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THE CAETEBSVILLE EXPRESS.
BY C. H. C. WILLINGHAM.
The Cartcrsville Express.
[OLD STANDARD AND EXPRESS ]
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KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
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K*>oe copy six months 1 00
■Onu copy three months ...... 60
In Advance.
I Chibs.—For Clubs of ten copies or more
1 '} $1.50 jxr annum for each copy.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
| The following are our established rates for
Advertising, and will bo strictly adhered to in
eli <ase-:
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t Persons sending in advertisements will
ft please designate toe department of the paper
ft in which ihey wi-h them insetted—whether in
*■ the'‘regular.” ‘'special” or ‘'local” co'iiniu;
I rtl,u lb. ..riiui. th... *■•>• pu'-
I fished and the space they want them to occupy.
Announcing names of candidates lor office,
I five dollars, invariably iu advance.
Legal Advertising.
? Sheriff sales, per levy $2.50
•• niortg ige 11 fa sales, per inch 4 50
i Citations for letters of administration ... 3 (KJ
“ ** “ •• guardianship...... 3UO
Application for dismtssfon from admin-’n. 6.00
” “ " guard’shp 250
” " leave to sell laud 2.50
I Sales of land iKwinch ......7... 2.50
I is.iles of perishable property, per inch ... 1 50
ft Notice to debtors and caeditors.... 3.50
I Foreclosures of mortgage, per inch... 4.00
ft Estray notices, thirty days 2.50
r Application lor homestead 1.50
I All legal advertisements muvt be paid for in
advance, and officers must act accordingly;
and that they in iv know how to collect for
•those charged lor by the inch, we will state
jfj-that 125 words (in this type) make an inch.
When B Its are Due.
All hills for advertising in this paper are due
At any time after the first insertion of the same,
and will be collected at the pleasure of the
proprietor, unless otherwise arranged by con
struct.
Travelers’ Guide. _
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
1 FROM and after this date the following
Schedule will he run on the Cherokee Rail-
Leave Hoc km art at 7:00 A.M.
aft” Taylorsville, Btoo “
Btih shoro 8:25 “
Arrive at t artersville, 9:i9 “
Leave Carlersville , 3:00 P. M.
ft •* Stliisboro, 3:50
ft ” Tay.orsville 4:30 “
Arrive at Kockmart 5:15 “
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
The following Schedule takes effect Novem
ber 2s, 1875
NORTH W A UD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta A 20 pm
Arrive ( artersville 636 pm
Arrive Kingston 6 42 p ni
Arrive Dalton 7 04 p m
Arrive Chattanooga 10 15 p m
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 6 20 am
A reive Carlersville ....8 42 am
Arrive Kingston 9 It a in
Arrive Dalton.. '0 f>4 a ni
Arrivc.Chattanooga 12 42 pm
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 5 5-5 p m
Arrive I !'artersville 8 50 p m
Arrive Kingston.... 9 24 p 111
a rive Dalton 11 45 j> in
sQUXM VV ARI >• No. 2.
A rive Chattanooga 4 00 p m
Le tvo Dalton 5 51 i m
Arrive Kingston 7 31 p m
A ' rive Cartcrsville 8 92 p 111
iAi rive Atlanta ...19 19 P 1,1
No. 4.
ILeave Chattanooga 6 15 a ni
- Arrive Dalton 7 14 a m
Arrive Kingston •} "3 a 111
A .'five Cartersvitle.... -9 4o a m
Arrive Atlanta 1
Arrive Dalton • 90 a m
Arrive Kingston .....4 21 am
Arrive Cartcrsville o 18 a m
Arrive Atlanta ■> 4'- a ni
I I’ dl man Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be
w* cn New Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos -a3 nd 2be
tween Couisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore
and only one change to New York.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m , ar
rive in New Yoik the second therealter at 4 90
1). iu.
* Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs
a,, 1 various Summer Resorts will he on sale
in New Orleans Mobile. Montgomery, ( ollim
bus, Macon. Sav tnnah, Augusta and Atlanta,
at greatlv reduced rates Ist <>l June.
Hi .titics desiring a whole car through to the
Virginia Spi-ing.- or to Baltimore should ad
dress the undersigned.
- Parties contemplating traveling should send
for a ,v>nyof the A~enne*<uc Haute Gazette , eon -
wiring schedules, etc.
Bfaar Ask 101 tickets via “Kennesaw Route.”
B. W. WKENN,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
jliav22—dtl Atlanta. Ga.
ROHE RAILROAD COMPANY.
On iiml after Sunday, Dee..l2th trains on the
Kliine K.tilroad will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leave Home at a ra
Arrive at H0me..... i1.30 a m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMODATION.
Leaves Home at 5 45 p m
Arrive at Home at “ 0 in
AT CANT A Jt WEST POINT RAILROAD.
PASSENGER TRAIN—OUTWARD.
*BTATIONB. ARRIVE. LEAVE
Atlanta 10:25 p.m.
E>t Point 10:44 p. m. 10:44 p. m
He.l Oak 10:59 p. m. 11:44 p. in
fairburn 11:2l p. m. 11:22 p. in
Palmetto.... ...11:31 p. m. 11:48 p.m.
Powell’s 11 ;3 S I*. m* : ® P- n,<
Ntewr.au 12:14 p. in. 13:15 a.m.
Puckett’s 12:30a m 12:35 am
Granville 12:50 a m 12:51 am
nbjcausville 1:08 a m 1 :o9 am
ty bitfield’* 1:34 a m 1:35 m
Z.utirange 1-54 a m 1:55 am
Stiig Cane..... 2:21 a m 2.21 am
H West Poiut 2:40 a in
PA9SENGBB TUAIX—INWARD.
i STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
West Point *' m
long t 13:36 pm 14:o6 p m
La Grange i :02 p m ldO p m
\\ liittieht's. I:2lpm I:2lpm
liogansville 1:21 p m J ; 4 1* m
Grautville 1:57 p m * p W
Puckett’s 2:13 pin 2:18 p m
Newnan :~4> p m 2:30 p m
Powell’s 2,44 p in 2:45 p m
italmetto 3:06p m A'-Vt l* n*
Pairburn 3:32 p nt *!**P ™
Red Oak 3:38 p in 3:42 p m
Hast Point 3:57 P ni 3:57 p m
Atlanta 4:15 ip m
SELMA, HOME A DALTON.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY--NORTH.
Leave Rome *U®p ™
Arrive at Dalton... p m
Making close connections at Dalton with the
Bast Tennessee, Virginia ami Georgia Rail
road. and Western and Atlantic Kail road lor
all Kastern and Western cities.
M AIL THA IN I) AILY—SOUT H.
Leave Dalton P m
Arrive at Koine P m
Arnve at a 1,1
Arrive at Selma 10,20 a m
Making close connection atCalera for Mont
aud points South, and at Selma Wit*
a Central Railroad lor Mobile. New Or
lotus. Meridian, V icksburg, .Jackson, all
EHiits South iu Texas. I/Ouisiana and MisSls
sjjfci. M. STANTON, Gen. Sup’t.
~Kav Knight, Gen. Ticket and Pass'gr A at.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
t>av Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad,
Atlanta to Augusta, run as below:
Loaves Augusta ut F:45 am
Loaves Atlanta at Twain
Arrives at Augusta 3:3b am
Arrives at Atlanta .. 5:45 pm
I Night passenger truius aslollows:
Loaves Augusta at JR® p m
Loaves Atlanta at 10:5b p m
Ari ives at A ugreta 3:15 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 6:35 a m
Accomodation train as follows :
Leaves Atlanta 5:00 p m
Ltbtvus Covington 5:50 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 8;15 a m
Arrives at Covington “ :3U p m
|THE COOSA RIVER STEAMERS.
BSteamers on the Cooa River will ruu us per
jfitehe'luU as follows:
Je.ve Home even Monday at l P m
'Leave Rome every Thursday U>
®Mrrive at Gad-den Tuesday and Friday ..9 am
wedliesTav and SaturdaxSH IT
* m /, Ml bLUvm W*
THE PUBLIC^ PEINTIK G.
Colonel Alston’s Reply.
To the Editor of the Constitution :
The following extracts from your
article in yes ten lay’s Constitution on
public printing are incorrect in some
particulars, and consequently do me
in ; M-'*ipe;
“About i’ne 17th or 18th of last
month, by resolution of the General
Aasemby an advance oi five thousand
dollars w.s authorized and pa*d to
the State i > rinter, Col. R. A. Alston,
by the Treasurer, This money was
variously expended, a part for type
and a part to creditors of the Fate
Herald. The collapse of the Herald
! came and the State Printer had to
rely upon other offices to do the
work, stnd lie became embarrassed
for funds to settle the bills, as no
more money could be drawn from
the State Treasury until the advance
of $5,000 dollars had Been worked
out. ‘ln tlie meantime (Jot. Alston
had given orders on the Treasury
amounting to (3,192) thirty-one hun
dred and ninety-two dollars, which
orders had been accepted by Treas
urer Renfroe to be paid out of the
first subsequent payment to the Pub
lic Printer. This made in all the sum
of eight thousand one hundred amt
ninety-two dollars disposed of by the
Public: Printer before the work done
by him exceeded two thousand dol
dollars in value. At this point a
new complication arose. Other credit
ors, seeing tiiat the Herald and its
effects had been seized and possibly
tost to them, determined upon an
action in anew direction. Messrs.
Allison, Smith & Johnson, type
founders of Cincinnati, were owed
some two thousand dollars. Their
attorney. Col. Z. 1) Harrison, and
his associate, Judge Richard Clarke,
by a bold legal movement, brilliant
ly executed, applied to Judge Cin
cinnatus Peeples, in Chancery, for a
receivership embracing tiie profits
of the State printing, and after a full
hearing were granted an order ap
pointing a receiver to demand and
receive the profits of the State print
ing from Col. Alston and also the as
sets, as far as possible, of the various
firms of Alston & Cos., Herald pub
lishing company, etc. It will deseen
by our contemporaries that no re
ceiver has been appointed to the
office, but only for the profits of the
office. The office is in no manner in
terfered with, and the order simply
looks to the discharge of his duties by
the Public Printer for the benefit of
his creditors. That is the scope and
intention of the receivership, but
whetht r it will accomplish anything,
is, as Chief Justice Warner would ex
press it, “anottier and quite a differ
ent thing.” The term of office is for
two years, and the work may reach
fifteen thousand dollars per annum,
making thirty thousand dollars,
twenty-five per cent, of which (the
Printer’s profit) would be about SB,-
000. As he lias already drawn and
given orders for over eight thousand
dollars, the prospect of the creditors
looks somewhat gauzy.
“This slate of affairs naturally
alarmed the bondsmen of the Public
Printer, who required of hitn an im
mediate arrangement for the execu
tion of the public printing, in failure
of which they applied to the Gover
nor to he released from the bond of
ten thousand dollars, upon UtegroiHlU
of the state of facts we have set forth,
and of the inability, we presume, of
the State Pi inter to perform his du
ties. The Governor at once (a few
days since) notified Col. Alston that
he must snake anew bond, and there
the matter now rests. These are the
facts, which we have given without
prejudice or criticism.”
You state that “in the meantime
Col. Alston had given orders on the
Treasurer for 83,192, to be paid out of
the first subsequent payment to the
State Printer.”
The following are all the orders I
have ever drawn on the printing
fund and you will see that liny do
not bear such a construction :
Atlanta, Jan. 19, 1876.
J. W. Renfroe, Treasurer:
You are hereby authorized to pay
to Sam Hoyle or order six hundred
and fifty dollars and seventy-five
cents, out of any moneys that may
he due as State Printer after the ex
piration of sixty days.
K. A. Alston,
State Pririter.
Atlanta, Jan. 21,1876.
Hon. J. W. Renfroe, treasurer:
Forty days after date please pay to
order ot 1. W. Avery, five hundred
and forty-two dollars and charge to
my account on account of State print
ing, with interest after maturity of
twenty per cent.
E. A. Alston,
Slate Printer.
Mu. J. W. Renfroe, Treasurer of
State of Georgia: *
You are hereby authorized to pay
Mr. li. G. Wright two thousand dol
lars when he presents bills sufficient
to cover this amount and this shah
be your voucher to me.
R. A. Alston,
State Printer.
The first order reads “out of any
money that may he due after the ex
piration of sixty days.”
The second says “out of my pay.”
The third was given to Mr. H.
Gregg Wright, ray partner in the
printing, whenever he “presents bills
sufficient to cover this amount;”
merely a power of attorney to re
ceive the money for whatever work
he might do. , ...
My nondsmen were Col. Geo. VV.
Adair, of this city, and Mr. Patrick
Walsh, of Augusta. They filed three
reasons with the Governor for desir-
ing to leave my bond, whereupon the
Governor notified me to make anew
bond with n the time prescribed by
law or vacate the office.
The first reason “was the seizure of
my office by the sheriff.”
The second, “that I had been paid
by the State five thousand dollars
aud had appropriated more hun
twenty-five hundred dollars to other
purposes.”
Third, “that the Hon. Cincinnati
Peeples had appointed a receiver to
appiy the profits of my office.”
Now as to the first reason there cer
tainly was nothing in that, as Mr. Sis
son was proceeding the wi h work just
as my own foreman had been doing,
and his great skill as a primer was a
guarantee of its being well done.
The second reason was still more
untenable, because of the “more than
twenty-five hundred dollars appro
priated toother purposes” two thou
sand of it had been paid to Messrs.
McNaught & Cos. on the express or
der of Col. Geo. W. Adair, tiled with
| the Governor, and I had refused to
! make the draft until Mr. McNaught
had obtained the order, and six hun
dred and twenty-five dollars had
been paid to Mr. Patrick Walsh as
the agent of Mr. Gregg Wright, my
partner, as his share of the profits ou
five thousand dollars drawn. Thus
it will be seen that of the entire ex
penditures complained ot, two thou*
; .-mid dollars had been paid on the
i wsiitttt <4dbf vf o un iMuhum tw*d
| six hundred and twenty-five dollars
to tin* partier of the other.
The third tea son so far from caus
ing them to desire to be relieved,
should iiave set their minds at rest,
liecause tlte appointment of a receiv
er rendered it absolutely out of my
power to use any money n the fu
ture, except to discharge my ia >ili
ties, and the first liability was to the
State, for which my bondsmen w -re
already bound, and in ca-e of mv
failure to give anew bond they would
be compelled to pay, unless they
could get the assurance from ttie
Governor to appoint some new man
wh- would agree to assume it.
These are the plain facts, all of re- !
cord. In cote nsion, I h ive only
this to state, 1 have done the work of
public printi tg faithfully, and well,
No fault can tie found with my dis
charge of the duties of the office to
which I was elected by the legislature,
aud that is what enrages my enemies,
i have been importuned again and
again, whieh I have refused to and >
until it became very plain that the
only way to get me out of my office
was to force me out.
Geo. W. Adaii, who ii and ever
has been my warm personal friend,
stated to me that a heavy pressure
had been brought to bear on him to
induce him to come on oi my bond
during the session of the legislature.
Hint the necessary affidavit bad been
carried to his office ami fivi hundred
dollars in cash offered to him to in
duce him to desert me, which he had
indignantly refused.
Anew bond will be filed to-day
with good and sufficient security,
although such publications as yours
are not likely to aid me. Ido not
suppose you could possibly have in
tended it to have the effect to embar
rass me.
Your well-known magnanimity
forbid su*ih a suspicion.
I shall remain state printer to the
end of my term, if Gm! spares my
life, and if I die, my heirs will be
entitled by law to fulfill my unex
pired contract. My enemies are
welcome to all they have made out
of this raid on my office of state
printer. R. A. Alston,
State Printer.
Gold Owned by the Government-
The Secretary of the Treasury gives
the actual amount of gold owned by
the Government and available for
specie resumption, after deducting
the amount of gold certificates out
standing and all other obligations,
on the 14th of February, 1873, assl3,-
341,423. The total amount of coin on
hand that day was $51,987,028, from
which amount there is to be deducted
for coin coupons. 81,547,332;. demand
notes $10; coin certificates, $1,427,200;
sinking lund and interest $31,832 053;
interest due and unpaid, $9,254,634;
outstanding coin certificates, >33,968,-
30o; silver coin and bullion, $14,193,-
618; or a total of $78,645,604: living,
as above stated, only $15,541,423 of
actual coin iu the Treasury to meet
the demands of resumption. The
showing which the Secretary of the
Treasury makes,gives the soft money
men great courage, and will now be
used as one of the strongest argu
ments against specie resumption.
The Secretary has been called upon
three times to make this “statement”
and is said was very loathe to make
it public that the Government. was
the possessor ofsueh a trifling amou.it
of tiard old cash.
Pauperism of the Chinese People.
The masses of the people are very
poor. It is with them a severe
snuggle for existence. The average
wages of the mechanics and common
day laborer’s for a day’s work of
from twelve to fourteen hours is ten
to twenty cents; but skilled Chinese
mechanics in our trades are paid by
foreigners twenty-five to seventy-five
cents per day. A wealthy China
man doesn’t expend more than five
or six dohars a mouth for ins food.
The result is a great deal of destitu
tion and suffering among the masses,
there is"much begging in and about
the temple and in the streets of ihe
old city; there is, too, notwithstand
ing the terrible cruelty of punish
ment inflicted for crime, much petty
pilfering and robbery from tiie per
son and from houses. There arc
many rich Chinamen but they are
not inclined to works .f charity; rel
atives and friends are supposed to
take care of the sick and unfortunate,
it is only in cases of dire necessity
that Government agency affords re
lief, and then it is only temporary.
The Foundling Hospital is a Govern
ment enterprise, and that is its most
conspicuous charity.— 2ro>/ Lews.
The Richest Preacher in
New York.—O. B. Frothingham is
the richest preacher (by inheritance)
in this city. He is the son of Na
thaniel Frothingham, formerly a
Boston Unitarian pastor, who dis
tinguished himsHf by marrying one
of Ihe richest girls in that city. The
latter was the daughter of Peter C.
Brooks, then the gieatest of Boston
capitalists. Another daughter mar- j
ried Edward Everett. Nathaniel \
preached dull sermons for many |
years, and his son saw the impor-|
tanee of becoming more sensational.
The latter came to this city and in
stead of preaching Christianity at
tacked it. This, of course, attracted
attention. Being very rich he needed
no salary. All indeed, that he asked
was someone to hear him, and in
this he has been moderately gratified.
The oapers have noticed him and
lie has.obtuined a moderate degree
of that publicity which human na
ture seems to crave. As to Frothing
ham’s preaching, it is a little of ev
erything and a good deal of nothing.
He keeps up a running fire at what
ever may be belore the public, from
the scripture down to Moody and
Sankep. All of which he does in so
ingenious a manner that he txiight
have stood far Pope’s sketch in the
Dunciad.
The American watch lias now ob
tained an almost universal reputa
tion for superiority over the English
watch, and this, in great parr, be
cause of the less number of pieces of
which it is composed. Thus the for
mer of the key-winder class, contains
143 pieces, aud the stem winder 155
pieces. The English watch on the
other hand iscompased of 638 more
pieces than the American, the excess
being found in the fusee and chain.
According to the length and fineness
of the chain, the English manufac-
ture contains from sixty-four to
seventy pieces to the inch, the fusee
and its attachments about forty-eight
pieces, and this accounts for the
greater number of pieces comprised
in the English article. iSo well are
the advantages of the American
principle in this respect now under
stood by the English makers that
the manufacturers of ihe celebrated
Frodsham watches eave some time
past dope away with tiie fusee and
cictiii, thud fcduuuy tue uuuiuuv ut
pMUMt j
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 9,1876.
“ OUR FATHERS’ HOUSE. "
How Hon. B. K. HSU won a Confederate
Flag from a Northern Lady.
Since Mr. Hid Delivered his great
speech, sys th i Atlanta Courier , his
daily receipts of le er-, com, lemen
tary, curious ;.nd condemnatory, has
been something wonderfu', One of
the most interesting of these a tie s
came from a Mrs. Kimball, of Phil
adelphia, accompanied by a “Red
battle flag.” The following is the co.-
respondenee upon the subject:
Hon. Mr. Hill:
Dear Sir—l forward to you the
| Hag captured by the soldiers of the
Union when they look possession ol
your State. It was given to me as a
token of gratitude for kiudnessshown
to the sick and wounded while in
Savannah, and sent to me by the
boat in the return from up the river
where she landed the troops. It gives
me pleasure to return it to a worthy
son of Georgia, with the hope tint
the past may be forgotten. 1 never
fail iu appreciate a brave man. Tin
noble Sentiments expressed by* you
in your speech to reply to Mr. Blaine
prove you suCli. Mr. Blame is irom
.Maine, my native .State, and 1 haw
always admired him, but 1 feel he
lias made a mistake this time. May
God bless you, and give you wisdom
and thought to cominue iu the way
you have started,thus bringing about
an era of good tueuiig and prosperi
ty to our troubled land. Your speech,
ihe first from tiie Sou ill since its res
toration to power in Congress, is
worthy of her. May our united
strength cause our “Father’s House”
to become the light of the civilized
world.
Your Yankee Sister,
Mrs. H. S. Kimball.
W. Philadelphia, Jan, 13m, 1876.
House of Representatives. 1
Washington, D. C , Jan. 15, 1876. j
Mrs. 11. S. Kimball, West Philadel
phia:
Dear Madam—Your noble letter
of the 13th instant was received this
morning. By express I have aisj
received the flag “captured by the sol
diers of the Union when they took
possession ot the capital of my .State.”
I cannot adequately express the
feelings awakened in me by this gift,
and by the touching and patriotic
words which accompany the gift.
Theilag its If is a sad reminder of
angry days, but beautiful expressions
of devotion to our country, finding,
as they certainly do, a sincere res
ponse in my own bosom, awaken,
lively hopes that we “snail have war
no more.” For your most gralelul
approval of my humble efforts to
this end, please also accept my
warmest thanks. I can truly say
that I have no mission in public Ule
but to aid ('*-•-' 1 ‘“ ,l aie iu ies
toring public peace and iu promot
ing tiie public good. The people of
the North cannot afford to ask the
people of the South to yield their
manhood, for that would prove
themselves unworthy. Let the peo
ple of each section admit the great
truth whieh will demonstrate the
manhood and worth of both: That
we differed honestly ; that we fought
bravely, and that our differences are
settled in good faith, on the basis of
the Constitution •- it ia. Ami now,
with our people all free, our Slates
ail sovereign, and our country all n
let us ail “unite our strength U> cause
our ‘Father’s house’ to become the
light of the civilized world.”
Your Southern Brother.
Benj. H. Hill.
Mr. Hill then determined to pre
sent the flag the Youg Men’s Libra
ry, of Atlanta, and addressed the fol
lowing letter to Mr. Mallon, Presi
of that institution :
House of Representatives, j
Washington, L). C., Feb 11. 1876. j
Mr. R. Mallon , President Yoan /
Men's Library Associations/ Atlanta ,
Ga :
Sir: I desire to present to the Li
brary Association, through you the
flag captured by the army of General
Sherman at Milledgevilie, the capital
of our State. This flag was recently
presented to me by the noble lady to
whom it was given by the Union
soldiers, as a testimonial of apprecia
tion by a Northern lady, ot my hum
ble utterances in the late amnesty
debate in vindication of the man
hood of our Southern people, and in
promotion of the mutual good will
of the people, of all sections of our
common country. Let tiie flag be
preserved as a memento of a people
who were brave enough to fight
brave enuught also to make
me battle ended. It requires
a higher courage to forget than to in -
dulge in animosities. With high
regard, I am yours very truly,
Benj. 11. Hill.
Tlia Connecticut Republicans.
The Republicans of the “Nutmeg
State” met at Hartford, on the 29th
ult., and theseare their resolutions on
the currency and the third term :
The Republican party which issu
ed greenbacks under presure of tern
porary necessity to support tlie Na
tional Government against treason
and rebellion, is pledged to make
them as good as gold to holders, that
no stain may rest in history upon any
one of the patriotic efforts of lovai
people during the war. We approve
of the resumption act as anew ex
pression of this pledge and determi
nation. We point to the etforts now
made by the Democratic oarty to re
peal the act, and to commit the coun
try to the permanent use of unredeem
able paper currency as a proof of what
might be expected of them if they had
greater power. We believe the wel
fare of the country demands that nec
essary legislation be passed to carry
the resumption act into effect at the
designated time either by funding
greenbacks into long bonds at long
tine at the lowest practicable interest,
or available means to apply and can
cel them.
We believe in the unwritten law
of the land which declares it unwise
for the Chief Magistrate to hold ids
office beyond two terms, and we ac
cept the declaration of President
Grant in harmony with this law as
hut another claim to our admiration
and gratitude.
The “largest indivual tax payer in
Boston,” Nathan Mathews, pays a
tax of 835,1488. He complains of the
unjust over-valuation of his real es
tate, and says that his whole produc
tive real estate that is, nearly one
hundred stores and dwelling houses i
and wharf property—does not pro
duce an average return of three per j
cent, over insurance and taxes. A !
store which rents only for SIO,OOO is I
taxed at 8125,00. This in the burnt |
district, hut his Fourth End proper
ty tised so high that it does not
renter over three per cent; even
taking the average of seven years
this holds good, so loth are the asses
; sers to tec rgnize the depreciaUUUti Of
i W w# Uwtikfe
Washington Cry Colored Men.
A delegation of colored men, of
Washington csty.ealied at the rooms
of the Democratic National Commit
tee, on the Ist int, asking political
recognition of their printed declara
tion, w*hich was adopted by a large
meeting held here Friday, February
28th. It commences:
We colored men, representing
nearly all the States and Territories
of the United States, are tired of our
self imposed party yoke, its injustice
to us; and its flagrant violators of
the Constitution, in order to trarnpU
out l.xtal self-government and insult
our brave and well-disposed fellow
citizens of the South; and earnestly
believe that a division of the solid
phalanx of colored voters, will act
beneficially upon the two great par
ties; and, therefore, we propose to
stand by principles, and will support
•nly those men who will do the most
for us. This policy, we believe, will
inure to the lasting tranquility of the
country, and a speedy return to good
reeling between the late m t.-ter anti
now free citizen will follow. We n
voke .he blessing of Almighty God
"p”' this carefully cousiuered de
parture, and invite the hearty and
•ordiat c.-oper a tion of ihe col ore I
population of the colored people of
the whole country, who, line us,
have cause for well-grounded com
plaints, to organize to the end that
their ballots may subserve the peace
if the country, the fraternization of
the whole pMn f )!(., and the prosperity
an 4 unification of the sections of our
uudivitabie repuulie.
Committee on Re-o’utions —Rev.
Garland H. White, of aonii Caroli
na; Howard L. .Smith, of Virginia;
R ihert D- Mortimer, of Rhode Is
an I; Alex Jones, of Massachusetts;
N. A B-inker, of Pennsylvania; lhn
mi Lewis, of the District of Colum
bia; Dr. Ridley, of Arkansas,'and C.
L. Vincent, of Illinois.
A Sad Bereavement.—No on*
ca i reflect upon the uielancho y end
of that lovely bride of less than a
yetr, Mrs. liersehel V. Johnson, Jr.,
witho it the deepest sympathy for
the surviving husband and a sorely
afflicted circle of relatives. All unite
in saying she was a lady of surpass
ing sweetness and gentleness, and
possessed of most fervent piety. Her
brother, Mr. J. H. Roberts, who
resides in Waynesboro, Georgia, was
summoned by telegraph to the fu
neral, without any previous intima
tion of the sudden and brief illness
of his beloved sister. He was great
ly overcome, and almost inconsola
ble. From him we learn that with
in a comparatively short period, no
less than twenty-two kinsmen
fuiuo to unm uruTne
rmn whence no traveler returns.”
Such mortality in a single family is
almost unprecedented, and forcibly
inculcates the oft repeated lesson tiiat
here we have no continuing city nor
abiding place, and no man can call
his inourain sure. May God comfort
the stricken survivors.
The bold mariner, R ibeson, is
coming in for his share of the inves
tigation ordered by Congress. The
sub-committee, composed of Messrs.
Whitt home, of Tennessee, and Dan
ford, of Ohio, has now been at Nor
foil? Jomo tioi ini hu
affairs of the navy yard there, and
has nearly concluded the investiga
tion. It began with the prominent
officers of the navy yard, and has
gone down to the employes. It is
asserted that the testimony success
fuliv sustains the charges made
by Goode.
From what the editor of Athens
Watchman saw along the route from
Athens to Monroe—going one road
and returning by another —he is in
clined to the opinion that an unusual
breadth of land is s vvn in wheat in
the counties of Oconee and Walton,
audit certainly looks very promis
ing. There is a large quantity of fall
oats sown, an# it too, looks well.
It will be impossible to expact the
pacification of such States as Missis
sippi and Louisiana so long as men
so long as men of tiie Ames and Kel
logg stamp remain in power, and the
entire nation is interested in seeing
them forced to step down arid out. by
any proper means that can be brought
to bear against them— Phi/a. Bulle
tin[llep.)
Everybody admits that Herschel
V. Johnson would make the kind ot
Govenor Georgia needs, if he would
only consent to run it oie peole
want his services, perhaps, he would
consent. While he never has sought
office, he has never refused to serve
when called upon by the people.
Aniledtjeville Union.
Queen Victoria has at last yielded
to the long expressed desire of her
subjects that she should appear in
public, by holding a court in Buck
ingham Palace and attending a con
cert at Albert Hall.
New York state seems to be dead
in earnest about enfranchising her In
dians, now that it has been discover
ed they-hopolully refuse lu becorno
extinct. Every tribe but the Oneidas
has increased in the last decade.
A Berrien county man, aged nine
ty-nine, received a letter the other
day. Before he perused it, he ex
plained that it was the only one he
had received in sixty years.
The venerable Dr. Pierce is now
at Washington Ga., in improved
health, testing the value of the min
eral springs at that place.
Exposures ot me frauds ot spirit
ual mediums are getting to he al
most as frequent as those of Repub
liean officer# in the revenue service
in both cases the spirit tests are over
done. __
The late advisory council in
Brooklyn cost Plymouth church $12,-
000. Beecher is an expensive pastor.
His scandal trial last year cost his
parishioners SIIB,OOO.
The grain crop of Texas this year
a oounts to about 8,000,000 bushels.
The average price of wheat at Dallas
since the opening of the grain season
has been ninety-five cents.
Since the abolition of capital pun
ishment in Maine, pistol dealers are
beginning to come out in diamond j
shirt-studs.
Col, J. C. Barton has purchase 1 the
interest of A. L. Davidson in the
Kockdale Register.
Seknnd luv iz lik a stkund kase of
meublca—oiw always it
1 Utt*
Special Notices.
Directory of County Olßrcrt.
Ohdinarv—.l. A. Howard.
O.KRK ofScmkior Coi'KT -Thomas A. Word.
Sheriff-v. M. Fraokliu. G. L. Franks,
Deputy.
Tax Rxc iver—A M. route.
Tax Collrctor—W. F. Corhin.
OoexfY Commissioners— IJussel H. Cannon,
Chairman. David-V. Mokely, Jt.hn C. Ayeock,
R. H. Dodd, John 11. Wikie,.clerk.
Coroner—D. B. Mull.
Scrvetor—ll. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill,
Deputy.
COLO.YISTS, KMIG&A\TS AM) TRAVELERS
WESTWARD.
FOR m; circulars, condensed time tables
and general inlormation in regard to
ransportation facilities to all points in Ten
•inessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Colo
rado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New Mexico
Utah and California, apply to or address Al
bert B. Wrenn. General Railroad Agent,
Atlanta, Ga.
No one should go West without first getting
in communication with the General Railroad
Vgent,and become i (formed as to the superior
advantages, cheap and quick transportation ol
families, household goods, stock and farming
implement gen®ra)lj. All information cheer
fully given. W. L. DANLKY. G. P. &T. A.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
The names of all persons we found upon our
subscription book when we purchased the
■standard and Express, credited by advance
payment will be furnished Tiie Express uutil
the time paid for expires.
i he names of those who had not paid up, we
have transferred to ourjnew hooks, ami begin,
Oicir subscriptions from December 2, 1875.
These are respectfully and earnestly requested
local 1 in and pay or send us two dollars for
the current rear’s subscription.
We are determined to give our readers n
srood uanoi' “-a ■>-- itjcquires aconstau caUi
outlay to do so. we.liopc all who have not paid
will do so without delay.
CUm-USViLLE CIIT GOVERXMEAT.
Mayor—F. M. Ford.
Aldermen —a. It. Hudgins, G. *V. Satter
field, G. B. Conyers, A. L. Barron, J. A. Stover,
S. F. Milam, Peter Marsh, H. S. Best.
Clerk—l. B. Conyers, acting.
Treasurer— A. [.. Barron.
Marshal— M. P. Maxwell.
Attorney— J. B. Conyers.
Sexton—if. S. itevell.
COMMITTEES.
Finance— A. li. Hudgins, C. B. Conyers, S. F.
Milam.
Street— U. S. Best, J. A. Stover, G. W, Satter
field. A. L. Barron.
Cemetery— Peter Marsh, S. |F. Milam. C. B.
Conyers.
LAVS RELATIVE TO NEWSPAPER SIB
SCRIPTIOAS AM) ARREARAGES.
1. Subscribers who donotifivc express no
tice to the contrary, are considered wishing tw
continue their subscription
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of
their periodicals, the publishers may continue
to send them until all arrearages are paid,
3. If eii.<— **- o*-*-* * close to take
tneir periodicals Irom the office to which they
redirected, they are held responsible until
they have settled their bills aud ordered them
discontin tied.
4. If subscribers move to other places with
out notifying publishers, and the papers are
sent to the former direction, they are held re
sponsible.
5. The Courts have decided that “refusing to
take periodicals fiom *he office or teinoving
and leaving them uncalled ror, is prima facie
evidence f intentional fraud.”
6. Vn 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 subsc ibers pay in advance, they are
bound to give notice to the publisher, at the
eytd of their time, if they do not wish to con
tinue taking it; otherwise me
authorized io send it on, and the subscriber
will l>e responsible until an express no
tice, with payment of all arrearages, is scLt
to the publisher.
IF YOU
AVantb ardors
Want a .-ituation,
Want a salesman.
Want a servant girl.
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 houe,
Want to sell a carriage,
Want a boarding place,
W ut to borrow money,
Want to sell dry goods,
Want toseli groceries.
Want to sell furniture,
Want to sell hardware.
Want to sell fcal estate.
Want a job of carpentering.
Want a job of black'ini tiling.
Want to sell millinery goods,
Want toseli a h‘>u->e and lot.
Want to advertise to advantage,
Wan’t to flint anyone’s address,
Want to sell a piece of furniture.
Want to buy a second-h and carriage.
Want to And anything yon have l*st.
Want to sell agricultural implements.
Want to Anil . - i-operty.
Advertise in
THE OARTEKSVILI.E EX'’RES'*.
Professional Cards.
LAW dr REAL ESTATE.
W. T. WOFFORD,
A XY business leit with C’apt. Saniford and
Mr. Waters, who are in rov office, will re
cirve iny attention. I will lie at my office usu
ally between the hours ol ID and It each morn -
iug. ]leblt>l W.T. WOFFORD.
A. M. FOETE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CA.RTERSVILLE, GA-
I With. Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of IJartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray,Whitticld and ad-
JUluln. wuutiis. rlc (■•?-!y
n. AV. TIIRPIIEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CART R V11.1.K. QA.
OFFICE (up stairs) in the brick buildiDg
corner of Main and Irwin streets Gec2-tt.
~ J. W. HAIiHISJr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cartersville, Ga.
OFFICE next door to THE Kxpkess printing
estutdishmeii t.
IOHN W. WOFFORD. IHOMB W. MILNKK
IVOFFORD dr MILXER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
OFFICE up stairs, Bank Block.
9-5-tl.
JAMES 11. t’OXYEUS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee
and adjoining circuits. Particular attention
given to uil business entrusted to mv care.
Collecting made a specialty, office up-stair,
in theßak Block. de<-23-ly.
Tm. bates,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office in the Court House.
der9-ly
HOMEMADE HOSIERY.
PERSON’S desiring good and serviceable
SOCKs OR STOCKINGS,
Cotton or Woolen
UM4 And At the store of
i'wVnh ’ v * T -
Sonlhei'ii Sliirt 55Inufitotory.
ED. F. SHBOFaHIRE & CO.,
Manufacturers and Dealers ia
WHITE AHD COLORED SHIRTS.
Collars, Bosoms and Dm wars.
21-3 East Alabama Street, ATLANTA, Georgia.
. R >rties iu Cartetsvil'e ordering from us can have their mea-tires taken at Mr. PatMle
tailor shop. Jan*cans.
SADDLES, HAHN ESS, LEATHER, ETC., ETC
HUDGINS & MOUNTCASTLE
KEEP ON HAND AND M AKE TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTH K
SADDLES AND HARNESS OF THE BEST MATERIALS
AND IN EVERY STYLE DESIKARI.E.
They keep on hand also a good stock of H VMEB, COLLARS BRTDLF.M, HALTERS, WHIP*
Ad so Harness. Sole and. Upper Leathers,
KIP-AND FRENCH CAT F SKINS.
ind everything usually kept ie n first-class establishment. Our Saddles and Harness am made
at our own *ho,i AND A iCE ALL WARRANTED.
Mor • on West M tin street, next and >or to V. A. -kinner ,k Cos. declC-Sat.
ST OVES & TINWARE.
tlie Citizens of Cartersville and Sur
rounding Country:
HAVING BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN MV ARRANGK
nients t> l* v* Oartersville, 1 have concluded to remain
and cast my lot among her people. In opcuing b uiti
nPff heru •?•> I have concluded to do a STRICTLY CASH
j businesa, thereby enabling me to offer good* at KXTREM■
LY LOW FIGURES.
Those wishing to purchase
STOVES, TINWARE A HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
F.r CASH. RAGS, BEESWAX, FEATHERS, OLD BRASS AND COPPER. CORN AND
FODDER, or anything that will sell, can get the very bottom pliers. But flkisx do No*
ask Fun credit. I cannot, afford :•* give it, even to the veiy best men iu the country, M
my goods are marked at CASH PRICES
Thanking my friends for their pist patronage, and earnestly soliciting a continuance of
the same, I can always tie found at my old stand iu the old Exchange H it.-l B Hiding, on th
PUBLIC SQUARE. (Jant-lr) J 3 AinMg.
J. D. HEAD. DR. T. H. BAKER. W. G. DOBaON.
J. D. HEAD & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fan:y Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Clothing,
IIATS, BOOTS AND SHOES, &c., &C.
xtr>. .tvt x>vv.v,iinoo oLi eet Atlanta, Go.
OUR RARTOW, PAULDING VXD CHEROKEE COUNTY FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO
call and see u, when in the city, promising them the same courteous treatment and fair,
honest dealing they h ive h.id iu our house white nt Cartersville Our stock will lie found fall
and complete in ail its department, and prices as low as can be found iu this market.
N. 15.—Wc res 'eetfu’.ly ask consignments of cotton from onr friend* who wish to sell in this
market, promising them the i idlest ns irket pi ices— au.l no unnecessary expense- attached M
the sale of same. J. D. HEAD A (X>.
A i lanta, ‘.a,. Jami irv 6 IKT6.
ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP.
"Wallace iiaokoa,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Hollow Ware, Steam Eapes, Grates, Mantels, Mill Mactaerj, to.
Highest Market Price lor
Old. Iron, Copper and Brass*
JOHN S. KEESE & CO General Agents, Baltimore, kid.
T. W. BAXTER,
Cartersville, G-eorgfia*
SOLE AGENT IN BARTOW AND ADJOINING COUNTIES, j
FOR Til K
PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY.
w/AJT A. 1 /Ala, yijUOOiOOO.
JUST RECETVF.n AT W AREHOUSE OF i.ENERAL AGENT IN ATLANTA,
1,000 Tons Soluble Pacific ftuano,
100 Ton** of Acid Pluspliite for Composting*
(NO OLD STOCK ON HAND )
lAM now prepared to furnish dealers ami planter* in any quantity desired ofthe above hifS
£,”,1 and n iniia.- t rtit zees. which tre fr-h and in One condition, and the analvsis recently
mXfofthe new"tock. show, atio.it 15 per cent availatde acid per cenL
Vminonia and nearly 2 per cent, potash vilj on time as usual, at tne low price ui (SI 5(1 per
deli vered on board cars In Atlanta, with option to pay in cotton Ist November, at 15 cenrn
per pound lmsi> New York Middlings. Planter. * .11 note th it freignt is only from Atla.tn
It 4d per ton. Cull on or send to me for circulars and analysts. Jt.;*pe<-tfiitl
1 • fw • IJIIXtCP#
J.-in2o-2m __
THE GRANGERS
LIFE II HEALTH HIM CO..
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A.u.tlioi'izecl Capital 4,000,000*
Of Which SIOO,OOO to ba Owned in Each Department.
Eaoli Policy-Holder is entitled to a vote in the management of the Company
TANARUS /\ Tl OFFIOB, MOBILE. ATiA.
CAPITAL STOCK, ------ - 100,000.
W. U. KETCniM, President. | F. E. DAVIDSON, Vic* President. 1 It. W. FORT, Sae’/
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT, ROME, GA.
Capital Stock -....•100.hA#
office No. 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
Major C. G. SAMUEL, Presi lent, ALFRED SHORTER, Vice-President, R. .T. OWALTNET,
Secretary, C. ROWELL. Attorney, l>r G. W. II'sLMES, Medical Examiner.
Board of Directors :
V. P. AUgnod; Trion Factory; C. Rowell. Rome, Ga.; Alfred Shorter. Rome. Ga.; John H"
Newton, Athens, Ga.; A. Jones. Cedartown, Ga ; Hon. D. F. Hammond, Atlanta, Ga.; Ho**
D. B. Hamilton, Rome. Ga,; Cain Glover. tt*m \ Ga.; T. McGuire, Rome, G%; K. Woodruff*
Rome, Ga.; M. 11. Bunn, Cedartown, Ga ; A. J. King, Cave Spring, Ga.; Hon. W M*
liutchius. Polk county, Ga.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT, MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Capital Stock -....i100,0##
lion. N. N. Clements, President and General Man iger. Tuscdon-a, Ala.; Hon. David Clopto*.
Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; W. L. Chambers, Secretary; Stone A Clopton, Attorney a,
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, MERIDIAN MISS.
Capital Stock - 100,0O*
Col. James W. Beck, President. John 11. Grnv, Vice-President, L. A. Duncan, Secretary.
SECURITY, ECONOMY AND LIBERALITY,
Are the Leading principles of thit Company.
AT.L approvt and forms of Life and Endowment Policies issued in sums of 9109 *p lo SIO,OOO. AIM
Term Policies of one, three, or .even years.
All cite policies non-forfeiting alter two annual payments, when the Instrcd will he etotlU*!
to paid up Policy or Ca.-h Surrem er theieof.
Dividends may be used to protect policies against lapsing Incase of failure to par pr*
miums. Thi- with the non-forfeiting and Ca-o suvrvn ier features, are snffi -ient to make this
i m >ar y popular among huiKing in mi. AGENTS AV ANTED,
dec 2-ti W. G. ENGLAND;of Mobile, .Vl*., General mperintoadeut of AaiMi^
, W, K. HUSE, Agent, CartWsvf He* CdOrgta.
VOLUME XVII--XOIBKK 10.