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Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday .... 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday spm
Leave Rome Friday Sam
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Arrives at Greensport Pam
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HOME RAILROAD COMPANY.
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MORNING TRAIN.
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for Chattanooga and Atlanta; at Rome with
trains south on S., It. A I). Railroad.
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G. P. Agt.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
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on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.
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Arrive at Taylorsville 10:50 am
Arrive at Rockmart 11:45 am
Arrrive at Cedartown 1:15 pm
RETURNING.
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Arrive at Kockniart 4:28 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:47 pm
Arrive at Cartersville 6:30 pm
FREIGHT TRAIN.
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Arrive at Rockmart 7:10 am
Arrive at Fisli Creek 8:25 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Fish Creek 11:10 am
Arrive at Rockmart 12.00 m
Arrive at Taylorsville . . . . . . 1:30 pm
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NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
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Leave Kingston 5:19 pm
Leave Dalton 7:10 pm
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Leave Dalton . 7:10 pm
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Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 pm
DAY PASSENGER—U?
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Leave Cartersville 7:23 am
Leave Kingston 7:49 am
Leave Dalton 9:21 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:56 am
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
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joeave Dalton . . 8:10 am
Leave Kingston 9:43 am
Leave Cartersville 10:11am
Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 p m
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION —UP.
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Arrive at Atlanta ......* 8:45 am
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VOLUME 11.
The Atlanta Constitution.
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CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 10. 1880.
STATE POLITICS.
An Interesting Letter from “Mark Twain's
Jay-Bird,” on the Situation.
To The Free Press:
The organized have invited General
Gordon to vindicate his acts as a United
Suites senator. Why this vindication, if
he is full of pride and confidence in hav
ing discharged fathfully his duty to his
country? The lucrative place provided
for our renowned warrior and statesman
by his political colleagues does not give
the general that peace of mind, his irreg
ular predatory army, and fellow-politi
cians desired; for they persuaded them
selves that they had in their own hands
all that was necessary to insure the gen
eral perpetual prosperity. They endow
ed him with twenty thousand a year, and
retired him from politics, that he might
rest serenely upon his laurels. But his
soul is still unquiet, and vindication risetli
up in his heart as his accuser, and will
not down for the annual sum of twenty
thousand. Ex-Gov. Brown paid his
quota nobly, and handed out his five
thousand like a king. The endowment
of colleges was at this time booming in
the heart of the generous Baptist, and he
knew how to settle cumbrous institutions.
The organized have made politics a com
mercial commodity, and if Ex-Gov.
Brown could effect a trade uy which to
save the country from the hands of mon
archs, lie should be commended for his
astuteness, and not derided as a commer
cial trader. It is better to buy a house if
it suits you, than build one under vexa
tious circumstances. Gov. Brown lias
reached his proper element, and bought
his freedom from the organized honora
bly, and we congratulate him upon his
escape from bondage. The organized
about Rome are swift in their denuncia
tion of the trade than the leopards, and
are more fierce than the evening wolves;
and their horsemen spread themselves,
and fly through the country as the eagle
that hasteth to eat. The independents
are jubilant over the exchange and are
willing to add their mite to Gen. Gor
don’s annuity. Gov. Brown was miswed
to the organized, and when he saw his
error he changed his mind and procured
a divorce, and his heart is filled with
fresh pride and confidence, and he will
pass over tiie land as a conqueror of
trade, if he imputes his success to the
right source, lie is an independent dem
ocrat, and is a valuable acquisition to the
southern quartette. With such men as
Messrs. Stephens, Felton, Hill and
Brown, the four corners of the south will
he nobly sustained. Gov. Brown will do
the country no harm, and will not waste
his time in tearing down the reputation
of his contemporary statesmen. Some
men will not hear the voice of wisdom
until their ears are severely boxed. If
men persist in caviling with their fellow
men to the detriment of their country, it
is necessary to box their ears soundly,
and if that will not bring them to terms,
jingle money in their ears, and buy them
out. Tiiis quarreling in congress among
the statesmen in ruining the country, is
keeping alive feuds and dissensions, and
disseminating throughout the land the
seeds of obnoxious weeds which choke
out the wheat, the truth that will bring
prosperity to the nation. “A house di
vided against itself cannot stand,” is a
gospel truth and needs to be preached in
congress.
The independents never made war on
General Gordon, until he made inroads
upon their independence; their cry was
and is now, physician heal thyself. But
he was not to be deposed by this dimulga
tion, still considered himself a man of
erudition, skilled in curing the diseases
of the land. lie failed in getting tiie in
dependents to take his quack medicine,
so changed his profession, and put on the
armor of a warrior and came down upon
the independent democracy, as a second
Goliali. He was well pelted with sling
shot and hasted himself to get out of the
fight. His high position as United States
senator gave great advantage, and lie
was wonderfully helped by the organized.
He had his scribe in the man known in
these parts as the ku-klux Grady, who
wrote his life, and went so iar as to de
pict his feelings in the throes of death.
That biography killed him, and the inde
pendents are not responsible for his death.
Gen. Gordon paid his scribe to puff him,
and Mr. Grady is the man who ku-klux
ed and puffed him to death. Though
dead in the estimation of all true patriots,
he has proven liimsolf a pentagyn plant,
and will grow in retirement, drawing
nutrition from liis annuity, and will
bloom better in the shade than he did in
the sun’s glare. The pentagyn plant has
lost the three crowning pistils of his life
—that of warrior, statesman and philoso
pher. He had his chaplain in his compa
triot warrior, Gen. Evans, who thinks
salvation is sent exclusively to the “Gov
ernor’s Guards.” The chaplain is also a
man of condition, hut in memory forget
ful ; for in enumerating the congression
al Christians, he forgot to give Parson
Felton honorable mention, and forgot the
warning written: “But who so shall of
fend one of these little ones which be
lieve in me, it were better for him a mill
stone were hanged about his neck, and
that he were drowned in the depth of the
sea.”
Dr. Felton is the little one, (the mouse
that let out the lion) in the house of rep"
resentatives, and though he is one step
lower in office than his Presbyterian
brother he should not he overlooked.
Dr. Felton is also his brother, and de
serves his notice as much as the trio he
holds up to the world as the pillars of
the state. The sin of omission is as cul
pable as the sin of commission, and do
unto your neighbor as you would have
him do unto you, is a command, as bind
ing on the chaplain as other people. Give
yourselr no uneasiness beloved brother, a
downy lied will be provided for Gov.
Colquitt on which to rest his aching
bones, and he will he retired from office
at the proper time, and a suitable annui
ty furnished him. The ruin of polities
was brought about by the separation of
religion from polities; buts soon as the
professors of Christianity learn God’s
will in reference to the union of business
and religion, blessings will flow upon the
political affairs of the land, as the rain
do seen doth from heaven to the parched
earth.
Gov. Brown is too astute to cavil with
our political sage, Mr. Stephens, or make
war upon our philosopher, Dr. Felton, or
impede the eloquence of our orator Air.
Hill; hut will unite his mental faculties
with the great minds of the empire state,
and conquer the land with their wisdom.
With outstretched hands and open hearts
we welcome Hon. Joseph E. Brown into
our ranks, and unfurl the banner of the
union, with cheers on our lips: Equal
rights in the salvation of the United
States. When the north finds the south
a unit in religious principles, they will
throw down the weapons of war, and ral
ly around the stars and stripes, the glo
rious banner of independence and broth
erly love, that is destined to dethrone
monarchs and conquer the world.
Brotherly love will build railroads
throughout our land, and create a like
fervor in the hearts of our people for the
Cincinnati Southern, and Louisville and
Nashville roads. Emigration will flow
into the south and aid our retired senators
in keeping up their sheep farms. The
Roman warriors who delight in blood
shed and carnage will sheath their
swords, and send hack to Marietta her
cunningly wrought guns; for the Roman
has not yet been found brave enough to
fire the guns, fearing the fraudulently
gotten cannons might explode and take
off his head. Indeed, there is danger,
for it was the ku-klux clan that obtained
the guns, by robbing Marietta, to please
Rome. Brotherly love will demand the
return of the guns so dishonorably won,
and exult in doing a fraternal act to their
fellow-man. Brotherly love buried our
beloved senator at the dead of night when
there was a lull on the political sea; hut
nothing he’ll regret, if the agonized will
let him sleep on in the grave where his
brethren have laid him. He was hand
somely put away with his martial cloak
around him; he deserved this at the
hands of his countrymen, for he was not
a stingy man, hut always paid small men
good wages for doing little things.
His death, politicus, was as easy as the
death of the warrior, portrayed by Mr.
Grady in his biography. Peace to his
askes, and life to the union.
Mark Twain’s Jay-Bird.
Rome, Ga., May 29th, 18S0.
THE GROWING CROPS.
What Commissioner Henderson Says
About Them and his Bureau.
Dropping into the department of agri
culture yesterday we found commissioner
Henderson with a few moments of leisure.
We subjected him at once to the process
known as interviewing and learned the
following:
“ What is the general crop prospect
over the state?”
“It is good at present. The acreage
in cotton is about 11 per cent greater
than it was last year. The acreage in
corn is two per cent less than last year,
but the stand is two per cent better,
which will bring the crop up to about
even. Oats show nine per cent increase
of acreage, fifty-eight per cent of which
was fall sown. The acreage of wheat is
only one per cent greater than it was
last year. * *
“How is the condition of that wheat
crop?”
“The per centage as shown in April
gave only sixty-three per cent of an av
erage crop, showing the wheat was not
promising. My reports since from every
quarter lead me to conclude that it will
not turn out more than fifty per cent,
making only a half crop for the year.”
“ How about the use of commercial
fertilizers on these crops as compared
with last year?”
“ On cotton alone the increase is 16 per
cent. The per centage of area fertilized
with home-made manures and compost is
about 27 per cent greater than last year,
which is a large increase. The condition
of the cotton plant to an average was, up
to April, 3 per cent less than an average.”
WORK OF THE BUREAU.
“What is your department doing in
the way of distributing seed?”
“We sent out this year about I,SOO
packages of cotton seed; somewhere
between 600 and SOO packages of corn;
a large quantity of tobacco seed imported
from Cuba, as well as a good deal of na
tive tobacco seed. By the way, tobacco
is being cultivated in the state now to a
larger extent than since long before the
war. We have also distributed a large
quantity of genuine Buncombe cabbage
seed from North Carolina.”
a manual on cattle.
“In addition to the manuals already
issued from the department, we will
have in press in July a manual on cattle,
which will he of great interest to the
people of the state and may result in
stimulating the cattle interests of the
state. It has been carefully prepared,
with a view of giving the best informa
tion adapted to the necessities of Georgia
stock raisers, and I believe it will be a
welcome publication and prove of great
value to the state.
“We are also preparing a concise his
tory of all the cotton mills in the state,
as well as other manufacturing indus
tries, for distribution. This will give all
needed information to those seeking to
know the facilities and profits of manu
facturing in Georgia. In addition we
want to give the power and value of all
the available water powers upon the
main streams of the state. r lhis is done
with a view to encouraging the invest
ment of capital in manufacturing enter
prises.”
We learn that the expenses of the de
partment have been considerably re
duced. In salaries of clerks and inspec
tors alone it will amount to over $3,000
per annum, while more work is being
done than before, necessitated by the
growing favor and demands upon the re
sources of the department. Col. Hender
son has put the bureau in capital condi
tion, and given to it an efficiency and
popularity that guarantee its permanency
in the regards of the people. — Atlanta
ConstitxUion.
waumiks rack.
Greenville, June I.—Editors Consti
tution: At a mass meeting of the demo
cratic party held in Greenville to-day the
following adress to the people of Georgia,
presenting the name of Chief-Justice
VV arner for governor, was adopted. The
meeting was largely attended and much
enthusiasm prevailed. You will oblige
by publishing the address in both your
daily and weekly editions.
John L. Dixon, Chairman.
T. A. Atkinson, Secretary..
The democracy of Meriwether in con
vention assembled,would respectfully re
commend to their brethren throughout the
state the Hon. lfiram Warner as empha
tically the man for our next, governor.
The honorable chief-justice of the state
needs no introduction to the people of
Georgia. His name is a household word
from the mountains to the sea. He has
been their public servant for almost half
a century, and every trust confided to
his care has been discharged with ability
and fidelity. His genius is stamped up
on every page of our jurisprudence, and
his name will live as long as our laws.
It is fitting that Georgia, the state that
has honored him so often and so well,
and which he has so faithfully served,
should add the crowning glory to his
long, useful and illustrious life by pla
cing him in the executive chair as chief
magistrate of the state.
Do the people of Georgia desire re
trenchment in the public expenditures?
his whole life has been a lesson of econo
my. Do they wish an honest adminis
tration? the tongue of calumny has nev
er charged him with corruption. Do
they want a governor dissociated from
rings and cliques, and a stranger to the
arts of a politician? he has worn unspot
ted the ermine of a judge for nearly thir
ty yeares. Do they admire ability of the
highest order? his career at the bar, in
I the forum, on the bench, even in the
| management of his private affairs, dis
plays a judgement that rarely errs.
Let no one think we magnify our fa
vorite ; we speak the words of simple so
ber truth. But we gladly admit our
partiality. We live at his home; he lias
gone in and out before us almost all his
life. We have been taught by his exam
ples, counselled by his wisdom, and long
learned to revere and love him. In
deed, our love for him prompted this ad
dress. Though he is now in the enjoy
ment of vigorous health, we fear that the
duties of his present laborious position
are too wearing for his years, and that
he needs repose. We want him to find
it, in the discharge of the easy hut au
gust duties of the executive chair; an of
fice that will be at once grateful to his
feelings, and honorable to his ambition,
and which his more than Roman virtue
will illustrate and adorn.
We would not depreciate the merits,
nor pluck one laurel leaf from the brows
of any of those worthy gentlemen whose
names have been mentioned in connec
tion with the place. Gartrell, Lawton,
Underwood, Lester, Reese, Bacon and
Hardeman, are Georgians all, and Geor
gians of a noble bred! Each has done
good service to the state; and we hope
that each will one day enjoy her highest
rewards. But in the course of nature,
many years are before them, and they
can safely await the future. Either one
of them would now, make a good gov
ernor, still they would all doubtless,
most cheerfully admit that they could
discharge the duties far better, if they
had before their eyes for imitation, that
perfect model of an administration,
which the great chief-justice, when he
fills the chair, will leave behind him.
We have not named among the aspi
rants for the position, our present execu
tive, his Excellency Alfred H. Colquitt.
We desire to state distinctly, that we
have no sympathy for the assaults that
have been made upon his administration,
and still less, for the charges prefered
against his character. His administra
tion upon the whole has been prosper
ous and creditable to the state; and we
have the most profound respect for the
grandeur of the names he bears, the pu
rity of his private life, his patriotic ser
vice in the past, and his lofty character.
But his election to another term, now,
would violate not the letter, but the spir
it of our new constitution. He has alrea
dy held the ottiee four years, the full pe
riod of two terms; and every one hereaf
ter, after holding the office for four years,
will de disqualified to a re-election for
four years. Did the framers of that in
strument intend that he alone should be
an exception, to the general operation of
the fundamental law? The indignant
mutterings occasionally made against his
•administration, are in a measure, doubt
less owing to the unwise zeal of his
friends, in attempting to force another
term upon him against the spirit of the
constitution. Let them cease their cla
mors for Colquitt until after the lapse of
four years, (when he will again become
eligible) and the murmur against his ad
ministration will be heard no more. It
will be better for liis fame, better for the
unity of the democratic party, and better
for the peace and happiness of the peo
ple.
We close tlm necessarily short address
with the request that the papers of the
state will instruct their delegates to vote
for Warner, in the approaching guberna
torial convention; and with the hearty
wish that the grand old commonwealth
of Georgia may for the next two years
experience the felicity of an administra
tion, under the guiding hand and intel
lect of the great chief-justice.
John L. Dixon, Chairman.
T. A. Atkinson, Secretary.
NORWOOD’S VIEWS.
Ex-United States Senator Norwood
reached the city day before yesterday
from Washington City. It was just luck
to fall in the Way of the Constitution skir
mishers and have his opinions noted
down.
After passing comments upon the fight
progressing at Chicago, Mr. Norwood
was asked:
“What is your idea about the demo
cratic nomination?”
“I think that upon the democratic side
the nomination will lie between Henry
B. Pavne, of Ohio, Justice Field or Gen.
Hancock. If the republicans put up a
civilian as their candidate, I think the
democrats should nominate some such
man as Payne or Field; if they nomi
nate Grant we want a military man like
ITq n p/w*t
“ How about Sam r I ilden ?”
“ There is no possibility, I think, of
his nomination. I think it is being
clearly seen that he cannot win, and my
judgment is that he will not be a candi
date before the convention at all.”
“ Has Sam Randall a chance to become
his heir politically?”
“ Not the slightest. Randall is entire
ly out of the question, and there is little
reason to believe that his name will even
be mentioned in connection with the
nomination.” — Atlanta Constitution.
Why is a Zulu belle like a prophet of
old ? Because she has not much on ’er
in her own country.
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NUMBER 48.
POWER AND ABUSES OF THE PRESS.
Causes of the Prosperity and Influence of
Journalism.
Prof. Felix Adler spoke recently of
“The Power of the Press in Connection
with Religious Progress,” beioretlie Soci
ety for Ethical Culture, at (’bickering
Hall:
There are two causes, he said, for the
great success of the newspapers of our
day. They are the rapidity of collecting
news and the rapidity of disseminating
the news when collected. The newspa
pers call to their aid all the improve
ments of the time. Let us take a leading
New York journal, and look at the caus
es which led to its prosperity. We find
from its establishment a shrewdness in its
editor, business tact, the abolition of the
credit system, a sagacity with which to
understand the rapidity of communica
tion and a boldness in inventing new
inodes of communication when wanted.
The political department of the press can
be made the safeguard and protection of
the union and of the liberty of the peo
ple. [Applause.] It is prophesied by
those who look darkly upon our future
that the time must come when the sev
eral parts of our union must fall asunder.
In our land there is room for empires.
In the golden state on the Pacific there
are wealth and resources to support a na
tion. So it is with other states, and so
the prediction seems one not Without
foundation that the inevitable conse
quence will be a separation. But I be
lieve that a patent safeguard against such
a result will he the newspapers. In
them there is the very embodiment of a
a national conscience. They prevent the
interests which are exceptional and local
from becoming so prominent as they oth
erwise would. This will have a tenden
cy to make separation no longer possible,
l’see in them a means of keeping harmo
ny among the people. I do not exagger
ate their power. What I urge is that
they are friends and promoters of the
union despite themselves. Invariably,
when called upon to do so, they have
been in the front rank of those who were
the protectors of the liberties of our
country when those liberties were in dan
ger. [Applause.]
In passing 1 must allude to some of the
defects of the press. The demand for
news at the present day has become al
most a morbid craving. When there is
an opportunity for news tbe emmissaries
of the press seize upon it often without
regard to interests which they are injur
ing. If anything should be held sacred
it is personal privacy. There is a cer
tain domain in which the questioner
should not enter, but should shrink from
delicate consideration. This should be
insisted upon. The right of privacy is
that on which all high culture depends.
Again in the publication of the news
the press is as greatly chargeable. What
the manager of a newspaper wants is to
prepare a delectable meal for his readers
and not to be outdone by bis rivals. So
be publishes many tilings that ought not
to be put in print. He excuses himself
by saying that the public demands all the
news. This is a wretched fallacy. Does
he wish to give—does he dare to publish
—the horrid scenes of the lowest resorts
of a great city like Paris or New York?
Is there not a limit? The rule should be
that nothing should be put in a newspa
per, no matter how “spicy” it may be,
that interferes with public morals. [Ap
plause.]
Again in the making of news we find
a degree of recklessness. The public has
been supplied so long with these minute
details of crime and slander that a taste
has been formed for them. So the news
must be made to suit the popular taste.
In many cases this news is changed and
enlarged upon so as to be false.
Let me not be misunderstood, for I
realize the great services of the press. I
am not ungrateful for the heroes and he
roines it has brought forth. I remember
the great work it has done in clearing
out, great political corruptions. True it
is, as DeToequeville said, “In a demo
cratic country, the newspaper must be
the bond of union and support to unite a
common cause.”
A #35,000 COMPROMISE.
Atlanta Constitution.
It will be remembered that a suit has
been pending between the State and Col.
John T. Grant and C. A. Nutting, in
which the State claimed damages from
the latter as securities on the bond of
Treasurer Jones.
A short time ago a verdict of about
SBO,OOO was rendered against tbe two
securities. There was a great deal of
doubt about this verdict, and the jury
signed a paper saying that if certain tes
timony which was excluded by a tech
nical ruling had been admitted, they
would not have rendered a verdict for a
dollar against the defendants. The case
was appealed, and an interminable fight
seemed in prospect. An attempt to set
tle the ease and get what the state could
get has been pending some time. At
last, on the advice of the attorneys in the
case, a settlement has been reached, and
Col. Grant has paid into the treasury
$35,000 and gotten a receipt in full.
This is the first instancy in our knowl
edge where money was ever collected on
the default of a public official bond. It
was the general opinion that the legisla
ture should have relieved Colonel Grant
from at least the bulk of his liability.
But at last the matter is settled, and the
state is $35,000 richer. Colonel Grant
has received the congratulations of his
friends at his relief, and their sympathy
at his having been mulcted in such a
large amount, when he protests that he
was merely a temporary bondsman. It
is estimated that his signature on the
bond has cost him over SO,OOO. Of course
the case against Col. Nutting still goes on.
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GRADY’S TALE:
Bless me, how lucky. We read Gra
dy’s tales until our mouth watered too:
The first offer that General Gordon had
that decided him upon retii ing from the
senate, was a propositiou to go to Oregon
and take general charge of large railroad
and mining interests there. This offer
came from Mr. T. Edensou Hogg, one of
the richest men in that state, and an old
soldier of General Gordon’s. He offered
a salary of fifteen thousand dollars and a
guarantee that it would reach twenty-five
thousand. General Gordon was strongly
tempted to accept this offer, and nothing
but the love of Georgia and Georgians
prevented. As soon as it was known
that this offer had been made, he receiv
ed others almost, if not quite as tempting,
one being the presidency of the Great
Southern railroad of Florida, that is de
veloping into one of the grandest of
southern enterprises. It has been said
that he would take Governor Brown’s
place as president of the Western and
Atlantic railroad. This is not true.
Governor Brown will hold the presidency
himself. It is more than probable that
after he has had a month or two in which
to straighten out his private business,
General Gordon will re-enter the prac
tice of the law.
