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MOON. DOUGLAS WIKLE. MOON & WIKLL, Attorneys-at-La w, CAIITERSVILLE, GA. Office in Bank Block, over the Postoffice. fcb27 W. T. WOFFORD, A T' T O It N F. Y - A T - Ij A W, —AND— DEALER IN REAL ESTATE, ( ASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA. R. W. MURPHKY, A T T O It N F, Y - - A T - LAAY, CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor ner of Main & Erwin streets. julylS. I . I). GRAHAM. A. M. ROUTE. GRAHAM & FOUTE, A T TORN K YS -A. T- U. A W, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county: the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Supreme Courts at Atlanta. Office west side public Square, up-stairs over W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of office. j nly 18. T. W. MILNER. J. w. HARRIS, JR. MILNER & HARRIS, ATTO RNEYS-A T -LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. julylS F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokely A Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. I WILL FIL j TEETII, EXTRACT TEETH, and put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit the times. IfegF-Workal. warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. augls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERSVILLE, GA. WILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. 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 cali. julylS. CHAS. B. WILLINCrIAM, H(enogra))hio Court Reporter, [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. | T MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, L 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 aud satis faction guaranteed. Traveler’s Ghiide. ~ COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION. On and after December 10th, 1878, the following .schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO LIA or ETOWAH DILL: Leave Home Tuesday Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday . . . . bam Leave Gadsden W ednesday 7pm Arrive at Rome Thursday spm Leave Rome Friday 8 a ni Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am Arrives at Greensport 9am Arrive at Rome Saturday ( p m ,L M. 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 twain—every day. Leave Rome 8:10 am Arrive at Rome It:00 m SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION. Leave Rome 5:00 pm Arrive at Rome . . 8:00 p m ( HEROKEE RAILROAD. <jn and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): _ .. Leave Cartersville 7:40 a m Arrive at Stilesbora 8:.!0 a m Arrive at Taylorsville B:st a in Arrive at Rockmart 10:00 am A rrrive at terminus 10:50 am RETURNING. Leave terminus . • • 3:00 pm Arrive at Rockmart 3:40 pm Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm Aarrive at Cartersvillc . . . . . . 8:00 pm WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 3:00 pm Leave Cartersvillc. 4:.>3pm Leave Kingston Leave Dalton 30pm Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm Leave Dalton JP m Leave Kingston 8:89 pm Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 p m day passenger—up. Leave Atlanta 5:20 a m Leave Cartersville 7:23 a m Leave Kingston 7:49 a m Leave Dalton 9:21 am Arrive at Chattanooga 10:56 am DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 6:15 a m Leave Dalton 8:10 a m Leave Kingston a m Leave Cartersville 10:11am Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm cartersville accommodation— up. Leave Atlanta 5:10 p m Arrive at Cartersville • 7:22 pm cartersville accommodation—down. Leave Cartersville 6:05 am Arrive at Atlanta 8:45 a m STOVES tINM AKE. JOHN ANDERSON, (Opposite Curry’s Drug Store.) TTAS IN STORE AND FOR SALE A 1 1 large Jot of Tinware, Stoves and Cutlery. Also, the celebrated Fly Fans, Tubs and Duck ets which he will sell in exchange for Rags, beeswax, Feathers, Butter, Eggs and Chickens, lie sells goods cheaper than ever. jiinelfl COUCH HOUSE, (Kingston, Georgia.) f IMIIS LARGE AND COMFORTABLE L House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. The traveling public will find good, plain accommo dations. Parties wishing lioard through the summer will find Kingston oue of the healthiest and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three or four families can get comfortable rooms in view of trains. Terms very reasonable, jly 25. W. W. RAINEY. F> H O T O Gr 11 A H S ! YOUNG’S GALLERY, Shorter Block, : : : : : Rome, Ga. r IFF, SIZE (BUST) FOR ONLY TEN DOL 1J lars; half life size only live dollars. His work is all strictly lirst-class. Makes copies ol a 1 lsorts of pictures any size and character de sired. jnnc29 FOB SALE OK EXCHANGE. rpilE “CENTRAL HOTEL,” ADAIRSVILLE I Georgia—a three-story brick building; large yards, garden and orchard attached. Adifress J. C. MARTIN, dccl9-tt Anairsville, Ga. VOLUME If. £. J. Hale & Son’s STEPHENS’ HISTORY A Compendium of the History of the United States. For Schools and Colleges, By Hon. ALEX. M. STEPHENS. (513 pp. 12m0.) 17 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK. “The pith and marrow of our history.”— Ex- President Fillmore. “Straightforward, vigorous, interesting and im pressive.”—.V. Y. Christian Union. “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 nectievtt Selina Journal, [lion. IF. C. Fouler, L. L. D.) “Worthy of high praise. It will of necessity challenge attention everywhere.”— N. Y. Eve ning Pont. “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 eorapend.”— Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. “Everything necessary to a perfect handbook.” —Goldsboro Messenger. “Broad enough for all latitudes.” —Kentudky 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 Wilts, Oglethorpe University. “The method admirable.” Ex-Gov. Herschell V. Johnson. “Should find 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. Brantly, Mercer University. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS, PUBLISHED BY Iverson, Rlakeman, Taylor & Cos., NEW YORK, R. E. PARK, General Agent, THIS series comprises among others, the fol lowing well-known STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS: New Graded Readers, Robinson’s Mathematics, Spencerian Copy Books, Well’s Scientific Works, Riddle’s Astromies. Dana’s Geology, Woodbury’s German, Kerl’s Grammar, Webster’s Dictionary, Swinton’s Histories, Swinton’s Word Books, Swinton’s Geographies, rasquell’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, Geo. gia. U. O. ROBERTSON, M, I)., Hygienic Physician and Electro- Therapeutist, Begs leave to announce to the citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee, and other counties of North Georgia, that for the sake of rendering his mode of treatment more universal and available, and the Health Institute equally easy of access to patients in all parts of the state, has removed from Rowland Springs to Atlanta where he has permanently established a Health Institute. The Atlanta. Health Institute is the only institute south superintended by reg ularly qualified Hygienic Bhyeicians, and the only place where all kinds of curable diseases are scientifically treated without a particle of medical drug in any form, and with success tui paralelled by any other known process of treat ing diseases. Parties who are, because of continued dosing and drugging, considered incurable, are re spectfully requested to visit or correspond with us. Thousands of chronic invalids, after having patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (drug ophatic) healing art” and with no other change than that of growing continually worse and worse, have under the Hygienic system of medi cation, been speedily and permanedtly restored to health. For particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH INSTITUTE, No. 178 W. Peters street, or address Dlt. U. O. ROBERTSON, feb2o Atlanta, Ga. CARRIAGES’ BUGGIES M WAGONS. K. 11. JONES, Cartersville, Georgia. I FEEL JUSTLY PROUD OF THE REPU tation awarded by an appreciative people. 1 do a square, honest business as near as I 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. W Intelv, 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 I). Lindsey & Cos., run by 11. L. Williams, where new work and ail kinds of repairing will be done at prices to suit t he times. j Give us your trade. mch6 HUE ATLANTA PHONOGRAPH. IS THE Liveliest, Spiciest, and Sauciest Journal in Ceorgia. IN POLITICS THE PHONOGRAPH IS A purely Ail Independent Democratic Journal. Favors a sufficient amount of national currency to suoceesfully carry on the business of the coun try. It is opposed to national banks and bond holders, opposes fraud, humbugs and corrup tion, and takes especial delight in allowing up everything which tends to injure the masses. IT IS A PEOPLE'S PAPER. lvear, |2; 6 months, $1; 3 months, 50 cents, casii in advance. Address W. T. CHRISTOPHER, 32 Broad Street (up-stairs), Atlanta. Ga. A. F. MURPHY, Rome, :::::: Georgia. GENERAL SOUTHERN AGENT New York Portrait Painting Company. TITILL TAKE ORDERS FOR ANY QUALI YV ty and size portrait known to the ai t for less monev than such work can be done for by any otheUhouse. Parties desiring portraits can send photograph, with description of complexion, hair, eyes and dross. jnnel2-bm J. C. & S. F. MILAM, Commission Merchants, COTTON BUYERS, Dealers in Standard Guanos, AGENTS FOR Metropolitan Works, Richmond, Va. nAN FURNISH ANY KIND OF AN EN- I / gine from four-horse power to one hundred and lifty. SAW AND GRIST MILLS, THRESHERS, And in fact any kind of machinery. „ Please see us before purchasing. Jgiew* Office at T. A. Foote’s store, West Main street, car tersville, Ga. * eb -‘ THE FREE PRESS. DEATH OF A HERO. A Sketch of the Lite and Public Service of Gen. Hood. New Orleans Democrat August 31. One of the saddest domestic tragedies it has ever been our sorrowful task to record is the announcement of the death of the heroic John B. Ilood, following so quickly upon that of his loved consort and occurring when his oldest child was pronounced in extreme danger from the same insiderous malady, so mysteroiisly introduced into his household. The General departed this life at 3:30 a. m. yesterday morning. When last seen in public it was as chief mourner for his wife in the funeral ceremonies of Monday last, the 24th of August. Greatly prostrated by this heavy afflic tion, he bore himself with characters!ic fortitude and heroism on this melancholy occasion. The sympathy, so eloquent ly' expressed, of his numerous triends was received by him with grateful ap preciation, but with that dignity and si lence of a man whose bereavement had been too profound, too irreparable, to be alleviated, whose grief was too ordinary vents of such emotions. He retired to his family of little orphans, and there sought and found in their childish lamen tations for a larger source of consolation and support, of his noble endowments of endurance anil fortitude, against calamity and suffering, than could be drawn from all the eloquence of sympathizing friends. The exhaustion left by these drafts upon his great resources of courage and self-control, with his terrible mutilations by wounds received in the wars in which he had been engaged, made him an easy victim and conquest of the mala dy that seized him. And yet the dis ease, with characteristic deoeitfulness tnade its approaches, and not until yes terday was it pronounced an attack of yellow fever, and even then of a mild form. The first specific symptom of the disease was quickly relieved, and up to night fall of Friday it was confidently believed that its progress was favorable and promising. So much so, and indeed if it had been so, the noble veteran was far more exercised about the condition of his oldest child, siezed with fever at the same time, than he was concerned for his own chances of an early convales cence. Toward night however, the unfavora ble symptoms, which had been relieved during the day r , were renewed and were followed by oilier even more distinctive trails, and after hours of suffering and fluctuation between life and death, de pendent upon the caprices of this mys terious malady for the issue of this con flict, and just before the break of day, at the very hour when the veteran soldier had been accustomed to spring from his lair and hastily hut on his armor to rush to the front of the battle in the great wars in which he had been conspicu ously engaged, the call was made by the Sovereign Commander and Ruler of all men to surrender his valuable life and enroll his own “among the immortal names that were not born to die.” And thus, a little before 4 a. in. of August 28, departed John B. Hood, a hero, soldier and patriot of unblemished and lustrous record, of marvelous prowess, of the highest virtues of humanity; a citizen, a gentleman, a father and a husband, a Christain without guile flaw or even weakness to mar the beautiful harmony of a peaceful character. He was a native of Kentuckj', and em bodied the highest moral and physical characteristics of that race and blood. A stalwart form, a dauntless nature, a che valier bearing, were the characteristics which he derived from his birth and his youthful training. So distinctly marked for a soldier, Ilood in his youth secured an appointment to and pass ed with fidelity and success through the curriculum of our National Military Academy at AVest Point. This term of tuition and education embraced the pe riod between July, 1849, and July 1853. Graduating in the distinguished class which included such renowned military chiefs as McPherson, Schofield, Cragg hill, and Terrill, and Phil Sheridan, so distinguished on the Union side of our great civil war, and of Bowen, Rich, Chambliss and others equally prominent on the confederate side, Hood entered the army as Lieutenant of the Fourth In fantry, in which he served for several years on post and frontier duty. It was not until IS6O that he was promoted to the cavalry service as a Lieutenant in the Second Cavalry, ot which Albert Sidney Johnston was the Colonel. Meantime he had been seen much ac tive service on the Texas frontier, and was engaged in several trying conflicts with the Comanehes and Lipans. In one of these, at Devil’s run, in West Texas, lie gave signal proof of his coolness, cou rage and address, by the skill and forti tude with which he compassed with only twenty-five men the capture of a largely superior force of savages, who had severely wounded himself and sev eral of his men. But we do not propose here to sketch the military career of John B . Hood. The task we hope, will be assumed by some more competent writer with lar ger space and 1 letter opportunity to per form it satisfoetorily than we can now 1 command. When our civil war broke out, Hood resigned his position in the old army and repaired to Richmond to offer his services to defend his native and loved South. He was appointed a Major of cavalry, and assigned to the command of an ir regular squadron of the mounted volun teer, whom he drilled and organized for service.. But the command was too small, and the service too limited for his zeal, ambition and energy. lie there fore volunteered to aid in the organiza tion and drilling of numerous companies of Texans, which had rushed to Rich mond to engage in the great struggle in which the South had become involved. These companies were organized into a regiment which wisely selected Hood as their Colonel. To him they owe the great distinction won by this regiment in the grert conflicts which followed. Even their valor and prowess, without his ext ample, military skill and direction would never have secured them the large meas ure of fame accorded to the brave Tex ans through the stirring scenes of the great drama enacted on the theatre of rlie Old Dominion. Beginning their carreer on the Penin sular, at Elham’s Landing, by an effec tive and gallant dash on McClellan’s ad vancing and overwhelming army, which arrested and checked the progress of the Federal commander, the heroic Texans and their lion-hearted chief performed a prominent part in all the subsequent events of the several campaigns of Virgin ia—their commander advancing by regu lar grades of service, achievements and wounds from a Colonel to Brigadier, to Major General, and Lieutenant General 1 but always clinging to his Texans as lbs chief reliance in all the operations his brigade, division and corps. We cannot here, even superficially nar rate the military career of General Hood. He Mas always on band for any service. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 11, 1579. the more desperate the more certain to he executed with the highest displays of devotion and bravery. In nearly all the great battles it would be his ill-luck to receive serious wounds. At Gettys burg his left arm was so badly shattered as to subject him to terrible and exhaust ing surgical operation of two resections of the bone, which ever afterward ren dered that limb useless. This was in the beginning of July, 1863. He had not recovered from the effects of the wound and operation when, with Long street’s corp’s his command was trans ferred from Virginia to reinforce Bragg at Chickamauga. Hero with his ido minitable division, he confronted the ene my of largely superior free, with the same dauntless vigor and valorand dis regard of danger and physical infirmity he had displayed in the Virginia cam paigns, though crippled and exhausted by the loss of blood with which he had dreaned the soil of so matty battlefields. With his shattered, still imhealed woun ded and useless arm, buckled to his body, aud with debilitated form and pallid face he assumed his old position on the right of his old division, with that fire and en thusiasm that always niarsed his bearing on the eve of a groat conflict, and which he never failed to communicate to all his followers. It was in this conflict that lie received the terrible wound which would have closed the active career of fitly other chief tain whose military service history lias given record. The circumstances of this fearful wounding wiye related by the General and confirmed by his sur geon who amputated hfg leg, that re spected gentleman and eminent member of our faculty, Prof. T. GJRichardson, of this city. In the midst of trie struggle and great conflict of the two armies at Chick amauga Gen. Hood’s division occupied the extreme left of Gen. Bragg’s army. Observing some confusiori in that part of the line occupied by his old regiment, tiie Fourth Texas, Gen. Hood galloped in that direction and called loudly to the officers and men to rally to their colors, which were held under a crash ing fire by a gallant young Texan in the position assigned to him. As soon as the General was recognized by his old followers—his “people,” as he always called them—they rushed to the front and aliined themselves on their colors | and dressed with all the precision and regularity of veteran regulars. “Give me the colors”’ the General j asked of the staunch young color bearer, j stretching forth his right arm to grasp ; the staff, and seizing his bridle with his | teeth. The gallant young color hearer shook j his head and said : “General those colors have been in trusted to me with orders never to yield them to any body as long as I have life in my body. I will bear them where ever you order me, but 1 cannot surren der them to any one.” At the very moment of this colloquy the General received the wound which fractured his right thigh. A minnie ball had penetrated the flesh and on coming in contact with the bone explo ded greating a frightful wound. With the wounded leg danglingly helplesslj', and only held together by the remnant of flesh which had not been severed by the explosive, holding of the bridle between his teeth and resting his right arm on the pummel of his saddle, he gentle sli ded to the ground, where he was quickly surrounded by some of Ms veteran Tex ans who procured a stretcher and bore him to the rear. Amid all the agony of his painful wound the heroic chieftain could not forbear an exultant shout when informed that his “people” had swept the enemy from the field. On the examination of his wound, the surgeons decided that owing to the ex haustion produced by his still unhealed fracture, and the terrible drain of the two operations of resection to which he had been recently subjected, that amputation would involve certain death. “But is there not a single chance for me, say one in a thousand ?” he asked of Dr. Richardson. The doctor replied that there was. “Then cut it off; I’ll take that elmnee —T must fight this war through.” The doctor before administering the chloroform, asked if he had any communi cations or dispositions to make, in view of the imminent peril of death under the operation. “Nothing, except that my remains should be buried in the soil of Texas, Avhere my strongest affections and most glorious associations are centered.” He survived the operation, and indeed recovered so rapidly from its effects that he appeared in the saddle and at the head of his invincible division before the ex piration of an ordinary furlough. Though thus fearfully mutilated, deprived of the use of two of his limbs—his left arm and right leg—he was never absent from his post of duty but fought through the whole campaign of Johnston’s retreat from Dalton to Atlanta, taking part in every action. Assigned by President Davis to command the movement of the remnant of Johnstons army against the enemy’s rear, he undertook, and Avith wonderful energy, marched his army into Tennessee and struck the entrenched forces of General Thomas, at Franklin and Nashville, with desperate, dauntless, but unavailing vigor. This strategy and movement, which were adopted and ordered by the Con federate authorities, have been and are uoav the subjects of criticism and discus sion. General Hood had written an elaborate history and defense of his cam paign, and was preparing to take it to tiie North for publication when the ill ness of his wife arrested his purpose. His friends, however, Avill take care that this cherished design is carried out. The whole Avorid will accept it as an honest and truthful narrative, and a more relia ble history than lias yet appeared of this desperate enterprise. When the war closed General Ilood re tired to Texas, the scene of his earliest exploits, which lie determined to make the theatre of his energetic efforts and la bors in civil pursuits. Engaging in' the life insurance business, he prosecuted it with such activity, tact and popularity of manner and address as to realize very handsome results for the company of which he was great agent, and in the way of commissions to secure quite a eompenteney for himself. In 1868 he married Miss Anna Marie Hennen. one of the most accomplished and elegant ladies in this State, whose lamented de cease and beautiful character are imper fectly sketched in the Democrat of Tues day last. Ten children born of this happy marriage survived their parents, forming a group of little orphans, whose care and guardianship should devolve as one of the most sacred duties of popular gratitude and patriotism upon the State with whose glory and honor the name of Join) B. Hood must be indissolubly as sociated as the heroic chieftain of that famous division which he led through our great civil war with such renown, and as the youthful defender of her peo ple against savages who raided her bor ders in the infancy of her settlement. Upon the great State of Texas should fall the honor of the charge, care and education of the orphans of the heroic chieftain, who achieved and suffered so much to shed lustre on her character, her arms, and the patriotic devotion of her people. TIIE RAILROAD BILL. The Opinion of General Robert Toombs on this Important Question. Atlanta, Ga., September 4. — Editors Constitution: I have been requested by a number ©f members of tiie general as sembly to present my views of railroad policies in Avriting. In my ;:ote of yesterday to Hon. A. C. Westbrook 1 promised to give these views a somewhat fuller expression, kis not to no wondered at that considerable un certainty and confusion obtain on this subject; indeed, confidence is rather a mark of ignorance than of knowledge, unless this be the result of long and care ful consideration. After having given the subject such consideration on my part, I distrust my own opinions, and prefer to follow the guidance of expe rience—not my own views, originating in mere reflection, but those derived from the experience of other countries and states, form the basis of my opinions —the gradual developments of some years of thought. There is evidently a general desire on the part of the general assembly to do right in the premises, to fulfill its constitutional obligations and the public demands Avithout injury to any interest. There are three points: 1. Action is imperative. 2. A clear vieAv must be had of the ob jects to he accomplished. 3. These objects are best attained by a properly constituted commission, with powers wisely adapted to its ends. The fir9t point is a short one. Action is required by the constitution, by these existing state of facts and by the uni versal public demand. The objects to be accomplished is also sufficiently plain. The object of all laws, is the regulation of relations. The rail roads have very numerous and impor tant relations. 1. To the state. 2. To citizens. 3. To cities and localities. 4. To other roads, viz • To connecting and competing roads. 5. Express companies, sleeping car, tel egraph and other companies. 6. To bondholder and other creditors and parties contracting with them. All these are external relations. Be sides these they hrve importont inter nal relations. 7. To stockholders. 8. To employees managing and operat ing the roads. All these are actual and important re lations, and so intricate that to under stand them is really a profession. That profession is understood by railroad man agers and the public interests require equal knowledge and skill on the part ot those who protect them. The object of legislation is to provide adequately to rep resent these various interests and rela tions involving directly $60,000,000 of capital, and exerting an almost bound less influence, concentrated and controll ing, upon all other capital. The degree of concentration is not merely into the hands of stockholders but of a much smaller number of managers almost in dependent virtually, of the stockholders as of the general public, and capable of putting down one man or community or setting up another, as their judgment or caprice may dictate. Consider tiie importance of having the state itself as an organized community, represented by experts capable of under standing her interests. Under this head take the single subject of taxation. The act of 1874, amended by that of 1876, fur nishes an illustratian of the inefficiency of ordinary means to deal Avith this prob lem. The amount of back taxes, unpaid and now due, would far more support a i commissioner in perpetuity. There are now pending, suits and settlements, tiie magnitude of which would much surprise those who have not investigated the sub ject, and the interests of the state in tiie same matter remain hereafter to be pro tected. The general duty of the state in the protection of citizens, can only be dis charged wisely by a knowledge of the condition and operations of the road—not now possessed or attainable. No adequate provision is made for information on tiie part of the state, as to the violation of charter; as to excessive rates; as to un just discriminations; as to the extent of exemptions from taxation or other com mitments to the railroads by the state; as to embarking in new enterprises by cor porations not authorized by law, nor in general for such knowledge of compli cated and intricate facts as must form the basis of wise legislation. Yet more important are the direct re lations of citizens to the railroads. Here, indeed, lies the chief matter to he regu lated. Complaints here are universal— not so much of exortation as of unjust discriminations against individual citi zens and communities. The complaints are loud and general, and come from all sections of the state. The constitution expressly requires the regulation of the railroads in these matters. To avoid harsh and excessive action, as under the grange movement in loAva, it is best to settle all these questions in an orderly and dispassionate way with judicial im partiality and sobriety. Under each of the other heads similar views might be presented. Any one of the several relations is sufficiently important to deserve careful con sideration, Avhether the relation be to state, to the citizen, or community; to competing roads or connecting, to credi tors and contractors, or the interior rela tions, (usually less considered) to stock holders and employes. Undoubtedly the best means of the needful regulation, is a properly consti tuted commission. Higiily specialized facts and conditions need special agencies. The conditions in this ease are so compact as to never have been solved on mere first principles but only under the gui dance of experience. The inadequacies of old methods has led to constant efforts at improvement. Direct legislation lias in all cases been afailme. The knowledge required, is as really a profession as law or medicine. Let each legislator ask himself, “Have 1 sufficiently mastered the prob lem to risk the public interests on the cor rectness of my opinion?” Fortunately, however, a man who can choose a doctor who feels he cannot doctor a case. A commission is, in my opinion, indis pensable. The common-sense argument for it is all-powerful. It is the result of the gradual growth of experience and failure of other means. It has grown up in England like the English constitution —from many years’ “experience. That practical people struggling for truth and light, as exigencies arose, after trying many methods have settled down with : satisfaction upon this. As lawyers con sider the old law the evil and remedy, so have they studied this problem. When ,one remedy proved inadequate they adopted new means to the residual evils felt unctired. It is now generally ac knowledged in Engloiul by thoughtful lima representing all interests of state, people and railroads, that the commis sion as far surpasses the paw of the boar, or perhaps the horse’s hoof, in adaption to all the necessary and complex func tions to be discharged. The experience of eighteen states of the American union is confirmatory of Brit ish opinion. We may be very sure that these results of enlightened and cautious experience lead us in the right direction. To adopt the old means now were like preferring a primitive road wagon to a finished engine, with all the improve ments suggested by trial and experience. In my own judgment, as already stated, no better model for legislation can be found, than in the England act of 1873 (in w hich the act of 1851 and 1868 are in corporated by reference) under the oper ation of which, with perfect satisfaction to the public, ihe value of railroad prop erty has immensely appreciated by a sum more than double the aggregate val ue of all the property in the state of Geor gia. I shall furnish a copy of this act to the railroad committee with modifica tions to suit our circumstances, as em bodied provisions which it it is safe to follow. We can safely trust our smaller fortunes on a bottom capable of bearing such weight. The action of the committee itself will furnish the next legislature the needful light for modifications exactly adapted to our circumstances. The following fea tures in the constitution of the commis sion will command general aqniescence. It should command the confidence of both sides, and all interests. It should, therefore, be unpolitical and impartisan. Its duties are in some respects analogous to a grand jury. As the grand inquest of the state over corporations, it should dili gently inquire, and true presentment make, as the facts of their condition and operation, for the benefit of the state, cit izens and stockholders. It requires an expert to understand the facts; an expert to explain them. There should be con siderable stability in the commission, dependent simply on good behavior. It should not act as only sentinel, but also as arbitrator as between the citizens and railroads; communities and railroads, and between the railroads themselves. It should aid the state in those functions which receive special training in all its departments—executive, legislative and judicial. As an expert, it aids the attor ney-general as to matters of taxation heretofore, too, so intricate that the state has met much harm and loss. It relieves the judiciary department of a class of du ties requiring much special knowledge of law. To the legislature it furnishes the basis of intelligent and constant action. Its special functions bear chiefly upon the general public interest. Tt is an exchange tor getting and disfusing the knowledge of laws and facts very important and very inaccessible. In one aspect its benefits have been lit tle appreciated. As between the man agements of the railroad and stockhol ders, it is a safeguard in which the stock holding public have an interest not at all inferior to the general public. The man agement holds the helm quite at arm’s length from the shareholders. Nominal ly dependent, but really independent, it can wreck them or carry them into new ports, defying their opposition. Not more important is a probate judge in the relations between a guardian and an in fant, than a well constituted commission between the mangement of a road and its stockholders. These are absolutely at the mercy of the organized “powers that be.” These valuable purposes have been served in the experience of other states. The commission is a tribunal with spe cialized functions, requiring special train ing to meet peculiar exigencies, for which ordinary legislation and judicial decision areas unfit, as for the practice of phar macy or the management of the tele phone. Yours, very respectfully, R. Toombs. DOWN IN DIXIE. A Lexington (S. C.) watermelon weighed 80 pounds. The revised civil code of Texas has gone into effect. Six county fairs will be held in Arkan sas this fall. Columbia, S. C., boasts of a genuine Neapolitan violin, which is one hundred years old. Memphis is now a city of watermelons, canteloupes, pears, flowers and fever. The colored people of Gonzales, Texas, have recently had a tournament. Kentucky summer resorts have not found this a profitable season. There has been 102 marriages in Graves county, Kentucky, since January 1. Twelve years ago Texas sold but 75,000 bales of cotton. Last vear it footed up 1,000,000 bales. Arkadelphia, Arkansas, is taking in itiatory steps for the establishment of a cotton factory. Three newspapers in North Carolina are owned and edited by colored men. In Alabama 96,000 whites and 93,000 colored children have enrolled in the public schools. Knights of Honor have died wit h yel low fever in Memphis this season. The Charleston News pronounces the new custom-house in that city oue of the handsomest buildings in the United States. Crops are twelve days earlier than usu al in Texas, and a week later than usual in other gulf states. A Baltimorean advertised in Philadel phia for twenty-five beautiful ballet girls and received 600 applications. Colonel Wood, of St. Mary’s Maryland, has raised on one hundred and sixty acres this season, 4,000 bushels of wheat. By “messing,” the students at the university of Virginia manage to get board at $lO a month. Several thousand republicans of Louisi ana have issued an address to be presented to General Grant on the day of his ai rival at San Francisco. The number of bushels of shell oyster taken this year from Virginia waters will be 3,000,000, and more than one-third of this amount is now handled by the pack ers of Norfolk and Portsmouth. The value of the oysters handled yearly in Norfolk reach $350,039, and m >re than a million dollars for the state. —.> . ■ Hon. A. 11. Stephens, having been asked about his book, “The War Betweeu the States,” replied: “I wrote it with a view of having the facts as they were truthfully stated, and without any pecu niary view. 1 have received, however, thirty-five thousand dollars as my royal ty on the sale, or twenty-five cents a vol ume.” During the month of August the total receipts of the government were about $25,000,000, while the expenditures were about $18,000,000. A saving of seven million dollars. it'vfts 6l- Afel ijßTitrtNjrq Advertisement* will le inserted at the rat' *i One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents tor each additional insejvwti. CONTRACT RATES. space. | 1 mo. I 8 nips. 6 mos. I 1 year. One inch. 1|260 J $5 00 t~ 50 j $lO ihi Two inches, I 375 750 12 •',*> i 18 t)o Three inches, 500 10 00 17 50 2-> On Four inches, 1 025 12 50 22 50 : :(•- e < Fourth column j 750 15 00 25 00 j 4i) 00 Half column, > 15 00 I 25*00 40 00 oo on One column, 1 20 00 | 40 00 00 00 | 100 00 NUMBER 0. MRS. SPRAGUE’S FLIGHT. Supposed to Have Been Spirited Away in a Mysterious Yacht. The Sun special from Xarraganseti Pier says: The people of the Pier are in excitement over the escape from C’anon chet of Mrs. Sprague Saturday night. Mrs. Sprague claims that ever since she returned to Canonehet with her children she has been subject to many annoyances by the governor, which culminated on Saturday by an actual outburst on his part, lier friends say that the governor, coming home on Friday morning in an intoxicated condition, suddenly went in to the room where the nurses were dress ing the children, and seeing Mrs. Sprague there, said: “I’ll show you who is mas ter here,” ami without any further warn ing, took hold of her arm and shoulders, dragged her around the room, and at tempted to throw her out of the window, saying, before witnesses, that he would do so. He was prevented from carrying his t hreat into execution by those pres ent. The children were half dressed and were screaming with fright. Mrs. Sprague began quickly to make preparations to leave the place, and Sat urday afternoon, about half past five, quietly took her departure, accompanied by her three children, their nurses and her luggage. When Conductor Hale’s train arrived at Kingston the governor was standing on the platform, with mud bedabbled coat and excited face, watching for sign of the missing party. He accosted Con ductor Hale with: ‘‘Have you lugged off my children?” Mr. Hale told him he had seen nothing of them ; and after look ing through the boat train, and inquir ing of the officials at the Kingston depot, the governor started back to the Pier, as was supposed, as all traces was lost from that point. Willie, bis son, who has sided with his father during all this un happy affair, was started off on the road to Tower Hill and Wakefield, but relum ed unsuccessful in nis search. The general impression is that Mrs. Sprague left in a steam yacht, and that, too, from the pier of the Newport boat. A strange looking and very fast yacht was seen hovering about the pier in flu* afternoon, and suddenly went tip to the Newport boat dock, and after waiting about ten minutes then steamed rapidly away, perhaps with Mrs. Sprague on board. It has been said that Gov. Sprague at once directed that the servants should receive no orders from Mrs. Sprague, that, all telegrams and messages to her should be submitted to him, and that his wife should be limited to oue room in the up per part of the house. When she went out driving a trusted servant always ac companied her. He denied admission to many of her friends and even to her coun sel. But thfs, he said, was to keep her from influence that he believed would not be for her good. His reasons as giv en for this course were that he desired Mrs. Sprague to make up her mind as to her future course unpiased by outside ad vice from outside parties; that if she ever left the house again, she could not return to it, and that in any event she could nor take the children with her. The rigid espionage established was to prevent her from abducting the children. Mrs. Sprague’s friends say that she was in constant fear of some sudden outbreak, when neither her own life nor the lives of her children would be safe from the ungovernable anger of the husband and the father. The children are four in number —Willie, aged thirteen; Ethel, aged nine; Kate, aged five; and Portia, aged four. Willie remains with his fath er. The three little girls Mrs. Sprague took with her. Gov. Sprague will un doubtedly exhaust every means to dis cover the whereabout of the children, and will as certainly use every legal means of recovering them. A suit for separation, brought by either husband or wife, will probably be at once insti tuted to settle the right to the control of the children. * JASPER CENTENNIAL. After the laying of the corner stone of the Jasper centennial monument in Sa vannah on the 9th of October next, to be participated in by most of the military organizations of the state, a second day’s celebration of fun will follow, consisting of rifle matches and a regatta. The fol lowing is the official programme of the second day’s doings: Headquarters, j Savannaah Rifle Association, Savannah, Ga., Sept. 1, 1879. \ A rifie centest, open to all military companies, will take place on the 10th of October next, at the Isle of Hope. Teams—To consist of five men, bona fide members of their respective compa nies, and who have been such for at least six months prior to this date. Weapons—Any bona fide military rifle with open sights, minimum pull of trig ger six pounds. * Rounds—Five rounds per man. Targets—Creedmoor pattern. Distance —Two hundred yards. Position —Standing. Umpires—Each team will be allowed one umpire. The decision of the board of umpires - to be final. Uniform —Teams will shoot in the full dress uniform of their respective compa nies, dispensing with the dress hat and epaulettes. Entrance fee—No entrance fee will be charged. Prize—To the successful team a hand some gold medal will be presented. Shooting will commence punctually at 12 m.. at which time all entries will close. R. 11. Anderson, President Savannah Rifle Asso’n. RETATTA OF SAVANNAH YACHT CLUB. First class yaeths—Purse, a silver pitcher. Second class yaeths—Silver goblet. Third class, or shad l>oats —Silver gob let. Batteaux class —Purse, $lO. Entries will close at the secretary’s of fice at 12 o’clock on the Bth of October. The course will be open from Isle of Hope to Cabbage Island, thence to a buoy, placed above Isle of Hope, and back to a buoy off Yellow Bluff, then to starting point at Isle of Hope. The course tor batteaux will be to Cab bage Island and back to buoy off Isle of Hope and thence to starting point. Wm. Hone, Commodore. F. C. Wylly, Secretary. —_—- • ♦ —• — According to a Washington correspon dent of the New York World, Hon. A. 11. Stephens said the other day that the committee on rules has unanimously recommended changes in the parliamen tary procedure irrespective of partisan movements, which will greatl> facilitate legislative business. Mr. Stepheiie be lieves the Georgia democracy to lie against Tilden, and he is himself in favor of Gen. Hancock for president. Carlotta Patti has married Ernest De- Munck, The Marquis de Caux was one of the witnesses.