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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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V t both state and Federal, except Bartow
•minty criminal court. J. M. Neel alone will
practice in said last mentioned court. Office in
northeast coiner of court house building. fcl27
JNO. 1.. MOON. DOUGLAS WIKLK.
MOON & WIKLE,
Attorneys-at-La w,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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W. T. WOI’FOEU,
attorney-at-la av,
AND—
DEALER IN REAL ESTATE,
CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
T. W. H. HARRIS,
a t t o 14 is" f: y -a. t - u a. w .
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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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.
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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
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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. |
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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
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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
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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?”
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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.