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TRIP PE & NEEL, A r T rO KN EYS-AT-LA AV , CARTERSVILLE, GA. tU TILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS, YY both ♦date and Federal, except Bartow •ountv criminal court. J. M. Neel alone will „uriiVv iii said last mentioned court. Office in ...rtheast corner of court house building. leb27 graham. a. m. foute. GRAHAM & FOUTE, A T T OKNPIYS -A T - X. A W. CARTERSVILLE, GA. Practice in all tlie courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Courts ut Atlanta. . Office, west side public Square, np-stiurs over W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, second dooi south of post office. _ —r— i. —- JAMES li. CONYERS, A T T O RNEY-AT-LA AV AND Notary Public, Cartrsvili.e, : : '• : Georgia. (Office: Bank block, up-stairs.) W7ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF YY the Cherokee and adjoining circuits. Prompt attention given to all business. Col lections made a specialty. june2i)-ly I’. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokcly & IV illiams store.) Cartersvii.he, Georgia. I IVill EHj j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, and put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suitt tie times. Il‘ Work at. warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over tlie county. aii"ls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERSVILLE, GA. A \ TILL Bell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. V V Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. 'All work done by me warranted to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS. ' J ’ iv-tveler’s Griiide. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGIIT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 8:00 pm Leave Cartcrsville 4:53 pm Leave Kingston 5:19 p m Leave Dalton 7:10 pm Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm NIGIIT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm Leave Dalton 7:10 pm Leave Kingston 8:39 pm Leave Cartcrsville 9:05 pm Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 pm DAY PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 5:20 am Leave Cartcrsville 7:28 a m Leave Kingston 7:49 am Leave Dalton 9:21 am Arrive at Chattanooga 10:56 am DAY TASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 6:15 am i.eave Dalton 8:10 am Leave Kingston . . ’ 9:43 am Leave Cartcrsville 10:11 am Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP. Leave Atlanta Arrive at Cartcrsville • 7:22 pm CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION —DOWN. Leave Cartcrsville 6:05 am Arrive at Atlanta . . • • . . . 8:45 am COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION. On and after December Kith, 1878, the following schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO LIA or ETOWAH BILL: Leave Rome Tuesday Bam Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday . . . . 6am Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm Arrive at Rome Thursday spm Leave Rome Friday Bam Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am Arrives at Greensport Pam Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm ,1. M. ELLIOTT. President and Gen’l Sup’t. CHBROKER RAILROAD. On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): Leave Cartcrsville 7:40 a m Arrive at Stilesbora 8:30 a m Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 a m Arrive at Uockmart 10:00 am Arrrive at terminus 10:50 am RETURNING. Leave terminus 3:00 pm Arrive at Uockmart 3:40 pm Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm A arrive at ( a rtersville 6:00 p m ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On anl after Monday, November 17, the Rome Railroad will run two trains daily, as follows: MORNING TRAIN. Leave Rome daily 6:30 am Return to Rome daily 10’00 a m EVENING TRAIN. Leave Rome daily (except Sundays) . 5:00 p m Arrive at Rome ’ 8:00 p m Both trains will make connection with W. & A. R. R. at Kingston, to and from Atlanta and points south. EBEN HILLYER, ,Tas. A. Smith, President. G. P. Agt. ijm Mini ii i irrr!■■■ i—in———n 1> L F F GR£ E N HOU SE, Dalton, Ga. THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL On the Kennesaw Route. BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR PASSENGERS. Special Attention Given to the Comfort and Con venience of Lady Passengers and guests. Reading and Sample Rooms for Commeicial Travelers. Board per day, $2.00; Meals, 50 cts. Railroaders, County and Stockmen, half fare. THEO. E. SMITH. J. W. PRITCHETT. SMITH PRITCHETT REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Propose to buy and sellall kinds of Real Estate in Cartcrsville and Bartow comity, on commission. They have on hand for sale several desirable farms located in ditlerent parts of the county. They respectfully solicit business of all par ties desiring to sell or buy town property or farming lands. Their tei’ms will be reasonable. Office in Planters’ and Miners’bank, Carters ville, Ga. sepH VOLUME 11, M. LIEBMAN & BRO., Groing out of Business! POSITIVELY SELLING OUT AT COST. Being fully determined to give up our business here we will sell from now on until our ENTIRE STOCK of m * DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, DRYGOODS, CLOTHINC, HATS, DRYGOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES, BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES, BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES, % A Is Sold at and Below NEW' YORK COST. If possible we will wind up our business by the First of September next, but any goods we may have on hand then, ' WILL BE SOLD vYT AUCTION. We mean business this time—no child’s talk, so if you want to secure BARGAINS >ou 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, Bedsteads, Ward robes, Desks, Chairs Etc., Etc. Our Business in Nashville requires our Full Attention, which Com pels us to Cive up Here. Respectfully, M. LIEBMAN & BRO. Cartersville, Georgia. P. S. We will Positively from now on not sell any Goods except for CASH. Those Parties indebted to us will please call at once and settle 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. LIEBMAN A BRO. -['READ THIS PLEASE! ‘- .A-IMD : iREMEMBER WHEIST YOTJ GO TO BUY: : YOUR SPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS. CLOTHING Notions, Shoes, Hats, Etc., Etc., BOYD Ac HABLAN, ; Rome, Greorgia. We arc offering a stock, which fo*r magnitude, quality, style and beauty is not surpassed by and equaled fcybut few in North Georgia. SPECIAL ATTENTION is called to our enormous stock of Scotch Dress Ginghams, Dress Linen, Grass Cloth, Figured Lawns and Piques, White and Col’d. Hamburg Edgings Insertings, Marseilles, Quilts, Etc., Etc. Our stock in these goods surpass anything in this market. Our stock of Dress Goods, Custom Made Shoes, Cassimeres, Straw Hats, Millinery Goods, Gents’ Furnishing Goods, is extensive and varied. We have some extra bargains and will make prices so low on everything, that you can’t help but being pleased. Come to see us or send for samples and prices. Respectfnll}, 4 . 15 _ 2m CAMP, GLOVER Ac CO., 51 and 53 Broad Street, ROME, CA. OUR SPRING STOCK OF STAPLE DRY GOODS, BOOTS, Shoes, Hats, Carpets, Mattings, Etc., Is unusually large, and merchants will And our prices the very lowest. Large stock of Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Ladies* and Gents’ Ties, Kid Gloves from 20 cents to #2.50 per Pair, Lace Top Kid Gloves, Latest Style. Our Spring Stock of DRESS GOODS have been selected with great care, and is the largest in North Georgia. TRIMMINGS to match every piece of goods. Ladies ordering by mail can rely on getting what they want. Bi tterick’sPatterns for sale. Samples sent on application. Goods will be sent C. O. D. at bot tom prices. (3-18) C AIM IP, GLOVER & CO-_ Notice to Debtors and Creditors. ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE ES TATE of S. M. Frauks, deceased, are here by notified to come forward and settle, and all persons holding claims against said estate are notified to present them to us properly proven, within the time prescribed by law. W. W. Padgette, at Eurarlee, Georgia, is authorized by us to receive and receipt for all money due said estate in our names. This March 25th, 1880. KENNEDY TAYLOR, Adm’r., and ELIZA J. FRANKS, adm’n’x of 6 S. M, Franks, deceased. THE FREE PRESS. ST. JAMES HOTEL, (Cartersvflle, Georgia.) The undersigned has recently taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It has been newly furnished and shall be first-class in all respects. SAMPLE BOOM FOB COMMERCIAL TBAVILEBB. Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com panies. fjanlfl] L. C. HOSS, Propje or. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1880. UNDERWOOD FOR GOVERNOR. To the Editors of the Free Press : Among the prominent sons of Georgia mentioned in connection with the next governorship, I see the name of Hon. John W. 11. Underwood frequently spo ken of. Judge Underwood is a gentle man well known over the state for his legal ability, honesty and uprightness, and stands second to none foy guberna torial honors. Georgia is sadly in need of just such a man to direct her state af fairs in these days of corruption Jin high offices, and I sincerely trust the demo cratic party of Georgia will consider his claims upon them when they meet in convention. Thousands of honest Geor gians would hail his nomination with pleasure. Independent Democrat. THE CONSCIENCE-ELEMENT IN POL ITICS. The campaign begins early. We ob serve in a county paper in Georgia the following notice—omitting only the names: “We are authorized to aifnounee Hon. ,as a candidate for tlie legislature (to represent county), at the next election—Wednesday, October 1, 1880.” The fellow citizens of this candidate have nearly six months to consider his fitness for the office he seeks. We do not say his claims for tvvofeasons: 1. it is a question of fitness; 2. he has no claims, except on the grouhd of fitness. It is time for voters to understand that offices are not created for candidates but for the service of the people. Offices are not created to afford candidates a living, or stepping stones to higher places. They are not rewards for party service; they are created to carry on government for the best interest of the people to whom the government belongs. We do not know the llcul , whose announcement of candidady appeared in the paper before us. He may be the man for the place—the best man. We hope he is. We indulge no Utopsan dreams; we ask no impossibles, or unreasonable things of our law-makers. But some qualities are absolutely indispensihle in a law-maker, fit for his offiice. It goes without saying—he * should know something. Intelligence is not too much to ask in those who aspire to the digni and responsibilities of legislative assem blies. Candidates for the ligislatnre should know something of the wants of the people and the principals of govern ment. More skill in party management is no substitute for wisdom, as mere par tisan zeal is ny substitutefor patriotism. Furthermore, it’ the Hon. is fitted for legislature lie is, to put the case very mildly, amoral man. He is not a drunk ard and he will not use whiskey (or oth er bribes) to carry His election. No drunkard is a fit legislator. There is no use in mincing words; drunkenness is an absolute disqualifica tion for officeholding. Drunkards, in their sober moments, sometimes do wise things; in their drunken moments they generally do foolish things. .jßut the least evil, perhaps, that comes’"f putting drunkards in office is not in *he foolish things they do, but in the .premium we, w&o elect them, thereby put, their vice. . (VV might have writS2v vic<*4- drunkenness generally drags after it a train of vices.) What good can we ex pect to come of ous exhortation: “Son, beware of drunkenness,” when he sees us vote to put drunkards in office? We have sinned long enough; we must repent and reform; we must quit voting for drunkards. As we seethe matter, a Christian man cannot, with a good conscience, knowingly vote for a drunkard for any office, from justice of the peace to president of the United States. Drunkards are not the only men unfit to make law and to administer them. Blasphemers, liars, rogues, Sabbath breakers, gamblers, adulterers, liber tines are not fit to be office-holders. No genius, eloquence, learning, party-zeal, or party-skill, can make them fit. Sen ator Hill was right in his great “Davis Hall” speech in the early reconstruc tion days: “A man personally corrupt cannot be politically pure.” “Measures not men,” is the party cry; we say, measures and men. Bad. men make bad measures. A sound “creed” and a corrupt ministry would do as well in the church as a sound “platform” and a corrupt office-holders do in the State. This country has suffered more from office holders than it has from unsound political principles. Some men talk as if there were a sort of inuate antagonism between sound measures and sound men ! As if there were not good men enough to carry out sound measures! As if personal good ness were itself a sort of intellectual dis qualification for office-holding! As if good men have less sense than bad men ! There are two classes of men who regret to see such writing in a religious journal. bad men .who want office and are afraid of the conscience-element in pol itics; timid Christians who are “afraid something will happen,” if the aforesaid wicked politicians get mad. We hope something will happen —that the last one of them will be beaten by the vote of men who “fear God and w ork righteous ness.” We know how Satan rages when Christian men carry their consciences into their politic. And we know how the bad men rage when they And that Christian begin to “vote as they pray.” We have heard their thunder—the beat ing of their Chinese gongs. We have heard what they have to say about “the union of church and state,” “dragging the sacred robes of the Christian minis try in the mire of the political arena” (great is their jealousy for the ark of God!) about “religious journals dabbling in politics.” Eighteen hundred years ago men no worse said that John the Baptist “had a devil,” and that the Christ was a “glut ton and a winebibber.” The Wesleyan does not advocate this party or denounce that; this candidate or that! But, with all its might, it says: Let Christian men be true, first of all to Christ, when they vote. They cannot be true to Christ and knowingly make corrupt men office-holders. The coun try is not so poor and abject and debased that it must put corrupt men in office. It has enough good men to make and to ad minister its laws. If nominating conventions want Chris tian votes for their candidstes let them name men that Christian men can vote for. If Christian men can ? t put good men in office they can, at least, refuse to become “partakers” of their sins. All the special freight rates on the New York Central and Hudson river railroad terminated on the 30th of April, and the officers of the road informed shippers and jobbers that they should not renew them. This is owing to the Hepburn anti-discrimination bill now pending in the New York legislature. THE DEFICIENCY BILL. Mr. Hayes Sends it Back to the House t Without His Signature. W ashixgtox, May 4.—The president to-day signed the army appropriation bill and returned the deficiency bill to the house with the follow ing veto mes sage : To the house of the representatives: After mature consideration of the bill entitled, “An act making appropriation to supply certain deficiencies in the ap propriations for the service of the gov ernment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes,” I re turn it to the house of representatives, in which it originated, with my objections to its passage. The bill appropriates about $8,000,000, of which over $600,000 is for the payment of fees of United States marshals and of general and spec ial deputy-marshals earned during the current fiscal year and their incidental expenses. The appropriations made in the bill are needed to carry on the opera tions of the government and to fulfill its obligations for the payment of money long since due to officers for services and expenses essential to the execution of their duties under the law's of the United States. The necessity for these appro priations is so urgent, and they have been already so long delayed, that if the bill before me contained no general leg islation unconnected with these appro priations, it would receive my prompt approval. It contains, however, provis ion which materially charge, and by im plication repeal important parts of the laws for the regulation of the United States elections. These laws have, for several years past, been subject of vehe ment political controversy, and have been denounced as unnecessary, oppres sive and unconstitutional. On the other hand, it has been maintained equal zeal and earnestness that election laws are indispensible to fair and lawful elections, and are clearly warranted by the consti tution. Under these circumstances, to attempt in, appropriation bills modifica tion or repeal of these law's is to annex a condition to the passage of needed and proper appropriations, which tends to de prive the excutive of that equal and in dependent exercise of his discretion and judgment which the constitution con templates. The object to the bill, there fore, to which I respectively ask your at tention, is that it gives marked and deli berate sanction, attended by no circum stances of pushing necessity to the ques tionable and, as I am clearly of opinion, dangerous practice of tacking upon ap propriation bills general and permanent legislation. The practice opens wide the door to hasty, inconsiderate and, sinister legislation. It invites attacks upon in dependence and the constitutionalpporerw r er of the executive by providing an easy and effective way of constraining execu tive discretion. Although of late this practice has been resorted to by all polit ical parties w hen clothed with power, it did not prevail until forty years after the adoption of the constitution, and it is confidently believed that it is condemned by the enlighteningj udgmentof the coun try. The states which have adopted new constitutions during the last quarter of a century have generally provided reme dies for this evil. Many of them have enacted .that no law shall contain more than one subject, which shall be plainly expressed in its title, The constitutions of mote than half of the states contain substantially this provision or some other of like intent and meaning. “The public welfare w'ill be promoted in many ways by a return to the early practice of the government and to the true rule of legis lation which is that every measure should stand upon its own merits. I am firmly convicted that appropriation bills ought not to contain any legislation not relevant to the application or expendi ture of money thereby appropriated, and that by a strict adherance to this princi pal important and much needed reform will be accomplished. Placing my ob jection to the bill on this feature of its frame, I forbear any comment upon the important general and permanent legis lation which it contains as matter for specific and independent consideration. (Signed,) Rutherford B. Hayes. Executive Mansion. DOWN IN DIXIE. Nashville is fining the gamblers. The Alabama river is steadily falling. Tuscumbia, Alabama, is building a cot ton factory. The Texas cattle drive this year will reach fully 300,000 head. Bull-frogs from Reelfort, Tenn., are being shipped north. Average weight of thirteen Fulton, Ky., belles is 107>2 pounds. Tennessee state board of health meets in Nashville May 22. Green corn in the markers in Tampa, Florida, as early as April 8. Southwestern Kentucky medical asso ciation meets at Paduca, May 12. Cock fighting on the Sabbath is be coming fashionable in Pensacola. Lexington, Ky., races commence the Bth and the Louisville races on the 18th. A Robertson, Ky., cow has been giv ing milk countiuuously for seventeen years. Wheat crop from Dalton to Loudon, never looked more than at present. The Louisville and Nashville railroad system is now the fourth in point in mi leage on the continent. The Methodist churches in Texas re ports 80,458 members, 759 local preach ers, 537 churches and 385 pastors. Since January 1 over 400,000 bushels of corn have been shipped direct from Richmond, Va., to Europe. On Monday W. T. Blackwell & Cos., sold in Chicago, one million pounds of smoking tobacco for SIOO,OOO cash. Richmond, Ky., Register knows of a mare eleven years of age that has given biyth to nine mule colts. Little folks in Grenada, Mississippi, are having a lively time with mumps, mea sles and w hooping cough. The million acres of university lands in Texas have been surveyed and the field notes accepted by the land office. The public schools of Paducah, Ky., use a history of the United States writ ten by a local teacher, and printed at home. New' Orleans shipped to Italy during the past year one million eight hundred thousand gallons cotton seed oil, and to France six hundred thousand. The wholesale merchants of Nashville have raised a fund for the purchase of railroad tickets, for distribution among nearly one thousand of their patrons— the country merchants in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. It is announced that Beast Rutler has informed Senator Hereford that if Justice Field is the democratic candidate for pres ident he will go for him and carry Mass achusetts for him in November. SAM HOYLE'S LAST LETTER. We have seldom read any tiling th*t gives a stranger idea of human agony thau the letter published below, written by S. R. Hoyle, the defaulting Fulton county tax collector, to his wife, before committing suicide in California some two or three weeks ago. If all men, be fore entering on the paths of “crooked ness” in office could read this letter of Mr. Hoyle to his wife, they would see in the abyss of shame and guilt awaiting them, terrors enough to drive them from wrong doing. Mr. Hoyle was a brave, proud man, and when too late to remedy the w rongs that he committed he fled the state and rather than be brought back as a criminal he took his ow n life. But be fore doing this he w rites a letter to his wife, full of everything suggestive of in tense love, shame and pride. No money can compensate a man toi such an hour of agony. We cut the letter from the Constitution: Col. Eastman —My Friend : I want you to take charge of , an[d] allow' Collier, under no circumstances, to han dle my remains or personal effects; have my trunk with all my things shipped ex pressed to Mrs. S. R. Hoyle, Shorter’s station, Ala. After taking out reasona ble fees send remainder of money to my wife. I thank you and your associates for zeal and energy in my behalf. My Wife: The courts have decided against me. Collier and Starnes have acted with great malice towards me. Collier has told several persons that he intended to iron me so heavily that I couldn’t get up when down. Of course you all know me too well to think that I could submit to this humiliation w'hen I have it in my power to prevent it. I had rather go under with the shock than die piece-meal on the rack. O! my wife, blame me not. It is for the best for all of us. My God, my God, my soul stands still. The very pulsations of my heart cease as I approach this sub ject. For God’s sake don’t call it cow ardice, for it is not. If I did not know that my death, under all circumstances, would be to the interest of my wife and children, I could live and undergo all the tortures of man and devil. But Lida, think of my precious little ones growing up and the finger of scorn to point them out as the son and daughterof a convict! Never, never! I am perfectly calm and determined. I have no fear of death. May the Great Eternal Ruler protect my precious wife and little ones. Oh, heav ens, what would I give to have you w ith me in this awful hour, but I must not al low my thoughts to dwell; it makes a coward of me. My last words on this earth shall be, “My wife.” Oh, my no ble-, brave, loving wife. God. God, how can I leave you? My heart almost fails me. But hush, oh breaking heart, keep still. Jodie Alverine and my poor old mother, what shall I say? Tell ma her other sons must comfbrt her old age, and Imogene, Frank, Mr. Ilowell and all, good-bye. In a few minutes I go to the land where all is peace and rest. God have mercy on my soul. Mr. Thompson and sons and Rowland, I thank you for your kindness. Adieu. S. R. Hoyle. One of Mr. Hoyle’s near relatives yes terday received a letter from Jailer Thompson enclosing some of Mr. Hoyle’s hair which the jailer’s daughter had ta ken from his head to be sent to his be reaved kinspeople. The thoughtful act was much appreciated. ABOUT THE CENSUS. Which is of Personal and Public Interest. From section 17 of the act to provide for the taking of the tenth census we make the following extract of interest to the public: “Schedule one shall contain inquiries as to the relation of each person enumer ated to the head of the family, whether wife, son, daughter, servant, boarder or other; as to the civil conditions of each person enumerated, or to all foreign born w hether alien or naturalized person, and as .to the physical and mental healths of each person enumerated, whether ac tive or disabled, maimed, crippled, bed ridden, deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idiotic, and whether employed or unem ployed, during what portion of the year. “Schedule number three shall contain inquiries respecting the kind and amount of power employed in the establishment of productive industry, and the kind and number of machines in use, together with the maximum capacity of such establishment, where superintendent of census shall deem such inquiry appropriate, and the said super intendent may, when he shall regard it expedient, prepare special blank forms for separate industries. Schedule number four, shall contain inquiries relating to the public indebted ness of cities, counties, incorporated vil lages, and towns, and school districts, and of the ownership of the public debt of the United States, by whom owned and the respective amounts and such ad ditional inquiries respecting the same as well as respecting the papers and crimi nals as the superintendent of census shall deem necessary to secure full infor mation respecting tiie numbers and con dition of these classes.” Section 14th says: “That each and ev ery person more than 20 years of age be longing to any family residing in any enumeration district, and in case of the absence of the heads and other members oi any such family, then any agent of such family, shall be, and each of them hereby is required if thereto requested by the superintendent, supervisor or enu merator, to render a true account to the best of his or her knowledge of everv person belonging to such family in the various particulars required by law; and whoever shall wilfully fail or refuse shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ofte hundred dollars. And every president, treasurer, secretary, general agent or managing di rector of every corporation from which answers to any of the schedules provided for by this act are herein required, who shall if thereto requested by the superin tendent, supervisor or enumerator, will fully neglect or refuse to give true and complete answers to any inquiries au thorized by this act, such officer or agent shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt in any court of competent jurisdiction in the name and to the use of the United States, and in addition thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be imprison ed for a term not exceeding one year.” Corn crop about Dawson Is very prom ising and an unusual large acreage has been planted. Cotton is being chopped out, and most of the farmers have a good stand. NUMBER 44. GOLD VEINS. Gainesville, April 29.— r fhere is a mistaken notion with regard to the nature and formation of gold veins; and you will do an essential service to the coun try, and to Georgia particularly, if you will give your aid in promulgating the truth to the masses, who are ignorant of the laws of science. We will premise by stating that the operation of the laws of God never change; and that a “true or volcanic vein” Fs every where the same; that its metallic properties depend upon whatever metal chanced to be forced up by the matrix to the surface from the fluid mass of matter, beneath the crust of the earth, which is about fifty miles thick. Whenever a grand cataclysm obtains this crust is disrupted; and a chain of moun tains is formed, and many fissures are formed, giving numerous metalifferous veins of whatever happens to be at that point, hi a fluid state —sometimes iron, sometimes gold, silver, zinc, copper or any other substance. These veins never exhaust, as the crust of the earth is at least fifty miles thick; the metals of what ever kind will continue to that depth. The Comstock lode has been worked 3,500 feet deep and the heart Increases about one degree in every fifty-six feet; consequently, at the present level, no one can work longer than one hour. In Georgia, we have but five true veins which have produced immensely rich de posits of massive gold. But not one has been developed. No search has been made for the veins which, if worked, would yield thousands of dollars per day to each hand. The Potosi mine in South America yielded over $2,000,000 annually for many years, and we have at least four equally as rich. The Lumsden mine, at Nacoochee, is of this character, and has produced hundreds of thousands of dol lars from the placers, but when traced to the cause, will yield as much every month. The most of the veins in Geor gia, and other parts of the world are al together different from true or fissure veins. They were formed by chemical precipitation, from solution in a tempera ture above boiling water and formed strata in the primary sea bed, which were after millions of years upheaved by vol canic force, and now constitute what we call “seggregated veins,” which trend with the Appalachian range of moun tains in a southwest and northeast direc tion in the states of Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and onwards for a thousand miles. The radical differ ence simply is that the gold, in a true vein, is always massive, ranging from a few pennyweights to ten and twenty pounds, and in California, the largest mass weighed 100 pounds. One, equally large, from Australia, now in England, is from a volcanic vein, in all of which, the gold is forced up from the internal great deep in a fluid state with the ma trix, while the seggregated veins of strata are lormed by the precipitation of gold from solution by chemical affinity; and is never massive, and may be rich or not, just in proportion to the quantity in so lution in the menstrum; and may con tinue for miles deep or give out quickly, just in accord with the disrupted section. In North Carolina, m Cabarras county, at the Reid mine, was found the first gold in the United States. The mass was picked up by a boy who shot at, and missed, a fish ; and his arrow was broken against a yellow mass which he carried home, and his mother used for years to prop the door open. It weighed thirty seven pounds troy. We knew of two other mines w hich have been abandoned for 40 years, no doubt, equally rich. M. F. Stephenson. ED COX. Rumors Current as to Where he will be Sent. The decision in the Ed Cox case, as published Wednesday, w'hile not unex pected, was still freely discussed by the public. Its correctness was not doubted, but more of symyathy was expressed for the unfortunate man than we have heard heretofore. The question uppermost in the minds of most people who read the verdict, was : “Where will he go?” Now that Cox must go to the peniten tiary, some one of the camps must be des ignated as his future residence. It has been rumored some time that he is not a desirable charge, and that several of the lessees have stated that they do not want him. Governor Brow r n is reported as averse to receiving him, upon the ground that he is not such an “able-bodied” man as the law says he shall have. Although a life man and primarily assignable to Governor Brown the latter holds that he fails in other conditions. We understand that the physician of the penitentiary has examined Cox and reported his physical condition to the governo!. M hat that report contains has not been disclosed. Gov. Brown had an examination of Cox made bv four physicians of the city, headed ‘by Dr. 11. V. M. Milier, as we learn, and they, too, have made a report which Governor Brown has filed with the governor of the state. We are una ble to state its contents, but learn that it is a strong presentation of defects in Cox’s physical condition, lucidly and strongly stated in a written report drawn by Dr. Miller. It was reported as certain yesterday that Cox would not be sent to the coal mines, but would be assigned to one of the lessees engaged in farming operations in south Georgia. It is probable that the report is correct, and that Cox will be made easy upon one of the plantations worked by either Col. Lockett or Mr. Walters in South Georgia. Yet another rumor assigned him to W. D. Grant, of this city. Cox is said to have become reconciled to the decrees of the courts so far as to have given over his intention to only come out of Fulton county jail “leet .fpremost.” He is closely watched to prevent any attempt at self-destruction, if, indeed, he ever seriously contemplated such an act. He is very much opposed to the idea of being shackled and is re ported as ready to pledge his honor that if spared that humiliation he will per form truly and creditably all things re quired of him and make no attempt to abuse the clemency by an effort to es cape. He says that as he must go to the penitentiary that he will go like a man and do his duty like one. He does not expect any executive clem ency from the present administration and his friends say he desires none at its hands. If pardoned, he wants it from other hands and with the sanction of his fellow-citizens of old, who know hint and believe in his honesty in all things. He is said to often speak of Alston in the kindest terms and as a friend whom nothing but a stern necessity would haye induced him to harm. His faithful wife and loving children have cheered him greatly in his confinement, and it is a part of the arrangement to be made for him that they will be located near him and see him often. — Constitution. An unusual amount of potatoes plant ed in Schley county. Oats will fall short of an average Ciop. Cotton seed in de mand at from 20 to 50 cents per bushel. RATES OF ADVERTISING, Advertisement* will be inserted it the rates of One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. Space. 1 mo. S mos. tt mos. 1 year. One inch, *2 50 *5 00 *7 50 *lO 00 Tw o inches, 375 760 12 50 18 00 Three inches, *OO 10 00 17 50 25 00 Four inches, 625 12 50 if 50 82 00 Fourth column 7 50 15 00 Half column, 15 00 25 00 40 00 mOO One column, 20 00 r 40 00 80 00 400 00
