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YY both State and Federal, except Bartow
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practice in said last mentioned court. Office in
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Attorneys-at-Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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—AND—
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CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
PRACTICES IN ALL THE COURTS OF
Bartow and adjoining counties, aud will
faithfully attend to all business entrusted to him.
Office over postofflce. decs-ly
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i
ATTORNEY-AT - Ij a w ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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ner of Mam & Erwin streets. julylß.
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ATTORNEY-A T-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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VV ami adjoining counties. Prompt atten
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ATTO RNEYS-AT-LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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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, <jr do any work in my line
at prices to suit the times.
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augls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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YY Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, aud will sell them as cheap as they cau
he l)ouglit anywhere. Warranted to prove as
represented. All work done by me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS.
CHAS. B. WILLINGHAM,
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
ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis
faction guaranteed.
Traveler’s Gruide.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION. ~
On and after December 16th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday Sam
Arrive at Gadsden YVednesday ...,6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday 6 pm
Leave Rome Friday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am
Arrives at Greensport 9am
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm
J. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup f t.
ROME RAILROAD -COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June Brd, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN—EVERYDAY.
Leave Rome 8:10am
Arrive at Rome 12:00 m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Rome 5:00 pm
Arrive at Rome 8:00 p m
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, April 7, 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave.
Cartersville 2:30 pm
Stilesboro 3:20 p m 3:25 p m
Taylorsville 3:45 pm 4:05 pm
Rockmart 5:00 pm
GOING EAST.
Rockmart 6:00 am
Taylorsville 0:50 am 7:15 am
Stilesboro 7:20 am 7:15 am
Cartersville 8:15 am
WILLIAM MacRAE, Sup’t.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The follow ing is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:53 p m
Leave Kingston 5:19 pm
Leave Dalton 7:10 p m
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm
Leave Dalton 7:Mipm
Leave Kingston ......... 8:39 p m
Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:20 am
Leave Cartersville 7:23 a m
Leave Kingston 7:49 a m
Leave Dalion 9:21 a m
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DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 6:15 am
Leave Dalton 8:10 a m
Leave Kingston 9:43 am
Leave Cartersville 10:11 a in
Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta 6:10 pm
Arrive at Cartersville * 7:22 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN.
Leave Cartersville 6:05 am
Arrive at Atlanta 8:45 am
LITCHFIELD HOUSE,
(Acworth, Georgia.)
E. L. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor.
C CONVENIENT TC THE DEPOT, AND ITS
j tables supplied with the very best the mark
et affords. augß.
COUCH HOUSE,
(Kingston, Georgia.)
This large and comfortable
House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. The
traveling public will find good, plain accommo
dations. Parties wishing board through the
summer will find Kingston one of the healthiest
aud quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three
or four families can get comfortable rooms in
view of trains. Terms very reasonable.
jlvlJL W. W. RAINEY.
VOLUME J.
“PA TEXT OUTSIDE ” NE WSPA PERS.
The Tennessee press association, at its
recent annual meeting at Gallatin, de
nounced the publishers of ‘ patent out
side” newspapers as inimical to the in
terests of both advertisers and publishers.
While we feel no disposition to denounce
our contemporaries who use these “pat
ent outsides,” we do not hesitate to con
demn the system 11 as one of the greatest
injuries to the newspaper business, how
ever honest our contemporaries may be
in their belief that they are justified in
the use of such material. That our read
ers, generally, may understand what the
term “patent outside” means, we will
state that the first and fourth pages of
these papers are edited and printed at
Memphis, or elsew T here, and sent to the
publishers, who edits, prints and pub
lishes the second and third pages, giving
to their readers from four to eight col
umns of reading matter of their own
make-up.
The editors of such papers have no
knowledge as to what kind of matter is
to go in their papers on the “patent out
sides” until it is sent to them. They
have no control over the selection of two
tliirds of their reading matter. It is pre
pared for them by an editor hundreds of
miles away, who can have no just idea of
the needs of the local public where the
paper is ostensibly published. The os
tensible editor is scarcely responsible for
what appears in two-thirds of his paper,
because it is prepared for him by others
hundreds of miles away.
The “patent outside” system has
sprung into life hundreds of papers at
places unable to sustain the least re
spectable journalism. It has flooded the
country with so-called newspapers to the
detriment of legitimate journalism, the
expenses of which are yearly increas
ing in order to meet the demand for
newspaper reading. It is true that, as a
general thing, “patent outside” newspa
pers have but limited circulation, but
enough, however, to injure the newspa
per business in its legitimate work. In
most cases such papers are published in
communities where there is little or no
demand,lor a newspaper for the reason
that the patronage is not sufficient to sus
tain them if legitimately conducted—
edited, printed and published at home.
As we have said, this species of jour
nalism is detrimental to legitimate news
paper labor at home. No first-class pa
per can employ the “patent outside” sys
tem for the reason that the home adver
tisements would crowd out everything
upon the inside and leave no room for
home news and the full discussion of
public affairs in the state or the country.
We hope to see all of our confreres of
the press dispense with the “patent out
side” business, and give their papers
more of liome-like appearance and a dis
play of home talent.
Let it be known that we have not made
a martyr of the editor of the Rome Cou
rier for “exposing Dr. Felton’s affilia
tion with radicals.” The editor is not
good material to make a martyr of. We
don’t abuse the editor. His ignorance of
current political events forbids such
cruelty on our part. The editor of the
Courier isn’t the man to go to the stake.
He is an object of pity for his political
ignorance. We let him alone in pity,
for the reason that the Tribune has skin
ned him sufficiently.
The Augusta News says “the quin
tessence of cheek is exhibited by the edi
tor of the Rome Cornier when he gladly
‘welcomes’ Mr. Stephens back into the
democratic Welcomes, indeed!
Why, Little Alec has more genuine, true
democracy in one joint of his emaciated
little finger than the Rome editor ever
dreamed of in his life. He don’t know
what democracy is, from the style of his
editorials.” That is just about the opin
ion of every intelligent democrat in the
state.
Why don’t the Rome Courier howl
about Senator Gordon’s desertion of his
post at a most critical time of the most
vital interests of the country? But re
cently returned from a jamboree to West
Point, we now hear he is in Mississippi
attending an exhibition of a female acade
my Yvith Senator Lamar. If it was Dr.
Felton the Courier would throw oft fifty
thousand cubic inches of sour-beleli.
Courier , why don’t you belch ?
The Tennessee press association met at
Gallatin recently. The chief feature was
a discussion of the report of the commit
tee following the establishment of a
southern advertising agency. It con
demned in strong terms the monopolies
of existing agencies, and denounced the
publishers of “patent outsides” as inimi
cal to the interests of both advertisers and
publishers. The report was unanimous
ly adopted.
The editor of the Rome Courier says he
made no application to Ilayes for the
Rome postoflice, but that he did whisper
to Postmaster-General Key that he would
accept it. Well, the editor of the Courier
is coolly modest in asking favors from a
slack-wad democrat who holds his posi
tion under a fraudulent radical president.
The editor of the Courier is a poor demo
crat.
The fact is we don’t believe the editor
of the Rome Courier is a sound
democrat. That application lor the
Rome postoffice under a radical adminis
tration somewhat sustains us in that be
lief.
The Rome Tribune has literally sawed
the Courier to pieces. of the
Tribune is a rip-saivyer.
Poke it to him, Sawyer! His skin is
thick, and his conscience (politically)
lies deep beneath it.
THE FREE PRESS.
ARKANSAS LETTER.
Buffalo Lick,
Poinsett Cos., Ark, June 16, 1879.
To The Free Press:
Through the kindness of a gentleman
traveling in this country, a citizen of
your county, I presume I am indebted for
two or three numbers of your valuable
paper, The Free Press. I was glad to
receive them and then also the name
pleases me “tied down to no sect or
clique,” I took as the definition. I was
through your county once and was in
formed by a gentleman that it was named
for the gallant Col. Bartow. I heard the
history briefly of that noble soldier and
felt almost as though I was treading on
sacred soil. Peace to his ashes; his
memory will he honored by all the noble
of earth.
With your permission I would be glad
to say a few words to those desiring to
immigrate west. You are crowded and
we need immigration. We’ve a good
country, good water and plenty of it, as
fine land as ever was I reckon; timber in
superabundance and of the best known.
Poplar, hickory, dogwood, ash, walnut,
cypress, pine and almost any kind that
grows in this latitude; finest timber for
sawing, and only one mill in the county;
poll only about 450 votes all told, and we
need immigration. We want hard-work
ing, honest, upright men —men that mean
business. Young men, come and grow
up with the country —old men, come and
help us build up the country. You can
have homes for almost nothing. We’ve
bottom lands, we’ve broken lands, hilly
or level, spring water or well as you
chose. You can live on “mountains
high or valleys low.” We want men
that desire the building up of the coun
try, schools, churches, etc.
We’ve the best prospect for crops this
year we have had for many years. Corn
and pork will be cheap and there will be
plenty of it. We can make with good
cultivation from 40 to 75 bushels of corn
per acre, cotton from half bale to bale,
wheat this year about 15 bushels per acre,
oats 30 or 40 bushels. Clover grows fine
and all the grasses. This is a good stock
country, cows worth from $lO to .sl2 with
calves. Those in your county desiring
to immigrate west I do not think they
could better their travel than to come and
cast their lot with us. Good lands can
bo bought for sl, $2, and $3 per acre and
as much time on it as you want.
Those desiring any further information
can get it by writing and enclosing
stamped envelope, to Dr. T. 11. Jones,
clerk of the county, or Foster Freeman,
Esq., proprieteor Harrisburg Tribune, J.
Logan Smith, ex-sheriff of county, or
Bev. J. H. Allen, Buffalo Lick. In
writing to Dr. Jones or Mr. Freeman or
Col. Smith, address them at Harrisburg,
Poinsett county, Ark. J. H. A.
JEFF. DAVIS’ SHACKLES.
How the Confederate President Was Put
in Chains.
Charleston News, January 30,1366.]
On the morning of the 23rd of May,
bitter trial was in store for the proud
spirit—a trial severer, probably, than lias
ever in modern times been inflicted upon
any one who had enjoyed such emi
nence. This morning Jefferson Davis
was shackled.
It was while all the swarming camps of
the armies of the Potomac, the Tennes
see and Georgia—over two hundred
thousand bronzed and laureled veterans
—were repairing for the grand review of
the next morning, in which, passing in
endless succession before the mansion of
the president, the conquering military
power of the nation was to lav down its
arms at the feet of the civil authority,
that the following scene was enacted at
Fort Monroe:
Capt. Jerome E. Titlow, of the third
Pennsylvania artillery, entered the pris
oner’s cell, followed by the blacksmith
of the fort and his assistant, the latter
carrying in his hands some heavy and
harshly rattling shackles. As they en
tered, Mr. Davis was reclining on his
bed, feverish and Yveary, after a sleepless
night, the food placed near him the pre
ceding day untouched on his tin plate
near his bedside.
“Well?” said Mr. Davis as they enter
ed, slightly raising his head.
“1 have an unpleasant duty to per
form, sir,” said Captain Titlow; and as
he spoke the senior blacksmith took the
shackles from his assistant.
Davis leaped instantly from his recum
bent attitude, a flush passing over his
face for a moment, and then his counte
nance growing as rigid and livid as
death.
He gasped for breath, clutching nis
throat Yvit h the thin fingers of his right
hand, and then recovering himself slow
ly, while his Yvasted figure towered up
to its full height —now r appearing to swell
with indignation and then to shrink with
terror, as he glanced from the Captain’s
face to the shackles —he said slowly and
with a laboring chest:
“My God ! You cannot have been sent
to iron me?”
“Such are my orders, sir,” replied the
officer, beckoning the blacksmith to ap
proach, who stepped forward, unlocking
the padlock and preparing the fetters to
do their office. These fetters were of
heavy iron, probably five-eights of an
inch in thickness, and connected togeth
er by a chain of like weight, I believe
they are now' in the possession of Major-
General Miles, and will form an interest
ing relic.
“This is too monstrous,” groaned the
prisoner, glaring hurriedly around the
room, as if for some weapon, or means of
self-destruction. “I demand, Captain,
that you let me see the commanding offi
cer. " Can he pretend that such shackles
are required to secure the safe custody of
a YY r eak old man, so guarded and in such
a fort as this?”
“It Yvould serve to no purpose,” re
plied Captain Titlow. “His orders are
from Washington, as mine are from
him.”
“But he can telegraph,” interposed
Mr. Davis, eagerly, “there must be some
mistake. No such outrage as you threat
en me with is on record in the history of
nations. Beg him to telegraph, and de
lay until he ans\Y r ers.”
“My orders are peremptory,” said the
officer, “and admit of no delay. For
your own sake, let me advise you to sub
mit with patience. Asa soldier, Mr. Da
vis, you know I must execute orders.”
“These are not orders fora soldier,”
shouted the prisoner, lOßing all control of
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1879.
himself. “They are orders for a jailor—
for a hangman, which no soldier wearing
a sword should accept! I tell you the
world will ring with this disgrace. The
war is over; the south is conquered; I
have no longer any country but Ameri
ca, and it is for the honor of America, as
for my own honor and life, that I plead
against this degredation. Kill me! kill
me !” he cried passionately, throwing his
arms wide open and exposing his breast,
“rather than inflict on me and my peo
ple through me this insult, worse than
death.”
“Do your duty, blacksmith,” said the
officer, walking toward the embrasure as
if not caring to witness the performance,
“it only gives increased pain on all sides
to protract this interview.”
At these words the blacksmith ad
vanced with the shackles, and seeing that
the prisoner had one foot upon the chair
near his bedside, his right hand resting
on the back of it, the brawny mechanic
made an attempt to slip one of the
shackles over the ankle so raised; but as
if the vehemence and power which fren
zy alone can impart, even to the weak
est individual, Mr. Davis suddenly seiz
ed his assailant and hurled him half way
across the room.
On this Captain Titlovv turned, and,
seeing that Davis had backed against the
wall for further resistance, began to re
monstrate, pointing out in brief, clear
language that this course was madness,
and that orders must be enforced at any
cost. “Why compel me,” he added, “to
add the further indignity of personal vio
lence to the necessity of your being
ironed.”
“I am a prisoner of war,” fiercely re
torted Mr. Davis. “I have been a sol
dier in the armies of America, and know
how to die. Only kill me, and my last
breath shall be a blessing on your head.
But while I have life and strength to re
sist, for myself and for my people, this
thing shall not be done.”
Hereupon Captain Titlow called in a
sergeant and tile of soldiers from the next
room, and the sergeant advanced to seize
the prisoner. Immediately Mr. Davis
flew on him and seized his musket and
attempted to wrench it from his grasp.
Of course such a scene could have but
one issue. There was a short, passionate
scuttle. In a moment Davis was flung
upon his bed, and before his four power
ful assailants removed their hands from
him the blacksmith and his assistant had
done their work —one securing the rivet
on the right ankle while the other turn
ed the key in the padlock on the left.
This done, Mr. Davis lay for a mo
ment as if in a stupor. Then slowly
raising himself and turning round, he
dropped his shackled feet to the floor.
The harsh clank of the striking chain
seems first to have recalled him to his
situation, and dropping his face into his
hands, he burst into a passionate flood of
sobbing, rocking to and fro, and mutter
ing at brief intervals: “Oh, the shame!
the shame!”
It may be here stated, though out of its
due order—that we may get rid in haste
of an unpleasant subject—Mr. Davis
some mouths later, when frequent visits
had made him more free to converse,
gave a curious explanation of the last
feature in this incident.
He had been speaking of suicide, and
denounced it as the worst form of cow
ardice and folly. “Life is not like a com
mission that we can resign when dis
gusted with the service. Taking it by
your own hand is a confession of judg
ment to all that your worst enemies can
allege. It is often flashed against me as
a tempting remedy for neuralgic torture;
but thank God I never sought my own
death but once, and then when complete
ly frenzied and not master of ray actions.
When they came to iron me that day, as
a last resource of desperation, I seized a
soldier’s musket and attempted to wrench
it from his hands, hoping that in the
scuffle and surprise some of his comrades
would shoot or bayonet me.”
“8110. GARDNER” ON THE EXODUS.
Detroit Free Press.]
“I Yvar called upon las’ nite by a stran
ger from Mississippi,” began President
Gardner as he got his coat-tails behind
him. “He came knockin’ at de doah at
at late hour, an’ I war routed outer bed
to listen to de tale of hoYV be Yvar a stran
ger in a strange land, out of money, an’
up heah in search of liberty. He Yvent
on to tell how he had been bull-dozed an’
murdered down Souf, his Yvife shot, his
chill’en roasted an’ his cabin torn doYvn,
all kase he Yvouldn’t YY'ote de dimercratic
ticket. He belonged to the Exodus Club,
an’ he war on de flee. It took me jist
about five minits to wind dat nigger up
an’ send him ’long. He couldn’t read
nor Yvrite. If all de dimercrats since
Gineral Jackson’s time were \ected to
oftis at once, it wouldn’t hev made a cent
in his pocket or out. He Yvasn’t sarehin’
for liberty half as much as fur an easy
job Yvid big pay. If he war eber licked
by white men, it Yvas fur stealin’. If he
eber had a wife, he desalted her. If he
eber had a cabin, it Yvas a free gift from
some one. Dat nigger would he\ r Yvoted
a circus ticket as quick as a ballot. He
knew nuffin more ’bout pollyticks dan
ole Uncle Toots knows of runnin’ an in
gine. It made no more difference to him
who was ’lected to offis dan it makes to
dis club who runs de government ot
Spain. Doan’ I know my oyvii race?
Doan’ I know dat nineteen out ob ebery
twenty southern niggers had sooner sleep
in de sun dan aim two dollars a day in
de cotton ? Doan’ I know dat ebery one
of dera will Yvalk fifteen miles to a circus
sooner dan torty rods to a day’s work?
Heven’t I got relashuns down dar, an’
can’t I show letters to prove dat an hon
est, hard-workin’ black man kin git ’long
twice as well doYvn dar’ as up heah ? Ali
deters you shed ober dis exodus bizness
am salt water Yvasted. Allde money you
ban’ ober to dese men in sarch of liberty
am so much given away to men who
know' no moar, what liberty means dan I
know' of makin’ dis new* kind ot ice
cream in a jug. When any southern
black man tells you dot he am flyin’ fur
his life you kin put it down dat he raided
a smoke-house an’ am dodgin’ his re
ward.”
The following is the extract from one
of Senator Vance’s speeches, which ap
pears in a book of southern oraratory,
and with the reading of which Mr.
Blaine recently amused the senate:
“Listen to the warbling twitty of the
birds in the swaying green-leafed trees
as the soft air of the mountains steals like
a maiden’s prayer across the refreshed
brow, while your eyes gaze upon the
prismatic h ues* of the rainbow reflected
in drops of deYv dancing in the golden
sunlight as it streams rosy, rich and warm
from Aurora’s fiery bosom.”
We are not certain that even Judge
Lochrane could beat that. Mr. Vance
had the good sense to join in the laugh
against himself. He should retaliate by
reading the severe prose of Blaine’s let
ter to Mulligan, or the gushing glory of
Conkling’s tribute to Doc Adams—“the
descendant of the tiger hunters of the
gold coast.”— Augusta Chronicle.
THE TRIPLE TIE.
The Address of Rev. George W. Bryant,
Colored, Last Night.
Atlanta Constitution, 27th ult.]
A remarkable and suggestive meeting
was held in the representative hall at the
state capitol last night. The occasion
was an address from Rev. George W.
Bryant, who is known as “the silver
tongued orator of the south.” His sub
ject was “The Triple Tie,” or “The
Gray, the Black and the Blue,” in which
he considers the relations existing be
tween the southern, northern and colored
people of the country, and the necessity
for their unity in sentiment, patriotism
and progressive labors
He is traveling in the interest of the
Payne institute, at Cokesboro, South Car
olina, which is under the auspices of the
African M. E. church. The institute is
in flue condition, but the managers have
determined to establish, if they can raise
the necessary funds, a manual labor de
partment to be known as the “Lee Man
ual Labor School.” This is to he done
as a testimonial of the admiration and
veneration with which the colored people
regard the character and tame of General
Robert E. Lee. He lias visked several
southern cities already. In Montgomery
Governor Cobb and other state officers
subscribed to the project and in Selma,
Pensacola and Columbus leading citizens
and distinguished ex-confederates put
down their names and became contribu
tors.
Gov. Colquitt lias written upon the
Atlanta list: “I cheerfully co-operate in
the movement and commend it,” and
subscribed a suitable amount to the
scheme.
The orator is a young colored man, of
dusky hue, with a well-shaped head,
pleasant manner, cultivated address and
voice and delivery remarkably adapted to
oratory. His language flows easily, and
he speaks with earnestness and power.
His audience last night was a crowded
one, composed of a considerable number
of white people, and a large assemblage
of the best and most thoughtful portion
of our colored people. The attention
given to the speaker and the interest and
enthusiasm he awakened were a revela
tion to those who were present. The
words that sounded startling from such a
person were applauded by his color un
stintedly, and his glowing eulogies of
Lee were the signals for stormy hutburftts
of genuine applause. The address and
its indorsements were both of them most
novel proceedings for this day and place,
and we cannot but express regret that
the white portion of his audience was
not the greater in numbers.
As an evidence of the nature of the
address we report some of his most strik
ing utterances. In recounting rapidly
the events of the war, he spoke of the
causes that led to the freedom of his race
as pronounced in the emancipation proc
lamation.
“This proclamation was a military ne
cessity. ‘Come back into the union and
keep your slaves; remain out of the
union and we will free them !’ But the
brave southern chivalry would not thus
negotiate. They preferred fighting it
out and go down they would, if go down
they must, nailing their flag to the mast
head and with all the honors of the war.
And but for this brave resistance upon
the one hand and a military necessity
upon the other hand, the negro would,
perhaps, to-day have been in slavery!”
He then went on to speak of the end
of the struggle and delivered this eulogy
on Lee:
“Suffice it to say that General Lee, the
illustrious soldier, with his handful of
gallant grays, battle-scarred, without
succor, without relief, without reinforce
ments, pressed in on all sides, hemmed
in by forces advancing all directions,
surrendered that .gallant band. Subse
quently death came with silent footsteps
and plucked from the bright galaxy of
the south this illustrious soldier, this no
ble martyr. If he had strong passions,
he had learned to subdue them and was
moderate and mild. If he had weakness
es, he concealed them, which is rare;
and excluded them from the government
of his temper and conduct, which is still
rarer. If he loved fame, he never made
improper compliances for what is called
popularity. Oh, illustrious son of the
southland may thy memory be perpetu
ated !—peace be to thy ashes!”
Making reference farther on his re
marks to the deplorable confusion of po
litical strife in which the colored citizens
were afterwards involved, he fired a shot
at the carpet-baggers after the following
vigorous style:
“Yes these paupers in intellect, these
tories in politics, these unmitigated liars
and scoundrels drove back our men of
intelligence, held them in abeyance until
they had filled their pockets with ill-got
ten gains, betrayed the trust reposed in
them, sowed the seed of dissension, and
when the arms of justice sought to en
circle them, they left for parts unknown
with the blood-money secured in the un
godly and unholy traffic of negro votes.”
(Applause.)
In approaching his appeal for aid, he
spoke of the help the colored people ask
of the gray and the blue, as follows:
“At the national conference of colored
men convened some time since in Nash
ville, some one introduced a resolution
touching the spelling of the word negro
with a capital N, instead of a small n.
I ask no legislation on that point. I care
not whether the American people spell
it with a large or a small n. Only help
us in this march up the hill of science.
Only let the gray of the south help us on
our feet and hold us up until we can
walk. Only let the blue of the north
send us more philanthropists and less
politicians, more money and less instruc
tions how to vote, more of their books,
maps and charts and none of their exo
dus movements, and we will write the
name of the negro not only with a capi
tal N. but in letters of gold high up in
the temple of fame.”
Other extracts of equal pith and truth
marked the address, but we cannot give
them space here.
A considerable sum was given by the
colored people last night, and for several
days the agent will call upon our citizens
to help on the project. It is to be hoped
that he will meet with encouraging suc
cess and that he may popularize here his
sentiments and his scheme.
High medical authority at Washington,
including members of the national board
of health, who have given the matter
constant and careful attention, and who
are fully informed by medical experts
traveling in the south, are of the opinion
that the southern states are to escape a
visitation of the yellow fever this sum
mer. In the early spring there was a
great deal of alarm about it—more than
got into the papers—but this feeling has
given way to the opposite extreme, and
now the chances are considered altogeth
er against a renewel of last year’s vis
itation.
The new Guion steamer Arizona has
jus completed a trip between New York
and Queenstown in 7 days, 9 hours and
23 minutes, the fastest time ever made.
A ROME YOUNG LADY.
She Performs a Wonderful Feat; in Old
England.
The Cornishman , an English journal of
Penzance, gives the following descrip
tion of a wonderful feat performed by
Miss Lila Noble, of Rome, who, with
relatives and friends, is visiting the scenes
of her ancestry. Miss Lila is a daughter
of Mr. John W. Xoble, and, judging
from her modest and rather retiring dis
position, no one would think her so brave
a girl as to descend 2340 feet beneath the
surface of the earth to explore a coal
mine. The Cornishman says:
Doleoath was visited on
Wednesday by a party of four tourists
from Rome, Georgia, United States, who
had previously spent a tew days at Pen
zance, and who intend seeing the prin
ciple cities and sights of Europe. At
Camborne they first visited the birth
place of an ancestor of one of their num
ber—Mr. James Xoble, formerly of
Crowan, who left England about forty
four years ago, and is now a resident in
Rome. Arriving on the mine about
noon, one of the young ladies, Miss Lila
A. Xoble, about i9 years of age, accom
panied by Mr. J. Adams, jr., of Pendar
vesstreet, Tackingmill, and an expe
rienced miner, started down one of the
main shafts in the man-engine, which
was put at the ordinary speed. All the
way down the plucky young lady show
ed those qualities of coolness and readi
ness which are so valuable in safely step
ping from the strage of the huge lift to
the fixed platform in the shaft, and vice
versa. She was met by only one or two
miners, who, seeing her bravery, re
marking in a bit of old Garnish: “I’d
raather taake the trouble to put her to
the bottom of Doleoath than I wed a
straange miner from another bal; wusn’t
thee, you?” Leaving the engine, they
descended by 130 fathoms of laddeis
(more than twice the height of St. Paul’s
cathedral below the base of the man-en
gine!) through the different workings to
the bottom of the new-sunk shaft, the
deepest shaft in the mine, and we believe
in the united kingdom. The fair Ameri
can was now a distance of 2,340 feet from
the surface, when she dug for herself a
piece of oar and brought to grass, after
which the visitors ami guide inspected
various other points of interest in the
mine, amongst others the work of the
boring machine, various large pitches
whence most of the richest tinstuff is
sent to grass, etc. One old miner, seeing
the coolness and shrewd and intelligent
observation shown by the young lady,
and file firm and skillful way in which
she took hold of the ladders, ejaculated,
“I never seed a young laady klem with a
moor bowlder and shoorer step in my
life.” Turning to his comrade he con
tinued, “She can klem, you, better’ll
scores of men I’ve seed down beer.”
About 5 p. m. the bold mineress from the
far west returned to surface after being
underground, and constantly exerting
herself for '4% hours, without showing
signs of fatigue, much less of exhaustion,
and without a mishap of the slightest
kind.
CRIMINAL ABSENTEEISM.
The Washington correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle, under date n# the 24th
ult., says:
The departure of Senators Lamar and
Gordon from Washington to Brookhaven,
Miss., in order to attend the'cornraence
ment of a female academy, has caused
very unfavorable comment. Mr. Lamar
has, I understand, an engagement of long
duration to deliver the address before the
young women, but it is much more im
portant for him to be at his post here, es
pecially at this crisis. Why Senator Gor
don left nobody appears to know. He
had just returned from a pleasant excur
sion to West Point, and off he goes again.
Mr. McPherson, of New Jersey, recently
recalled, has likewise gone home, and
Mr. Farley, of California, continues his
peregrinations in Oregon at last accounts.
No one can accuse me of unfriendliness
to these gentlemen, especially the two
first named; and, therefore, when I put
their absence on record as not creditable
to them, it is because the public should
be made aware of such facts as concern
their well being.
In order to properly understand
why absence from duty at this time is not
becoming in a congressman, let me say
that the breaking of the democratic quo
rum thereby has caused, and may cause
again, very serious trouble. Republican
filibustering, which creates so much con
fusion, loss of time and mortification
among democrats, is made effective by
just this absenteeism. The disgiaceful
plight consequent upon the army bill dis
cussion was brought about in the senate
by the failure of six democrats to be at
their posts of duty, where they belong.
THE JEWS.
A Jew! What is there in that name
that can be a reproach to any man, wo
man or child now living on earth ? Mo
ses, the wisest of law-givers, was a Jew.
Joshua, who commanded the sun to
stand still at the storming of Jericho, was
a Jew. David, “a man after God’s own
heart,” was a Jew. Solomon, the wisest
of men, whose fame is greater to-day than
when he built the temple, was a Jew.
All the prophets were Jews; Jesus Christ
himself was a Jew. His mother was a
Jewess.
In every age ami country the Jews
have done their whole duty to the coun
try in which they have resided, and to
society. Marshal Soult, one of Napo
leon’s ablest marshals, and who stood
faithfully by him to the last at Waterloo,
was a Jew; Judah P. Benjamin, one of
the ablest and most faithful of confeder
ate leaders, was a Jew.
Senator Jonas, of Louisiana, is a Jew.
The present prune minister of Great
Britain is a Jew. But why enumerate
further? From the earliest dawn of his
tory to the present time the Jews have
furnished their full share of brave and
honorable men and women. Who has
surpassed them in public spirit, in works
of charity and devotion to principle?—
Exchange.
The post office department proposes at
an early date to extend the fast mail ser
vice in the south over two routes. One
route will be from Washington to Jack
sonville, Florida, by the way of Charles
ton and Savannah, and the other from
Washington by way of Richmond, Atlan
ta, Montgomdry and Mobile. It was ex
pected that these routes would be put into
operation by the first of July next, but
postal cars, necessary for the service
which are in the course of construction,
will not be finished by that date. The
work will not, however, be delayed much
after that. The schedules, number of
trips, etc., have not yet been determined
on.
A fine harvest is reported throughout
the whole of the Dominion of Canada.
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NUMBER 51.
THE ROMANCE OF BONAPARTISM.
Macaulay’s words, that the age has
been fertile in warnings to the ambitious
and consolations to the obscure never ap
plied to any with more force ’than to the
Jtionapartes. We have before us the
London News for the sth of February.
1853. The first illustration is the empress
in her bridal dress. Then follow whole
page pictures of the magnificent ceremo
nies at Xotre Dame. Writing to his
niece from Sunny side in tiie same year
Washington Irving says:
“Louis Napoleon and Eugenie Montijo,
emperor and empress of the French, one
of whom I have had a guest at my cot
tage on the Hudson; the other whom,
when a child, 1 have had on my knee at
Granada. It seems to cap the climax of
tiie dramas of which Paris has been the
theatre during my lifetime. I have re
peatedly thought that each coup de theatre
would be the last that would occur in my
time, but each has been succeeded by an
other equally striking. The last I saw of
Eugenie Montijo and she and her giddy
circle had swept away my charming
young friend, , into their career of
fashionable dissipation. Now, Eugenie
is upon a throne, and a voluntary
recluse in a convent of one of the most
rigorous orders. Poor ! Perhaps,
however, her fate may ultimately be the
happiest of the two. The storm with her
‘is o’er, and she’s at rest,’ but the other is
launched from a returnless shore on a
dangerous sea, infamous for its tremen
dous shipwrecks. Am lto live to see
the catastrophe of her career, and the end
of this suddenly conjured-up empire,
which seems to be of such stuff as dreams
are made of. * * * I consider it
as liable to extravagant viccissitudes as
one of Dumas’ novels.”
Had he lived ten years longer he would
have seen one catastrophe of her career,
but certainly not that which occasioned
her the deepest anguish. That was re
served for eight years later, and it is like
ly enough that the ex-empress will end
lier days like her friend to whom Irving
alludes. With the exception of her moth
er, she now stands alone in the world,
and in the nature of things that mother
must soon pass away. —New York Times.
DRUNK WITH POWER AND PRIDE.
Charles Nordhoff, tiie Washington cor
respondent of tiie New York Herald,
himself a republican, diagnoses the ease
of the so-called republican leaders in
Washington thus:
The spirit of the republican leaders in
\he senate shows that it is high time, for
the security and peace of the country, to
have a change of parties. Like the dem
ocratic party in 18(50, these men have
been too long in power. They are drunk
with an unpatriotic ambition. They
show plainly that they do not mean to
let go of the government; that they re
gard the country as their possession, and
a political defeat as a personal wrong and
robbery of themselves.
The impression which this debate lias
made upon many thoughtful attendants
upon it is that no party can be so dan
gerous to the country as a party led, in
spired and controlled by these men, and
that, if the republican party appears in
the presidential canvass under their lead
ership, it will be the duty of every man
who values the country’s safety and
peace to oppose it and them, no matter
who is on the other side. The republi
cans uttered a foolish cry of revolution
early in the session, but your correspond
ent, whose duty ic has been to watch all
the tedious debates of the extra session,
and who has not failed to expose to you
the folly and weakness of the democrats,
has seen nothing on the democratic side,
even among the worst element of that
party, which at all compares for wicked
ness of purpose, for desperation and evil
spirit, with the course and temper of the
leading republican senators during this
debate.”
The Dalton Headlight thus telis of the
wonderful mechanical genius of that
town. It says:
“Now we have a real live prodigy in
our town which can’t be beat, and it’s no
use for our exchanges to hatch up any
more lies. There is a lady in this city
who can make shoes, repair sewing ma
chines, clocks, boots and shoes, make
picture frames, house keys and nearly
every article that she needs about the
house. In fact, she is a wonderful me
chanical genius. Not long ago she made
her own last and finished up a nice pair
of high heeled shoes for herself. She
also half soles and repairs her husband’s
boots, and can finish up ladies’ shoes as
well as anybody. While out in the gar
den recently she lost one of her keys, and
being an intelligent woman and one who
believes in home manufactures, she pro
cured a file and an old piece of iron and
made a key which answered very well.
She says that if she had the tools she
could make a good key. If she wants a
picture frame or any like article, she
don’t have to buy it. When her own or
her neighbor’s clock gets out of order
she sets it to working again, free oi
charge. It is something unusual for a
woman to develop talent of this kind,
which is both a useful and worthy ac
complishment, and one of which she
may well be proud. Her husband, too,
should be proud of possessing such a wife
Not one man in ten thousand can boast of
having such a treasure.
— : ♦ ♦
The advance in the price of raw silk is
beginning to be felt in this country as
well as in Europe. Not less than a
month ago fine raw silk could be purchas
ed for from $3 75 to $3 90 per pound, and
some thoughtful manufactories, more,
especially in Paterson, N. Y., laid in a
large stock. With the utter failure of
the Italian and partial failure of the
French crops the article has gone up to
$4 and $lO per pound. In the meantime
the price of manufactured goods is stead
ily rising, and silk dresses and. ribbons
will again become expensive commodi
ties.
I +
It is stated that the following army offi
cers, who have attained the age of sixty
two years, will be retired soon: General
Randolph B. Marcoy, Inspector-General;
Gens. M. C. Meigs and Daniel H. Rucker,
Quartermaster’s Department; Gen.
.Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon General;
Gens. Benjamin Alvord and Nathan W.
Brown, Pay Department; Gens. Hum
phreys and John G. Barnard, corps of
Engineers, and Gen. Peter V. Hagrter,
Ordinance Department.
Bismarck is humorous in a grim, quaint
sort of way, as witness his reply to Prince
Alexander, when the latter consulted
him as to whether he should accept the
crown of Bulgaria: “Don’t hesitate as to
that; in any case it will be one of the
agreeable reminiscences of your life.”
The reason Gen. Garibaldi seeks to an
nul his marriage with Mine. Raimondi,
is that the pension of 30,000 francs an
nually granted to his heirs would other
wise go to her child, though he is not its
father, while his own children would get
nothing.