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AMD
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, u , SVIU.K, : : : : Georgia.
(Office: Rank block, up-stairs.)
ILL PRACTICE IS THE COURTS OF
V \ the Cherokee and adjoining circuits.
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TRIPPE & NEEL,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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\\ I, nth State and Federal-, except Bartow
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A T T ORN EY-AT-LA AV,
—AMD—
dealer in real estate,
CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
R. W. MURPHET,
A T TORNEY-AT - T - A. AV ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up-stairs) in the briek building, cor
ner of Main & Erwin streets. julylS.
J. A. BAKER,
A T T O R N E Y - A T-LAAV,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
\\TILL practice in all the courts of Bartow
\ V and adjoining counties. Rroinpt atten
tion given to all business entrusted to nis care.
Office in Bank Block over the post office.
julylH.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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Superior Courts of Noitli-west Georgia, ami the
Supreme Courts at Atlanta.
office west side public Square, up-Staivs over
\V. W . Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of
Postoffice. _ jnlyl3.
T. W. MILNER. J. w. HARRIS, ,TR.
MILNER & HARRIS,
attorneys-a r r -na w ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office on West Main Street. julylß
F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely & Williams store.)
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
I WILL FIL. TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suitthe times.
&g* Work al warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county.
augls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre ft Co.’s Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
YATILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
W 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
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. jiilyla.
CHAS. bTwILMNCHAM,
Stenographic Court Reporter.
[ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT?!
i MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES,
-I taking down the testimony entire; also, ob
jections of attorneys, rulings of the court, and
the charge of the court, without stopping the
witness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro
ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis
laction guaranteed.
Traveler’s G-uide.
\ EIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after December lffili, 1378, the following
eheduie will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOW AH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday Sam
Vrrivc at Gadsden Wednesday .... Gam
Leave Gad-alen Wednesday <pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday spm
Leave Rome Friday Bam
vrrive at Gadsden Saturday am
Vrrives at Greensport '.tain
vrrivc at Rome Saturday <pni
j. it. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup t.
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leave Rome 8:10 am
Arrive at Rome 12:00 m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
I .cave Rome
Arrive at Rome •_ • •• 8:Q0 p m
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, July 14, 1879, the train
on this Hoad will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
NO. 1.
GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave.
Cartersville 4:56 pm
stilesboro 5:45 pm 5:4i p 111
Taylorsville 6:07 p m 0:22 p m
Rockmart 7:12 p m
NO. 2.
GOING EAST.
Rockmart
Taylorsville B:l.>am 8:30 am
Stilesboro 8:55 am ,1:00am
Cartersville 9:55 am
N0.2 connects at Cartersville with W. &A.
train for Atlanta* arriving at 12 o’clock M. Re
turning leave Atlanta at 3 o’clock, 1 . M. con
necting at Cartersville With No. 1 for poiuts on
CheroKee railroad.
JOHN POSTELL, (Manager.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 8:00 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:oßpm
Leave Kingston
Leave Dalton 7:10 p in
Arrive at Chattanooga p m
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm
Leave Dalton
Leave Kingston 8:89 pm
Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 p m
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:20 api
Leave Cartersville • • 7:23 am
Leave Kingston 7:49 a in
Leave Dalton 9:21 a in
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:50 ain
PAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 6:15 a ni
Leave Dalton 8:10 am
Leave Kingston 9:43 a m
Leave Cartersville 10:11am
Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:10 pm
Arrive at Cartersville * 7:22 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN.
Leave Cartersville 6:05 am
Arrive at Atlanta • 3:45 a m
COUCH HOUSE,
(Kingston, Georgia.)
mills LARGE AND COMFORTABLE
I House is now kept by W. W. R ainey. The
traveling public will lind good, plain accommo
dations. Parties wishing board through the
summer will And Kingston one of the healthiest
and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three
or four families can get comfortable rooms in
view of trains. Terms very reasonable.
jVy25. W. \V . It ATNEY.
P II o T O OK A P II s !
YOUNG’S GALLEBY,
Shorter Block, : : : : : Rome, Ga.
Life size (bust) for only ten dol
lars; half life size only five dollars. Lis
work is all strictly first-class. Makes copies of
a llsorts of pictures any size and character de
sired. june29
VOLUME 11.
E. J. Hale A Son’s
STEPHENS’ HISTORY
A Compendium of the History of the United States,
For Schools and Colleges,
By Hon. ALEX. H. STEPHENS.
(513 pp. 12m0.)
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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:
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“ lnt’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 33 “ .00 “
“ Georgraphy, No. 2 66 “ 1.25 “
Harvey’s Primary Speller 8 “ .15 “
“ Graded* “ 11 “ .20
These prices are NOT introductory, but PER
MANENT. The publishers given written guar
antee that these prices shall not he 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 makes no difference how badly
torn the old book may be.
We earnestly urge the co-operation of patrons
in carrying out this adoption.
W. T. WOFFORD, President,
ju 1 y 17-4 t TIIEO. E. SMITH, C. S. C.
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEIT BOORS,
PUBLISHED liY
Iverson, Blakeman, Taylor & Cos.,
NEW YORK,
R. E. PARK, General Agent,
rpiIIS series comprises among others, the fol
-1 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 Dictionary,
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.
CorresiKmdencc respectfully solicted.
Address ROBERT E. PARK,
General Agent.
Care J. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia.
CARRIAGES. BUGGIES and WAGONS.
I*. 11. JONF.S,
< artersvi 1 le, Georgi a.
I FEEL JUSTLY PROUD OF THE REPU
tatiou awarded bv 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 lor 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. Wlately, in old Odd bellows’ building,
corner aliove new Masonic Temple. IV agons,
Buggies, &c., kept by him are just what they are
represented to he. All sold under warrantee. I
also have a shop in Rome, at the old stand of D.
Lindsey ft Cos., run by R. L. Williams, where
new work and all kinds of repairing will be
done at prices to suit the times,
jgggSf* Give us your trade. me lib
A. F. MURPHY,
Rome, : : : : : t Georgia.
(lENF.RAL SOUTHERN AGENT
New York Portrait Painting Company.
yXT-ill take orders for any quali-
YV tv and size portrait known to the art for
less money than such work can be done for by
any otherhouse. Parties desiring portraits can
send photograph, with description of complexion,
hair, eyes and dress. june!2-6m
ACTUAL BUSINESS !
Students on Change
—AT
Moore’s
business university,
ATLANTA, GA.
rn 11E BEST FR AC TICAL BUSINESS SCHOOL
I in the country. Students can enter, at any
time. Total expenses for three months, inctorf
in.r tuition stationery, board, etc., otuu
for circulars. 1 ' 01 B. F. MOORE, President.
aprs4-3m.
PILES AND FISTULA CURED
DR. J. S. BEAZLEY,
At Stilesboro, Bartow county, 6a., ana
IK. A. G. c , awfordville> Ga .,
m- a specialty of diseases of
IVlttie Rectum. They will treat
ation, Prdtapsiis, etc., of tho lwwels and will
guarantee a perfect cure in a shoit v hue in
erv case of piles without the use of the knife and
lery little pain. Will point to cases cured or
give the best ol reference ll desired. Al cler
gymen treated gratis. mc
THE FREE PRESS.
WEST POINT OAHETSHIP.
To be Appointed from the Seventh Con
gressional District.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, June 21, 1879.
Tlon. IF. IT. Felton , M. C., Cartersville, Ga.:
Sir—You are invited by the Secretary of War
to nominate, at your earliest convenience, a le
gally qualified candidate, to appointment as
Cadet to the United States Military Acade
my, from the Seventh Congressional District of
Georgia, who mast be at West Point not later
than the 19th of June, 1880, but whose appoint
ment is required by law to be made as nearly one
year in advance of that date as is practicable.
Your immediate attention to the subject and to
the terms of the accompanying circular is ear
nestly requested.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Adjutant General.
Vice Cadet Edgar Hubert to graduate June,
1880.
In obedience to the above request of the Sec
retary of War, I respectfully invite every young
man who is a bona fide resident of the 7th Con
gressional District of Georgia, between the ages
of 17 and 22 years, and who may wish to compete
for this appointment, to appear before a board
of examiners in Cartersville, the first Tuesday in
October, 1879.
I will nominate the applicant selected by this
board, after a rigid and impartial examination.
The studies in which thorough proficiency is
required, are Orthography, Reading, Writing,
Geography, English Grammar, History and
Arithmetic. None need apply unless they are
well-nigh perfect in these branches, especially
Arithmetic.
They must lie physically sound and at least
five feet in height. I will furnish “regulations”
to those applicants who desire them.
Very respectfully, W. H. FELTON.
BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
Bartow county—Messrs. J. G. Ryals, Theo. E.
Smith, Tlios. H. Baker, Amos T. Akennan.
Catoosa county—Messrs. A. .1 Leet, A. Gra
ham, T. A. Williams F. C. Church.
Cherokee county—Messrs. Marcus Field, 11. W.
Newman, W. N. Wilson, P. H. Brewster.
Dade county—Messrs. J. W. Townsend, R. A.
Morgan, R. M. Paris.
Cobb county—Messrs. W. T. Winn, John O.
Gartrell, Gilbert Tennent, Marion Phillips.
Chattooga county—Messrs. W esley Shropshire,
Joseph T. Hamilton, John Starling, F. Cheney.
Floyd covrity—Messrs. G. A. Nunnally, L. J.
Jones, Daniel S. Printup, R. D. Harvey.
Gordon county—Messrs. David Ramsaur, 11.
B. Herrington, G. W. Wells, M. V. Watts.
Haralson county—Messrs. Tlios. Philpot, Wal
ter Brock, John Tomlinson Dr. Hutchurson.
Murray county—Messrs. Jathan Gregory, Ross
Bates, S. H. Henry, Dr. Stafford.
Paulding county—Messrs. George Lewis, John
Cloutz, J. B. Dean, H. J. Sligh.
Polk county—Messrs. Ivey Thompson, M. Lid
dell, R. W. Everett, R. L. Poole.
Whitfield county—Messrs. Dawson A. Walker,
W. H. Tibbs, W.C. Richardson, W. L. Headrick.
Walker county—Messrs. D. Farriss, Robert
Dougherty, Wm. A. Garmany, L. R. Dickey.
Any five members of the above board shall con
stitute a quorum.
ELEC T RICITY !
Z FELECTRICITY I
Possesses the greatest power known to man, ouee
but little understood and for all time greatly
feared, is now made useful and subservient
to man.
It HE NEW METHOD" I
Of protection against lightning, on the theory
and patent of J. C. CHAMBERS, which he has
recently discovered, is rapidly taking the place
of the old rod.
I THE OLD PLAN T
Of redding buildings—connecting the rod with
the earth—has been proven unsafe, and even
dangerous. The new method places the rod and
points on the roof of the house, much after the
old style, with Chambers’ Improved Insulators,
with no rod running down the side of the house
to the earth.
I RODS AND POINTS I
Put up on Chambers’ theory, pperate as active
agents facilitating the natural laws of electrici
ty by a continuous discharge or throwing off the
negative electricity, thereby neutralizing the
positive in the atmosphere above, and particu
larly so during a heavy thunder storm, thus re
pelling a stroke instead of inviting it. In the
event these points should not |throw off the
negative fast enough and a stroke should take
place at one of these points, it simply runs off at
the other points and is disseminated in the at
mosphere above where it belongs.
\ CHAMBERS’ NEW METHOD I
Has been examined and thoroughly tested by
scientific men, ayd pronounced to be the only
correct principle for protection.
We have accepted an agency, and are now
ready to put up rods on the pi an of the new
method. Any one wishing to see this theory
demonstrated, can do so by calling at our store,
where we will take pleasure in exhibiting the
many advantages it has over the old plan.
•
XV, A. WILLIAMS Sc SON,
Corner Erwin and West Main Streets,
ang7-5m CARTERSVILLE, GA.
The “Old Reliable’’
GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE.
WILLIAM SATTERFIELD,
(At his old stand,)
Respectfully reminds iiis old
friends and the public that lie keeps con
stantly on hand a large stock of
Groceries, Provisions, Lite.,
Which he sells at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
His stock consists in part of
FLOUR, MEAL AND BACON,
SUGAR, COFFEE AND TEA,
ALL KINDS OF CANNED GOODS,
and everything usually kept in a first-class fam
ily grocety and provision store.
te®*- HIS BAR is supplied with the best
Liquors to be found in the market. He also
keeps a fine assortment of
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
The public is respectfully invited to give him a
trial. -lb' 2l
The Cartersville High School.
WILL BE OPEN FOR THE ADMISSION
of pupils
MONDAY’, 11TII OF AUGUST, 1879.
and continue four months, tuition payable
monthly. Patrons are earnestly desired to send
their children at the beginning of the term.
Rates of tuition arc from ?2 to $4 per month, ac
cording to grade. Patrons will receive the bene
fit of the public fund. R. JOHNSTON, I rin.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1879.
CARTERSVILLE AS A MARKET.
To The Free Press:
] often ask myself when alone. Should
our farmers bring their cotton and other
products to Cartersville for a market or
should they sell it in Rome and other
markets, and buy their clothing, shoes,
sugar, coiTee and other goods in the mar
ket in which they sell their cotton and
other products? Are the planters of our
county under any obligations this year
to the merchants of Cartersville? I an
swer no. In Cartersville our best farm
ers have had no credit. The hardest
working and best class of our fafiners
could get no favors or indulgences in
Cartersville. Those of them who had
always paid their obligations were, when
they asked for a short indulgence on a
little bacon and corn to make their crops
on, turned oft with, in many instances,
an insult. Then since they have strug
gled hard and made a crop, in many in
stances, on half allowance for self,
families and stock do they owe what
they have made without any succor or
aid in way of patronage to the merchants
of Cartersville? Can they afford to
build up a town or people that will not
assist them? 1 hose of our farmers who
have been doing their business in Rome,
selling cotton the have had there advan
tage over those that have been selling
and dealing with home merchants. In
this they have been able to go to Koine
and get advances made on crops in way
of money and supplies to make their
crops on. And when money was ad
vanced it was done at the rate of 10 per
cent, per annum interest, and supplies at
about first cost with an interest of 10 per
cent, per annum, and only obligated to
carry their cotton to that market, and get
honest weights and highest market price,
and if they choose they could sell in
other markets and pay money on their
obligations. This gives those who had
been trading in Chat market and become
acquainted very decided advantages over
those who had not been in the habit of
trading in that market hut at home. Fre
quently during this year I have heard a
gentleman who lives in Cartersville and
has high social and intellectual standing
throughout the country, and who lias
some 40 or 50 families who are farming
on his lands, and directly and indirectly
dependent on him and his credit to make
their crops, say he had not paid his board
during the spring and summer months of
this year because the merchants of Car
tersville would not indulge neither him
nor one of those living with him. And
being forced to pay cash for the supplies
for these families to make their crops on
he had to deprive himself of the neces
saries of life and get credit for his board.
Noble Roman law* be been, who has
thus assisted farmers and hands to culti
vate of his land some 1,000 acres or the
rise and get for themselves and families a
living and make a surplus for market,
and thus make wealth for their country.
And yet this gentleman has been cursed,
derided and abused by the people of his
own town, and yet he is more advantage
in this way to build it up than hundreds
in its incorporate limits. And often have
I heard him exclaim during this year
that he had made a mistake in not having
those farmers who lived on his lands and
himself seek Rome as a market, because
if he had they could have gotten advan
ces from there and indulgences such as
they could live from, and that without so
starving themselves and stock. Under
this state of facts is it not better for all
our farmers and land-owners to seek
another market unless the merchants
of our own county town change their
mode of doing business? We all prefer
to patronize our own county town, and
make wealth at home and thus reduce
our tax, rather than support and build up
a town in another county. But we must
go where our interest takes us. We must
go where we can get aid to make our
crops on whgn we need advances. Talk
of your free schools building up your
tow’u; the evils above recited has been
your ruin and will seal your destiny as a
town unless you find a remedy. Cease
your extortions, assist those who will by
their lobor build up your town. Weigh
our. cotton honestly, make arrangements
to pay the highest market prices for our
cotton and make ready to re-claim your
lost trade by making arrangements to as
sist as Rome does our farmers.
Planter.
Some of the Georgia papers still contin
ue to exhibit their hatred of Dr. Felton
by indulging in all sorts of ridiculous
ft'ings at him. Do they bate him because
lie is a pure man ? Do they despise him
because he is an intelligent, patriotic,
fearless, independent citizen ? If the de
partments in Atlanta, that are under sus
picion, had been officered by men like
this maligned gentleman, Georgians
would not have been put to shame in the
presence of their enemies. It is a little
peculiar, to say the best of it, that in a
Republic of freedom, independence of
thought and action should be regarded
as the most unpardonable ot all sins.
Editors and politicians of a certain class,
in Georgia, “thank God that they are not
as other men are.” Well it is proper to
say that while the “other men” stand
afar oft*, they are none the less thankful
for the difference. — Sparta Ishmaelite.
A party ot colored men passed through
St. Louis Wednesday on their way to
Kansas. It is said that the excursion
was gotten up by planters and merchants
in Mississippi to enable negroes from
that section to go west and view the
country for themselves, and if they wish
to remain there to do so, and if not, to
return. Many planters fear that after
the present cotton crop is gathered the
exodus movement will again be inaugu
rated, and they hope the unfavorable re
port anticipated from this excursion will
prevent any extensive migratory move
ment.
The first bale of new cotton at Augusta
was received Thursday. It. came from
Burke county, was classed as strictly
low midling, was sold at the Augusta
exchange for 12 cents per pound.
THE BEQUEST TO MR. DAVIS.
An Unanswerable Reply to Scandalous
Inueudoes.
St. Louis Republican.j
New Orleans, August 4. —My atten
tion having been called to a communica
tion in your paper dated New York, July
29, relative to Mrs. Dorsey’s bequest to
Mr. Davis, I am induced by many of the
misstatements it contains, to put you in
possession of the facts, in the hope that
those facts will somewhat abate the ra
pacious rage and silence the slanderous
tongues of her disappointed relatives.
Having known Mrs. Dorsev from my
childhood, and having been for several
years previous to her death her solicitor
and legal adviser, I claim to speak with
some degree of authority in the matter.
In the first place, the extent of Mrs.
Dorsey’s estate has been enormous exag
gerated. Instead of being a quarter mil
lion, thirty thousand dollars is the ex
treme limit that can he placed at its val
ue. As far as personality is concerned,
Mrs. Dorsey had comparatively nothing.
She owned no stocks or bond3 of any
kind.- She had no money in bank (ex
cept a few’ hundred dollars), and none at
interest. Her only source of revenue
waslhe rental of her plantations in the
parish of Tensas, and this amounted to
about $2,500 a year, barely sufficient to
give her a support. These plantations
were once valuable, but, like all proper
ties situated in the alluvial parishes, an
nually threatened with disastrions over
flows, they have depreciated to one sixth
of what they were worth before the war,
when the levee system was pei feet, and
the labor was tied to the soil by the chain
of slavery. I should consider it a had
bargain to give $20,000 for them now.
The lands in Arkansas may he set down
as absolutely worthless. They are un
cultivated swamp lands, for which there
is no market, even at fifty’cents an acre.
Indeed, if I mistake not, they were all
sold for taxes years ago.
The only other property that Mrs. Dor
sev leaves is the house and grounds near
Mississippi City, known as “Beauvoir.”
Mrs. Dorsey, who purchased it some time
ago for, I think, about $3,000. She has
improved it to some extent, but its pres
ent value is dependent upon so many
contingencies as virtually to deprive it of
a market price.
The disposition of Mrs. Dorsey’s will
and the motives which induced her to
make it were communicated to me by her
own lips early in the year IS7B, and very
shortly after the will was written. These
are the circumstances under which this
communication w’as made. Mrs. Dorsey
came to New Orleans with the intention
of undergoing a severe surgical opera
tion for cancer, under which she expect
ed to die, and from the effects of which
she did die. She sent for me, told me of
the will, its contents, her motives for
making it, her anticipations of death, and
gave me directions as what I should do
in that event. The operation, by the ad
vice of her physician, was postponed a
year. She subsequently brought the will
to my office, and left it there to be depos
ited in the canal bank, which deposit was
made by my associate, Mr. F. D. King.
The motives which Mrs. Dorsey gave
for making Mr. Davis her legatee were
in substance those set forth in the will it
self—given, however, more in detail and
expressed in that fine earnestness of man
ner that was peculiar to herself. She
said that she was childless; that she had
done all for her relatives that they de
served and that she felt bound to do; that
the small fortune she possessed came to
her from the bounty of her husband, who
had also made provision for his own re
lations; that she was a daughter of the
south (her noin de plume was Filia) and
loved it —its history, its deeds, and its
cause—with all the enthusiasm of her
nature; that she regarded Mr. Davis the
embodiment of this cause; that maligned
and abused by her own people, unassist
ed and in straightened circumstances, he
was devoting the remaining years of his
life to the vindication, through history,
of the south; that she was in intense
sympathy with this work, the progress of
which she had watched day after day
with her own eyes, and towards which
she had been graciously permitted to con
tribute what personal aid she could give;
that she had known, honored and loved
Mr. Davis from her girlhood with the af
fection of a daughter, and that she did
not know where her property could be
more worthily bestowed than upon the
ex-president of the confederacy.
If Mrs. Dorsey’s relatives, especially
the Dahlgren and Ellis branches, ex
pected to get her property, they were
“waiting for dead men’s shoes” in vain.
Aside from the personal relations that ex
isted between them, I speak authorita
tively when I say that her idea was to
leave it to some literary or scientific pur
pose. Previous to the formation of this
design of leaving it to Mr. Davis, her in
tention was to establish and endow in
some American college a chair of San
script language, literature and religion—
her own profound studies having been
turned in that direction for many years
to such an extent that her friends would
laughingly accuse her of being a worship
per of Brahma.
At the time of the conversation above
alluded to, I jokingly asked Mrs. Dorsey
what would become of her professorship
of Sanscrit, and she answered that she
was doing the greatest service possible to
her country and to her people in placing
Mr. Davis in a position where, unpinch
ed by the res auriitsta domi , he could fin
ish his work and his life in peace and
comfort.
In tlie second place, I wish to advert to
the grounds upon which it is proposed
to attack Mrs. Dorsey’s will. The testa
ment being perfect in form, the testatrix
being capable of giving, and the legatee
capable of receiving, it Is said that it will
be attacked as having been made through
undue influence, or on the ground that
the testatrix was insane.
Now, Mrs. Dorsey was a citizen
of Louisiana; she died here, her
will was probated here, and the bulk of
her property is here. Under our bene
ticient system of law which suppresses
and discountenances scandalous litiga
tion of all sorts, no such contests over
will can take place as disgrace the surro
gate courts of New York. Article 1,492
of the civil code provides that “proof is
not admitted of the dispositions (inter vi
vas and mortis causa) having been made
through hatred, anger, suggestion or
captation.” So much for the first ground.
As your article states that the heirs are
looking for a contingent fee lawyer, I
do not think any shark in the profession
—for contingent fee lawyers are general
ly marine monsters of that species—can
be found who will befool enough to hurl
himself against the prohibition contained
in article 1,492.
But even if the law were otherwise, I
do not hesitate to declare boldly from my
personal know ledge of the facts and the
parties that all statements and sugges
tions that Mr. Davis exercised a particle
of influence over Mrs. Dorsey to induce
her to make him her legatee are born of
greed and hate—the filthy progeny of
the auri sacra fames —and are unqualified
false, malicious and contempdble.
To those who knew Mrs. Dorsey, this
senile ami juvenile bubble about undue
influence is equalled in absurdity only
by the statement that she was rendered
incapable of making a will by mental
derangement. she was a woman of no
ordinary type and of more than extraor
dinary attainments. An omniverous
reader and an intense student, her mem
ory retained, and her strong, clear mind
digested what she read. Asa conversa
tionalist she appeared to better advantage
than as a writer—a fact due to her culti
vation of the art of conversation. Al
though she was a strong advocate of fe
male suffrage and woman’s rights, the
last thing that came from her pen was a
petition to the constitutional convention,
written upon her deathbed, asking that
the women of Louisiana be given the
right to vote. A more refined, a more
gentle, a more womanly woman never
lived. And while her friends can speak
with admiration of the briliancy of her
talents and the profundity of her learn
ing, they can also, say with heartfelt
emotion that her heart was golden.
Would to God that her lustrious eyes
could wake from the lethargy of the grave
and pierce with their scrornful glances
the foul ghoul who, under the guise of
relationship, seek to blacken her noble
reputation and to dim the halo of honor
that shines around her name.
Edgar Howard Farrar.
AN ACT.
To Kncourage Immigration to Georgia,
ami for Other Purposes.
Read first time in House, August Ist, 1871), and
referred to finance committee. J
Section 1. Be it enacted by the gener
al assembly ot Georgia, That from and
after the passage of this act, the governor
shall appoint, subject to the approval of
the senate, a suitable person to he known
as the state immigration agent. Said
agent shall, by advertising, by the dis
semination of correct information as to
our soil, climate, productions and re
sources, by the arrangement of special
rates of transportation between the cities
of the north and west, and of Europe, to
this state, and by such other methods as
the governor may approve, invite and en
courage immigration.
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That
said agent may appoint a secretary to as
sist him in performing the clerical duties
of his office. He may also appoint agents
at suitable points, subject to the approval
of the governor; Provided, That more
than twelve hundred dollars shall be paid
annually for the clerical force which may
be necessary to carry out the provisions
of this act, w hich sum shall be paid out
of the annual appropriation for the de
partment of agriculture.
Sec. 111. Be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the agent of immi
gration to keep in his office a register of
lands for sale in Georgia, and the names
of persons who desire to purchase lands,
or secure employees, or employment in
Georgia, in the manner and on the terms
hereinafter provided.
Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, That
any citizen of Georgia may register in
the office of the commissioner any lands
owned by him or her in the state, giving
an abstract of the titles to the said land,
w r ith a condensed description of the same
on payment of a fee of two dollars to the
agent of immigration for each separate
tract or parcel of land so registered; Pro
vided, an abstract to the titles of said
lands, bearing the seal of the clerk of
the superior court of the county in which
said lands lie, shall be filed in the office
ot the commissioner, and the fees for
such registration shall be paid before
such registration is made.
Sec. V. Be it further enacted, That
any person desiring to purchase lands, to
secure employees or employment as a
skilled laborer in Georgia, may register
his or her name, with a statement of his
or her wants, in the office ot the agent, of
immigration on the payment of a fee of
one dollar to said commissioner.
Sec. VI. Bo it further enacted, That
as soon as the amount received from such
fees shall justify it, the said agent shall
issue circulars or pamphlets truthfully
and concisely setting forth the induce
ments to immigrants to buy lands and
settle in the state, and shall distribute
said circulars and pamphlets in such
number and manner as will best promote
the objects of this act.
Sec. VII. Be it further enacted, That
the said agent shall keep in his office an
accurate account of all moneys received
for registration, and report to the govern
or at the end of each quarter the amount
thus received. The expense of registra
tion, printing and mailing said circulars
shall be paid out of the fees received for
registration, and from no other source.
Sec. VIII. Be it further enacted, That
the offices of said agent of immigration
shall be located in Atlanta, Georgia, and
the city of New York.
Sec. IX. Be it further -enacted, That
all laws or parts of laws conflicting with
this act be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
Latest news from the South American
war indicate that the Peruvians have
met with decided success, and are dis
posed to take the initiative in the struggle
now going on. The last raid of the
Huasear stirred up the Chilian Admiral
who returned to Iquique and bombarded
it for half an hour on the 16th of July.
In return, the Peruvian fleet visited sev
eral Chillian ports, destroyed all the
launches in each, and captured the Chil
ian transport Rimac, a battalion of four
hundred troops, and three sailing vessels
laden with coal and copper. The loss to
Chilli will be over one million dollars,
and the moral effect will be immense
and the people are much exasperated at
the government lor the stupidity and
inactivity they have manifested in the
conduct of the war.
In fact, says the Baltimore -Sun, “the
maintenance of states rights not only
enabled the states north of Mason and
Dixon’s line to free their slaves, but gave
them the only point d'appui from which
they could conduct their attack upon sla
very in the south. It furnishes the orig
inal Freesoiler. Hale and Adams were
states rights wings because of their an
tagonism to slavery. When the fugi
tive slave law was passed every north
ern state opposed it and obstructed its
enforcements by the United States mar
shals—just as now the democrats are
everywhere opposing the presence of
United States marshals at the polls—upon
the principle of states rights.
Two prisoners, Denis Gillespie and
John O’Brien, escaped from Blackwell’s
Island, New York, Sunday night. They
were in a guard boat with the keeper,
Stephen Kelly, patrolling the riverside,
when a boat in which were six rowdies
approached and demanded the surrender
of the prisoners. The keeper refused,
and the roughs upset his boat. All three
were picked up and taken on board the
roughs’ boat, but on Kelly’s attempting
to draw his revolver, he was thrown
overboard, and with difficulty saved his
life, being picked up half an hour after
wards by a pleasure boat. The police
are on the lookout for the fugitives.
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NUMBER o.
THE CMPEACHMENT MANAGERS.
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The Atlanta Post phonographs them as
follows:
Hon. Henry G. Turner, of Brooks, re
ceived nearly every vote cast, is u gentle
man of modest mein, and posses es a
mind of great analytical pow er. Asa
lawyer he occupies a high position. In
politics, he is fair-minded, conscientious
and true. He is comparatively a young
man, and an acknowledged leader.
Hon. W. M. Hammond, of Thomas, is
one of the most polished, eloquent and
forcible speakers of the state, and has
aptly termed the “silver-tongued orator.”
His incisive and impress
ive. In integrity and ability he has no
superior, and like Aristides, he is just
and impartial in the elucidation of truth.
Hon. C. D. Phillips, of Cobb, is a
prominent politician of northern Geor
gia. He has occupied important posi
tions satisfactorily to the people. He
is a lawyer of acknowledged ability, and
with his temperament the state will have
her interests well guarded.
Hon. H. J. Polhill,\of Jefferson, is a
man of portly physique and commanding
presence, Bluff and genial, the great
force of his character is not seen at once.
His character is well rounded, and his
great ability will never be exercised to
oppress the innocent or shield the guilty.
Hon. W. L. Pike, of Jackson is a law
yer of local prominence, good humored
and fair minded.—He is a young man of
prudence and caution, and will likely
govern his conduct so as to do equal and
exact justice
Hon. K. M. Davis, of Houston, is of a
strong nervous temperament, energetic
and unswerving in the discharge of what
he may consider to be his duty. He
will doubtless engage in the trial with
all the vigor of his intellect and strength
of his judgement.
lion. A. Pratt Adams, of Chatham is
a fluent and graceful speaker, clear head
ed. He w ields a keenedged damaseus
blade in debate, and .yet would scorn any
thing unfair. Has a strong influeneo
over the general assembly, because lie is
liberal minded and just.
On account of the general interest mani
fested in the approaching impeachment
trial of comptroller-general, a contri
butor to the Augusta Chonicle recently
furnished that paper information in regard
to former impeachments in the state which
is condensed as follows: “Piior to the
framing of the constitution of 1798 im
peachments were numerous. In that in
strument it was deemed advisable to ex
tend amnesty in such cases, their being a
section w hich reads that “convictions on
impeachments which have heretofore ta
ken place are hereby released, and per
sons lying under such convictions re
stored to citizenship.’ Henry Osborn
was impeached in 1791, while Judge or
the superior court, for some irregularities
at a congressional election in Savannah.
John Berrien in 1800, an ex-state treas
urer, was impeached on two charges:
First, embezzling $9,950 52 of the ‘Yazoo
deposit;’ and, second opening the bundle
known as the Yazoo deposit, in violation
of his oath and duty as treasurer. The
impeachment was dismissed. In 1808
three commissioners of surveys were im
peached and convicted for frauds. In 1821
three land commissioners, Lovering Jack
son and Adrian were impeached for
embezzling public funds. They were
found not guilty. In 1832 Shadrack
Bogan, a commisssioner of the land and
gold lotteries, was impeached for fraudu
lent drawings in those lotteries. He
was removed from office and disqualified
for twenty years. Major Berrien’s trial
lasted ten days; the case of the three
land commissioners something over a
month; in the ease of Lovering Jackson,
Adrian three w eeks, and in Bogan’s case
two weeks.”
SHARP COMPETITION IN TRADE.
For some time past there has been a
lively war going oti between the tea
dealers and the crockery trade of New
York, growing out of the practice of the
tea and coffee dealers of giving away
crockery and glassware to their custom
ers instead of chropios. The crockery
men protested against this practice as
being ruinous to their business, and ap
pointed a committee to wait on the tea
and coffee dealers with a view of inducing
them to discontinue it. In this they
were unsuccessful, and at a meeting
of the crockery and glassware dealers’
protective association held on Friday last
the committee appointed to visit the tea
dealers reported that they had been dis
courteously received, and advised the as
sociation to adopt the plan proposed at a
previous meeting, and appoint a com
mittee to purchase tea and coffee and
place it for sale at cost in every crock
ery store in the city. The report of the
committee was received and adopted,and
a committee of ten was appointed to
make the purchases and distributions as
proposed.
Mrs. Caroline Flore.tz, wife of Anton
Florenz, of Vienna, Austria, who had
eloped from that city with one Nathan
Shuk, and whose abandonment and effort
at suicide at a hotel in Cincinnati were re
ported a few days since, died on Sunday
of her wound. The case is a most singu
lar one. She shot herself in the
head on June 14. A ball weighing
thirty grains entered her brain, after
being severed into four pieces probably
by contact with bones. Three of these
pieces, weighing nineteen grains, were
removed by surgeons, and the woman ap
peared in a fair way of recovery. Since
the shooting she had learned that her
husband was willing to forgive her, and
then she appealed anxious to live, but
during the last few days she sank rapid
ly, dying Sunday.
Alice Oates, the opera singer, now Mrs.
Watkins, was dining with her husband
in a Philadelphia restaurant. A United
States naval officer, described as a near
“relative of Poker Schenck,” sat with a
party at a table close by. Watkins sprang
up and asked, “What do you mean by
looking at my wife?” “We certainly
did not look at her with any disrespect,”
replied the officer. “Then what did yon
look at all for ?” cried the enraged hus
band, flourishing a bottle. The officer
thereupon struck Watkins, and there wa
a brief fight, during which the singer let
out her voice in screams.
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ISfcv. Geo. Hatton, colored, formerly
well-known in Washington politics, anil
for several years past a Baptist minister
in Cincinnati, is visiting his friends in
Washington and the scenes of his child
hood of Piscataway, Prince George’s
county, Md. He has lately been to Kan
sas to see what the exodus people are do
ing. He represents that many of the
emigrants are in a totally helpless condi
tion, and it will be necessary to support
them for months to cotne, if not years.
He states that he found but one colored
minister in Kentucky who was in favor
of the movement.
The iron trade in Great Britain is sliow
ng signs of a reviya\.