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ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup r t. HOME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Wednesday, May 19, the Rome Railroad will run two trains daily, as follows: MORNING TRAIN. Leave Rome daily 8:00 am Arrive in Atlanta at 12:36 p m Leave Atlanta at 7:45 a m Arrive at Rome at 11:00 a m EVENING TRAIN. Leave Rome daily (except Sundays) . 5:30 p m . ’■five in Atlauta at 11:00 p m Y''-' Atlanta at 5:00 pm “ * Rome 9:00 pm nsis Bome wUh ,ra E i v“lS tl ,'t Kingston with trains lor Atlanta. EBEN .^LLYER J as. A. SMITH, president. G. P. Agt. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Monday, May 17. 1880, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Cartersville Arrive at Stilesboro 10:30 am Arrive at Taylorsville 10:50 a m Arrive at Rockmart 1 J * a m Arrrive atCedartown pm RETURNING. Leave Cedartown 3:25 pm Arrive at Rockmart j P ni Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22,pm Arrive at Stilesboro p m Arrive at Cartersville 6:30 pm FREIGHT TRAIN. 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Mrs. terhune has removed from the old wooden building, 44 Broad st., (next to Central Market,) to the beautiful new brick building, 26,28 and 30 Broad street, (over national bank.) The house is new and newly furnished through out, and is kept in elegant style. A nice parlor tor ladies and a splendid reading room for gen tlemen. Two hath rooms with either hot or cold water at the disposal of the guests and boarders with out extra charge. The table will be furnished with the best that the marketaffords. Servants polite and attentive. In fact, this house has every convenience of a first-class hotel, and charges considerably less. Transient patronage solicited. nov27- THEO. E. SMITH. J. W. PRITCHETT. SMITH & PRITCHETT REAX ESTATE ACE NTS, Propose to buy and sell all kinds of Real Estate in Cartersville and Bartow county, on commission. They have on hand for sale several desirable farms located in different parts of the county. They respectfully solicit business of all par ties desiring to sell or buy town property or farming lands. Their terms will be reasonable. Office in Planters’ and Miners’bank, Carters ville, Ga. aepl TAILOR!IINC ! TAILORING! The undersigned returns thanks to his former patrons for their liberal pat ronage in the past and inform them that he has opened a shop over the furniture store, west Main street, where he will be pleased to see all that want anything done in the tailoring line and in future he hopes to merit Die ixmfldence he has always received. S. H. DAI iidiaj. January Bth, 1860. THE NATIONAL HOTEL, The only first-blass hotel in DALTON, GEORGIA. Rates per day : *• : : • ;?? 99 Rates per week : : • • ; ; xx Kates per month : : • : . , • _ , Large Sample Rooms for Commercial Travel ers. Poatoffice in the building. pn J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, 'BjURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1880. FROM OLD JAKE.” What he Current State Politics. Boss —Well, e, it seems you have been absent. Amt’s the news ? Jake—Yes, lids; Ihab reached out side de county a j|tle, feeling de pulse ob udder people jD organ grinders say Felton, Speer aiMPersons am good aigs, but dey are ’postßto de morus-aparatus ob da gittin in—it am not “policy.” Boss—What Joe and Gordon?” Jake—Fokes sa |dat old Nick hab put up him headquartrfs in Attalanty; but dey is ’rong, he hj| neber bin ’way from dar since Sherna* drapped him dar in ’64. Kase he htbgome ob his ehillen at Dalton, Rome md Cartisville. Dey tink he hab gone ’Wy. Boss—You fust explain yourself. Jake—Well, Jd Nick entered into Kol kit tudder day eid he ’pinted for to cir cumcede John Hack Gordon. Dey say he ’suited wid ice scribes, Pharsees, and de high priest? in*l ’greed upon Joe at 30,000 pieces o\ silver. De only ting dat ’prizes me is, <j*y didn’t ’pint Bullock, j Kimball, Fatty Harris, Norcross, or de Lockchain, de Q isman. When old Nick gits into fokes d‘y ’stroy deyselves like de hog in old tine. Kolkit dun cut him frote wid all trie men. Boss—The pipers endorse the govern or. Jake—Yes, lese papers hab got fat outen Joe’s orib fnd incourse, dey can’t go back on him. All de moufs of de talkin folks hab bin stopped by Joe’s free tickets. Boss —But Joe has come back to the party, and says that all that he did was merely ‘policy. Jake —Yes, boss, “policy! policy!” is zackly what ails banner, and has been her complaint for fifty years. Policy is what makes Gordon recline him chair, kase Blaine hat axed some questions, and nobody wants to answer. Policy is what makes Gordon and sich look so Haysy. It was policy dat cut Tilden’s frote, and as Kellog nozc all about it; dey blister and freeze to him, to keep him mouf shut. Joe is put on de lass round ob de ladder, den to step up to de full term when de legkiatur meets. Dat was policy. But, BosSj I am mad, sick and half crazy. Is it any use to vote for A democrat governor 2 But dey say dey ’moted Gordon ka3e he lit under Lee, fit reconstruction, Bullock, Joe,’Cole, Nor eross, Fatty Harris, de debbil and Doctor Foster. Well, what next? Dey say dey ’mote Joe kase he got brains, kase he ’’posed Jeff DaviSj Lee and Gordon, on de ’scription, kase he was on de big idea ob vocal, self-government, kase he bowed him knee to Baal jjis policy, fit for recon structin’ foi Rnlloolc, ’ginst Gordon for played de debbil ginerally, all for de good ob de souf, and Georgy in ’tickler— policy! policy! But boss, where is con sistency? If dis isn’t blowin’ hot and cold outen de same mouf, den tell me de moon ain’t green cheese. But Joe hab jibed de ban by ’knowledgin’ nuffin, but splainin’ all wid policy. Den ’spose dis nigger takes a tater, and when dey fetch es him in court, he says if I didn’t had took dem taters, I been goin’ to de poor house ; so it was policy. Boss—What will be the outcome of it? Jake—De outcome will be, Joe elected for de full time or much money will he flung away for nuffin. Joe paid tudder time wid railroad offices, but he didn’t come in. He got Bullock, Kimball, Kolkit, Logcliain and all dem dat kissed Bullock and Kimball and put ’em in offis. Joe got nearly all de papers and plenty money to hold ’em. But for de seventh and ninth district, Georgy would be gone to de dogs. BROWN IN THE SENATE. Washington, May 26.—Mr. Gordon announced that he had resigned his seat in the senate, and moved that the ap pointee be sworn in. The credentials of Gov. Brown were read. Mr. Edmunds remarked that they were dated May 21, and asked if the date of Mr. Goi don’s resignation was officially known to the senate. It had been held by the senate on some former occasion that the gov ernor of a state has no power, under the constitution, to appoint a senator until a vacancy actually exists. Of course ev erybody knew that he had no objection to Mr. Brown’s being sworn in, except the sorrow it gave him that his friend, General Gordon, was to go away, but he thought it right to call the attention of the senate to the fact. It might, perhaps, be better for the senate to hold, as a mat ter of inconvenience, that the former de cision was wrong and that the governor might issue a commission in anticipation of a vacancy. Mr. Gordon stated that his resignation ante-dated the commis sion of his successor by four or five days. Mr. Edmunds said the question then arose, if the vacancy had actually oc curred on the 21st of May, the date of the commission, then by what constitutional or other authority had his friend, Mr. Gordon, exercised the faculties of Sena tor since that date. That would be a puzzle, but he did not know that it would affect the present question. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, thought it had nothing to do with the present question, which was simply whether Governor Brown be sworn in. He moved that that be done. Mr. Brown was thereupon escorted to the desk, the modified oath was administered by the president pro. tern, and he took his seat. A statesman who had held a high place on the bench, who held a seat in the sen ate until he got a good chance to sell it, sent his young wife where he hoped she would fa'll into evil ways, and hired a de tective to dog her. The statesman is deemed by this pure Administration a fit person to represent American honor and interests at the capital of a friendly re public, while the detective enjoys an official position in one of the executive departments. It costs the people about $15,000 a year to support these two crea tures, And yet there isn’t a one in the thousand of farmers and laborers among those who pay the $15,00 ihat would speak to the one or allow the other to speak to him.— Washington Post. Queen Victoria was sixty-two last Monday week. OUT OF OFFICE. Gen. Clement A. Evans Fays a Feeling Tribute to General Gordon Both in War and in Peace. General Clement A. Evans (editorial in Georgia Advocate.) Senator Gordon’s resignation will be noted as another historic event in his dra matic and useful life. The state at large was surprised, and some were startled when the last fact was announced. There w r ere those who cared nothing for it, onlv as they might make use of it to serve political ends, and for such ready detractors of the character of good men we have no excuse. Some who suffer themselves to be suspicious of every ac tion of public men began to conjecture other reasons for this resignation than those which were given to the plain state ment made by this well-tried citizen and Christian. The people at large, however, will feel that while imperious necessity forced Gordon’s retirement, he has not deceived them nor betraj r ed their inter ests, but has only (and we trust tempo rarily) suspended a twenty years’ public service of sacrifice and usefulness unsur- passed by any man in the country, and that he has terminated his senatorial life in the right manner, and at the right time. He will speak for himself, and the people whom he has served will believe him. We do not believe in the thing meant by the slang phrase, “Mixing re ligion and politics.” Religion, pure and undefiled, is to visit the fatherless and the widows, and to keep unspotted from the world. The prophets should keep out of political entanglements. But we put in a plea which all men understand. What is character worth, and what avail is self-sacrificing public service if for the lowest political ends the wildest, most baseless and abusive accusations should be heard above the plain and probable statements of men like Gordon, Colquitt and Brown! These three have become equally concerned in the senatorial va cancy and the sensation it has produced. They are Christians—one a Presbyterian, the next a Methodist and the last a Bap tist. All have the confidence of their churches, and the last has just met a pressing need of his denomination by the spontaneous gift of $50,000. Colquitt is a member of our general conference, president of the international sunday school association, accepted as a lay preacher in all Christian pulpits, and of Gordon’s religion we would be glad from a bosom acquaintance with him in war and peace to give our testimony. In prayer and exhortation he has warmed the hearts of many an audience in camp and church. Now shall the character of these men be torn to pieces at the will of any who in prejudice or passion, or for Elfish ends, invent and circulate baseless suspicions? If the public are prepared to deal in that way with the citizens, no man is safe. Every good man is con cerned in this issue. Every fair-minded man will put the right estimate on the worth and word of good men, and when the dust of the present passion has set tled it will cover the skirts of those who stirred it up. We welcome Gordon out of the politi cal arena. We welcome him again to the work of the church as a private Christian man. We do not wish to ride with him ssxjstaes* ° oP v a;<Uy, glad as we once were made by the exhi larations of red hot battle, but we crave to hear his clarion tongue in exhortation and to join him in the old time prayer. We would take Colquitt also, and make him such as we are. We have known him in martial and in civil life, looked up to him and loved him from early man hood, and in all vicissitudes have ob served him comingout of trial unscathed; with a near intimacy have known his heart and life—and would he glad *o see him escape from the turmoil of public service if it were best for the state. But good men and good laws are the requi sites of society, and constitute the healthy life of the state. To put the character of such men at discount is to put a premium on vicious conduct. The sneer of the scorner at religious men in high places is only evidence of an unpa triotic as well as of an irreligious heart. To be moved by such attacks on state of ficials is to agree that the more wicked a citizen is the better he is qualified for public trusts. We cannot believe that the present prosperous condition of our great state and its national reputation would be advanced by taking the back ward step from its present forward strides in temperance, education and religion. We have had our say. NO USE FOR THE GUARDS. Detroit Free Press. In the spring of 1865, when Sheri idan’s cavalry moved up the Shenan doah Valley to have a last wrestle with Early’s troopers, a halt was made by a portion of the union force near Waynes borough. Guards were thrown out to protect property, and among others the house of a lone and aged widow received such protection. Two dismounted cav alrymen were stationed at the front door, and it was half an hour or so before any stir in or around the house gave token that it was inhabited. Then the widow limped to the door on a crutch, and called one of the guards to her and asked: “What are you doing here?” “We are guards to protect you and your property,” was the reply. “Well, you needn’t fool away any time here. Early he come and took our hay. Then Sheridan he come and took our corn. Then Mosby, he come and took our hams and taters. Then Sheridan took our flour and cider. Then Sheridan run off all our horses. All I had left this morning was an old sick mule and meal enough for one hoe-cake. The mule he died two hours ago, and I’ve just eaten the last of the cake, and if you can find anything worth guarding around here you can have it and tote it off.” “But some of the soldiers may disturb you.” “I guess not,” she said, as she pointed to the spot where a cannon ball had torn through the house. “The day that hole was shot through there I was rocking and singing the ‘Pilgrim’s Hope,’ and I did’t miss a rock nor drop a note! I don’t hardly think one brigade of horse soldiers can distuib me very much. You’ll obleege me by jogging along!” Toombs is a safe man; one in whom the great masses of Georgia can place im plicit reliance; his heart is witn them to the last extremity; he knows nothing but duty—duty to his state; duties to his fellow countrymen; duty first, last, and forever —such a man in Robert Toombs. Grand in his isolation, grand in his con sistency to principle, grand in his integ rity, grand in his fidelity to his people, and the constitution of his fathers, grand in his denouncements of spoliations, and wrongs done in the name of lioerty Such a man deserves the highest and last honor that Georgians can bestow; he has signified his willingness to serve his state as governor, it his people, with one ac claim call him to the helm. —Gainesville Southron. A LIVELY ANECDOTE. Bob Toombs and Senator Morton, of In diana. I have heard Gen. Robert Toombs tell a good story that will bear repetition, as illustrating his peculiar and exceptional feeling of alleged hostility to the federal government. In his lively moods the general is a good story teller, and has a great fund of apt ones that he can use ef fectively. He said he w’as in Washington, and dined with the late famous Senator Mor ton, of Indiana, the great leader of the republican party. This was since the war, and the subject of amnesty was dis cussed, and Morton urged Toombs to make application for the removal of his disabilities. Toombs says he replied to him that he w ould illustrate his position in this amnesty matter by an anecdote of an old fellow that lived in Georgia by the name of Peavy. In bis settlement there w r as an old maid named Miss Ra chel, who had a squint in one of her eyes, and as she was an acrimonious old spin of sharp tongue, and quarrelled a good deal, the superstitious in the neighbor hood got up the story upon her that she possessed an “evil eye,” and as the said “evil ej e” did a good deal of damage in making stock die, and the children sick and mistortunes happen to people. Old Peavy especially disliked the old maid, and believed reiigiously in her evil eye. He had one of his cattle to die when she w r as about the house, and the old chap got outraged, and telling her she had done him enough harm and it had to stop, he kicked her out of his house. The en raged spinster brought the matter before their church, of wdiich both he and she w r ere members, and every Saturday for a year the church council had this remark able case for trial, This, of course, did not make old Peavy any better disposed to Miss Rachel. Peavy was a good church man in the main, and a liberal fellow, and his church didn’t w'ant to lose him. So eflort was made time and again to make him express regret and contrition for what he had done, and they would forgive him and drop the matter. But Peavy was inexorable, and the more the thing was pressed the more implacable old Peavy became, and the more he hated the “evil-eyed” spinster for her apparent persecution of him. At length, one good old brother wrought upon him so effectually by earnest ap peals that he got him to consent to get up and use the simple expression that he was “sorry,” without saying what he was sorry for, or using any further ex planations. It w r as difficult to get him to go even this far, but he finally consented, and as he did not get up and in a peculiar snappy and curt way he said the single words, “I am sorry.” The preacher was a venerable, pious brother named Mercer, was not alto gether satisfied with the manner nor the words of old brother Peavy, so he told him w 7 ith great solemnity that he felt it his duty to ask brother Peavy what sort of sorrow he felt for his unchristian con duct, and desired to know if it was such godly sorrow as a child of the church like him should feel and express. This knocked the fat in the fire. The brother who had induced old Peavy to say he was sorry groaned in spirit over the un reasonable (severity _of Parson Vf" gorie, and the repressed fire of the old man broke out ungovernably. Looking around detiantlv, he shot out the words that he wished to put the church upon notice that he was going to do what he had not done before for forty years since he had joined the church. At this the women screamed out in horror and beg ged him not to do it. Unmoved old Pea vy turned to the preacher, Mercer, and with indescribable emphasis said. “I’ll tell you what lam sorry for. I am sorry I didn’t break her old neck, her!” and stalked out of church in a roaring fury. And it is said from that day the old fellow couldn’t find curses enough to heap on his once be loved church, and finally died an incur able swearer. Toombs told Morton that old Peavy’s sorrow 7 in connection with the old wro man w'as his sort of sorrow for the fed eral government. Senator Morton and his companions broke into a storm of laughter, and Gen. Toombs said that Senator Morton told him if he would make his application for pardon and let him tell that story as coming from Toombs as illustrating his repentance, he would guarantee that every republican senator would vote for his amnesty. Toombs liked Morton very much and speaks of him w ith great kindness. THE FIRST ADMITTED. John F. Quarles, a colored man, for merly a lawyer in the state of Georgia, later a practitioner in the District of Co lumbia, and more recently consul at Mal acca, presented himself before the gen eral term of the supreme court yester day, seeking admission to the bar of this state. Mr. Algernon M. Sullivan, who was present and made the motion for the admission of Mr. Quarles, after reciting the necessary qualifications entitling him thereto, said : “Although such motions are usually pro forma, for special reasons I depart a little from that custom. Mr. Quarles is a colored man, and the first of his race, w'ho, within my knowledge, wiil have become a member of the bar in the city of New York. On behalf of that bar, distinguished for character, learn ing and liberal accomplishments, I wrel come Mr. Quarles in advance to his full equality in the franchises of the profes sion, and I assure him that his entrance into its ranks is observed by the bar with cordial and respectful interest and most graceful good wishes.” Mr. Quarles is endorsed as to standing and character by Rev. Charles B. Ray, Collector Merritt, Professor Greener, Ebenezer D. Bassett, B. S. Wolcott and Secretary Sherman. The court, having found his papers all regular he was at once sworn in and signed the roll of attorneys. Mr. Quarles is the son of a colored Baptist clergyman, was born a slave and had his freedom purchased by his father. He is of pure African blood, robust frame and intelligent face, and hails from Au gusta, Ga. Some of the good people of New York are utilizing the popular series of Sunday free thought lectures now in course, by Ingersoll at Booth’s theatre. The crow'ds that besiege the entrance and fill the street in front while the house is filling are threaded by the agents of some Christian association, who give away to those who will take them neat little cop ies of the new testament. The agents have no difficulty in getting rid of their books, which are accepted with good grace, and carried into the theatre for fu ture reference. They refuse to tell for w r hom they are acting in this gratuitous distribution, and are very quiet and gen tlemanly in deportment.* They get their w T ork in first on Col. Bob’s audience, and do it in the true Christian spirit. Col. Blanton Duncan has sued the Lou isville Courier-Journal to recover $25,000 for alleged libel. NUMBER 47. out,” or “bargained out,” I pronounce it infamously and shamefully false, and my blood almost curdles and my ld limbs totter with indignation when I think of such charges being made against him. From his youth to his manhood he has been the embodiment of honor and truth fulness. In his boyhood he w'ould never betray a friend, and at least once, to my knowledge he suffered a severe punish ment at school rather than betray the confidence of a schoolmate. Would he then now r , in the zenith and glory of his manhood, betray the people in whose de fence he has proven, on a thousand occa sions, his readiness to die! Would he betray, or sell for lujre that integrity and honor which is dearer to him than life itself! No! no! no! Aw'ay with such infamous falsehoods. Let them who condemn his course put themselves in his place. He had served his people in war and in peace with undying devotion. He had on his hands a large and grow ing family; his shite and people are now r free and prosperous, and no longer re quire his service; his financial and home matters demand his attention. The con stitution and the laws of his country give him the right to resign. llis salary is not sufficient to support his family and meet all his need^f or He is not servi<‘p, he comes out poorer Hl‘n bn u-mi t in. He is offered a position which will afford him rest and quiet and a compe tency. Georgia has other sons capable of filling his place in the senate. Where, then, is the crime of which he is guilty? What one of his aebusers would not have acted as he did under similar circum stances ? With Governor Brown’s appointment, I have nothing to do, and only feel inter ested in it as an old citizen of Georgia. I am satisfied of one fact, however, and that is that he has the brains to serve his state with great distinction, and that Gov. Colquitt appointed him because. he thought he was the best man for the place, and that Georgia’s interests would n'ot sutler in his hands. I voted for him for governor and judge many years ago. He certainly made a good judge and ex cellent governor. I sincerely trust and believe ne will serve his state as faith fully now. Truly yours, Z. H. Gordon. GOUED AND KEENE. It is said on Wall street that Gould has not given up his efforts to crush Keene. The story now is that Gould intends to dispose of Keene while he has the advan tage of him in the market, and take re venge upon him for numerous insults re ceived from him and at the hands of his followers. Gould is reported to be confi dent that Keene has been materially weakened by his losses. Gould’s recent successes in the market and his prestige as a leader have brought him a numerous following, while Keene’s failures have deprived him of a great deal of this sup port, which has heretofore been valuable when he was openly fight ing Gould. It is said that Keene started the rise in the market on Wednesday by large purchases of stock, which were sold him by the Gould party Some of the traders in the room followed Keene’s lead, and others, in the interest of Gould, ran the market up so as to make Keene pay high figures for his stocks. This will account for the extraordinary rise in of the specialties on Wednesday and yes terday morning. In the afternoon, as soon as Keene stopped buying, Gould commenced to sell freely, intending to force the market down to a point which would compel Keene to unload at a loss. This morning these tactics were repeated, but it was observed that Keene was in disposed to buy very treely, while Gould was moving in a very determined man ner upon the stocks in which his adver sary is supposed to be specially interest ed. TBE PRESBYTERIANS. On Wednesday the Presbyterian gen eral assembly heard a long ovcrtuie from the synod of South Corolina as to the le gal authority of the “In these deliver ances of the general assembly and gen eral power of church courts.” The dis cussion came up on the report of the committee on overtures,. re-affirming the action of the Louisville, Ky., assembly on this subject in 1879. Dr. Girardeon opened with a two hours speech offering the legal authority of the deliveraneies in question. Doctors Woodrow and Wilson will follow to-morrow in opposition. The report of the committee on narratives was read and approved. The debt of the publishing house at Richmond has been reduced to ten thou sand dollars. Three years ago it was fifty-nine thousand dollars. Dr. Hazen is retained as secretary and treasurer. The assembly refused to take any action on the overture from the Athens presbytery on the subject of danc ing and worldly amusements, the church already having sufficient on the subject, Rev. G. H. Rout, (Ky.) was elected delegate to the general sy nod of the reformed church with Dr. Pryor, of Virginia, as alternate. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisement* ■w ill be inserted at the rates of One Dollar per ineh for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. Sr AC*. I mo. 3 mos. 6 mos. 1 year One inch, |2 50 *3 00 f7 50 |lO 00 Two inches, 376 760 12 60 13 00 Three inches, 600 10 00 17 60 25 00 Four inches, 625 12 50 22 60 32 00 Fourth column 760 16 00 25 00 40 00 Half column, 15 00 2500 4000 6000 One column, 20 00 40 00 60 00 100 00 A TOUCHING LETTER. Gen. Gordon’s Father Appeals to'the Peo ple of Georgia. Jackson County, Ala., May 22,1880. —Editors Atlanta Constitution: I see from a copy of your paper which has been sent me by some fiiend, that my son, Hon* John B. Gordon, has resigned his seat in the senate of the United States, and that much excitement prevails on ac count of it. I see some favorable and some commendatory expressions concern ing it. I think it, perhaps, not out of place for me, his father, to write you this short communication. My son has ever been obedient, dutiful and confiding. From his earliest youth to the present time he litis been the pride and joy of my life. lam now'nearly eighty-five years of age—a few more days and I shall have passed aw'ay. I would feel that my teachings and counsels w'ould have been to little pur pose if the slanders and falsehoods ut tered against-tny son had any founda tion in fact. As I stated above he has always been obedient and confiding. When he could reach my ear he has always consulted me before taking a momentous step. He made me a visit in March last, and while here he said to me, “Pa, I am tired of public life. I crave the peace and quietude of my home and home affairs; besides I can’t save up any money out of my salary; and the idea of dying and leaving my family without a competency troubles me no little.” He then w*ent on to say that if he was out of the senate he could make a great deal more money and would have to spend a great deal less, and added that he had about concluded to resign, feeling that the public inter ests w'ould not suffer thereby, and his private interests w ould be protected. I advised him to that course and urged him not to delay it, and instead of being surprised at his resignation now, If am onty surprised that it was not sooner. As to the insinuations that he w r as “bought
