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F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suitthe times.
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rons all over the county. Tnuwaov
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
WILT, sell Watones, 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 call. J ll v.
Traveler’s Guide.
■WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 pm
Leave Cartersville f ; 53 p m
Leave Kingston
Leave Dalton 7:10 p m
Arrive at Chattanooga
NIGnT PASSENOER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga
Leave lvingston u . e . ; • • • ; ; ; SabSE
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 p m
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5 : ?2 ara
Leave Cartersville
Leave Kingston
Leave Dalton a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:5b a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 6:15 a, m
j,cave Dalton ?"}9 am
Leave Kingston a m
Leave Cartersville 10:11am
Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 p m
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:10 pm
Arrive at Cartersville * 7:22 pm
C ARTERSVILLE ACCOMMOD ATION —DOWN.
Leave Cartersville 6:05 am
Arrive at Atlanta , G 5 a m
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after December 16th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday
Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday . . . . 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday 5 pm
Leave Rome Friday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am
Arrives at Greensiort SI a m
Arrive at Rome Saturday , • b P 111
.1 M ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup’t.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted): _ ..
Leave C'artersville 7:40 am
Arrive at Stilesbora a ni
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 am
Arrive at ltockmart 10:00 a m
Arrrive at terminus 10:50 am
RETURNING.
Leave terminus 3:00 pm
Arrive at Rockm art 3:40 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm
Arrive at Stileshoro • 5:13 pm
Aarrive at C’artersville . . . . • . 6:00 pm
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and 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 pm
Both trains will make connection with W. & A.
R. R. at Kingston, to and from Atlanta and
points south.
1 EBEN HILL YE R,
Jas. A. Smith, President.
G. P- Agt.
duff gbeen house,
Dalton, Ga.
THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL
On the Kennesaw Route.
BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR
PASSENGERS.
Attention Given to the Comfort and Con-
Special >( . e of j a(ly passengers and guests,
venter nd Samp j e Booms for Commercial
Reading a
Travelers. *2.00; Meals, 50 cts.
Board per day, s (j oun ty and Stockmen, half
Ra ilroaders,
- T J. W. PRITCHETT.
thko. e. smith.
SMITH At PBITOH
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
wnOPOSE TO BUY AND SELL ALL -
P of Real Estate in Cmrtersvdle •ydJß'Jj for
rieSvM™STe n farinsLated in different
I, X; f r^ul\ y y solicit business ofaHpar-
Office in Planters' and Miners’ bank, Carters
Yiile,
VOLUME IL
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.,
Ooiiig- 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
DRY COODS, CLOTHINC, HATS,
DRYGOODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
DRYGOODS, CLOTHINC, HATS,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
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 SOLO AT AUCTION.
We mean business this time—no child’s talk, so if you want to secure BARCAINS J° u Lad
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 Coods left on hand will be sold at Auction, to
gether with Store Fixtures:
Sliow Cases, Booking Glasses, Bedsteads, Ward
robes, Desks, Cliairs Etc., Etc.
Our Business in Nashville requires our Full Attention, which Com
pels us to Give up Here. Respectfully,
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.
Cartersville, Ceorgia.
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P. S. We will Positively from now on not sell any Coods except for
CASH.
Those Parties indebted to us will pleaso call at once and settle
their account. y.. v
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 & BRO.
- ‘ READ THIS PLEASE ]]
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; .AUNT 33
• REMEMBER WHEN YOU GO TO BUY:
:YOUR:
SPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS. CLOTHING
Notions, Shoes, Hats, Etc., Etc.,
BOYD Ac HARLAN, j
Borne, Georgia.
We are offering a stock, which for magnitude, quality, style and beauty is not surpassed by
and equaled by but few in North Georgia.
ATTENTION is called to our enormeus 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 an everything, that you can’t help but
being pleased. Come to see us or send for samples and prices. Respectfully,
4-15-2 m BOYD Sc HARLAN.
CAMP, GLOV ER Ac CO.,
51 and 53 Broad Street, ROME, CA.
OUR SPRING STOCK OF STAPLE DRY GOODS, BOOTS,
Shoos, Hats, Carped, Mattings, Etc.,
Ia unusually large, and merchants will find our prices the very lowest. Large stock of
Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Ladies’ and Gents' Ties,
Kid Gloves from 20 cents to $2.50 per Pair,
Pace 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.
jfWLadies ordering by mail can rely on getting ichat they leant.
Bi tterick’sPatterns for sale. Samples sent on application. Goods will be sent C. O. D. at bot
tom' prices. (3-18) CAMP, GLOVER CO.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons indebted to the es
tate of S. M. Franks, deceased, are here
by notified to come forward and settle, and all
persons holding claims against saul estate are
notified to present them to us properly proven,
within the time prescribed by law. " • ” •
Padgette, at Eur arlee. 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 ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
•Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com
panies. [janlO] L. C. lIOSS, Propje’or.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1860.
THE SOUTH.
A Horseback Hide Over the Theater of
Teoumseh’s Atlanta Campaign.
Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
Marietta, Ga., April 29, 18S0.
Having just passed over the theater of
Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, it may lie
interesting to the army of nineteen thou
sand, who, under Teeump. had such hard
work in the summer of 18G4 to force back
their gallant enemy, to know how the
old places have sfood the changes of six
teen vears. Coming to Chattanooga with
the board of trade excursion we deter
mined to take horses there and ride to
Atlanta. I had sent our saddles by ex
press to Chattanooga for my wife and my
self. I remembered Chattanooga as a
poor town of about three thousand and
was surprised to find a bustling city,
growing and building more than any city
of its size in the north. There is no need
of bringing side-saddles or saddles to
Chattanooga, the livery stables being well
supplied with everything. Good saddle
horses are as plenty in Chattanooga and
throughout Georgia as they are scarce at
the north. Beautiful Lookout Mountain
and gloomy Walden’s ridge are the same
as ever. The two defensive forts at Chat
tanooga, Forts Wood and Negley, are
still there, seemingly as if they had stood
the rains of two years only. Bragg’s rifle
pit lines half way to Mission Ridge, are
still serviceable, and Hooker’s lines in
Lookout Valley can still be seen from the
mountain. The plain that stretches from
Chattanooga to Mission Ridge is now cov
ered with a thick underbrush of scrub
oak. The old army roads near the ridge,
most of them used by Bragg, are still open
and plain, though never used since the
war. Leaving Chattanooga on the morn
ing of the 15th, at ten o’clock, we took
the Rossville road for Tunnell Hill. This
was anew road to me, having formerly
gone by Chickamauga station. After
riding seven miles we came to a meeting
of three roads, ami asked a gentleman
who was passing in a wagon, the distance
to Rossville. The man looked surprised
and with a smile said : “They call this
Rossville. * There was one house in the
town —no more.
After a few miles, up a rise, we crossed
the old Chickamauga field, and passed
the secluded nook in the woods which is
the “Grave-yard of Helm’s Kentucky
Brigade,” as a well-faded hoard nailed to
a tree over the rows of graves reads. To
each grave is a little head board printed
in black, with the name of the gallant
and brave Kentuckian who rests beneath.
The name is generally followed by “Fell
at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.”
The boards are rotten and many of them
have fallen. The head-boards of the
North Carolina and other troops are also
decaying and many gone.
I understand that decoration of their
soldiers soldier’s graves is still annually
observed in the southern cities, and I
would suggest to them that they place
new bords or stones at the feet of their
brave dead on this and other fields, leav
ing the old boards as thej r are, at the
heads.
It will be remembered that the rebel
dead at Chickamauga were buried each
in a separate grave, while ours were not
even buried in pits, but were left to rot
on the ground. This was the Southern
triumph. But now the bones of our men
who died on that gloomy field rest in the
beautiful national cemetery at Chattanoo
ga, while their then victorious opponents
are rapidly passing into oblivion through
the neglect of their own people. The
roads through the Chickamauga wilder
ness are obscure aitd l>oor and the counr
try barren and pavefi with strata of flat”
rock. We fed liorses at Ringgold, where
Pat Cleburne checked Hooker’s advance
after the pursuit from Mission Ridge.
Cleburne’s position on the abrupt ridge
here was very strong. The hotel at Ring
gold is now kept by Capt. Whitsitt, an
old captain of Joe Johnston’s army. The
captain is one of those gentle, modest men
that experience has taught me do their
full duty in those terrible moments when
bullies falter, and which no man who
has not received the “baptism of fire,”
can ever realize. We then pushed on to
Tunnel Hill, and before getting half way
it became dark. We forded Chickamau
ga creek twice and Tiger creek twice,
the moon being half full. The memory
of the roads I had ridden over sixteen
years ago was not absolutely perfect, and
the roads have been changed some, but
we reached the little town of Tunnel
Hill, and put up at Dr. Emmerson’s ho
tel at about nine o’clock. Next morning
we started down the pld road, through
Buzzard’s Roost and Rocky Face ridge,
to Dalton. The batteries and rifle-pits
that studded the whole depth of this im
pregnable pass are gone, and the slopes
are plowed. The woods here are full of
rhododendrons in full bloom. It is a.
bush from five to fifteen feet high, cov
ered Avith a pink bloom resembling large
pink honeysuckles. The people here
call it the wild honeysuckle. Indian
pinks, anemones and other flowers
abound. The trees and vegetation are
about four weeks ahead of Cincinnati.
The roses in the gardens at Dalton were
all in full bloom. Dalton is still a very
pretty town, and has improved but very
slightly. From Dalton we rode into
that gloomy stretch of wooded country
that reaches past Resaca. We fed horses
and dined at Resaca. We were some
what surprised at the large number of
loungers, looking much like Joe John
ston’s old men, that were about in the
little village. We began tothinkthe pic
tures drawn of the haoits of the south by
Frye, of Maine, were correct, but found
it was court day. A justice of the peace
holds court here once a month. Sher
man’s veterans Avill remember the net-
Avorii that bristled around Resaca, and
many of them carry the scars of Resaca
get. Really, these intrenchments do not
seem over a year or two old, except that
the two rebel redoubts on the knobs to
the east of town are covered Avith a
growth of tall sapplings.
We stopped at Calhoun, the seat of
Gordon county for the night. The old
road, during the war, used to cross the
Oostanaula on a bridge at Resaea. Now
the road from Resaea leads off from the
west, and crosses on a bridge just at Cal
houn. Calhoun is a slow little town in
a good cotton country. The proprietor
of the hotel here was not in the army,
but is a good democrat. He believes that
the stamp of the government is what
gives the value to money; believes firmly
that states have a right to secede, but
says that whether they have the power
to secede is another thing. Many of the
old army roads cut through the brush to
get into position are still to be seen, and
evidence (to a soldier’s eye) of the loca
tion of old army camps are still visible.
We left Calhoun at ten in the morning,
and passed through a rich country to
Adairsville, ten miles. Old bullet scars
on the trees tell of several murderous
skirmishes along this road between the
gray and the blue. One place on the
road, about a mile north of Adairsville,
where, -in 1564, I remember, the sap
plings were torn to tatters, J couid not
find'this time. Adairsville, like all the
towns between it and Chattanooga lias
not grown noticably. It is a quaint little
town with a plaza facing the rail rood de
pot. In the plaza or square are four
large public Avells in a long row, forming
a feature of the tOAvn. The people are
the usual kind-hearted, well-bred South
ern type. It is curious in the South that
AA'e have seen no noisy children of “lady
on a horse-back” is ne\*er heard from
them, and any question brings a prompt
and polite answer. The contrast strikes
even my dull perception quite plainly.
The hotel here, an old fashioned, quaint
house, with immense rooms and a ruined
look, is kept by an old Virginia gentle
man, past sixty, with a face like the por
traits of Earl Stafford, in Catterniole’s
paintings. I love to meet one of this
old stock who are perfect gentlemen
without effort or conceit, and without ap
parent consciousness of the fact. llovv
different from the pert dandy Avhose
breeding dates back only to his own
adolscence, and who knows and insists on
his rights and a little more, and is quite
“pusny.” The old gentleman had left
Virginia and settled in East Tennes
see. Here he had committed the error
of smypathizing with his State instead of
with his country.
Like the great mass of the southern
people he was opposed to secession, and
considered the act to be too hasty, but
when it Avas irrevocable he, as they did,
stood by the action. As the control of
East Tennessee passed rapidly from reb
el to union hands, he took the advice of
friends and sacrificed his property and
moved his family south. He located this
time far to the rear, near Avhere he now
is and started in life again. He says he
made a mistake in coming so near the
railroad. For tAvo years or so afterward
Sherman drove Johnson along that, and
all Avas lost again, and he Avas compelled
to leave his family and go beloAv Atlanta
Avith the rebel army, visiting his Avife oc
casionally by stealth. Our regiment of
cavalry (the fifth Ohio) Avere in camp
near here at Cartersville for two or three
months, and Ave .were kept busy on fo
rays here and there, up and down the
EtOAvah and up into the mountains. I
remember how often, in passing his Avife’s
little place, and that she always treated
us kindly, and gave us milk and other
little things that the Lord knows she
needed Avorse than Ave did. The tAA'O lit
tle babes that Avere with her then are
now the tAA r o beautiful daughters of the
house, and are quite a good example to
that style of young Avomen Avho sit in
the parlor and sing “Who Avill care for
mother now,” Avhile mother is caring for
herself and family in the kitchen.
At five in the afternoon Ave strrted for
Cartersville on the Etowah, nineteen
miles. Crossing a mountain we reached
Cassville at dusk. Here Johnston had
made a stand and forftified. In the morn
ing he issued a general order to his
army, saying that he proposed to fight it
out there. Meanwhile Sherman Avas
pushing into position and making ready
ffr attack. General Hood and another
corps commander insisted to General
Johnston that their position Avas unten
able, and urged that the abandonment so
strongly that he yeilded and withdrew.
Sherman burnt Cassville, which was in
the way of the attack. ft was a beauti
ful town, and this was a death-bloAv to
it. It has never been rebuilt, and the
county-seat is noAv at Cartersville, nine
miles to th£ Southward, Avhieh Ave
reached by the light of the moon at nine
o'clock. Cartersville is much improved
arid is now a pretty well-built town of
thirty-five hundred. It is one mile from
the Etowah River, a romantic mountain
stream.
The next morning being* Sunday, Ave
did not journey.. In the morning we
visited an old regimental camp of ours
on the bank of the river. The old spot
brought pleasant recollections of old
companionship, of draAv-poker and
chuck-luck and such small games, which
are vices in civilized life, but an unalloy
ed pleasure in the camp. The trees of
the grove are girdled and dead, and cot
ton planted where the sod was. We
talked to a darky who lived near the
spot. He told us a great joke how
General Sherman, during the Atlanta
campaign, left the army and in disguise
spent two weeks at Savannah in a Hotel,
taking his ease and “watchin’ round.”
When Sherman departed he left a paper
pinned over his door stating who he Avas.
“And,” said the darkey, laughing and
slapping his thigh, “you nebber see sich
mad people. Dat was General Sherman
de berry man day Avas after.” When I
told him that the General had remained
with the army attending to his business
the old man’s countenance fell. The
best story of his life had been spoiled,
and the most astute act of Sherman’s
life had been declared a myth.
There are no tramps in Georgia that
I have seen, but it must he a Paradise for
them, for said the darkey, “Dere is men
froo here sometimes wid ragged clothes
on an’ a bundle or a carpet-bag, and dey
has old shoes on ’mos off dere feet. De
Avhite folks tinks dey’s Carpet-Baggers
—dat’s what dey calls ’em ; but dey stays
Avid us, and Ave talks to ’em. Why, sir,
dem is de richest men in the country, ’an
dey comes down here from de No’f ’an
dey puts on dese old clo’s and dey goes
froo de country ’an Avatches roun’ to see
how things is goin.” We did not dis
turb -his belief in this favorite occupa
tion of “de richest men ob de No’f.”
He admitted that these wealthy gentle
men never paid for anything. “Dey lets
on to be poor.”
In the afternoon we visited the love
liest spot in America —Cooper’s Iron
works, about five miles up the banks of
the Etowah. The river here is rapid,
and studded with huge russet bowlders.
The banks are lined with majestic live
oaks, birches and rhododendrons, which
with the savage cliffs of rock on the side
of the road, shade the road. The sides
of the road for a mile or more, are oc
cupied here and there with massive ruins
of reddish sandstone (the roadway of a
railroad), Cyclopean walls, the shell of a
heavy sandstone mill, a turn-table,
machine-shop, engine-house, a bank, and
the ponderous chimneys of numerous
dwelling houses, besiues the pyramidal
stack of the old blastfurnace, all embow
ered in foliage between the broken cliffs
and the rushing mountain river. No
roofs are left; nothing remains but the
ruined sandstone. Vines creep over the
ruins, and inside the four walls of the
engine-house and shops tall pine trees are
now growing, giving the solemn air of
an ancient cemetery. It would need
Edgar Allen Poe, who dreamt “The
fall of the house of Usher’s to do justice
to the lovely gloom of this avenue. Tour
ists in this section have not found the
spot out yet. Five hundred men lived
and were emplo) r ed here before the war.
The energy of Major Cooper created the
gigantic works. There were two blast
furnaces a railroad with shops, a large
rolling mill and a good llouring mill.
Early in the war the rebel government
took possession of the works and used
them for war purposes. When Sherman
reached the E ovvah he burnt and de
stroyed the entire place, and Major Coop
er now lives on the mountain near the
works a broken and ruined man. There
are many such in the south, and none in
the north, and our northern people must
make some allowance for rankling re-
tnembrances of the war in many southern
bredsts. It is never very easy to “put
yourself in his place.”
On Monday, the 19th, we crossed the
Etowah on a rope ferry and rode nine
miles through the Allatoona mountains
to the forts and pass to Allatoona. The
rifle pits are all there yet, and nearly “as
good as new.” The forts are st ll good
and but slightly washed. On the ram
parts of the fort pine trees are now grow
ing, and a dark grove of large pines now
fills the west fort. In the lonesome fort
under the shade lay a few sleek, black
cows chewing their cuds. Here was the
famous and desperate fight from which
originated Sankey’s song of “Hold the
fort.” Kenesaw mountain appears off
to the south, distant and blue. It must
have taken a powerful telescope to enable
Corse to read Sherman’s signal message
from Kenesaw.
Acworth, five miles further, in the
plain below, was burnt after I last left it,
but is rebuilt, and looks so exactly like it
was then that I could see no difference.
Think of a Vermont man in the rebel
army! The hotel keeper here was a
Green Mountain boy, and did not come
here until he was twenty years old, yet
he and his son served through the war,
and learning that I had been in Sher
man’s army, treated me with the most
distant and barest civility. We stopped
at his excellent and cosy tavern till a
shower was over and then struck for Ma
rietta, which is a beautiful and sleepy
town just two miles beyond K nnesaw
mountain, the nose of which we crossed
in reaching it. The long lines of works
and batteries that cover the ground seem
almost new. Lines of rebel and union
rifle pits only thirty and forty feet from
each other are disagreeably suggestive of
times when a man would have given a
million dollars to be back home.
In all my intercourse with either ne
groes or whites I can hear no word from
either of any race trouble whatever.
The negroes are satisfied, and the whites
wish there w’ere more of them, as it is
very hard to get enough labor to work
the cotton. The negro men tell me they
vote just as they please and nobody hin
ders them. Georgia could employ fifty
thousand more negro hands if she could
get them. The darkey is valuable and
indispensable here, and they don’t want
him to leave them. My candid observa
tion is that a colored man is better off
here than he is in our country. The
climate suits him; he is uniformly treated
well, and he need never lack employment.
There is a good opening in Georgia for
intelligent capitalists in a hundred ways.
The mining industry is not fully devel
oped. Iron ore and wood for charcoal
furnaces abound, and a short time ago
copper ores and a rich mine of manganese
were discovered in the country east of
Cartersville. The people are uniformly
kind-hearted and obliging. So few
northerners travel here that a “yankee”
still attracts notice when known. Any
northerner, from a Californian to a Penn
sylvanian is a “yankee.” The word is
dear to the southerners.
The only Cincinnati paper I see here is
the Enquirer, and I see it in every town
on the road. I should say its circulation
along this road is larger than any one
Georgia paper.
Andrew" Van Bibber.
IMMIGRATION.
An Admirable Suggestion from Dr.
Talmage.
Dr. Talmnge, in a late interview with
a reporter of the New York Herald, thus
responded, when interrogated concerning
his recent trip to the south :
“I would rather have sailed in the nec
essarily slow old Constellation than in
the grandest and swiftest of the modern
steamships,” the Itev. Dr. Talmage re
plied, rather evasiyely, when the Herald
reporter asked him yesterday what polit
ical observations he made in his recent
journey in the south. “The old war
ship’s voyage is full or moral religious
meaning—a meaning of ten fold greater
importance than mere temporality. It
reaches far into the future and makes any
war hereafter between the United States
and Great Britain impossible. Indeed,
all things that are going on at sea—the
coming of such a vast tide of immigra
tion and the swiftened travel that is send
ing tens of thousands of Americans
across the sea —are making us so much
nearer neighbors as to guarantee that
such divisions as we have had in the
past can never take place in the future.
And the royal all hail that Britain’s rep
resentatives gave the Constellation yes
terday is another evidence that a great
humanitarian wave is sweeping the
realms.of civilization. It is the begin
ning of the end of wars between civilized
nations —the dawn of the epoch in W'hich
nations shall settle their quarrels as indi
dividuals do—by each conceding some
thing.”
“But, doctor, about what you saw
among the leading politicians of the
south ?” the reporter interrupted, as the
pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernable was
characteristically rising into a sphere of
rhapsody.
WHAT THE SOUTH WANTS.
“That, my dear sir, was what I was
leading up to. I wish that the American
war ship which crossed the ocean armed
with 50 tons of bread for Great Britain’s
famishing subjects could return loaded
down with the English, Irish and Scotch
workingmen, so many of whom I ou id
in my travels in Great Britain to be am
bitious of homes in the future America.
I saw in Great Britain a necessity for
greater facilities of transportation. A
question shot at me every day from men
with a little money was, What can I do
in America? Can I start a little home
of my own ? I noticed a different class
of emigration from Europe from that to
which I had been accustomed. It is not
the idle, the lazy and the dissolute that
are coming now; that class is still sup
ported by charity, as it always was.
Here let me give you a theory of my
own: If the hand of the government of
the United States, and the hand of the
government of the United Kingdom,
could be joined in aiding emigration from
the British Isle, England could be re
lieved and America enriched. If Eng
land would pay for transportation, and
our country would receive the emigrants
at our wharves and transfer them to the
west and to the south, both nations
would be enormously benefitted, and at
practically not a cent of cost; for Eng
land would save it all in her poor rates,
and the United States w ould make up for
it fourfold in a single decade. A few
blind in the east and the professional
politicians in California pretend to be ap
prehensive of overcrowding by immigra
tion. Why, sir, it you w ill travel to Des
Moines or to Chattanooga—well, make a
trip from Brooklyn to Montauk Point —
you will see that our country is cultiva
ted only in proportion of a row of potato
hills on the edge of a big farm. Now,
this almost unprecedented influx of
workers from Europe is what is needed
in the south. Southerners want more
ploughshares—more intelligent farmers
to drive them. Their rivers are all wait
ing for spindles and shuttles.”
NUMBER 45.
THE KELLOGG CASE.
Senator Hill’s Great Speech In Defense of
Justice.
In the Senate on Wednesday last re
sumed his argument in support of the
resolutions to unseat Kellogg. He is
reported ns follows:
He took up the cypher dispatches pro
duced before the committee and gave
translations of a number of them with
comments of his own, to show their sig
nificance. In view" of these telegrams,
he fcaid, no intelegent man could doubt
that the power of the Government had
been employed. in the suborning wit
nesses and kindred operations. A re
view of the evidence showed that there
was no quorum on the day of the Sena
torial election and that those present
were bribed. Even admitting, for the
sake of argument, that the Packard Legis
lature was the lawful hotly, these facts
were sufficient to unseat Kellogg. At
the time of the first investigation by the
Senate the evidence of bribery and of no
quorum in the Packard Legislation w’ere
not considered. The case, therefore was
not adjudicated on a full examination of
the facts. It was competent, he said
even in a court, to go behind prima facie
appearance of a settlement to prove that
certain facts were ignored. Mr. Hill
then reviewed the evidence taken h y the
committee, to show that the Packard
Legislature had no quorum at the time of
Kellogg’s alleged election. Continuing
he said that the republicans had refused
to accept the decision made by the State
of Louisiana when it recognized Nieholl’y
Legislature. They insisted upon going
back to the returning board and deci
ding upon the correctness of its action.
The electoral commission doctrine was
applied to the action of the senate to aid
partisan necessities, and no evidence of
bribery and fraud was admitted. The
principle upon which the people had
been deirauded of their president in 187<>
was employed to defraud the state of
Louisiana of her senator in 1877 against
the protest of the democrats. Now, it
was said that the democrats wore to help
the republicans to perpetuate this iniqui
ty. If they did they admitted that the
democratic party for three years had been
slandering the returning hoard of Louis
iana, that after all it committed no fraud.
They made the returning board respecta
ble, and brought the electoral commission
into credit and themselves into shame.
If they did this they ought to go down
on their knees to Wells, Casenave and
the rest, and beg their pardon for slan
dering them. Mr. Hill insisted on this
point, because he had watche 1 carefully
this shrewd attempt to bring the demo
cratic senate to endorse the action of the
electoral commission. He begged his
democratic colleagues not to fall into this
trap. There was a cry that to unseat a
senator would unsettle the title of every
other senator to las seat. But, said Mr.
Hill, let ever) senator do his duty. No
one lawfully entitled to his seat need fear
such a precedent. Some said the proper
remedy in such a case as this was expul
sion. Mr. Hill thought expulsion the
proper remedy when the question invol
ved Was the character of the incumbent.
When, however, it was the constitution
ality of his election, and the maintenance
of the rights of a Shite, it was not the
proper remedy. Having finished his
legal argument, Mr. Hill spoke upon the
geneial aspect of the case. After re
viewing the deplorable condition of the
South at the close of the war, he said
the troubles in the South since the war
have never had the slightest foundation
in any disposition on the part of the
Southern and Federal Government. “I
altirm, on the contrary, what 1 said as
fiir back as 18G8, what I have repeated
often, and if this Congress had taken
upon itself to frame constitutions here
tor each of the Southern States, the
Southern people would have accepted
them and organized their governments
under them, trusting to time, experience
and wisdom to cure whatever defects
troubles in the South since the war
grown out of a natural antagonism be
tween the races. There has been no
disposition on the part of the Southern
whites to do justice to the blacks. Where
then have our troubles come from? They
came from the reconstruction acts, which
disfranchised 250,000 of the very best
people of the South, men of property
and experience, w'ho had been trusted
w ith office. This of itself would not
perhaps, have been fatal, but taken
together with the enfranchisement of the
blacks and the disturbing influence of the
carpet-baggers who came South to profit
by the situation there, and who stirred
up dissension between the races to fur
ther their own ends, it was the cause of
the trouble.” But Mr. Hill looked con
fidently to the people to prevent the
disfranchisement of a soverign State and
to remedy the w r rongs of which the
South complained,
At the conclusion of Mr. Hill’s speech
Mr. Hampton obtained the floor but said
he would prefer not to begin his argu
ment until to-morrow. The Senate
thereon adjourned.
A later dispatch makes the following
statement concerning Mr. Hill’s speech:
Senator Hill’s speech in the Kellogg
case was a masterly effort. I doubt if
he ever excelled it. The galleries were
crowded, and on both days he had the
closest attention. His thrusts were hard,
and his repartee splendid. I can’t de
scribe the speech and do it half way jus
tice. The Louisiana senators and mem
bers have ordered large numbers printed,
which they intend to distribute through
the State and the South. Those who
could not hear it will be amply repaid in
reading it. It is a terrible exposure of
the corruption and bribery that existed
in Louisiana at the time, and an unan
swerable argument why Kellogg should
not hold his ill-gotten seat.
Like all of Senator Hill’s speeches, his
argument in the Kellogg-Spofford case
was of veay marked ability. What he
said of the legality of the legislatures
choosing the eontestenta made a very
strong impression, even on those who
have arrived at a different conclusion.
As has been the case whenever any of
the democrats have spoken on this case,
the republican side of the chamber was
almost empty. The men who defend
Kellogg do not seem to relish the disa
greeable truths they are obliged to hear
concerning republican rule in Louisiana.
Opposition to the movement to unseat
Kellogg comes very largely from the
democratic side, and it looks now as
though most of the speechs in answer to
Senators Vest, Vance and Hill would be
by the democrats.
The Dalton Citizen says: Avery inge
nious machine for the prevention of fires
in lint-rooms of gin-houses and pick
rooms of factories, etc., has been invent
ed and patented by Dr. L. A. Folsom, of
this city. It acts automatically, being
placed in any room where fire is likely to
occur. As soon as the fire is communi
cated, the machine is set off' and the
room instantaneously flooded with car
bonic acid, gas and water, extinguishing
the fire in less than a minute.
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