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Olivet, Ky.] I’hysicUn, Surgeon, Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Cassville, Georgia. X, ]{.—Sp cial attention given to Surgery in a) its bracin'-. 0ct682-tf SHELBY ATTAWAY, A ’i' O UNEY. -A T - AW, \\riLL PUACTICE IN ALL TIIE COURTS V V Of North Georgia. T . onice with* Col. M. R. Stausell, Lank Block. GEORGE S. JOHNSON, AT r r Olt IS' K Y-AT-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE, West Side, Public Square. U- ./ ■ Will practice in all the Courts. K. W. MUIiPHEY, A A’ T OKNEY-AT- L A AV , CARTERSVILLE, GA. HTi< E (up-stairs) in the brick building, cor ner <>i Main A Erwiil streets. ‘ Jlllytf. J.M.NKBL. J. J.CONWKR. W. J. NEEL. NEEL, CONNER & NEEL, Al' OHNKYS-AT-LAW CARTERSVILLE, GA. \ \ TILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS Vy of this state. Litigated cases made a penalty. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. OUice m northeast corner of courthouse, fcb9 M. L. JOHNSON. AT T O It NEY- AT • I-. A NV cA RT ERS VILLE, GEORG lA. OiUco in the brick house next to Roberts’ .very stables. Hours from B>£ a. m. All business poomptly attended to. apr29 T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR. MILNER & HARRIS, A. TO RNKYS-AT-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Ollice on West Main Street. July! B JOHN H. WIKLB. DO OLASS WIKLE. WIKLE & WIKLE, AT r T Olt IN Jfl YS- A T-L ANV , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Ofllce in court house. Douglas Wikle will give special attention to collections. feb&l _ JNO. B. F. LUMPKIN, A r r XOKNE Y-A T - ~L>A "W, ROME, GA. / COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. OFFICE V j in rear of l’rintup, Bros. & Co.’s Bank. ALBERT S. JOHNSON, A X T O K NEY-AT-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE : WESTSIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. Will practice in all the Courts. Business will receive prompt attention. TKAVEJuEIIS’ GUIDE. GADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM ERS—U. S. MAIL. STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH, (Ben. 11. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.) Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday. ...8a m Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .<> a m Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .S a m 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. F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk. Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays Ua m Vrrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays— 2am Leave Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays tt a m Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays. ■ < l> lll Ollice No. 2? Broad street, up-stairs over the Cotton Ev hauge. Telephonic connection. j. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr., Gadsden, Ala. AV. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent, Rome, Ga. Oi lEROKEE R AILRO A1). On and a i ter Monday, March ID, 1882, the trains on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday • excepted): PASSENGER TRAIN.—MORNING. Leave Cartcrsvillc Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 a m Arrive at Taylorsville 10:2.) a m Arrive at Rockmart ....... 11:10 am Arrrive at Cedartown 12:05 a m RETURNING. Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm Arrive at Rockmart aw pm Arrive at Taylorsville 3:23 pm Arrive at Stilesboro 3:slpm Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm PASSENGER TRAIN.—EVENING. Leave Cartersville 4:30 p m Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 p m Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm Arrive at Rockmart ti.'OO p m Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m RETURNING. Leave Cedartown 6:00 a in Arrive at ! tor Kmart 6:53 a m Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2gam Arrive at Stilesboro 7:46 a m Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 am HOME RAILROAD. The following is the present passenger sched ule : no. 1. .Leave Rome 6:10 am Arrive at Kingston 8:55 am no. 2. Leave Kingston 9:20 am Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m NO. 3. Leave Rome 4:15 p m Arrive at Kingston 5:30 pm no. 4. Leave Kingston p m Arrive at Rome 6:50 pm no. 5. Leave Rome Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am NO. 6. Leave Kingston Arrive at Home 10:10 am Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun days. Nos. 5 and 6 will rim 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. R. R.. for points south. EBEN HILLY ER, President. .1. A. Smith, G. P. Agent. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGHT PASSENGER —UP. Leave Atlanta 2:40 pm Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm Leave Kiugston 4:55 pm Leave Dalton 6:34 pm Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 pm NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm Leave Dalton 4:32 p m Leave Kingston 6:03 pm Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm DAY PASSENGER—UP. je ive Atlanta 7:00 a m Leave Cartersville 8:55 am Leave Kingston 9:2lam Leave Dalton 10:55 a m Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 am DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 8:00 a m Reave Dalton . . 9:46 am Leave Kingston 11:15 am Leave Cartersville 11:42 a m Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 pm ROME EXPRESS Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm Arrive at Cartersville 6:31 pm Arrive at Kingston 7:00 p m Leave Kingston , . 8:06 am Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 am Arrive at Atlanta . . ■ . 40t37 am Don’t Forget That you can le suited in a clock at J. T. Owens. VOLUME V. SHILOH’S CATARRH REMEDY-a positive cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Mouth. Ask Curry for it. nov23-6m Pric s Baking Powder and flavoring extracts can be had of Cel W ord. The most prominent physicians in the city smoke, and recommend Tansill’s Punch sc. ci gar. Cel Word sells them. Curry lias a splendid lot of strictly pure teas which he is selling cheap. A\ adsworth Martinez & Longman’s paints are guaranteed strictly pure and of greater covering capacity than any other and Curry is selling quantities of it. at Word’s drug store. SHILOH’S CURE WILL immediately relieve Croup, Whooping cough and Bronchitis. Sold by Curry. Good mixed paints at Word’s drug store. Lamp* cheap and nice at Words drug store. S. S. S., (he great blood medicine at Word drug store. One by one the roses fall, jiut “Tansill’s Punch” cigar outlives them all. el Word’s drug store. Purify your blood by' using < Word’s Sarsa parilla. Smoke “Tansill’s Punch,” lea’s finest sc. cigar. Cel Word sells them. The old reliable genuine IE i Windsor soap so diservidly popular with tin lies. For sale by D. AY. Curry. Flower pots from 5 cents up . Curry’s. Hagan’s magnolia balm for id complexion, at D. AY. Curry’s. Curry has just received a large, lot of Lund borg’s Triple extracts. Attention Ladies. Tetlows Swan’s down white and flesh colored at Currry’s. Tetlow’s gossamer white and flesh colored at Curry’s. Cigarettes 10 for 5 cts. 20 for 10 ets. at Curry’s Seltzer AYater on draught at Curry’s. Call and try it. . Sleeplessness is almost always occasioned by some derangement of the stomache and can be cured by taking Curry’s Liver Compound which aids digestion, quiets the nearvs and thereby gives refreshing sleep. Fine cut tobacco at Curry’s. Allane, Woodward & Co.’s Extra select pow ders guaranteed strictly pure for sale by Curry. Toilet soap in endless variety at D. AY. Cur ry’s. Lemon Elixir cures headache, indigestion, dizincss, etc., for sale by David AY. Curry. Price, 50cents per bottle. Curry will sell you an insect gun charged with Persian Insect powders, that will drive off all sorts of insects from your flowers, vegetable and melon vines, for 20 cents. Fruit jars enough for everybody and cheap enough for anybody at Curry’s. AYhy “pot” your beautiful plants in a rickety old unsightly box or keg when you can buy elegant Paulding county Majolica flowerpots, at Curry’s as cheap as dirt. David AY. Curry, Dear Sir: The Persian In sect powder procured of you lias effectually rid my vegetables and melon vines of iiu ects with out the least injury to the plants. Respectfully, etc., June 9th 1883. Jxo. P. Stegall. Curry lias iu stock a large quantity of all sorts of lubricating oils that lie is selling very cheap. A lady who has visited most of the cities north and south says that Curry’s soda water surpas ses any she ever drank. Pure Lard oil the very best thing for machin ery for sale by D. AY. Curry. PILL 9. Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight iu the back, loins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to appose lie has some affection of the kidneys or neighboring or gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are present, as flatulency,uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A moisture, like perspire. i, producing a very disagreeable itching, par ilarly at night after getting warm in bed, is a very common at tendant. Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles yield at once to the application of Dr. Bosan ko’s Pile Remedy, which acts <> ectly upon the parts aflected, absorbing the. amors, allaying the intense itching, and ell" g a permanent cure, where all other remodi we failed. Do not delay until the drain on tli system produces permanent disability, hut try and be cured. rieeaOeenis. Sold by I>. AV. < tv. jaulß-l “IIACKMETACK,” a la-i: and fragrant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cent Sold by Curry. Another lot AVizard Oil, the g! *at “Cure A11,” fust recoived at Cnrry’s drug st re. Do smoke “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent cigar. Cel AVord’s. FREE OF COST. Ry,calling at D. W. Curry’s drug store, you can get a sample bottle of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup free of cost, which will relieve the most obstinate Cough or Cold, and show you what the regular 50 cent size will do. When troubled with Asthma, Brocliitis, Dry, Hacking Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the Throat and try a sample bottle of this medicine. jan!B-ly Madame Loraine’s sure death to bed bugs. For sale by D. W. Curry. If you would rise early take Curry’s Liver Compound. Cel Word respectfully calls attention to his country friends that he can supply them with a cool glass of soda water when in Cartersville. Many imitate, none equal, “Tansill’s Punch” Scent cigar. Cel Word sells them. 2,3, and 5 gallon tilting oil cans at Words drug store. _ ARE Y'OU MADE miserable by indigestion, constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizcr is a positive cure. For sale by Cui ry. Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure, Warner’s Kid ney and Liver Cure, Warner’s Nervine, War ner’s Tonic, and Warner’s Pills, are kept con stantly in stock and sold wholesale and retail at Curry’s drug srore. FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you have a printed guarantee ou every bottle of Shi loh’s Vitalizes It never fails to cure. You can get it at Curry’s. Diamond Dyes, only 10 ceutsper package, a t Word’s drug store. Ice cold soda water and ginger ale, drawn from one of Tufts’ Arctic Apparatus, can be bad at Cel Word’s drug store. Cel Word’s Horse and Cattle Powders give perfect satisfaction. Try them. 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 V7ord is the agent. Pure white lead and linseed oil. Pure mixed paints in any quantity at Cel VV ord’s drug store. THE FREE PRESS. SrEECH OF HON. N. HORNE. Delivered Before the House of Represent atives at Harrisburg, Pa., April 19 and 20, 1883, on the Prohibitory Constituional Amendment. The question now before this house is a question that has called out a great deal of discussion not only here bu t over the entire commonwealth; a question that to a greater or less extent has been agitating the minds of the people not only of this commonwealth, but of the entire country for quite a number of years. Now, it is with reluctance that I take up the time of this house upon this occa sion, but in justice to myself, in justice to the members of the house, and in just ice to the people I represent, I regard it as my bounden duty to giYe some reason for the vote I shall cast upon this ques tion. I appear before you not as an ad vocate for indulgence in strong drink, hut I am here before you, fellow mem bers, as a man who has never in all his life, from his boyhood to the present time, known what it is to be under the influence of intoxicating liquor in any respect whatever. I learned the kind of temperance I believe in when a little child at the feet of my now sainted moth er. There is where I learned it, before there was any temperance agitation; when there was no talk about prohibitory law, when there avus no talk about saying to men what they should eat or drink, what they should be permitted to enjoy, or what they should abstain from. And I have religiously observed the lesson, and I am here to say that I believe in the views expressed by my friend from Franklin tlie other day. Now, my opinion is, that if men are to be saved from intemperarce, and not only from this vice hut from all other vices; if moral suasion and the grace of God will not save men—if it will not save the people of this state and the nation — that nothing will. If I am mistaken, it is an error of the head and not of the heart; hut having investigated and con sidered the question thoroughly before God and man—if those principles will not save a man and will not save the world, I do not believe there is anything else that will save. Rut, Mr. Speaker, there are a few points that have been presented here that I wish to refer to briefly, and the first point I wish to refer to is the question in reference to the rider, or the compensa tion clause, as it is demonstrated. Now, it is admitted by some ot the friends of this measure that it would he right in case this amendment is adopted, that the people who have honestly, in ac cordance with law, invested their money in this business, should be compensated ; hut they claim that this is not the proper way or the proper place to do it. They sav, “Let the amendment be adopted; let it be submitted to the people and rati fied by them, and then let it he a question for the legislature to determine whether or not they shall he paid,” etc. Now, as you are all aware, 1 am not a lawyer, hut I think the question has been clearly answered by one of the. ablest lawyers upon this floor. And I will not refer to that point further, because I think my friend from Franklin has fully covered it; he has shown that the legis lature cannot grant compensation to these men after this amendment is adopted and incorporated in the constitution. But what T wish to call the attention of the members more particularly to in this connection, is simply this: 1 believe in honesty; l have been taught the princi ples of honesty from my earliest days up to the present time, and I trust that in some measure at least I have endeavored to practice it. Now, I claim that if the people of the state are to pay the men en gaged in this business, in the event of the adoption of this amendment, that they ought to know it. It does seem to me that this should commend itself to the judgment of every really honest man upon this question. I repeat this, because I think it is the vital point—it is the point upon which I am ready to stand before the world. If these people are to be compensated for the losses sustained through the adoption of this amendment, then, when the amendment is being submitted to the people for their ratification, this provis ion should go along with it, so that the people, in voting upon the question, may know just exactly what they ace voting for, may know when they are voting to adopt this amendment they are voting to saddle upon themselves, I will not at tempt to estimate the amount, but quite a number of millions of dollars in the way of compensation for losses; and if they are willing then to indorse the prop osition, knowing what is to be the result, well and good. It is right for the major ity to say that they will do so. But let the question be squarely submitted; do not attempt to pass the measure by false pretenses. For I claim that if we pass this amendment without the indemnity clause, and then attempt to make the people pnv the damages which may arise from its passage, we have done this thing by false pretenses—we have been sailing under false colors, and the people will have been most grossly and shamefully deceived. Again, we are told by the friends of this measure that because a great many people have petitioned this legislature for the passage of this amendment that it is the duty of this legislature to at once say, all right. A number of petitions have been sent here, and it is our duty, in view of that, to submit the amendment to the people. Now, Mr. Speaker, let us see what the constitution says upon that question: “Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the sen ate or house of representatives, and if the the members elected to each house, such same shall be agreed to by a majority of CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 12. 1883, amendment or amendments,” etc. Now, then, there is nothing compulsory in the constitution at all; they may be proposed. Now, I desire to define my position as clearly as possible upon this point. While 1 am willing to concede to my friends who are advocating this measure honesty of purpose, l claim the same at their hands. I know that a great many of these peo ple who have sent in petitions here, who have gone around through the country and held meetings, who have got the wo men and children at these meetings to sign their names to a piece of paper, and have sent them to Harrisburg, the capital of the great state of Pennsylvania, I ad mit that they are honest and sincere—at least a great many of them are. Ido not believe that they all are, but I think that they are mistaken in the mothod they have taken to reach the desired end. Now, there is so much that I would like to say upon this question, that I am free to confess that in looking oyer the ground —the wide view that opens up before the vision of my mind, I scarcely know how, in the short time allowed me to pick up the fragments as I go along, to present them to the house. I was about to say this: I wish to show what 1 believe to he the duty of tlie legislature in regard to its action upon this subject, and the petitions that have been presented here. I hold that avo are sent here by the people of our several constituencies to represent them, and to pass laws that we believe in our honest judgment to be for the welfare and best interests of the peo ple of the state. And I hold that as sworn members of this legislature, if petitions are sent here for any purpose whatever, I care not what tlie purpose may be, it is our duty to investigate the subject; it is our duty to look over the ground, and if we honestly believe in this case that it is for the best interests of the scate, we ought to vote to submit this question to the people; hut if we honestly and con scientiously believe that it is not advisa ble that this proposition should not be submitted, then I say it is our duty to act accordingly. If the advocates of this measure con scientiously and honestly believe that this proposition should be submitted to the people, they are right in voting that it should he submitted, hut those who take a contrary view honestly and conscientiously are entitled to just as much credit for honesty and integrity as the friends of this measure. Now, I de sire to say a few words more in reference to these petitions. They have been tell ing us that we should respect the sacred right of petition, and that no man who believes in true republicanism or democ racy, for it is all the same thing, would attempt, in view of the petitions that have been sent there, to deny the people this right". " Now, it is true that there have been a great many petitions presented, and J will concede that a majority of those who have petitioned are honest in their con victions; I would he the last to impugn their motives; hut I ask for myself and for those who think as I do the same con sideration—the same concession of hon esty of purpose. This is a question in re gard to which we cannot all see alike. We may all agree with regard to the de sirability of accomplishing a certain end, but we cannot see alike frequently in re gard to the best means to be employed in order to secure the desired result. Now, let us look candidly at this question of prohibition for a moment. Does the en actment of prohibitory laws really pro hibit? Now, in the first place, to my mind we start out here with a very great difficulty with regard to this question of prohibition of the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors. If this was an ar ticle which was absolutely of no use; if it was something that could be entirely dispensed with and wiped out, it would make a difference; but we propose that they shall still be manufactured and still sold for other purposes than as a bever age, and that their sale and manufacture for those purposes shall be regulated by, law, as it is at present to a certain extent. Now, this being the case, upon this ground is based the fact that prohibitory laws do not really prohibit. Now, the wise man is always governed by the his tory of the past. Prohibitory laws have been in existence in several states in this Union for a number of years \ have they prohibited? Go to the state of Maine, where prohibitory laws have been in ex istence for quite a number of years. Do those prohibitory laws prohibit in that state? I traveled with a gentleman from that state only three weeks ago, and he told me that in all the towns of Maine there is more drunkenness to-day than there is where licenses exist—where the custom is to license and the liquor busi ness is engaged in under the regulation and restriction of the license laws of the different states. Now, if under these conditions —after the law has been tested for so long and it has not prohibited, it is clear proof that prohibitory laws do not answer the end for which they are de signed—they do not prohibit the sale nor the moderate or even the excessive drink ing of intoxicating liquors. Now, take the state of Kansas. In re gard to that state I desire to read a few statistics taken from the message of the governor of that state. lie calls attention to the question of the sale in the state and the places where it is sold. During the last year of license the United States rev enue office of Kansas issued one thousand one hundred and thirty-two permits to sell intoxicating liquors or one to eight hundred and seventy-nine persons, while in the first year of prohibition there were issued one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight permits, an increase of fifty-eight per cent., while in the first forty-live days of the second year there were issued sixteen more permits than during the whole last year of license. In Lawrence, Kan., in ISBO, there were one hundred and thirty-eight arrests for drunkenness, in 1882, under prohibition, one hundred and forty-five. In Atchison, ISBO, four hundred and sixty-two, in ISB2, five hundred and seventy-eight. In Topeka, in 1880, seven hundred and eight, in 1882, nine hundred and sixty five. In Leavenworth, in 1880, one hun dred and seventy, in 1882, three hundred and forty-four; thus the increase of ar rests in these four towns under two years of prohibition is in Lawrence five and seven one-hundredths percent.; in Atch ison, twenty-live and two-one hundredths per cent.; in Topeka, thirty-six and twenty-nine one-hundredtlis percent.; and in Leavenworth, eighty-three and eighty-nineone-hundredthsper cent. This is the way the prohibitory law seems to operate in Kansas. Therefore, I repeat, that prohitorv laws do not ac complish the purpose for which they are designed. Now, let us look at the ques tion as to how it would operate in our own state. Won id it stop the sale of intoxicating liquors? This question of prohibition or anti-prohibition is a ques tion that has engaged the ablest minds qf the country, and they have been divided upon its wisdom and practicability. That is a point upon which good men have differed. Now, men claim generally that they have a right to choose what they shall eat, and what they shall drink, and what they shall wear. Now, lam aware that it is claimed by those who advocate this amendment that they are not eon troling men in this respect; but when you say an article shall not be man ufactured or sold for drinking purposes, you virtually say that men shall not drink that article. Now, without going into the merits or demerits of drinking, I repeat that men think they have a right of choice in this matter, and when by legislative enact ment you attempt to control them, they think they are interfered with in their indefeasible rights, and instead of yield ing they are jlhen the more determined to have*the forbidden fruit at all hazards, and instead of drinking less they drink more. Now, this amendment proposes to abol ish an evil. That is its intention. If I believed it Mould subserve the purpose for which it was designed I would sup port it with all my heart; hut I do not believe it will have that effect. After having looked over tlie question in all its details I can honestly say that I do not believe it will have the desired effect. Now, sir, this world is full of evil. We all know that, and great Creator leaves every man to the freedom of liis own choice, and then holds him respons ible for the exercise of that choice, and if a man drinks to excess, abusing this privilege, he alone is respensihle. The law cannot prohibit crime, all that it can do is to punish the M-rong-doer. All that we can do is to pass the law carry ing with it certain penalties for the pun ishment of the violator. That is the pie rogative of law, as 1 understand it—to punish wrong-doers in every department, l care not of what nature the oftense may consist. There is one question to which I desire to refer, and that; is the .sources from which these petitions come. It has been said that they come from Lite churches, and that the churches of the land are asking for the passage of this amendment. Now, it is a fact, which I presume no one will call in question, that the members of churches when they join the church do not sacrifice or part with any of their rigths as independent citizens of the commonwealth. They have their right to come here with petitions; but, sir, I question the right of conferences, of synods and of ecclesiastical bodies as sembled in their official capacity to pass resolutions and say: We represent so many churches and so many members, as though every member of the church was under the complete and entire control of the clergy, and I must be permitted to say that in doing so, they are assuming possibly a little more than prudence would dictate. Asa free American citi zen and member of the church I honor the clergy, but while I esteem and revere them as much as any man in this com menwealth, yet when they assume to speak for the entire membership of the churches whose pastors they are, on questions of public policy, it does seem to me that it is at least possible they may be assuming too much. But again, with reference to this point. It is asserted that the churches, as churches, arc asking for this amendment, and that, therefore, it ought to be grant ed —this amendment that proposed to mitigate and wipe out the miseries and evils of intemperance. Now, I repeat, that I venerate and honor the ministers and churches of this land; but when the church comes here as a church and asks for the passage of this amendment, I think they are making a mistake. To me, sir, it is humiliating. I believe in the church and its glorious mission to save men. I believe in the gospel and in the power of the church through the gospel to save men, yea, to save to the ut termost. The church is not a failure, but is destined to success in its grand mis sion ; and in this I am taking the text which I announced yesterday, and my experience has taught me that hundreds have been rescued by the power of mor al suasion and the gospel of the grace of God; but I hayc never known a man to be saved by coercive measures; I have never known a man to be saved by mak ing it compulsory that lie should not eat or drink this or that. But the grace of God can save a man— the power of moral suasion, the power of truth, is able to save men from the vice of intemperance and all other evils. Therefore, 1 think, Mr. Speaker, that the church makes a mistake when, as a botlj', thej come here and ask us to vote for the passage of this amendment, thus virtually acknowledging the inefficiency of the gospel to save. Xow, I say I will go as far as any of the advocates of this measure in endeav oring to save men; but I say it cannot be done by the passage of a constitutional amendment of this kind. But the sup porters of this measure say we must re move the temptation. I wish it could be accomplished, but am satisfied it cannot be done. The best Book in the world says not blessed is the man from whom you remove evil or temptations, but “Blessed is the man who endureth temptation, for vlien he is tried he shall receive the crown which the Lord has promised to them that love him.” Xow, I would go to the man in the gutter and lift him up. I would not say to him, “Come, poor fellow, we have got a constitutional amendment that will re move temptation,” but I would say, “Stand up in the dignity of manhood which God has given you the will to as sert ; assert it in the name of the Lord and be a man ; show yourself a man be fore the world, resit the devil, and he will flee from you.” When, oh when, do you ask me, when will all evil, in cluding intemperance, be banished from the world ? I say, not by passing pro hibitory amendments; not by passing prohibitory law's. Xo, no, but by the onward march of truth, and light, and gospel salvation. That is the way the world is to be saved, and that is thewwar,j r , I believe, that this, and all evil is going to be removed, and the world saved. I have faith that the stone that was cut out of the mountain without hands, will roll on until it fills the whole earth, when the Lord’s house shall be estab lished upon the top of the mountains, and all nations shall flow unto it, and the light of millennial glory shall hurst upon this world. And o’er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign. BOSTON LETTISH. A Correspondent Takes a Turn of Miml Both Devout and Patriotic. Boston, June 30, 1883. To the Editor of The Free Press: Being of a turn of mind both devout and patriotic, it struck me that a very proper way to combine the two woidd be to attend the divine service at the little church on Salem street immortalized by Longfellow in “Paul Revere’s Ride.” So thus impressed, I started forth one Sunday morning to that by no means aristocratic portion of the city. It is not larger than tiie common little country church you see anywhere, but it is built of stone and has an old-time, substantial respectabilitj' truly impressive.* Enter ing it, you find the tiny window-panes, the high, old-fashioned box pews, the clock, whose age, like that of a maiden lady, no one can find out, the quaint old organ, built in 1758, and the high gallery in which the negroes sat. There, too, is the solid silver communion service, from which the sacred emblems have been ta ken for nearly a century and a half (pre sented by George III), the copy of the Scriptures known as the “Vinegar Bi ble,” from the misprint intended for yineyard, from which tire majesty’s name was erased after the revolution. After services, with fear and trembling, I climbed the rickety wooden stairs with stealthy tread. I assure you, John Xew man or anybody else who went up those dark, uncanny flights, deseryed to be immortalized in poetry and given a pen sion beside. A small boy, who lived in the vicinity, seemed intent on suicide, so rapidly did he mount the steps and so recklessly step across the small square at the top, where the stairs end. It seems strange to me how near boys always are to death’s door that they can be so cheer ful. I verily believe a boy enjojs having his arm blown off, or his eye put out, or his neck broken. It is agony on that ac count to be near a youth of the male sex, The old South Church is of value to any one who is interested in Adam, or Moth er Goose, or the Fourth of July, or Mrs. Washington’s slippers. It is a source of much regret that the original was lack ing in the honesty of purpose and integ rity of character shown in his descend ants, John Quincy and Charles Francis. Adam and Eve are here represented in the costume of one hundred and forty years ago. done in silk embroidery. Ad am, with a cane in his left hand, is seat ed under an oak caressing a peculiar quadruped with sinister looking glass eyes, while Eve, in a very tight-waisted dress, with a full skirt, is sitting beneath a cherry tree. Mother Goose was not a myth, but the wife of Isaac Goose, who lived in Pudding Lane, now known by the more aristoertic title of Devonshire street. She was a poetess, who combined the wisdom of Shakespeare with the im agery of Spenser, a good house-keeper, an exemplary mother-in-law, and lived nearly a hundred years. Governor'Butler is still pressing his little sad face against the pane to see if any light is shining to guide him to the White House; but it doesn’t shine “worth a cent,” as the western boy saith. He has hoped to gain political capital by the Tewksbury investigation, but he has failed utterly. Dr. Tourjee has bought the big organ in Music Hall, and after its enlargement to number 151 stops, it will be placed in the new hall in connection with the Home building. George E. Whiting, of the Cincinnati conservatory, will be here next year to make it “talk,” and some superb organ music is anticipated. Ray. If you want a first class lot of brick, enquire of Harris Best. 17tf. KATES or ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates #f One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT KATES. Spack. 1 mo. 8 mos. tf mos. I year. One inch, $2 SO $5 00 $7 SO $lO 00 Two inches, 3 75 7 50 10 00 IS 00 Three inches, 500 10 00 12 50 20 00 Four inches, 800 12 50 15 00 2> 0o Fourth column 7 50 15 00 20 00 30 00 Half column, 11 00 20 00 40 00 00 00 One column, 15 00 30 00 00 Qo 100 NUMBER 51. A PRINTERS PROTEST. In the interest of accuracy the follow ing protest and plea is commended to the world of scribblers Oil. why do people form such a’s and finish of such b’s? Why do they make such crooked c’s and such unnatural d’s? Why do they form such shockinge’s and "s with ague fits? Their g’s and h’s are too much for any printer's wits. What a hurhatn eye is without sight is an i with out a dot; J’s arc such curious, crooked things, we recog nize them not. K’s ought to stand tor kindness, hut Comes iu well for kick. L*s and m's are mischievous, while n’s just raise Old Nick. O's arc rarely closed at all, and p’s are shaggy things. Q’s might as well be spider legs, and r's mosquito wiugs. Some people make a passing s who never cross at: Others use the self-same strokes to form a u or v. W’s get strangely mixed; x’s seem on a spree. Yis a skeleton on wires; zounds how we rave at e! And yet, just think what typos get from drivers of the quill! They call us such a careless set, and scribble on at will. Well, they will scribble, and we must rave aud vainly try to please. Till they go back to school and learn to make their a b c*s. ; 1 * “ARM HOLT.” An article in the Cartersville American of last week under the above caption at tracted my attention. I desire, Mr. Ed itor, through your columns, to call the attention of all in this community, young and old, male and female, but more espe cially the girls themselves and their mothers, to this manifestly wrong and immodest practice. Xo matter how this custom originated, that cannot affect it morally. Xow. to deal plainly with the matter, we will enquire into the mode, the way of this “fashion” of walking; for, unfortunately, it is now so preva lent as to be an almost universal custom. When the young man walks with his female companion, instead of her taking his arm, that is, resting her right hand lightly upon his left arm, according to the time-honored and universally ap proved method, which is entirely unob jectionable and also Very proper, indeed, indispensable to the reauireme.nts of so ciety, he passes his left arm under her right and grasps her wrist, or sometimes holding her hand with lingers dove-tail ed, thus unavoidably, drawing their bod ies very closely together. Is anything more than a bare description of this im pudent and indecent habit necessary to convince anyone of its immoral tenden cy ? Can a man and a woman get that close together and continue so for any lentil of time without experiencing that perfect flood-tide of pleasurable emo tions that spring from natural sexual attraction rushing over them? Depend upon it, whenever any habit or even oc casional practice under the sanction of fashion that excites these emotions is indulged in, it is not only immoral and immodest in those who do it, but dan gerous to the well-being of the commu nity where it obtains. These practices are encouraged b/ fast young men—bold, bad young men—for the very reason that these dangerously pleasant emotions are thereby excited. Society is a structure upon moral found ations. A fashion, or, more properly speaking, the fashion, is a practice or practices that most universally obtain in society. “The fashion” is “set” by people, it is sadly true, who are contin ually seeking some means under which to cloak their licentious and immoral practices, which means become allowa ble because it is “the fashion” —thinking thus to elude the frown of virtuous peo ple and escape social ostracism. And custom they know “rules all fools with a rod of iron and makes even wise men ti enable.” Now, don’t let anybody Seek to justify, or rather to excuse, this habit of young people holding arms and hands while walking under the plea that it is the fashion. Fashion is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. In this case it is so manifestly wrong, so indisputably im modest, so dangerously immoral in its tendencies, that every sound moralist, man or woman, condemns it, and the saving, conserving element of society demands its discontinuance forever. You may say—those of you who not only do not disapprove of this habit, but engage in the practice of it —that we who do ob ject to it are making “much ado about nothing,” and quote the old maxims, “evil to him that evil thinks,” and “to the pure all things are pure,” and re quest us to hold our peace; but so long as it is possible for evil to contaminate good, and so long as purity is corruptible by contact with impurity, it will remain necessary for virtue and morality to not only preach but practice their principles tor the salt to exert its savor. The salt of the earth is the pure and virtuous ele ment of society. To this element of our community this article is addressed and commended for consideration by one who knows from experience and an excellent opportunity for observation that this habit herein condemned and attacked is strictly liable to the objections taken against it, particularly in its dangerous tendencies. Escort. ♦ • From Frank L. Haralson, State Libra rian. Atlanta, Ga., January 14, 1880. — Messrs. Hutchison & Bro: I have tested your Neuralgme, both on myself and on others, and have found it to be all that is claimed —a specific for neuralgia and headache. I recommend it to a suffering public. Yours truly, Frank L. Haralson. General George B. McClellan has bf come the American manager of one of the oldest English insurance companies.