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IIKAHAM A GRAHAM,
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law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
r\FFK E IN THE COURT HOUSE. WILL
( ) nr*-tioe In all the .uri* of Bartow county,
the *uik - tor courts of northwester* Georgia, and
the Suprr .lc and Federal court* at Atlanta, Ga.
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ATLANTA, GA.
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CAR!ERSVILLK, GA.
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ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STE AMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
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Leovo Rome every Tuesday and Friday —Ba in
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, t> a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. 8 a in
Arrive, at Rome Thursday aud Sunday 7 p m
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
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Leave Home Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
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Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
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Gadsden, Ala.
W.T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent
Koine, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
Ou ami after Monday. May 22, 1882, the trains
on this itoad will run daily as follows (Sunday
except**'!):
r VSSENGKR TRAIN.—MORNING.
Leave t artersville 9:15 am
Arrive at Stilesboro 9:slam
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:12 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 10:51 a m
Arrri ve at (Jeilartovvn 11:50 a tu
RETURNING.
Leave 2:05 p m
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Arrive at Taylorsville 3:83 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro . 3:slpm
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 p m
1* VSSENGKR TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave 1 artersville 4:30 pm
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Arrive at Rockmart 6.'oopm
Arrive at Cedartowu 7:00 pm
RETURNING.
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Arrive at Rockmart 6:3lam
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:04 am
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:18 a m
Arrive at CartersvlUe 7:45 am
ROME RAILROAD.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 am
Arrive at Kiugston 8:55 am
no. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
no. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 p m
no. 4.
Reave Kingston 5:55 pm
Arrive at Rome 6:50 p m
NO. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kiugstou 9:00 am
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 a m
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will rim Sundays only.
No. 1 will uot stop at the juuction. Makes
dose connection at Kiugston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. TANARUS.,
Va. A Ga. R. R.. lor points south.
EBEN HILLYER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The fallowing is the present passenger sched
ile:
NIGHT PASSENGER —UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave CartersvlUe 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston . . . 4:55 p m
Leave Dalton 6:34 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston 6:03 pm
Leave CartersvlUe 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta . 8:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 7:00 am
[.cave Cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:2lam
Leave Dalton 10:55 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 am
Leave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 a m
Leave Cartersville 11:42 am
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 p m
ROUE EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arri ve at Cartersville 6:3lpm
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 pm
Leave Kingston 8:06 a m
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am
Arrive at Atlanta .10:37 am
VOLUME V.
TH E SU > .
NEW YORK, 1883.
ORE PEOPLE HAVE READ THE SUN
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y V trashy or poddy cotton from $3 to S2O per
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eth more lint out of the same amount of seed cot
ton ; saves saws cleans 13 to 17 bales per day;
pays for itself in % day; one-half hor e power
will run it; can be run in connection with any
horse, water, or steam power. Only two bear
ings to oil. If machine does not do all claimed
for it, re-ship at my expense. Sent on five day’s
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better than any cleauer and do more and better
work. A 14-year-old boy can with it clean cot
ton lor 80-saw gin.
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THE FREE PRESS.
F. W. MEMMLER,
AM* Day {Deutcstur Ar*t.)
MAKES SPECIALTIES OF
CIIROMC DISEASES,
SUCH AS
Cancers,
Without recourse to the knife, and no
payment before the cancer is healed,
Rheumatism,
In any form or stage.
Piles,
* Bloody or blind.
White Swelling,
Will be relieved speedily.
Dropsy in any Form.
The water will be removed with
out tapping in six days. Dropsy medicine mail
ed to an v point.
Erysipelas,
Tape Worms
Will be taken alive with head complete in
oue hour and a half; no payment until the worm
is produced.
Fever Sores,
Will be healed of any standing.
Female Diseases.
In any stage.
LEUCORRHEA, PROLAPSUS UTERI, IR
REGULAR MENSTRUATION, DIFFI
CULTIES ATTENDING THE CLI -
MACTERIC; after one week of treat
ment no doubt will be entertain
ed of Restoration to health.
ALL FORMS OF LIVER DISEASES, DYS
PEPSIA, BRIGHT’S DISEASE, DIA
BETES, MELANCHOLIA, HYSTER
ICS, AMOROUS; MANIA, caused
by disappointment, DISEASES
of the EYE, requiring consti
tutional treatment;
DEAFNESS, LIVER SPOTS and FRECKLES
will be removed in a short time, TETTER,
RACHITIS, [commonly called Rickets)
NEURALGIA, LOSS OF MEMORY,
ALL ACUTE AND CHRONIC
MALE OR FEMALE PRI
VATE DISEASES SUC
CESSFULLY TREATED.
Testimonials from all parts of the United
States will follow from time to time to prove the
foregoing statement.
OFFICE:
West Main Street, Cartemille, Ga,
Office hours: Btol2 a. m., 2t06 p. m., and 7
p. m.
Many of the people will say or think: If he is
such an eminent physieian, why does he stay in
Cartersville. I will answer: Cartersville is one
of the healthiest points that I have found this or
the other side of the ocean, and if I find a health
er place, I will go there.
Tape Worm of Fifty Feet in Length
Completely Removed in One
Hour and a Half. No
Humbug, but Actual
Fact. ACentleman
Attests the Fact who was present
Cartersville, Ga., Oct, 3rd, 1&92.—F. Wm.
Memmler, M. D.—Dear Sir: It is with thank
fulness and pleasure that I now write you this
testimonial of the great benefit you have con fer
red on me and my family in your successful
treatment of my wife. We have been married
six years the lltli of next January. She has
suffered in many ways, principally with distress
in the bowels and stomach. The first year I
paid out $175 for doctors’ bills aud since in the
sOme proportion. The second year I paid $87.00.
The third year $387.00, the fourth year $155 00.
Her health got so bad that at last ou the first of
July last she took her bed and was not able to
rise at all. I was compelled to call in doctors
again. One said she had typhoid fever, and
another heart disease, another womb disease. It
seemed that all help was gone. Then iu my great
distress, God sent ire help. Mr. Ed. Freeman,
upon whose place I was farming, came to me
and told me of a testimonial he had seen to you
from Mrs. Goodman for relieving tape worm,
which you. doctor, had pronounced the disease she
was sugeriug with, after you had made a thor
ough examination. To my great surprise, the
third day after I had called you in, I came in
from work aud found my wife sitting up! A
short time afterwards yon took from her a tape
worm measuring fifty feet, to my great astonish
ment. It was crawling around like a snake and
made my very hair rise. No man can sympa
thise with me unless he has suffered as I have,
and then he has had his wife restored, you may
say, from the dead, to him and the duties her
family require from her. Thauks to Mr. Ed.
Freeman for recommending you to me, Doctor.
My wife says, “God bless you, Doctor, for the
good you have done me.” Hoping that others
may be relieved from like suffering, is my rea
son for giving this testimony to yon.
Very respectfully,
m. a. Hammonds.
I certify that the above is true.
E. E. FREEMAN.
An Astonishing Cure--Disease of
Sixteen Years Standing.
Cartersville, Ga., Oct. 2nd, 1882.— F. W.
Memmler. M. D,: Dear Sir—Feeling it a duty
that 1 owe to you as physician, and to suffering
females that may lie in like condition with my
wife. I beg leave to state that she has been un
der the treatment of sixteen other physicians,
for uterine trouble of the most aggravated char
acter, during our married life, a period of six
teen years.
When I applied to you, she was in a positive
decline, almost emaciated, without appetite,
wholly de pressed in spirits as well‘as physically
By vigorous treatment and violent applications
like those with which she had been before treat
ed. lam sure, from her condition and suffering,
it would have been impossible for her to survive
long. But, you. by the use of the mildest reme
dies, almost imperceptible in their action, have
added years of health and happiness to an ex
istence that was being dragged out in misery. I
assure you, Doctor, that it is with grateful
hearts that we tender you this little testimonial,
not so much for oourself as for suffering females.
Thanks to Mr. A. C. Ladd for directing me to
you. Very respectfully, yours,
JAMES W. SCOTT.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1883.
SENATOR BROWN’S LETTER.
Ilia Proposed Donation of •50,000 to the
State University.
Ediiors Telegraph and Messenger: The
letter of the Hon. Joseph E. Brow n to
the Morning Sexes, on his proposed dona
tion of fifty thousand dollars to the state
university, is a masterpiece of plausible
statement, injurious insinuation and spe
cious reasoning—such a letter as requires
a well considered reply. I desire,
through your journal, to give to the pub
lic this reply, especially as it is under
stood that Governor Brown, having ta
ken issue with the representatives of the
people, will seek a reversal of their de
cision.
First, then, as to the plausible state
ment which explains the motive of this
proposed donation. The governor claims
that the poverty of his early years and
the struggles then to get an education
have so impressed him that he feels im
pelled, by a profound sympathy for the
poor young men of this state and South
Carolina, to make a donation which will
aid them in getting the advantage of a
college education, so that they may be
come useful and distinguished citizens.
He claims that he is not actuated in this
matter by any such motive as a love of
popularity, and by no means ambitious
to procure, through a great charity, more
power. The statement of his motive puts
him by the side of the. illustrious bene
factors of his race; yet, with these pro
fessions, we see him requiring such se
curity for his money to be given, and
such a selfish disposition of the same, as
no other philanthropist of whom we
know anything has ever required. When
Governor Gilmore gave from his moder
ate estate a portion of the same for the
benefit of the state university, he did not
ask the state to be hound for fifty years
for the safe keeping of his donation; he
gave it to his chosen friends, with power
to select their successors in the trust.
When Dr. Terrell, of Hancock, gave front
his estate to the state university, he chose
the trustees ot the same to receive aud
manage his charity, and, as yet, not a
dollar has been lost of this fund by neg-
lect or dishonesty so far as we have heard.
When Jesse Mercer gave to the college
named for him, he did not ask the state to
become bound for his bequest to the cause
of education. When Seney made his
magnificent donation to the Methodist
colleges of Georgia, he did not stipulate
for a fifty-year bond of the state of Geor
gia. From an extended observation of
the mode in which this class of donations
is made in this country, I feel safe in say
ing that trustees of colleges, or special
friends, are usually chosen as to the in
struments to receive and execute the
same. Indeed, Gov. Brown himself ad
mits that the trustees of the university,
at the expiration of fifty years, are prop
er persons to receive, manage and dis
tribute this donation, by providing that
they shall, at that time, collect the bond
of the state and use the money as they do
other funds of the university; and that,
too, when according to his idea the fund
will be much larger than it is now. It
would seem if he can trust a board of
trustees entirely unknown to him, he
might trust his charity with the present
board of trustees of the state university.
We might ask, too, in this connection,
why cannot Governo brown’s four sons,
or the survivor of them, or trustees se
lected by them, receive the donation and
manage it for fifty years. Nobody ques
tions their honesty and skill, and if fit to
be visitors, they are certainly fit to re
ceive and manage the money as their fath
er may direct.
From these views, I think it may be
safely said that there is no reason on ac
count of his sympathy for poor young
men to ask, as Governor Brown does,
that the state shall become bound for
this donation. In view of the wide ex
pression of opinion in the state against
the plan ot this donation, so far as it
seeks to mix the state therewith, mani
fested by the large majority against it in
the the house of representatives, and
manifested by the press all over the
state, Governor Brown ought to give a
direction to his charity which will avoid
this opposition. His great ingenuity
and common sense can easily discover
other means to effect the same end.
Secondly. I say that the letter of Gov.
Brown abounds with the most injurious
insinuations against the members of the
legislature who opposed his donation.
It would seem as it a man who had suf
fered so much from bitter insin
uation, would have learned at least the
lesson of forbearance. Has he forgotten
how much has his employment against
the Columbus prisoners, on account of
the state road lease, on account of the
purchase of the Mitchell heir property,
on account of his supposed secret under
standing with Nelms and on account ol
his getting the senatorship from Gov.
Colquitt? Of men unimpeachable in
private and public life, sworn to obey the
laws and constitution of the state, he in
sinuates that as members of the general
assembly they were controlled in their
votes by opposition to him politically;
that his public position wcis the cause of
opposition to his scheme; that as sons of
rich men these members were actuated
by a base spirit of envy of the poor, and
a desire to keep t hem poor and unknown;
that if his donation had been made to the
rich, these members might have voted to
receive it, just as presented; that some
of these members in their opposition
were panderers to popular ignorance;
that they raised the plea of conscientious
scruples as to violation of the constitu
tion without having such scruples. If
the donation scheme of Gov. Brown is
wise and constitutional, why assail the
motives of the members of the legisla
ture ?
Thirdly. Passing from these prelimi
nary views, we come to the donation
scheme itself, and propose to test it by
the constitution of the state, and by
sound policy. As to Gov. Browm’s own
.opinion of the constitution, it may with
propriety be said, it is not a disinterested
opinion; he gives his opinion in a case
in which he has a deep personal interest.
Besides this objection, Governor Brown’s
opinions on constitutional law’ hare sev
eral times been reversed by the highest
tribunal in our land. So we may say of
Mr. Hammond’s opinion, to which much
value is attached, that w’hile it is certain
ly a disinterested opinion, it is not infall
ible. Mr. Hammond’s opinions on im
portant questions of law have been fre
quently overruled by the supreme court
of Geoigia.
As to the opinion of the trustees of the
state university, which has been invoked
by governor Brown to sustain his view’,
we are at liberty to say, that three of
these gentlemen have said, that the trus
; tees as a board never decided upon the
constitutionality of the Brown donation.
Governor Brown maintains, and truly so,
that the constitution favors donations for
purposes of education to the state univer
sity, yet we fail to see in the general
spirit instrument and its general
provisions, such clauses as will support a
donation, which seeks to make the state
responsible for it through a period of fifty
years, and also to contribute so largely
thereto from the treasury.
The only provision in the constitution,
as we understand it, w hich furnishes a
sort of reason to sustain the donation, is
the provision about borrowing money,
and it will be seen, w hen tested, thus this
provision cannot be so used. There is
no doubt that money cannot be borrowed
by the state to pay an existing debt, or to
supply a deficiency in the revenue; but
how, we ask. could this provision have
been used after 31 r. Little, chairman of
the finance committee, had given the
House olfioial information that the state
would have no use for the fifty thousand
dollars until 1886.
The scheme of governor Brown, if it
had been carried out at the late session,
would have placed in lire treasury, there
to remain idle for three years, fifty thous
and dollars, and take for it on the day of
deposit a bond due in fifty years, bearing
7 per cent, interest from date, and there
by fix a loss on the state of ten thousand
five hundred dollars. When we consi
der further that a 4 per cent, bond of the
state to ru.; fifty years would bring a
considerable premium, we must add to
the loss of tiie state above-given at least
fifteen hundred dollars annually, and
in fifty years seventy-five thousand dol
lars.
It is thus demonstrated that tiie house
of representatives did right to reject the
donation scheme, as a means of borrow
ing money by the state. Gov. Brown
seems himself to be aware of this view,
and says, that his plan ought to lie ex
amined as a whole, not by its financial
aspects simply. This plan is that the
state should borrow the fifty thousand
dollars, pay 7 per cent, interest—that is,
thirty-five hundred dollars of this yearly,
to educate “poor young men” who are
promising. As the state will contribute
fifteen hundred dollars of this yearly
fund as a free gift from the treasury,
and secure the residue of interest and all
the piineipal, we wish to know the con
stitutional authority for such an arrange
ment through the legislature. Accord
ing to our idea of the constitution no such
authority can be shown. Every feature
in that instrument as to education from
the funds of the state, or any other pub
lic fund, is against the position. The
amount given to the colored university is
to be applied for the benefit of all of the
students, of those able to pay and those
not able to pay. Tiie amount which
may be appropriated for the state univer
sity, as the condition of the treasury will
allow, is to be applied to tiie benefit of
all the students of the same, without dis
tinction. The amount to be raised by
taxation or otherwise for the common
schools of tiie state is to be applied for
the benefit of all, rich and poor.
The donation scheme not only conflicts
with those plain constitutional provisions
but it conflicts with that provision ot the
constitution which limits the power of
the legislature to make appropriations to
the state university from time to time, as
the condition of the treasury will allow.
It fastens on the treasury an appropria
tion for fifty years continuously, without
any regard to the condition of the trea
sury. The donation scheme also plainly
conflicts with the implied intention of
the framers of the constitution of 1877,
in creating a debt to run for fiftyyears.
We conclude, however worthy the ob
jects of the donation may be, and all ad
mit them to be so, the plan proposed by
Gov. Brown was properly rejected by
the house of representatives on constitu
tional grounds. These provisions of the
scheme as to the education of poor young
men being unconstitutional, much more
so is the provision which discriminates
between poor young men themselves on
account of appointment or residence,
causing some of them to pay all of the
money borrowed with interest and others
nothing at all, and which actually gives
seventeen counties of this state and three
counties of South Carolina one thousand
dollars of the twenty-seven hundred dol
lars left after deducting the eight hun
dred dollars controlled by Goy. ’Brown’s
four sons. -
The climax, however, of unconstitu
tionality is reached in the provision of
the donation scheme, which requires one
thousand dollars to be paid, if the Dah
onega branch college should perish, to a
high school, which may be established in
that section of the state.
Having answered, as I believe fully,
the constitutional positions of Gov.
Bi own, I reach now a part of his letter
which, to my mind, is ludicrous. T al
lude to the immense sum of money which
he claims will be made in the lifetime of
the university by those loans to young
men ac 4 percent.’ Of the thirteen young
men who are first to get the benefit of the
money given by Gov. Brown, of each
one will leaye college with a debt of from
six to eight hundred dollars, bearing 4
per cent, interest, it is reasonable to sup
pose, from the usual accidents and mis
fortunes of human life, such as disease,
death, bad luck, want of thrift, or other
causes, at least one half will never be able
to refund the loan; and so it will happen,
with every class of young men who use
this money and obligate themselves to re
fund it. In his calculation as to the re
sult of these loans, it is plain that the
usual sound judgment ot the donor, has
deserted him. So in putting his case to
show how little power his sons will have,
he says that in the future, “they will on
ly have four appointees, and the trustees
ninety-six.” The Gov. draws upon his
fancy for his facts. If ever the
number ot appointees is one hundred, it
is not in the bounds of probability, tak-
ing the usual losses of the fund as above
explained, that any one of Gov. Brown’s
sons will be in the laud of tne living.
The act of 1880 cuts so large a figure in
Gov. Brown’s letter that we would do
ourselves injustice not to notice it. We
believe the act of 1880, so far as it allows
to the trustees more than 4 per cent, for
the bonds falling due, is a pure donation
to the university and subject to the con
stitutional limitation, which forbids ap
propriations from the state treasury with
out regard to the condition of the same;
but putting aside this view of the case, it
is plain that the act of 1880 cannot be in
voked for his bill by Gov. Brown. Un
der the act ot 1880 the interest to be paid
is to be applied to all of the students of
the university—rich and poor. There is
no discrimination under this act in favor
of any man’s sons—none in favor of stu
dents from particular counties of this
state or a foreign state. There is uothing
in the act of 1880 by which from a fund
raised by a general tax on the state sev
enteen counties in Georgia and three in
South Carolina will get one thousand dol
lars and one hundred and twenty coun
ties only seventeen hundred dollars. Not
to extend our views further, we would
respectfully say to Gov. Brown if he can
trust the trustees fifty years from this
time absolutely with his money, which
he proposes to do, let him trust them with
it now, or let him give his sons the pow
er to receive and manage the whole fund,
or if neither of these provisions suks him
let him select from his many friends
trustees for this money and limit it as he
pleases; or, if he will have the state to
become bound for his money tor fifty
years, let it go at four per cent, and give
the trustees of the university the same
power they have under the act of 1880.
Georgia.
P LON-P LOSS'S PLEA.
The Text of Prtne* Jerome** Menifeoto
to the French People.
N k\v York, January 31. —The Courier
de* Etats Unis has received a copy of the
recent manifesto of Prince Napoleon
which stirred up so much excitement its
France and was the cause of the arrest
and imprisonment of the author. Fol
lowing is a translation:
Paris, January 1, 1883.- To my fellow
citizena: France languishes Home of
those who sutler have been stirring. The
great majority of the nation are disgust
ed. Without confidence in the present,
they seem to await a future that they
will only be able to obtain by a virile
resolution. The executive power is en
feebled, incapable, and incompetent.
The chambers are w ithout direction and
without will. The party in power sets
at naught, its own principles, only seek
ing to satisfy the least noble of passions.
The parliament is split up into a count
less number of fragments. Reactionists,
moderates, radicals have in turn taken
the government. All have been w reck
ed. You have been premised a republic
which should build up and reform. A
lying promise that! You see continual
eries which involve the chief of the state,
the ministers and the chambers. The ex
perience of the parliamentary republic
carried through twelve years is complete.
You have no government. The evil is
in the constitution, which gives over the
country to the discretion of 801) senators
and deputies. Faults have been commit
ted in the past. Why aggravate them
instead of taking warnings from them?
The army, the foundation of our great
ness and of our security, is in the hands
of incompetent men. For two years they
have been discussing its reorganization,
and are now forced—after blunders which
ruin the military spirit— to find anew
law ot recruiting. The administration is
discredited. The officials are the slaves
of the paltriest partisan interests. To
make the most for one’s self out of the
country is not to govern it.
THE MAGISTRACY.
The magistrates are menacled in the
very fibre of their independence. They
seeui to lose day by day with the secu
rity to which they are entitled loyalty to
their duties. Our finances are shaken.
The taxes, heavy and badly distributed,
are kept up iu a fatal spirit of routine
which puts a bar to all progress. It is,
in fact, much easier to borrow than re
form. The expenditures are increased
without just cause. The most elementa
ry conditions of the public are ignored.
Stock jobbing, which often owes its im
purity to the compromising nature of its
ramification, has overrun all classes of
society. The floating debt is swollen to
a sum which threatens our credit at the
first shock. In spite of the enormous
taxes the budget shows a deficiency.
RELIGION.
Religiou, attacked by a persecuting
atheism, is not protracted. And never
theless this great interest of all civilized
society is easier to guard than any other,
by fidelity to the concordet which alone
can give us religious peace. Social ques
tions, vital to our demociacy, wherein
political equality secure a better
distribution of burdens to the advantage
of the most numerous and poorest class
of our people, are disregarded. Even the
study of them is despised. In the face of
the problems which are in our path we
do not advance—we go backward.
COMMERCE.
Our commerce is attacked by giving
up ttie treaties of 1860, to which we owe
our prosperity, and the interests of con
sumers and tlie commercial classes are
alike sacrificed. Our foreign policy‘is
one of bad faith with the feeble. It is at
the service of private speculation in Tu
nis. The costly occupation of that coun
try is without profit. Our policy is cow
ardly and idiotic as to Egypt, where the
interests of France are important. We
cannot review our relations with other
counties without a feeling of profound
sadness. Our Fiance, but just now so
great, has to-day neither friend nor pres
tige. Even among well-disposed nations
she meets an indifference more painful
than hostility, and nevertheless a strong
France must have a place in the world.
We shall regain our position abroad only
setting things right at home. This situ
ation of affairs is caused by the abandon -
ment oi the principle of national sover
eignty. So long as the people do not
speak, France will never lift up her
head.
HEIR OF THE NAME.
Heir of Napoleon 1. and Napoleon 111.,
1 am the only man living whose name
has secured 7,300,000 votes. the
death of the emperor’s son I have kept
silence in regard to the policy of the
state, not wishing to interfere with the
developments which were under way,
I have been waiting in sadness for the
time when the course of events should
call for me. M v silence was only the
patriotic expression of my respect tor the
repose ot the country. My conduct, my
opinions, my sentiments have been sys
ternatiely traduced. Unmoved, l have
only replied by contempt to those who
have gone so tar as to attempt to set sons
against their father. Efforts odious and
barren ! I have felt it a duty to impose
silence upon the young hearts revolted
by such instigations. I have preferred
to be alone in the face of our adversaries.
My sons have been as yet strangers to
politics. The natural order designates
their place as after mine. And they will
remain faithful to the true Napoleonic
traditions.
Abdication has been spoken of, but it
will not take place. When a man has
more duties than rights, abdication is de
sertion. Such an attitude, such recogni
tion of mutual obligations, would be be
coming to the princes who think that
they have rights superior to the will of
the people. The Napoleons, the chosen
of the people whom they serve, would
not conduct themselves like those princes.
TWO PRINCIPLES.
Two principles divide the world. One
admits a right superior to the will of the
people. The other puts the source of all
power in that sovereignty. I respect the j
country where these two principles are
not allowed to conflict. In France it is
not so. The representatives of the past
have made it impossible. There is noth
ing doubtful in their attitude. No union
with the partisans of the white flag, the
only emblem of the house of Bourbon, is
passible. If there are differences
among the supporters of national sover
eignty, tuere is no absolute antagonism
among them. The Napoleons defend the
direct sovereignty of the people. That
principle has been abandoned by a great
many republicans, solely because of their
fear of popular votes. That which a
plebiscite established anew plebiscite
alone can restore.
WHAT HE REPRESENTS.
I do not represent a party, but a cause
and a principle. The cause is that of all
rather than my own. The principle is
that of the right of the people to name
their chief. To4eny that right is to at
t tack the national sovereignty the govern-
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Fifty cents for aack additiausl ut-artiaa.
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NUMBER t 9.
ment is giving to-day, but a great democ
racy such as ours is Van not long escape
from the the necessity of establishing
authority. The people feel that. They
lieve proven it in the eight plebiscites
of 1800, 180*2, 1804, 1815, 1848, 1851, 1852
and 1872.
Frenchmen, remember the word* of
Napoleon, the First: “All that is dona
without the people is illegitimate.”
Napoleon.
GEN. YOLNG, OF GEOKCGA.
Immense Land Grants, and a Flue Pro-
I*cm t for Georgia Lawyers.
Chit riot la, N. €. Journal.]
We have learned the object of tin; visit
of our old friend, lien. P. M. B. Young,
of Georgia, to Charlotte, ami as it invol
ves some matters of historical interest as
w ell as the probability of some very large
lavs suits ill Georgia—which, if sueee**-
ful, will make the general a rich uian—
we have concluded, with the consent of
the parties Interested, to give publicity
to it.
General Young earn© here to meet bis
kinsman Col. Flunk Coxe, and received
from him about a barrel lull of old deeds
ami grants from the state of Georgia for
lands, ainoun.mg in the aggregate to
about 300,000 acres, located in several
counties, including the county ot Rich
mond in widen is situated the city of
Augusta. He, a* agent of Colonel Coxe,
will proceed at. once to take legal steps
for t lie recovery of this immense proper
ty. The lands lie iu the counties of
Richmond, Fianklin, Washington. Doo
ly, Cooke amt others in Middle Georgia.
We have examined some of the deeds,
which are remarkably well preserved and
are accompanied in most instances by
plats made by surveyors and adorned ( t)
by immense seals of wax bearing the coat
of arms ot Georgia.
The grants were made to Tench Coxe,
wlto was assistant secretary of the treasu
ry under Washington, and a bosom friend
of Alexander Hamilton. Tench Coxe
was one of the largest land-holders In
America, owning large tracts in eight
difi'ent states and iu seventy-five different
counties. The coal lauds, which he left
in Pennsylvania and which his grand
children now own, pay an annual coal
royalty of $400,000, of which Col. Frank
Coxe owns the largest, part. He was a
man of great sagacity, and perhaps the
first man in the country to anticipate the
future of the cotton industry which has
since grown into such enormous propor
tions. Deßow's Review , s uue years ago,
spoke of him as the hither ol cotton.
His investments In southern lands is the
Carolina*;, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri
ect., were made with an eye to the devel
opment of this industry, while his entries
and purchases In Pennsylvania and
other northern states, were based upon
the same far seeing wisdom—or as sena
tor Browu, of Georgia, would say, judg
ment.
The penchant for the acquisition of
landed estates seems to have been an In
herited one in the Coxe family, for the
ancestor of Tench Coxe received from
Charles 11. the largest land grant ever
given to anyone individual in t lie world,
embracing as it did all the territory be
tween the 28th and 30tb parallels of lati
tude, and extending from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean, which afterwards was
exchanged for another grant, and given
by that merry monarch to the Lords pro
prietors of these provinces.
This historical fact, we are assured,
has never before been published, but a
copy of the patent, taken from the re
cords of the Biitish museum, has been
exhibited to us. The grantee. Dr. Dani
el Coxe was physician to tins Queen,
and one of the founders of tlje Royal
Society.
Returning to Gen. Young, and these
Tench Coxe grants in Georgia, we are
inclined to think from the unusual par
ticularity of the descriptions of the tracts
—the beginning corners, courses and
distances, and naming of adjoining lands
—that there will be less difficulty iu lo
cating them than is usually the case with
old deeds and grants, while the fact that
there have been extended periods dur
ing which infancy and coverture protec
ted against the statute of limitations,
will add greatly to the probability of re
covery.
We wish our old friend success In the
prosecution of these suits, but warn him
that, if not more diligent In them than
he has heretofore been in suits of a more
delicate and private character, lie will
find that he has again been left.
IIKNJAMIN HARVEY HILL.
Commemorative Speechen in the Senate
and House.
Washington, Jan. 25. —The session of
the senate to-day and a large part of the
proceedings of the house were given to
commemorative speeches in honor of the
late Senator Benjamin H. Hill, of Geor
gia. Brief orations were delivered by
Senators Brown, Ingalls, Vest, Morgan,
Sherman, Voorheee, Edmunds, Jones
(Fla.,) and Barrow, in which Mr. Hill’s
characteristics were portrayed, and his
abilities, public services, and moral na
ture eulogised. Mr. Brown spoke of Mr.
Hill’s veneration for the memory of his
mother as a touching feature of his char
acter. When he had become too feeble
to walk, he had himself carried into the
room where her portrait hung, and, gaz
ing tearfully upon her face, he said:
“I shall soon be with her again.” Mr.
Sherman spoke of Mr. Hill as an ardent
but courteous antagonist, a ready deba
ter, strong, earnest, and convincing and
expressed the opinion that when he died
he hud not yet attained to the full meas
ure of national reputation to which his
abilities would have raised him. Mr.
Edmunds spoke of Mr. Hill as a man of
the very highest order of intellectual
strength, both in his perceptive and in
his reflective faculties able to perceive
with clearness the relations of things,
and the remote as well as near effects of
current events.
After passing the following resolution*
the senate adjourned.
Resolved, That earnestly desiring io
show every possible mark of respect to
the memory ot Hon. Benj. 11. Hill, late a
senator of the United States from the
<nate of Georgia, and to manifest the
high estimate in wnich his eminent pub
lic service- and distinguished patriotism
are held, the business of the senate be
now suspended tha* the friends and as
sociates of the late Senator Hill may pay
fitting tribute to his high character, his
public services and his private virtues.
Resolved, That in the death of Senator
Hill the country his sustained a loss,
which has been felt and deplored to the
utmost limits of the union.
Resolved , That the secretary of the
senate communicate these resolutions to
the house of representatives.
Resolved, That as an additional mark
of respeet for the memory of the deceas
ed the senate do now adjourn.
Eulogies were delivered in the house
by Representatives Hammond, Speer,
Tucker, House, Ktsson, Wellborn,
Hooker and Cox, and the house adjourn
ed in respect to the memory of the de
ceased.