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THE FREE PRESS.
Au Udrpeudent democratic Journal.
C. H. C. WILLINGHAM. Editor.
Tmk Feei Press is an expenent of the Free
•eui*oracy of Georgia, <l is opposed to all
Rings, Cliques and Combinations organized for
the defeat of the will of the People in all mattcrp
of public interest, and will ever defend Free
Thonght, Free Action and a Free Ballot.
Cartsrvllls,Thnrsdnjr Morning, November 1, 1883.
TUB “ CONSTITUTION ” ON MARSHAL
SMYTIIS , JUNE t, ISBS.
“Times change and men change with
them !” Listen totlie Constitution at the
time above specified, and then form your
opinion of its consistency or justice.
“The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist pertinently asks why Gordon
apd Hill do not agree upon some respect
able gentleman to take the place of the
present radical Georgia marshal. Hit
’em again.” —Elberton Gazette. To which
the Constitution adds:
“A great many people in Georgia, es
pecially those who have been insulted
and outraged by Marshal Smythe’s depu
ties, are asking the same question.”
.Vs Mr. Hill and Mr. Gordon did not
agree on Hob Alston for marshal, the
Constitution sticks in its gaffs thusly:
“If these things be true, then Mr. Hill is
responsible for the retention of Marshal
Smythe, for the continuance in the most
lucrative and valuable federal office in
the state of a man whose subordinates
have so cruelly wronged and outraged
the people of Northern Georgia.”
Smythe was a sorry fellow just then,
but he has grown to be quite honest and
clever enough to occupy the Atlanta
postoffice just at this time. We would
like to know if any member of the “elev
en able” is on the bond. “The proof of
the pudding is the chewing of the bag.”
So we shall hold ourself in readiness to
say, “We tolu you so,” when the gov
ernment is obliged to investigate the con
cern through which a million of dollars
pass every year, and begins the job with
*uch doubtful antecedents.
We copy below the head-lines of the
Constitution upon Sara Williams’ report,
which exposed the crookedness ot Mar
shal Smythe’s administration, “which
had made a hell of North Georgia,” ac
cording to the opinion of the Constitution.
Governor Colquitt commissioned Sam C.
Williams to go up into Northeast Geor
gia and bring back a full report of
Sinythe’s tyranny and persecution. The
Constitution published it with these start
ling head-lines:
“The Wry Men’s Wring!”
“The Federal Marauders on the Georgia
Moonshiners!”
“Black-legs, Clothed with Authority,
Driving the People to Desperation !”
“Midnight Raids Upon Helpless Citi
zens, and Women Insulted in the Pres
ence of their Manacled Husbands I”
“Commissioners, Deputies and One-horse
Lawyers in Collusion to Bleed Timid
Countrymen!”
“A People Driven to the Verge of Des
peration, Robbed, Insulted and ‘ Spat
Upon J”
“Showing the Marshal’s Service in Geor
gia to be more Unprincipled than the
Bashi-Bazourks, of Bulgaria!”
Read the late eulogy on Smythe in the
same paper:
“Scenes that would make Nero Weep
and Put Satan Himself to Blush !!”
Now, the service of the government is
t# be prostituted and the money of the
poetofttee risked to salt the partisan wish
es of a corrupt gang of tricksters who,
claiming to be democrats, are backing up
Major Smythe for the Atlanta postoffice
in plain view of Sam Williams’ report
and Colonel Farrow’s expose of Marshal
Smythe’s official crookedness. Shame !
7ME INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS.
The United States internal revenue
laws are an outrage upon a free people and
the constitution. We are glad to see that
the president will, in his annual message,
even go farther as to internal tax reduc
tion than he did last year. In his last
message the president recommended the
abolition of internal tax save that on dis
tilled spirits. It is also said that he will
now take a more adyanced ground and
recommend the entire abolition of the in
ternal system, the whisky tax and all.
This will be about the opinions of ex-
Speaker Randall.
The internal revenue system is a war
measure and should have been repealed as
soon as the necessity for which it was
brought into existence. It is an infamous
espi< n ige upon a free people in times of
peace, a surveillence over private rights
and has eaused bloodshed that ought to
burn all the monej r vaults wherein there is
a dollar left of the proceeds of such mur
derous inquisitions upon the homes of a
free people. In some places there have
been revenue officers who were gentle
men ; and, as the law had to be executed,
those sections were fortunate in having
such officers among them.
We are in favor of such a tariff as will
support the government and protect our
skilled labor against the competition of
European laborers; or rather against the
manufacturers of foreign importations
who would grind their artisans, mechan
ics and skilled laborers to dust in order to
successfully compete with American
manufacturers to the great detriment of
the labor of our own people. Hence, we
are glad to see that the president is going
to strike out on such a line of defence of
American industry.
The temperance leaders are moving in
regard to an early and active campaign
previous to the coining elections in the
state. It is to be hoped that they will ex
clude from their counsels and the ros
trum men who make temperance speech
es one day and get drunk the next.
There has been too much of this already,
and it has tended to bring a good cause
into bad repute.— Augusta Neics. There
were quite a number of those kind of ad
vocates in the late legislature, and hun
dreds of the same kind of fanatics all over
the state. They not only bring their cause
into bad repute, but themselves into con
tempt for their inconsistency.
“TBK WOMEN OF TIIE SOUTH."
In The Free Press of last week we
published an extract from one of “M.
Quad’s” letters to the Detroit Free Press,
under the above caption, which pays a
high and truthful tribute to the patriot
ism, devotion and heroism of the women
of the south to the “Lost Cause” that
every true southerner should appreciate.
“M. Quad” never took his facile pen to
write upon a more beautiful theme, nor
did he ever write upon a subject so full
of pathos and self-devotion and self
abnegation in that cause, so w ell calcu
lated to challenge admiration. Asa
southerner and Georgian, we thank
“M. Quad,” most sincerely for what
he has written of the women of the
south. Nor did “the mother of the
Grecchi”ever have greater cause of pride
for “her iewels” than the mothers
of the south had for their sons
who want forth to battle for what
the people of the aouth believed
was a just cause. As the mothers of the
south buckled on the armor of bloody
fray upon her soldier boy with tears and
firm resolve, and with words of love for
him scarcely stronger than the patriot
ism that swelled w ith emotions of mater
nal love, hoping that he might return
again with honor to enjoy what it was
hoped would be a reward of his patriot
ism and braverv. But many of these
ne\er returned to receive the maternal
kiss for duty nobly performed.
The women of the south have im
pressed upon the civilized w r orld the
highest type of a noble womanhood and
won the admiration of mankind as being
the highest standard of modern civiliza
tion. If there be a race of women in the
world of purer devotion to the cause they
believed to be right, it has never been re
corded in the history of mankind. Beau
tiful in her physique, lovely in her man
ners, refined in her deportment, as
chaste as the icicle, it is no wonder that
the mothers of the south should haye
sent so many noble and chivalrous sons
to fight for liberty and for all that is
worth living for by a free people. But
the war is over and peace reigns supreme
even if the bitter animosities engendered
by that sorrowful war have not entirely
subsided. The people of the south will re
spect the Union so long as justice and
equal rights are meted out to all sections
alike. They only hold to the bond of
the Union as security for these.
The southern people will learn to love
the Union only as the aigis of liberty pro
tects all sections in the spirit of harmony
and devotion to the patriotism of a truly
united people. They have been all along
willing to shake hands over the bloody
chasm as equals and not as ostracised re
bels. We are glad to believe that state of
feeling of conciliation is rapidly gather
ing a volume and momentum that will
unite and harmonize a national brother
hood as deep in its sincerity and as
matchless in its power as our country is
great in domain and as inexhaustible as
her great and yet unknown natural re
sources of material wealth and power
among the civilized world. Let no man
put forth his hand or open his mouth to
retard the growth of this national unity
and confidence among the people of the
great states of a glorious republic.
The Defiance , a paper published in At
lanta in the interest of the negro race,
has a very pugnacious name. It startles
us, for we don’t know where and when its
defiance may strike first. The name of
the paper is a very bad one. We should
like to see the negro race conciliatory and
not nMnifcing n*ong eeeh ether nor de
fiant towards any other race. The
Defiance is a “patent outside” and that is
the best part about it.
The list of Georgia colonels is increas
ing rapidly. Dr. Haygood’s “brother in
black” is acquiring a Georgia weakness
for military titles and they swing them in
a most profuse and unblushing manner.
Does anybody in the state know a real
negro colonel? There may begone, but
we don’t know it. Is there a Col. Pledger
in the state?
In our opinion Mahone is about as good
a man as any of the usual politicians of
any party. He will wield power when
he can, by party manipulation, and that
is about what all politicians do. No man
can be a true American patriot unless he
is independent in his own thoughts and
actions.
We care for none of the politicians of
any political party who are not for the
country and the people as a whole. De
mocracy and republicanism mean scram
ble for office and public plunder. That
is all.
THE WATERS OF THE EARTH TO
DRY UP.
To the editor of the Free Press : While
sitting alone in my office, my mind be
came silently and solitorially buried in
thought’s of da3 r s that were passed never
to return. The days of my boyhood
when I use to clip the midnights lamp or
rather snuff the candle, perusing and
lacubrating over scientific books and
works. And this retrospect or reminis
cence was so pleasant to me that I
thought I would pen a few of my thoughts
for your paper on the above heading,
thinking they might be of interest to
you. As they were connected with a
subject of importance to all that is now
pressing its consideration on us and the
country as one of vital interest, One of
vital intellect because the waters of our
wells and springs are rapidly giving out
and the brooks and rivers that afford
water for our domestic animals and must
run our mills and machinery to grind
our flour and meal, and manufacture our
cotton. Cotton goods, irons and all the
essentials, for our vast concourse of
people and oui great commercial country,
Geology teaches us that the whole earth
was once covered in water, and some of
them teach that the first land known was
a belt running north from San Solvador
some two hundred miles in length andfrom
thirty to eighty miles in width, we are
taught by Geologist and other scientists,
that the earth itself was a liquid, and
that the l’rilobite mans ancestor proper,
according to scientist, is found in the
depth of the earth in the Silician rock,
and belonged properly to the C'arborrifer
ous or Silician eras of geology. Rut,
evidently, at one time there was much
more water on the face or surface of the
earth than at this time. What man of
the ages of from 30 to 00 years can not
look back and think of the brook rivelets
or rill or river that run near the home of
his birth, and see now that the water
stream is not half as large as it was then,
let him think of his fish holes and bath
ing holes of his childhood, and in many
instances he will find them not only not
furnishing half so much water, but abso
lutely none at all. He will find where
he knew large streams of water once to
flow with swift and terrific force, now to
be dry and furnish no water. lie will
see where large streams once flowed
nothing but small torpid brooks are
meandering their way tlnough tortuous
and shallow banks.
According to history the great Caspian
sea and the ini nense Black sea were
connected, by water and where this wa
tery connection once existed these two
large bodies of water are now separated
by miles of lands. The now great Medi
terranean sea was once much larger than
now. It once occupied that vast scope
of territory now known as the great
Saharian district, the level of our great
lakes is falling year by year. There are
many piers on the shores of lake-side
cities which vessels once approached with
ease which now hardly reach to the edge
of the water. Our harbors are every
where growing shallower. Our Congress
every j r ear appropriates immense sums
of money to improve our harbors and
clean out our streams and make them
navigable, and yet for all the vast expen
detures of the peoples money, by their
representatives in Congress who never
giye this matter that seriousness of thought
it demands. Natures god’s the Neptunes
go on with their work of drying up the
waters of the earth, some think this
drying up of the waters of the earth is
due to the gradual deposit of earth brought
down by rivers or of refuse from city
sewers. But not so. The harbor of the
city of Toronto has grown quite shallow,
so it is scarely of no commercial use or
value in spite of the fact that countless
millions of money have been spent in
dredging or clearing it out. All the
dredging out of the harbor of the city of
New York does not permanently deepen
it. The Mississippi river with her river
commission and with the great annual
expendetures of money by the general
government and by the state government
spent in building levees and in cleaning
it out yearly becomes shallower and with
less water. And it can be but compara
tively few r years before, even with this
vast expenditures of money, that the
greatest interior navigable highway in
the world, in length of miles and im
portance to the people of its government,
must be cast aside for want of water to
float her heavy crafts.
The great Amazon, of South America,
the greatest river in width in the world;
the river, according to geology, that as
sisted the Gulf of Mexico in making for
us the great state of Texas, the greatest
state of this Union, by the drying up and
lessening of its waters, is likewise yearly
growing less navigable. The Gulf of
Mexico, by the drying up of its waters,
not only gives to us the state of Texas,
but it has added miles and miles of acres
of land to the country on all its sides.
The growing shallowness of the great
Hudson river, the first stream of water
whose bosom ever bore up a steamshp, is
noticeable to all who know the river;
and, like the outlet of Lake Champlain,
which was once navigable by Indian
canoes at all times, the upper waters of
the Hudson during the summer are al
most bare of water. In all parts of the
world is to be noticed this steady and
rapid decrease in the waters of the seas,
rivers and lakes; and the rain-fall in Eu
rope and in this country, where scientific
observations are made, is obviously and
manifestly less than it has ever been in
any period within man’s memory. What
is becoming of our w ater is the question
that suggests itself. Certainly, it is not
disappearing by evaporation, for, in such
case, rain would give back to the earth
whatever water the atmosphere might
bear up or absorb. I know no other the
ory that is tangible, according to science,
for us to accept, but ours, like the waters
of the moon, is sinking into the earth’s
interior. This drying up of the waters of
the earth in such rapid rate must, ere
long, afteet the great commerce of the
countries of the world; and, as it must
affect materially the amount of rain-fall,
it must affect vegetation, and hence, all
animal existence. It is true that water
s chemically composed of hydrogen, one
equivalent, and oxygen, one equivalent,
8 making the equivalent of water 9,
Now, as the amount of water of the
earth lessens, these elements must lessen,
and as these elements enter into the com
position and production of all vegetable
matters, these matters will gradually
cease to be produced or must be pro
duced in a changed condition; and as
man and all other animal matters are
nothing but metamorphosed, transposed
or transformed (by the action of elective,
selective aflinity, or the action or process
of catalysis) vegetable matter, animal mat
ters must change. Man certainly is
nothing physically but transmutated
vegetable matters. lie receives alike his
intellect from his diet, and hence, from
the vegetable kingdom, only . modified by
temperament or diathesis and culture.
And so of his moral being; hence, man is
continually changing, and there is con
tinual necessity for a change in his inter
pretation of the scriptures and of his
ideas of his God. All eras of :nan or all
epochs must haye their own ideas of their
God and their own interpretation of the
holy writ. The different nationalities
and the five original races of mankind
must of necessity have their different and
distinctive ideas of God and their mode of
worship of Him, and their peculiar
form of government to suit their own na
tional disposition thus made unto them.
As four-fifths of man is fluid, as the wa
ters of the earth dry up and disappear, so
must man become more diminutive, dried
up, faulty and shorter lived. The veget
able kingdom must and is becoming less
as the waters of the earth dry up. Think
of where you used to see large crops of
the cockle-bur and other weeds grow—
how barren is the earth now. Think of
your growing crops—bow short they are
on your different pieces of land now’,
compared to past days. The vegetable
kingdom and the animal have a mutual
existence. The animal furnishes car
bonic acid gas for the vegetable, and
the vegetable remits or returns oxygen
for the animal to subsist on. The veg
etable takes up from the air carbonic
acid, which is necessary for its exist-
ence and destructive or a non-supporter
of animal life, and returns oxygen gas
in lieu of it, which is an absolute neces
sity of animal. Then, is it not true
that the state governments and the gen
eral government should look w’ith more
vigilant interest after the forest of the
country? And not alone for this, but
the forest of the country has much to do
with the amount of rain-fall, and w’ith
preventing a lessening of the waters of
the earth and the prevention of sudden
overflows or freshets; hence, the great
importance of the preservation of the
forest. T. IT. B.
A SHOP VISIT,
On tlie 13tli anti 13tli of Oct., by the
Senior Class of Mechanical Engin
eers of Yale College.
Senior year of our course we have a
study known as shop visits. The follow
ing is a specimen:
We left New’ Haven for New York
Thursday night, by the steamer U. H.
Northam, of the Old Line. Our object
was to visit different places of mechani
cal interest in the metropolis. We met
our professor at eight o’clock Friday
morning in the waiting room of Fulton
ferry on the New York side. Proceeded
thence to examine the bridge of size (not
sighs). Having gotten permission, we
entered the engine house which is un
der the New York end of the bridge and
took diagram of the engine that w’as at
work. It is 144 horse pow’er, according
to my calculation. There are four of
these engines. Two large and two small
ones. The small engines are each 72
horse power and it takes both of them
to run the cable. They certainly do not
intend to have the cars stopped for the
want of horse power. The cable passes
over two large wheels, which are con
nected to the main shaft of the engine b} T
means of a gear wheel. It is then trans
mitted by a series of large pulleys, one
of which is on an incline plane and slips
so as to always keep the cable light, the
others merely to change its direction. A
s-imilar arrangement is on the Brooklyn
side for changing the direction ot the
rope.
Now, I came to a subject that so much
has been written about by the New York
papers. It is the friction clutch which
is being used on tlie Brooklyn bridge.
Mr. Pain has invented it especially for
this bridge. The Chicago endless system
was investigated and would have been
used, perhaps, if that company had not
asked such a high royalty. We had the
honor of meeting Mr. Pain. He went
with us over the bridge. In the center
of the ear Mr. Pain opened a door in the
floor which was about four feet long by
tw’O wide. We could see the clutches
work. There were four to each car.
They were in pairs under this door.
The cable passed between each pair.
The clutch is round in shape and con
sists of two wheels, one within the other.
The friction is rolling. It is produced
by the outside wheel revolving on the
inside. When the oar is ready to start
each pair of clutches are forced against
the cable whieh is continually moving,
the outside wheels of the clutches com
mences to revolve and in a very short
time friction is produced sufficient to
make the wheels stop. Thus the rope
is firmly grasped and is not let go until
the clutches are removed by means of a
brake. The New York papers, whose
editors seem sadly deficient of any me
chanical knowledge, have condemned
the clutch for some time on account, I
suppose, of the accidents whieh have
happened. It is true that some few ac
cidents have happened. They, howev
er, were not caused by any fault of the
clutch, but bj" green bands who did not
know how to manage it. The scientific
and mechanical principle are all that one
could wish for. The theory is a coneet
one.
In the afternoon we went to Hell Gate.
The portion which is above water and
upon which all the machinery is placed
covers about half an acre of ground, and
the part which is to be blown up and
whieh is under water covers nine acres.
On the portion abeye water are two
large pumps, with the capacity of 80,000
gallons per minute. We put on rubber
coats and descended to a depth of one
hundred feet. Then commenced our
journey. We had not gone far, howev
er, before all had enough of it, but deter
mined to see the thing through. Here
and there you could see pieces of round
tin fastened against the sides of the ex
cavation. These pieces were numbered
and the size and depth of the whole was
also written upon them. The diameter
of most of them was six inches and they
varied from two.to twenty feet in length.
We went over to Astoria and saw the
drawing of the survey. The head man
showed us a drawing which, if it was
destroyed, would cost $150,000 to replace
it. There *is no wmrk being done now
at Hell Gate. They are waiting for an
appropriation from the government.
While they are waiting this benefaction
it costs $30,000 a year to keep the water
pumped out. It will take $150,000 w r orth
of dynamite to make the blast.
We next visited the American institute
fair. Did not remain long there as we
were tired and worn out. The next day
we visited Moor, Manning & Morse’s
machine shops, No. 11l Liberty St.,which
is well worth a visit by those who are in
terested in fine machinery. From there
we proceeded to Hie Hudson river to ex
amine ocean and sound steamers. As
luck would have it, while we were
not fatigued, we came to The Pilgrim.
This is a sound steamer and it is quite
new, having been built about six or eight
months. It is by far the most handsome
boat I ever saw. It belongs to the Fall
River Line ami has twelve bridal cham
bers whieh are superb. Now .1 shall
leave, the question asked and the com
ments made, for your own imagination as
it would take too long to give them in
detail. We visited several other steam
ers and went down into their built?
among the machinery. We got as black
and greasy as we could be before we fin
ished our investigations. All concluded
that they knew enough about ocean and
sound steamers to last them much longer
than a suit of clothes would.
We left New York at 12 o’clock Satur
day night and woke up in New Haven
Sunday morning. Yours, J.
ARTHUR’S MESSAGE.
A Foniliadowing of what is to come from
the President.
Washington, October 27. —The presi
dent has not yet begun the preparation of
his annual message to congress, and may
not for a fortnight yet. He will wait
until he receive the reports of his cabinet
officers, and these will not have been
prepared at least until after the first week
in November. The document, when it
does appear, will have interest solely in
the recommendations the president will
suggest. Some of these will doubtless
he of special importance, more notably
so his recommendations as to taxation.
Friends of the president say he will even
go further as to the internal tax reduc
tion than he did last 3 ear. In his last
message the president recommended the
abolition of all internal tax, save that on
distilled spirits. It is said lie will now
take a more advanced ground and recom
mend the entire abolition of the internal
system, the whisky tax and all. This, if
true, will put the president on an even
pace with ex-Speaker Randall, who has
already openly declared in favor of the
abolition of the internal revenue system.
This Randall does to do away with the
army of office-holders employed to collect
the internal tax. The president no doubt
will take different grounds, or will advise
its abolition because money enough can
be raised to support the government
without the continuance of this S3 T stem
of taxation, which, if not oppressive, is
inquisitorial.
The exceedingly interesting portion of
the message wiil be the recommendations
the president may have to continue the
national hanking system. No matter
how the enemies of the system may rail
against it, the fact is that it is the most
popular method of banking which has
ever been devised. The people have
confidence in it, and feel assured when
the}' have national hank notes that they
are safe, because behind them the govern
ment holds a fund to redeem them. The
plans thas far put out to continue the
system do not meet with popular favor.
The suggestion of Comptroller lvnox that
a law be passed to accept foreign securi
ties as a collateral for the issue of hank
circulation, it can safely be said will
never pass congress. The low two per
cent bondscheme is much more in popu
lar favor, hut the suggestion that the
secretary of the treasury go into market
and buy the four and a iialfs and fours at
a premium will meet with such opposi
tion that the chances arc that congress
will not listen to it.
ON SILVER COINAGE.
There is ever} 7 reason to believe that
the president will take more radical
grounds than ever touching silver coin
age. This because he has had specially
prepared for him statistic showing the
coinage now on hand and the storage ca
pacity is now taxed beyond
its limit, and that with propriety the
coinage of silver dollars could well be
wholly discontinued for a year. The
president will hardly go as far as this,
but doubtless he will be pointed in his
recommendation to very much curtail the
monthly coinage, more than half at least,
and urge the discontinuance of the silver
certificates.
That portion of the message which
will treat of foreign affairs will possess
but little interest. The nation has had
no ruction of any kind with foreign pow
ers, and this will leave the president only
the small duty of enumerating the trea
ties which have passed between tho
United States and other nations. A re
petition of the recommendation for the
ratification anew commercial treaty with
Mexico can be expected.
Naval officers say the president will
vigorously urge a policy which will
build up the American navy, and if con
gress is disposed to be at all liberal, two
at least, if not more, steel cruisers will
ne asked for. Of one thing there is a
reasonable certainty, and that is the pre
sident will not only endeavor to write a
message which will reflect credit upon
himself, but at the same time he will
have in view a line of policy which will
do something to help the grand old party,
which is fast dying of rot and decrepi
tude.
New York, Oct. 27. —Of the I,SOO com
positors employed in the job printing nnd
newspaper offices who struck yesterday
for an increase of wages, only about 150
were not at work this morning. All of
the other men had returned to work yes
terday and to-day at the wages demanded
by the typographical union. The price
required by the union is 45 cents a thou
sand ems on weekly newspapers and trom
37 to 40 cents on book and job work,
with $lB as the lowest weekly wages.
Non-union men were taken back by the
employers with the understanding that
they would join the union. The shops
number about a half dozen, and are not
of much importance.
School House for Sale.
The school house of Prof. Ronald John
ston is for sale. Applications may be
made to Judge J. A. Howard, at the
court house.
Now Is the time to pay for THE FREE
PRESS.
Wanted: To rent a farm, for a term
of years, near railroad, must be conven
rent for dairy and stock farm, .address
Charles Fels,
Weinmeister Hotel, Atlanta, Ga.
6ct4-4t
TRUE THEN AND NOW.
Xew York Sun.]
Seven years agon wise and patriotic
man, a profound thinker and an honest
statesman wrote these words:
“Two evils infest the official service of
the Federal Government.
“One is the prevalent and demoraliz
ing notion that the public service exists
not for the business and benefit of the
whole people, hut for the interest of the
office-holders, who are, in truth, but the
servants of the people. Under the in
fluence of this pernicious error public
employments have been multiplied; the
numbers of those gathered into the ranks
of office-holders 1 ave been steadily in
creased beyond any possible require
ments of the public buisincss, while inef
ficiency, peculation, fraud, and malversa
tion of the public funds, from the high
places of power to the lowest, have
overspread the whole services like a lep
rosy.
“The other evil is the organization of
the official class into a hotly of political
mercenaries, governing; the caucuses and
dictating the nominations of their own
party, and attempting to carry the elec
tions of the people by undue influence,
and by immense corruption funds syste
matically collected from the salaries or
fees of office-holders. The official class
in other countries, sometimes by its own
weight and sometimes in alliance with
the army, has been able to rule the unor
ganized masses even under universal
suffrage. Here it has already grown into
a gigantic power, capable of stilling the
inspirations of a sound public opinion,
and of resisting an easy change of ad
ministration, until misgovernraent be
comes intolerable and public spirit has
been stung to the pitch of a civic revolu
tion.'’
The author of this analysis of the
political situation in the summer of IS7G,
was Samuel J. Tilden, of New York.
Three months later lie was elected
president of the United States.
Ilis words are as true now as they were
then.
The Republican party must go!
THANKSGIVING.
President Arthur Names November 39 as
the day.
Washington, Oct. 27. —President Ar
thur lias issued the following proclama
tion :
By the President of the United States of
America :
a proclamation.
In furtherance of a custom of this
people, at the closing of each year, to en
gage upon a day set apart for that pur
pose in a special festival of praise to the
Givef of all good, I, Chester A. Arthur,
President of the United States, and > hereby
designate Thursday, the 29th day 01
November next, as a day of national
thanksgiving. The year which is draw
ing to an end lias been replete with evi
dences of divine goodness. The preva
lence of health, the fullness of the har
vests, the stability of peace and order,
the growth intelligence and learning,
the continued enjoyment of civil religion
liberty—all these and countless otlie:
blessings are causes for reverent rejoic
ing. I do therefore recommend that on
the day above appointed, the people reel
from their accustomed labors, and meet
ing in their several places of worship ex
press their devout gratitude to God that
He hath dealt so bountifully with this
nation, and pray that His grace and favor
abide with it forever.
In witness whereof I have hereunto ser
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at
the city of Washington this 2Gth dayo
October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty
three, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred ami
eigth. Chester A. Atthur.
By the President:
Fred’k T. Frelinghuysen,
Secretary of State.
EORGIA, Bartow County.
I W. O. Bowler, of said county, has applie
for exemption of personalty, and 1 will pass upo.
the same at io o’clock, a. n>., on the 19th dayo
November, 1883, at my oflice. October 2", 1883.
Xovl-2t J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
Charles A. Strickland has applied for ex
emption of personalty, and I will pass upon the,
same at 10o’clock, a. m., on the 19th of Novem
ber, 1883, at my office. J. A. HOWARD,
This Oct. 29, 1883.—Nov l-2t Ordinary.
(''l EORGIA, Bartow County.
dC Whereas, David M. Taflf and J. S. Ta£,
administrators of Joshua Taffi deceased, has ap
plied for leave to sell all the lands belonging to
said deceased. Therefore, all personsconcerns
are hereby notified to file their objections, if an
they have, in my office within the time prescribe
by law, else leave will be granted applicants a •
applied for. Oct. 22, 1883. J. A. HOWARD,
$2.16-4t. Ordinary.
Georgia, Bartow county.
Whereas, William F Corbin hasapplied fo
letters of administration ou the estate of Edward
Bin-ford, late of the state of Arkansas, decease- .
but leaving property' in this state. Therefore, a 1
persons concerned are hereby notified to file thei r
objections, if any they have, in my office, with i
the time prescribed by law, else letters will h
granted applicant as applied for.
Oct. 29, 1883. J. A. HOWARD,
Nov l-4t-$2,28 Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
By VIRTUE OF AN ORDER FROM THE
Court of Ordinary, of Bartow county', will
be sold on the first Tuesday in December, 1883, ai
the court house door in said county, between th
legal sale hours, the tracts of land in said coun
ty, whereon R. Speer resided at the time of his
death, being lot 591) and west half of lot 554, u
the 17th district and 3rd section of said comity,
the whole containing 60 acres, more or less, un
improved and ordinarily timbered Sold as ill
property of Robert Speer, deceased, for the pur
pose of paving debts ot deceased. Terms ca =
Oct. 81, 1883. F. R. C ALH UN,
$3.75-4t Administrator.
Administrator’s Sale.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary'of Bartow county, Geor
gia, will be sold before the court house door i,i
Gartersville, said county, within the legal sai
hours, on the FIRST TUESDAY iu DECEMBER
1883, the following property, to wit: Lot o.
land No. 112, in the 22nd district and 2nd section
of said county, coritainihg 160 acres more or less,
being all of said lot, except the lot on which
Miller’s chapel is situated, and the grave yap
some 5 or 6 acres—about one-hair of said 1
cleared and in cultivation, the balance well tini -
bered, and finely watered and well improver.
Sold as the property of John Coughlin, decease. ,
for the purpose of paying the debts of the sai<,
deceased, and for distribution. Terms of sale,
one-fourth cash, the balance due in 6, 12 and Is
months, interest from day of sale at 8 per veto
QOR 29th, 1883. W. F. WEISCHMEY ER,
$5,25 Administrator.
Georgia, Bartow county.
M. A. Middleton, administratrix of Hngli
G. Middleton, deceased, has applied for leave I<>
sell all the lands belonging to said deceased.
Therefore, all persons concerned are hereby no
tified to file their objections, if any they have, in
my office within the time prescribed by law, else
leave will be granted applicant as applied for.
Oct. 13, 1883. J. A. HOWARD,
|2.10. Ordinary.
Have you paid for THE FREE PRESS"
If not, do so at once.
Ask M. F. Word to tell you what IlerbitKS 1 £
Adiliinifstrator Sale.
]>Y virtue of an order ft, n, , , *
nary of Bartow Com. Lourt of Ordj.
b fore the court-bouse door in’ T w,u . }>" sold
c< tnty. on the first TuesdW said
" thc *eal sale hour ‘ r
e ey, to-wit: Lot of tand \A ■ l' , ljr,,P
--t eland third section of s-iilf, ttle flfth t h s *
2 9 acres, more or less, about r nl\.™ ut ? lniD S
and m cultivation, the baltm ,n , c eare<l
with good improvements a -in ll # re( ’
aHi a good spring on the far, > Tim
sulfieet to the widow’s dower l n "\ Bo!cJ
l .id off in the southwest eon,V ' h ‘ c ,
purchaser will get possessit nmed andv m
arl of said Tot, extent the do 'T °1
get possession of at the dent I ’ T,uiin
widow. Sold as the proper! of‘wm,' u ' u
Smith, deceased, for the pure. ,f navinl ’
of said deceased. Terms cash. >etoher < v*& B
Nov l-4t-*3.4 T O. V ' Gl XTOS - dniinistrator. '
Bartow County Sin fi’s Sales.
WILL BE SOLD before th. ourt door
in Cartersville, Georgia, m, the lirst Ti.es
day in December next, 1883, be, ween the
hours, the following described >ropertv 10 w t -
The undivided cue-half interest il, andtolou.v 1
land Nos. 43, 44, 05, 66, 69, 80, B', 101 104) 144 its
and 182, and all ol the follow*!, lot*- \,,s 'i,,,,
136, 137, 181, is: and 247, a! lin <' 22d district ami
2d section of Bartow count; each lot con
31’? , less. Mi levied on ami
will be sold as the property of * . 11. Woodward,
to satisfy one Bartow super., court mortgage
fi fa. in favor o Mrs. Emily Pool, executrfx
ci 15. O. 1 001, deceased, vs. ,vard II Wood
ward. Property pointed on described in
said mortgage li. fa., and in i >ssession of T F
Barratt, agent of said Woodwa. I. $4.30
Also at the same time amt . ,e, all that n,
of lot of land No. 130. lying a. being in the 5t
district and 3rd section of it* w county G-,
described as follows: Being i southern part of
said lot of land lying we?; the Top ridge
west of John Posey’s land, a iow in the pos
session of the defendant, i.. . oung, contain
ing 60 acres more or lesr*. I. ml on and will be
sold as the property of L. i oung to satisfy
one Bartow superior court , for purchase
money in favor of Elias Lip? ■ > vs. said LL.
Young. Deed tiled and re o in clerk’s office
Bartow superior court, u>: , y and proper’, \
described in said deed. ' $3.7:, ‘
Also at the same time and ; oc, all that par
of lot of land No. 162 that li -outh of the Eto
wah river in the 17th distru . ml 3rd section o
Bartow county, Ga. Leviee and will be sob
as the property of Mrs. E. M anson to satis
twojnsticecourt fi.fas.fi, tice court 9521
district G. M., said county. favor of R. jj
Jones vs. said Mrs. E. M.‘ ason. Propert
pointed out by defen ■ Lew mad'
and returned to me by If. R. ers, L. i. Pro.
erty in possession of defend; $8.12
Also at the same time and ;e,one blick of
lice and store house and lot. aining one act
more or less, on which then iso a blacksmith
shop, in the city of Carte ;. bounded as fol
lows: south by Main m . vest bv Gllrae
street, north by property o; .A. Collins, east
by Tennessee street. Li:vie; and will be sold
as the property of the I’. - ite M angaries* •
Company to satisfy one Ha’ Superior Court
il. fa. in lavor of the Simp-o Gault >: anufae
turing Company vs. said P .site Manganese
Company. Property pointc tby J. W. Akir .
defendant’s attorney. Pro -i i possession <
defendants. $3 21
J. A. GLADS); Sheriff.
A. M. FRAN! 1, Deputy Sh’ff.
GEORGIA, Bartow Cos: : r .
Susan Loudermilk, v >f Hardy Louder
milk, has applied for cxew • *n of p’ersonalt
and I will pass upon the sa: at 10o’clock a. i> .
on the sth day of Novemh, . >B3, at my offie*
Oct. 15, 1883. J. .HO W AI: D.
octlß-2t. Ordinary.
A DOCTOR'S TROVSLM.
Mother— " You did wrong ir earing that thin
dress, this cold damp night.”
Daughter—“ l did, and a now paying the
penalty. Sarah Goss suffered tho eamo way;
please get that which relieved h
Mother—" Nonsense I I’ll jno inch thing,
but will send for our Doctor.”
Daughter— “ Our Doctor t .pa one In bed a
long time and pours down avs - lantity of medi
cine, besides making daily chrv .”
Mother— " Doctor, is she congerooa and what
is her affliction?”
Doctor— 1 ' Yes. madam, she is dangerously ill.
The ventricular and auricular for - es are not in equi
librium. there is an increased centripetal action
about the cerebrum and med" ”a oblongata, the
portal circulation vascillatr;, -pended Nature
seems hesitating, and I—”
Mother— “ Stop, tor heavens sake stop and go
to work at once.”
Doctor—"! will do all I ea- ’
Mother, after two wet have expired—
" Daughter, our Doctor shall i; discarded at once.
Two weeks and no relief. I vC’-l' - ocure that which
you desired at first.”
Daughter, in a low tone—* ‘1 im glad, and think
It the only thing that will rest'" Tie to health.”
Mother—" Get out ct mi se, yon old hnm-
Daughter—" Well, mot , you see how rap
idly I have improved since disr rqing * our Doctor ’
ana I commenced the use of which I so much
needed. The effect hai been ; wonderful. The
one relieved my head, cured t. onetipation, while
the other imparted strenp+h no to the help ol
Nature and made me feel hev..
THE CONTEC S.
Mot her— “ Very true, r believe they have
saved your life. I now conic t Dr. Drcmgoole’s
English Female Bitters is the : . wonderful female
meaiciue and iron tonic I knew, and that
Bailey’s Saline Aperient is u snt and sovereign
remedy for headache, cons n, acid stomach,
biliousness, etc,, etc.” Ft Medical Adviser
free. Address J. P. Dromgoo 0., Louisville, Ky.
TEH | - ley of •
BEST Isj traneei
BESTj A • MNST |
BEST!Ac -dents
jg.
P- t; V
Bid -f
wliich is to 'y,
Perry Davis’s ain Kiiler
Captain Chas. Allen, o£ oroeeter (Mass.)
Fire Department, say :. r the doctor set
tho broken bone, I used I- Killer as a lini
ment, and it cured me in i ct tunc."
Captain D. S. Goode)!, .of Searsport,
Maine, sal's: “For bruise: -.rains and cuts,
I know of no medicine th-. more effe, hive."
David Pierce, Utica, N. Y ssyts: " Fo;- cuts,
bruises, bums and sprain. has never failed
to effect a cure."
An accident may hajc a to-ruerrow.
Buy Perky Davis’s ain Killer
to-day of any ~ uggist j
FOR iALE!
ONE STORE HOUSE V i) LOT IN cm
Cartersville, fronting übiic square, x.
the court house.
Alto ore farm containing 140 acres, lying
Burnt Hickory road %} 2 mi, t. from Cartersvi
west; a >out 80 acres cleared, balance well tit
bored; comfortably impro. oil; or would lie
chonged for city property.
Also, one farm lying 5 miles west of Cart
ville, on new Kingston road containing24o a.
about 140 cleared, balance well timbered; w
improved. This place ear e divided into 1
farms, each with good i. movements. V
this place will be sold mul. wagons and fa
ingimplements if desired, For prices, tei
etc., call upon the tinders ned at (ni ters'
Ga. (aug2) J. A. HOWARD.