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Newspaper Page Texthates of srns< rtption. . .>}>v one year. - - . - $ 2 00 Ime ropy six months .... 100 ~ , ~nV three months, ... 50 CLm R ATRB. , ..opories one year, - - - - $8 75 i\,, copies one year, .... 1500 Ivm iiiv copies one year, - - -* 25 00 i Hy rbpios one year, .... 50 00 ] ,i be paid for inrarrinbty in advance. Vll orders for the paper must lx? addressed to THE FREE PRESS. I * roles si on al Cards. .IAMF.S IE CONYERS. v , L’ Oli 7N" K V - ffL T-J. .Y \V AND Notary Public, (AKitsviLbE, : : : : Georgia. (Office: Bank block, up-stairs.) PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF \\ the ( herokee and adjoining circuits, prompt attention given to all business. Ool leetions made a specialty. june29-ly n'l'i. _ .1 . m. si:r 1. . TIMI’FE & NEEL, v TOHXKY S- A r r -ITTY W , t artersville, ga. x 1 T u,u practice in all the courts, \\ both State and Federal, except Bartow •ountv criminal court. J. M. Neel alone will •v ice iii said last mentioned court. Office in ! ortheast corner of court house building. fel>27 ISO. L. MOON. DOUGLAS WIKLE. MOON & WJLKXK, V 1 torneys-at-La w, (ARTERSVILLE, GA. 1 ■<-- Office in Bank Block, over the Postolliee. i>K7 . W. T. WOFFORD, a f r rob-vky-a. rr -x, a av, —AND— dealer in real estate, ( \SS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA. T. tv. H. HARRIS, V ' l'' F O RNEY-A T - oY W , C ARTERSVILT.E, GA. I PRACTICES IN ALL THE COURTS OF I Bartow and adjoining counties, and will i.iithfully attend to all business entrusted to him. <mice over postoffice. decS-ly It. W. Ml 1 UPIIEY, A r F 1' ORNKY- AT -Xj .A. W , t ARTERSVILLE, GA. uFH( E ( up-stuirs) in the briek building, cor ner of Main A Litvin streets. julylß. .1. A. BAKER, V r r i' OHXdY - A r r -X,A W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. \ \ TILL pructiee in all the courts of Bartow \\ and adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to all business entrusted to his care, office in Bank Block over the post office. juiyiis. - K. I). GRAHAM. A. M. EOUTE. GRAHAM & EOUTE, ATT O H N hi Y S -A. rr- X, >Y W. C AUTEUSVILLE, GA. Practice in till the courts of Bartow county, the superior Courts of Nortli-wesfc Georgia, and the Mipreme Courts at Atlanta. odicc west side public Square, up-stairs over tv. \V. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of juiyts. V. W. MILNER. J. W. BARKIS, JR. MILNEII & HARRIS, AT TO RNEYS-AT-L A W , CARTERS VILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. jnlyis F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (.Office over Stokely & Williams store.) (. ARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. TWILL ITL. TEETII, EXTRACT TEETH, I and put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit c he times. fey o Work at. warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. augl6-ly. F. M. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayi:e & Co.’s Drug Store,) (. ARTERSVILLE, GA. "\T7TLL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. V V Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done by me warranted 1 . give satiM.-idion. Give me A call. julyla. CHAS. B. WILLINGHAM, Stenographic C,’oui*t Reporter. [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. | T MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, 1 inking down t tie* testimony entire; also, ob jections of attorneys, rulings of ttie court, and the charge of the'court, without stopping the witness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro ceedings. ( barges very reasonable and satis t act ion guaranteed. Traveler’s (Juiclo. COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION. < in and after December 18th, 1878, the following schedule will be run by the Steamers M AGNO LIA or ETOWAH BILL: Leave Rome Tuesday Bam Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday . . . . 6am Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7 p m Arrive at Rome Thursday r > P m Leave Rome Friday . . 8a ni Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am Arrives at Greensport 9 a in \rrive at Rome Saturday 6pm j. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup r t. ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this Road M ill run as follows: DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY. Leave Rome 8:10 am Arrive at Rome 12:00 m SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION. 1 ,eavc Rome :00 p m Arrive at Rome 8:00 p.m CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On ami after Monday, July 14, 1879, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): NO. 1. GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave. Cartersville 4:55 pm Stilesboro 5:45 pm s:4<pm. Taylorsville 6:07 p m 6:22 p m Kockmart 7:12 p m NO. 2. GOING EAST. Kockmart , ‘ a m Taylorsville 8:15 a m 8:20 a m Stilesboro 8:55 am 9:00 am Cartersville 9:55 am No. 2 connects at Cartersville with W. & A. train I<> r Atlantas arriving at 12 o’clock M. He* turning leave Atlanta at and o’clock, I . Al. con necting at Cartersville with No. 1 for points on t herokee railroad. ~ JOHN POSTELL, Manager. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following is the present passenger sched ule : NIGHT PASSENGER —UP. L ave Atlanta 8:00 pm > cave ( 'aeiersville j I* tu ■ . ave Kingston 5:19 pm i. ave Dalton 7:10 pm Arrive at Chattanooga •** pm NIGHT PASSENGER —DOWN. Leave Chattanooga pm Leave DaJ ton 'jWpm Leave Kingston . . ” I 1 ™ Leave Cartersville * 9:05 pm Arrive at Allan tu 11:00 p m DAY PASSENGER—VP. Leave Atlanta a m Lea ve 1 iito a m Leave Kingston < :h a m Lcave Dalton . a :2I a m Arrive at Chattanooga ...... 10:*o a m DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga ® : ?;i am Dalton 8:10 a ni Leave Kingston *{ •* ani Leave Cartersville . . 10:ll am Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 p m CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—VP. Leave Atlanta Arrive at Cartersville * 7:22 pm CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN. Leave Cartersville 6:05 a m Arrive at Atlanta B:4am COUCH HOUSE, (Kingston, Georgia.) This large and comfortable House is now kept by W. \V . Rainey. The traveling public will find good, plain accommo dations. Parties wishing board through the summer will find Kingston one of the healthiest and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three or four families can get comfortable rooms in view of trains. Terras very reasonable, jlvifi. W. W. RAINEY. VOLUME 11. E. J. Hale A Son’s ST\El>ini\s' HISTORY A Compendium of the History of the United States. For Schools and Colleges, By HOll. ALEX. M. STEPHENS. (513 pp. 12m0.) 17 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK. “The pith and marrow of our history.”— Eas- I resident Fillmore. “Straightforward, vigorous, interesting and im pressive.”—-V. Y. Christian L'iii<'ii. “Its tone calm and judicial; its style clear and good. We recommend it to be' read by all Northern men.”— Bouton Courier. “A work of high excellence; well adapted to supply a long felt want in our country.’’—Con np(‘ij,cvjt Schoo Journal , (Ifon. W. (J. Fowler , “Worthy of high praise, it will of necessity •challenge attention everywhere.”— N. Y. Eve ning Post. “Among tnc notable books of the age.”—Chica go Mail. “Narrative, impartial; tone calm and dispas sionate: style masterly.”— Louisville Home and School. “A model eompend.” —A ugnsta Chronicle and Sentinel. “Everything necessary to a perfect handbook.” —Goldsboro Messenger. “Broad enough for all latitudes.”— Kentudku Methodist. “The best work of its kind now extant.”—Mem phis Farm and Home. “A success in every way.”— Wilmington Star. “Destined to become the standard of historic truth and excellence for centuries to come.”— President Wilis, Oglethorpe University, “The method admirable.” Ex-Gov. Herschell V. Johnson. “Should And a place in all libraries.”— Ev-Gov. C. J. Jenkins. “A most important addition to American litera ture.”—Prof. It. M. Johnston , Baltimore. “Read it; study it; heed it.”— Prof. E. A . Steed , Mercer University. “Fairness, fulness,’ accuracy.” Prof, J. J. Jlrant-1 y , Mercer University. UNIFORM SERIES OF School Books. To the Patrons and Teachers of Bartow County: VT THE REQUEST OF PROMINENT CITI ZENS and Teachers, the Board of Educa tion has had under consideration for some time the adoption of a UNIFORM SERIES OF SCHOOL BOOKS. The people claim this as a protection for them selves against too frequent changes, The teach ers ask it as a means of classifying their stu dents, and rendering more efficient service, with greater facility to themselves, and benefit to their students. All parties ask it as a means of se curing a reduction in retail prices to purchasers. In answer to these demands the Board has made a thorough examination, and after consul tations with leading teachers, have this day adopted the following series: McGuffey’s Ist reader. : : : :8c ex. .lSret’l “ 2d “ 15 “ .30 “ “ 3d “ 22 “ -40 “ “ 4th “ 27 “ .55 “ “ 5 til “ 40 “ .80 “ Sanford’s Prim- Arithmt’e 14 “ .27 “ Inthnd’te Arithm’c 22 “ .45 “ “ U. School “ 40 “ .80 “ “ Higher “ 65 “ $1.25 “ “ Ele’m’ry Algebra 65 “ 1.25 “ Harvey’s Language Lessons 12 “ - 25 “ “ * Ele’m’ry Grammar 20 “ .40 “ “ •English Grammar 40 “ .75 Eclectic Prim. Geograpny 83 “ .60 “ “ Georgrapby, No, 2 66 “ 1.25 “ Harvey’s Primary Speller 8 “ .1,5 “ Graded " 11 “ .20 “ These prices are NOT introductory, but PER MANENT. The publishers given written guar antee that these prices shall not be raised at any time. Those having old books can bring them to W. H. WIKLE & CO., and get the new book of same grade at HALF PRICE, as given in column 1. it mattes no difference how badly torn the old book may be. We earnestly urge the co-operation of patrons iu carrying out this adoption. W. T. WOFFORD, President. julyl7-4t Til EG. L. SMITH, C. S. C. SCHOOL MID COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY Iverson, Hhtkenuin, Taylor A Cos., NEW YORK, R. E. PARK, Genera! Agent, rpillS series comprises among others, the fol- I lowing well-known STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS: New Graded Readers, Robinson’s Mathematics, Spencerian Copy Books, Well’s Scientific Works,* Riddle’s Astromics. Dana’s Geology, Woodbury’s German, Kerl’s Grammar, Webster’s 1 lictionary, Swinton’s Histories, Swinton’s Word Books, Swinton’s Geographies, Pasquell’s French, Gray’s Botanies, Bryant & Stratton’s Book-keeping, Cathcart’s Literary Reader, etc., etc. Correspondence respectfully solicted. Address ROBERT E. PARK, General Agent. Care J. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and WAGONS, I{ . 11. .JOKES. Cartersville, Georgia. I FEEL JUSTLY PROUD OF THE REPU tation awarded by an appreciative people. , I do a square, honest business as near as 1 know how, and endeavor to give every one the worth of his money. All work warranted, not for a year onlv, but for any reasonable time. 1 say it, and defy contradiction, there is No Better Work Made in America than I am Building. I have a Repository in Rome, in charge of Mr. W.L. Whitefy, in old Odd Fellows’ building, corner above new Masonic Temple. Wagons, Buggies, &c., kept by him are just what they are represented to be. All sold under warrantee. I also have a shop in Rome, at the old stand of D. Lindsey & Cos., run by R. L. Williams, where new work and all kinds of repairing will be done at prices to suit the times. jgjysf’-' Give us your trade, _ niche A. fTMURPHY, Koine, :::::: Georgia. GENERAL SOUTHERN AGENT New York Portrait Painting Company, WILL TAKE ORDERS FOR ANY QI ALl tv and size portrait known to the art ior less monev than smdi work can be done for hy auv other'hou. c. Parties desiring portraits can send photograph, with description of complexion, hair, eyes ami dress. juncl2-<m ACTUAL KTJSSIjVESS I Students on Change AT Moore’s BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA. nPHE BEST PRACTICAL BUSINESS SCHOOL JL in the country. Students can enter at any time. Total expenses for three months, includ ing tuition. stationery, board, etc., fllj. euu for circulars. B. F. MOORE, 1 resident. aprs4-Bm. ; PILES AND FISTULA CURED DR. J. S. BEAZLEY, At Stilesboro, Bar-tow county, Ga., and DR* A. G. BEAZLEY. , ... n At Crawfordville, Ga., Make a specialty of diseases of the Rectum. They will treat Fistula,Ulcer ation, Prolapsus, etc., of the bowels and will guarantee a perfect cure in a short while in ev ery case of piles without the use of the knife and very little pain. Will point to cases cured or give the best of reference if desired. Allcb r gvmeu treated gratis, m - u ‘ THE FREE PRESS. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION. The subject of the establishment of the public school system in Cartersville is at tracting a good deal of attention. Its discussion its exciting a good deal of sharp discussion for and against such a policy. It is, nevertheless, one of impor tance to this town. Our citizens should discuss the matter with a great deal of manly tolerance for each other's views, for we take it that no citizen, good and true, is moved on either side hy selfish motives. The great question involved is a matter of concern to every good citizen. It is a question of interest to the welfare of the town for the present and for the future. Whether Cartersville can sustain the public school system or not should be discussed among our peo ple not in the spirit of prejudice hut with a view of elucidating the true and pro gressive interests of our community. Can the public school system be main tained in Cartersville without burdening the property holders with too heavy a rate of taxation? if so, then, by all means, we should have the public school system inaugurated at once. If not, then we should vote it down without hesita tion. Popular education is becoming the system in all the progressive states of the union. Population is going to all of those states that maintain free schools. Pop ulation is wealth, say what we will. We are anxious to have our waste places built up. To do that, inducements must he pre sented to attract population wherever it can he done. These are facts that we recognize and every intelligent man must recognize them. Yet, at the same time, a small town, like Cartersville, may not be able to maintain a public school sys tem without greatly burdening the tax payers. To this we are opposed, and will not support any measure to that end if we know it. Hence, we shall wait to see what shape the hill before the legisla ture will take before committing The Free Press for or against free schools. There is no mistake about the fact that there is a need of progress in the destiny of Cartersville. Something must be done to stimulate enterprise and progress in our midst. What is best to he done in regard to the establishment of the fre< school system? We invite honest and fair-discussion in our This we can do without bitterness or acrimony. Il a cause is right, there is no necessity for either. We, therefore, invite such discussion, free from all such feeling. The truth is w hat every honest man wants to find. THE HOME COURIER. The feeble attempts of the Rome Cou rier to read our best and most reliable democrats out of. the party has excited a good deal of indignation upon the part of all good and true democrats, even those who are intensely “organized.” When it welcomed Mr. Stephens to the demo cratic ranks it exhibited a malicious weakness that all good and honest demo crats must despise and abhor. When it attempts to malign Dr. Felton’s democra racy and to bolster its assertions with gar bled extracts from the records, it siiows a want of true and genuine manhood. When 4 it attempts to disparage the democ racy ol editors true and tried in the ser vice of the party, its impotency and want of candor is painfully apparent. The Courier of the past had character for fairness in discussion, dignity in its course and candor in its assertions. It now seems to have dwindled into a mere maudlin sycophant of partsanism without the ability to exhibit a reasonable respect for die opinions of others. Its miserable attempts to read Mr. Stephens out of the democratic party is one of the weakest exhibitions known in the politics of the state. Its constant and senseless war upon Dr. Felton is an unmitigated fraud upon its readers and a violation of all po litical decency. Its attempts to assume to he the leading journal of the demo cratic party in the seventh district can only excite pity and contempt for its weakness. These feelings for the course of the Courier are indulged by many of the more candid of the “organized” de mocracy. When it is remembered that the editor of the Courier was an applicant for post master at Rome under a fraudulent re publican president, the opinions of that paper as to the democracy of true men can be properly estimated. It opinions, therefore, are supremely worthless, and all good and true democrats can hear its condemnation with sublime indifference. Whether Gov. Colquitt’s motives were right or wrong in tiie signing of the Northeastern railroad bonds or not, his sustaining Mr. Murphy’s part in the mat ter will certainly damage his excellency in popular estimation. The impression that there is a “toll gate” to the state house will be difficult to remove. So it is with Comptroller Goldsmith, however innocent he may be in the bribe matter. There are many who will continue to be lieve Mr. Goldsmith was cognizant of the bribe offered in some way, and that it would have been paid if accepted hy Davis and Strickland. The taint of corruption will continue to linger around the pres ent administration whether right or wrong. It is a pitiable sight to see the chief mag istrate of the grand old state of Georgia undergoing the ordeal of an investigation of his official acts. He invited it before being charged with corruption, and he must now endure the-sifting as best he can. It is strange how slow and reluctant some men are to pay for the newspapers they read. And yet, they will make all sorts of fair promises to pay. hut —never comply. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1879, A CHAT WITH STYLES. The Charges of Corruption Brought Against the State Officials. Atlanta Dispatch.] Reporter—Now, polonel, let us hear from you auent the state house troubles? Colonel Styles—lt is folly to close our eyes to the fact that these irregularities among the people’s agents and servants at the capitol, besmirch the democratic es cutcheon, bring shame upon the party and augment the strength of its enemies: hut it does not follow that the party is to be held responsible for the conduct of a few unfaithful officials, or that it must surrender the state government to the in dependents and negroes in 1880. True, we are in a critical condition, and a little Jacksonian backbone is needed in the ex ecutive department. You may remem ber how successfully Joe Brown applied the knife to the throats of the state road incompetents when he was first elected governor, and made that great highway the corner-stone of his administration and the chief strength of his party for four successive terms; and i doubt not the bold, decisive and suc cessful exploits of New York’s great re former, by which Tweed and his gang of thieves were hurled into perdition, still lives in your memory. May not Colquitt profit by their example, and save his par ty by switching off, on a down grade, the imbeciles and peculators who beset and embarrass his administration ? Reporter—ls not the new constitution in the governor’s way? Colonel Btyles-rlt is claimed that he has no control over the departments, and is powerless to restrain or check them. The new constitution is a barrier to use ful legislation and a clog to the prosperi ty of the commonwealth, but the govern or is the chief executive, and the people will hold him responsible for the conduct of his subordinates. He cannot shift that responsibility or escape its conse quences, though he were a3 pure as an angel. We have a recent and most re markable case in point. Governor Smith took action the very first moment he was made aware of the trouble in the treas urer’s office, and notwithstanding he probed the difficulty to the bottom, seized the treasury, and did his whole duty to uncover the unfortunate defalcation and protect the people’s money, he was visit ed with the people’s censure, and his splendid administration was blurred. That public censure was and is unjust, out tne pedple iook to their chief for good government and honest administration of ttieir affairs, and, right or wrong, they noid him responsible lor the doings of ail subordinates 111 his official household. Reporter —Then you tnink the govern or \vm suffer as much as the party from iue developments. Uuiouci styles—Much more. TEe par ty ought not lo be condemned and over • nronn because ol a lew dishonest men nave loisied themselves ou its back, any ni ore iht.u the church because bad men and women have membership therein — provided the party unearths its corrup tion and unloads its rogues as the church lops off its offending members; but the political government differs from the church when we couie to apply this rule to the chief magistrate. Here a degree of waryness, vigilance, administrative ability anil executive will, that is equal to the high duty of protecting the rights, the property, the taxes, the liberties anti the honor of the people, is exacted. When a ruler possesses these essential qualities and exerts them continuously and with patriotic purpose to subserve the public good, success will inevitably and always croWn his administration and secure for him permanent lodgment in the hearts of his people. Otherwise fail ure thunders in his ears, and the capri cious ballot retires him to the shades of private life. Our governor is a most ex cellent gentleman, and is accounted a bright light in the light of Christ. No one doubts his piety or questions his pu rity of character, and if he had exerted the same zeal and sleepless industry in looking after the material interests ot the people, as he has their spiritual welfare, it is more than probable the legislature and the democratic party would not now' be bowed down beneath a crushing weight of official crookedness, or called upon to expend valuable time and vast sums in efforts to expose improper prac tices and punish rascally occupant* of high places. Reporter—Do the people impute cor ruption to the governor, or charge him with complicity in any of these alleged frauds ? Colonel Styles—No sir, I have heard no man impute corruption to Governor Colquitt, or charge him with the slight est know ledge of or participation in any of the alleged frauds; but there is wide spread apprehension that he has given too little of his time and attention to the state departments, and that his good na ture and frequent rambli have given license to the tempted and opportunity to the unscrupulous. Reporter—Colonel, what is the public sentiment as the Hill-Murphy affair, and how do the people regard the last report of the joint investigating committee? Colonel Styles—The people are not satisfied with the compromise report of the joint committee. It simply exoner ates everybody, when the world knows a wrong was perpetrated. It looks if the committee were afraid to tackle Mr. Murphy, condoned the crime as a hush measure. No man in Georgia, that I ever heard of, has dared to express the belief that Governor Colquitt shared the SB,OOO fee or that he was actuated by improper motives in signing the Northeastern Rail road bonds; but he is seriously blamed by thousands who warmly supported him in his election, for not demanding the expulsion of Mr. Murphy from the State House the moment he learned the fact that he was speculating on the brains of the legal profession and the utterances of the press. That this was an offense against propriety and moral ethics all right thinking men must agree, and though it is not set down in the code, it was a crime, as shown by the proposition of both the majority last w inter, to put it in the statutes and to punish the next fel low who should so far forget the respect due the chief Magistrate as to attempt to influence his action by such methods. Reporter—How is the wild land swin dle, as it is called, regarded by the out side world ? Colonel Styles—lt is the most gigantic swindle since* the Yazoo fraud. You may aggregate all the frauds imputed to the Bullock administration, and add the computed misfortune a set of thieves in dicted will not amount to a moiety of this wild land robbery. Ido not care to criti cise the conduct of the comptroller. The committee has” partially uncovered the nest of rotten eggs, and the new House committee will probably do its duty though it is scarcely possibly to find the bottom egg in such nests ot corruption. Reporter—Does it hurt the democratic party, and is it likely to be an issue in the canvass of 1880? Colonel Styles—Does it hurt the demo cratic party? It hurts every honest man in the land, and unless the legislature probes to the lowest (lepts and drags up | the last rogue connected with the mam moth steal, and hold him up to the scorn and indignation of an outraged people, the democratic party of Georgia will reel under the weight of the obloquy, and surrender its banners to anew or ganization in 1880. The people expect the legislature and the Governor to fully in vestigate this, and all the other minor official peccadilloes, which busy rumor starts at the state house and huzzies in the public ear, and to send the guilty par ties adrift properly cropped and branded; and they will not accept milk-and-cider whitewashing reports as evidence of in nocence. They want the truth, and the whole truth, let it hurt whom it may. They want the innocent vindicated and the guilty punished. They demand that the party shall purge itself and get rid 01 the fungi that has grown and fattened upon its plethoric bounty. They are pro foundly impressed with the belief that this legislature can, if it dll, iathom the depths and shoals of this turbid stream of “addition, division and silence,” and are determined to hold to strict accountabili ty the men they have sent here to repre sent them. If these representatives prove unequal to the emergency, they need not he surprised if they find an estranged constituency on returning to their homes. They cannot falter or go back now with safety. “He that dallies as a dastard, and that doubts is dammed.” Reporter—What do the people think of the minor cases of supposed wrong doing ? Colonel Styles—Oh, all these things are being commented on; but the large lees, the loss of the college, and attempt ed bribery, the overdrawn and unsettled six thousand in a former State printer’s account, the little anchovy of the princi pal keeper of the penitentiary, and all the other “questionable shapes” the fan tastic monster has assumed, are over shadowed by the wild land upas, and may properly put to the account of un known qualities till that is disposed of. Reporter—Well, Colonel, can the Democratic party carry all this weight through the next campaign? Colonel Styles—lndirectly L have al ready answered your question; but to be explicit, I say it cannot, and it ought not.’ The party must through the agencies now at work—the governor and the legis lature —eliiniate the corrupt elements that have brought the odium upon it, or prove, beyond the shadow or doubt, that all the charges are slanders, and that ac cused are innocent. This is the supreme duty of the hour, and if it he not faith fully and completely performed, anew organization, with “honest men for of fice” as its slogan, will assuredly take the places of those who now hold by vir tue of eight thousand majority. Reporter—Who do you think is the coming man for Colquitt’s successor? Colonel Styles—lt is difficult, at this early day, to indicate the coming man. Colquitt’s friends, and their name is le gion, say he must be endorsed ; they will make a strong fight, and possibly with the nomination, but his election is prob lematical. Gartrell is developing more strength than ordinary observers are aware of and in my opinion the man who leads him will bear banner. Lawton is very scrong, and were he a politician his chances would pool very high. He would give great dignity to the office, and the people would lie proud of such a governor. Hon. Thos. Hardeman is squarely in the field, and has 110 mean following. His friends will enter the race with clash and daring, and the competi tor who counts him lightly counts with out his host, north georgia may enter Col. Jim Brown, in which event there is no telling which way the cat will jump, for there is a strong current of public opinion extant that his brother, ex-Gov ernor Joseph E., made us the best Gov ernor since the days of Oglethorpe, and those who know Colonel Jim are not afraid to trust him. The younger aspi rants will probably be content with favor able mention and a bonus for the future. Reporter—Do you think there will be opposition candidates for governor and members of congress ? Colonel Styles—Yes, the Independents or some other organization will run a candidate for governor anil candidates for congress in every district, and you must not he surprised if the trading that will he neecessary to organize the old radicals element shall return forty colored repre sentatives to the next generally assembly and fill many of the county offices with the same class. Reporter—YY’ill Dr. Felton he a candi for Governor ? N Colonel Styles—l think not. Felton will he stronger for congress, and some such man as Judge Warner or Mr. Ste phens will he invited to take the race for governor under the banner with the strange device. “A governor for the people, and honest men for the depart ments.” Among the witnesses who were brought here from China to testify before the Congressional Committee investigating the charges against Minister Seward, were B. R. Lewis and J. J. Cofley, Con sular clerks at ,i. After the ii - vestigation they were ordered by the State Department to return to China and resume their duties, but the ways of this Administration and of all connected with it at home and abroad are peculiar. The State Department’s order amounted to nothing. Upon their arrival at Shanghai these young men were informed by Con sul Bailey that their services were no lon ger required at that Consulate. They have thus, by obeying an order of the department which has been disregarded hy the Consul General, found themselves as one of them writes, “10,000 miles a\Vay trom home with nothing 10 do and 110 funds.” It is said that the Empress Eugenie, acting upon the advice of her friends, in tends to leave Chizelhuivt soon to repair for the summer to the Castle of Sabaez, in Croatia, which she bought lately while staying at Vienna. Her friends insisted 011 her departing at once from a residence so full of sad memories as Camden Place. But this is more than they have been able to obtain from the empress, who has expressed her intention of again seeing her dead son and praying over his grave. The North Georgia Citizen, concludes an article as follows: “The people had hoped that their State was purged of cor ruption in high places hy the owerthrow of radicalism, but it seems that there is more cleansing of this sort to be accom plished; and Georgians take pridq in the belief that they have a legislative body that will not be reluctant to a vigilant and close appliance of the pruning knife. Let the investigation goon if it shakes the the foundation of the State House.” Hon. Aleck McClure says: “There is just one candidate who pre-eminently represents the anti-State rights idea, and if Mr. Sherman expects to conduct a champion upon that platform he may as well step down at once and give place to General Grant.” FACTS ABOUT COTTON. The Relative Profits of Muscle anl invested * Capital. The following extract is taken from the address of the President of the Mississip pi Valley Cotton Planter’s Association before the meeting held in Vicksburg on July 2: I will now direct your attention to the estimates alluded to, and in doing so would say that all crops and lands are left out of the question save cotton and the land cultivated in cotton, and that 1 use estimates which the “Financial Chroni cle” makes of the growing crop, which exceeds 5,000,000 bales, which we will call 5,000,000 in rnund numbers. A crop of 5,000,000 bales, averaging three acres to produce a bale, would give us 15,000,000 acres, at 8 per acre, $120,- 000,000. One mule or horse to twenty-live acres, 800,000 mules, at SOO. $72,000,000. Implements, harness, &c., and machin ery, $5,000,000. Showing a permanent investment of $242,000,000. Averaging three bales per hand would require 1,666,607 laborers, to feed, etc., which for a year with their dependents would average SSO each, $82,666,667. To feed a team at S4O per mule, 800,000 mules, $32,000,000. Cost ot bagging and ties at $1.40 per bale, $7,000,000. Cost of marketing crop at f 4 ' cents per pound would give $25,000,000. Working capital, $146,777,777. Average price ex pected for present 11 cents per pound, for 2,000,000,000 pounds, $220,000,000. Recapitulation : Now we have—per manent investment of planters, $212,- 000,000; working capital, $145,777,777. Total capital invested exclusively on cot ton cultivation, this estimation being made for the shares svstem and not wa ges, $389,777,777. Amount received for total crop, $220,- 000,000, which is divided equally between the planters and laborers. Planters, therefore, received $110,000,000, from which deduct feed for team, $32,000,000; half cost bagging and ties, $3,500,- 000; half marketing crop as chargeable to planter, $12,500,000; 20 per cent, in loss and decreased implements and ma chinery, $10,000,000 —total $72,400,000. Repairing fences, houses, etc., at ten per cent, on permanent investment, $12,000,- 000. Taxes on permanent investment, three per cent., $7,200,000. Deduct these amounts trom planter’s share of crop, $110,000,000, whicn shows planter’s profit on total investment for eptton alone is about four and one-half per cent, provided we get 11 cents for cotton, make 5,000,000 bales and the laborer pays his accounts in full. Laborers share oi crop. $110,000,000; amount chargeable for foou and clothes, $86,6^6,667; showing a profit for the laborer of $27,333,333. It will thus be observed that the labor er receives $27,000,000 on investment on nothing but his muscle, while the planter receives $18,000,000 on an investment of s3Bß,ooo,oooand his services. Now we will omit the details of the number of slices that are plucked by the wayside, and suppose our crop has reached the factory, simply saying that about $25,000,f CO more has been added thereby to the price to be paid by the manufacturer since it lauded at the sea port from the planter. Our 5,000,000 bales now begin to loom up and assume some importance, for they run 12,500,- 000 spindles, which require nearly $1,000,- 000,000 in buildings, machinery and working capital, and employ neariy 800,- 000 operatives and employers. The man ufactured goods are sent to every part of the known world, creating a trade reci procal business that can hardly be esti mated, but without doing which, as can easily be seen, it will reach into billions. You can form no estimate no number banks, insurance companies and trades of all sort that are sustained in all the ramifications of this immense traffic, to say nothing of the fact that it serves to establish the equilibrium of the world’s exchange, and give to the United States the balance of trade. Now from the time the cotton leaves the planter every interest that touches or handles it has an organization for the sake of harmoni ous action and to protect itself the trans portation companies, buyers, sellers, com press men, insurance companies, bankers, shipping interests and manufacturers, and others too numerous to mention. And at last the foundation of all this mighty fabric of trade and commerce have awakened to the vital necessity of organizing our class for self-protec tion, and not only for self-protection,- for all that is necessary in this respect is to show the world that we know our rights, and dare maintain them, but also for the purpose of hereafter bringing- more intelligence and interchange of thought to bear in the management of our busi ness generally in order that we may keep at home the millions we expend annual ly to feed and clothe our laborers, buy agricultural implements, teams and feed for teams, by diversifying our crops and encouraging manufactories. To say nothing of the increased wealth and prosperity otherwise, if the cotton we raise was manufactured in tne South it would save to the planter nearly $55,- 000,000 annually in transportation. The manager of the Mississppi Mills, which uses 4,000 bales cotton, 350,000 pounds wool, and SBOO,OOO capital, writes us that there is a difference of 15 to 20 per cent, in tavor of manufacturing cot ton here over New England, and I judge there would be double this difference over Old England, and further, that while strikes and reduction of wages have oc curred frequently of late years in New England, 600 operatives of the Mississip pi Mills all of whom with the exception of three are Mississippiaus, are contented and no reduction. Mill property is free from taxes ten years. Mr. Richardson says it is the best pay ing property lie lias. Of course it can be a qupsHon of time when the South will m n f ,etin e nearly if not all the cot ton it raises. Circumstances may delay it, and we may not live to see it, but it come - —.— A Paris dispatch to the London Times says that the adoption of the resolution by the Bonapartist caucus, Saturday, de claring Prince Napoleon the head of the Bonapartist party settles nothing. Only fifty-four Bonapartist senators and depu ties out of one hundred and fifteen were present. Many of the absentees kept away to prevent committing them to the prince, and M. de Cassagnac, in his own organ, reproaches the prince with not is suing his manifesto through fear of exile. Lexington, Ind., Jupv 25.—Miss Char lotte Bruces a comely Scotch lassia, living near this place, in Jefferson county, cut 100 acres of wheat with a reaper keeping five binders, and part of the time six, “humping themselves,” as she expressed it. She had six horses, ready harnessed, and when one pair got tired she took another. Fourteen hundred bushels wheat from 115 acres is the yield on Charlotte’s farm. Both Chili and Peru are experiencing difficulty in raising money for war ex penses. rates of advertising. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of One Dollar nor inch for the first insertion, and Fifty t'ents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. Space. lino. 13 mos. 6 mos. I 1 year One inch. $2 50 | $5 00 *7 50 ) $lO 0o Two inches, 375 750 12 50 j 18 00 Three inches, 600 10 00 17 50 25 00 Four inches, ti 25 | 12 50 22 60 | 32 0o Fourth column j 750 15 00 25 00 40 00 Half column, 15 00 25 00 40 00 60 00 One column, [ 20 00 | *0 00 j 00 00 1 100 t-u NUMBER 3. THE GOLDSMITH LETTER. , IVe present below the letter addressed by Comptroller-General Goldsmith to the Wild Land Committees: To the Chairman and Members of the Wild Land Committee :—Gentlemen : 1 know that to have you to repair a wrong, unintentionally done me in your report, it is only necessary that I should bring to your attention the fact that such wrong has been committed. In your investiga tion as members of the Wild Land Com mittee, l have co-operated with you by every means in my power to bring oul all the facts connected with the transfer of fl. fas. and the sale of wild lands. There is no circumstance within my knowledge that I have not freely com municated, and as far as my personal acts are concerned I have disclosed to you, without reservation, every act of my administration, for I was more interest ed than you possibly could be, that your investigation should be full and complete as I knew that its results would com pletely vindicate ine from any complicity in doubtful transactions; and while your report was intended to have this effect, the omission of your chairman to em body 7 certain amendments adopted by the committee, and to which I will hereafter make reference, subjects me to the criti cism of the censorious, and while as a pri vate person I might be indifferent to their censure, as a public officer 1 cannot afford to leave a “loop whereon my enemies might Lang a doubt.” 1 do not propose to discuss the legality of the transfers or the recommendation which you make to declare them void, be cause these recommendations are concur red in by a majority of your committee, and because if they are valid no legisla tion can make them void, and if they are void no legislation can make them valid. The law of 1874 fixes their status, and what that is the courts, l presume, will determine in reference to the law as if then existed; being doubtful myself as to the transfers, i applied to the Attorney General and acted upon his opinion. if the transfers are declared void by the courts I shall have no sympathy v ith any one except such bona fida pureb isers as may have been under the opinio i of the Attorney General misled in the invest ment of their money. Beyond this 1 shall rejoice with the comjnittee in the defeat ing of frauds that may have beei perpe trated by any one. The portion of your report that loes not express what I understood to be the views of a majority, is the omi-sion to slate “that it was in evidence b fore the appointment of your commute 1 had utken official action through the Solici tor-General in Dodge and Moirgomery counties to compel the sheriffs by rule to account for the entire sales in those counties, iess-the legal costs and amount of tax paid tf* tin* State bv the transfer ees, at the time of your investigation it was in evidence that i had directed rules to be issued against every sheriff who had failed to make proper returns. In doing this I exhausted my power as Comptroller, and if any unnecessary de lay has occurred, the fault if fault there be, is not in my department. These views 1 understand were concurred in by a majority cf your committee, and were to be embodied in the report. If these facts were stated, I should have no complaint, but their omission leave an inference that i had left undone whai I ought to have done, in order to compel an accountability by the sheriffs. Another fact in evidence, and omitted, is that there is no evidence of any owner of a lot having suffered, or of having complained that the excess of sales over cost and taxes had in any instance been paid to any other than himself, or that any owner had applied to the Comptroll er for such excess and failed to receive it. Again, the report refers to my having re deemed fi. tas. from the transferees, to the amount of $8,176,23, without any warrant from the Governor. The evidence and my statement shows that this was not public money,‘hut money was received by the Comptroller from transferees of fi. fa. in cor sequence cf im proved lands being by mistake returned by several receivers, as wild lands. Mis led by these returns, 1 issued fi. fas. un der the wild land act, and received for them $8,176,23. The mistake being dis covered, the fi. fas. thus issued against improved lands as wild lands were found to be illegal, were ordered returned by me; were returned and canceled and the money received by me as Comptroller by mistake on fi. fas. issued without authori ty of law was returned by 7 me to the parties from whom it was received. ir. never became public money; it was re ceived by authority of no law enacted by the Legislature. It was money received on void fi. fas. issued by mistake, and if they had not been called in and cancelled sales would have been had under them involving in nocent parties in expensive litigation. The $10,176,06 is subject to costs due the Comptroller, and the balance is held un der the wild land act, subject to the de mands from the owner. The “surplus” not called for in a reasonable time will be covered into the treasury, as the $3,- 699,72 reported to the committee. I also understand that the committee agreed to report, instead of what was re ported that “after thorough investigation nothing could be found to implicate the comptroller-general, directly or indirect ly, in any fraud or speculation what ever.” All these facts are borne out by the ev idence and my statement before the com mittee, and I understand were to lie cov ered by the report. They have been omitted, and as the omission subjects tin* report to misconstruction, I ask you re spectfully to indicate by your concurrence in this statement the truth of .he facts set forth. I make this request because I feel con fident that it will lie your pleasure to do for me this act of justice. W. L. Goldsmith [The above as we understand, the state ment to which the two gentlemen of the committee had signed their approval be fore they were informed of the attempt to bribe other members of the commit tee. ]— Atlanta Dispatch. The British government is now build ing two steel clad ships of war, which are to cost $5,000,000 each, wit hout ar mament. They are to be plated with six teen inches of steel, to carry four guns each, to be of 9,100 tons measurement, with a speed of sixteen niiies *n hour. No sooner were these monsters laid on the stocks, however, than it was found that one of Sir Joseph Whitworth’s new guns was capable of driving a bolt of chilled steel through a steel plate twenty four inches thick, and thus once more the defensive side of naval war making is found to lie at the mercy of the offensive side. A young man named Higginson, work ng upon the plantation orCapt. R. E.- Park, about ten miles from Maeon, while mounting a mule Thursday evening, ac cidentally discharged his shot gun, the entire load taking effect in his right side. The wound will probably prove ratal.