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About The free press. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1878-1883 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1879)
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.
