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HARRIS, a t t o 14 is" f: y -a. t - u a. w . CARTERSVILLE, GA. I3KACTICES IN ALL THE COURTS OF Bartow and adjoining counties, and will faithfully attend to all business entrusted to him. Office over postoffice. decs-ly R. W. MURPHEY, ATT( )14 IST PI Y-A. T - I. AA V , CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor ner of Main & Erwin streets. jmylß. J. A. BAKER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. WILL practice in all the courts of Bartow and adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to all business entrusted to liis care. Office in Bank Block over the post office. julylß. E. D. GRAHAM. A. M. FOUTE. GRAHAM & FOUTE, A T Y O 14 NE YS -A. T - L A AV. CARTERSVILLE, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Supreme Courts at Atlanta. Office west side public Square, up-stairs over W. W,. Rich ft Co’s. Store, second door south of Postoffice. july 18. T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR. MILNEIt & HARRIS, ATTO 14 JST PI YS- AT-IjA. AV , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. Jnlylß F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokely & Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. I WILL FIL j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, and put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit the times. aL warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. angls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERSVILLE, GA. WILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can he bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done by me warranted to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS. CHAS. B. WILLINCHAM, Stenographic Court Reporter. [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. | I MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, taking down the testimony entire; also, ob jections of attorneys, rulings of the court, and the charge of the court, without stopping the witness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis faction guaranteeiL^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Traveler’s GhaicLe. COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION. On and after December 16th, 1878, the following schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO LIA or ETOWAH HILL: Leave Home Tuesday 8 a in Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday .... 6am Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm Arrive at Home Thursday spm Leave Home Friday 8 a m Arrive at Gadsden Saturday Tam Arrives at Greensport 9am Arrive at Home Saturday 6pm J. m. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Snp’t. HOME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this Hoad will run as follows: DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY. Leave Rome 8:10 am Arrive at Home 12:00 in SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION. Leave Home . . . .. 5:00 pm Arrive at Home • CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Monday, April 7, 1879, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave. C’artersville 2:30 pm Stilcsboro 3:20 pm 3:25 pm Taylorsville 3:45 p m 4:05 p m Rock mart 5:00 pm GOING EAST. Rockmart 6:00 a m Taylorsville 6:50 am 7 :lo a m Stilesboro 7:20 a m 7:45 a m Cartersville 8:15 am WILLIAM MacRAE, Snp’t. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. <®*eavc Atlanta 3:00 pm Teave Gnrtersville 4:53 pm Leave Kingston •• • • • 5:19 pm Leave Dalton • 7:10 pm Arrive at Chattanooga pm NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga *>:2s p m Leave Dalton I’.Jo ra Leave Kingston 8:39 pm Leave Cartersville ~ ™ p m Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 pm DAY PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 5:?2 a,n Leave Cartersville I : 7r, Leave Kingston aV ? 5? Leave Dalton Arrive at Chattanooga DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga ® a m i.eave Dalton ™ Leave Kingston ,n!ii in Leave Cartersville JuDi a 111 Arrive at Atlanta 12 :0j p m CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP. Leave Atlanta ®‘.J® P J” Arrive at Cartersville — ! P ,u CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION —DOWN. Leave Cartersville . . . • • • • 0:05 a m Arrive at Atlanta L I T'C II F I It: L D HOUSE, (Acworth, Georgia.) E. L. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor. CONVENIENT TO THE DEPOT, AND ITS j tables supplied with the very best the mark m affords. COUCH HOUSE, (Kingston, Georgia.) fpHIS LARGE AND COM PORTABLE X House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. Ihe traveling public w ill tlml good, plain accommo dations. Parties wishing board through the summer w ill And Kingston one of the healthiest and quietest localities in Upper Georgia, three or four families can get comfortable rooms in view of trains. Terms very reasonable. jly2r>. r W. W. RAINEY. ESSEX CHOICE, The “ Old lieliahle” Barber, OTILL CONTINUES THE TONSORIAL ART. IO lie is now running four chairs—three on the east aide of the square, and one over the store oi 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 ou ESSEX CHOICE. VOLUME I. OUR STATE. What Makes Her an Independent State. By George Little, State Geologist.] Georgia’s history has been a series of brilliant victories from the day that Ogle thorpe planned Savannah, tiie beautiful city by the sea, with its broad streets and shaded squares and splendid park, to the day when Atlanta ushered in the era of peace and good will to the nation bj r her brilliant reception of the chief magistrate by her citizen soldiery and her democratic governor. Although Georgia lias given to the government territory twice her present size, from which her noble sister states, Alabama and Mississippi, have been con stituted, there remains to her an ample territory of 58,000 square miles, embrac ing more than four degrees of latitude, and nearly a mile of elevation in her mountain peaks above the level of the Atlantic on her sea-board. This large area Ims been gradually brought into use, as her population has increased from a little band of emigrants, struggling for the Indian for liberty to live, to her solid population of over 1,000,- 000 permanent citizens. Slowlv at first her growth began along the banks of the Savannah, extending 130 miles to the point where its navigation was stopped by the falls at Augusta, and here was founded a city which has utilized this seeming barrier to further progress by bringing the waters through a canal which now furnishes 14,000 horse power for factories and mills, and has enabled her citizens to construct the Georgia rail road westward, to draw the products irom the center of the state to water transportation. Savannah, meanwhile, pushed out her pioneers to the Altamaha and settled its banks and those of its tributaries, the Oconee and Ocmuigee, to Macon, where again the granite rocks and reefs interposed a barrier to further progress, and again the iron horse was called into requisition, and the Macon and Western road extended its link to meet the line already advancing from Chattanooga, the chief port on the Ten nessee, southward, around the last spurs of the Blue Ridge, at Cartetsville. The meeting point of these three main arteries of trade and propellers of popula tion was found in Atlanta, well named the Gate City, for through this point is foiiwd the great outlet of the provisions and forage and manufactures of the north west to the Atlantic coast, south of the Potomac, and here passes the diagonal of the grand parallelogram of lines of com merce, of which the great lakes and the Erie canal form one side, and the father of-Maters, the Mississippi river, forms another, while the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean complete the tigure. The next grand step in Georgia’s pro gress as a state M as taken when the Air railroad, joiniug the West Point railroad at Atlanta, was extended to Charlotte and Richmond, thus completing the shortest route from New York to New Orleans, on a line crossing that from St. Louis to Savannah, at right angles, and here, for all time to come, we have the centre of the trade of the whole of the country east of the Mississippi river. Nor lias this been man’s work, for in the carving out of this continent as a home for a large part of the human race, the Great Designer so arranged the mountain chains that nowhere along the whole line from New York to Atlanta, is there a natural and easy passage over this barrier of 3,000 feet in height, until we reach the neighborhood of Atlanta. The Appalachian mountains, which face the Atlantic Ocean, terminate as a range in Georgia. This chain divides, in Virginia, into two portions, the Blue Ridge proper, which is the water shed, sending its east ern streams to the Atlantic, and its w’est ern flowing to the Tennessee, and at a distance from their source, varying from twenty to seventy miles, cutting through the other range, called variously the Iron, Smoky and Unaka, # and in Georgia the Coliutta mountains; and in their pass age forming the wild and almost impassi ble gorges of the French Broad, Little Tennessee, lliwassee and Oconee. The Blue Ridge chain, extending from the northeast corner of the state, in Rabun county, to Grassy mountain, in Pickens, in a southwestern course, where it ap proaches the western chain, extending southward from the Coliutta, and termi nating in Fort mountain, where still may be seen fortifications erected by DeSoto and his followers as they journeyed to the Mississippi, lured on by the stories of gold which they heard from the Indian warriors. South of Fort mountain, the Pine Log mountains, Allatoona hills and Dug-Down mountains, represent the last upheavals in the continent of the two now united ranges, as they sink grad ually down to the general level of the country. . The highest point in the state is Lrass town Bald, in Towns county, almost 5,- 800 feet in height. Parallel with the Blue Kidge is a series of peaks or high ridges, about as high as the general level of the gaps of the main chain, known to travelers as Mount Yonah, in White county, (about 3,000 feet,) Skitt’s and Walker’s mountains, in Habersham, Sawnee, in Forsyth county, and Kennesaw, in-Cobb comity, only 1,- 800 feet in height. South of tins series of knobs or peaks Hom s the Chattahoochee river, with its golden sands, passing eight miles noVtli ot Atlanta, and reach in" the Alabama line near West Point. South of the river is the ridge of the same name, averaging 1,000 feet in height, ami parallel witli the I>lue alon" - which the Air-Line railroad takes its course, crossing the state from the Sa vannah to the Chattahoochee. This is the water-shed from which the Savannah, Oconee, Ocmuigee and Flint rivers run southward to the Atlantic, east of Atlanta, and to the Gulf, west of this meridian. From Atlanta the second wa ter-shed extends southward, along the line of the Macon and Western railroad to Barnesville, and thence by Vienna, in Doolv county, and thence turns southeast aionthe western side of the Okefenokee swamp and extends out in the peninsular of Florida. . ... , , The northwestern portion ot the state has a series of ridges, extending north east to southwest, called band Lookout and Pigeon mountains, and dick s, John’s and Chattooga ridges. Between these ridges are the fertile valleys of northwest Georgia. Between the Ditch chains of the Coliutta and the Blue Ridge, and bounded on the south >\ the Chattahoochee river, are the coves and well timbered slopes and valleys ot northeast Georgia. From the Chattahoochee to the border of the metamorphic rocks, on a line from Augusta to Milled gevdle, Macon lumbus, is middle Georgia, the most thickly settled and desirable I ledmont region, watered by a hundred streams ot free-stone water, which cut their way through the parallel bands ot harder rocks, granites and gneisses, atlouhng a thousand sites for mills, as they d®*®® l ‘- 700 feet in seventy miles, or an often feet of tall to the mile, and when they pass from the hard granite locks into the sand and limestones making t it THE FREE PRESS. famous falls at which cities have been built, and great cotton factories establish ed, Columbus aline having 30,000 horse power available. South of this line the immense forests of yellow pine begin and continue to the coast and Florida line, of which is ex ported annually 300 million feet, with the native wire-grass covering the soil in an almost endless carpet of green, and af fording pasturage to herds of cattle and sheep the year round. This is eminently the grazing region of the state, while the whole of it.may be successfully cultivated, as well as the middle and northern sections of the state. North Georgia is “par excellence ” the mineral region, middle Georgia excels as a manufacturing region, south Georgia has a tutu re as an agicultural region; in northwest Georgia are the coal fields, covering many square miles. Alongside of these, and bordering the limestone valleys, are the extensive bed of red fos siliferous iron ore, and here we have the fuel and the llux and the ore, side by side. On the border of the northwest and northeast sections are the inexhausti ble beds of brown hematite iron and man ganese ore, with sandstone for furnace hearths and slate for roofing, and lime for cement and basili, and yellow and red oeres for paint. Next in order to the east and south comes the copper belt, from Ducktown across the state to the Tallapoosa mines of Haralson. Then comes the marble belt of Pickens and Haralson counties. Next the gold belt, which has, for half a cen tury, been worked in a primitive way in almost every branch, and yielded rich re turns in proportion to the labor expend ed, and which now is attracting the northern capital to invest in ditches and flumes for slucing and mills for stamping the ore. Hundreds of lots along this belt have been tested and found to contain paying veins of ore, and to-day there are a dozen mills running one hundred and twenty stamps almost in sight of the old United States mint, at Dahtonega. Parallel with this gold belt wc have the great deposits of asbestos, from which, during the last month, a single individual shipped from Rabun county forty tons, valued at $2,000, and which is also work ed in White, Hall, Fulton and Troup counties. In the same section are found chromic and magnetic iron, serpentine, corundum and mica. Here also are found tourmaline, beryl, garnets, ame thyst, and even the diamond has been occasionally obtained from this favored region. In middle Georgia, besides the moun tains of granite-flnely suited tor building, which in Stone mountain makes a great dome 700 feet in height and several miles in circumference, there arc, here and there, paying mines of gold, and some good prospects for copper. In south Georgia are beds of excellent bulirstone for mill rocks and inexhausti ble beds of marl, which, in some places, are genuine greensands, and contain as high as three per cent, of potash, in beds from three to twenty feet in thickness. Muck is found in inexhaustible deposits in the Okefenokee and other marshes. The alternations of granite, limestone, clays and sandstones, crossed frequently by dykes of eruptive rocks, rich in iron and potash, give a variety and excellence of soil adapted to every demand, while the rHflfci-cneo of clCVatiOll, from sea level to nearly a mile above the sea, afford a great diversity of climate. The mean temperature of the different portions of the state ranges from 48 to 08 degrees. St. Mary’s, on the Florida line, is 08 degrees mean annual temperature; Sa vannah, 00; Columbus and Augusta, 04; Athens, GO; Atlanta, 50; Dahlonega, 52; lliwassee, 48. The diversity of climate has already turned a tide of travel from other states for the winter in Savannah, Brunswick, St. Mary’s and Thomasville, and for the summer along the Western and Atlantic railroad, to Lookout mountain and Ca toosa and Rowland springs, and on the Air-Line to Gainesville, Belton and Toc coa City, while new hotels at Lula, Mt. Airy, and improved accommodations in the lovely valley of Nacoochee, and the mountain region of Porter Springs and Canada, and the magnificent scenery of Tallulah Falls, will soon make this beau tiful country known to the world. These beautiful gifts of nature have been improved by a people characterized by industry, energy, intelligence and en terprise. To the original settlers have come con stant recruits of the best families from Virginia and the Carolinas and Tennes see, with a liberal contribution from the northern states, and these additions have been gradual, so that there has resulted a community homogeneous and harmo nious, though composed of so many ele ments. In no state in the union can he found a better illustration of the blessings of a real democratic government, such as our fathers endeavored to found when they sought a home in the western continent. Witli an absolute freedom of opinion and expression, there is combined a thorough subjection to the laws as they stand and a perfect equality in administration. The people have always held of prime im portance the subject of education, and here are found schools of every grade, and sufficient for the whole population of school age —from the university at Ath ens, liberally endowed, amply equipped and generously sustained by the legisla ture, through the denominational col leges always liberally patronized, to the graded schools of the cities and the com mon schools established in every section of the state. Female education has been especially fostered, and there are many colleges and academies in the principal towns in the state, where a full corps of teachers af ford ample instruction in literature and the arts. Every demand for the support of benevolent institutions for the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane, is prompt ly and heartily responded to by every succeeding legislature. Not less prominent is the attention paid to religious culture. All the denomina tions have their ministers sustained, and the number of churches scattered over the country is truly remarkable. These, then, are the elements which make up the material of which a state is composed. Every material resource has been granted to the people by the benevo lent Creator, and these resources have not been allow r cd to remain unused. In minerals no state has a greater variety or abundance. In manufacturing facilities no country can excel this. In agricultural products no want is unsupplied. While grateful for what w’e have for ourselves, w e are willing to have others come in with us and share the good tilings with which we are blessed. Jefferson Davis at the age of 37 and a member of congress, is picturesquely des cribed by Cel. Forney as having a hand some face, giadeful manners and erect figure, flashing eyes, and a broad white collar folded over his neck, lie w'as one of the few southern politicians who had scientific tastes. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1879. HON. W. H. FELTON. The Weak ami Miserable Fight of the Rome Courier upon a Good Man. Crawfordville Democrat.] The Rome Cnurier regales its readers, tri-weekly, with very billions criticisms on Dr. Felton. Dr. Felton voted recent ly in the house on some motion which was incidentally a party question, and his, and his vote is charged to have lieen with the Republicans, and it is said that upon the remonstrance of Mr. Stephens he changed it, and voted with the demo crats. We don’t know what the exact facts are, but taking the Courier's own account of the affair, w r e can see in his conduct nothing more than a misappre hension on his part as to the parliamen tary status of the question, or the rela tion which the question under motion bore to the main question, or that lie in nocently misunderstood the effect of his vote. Old legislators are often entrap ped by the subterfuges and snares which are often practiced under rules govern ing parliamentary bodies. And it is likely something of this kind occurred with Dr. Felton in the case referred to by the Courier, and that after Mr. Ste phens, who is the nestor of the house, and the most accomplished parliamenta rian in it, had explained to him the ef fect of his vote, lie changed it. This is what we understand to be “the head and front of his oflending.” As we have before said, what were the real facts in the case complained of, we do not know, but this much we do know, Dr. Felton is as good and true a demo crat as the editor of the Rome Courier, who is said to have made application to President Hayes for office. It seems that the Courier is unwilling to be judged by the same rule that it judges another, or it may be the old cry of “stop thief. 4 ’ In the estimation of the Courier, it was proper for Judge Lester to get all the radical votes he could—right, and a pa triotic duty for its editor to seek otflee under a republican administration; but very wrong for Dr. Felton to seek all the votes he could get, wrong for Felton to do what Lester and his partisans were doing. Now lie is held up to public exe cration for changing a vote he east with the republicans, a£ the remonstrance ! of Mr. Stephens. We will venture the assertion, that if the editor of the Courier had succeeded in getting the Rome post-otliee, Mr. Ste phens might remonstrate with all the eloquence and earnestness of his nature, and he never could get the Courier man to say one word against llayes or the radical party; office would have a very soothing effect upon him. It would have rounded the rough edges of nis temper, and have sweetened his disposition every way: but things are now viewed by him through different optics. We are no apologists of Dr. Felton ahd we believe in an organized party, when organized for the maintenance of princi ples and for the support of able and hon est men to carry them out; but when what is called the organization of the party falls under the corrupt manipula tion of ringsters, w hose sole objects are places and spoils, and who use its great principles as a delusive catch word for power and pelf, we are ready to repudi ate it as a fraud. Dr. Felton is in con gress, working side by side with the Georgia delegation, And doing all in his [JUVVCr IU relieve tile oountry o£ tlio op pressive burthens the republicans and money rings of the north have imposed upon it. He was sent there by as good and true democrats as ever lived —men who were not otliee seekers under a radi cal president—men who don’t make pol itics a trade and principle a traffic—men who do not regard the government of their country as an estate held in trust for office holders; hut men who w r ere ac tuated by patriotic impulses—men w r ho live by their daily toil and the sweat of their faces —men who have suffered by misrule, and have no other objects but the welfare and happiness of their coun try. Dr. Felton is a man of broad and pa triotic views, and Ills course in congress has been honorable, as it has been bril liant. lie has done nothing to merit censure, nothing that his district or his state can be ashamed of. Ilis record stands as that of a true democrat. All such little perile assaults as the Rome Courier is now making on Dr. Felton, who is in Washington nobly bat tling for the maintenance of democratic principles and honest government, will effect him about as much as the gnawing of the file by the foolish serpent. It is just such groundless assaults (as these which have won for him friends not only at home, but all over the state. The people of Dr. Felton’s district are not dolts that they can be gulled by such llings as these, and the people through out the. state understand the motives which impel them quite as well as their authors do. As long as Dr. Felton is willing to act with the democratic party, even under compulsion of Mr. Stephens, we say let him alone, and do not try to impair his influence and drive him from us; for lie is doing, even then, better than Holding olliee under a radical administration, and as long as he is amenable to democratic remonstrances he is doing quite as well as some who are more blatant in their professions of democracy, and very weak in its We have said more than M r e intended to say on this subject, and perhaps more than w r e ought to have said; for the Courier is really engaged in a harmless work, and should not be crossed “in the even tenor of its way.” The weather is getting hot—business is dull—the occupation of abusing Felton is a pleasant pastime, and the Courier might othenvise be doing some real mis chief. Three romantic Kentucky girfs have Hit upon a better method of securing hus bands than by advertising or through “matrimonial agencies.” They lived on the banks of the Ohio river, some distance above Louisville, and it occurred to them one fine day that it would be a good piece of fun for each to write her full name and address On a slip of paper, saying she Mould marry the person who found it, and enclose the notice in a bottle and throw it into the river. They carried their project out, and marked the wisdom of the girls in the medium selected to float their missives down the river. They did not choose oyster cans or cheese box es, but bottles, feeling sure the latter would be picked up and opened, when other small objects alloat would be let alone. The sequel proves they Mere right. One of the girls was married re cently to the man Mho found her bottle far down the river, the second is engaged to him who found hers at Natchez, or Grand Gulf, and the third is in corres pondence with the finder of hers, Mho also lives a great distance from the point where the bottles Mere launched. It ought to be possible to reconcile the existing differences in the senate finance committee without lugging the dissen sion before tiie country. The paramount duty of all democrais at this juncture is concert of action. UNANIMOUSLY DEMOCRATIC. That is What the United States Senate Was a Few Days Ago. New York Times.] Yesterday the senate was unanimous ly democratic. This is how it happened: The democratic sergeant at arms, having seen that the doors M ere open, that the deputy sergeant at arms M as in his place, and that the snuff-box on the desk of the president of the senate was duly filled with snufi, as prescribed by the constitu tion of the United States, went calmly to sleep in the northwest corner of tiie sen ate chamber. The democratic secretary of the senate Mas smoking a cob pipe in liis office, and talking polities with Sena tor McDonald, of Indiana, who chews to bacco like a Kentucky giant. The demo cratic clerks M ere in their places, and the chief clerk, also democratic, Mas reflect ing on the loss of liis month’s salary the night before in a little friendly game of poker, when the democratic senator from Ohio, temporary president of the senate, came into the senate chamber, and, look ing at the clock, said, “The senate will please come to order.” Mr. Thurman is nothing if not polite. Mr. B. F. Wade, m hen he was president of the senate, used to say, “The senate will come to order,” and it,did .not make any differ ence to him whether the senate pleased or not. Following Mr. Thurman was the democratic chaplain of the senate, a mild mannered man, who invokes the Divine blessing at the rate of $5 per day, Sundays not included, Here, then, Avas a full corps of demo cratic olfieers, but not one senator, demo cratic or otherwise. Every desk was empty. The sergeant at arms snoozed comfortably in his northwest corner; the secretary smoked his cob pipe and talked polities in his otliee, and the chaplain glanced reproachfully over the empty senftte, while the chief clerk remorsefully thought how much better he could have pla/ed his hand if he had “called” soon er, when the temporary president of the senate tapped his gavel on the desk and sternly commanded silence. It was an impressive scene, and the democratic chaplain got up to invoke the Divine blessing on the' empty desks, at the rate of $5 per day, Sundays not included. The present chaplain is not of the com municative and confidential sort of chap lain, M’ho, during the late war, used to inform the Lord every morning just how matters stood in tiie field, according to the latest dispatches. The democratic chaplain is great on peace, and he pours oil on the troubled waters every morn ing, his chief petition being one for the restoration of friendly feeling, when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and the democratic majority shall be so big that it will not be necessary to call any more witnesses for Mr. Spofford, of Louisiana. So the chaplain prayed loud and long, hoping that somebody would come in, meantime, so that his devotional eloquence should not be wasted on Mr. Thurman, the poker-playing chief clerk and the slumbering sergeant at arms. When tiie chaplain had prayed down to “the judiciary of the republic and all in authority,” Senator Hill, of Georgia, stole into the chomber, whereupon the chaplain, seeing that the senate was unanimously democratic, (liis left eye being open) said “amen” with unction, and M'cnt out and drew his $5 with a ilianhful liorti'fci Senator Thurman, president of tiie senate, pro tempore, now pulled himself together, and glancing at the solitary oc cupant of the senatorial benches, sternly said: “The senator from Georgia will now come to order, and the secretary will read the journal of yesterday’s proceed ings.” With complete gravity the chief clerk, temporarily waiving consideration of his poker hand, read the previous day’s proceedings at Senator Hill, occasionally glancing at that inconsistent secessionist as if to see how he liked being a unani mously democratic senate, Senator Hill evidently enjoyed it. He listened with calm approval to the reading of the jour nal; and when, at the close, tiie presi dent pro tempore blandly remarked, “Un less objection is made the journal will stand approved as read,” the senator from Georgia made no objection, and tiie journal tv as approved as read, and the drumming and the droning of the daily business went right on as though the chamber was full of senators. LAGER BEER IN THE UNITED STATES. Twenty-five years ago whisky was our national beverage, and the amount of beer consumed in this country was ex ceedingly small. There has been an as tounding increase in the manufacture and consumption of beer, which but for the statistics presented by the national brewers convention at St. Louis, Mould seem incredulous. The amount of beer now produced annually is ten million barrels, or nearly tM - o kegs to every man, M'oman and child in die country. Of this the state of New York brews about one-third, Pennsylvania and Ohio come next, with other northern and'western states following, the southern states be ing the smallest producers. Beer and ale are gradually supplanting whisky, and it is a great gain for sobrie ty. It is an admitted fact that the ma jority of men drink, and if men M T ill drink let it be beer by all means. It is a hopeful movement towards temperance, when beverages lightly charged with al cohol are substituted for those of which alcohol is the main substitute, though the temperance reformers and advocates have not helped it along, they have waged as hitter war against beer as whisky, but in the face of all this, the improvements in the manufacture of beer have been taking place until the taste of the people lias been won to pre fer this beverage. The following is the text of the trade dollar bill as it passed the house: Be it enacted, etc., That the secretary of the treasury shall cause to be exchang ed at the treasury and at all sub-treasur ies of the United States legal-tender sil ver dollars for trade dollars at par, pro vided the weight of said trade dollars has not been reduced below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law T for the single piece, and shall re coin said trade dollars into legal tender dollars as now' provided by law, and shall stop the further coinage of trade dollars, (provided that the trade dollars recoined under this act shall not be count ed as part of the silver coinage provided for by the act of February 15, IS7B, and provided that the trade dollars that have been chopped or restamped for circula tion in foreign countries shall be exclud ed from the provisions of this act. Tiie Italian authorities and public are awakening to tiie necessity of taking steps to ameliorate the sanitary condition of Rome, where (the death rate is from thirty-five to thirty-six in the one thous and to twenty-two in London. Such a course is rendered the more imperative by the grow ing population. In 1874 it was 248,000; now it is 270,000. LAMAR AND CONKLING. New York Associated Tress Report.] Washington, June 19.—The monoto ny of filibustering proceedings and the repeated roll calls was broken at 11:30 this morning by an exciting personal controversy between Senators Conkliug and Lamar. Mr. Conkling charged the other side with bad faith in not allowing a part of the time taken up bj' the Mississippi riv er commission bill to be given to the de bate on the army bill. Mr. Lamar rose at the conclusion of Mr. Conkling’s remarks and said that so far as any intimation of bad faith to him was concerned, he nad lived in vain if he was not superior tosueh a charge from such a source. “It is not my purpose,” he said, “to indulge in personalities, but 1 will say to the senator if he intended to intimate that anything that l have done was not in good faith, I pronounce his statement a falsehood, which I repel with all the unmitigated contempt that I feel for the author of it.” Mr. Conkling, who had been walking slowly back and forth behind the bench es, advanced to his seat, and said, “Mr. President, if I understood the member aright he intended to impute, and did in plain and unparliamentary language im pute to me ah infentinal misstatement. [Pausing.] ' The Senator does not dis claim that. Mr. Lamar—“l will state what I in tended sir, so there can be no mistake.” The presiding officer, (Mr. Cockrell), called Mr. Lamar to order, and Mr. Conkling proceeded : “Whether lam will ing to respond to the member from M issis sippi depends entirely upon what that member intends to say, and what he did say, and for the time being I do not choose to hold any communication with him. I understood the senator to state in plain, unparliamentary language, that the statement of mine,. to which he refers, was a falsehood. If I caught his words aright, I have only to say that this not being the place to measure with any man his capacity to violate decency, to violate the rules of the senate or to com mit any of the improprieties of life, 1 have only to say that if the senator —the member from Mississippi—did impute or intend to impute to me a falsehood, noth ing-except the fact that this is the senate would prevent my denouncing him as a blackguard and a coward. [Applause and hisses.] Let me be more specific, Mr. President. Should the member from Mississippi, except in the presence of the senate, charge me by intimation or oth erwise, I would denounce him as a black guard, as a coward, and as a liar. The rules and proprieties of the senate are the only restraint upon me. Ido not think I need say anything else. Mr. President—[Applause and hisses.] The chair demanded quiet in the gal leries. Mr. Lamar—“l have only to say that the senator from New York understood mo correctly. I did mean to say just precisely the words and all that they im ported. I beg pardon of the senate for unparliamentary language. It was very harsh. It was severe. It was such as no good man would deserve and no brave man would bear.” [Renewed demon strations of approval and disapproval.] DEATH OF KEV. ARMINIUS WRIGHT. Wednesday morning at 9:30 o’clock Kev. Arminius Wright, one of the ablest and most popular ministers ill the South Georgia conference, died at his home in Columbus, Ga. He was pastor of the First Methodist church of this city in 1572, and was the father of Mrs. John Collier, jr., and Mrs. W. B. Bonnell, of this city. The Columbus Enquirer gives this notice of his death : We are pained to have to chronicle the death of tliis good man and able minister of the gospel. It was unexpected to his friends, as he had been for a long time in very feeble health. A] violent attack of sickness hastened the end, and on yester day morning at 9 :30 o’clock, surrounded by his devoted family and intimate friends, he calmly, peacefully breathed his last. Mr. Wright was a prominent and successful minister in the M. E. church, south. lie was about 52 years of age, and was born and raised in Jones county, Ga.; commenced preaching when he was 17 years old. He leaves a wife and eight children, four of whom are young; the remaining ones are grown. During a pastorate of thirty years he served many of the most impor tant charges in the Georgia conferences. He was identified with our city, bating been pastor of St. Paul during 1801 and 1802, and again in 1872-’73 and 1874, and having made this his home for several years past, Columbus loses a good citizen and the church a bright light. We ten der to the stricken family our sincere sympathies. The funeral takes place from St. Paul church at 4 o’clock this af ternoon. —Atlanta Constitution , 20th. But yester noon, streight from some river town, there came a man to Burling ton, who steiglitway sought on Water street the scenes of rude illjangled merri ment, and happy joined the wanton dance, led by the jocund flute and game some pipe. “What ho!” exclaimed the ritde, unlettered hind, unto the wassal iers that flocked him round. “Whatho,” he cried, “I am the thief! I am the howl ing tempest of the wilde desert! Him who vvuld deth eschew, let him flee before my wrath, for I hit the side of a mountain ef so be it bucks at me. Lo, I hunger for a black and angry eye!” Thus with swilled insolence the man he lift his voice in clamorous wise, and then, eft soons with naked and forbydding lists, they piled into the man by thousands. Whenas he left the town at nyght, he had upon his humbled and subdued per son so many black eyes that he reasoned within himself that he would start an eclipse shop, and sell partial or total eclipse shop, and sell partial or total eclipses to pycnyc parties, for sun or moon, in quantities to suit ye purchaser. The latest London silver quotations are 52% pence per ounce for silver 925 parts in 1,000 fine, which makes the mere bul lion value of the American standard dol lar 90 cents. But in London our stand ard silver dollar is worth 100 cents in gold. The reason is, that, being a legal tender in the United States, the English merchants can purchase American pro duce, cotton or other products with it, the same as with gold. Our legal tender silver dollars are taken at their face val ue in every civilized nation of the world with which we trade, and yet John Sher man refuses to pay them out to office holders or public creditors, for what rea son he has never explained. The Washington Post pointedly asks: “Are the democratic members of con gress willing to adjourn without making at least one honest effort to put a fair and equitable income tax bill upon its pas sage ? Or is it their belief that onlv the poor and the provident classes should pay the taxes of the nation, while the Vanderbilts, Keenes, Sages and Scotts reap the benefit and go comparatively free?” rates of advertising. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of One IX>llar per inch for the first insertion, and Tift}- Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. Space. 1 mo. 3 mos. 6. mos. 1 year. One inch, $2 50 $6 00 $7 60 $lO 00 Two inches, 375 750 12 50 IS 00 Three inches, 500 10 00 17 50 j 25 00 Four inches, 025 12 50 22 50 | 32 00 Fourth column 750 15 00 25 00 40 00 Half column, 15 00 _25 00 40 00 00 00 One column, 20 00 40 00 (X) 00 100 K> NUMBER 50. COTTON GAMBLING. Memphis Appeal.] The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution calls at tention to the large amount of “futures” selling in the cotton market ol the pres ent time, and to the vast profits coming from the advanced price of cotton. It then shows that the mere speculators pocket the heavy gains, not the toiling agriculturists that grow the cotton. On this basis it proceeds to say: “It may he well for planters to remember that if they are in a position to hold their crops dur ing the months of September, October and November, they have absolute con trol of the market, and it may happen that all this gambling which has been going on may resull in high prices and profitable markets. If the gold men have really turned their attention to cotton speculation, as seems evident, the only substantial thing about the whole busi ness will be the cool and conservative farmer, who is able to hold cotton to such time as may be to his interest to place it upon the market.” The Constitution fails to notice that, w hen the cotton is grown and baled for market, he who holds it from sale to await some expected contingency, becomes himself a specula tor, whether the cotton he is speculative ly keeping in his gin-house was grown by himself or another, makes no Oifler ence. If farmers choose to keep their cotton out of market until Christmas, the prices will be high until that date, but if they put it on the market at new' year, then prices will go down. In fact, it would be postponing the beginning of fhe cotton season from Sept. 1 to Jan. 1, that would be all. If the grow er desires to speculate in cotton, which lie has as much right to do as others—though w e think lie would not be acting wis dom—it would be a blundering plan to do so by keeping his cotton in the gin house, subject to tire and other possibili ties. If he thinks cotton will go up let him sell his crop, and so be clear of acci dents as far as that is concerned, then buy futures, putting up the regular mar gin and retaining the mass of the money his crop brought him. Should the ex pected advance come, he has but to sell out his futures and pocket his profits. Should cotton decline instead of ad vancing, by selling the cotton held when the turn in the market arrives, any se rious loss may possibly he avoided. The advance of cotton with the advance of the season may possibly, therefore, be an argument for buying futures, but it is no reason of itself for holding cotton oil'the market. “BILL ARP” AT WINCHESTER, TEN NESSEE. Nlaj. Chas. 11. Smith, better known as ‘Mlill Arp,” lectured at the Winchester Normal last Thursday night. The capa cious chapel (which was freely allowed by the good officers of the Normal,) was not filled to its ordinary seating capacity by at least seventy-five per cent. Nev ertheless there was a large audience, if we consider the brief notice given our people. We are sure it was intelligent and refined to a more than ordinary de gree. After the famous humorist had been briefly introduced by the writer, be read bis lecture on “Society.” And if our opinion is worth anything it can be found in the following comment which xm t* ko from Dr. White, of the Leho>>“’> Herald , whn,c- P okiug ui Rill Arp’s lecture in his town says: “Those who expected something on the “Josh Bil lings” style—a series of broad comicali ties and an hour of roaring fun—were disappointed. Instead, they heard a quiet essay on the fashions and foibles of modern society—a fabric of sound sense, through which ran a continuous thread of delicious humor, with here and there a touch of the tenderest pathos. The lecture, as a whole, was a literary en tertainment of the delightfidlest sort.” And we say, tod, that it was a delight ful lecture. If the lecturer would or could raise his. voice a little higher, so that all could hear; and if he would not “drop” his voice too low where his au dience is waiting for “the point,” ’twould be better. For, he has high tame, and justlj 7 , too, as a writer; and there will be high expectations wherever he may go. But there are certain per sons in all audiences (just as we find al loy in metals) whose capacities for ap preciation of high-toned, genuine, unal loyed wit mingled with truth and philos ophy, are so dull as to lead a lecturer to rather have their censure than their praise. We hope Major Arp will come to see us again. —Rome Journal. The specie movement from this coun try abroad since the Ist of June is the most important event in financial circles. In the first five months of the year the shipment of gold were only $373,000, against nearly $5,000,000 in the previous year, though the shipments of silver in the same period had increased about $4,- 000,000. Since the first of June the spe cie exports were $1,600,000 in gold and $600,000 in silver for the same time in the year 1878. Air hough the gold exports in June have been large, the amount ex ported since January 1 is only $1,900,- 000, against $5,000,000 in 1878, and the silver exports were $8,850,000 against $3,500,000, *in the previous year. The exi>orts of gold are in part balanced by gold imports, though they are smaller up to this time than in 1878. The exports of gold in the whole of last year wereexcep tionably small. Cincinnati, June 10.—A special from Morristown, Tennessee, says the most extraordinary elopement ever known oc curred in that vicinity. Levi Manzey was a married man. He sold his sheep to get money to elope with Charlotte Vandegriff, aged sixteen, and employed Elijah Lawson, who was also married, to lay his plans. Mrs. Manzey discov ered the plot and stole her husband’s sheep money, and slipped out with Thomas Vandegrifl', brother to Char lotte. Elijah Lawson, who had maneuvered for Manzey became enamored of Char lotte himself and eloped with her at the same time her brother and Mi’s. Manzey tied. The only one left out is Levi Man zey, the prime mover, who is left with out wife, sweetheart or money. “What made you quit the east?” asked a man in Nevada to a newcomer. “ 1 got into trouble by marrying two wives,” was the response. “Well,” said the other, “I came here because I got into trouble mar rying only one wife.” „“And I,” added a bystander, “came here because 1 got in to trouble simply by promising to marry one.” The Dallas Herald says: “Wo have three per cent, more acreage in cotton in Texas this year than last. But the crop does not begin to look as well as it did last June, and it is not likely as much will be picked unless we have rain pretty soon all over the state, Germany proposes a tariff on foreign musical instruments. Perhaps the war between the pianos has reached that country.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The free press. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1878-1883, June 26, 1879, Image 1