari9 J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
DELVIOREST’S PATTERNS
For Sprimg and Summer.
TATE BEG LEAVE TO ANNOUNCE TO OUR
V V friends and customers that we have just
received our spring and summer supply of Pat
terns, and a large lot of What to Wear, Port-Fo
lioof Fashions, Journals of Fashions, Catalogues,
Cards, etc.
H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO.,
(Clavton’s old stand,)
IVest Main street,' : : Cartersville, Ga.
ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!
POMP JOHNSON,
At Lackey’s Old Stand,
WOULD respectfully inform the public that
he has thoroughly renovated the old stand
of J. R. Lackey, and litted it up in splendid style
ivhere he is prepared to serve up lee Cream
and Lemonade at all times. |fe&“Will deliver
it to all parts of the city free of charge.
ESSEX CHOICE,
4he “Old Reliable” Barber,
STILL CONTINUES THE TONSOBIAL ART.
He is now r running four chairs—three on the
east side of the square, and one over the store of
J. A. Stephens, West Main street. This latter
shop is in charge of William Johnson, an excel
lent young barber. As heretofore, Essex guar
antees satisfaction to his customers, and will
leave nothing undone to please them. Call on
ESSEX CHOICE.
H. IYI. MOUNTCASTLE & CO.,
* (Clayton’s old stand)
CARTERSVILLE, : ; : Georgia.
H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO.,
—DEALEKSIN—
Books, Music ami Stationery,
West Main St., Cartersville, Ga.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
Tiie “oentral hotel,” adairsville,
Georgia—a three-story brick building; large
yards, garden and orchard attached.
Address J. C. MARTIN,
deel9-tt Adairsville, Ga.
LITCHFIELD HOUSE,
(Ac,worth, Georgia.)
E. L. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor,
C CONVENIENT TO THE DEPOT, AND ITS
J tables supplied with the very best the mark
et affords. angß.
NEW CROQUET SETS.
We have just received, direct from the east, a
large lot of Croquet Sets, with new rules for 1879,
which we are selling cheaper than ever before
offered. __ 11. M- MOUNTCASTLE & CO.
Picture Frames and Mouldings,
At the bookstore of
H. M. Monntcastle & Cos., Cartersville, Ga.
Fancy and Plain Confectioneries
We keep constantly on hand a large lot ot
French and Stick Candies, Nuts, Raisins, etc.
Also, Crackers and Canned Goods, Teas, Starch,
Soda, Candles, Soaps and tpany other things too
numerous to mention.