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THE €ARTERSYILLE EXPRESS BY C. 11. C. WILLINGHAM. The Cartersvillc Express. [OLD STAX!)Aim \NI> EXPRESS.] BATES OF sUBaCKH TIOX. One copy one ye ur no One ropy .'i-\ month* 1 DO One copy three n •n;ii> 5U In Adrance. Cliihu.-Pnr Clubs of ten copies or more 11.50 per annum for each copy. KATES OF ADVERTISING. The following are our established rates for advertising, and will he strictly adhere.l to in all cuse-: Tn 1 wkjil vvs 3 'V>, 4 Us'2 m 3 tn.,6 in.,.2 iii *1 SI 00 |1 &i $2 00*. 2 30 Jt no 4:6 00 to 00412 HI ■2 2 00 3 00 4 00 5 00 <J 00 12 00 17 00 . 2 (*) * 30. 456 5 ’.5 075 12 (*> 16 ‘2l 00, 30 00 4 4mi 575 72 . 850 14 50 18 75 25 U>! 36 00 5 50" 7 00 8 55 10 25:17 00 21 50 29 (Joj 42 W 8 6 0.) 8 25 10 25 2 00 >9 5,> 24 25 33 <) 43 00 7 7 00 9 60.11 75 !3 75 22 m 27 00 37 O- 54 CO >i 800 10 75 13 25 15 50 i 4 50 29 75,41 U 0 60 00 y yOO i2 0(* 14 75 17 27 00 32 50'45 00 06 (si JU 9 75 13 IK' (6 0/ 18 75 29 25 35 uf 16 50 71 00 11 ilO 50! 14 00,' 7 4f3(20 25 31 s* .77 50 a2 00 76 00 12 11 *5 l. 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Au lO’.mcing names of candidates lor office, five dollars, invariably in advance? Legal Advertising. Sheriff sales, pur levy |2.50 •• mortgage ft fa .-ales, per inch 4.50 Citations lor letters of administration ... 300 •• •* “ ” guardianship 300 Application for dismission from admius’n. 6 00 •• •* •* guard’slip 250 *• “ leave to sell land 2.50 Sales of land per inch 2 50 Baies of perishable property. per inch.... 1 50 Notice to debtors and creditors 3 50 Foreclosures of mort gage, per inch 4.(8) Kstray notices, thirty days 2.56 Application tor homestead 1.50 All legal advertisements mwit It paid for in advance, and officers must act accordingly; and that they m i know how to collect for those charged ior hv the inch, we will state that 125 words (in this type) make au inch. When B 11s are Due. All ('ills for advertising in this paper are due rtauy time after the first insertion of the same, an i will he collected at the pleasure of the proprietor, unless other" Ue arranged by con tn.ct. Travelers’ (guide. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. FROM and after this date the following Schedule will be run on the Cherokee Rail- Leave Roc ini art at 7 :00 A. 51. •* Tay'orsville 8:f)0 ” “ Stih shore, 8:25 “ Arrive at (. artcr.'Ville, 9:so Leave Canersville 3:00 P. M. •* .stil wboro, .... 3:50 “ Tuy.orsvifie 4:30 “ Arrive at ilookin art. 5:15 “ WESTERN * ATLANTIC RAILROAD AND ITS CONNECTIONS. The following Schedule takes effect Novem ber 2'. 1875. north Ward. No. 1. Leave Atlanta 6 20 pm Arrive 1 artersviile 636 pin rnve Kingston 6 42 p ni Arrive Dalton 7 04 p in Arrive Chattanooga... 1U !5 p ui So. 3. Leave Atlanta 6 20 a rn Arrive t artercville . .. .8 4? aiu Arrive Kingston 9 it am Arrive D iit'.n 0 r, 4 atn Arrive Chattanooga 12 42 pm No 11. Leave Atlanta ...5 55 p m Arrive < avtcrsvilie 8 50 p m Arrive Kingston 9 24 p 111 Arrive Dalton ll 43 i* m SOU I’ll \\ A !{(>• No. 2. Arive Chattanooga .4 0b j ni Leave Dalton 3 5t p m Arrive Kingstot 7 31 p 111 A'rive' -vtersvtHc 8 0* p ui Arrive Atlanta ...10 10 p in No. 4- Leave Chattanooga 5 15 a m Arrive Dalton 7 14 am Arrive Kingston 9 1/7 a ni Ardve Curtersville ...9 45 a in Arrive Atlanta n’n Arrive Dalton 1 60 11 1,1 Arrive Kingston 4 *1 a ,n Arrive Cartersville 5 16 a m Arrive Atlanta 0 42 a si Pullman Pal ace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be wrcii \e\v Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be tween Atlanta and Nashville. Pullman Palaec Cars run on Nos "3 nd 2be tween Louisville and Atlanta. UtTSo change of cars between New Orleans 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 (he second thereafter at 4 00 p. tn. Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs ai.d various Summer Resorts will be on sale in New Drlearns. Mobile, Montgomery, Colum bus, Macon, Sav iiinali. Augusta and Atlanta, at greatly reduced rates Ist 01 June. Parties' desiring a whole car through to the Virginia Springs or to Baltimore should ad dress the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should send for acopyof the Kennexenc Route Gazette, con taining schedules, etc. I4T A>k foi tickets via ‘‘Kcnnesaw Route.” B. tV. W REN X. General Passenger and Ticket Agent. m.nv23—rltl Atlanta. Ga. ROMK RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday. Dec. 12th trains on the j Home Kuilroad will run as follows: DAY TRAIN —EVERY DAY. Leave Rome at 7 a ni J Arrive at Rome t 1.30 a ui SATt-RDAY EVENING ACCOMOOATION. Leaves Rome at 5 45 p m Arrive at Rome at 9 P ,u ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD. PASSISNUK U TRAIN-OUTWARD. stations. arrive. leave Atlanta *• “• Last Point I 1 ':* !'• • • Led Oak t*:s9 i>. in. 0:44 p. n- Fuirhurn 0:21 p. m. H-2 j,.m. Palmetto 11:37 p. in. H:• p- n>. Powell’s D ;5- !>• in, :* l>- '• Puckett’s 12:30a m liUto am Grantvilte 12:50 ain 12At a m Iloßausville 1?* an J;** 1* ” - . ™ S * l a, “ West Point ••• 2.40 a 111 P VSSENGEU TRAIN—INWARD. ARRIVE. MATE. West- Point 12:30 |> in Lone Cane 13:38 | m 13:36 p in l.a GranEc i :u2 p m 1 SK P in W liiuifeM’s 1:21 p in 1:21 p to llogausville . 1:2! pB \ ; 42 p m Grantville 1:57 iBl * :, iß p ill Puckett’s 2:13 p ni 1*1? ** l,l New nan 8:29 p in 2:30 pin Powell’s 2:44 p ill 2:40 p ni Palmetto 8:< P m P 1,1 Lai: burn 3:32 p m 2:24 p m Red U.tk 3:38 p m 3:42 p in Last Point 3:57 i- m 3:o< pm At! tilt t .. 4:15 P > . SELMA, IIOM & DALTON. MAIL TRAIN DULT-NO TIL Leave R-me P 111 Arrive -.1 Dalton 3:'.4 P m Making close connections at Daiton with the East l ei. ness :e, Virginia and Georgia R.nt l'oii. and 'Vesicrn and Atlantic Railroad tor all La-tern and Western cities. mail train daily—south. Leave Dalton ’-00 P ni j Arrive at t aler t :i 1,1 j Arrive at Selma ..., —IO;2W a in j Making close connection at Caler.-t lor Mont 1 goineiu and points South, and at Selnia "*'- AlabamaCenlr.il Kailmad for Mobile. New Or leans. Meridian, Vie-ksburg, Jackson, _ all points South in Texas. Louisiana and Missis fcir.pi. M. STANTON, Gen. oup’t. “If ay K SIGHT. Gen. Ticket and P.t-s’gr A vt. GEORGIA RAILROAD. Dav Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad. Atlanta to Augusta, run as below : Leaves Augusta at B:4sam Leaves Atlanta at - 7:00 t ni Arrives at Augusta 3:3u a ni Arrives at Atlanta 5:45 pm Night passenger trains as follows: Leaves Augusta.at p :[ s P ni Leaves Atlanta at - P m Arrives at Augusta 3:15 ain Arrives at Atlanta 6:35 a m Accomu* 1 ation train as follows : Leaves Atlanta - 5:00 p m Leaves--Covington 5:50 a ui Arviiesait Atlanta BHS a m Arrives at Covington 1:30 p m THE COOSA RIVER STEAMERS. Stf .fmefson the Coosa River will run as per schedule as tdllbws: - * * * Leave Koine every Monday at........ P m Leave Rome every Thursday Bam Arrive*! Gadsden l ues iav'and Friday..* a m Amt, a wsjjSgiaia ■• * ’ EON. W. H. FELTON. His Speech on Federal Outrages lu Upper Georgia. The following is the speech of our representative in Congress, on the loth inst., on the outrages in upper Georgia: Mr. BLOUN F. I yield to my col league. [Mr. Felton.l Mr. FELTON. Mr. Chairman, re trenchment and economy in the pub lic expenditures is the declared poli cy oi this House. r l he country in its financial embarrassment demand ed this much at our hands. They confided in our promise of reform. With a Democratic House of Repre sentatives a reduct on of official pat ronage, of public indebtedness, arid of attending taxation must necessa rily ensue. A realization of these hopes is guaranteed by what this House has already accomplished in this direction. We are moving steadi ly along the “whole line,” reducing ti e expenditures of the Government to the lowest point consistent with the good faith and efficiency of the Government, creating no office for favorites, continuing 1,0 man in place it his services can be dispensed with, making no appropriation of money unless essential to the happiness and prosperity of the country, and bring ing the salaries of officials to a level in some measure equal to and com patible with the straitened circum stances of those whom we represent and serve. Just now there is much said and written upon financial questions. Every man has his theory ol finance. Infiationists, contructionists, resump tionisLs, are everywhere and in all political parties. Every financial nostrum is put forward by its inven tor and licensed vendor as :t specific for all the financial ills the country is heir to. I submit, the solution of these difficulties in part is to be found in curtailing expenses, economizing in every possible way, and husband ing the internal and custom revenues of the country. There are certain great commercial and industrial laws above and out side ot legislative enactments, beyond our control. Sometimes these laws may be modified, diverted for a time from iheir natural functions, dis turbed and disarranged by unwise tinkering and impolitic intermed dling; jlist, for example, the motion of some gnat inferior saleiliie, or just as the magnetic needle when in the neighborhood of large metallic deposits may be disturbed, its varia tions uncertain, its trembling move ments unreliable, But all these dis turbing influences are temporary and lo'-ai, and the great primary law of their organization soon assorts its au thurify and supremacy. S* the great laws of commerce, of productive iu lu>try, and the hundred departments of human activity and enterprise may be disturbed and disarranged for a lime by bad Jaws. But if the-a great principlesare not weighted am! pre.-st (i down by accnmulaung debts, they will adjust themselves to every exigency of -the country. It is amusing to hear some men discourse upon the ease and practica bility of resuming specie payments at any given time. It is the act of sovereignty, they say. and .only re quires The edict of tiiesovereign t< ac complish the desired object. I have read the story of Canute, who was carried by his courtiers into the path of the rising tide and was mid by these flatterers that it only required a wave of the royal hand and a word from royal lips to send hack that ir resistible torrent and to establish his claim to supreme authority. You remember that the wise and virtuous monarch sent those courtiers home wiser if not better men. Equally ansurd, in my judgment, is it for Cong re s or ihe Executive or for hoards of trade to fix the day or the year when the country shall com mence specie payments; forgetting, as they do, that the laws regulating trade and commerce, and production, and specie and currency are beyond and superior to their sovereign will ; forgetting also that this country is weighted and pressed down with a load of taxation and debt that ren ders it well-nigh helpless. We must remove or greatly lighten these weights, ease this pressure of taxa tion, and let trade and industry re assert themselves. I know that heretofore in times of suspension,-both in this country and in England, resumption has been reached by previously fixing the day; but legislators in these several eases, like the Delphian oracle, took good care before giving an answer or fix ing anything definitely to acquaint themselves with surroundings and learn that the p oposed project was possible; yet in every one of these instances of foreed resumption iueai cniahle loss and Distress was lite result. Legislators simply dem onstrated their capacity to crush out nil productive industry and commer cial thrift, by crushing out the seif regulating principles which underlie ail production anil commerce. I will not speak at this time of ex ciwG laws; how odious they are to tLe people of this country. Excise is taken from the Latin exciiere , to at off. It is a term used in finance to signify a duty charged in a coun try upon articles produced in that country before they are permitted to get into the hands of the public i he-e laws were introduced into Home by Augustus. There they led to abuses innumerable, and gave rise to many civil disseusi ns. line rius declared that the army, for whose benefit the tax had been lev ied, depended upon it for support, ami ibis was the only way he recon- ciled the people to its continuance. This excise system was first intro duced iiito England in lOAS by a com ni ssnm under the great seal. Its first introduction into our civiliza tion was therefore an act <>l tyranny. Parliament protested against it and it was canceled. This tax was re established in England by ptrlta memary act, 1646, both ot tire con tending parlies availing themselves of is benefits, but pledging them selves to its abolition as soon as the war should close. Cromwell, by act unauthorized by law, continued it in cxistence, and a portion of tins in ternal revenue was assigned to the Crown in compensation for heredita ry revenues arising from feudal pre rogatives which were then abolish ed. So then to-day this system of : taxation stands out in our civiliza tion as a modern supplement to an cient feudalism. The very name is objectionable to American fteemen. It was this ha tred t-oexcise and stamp duties which gave birth to American liberty;.and the spirit of Boston in 1776, which now pervades the whole land, can never be recon ci-ed to it. It is true ; the Government during the adrnin ! istration of Washington inaugurated a limited system of'feXeiHSr (tinies; hut even that gave rise to insurrec tion and civil disturbances,and upon 1 the accession of Jefferson to the i BaoiUeuvy, aud upou uuo teeuu*ucu- dation, the w hole system of internal taxes was abolished. May I nut as sert that whenever this Govern ment | shall become us pure, as economical, as wise as it was hi the days of Jef ferson, this anti-American system of taxation will again disappear? It doubtless was necessary to sustain l he credit of the nation during the vvai and perhaps was needful for a few years after the war, because every thing, labor, capital, production, all, must and of right should be made tributary to the credit of the Ameri can Government. Every species of property and industry is pledged to the redemption m good taiih ot every promise and obligation of the Gov ernment incurred in the war for the restoration of the Union. But I assert, if the retrenchment ie pubj ic ex peiidit uns wl l ich t his 11ouse proposes to effect had been inaugu rated six or eight years ago, and had 1 been adhered lo by the dominant party, this vexatious system of taxa tion might to-day cease, and the rev enue arising from customs duties levied ujkju importation of foreign merchandise would meet every de mand ol au honesi and wise govern ment. Let us see what this tax has done for the manufactories, the occupa tions, and the agricultural produc tion of the country. It has gathered from all these since 1863, when it was put in action, $2,086,590,705 83. Admitting its necessity during the war and perhaps up to 1870, this ex cise has collected from the labor and production of American citizens since 1870, 8789,264.865.87. It was made necessary by the war and the results of ihe war since 1870. Si ice that pe riod it has been necessary by the ex travagance and culpable expendi tures of the Government. What has it done for rny own State, a Slate desolated by war, in ruins, needing ail the products of her labor for recuperation and self-sus lenation? From Georgia it has gathered since 1866, when it became operative in that Stale, $19,068,419 03. From 1803 and 1863 it has reaped fr m Virginia $45,097,215 82 West Virginia 7,722.908 55 North Carolina 13.134.970 50 South Carolina 7,060.054 39 Alabama 14,604,957 39 Mississippi 10.299.837 45 Louisiana 31,746.917 00 Texas 8.937,659 54 Tennessee 19,194,825 00 Making a grand total collected I rom the Siate especially devasted by war, since their national rehabilitation, of $157,849, 645.60. This i> a direct tax' upon their labor and the great agri cultural staples of this section. The increased amount paid by Virginia shows what tobacco is doing toward the support of the Government, and -howthat agriculture must he drain ed "of its hard earn in gs while many investments of the capitalists are ex empt from every form <>f taxation. I feel dint there is not only one hard ship, but injrsiice here. The Onn* mi-i-doner of Internal Revenue says in his report after giving Ihe net -t mount of receipts from all smm-es of inf ru:.l rrvi-uu: during the last fiscal \-ar in the several States and Terri tories : “ Fiie results thus shown do not in dicate that the States paying the largest amounts of internal rev enue pay in proportion to their re lative population of wealth.” Thisis the injustice connected with his whole system, particularly with that portion of the revenue extract ed from tobacco States, All exercise duties are strictly direct taxes, lev ied upon or cut off excidere from the industries of the country ; and the Commissioner says the States paying tne large-t amount do not pay in pro portion to their relative population or wealth. The Constitution says, article 1, section 2: “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the sev eral States * * * according to their respective numbers.’ ’ Here in this report it is boldly an nounced that Ihe wealth of thecoun try does not sustain the burdens of the country. Beferring once more to the South ern States and the $157,000,009 that has been gathered from them—prin cipally from their agricultural pro ductions—since 1566, permit me to remark that I have seen penury cast ing in its two mits.wednigh all its liv ing, to sustain some cause which lay near its heart; hut here we have prostrated bv war, the accumulations from a century swept from existence, Sta r es mourning like Rachel because their“children were not,’’widowhood and orphanage fiiling the*land with iheir tears and struggling for bread going on among all classes of socie ty; vet in the midst of their bitter * ’ •—J- „,,a ursoiatton they pay into the Treasury of the Uniied States within ten years, as a direct tax upon their labor and production this immense sum of money, and for all this their patriotism is sometimes impeached, their professions of loy alty are sometimes criticised, and upon their reception into the United .Slates tiie entente cor diale of a com mon brotherhood is sometimes de nied them. But, sir, a favor consolidation of districts and retrenchment of expen ditures in the revenue department of Georgia for reasons yieeialiy ap plicable to my State. Economy in public expenditures, removal of su pernumerary officials, and equitable adjustment of taxation are the great the great demands of the coun try just now. In Georgia the Inter nal Revenue Department of the Gov ernment with its association and col lusion with tiie Department of Jus tice,(so called,) offers the most prom ising field for r treuchment and re form that I know of in all the com plex machinery for carrying on the Government. The aggregate receipts from each collection district in Georgia for the fiscal year ending June the 80, 1875, were : Kiis: District $55 11165 si‘coi.<l oj>oivt 63 643 ;2 Third Di-triel 8-<.3H> 85 Fount. Disirict 181. 10942 Total 388 £26 84 Now let me ascertain the expense of collecting this amount of revenue. I submit a letter from Hon. D. D. Pratt, Commissioner; * I KKASUKY DEPARTMENT, 1 Office Internal revenue. - ( V\ a-hingtoii. Feb. 23. 1876.) SIR: h* compliance wall request, contained in your letter of the 22d instant.. I have the honor to hand you herewith the amount allow ed tor eaeh eoliector and deputy collector in the stale of Georgia lor the fi-cal year 1875 : First dist>ict of Georgia : Personal salary of collector, per annum. .$3,003 Three deputies 11,500 each 4 500 One deputy 1,800 Second district of Georgia : Personal salary of collector, per annum., 3 000 Four deputies, $t 500 each 6.H0 One deputy 1,800 Or.edeputv. |iour month- 500 Thirii di-triot of Georg 1 * : Persona* -alary of collector per annum... 3,000 One deputy I.MjQ Three deputies, $1,500 each 4 5 1 *) One Special deauty.... I.SOj Fourth district o: Georjfi* I Person.d salary of-collector, per annum... 3.C00 Fwe doputies. (1 50 each 7.51X1. One clerk I.SOi t/UU clerk... 6 0 T*s:MiUkl4’ j p. D Pit \ IT\ CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1876. The total amount of these items of expense is $45,300. Permit me to a-k the attention of the House to one feature iu this list i of expenditures. The amount of revenue collected 1 j in the first district was $55,111 65. ! The expofst* is given in this letter j In.in the commissioner, wan $10,300 ‘ ! The amount collet led in the forth ! district was slßl 109 22. The expense was given by the same authority, was 812 9t*o. While the amount of revenue in the fourth district is more than three times the amount collected in the, first district, yet the in the fourth is only a traction mure than it was in the first district. Here we have an unanswerable argument for the equalization of these expenditures. • The expense should bearsome pro portion to the amount of work done, and these districts should not be con tinued for mere partisan purposes, as sinecures for favorites, Government asylums for its political pensioners. if one collector with a salary of $3,000, a limited number of deputies judiciously located in the State, and two clerks—if they can do the work which is now done by this large number of empiovees, let us have consolidation and retrenchment In the revetnu* department trf Georgia. But, sir. expense I have men tioned is only a small part, a fraction of the cost of this department in my State. So far everything seems le gal. Fixed salaries, regular work. This crop of officials are not responsi ble for the extravagance of the Gov ernment in the number of its ap pointeesor the amount of money paid them. The Congress of the United States is accountable for such permitted extravagunee. But there is another Department of the Government a sort of adjunct or auxiliary of this revenue depart ment. 'Plie two are so blended in my State that it is difficult to disen tangle their interlacing threads. Yhi can only trace the one through the other,as you trace the blackish, fetid drainage of some great city through the clearer waters of some great stream into which the sewer empties. The j other depart ment is called—hear it, ye gods!—“The department of Jus tice.” ~„There is such a “reign of terror” exercised over the upper counties of ihe State which I in part represent upon this floor that I feel constrained to make gome effort for ihe removal or explanation or modification of this terrorism perpetrated under the guise- of law. That there are violations and in tentional infractions of the revenue laws is not denied. That these vio lations should he prosecuted and punished is not controverted, but rather insisted upon. The people of mv Shim ildl-jw ,itnt adherents to every law of the United States, and there is no State in the Union where the citizens and the State authorities will exert them selves more zealously in exacting the laws <>f the Federal Government than Georgia. Oar .people recognize this whole country us their common country, the home of their children. If, in the future emergencies should arise imperiling the honor or glory of its flag, that flag will find no stronger anon nor braver luhoUm com in a- t<> i-• defense than will he found in the military contributions ot the empire State of the South. The courage and endurance that illustrated her sons upon a hundred battle-field of civil strife are now and for ever at the dis posal of the General Government. One other remark. The counties in vm State that are sufferingjmqst at this time from the maladministra tion of the revenue lawsare the coun ties w here the citizens generally are making the greatest efforts to abolish in their midst all the evils resulting from the traffic and intemperate use of alcoholic liquors. In Gilmer county I am told, under the local-option law that is in force in our State, the people have suc ceeded in abolishing the retail traf fic in the county. lii some counties in my district where those outrages are perpetrated I know that the young men are band ed together in temperance organiza tions, and have well-nigh swept the manufacture of liquor from the coun try. So in many other counties in that section of the State suffering most from these revenue difficulties. 1 mention these facts to show that the people who are crying out against these oppressions are no appolagists for “Illicit distilation,” no advocates for “crooked whisky,” or abettors of a smuggled liquor traffic. Indeed, the farmer, who grows his small crop of tobacco is frequently arresfvil. -u.ni.-*>* L -1--*--* 1 ! 1 numerable indignities, and only finite escape possible by complying with the illegal demands put upon him. I can speak from personal know ledge, and say that county jaiis are frequently crowded with men who have been arrested arid brought there seventy-five ora hund red miles from their homes; away from the witnesses, away from their Mends, away from commi-sioners who slionid investigate their cases by otiu-r county jails. Hu ml reds of these men are thus incarcerated, liu initiated, bullied and fleeced, who are as innocent of crime as you, sir, or anv other man on this floor. Now, you will remember, these deputy marshals and commissioners j receive fees, perquisites; and it is no surprise when you remember they charge up mileage against the Gov ernment for themselves and their prisoners, to learn that they some times travel a hundred miles when the same work could he done by! traveling fifty miles; and the mileage of an innocent man counts as well as the mileage of a guilty man ; the fees, for conducting the preliminary inesvtigation of an innocent victim count as though he was guilty. Il appears during the last fiscal year out of the ea-es before the Fed eral court lor violating the revenue laws in Georgia there were one hun dred and one suits decided in favor ofthe United States, and eightv-four suits decided adversely to the United S ates, and twenty-nine suits dismiss ed, showing conclusively that a ma jority of the arrests are innocent men, or without evidence sufficient to con vict them. You and I will never know how many of these arrested parties not reported in this class were dis charged and dismissed by commis sioners and reaching the court in Atlanta. I see, also, on July 1, 1875, there were one hundred and fifty-three suits pending, and it is reasonable to suppose that among these pending cases thcreare as many innocent parties as there were in the suits disposed of. Indeed more, for this system of terrorism and fleecing is growing more clamorous lor vie tims from clay to day. I wish I had the reports for the present fiscal year. Now, I s*e an item in the' report’ j of the Attorney General that throws [ u tkui of UgUC Uiu ic£v^> ularities of which 1 speak. In state ment ofex}en<litores made by the department of justice to defray the expenses of the courts of the United for tlit* year ending June 30, 1875. for the District of Georgia, are the following items of expenditures: For marshals $78.7M) 06 Attorneys 6,105 00 Clerks 4.757 75 Commissions 3.965 85 Rents-. ],so< 00 Miscellaneous 309 00 Total 93,337 80 Think of this, Mr. Speaker. Out of >9-3,337 80, $78,700 is paid to these deputy marshals and their chief, who are spreading terror, sorrow, and death through the upper counties of Georgia. Should we be surprised that innocent men are arrested? This ti lls the story of men being handcuffed and pushed at the point of the bayonet a hundred miles dis tant from home to undergo a prelim inary trial. Mileage fees, perqui sites, all charged up against the Gov ernment, amounting to $78,600 all under excuse of enforcing the reve nue laws. In the United States the marshals cost $2,393,631.78. But all this is a trifle compared w ith the violence and bloodshed of which they are guilty in my State. Let me give you some of their pro ceedings. These vigilant deputies after stuffing their pockets full of warrants, (and I wish the testimony I have as to the character of those warrants was official so 1 might use ii; but it is not, and I pass it ovr,) place themselves at the bead of a squad of federal soldiers, say a dozen or more, and thus they proceed to counties distant from railroads, and with no law but a ruffians, greed, hacked by shot and bayonets, they enforce their will. I will ask the clerk to read, as part of my remarks, extracts from two newspapers, published one in Gil mer County and one in L’herokee County, Ga. The Clerk read as follows: From the Ellijuy Courier. January 16. 1576, C >NCKILNING RECENT ARRESTS. Ellijay, Ga., January 16, 1875. EDiTOK COlTkick: On Friday night the 14th iiiNl. I \v a>on mj way home iii the up|ter por tion ol this count', train where 1 h-d been making hoards that day. i it ad my c.ro>sot .-.t\v with me. I c im<: by the slid-house of' Mr. John Etnorv. Near there I met with some hoys—Sisson, Rogers and Leatherwond. The night was dm k and cold. We went into the still-house to warm by the hie and to wait awhile lor the moon to rise. While sitting (hi re some men entered the root' and ordcie-t U-* to surrender. We mule no resistance. In a few moments we heard a gun lire just out of doors. We heard no one halted not no wotd spoken by any one out doois. Ju-t alter this a soldier entereo the house amt one who was guarding its said : - Grady, was that\ou tired?” •tea havered, “Yes.” The guard replied. “That’s right, pour it to them ” Then Grady stepped out doors and was absent <t few mo uieiils. The scagearit in ihatgu then Inifsltsl ••‘P all the beer st.ihds. destroy ed the still and other anicles, and broke up a wash pot in the in, 1 soil and the tluee !,p-.^ dwelling. 1 hev'thee 1, - S .o V“A“the house, found a kegof hranu.e- mied canteens, found some jugs ami lilted them, and limn nursied the keg and poured out the contents onjihe floor. The the lady. Emory’s wife, cried ami picad with 1 hem not t-> do so, 1 demanded of them if they Stud any warrant against me or either of the others. They gave me no satisfaction They cuffed Us togeino.l, two and two. and then car ried us up into i-'aiiniii county. Tile night was very cold and we were made to w ade watei - courses on our way; our clothes were frozen upon us. We were returned as prisoners untiil we weie brought down below Ellijay, when Leatherwond and myself were released, the second night alter our attest. We never heard a word of Emory’s minder, until we came back I rom Fannin County, the day utter ”'<•murder. Then we heard that John Emory had neen killed at il Sliri-nilUsC, and the gun we heard, was the gun that lulled him 1 leave the further facts in this on.-e to the cor oner’s inquest, and to the legal investigation which I hope will follow. Now, I am an old citizen of this county, have lived here tor thirty years, and never" hd a charge brought against me tor any crime; never was arrested on a warrant before; have been a peaceable, law-abiding man ail my life, have tri -d to'ncver Violate any law. State or Federal. Have been a devoted Union man; took protection during the wai under the .Union flag, and my sou served in the'l!ll ion. army. And I how ask iu the name of God,’ 01 Liberty, Justice, and everything that is sn ored, if these tilings are to he tolerated in this country V Is the great Government ol the United" States to hack the bloody ami vindic tive Blacker and his vile crew ol criminals thatlie has selected iu this country to ui<l him in his hellish work, under the pretence of en forcing the revenue laws, iu thi-, the glorious Centennirl year of itsexisteuce ? When I was arrested 1 detn imled tneir au thority or my arrest; told them l had a fam ily of "small orphan children alone at home, with no mother with them, and plead with them with tens iu tny eyes, for my release, that 1 might go to my children: hut it was all in vain, such is liberty, now, it seems. 11. Hcllfosi). [From the Cherokee Georgian, Feb. 9, 1876.] OUTRAGES OF REVENUE SCOUTS. Reports reach us from reliable sources that tile revenue agents continue their unwarrant able and t) mimical conduct in the upp- r part of this county. Ata late hour on ihe night of the 26th ultimo, one ot these agents entered the house oi Michael Cline, and, brandishing hi- cocked revolvers, so had'y frighte>>e I Mrs. Ciiue, who was in a critical condition, that her recovery is doubtful. Last Wednesday night an old out-house oc cupied by the notorious Cos >k women, was burned, and one of the women thereupon went to Gartersville and reporte-i a number of citi zen-' living in the neighborhood as being ei ! belli a hlux or illicit distillers. The result was th.it on 1 hursdav night some revenue offi cers. aided b s v u eswd eight citizens, some of honi are aiiove suspi cion, and carried chem off One of ihe prls o iers was Mrs. .James JlcvOv. They broke in to her husband’s house late in the night, cap .ured him and her, anil forced her to March on mot to the old Burrows place, and there, al most without shelter or 6re, she was keptunii) late Fi idny niorniog. Mrs. McCoy was in the poorest condition th it a wile could he to en dure harsh treatment. The truth <u these reports is vouched for by several credible witnesses, ’ihe facts would induce one to ihlnk lie was reading of some high-handed outrage perpetrated in a Turkish piovim e, weie 10-lo t inlormed that the) oc curred in iepi.h’.lcan America. How long is -uch tyranny to last ? Government is a sham, democratic institutions are a failure, if such shameful proceedings are permitted to contin ue. Mr. Felton— All this, and it is not ‘ a tithe ofthe violence these men are j guilty of, in a. State under civil law, ! in a country whose proud boast is that no citizen, however humble, can he arrested and punished without due process of law—-in a country whose glorious heritage is thestib jugation of military to civil au thority. Men having the commission of deputy marshals, a civil office, halt men at the dead hours of night, and if they refuse to obey shoot them down as outlaws. Helpless and deli cate women are arrested and so ex posed as to endanger life. The en tire section of the State is disturbed and trem ning with apprehension, not knowing where the blow will fall or when their money will be ex acted. As the representative of this peo ple I protest against the unrighteous ! continuance of these outrages. Mr. Chairman, now for the reme ! dy. First. This lull suggests one reme dy, consolidation and retrenchment. My observation teaches me that one effectual way to suppress wrong doers is to withdraw the perquisites of wrong doing. Cease to feed and pamper men at the expense of the Government whose services can be dispensed with. Second. Require every man arrest ed for violating the revenue laws to have his preliminary trial in the county in wiiich the offense is alleged to have been committed. Stop this despotic work of dragging men a hundred miles from their homes for the mere pecuniary benefit of some pliant tool of those jn power. Tnird.. Take these Fekeral troops land putTliein a i wiim> employment, worthy of an American soldier; and, i U U tti f ft*idea* ouiuftA JUrt with sufficient respectability to in duce citizens to assist them in mak ing: these arrests, ihen ask the gov ernor* of the Stall’s to order out a pos,*e comUnfus of citizens, and my word for it all these revenue troubles will cease in Georgia. Special Notices. Directory of County Officers. ORmxARr—T. A. Howard. Clkrx ofsr PEKiOßCot’RT—Thomas A. Word. Sheriff— V. M. Franklin. G. L. Franks, Deputy. Tax Receiver—a. M. route. Tax C'OLi,Rcroß—W, F. Corbin. County < onmissioxers-Russel 11. Cannon, Chairman. David V. Stokcly, John C. Aycoek, It. H. l>o<ld, John H. Wikle, Llerk. COBOsas—D. B. Mull. Strveyor—ll. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill. Deputy. COLONISTS, iUiUiIWS AND TKAYELEBS WESTWARD. 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WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee and adjoining circuits. Particular attention given to all business entrusted to in> care. Collecting made a specialty. Office up-statrs in the Bait Block. dcc23-lv. ti. H. BATES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAATEBSyiLLfi, QX. Office i t&V CoAul UVI Noiuhern Bliirt Mamiftictory. ED. F. SHROPSHIRE & CO<, Manufacturers ami Dealers in ■WHITE AMD COLORED SHIRTS. Collars:, Bosoms and Drawers. 21-3 East Alabama Stieet, ATLANTA, Coorgia. Parties in Cartersvilie ordering from u> can have their tin nitres t;;ken at Mr. Untill* tailor >nop. , i o i). SADDLES, HARNESS, LEATHER ETC,, ETC. HUDGINS & MOUNTCASTLE KEEP ON HAND AMD MAKE TO ORDER OS SHORT NOTH K SADDLES AND HARNESS OP THE BEST MATERIALS AND IN EVERT STYLE DESIRABLE. They keep on hand also a gcod stock of II AMES, COLLARS, BRIDLES, HALTERS, WHIP® Adso Harness. Sole and Upper Leathers, KIP AND FRENCH CAI F SKINS. e™Tthlng uu_iMy kept ie -i first-el.i'S cst-ihltshmeut. Our Saddles'and Harness ara made atom owir*lH!i AXI) AKK ALL WARRANTED, Store on West Main street, next door to A. A. thinner .t Cos. ileei<4a. STOVES & tinware! 1° tlie Citizens of Cartersville mid Sur i*oimding- Country: HAVING BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN .MV ARRANGE- I meats' t leive C.trter-sville, l have conciudtd to remain and east my lot among her people. In opening b ueineu here again 1 have concluded to do a STRICTLY CASH gggrfifiEs |VSJ P I husineaa, thereby enabling me to offer goods at EXTREME STOVES, TINWARE L HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, F .r CASH, RAGS, BEESWAX, FEATHERS, OLD BRASS AND COPPER, CORN AND FODDER, or anything that will sell, can tret thu very bottom ptiees. But PLfcASE DO Nut ask Foil CUedit. I eaiuiot'atford to give it, even to the very best men in the eountrv, a. my goods are marked at CASH PRICES Thanking my friends for their past patronage, and earnestly soliciting a continuance of the same, I can always be found at my ..Id stttid in the old Exchange Hotel Building, on th PUBLIC SQUAKK. (janl-iv) ,J S. ADA MS. J. D. HEAD. DR. T. 11. BAKER. W. G. DOBSON. J. 33. HEAD & GO., DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy Dry Goads, Dress Goods, Clothing, HATS, BOOTS AM) SHOES, &c., Ac. No. 71 Peachtree Street - - Lta. OUR B ARTOW. PAULDING AND UHBROF • K COUNTY FRIENDS AUK INVITED TO call and see us when in the city, premising [item the same courteous treatment and fair, honest •icaliii* they have had in our house whoe at Cartorsville our stick will be found lull and complete in uil its departments, and prices as low as can he found in this market. N. I>.—Wc res 'ectfnlly as!,- consignments of cotton from onr frien U who wish to sell in (his in irket. promising them the fullest market prices—and no unnecessary expenses attached to the sale ol same. J. it. 11EA D A CO. Atlanta t;t.. Tann.irv C ISSO. ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP. Wallace & Hackett, |MANUFACTURERS OF Hollow Wore, Sloan Eapes, Grates, Mantels, Mill Machinery, k Highest Market Price lor Old Iron, Copper and. Br ass- Jan2tM f. JOHN S. REESE & CO. ..... General Agents, Baltimore, Md. T. W. BAXTER, Cartersville, Greoi*gfia, SOLE AGENT IN BARTOW AND ADJOINING COUNTIES, FOR THE PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY. CAPITAL, 51,000.000. JUST B.ECEIVF.D AT WARF.HOT*sr. ur OENBBAL AGEST IN ATLANTA. 1,000 Ton* Soluble Pacific* Guano, 109 Tons oF Aeil PiiAHpiitilc foi* Composting. (NO OLD STOCK ON HAND.) TAM now prepared to furnish dealers and planters in any quantity desired of the above high grade and popular fertil zers. which arc fr.-sli and in line condition, and the attulvsis recently made, of the new stock, shows about 15 per cent, available phosphoric arid. 3t 4 per rent. Ammonia, and nearly 2 percent, potash *<>!d on time as n-tiul. at the low price 015*52 50 per tan, delivered on board cars in Atlanta, with option to pay in cotton Ist November, at i5 cents per pound, basis New York Middlings. inters will note thit- freight is only from Atlanta sl.4d per tou. Call on or send to me for circulars and analysis. lie. pen* fully, T. W. Baxter. jan2o-2m THE GEAN GrEHS in m iijlti mm a. OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Authorized Capital 4,500,000. Of Whioli SIOO,OOO to be O nelin Each. Department. Eaeh Policy* Holder is entitled to a vote in the management of the Company PARIQMT OFFICE, MOBUjB. ALA. CAPITAL STOCK, - - - 100,000. W. U. KETCIIUM, President. 1 F. K. DAVIDSON. Vice President. | B. XV. FOUT, Sec’y GEORGIA DEPART.HEXT, HOME, GA. Capital Stock 9100,000 Office No. 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDING. Major C. 6. SAMUEL, President, ALFRED SHORTER, Vice-President, R. J. GWALTNET, Secretary, C. 140 WELL, Attorney, Dr G. W. HOLMES, Medical Examiner. Board of Directors : A. P. Allgood, Trion Factory; C. Rowell. Rome, <ia ; Alfred Shorter. Rome. Ga.; John H- Newton, Athens, Ga.; A. Jones, Cedartown, Ga ; ilou. l>. F. Hammond, Atlanta, G.s.; Ho*- I). B. Hamilton, Rome. Ga,; Cain Glover. R >m., Gu; T. McGuire. Rome, Ga.; F. Woodruff- Rome, Ga.; M. 11. Bunn, Cedartown, Ga.; A. J. King, Cave Spring, Ga.; Hon. W M- Hutchiu*. Polk couuty, Ga. ALABAMA DEPARTMEXT~ MONTGOMERY, ALA. Capital Stock 8100.000 Hon. X. N. Clements, President and General Manager, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; lion. David Clopton. Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; W. L. Chambers. Secretary; Stone & Clopton, Attorney*, MISSISSIPPI DEPARTJIEXT, RER(I4I MISS. Capital Stock 8100,OOp Col. James V. Beck, President, John H. Grav. Vice-President. L. A. Duncan, Secretary. SECURITY, ECONOMY AND LIBERALITY, Are the Leading principles of this Company. / ALL approvtd forms of Life and Endowment Policies issued in sums of $lO3 up to SIO,OOO. Also Term Policies of one, three, or seven years. All Ufe policies non-forfeiting after two annual payments, when the insured will be entitled to paid np Policy or Cash istirreneer thereof. Dividends may be used to protect policies against lapsing incase of failure to pnv po mlums. Thi-with the non-torfeiting and Oah Surrender I'eararo-. are snffi ieot to maka thll Ig)mpany popular among thinking men. J@*G()OD AGENTS WASTED. (100 i-tf W. G. EXGLAND, of Mo dig, Vl*., Geuer.*!nwiperintea io.it iif A*;*nirirts Wv IL HUoE; Agen^OartertfYiHSfCee/'^a. VOLUME XVII—NUMBER 13.