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rZ'uihVm. J. W. HARRIS, JR.
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both State and Federal, except Bartow
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the Cherokee and adjoining circuits.
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F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokely & Williams store.)
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
T WILL FILL TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suit the times.
Work all warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over the county.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can
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represented. All work done by me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS.
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COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after December 16th, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers
LIA or ETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday Sam
Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday ...,6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday spm
Leave Rome Friday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am
Arrives at Greensport . 9am
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm
.1. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup’t.
ROME 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
Arrive in Atlanta at 11:00 p m
Lea vs Atlanta at 6:00 pm
Arrive at Rome 9:00 pm
Morning train connects at Kingston with trains
for Chattanooga and Atlanta; at Rome with
trains south on S., It. & D. Railroad.
Evening train connects at Kingston with trains
for Atlanta.
EBEN HILL YE R,
Jas. A. Smith, President.
G. P. Agt.
CIIEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, May 17, 1880, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Cartersville 9:50 am
Arrive at Stilesboro . . • 10:30 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:50 am
Arrive at Rockmart ,11:45 am
Arrrive at Cedartown . . . . . . 1:15 pm
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown ........ 3:25 p m
Arrive at Rockmart . 4:28 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:47 pm
Arrive at Cartersville 6:30 pm
• FREIGHT TRAIN.
Leave Taylorsville . 6:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 7:loam
Arrive at Fish Creek 8:25 a m
RETURNING. *
Leave Fish Creek 11-10 am
Arrive at Rockmart ... 12 "oo m
Arrive at Taylorsville . . . ' ’ * i ;3o p m
WESTERN AND ATLANTfc R. R.
uk- 16 fo,lowiri * 8 r ,rcse nt passenger sched-
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave All an ta 3:00 p m
Reave Cartersville 4:53 pm
Kingston 5:19 pm
Dalton 7ilo p m
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:25 p m
Leave Dalton 7:10 pm
Leave Kingston 8:39 pm
Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 11 jOO p m
DAY PASSENGER— UP.
Reave Atlanta 5:20 am
Reave Cartersville 7:23 a m
Reave Kingston 7:49 am
Reave Dalton 9:21 a m
Arrive at Chattanooga ..... .10:56 am
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Reave Chattanooga 6:16 a m
Heave Dalton 8:10 am
Reave Kingston ......... 9:43 a m
Reave Cartersville 10:11am
Arrive at Atlanta 12:06 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Reave Atlanta ..s:lopm
Arrive at Cartersville • 7:22 pm
CARTERBVII.LK ACCOMMODATION—DOWN.
Reave Cartersville ....... 6:05 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 8:45 am
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MY LITTLE BOY THAT DIED.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. •
Look at his pretty face for just one minute!
His braided frock and dainty buttoned shoes—
His firm shut hand, the favorite plaything in it—
Then tell me tnafttier, was’t. not hard to lose
And miss him from uiy side—
My little boy that died.
How many another boy, as dear and charming.
His father’s hope, his mother’s one defight,
Slips through strange sickness, all fear disarm-
Atufiives a long life in parents’ sight.
Mine was so short a pride!—
And then, my poor boy died.
I see him rocking on his wooden charger;
I hear him pattering through the house all day:
I watch his great blue eyes grow large and
larger,
Listening to stories whether grave or gay.
Told at the bright fireside
So dark now since he died.
But yet, I often think my boy is living,
As living as my other children are,
When good-night kisses I all round am giving,
I keep one for him, though he is so far.
Can a mere grave divide
Me from him—though he died?
So, while I come and plant it o’er with daisies—
(Nothing but childish daisies all year round) —
Continually God’s hand the curtain raises,
And 1 can hear his merry voice’s sound,
And feel him at ray side—
My little boy that died.
—Good Words.
“FENCE” OR “NO FENCE.”
To The Free Press:
I am a county-liner—live in almost a
stone’s throw of Bartow, and naturally
feel an interest in your local fence ques
tion. It seems to me to be an injustice
in an enactment that compels a farmer to
build and keep up expensive to prevent
the depredations of others stock. From
reliable data we are informed that no oth
er civilized country compels the farmer
to protect his crops against stock. YVhen
this country was sparsely settled and tim
ber was abundant the present laws were
enacted. Now the reverse is true and the
law is in opposition to the vital Interests
of our states. From an estimate at hand
the average size of farms is about 200
acres and the tendency is in the direction
of smaller farms. The actual cost of
fencing a farm of this size is $2.50 or $1.25
per acre, where plenty of the very best
timber is. Where oak is used it is often
$2 per acre. The statistics obtained by
the government shows that the south
eastern states have about 3,028,000 acres
of land and it cost to fence these farms
$177,200,000, an. average of $1.90 per
per acre and that the total value of cattle,
hogs and sheep is $57,000,000; therefore
every dollar invested in stock we are re
quired to pay out $3 in fencing. Esti
mating the cost of maintaining these
fences at ten per cent, it is said to cost
the seven southeastern states $17,000,000.
The waste of land under the present
fence law is about 10 cents per acre. It
is estimated that a 200 acre farm costs
yearly in fencing and waste land over 25
cents per acre and on smaller farms the
proportion gro\vs'~Slarmingly larger as
size decrease, for instance it will cost
about $3.50 to fence one acre and the loss
of. land production is in proportion.
Suppose you were to collect a tax at
this rate annually from farmers, what an
uprising would it create in public senti
ment. YVell, if we cannot stand a direct
tax so heavy in the name of reason and
common sense how can we profitably
stand this unjust indirect tax? The poor
er the farmer is the heavier is his tax. I
have in my mind’s eye a very poor, hard
working man who to-day owns twenty
two head of lank, lean, long-nosed mis
chieyous hogs and has had about the
same number every year for the last four
years. Had he been forced to keep them
up and feed them he would have had
about five head, and these five from the
same crib and one-half the feed would
have made him more and better pork
than he annually gets off of twenty-odd.
The same rule holds good with cattle and
sheep. Soon after the war I seeded some
land in clover or crab grass and timothy.
I purchased twelve head common sheep,
and put into this plat. My flock gave
me the first year about a pound of wool
per head, second year 1% pounds, third
year also increased, and the third and
fourth year I sheared two fine weth
ers which made me 11)4 pounds wool, all
the result of constant fencing of them.
The fifth year I turned out my sheep and
dogs killed nearly every head. I have had
the same experience with hogs and cat
tle. Force us to keep up stock and we
will cut off the heads of worthless stock
and improve our stock. I know of many
settlement disturbances, all the result of
depredations of neighbors stock. Turn
a good cow out to range and she will
give, thus kept, about one or two gallons
of very poor milk and worse butter.
Keep her up on a good pasture and she
will give you three to five gallons of rich,
delicious milk and butter, worth 50 to 100
per cent, more per gallon and pound. In
other words a cow well pastured, will
clear you not less than thirty cents per
day, or $9 per month, more than one
turned out to eke out a miserable exist
ence, roaming over our barren waste
places. Fencing stock means the hus
banding of all our resources. It will
stop the eternal drain of piano bills, for
we will save therefrom much valuable
manure. I have but little doubt but that
if the old fence worms of our seven
southeastern states were put in cultiva
tion for three years and the proceeds re
sulting therefrom placed to our credit
that it would wipe out our part of the
national debt and clear our state debt
soon thereafter. Farmers of Bartow’, if
you desire to inhabit your county with
intelligent, honest, reliable and industri
ous renters and laborers, away with
your present fence laws at once. For ev
ery senseless railer who may leave your
county on this account you will have a
half dozen better applicants.
I am aware there are a few instances
where this rule will not hold good, but
only a few. The buneomb slang about
the cost of fencing the county, is not a
penny’s w eight compared to the general
good even if there was any truth in it.
Turn your plows where you are justly
entitled to turn them, viz.: on the pub-
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1880.
lie highway. Do aw r ay with your miser
able, filthy polutions to farming interests,
viz.; fence worms, and let th#se who are
barbaric enough to wish to lead a wild
life, go w here the climate, soil and pro
ductions are in keeping with such ideas.
Why is the butter produced on Peters’
farm, in my county, is worth 35 and 50
cents per pound ? Why is it that Ten
nessee butter is regularly quoted at dou
ble the price we get for ours? Simply
because their stock is kept dp and fed
from good pasturage. A renter can make
money by pasturing his cow on good pas
ture and pay $2.50 per month, hut in 99
cases out of every hundred he can get
pasturage free by helping to maintain the
pasture. Respectfully,
Anxious Looker-On.
-.
THE PROS AND CONS.
Nothing is more commendable than un
affected Christian zeal (w r hen confined to
Christian limits;) nor, on the other hand,
is there anything more detestible and
inexcusable than rellgiousdanatieism. I
appreciate, I think, to no little extent,
the motives which actuate the great
masses of Christian believers; but I have,
I must, confess, but little respect for
that class of religious enthusiasts, who
denounce all who oppose their “peculiar”
views as hypocrites and devils.
During a recent session of the Virgin
ia legislature, a certain gentleman, over
jealous in good works,” arose and sup
ported in an eloquent harrangue, the
following resolution: Resolved, by the
general assembly of the commonwealth
of Virginia, that no infidel shall hold any
office of trust in this state.” At oneg,
the war of words began, pro and con.,
and after an exciting contest of brief du
ration, the measure was defeated.
That resolution, I undertake to say,
was a foul insult to large numbers of the
best citizens of Virginia. It clearly im
plied that infidels are dishonest, unrelia
ble and unworthy of the confidence of
Christian people. But is that true? I
answer, no! It was a clear outrage upon
reason, justice and common sense.
The idea prevails, very popularly
among Christian people, that infidels are
invariably and necessarily corrupt and
wicked men. Such, however, as the
facts conclusively show, is not the case.
That numbers of them are, I do not deny,
and for such I have no sympathy or re
spect.
Mr. Moody, the great revivalist, de
clared from his pulpit some months ago
that it was “absolutely criminal for a
Christian lady to become the wife of an
unconverted man.” I fail to appreciate
the force of his logic. He virtually de
nies that any but Christians are virtuous
and worthy of confidence. That is cer
tainly a great mistake. I know he knows,
and we all know that the facts will not
sustain him in this reckless assertion.—
The most sympathetic and charitable
men I have ever known are unbelievers,
and some of the most affectionate and
tender husbands I ever knew were of
the same class.
That Christianity and infidelity are
antagonistic fn their principles and prac
tice is not denied. But that infidels in
toto, are enemies to the Christian relig
ion, Ido deny most emphatically. In
deed, I doubt, materially, whether one
of every ten cherish other than the most
friendly feelings towards that great
cause to which we are all so much in
debted.
We wage no war upon Christianity. (I
speak now as a representati\ r e of that
great conservative element known as
morality.) We are sufficiently humane
to appreciate a benefactor. Christianity
has made us what we are, and we ad
mire and appreciate it. Without it men
would degenerate to brutes, and wicked
ness and crime would reign supreme.
Our message, then, is this: “go on con
quering and to conquer,” until the whole
earth shall be filled with the glory and
blessings of the Christian religion.
W. M. C.
GORDON AND TOOMBS TALK.
About seven o’clock last evening Gen.
Gordon and General Toombs met in a
a bevy of distinguished gentlemen in
front of the Kimball house and had a
friendly chat over the news from Chica
go:
“Gordon, what do you think of Gar
field’s nomination?” asked Gen. Toombs
of General Gordon.
“He is a strong man—one of the strong
est men in the party, perhaps, with the
exception of Washburn.”
General Toombs—“l think so myself,
but I didn’t know the d—d fools had so
much sense as to nominate a man like
him.”
General Gordon —“That is the trouble
with them. They have too much sense
in campaigning.”
General Toombs—“Well, these fellows
who are going to Cincinnati have got to
put up our best men to beat him !”
General Gordon—“ Yes they must, in
deed.”
General Toombs—“He must not be any
d —d sham!”
General Gordon —But he can be beat
en.”
General Toombs—“Who by?”
General Gordon—“By Tom Bayard,
by Field or by Jewett.”
General Toombs—“Bayard is strong on
the stock exchange, but not with the peo
ple.”
General Gordon—“l was in New York
the other day and talked with both Kelly
and Tilden men, and they told me that
Tom Bayard hail that sort of strength
which embraced all classes of democrat*
and the higher classes of the republicans
—the reputation of a perfectly incorrupt
ible man.”
General wouldn’t suit
even the higher classes of the republi
cans.”
General Gordon —“Why not?”
General Toombs—Because no republi
can wants an honest man in office.—
(Laughter by the crowd.)
Judge Uuderwood, of Rome, has pub
ished a card declining to be a condidate
for governor. The Courier is authorized to
say that he would not object to being
attorney-general for the state.
FIELD AS A MAN OF PLUCK.
Boston Herald.
During Mr. Field’s legislative days in
the California legislature the members
were little else than walking arsenals.
Two-thirds of them carried either bowie
knives or pistols. Some flourished both
weapons. When a member entered the
house he unstrapped both his revolvers
and laid them on his desk. It was done
with as little concern as hanging up a
hat, and it excited neither suprise or com
ment. There was a hot debate over the
proposed impeachment of Judge Turner.
At the conclusion of Mr. Field’s argu
mens, B. F. Moore, of Toulumne, arose
to reply. He opened his drawer, cocked
his revolvers and laid them on his desk.
Then he launched himself on a sea of
vituperation. Mr. Field was handled
without gloves. The most offensive epi
thets were used, and the speaker openly
declared himself responsible for his lan
guage at any time and place. Mr. Field
answered Mr. Moore’s argument, hut
made no. allusion to his personal re
marks. After the adjournment, how
ever, he asked S. A. Merritt to bear a
note to Mr. Moore demanding an apolo
gy or satisfaction. Mr. Merritt refused,
through fear of beiug disqualified for of
fice. Mr. Richardson, another member,
also declined. Happening in the senate
chamber, the jurist saw a stone cutter
seated at a desk writing. He was David
C. Broderick, president of the state sen
ate. They were bowing acquaintances.
“Why, judge, you don’t look well,”
said Broderick, “What’s the matter?”
“YVell, I don’t feel well,” Field re
sponded. “I don’t seem to have a friend
in the world.”
“What worries you?” inquired the
stone-entter. ’ *
The jurist gave the particulars of
Moore’s assault upon his character, and
said that at all hazards he was deter
mined to call him to account.
“Well, I’ll he your friend,” Broder
ick replied. “Write your note, I will
deliver it.”
The jurist wrote the note at an ad
joining desk, and Broderick placed it in
Moore’s hands. The latter gentleman
craw-fished. He said that he expected
to be a candidate for congress, and that
he could not accept a challenge, because
that act would disqualify him. * “I have
no objection to a street fight,” he added.
The stone-cutter replied that a street
fight was not exactly the thing among
gentlemen, but if Moore would do no
better, he should be accomodated. He
torthwith named time and place, and
Moore promised to be on hand. YVithin
an hour, however, he changed his mind.
He informed Broderick that the Hon.
Drury Baldwin would act as his friend,
and deliver a reply to the note of Mr.
Field.
On the next morning the stone-cutter
tested the jurists skill in the use of a pis
tol, With a navy revolver Field plumped
a knot on a tree at a distance of thirty
yards three times out of five. Broderick
expressed his satisfaction and urged the
necessity of bringing the matter to a
speedy issue. “Bring it to an issue at
once,” Mr. Field responded. Broderick
quickly called upon Drury Baldwin and
asked for a reply to the note. Baldwin
replied that his principal had made up
his mind to drop the matter. “Then,”
said the stone-cutter, “as soon as the
house meets Mr. Field will rise in his
seat and repeat Moore’s language as to
* responsibility. He will state that respect
for the dignity of the house prevented
him from replying to him in the terms
that the • attack deserved when it was
made, and after detailing Moore’s re
fusal to give him satisfaction he will de
nounce him as a liar and a coward.”
“Then,” said Drury Baldwin, “Judge
Field will be shot in his seat.”
“In that case,” rejoined Broderick,
“others will be shot tn their seats.”
At the opening of the house Mr. Field
took his seat at nis desk as usual. Brod
erick was seated near him with eight or
nine personal friends all armed to the
teeth and ready for any emergency.
When the journal was read both Field
and Moore sprang to their feet and
shouted, “Mr. Speaker!” That officer
recognized “the gentleman from Tuo
lumne,” and Mr. Field resumed his
seat. Moore read a written apology, full,
ample and satisfactory.
Broderick afterwards befriended Mr.
Field on many occasions. They were
standing at the bar of a hotel in San
Francisco in 1852, when Broderick saw a
man throw back his Spanish cloak and
level a revolver at his friend. In a
twinkling he flung himself between the
two men, and pushed Field out of the
room. The prompt action undoubtedly
saved his life.
JEFF LONG’S VIEWS.
Atlanta Constitution.]
In a talk with Jefferson Long, the col
ored delegate from Macon to the Chica
go convention, last night, lie expressed
himself as pretty well pleased with the
nominees of his party ?
“How did the colored delegates deport
themselves at Chicogo?”
“Very well, indeed. r lhey were quiet
in manner and earnest in action. In fact
their conduct impressed everybody favor
ably and was not only complimentary to
the colored race, but to the southern
people, among whom they live and from
whom they get their ideas of good man
ners and genteel deportment.”
“What about the reports of efforts to
buy them up?”
“There were undoubtedly efforts made
to buy np colored votes, hut the colored
delegates were indignant at being classed
as saleable persons. There was plenty
of money to buy them with, but the men
who tried it were mistaken. I know one
colored man who was offered $1,300 to
make a break and lead off the colored
men in his party, hut he declined it.”
“Did mauv of them vote for Gar
field?”
“No, sir. They were generally on the
Grant side. On the last ballot Georgia
stuck to her colors pretty well. Only
one man in our delegation voted for Gar
field.”
After some minor details anout the con
veition the departure of the Macon train
claimed the ex-delegate’s attention and
he cut his talk short and depar
ted.
Gov. Brown says he is an organized
democrat and has no svmpathy with in
dependentism. His friends confirm this
statement by saying that he has been
fighting the independents in upper Geor
gia. If this is so, how could nis appoint
ment to the senate conciliate the indepen
dents? Would not the appointment of
Dr. Felton have had a better effect? Did
not Gov. Colquitt pick out the wrong
man, if he was looking for a propitiator ?
Gen Wofford might have filled the bill
better, even, than Dr. Felton as the doc
tor is already in congress. But Gov.
Brown, it seems to us, was the wrong
man for the busines.
The father of Senator Bay aid is at'
death’s door. The old gentleman is an
ex-senator, and one of the foremost men
in the United States.
GENERAL GORDON’S SPEECH.
Columbus Enquirer.
We received, by special telegraph, yes
terday morning about 3 o’clock, a very
full synopsis of the speech delivered by
Gen. Gordon in the Atlanta opera house
Friday night. We suppose every reader
has perused it. We certainly fail to dis
cover where General Gordon has explain
ed where there was not an arrangement
between Brown, acting on Newcomb and
Gordon and Colquitt as willing agents
for the advancement of Brown. We ad
mit Gen. Gordon’s right to resign at any
moment he pleased. If he resigned,
knowing that Joe Brown was to be his
successor, he veas untrue to the democ
racy of Georgia'that trusted him. On
this fact rests the whole question, and all
of them dodge it. If Gen. Gordon did
not know it, then he is exhonorated from
all blame*;, if he did, he has forfeited the
high place he held in the esteem of Geor
gians. If he did not, then all the blame
rests on Colquitt. Brown we blame not.
If he can buy his wav through extra
neous influences, then we must condemn
the creatures on whom he exercised the
influence and trust them not. Gen. Gor
don endorses Gov. Colquitt’s senator as
“a good man.” Then may the good
Lord help our once supposed Georgia
Bayard and chevalier, for this same man
charged him with corruption and sale to
the Hayes party only three years ago. If
he admits Brown “a good man,” a “fit
ting appointment,” then Gordon must
admit Brown’s charges to be truth. Gen.
Gordon endorses Colquitt’s senator. In
whom can we trust hereafter ? Let’s go
back to the old time politicians—Gen.
Toombs or Martin J. Crawford. They
were not so valiant in war as some telling
their ©wn deeds make themselves, but in
civil and military life pure honor girdled
them. No stain of “arangement” ever
touched their garments. # They advanced
because of brains and honesty, not hur
rah and fictitious glory. Longstreet
fought as gloriously as any, was wounded
as badly, but he is now a republican.
Give us true men that will sustain our
honor now, not in the past. Angels have
fallen. Those were chosen in heaven
who had not. We have brave men who
battled honorably and are scarred, but
have not faltered in the faith, and as true
as the needle to the pole. General Gor
don tells of his services in battle. Was
he not rewarded with the baton of a lieu
tenant general, second grade below his
commander ? Many a pampered child of
fortune followed him, foot-sore and bleed
ing, college-cultured but content to be
among Lee’s veterans. They did the
fighting!—what reward have they ? Gen
eral Gordon has received the rich prizes.
The people have more than paid him for
wtiat he has done! Did he requite them
when he gave up a senator’s place for
Joe Brown, the fiercest enemy Georgia
ever had. Joe Brown, who, we have
the authority of one of the ablest naval
commanders in foreign waters at the
time, used government vessels to ship his
own’cotton to Europe in the name of the
state of Georgia ?
Gen. Gordon says plainly that Gov.
Brown appointed Joe Brown to get the
support of the independents of North
Georgia to vote for himself for re-election
for Governor under the guise of making
democracy a unit—that is in his selfish
ness to gain power, Colquitt insulted the
rest of the state to gain Joe Brow n’s in
fluence.
The Kirkwood ring must be broken.
We have only three questions to ask Gen.
tordon. Did you know ex-Governor
rown was to be appointed your suc
cessor when you resigned; and did you
no* know that such an appointment was
distasteful to a large section of Georgia;
and were you not, knowing that feeling,
in honor bound to deliver the trust the
legislature gave to you back to that body,
instead of a governor, who would ap
point Brown for his own selfish aggran
dizement? These can be answered with
out a speech.
Let Georgians in their might rise up
and defeat Governor Colquitt. He had
the appointing power and insulted thou
sands by giving an ex-republican and
persecutor of citizens of the state posi
tion, to advance his own fortunes.
We have ever defended General Gor
don, and especially when Colquitt’s or
gan and Brown were attacking him. We
can do it no longer after this transaction,
though Brown’s money possibly may
shield him and his friend Colquilt.
GARFIELD’S RECORD.
The Washington correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution , under date of the
10th inst., says: Garfield’s nomination
has not created much enthusiasm here.
He is a man of ability and nobody dis
putes the fact. His nomination was well
received among democrats because he
will be so easily defeated. His record is
voluminous and vulnerable. The press
will oppose him on account of his adhe
sion to the duty on wood pulp. He is
the beau ideal of high tariff men and
protectionists. He voted for the back
salary grab; his vote is recorded in favor
of the Chinese immigration; he got ten
or twenty thousand dollars for voting for
the famous DeGolyer pavement bill; his
record on the marshal’s bill makes him
objectionable to - republicans; he has been
known .to shove more points than he
made playing a social game of billiards;
he claims to be a Christian statesman and
still drinks whisky, and a well-known
citizen told me that he had caught him
cheating in a private poker game.—
Another gentleman, and an Ohio man at
that, told me to-day that at the battle of
Missionary Ridge, Garfield ran, leaving
his command, and it was two days before
they found him. When you add to this
record the fact that Garfield is a radical
and that this is our time to have a presi
dent, it does not take much of an arith
metic to convince a man that Garfield
will not be elected.
The Nashville Banner says Mr. Field’s
strong points as a presidential candidates
aae:
1. His pluck in various contests.
2. His comparative youth and personal
vigor.
3. His record as a war democrat.
4. His states’ rights record.
5. His hard money record.
6. His strict construction of the consti
tution.
7. He is down on presidential election
frauds.
8. His freedom from entangling party
complications.
9. has never voted a republican
ticket. m
10. His friends say that he only demo
crat who can carry the Pacific States.
11. He is a married man.
12. He attends the Episcopal church
once every Sunday, though he does not
fast in Lent.
New York, June 11.—The following
call was issued to-day:
“A meeting of the national democratic
committee will be held at the Grand ho
tel, Cincinnatti, on Monday, June 21, at
12 o’clock m.
(Signed) “Federick O’Prince,
“Seo’ty Democratic Nat. Com.”
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NUMBER 49.
GEN. GORDON’S ADMISSIONS.
In his speech, which we publish, he
explains in direct terms nothing thatthe
people desire to know'. It is a mass of
irrelevant matter. He has been asked in
direct terms by those who possesed for
him the highest admiration—held him
as Lite preux chevalier—whether, before
he resigned, he knew that Joe Browu
w r as to be his successor. If be did, # he
w'as untrue to the people of Georgia who
trusted him, unfaithful to the confidence
imposed. He clearly intimates that he
did know it. This is the reward he
gives the people of Georgia for honors
that have been heaped upon him. His
military and civic record has nothing to
do with the question. There is nothing
in them to explain. His resigning a po
sition so near the close of the session to
permit Joe Brown to have it is unpardon
able. It w'as not Gen. Gordon’s honor,
it belonged to the people of Georgia.
The legislature placed it in the charge of
Gen. Gordon. He ought to have return
ed it to that body. A few weeks delay
would have done it. He gave it to his
friend Colquitt, that he might, with it,
give it to Joe Brown, aftd thus secure the
latter’s influence to re-elect Colquitt.
Gen. Gordon Jntimates he knew the
facts. That’s enough. He became a
party to the “agreement” and “under
standing.” Uniting the democratic par
ty in the Gordon-Colquitt view is tn
foist ex-republicans in office, to get their
influence to re-elect Colquitt. They
want to inflict on us again the gross in
competence of lack of ability. These
charges of arguments and understand
ings do not come from Gordon’s ene
mies. They emanate from those who de
fended him from every attack —especially
that made by Brown only three years
ago, w'hen in the Atlanta Constitution
Brown charged Gordon with bribery and
corruption. Now Gordon and Colquitt
asks the people to trust him again. It
will be noticed that Gordon’s friend
Hogg wants an immediate acceptance,
not a resignation. That could very well
have been put off a feW weeks, until con
gress adjourned, and assent given to the
ofter in the meanwhile. No, it all has
the appearance to a candid observer that
friend Colquitt has to have the senator’s
place to placate Joe Brown, as only by
appointment could Brow'n get it. The
speech was a eulogy on Gordon’s milita
ry record and public life, and a special
plea to the sympathies of the people in
behalf of Colquitt. The agreement is
clearly proven by this speech. Gen.
Gordon must remember others fought
in the Confederate army besides himself,
and others too had the confidence of
Gen. Lee, but no democrat has before
given a senatorship to an ex-republi
can.
The argument that to reclaim tw*o dis
tricts in a state that gives demo
cratic majority by calling in Joe #
Brown’s aid is simply ridiculous. Who,
the’strictest oi ganized, would not rather
have Felton or Speer in congress than
Brown in the senate? FeJton and Speer
are admitted to democratic cancusses,
vote with democrats and have been and
are better democrats than Browu. They
have ever supported democratic measu
res while Brown has fought them. If
Gen. Gordon desires any reputation for
ability he will stop such silliness —such
egregious folly. The idea is laughable.
Giving an ex-republican a Uuited States
senator’s place to reclaim Georgia when
her legtslature and congressmen are dem
ocrats is an utter absurdity. It would be
intensely amusing were not the facts so
full of shame, pain regrets. —Columbus
Enquirer.
“You have made the custom-house a
centre of partisan political manage
ment.”—R. B. Hayes to Collector Ar
thur, Jan. 31, 1879.
“With a deep sense of my obligations
under the constitution, I regard it as my
plain duty to suspend you in order the
office may be honestly administered.” —
R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Jan. 31,
1879.
“Gross abuses of administration have
continued and increased during your in
cumbency.”—John Sherman to Collec
tor Arthur, Jan. 31, 1879.
“Persons have been regularly paid by
you who have rendered little or no ser
vice; the expenses of your office have
increased, while its receipts have dimin
ished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape
of bribes have been received by your&ub
oroinates in several branches of the cus
tom-house, and you have in no case sup
ported the effort to correct these abuses.”
—Seeretary Sherman to Collector Arthur,
Jan. 31, 1879. •
A SWELL GANG.
Marcellus Thornton in Evening News,
I understand that the Atlanta Consti
tution will haye a special parlor at the
Hotel Emery in Cincinnati, where it
will entertain its southern friends in
splendid style. Capt. Evan P. Howell,
its chief editor and one of the proprie
tors, and also one of the delegates at
large from Georgia; Mr. H. W. Grady,
another one of its proprietors and prin
cipal writers; Mr. J. C. Harris, (“Un
cle Remus”) the associate editor who in
dites those inimitable and irresistible
minion paragraphs; and Mr. Sam W.
Small (“Old Si,”) the stenographic re
porter, will constitute the C onstituiion’s
quartette. If they do not enliven Cin
cinnati that town will be too dead for
anything.
Fred Grant —“Who’d a thought it—
they a%tually went back on Paw!”
Senator Conkling—“l feel the same
sensation that I experienced when I
looked into the muzzle of Sprague’s shot
gun.”
Senator Logan—The country’s gone to
the devil.”
Don Cameron —“I wish I could sell
out that fine lot of niggers I bought the
other day.”
George Francis Train—“ The internal
bias of republicanism has collided with a
polar wave, and the times will increase
with abnormal celerity after this.”
Judge Lochrane—“D —n it.” — Atlan
ta Post.
We have recorded the severe rebuke
given to Gov. Colquitt by the supreme
court in the Alston-Garlingtou fee busi
ness. In the report of the decision in
the Colquitt organ, it appears that Gov.
Colquitt paid $15,000 of the state’s mon
ey “for the use of Alston,” not to Al
ston. Is it not legitimate to fenquire
to whom his money wa3 paid? We have
heard it was to Gen. Gordon for money
loaned to Alston or an vance to the Her
ald. Is this true? Was there another
arangement? Gov Smith denied making
the agreement Alston-Garlington claim
ed, and Gov Colquitt paid.— Colnmbus
Enquirer.
If the ravages of the phylloxera are
not stayed in France, our native wine
growers will probably find a greatly in
creased sale for their wares, indeed, it
is gravely suspected that American wines
under foreign brands are already making
rapid headway in all the markets of the
world.
