Georgia Historic Newspapers

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M I I N UK & II V RIMS,
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C ARTERSVILLE, GA.
Ofß*>on West Main Street. julylß
K. W. All! liPH EY,
ATT O li\ K V - A T - LA W ,
( VKTKUaViLLE, LA.
oFFH 10 (up-stairs) in the brick building, oor
nerol Main j Erwinstreet*. JutylS.
VV. X. WOFFORD,
ATTO li N Id Y'-iT-LA: w,
AND—
DEALER IN REAL ESTATE,
( ASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, C,M
JNI). L. MOON, DOUGLAS WIKLE.
MOON & WIKLL,
A 1 torneys-at-Law,
( ARTERSVILLE, GA.
i,- v Office iu Hank block, over the Fostoflicc.
u, B. i RIPPS. J - M< MJJ '
TKII’PE & NEEL,
attoiin kys-at-law,
< ARTERSVILLE, GA.
Viril.L PRACTICE IN Aid, THE COURTS,
VV i><>) h State and Federal, except Bartow
•mmty criminal court. .1. M. Neel alone will
practice in said last mentioned court. Office in
northeast corner of court house buildings feby?
%, D. aRAB ty. A * M> POUTK.
GRAHAM & FOUTE,
ATTO ItN EYS - A T-L A YV.
CARTEItSVILLE, GA.
Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the
Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, anu the
Supreme Courts at Atlanta.
Office west side public Square, up-stairs over
VV \V. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of
PostotUce. Juiylß.
JAMES li. CONYERS,
ATM’ O 11 1 ST Id Y-A r U - LAW
AND
Notary Public,
< artesviij.k, : : : : Georgia.
(Office: Bank block, up-stairs.)
\\Mld, FR AUTRE IN THE COURTS OF
\ V the Cherokee and adjoining circuits.
Prompt attention given to all business. Col
lectioni made juiu‘29-ly
F. VI. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over stokely & Williams store.)
i \utf.ksv 11. r.K, Georgia.
1 Wild, FI I, , TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
1 and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suit the times.
ji'yTWurk al warranted. Refer to my pat
rmiH all over the county.
ttng ls ly. !•’. M. JOHN SON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,)
< ART EItSVILLE, GA.
Uf ill sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
spectacles, Silver ami Silver-Plated
Goikls, and will sell them as chea,p as they can
be bought anv where. Warranted to prove as
represented. All work done by me, warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. July 18.
Traveler’s ( < uide.
\\ Ksi i-.liX AND ATLANTIC It. it.
The following i.4 the present passenger sched
ule:
NHi lIT I’ASSKNGKR—UP.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 p m
Leave Cartersville 4:53 pm
Leave Kingston h:lt) p m
l.eave Dalton 7:10 p m
\rrive at <}i tfctanoosM, K ,* s o7 o m
night passenger— down.
3,cave Chattanooga 8:25 p m
heave Oaltfm . • 7:lopm
l.eave Kingston . .* . . . . • - • 8:00 pm
.1 ,ea \e ( a l't c c.-v*i lie* . . . .*. .*. . 9:05 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 pm
DAY PASSENGER—VP.
Leave Atlanta 5:20 am
Kenve < irtecsvi He 7:23 am
Leave King.-.ton 7:10 am
Leave Da Hun . 9:21 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:50 am
I)AY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga . ....... 0:15 am
Leave I>alton 8:10 a m
Leave Kingston 9:43 am
Leave ( artersville 10:11am
Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm
CARTERSVILI.E ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:10 pm
Arrive at Cartersvillc * 7:22 pm
U ARTERSVILLE AOCOMMODA TI ON—DO WN.
Leave Cartersvillc 0:05 am
Arrive at Atlanta
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and aTtor December 10th, 1878,the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
hi A or ETOW All Blf.L:
Leave Rome Tuesday Sam
Arrive atGa*lsden Wednesday . . . ~r 0a m
l.eave Gadsden Wednesday 7 P In
Arrive at Rome Thursday spm
Leave Rome Friday Sam
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am
Arrives at Green sport 9 a m
Arrive at Rome Saturday (5 pm
J. M. ELLIOTT, President ami Gen’l Sup’t.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Sept. L 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
LCavc ( artersville 7:40 am
Arrive at Stilosbora 8:30 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 am
Arrive at Rockmart 10:00aiu
At-rme at terminus 10:50 a m
RETURNING.
Leave terminus 8:00 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 3: to pin
.Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm
larriwat Cartersville . . . . . . 6:00 p m
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, November 17, the Rome
Railroad will run two trains daily, as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
l <eave Rome daily 0:30 am
IK * urn to Rome daily 10 00 am
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave pome daily (except Sundays) . 5:00 p m
Arrive at Rome 8:00 p in
I’.uth trail,'S " ill make connection,with W. &A.
If. IK at Kingston, 1° a,l d from Atlanta and
points south. EBEN IIILT.YER,
.1 as. A. Smith, President.
G. P. Agt.
1) UF F Gi i BB N fi O USE,
, Dalton, Ga.
THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL
On the Kcnnesaw Route.
BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR
PASSENGERS.
Special Attention Given to the Comfort and Con
venience or Lady Passengers and guests.
Reading and Sample Rooms for Commercial
'Travelers.
- Board per day, ?2.of>; Meals, 50 cts.
Railroaders, County and Stotekmcn, half
fare. _ _ _ ’
THKO E. SMITH. J. W. PRITCHETT.
HMITII vY PRITCHETT
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Propose to buy and sell all kinds
of Heal Estate in Cartersville and Bartow
county, on commission. They have on hand for
sale several desirable farms located in dillerent
parts of the comity.
They respectfully solicit business of all par
ties desiring to sell or buy town property or
fanning lands. Their terms will be reasonable.
Office in Planters’ and Miners’ bank, Carters-
L’e, Ga. sepll
THE NATIONAL HOTEL,
The only first-hi ass hotel In
DALTON, GHORGIA.
Rates per day : : : : : : $2 00
per week : : : : : : 800
Rates per month : : : : : 25 00
Laige Sample Rooms for Commercial Travel
ers. Postoilice in the building.
jau9 J. 0. a. LEWIS, Proprietor.
VOLUME ii.
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.,
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Going out of Business 1
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POSITIVELY SELLING OFT AT COST.
1 jkinS -rlußMrlin) to give up oi r? business Hure wrf' will *sell
.1 ) from now on until our ENTIRE STUCK of
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DRY COODS, CLOTHINC, HATS,
DRYGOODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
DRY COODS, CLOTHINC, HATS,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
* BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
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Irs Sold at and Below NW YORK C OST. -
If possible we will wiml up our business by the First of September next,'lint ally goods
we may have on liaud then, r * j' f ’ - '■
WILL 1511 SOLD AT AUCTION. ,
V'e mean business this time—no child’s talk, so if yon want to secure BARCA I NS you had
better call early and secure choice of goods while our stock is complete yet.
Bear In Mind Our Whole Stock will Have to be Sold by the First of
September, and any Goods left on hand will be sold at Auction, to
gether with Store Fixtures:
Show Cases, Looking Grlasses, Leclsteacls, W arcl
robes, Desks, Cliaius Etc., Etc.
Our Business in Nashville requires our Full Attention, which Com
pels us to Give up Here. Respectfully,
M. L IBMAN <fe BRO.
Cartersville, Georgia.
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T * 1 f \* $ f I j
P. S. We will Positively from now on not sell any Coods except for
CASH.
Those Parties indebted to us will please call at once and settle
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their account.
All Accounts not settled by the first of July next, will be given in
the hands of our lawyer for collection.
3-18-2 m M. LIE3MAN & BRO.
E. J. Hale & Son’s
STEPHENS’ HISTORY
A Compendium of the History of the United States,
For Schools and Colleges,
Ky Hon. ALEX. IT. STEPHENS.
(513 pp. 12rn0.)
17 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK.
‘•The pith and marrow of our history.”— Ex-
President Fillmore.
“Straightforward, vigorous, interesting and im
pressive.”—W. Y. Christian Union.
“Its tone calm and judicial; its style clear and
good. W'c recommend it to be read by all
Northern men.”— Boston Courier.
“A work of high excellence; well adapted to
supply a long felt want in our country.”—Con
necticutt SehOO Journal, (Eon. W. C. Fowler,
L. L. D.)
“Worthy of high praise. It will of necessity
challenge attention every where.” — X. Y, Eve
ning Post.
“Among tnc notable books of the age.”—Chica
go Mail .
“Narrative, impartial; tone calm and dispas
sionate; style masterly.”— Louisville Home
and School.
“A model compend.” —Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel.
“Everything necessary to a perfect handbook.”
—Goldsboro Messenger.
“Broad enough for all latitudes.” — Kewtudky
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 Wills, Oglethorpe University.
“The method admirable.” Ex-Gov. llerschell
V. Johnson.
“Should find a place in all libraries.” — Eo-Gov.
C. J. Jenkins.
“A most important addition to American litera
ture.” — Prof. R. M. Johnston, Baltimore.
“Read it; study it; heed it.”— Prof. E. A. Steed,
Mercer University.
‘Fairness, fulness, accuracy.” Prof. J. J.
Brantly, Mercer University.
TAILORING !
rfWIE UNDERSIGNED RETURNS THANKS
JL to his former patrons for their liberal pat
ronage iu the past and inform them that ho has
onened a shop over the furniture store, west
Main street, where he will be pleased to see all
that want anything done in the tailoring line
and in future he hopes to merit the confidence
lie has always received. S. 11. I ATTILLO.
January Btli, 1880.
THE FREE PRESS
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEIT BOOKS,
PUBLISHED BY
Iverson, Blakeman, Taylor & Cos.,
NEW YORK,
R. E. PARK, General Agent,
rpHIS series comprises among others, the fol-
I lowing well-known
STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS:
New Graded Readers,
Robinson’s Mathematics,
Spencerian Copy Books,
Well’s Scientific Works,
Riddle’s Astromics.
Dana’s Geology,
Woodbury’s German,
Kerl’s Grammar,
Webster’s Dictionary,
Swinton’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. PARK,
General Agent.
Care J. W. ' Burke & co„ Macon, Georgia.
U. O. ROBERTSON, M, 1).,
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 Yrtlanta, Health Institute
is the only Institute south superintended by reg
ularly qualified Hygienic Pliyeicians, 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 un
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, alter 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
DR. U. O. ROBERTSON
feb2o Atlanta,, Ga.
For Sale.
IVHE DWELLING HOUSE AND LOT LATE-
Iy occupied by John A. Erwin in Carters
ville,’ Ca. The lot contains eight acres a fine
pasture, orchard and kitchen garden. The house
i m g seven rooms, with cook room and kitchen
attached. There are stables and all other nec
essary outhouses on the premsses. To a respon
sible'purchaser liberal terms will be given,
Call on or address T. WARREN AKIN.
aug2B-tf Cartersville, Ga.
( ARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, Till RSDAIf .M.GRNING, APRIL 8, 1880.
THE YAZttQ FRAUD.
[C ontinued frqm last week.]
j , Mi-. Mitchell refused to take the depo
hejit’s proposal. The said Gen. Gunn re
quested the deponent to go to Roberts
I senator from Hancock county,
and know j| he was earnest in the busi
ness, for be Wits fearful he did not intend
to he uniform, for' he was afraid the
fellow was frightened, or words of that
nature. Deponent diet call on Mr. Thom
as, who told him he rfceant to be uniform.
The deponent aft#r rising of the leg
islature, saw the said **Thoinas in the
streets of Augusta, When Thomas said:
“They blame nW for speculation—now I
will speculate. Flournoy: you have been
speculating all your life. I will make
more money in two years than you have
made in your whole life.” The depo
nent replied: “I believe you have made
more, in ten months or less time. Sworn
to, as aforesaid. . R. Flournoy.
Robert Flournoy farther saith : Roberts
Thomas in a conversation on the subject,
before the meeting of the last legislature,
told the deponent he was in favor of the
sale as he thought it would be an advan
tage to the state in a favorable shape.
The deponent further saith, that Gen.
Gunn likewise told him, during the sit
ting of the legislature, that no member of
the legitlature could or should expect to
have a share if he did not vote for the
hill. , R. Flournoy.
Thomas Lewis, J. P.
We will put in a word here, to point
out to our readers ho|v General Gunn,
United States senator,‘managed the po
litical business of that legislature, lie
should have'been in Washington attend
ing to his legitimate business, but he was
at home, instead, trafficking around with
members and threatening that they
could not get a share unless they voted
for the bill. We don’t ask our readers to
get up and tell us what occurs to their
minds on this subject. We ask them to
be patient, and they will see that Gen.
Gunn was always unifcjrm.
James Simms, representative from Co
lumbia county, being Jluly sworn, said
that he httd frequent conversations with
Roberts Thomas, senator from this state
at the last session of the legislature at
Augusta. That depondnt did frequently
advise Roberts Thomas not to vote for the
sale, but Thomas said there was ail op
portunity to make something very clever.
The deponent told 'lhomas the purchasers
would deceive him, after he voted in fa
vor Of it, he would get nothing. To
Which Thomas replied he would take
care to make himself £ecuie before he
voted. The deponent saith further, that
Gen. Gunn called on the depondnt, a::d
told him he was fearful the bill would be
lost. Luke Mann, a member of the sen
ate, voted against the bill. Glum then,
said “Simms, I suppsse|roni what I have
heard you arc a poor man and you now
have an opportunity to make something
handsome for yourself aud family. If
you will prevail on Mann io vote for the.
bill, 1 will give you 50,(!>(> acres of land.”
Gunn told the deponent he would give
the same if he would get Wood,' a sena
tor, to vote for it, or any other member
oi the senate —that he was in compauy
with John King and’ Sam Wright, the
two senators in their quarters in Augus-
ta. They said Siimns ou ghr to op
pose it for.lic migt.malo* something clear
If he Wonld'fTfftmititoVhe measured '
James Simms.
Sworn to as aforesaid.
Andrew Baxter, being duly sworn,
maketli oath that sometime previous to
the passing of the first bill for the dispo
sal of the western territory of the state,
the deponent being in Augusta and eon
sidering it a step hurtful to the country,
thought it his duty to give his thoughts
to the representative of his county, which
was Hancock and called on Senator
Thomas and reprobated the act, which
said Thomas vindicated. The deponent
told him it generally disapproved by
his constituents, to which Thomas re
plied that he did not know he was inter
ested, but that those who voted for the
bill were provided for by the articles of
the different companies, upon which the
deponent icplied, he. should consider it
indirect bribery. Andrew Baxter.
Sworn to as aforesaid.
Ilenry G. Caldwell, duly sworn, saith
that during the sitting of the convention
at Louisville, the deponent had a conver
sation with Gen. Gunn, when Gunn
asked the deponent who was to be gov
ernor of Georgia? The deponent said,
lie heard Judge Stith. Gunn shook his
head and said it would not do. Stith
had been ungrateful to his poor relations,
for he had made a great deal of money by
the speculation and had not been gener
ous. The deponent asked Gen. Gunn
how much Judge Stith made. Gunn an
swered $13,000. Deponent asked Gunn
if Stith had a share in the lands. Gunn
gave no direct answer? said he engaged
to give Stith $13,000 for his influence in
passing the law. If the law passed Stith
was to have the money. The law did
pass and he gave Stith a draft for the
money and he had received or would re
ceive it. Henry G. Caldwell.
Sworn co as aforesaid.
Now our readers see how influence
was paid for. Lobbying, it is called in
modern parlance. Thirteen thousand
dollars! A poor man was bribed and a
judge was to be bought. But the judge
did not answer for Governor because he
did not divide. This senator of trading
fame, was not anxious to nominate Stith
—lie was not lavish enough. This inter
esting history will be continued as we
have space, until it is all out and there is
a plsnty more to come.
Willingham, of The Free Press, says
he likes the Griffin Xeics, but declines the
good advice given him by us a few days
since to return to His first love, and cease
his everlasting warfare against the party
that lias redeemed the south from ruin.
The electric effect of his eloquence upon
our sympathetic nerves could hardly have
been equalled by another editor in Geor
gia, so long have we known and loved
our friend. But when he threatened us
with the Etowah river, our readers may
well imagine how suedenly the tempera
ture of our feelings fell. It is well to re
member before whom to cast pearls.—
Griffin Xeics.
We have propounded several questions
to the Atlanta Constitution, which it
has so far refused to answer. The truth
is tiie Constitution affects to ignore The
Free Press, and for that reason we pro
nounce it a paper of infinite ignorance.
Parties making up clubs for The Free
Press can send them to any postoflice de
sired. It is not required that an entire
club should go to the same office.
• LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The following letter should have ap
peared last week, but was crowded out:
Atlanta, Ga., March 29, 1880.
To The Free Press:
It is currently reported here that Col
quitt’s friends have found out that there
is not the slightest chance of his getting
the nomination before the convention,
and that he will give out before the con
vention meets that he will run indepen
dent of the nomination, hoping to get
Methodists, Sunday schools and nigger
votes. He had a majority of 80,000 at
the last election; he will have about the
same majority to stay at home, if he runs
this 3 r ear. lie cannot be nominated.
Can you or any one else answer why
he paid Hoke Smith, a lawyer, $350 and
all of his evpenses to sell the Macon and
Brunswick railroad? Was it because
Hoke Smith expected to be made solicitor
of this district when Colquitt was elected
and not being appointed, he lias been
down on Colquitt ever since. Probably
that was to make up with Hoke Smith.
The bond given by Wilson & Cos, for the
Macon and Brunswick railroad lease saj-s:
“If sale of said road and its appurtenan
ces shall be made under said acts, then
this obligation to be void, otherwise to
remain iu full force and effect.” As
Gov. Colquitt sold the road immediately
on the same day as the-lease, the bond at
once became void, when it was the inten
tion of the legislature that the bond
should be a guarantee of the carrying out
of the lease. I enclose you a piece from
the Enquirer-Sun, of Columbus, that will
give some more shortcomings of Gov.
Colquitt in the sale of the M. <fc B. R. R.
If Colquitt had let Paine or Flewellen,
who were the bidders for the M. & B. R.
It., on the 6tli of November, and one or
the other was certainly the highest bid
ders the road from Macon to Atlanta
would have been nearly finished by this
time. The heavy expense of readver
tising, the $350, and his (the governor’s)
expenses to New York, together with
Col. Avery’s and Col. Tuggle’s expenses,
who accompanied him to New York,
would liaye been saved. I presume he
paid their expenses out ot the funds of
the state.
Then what right had he to go to New
York to sell the road when the act says
he must sell it at public outcry in Macon.
No one for an instant can suppose that
the first purchasers would have paid
$176,010 lease for "the road, unless they
intended to purchase it, so that it made
no,difference what price any party paid
for the lease, it w r ould be their intention
to purchase at the stipulated price put
upon the road by the act authorizing
the lease or sale $1,125,000, and
as the act compels the lessees to
'commence build mg • before purchasing.
Pa in or Flewellen, if they had got the
road, which, one of them wrere
certainly entitled to it, they would have
at once commenced to build it.
“There is something rotten in Den
mark,” and it will come out some of
these days; you mark my word. A tele
gram was received from New York the
day after the sale to Wilson & Cos., sta
ting that Col. W. O. Tuggle, one of Gov.
Colquitt’s particular friends, was one of
the purchasers. Probably some others
also had a hand in it. P.
We learn from the Atlanta Post that
“Capt. Ed. Cox’s attorneys have tiled a
motion for anew trial before Judge
Hillyer, of the superior court, in which
they allege newly discovered evidence,
since the decision of the supreme court.
Whatever may he the result of this mo
tion. which will he heard on the 14th of
April, it is quite gratifying for Cox to
know that his attorneys have done and
are doing all in their power for his relief,
and will exhaust every expedient in his
behalf.” There is a strong popular senti
ment in this section of the state that Capt.
Cox should have anew trial under the
newly discovered evidence. We hope
his attorneys will secure it for him. If
there is the slightest reason for it we
hope Judge Hillyer will grant it.
One or two friends said to us the other
morning that there was too much politics
in The Free Press. We confess there
is more than we like, but we can’t help
it. Ours is the only independent demo
cratic journal in the seventh district, (we
don’t mean the only independent paper,)
and we are compelled to repel all the on
slaughts upon independent democrats.
If the “organized” would let us alone
we should not be compelled to fight
them so hard and so vigilantly.
Charley Willingham is now after the
governor and his council about the non
publication of quarterly reports which
the law requires. We have had an eye
on calling the attention of the people of
the state to this very important neglect,
but did not want to worry Gen. Gordon
while he was setting up the pins for
brother-in-law Colquitt’s re-election. But
it is all right, Charley, if you did get the
start ot us in the matter. We are per
fectly willing to work at the tongue of
the wagon, so long as we can have such
old watch dogs as you are in the lead. —
Hit them easv licks at first, old man ; the
whole crowd of Kirkwood manipulators
will be awful sore before next Christmas.
— Southron.
The Elberton Xeics says there are sev
eral old gentlemen in that county who
say they have been taking the Augusta
Chronicle for more than fort v years, and
don’t think of giving it up yet. Is there
another paper in Georgia that has got an) r
subscribers of this kind ?
Four or five enormous blocks have
been removed by order of the Khedive
from the great pyramid for the purpose
of building a mosque. This multilation
has been severely criticized by the Egyp
tians, whose faith, if pinned to anything,
is pinned to the great relics of the Pha
raohs,
letter from hr. Stephens.
In Which the Casey-McWhorter Matter
is Explained—The Simmon's Case, as
He \ tews It—Gen. Gordon's Actions in
the Supervisor Appointments.
Washington, D. C., 27th March.—
Mr. Wm. If. Moore. Editor Ev ening News,
Augusta, Ga.:— My Dear Sir: On the
12th ult., during the heat of the excite
ment of the appointment of census super
visors in our state, you wrote me calling
my attention to several newspaper edito
rials severely censuring my course in re
lation to these appointments, and you
kindly offered me the use of your col
umns to make any such answer to these
commets and censures as 1 might deem
proper. I thanked you in acknowledg
ing the receipt of your letter, for your
double act of kindness, but stated that I
did not think the proper time had come
for me to speak to the public upon the
subject. It seemed to me it was a settled
purpose of some parties connected with
the press throughout the country to mis
represent mein everything I did or said,
either in or out of congress. False inter
views were published aud extensively
copied. The prompt denial on ni} r part
of their truth seemed only to increase
the vigor of misrepresentation on other
matte rs.
1 was not insensible, however, you may
be assured, to some of the most unjust
assaults made against me in the articles
to which you called my attention, espe
cially in reference to the appointment of
supervisor for our district, yet you and
my constituents may also be assured 1
did not allow my temper to become at all
ruffled by them. I chose to abide my
time. That time has now come, and
with your indulgence, I will make a very
brief but pointed vindication of myself
against the most prominent of these un
founded charges to which I allude.
1. It is utterly untrue that in the ap
pointment of the supervisor in the sec
ond district I “left my life-long friend,
Dr. Casey, on the wayside.” During a
long life I have never turned my back
upon a foe, and much less upon a friend.
2. It is utterly untrue that I was in
any way “complicated” in General Wal
ker’s office with a “recommendation of
Dr. Casey,” and “endorsement of Judge
McWhorter.”
3. It is utterly untrue that General
Gordon stated to me in the senate-census
committee that I was so “complicated,”
and when I denied it, that he said :
“Beware, the record is close at hand.”
Nothing of the sort occurred at that
meeting.
4. It is utterly untrue that General
Gordon called upon me at any time with
his carriage at the door and asked me to
go with him to General Walker’s office
that we might secure Dr. Casey’s ap
pointment.
5. It is true that Gen. Gordon did call
at my office the day before the appoint
ment of supervisors for Georgia was
made. It was about four o’clock in the
evening. Quite a number of friends
were in uiy parlor at the time, lie came
in hastily and begged my company to ex
cuse him for asking a conference with
me for a few moments on business. I im
mediately rolled into my bedchamber,
where he entered, and said: “Gen. Wal
ker is about to appoint the supervisors of
census for Georgia, and asked me to come
up here and see you and know whom you
wish for the second district.” .
I replied: “I have seen Gen. Walker
myself on that subject. I called to see
him soon after my arrival in this city last
November. It was after I had learned
that the state was to be divided into cen
sus districts. 1 told him I nad recom
mended several persons who by the di
vision of the state was embraced in the
second census district, and while I had
not a word to abate in anything I had
said as to the competency and ability of
any of them ; ye% as Dr. Casey was the
first whom I had recommended, perhaps,
of any applicant in the state—having the
recommendation, in addition to mine, of
both senators, with the governor of the
state and several of the most prominent
members of the legislature—l should in
sist upon his appointment for the second
district.”
“Gen. Walker,” I said, “fully under
stands my position.”
Then 1 asked Gen. Gordon, “Whom are
you for for that district?”
He replied, “I am for Casey.”
“Well, then,”said I, “goback and tell
Gen. Walker I say appoint Dr. Casey.
He was my first recommendation and is
my last.”
Gen. Gorkon immediately left my
room. The interview did not last over
three minutes. I felt perfectly satisfied
that Dr. Casey would be appointed. Gen.
Gordon made no report to me, and I have
never yet seen him from that day to this,
except in the senate census committee,
on the 6th of February, about the scenes
in which so many gross perversions of
truth have been given to the public.—
Some of these I corrected in a letter to
you from this city, written on the 7th of
that month.
I need hardly say, therefore, that I
was exceedingly disappointed and some
what chagrined on hearing, the evening
of the day after Gen. Gordon visited me,
that Judge McWhorter had been appoint
ed in our district instead of Dr. Casey.—
I couldn’t understand it. I could hardly
believe it to be true. [ still waited for
Gen. Gordon to come and explain to me
how it occurred. My surprise was great
ly increased in a day or two afterwards,
when T saw it announced by telegram
from this city that Mr. Harris, a demo
crat, was appointed for the fifth district,
and Mr. Clifton, a democrat, for the third
district, including the black belt, and
that that I had had Judge McWhorter,
a republican appointed for the second
district. I understood, at the same time,
that Gen. Gordon had pressed the appli
cations of Harris and Clifton. Gen. Gor
don has never yet made any explanation
to me. I thought he had treated me
badly, and said so, but did not go into any
particulars. lie heard, I suppose, of
what I had said, and sent a friend to ex
plain. I told that friend promptly to say
to Gen. Gordon I did think he had treated
me badlj, but that I would receive no
explanation from anybody but himself.—
I sought no quarrel with Gen. Gordon
and if anything occurred between us in
the census committee room, or in the cor
respondence that ensued and which has
been published, “disgusting to the public
taste” or of a “disgraceful character,” as
one of the editorials characterized it, T
am certainly not responsible for it. I did
think an explanation was due to me from
Gen. Gordon of what occurred between
him and Geii'. Walker after his interview
with me. I still think so, and with that
equanimity of temper which I have pre
served throughout this whole business
I shall await his giving it himself, and,
not by proxy, in such way and manner
as may best comport with his sense of
propriety and dignity.
6. In reference to the appointment of
Judge McWhorter, I emphatically state
that no one knows better than fee does
that I did not favor his appointment.—
When he sent his application to me, I
wrote to him that I would file it, but that
I was thoroughly committed to Dr.
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C’asey; that I would state to the superin
tendent that T knew him well, that he
was as well qualified for the office as any
other republican in the district, but that
nothing l said in reference to him was to
be understood as interfering in the
slightest degree with my previous recom
mendation ot Dr. Casey. If anything
can be found in the records or elsewhere
inconsistent with this, let it lie produced.
I write from memory, but L feel assured
that I never gave any recommendation or
endorsement to Judge McWhorter’s ap
plication inconsistent with what is here
averred.
7. In reference to the appointment of
Mr. Simnfons I have only this to say in
addition to what I said in my letter to
you of the 7th of February. The oppo
sition to his appointment* I regarded as
“a very great-to-do” over comparatively
a very small matter. The main points of
opposition urged before the senate census
committee when I was present, were his
“illiteracy and extreme bitter partisan
ship,<’ with a vague charge against his
moral character., Upon the subject of
spelling and handwriting L thought lie
would pass muster with a majority of
those who had applid through me for the
same office. As to the charges against
his moral character, after thorough in
vestigation, I regarded them as utterly
false and slanderous. The charge of bit
ter partizansliip was founded exclusively
upon words used in his letter of applica
tion to the president, in which it was in
sisted he had offered an insult to all SQutli
ern people who were engaged on the
confederate side in the late war. I did
not put any such construction jipou his
letter. I thought he confined the remarks
to that class of people who had abused,
denounced and attempted to ostracize
him for giving republican tickets to col
ored voters in the last presidential elec
tion. I did not think it good policy for
a democratic senate to reject a man be
cause lie had thus spoken of those who
had attempted to ostracize him for what
he had done. 1 thought, though, I may
have been wrong, that if Simmons should
be rejected, it would be said by our ene
mies at the north that it was because of
his union sentiments, and because he had
given republican tickets to colored vo
ters. I didn’t think it good policy to give
grounds for making such a charge. The
democratic stronghold, north and south,
in my views, was the maintenance of the
principles of a “fair vote and an honest
count” in all elections.
I suppose no one will entertain an idea
that I favored tlie confirmation of Mr.
Simmons except .as probably the best of
alternatives. I would, of course, ha e
preferred a democrat, hut that was then
out of the question. When Gen. Gor
don agreed with Gen. Walker that it was
a fair and just distribution of these ap
pointments to give two of them to the
democrats and three to the republicans,
and this agreement had been acted upon
by the appointment of the two democrats
—Clifton in the third and Harris in the
fifth— this, of course, settled the matter
of the political character of the supervi
sors of the first, second and fourth dis
tricts. They must, according to agree
ment, lie republicans. The remarks that
Gen. Gordon made in the senate census
committee about having Simmons reject
ed with a view of getting Mr. Griffin, a
democrat, or my friend, Col. Mark John
ston, appointed, I looked upon as entire
ly illusory. According to the agreement
and u7i<?erstafidift*f befvveen Gen. Gor
don and Gen. Walker, two only of the
districts were to be filled by democrats.
These two, as 1 understand it, Gen Gui
don had tilled with Messrs. Harris and
Clifton, as I have stated. Of course,
therefore, if Simmons was rejected some
other republican would have to be put iu
his place. I thought, whatever may be
Simmons’ faults politically, he wasagood,
honest, upright citizen, greatly slandered,
but highly appreciated and beloved by
all who knew him best, and would till
the office well. If be was rejected, 1
thought dernucraey might go farther and
fare worse. How this is Ido not know.
One thing is certain, neither Mr. Griffin
owCol. Johnson has been put in his place.
Of Dr. G.itehell, whose name lias been
sent to the senate, I have nothing to say,
because I know nothing. It is said that
lie is a republican of very short residence
in our state. 1 hope he will make an
able, efficient and acceptable officer, but
I do greatly doubt if the public interests
will be better subserved by him than it
would have been by Mr. Simmons.
Very respectfully,
Alexander 11. Stephens.
The following is an extract from a let
ter from the rooms of the national green
back press association at Washington city
in regard to Dr. Felton’s speech:
The 20th was wholly given up to debate
and five speeches were delivered on the
funding bill, three against, and two for
it. Mr. Felton of Georgia opened the
ball with one of the most able, eloquent,
and patriotic speeches to which I ever lis
tened. Of course so sound a greenbaek
cr as Mr. Felton would oppose any and
all propositions looking to a continuance
of the public dett beyond our legal right
to pay it. He opened with a masterly
review of the origin and progress of the
funded public debt of Great Britain, and
showed by irresistible logic that it is the
bulwark of aristocratic and despotism
the chief cause of all the pauperism, ig
norance, and crime that so disgrace that
country. He denounced the bond
scheme, arid the banking system of this
country as twin iniquities which were
meant to rob labor of its honest earning
and divide the people into two classes,
non-producing aristocrats, and toiling
serfs, and showed clearly that our only
hope lies in paying the bonds aud abol
ishing the banks.
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