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In order to do so we call attention to our CLUB rates: Five copies one year. * ° lo Ten copies one year 15 00 Twenty copies one year. 25 00 Fifty copies one year 60 00 All orders must be accompanied with cash. Above rates apply to shorter periods than a " lot our friends go to work and help us in promoting the good cause. Address all orders to THE FREE PRESS, CarteWvlHo, Gla. THE FREE PRESS. OLD JAKE. % Boss —Jake, have you read the govern or’s speech. Jake—l herd ’em read sumfin’ tedder nite, but, boss, I wuz sorter sleepifled, an’ it sounded like a sarmon, kase he talk so much ’bout Sunday schools, ehristi’n governor an’ all sieh, but w hen da ’gin ter rede ’Dout bon’s, his admin’stration, “barg’in an’ sale,” Joe and sich, I waked up fur I ’nowed dat wuzn’t in de bible. Boss—What do you think of the speech taken altogether? Jake—Sum ob de speech wuz good ’siderin’ it wuz ’lectioneering foranudder term. But sum tings Kolkit ort to lef out. He sa’ de fo’kes wanted him to tell de yanks dat w r e wuz dun fitin’, but when you cum home we w r ant it under stood%old ishoes ain’t de’d. Dat am not de trufe. Who wants to dig up ishoes? P’int out de man. Kurin up old ishoes am one ting, but pickin’ up scallywags dat hah wollered in de same hole wid kyarpitbaggers, dun ebery ting dat wus mean when Gorgy wus down on her back, her witnmins in teers, an’ her boys cowering for fear dat deir farders wud be tuck up by blue cotes and flung in prisin, am another ting. Den he sa’ he couldn’t keep Gordon from ’dinin’. Nobody sed he could. Den he sa’ he wus blighter fill de vacation. Dat ’minds me oh old Peter, when he ax de lawd ebery nite for ’taters. You, see, boss, de boys w r ent dar, 'and when he ax agin, dey pores a bushel down de chloily, right on he hed. Den Pete hollers out, “not quite so fast, lawd.” So we sa, Kolkit, not quite so fast. Den agin he ’tends to Mefodis ’ba tion, and ses Joe wus twelve yers ’pentin. Dot am not so. Joe ’knowledges nuffin, ’pents nuffin, comes rite back arter he couldn’t make no mo’ outen radicals, an’ ses tye to Kolkit, “You shall not shorely die, here’s my han ? , I’ll see you outen dis bon’ bisness. lam de state and hah bin fur sixteen yeers, foeptin when dat pot-gutted Smiff wus bossin’ ’round yere. I run de masheen 6 yers, den I run it fur Bullock. I jist took him by de hans and pulled him thrue. Now, Kolkit, jist stand up to me, and I’ll manage de legis later. I ’trolls de Konstittishun , and all de rulin’ men ob Atlanty. So fear not.” Now, boss, Kolkit tells it sll, dat Joe wiped away his teers wid “ policy {” Good grasbus!’ 0 Boss—What do you think about Joe being a democrat? Jake—Joe am apy ting dat’s got Brown in it, Mitten dal he turned radical fur “policy,” as he and Kolkitses, dat didn’t ’blige him ter take de stump fur Bullock, fur de 'pP.diation in de Konstertushun dat de yank flung out. Why, boss, Long street went over, but he got him meat and bread and sot down and eat it. Kol kit ses Joe am q$ :t gyod as dey run inter your and nebber cum out agin. Kin democrats swoller dat ? Joe went to deradskase dey had de power to do sumfln fur him. He did his best to be ’lected senator, bort all de votes he could, but Josh Hill bort de moest. Den Joe ses, “Rufe, r giye me de ship of high jedge. Rufe rit it out. Den, when de legislater ’greed to leese de railroad, Joe ses, “Rufe, I want it.” Rufe ses, “O. K. jest fling up to-da/ and I’ll ’port to-mor row.,’ Dar wus hurryin’ times ’long dar, too. Now, Joe got money nuff, not quite do, he am still boss ob de rale rode. As Andy and Grant didn’t notice Joe. he cums hack and ses, “I fooled dem yanks, I wus no rad. It wus all ‘policy.’ ” When did Joe’s mission end ? Will some one tell? Gordon ses his mission ended when Lousy an ny and South Carolina was restored to deir vocal rights. Boss, lam mighty furgitful eff dat wusn’t dup befo’ Gordon wus ’lected last time. De gratest war (fat eber raged, is dat ’tween two rulin’ tings inside of Joe— ambition and avorice. Boss —What is your opinion of the peo ple endorsing Joe ? Jake —De fokes am ’onest, but dey don’t tink nuff fur deirselves. When dey see a man dat kin tawk dey tink he nose it all, Dats all de resin dese little lawyers goes to de jist kase dey tawks so much. A man dat kin ride and will tink fur hisself, and not look to udders, will be rite as often as de biggest Ike. Who kin tell de price ob cotton next fall ? Who kin tell dat Garteel will be ’lected president? Joe kin look through a millstone and see a nickle on tudder side, and is bull-heded nuff to turn it ober and get it. In all matters ob money, Joe’s dar, but outside ob dat, he’s a common than and no mo’. g oSS _What do you think of Colquitt alluding to his father? j a ke—Dat wus all outen place, kase if de gost of old Walter Kolkit could come back, it would sed, “Al; don’t ’pint Joe, dat would be smirching de ’scutcheon of Gorgy, and ’flectin no credit on yoreself nor yore farder. De man dat would take him coffin on him back, and go to 30 de grees and 30 minits weod neber lock arms wid a scallywag in pollyticks. Boss—What of the governor ? Will he do? Jake—l wus fur Johnston before, and lam not fur Kolkit now. He will do to preach to piney woods fokes, but he can’t keep a hotel. Shucks, he’s got no back bone, and his water-tank is too close to his eyes, he cries too easy. The best men and wimmin I ever saw never cried. As Kolkit can’t make a livin no udder way, he better take a cerkit down ’bout Gor don’s sheep ranclie. lam gitten as sher rifeel ob these so-called democrats as I am ob rads. De difference is. mortal dim. Garfield’s pedigree seems to be a trifle mixed. Already it is said he came from Welsh, Irish and Dutch stock. And then there is his Credit Mobilier stock. Upwards of $400,000 was taken in at the Chicago hotels while the radical me nagerie was in that city. Some of this was for drinks. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1880. THE STATE TREASURY. Executions by the Governor Against Ren fros and his Securities. Atlanta Constitution.] There has never been presented to the courts of this state a case presenting more important and novel questions than those arising out of the recent proceed ing against Renfroe. A brief synopsis of the history of these cases will be given as of general interest to the public. Immediately after the acquittal of Mr. Renfroe on the impeachment trial had during the last session of the general as sembly, that body, of resolution, request ed the governor to issue at once execu tions against the treasurer for the com missions and interest alleged to have been received by him and his securities on the public funds in his hands. It will be remembered that Mr. Renfroe denied this charge, admitting, however, that he had received from some of the banks where the public funds were deposited a certain percentage as a gratuity. He did emphatically repeal the charge that he had loaned out or otherwise used any of the public funds, whether in his hands or in the banks. He insisted that he simply made the deposists and check ed out the monqy as authorized and di rected by statue. Notwithstanding his acquittal, the resolution as above indica ted was passed. The law under the ex ecutions were directed to be issued pro hibited judicial interference. The gov ernor had no discretion but to obey the mandate of the general assembly? The executions alleged that Renfroe and his securities had penalties and interests of about $30,000. The facts that these sums had been re ceived as interest and commissions to the public funds w as determined by a legisla tive committee. The governor based the executions upon the resolution which w r as itself funded upon the reports of that committee. Hence, executions to the amount of $30,000 were issued against Renfroe and his securities with out any investigation at which he w r as present either in person or by attorney, and the efforts were made to collect this money from him and his securities without even the form of a trial. Liens were made upon abundant prop erty to satisfy the claim and Renfroe and one of his securities, Col. B. J. Wilson, filed bills to enjoin further proceedings. These bills presented mainly the follow ing points; 1. That no interest has been received up the public funds in the hands of the treasurer; that the duties of his office, in connection with the public funds, had been pefformed precisely as prescribed by statue. 2. The general assembly had no au thority to direct the governor to issue executions, and as the fi. fas. showed on their face that the aforesaid resolution was the basis thereof, and not an in vestigation by the governor, they were voidT 3, That if the treasurer had received interest upon tlie ppblio funds, in viola tion of law, his securities were not bound, therefore, as they were only lia ble for funds received by lien in accor dance with law. 4. That the execution showed no breach of the bonds, and if a breach was shown, no damage to the state was set forth, the state \yould not have been '" 5"Thi 6 t the act of 1876 providing for a summary remedy against the treasury and his se curities. 6. That the act of 1876, thus sought to be used, was unconstitutional because it deprived the treasurer and his securi ties of trial by jury, and sought to take their property without due process of law. 7. That the hoiids \yere fatally detec tive, etc, etc, , It was replied by the attorney-general that the courts had no authority to inter fere ; that there was a breach of the bond, etc# Judge Johnson, of the Middle circuit, being disqualified to preside on account of relationship to one of the securities, the case was heard before Judge Sim mons.of the Macon Girouit. Judge Sim mons held that the securities were not li able for the moneys claimed by the state, that they had been released, and that Renfroe, whether liable or not, was cer tainly to have the questions made by him passed upon, by a jury of his country men. We are informed that this decis ion is perfectly satisfactory to Mr. Ren froe, and that such a jury find that he is indebted to the state, the amount will be promptly paid, however great may be the sacrifice, He says that all he has wanted was a jury trial, and his only complaint has been that it has been sought to deprive him of any kind of trial whether by jury or otherwise. We presume the cases will go to the supreme court, and will there be finally settled. In that judgment, whatever it may be, all parties will cheerfully ac quiesce. The state was represented by Attorney-General the com plainants by Captain Henry Jackson. Captain Jackson drew the bill and argued the case before Judge Simmons. We are informed by parties who heard his argu ment at Macon that he made the best speech of his life. Captain Jackson has studied the case thoroughly, and we know no man could have managed it bet ter, and the results proves that it could not have been argued more closely. AN IMMIGRATION CONVENTION. Hon. Francis Fontain, Georgia com missioner of immigration, with head quarters at New Yotk, recommends that the next state convention, when it fin ishes its business, resolve itself into an immigration convention. lhe ltnpoi tanee of this matter we have often called attention. We think the suggestion a good one, and urge it on our readers. The west is gaining thousands of the foreigners, developing the wealth of that section, adding to its material prosperity and increasing its political strength. At the rate at which it has been pouring in to this country this year, and it seems hardly begun, the west is gaming six congressmen every twelve months from this source alone. The south must do something, and Georgia the empire state, should lead the movement. Immigrants of the better class will not come within our borders unless information is convey ed of our unperalied advantages. This cannot he done without an appropriation. Inducements suould be offered of temp ting character. We cannot succeed un less \ye employ the means and appliances adopted by others and by wMct} they have prospered. • Mr. Fontain thinks that the state should obtain by put-based wild lands and offer them at low prices, and have paid agents to distribute illus trated pamphlets, giving our resources in the language of desired classes of foreign ers. There are many questions oif ultity which such a convention might discuss and put in shape for legislative action. We must kPP P aoe with the *** in Which we live.—Gofaw&wi Enfoirtr, . THE CENSUS. Homt it Will Probably Affect Georgia. The census which is just being com pleted will present to congress a question in the decision of which all the people have an interest. It is whether the mem | bership of the house of representatives | shall continue upon the present basis and I thereby largely increase the number of mernbers, or whether the basis shall be I so increased as to maintain the present 1 number of members. THE PRESENT HOUSE is composed of two hundred and ninety three members. With the arrangement existing, each member having a desk and a revolving ehair,'the hall is crowd- ed to its best capacity by the members. The census will show a large increase in population for the decade and the pros pects new is that the country will regis ter a population of fifty millions of souls. Upon the present basis, this population would add one hundred membeisto those already allowed. To accommodate them the method of seating the house would have to be changed and the system of benches, without desks, adopted, as is case in the English house of commons. The average American congressman is a man of luxurious tastes, however, and will hardly consent to the English plan. Hence there is nothing to do but have fewer of him. THE NEW BASIS w r ill be on the ratio of one congressman to every one hundred and seventy-five thousand of population, thereby main taining about the same number we now have. In doing this the west, which has been filling up enormously will still find its representation largely increased, while some of the southern and eastern states will be reduced in the numbers of their representatives. The reduction in numbers, however, will not materially alter their relative strength in congress as compared with their present power. GEORGIA WILL LOSE ONE. It will be at once seen that Georgia by this arrangement will have to give up one of her representatives, leaving us with eight members instead of nine.— This will be almost wholly due to the in crease of the basis of representation and not because of any reduction of popula tion, for the facts now point to actual increase of from eight to ten per cent, Theie is an impression abroad that this change will affect Georgia after the elec tion this fall, but this is a mistake. It cannot affect our representation until the election of 1844, because: 1. The census cannot be reported to congress until its session, which begins in December of this year. The ratio o£ representation cap not be settled upon for severarrhonths later; and 2. Because the general assembly of Georgia, which meets biennially and sits only forty days will not be able to re-dis trict the state until 1882, after the elec tion of that year, This will throw the first election un der the ne\v appointment in the fall of 1884. So tpat Georgia will be represent ed by nine members fully two years lon ger than her contemplated right to that number; and she is probably the only state whose situation will present this anomaly. Louisiana may find herself in a like condition, unless they gain one W'hich her press think is probable. tricts wiiriJe uy ore new appointment? So far as we have heard suggestions it is pretty well agreed that the physical construction of the present fifth district best adapts it for di vision and distribution; and that it will be the victim. By its partition additions will be made to all the adjacent districts, but principally to the seventh, fourth and sixth. So far as Fulton coun ty is concerned it will probably go back to its old sisterhood, joining the oounties now composing the seventh district. — At lanta Constitution. DOWN IN DIYIE. No cotton worths in southern Texas. An oil factory will be established in Hickman, Ky. Anew Catholic church is to be erected in Culpepper county, Ya. There i3 a great mortality among ne groes in Lexington, Ky. A mission home for the reformation of abandoned women has been dedicated in Memphis. Work has been begun on a $12,000 ad dition to St. Cecelia academy at Nash ville. Two hundred thousand farm laborers will settle in tpe Mississippi valley this year, Richmond, Va., consumed 80,831,766 cubic feet of gas during the year ending January 31st. Harrison county, Texas, boasts of a hairless calf. The new catholic church in Austin, Texas, will be the most costly edifice in the state. Counterfeit ftve-dollar bills are floating around in northern Texas. Miss Painter, the female revivalist, is preaching a series of sermons in Olin, North Carolina. Madison county Ky., baa sold 50,000 pounds of wool this season. There is enough unfilled cotton land in Texas to supply the world. In 1878 she made 500,000,000 pounds. Two Louisville, Ky., men are making a business trip through the blue grass land mounted on bicycles. Mrs. John Fisher, of Cobarrus county, North Carolina, recently gave birth to triplets, one boy and two girls. • The raising of Angora goats in wes tern Texas is increasing, and has proven a profitable business. The coming fourth of July celebration in Sherman, Texas will be the grandest event of the kind ever in that state. CONFEDERATE DEAR*. We clip the following list of confed erate dead from the Nicholasville, Ky., Journal. Among them are a number of Georgians, and their friends will see where their last resting place is: Capt. L- Scott, Louisiana; C. Richard son, regiment unknown; Wm. H. Yar brough, 41st Alabama; J. M. Washam, 17th Mississippi; M. E. Copeland, 3d Alabama; John A. Bass, regiment un known; S. M. Wilson 53d Georgia; D. Campbell, 63d Virginia; J, R. Cox, 59th Georgia; J. Brock, 18th Georgia; W. M. Bobe, 16th Georgia; O. H. White, 41st Alabama; F. L. Johnson, 6th Geor- A. Boles, 53d Georgia; J. B. Hale, 2d Georgia; E. Willoughby, Ist Georgia; George W. Trabue, regiment unknown; H. Owenty, 39th Car olina; John Marrow, 30th Alabama; A. L. Hall, 29th North Carolina; Henry Rice, 52d Georgia; Eugene Dickson, 42d Georgia; J. E. D. Morris, 6th Florida; W. J. Hale 40th Georgia; If. B. Carter, 9th Georgia and one unknown. TOO MUCH “VINDICATION*' CON FUSES THE PUBLIC. We have heard much lately that the people w ould like to be informed about. It seems that the syndicate in Atlanta lost about SIOO,OOO In Louisville and Nashville railroad stock in April. Of the number, Henry Grady was reported as a heavy loser. Also that he loaned Governor Colquitt $2,000 which went in the same speculation. Early in May Grady is reported as returning from New York flush, and repaying all the losses, (except James, the biinkers’) to the par ties in the syndicate. It is reported that Newcomb, president of the Louisville <fe Nashville road, paid back this money. Whoever heard of any man losing money in Wall street stock gambling ever get ting it back before ? It was then said in Atlanta that Gen. Gordon was employed by the syndicate as their attorney. He'presented their case to Newcomb, About that time Gor don was reported as absent in New York on private business. So soon as Grady received the money he returned to At lanta. This was early in May. Now* note this: An Athens exchange says that on May 10t:h, Henry Grady said on the train from Lula to Atlanta, In the presence of an Athens fire company, that General Gordon was to resign and take a place under Newcomb at $14,000 a year, and Governor Brown was to be appointed senator. General Gordon says that he resigned to be appointed by “Hogg, from Oregon.” He publishes Hogg’s letter dated May 15th. Afterwards he received a letter from Newcomb, May 19th. He then decided to accept Newcomb’s offer. Of New comb’s offer he seems to have had no foreknowledge. At least his speech, and the publication of the Hogg and New comb letters carried such a belief to the public. Is Henry Grady, or Gordon mis taken ? Who is Hogg? We have not examined Bradstreet, or Dunn., Barlow & Co.’s di rectories to lind his money value. Hogg is quoted as from Oregon—so was Cro nin. The democracy sat down on Cro nin. .* We hear that ex-senator Gordon, on the day of the convention, in answer to a direct question from the senator from Haralson county, Mr. Head, Anally ac knowledged that he did know that ex governor Brown was *o be appointed to succeed him before he resigned. -Now this answer of Gordon’s taken in connection with Grady’s talk of May 10th, shows there must have been some fore knowledge. Gordon’s letter of resigna tion is dated May 15th, How could Gra dy know a week before that the matter would turn out as it did. People in Geor gia could not believe it until consum mated. E. G. Candler’s letter is on the same line, showing that it was all fixed before the people knew Gordon was to resign. Between Hogg’s and Newcomb’s let ters and Gordon’s and Colquitt’s speeches and various interviews, and these Athenian reports of Grady’s talks, we are getting confused. It staikes us that there has been an immense afnount of “vindication.” If there was nothing ing in th Srown-ColquitfGordon mat ter that needed vindication, why vindi cate ? If there was anything wrong, let the people know what it was. The fact is the different “vindications,” speeches, letters, interviews * don’t exactly dove- Wellfyes, people win taia iu6 mi.v.i sometimes for their own good.—Colum bus Enquirer. THE WORK OF THE SESSION. During the session of congress just ter minated, eleven hundred bills and joint resolutions were introduced in the senate, and forty-two hundred and eighty-eight in the house; during the first or “extra” session, seven hundred and seventy-three and twenty-five hundred and twenty-six were introduced in the senate and the house, respectively, making a grand to tal of eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-four bills and joint resolutions in troduced thus far during the present con gress. At the hour of adjournment to day there remained about eight hundred bills and joint resolutions on the senate calendar, and about fourteen hundred on the house calendar. The amount appropriated during the present session, included in the regular annual appropriation bills, the river and harbor bill, the deficiency bills and the miscellaneous appropriation bills, aggre gate about one Hundred and eighty-six millions. The following important public meas ures failed to receive final action, and re main upon the calendar of the house or on the speaker’s table: The bill to regu late customs duties on sugar; the bill to regulate customs duties, known as the Tucker tariff bill; the bill to facilitate the refunding the national debt; the res olution for counting the votes of electors for president and vice-president; the bill to regulate the pay and number of United States supervisors; the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter; the bill to define the terms of office of the chief supervis ors of elections, and the bill for the ap pointment of a tariff commission—the Eaton bill. The Kellogg-Spofford case goes over without receiving final action in the sen ate. GORDON’S BETRAYAL. Columbus Enquirer. Congress adjourned just twenty-seven days after General Gordon resigned to better his private fortune and allow Gen. Gordon to repay personal obligations to ex-Governor Brown and insult the de mocracy of Georgia. By waiting not a month Gordon would have saved the $3,- 000 of salary which he lost by giving up the office, and delivered the trust and faith Georgia reposed in him back to the legislature who invested him with it. He thought not of the party that had hon ored him far more than his deserts, ami o’a ve up her office, not his, to be paid over by a weak-minded governor to the most rampant ex-republican in the state, and who would still be numbered among the enemies of the democracy if it paid. Nothing better was expected of Colquitt, but that Gordon should forget the high and perfect confidence nearly all—espe- cially the young men—reposed in him was the bitter pill, the galling reflection. That there was an agreement and un derstanding between these three men and President Newcomb, indirectly, with a majority of Georgians is not even a ques tion of momentary doubt. The plan is according to ex-Governor Brown’s meth ods and his ability to work on Governor Colquitt was not surprising. General Gordon startled us. Ex-Governor Brown knew his men and bided his opportu nity. The people must defeat the ulti mate conspiracy that has for its object the retention of Brown and Colquitt in their preseht positions, the subsequent suc cession of Governor Colquitt to Senator I Hill and the gaining possession of the state road by the Louisville & Nashville corporation. NUMBER 50. HIRAM WARNER. Chief Justice Hiram Warner, of the | supreme court, left for his home in Gainesville, Ga., to-day at noon. Judge Warner, in conversation with a Daily Post editor, stated that he did not intend to devote any time toward forwarding his election to the office of governor. He belongs to the old school of politicians who believe that the ofiiee should in all eases seek the man, and not the man the office. He thinks that a governor should go into the office untrammelled by obli gations to any particular set*of friends, but to be a governor for the whole peo ple. The chief executive should be in a position w here he can mete out equal and exact justice to all, without favoritism or personal preference. J udge Warner has been in the service of the state for over thirty years and has not at any time worked for his election. He has been the choice of the people who have elected him because of his sterling integrity, and his well known principle of dealing justly and fairly by all. The people know him to be absolutely safe and trustworthy. In this day of political corruption, in which the offices of the people are made the subject of barter and sale, such a grand old man as Judge Warner stands out in the full glory of a true American. We have no intention of advocating any man as a candidate for the office of gov ernor before the convention has express ed its choice, but when we see a man who is so filled with a sense of honor as to his duty, and who holds the office in such high respect that he will not put in force the customary and manipula tions to secure it, we feel like throw ing up our hat and going for his election heart and soul. One tiling is certain, if such a man as Judge Warner was now in the gubernatorial chair the people of Georgia would not be humiliated by see ing him racing over the state in frantic efforts to secure liis re-election. He. would so administer the office that every act would be to liis honor, and the good of the people, and he would have no need of a vindication. —Atlanta Post. PLEDGER'S PREDICATION. W. A. Pledger, the colored chairman of the republican state committee and one of the delegates to the late Chicago con vention, passed through the city to his home in Athens, Ho came via Washing ton City. “Oh, the ticket is going to be elected. Everybody in Washington on our side feels sure of it.”. “What does John Sherman think?” “I called to see him to pay him my re spects. I stuck to him until the 54th bal lot and then went to Blaine to try and get some of his people for Sherman.— While Sherman would have preferred his own nomination, Garfield suits him next best to any man w ho was before the convention.” SWORN TO STAY IN. “What makes you think Garfield is so sure of election?” “ Well, he is a strong man with a good record, and, besides that, the republi cans have sworn to stay inppo r er anoth er four years—and will do it!” “Suppose, though, they get fairly beaten in the election ?” /‘You will never be able to make them see or believe it. They are going to sjfeft&hakh li firM6’wui m , Tiirw tic .t' not. I believe he has more ambition than any man who has lived since the days of Caesar, and I doubt it Caesar had so much!” “And then the ex-delegate said he was going off on the train and took up his march for the depot. — Atlci'ita, Constitu tion. I # TOM OCHILTREE, OF TEXAS. Persons traveling in the south after the close of the rebellion could see on the telegraph posts on every route leading into New-Orleans and in all public thor oughfares large signs—“ Buy your shirts of Moody”—Go to Moody’s to get your shirts etc One afternoon a stranger entered the shirt store, and addressed Mr. Moody: “I have come for my shirts.” “Have yoa purchased shirts of us?” “No, sir.” “Oh, you wish to purchase?” “No, sir. This morning I put on the bed at the hotel some shirts to be washed, and when I went to my room after din ner, in place of my shirts I found this notice on my bed” (producing a placard, “Go to Moody’s and get your shirts”), “and so I have come for them.” “What is your name, sir?” “Tom Ochiltree, of Texas,” and after asking his size and his room at the hotel, Mr. Moody said: “Very well, Mr. Ochiltree, you will find your shirts at your room,” and at once dispatched a dozen of his best linen shirts to carry out the joke. As the “joke” found its way into the city papers, and was copied into all the provincial papers as a good joke on “T. O.” perhaps Moody got value received in the way of advertising; and T. O. en joyed the free shirts. —V. 8, B. in Detroit Free Press. ALBERT 0. COX. With this issue, we hoist at our mast head the name of Albert H. Cox, as our candidate for congress from this district. While at the st te convention last week, we met and mingled with the represen tative men from all parts of this district, and from what we then learned we are satisfied that Mr. Cox is the best candi date in the field, and the man for the Pl Mr*. Cox has filled several public offices and his course in each has been one which he may well be proud. His speech as the leading manager on the part of the house of representatives in the Renfroe impeachment trial, stamps him as one of the finest orators of the day, a polished scholar and a man who has a mind which is able to grapple the great political is sues of the day. He informs us that he will take no un due advantage of any of the other candi dates, but is going to make a fair, square and open attempt to'secure the nomina tion. He is quite popular both below and above the mountains and will enter the convention as the strongest canui- Jiidge Buchanan himself has assured us that his friends will not present his name to the convention tor the nomina tiou. —Dovglassville Star. The Philadelphia Ledger quotes with the emphasis of italics the allusion in the republican platform to a tariff: Import duties for revenue should so discriminate as to favor American labor. ” Upon which the Record pertinently asks: ‘ VVillthe Ledger explain whether it is the labor of the thousands who manufacture protected articles or the labor of the millions who produce unprotected articles that is to oe favored with discrimination?' RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisement* will be inserted at the rates of One Dollar per Inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. 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