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MOON & WIKLE, A t t orneys-a‘t-Law, CARTERSVILLE, GA. x onicc ill Bank Block, over the Postollicc. l'e!)27 B. B.TRIPFE. J. M. NKEL TRIPPE & NEEL, /V r r VOIt NK YS-AT-LA "W, CARTERSVILLE, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN ALE THE COURTS, both State and Federal, except Bartow •.ounty criminal court. J. M. Neel alone will practice in said last mentioned court. Office m northeast corner of court bouse building. fel)27 K. I>. GRAHAM. A. M.FOUTE. GRAHAM & FOUTE, y r r rr oitnkys - y t-la w. CARTERSVILLE, GA. Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the Supreme Courts at Atlanta. Office west side public Square, up-stairs over W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, secoud door south of Postoffice. jnlylS. JAMES B. CONYERS, y r r r r oit isr id y-y r r - lyw AND Notary Public, Cartesville, : ' : : : Georgia. (Office: Bank block, up-stairs.) WILL PRACTICE IN' THE COURTS OF the Cherokee and adjoining circuits. Prompt attention given to all business. Col lections made a specialty. juiie2i)-ly F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokely <& Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. I WILL KII. , TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, and put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suitthe times. Work al. warranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. Tnuwaov augls-ly. __ F. M. JOHNSON^ JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) 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. —~ o 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 ]] * * ; .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. KATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of One Dollar per inch tor the first insertion, an I Fifty Cents for each AmliMonal insertion. 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