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All hills <br advertising in this paper are due to/ time after the first insertion of the same, . * l will be collected at the pleasure 1 t the propviet or, unless olhei w isc arranged by 1 011- r:ict. w r-ri-il* iiiiiswß 1■! nscawsv-maaj Travelers 5 Gu*de. ! IIEUOS EE RAILROAD. B'jlROM and after this date the loliowiii; 8 - 8* hciiule w ill be run on the Cherokee KaT b ive Uiitknian at 7:00 A. At. “ i'av 'uvsviUe, 8:00 “ “ Stili sboro, 8:25 “ Arrive at ( trter.sv illc, 9:10 “ l.eave Carlersville 3:00 I’. 51. •* St *1 isboro, 3:50 “ Ta y.orsville 4:30 “ Arrive at Kockroart 6:15 “ WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD AND ITS CONNECTIONS. The following Schedule takes effect Novem ber 2s, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta 4 20 pin Arrive Cartersville —.6 36 pui Arrive Kingston 6 42 p in Arrive Dalton 7 04 p m Arrive Chattanooga 19 15 i> m No. 3. Leave Atlanta 6 eO a in Arrive Cartersville 8 42 am Arrive Kingston 9 i[ it ui Arrive Dalton 10 54 tt m Arrive.Chattunooga 12 42 pm No. li. Leave Atlanta 5 55 p in Ari ive!s(. ai t'wsville 8 50 p m Arrive Kingston 9 24 p in Arrive Datum 11 45 p m HJITIAVAKi)- No. 2. Alive Chattanooga 4 Oo p in Leave Dalton 5 51 p m Yin: vo King-ton 7 31 pm \ nve r.-.i ersville 8 92 P m Arrive Atlanta 19 19 p ru , No. 4. Leave Chattanooga 5 15 am Arrive Dalton 7 14 am Arrive Kingston 9 67 a ni Arrive Cartersville 9 45 am Arrive Atlanta H 55 n’n No. 12. Arrive Dalton 1 90 a m Arrive Kingston 4 21 am Arrive Cartersville 5 18 a in Arrive Atlanta 9 42 a tn Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be tween New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run 011 Nos. 1 and 4 be tween Atlanta and Nashville. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos .*a3 nd Sbe- Iwceii Louisville and Atlanta. .* rh in go of ca: - between New Orleans M0:,i;... Montgomery. Atlanta and Baltimore and out ono'change to New York. ' - .ger- leaving Atlanta at 410 p. ni . ar -1 iv,' in New York the second thereafter at 4 90 l>. 111. Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs and \ annus Summer Resorts will be on su.e i * ,\i w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, colura . Macon, Btv 1 ninth, Augusta and Atluiun. ..t greatly reduced rates Ist 01 June. Parties desiring a whole car through to the Virginia springs or to Baltimore should au dress the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should semi l'nr a eopyol' the Ktnne*ino Jioute Gazette, con taining schedules, etc. pa- A-:, lor tickets via “Kennesaw Route. B. W. WUENN, Go acral Passenger and Ticket Agent, may22—dtf Atlanta, C.i ATLANTA A WEST POINT RAILROAD. PASSENGER THAI N —OUT W A UD. STATIONS, ARRIVE. LEAVE \ i Lint a 10:25 p. m. : - Poire 10:44 p. ni. 10:44 p. m (.-do tk 1<:59 j.. m. 31:44 i>- m. i ■ !u n 11:2* p. m. 11:32 p. m i'..:..ici t-i 11:37 p. m. 11:88 p. m. Powell’s. 11 75“ p. m, It :59 p. ill. \ewi: ~12:11 p. 111. 33:15 a. 111. t.i „ v 12:59 a m 12:51 a m Hogan- \ ilka 1:1*8 a m 1:09 am V, In;licl IN 1:34 a m 1:35 am LaUrar.go. 1:51 a m 1:55 am ; . , ;;iie 2:21 a m 2:21 a in West roinr...'. 2:40 a m p VSiENCLU TRaIN-INWARD. STATION'S. AKKIVE. LEAVE. West Point 12:39 p m Long Cane 13:36 p m 13:36 p 111 La Grange 1:02 pm 1:03 p m W hitilelu'.- 1221 p m 1:21 p m Ilogiiiisville 1:21 pm 1:42 piu Graniville 1:37 pm 1:58 pm Puckett’s 2:13 pm 2:18 pm Newii tn 2:29 p in 2:00 p m Poweil’s 2:44 pm 2:45 pm Palmetto 3:145 p m 3:oi p in Fairburu 3:32 pm 2:2! p m i:,,i 0.,t 3:3Bpm 3:42pm Last Point 8:57 p m 3:57 pm > . . -i *iv S>El 31A TiOME & DALTON. MAIL TRAIN DAILY—NORTH. Leave Rome 6:10 p m Arrive at Dalton 3:81 p m Making close connections :d Dalton with the Hast Tennessee, Virginia a- 1 Georgia Untl rnal. aiul Western and Atlantic Railroad lor ail Eastern and Western cities. MAIL TRAIN DAILY—SOLID. Leave Dalton P nl Arrive at Rome "• i “ 1 J 111 Arrive at Caiera —•“ u 111 Arrive at Selma 10;20 a m .Making close connection at Caiera lor Mon. ginnery and points South, and at Selma w it- Alabiim* l entral Railroad for Mobile, New Or leans. Meridian. Vicksburg, .Tack son, all points South ia Tex ts. Louisiana and MEsis sippi. M. STANTON, Gen. Sup’t. Uav Height, Gen. Ticket and Pass’gr Agt. GEORGIA RAILROAD. Day Passenger Trains on Oeorgia Railroad, Atlanta to At an*t, run as below: Leaves Augnsta at * 8:45 am ( eaves Atlanta at 7:00 am Arrives at Augusta 3:30 am Arrives at Atlanta 5:45 p m Night passenger trains as follows: Leaves Anan-t* at s -'ls p m !-- -ves Atlanta *t 10:50 p m Arrives at Augusta 3:15 a m Arrives at Atlanta 6:35 u m Accomodation train as follows : Leaves Atlanta 5:90 p m l.eMas Covington 5:50 a m Arrives at Atl ;tita 8.15 * ™ Arrives it Covington 7:30 p m T M* CO6U HI6 •.It STEAM**?. . ob the Coosa River will run as per schwi:, totlows: J.eitvv Hobm kverv Monday at 1 P m -e.ive k. every ThnratUy Bam ai-r!!* * l ***'•*• Tucaday and friday..* a ni A e at Roiiu ts e.tnee.iav and Saturday# p ir J- M. ELLIOTT. Gen’l Sup” Bartow Hons®, Cartersville, Ga. A Ik! again been leased by the 114*4 aa --he hopes her old fi ienda *• '• p, ll ' Bot forget her. Her tables :i * dkell 11 lh, ‘ best to be bed in market, ni,htd a re neatly and comfortably fur- P t • Mrs. e. m. stovall, ■ S helm AN’. Proprietress. Dlerk. june!7-tf. THE ETOWAH RIVER. Report of the United States Engineer of the Examination from It ridge, near Cartersville, to Rome. Chattanooga, Tenx., ) August 34, 1872. j Major: In compliance with your instructions, I have the honor to sub mit the following report of an exami nation of Etowah river, from the bridge of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, near Cartersville, Georgia, to its junction with the Oostanaula • and Coosa rivers at Rome, Georgia, j The bridge of the Western and At-1 lantie Railroad is a Howe truss j wooden bridge, with five spans of about seventy feet each. The bot tom of the lower chord is about 30 j leet above high-water mark. River at this point is 250 feet wide. A shoal begins at the railroad bridge and ex tends down the river 1,500 feet. Eight hundred feet below the bridge is an old mill with a dam built of loose rock, extending entirely across j the stieain. It will be necessary to remove a ; portion of this dam, say 100 by 8 by | 10 feet loose rock, and build a dam ’ 250 feet long at hot of shoal, and a ' lock of 4 feet lift. Tne fall is only i two feet on the shoal, but it will j cost h o to build a dam and a Jock | than to excavate a channel the whole i length of the shoal; estimates for j which is annexed to the report. We j line! the water from G to 12 feet deep ! (ora half mile farther down, which I brings us to Puckett’s ferry, and 500 feet below Puckett’s ferry a loose [ rock and gravel-bar extends across] the river. The fall here is 18 feet, flic improvement needed is a chan nel excavated throgh the bar 400 feet ! lung, SO feet wide, and 2 feet deep. One and a quarter miles below the * \ •-tern A Atlantic Railroad bridge! we come to L. Tumlin’s mill and any, u acre it will be necessary to Duiid a dam 9 feet high, 250 feet long, with a lock of 5 feet lift. One-quarter of a mile below Turn in’s mill there is a gravel-bar where i channel will have to be cut GOO feei long, 80 feet wide, and 1 foot deep. One-half mile below Tumlin’s mill a loose rock and gravel-bar that will require a channel to be opened through it 200 feet long, 80 feet wide m:b iq fe< t deep. One mile below Tumlin’s mill is another gravel-bar, through which a channel will have to he opened 100 b.v 80 by 2.V feet, loose rock and gravel. One-half mile above Douthard’s ferry there is a gravel-bar, where the only improvement needed is a chan nel to be cut through the bar, 500 by 80 by 2 feet. Bar at Douthard’s ferry, three tubes below Tumlin’s mill, is composed • f loose rock and gravel. A channel 300 by 21 by SO feet will give sufficient- water-way. River at this point is about 225 feet wide. About three-qua: tors of a mile be low Douthard’s l'erry the river widens out to 350 feet wide, forming a shoal I 3,500 feet in length on which there is j a total faii of 3] feet. The water is j only 2 feet deep. The improvement required here is a dam 250 feet long, and a lock of 5 feet lift; also the removal of 50 cubic yards solid rock, and 700 cubic yards loose rock. There is a truss bridge here, 350 feet long, which will have to be remodeled. The banks of the l iver are general- i lv 12 feet high. At the foot of the last mentioned I shoal the river contracts to a width i of 225 feet, until we reach a shoal j about GOO feet above Rowland’s ferry. 1 At the upper odd of this -hoal a reef of rocks contracts the channePvvay to j 50 feet in width. Below the reef a ; a gravel-bar extends across tlie * stream, through which it will he nee- 1 essary to widen the channel through ] the rock reef at the head of shoal. On both sides of the river there is j a beautiful and fertile countty; the ; soil is dark red, very rich, and the: land under a high slide of c;dtiva- ; tion. At Rowland’s ferry the hanks are ! 20 feet high. The high-water mark [ 11 9.8 feet above the low stage ot wa- ] t r. Petit’s creek makes in from the ' right hank, just opposite here. The j river Is 200 feet wide. One half mile below Rowland’s 1 ferry we come to the bridge of the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad; it is Howe truss, and is 192 feet long in the clear, and reaches across the river in one span; bottom of lower chord is 21.4 feet above low water, or 1 I.G feet above the highest stage of water. Depth of water in the chan nel is G feet. It will be necessary to put a draw in this bridge. One-third of a mile below the above bridge is a rock reef, through which it will be necessary to cut a channel 50 by 80 by 2 feet. Three-quarters of a mile below the railroad bridge R a tlsh trap dam to be taken (..ut; 135 cubic yards (if loose rock will cover the amount of m:\te * rial to he excavated. i wo miles below the bridge of the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad is a gravel bar and fish-trap dam, known as Row land’s shoal. Im provement needed here is a channel 300 leet long, 3 feet deep, and 80 feet wide. One-half mile below Roland’s j -On nl is a gravel-bar 300 feet long, with only 3 feet depth of water and considerable current. Il will be nec essary here to build a wing dam of riprap, below the shoal, 7 feet high, and 300 feet long, to back the water up over the bar, and make it deeper. We have good water for the next five miles, where we find a solid rock reef extending across the river about half a mile above tStile’s house exca vation in solid rock necessary t* make a good channel 400 by 80 by 2 feet. For the next one and a half miles we have from 4 to 10 feet of water, until we reach a reef of rocks ex tending across at right angles to the course of the river, Below this reef a gravel bar extends 400 feet further down the-river. It will be necessary to cut a channel through this shoal 440 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 3 feet deep. One-eighth of the mate rial will he solid rock, and the rest gravel and loose rock, the width of the river here is 250 feet. The banks i are £0 feet high, and there is a high i rolling country extending back from i the rivers onjboth sides. Three-fourths of a mile further down the river there is a rock-reef extending across the river, on which there are only 3 feet of water at a low stage. It will be necessary to cut a chan nel through this reef 200 foot long, 80 feet wide and two feet deep. The amount of excavation will be 1,183 cubic yards of solid rock. There is not much fall over the reef. The country is flat on the right, and hilly on the left of river. One-third of a mile further down tht-re is another reef, which is one quartcr of a mile’ above Thomas Tumlin’s ferry. Theie <ire six feet of water above the reef, 18 inches on the reef aiid G below, and not much current.’ Evea vat ions necessary to open a channel, 100 by 80 by 3 feet in solid rock. At Thomas Tumlin’s ferry the river l 240 feet wide, and there are 8 feet water in the channel. Banks are about feet high, with a level country on both sides of the river. The distance to the railroad bridge at Cartersville i t about 15 miles. Eu harlee creek n. Tes in on the left bank one-eight mile below the ferry one-half mile elow Thomas Tum lin’s ferry is a ish-trap dam and a shoal 1,500 feet in length. The river here is 340 feet wide, and not more than 18 inches deep. The fall is 2G feet the whole length of the shoal. Banks are 18 feet high, and increasing in height from the river. At’foot of shoal the river contracts to 200 feet wide, aud the water is 8 feet deep. The improvement needed here is a dam to make slack water over the shoal, with a lock of 5 feet lift. Length of dam, 250 feet. At Milam’s ferry the river is 350 feet wide and water 8 feet deep in the channel, one-quarter of a mile below Milam’s ferry is a loose rock and travel bar. The fall is 0.7 foot; excavation necessary to make a channel is 400 by 80 by 3 feet, gravel and loose rock. Calhoun’s Island is situated one mile below Milam’s.Ferry. There is a gravel-bar extending from; the head of tliis island te the right bank. The improvement needed here is a channel to be excavated through the oar 500 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 14 feet deep, and in .addition thereto a dam to be built from the head of the island to the left bank, to deflect tiie water into the right-hand chute. This.dam is to be rip rap, 500 feet long and 9 feet high. Three hundred feet below the foot of Calhoun’s Island there is a rock reef extending across the river that will require aehannel to be excavated in rock 150 by 80 by 2 feet. Two miles below Milam’s Ferry we come to Calh;nm’s and Sayre’s ferry which is about ten miles from Cartersville by the country road, and four miles from Kingston. The distance to Cartersville is about 18 miles by the river. One-quarter of a m.l© below Calhoun’s ferry there R a 'reef of rocks diag onally across the river. The water above the reef is G feet deep, on the reef 2 leet: below the reef it is five feet deep; the fail is G inches. The improvement necessary is a channel cut through the reef 150 by 80 by 2 feet, all solid rock. For the next three-quarters of a mile we have from 5 to 8 feet of water, which brings us to a shoal three quarters of a mile below Calhoun’s ferry* Here a reef of ragged broken rocks extend across the river. About 400 cubic yards of rock blasted out will give aehannel 30 feet wide and 4 feet deep. Rocky Bluffs extended down to the river on the left hand but on the right the country is level. At Mark Harden’s ferry and the shoal immediately below, the river widens out from 300 to 700 feet wide, with reef's of rocks extending across the river at intervals for 1,200 feet, with a fall in the distance of 2.47 feet. There are about 1,000 feet of slack water between this shoal and the oth er below; but on account of the great width of the river the water is 3 feet deep. The river then begins to full rapidly, and the water becomes only j 18*iriches deep. The fall in 2,000 feet * is G.4G feet. This will make the total fall of the two shoals 8.93 feet. The | improvement necessary is a dam 500 I feet long, and a lock of 10 fed lift. The banks are very high, and there will be no difficulty in giving the re quired lift to the l<ick, as there wiii be no danger of overflowing the adja cent lands. Frick’s Ford Island is situated at the foot of the above shoals; one quarter of a mile below Frick’s Ford Isaud there is a rock-reef extending across the river. Excavation neces sary to open a channel through the reef, 100 by 18 by 3 feet, ail rock. One-half mile below is another reef; excavation 150 by 80 bv 2 feet, all rock. About one quarter of a mile above Reynolds’ Ford there is a gravel bar and fish trap dam. Shoal 400 feet long, with G feet depth of water. It will be necessary pi open a chan nel through the bar 400 feet long, 80 feet wide and 2 feet deep, all gravel. At Reynolds’ Ford there is a grav el bar extending entirely across the river, and 400 feet long. Water 31 feet above tiie bar, 24 feet on the bar, and 7 feet below the bar. The best water is along the right bank. The improvement needed here is a riprap wing dam 300 feet long and G leet high, to hack the water up on the shoal and make it deeper. There is a gravel bar extending across the river one-half mile below Reynold's Ford. There are 7 feet of water above the bar, 2 feet on tiie bar and 8 feet below the bar. Exca vation necessary to open a channel, 200 by SO by 2 feet, one-half gravel and tne oilier half solid rock. One mile below Reynolds’ Ford there is a shoal on which there are only i3 inches of water. Length of shoal is 1,300 feet, and l' !e f ;l11 is 8 feet. Width of river at foot of shoal 350 feet. Improvement needed here is a dam below the shoal OiO leet long and a lock of 5 feet lift. Two-Run creek makes in at this shoal from the right bank. Conaseen creek comes in from the rigid bank one-half mile below. One-half mile below the mouth of Conaseen creek we come to Wooley’s bridge, which is a Howe truss about 300 leet long. Bottom of the lower chord is 13 feet above high water mark. High water is 12 feet above low water mark. For one mile below Wooley’s bridge we have good water from 4 to 10 feet deep. This brings us to a shoal and fish-trap dam. A channel will have to be opened through this shoal 300 by 80 by 2 leet. There is a rock reef one and one-half miles be low Woolley’s bridge that will have to have a channel excavated 50 by 80 by 3 feet, solid rock. Two miles be low Woolley’s bridge there is a shoal 3,000 feet long, on which there is a fall of 6 feet. The banks on both sides are 20 feet high, and on the lower half a hill slopes down to the river on the left. The improvement recommended here is a dam across the river below the snoal 300 feet long, ahd a lock 6 feet litt. This will make slack water over the whole length of the shoal. At the upper end it will be neces sary to cut a channel through a rock reef 75 by 80 by 2 feet iu solid rock. The above shoals are known as Muchison’s shoals. One-half mile below Muchison’s shoals we come to Mayhew’s ferry. The river here is 300 feet wide, banks 20 feet high; hilly country on both sides of the river. For one and one-half miles below Mavhew’s ferry we have good water from 4to 12 feet deep, with the ex ception of a small gravel bar at the ferry. Excavations necessary to opou a channel, 150 by 80 by 2 feet. CAItTEUSYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 9, 1575. One and one-half miles below May hew’s ferry there is a small island near the left shore, and between this and the left shore there is a srnali gravel bar 150 by 80 by 2 feet; gravel excavation needed. Two miles below Mayhew’s ferry we come to Eve’s station on the Rome Railroad. The railroad has been running along on the bank of the river since leaving Woolley’s bridge, four and one-half miles above. There is a gravel bar 800 feet below Eve’s station, where it is necessary to make an excavation 300 by 80 by 2 feet, in gravel. Skinner’s shoal is one-half mile be low Eve’s station; it is 1,200 feet long with a fall of 2 feet. Improve ment recommended here §is to exca vate a channel-way two-thirds the length of the shoal, and in addition to build a riprap wing-dam 350 feet long and G feet high to check the cur rent and back the water sufficiently to deepen the channel. There is a rock reef and gravel-bar situated one-fourth mile above Bass’ ferry. There is very little fall, and all that is necessary to open the chan nel is to make an excavation 200 by 2 feet one-half rock the other half gravel. For one a half miles below Bass’ ferry is g;>::4 water; banks 18 to 22 feet i.ig'n ; river 300 feet wide on an average, sometimes widening out to 35!) feet, and agiin contracting to 250 feet. Occasionally bluffs and hills extend down to the river, and then the country opens out again, first on one side of the river and then on the other side. Two miles below Bass’ ferry there is a shoal 2,500 feet long on which there are but two feet of water, 'file fall three and one-half feet. The improvement needed here is a dam to he built below the shoal, and a lock of lift. Six hundred feet be low, some; loose rock obstruct the channel ; 609 cubic yard.-* will cover the am > int to be removed. Three miles below Bass’ ferry we come to a shoal 500 feet long. There is an old mill-dam of rock loose extending nearly across the river, about 50 feet of wnieh will hare to be excavated along the left sh >re, 500 by 80 to 2 feet. All the exc oration will be gravel and loose rock. In addition to the above wing-dam or rip-rap, 300 feet long and G feet high, should be built below the shoal to deepen the water and cheek the current. Three and one-fourth miles b low Bass’ ferry there is a rock reef making across the river immediate ly above Ayer’s ferry. Excavation necessary here is 200 by 80 by 24 feet, one-half rock, the other half gravel. This brings us to Ayers’ ferry, three and one-fourth miles below Bass’ fer ry and seven miles above Rome. River 100 feet wide ; banks about 1G feet high. Two hundred yards below Ayer’s ferry there is a rock reef extending across the river. Thor are 2 feet of water above the reef, 2 feet on the reef, and 8 fed# below. Improve ment necessary here is a channel to be rut through the rock, 290 by 8n by 2j feet, half of which will be rock and the other half gravel. One mile below Ayer’s ferry we come to Freeman’s ferry, and a half mile below there is a shoal and a fish-trap dam. We have 24 to 3 feet water for another half mile, there is another fish-trap dam with a fall of 1.2 feet. A dam 350 feet long should be located here, and a lock of G feet lift ; this would deepen the water over tiie mile and a half of shoal wa ter above. The above shoal is known as Matthew’s shoal. There is another gravel-bar ahd trap dam one-half mile below Math ew’s shoal. Excavation necessary here is 200 by 80 by 3 feet, all gravel and loose rock. One mile below Mathew’s shoal there is another reef and gravel-ha Excavation 100 by 89, by 2} feet, one half rock, the other half gravel. Two miles below Mathew's shoal there is a rock reef and gravel-bar on which there are but 2 feet of water, and the whole two miles are shoaly, ranging from 24 toll feet of water. One-half mile below there is another gravel-bar and fish-trap dam. The bar is 400 feet long, and the fall is two feet. A dam 400 feet long lo cated here with a lock of G feet lift will give sufficient depth of water all the way to Mathew’s shoal, two and a half miles above Rome, two and a half miles distant. About a mile above the mouth of the river two channels are formed by an island. The best water is in the left hand channel. It will be neces sary to build a wing-dam ef riprap, 200 feet long and G feet high, from the head of the island to light hand bank, to deflect the water into and deepen the 1 ft channel. Opposite to the city of Rome, and a quarter of a mile above the mouth of the river, there are two bridges, one a railroad Lowe truss arid iire other a street bridge of the Howe truss pattern, neither of which has “draws.” Steamboats can pass un der them by lowering their smoke stacks, except during freshets. Estimates for above descrived im provements on the Etowah river, from the Western and Atlantic rail road bridge, near Cartersville, Geor gia, to Rome, Georgia, a distance of about fifty miles, are herewith an nexed. I have the honor to be your most obedient servant, James G. Long, Civil Engineer. Major Walter McFarland, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. The total estimated cost of the fore going improvement is $271,718. War to the Knife. The Washington correspondent of the Savannah News writes as follows about the feud between the Radical ins and outs down this way : A fierce engagement is raging be tween the carpet-baggers and scalia wags of Middle Tennessee over the Federal offices. The latter hold the offices aud the former, are trying to oust them. These ex-Federal colo nels, O’Rourke, Jones and Galbraith, have been pushing for the Collector ship, the Marshal’s position and the Pension Agency, and have been backed up pretty heavily. But the present Collector, ClitTe, is backed by Brownlow, whose son Jim married his daughter, and John Brownlow has been acting for the parson in pre venting any change. The carpet baggers sigii for Maynard as their hope, and say that Jakey Thorn burgh, the Republican member for that State, is of no account. So the would-be officials will have to jump their board biiis and return home. The South Georgia Conference meets iu Americus on the 15th of this month, and that city extends i hearty welcome to all who may come. Nearly ail the converging railroads have agreed to carry ministers and delegates for one fare. Delegates coming by rail will be met at the depot by members of the reception committee and assigned to their re spective quarters. Financial- The Report of the Comptroller oi* the Cur rency. Washington dispatches state that the annual report of the Comptroller of the currency has just been com pleted. As might have been ex pected, it is largely dhvoted to the defense of tiie national banking sys tem, and urges its continuance. The Comptroller presents a table, show ing the operations of the currency acts of June 20, 1871, and January 14, 1875, to the first of this mouth. The increase net of banking circula tion from June 20, 1871, to January 14,1875, was $1,987,268. The decrease from January 11, 1875, to November 1, 1875, was $6,271,518. The total bank circulation redeemed from June 20,1871, to November 1, 1875, was $17,337,537. The amount of le gal tender notes permanently retired, under the act of January 14, 1875, is $8,763,756. S veral amendments to the bank ing laws are recommended by the Comptroller, as follows: 1. An amendment authorizing the Comptroller to appoint receivers of national banks, whether transact big business or in liquidation, when in solvency shall become evident from ihe protest of drafts or of checks drawn upon such associations or oth erwise, if, after due examination, it sOaii appear that the assets arc in sufficient for the liquidation of exist ing indebtedness. 2. Providing for the appointment of a receiver when the charter of a bank isT determined and adjudged j forfeited by a United States Court, before which suit is brought,ms pro vided in section 5,235 of the Revised Statutes. 3. Providing that, after full pay ment shall have been made of Bill debts of an association, may be ap pointed by the shareholders of tne bank for the purpose of liquidating affairs, and discharging the Controll er and the Receiver, by virtue of such legislation, from all further re sponsibility. I. For the investment of the funds on deposit with the Treasurer in in tere-J-bearing securities, when divi dends are delayed by reason of pro tracied litigation. 5. Providing that if any sharehold er or shareholders of banks whose capital stock is impaired, shall refuse, after three months’ notice, to pay their assessments, as provided in sec tion 5,205, revised statutes, a suffi cient amount of the capital stock of such delinquent shareholder or shareholders shail be sold to make good the deficiency. G. An amendimrnt to section 5.290 of the revised statues, extending ihe | limit of liabilities of any association, person, company, or firm, for money ! borrowed, from 10 per cent, of the capital paid in to 15 per cent, of the ! capital and surplus lor banks located ! iu the redemption cities, and one tenth of the capital and surplus for! other banks. 7. Prohibiting the deposit of more th-.Hi 10 per cent, of the capital of a national bank with any private banker, or with any person or asso- j ciations, than a national hank ing association. 8. That no national bank will be ! liable to make good any deficiency | which may hereafter arise in any ] special deposit made with such bank, unless a receipt shail he produced by the owner of such deposit, in which ! the liability of tiie bank shall be dis tinctly stated. 9. The repeal of the two-cent stamp | tax upon bank checks. 10. Requiring the word “counter- i foil” or “altered” or “illegal” to be slamped on all counterfeit or unau-! thorized issues. 11, The repeal of the portion of the section of the revised statutes, section 1, June 17, 1870 providing for the or ganization of Savings Banks in the Di.'triet of Columbia. No amendments are recommended to the acts of June 20, 1871, and Jan uary 11, 1875, with the exception of a suggestion in reference to the expense of the redemption' of the national bank notes. An Episode. FCici-cY'an, ,Jo’in-O.on ami Wea-.irt-Lar l. There were a is*) episodes. Generals Wiiiutm T. Sherman, Joseph ih Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard were the heroes of a notable one. Gen. She: nuui had entered early into the h: i and had gone upon the plat fonvi. Later it was also moved that Gen. Johnston also be invited*!.) t ike a seat alongside of Gen. Sherman. Over this there broke out a storm of applause. Before all minds there arose ia a moment a picture of the past, it was a war picture, glorious with battle-flags and stormy with steel. H ere a column dreveonward, or was broken; there the blue and the gray, under a powder cloud that shut out sun, struggled in either scale to hold its own with destiny: arid over yonder, wiien the night had fallen—the dead lay out under the starlight, waiting the resurrection. There was a transformation, and the meeting of two Titans, the one the hero of the march to the sea, and the other a hero, also of the same march. These were the central figures of the scene. As they stood up and cor dially .-hook hands—Johnson and Sherman —for the space of five min utes the temple shook with appiause as though a storm was raging. There was no longer any war in the land. Two of the prominent men in the civil coming together in the interest of restored Union, had met to set an example of fraternal intercourse and reunion. The spirit of these two sol diers was communicated to the del egates as if by an electral spark, and ti:e effect was magical. Johnston was grav and cool, Sherman bronzed and happy. Both were old friends. What mattered the past ? Peace is to have her victories also, and this time the Federal and Confederate can march under the same flag to the Pacific. Immediately succeeding this greeting came an ovation to Beauregard. Gen. Sherman met him as hestepped upon the platform, shook hands w ith him cordially, and led him to a seat. There sat the trio, the past in the shadow and the pres ent in the sunshine. Was it fate after all that in tde c muneree more powerful than war? — St. Louis Times. The Georgia regiment for the cen tennial, will rendevoUß at Atlanta, and go to Philadelphia under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston, General Gordon, Gen. P. -\I. B. Young, or some other distin guished ex-Cun federate officer. The command will embrace companies from the leading cities, and the cost of the trip, go and return, each, will be about thirty dollars. j Speeinl Notices. IHPOKTANT NOTICE TO CONSUMPTIVES. The long looted-for specific for the cure of all pulmonary diseases is found at last. Globk ] Flower Strut has proved the most extraor- I dinary medical preparation ever discovered for curing Consumption. Globe Flower Syr up not only cures Consumption, but relieves, immediately, the incipient stages; such as Coughs, Colds. Pains in the Chest, General Debility, etc. it breaks up the most distress ing Coughs and Colds in an incredible short time. 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It is in-j deed, an elegant combination of pure Castile Soap with other cleansing and preserving in gredients delicately flavored. Very Respectfully, W. W. FORD. Surgeon Dentist. Professional Cards. LAW & JRJEAff*. ESTATE, j vY. T. WOFFORD, & NY bu-ii e-s let with C'apt. Saiulord and' e\ Mr. Waters, win* are in my office, wall re- j ci vc my attention. 1 wall be at my office usu- ■ ally between tiie hour.- *f 19 and 11 each mmi : iug. ]lebl8) W.T. \Vv*KFrtUD. ] O. Pinkerton*. Lindsey Johnson. s>ls2kei,4t*5 > Is2kei , 4t* & Joiieisoai I’liysieiurts anti Surgeons, OFFICE— in .Johnson & Curry’s Drug Store. 1 March 18, l: 75. U. £l. ISATTKS, ATTORNEY AT LA W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office ia the Cot. t llou-e. dec9-ly J. M. nobx, AT TOii NT Ifl Y A T laA W. CARTERSVILLF., GEORGIA. Office: Up'stairs, over >tkely & Williams, West Main Street. Kuril WA IS BUB X" AA £ Y SO\, AT TOKN EV s A T Ia A W , CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Feb 11, ly. OfiO. C. TUHLII, ATTORNEY AT LAW,' OAR TE RS VII. LU, GEO RGIA Office: Up-S::irs, Bank Block. jan 29-1 y ROBERT B. TIDPPI3, ATTO RN E Y A T I. A W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE with Col. Able. .John-on, i■ tie Court House mayl-airn. li. w". OiE'ai evT ATTORNEY AT LAW CA RTERSVII.LE. ga. OFfMJK (up stairs) iu tiie 1 rieU buiMinsr corner Main and train streets. dec2-th . .1. W. SIAiiUIS, ,2r., ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cartersville, Ga. OFFICE next door to The express printing establishment. JOHN* W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILNER WOFFORD ATTOIi NE Y S A T LA\V , CARTERSVILLE, GA., OFFICE up stairs, Bank Block. 9-5-tl. TO THE CITIZENS OF BARTOW AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. LOOK TO YOUR INTERESTS. qiTl-;, THE UNDERSIGNED/ beg to call y your attention to our Stock os FALL AND WINTER GOODS, now arriving—Bacon. Flour, Sugar, Salt, Syr up. Molasses. Bagging. Ties, Hardware of ail kinds, Boots, -hoe-, flats. Cap*-, Wood ware. Tin Ware, Drugs, Medicines, Ready Made Clothing, Books, Stationery, Saddlery, Dry Goods of all kinds. Notions of every description, Crock ery. Guns, Clocks, Tobacco, ( igars, Housekeepers’ Fancy Goods, etc., etc., in fact all kinds ot' Goods usually found in a General Stock, and adapted to the wants of all classes of citizens, and at prices that will compare favorably witn any market. Remember, when yon buy from us, you do not pay high rates of city taxation, high house rents and high clerk’s hire prices lor your goods: hence the low priees found in our stock. You are invited to come and see for your selves. We will buy your Wheat, Cotton, Corn, Rags, Chickens; Eggs; Butter, etc., etc., and pay you I lie highest market prices for them. Come and see us. ROME PRICES PAID FOR COTTON. >' W. L. >VO FFO RD & CD. Cass Station, Ga. Sept.29ni2 Attention. My Gin is now running and ready to gin all offered at that point. 1 will st *rt ;t new gin at the Fair Grouud in a tew davs. to he propelled by steam. All seal cotton offerred yv *ll be stored in the large ware , nouse, capable id holding one hundred bale- in the seed. The gin will he placed eighty yards from the ware house, and only one bale at a time be in the gin room, to avoid accidents by fire. Toll for ginning will lie the custom o. the country. I shall be able, at both gins, to pick an i pack seven or tight bales a day. so there wil be no i detention. Cotton will De delivered at the platform at Cartersville, wh -n desired, free of charge. Toll eau l*e paid in cotton seed, if the owner desires it. Both Gins of the noted Gullett improved make. Will pay cash for all washed Wool, and will purchase seed cottmi at all times, at full cash prices. (septl3.*2m) J. J. HOWARD. THE CiTEHIIiE EXPBESS, (THE OLD STANDARD AND EXPRESS.) By C. H. O. WILLINGHAM. HAVING purchased the Standard & Express newspaper, together with its good will and patronage, presses and printing material, I shall continue its publication under the name of m cmnsviiii firms. The old name is abbreviated for the sake of convenience, re taining, as I believe, the most expressive part of it. EXPRE3SS Will be emphatically a HOME PAPER earnestly devoted to the mineral and agricultural interests of Bartow, sparing no effort to advance these to the best of my ability. I shall also exert the influence of 'THE EXPRESS in the building up of Carte rsville, and aid all I can in pushing our little city forward as one of the livest places in Georgia, In a word TUT] EXPRESS V ill recognize the fact that the interests of Bartow County and Cartersviile are inseparable—that whatever advances the progress of either is the good of both. IE 3 OLITICS. THE EXPRESS will be thoroughly and uncompromisingly Democratic —opposed to all RINGS and CLIQUES and an enemy to all combinations to use the party for personally am bitious motives. It will vindicate the integrity of the party as the party of the people and for the people—as the proper ex ponent of free government, and as the only political organiza tion capable of restoring government in this country to its original methods and principles. Upon this line of party faith I shall recognize no other political creed than that the De mocracy is the party of free government and of a free people. THE EXPRESS % Will be a free, bold and independent paper, and not the organ of an} T 3NTOIE* CLIQUE As has been very erroneously and unjustly charged. The mer chant, the farmer, the mechanic and the laborer will find Til Express the friend of all alike—striving to build up ell inter ests, defending the rights of all classes. With this short and hurriedly written expression of my in tentions, I ask the favor and patronage of an honest peoplj, promising to exert my best endeavors to present a newspaper equal in merit and tone to any paper in the State. I no one will be influenced by any silly charges that The press will be run on any other line than that of honesty and independence. Address all orders for the paper to The Express, Cartersviile, C. U. C. WILLOGHAII, Cartersviile, Cia. VOLUME XVI—NUMBER 49.