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> V and adjoining counties. Prompt atten
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CHAS. 8. WILLINGHAM,
btenographio Court Reporter.
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jections of attorneys, rulings of the court, and
the charge of the court, without stopping the
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Traveler’s Q-uide.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION^
On and after December 16th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOW AH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden W ednesday .... 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7 pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday 5 p m
I.eave Rome Friday 6 a m
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday A a m
Vrrives at Greensport 9am
Arrive at Rome Saturday . . . . • • 6 P m
J. M. ELLIOTT, f resident and Gen’l Sup t.
lIOME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
lAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leave Rome a m
Arrive at Rome 12:00 m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Rome *
Arrive at Rome • • • 8:0Q p m
~ CIIEKOKEE RAILROAD.
Ou and after Monday, July 14, 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted): XQ L
GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave.
Cartersville elfrS™
stilesboro > 5:4j p m 5.4i pm
Taylorsville 8:07 pm o:22pm
Koekmart 7:12 p m
NO. 2.
GOING EAST.
Rockmart '
fi .1 oraville ..... 8:15 a m 8.30 a m
StHeSKo. . ..... 8:55 am 9:00 am
C :trtersville a m
N0.2 connects at Cartersville with W. &A.
train for Atlantas arriving at 12 o clock M. Re
turning leave Atlanta at 3 o’clock P. M. con
necting at Cartersville with No. 1 for points on
( h. iokti poSTELL, Manager.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule :
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta
Leave Cartersville P “
Leave Dalton
Arrive at Chattanooga
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga : .Tn £
Leave Dalton 'P ”
Leave Kingston . . . P °
Leave Cartersville
Arrive at Atlanta 11.00 p n
DAY PASSENGER—CP.
Leave Atlanta 5 : ?2 arr
I, • tve Cartersville :23 an
f K’n-rfioii 7:49 an
Leave Da Uon an
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:58 an.
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga £:IS an
i.eave Dalton 8:10 an
L.-aye Kingston a 11
Leave Cartersville an
Arrive at Atlanta 12:06 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—CP.
Leave Atlanta
Arrive at Cartersville • 7:22 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN.
Leave Cartersville a m
Arrive at Atlanta
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rnilis LARGE AND COMFORTABLE
1. House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. The
traveling public will find good, plain accommo
dations. Parties wishing board through the
Hummer will find Kingston one of the faealtnifesi.
and quietest localities in Upper Georgia, a lire**
or four families can get comfortable rooms in
view of trains. Terms very re a son able,
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ESSEX CHOICE,
The “Old Reliable” Barber,
OTILL CONTINUES THE TONSORIAL ART.
O lie is now running four chairs-three on the
east side of the square, and one over the store or
J. A. Stephens, West Main street. This latter
shop is in charge of William Johnson, an excel
lent young barber As heretofore, Essex guar
antes satisfaction, to his customers, and "’ill
h ave nothing undone to q |
VOLUME 11.
E. J. Hale k Sou’s
STEPHENS’ HISTORY
A Campardium of the History of ths United States,
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School Boolis.
To th© Patrons and Teachers of
Bartow County:
AT TnE 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 beneiltto their
..tudents. 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 consol
ations with leading teachers, have this day
adopted the following series:
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“ 2d “ 15 “ .30 “
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Hanford’s Prim- Arithmt’c It “ .27 “
“ Int’md’te Arithm’c 22 “ .45 “
“ C. 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 S3 “ .60 “
“ Georgraphv, No. 2 OS “ 1.25 “
Harvey’s Primary Speller 8 “ .15 “
“ ' Graded “ 11 “ -So “
These prices are NOT introductory, but PER
MANENT. The publishers given written guar
antee that these prices shall not be raided at any
:ime. Those having old looks can bring them
to YV. H. WIKLE & CO., and get the new
book of same grade at HALF PRICE, as given
n column 1. At makes no difference Low badly
orn the old book may be.
We earnestly urge the co-operation of patrons
m carrying out this adoption.
W. T. WOFFORD, President.
july!7-4t THEO. E. SMITH, C. S. C.
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS,
PUBLISHED BY
Iverson, Blakeinan, Taylor & Cos.,
NEW YORK,
R. E. PARK, General Agent,
rpHIS series comprises among others, the fol-
JL lowing well-known
STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS:
New Graded Readers,
Robinson’s Mathematics,
Spencerian Copy Books,
Well’s Scientidc Works,
Riddle’s Astromice.
Dana’s Geology,
Woodbury’s German,
Kerl’s Grammar,
Webster’s Dictionary,
Swinfcon’s Histories,
Swinton’s Word Books,
Swinton’s Geographies,
Pasquell’s French,
Gray’s Botanies,
Bryant A Stratton’s Book-keeping,
Cathcart’s Literary Reader, etc., etc.
Correspondence respectfully solicted.
Address ROBERT E. PAR K,
General Agent.
Care J. W. Burke A Cos., Macon, Georgia.
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and WAGONS,
R. H. JONES,
Cartersville, Georgia.
I FEEL JUSTLY PROUD OF THE REPU
tation awarded by an appreciative people. I
do a square, honest business as near as f know
how, and endeavor to give every one the worth
of his money. All work warranted, not for a
year only, but for any reasonable time. I 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. Whitely, in old Odd Bellows’ 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.
Give us your trade. mcub
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New Yorl Portrait Painting Comnany,
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DR. J. S. BEAZLEY,
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THE FREE PRESS.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION.
To the Free Press :
I notice in your paper that you arc a fer
vent and strenuous.advocate of a public
or free school for the city of Cartersville.
While I frequently endorse your inten
tions or motives, I do not always endorse
or espouse your judgment. And think
in this fervent advocacy of yours to as
sist by your free school project to restore
our little town to her former and legiti
mate prosperity, your judgment is very
greatly at fault, nor do I think you have
given this subject that critical and seru
tinous examination a good business man,
financier and public journalist should.
To advocate a free school in Carters
ville under the provisions of the bill now
before the legislature would be advoca
ting one of the most iniquitous, unjust
and nefarious measures ever advocated.
It is advocating the worst of agrarianism,
and by taxing the products of the hard
earnings of one man to support another.
Education is mental food and a luxury,
and when a man can afford it for his
family he should enjoy it; but he should
not tax and burden another class of our
very best citizens, that he and his family
may enjoy it.
Food and raiment are necessities of
life, and why not with equal justice tax
our best citizens to furnish the others
with these necessities? lam loth to be
lieve that those who advocate a free
school for our town do so as a matter of
public interest and out of patriotic pur
poses. If there are any who do candor
forces me to say that their judgments err.
Why such a project is unjust in every re
spect. Think of it! Here is the man
advocating it who pays $2 tax or per
chance $5 or $9, and his tuition per an
num is from SSO to $l5O yearly. Now,
who pays, under your free school system,
that balance of his tuition after deduct
ing what tax he pays! It is parties who
are not in the least benefited by the
school. Is that just? Is that honesty?
Yea, is it not inexcusable, unvarnished
selfishness?—The curse, the enenty of
our town, the one great bonanza that
stands in the path of her prosperity and
{Jfogress. Is this not a raid of agrarian
ism on your neighbor? But the advo
cates of this nefariously iniquitous and
unjust measure, say it will bring people
ipto our town, and add to its prosperity.
Nay, none so ignorant as to believe that;
is it not a cover for their brazen selfish-
ness ‘L
Let us see how it would operate. We
already have too great a proportion of
people in our town without means. We
need more people with more money; not
more people without money. Too many
of that kind now. We need capital to
develop our bounteous natural resources,
and give employment to our labor and
make wealth. We need more money to
utilize our labor. The wealth producing
element, labor, is here, but there is no
capital to put it in operation. Capital is
a sensitive thing, and it will not venture
where it is not protected and made re
munerative. It will not go where it is
burdened. Now, by legislative enact
ment place upon our little town a bonded
debt and increase our tax, would a man
of capital come among us with his mon
ey to give employment to our labor and
buildup our town? Would he come
where the very best piece of property in
town is now with two-thirds of its value
or first cost gone, and not paying over
one per cent, per annum, and the owner
not able to insure it. No, never! Then
should you put an addition one per cent,
tax on it and a bonded debt, binding ev
erything of every person? You would
not only prevent others from coming,
but w ould drive out the best class of our
citizens. In all candor, can any man in
town a fiord to pay, as we did last year,
$9.50 state and county tax on the SI,OOO,
and then $4 municipal tax, making $13.-
50. And to this add the one per cent,
contemplated by the bill, making an ad
ditional $lO on the SI,OOO, which would
make in all the fabulous sum of $23.50
on the SI,OOO tax. No property owner in
town could afford to pay this sum and
the sheriff and marshal would have to
dispose of the property to pay it. And
who would want such property ? Will
this state of affairs make a town? I an
swer, No! It will soon demolish and
depopulate it. Yet they say it w ill in
crease the value and profits of the prop
erty of our town. What, by bringing in
a greater number of beneficiaries ? By
increasing the proportion of the benefi
ciaries to the benefactors ? Who would a
free school bring into our town ? Would
any man of means be brought to it for
such a pitiful consideration as a little tui
tion?' Would he not go to some city
where property is on the increase in val
ue and where there would be a better class
teachers and a better and more perfect
management of schools ? It could only
bring to our town citizens of no means,
and we already have too great a propor
tion of that class. Aou would by this
means bring from the farms white and
colored people who are now producers
and make of them vagabonds, for our
best people to educate their children.
You will thus derange our agriculture,
one of our main stays, and damage our
best planting interest. You thus seek to
tax some of the cardinal virtues of men,
to-wit: industry, a desire to accumulate
somethihg for old age and to be an ad
vantage to society and neighbors. And
that to sustain and support the vices ot
idleness and a reliability upon others for
a support by a foraging agrarianism.
The present system of free school pro
posed would be controlled by municipal
politics and would always enter in our
town elections; and as it would require a
citizenship of only ten days to make a
voter qualified, it would place our taxa
tion and free school system in the hands
of a class of our population who would
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 14, 1879.
have no interest in the prosperity of our
town. It is said by ome that popula
tion is wealth. That is true, when the
population are industrious and will work,
or where they ate intelligent and virtu
ous. But when it is composed of a class
that will not use their muscle to an ad
vantage, or where they have no intelli
gence or virtue as the class the free school
system would bring to our town, they are
impoverishing. Or, where there is not
enough capital to utilize labor, as is the
case in our town, laborers become also a
burden for want of an implement or as
sistant with which to labor. The friends
of this iniquity of free school claim it
would improve values of property. Can
you improve the value of property by in
creasing the burden upon it ? Can you
improve the value of property by taxing
from it all its profits and entering upon
its corpus? Can you build upon a town
by an increase of taxation and placing
over its property a bonded debt? Would
you not, by increasing the tax of the
business men of our town, force them to
raise their profits on their goods to live ?
Is there a business man in town who is
more than making a living for himself
and famify? Would this increase in
profits, he would have to place on his
merchandise to be enabled to meet his in
creased tax, force our country friends to
other markets? Would we not then
howl louder with jealousy of Rome and
Acworth? Is not the man who has
money and spends it for real estate im
proves it the only true exponent in build
ing up a town ? W ould not he give employ
ment to mechanics? Would not he build
up manufactories and give employment to
labor? Would any man invest money
in a town where it would not pay and
where it would be burdened, embarrassed
and rendered profitless! Is there a small
town in the state that has ventured to
risk such an experiment as a free school
supported by an ad valorem tax, collected
from a property that is already a burden
to its owner? No,’none. Athens, the
Mars hill oT Georgia, yes of the south,
snd whose property is increasing in value
and gives to its owners profit, Is not
willing to risk such an experiment but is
trying to establish a free school by sub
scription. Athens, with her justness to
all, will not force one class of her people
to become benefactors to another class
whether they w ant to or are able to give
or not. She does not propose by legisla
tive enactment to rob one class for the
benefit of another. She has too much
justness to place the minority of her best
citizens at the mercy of the thajority, to
burden them lor their good. She does
not think of trying to build herself up in
this way. But they say Atlanta has a
free school. So she has: hut her proper
ty is on the increase hi value, her profits
on investments in property are good.
She can afford the luxury. Her city
government is more perfect and wise,
the laws for her government are more
rigid, the workings of her municipal
machinery are more complete and per
fect. We cannot make a pigmy or dwarf
bear the burden of a giant. We are not
able to make a mountain of a mole hill.
We are poor and must have poor ways,
and the sooner we recognize this fact
the better for us. Does not the funda
mental laws of the land guarantee the
protection of person and property. Then
would our municipal government, fail
or refuse to protect the person and prop
erty of one class of her citizens, to pro
tect or benefit the person of another.
If this free school project was abandoned
who would be injured. But suppose it
was on us would it not benefit one class
and injure another. Then why not let
us remain in the status to which the gen
eral law has remanded us under our pres
ent free-school system of our State. If
such a project would build up our town,
why are not our heaviest tax payers in
favor of it ? If it improves their profits and
the value of their property why do they
not favor it ? Why do not that class of
men who have show n themselves capable
of making and managing property favor
it ? Why has more than four-fifths of the
property of our town spoke in petition to
the legislature against it? They have
judgment sufficient to know the follaoyof
such an insidious decay. They know the
damage that would follow to our town.
Why demagoguerj' of thus arraying the
interest of the property holder and ener
getic business man, and the non-property
holder, and idleman against each other ?
When a sensible man comes among us,
and thinks of settling in our town is not
one. of the first questions he will ask,
Has your town any loaded debt, is she in
debt, what is your tax? How does pro
perty rate in value, what per cent does it
pay on money invested in it? And if
told you are in debt, and have bonds out,
and that he will not be able to insure it
and pay tax, and that he cannot realize
more than from one to two per cent, per
annum on an investment, would he
invest? It is the man who puts his
money in real estate, and improves it
that builds up your town, and if it is not
profitable to invest and improve he will
not do so. Patriam in Amo Re.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION.
To The Free Press:
Shall Cartersville have a public school
system ? This is the question that is now
being agitated. It is one of no little con
sequence. Not a few of this town’s most
prominent citizens are in favor of it,
while some oppose it.
Although the editor of this paper has
kindly solicited a discussion of the sub
ject in his columns, yet none seems to be
desirous of expressing their views. Per
haps each one is waiting for some one else
to make a beginning.
Now-, my opinion is that whether chil
dren shall grow up in ignorance or not,
is no question for government of any
kind. The education of children is a du-
ty that devolves solely and entirely upon
parental authority. When government
undertakes to wrest from the hands of
parents the education of their children, it
violates the object for which it was fram
ed, and runs counter to the wise teach
ings of Jehovah.
‘‘Can the public school system be main
tained in Cartersville w ithout 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.” Ido not
think so: and my reasons are many and
various.
We are, indeed, in the midst of a revo
lution, wrought by steam, electricity,
applied science and art. The present
times are specially characterized by in
dustrial change and progress. Men do
not need to be more honest, truthful,
brave, trusty, quick of understanding,
and sound in judgment, than of old.
Nor do they need to be more industrious;
but, the labor to which they are called is
more diversified, demands more intelli
gence, skill, aptitude and taste. The
days when ignorant labor could thrive
have gone by forever; it is no longer
“rule of thumb,” but rule of reason,
which the workman may safely take for
his guidance, in the face of world-wide
competition.
But, assuredly, it is an impossibility to
educate all the children of the land.
Nothing can be more absurd than to think
of doing such a thing.
“But,” says some one, “if we only bad
a public school in our midst, how many
pdor children, now unable to do so, could
attend school!” Granting this to be
true, would it be just and honorable to set
up in our midst a mammoth charity
school—an eleemosynary institution —
supported b}‘ taxes paid by all the inhabi
tants in common, when only some of
those inhabitants will reap an advantage
from it? Most assuredly it would not.
Again, children are the creatures, and,
as such, the property of God. He com
mits them to their parents —not to a mu
nicipal government —as His representa
tives to receive and train them. Parents,
therefore, are God’s officers to teach their
children; and this truth lies at the foun
dation of His moral government, and the
practical experimental knowledge of
which is essential to the excellence, use
fulness and happiness of every human
being. That parent, then, who volunta
rily surrenders to the government under
which he lives, his children to be train
ed and taught by it, is false to himself, to
his country and to his God.
Such an idea as inaugurating a public
school syetem, for the education of the
people, never entered the minds of such
babes in statesmanship as Washington,
Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall,
&e. But this great philanthropic, and
patriotic work was reserved to illustrate
the luminous patriotism and intellgienee
of the present day. How very far we
have drifted from the simplicity of our
fathers! Again, government, with equal
propriety should have a mammoth barn,
where all that the inhabitants produce is
to be placed for the public good. Is there
a man in this entire land so very foolish
as to advocate such a procedure as this?
Such a man would justly deserve the cen
sure and contempt of all good and honest
citizens. And yet, there are many men
in this town who would not think of do
ing this, but are remarkably anx'xis for
the public school system to be inaugura
ted. Such a class of men never seem to
think that the principle involved is the
same; that one is to benefit the physical,
the other the mental powers' of the in
habitants. Aliquis .
THE GREAT TRIAL.
The Rules Adopted Governing the Im
peachment of Col. Goldsmith.
Mr. Howell, chairman of the committee
to prepare the rules for the government
of the senate, pending the impeachment
trial of IV. L. Goldsmith, submitted the
following as the rules, which were adop
ted. It is interesting reading matter.
No 1. When the house of representa
tives shall notify the Senate of the ap
pointment and direction of managers to
bring the article of impeachment into
the senate, the president, unless other
wise ordered shall direct the secretary
forthwith to inform the house that the
senate is ready to receive the managers
for the purpose of exhibiting such
articles.
When such managers shall appear at
the bar of the senate and signify their
readiness to exhibit such articles, the
president shall direct the doorkeeper to
make proclamation according to the order
in such cases provided. Whereupon the
doorkeeper shall make the following
proclamation; “Oyez, Oyez!” All per
sons are commanded to keep silence, on
pain of imprisonment, while the house
of representatives exhibits articles of
impeachment against Washington L.
Goldsmith, comptroller-general of this
state. The managers shall then read
the articles, whereupon the president
shall respond thus: The senate will take
proper order on the subject of Oils im
peachment of which the house of repre
sentatives will have notice.
The managers retiring, the senate shall
immediately fix the time for considering
such impeachment, and send notice of
such appointment to the house and
to the chief Justice of the Supreme
court and the secretary shall issue
for the defendant an original and a copy
summons bearing test in the name of
Justice and of the president and in form
as follows:
The state of Georgia, ss.
The senate of Georgia to Washington
L. Goldsmith, comptroller-general, greet
ing :
Whereas the house of representatives
of this state on the day of ,
1879, exhibited to the senate articles of
inpeachment against you, and said
comptroller-general, in these words
following:
(Here insert the Articles.)
and demand that you should be put to
answer the accusations as set forth in said
articles. You are therefore hereby
summoned to appear before the senate of
Georgia at their chamber in the city of
Atlanta, on the day of at
o'clock, then and there to answer to said
articles of impeachment, am] to abide by,
obey any judgments as the senate of
Georgia shall make in the premises
according to the constitution and the
laws of said state.
Herein fail not.
Witness, Chief Justice ol' the Su
preme court, and /president of the
senate of said State, this clay of
1879.
Secretary of senate, State of Georgia.
Said summon shall be served by tie
messenger of the senate on the defendant
personally or by leaving a copy at his resi
dence at least two days before the time
appointed, of which service the said
messenger shall make return on said origi
nal.
5. The time having arrived the presi
dent of the senate shall announce as fol
lows: “According to order the senate
w ill now be organized as the High Court
of impeachment of the State of Georgia
for the trial of Washington L. Goldsmith
comptroller-general,” whereupon said
Chief Justice shall assume the chair and
present the following oath, and the sec
retary calling from the roll:
“You solemnly swear (or affirm) that
iu all things appertaining to the U'ial of
the impeachment of \Vashington L. Gold
smith notv pending, you will do impar
tial justice according to the constitution
and laws of this state, so held you God.”
Senators coming in afterwards shall
take the same oat h.
6. The court being thus organized, the
justice presiding shall inquire of the man
agers it they are ready to proceed. Should
they reply in the negative ancLask further
reasonable time it may be granted by the
senate on motion. But should they be
ready the secretary shall proceed to ar
raign the defendant as follows:
“Washington L. Goldsmith attend the
articles of impeachment which the house
of representatives has exhibited against
you, and say are you guilty or not
guilty,” and shall read said articles.
Upon motion of defendant or his
counsel such time may be allowed to
plead as the senate may adjudge reasona
ble.
Should the defendant appear in person
or by ceunssl, the fact of his appearance
and by whom shall be recorded ; if he
fails to appear, and no other appointment
tor such appearance is made, his non-ap
pointment shall be recorded, and the
trial may proceed in his absence as on
plea of “not guilty.” In examining
witnesses the rules of the Superior courts
of this state shall prevail; but a witness
who is a senator, having been sworn,
shall testify at his seat.
10. Should a senator desire a question
put to a witness it shall be reduced to
writing and put by the presiding Justice.
11. Counsel not exceeding two for
each party may be heard.
12. Ail motions while the said court is
sitting shall be addressed to the presiding
Justice in the terms usual in the
of this state, and upon demand or him,
or any senator shall be reduced to writing
and read by the secretary.
13. Pending the trial, the presiding jus
tice shall rule.upon all questions of evi
dence and practice, which ruling shall
stand as the judgment of the senate,
unless a senator shall ask, or the presi
ding justice shall see lit to take a formal
vote.
11. Preliminary or interloctury ques
tions, and all motions, by either side,
may be argued -not exceeding one hour
on each side, unless the Senate shall grant
an extension of time.
15. All orders and decisions by the sen
ate, except on motions to adjourn and to
extend a speaker’s time, shall be by yeas
and nays, except upon the final question
the majority shall prevail.
16. No senator shall speak more than
ten minutes on any preliminary or inter
locutory question,' no more than fifteen
minutes on the final question, including
all the articles of impeachment, unless
by consent of the senate, without debate.
17. The secretary of the senate shall
issue subpoeans in behalf of either party,
which shall be served by the messenger,
and of which the following shall be the
form:
To greeting you are hereby com
manded to apperr before the senate of
Georgia on the day 1879, at the
senate chamber in Atlanta in said state,
then and there to testify your knowledge
in the cause before the senate, w herein
the house of representatives has impeach
ed W. L. Goldsmith. Fail not. Witness
Chief Justice of the Supreme court
and president of the senate of At
tanta. Ga., this day of 1876.
Secretary of the senate.
18. The presiding justice shall direct the
form of all pro'ess and procedure not de
fined by the rules.
19. The said court shall have power to
enforce all process issued by it, and to
punish all contempts.
20. The case on each side shall.be open
ed by one person. The final argument
on the merits may be made by not more
than two on each side (unless otherwise
ordered by the senate on application) and
the argument shall be opened and closed
by the house.
21. The argument closed, the presi
ding Justice shall put the following
question: “Senators, yoif are now ready
to decide upon the articles of impeach
ment now pending? Should the majori
ty not vote affirmatively, the senate upon
motion, shall fix the time when further
proceedings shall lie had; should the ma
jority be ready, the articles of impeach
ment shall be read separately, and -the
voting shall be by ayes and nays on each
“seriatim.” The question shall be
senator, what say you, is he “guilty or
not guilty?” And the senators, rising
at his seat, shall announce his vote, guilty
or not guilty.
22. If no article of such impeachment is
sustained by two-thirds of the senator
present, judgment of acquittal shall b
entered, in such terms of the presiding
Justice shall direct; but if conviction
shall be had on any of said articles, the
sentence of removal trom office of honor
or trust or profit in this state, shall br
pronounced by the presiding Justice in
proper terms, and an engrossed and certi
fied copy of such judgment shall be de
posited in the office of tiie secretary o:
state.
23. The trial having begun, the said
court shall and proceed therein continu
ously from day to-day until judgment
shall adjournment sine die by vote; but
upon proper cause it may make such ad
ournments as may seem fit. No adjourn
ment of said court shall adjourn the sen
ate shall resume his seat, announcing—
“ The senate is now in sessoin tor legisla
tive purpose,” shall proceed with the
order of such business, or if the fixed
hour of adjournment of the senate has ar
rived, shall announce the senate ad
journed.
24. The times of session of the court
after trial is begun, shall till otherwise
ordered, be as follows: The court shall
sit each day (Sunday excepted) im
mediately after the usual opening of the
senate and after the reading of the Jour
nal of any legislative proceedings of the
preceding' day, and unless otherwise or‘ :
dered shall adjourn at the time fixed for
adjournment of the senate by standing
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NUMBER 5.
order.
25. When any time appointed for pro
ceeding in the case shall arrive after the
trial begun, any pending legislative bu ;
ness shall be suspended, and the presi
hour for such purpose having arrived,
the senate will now resume it sea-ion a
a court of Impeachment, shall yield the
chair to the chief justice.”
“The proceedings of the court, shall
be recorded by the secretary of titb sen
ate, on the Journal of the senate, pre
facing the entry ot such matter at the be
gining of each session, thus: “The sen
ate having according to order, resume.!
its session as a court of impeachment and
,chief justice, presiding.'”
The proceedings shall be public, but tin*
senate, by a two-thirds vote of those pres
ent and voting may close the doors for
deliberation in the final or any interlocu
tory questions. Such deliberation ended
the decisions shall lie made in open ses
sion.
Before the final adjournment of the
court, the minutes of the entire proceed
ing upon the impeachment shall he read
from • the journal and an order approved
reciting the fact of such reading shall be
entered on the journal and by the pre
siding justice.
29. These Rules may be altered or ad
ded to by the said court by a two-thirds
vote of all the senators present.
Evan P. Howell,
John T. Clark,
John A. Stephens,
Committee of the senate.
TERRIBLE-AWFUL.
True—‘The man that will take a news
paper for a length of time and then send
it back refused and unpaid for would
swallow a blind dog’s dinner, and then
stone the dog for being blind.’
‘He would do worse than that, He
would marry a girl on trial, and send her
back with the words ‘don’t suit’ chalked
on her back after the honeymoon.’
‘Worse than that: He would steal the
chalk to write it with, and afier'wards use
it on his shirts, to save the expense of
washing, and then sue his wife’s father
for a mouth’s boarding.’— Standard.
‘Worse yet. He’d chase a sick rat ten
miles over a corduroy road, and institute
apostmorten examination after he had
caught him, in order to recover a stolen
grain of corn.’— Morgantown Star.
He would steal rotton acorns from a
blind pig. He would steal all the win
ter meat of an editor.— Somerset Herald.
He would sponge a living from the hard
earnings of his poor old father, till the
poor old gentleman became unable to
work, and then let him die in the poor
house, and afterwards seli his remains to
the medical students for anatom uie pur
poses. —Blvffton Banner.
He would dig up rhe boties of his moth
er and make dice of them, and play
‘chuek-a-luek’ on his grandmother’s
tombstone for a copper cent which a
horse thief had stolen from the eye of a
dead fifteenth amendment.— Quitman
Banner.
A puppy’s eyes open in nine days. We
have waited that time in vain en
deavoring to add something else to tills
man’s character, but to use the express
ion of a Georgia judge, ‘the English
language is insolvent.’ — Americas Be or
der.
What in the world are you fellows
whitewashing such a man for r Why the
man that would do such a thing would
steal the last, breath from a dying man to
whistle “Yankee Doodle” over his
grandmother’s grave.— Free Press.
QUININE.
[New York Tribuue.j
Quinine has gone up. The poor, fe
ver-stricken patient finds his pills dearer
than ever. The two or three American
manufactures thereupon dance with war
whoops-of delight and shout, “We told
you so!” Of course they did. They
knew very well what day they would
raise the price, and how far they wou Id
raise ir. They knew’just as well that
their time is short: they must have the
market in their own hands as yet, and
are willing to make this extortionate
profit out of the immediate needs of the
public. None of the manufactured ar
ticles, which is to come in free of duty,
has as yet been ‘imported. When it
comes in the price will fall to its proper
level, and nothing they can do will keep
it up. There is no real reason for the
present rise, the manufactures having
stock in hand sufficient for many months,
except their desire to reap as large as
harvest from their long monopoly'as pos
sible.
EADS ISTHMUS RAILROAD PROJECT.
Capt. Eads, of jetty fame, is in Wash
ington talking up the great project of con
necting the two oceans at the Isthmus of
Darien by means of a gigantic railroad
which will take ships bodily over. All
that is necessary is a railroad big enough,
and trucks strong enough. The car is
to be in the shape of a cradle, end run
under the ship, taking her out of one
ocean, and landing her in the other, cargo
and all in twenty-four hours. lie w ill
remain in Washington until he has
brought his plan to the attention of the
government. The cost, he says will be
three-fourths less than the proposed
canal.
Captain Eads is in the highest spirits
over the success of his jetty plan, and if
he can get government encouragement,
will embark in the inter-oeean project
w ith all the energy and money he can
command.
A correspondent of the Chicago Trib
une contends that the retail druggist
makes 150 per cent on quinine ‘hus:
grains at 2 cent a grain gives $-3.75. Let
the cost stand at $3.50 an ounce, though
it has been less for months, and you
have a clear profit of ss.2s—just 150 per
cent. As the calculation is made for the
region of Chicago, w r e do not pretend to
say that it applies elsewhere.
A gentleman from Mississippi says that
.Jefferson Davis will make a mint of
money out of his hook, which is to be
published this fall by the Appletons. The
general expectation is that it will have a
tremendous sale, and bring the author a
handsome income.
There is one specially good feature
about basket picnics. The woman you
hate always gets chased by snakes, and
tlie woman who tries to boss the excur
sion oats too much, and is laid away with
a case of colic.
M. Gambetta’s friends consumed 3,t>00
Havanas before 11 o’clock, at his recent
jiete in the Palais Bourbon. M. Gam
betta’s friends must have had capaciou
poekets.
The Supreme court of North Carolina
has decided that dogs are not property in
that State.