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.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.
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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.
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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.