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BATES of SUBSCRIPTION. o nt > copv one year. 12 oo lino copy three months 50 ' * CLUB BATHS. (rive copies one year, $ 8 75 Ten copies cue year, 15 00 Twenty copies one year, 25 00 t.',ftv conies one year, ............ 60 00 "To l>e paid for invariably in advance. V!1 orders for t he paper must be addresswl to THE FREE PRESS, Cartersvllle, Ga. 1 |{() I' 1 KSSI ON A L GA Rl>S. It. 10. CASON, dentist, Oflice over Curry;* , I rug store, fartersvllie, K. O. GRAHAM. OKAHAM & GRAHAM, Attorneys, Solicitors anil Counselors at Law, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Oi. wu K IN THE COURT HOUSE. WILL v * H ;.11 the courts of Bartow county, pr .rL>r courts of northwestern Georgia, and lU cSuSeme and Federal courts at Atlanta. Ga. anil —— SHELBY ATTAWAY, at O K FY"AT *I J -A- "W, \\ 7"ILL PR ACTICE IS ALL THE COURTS M. B. 8ta,.11, llnk Block. _ GKO RGB H. JOHNSON, ATTo It N KV- A r r -LA w , CARIERS VILLE, GA. /’vvkk'R West Side, Public Square. 1 Will practice in all the Courts. K. W. MVBPHKY, a r tohney-at- CARTERSVELLE, GA. ,r kick fnl!' 1 stairs) in the briek building, r -i.iM-of Main A Erwin streets. julyla. H NBCU ,J. J. CONNER. W.J. NEEL. NEEL, CONNER * NEEL, A r l' i O RNKYS-AT-LAW CARTERSVILLE, GA. ~rI U PRACTICE IS ALL THE COURTS \V of this state. Litigated cases made a penalty. Prompt attention given to all business -■iSKI northeast corner of courthouse. febO M. L. JOHNSON. A V ORN Y- AT*LAW CA 11 I'K RSVILLE, G EOltG IA, Onice in the brick house next to Roberts’ very stables. Hours from B>i a. m. to4* p. m. AU business poomptly attended to. a p 1-251 _ - jgy, |{. K. LUMPKIN, A 'C T ORNFiIt -A T - L.A W , ROME. GA. / COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. OFFICE L j m rear of l’rintup, Bros. A Cos. 8 Lank. T. W. MILNER. J* w • IIARRIS.JR. MILNER A HARRIS, A TORN K 1 YS - A r -U -IjA W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Ollice on West Main Street. julylS JOHN U. WIKLE. no GLASS WIKLK. WIKLE & WIKLE, A C T ORN PC Y S-A A W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Ollice in court bouse. Douglas W ikle will give special attention to collections. KOBKRT It. TKIPPK, A x V O I t N" 3G Y -A T - L A W . ATLANTA, GA. S’o. 8 Broad Street, up-stairs. Ollice No.-12 Grant Building. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS. Business receives prompt attention. Col lections a specialty. I will attend the superior court of Bartow county, Ga., and in connection with Mr. J. M. Neel, will tiuish the unlluished business of Trippe A Neel and will also attend o any new business that may lie offered, sepfl ALBERT S. JOHNSON, A T T O It INT EY-AT-LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. /AFFILE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. V/ Will practice in all the Courts. Business will receive prompt attention. TRAVELERS* GUIDE. _ GADSDEN AND BED LINE STEAM* ERS—U. S. MAIL. STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH, (B e n. 11. Elliott. Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.) Luovts Rome every Tuesday and Friday. ...Bam Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, .b a m Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m Arrive at Romo Thursday and Sunday 7 p m Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev ery Saturday morning. STEAMER GADSDEN. K 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.... 9am Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays .7pm Otlice No. 27 Dread street, up-stairs over the Cotton Exchange. Telcuhomc connection. J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.. Gadsden, Ala. W. T. SMITH, Geu’i Agent, Rome, Ga. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Monday, March 19,1882, the trains % i tlii- Road will run daily as Hollows (Sunday excepted): PASS ENG K R T RAIN .—MORN IN G. L ;ave Cartersville a m Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 am Arrive at Taylorsville 19:25 am Arrive at Uoekmart 11:10 a m Arrrive at Cedartown ...... 12.05 am RETURNING. Leave Cedartown 2:05 pm Arrive at Rockmart 2:58 pm Arrive at Taylorsville ...... 8:38 pm Arrive at Stileslioro 3:51 p m Arrive at Cartersville 4:25 pm 1* ASS ENG Elt TR AIN.—E VENIN G. Leave Cartersville 4:80 pm Arrive at Stilesboro 5:04 pm Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm Arrive at Rockmart 0:00 p m Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m RETU USING. Leave Cedartown 6:00 am Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 am Arrive at Taylorsville 7:2g aui Arrive at Suleshoro 7:46 am Arrive at 1 aru rsville 8:20 a m ROME RAILROAD. The following is the present passenger sched ule: no. 1. Leave Rome 6:10 am Arrive at Kingston ....... 8:65 am NO. 2. Leave Kingston 9:20 am Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m NO. 3. Leave Rome pm Arri ye at Kingston ....... 5:30 p m NO. 4. Leave Kingston 5:55 pm Arrive ivt Rome pm no. 5. Leave Rome 8:00 am Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am no. 6. Leave Kingston 9:20 am Arrive at Rome 10:10 am 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 anil Chattanooga. No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.. Va. & Ga. 11. R.. for points south. EIIEN HILLYER, President. J, A.SMiTfi, 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 Kingston 4:sspra Leave Dalton 6:84 pm Arrive at Chattanooga 8:00 p m NIGHT PASSKNGKR— DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 2:55 p m Leave Dalton 4:32 p m Leave Kingston 6:03 pm Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm DAY PASSKNGKR—UP. . jeave Atlanta . 7:00 a m Leave Cartersville 8:56 am Leave Kingston 9:21 a m Leave Dalton .10:60 am Arrive at Chattanooga 12:80 a m DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 8:00 am Leave Dalton 9:46 am Leave Kingston 11:15 a m Leave Cartersvillo 11:42 am Arrive at Atlanta 1 :40 p m , ROME EXPRESS Leave Atlanta 4:80 pm Arrive at Cartersville 6:3lpm Arrive at Kingston 7:00 pm Leave Kingston 8:06 am Arrive at Cartersville 8:82 am Arrive at Atlanta 10:37 am VOLUME VI. Listen Ladies. Bridal Boquet, Upper Ten, Verbena, Night Blooming Cereus, Ess. Boyuet, Honey Suckle, Ocean Spray, West End Stephanotis, Patchonly, W bite Rose If rangipani, in fact all of Lunborg'* favorite triple extracts at l). W. Carry’s. Seltzer water possessing the same medicinal properties as the famous Seltzer water of Ger many, on draught at Curry’s. Curry’s Dysentery Remedy is a never failing enre for diarrheas, dysentery and all bowel com plaints. Try and lie convinced. Curry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentary specilic is just what its name in plies and cures promptly all derangements of the bowels, 25 cents, at headquarters. Curry will sell you au insect gun filled with Persian Insect Powder that will kill bugs and fleas, and drive the flies from your house, for 25 cents. “If you catch ’em shoot ’em.” Go to Curry’s and get an Insect Gun filled with pow ders that kills all insects with which it comes in contact. Priee 25 cents. Ice cold Soda Water and Ginger ale still on hand at Word’s drug store. ARE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion, constipation, tUnainoeo, 1000 of appetite, yellow skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizer 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 ami retail at Curry’s drug srorc. FOR DYSPEPSIA au l Liver Complaint, you have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shi loh’s Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. You can get it at Curry’s. Remember that M. F. Word sells jelly glasses away down. M. F. Word will sell you a p Lit bottle of Cas cara Bitters for 75 cents. They aro very good. Bull Durham cigarettes, five and ten cen*s packages at D. W. Curry’s. 300 lbs. turnip seeds of every known variety fo.t sale cheap by David W. Curry Wadsworth Martinez & Longman’s paints are guaranteed strictly pure and of greater covering capacity than any other and Curry is selling quantities of it. The demand for Curry’s Liver Compound is increasing. A prominent merchant of Carters ville says a bottle or two of it has cured him of a disordered liver of two years standing. Blue stone by the pound or barrel at Curry’s. Call and get what you need cheaper than you can possibly buy it elsewhere. Lorinz Elite Face Powder white, flesh and l. ush for sale by D. W. Curry. Swan’s Dowu for the complexion at D. \f. Curry’s. Herbine—Wliat is it? Ask M. F. Word. 2,000 pounds Blue Stone at D. W. Curry’s Ladies. Curry keeps Tetlow’s Gossamer, Curry has another beautiful lot of lamps, which lie is selling at astonishingly low prices. Cal and see them. Tooth brushes at any price from 5 cents up at D. W. Curry’s. Curry will sell you 3 cakes of good toilet soap and a fine pocket haudkercluof for 25c. and give j ou a chromo. Preserve your teeth by using Sozodont. Curry keeps PILES. Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight in the back, loius and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has some affection of the kidneys or neighboring or gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are present, as flatulency,uneasinessof the stomach, etc. A moisture, like perspiration, producing a very disagreeable itching, particularly 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 directly upon the parts affected, absorbing the tumors, allaying the intense itching, aud effecting a permaueut cure, where all other remedies have failed. Do not delay until the drain on the system produces permanent disability, but try it and be cured, rice 50 cenis. Sold by D. W. Curry. janlS-1 “HACKMETACK,” a lasting and fragrant perfume. Price 25 aud 50 cents. Sold by Curry. Another lot Wizard Oil, the great “Cure All,” fust received at Curry’s drug store. FREE OF COST. By,-calling at I). W. Curry’s drug store, you can get a sample bottle of Dr. liosauko’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, Brochitie, Dry, Hacking Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the Throat and Lvga, try a sample bottle of this medicine. janlß-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. From Jolm P. Stegall. David IT. Curry. —Dear Sir: The Persian Insect Powder procured of you has effectually, rid my vegetables and melon vines of insects, without the least injury to the plants. Respectfully, June 9,1883. John P. Stegall. Fruit jars, all standard kinds, quart and half gallon, for sale cheap by D. W. Carry. Puff nothing but “Tunsell’s Puueh” 5 cent ci gars, at Word’s drug store. Jelly glasses xcry cheap at Word’s drug store. The people have learned that Wadsworth, Martinez and Longman’s paint has so much greater covering capacity than any other sold, that they all go to Curry’s for it. Glass oil cans very cheap ai Word’s drug store. Curry has a spleudid lot of strictly pure teas which he is selling cheap. Peck’s bad boy and his pa will be in the city last of this week. Word’s drug store. Curry’s Liver Compound is endorsed by many of the best citizens of this and adjoining coun WHY WILL YOU cougn wiien Shiloh’s Cure will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts., 50 cts. and |l. Euquire for it at Curry’s. nov23-8m Peck’s bad boy and his pa will put in au ap pearance last of this week aud will stop with M. F. Word. “Tansell’s Punch” 5 cent cigar leads the van. Only to be had from M. F. Word. S. S. S. always on hand at Word’s drug store. Iron Tonic Bitters at Word’s drug store. THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of Bourbon, Ind., says: “Both myself and wife owe our lives oShiloh’s Gins'.im.ition Cure.” Curry h i Take S. S. S. for all blood diseases in the spring ° the year. CclWord sells Curry has just opened a fresh supply of l ine Cut tobacco, the finest ever sold in Cartersville THE FREE PRESS. CIVIL RIGHTS. The Supreme Court Declares tlie Bill to be Unconstitutional. Washington, October 15.—The most important decision rendered by the su preme court of the United States to-day was that in the live cases commonly known as the civil rights cases, which were submitted to the court on printed arguments about a year ago. The titles of these cases, and the states from which they came, are as follows: No. 1. The United States against Murray Stan ley, from the United States circuit court for the district of Kansas. No. 2. The United States against Michael Ry an, from the United States circuit court for the district of California. No. 3. The United States against Samuel Nich ols, from the United States circuit court for the western district of Missoirri. No. 26. The United States against Samuel D. Singleton, from the United States circuit court, for the southern district of New York. No. 28. Richard A. Robinson and wife against the Memphis and Charleston railroad company, from the United States circuit court for the dis trict of Tennessee. These cases were all based on the first and second sections of the civil rights act of 1875, and were respectively prose cutions under that act for not admitting certain colored persons to equal accom modations and privileges in inns or ho tels, in railroad cars and in theatres. THE DEFENSE SET UP. The defense set up in every case was the alleged unconstitutionality of the law. The first and second sections of the act, which were the parts directly in controversy, are as follows: Section 1. That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall he entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public convey ances on land and water, theatres and other places of public amusements, sub ject only to the conditions and limita tions established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous conditions of servitude. Second section provides that any per son who violates the first section shall be liable to a forfeit of five hundred dollars for each oftense, to be recovered in civil action, and also to a penalty of from five hundred to one thousand dollars fine, or imprisonment from thirty days to one year, to be enforced in criminal prosecu tion. Extensive jurisdiction is given to the district and circuit courts of the United States in the cases arising under this law. The rights and privileges claimed by and denied to colored persons in these cases were full and equal accom modations in hotels, in ladies’ cars on railroads, and in the dress circles in the atres. THE HOLDING OF THE COURT. The court, in a lone and carefully pre pared opinion by Justice Bradley, holds Ist, that congress had no constitutional authority to pass the sections in question under either the 13th or 14th amendment of the constitution; 2d, that the 14th amendment is prohibitory upon the states only, and that the legislation au thorized to be adopted by congress for enforcing that amendment, is not direct legislation on matters respecting which the states are prohibited from making or enforcing certain laws or doing certain acts, but is corrective legislation neces saiy or proper for counteracting and re dressing the effect of such laws or acts. That in forbidding the states, for exam ple, to deprive any person of life, lib erty or property, without due process of law, aud giving congress power to en force prohibition, it vas not intended to give congress power to provide due pro cess of law for the protection of life, lib erty and property, which would embrace almost all subjects of legislation, but to provide modes of redress for counteract ing the operation and effect of state laws obnoxious to prohibition. Third, that the 13th amendment gives no power to congress to pass the section referred to, because Hint amendment relates only to slavery and involuntary servitude which it abolishes, and gives congress power to pass laws for its enforcement; that this power only extends to the subject matter of the amendment itself, namely, slavery and involuntary servitude, and the ne cessary incident and consequences of these conditions; that it has nothing to do with different races or colors, but only refers to slavery, the legal equality of the different races and classes of citizens being provided for in the fourteenth amendment, which prohibits the states from doing anything to interlere with such equality; that it is no infringement of the thirteenth amendment to refuse to any person the equal accommodations and privileges of an inn or place of pub lic entertainment, however it may be vi olative of his legal rights; that it imposes upon him no badge of slavery or invol untary servitude, which imply some part of subjection of one person to another and incapacity incidental thereto, such as inability to hold property, to make con tracts, to be parties in court, etc., and that of the original civil rights act, which abolished these incapacities might be supported by the 13th amendment. It docs not, therefore, follow that the act of 1875 can be supported by it. Fourth, that this decision affects only the validity of the law in the states, not in the terri tories or the district of Columbia, where the legislative power of congress is un limited, and it does not undertake to de cide what congress might or might not do, under the power to regulate com merce with foreign nations, and amongst the several states, the law not being drawn with any such view. Fifth, that, therefore, it is the opinion of the court that the first and second sections of the act of congress of March Ist, 1875, enti tled “an act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights,” are unconstitu- CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 25, 1883. tional and void, and judgment should he rendered accordingly. JUDGE II Alt LAX’S DISSENT. At the conclusion of the reading of Judge Bradley’s opinion, which occupied more than an hour, Justice Harlan said that under ordinary circumstances and in ordinary cases he should hesitate to set up his individual opinion in opposi tion to that of his eight colleagues, hut, in view of what he thought the people of this country wished to accomplish, what they tried to accomplish, and what they believed they had accomplished, by means of this legislation, he must express his dissent from the opinion of the court. He has not had time since hearing that opinion to prepare a statement of the grounds of his dissent, but he should prepare and file one as soon as possible. In the meantime, he desired to put upon record this expression of his individual judgment. ANOTHER WAR CASE. Another interesting case, involving war legislation, was also decided by the supreme court to-da}', namely, the United States against Edward T. Gale and Wil liam S. Gibson, which was brought here on certificate division from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Florida. This was a suit against the supervisor and clerk of election district No. 8, in Marion county, Fla., on the oc casion of tlie election of congressional representatives in IS7B. The indictment charged the defendants with misconduct as election officers, in stuffing the ballot box with fraudulent tickets, and abstract ing tickets which had been voted. The defense was that sections 5512 and 5515 of tlie revised statutes, upon which the indictment was based, and section 320, under which was chosen the grand jury by which the indictment was found, were unconstitutional and void. r ihe court disposes of the first part of the de fense very brieflj r , by saying the question of the validity of sections 5512 and 5515 has already been decided by this court in the case of Siebald and Clarke, 100 United States, 371-309, and was determined in favor of their validity. Section 820, upon which the second part of the defense was based, contains the statement of causes for disqualification and challenge of grand and petit jurors in the courts of the United States as follows: “Without duress and coercion, to have taken up arms or to have joined any insurrection or rebellion against the United States; to have had adhered to any insurrection or rebellion, giving it aid and comfort,” etc. In empanelling the grand jury which found the indictment against the defend ant, four persons otherwise competent were excluded from the panel for the causes mentioned in this action. The court, after a review of the circumstances, as shown by the record, declines to de cide whether section 820 is valid or not, for the reason that the objection to the constitution of the grand jury under that section was not raised in due time. A HISTORY OF THE LAW. The court, however, gives a brief his tory of this law, excluding from juries persons who took part in the late insur rection, and comments upon it as fol lows : “It may be proper to call attention to the singular position of this section, (sec tion 820.) It was originally enacted as section 1 of an act passed June 17th, 18G2, entitled “an act defining the differ ent causes of challenge, and prescribing an additional oath for grand and petit ju rors in United States courts. 12 Statutes, 430.” At that time—lß62—it was no doubt a very proper and necessary law, but after the rehabilitation of the insur gent states, the proclamation of a general amnesty and the adoption of the four teenth amendment, guaranteeing equal rights to all citizens of the United States there would seem to have been no just reason for a continuance of the law, especially as by far the largest portion of the citizens in the states lately in rebel lion would be disqualified under it. Ac cordingly, by the fifth section of the act commonly called the enforcement act, passed April 20, IS7I, 17th statute, 15th congress, after providing that in prosecu tions under that act no person should be a grand or petit juror who should, in the judgment of court, be in complicity with any combination or conspiracy punisha ble by tile provision thereof repealed. The said first section of the act of 18G2 and the law remained in this state until the adoption of the revised statutes. For some unexplained reason the revisers imported the section back again into the revised statutes as section 820, although it had not been in force for more than two years. It is probable that the fact of its repeal was overlooked by congress when the revision was adopted, and it is to be hoped that their attention will be called to it. THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED. The questions certified by the court be low, are answered by this court as fol lows : “It is the opinion of this court, and it so decides, that the question whether 5,512 and 5,515 of the the revised statutes of the United States are repugnant to and in violation of the constitution of the United States, should be answered in the negative, that the question as to the va lidity of section 820 of said revised stat utes is unnecessary to .be decided, inas much as objection to the constitution of the grand jury, under that section, was not raised in due time, and that the re maining question, namely, whether the judgment of this court could be rendered against the defendants on an indictment found by a grand jury empanelled and sworn under the sections aforesaid, and whether the indictment aforesaid charges any ofienses for which judgment could be rendered against the defendant? in this court, under the constitution and laws of the United States, should be an swered in the affirmative. Opinion by Justice Bradley.” MR. STEPHENS’S CHILDHOOD. Events Narrated ly the Statesman Him self. Johnston and Brow u’s “Life of Alex ander H. Stephens” is an unusually en tertaining book throughout, but perhaps none of its more than 600 pages are more interesting than those in which Mr. Ste phens himself, in letters to Col. John ston, tells of his childhood days and the scenes and incidents of that time which left the deepest impression on his life. We have just been reading one of these letters, and that our readers may share the pleasure we derived from its perusal, we transfer a portion of it to these col umns. In replying to questions from his bio grapher relating to the time when he first became a member of a Sunday-school, Mr. Stephens says: “In thinking of the events of my past life, I am often impressed with one fact, and that is the perfect unconciousness, at the time, of the important hearing upon after-life that little incidents have, which, at the time ot their occurence, were almost unnoticed. In the lives of all persons there are turning-points, ideas, —indeed changes of all kinds. These changes or turning-points, as I call them, form epochs in every one’s life. “To illustrate; One of tlie first epochs in my life that I remember was my dropping the ‘slips,’ as vve called them then, —a sort of frock such as girls wear, —and putting on breeches. This was a momentous event with me, changing my ideas, giving me entirely new notions of myself, hitherto undreamed of. Starting to school was another great epoch with me. New fields of precep tion and reflection were opened before me, and new scenes presented. It was in truth my first entrance—first step upon the stage of life. But Ino more thought of this the morning my father gave me the beautiful new spelling book, with its rich blue cover, and told me to go to school and be a good boy, than I thought, several years afterwards, that I w r as turning another point in my life when, one Sunday morning, he started me with a Bible to Sunday-school at Powder Creek meeting-house. These things, when they occurred, seemed just like any other ordinary daily events; yet, in looking look'ng back upon them, I see that they and many other similar ones which I have in my mind were far other wise. •‘That start to the Sunday-school was an epoch in my life. It was then that I first took a taste for reading. It was in the summer of 1824. I was a little over twelve years of age. All my reading had been limited to the spelling-book and New Testament. At this Sunday-school we had the Sunday-school Union Ques tion-book, which was anew tiling in the country at that time. The school was organized by Garland Wingfield, a class leader in the Methodist Society at Pow der Creek. He was the superintendent. There were perhaps thirty scholars, di vided into a class beginning with Genesis, —a part of the Bible I had never read before, and I soon became deeply inter ested in the narrative. It was no task for me to get the lesson, though I had no other time to do it but on Sunday mornings and evenings, or at night, by the light of a pine-knot fire. “When I reached the history of Joseph, I did not stop with the lesson, but went on for chapter after chapter. I was per mitted to recite 'all I had learned, and this carried me out of my class. I soon went through Exodus and the other Mosaic books, often sitting up till mid night, reading with interest by the light of the blazing pine-knots, the onlj T light in our house for readers in those days. My stepmother had a candle in her room, by which she sewed, patched, darned, and performed other similar domestic tasks. But by the fire I read long after the whole household “were asleep, and that aftei a hard day’s work. I never missed a question; and my rapid pro gress was surprising to the teachers and the whole school. I improved also in my reading, of which at first I made but a halting, stammering, speliing-out busi ness. I soon went through the Old Tes tament, —in fact, long before the class with which I had started got through Genesis. “My‘entrance into this school had a considerable effect upon my fortunes. It gave me a taste for reading, for history, for chronology, and it gave me reputa tion. My rapid progress was noted and much talked about.” He then goes on to show how his con nection with the Sunday-school, and the reputation he made there, brought about those subsequent events that had such a telling influence upon the whole of his after-career. Space will not allow us to give further extracts at this time from this charming book, but it does allow us to say that we hope the book itself will find its way into every home in this land, for, as the Baltimore Bulletin truly says, “it may be studied with benefit bj r every American.” Tne good that comes from reading the history of such a life as Alex ander 11. Stephens can hardly be over estimated. As when Site wag Young;. “1 have used Parker’s Hair Balsam and fixe it better than any similar pre paration I know of,” writes Mrs. Ellen Perry, wife of Rev. P. Perry, of Cold brook Springs, Mass. “My hair was al most entirely gray, but a dollar bottle of the Balsam has restored the softness, and the brown color it had when I was young —not a single gray hair left. Since I be gan applying the Balsam my hair has stopped falling out, and I find that it is a perfectly harmless and agreeable dress ing.” oet. 25. lm. THE NRGIIO CONVENTION. To be Held in the City of Atlanta, Decem ber 18th,ISS3. | To the Colored Citizens of Georgia: ; At the convention composed of 300 of ; Georgia’s colored men, which met in the j city of Macon, on the 27th of April, ISS2, an executive committee of one from each congressional district, and W. J. White, of Augusta, from the state at large, as chairman, was appointed and empowered to look after the general interests of the people and whenever they deem it neces sary to call another convention. While that committee has carefully watched the progress of public events, it has not un til the present time felt called upon to take any action looking to the calling of the people together in convention. Recent events in the public policy of our states; the discussion in our .legisla tive assembly; the character of certain bills presented and vigorously pressed in the two houses of our state legislature must admonish every thinking man that, we have reached the crisis as a race in Georgia that demands at our hands prompt and decisive action. While there are a number of subjects to which we might refer, we call at this.time special attention to the question of public educa tion. Since 1871 we have had in Georgia what has been called a free school sys tem professed to afford equal school fa cilities for white and colored children, while in fact it has been so administered as to almost always discriminate against both the colored children and the colored •teachers. This has been because of the fact that the administration of the law has been wholly in the hands of white men who were either prejudiced them selves or were under the influence ol the prevailing race prejudice that is every where to be found. Every imaginable device has been resorted to to prevent the colored people of (he state from re ceiving the equal benefit of money laised by the state for educational purposes. The colored people have quietly and without complaint submitted to this in justice, hoping that time would right ex isting wrongs and give to every citizen of the state that measure of justice to which each under the law is entitled. It is with deepest regret that we are forced to believe that instead of there be ing improvement, the outlook is decided ly less hopeful for the colored men in Georgia. The recent bitter articles against the education of the negro, that have appear ed in the leading newspapers of the state, the house of representatives of our state legislature separating the tax paid by white citizens from that paid by colored citizens for educational purposes, and providing that the colored people should only receive the benefit of the taxes paid by themselves, go to show that a large part of the white people of the state are denying the colored man in Georgia equal citizenship, and that the negro shall not have the same eliance to rise as the white. The question of education involves the dearest interests of the colored man, not only as it relates to the present, but as it relates to his future in this country and it becomes every true-hearted colored man to lay aside every other consideration for the time being and unite with his breth ren for the securement of education for our children. In accordance with a resolution unan imously adopted by the colored executive committee of Georgia, 1 hereby call a convention of the colored men of Georgia to meet in the city of Atlanta on Wednes day, the 12th of December, A. D. 1883, at 12 o’clock m. By resolution of the committee every county in the state is requested to assemble in convention and select delegates, and also to provide the money to pay the expenses of said dele gates, and also to provide the money to pay the expenses of said delegates. Each county will be entitled to twice as many votes in the convention as it has mem bers in the house of representatives, but this is not intended to restrict the num ber of delegates from any county. To the ministers of the gospel, teachers in all parts of the state we extend a hearty and cordial invitation. Let the colored men of Georgia from the mountains to the seaboard arise and unite before it be forever too late. The welfare of our children and future of our race is at stake—shall we not arise and vindicate our manhood, and show to the world that though pressed down by the iron heel, we are yet men. Yours for the cause of education and advancement, W. J, White, Chairman. E. S. Small, E. K. Belcher, James Tate, J. 11. DeVeaux, A. B. Fortune. We cordially endorse the above call. A. Wilson, Member of the Legislature. Fuank Johnson, Member of the Legislature. A baby was born in a cemetery at Marsltaltown, lowa, a short time ago, but evet v-where can be seen babies borne to the cemetery because mother’s cruelly neglect to procure I/r. Bull's Cough Syrup, a sure cure for cioup, colds and coughs. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Chicago Inter-Ocean says “sixty eight new counties were organized in Texas last year. property in creased to the extent of $130,000,000. Immigrants are pouring in. That state contains territory twice as large as Geor gia which is yet undivided into counties. It promises to be the real empire state of the Union.” It does, indeed, says an exchange; and yet good Georgians may find it best to remain at home. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates •( One Dollar per inch for the tlrst insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT BATES. Space, 1 mo. 3 mos. | 6 mos. 1 year. One inch, $2 50 $5 00 j f7 50 $lO 00 Two incites, 3 75 7 50 JO 00 15 00 Three inches, 00 10 00 13 50 20 OW Four inches, <5 00 12 501 15 00 25 00 Fourth column 750 15 00 20 00 30 00 Half column, 11 00 20 00 40 00 00 00 One column. 15 00 30 00 00 00 100 00 NUMBER 14. THE CIVIC RIGHTS DECISION. Xew York Sun.] It is rather surprising that so much ex citement has been caused in some parts of the country by the decision of the supreme court of the United States ad judging the first and second sections of the Uivil Rights act of 1875 to be uncon stitutional and void. All the previous utterances of the supreme court relating to the scope and effect of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the con stitution, upon which the Civil Rights ■ct was based, had indicated that when ever the question was fairly presented the Judges would hold that Congress had no power to pass such a law. The act of 1875 provided that all per sons within the jurisdiction of the United States should be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land and water, theatres ana other places of public amusement, and prescribed severe penal ties for the denial of such privileges. The supreme court says that this legisla tion cannot he sustained under the thir teenth amendment, because that amend ment applies only to slavery and involun tary servitude, and gives Congress no power except to pass laws in respect to those subjects.. 'l'llis conclusion seems plainly correct, and must have been reached without much difficulty. A more serious question arose, however, under that part of the fourteentl. amend ment which is embraced in these words: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge tlie privileges or immunities of citizens of the Unites States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property with out due process of law ; nor deny to anv person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Congress is expressly empowered to enforce these provisions by approp*' ,<, to legislation as the argument i" favor of the constitutionality of f ,JC Civil Rights act has been that by virtue of this power Congress could itself pass law's to protect citizens In their privileges or immunities, whether the states attempted to interfere with those privileges and immunities or not. But it lias been plain enough ever since the decision in the case of the Unit ed States against Cruikshank that the fourteenth amendment is operative only upon the states, and, as was declared in that case, it simply furnishes an addi tional guarantee against any encroach ment by the states upon the fundamental rights which to every citizen as a member of society. Chief Justice Waite there said : “The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism. Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoy ment of this principle, within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the states; and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the states do not de ny tiie right. This the amendment guar antees, but no more. The power of the national government is limited to the en forcement of this guarantee.” Since this decision was rendered, it has been difficult to perceive bow any such legislation as that embodied in the Civil Rights act could be sustained. The suggestion has been made that, notwithstanding the unconstitutionality of the Civil Rights act, colored persons may still be able to secure, under section 2 of article IV'. of the constitution, in other states than their own, all the ac commodations at inns, in public convey ances, and at places of amusement which they enjoy at home. That section pro vides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immuni ties of citizens in the several states. It is settled, however, that no privileges are guaranteed by it except such as pertain strictly tocitizenship, and it is doubtful liow r far this limitation would operate. THIS EAST AND WEST. Cedartown Advertiser.) The grading on that part of the East and West railroad of Alabama now under construction, i. e., from Cedartown to the present junction with the E. TANARUS., Vu. and Ga., since being begun a few weeks since, has been pushed systematically and vigorously, the weather favoring to an appreciable degree, until quite a con siderable show lias been already made on the work. Tiie grading force has been distributed in squads at points between here and Esom llill, to which part of the line work has, with the exception of a small section beyond tiie latter place, been altogether applied. The grading, as was predicted, lias been very light or. tiie work, no grade or cut as yet, we be lieve, being more excessive than five or six feet. The work, it is *iov*' estimated, will lie linished ready for the ties, from here to Esom Hill by the middle or last of next week. The grading force will then be put to work on the lower end of the projected line, it is not definitely known as yet how soon the finished part will be ironed, the Iron having not as yet been ordered, as we learn. But little delay, however, is contemplated in the matter. The job, when begun, will consume but little time, it being computed that the force that will have the task in band will be able to place a half mile a day of track. So that, with all mishaps and drawbacks that are to be considered possible, it will only be a few weeks, at latest, before the Esom Hillians may expect to hear the locomotive’s whistle resounding about their habitations. T. P. Jones, Savannah, Ga., saj's: “I can cheerfully recommend Brown s Iron Bitters. I have used it and have been benefited.