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HON. A. ESTEPHENS.
j How “the Oltl Muti Eloquent” has the
Kuack of Getting on the Wrong Side.
j The following defense of Mr. Ste
phens from the Memphis Appeal is
! well written, and fully illustrates the
j wisdom and sagacity of the “sage of
| Liberty Hall” on all public ques
tions :
j To the Editor of the Memph is Appeal:
Allow me space to notice the fol
lowing paragraph which appeared in
yesterday’s issue of your paper, the
implication and general spirit of
which, I think, does the distinguish
j ed gentleman named great injustice,
i viz:
Hon. A. H. Stephens opposes the
| movement for it constitutional con
! vent ion, which is so popular in Geor
| gia. The “old man eloquent has the
• knack of getting on the wrong side.”
I Ido not know whether there is at
this time any “movement for a eon
j stitutioual convention” in Georgia or
i not, nor whether it is “so popular”
!as you intimate, or not; but I know
lion. Alex. li. Stephens well, and
, from my knowledge of his character,
i can assure you that he will not, in
' the selection of a side, stop to in
j quire or consider whether it is “pop-
J ular” or not. The considerations;
which have heretofore determined
j his course on public questions, and !
; which will continue to do so while j
i he fives and retains the faculties of;
| his .mind, are, is it constitutional, is
it right and just, is it politic and ex- |
; pedient. Is it “popular,” or will it
i “take,” is a consideration he never
regards. He forms his own opinions
; on public questions upon mature de- |
liberation and study, and then ex- ;
presses them boldly and fearlessly,
without waiting to hear whether!
they accord with the views of others
or not. He has always had faith in
the good sense and patriotism of the
people that they would ulti
mately approve what is right when
properly presented to them, though j
they might at iirst be led astray fora
time by designing demagogues and
time-servers. If to differ frequently
f- with those whom he would gladly I
; serve at the sacrifice of his life, puts ,
him oil the wrong side,” then indeed,
he has often been “wrong.” But, to
; go hack no further, lest this article
become too long, take ike record for
the last twenty years, and let us ex- ;
amine the main facts of his public ;
life and see how the case stands.
First —In 1855 he was among the j
first to oppose the tideof knovv-noth- :
ingism, which had swept over the j
North and threatened toengulph the ;
South. Most of his old friends in
Georgia had joined the new party, I
and he was earnestly solicited by ;
them to he their candidate for con- j
gross. This he peremptorily declin
ed, and denounced ti.eir party and
its principles from the start. They:
informed him they had a majority of
about three thousand voters of the
district, enrolled by name on the j
hooks of their oath-oound societies,
and threatened him with certain po- |
iitical annihilation for his opposition, i
I suppose you would say he was “on ;
the wrong side;” hut, nothing
daunted by their threats or their
numbers, and relying upon the good
sense and patriutsm of the people, he
canvassed the district and was re
elected by about three thousand ma
jority. To him more than any other
man*in the State, know-nuthingism
owed its death-blow in that grand
old commonwealth of Georgia.
Second —In 1870 he was for Doug- j
lass for President, as was a large ma- I
jority of the Democratic party of the :
Union; hut a few leading men whose j
avowed object was to spiit the Dem
ocratic party, elect Lincoln, amt by
these means precipitate a disruption j
of the. Union—prominent and most j
able among whom were Toombs, j
| Cobh and Yancey—defeated hiseoun- j
sel and carried out their policy. {
When the disunionists seceded from 1
the Baltimore convention it was i
known to them that Douglass lmd I
telegraphed his friends to withdraw
j Itis name, and favor the nomination 1
of any good man upon the Cincinnati
platform in order to harmonize and
unite the party so as to defeat Lin
coln and preserve the Union; but this !
is just what Mr. Toombs, Mr. Cobb!
and their friends did not want. They j
wanted to break up the Union, and
were determined upon it, and would
have seceded from the convention j
sooner than they did if they had ,
known at the time that Mr. Doug-j
lass was urging his friends to unite
upon and support Mr. Stephens for*
the nomination —a man of whom the j
great Douglass afterward said that lie j
was “one of the fir.-t intellects and
purest patriots that this country ever
produced”—lest it should have;
blocked their game of disunion, for i
they could not with any show of hon- j
esly, have refused to accept Mr. ;
Stephens. Why so blind, now or
then, as not to know and admit that, ;
with the great Democratic parly
united Lincoln would have been de
leated, and all the horrors of our
late war, its cruelties, its barbarities,
and its vast destruction of wealth,.
avoided no matter who might have ;
been its standard-bearers. Perhaps
you think in this he was again on
“the wrong side,” but the honest and
patriot e people of this torn, bleed
ing and afflicted land have long since
decided differently, having sorrow
fully realized the wisdom of Mr.
Stephens’ counsel, and the impolicy
of that advocated and carried by his
opponents who were on the side so
“popular” then.
Third—Lincoln was elected, and
the qu stum of secession loomed up
at the South iu grand and “popular”
proportions. Mr. Stephens, although
a firm believer in the ultimate ab
solute sovereignty of the States, and
consequently in the sovereign right
of secession, earnestly opposed its ex
ercise by the Southern States upon
the ground of its impolicy and inex
pediency. He was for uniting ail
the friends of the const.tution all
over the land, and making a final
grand struggle to secure mid perpet
uate constitutional liberty in the
Union, by Hie utter overthrow of
Radicalism at the ballot-box. Who,
at all acquainted with our history is
so ignorant or stupid to-day as not to
know, if this course had been pur
sued, it would have been the death
blow to Radicalism in tnis country
for all time to come, and the elimi
nation forever from our Federal pol
itics of the disturbing question of
negro slavery? But Mr Stephens
wason the unpopular, and therefore
“on the wrong side,” as you put it.
Fourth—Mr. Stephens’s counsel
was rejected and the Suites seeeeded.
: but he, like the true patriot he is,
| cast in his lot with that of his people,
for weal or woe. The Confederate
government was reorganized with
Mr. Davis as President. To Mr.
Davi.-, ht; went and urged the govern
ment's buying at once all the cotton
in the country at ten cems per pound
payable in eight per cent bonds,and
j rushing it to Europe as fast as possi
, kle, before uu efficient blockade was
established. He also advised the
contracting at once, in Europe, for
the building of iron-clad steamers,
lie thought fifteen would be enough
which could have been gotten, equal
to the Monitor, at two millions of
dollars each, making thirty millions
of dollars for all. Five of these he
thought might have been got ready
by January 1862, to open someone of
the ports on our coast, if then blocka
ded. Three of these, he suggested,
could have been retained to keep
j open the port, while two might have
acted as conveys to ships carrying
over our cotton to Europe, not ‘pre
viously gotten out. He counted
upon certainly getting four million
j bales at least at a cost to the gov
ernment of two hundred million
dollars to be held in Europe until
llie price reached fifty cents per
pound, which would have constitu
ted a fund of at least one billion dol
lars, and not only kept our finances
in a sound condition, but left the |
■ government a clear profit of eight
1 hundred million dollars, more than
| enough to meet the expenses of an
eight year war, if economically man
! aged. But had Mr. Stepiiens’s coun- \
; sel been heeded and acted upon, it is j
reasonable the war would not have
lasted three years. Mr. Davis, how
ever, told him that he knew nothing
of finances, and referred him to Mr.
j Metnminger, his secretary of the
| treasury, who certainly knew even
far less than Mr. Davis, by whom
i the plan was rejected. Since the war j
Mr. Davis, whose life you recently !
! announced “a brilliant success,” de-;
dared in a conversation with ids!
physician at Fortress Monroe upon
the subject that “the utter failures:
of Confederate finances was the cause j
of the failure.” He stated, moreover
that he had not time to study the!
cotton plan until it was too late, but I
said it would, in his judgment kept !
the Confederate currency at gold par
during the war, or nearly so, and (in 1
in his own words as reps T*d i, “had
this been done, the cent, act if noth
ing else, would have reduced United i
States securities to zero, and so ter- j
initiated the contest.” [See Prison !
Life of Jeff Davis, p. 172.) Well it
would stem Mr. Stephens “has the
knack of getting on the wrong side.”
Mr. Stephens was devoted heart and
soul, to the success of the Confeder
ate cause, because he believed it to he
the cause of constitutional liberty and
seif-government, and therefore op j
posed all unconstitutional acts and
usurpations lending to despotism,
alike whether done at the south or
the north, lie was not the man to
1 denounce Linelon for an act, and
| eulogize Davis for the same or a like
j act, and because it happended to he
; “popular” to do so; hut there was i
j among us many such statesmen(?). ;
lie would not have turned upon his :
! heel to choose between masters. '
He was born a freeman, and, God
willing, he was determined to die j
one. There were but too many, un-i
fortunately for the good of the coun
try, both north and south, who dif
fered with him in his sentiment, and
who indulged in the expression of i
!of their preferences for this or that
man as their master. You may
have known some of these. I believe i
our goodly city of Memphis had her j
full share of them.
Fifth—Mr. Stephens’ “War be
tween the States.” is an unanswera
ble vindication of self-government,
of State rigiits, and of the South in I
the late war. He has not therein ad- 1
vanced “a theory.” and argued to
support it by facts drawn from his
imagination, as many have done
who have written histories before!
and since the war, but has collected j
the eternal and immutable facts of;
our history from our records—the
authenticity of which no honest or
intelligent man, who has any regard
for his reputation will dare deny.
When Mr. Stephens was North after
the war, he met Charles Dickens, the
novelist, who, in conversation with
him about the proposed work, said,
“What intelligent and thinking men |
want is not mere theories or argu
ments of this or that man—they j
have had enough of these—but the j
documents upon which they can
make their own decision as to the !
right or wrong of the north or south.” .
These Mr. Stephens has compiled and !
furnished. The Saturday Review,
the highest critical authority in En
gland, has pronounced the work the
greatest legal, philosophical and con- 1
! stitutioual argument ever written by
any American from the foundation ■
of our government. Certainly very j
high praise, and especially so. when
it is considered that the Review never 1
had any sympathy with the south or
its politics". This work will rank Mr.
Stephens in the impartial estimation
of posterity, as it already does among
distinguished living intellects, as the
ablest defender and the most lumin
ous expounder of the principles of
our constitution and the doctrine of
State-rights and self-government
since Jefferson and Calhoun.
Sixth—Mr. Stephens has uniformly
and persistently opposed andj “de
nounced the radicals for their infa
mous usurpations and gross viola
tions of the Constitution since the
war of arms ended. He did not join
with those at Baltimore, in 1872 in
indorsing Radical usurpations and j
supporting for President the author
of the worst of them, and afterward
proclaim it a “trick.” Asa states
man, a patriot, and an honest man,
he does not deal in “tricks.” It was
not “popular” among his friends, at
the time, to oppose an abandonment
of Democratic principles, and the in
dorsement of Radical usurpations and
the father of the worst of them, but
hedidit, and therefore put himself
again “on the wrong side.”
Seventh Because Mr. Stephens
i would not denounce and abuse Grant
personally for executing the recon
struction* acts and the reinforcement
) act which Greeley would haveequal
ly executed had he been President
| and perhaps even more harshly than
Grant has, he has been very much
; blamed by the very men who went
to Baltimoreand accepted and indors
; ed these infamies. He has denounced
these acts on all occasions as to stul
fy himself by joining with the “pop
ular” side at Baltimore in accepting
I and indorsing them and their au
thor. The difference between Mr.
| Stephens and his critics upon this
point is simply this: He has uni
■ jornily denounced these infamous
usurpations and zealously urged their
repudiation by the people, without
abusing this or that man for doing
vvliat lie considers his sworn official
duty so long as they remain upon
the statute books unim peached, while
• they denounce a man for executing
as iie believes, according to his oath
of office, the very acts which they
have accepted and indorsed, and
abuse and censoriously criticise every
man who will not join with them iu
their work of self-stultification. Ho
I wason the unpopular, and therefore
on “the wrong side” at the time.
Eighth—The last thing for which
uuniformed men have blamed Mr.
Stephens was his vo*.e during the
last days of the last congress to take
i U p the report of the committee* ou
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1576.
Louisiana affairs. By his vote the
report was taken up, and a unani
mous condemation of that huge ini
quity, the Radical returning board of
Louisiana, was secured, which had
defrauded the Democracy of a ma
jority in the lower house of the leg
islature. Every Radical in the
house, as well as every Democrat vo
ted for the condemnation; and but
for his vote against the tactics of in
competent leaders (?) this grand vic
tory over military rule and Federal
interference could never have been
achieved. This opened the way
moreover, for a like vindication of
popular and States rights and self
government, soon afterward, in the
case of Arkansas. Contrast the con
dition of these States now with what
it was before the action referred to,
and to Mr. Stephens, more than any
other man, the people are indebted
for thechange. There wasno indorse
ment of Kellogg as governor, nor of
any act of his administration, hut
Mr. Stephens’ vote against the tac
tics of Democratic leaders did secure
an unanimous-condemnation of the in
famous returning hoard. 1 think
scripture affords some wise observa
tions about the blind leading the
blind. Some Democratic (?) politi
cians might profit by studying these.
In conclusion, I repeat that Mr.
Stephens never considers whether
a question is “popular” or not, but is
it constitutional, right and just, pol
itic and expedient. He never per
mits his opponents to make issues for ;
him, nor doesJie oppose anything;
simply because his opponents pro-j
pose or favor it, nor favor any mens-!
ure simply because his friends origi !
nate and advocate it. It would be
better for our unhappy country if we
had more such public men and fewer
of those who study to get ori the
“ popular” or paying “side.” I .
know of nothing which so well and 1
truly illustrates liis character in this!
particular as the following brief sen-!
tenee from his speech, in 1855, an
nouncing himself a candidate for'
congress against “knovv-nothingisrn,’
viz: “I would rather lie defeated in a |
good cause than triumph in a had!
one!” Residing in a district contain
ing such men as Herschel V. John
son, he has never met with defeat be
fore the people, and since the war he
has been elected and re-elected to
congress without opposition. He is !
said to he at his home dying, and lie
may be dead before this appears, but
he will live in the heart of his coun
trymen long after his traducers are
forgotten, and his fame as the great
est civilian and ablest statesman on
the Confederate side will shine
brighter and clearer as the years roll
by- H.
January 27, 1876.
Hon. James J. Turnbull publishes!
the following, addressed to Thomas
L. Snead, Esq: “Your ‘open letter’ !
addressed to me through the columns j
of the Atlanta Constitution of the 16th j
inst., asking me to present to the;
House of Representatives the me-!
morial of certain holders of repudia- i
ted anti fraudulent bonds, has been j
read. In reply I will say I cannot ;
surmise why you address me upon
that subject, unless it is because I j
was opposed to the payment of the;
bonds, held by Branch and Herring. '
If so, permit me to say that I am
equally earnest in my opposition to j
the payment of the bonds represent
ed by you, and that consequently, I
must explicitly decline to do any
thing which might tend directly or
indirectly to aid in securing their
payment.”
The grand jury of Polk county
thus admonish two editors: We
also feel it our duty to censure the
course and conduct of our two news
papers towards each other, and ur
gently request the two editors to
cease wrangling about themselves
and branch off into agricultural arti
cles or others that will tend to devel
op the inteiests and welfare of our
county.
From Rowell’s newspaperdictory,
we take the following for the year
1875 : 774 daily ; 100 tri-weekly; 121
serni-weely: 6,287 weekly; 27 hi-;
weekly; 108 semi-monthly; 850:
monthly ; 10 bi-monthly ; 71 quarter- i
ly publications—a total of 5,348, be- j
ing an increase of 564 over that of;
the year 1875.
The impeachment of Lieutenant!
Governor (colored), of Mississippi, is j
a foregone conclusion. Positive!
proof has been furnished that he re-:
ceived a bribe of S6OO for pardoning ;
a murderer. Cardoza, the Superin
tendent of Education, will also be ;
ousted. It is doubtful about getting ;
rid of Ames.
It has been an unusual cold season |
in England and the Registrar-Gener- i
al reports for the twelve days ending j
Jan.l6 the tempature was 2,96’ below j
the average of the last sixty years.
—
It is now said that the negroes who ;
have been emigrating in large squads j
from Georgia into Mississippi are i
anxious to return, wages not being as 1
good as expected and the country '
proving unhealthy.
There are 51,530,000 sqare miles of!
dry land on the surface of the earth; [
of which 12,1*25,948 square miles, ori
j one-fourth, is under the dominion of;
j nations using the English language, j
It is predicted that there will be
! no choice of Governor by the people ;
in the coming New Hamshire elec- |
tion, owning to the temperance vote; ;
hence both sides are endeavoring to i
secure the Legislature.
Although United Btates Marshal i
! Carll was acquited of the charges j
| brought against him by Anthoity !
, Comstock, Attorney-General Pierre
pont has requsted his resignation.
; Hearafter the Justices of the Sur-
I premc Court of the Dominion of Can
! ada will wear robes of scarlet and
i black, trimed with ermine, similar to
those Aorn at Westminster Hall.
Mr. James II Mason of Tauton.
Mass., has a family biblo inherited
. from his mother which decended
; from Sir Thomas Davis Lord Mayor
I of London in 1552, in which year it
; was printed.
The democratic causes commitee
jfeu the currency consists of Senators
Bayard, Thurman, Me'rrimon and Me
! Donald, and Representatives Bright,
Holman Payne, Walker, liamiall,
j Gibson, Southard, Weakley, Morri
j son and Barnum.
j In France, where every newspaper
I article must have a signature, the re
i spousibility is frequently avoided by
| payng some note duellist to affix his
j uauio*
GEORGIA NEWS.
Gleanings and Winnowing;* from our State
Exchange*.
The Altamaha shad and fisheries
are in full blast.
Griffin's skating rink is one of its
principal attractions.
Bishop Beckwith will preach in
Thomasville on the fifteenth of
March.
Savannah celebrated Washinton’s
birth day anniversary in a very haud
some manner.
More fertilizers have been sold in
Griffin this season than any year
since 1870.
The Augusta Chronicle learns that
Gen. Toombs is going to reply to Gen.
Gordon at Atlanta.
The Ladies’ Memorial Association
of Augusta made $514.85 clear by the
Leap Year party in that city.
Lectures are popular in Athens.
This is an evidence ot the refined j
tastes of the Athenians.
The Young Mens’ Christian Asso
ciation of Covington is pushing ahead.
They have adopted Sankey and Bliss'
gospel songs.
Elder Thomas M. Harris, State
•Evangelist of the Christian Church,
has been holding a very interesting
series of meetings in Augusta.
The corner stone of the new Syna
gogue Micra Israel, and Savannah,
will be laid by Grand Master David
E. Buttler, with appropriation Mason
ic eermonies some time tiiis week.
The Tndpeendcnt reports the escape
of six prisoners from thejail at Lump
kin, and says that the fanner* of
Stewart county have been planting
corn and sugar cane for a week.
The Savanah News: The cost of
lighting the street lamps with gass is
a little over $24,000, not $56,000, as
has been stated, but the use of kerro
sene will save SIO,OOO any way.
Thomasville, with her proverial
hospitality, is making ample prepar
ations to provide for the comfort of
the delegates to the Baptist State
Convention wich meets in that city
on the 20th of April.
The Fort Valley Mirror reports the
appearance of English pea blooms
and young pods, and expresses ap
prehension that much of the peach
and plum crop will be killed, the
rets having bloomed prematurely.
V.t Ilurtville, a son of G. J. Tur
ner, swallowed a piece of zinc weigh
ing an ounce and a half. The metal
lodged in the boy’s lower throat, and
it remained there for nearly a day be
fore a surgeon extracted it.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Findley car
ried to Atlanta, on Monday, twenty
one prisoners whom he had arrested
in Oglethorpe county as illicit distil
lers uid retailers of liquor without
license. Among the prisoners was a
United States Commissioner.
The Albany News says that labor!
is as abundant and cheap in iliat lo
cality as any honest man can afford
to run it. From nothingand rations
to $4 per month are the asking rates, ;
by those in search of homes, and no !
takers.
It is stated that Judge Porter, of
Griffin, has invented a subsoil plow
which breaks theground from fifteen :
to twenty inches deep, and, having I
sharp wings on each side of the
subsoil, it pulverizes the ground per-!
fectly, and leaves it as loose as an ash !
hank.
Jasper County Banner. In its ea- j
gerness to save the [state the paltry !
sum of SI,OOO appropriate by the last i
General Assembly to the state Board !
of Health, the present body has only !
cost $3,000 or double the amount j
This is certainly wise and economial
legislation.
The second Annual Convention of:
tiie Georgia Young Men’s Christian
Association will be held in Atlanta, i
beginiug on the 21st day of April. 5
Distinguished ministers from other ;
8 ates are expected, and we have rea
son to believe that the attendance ;
will be unusually large.
The Telegraph gives the following
tax statistics of Macon : Total valua
tion of city property, including real
estate, merchandise, banks, etc.,
$9,001,187, decrease since last year
$282,675; net tax $91,467. The real
estate owners number 915. and the
value of their real estate is $5,252,510.
On Tuesday, says the Fort Valley
Mirror, a man left a white male
child with a negro woman, giving
her fifteen dollars with the promise ;
to furnish her that much every
month for the sustenance of the
child. He is a stranger in this sec- 1
tion. Something mysterious about j
this case.
The Augusta Constitutionalist , no-1
ticing the Washington Republican's
assertion that “the credit of Georgia
has been ruined,” says: “The Grant!
organ should observe the quotations j
of this State’s securities in New I
York, and learn likewise that, with j
the sale of her property in a single !
railway, Georgia could wipe out ev- i
ery dollar of her public debt.
The Griffin News has been inform- !
ed by a member of the grand jury I
of Spalding county, that from the
best information the body could get, j
there was not less than five hundred j
vagrants in the city of Griffin. Of I
this number nine-tenths are negroes. |
But that they cannot get evidence I
sufficient to find bills against but few i
for the lack of proper proof.
A session of the legislature is a j
Godsend to the Peagreen element, j
They make more clear money in for
ty days than they would at home in I
two years. They hire attic rooms I
around town and live on peanuts,and I
pocket their per diem. They preach i
economy in order that they may
practice extravagance in running i
up bills that the people have to pay.!
—Sav News. .
Amos Bines a notorious negro des
perado, who has committed many ras- 1
cally acts at Eden no. 2 on the Cen
tral Railroad, was captured in Savan
nah on Tuesday. There is strong
proof that he murdered Mrs. Coch
ran and her daughter, and also Mr.
Zittrouer, whose body was found on
the railroad a few days since a short
distance above Eden. He is also
identified as the fellow who fired as
Miss Seckingcr.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Macon Tetetjraph has this curious
piece of information: “Judge Peop
les has appointed Dr. Lawton as Re
ceiver in the office of the State Prin
ter. This was in response to a bill
filed by Z. D. Harrison, in behalf of
I certain creditors of Alston & Grady,
and R. A. Alston. The State Prin
ter’s profits are to go to their credi
tors. It is believed that the decision
! cannot stand. The idea of placing a
; public office of the State iu the hands
of a r&eeivsr in novel.
Special Notices.
.Directory of County Officers.
OKDiSABr—J. A. Howard.
Ci.EE* OF Sr PERIOR Coi’rt—Thomas A. Word.
Sheriff—A. M. Franklin. G. L. Franks,
Deputy.
Tax Richter—a. M. Toute.
Tax Collrctok—W, F. Corbin.
Cockty Commissioners—Russel H. Cannon,
j Chairman. David V. Stokely. John C. Ayeoek,
i li. H. Dodd, John H. Wikle._i. lerk.
| C'okon’Kr—D. B. Mull.
Surveyor—lL J. McCormick, G. W. Hill,
; Deputy.
COLOMSTS, EVIL KIM'S AM) TRAVELERS
WESTWARD.
FOR maf circulars, condensed time tables
and general information in re<ard to
! ra nsportation facilities to all points in Ten
; anessee, Arkansas. Mi.-souri, Minnesota, Colo
; rado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New Mexico.
, Utah and California, apply to or address Al
bkkt B. WEEKS, General Railroad Agent,
; Atlanta, ua.
No one should go West without first gettiug
in conununicaiion with the General Railroad
Agent,and become i 1 formed as to the superior
advantages, cheap and quick transportation ot
j families, household goods, stock and farming
implements generally. All information cheer-
I fully given. W. L. DAXI.KY,.G. F. AT. A.
NOTICE TO SIBSCRIBEUS.
The names of all persons we found upon our
subscription book wk'n we purchased the
1 Standard and Kxpkkss, credited by advance
j payment will be furnished The Express until
i the time paid for expires.
The names of those who had not paid tip, wc j
j have transferred Go our new books, and begin j
their subscriptions from December 2, 1875. '
; These are respectfully and earnestly requested i
| to cal' In and pay or send us two dollars for j
the current year’s subscription.
We are determined to give’ our readers a;
good paper, und as it requires a.constan cash ;
outlay to do so, weliope all who have not paid ■
j will doso without delay.
(AUTHISVILLE UTV GoVkiI.VUEVT.
Mayor—F. M. Ford.
Aldermen-A. It. Hudgins, G. W. Satter
field, U. B. Conyers, A. L. Barron, J. A. Stover, !
S. F. Milam, Deter Marsh, H. S. Best.
Clerk -J. B Conyers, acting.
Treasurer—A. T.. Barron.
Marshal— M. P. Maxwell.
Attorney—J. B. Conyers.
Sexton—ll. s. Reveil.
COMMITTEES.
Finance— A. R. Hudgins, C. B. Conyers, S. F. !
Milam.
Street— 11. S. Best. J. A. fctover, G. W, Satter
field. A. L.’Barron.
Cemetery— Deter Marsh, S. F. Milam. C. B. '
Conyers.
LAWS RELATING TO NEWSPAPER SrB
SCRIPTIOAS AND ARREARAGES.
1. Subscribers who do not give express no
tice to the contrary, are considered wishing to
continue their subscription
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of
t'teir periodicals, the publishers may continue '
to send them until all arrearages are paid. j
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take ;
their periodicals from the office to which they !
are directed, they are held responsible until i
they have settled their bills and ordered them
discontin tied.
4. If subscribers move to other places with- j
out notifying publishers, and the papers arc
sent to the former direction, they are held re
sponsible.
5. The Courts have decided that “refusing to !
take.periodicals from ihe office or removing
and leaving them uncalled Tor, \iprima facie
evidence f intentional fraud .”
6.An y person who receives a newspaper!
and makes use of it. whether he has ordered it !
or not, is held in law to be a subscriber.
7. If subset ibers pay in advance, they are !
bound to give notice to the publisher, at the j
end of their time, if they do not wish to con- I
tinue taking it; otherwise the publisher is j
authorized to send it on, and the subscriber j
will be responsible until an express no- ;
tice, with payment of ull arrearages, is sent
to the publisher.
IF YOU
Wnntb arders,
Want a situation,
Want a salesman,
Want a s< want gill,
Want to rent a store.
Want to sell a piano,
Want to sell a horse,
Want to buy a house.
Want to buy a horse,
Want to rent a house,
Want to sell a carriage,
Want a boarding place.
Want to borrow mouey,
Want to sell dry goods,
Want to sell groceries.
M ant to sell furniture,
Want to sell hardware.
Want to sell real estate,
Want a job of carpentering.
Want a job of blacksmithing.
Wan* to sell millinery goods,
Want to sell a house and lot.
Want to advertise to ad vantage,
W an’t to find anyone’s address,
Want to sell a piece of furniture.
Want to buy a second-hand carriage,
Want to find anything yr have lost,
Want to sell agricultural implements,
Wuut to And an owner for lost property, j
Advertise in
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
Professional Cards.
LAW & REAL ESTATE.
W. T. WOFFORD,
A NY business lelt with (apt. bum ford and
xV Mr. Waters, who are in my office, will re
cii vc my attention. I will he at mv office usu
ally between the hours of 10 and ll'eacn morn
ing. 1 leblS] W.T. WOFFORD.
A. M. FOITE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CARTERSVILLE, ,?A
( With, Col. Warren A kin,)
\V"ill nractiee in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Cordon, Murray,Whitfield and ad
joining counties. deeply, j
It. W. MIHPHEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CART R VILLE, GA.
OFFICE (up stall’s) in the brick building 1
corner of Main and Irwin streets. dec2-tf. j
J. W. HARRIS, Jr.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
OFFICE next door toTHK Express printing
establishment.
JOHN W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILh'KK |
WOFFORD <& MILNER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,.
OFFICE up stairs, Bank Block.
_ 9-5- tl.
JAR ES B. C’OYYEHW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee
: and adjoining circuits. Particular attention
; given to all business entrusted to my care.
Collecting made a specialty. Office up-stairs
in the Bak Block. ’ dec23-lv.
(J. 11. BATES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
i Office in the Court House,
j doc9-ly
HOMEMADE HOSIERY.
PERSON'S desiring good and serviceable
SOCKS OR STOCKINGS,
Cotton or Woolen
Can find them at the store of
Jl. iiCAXi
Sout horn Mnnufnctory.
ED. F. SHROIpSHIRE & CO.,
Manufacturers ami Dealers in
I WHITE AND COLORED SHIRTS.
Collars, Bosoms and Drawers.
21-3 East Alabama Street, ATLANTA, Ceorgia.
I*as“ I* ii ties iu Cartersville ordering from us can hare their (Measures taken at Mr. l'.uiljo
! bailor kbop. _____ J.m*o-gin.
SADDLES, HARNiSS, LEATHER, ETC., ETC.
HUDGINS & MOUNTCASTLE
KEEP ON HAND AND MAKE TO ORDER OK SHORT NOTIC E
SADDLES AND HARNESS OF THE BEST MATERIALS
■
AND IN EVERY STYLE DESIRABLE.
I
( They keep on hand also a good stock of H YME3, COLLARS, BRIDLES, HALTERS, WHIPS
Also Harness, £Sole and Upper Leathers,
Kir* AND FRENCH CAT F SKINS.
ami everythin* usually kept ie a ftrst-clnss establishment. Onr Saddles and Harness are mad*
at our own shop AND AltE ALL WARRANTED.
on West M iio gtixHit, next doer to A. A. skinner A Cos. decl6-3m.
STOVES & TINWARE^
To the Citizens of Cartersville and Sur
rounding Country:
, J ■i> ■ % i ;| ||i "If
HAVING BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN MT ARRANGE
meats t > le we Cartersville, I have concluded to remain
and cast ray lot among her people. In opening b usincs
heir again 1 hare concluded to do a STRICTLY CASH
linsiiicss, thereby enabling me to offer goods at EXTREM E
STOVES, TINWAHE & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
For CASH, RAGS, BEESWAX, FEATHERS, OLD BRASS AND COPPER, CORN AND
FODDER, or anything that will sell, can gel the very bottom prices. But plkasb i*o Not
auk koit credit. I cannot afford to give it, even to the Terr best men in the country, a.
ray goods are marked at CASH PRICES ‘
Thnnking my friends for their past patronage, and earnestly soliciting a continuance of
the same, I can always be found at my old stand in the old Exchange Hotel Bidding, on the
PH It HC SQUARE. (Janl-lv) J 3. AD IMS.
J. I). HEAD. DR. t. H. BAKER. W. Q. DOB’sON.
J. 1). HEAD & GO.,
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Clothing,
HATS, BOOTS AM) SHOES, Ac., &c.
No. 71 Peachtree Street - Atlanta, Ga.
Ol'U BARTOW. PAULDING AN IX HEIioKEE COUNTY' FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO
call and see us when in the city, promising them the same courteous treatment and fair,
honest!dealing they have had in our noose white at Cartersville Our stock will be found full
and complete iu all its departments, aud prices as low as can be fouud in this market.
N. B.—YVe respectfully ask consignments of cotton from our friends who wish to sell in this
market, promising them the fullest market price*—and uo unnecessary expenses attached to
tile sale oi same. J. I*. HEAD A t O.
Atlanta, Ha.. January 6. IFT6,
ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP.
AVallace <Sc Hackett,
(MANUFACTURERS OF
Hollow Ware, Steam Engines, Grates, Mantels, Mill Machinery, k
Highest Market Price for
Old Iron , Copper and Brass-
JOHN S. REESE &. CO General Agents, Baltimore, Md.
T. W. BAXTER,
Cartersville, Georgia,
SOLE AGENT IN BARTOW AND ADJOINING COUNTIES,
FOR THE
PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY.
CAPITAL, 81,000,000.
JTT3T RECEIVED AT WAREHOUSE OF GENERAL AGENT IN ATLANTA
1,000 Tons Soluble Pacific* Guiino,
100 Tons of’ .Acid Phosph ite Tor C omposting.
(NO OLD STOCK ON HAND.)
I AM now prepared to furnish dealer- and planters In any quantity desired ofthe above high
grade and popular tcrtil zers, which arc* fresh and in line condition, and the analv-is recently
made, of the new stock, shows about 15 per cent, available phosphoric acid, per cent.
Ammonia, and ne; rly 3 per cent, potash Sold on time as usual, at toe low price oi $62 50 per
ton. delivered on board cars in Atlanta, with option to pay in cotto.i lt November, at 15 cent*
per pound, basis New York .Middlings. &T Planters will note that freight isoalv from Atlanta
|1.40 per ton. (jail ou or send to me lor circulars and analysis. Respectfully,
T. W. Baxter.
jan2o-2m
” THE GRANGERS
LIFE m HEULTUIMII Cl,
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Authorized Capital 4,500,000.
Of Which SIOO,OOO to "be Owned in Hack Department.
Eadi Policy-Holder is entitled to a vote in the management ofthe Company
PARENT OFFICE, MOBILE, ALA.
! CAPITAL STOCK, 100,000.
j W. U. KETCHUM, President. | F. E. DAVIDSON, Vice President. | R. W. FORT. Sec’/
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT, ROME, GA.
! Capital Stock •100,000
Office No. 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
Major C. G. SAMUEL, President, 4LFRKD SHORTER, Vice-President, R. J. GWALTNEY,
Secretary, C. ROWELL, Attorney, Dr U. W. HOLMES. Medical Examiner.
, Board of Directors :
; A. P. Allgood, Trion Factory, C. Rowell, Rome, fla ; Alfred Shorter, Rome. Ga.; John ID
, Newton, Athens, Ga.; A. Jones, Ctidartown. Ga ; lion. t>. F. Hammond, Atlanta, Ga.; lion.
! D. Is. Hamilton, Rome, Ga,; < tin Glover. Rom , T. McGuire, Rome, Ga.; F. Woodruff,
i Home, Ga.; M. H. Bunn, L’ecl.irtown, Ga ; A. J. King, Cave Spring, Ga.; Hon. W AI.
Hutchins, l’olk county, Ga.
_____
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT, MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Capital Stock.... - §IIOO,OOO
j flpn. X, N. Clements, Presidentand General Manager. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hon. David Clopton.
Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; \V. 1.. Chambers,Secretary; Stone & Cioptou, Attorney*,
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, MERIDIAY YIISS.
i Capital Stock *IOO,OO O
Col. James W. Beck, President, John 11. Gray, Vice-President, 1.. A. Ifuncan, Secretary
SECURITY, ECONOMY AND LIBERALITY,
j Are the Leading principles of this Company.
! ALL approved forms of Life and Endowment Policies issued iu sums of *!!)) un toIIOOBO Also
j Term Policies ol one, three, or seven vears. * f
AH L , ife P°U c l?i non-forfeiting alter two annual payments, when the insured will be A.titla 1
to pair! up Policy or (ash burreneer thereof. u " UI uo itiue i
Dividends may be used to proto, t policies against lapsing in case of ftiir.re to ntv
muiins. This with the non-lortening and Cash Surrender features are s„ k.1J,?,.
I Lbmoany popular among thinking men. AGENTS WANTED k th “
dec 2-tf W. G. ENGLAND,of General Superint'Jteut of Agendo*.
W. Kf HUSEj Agent/Cartersville, Georgia*
VOLUME XVII—NUMBER 9.