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ATTORNEY - A 'X 1 - LA W,
ROME, GA.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
GADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM
ERS—U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. H. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday 8a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday ami Saturday. oam
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday .8 a in
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday 7 p m
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays aud Fridays— 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays und Fridays— it a m
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays ...7pm
Office No. 27 Broad street, up-stairs over the
Cotton Exchange. Telephonic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, March 19,1883, the trains
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.—MORNING.
Leave Cartersville 9:45 a m
Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 a in
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:85 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 11:10 am
Arrrive at Cedartown 12:05 a ni
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 2:58 p ui
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:83 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro . 8:51 p m
Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm
PASSENGER TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville ...... 5:22 pm
Arrive at Rockmart 0:00 p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown . 6:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2yam
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:46 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 am
ROME RAILROAD.
The following Is the present passenger sched
ule:
NO. 1.
Leave Rome 8:10 am
Arrive at Kingston B:osain
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 a m
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
no. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 6:30 pm
NO. 4.
Leave Kingston G:s{Tp m
Arrive at Rome 6:50 p ni
NO. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
no. 0.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 a m
Nos. 1,2, 3 aud 4 will run daily except Sun
days. „ ,
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T..
Ya. & Ga. It. R.. for points south.
EBEN HILLY ER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is tbc present passenger sched
ule:
NIGHT PASSENGER—Ur.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 6:84 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:90 pm
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Daitor. 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston 6:03 p m
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Atlanta 7:00 a m
Leave 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 a in
Leave Kiugstou 11:15 a m
Leave Cartersville 11:42 a m
Arrive at Atlauta 1:40 pm
ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 p ra
Arrive at Cartersville 6:31 p m
Arrive at Kingston 7:00 p ra
Leave Kingstou . * 8:06 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am
Arrive at Atlanta . • • . 10:87 am
Don’t Forget;
That you cau be suited in a clock at
J. T. Owens.
THE FREE PRESS.
VOLUME V.
Diamond Dyes, only 10 cents per package, a
Word’s drug store.
Farmers and others desiring a genteel
lucrative agency business, by which $5
to S2O a day can be earned, send address
at once, on postal, to 11. C. Wilkinson <fc
Cos., 195 and 197 Fulton street, New
York. dec2l-6m.
llalns, ltalns. Rains.
The continuous rains this spring will greatly
retard the operations of the farmers, aud every
fair day of the season will bo .golden moments
for them, therefore ’tis of the greatest impor
tance that neither they nor their farm hands
loose any time on account of sickness. To avoid
which and save doctor’s bills take Curry’s Liver
Compound.
Splendid lot of 5 and 10 gallon oil cans, with
jackets on, and brass faucets. No trouble to
fill your lamps from them. Goto Curry’s aud
get one and have it filled with Kinslow Oil—the
best in the market.
Lumber, Lumber, Lumber.
Never in the history of Cartersville before has
there been so much lumber shipped here as is
being received now, all because the saw mill
men keep a supply of Curry’s Liver Compound
on haod for their employes, and consequently arc
enabled to run on full time, no time lost on ac3
count of sickness.
The following are the names of 6ome of the
merchants who keep Curry’s Liver Compound
for sale, aud they are authorized to guarantee it
absolutely inferior to no other liver medicine
sold, aud to give entire satisfaction to their
patrons:
W. T. Gordon, Pine Log, Ga.
J. B. Britton & Cos., Pine Log.
R. 11. Garwood, Cassville,
A. C. Shelton, Jerusalem.
A. V. P. Jones, M
T. F. Barrett, Ludville.
D. W. Rogers & Cos., Etowah.
Beazlcy & Sheffield, “
J. C. & J. D. Lanier, Stilesboro.
W. K Puckett & Cos., “
W. W. Padgett, Euharlee.
W. B. W Leeke, •
Hogue & Cos., Rockmart.
Dr. R. T. Cochran, * “
Whitehead, Jones & Cos. “
W. J. Sheffield, lluutsyille/Ga.
Wood & Cochran, “
S. R. McGregor, “
L. Richardson & Cos., Pineville.
K. C. Carter, “
Morris & Fraey, Polk county.
J. U. Wright & Cos.,
Y'ouug & Son, “
That was a good joke on the farmer who
bought a box of Curry’s Worm Candy and ato
half a lozenger just to show his children that
they were not unpleasant to the taste, and made
the discovery soon after that he needed worm
candy as much as his children.
Lamps, beautiful, elegant lamps, sold every
where at 11.50 to $1.75 are sold by Curry at $1 to
11.10.
The people caunot agree as to the location of
the new iron bridges soon to be built across the
Etowah river, but they all agree that the Iron
Elixir, prepared and sold by D. W. Curry, is the
very best in the market.
Ladles
Have you seen that beautiful line of lamps
displayed at Curry’s Lrug Store? Nothing like
them either in quality or price ever offered iu
Cartersville. The prices arc extremely low.
Another big lot of Wizard Oil iust opened at
Curry’s, and everybody is going to “try another
bottle or two” and all it costs is four shillings.
Curry sells more cigars aud better cigars than
any man in Cartersville.
Just received at Curry’s the largest lot of paint
and whitewash brushes ever before seen in Car
tcrsvillc, worth from 15 cents up.
Ice cold soda water and ginger ale, drawn
from one of Tufts’ Arctic Apparatus, can be had
at Cel Word’s drug store.
Cel Word’s Horse and Cattle Powders give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
Cel Ward cau cool you off with a glass of his
arctic soda water.
Owing to their entire freedom from injurious
drugs, “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent cigars are the
most popular iu the world. Go to Cel Word’s.
Brown’s Iron Bitters are sure to give satisfac
tion. Cel Word’s.
Excelsior Cough and Liver Syrup is an excel
lent preparation. Cel Word’s drug store.
Hot weather is coming, and Cel Word has put
in operation one of Tuft’s elegant soda water ap
paratus to dispense the cooling beverage.
Old smokers prefer “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent
cigar to most of the 10 centers. Cel \f ord is the
ageut.
Pure white lead and linseed oil. Pure mixed
paints in auy quantity at Cel Word’s drug store.
Take S. S. S. for aH blood diseases iu the spring
of the year. Cel Word sells it.
Cel Word respectfully calls attention to his
country friends that he can supply them with a
cool glass of soda water when iu Cartersville.
Many imitate, none equal, “Tansill’s Punch”
5 cent cigar. Cel Word sells them.
2,3, and 5 gallon tilting oil cans at Words drug
store.
AltE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow
skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizcr is a positive cure. For
sale by Cuiry. •
bradfield’s
G 3 R
BRAD FIELDS
Female Regulator.
Is a special remedy for all diseases pertaining to
the Womb, and any intelligent woman can cure
herself by following the directions. It is espe
cially efficacious in cases of suppressed or pain
ful menstruation, the Whites and Partial Pro
lapsus. It affords immediate relief, and perma
nently restores the Menstrual Functions. Asa
remedy to be used during that critical period
known as “Change of Life,” this invaluable
preparation has no rival!
HOLMES' LINIMENT
Is mi INESTIMABLE BOON to *ll child hear
ing Women; a real blessing to suffering females;
a true
MOTHERS FRIEND.
When applied a few weeks before couffnement it
will produce a safe and quick delivery, control
pain, and alleviate the usual dread, agonizing
suffering, beyond the power of language express!
PRYOR'S OINTMENT
Is a sure and speedy cure for Blind or Bleeding
Piles, Sores, Ulcers, Tumors, Fistula, Burns
Corns, Felons, Sore Nipples, etc. Its effects are
simply marvelous, and it is an inexpressible
blessing to all afflicted with either of the above
complaints. Try it!
For circulars, testimonials, and full particu
lars, address Sole Proprietor aud Manufacturer
of these THREE GREAT REMEDIES!
J. BRADFIELD,
No. lot Sottth-Pryor Sdreet, ATLANTA, UA.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1883.
GOT. McDANIKL.
His Inaugural Address and a Good Ad
ministration Fr. figured.
The legislature of Georgia met in ex
tra session on Wednesday last to count
tlie vote for governor to succeed the
“great commoner” of Georgia, Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens. Henry D. Mc-
Daniel, whom we have known since his
boyhood, was elected to succeed Mr.
Stephens without opposition. As there
was so little to give of the proceedings of
the legislature we omit all just to give
Gov. McDaniel’s inagural on Thursday:
Gentlemen of the general assembly'
and fellow-citizens—The occasion for this
assemblage suggests the recent lost of
the state, and of mankind, in the death
of Mr. Stephens, Whose unexpired term
in the office of governor I have been cal
led to till. More than any other man
who ever lived, he deserved to be named
“The Great Commoner.” He has joined
the illustrious men whose place is in the
hearts of the people of Georgia is but
feebly expressed in the adornments of
this representative hall. His fame, like
theirs, is the priceless heritage of grate
ful countrymen.
In assuming the duties from which
Divine Providence has removed him, I
desire to express my grateful thanks to
. the people for this mark of confidence
and esteem. I cannot hope to bring to
the discharge of these responsible duties,
the varied experience, profound know
ledge and consummate wisdom, which
characterized him. But I may hope to
exhibit the same devotion to all the in
terests intrusted to my care.
The fundamental principles of our
government, in state as well as federal
relations, are expressed in the constitu
tion. I need not repeat them to this as
semblage, composed of those who enact
laws, and those who interpret them, and
those who execute them, and intelligent
citizens, who are accustomed to observe,
and to judge impartially, the manner of
performance of official duties. Our chief
concern is not with these maxims which
are the results of the revolution and
development of centuries, and which are
familiar, to all, hut - vith measures of ad
ministration, designed to.carry them into
effect.
The office of government is to main
tain order, to suppress crime, and to in
sure to all the fruits of honest labor, and
tlie undisturbed pursuits of happiness.
It can never be perfect or finished. New
conditions constantly require appropriate
legislation. Laws, wise in orgin, and
wholesome in operation, lose fitness in
the changes incident to modern progress,
aud must he modified, or yielded toother
measures, better adapted to the emergen
cy. Diversities of interest tend to pro
duce diversities of opinion in matters of
state policy'.
These conflicts ot opinions are real and
confront us in every detail of legislation.
But there is no real conflict of interest
between various classes of the people—
diverse as may be their occupations.
What is wholesome for one class cannot
be hurtful to one must result in injur/ to
all. It is a common mistake thatthe pros
perity of one class depends on laws en
acted for its special benefit. Legislation
will not supply the want of those quali
ties of industry, thrift and skill, and pro
duce, on which rest alike private aud
public prosperity. What is needed in
legislation is that it shall be just to all
classes, imposing no burdens that are
not equally borne by all —within these
limits, the administration will be best,
which is felt least by the people.
Taxation from the sovereign nature of
tlie powmrs exercised, is tlie most impor
tant subject of state policy. It is felt in
every household. When burdensome, it
crushes the weak and clogs the efforts of
all who endeavor to improve their for
tunes. No free people should long sub
mit to unjust systems of taxation, which
can be remedied. Experience teaches
how difficult it is to carry into effect the
wholesome provisions ot our constitution,
that taxation shall he equal and uniform.
Much has been done to perfect the sys
tem, but much remains to be done. This
must he left to the skill and patriotism of
the legislature, applying the lessons of
the past to the conditions of the future.
Besides improvements in tax laws
designs to thoroughly' distribute public
burdens, a policy to be patiently and
persistently persuade us it is our duty to
maintain the present low rate of taxation
ami to reduce it, if it can be dene, with
out crippling the resources of the treas
ury. It is true that our long credit is
equal to that of any state in the union;
that we annually reduce our debt; that
we might pay it off within a reoeonable
time by sale of public property; that our
pride in tlie financial condition of Geor
gia is justified by the increasing wealth
aud prosperity of the people. But these
advantages should not inspire merely a
feeling of satisfaction and pride, we
must use them to tlie utmost as a means
to effect these desirable results. To accom
plish this economy in expense must be
rigidly enforced. The public can no
more hope to keep money in tlie treas
ury without discriminating economy
than individuals in their private business.
There may be many worthy objects for
which expendituies of tlie public money
would prove beneficial, were our re
sources unlimited and our right to use
them unlimited. The constitution does
not leave us in doubt as to what are
legitmate objects of expinditure. These
are plainly expressed, and comprehen
ded briefly, the support of tlie govern
ment In all its departments, the support
of the government institutions for the
care of the helpless classes, the support
of the public schools, the payment of the
public debt, and the public defense.
For these objects wise economy will re
quire much to be done as the state can do
withont burdening the people, dif oobjects
save the public defence will justify an in
crease of public burdens.
A state of abounding territory, rich in
climate, in soil, in minerals, in fbrests, in
waterpower, and in harbors; blessed
with a variety of crops and fruits une
qitaled in any country of like extent on
the globe; traversed by nearly 3,000
miles of railway; with a teeming popula
tion eager to place her In tlie front rank
of American states in agriculture, in
commerce, in manufactures, and in all
that manifests in the progress of a great
people—surely the task of rightly gov
erning sucli a commonwealth requires
the wisdom and patriotism of all her sons.
I take courage in the fact that all the de
partments of state government, although
distinct and independent, are wisely
burdened with a share of tlie duties, up
on tlie discharge of which depends tlie
common welfare. These vast interests
will not rest on the executive alone. So
far as my power extends, the laws will be
rigidly enforced, and, ail officials will be
held to a strict accountability. I may
often commit errors of judgment—never
intentional wrong. Nor are legislative,
judicial and executive officers alone res
ponsible for the enforcement of law and
wise administration of public affairs. All
citizens owe a duty to the country in
sustaining and assisting and defending
the work of their servants in office.
Public opinion, in a free state is all pow
erful. It can defeat the executive of ev
ery vital law—sucli as laws to preserve
the purity of election, upon which de
pends the very lite of tlie state—laws for
the suppression of crime, without the
vigorous execution of which government
becomes a farce —and all laws for tlie
preservation of society. No wisdom
in tlie counsels of the legislature, no dig
nity and purity and learning on the
bench, no vigilance and firmness on the
part of the executive will prevail against
the baneful effects of a lax public opin
ion.
Let us resolve eacli in ii is appropriate
sphere, to contribute all iu our power to
promote the happiness and prosperity of
all the people of the state, by insuring to
them the impartial execution of just
laws.
For all mistakes, I trust to your for
bearance and to the indulgence of tlie pub
lic, whose opinions are the final test of
official conduct. With a painful distrust
of my ability, but with a tirni reliance
on your assistance, and on that of a
higher power, whose presence in our af
fairs is reverently and earensstly invoked,
1 am now ready to assume the duties to
which I have been elevated by favor of
the people of Georgia.
During the delivery of the speech there
was the closest attonftton in every part of
the great crowd. It was heartily ap
plauded.
Chief Justice Jackson then administer
ed the oath of office. The secretary of
state handed to the president pro tern of
the senate the great seal ot tlie state and
he delivered it to Gov. McDaniel, who
held it for a moment ami then returned it
to the secretary of state. Mr. Polhill in
due form declared that Henry D. Mc-
Daniel had been duly installed as gov
ernor of Georgia, and would be respect
ed and obeyed as such. This announce
ment called forth demonstrations of ap
plause.
IVESLISVAX FEMALE COLLEGE,
Some time ago Mr. Geo. 1. Senoy of
New York, gave to this old and honored
female college in Macon a large sum of
money for certain inprovements of that
institution. The money has been badly
managed and tlie work very imperfect.
The Telegraph says:
The committee appointed to investi
gate the building improvements of tlie
Weslyan Female College report substan
tially as follows: Sufficient care was not
exercised at tlie outset in the prepara
tion of plans and specifications or in es
timating tlie cost. The building commit
tee failed to secure exact information as
to the cost of the work contemplated an'd
started on it without any attempt to re
duce and confine the outlay to any spec
ified suhi; that such changes were made
as largely increased the cost of the
work in every department, so that what
might and ought to have been done for
$G5,000 to $75,000 will reach a final outlay
of nearly $120,000, and there is not cor
responding improvement'in value to
show for tills increased cost; that eon
tracts were entered into and purchases
made in a very extraordinary manner, so
that high prices were paid for the mate
rial that was neoessay. That the com
mittee did not exercise sufficient care and
caution in tlie selection of a foreman and
superintendent and during the progress of
the work, did not exercise judicious su
pervision over him or inform themselves
as to his want of method, economy and
good management in the conduct of the
work,so that there was great waste of ma
terial aud of money paid out in wages.
That much of tlie work has been done in
a very unsatisfactory manner. That
there has been paid out in cash about
$30,000 and nearly $.10,000 more will be
required to pay the indebtedness and
complete the building. That the respon
sibility for this bad state of tilings rests
upon tlie building committee, and after
them the foreman and superintendent.
Tlie harmlessness of its character and
convenience for ready use, renders tlie
celebrated Seven Springs iron and Alum
Mass, manufactured by Landrum &
Litchfield, Abington, Va., most desir
able. It never fails to relieve and cure
Indigestion, Sick Headache, Skin Diseas
es, Scrofula, Eczema, impurities of the
Blood, Chills and Fever, Malarial, Drop
sical, Throat, Liver and Kidney Affec
tions, it is almost a specific. For sale by
tlruggists generally.
what is Prohibition?
The Question Answered by tlie Editor ol‘
the Cincinnati Gazette.
We publish by request the subjoined :
article, by one of the editors of the Cincin
nati Gazette. It is so complete and logical
an answer to the impulsive rhetoric of some
prohibition zealots that, with a few
slight verbal alterations, we give it in
lieu of anything we might write our
selves :
A degree of unfairness mars this dis
cussion. in the tone that they who are for
prohibition are the saint®, and that they
who are not, sin against their own Con
sciences because of base party or mer
cenary considerations. If there is virtue
in logic we shall overthrow this injus
tice, and shall carry the war into Ethio
pia by demonstrating that prohibition is
wicked, and that prohibitionists should
put on the sackcloth and asties of peni
tence.
1. Prohibition is impossible; therefore,
it is not sincere.
No one believes it can be executed. It
would require an inquisition into domes
tic privacy, backed by savage penal
laws, which would be impossible to car
ry out in a free government, and which
the prohibitionists would not take upon
themselves. Ii would have to light tlie
decisive battle at its weakest point,
namely: The temperate use of which
they themselves do not think an offense.
It would have to pursue into households
the domestic making and temperate use
of beer, cider, wine and spirits, with the
same savage laws as police hunt to pur-
sue murderers, burglars and thieves, and
with the same spirit that litts up eyery
man’s hand against these infamous
crimes.
Nothing less than this could root out
the innumerable ways of making and
supplying these tilings, which would be
forced by the* destruction of the open
manufacture—-even if that were possible,
whichit is not. The temperate use of
these things is no more a crime than the
use ot tea, coffee, tobacco, and rich vict
uals. The most radical prohibitionists
do not think it a crime. They would
feel degraded to take upon themselves
ttie oftice of pursuing it as a crime.
They mean to put this police execution
on low people—on drinking people,
probably. They propose that others
shall be the executioners of tlieir com
mands, while they will not soil tlieir gar
ments with the infamous work.
Thus has prohibition no basis in faitli
or sincerity.
Nothing has ever been effected by out
lawing this trade. Nothing can be
effected by outlawing tilings which the
people want, and which in the greater
part of their use they hold to be a harm
less enjoyment.
2 Prohibition is a subversion of gov
ernment by the people, and of personal
rights.
It does not propose to leave this affair
to be governed by tlie people through
their general assembly, but it aims at a
snap judgment through a fanatical cru
sade, to fasten it in constitution,
where the people cannot reach it. This
is not popular government: it is distrust
of the people. The provinces of a con
stitution is to provide forms for adminis
tering the-functions of government, not
to legislate. Even if prohibition were
within the province of government, it
would have no right in the constitution.
To put it there is usurpation.
Prohibition is destructive of property
and personal rights, which are higher
than government. It proposes the des
potism of destroying private property of
tlie value of many millions, by voting
upon some fancied motion of public
good, without compensation of the ow
ners. This is beyond tlie province of
any government. It has no right to
place this property in jeopardy by hav
ing such a vote. No despotic govern
ment in Europe or Asia is competent to
do this thing which is advocated in what
is called constitutional government. So
it proposes a tyrannical interference with
the liberties of men, which is more fit
for Ashantee than for a free people.
Alt this is subversive of law, of consti
tutional liberty, and popular govern
ment.
3. Prohibition is immoral.
It confounds all principles of justice
by miking crimes of things which are j
not. It makes the temperate use of an j
-article of comfort the same as the destruc
tive abuse of it. It holds the passive I
seller a criminal, and the active buyer j
sinned against. It’s calling oil tlie club !
of the law to make men temperate by
smashing the head of the seller, tends to
debilitate tlie conscience of the drinker. J
It shifts and dissipates moral aceounta- !
bility, and substitutes for it a law, in
whose justice nobody believes. It de- j
grades men to tlie level of other beasls
by holding them incompetent for free
dom.
4. Prohibition is wicked.
The tyrannical inquisition and surveil- I
lance required to execute prohibition j
would have to break down the immuni
ties and habits of freedom that have been
formed in the Anglo-Saxon race by cen
turies of constitutional liberty, and to
reduce men to such subjection that the
spirit of liberty would have to be extin
guished. It proposes a degradation of the
people and police espionage which would
make them unfit for freedom in anything.
It could not be attempted on a tree peo
ple without creating a social warfare
which would be destructive of morals,
and would make a veritable unrevised
Hell upon earth.
5. Prohibition is impious.
It assumes to be wiser than God’s mor
al government of the world, wnicli leaves
men free to choose good living or bad
living, and lias the one and sink by the
other. It in effect pronounces God’s
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ways all wrong by proposing to make
men live well by environing them with
laws which make evil living impossible.
It proposes to banish evil from the world
by law, which is a thing that God does
not. do. It casts off that moral account
ability for eschewing the evil and choos
ing the good, which is God's plan of
government.
Its aims to remedy the mistakes of tlic
Almighty. It is like the presumption of
Nadab and Abihu, in serving at the altar,
for which ‘'there went out a tire from
the Lord and devoured themlike the
holy ambition of Korah,. Duthan and
Abiram to be the mouthpiece of the Lord
to the congregation, for which the eartli
gaped and swallowed them and their
households, ami two hundred and fifty
men of renown with them; like the pre
sumptuous sin of Ufcza, in thinking Unit
the Ark of the Lord needed the support
of his hand when the oxen stumbled,
for which the Lord smote him ou the
spot.
When we think of these judgements
we tremble for our brethren who think
to improve ou God’s moral government
by environing man with walls of prohib
itory laws to make impossible for him to
do evil. But while showing that prohib
ition is the sin of presumption from
which David especially praye to be kept,
we shall he more charitable than some of
our brethren by allowing that they mean
well, lint not the less are they in peril
of great wrath, from which they should
fly by repentance. The new tariff en
courages this by a duty of 40 per cent, on
sackcloth ami by placing ashes on the
free list as “raw materials.”
DANA ON CANDIDATES.
Hon. Charles A. Dana, of the Me
York Sun, i- in Sail Francisco. In an
interview with a reporter the other day
he said theleadingfissue for the next Pres
idential campaign would bn to turn out
the Republicans. Continuing he said :
“I think the Democrats can come
squarely before the country as advo
cates of a tariff for revenue only. An in
ternal revenue ou liquor, which will yield
enough to pay the pensions granted under
recent laws, is justifiable. This tax would
only last four or five years, after which
it would be no longer needed. The Dem
ocratic party has a number of available
Presidential candidates in all parts of
the country. McDonald, of Indiana, is
spoken of. Mr. Hendricks lias friends.
Bayard lias warm friends, and probably
more personal admirers than any other
man in the party. Palmer, ot Illinois,
is strong. Thurman is one of the ablest
men in the country. If Ohio unites in his
support in the Democratic convention
his nomination is assured. Blaine’s
chances are poorer than in 1870 or 1880.
| Arthur does not desire a renominution.
He is a gentleman, a good fellow and
has made a better President than any
other man would have done similarly
situated. Grant has not the ghost of a
chance. Pendleton lias no originality, no
enterprise.”
DEAD, LETTERS.
Notwithstanding the great, exertion
the post office department makes to find
tlie owners of letters and deliver the let
ters to them, the number of letters which
reacli the dead letter office now runs
above ten thousand a day. The number
received at the department during the
past year is four millions. Of these three
millions were uncalled for at the offices
to which they were addressed. Yearly a
hundred thousand came from hotels, ad
dressed to persons who had failed to leave
instructions to have their mail forwarded.
A quarter of a million were sent there be
cause they were insufficiently prepaid, a
thousand because they contained articles
forbidden to be transported in the mails.
Over ten thousand bore no superscription.
whatever. The number of dead letters
mailed abroad was 350,000, all of which
were returned to the country or their
origin unopened. Of those received and
opened in the past year, forty thousand
contained money, draits, money orders,
etc., amounting to two million dollars,
and forty-tour thousand contained paid
notes, receipts and canceled obligations.
The Government Printing Office is still
running an unusually' large force of
printers in getting out of the way the ac
cumulation of the work left by the late
Gongeess, such as reports and documents
ordered to be printed. The annual re
ports of the Signal Service Bureau and
of the Patent Office are being put in
type, but tiie hulk of the force is em
ployed upon the census reports, about
seven thousand of the fifteen thousand ;
pages of the work is intended to cover be
ing in type. It will be bound in from
fifteen to twenty volumes. The census
compendium, one hundred thousand cop
ies of which were ordered by Congress tor
general distribution,is being worked off as
fast as several presses can do the work.
About sixty thousand copies have so far
been printed, The Garfield memorial
exercises at the oapitol in February of j
last year, have been printed, hut owing
to the rush of the work oil the census re- i
ports they tiave not yet been bound. In- j
Stead of a steel portrait of Garfield the j
same plate front which were printed the
invit.ataions to the memorial exercises
will be used for a forntispieee.
A doctor at Richmond says that if peo- \
pie will take a bath in hot whiskey and
rock salt twice a year they will never
catch a Cold. Until somebody has tried
this new remedy we would say:—stick
to tiie old and reliable Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup.
| Neither France, Germany, nor Belgium
raises enough meat to supply its own
population. The meat consumption per
head of population is much higher iu
| Great Britain than oteewhore in Europe.
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TESU'ESAweE.
Sui-Hcjotnder to Will I Ain Satterfield.
The following communication is re
published this week because it appeared
last week with so many errors:
Our promises and conclusion,, as set
forth in our former article i reply to
Mr. S., we now propose to subject to his
scrutiny and we will let him say wheth
er they inteifere with his personal and
vested rights. Does lie, tor a moment,
doubt us when we say, take away drunk
enness and tiie temperance people will
stop their clamor against tiie whisky
traffic? Why, lie knows there would he
no cause of complaint, for there is no
clamor .against tiie sale of other commod
ities, the evil effects of which would lie
as had as the use of too much whisky,
As paradoxical as it may sound, there is
no freedom iu a free government. We
know that in a free government every
man is free to act as 'no pleases so long
as tie does no harm to his fellow-mau.
But, when harm comes of anything
whatever, his freedom ends and his sov
ereign, tiie law, commands him to put a
stop to it. We ask Mr. S., and we ex
pect him to answer, yes or no. Do you
not know of your own knowledge that
tiie whisky traffic is, in its conse
quences, more prolific of evil than all the
other traffics combined ? It he says no,
then we will call up the vus* army of
drunkards, slaves to rum, and let them
make answer from their sad experience.
We think \ them jv>'.■ ■ with
their siifingers to tlieir ‘floated
che ks. and h ou-shot ftjr.es r
them s->\l ■ -*• mak" a. No
organic!. gives tie* right to, hurt ip
maker-; (lie wh.skt triffle hurt* fh ma
kers (the people) of all organic law in
this country; therefore, reasoning to a
co elusion, the organic law strictly for
bids the whisky traffic. Who vested you
with the right to sell whisky? Tiie peo
ple. And, if the people say give it up,
can you claim the right to sell on after
i our license is out. You do not or can
not claim the rigtit to sell without a li
cense.
All attempts to better our fellow-men
are right and proper whether they come
from New England or elsewhere, and
isms have nothing to do with it. Puni
all the dram shops in the land to wine
cellars and 90 per cent, of drunkenness
in the land would be destroyed, notwith
standing Solomon says: “Wine is a
mocker, strong drink is raging.” Out-
Savior never did sell wine, hut, on tiie
contrary made fearful denunciations
against all intemperance and what ever
tended thereto. All true reasoning is
based on cause and effect, and it seems
to us,that every one who is opposed to tiie
temperance movement fails to he gov
erned by it in his argument. 11 wc would
be governed by the law-givers of the
past, we would never get drunk our
selves nor cause others to get drunk, ft
is a sad commentary upon the manners of
the present day that so many of our
i leading “patriotic”! ?) “statesmen” give
| themselves too much bad legislation and
! corruption. A citizen may have the right
to tioil his corn into whisky,but his right
j stops there; for lie has no right to give
! or sell it to any one in a quantity sufli
i oient to make that one drunk. Sumpt
uary laws against other things stand tin*
! test of the courts, and why not against
tiie liquor traffic ?
All tills matter about “blatant advo
cates of temperance” paying their just
debts, keeping themselvas from sin and
immorality, ministers of the gosp.il doing
tlieir own work has nothing to do what
ever with tiie temperance question. And
as to stirring up strife and contention
amongst the neighbors, we submit that
whisky selling and its consequent drunk
enness has dime more in that direction
than all tiie temperance people in the
past or that ever come upon this eartli.
Don’t yon say so Mr. S?
11. J. Me.
Tiie Public lias an interesting article
on tiie population of tiie United States,
in which it is maintained that the coun
try has now 54,800,000 inhabitants.
This number is about 4,700,000 greater
than was reported by the census for June
30, ISSO, and warrants the prediction of
a population of 55,000,000 by July 1
nextr. Of course Immigration is the un
certain quantity in tiie formulation of
these estimates. It seems, however,
that since 1870, tiie rate of gain by ex
cess of births over deaths has been, as
nearly as may be, two per cent, per an
num. Tiie number of immigrants each
year being known, the population may
at any. time he stated, therefore,
witli considerable ooiirtilence. An annu
al gain of two per cent, through excess
of birtli seems to lie established for the
time being, inasmuch as tlic decade 1870-
S0 included live years of general prosper
ity, and as many of unusual depression.
But, of course, war or pestilence would
vitiate the calculation.
Keeley’s famed motor has been put on
exhibition at Philadelphia, but as the
power is not employed tiie people can
learn little of tiie machine. A number
of people inspected it a few days ago. A
very polite gentleman explained the
working of tiie big kettle-like structure
that is termed the engine, and al
so spoke learnedly of tiie force of vibra
tion and other mechanical mysteries, and
all listened attentively but apparently
with very little comprehension of his
meaning. He sjid that the power was
i extracted from water, and could be trans
ported to any desired point, and showed
a small otse that contained enough to
run a powerful locomotive foi thirty
hours. The case was there and the pow
er was likely enough inside of it, but
then there was no ocular proof presented,
i and the visitors went away as much tnys
i tiffed as to Keely and life motor as when
j they came.