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No. 11. Leave Atlanta 5 55 p m j Arrive ( urtersville 8 50 pm Arrive Kingston 9 24 p m J A.-rive Dalton 11 45 p m SOUTHWARD- No. 2. Arivc Chattanooga 4 0o p m Leave Dalton 5 51 pm ; Arrive Kingston 7 31 pin j A* rive Cartersville 8 02 pm Arrive Atlanta 10 10 p m i No. 4. Leave Chattanooga 5 15 am i Arrive Dalton 7 14 a m Arrive Kingston 9 07 u m ; A .-'ive Cartersville 9 45 am : Arrive Atlanta 11 55 n’n j No. 12. ! Arrive Dalton 1 00 a m ■ Arrive King-ton 4 21 a m Arrive < urtersville 5 18 a m Arrive Atlanta 9 42 a m Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be- j ween New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be- ' tween Atlanta and Nashville. PuUnvin Palace Cars run on Nos -a3 nd 2be tween Louisville and Atlanta. JYTN:> change of cars between New Orleans j Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore ami only one change to New York. Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m , ar rive in New York the second thereafter at 4 00 j p.*m. Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs | and various summer Resorts will lie on sale j in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, colum- ;■ Inis, Macon, sav nnali, Augusta and Atlanta, at are tly reduced rates Ist ol June. Patties desiring a whole car through to the Virginia springs or to Baltimore should ad- j dress the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should send for a. 'liyot the /Cenne*aw Route Gazette, con taining schedules, etc. tar-Ask for tickets via “Kennesaw Route.” li. W. WIIKNN, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, m>29— dtt Atlanta. Gn. ROME KAIL.IIOAD COMI’AST. On ami after Sunday, Dec,. 12ch trains on the ! Home lt.iiiroud will tun as follows: DAY TRAIN'—EVERY PAY. Heave Home at . 7 a m I Arrive at Koine il.3t) a m i SATURDAY EVKXIXG ACCOMODATION. Leaves Rome at 5 45 p m j Arrive at Rome at I* l m I ATLANTA A WEST POINT RAILROAD, j P ASSENGKR TRAIN— Ol’TWAlii). STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE j Atlanta W:SS t>- >• Ka>t Point .. 19:44 p. m. 19:44 p. m. Red Oak 10:59 j>. in. 11:44 p. in. fair!.urn 11:21 p.m. 11p. m : Palmetto 11:37 p. in. 11:38 p. in. Poweli's 11 :5' 1 P- m, 11 :>9p. m. : Newnan 12:11 p. m. 13:15 a.m. Puckett’s 12:30 a m 12:35 ain Graittvilie 12:50 a m 12:51 ain MogansvUlc 1 :u8 a m } :99 am ; W nitlield’s 1:34 ant 1 *35 a in LaGidnp6**> • 1 '.54 11 m 1 :o5 ji in Lunj? Cane 2:21 a m 2:21 ain West Point 2:40 a m PASSENGER TUA l N —IN WARD. RTATIOVS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. West Point 12:30 pm Long Cane 13:38 p m 13:36 p m La Grange i:( P m 1:03 pm Whitfield’s 1"21 P ' 821 P ni tlogansville l:Slpm I:4k pm Grantville 1:67 p m p m Puckett’s 2:13 p m 2:18 p m Sewnan 2:29 p in 2:30 p m Powell’s 2:44 p in 2:40 p m Palmetto 3:66 pm 3:01 pm Fairhurn 3:32 p m 2:2:3 p m Red Oak 3:38 y m 3:42 p m East Point 3:57 p m 3:57 p ni Atlanta 4:15 t t> in SELMA, ROME & DALTON. MAIL TRAIN DAILY—NORTH. Leave Rome 6:10 P m Arrive at Dalton 3:24 p m Making close connections at Dalton with the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail road, and Western and Atlantic Railroad Tor i aU Eastern and Western cities. MAIL TRAIN DAILY—SOUTH. L?ave Dalton f-. 00 p m Arrive at Rome 9.10 p ni Arrive at (Jaiera 5:40 a ni Arrive at Selina 10;20 u ni Making close connection atCalera tor Mont eotnery and points South, and at Selma wit- Alahamit Central Railroad Tor Mobile. New Or leans Meridian, Vicksburg, Jackson, all vioiui* South in Texas. Louisiana and Missis sippi. M. STANTON, Gen. Sup’t. RaY KNIGHT. Gen. Ticket and Pass’gr Asrt. GEORGIA RAILROAD. Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad, \r|.tntn to Augusta, run as below: Leaves Augusta at 8:45 am Leaves Atlanta at 7:01) am Arrives at Augusta 3:30 am Arrives at Atlanta 5,45 p m Night pa-senger trains as lollow>: Leaves Augusta at :15 p m Leaves Atlanta at 10:50 p m Arrives at Augusta 3:15 a ni Arrives at Atlanta 0:35 a m Accomodation train as follows : Leaves Atlanta. 6:oopm Leavu* Coviogton ' Arrives at Atlanta 1 5 a m Arrives at Covington ..30 p m THE COOS' - RIVER STEAMERS?" Steamers' on the Coosa River will run as per t**' n4 v!!' Jme i‘v'• rv Monday at Ipm rrida?:? a In ir’eivea* Rome w“ 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. 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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.