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Le ives iil iiuaat p ill
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i. tV ; - CoviggplQ StiHJ a 111
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HON. B. H. HILL.
A Strong and Forcicte Better to an Illinois
Man.
House of Representatives,
Washington Feb, ”o, 1875.
J. W. Davidson, Esq., Monmouth
111.
Dear Sir: I have received your
letter of the 22nd. iust., in whicn you
say :
"Someone under the frank of Jao A. Logan
U. S S. t has sent what purports to ben sum
ming up of Mr. Blaine, yourself, and o'hprs,
on the la'e proposed amnesty bill. * * Your
•speech is so eliniina'e l and garbelc*!, that,
from it, no one cm correctly judge of your
position.”
A siiort time before receiving your
letter a gentleman kindly placed in
my hands a copy of the phaiuphlet
ro which you refer, and I have care
fuily examined it. It purports to
contain the speeches of Mr, Biaine,
Mr. Urafieki and myself, on-what
is known as the amnesty debate. I
find my own speedn oust grossly 7
and adroitiy muitilated. Many en- ■
tire sentemsF are cut out, and many !
other sentences ami paragrapiis are.
cut up and ffatbeied with a mani
bsit purpose to alter and misrepresent ;
the real meauihg, tonper, and argu
ment of llu j s|M‘C*cii. lam ini'or.Ded
that Ibis iranrtnit-nt phuiriplilet has
rieen sent in great numbers through
the State of New Ilainph-ire, where ,
an election is soon to t>e had, and al
so into the Northern- States, under
the frank of ieadiwtf liepuiilicans,
who are members of the c&fiute a‘nu
House of M-epresental ives.
Now, my dear sir, I do not know j
your politics, hut tnere are ex pres- :
sions in your letter which* show you !
do not iove falshood, and thin is]
enough to justify me ii addre-sin^ 1
you ttiis l iter.
i do not know who got up this dir
ty phumphiet. It is a deliberate
nilshood and a studied attempt to
deceive. Every man who sends it to i
another with knowledge of itsciiarac- !
ter is guilty of its lai-hood audavows j
thereby nis desire to deceive the peo- j
pie. Every honest man to whom it
is sent will feel insulted and iie is in- ]
suited.
The great question is, what effect 1
will such designing falshoods -upon
the people? It is bad enough to 1
know that men deemed worthy to |
hold high positions of honor should
tie guilty of such dishonor. It issad
der to know, as I do know, that this
falsehood is one of many ;|or, indeed
part of a system adopted here lo con
duct and control the elections, to be
held in 1870. But I repeat, tiie great
question is, what will be the effect
upon the people? Will they be of
fended, or will tney be influenced
or controlled by falshoods so deliber
ately planned and circulated express- j
ly’ to deceive them? I called the j
attention of one of the best Republi- j
cans in Congress to this phumphiet j
desiring to see how he regarded it. |
He only laughed ami “said, “It is
had, I admit, hut it is politics, and
you expect it.” Is this true? Is
this publics? If so is anything safe?
Have we reached the point where
leaders are willing to deceive and
llie people are willing to be deceived?
If so, then our greatest sta'esman id
the greatest liar ha ue country! Of
course,reduced to its last anaysis this
means that the^ca pacify of the people
for self government has fuiieu, and
our institutions must perish through
a process of fuse hood and corruption.
Tiis will exactly’ fulfill the predic
tions of the enemies of popular gov
ernment, so often repeated. This
brings me to what I chiefly now de
sire to say.
For thirty years I have been an
honest ami earnest student of the
nistory, philosophy and science ot
government, and especially ot free,
popular government. I have en
deavored to discover, with a--’ much
exactness as possible, the trut cause
or causes of the frequent decay ami
fall of popular government. I do
not doubt ilie correctness ot my con
clusions when I say the cause is iden
tical, uniform and aim >st universal,
ii is internal corruption and not ex
ternal power.
Our American system of free con
sliiutioaai government is, by lar, the
wry best unit human wisdom ever
devised. And yet internal corrup
liou has grow n lo larger proportions
Hum it ever attained in any other j
w.-iem in the same length ot time.
We are absolutely exempt from dan
ger of external power, ami this fact,
i am satisfied, lias greatly accelerated
our growth in internal corruption.
No people ever before readied tne
point of decadence at which we have
already arrived and recovered. But
vve nave advantages for recuperation
which nq other tree people ever pos
sessed, and we fair recover. Never
theless, we con not recover unless the
people can be made to see the danger
and be induced promptly and vigor
ously to apply the remedy. This is
now the duty of every patriot. It is
utterly 7 vain to discuss any’ other
question, for nothing etsecan save ns
i lu m the worst fate that ever befell a
free people, unless we can stop tiie
growth of this internal corruption.
’ No human study is so important,
so instructive, and so interesting as
I mat of the s> inptoms which indicate
; die rise, progress and prevention of
: this deadly bane, tins almost indige- ;
nous and almost incurable distemper
i u t republics’ internal corruption. ihe j
cause and the progress is as well ;
marked as is that of any physical ;
disease.
In a letter like this, I cannot go j
into details, but I will make some
! suggestions which the thoughtful pa
triot ought to consider with most un-
I selfish solicitude. Heretofore, when
a republic has reached civil war, a
hopeless decline lias set in. This is
! not true of monarchies. They often
come out of civil wars not only
! strengthened, but vastly improved.
| This is notably so of Great Britain.
But no fiee people ever had a civil
: war who did not have a sequel of
i official imbeciles and corruption.
; Tne reason for this is hoth philo
sophical and logical. It is t ds: Civil
wars, far more than foreign wars,
produce chiefs who are elevated to
tin* highest civil positions, T‘u sue*
i cessful faction is certain to nuke a
civil head of its military leader.
These military chiefs rarely possess
the qualifications necessary for civil
administration of free institutions.
Free governments are always more
complicated than monarchies, and,
therefore, require higher qualifica
tions for wise administration. Ido
nut care how honest or how patriotic
such military chiufs ipuy be, yet. not
having the training and quipinc -
i tions needed for civil statesmanship!
thev are certain to be surrounded
1 and' controlled by designing follow
ers and flitterers, who will gather
thickly about them, apd corruption
will as certainly, as naturally and as
logically follow as any effect will ful
fil w its cause,
* in all free countries parties will be
i formed. In many respects the>e par
ties are salutary; but whenever the
questions become sectional and tl)e
ptu'UOs ii'oii* uu svoUuual i*ouyo, the
! tendency is to civil war. This lias
! been our ftt-e, and, I fear, will be our
ruin.
The Republican party was formed in
i 1855 to accomplish certain distinct
objeets, to-wit:
1. To prevent the extension of
slavery.
2. To abolish slavery in all places
of exclusive Federal jurisdiction.
3. To annul the fugitive slave law.
The Supreme Courts of the United
States decided that Congress had no
power to prohibit the extension of
slavery, an I that the fugitive slave
law was unconstitutional.
So the Republican party was a sec
tional organization on sectional ques
tions and in opposition to the su
preme law.
The Southern people insisted that
this was a practical abandonment of
the Constitution, and released them
from its obligation. Tney most- un
wisely seceded, and the war most uu* j
wisely followed.
During the war the Republican
p i'Uy cnanged its obj *cs, and insist- !
cd ot! the total extinction of slavery.
Three men, well armed, well fed and
well clothed, were too much, physi
cally, fir one man, poorly armed,
poorly clothed, and, after a hard
-truggle, the South yielded, aban
doned secession, ami evyry Southern
fi Jh ilijhoil I>j- cviG7tUu
cional provisions.
The Republican party then made
another change of position and in
sisted that they had a right to recon
struct- the Southern States, create in
them new constituences and new
governments, arid also to secure the I
results of the war by new amend-,
menus to the Federal Constitution, j
Ail this ha been done—much of it
terribly done! *
Now, what is left for the Republi
can party to do? It has forced the
accomplishment of all its Work. The
Southern people give up slavery,
give up secession, submit to recon
struction, and accept the Constitution
as amended, and yet the Republican
party will neither abandon its sec
tional organization nor cease its sec
tional war upon the Southern people.
Upon what does the Republican par
ty prosjose to live? Upon nothing
but sectional hate! How can it keep
alive sectional hate? Solely by buhi
ailul persistent misrepresentations of
Southern people, and by perpetual
appeals to the passions of the war!
There are three hundred thousand
people who are crazy to hold and get
office in 187 G through the Republican
party, and they have no hope of suc
cess except by keeping alive section
al hate by misrepresenting, malign
ing and oppressing the Southern
people.
A Southern representative cannot
say anything in Congress which is
not instantly misrepresented by a
thousand lying pens and tongues
from this city. I never in my life
FELT OR UTTERED A DISUNION SEN
TIMENT. I opposed secession as no |
Northern man ever did, for I was iri ;
the mid tof the storm. I opposed,
also, subjugation and reconstruction j
as but otaer Ihnns of disunion ami
as tending to destroy our free institu- j
tions. Subjugation and r>**tstnic
lion wcru Dangerous io the piinci
ples of Union as was secession to the
fact of union, and I nave simply been
an earnest enemy to disunion in any
form. And it does seem impossible
for a Republican w riter or speaker to
tell the truth of one even so humble!
as myself. I have made one speech j
in Congress—forced to do so in de
fense of the manhood of mv people.
I made the defense chiefly from the
official records. Perhaps no speech
has ever brought out the bitterness
of misrepresentation in the press and
haulers of the Republican party.
They have not only mutilated and
garbled the speech, but they have!
fitted their papers with the most tin- ,
mitigated falsehoods as to my lite,
habits, character and antecedents. I
have seen circumstantial details pur
porting lo come from personal ae-1
q laintunces, and even quotations |
from letters and speeches wuioh nad j
not the slightest existence.
Bat these things do not surprise!
me. Indeed, I should be surprised ;
if these falsehoods were not frequent j
and unscrupulous, and often from |
men in high places. They prove the
coi rectuoss of my theory of the pres
ent and future of the Republican
party. I maintain that that party
has accomplished all the work it was
organized to accomplish, and no par
ty can live, after its work is don**,
and not become corruut. No success
ful party in a civil war can adminis
ter free institutions on the passions ot
the war, and after the war had end
ed, and not destroy the liberalities of
the people. No party is entitled to
be trusted with power fur whatfit has
done, the only title a oarty can
have to be trusted must rest in what
it proposes to do. The Democratic
party is now only entitled to trust
because events and the nature of ex
isting issues compel it to antagonize
the Republican party, and thus nec
essarily to become the party of re-;
trench meat, reform, and sectional re ;
conciliation. No truly great states- !
man can remain in the Republican
party, for the plain reason that its j
work is in the past, and not in tiie |
future. You might as well as expect j
a statesman to lead a party and main- j
tain the prosperity of his country on i
the mere memories—now passions—
of past achievements. I doubt not,
if Mr. Lincoln were living, he would
be now a zealous Democrat. So
would be Chase and Sumner mid
Greeley and Seward. Such living
statesmen and patriots as David Da
vis, Lyman Trutnbullf Carl Schurz,
Charles F. Adams, and Nathaniel P.
Banks cannot remain in the Repub
lican party. I am watching to see
who, in defence of his self-respect,
will leave it next. They will be
compelled to go. Thieves and dema
gogues are taKing natural, logical,
possession of the Republican party,
not to accomplish great works, but
to have a general carousal. They
will drive statesmen and patriots uUt
of it, as decent, virtuous women
would be driven out a house which
had become a brothel. It under
such leaders as will remain, the Re ;
publican party shall so influence the ;
passions of the people as to renew its
iease of power, it will bring disgrace j
j on its p.ist history as the passing of j
events, and it will be a miracle, if, iu
[the riot that must follow, our Re-j
publican system shall not perish.
Never had any people such a t<\st ;
! of their capacity for self-governmeiu :
as Hu. American people* will have in
187fi. Tney will be crammed with
appeals for sectional hate, as never
before disgraced any year in human
history.
\\ T itl they fie able to detect, resist,
Sind despise these assaults upon th*dr
intelligence, pHriotism, and virtue?
It so, we shaa live on a a free peo
ple, and prosper as no people ever
did. If not, vve shall tiie in more
shame and .disgrace than ever befel a
republic.
I With high regard, I Jam yours,
truly, Ben J. H. Hill.
i- ouhowibw to 'Zum -Fy flißgfr
CAItTEKSYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 20,1876.
LIKE PRIE3T_LIKE PEOPLE-:
•‘Jast as the Twig is Beut the Tree is
Inclined.
From the Da : ly Common wealth.
“Like people liko priest,” is a cur- t
rent saying, passing as an axiom in ?
palliation of the extravagance and (
corruption on the part of the ruling j
classes; whereas, the very inversion, i
Like Priest, Like people, is a truism j
j expressing more nearly the real moral;
! situation.
If the king in his wild and ruth-!
| less career, “does no wrong,” well!
| may his humble and oppressed sub- i
jects blamelessly imitate his innocent.
! examples.
Show me a vain-glorious, money- J
i serving, ease loving illiberal priest- j
hood, who, with;!l, affect great hu
mility and self-denial, anti I will j
show you a conceited selfish and j
uncharitable laity, under avail of
i dissimulation. Bhow me intrigue,*
J extravagance, corruption and op
pression, in the high f laces of power i
[and I will show you plotting false j
| pride, crime and violence, on the!
; part of the common people. S tow |
me an unpretentious, hum tie, pnic i
ical ministry and I will show you j
a genteel, genert us, public-spirited;
ay brotherhood: and show me a true,
pure government,* atfd a wise and
jtreti >fri:nßiis;r;tuuti, atm x win snort 7
you an honest, virtuous, intelligent
and contented people.
Individuals are influenced in their
conduct mostly by the force of sup- -
rior example.
Government, Society, Manhood,
Tout'll. Cliijd£eh, Infancy, are the
consecutive degrees, marking the ti
dal course of human iruflence. Tne
adverse currents, attending but fc—
bly, tiow into the fountain heads j|
only to swell the fldod tides which!
sweep down from the highest, to the j
lowest places in the civil com mu iff*. !
Hence;. corruption in the high places It
is the overshadowing “evil commu
nication” that corrupts the “good
manners” of tho common people.
Such .being the case, the lesson is
replete with wuolesome suggestions
to the true statesman and divine.
Tiie highest and most strenuous’
efforts should be directed towards ge
curing a perfect renovation and pu
rification of the fountain heads of so
cial streams.
How thoughtlessly, how wofully
vve mistake the moral situation,
wiien vve arraign the common peo
ple before the bar of unqualified con- j
sure, as the means of r< demotion ! ;
Tne motive impelling their deeds of
violence it often imbued with the!
iatent fires of a noble impulse. Their j
vile deeds, in the main, sad to say, j
are hut rude imitations of the higher j
examples which virtually form and I
control the situation, and with much j
justice may be regarded as more in i
the nature of defensive retaliations, !
on these ore of like tor like, than as’
acts of wilful turpitude.
This view ot tiie moral situation ;
may l>e regarded by some, as a dan- j
gerous hypothesis, unwisely express- I
ed; but I am constrained to proclaim j
it as just the contrary. I feel assured !
that it is the truth; and I verily be- j
lieve it is the best policy always to j
speak the truth out boldly. The ;
truth is that we must seek and find, j
adopt and maintain, before we can !
secure 'permanent peace, prosperity
and happiness, and.be “free indeed.”
Wh it is really alarming is the por
tentions fact that the populace are
actually emboldened io their out
rages, from a sense of comparative se- \
curity by reason of the affinity which j
unites them with their leaders iu j
a league of criminality under the
tacit bond of eorru tion. My obser
vation lias thoroughly conviuced me
of tnis fearful truth.
The sooner the beam is taken out
from the eyes of the rulers, who are
blinoly leading the blind towards tlm
regions of darkness in the land of
ruin, the sooner will the nation turn
from a downward course, and in irch
upward and onward, in the highway
of civilization to the golden paradise.
Sn long as Hypocrisy and Pride
shall riot among the spreading
branches of the overshadowing Upas
just so long will fraud and Crime
gambol beneath, and trample upon
and bruise the flowers that droop in
the baleful shades. Nor may we
hope for the genial sunshine to beam
down from smiling skies, to revive
the drooping flowers, till the fatal
tree shall be dug up by the roots and
“cast into the fire.”
I know it will require much anx
ious toil and patient labor., to uproot i
the poisonous tree, so firmly rooted, j
as it is. in the deep soil of its own |
corruption. But there are true spir- !
its “with stout hearts and brave]
hearts,” who will never cease to ply
the axe to the root, until the glorious |
work whali he done! Many such va
lient spirits there be both in tho high
and low prices of life; and thev are
-ihi-dn* lights, ‘'scattering the dark
ness like the bright shining light of
the candle.” Home of these true
moral heroes are bright particular
stars, lighting up the high places of
influence and power, and dispersing
the shadows that cloud the shrine, I
and darken the Throne. God bless
them In their undimmed glory!
Let the truism “Like priest, like!
people,” be heralded over the broad :
green earth; let the sound go forth,
and its echoes reverberate along the
m nintain sides, and over tin* hills
and through thesounding dells, with
a softening cadence breathing sweet
ly through the opening valleys and
the smiling plains. Let the people
take up the refrain, and swell the
chorus, till the murmuring sound
shall be like unto the “voice of many
waters,” causing the false devotee to
turn p< 1 * before the holy shrine, and
the despot to tremble on his glitter
ing throne.
The lights that are pure, and so
beauteous in their celestial glowing,
must needs continue to shine till the
shadows are lifted from the earthly
scene, and the moral heavens be
come a canopy of effulgent glory.
L”t the people pause, and reflect and
strive to assert the nobler manhood
that stirs the soul to this high en
! deavor. Let them turn from the
I ignns fatuus of public corruption,
; which shines onlv to lure to regions
[of darkness! Fondly, steadily gaz
j ing at the beauteous glowing of the
: “bright particular stars,” let them
- catch a heavenly inspiration from :
j the celestial fires, and rise up from;
! the serfdom of a moral degradation,;
; and enter into the g Men paradise ;
i that blooms with perennial flowers.
Asa people, we are now pressing]
i along the “broad way,” and near-!
ing tiie regions of darkness in the
land of ruin; and the time has come i
i when silence, or any uncertain note j
jof alarm, is cruel inhumanity. We
i must chenge our course; we must j
i have apure government and a just,
I administration, a practical ministry j
j and a free, untrammeled, high-toned !
i press, or suffer a worse fate than h t *- j
j fel Sodom and Gomorrah, in tiie liv
ing horrors that will appall this na
tion, and that, too, at no very distant
date.
“I speak as unto wise men,” ye
yv wlkit l say.”
The jtfew Postal Law.
The Senate passed the new postal
bill, establishing a third class of mail
matter, on the 12th inst. A bill to
restore the former rates was rejected.
The proposed new rates will benefit
newspaper and magazine publishers,
as well as the general public. The
full text of the bill appears in the
dispatches:
Be it enact ed, etc., that mail mat
ter of the third class shall embrace all
pamphlets, occasional publications,
regular publications, devoted prima
rily to advertising purposes or for
free circulation or for circulation at
nominal subscription rates, price cur
rent, catalogues, annuals, handbills,
posters, scaled circulars, prospectuses,
books, (bound or unbound), book
manuscripts, proof-sheets, maps,
prints, engravings, books, flexible
patterns, samples of merchandise,
s-mopit) cards, photographic paper,
envelopes, postal e* veto pea and wrap
pers, cards (plain and ornamental),
photographic representations, seeds,
cuttings, roots, bulbs, scions and ‘all
omet’ matters whieh may be declared
mailable by mail as third class mat
ter, and all classes u -t above the
\v’ei ,f ht uresrriho i i>,v law, which are
urn Iron) their form or nature liable
to destroy, deface or otherwise injure
jhe contents of mail bags or the per
son of any one engaged in the postal
'service. Liquids, poisons, glass, ex
plosive matters or obscene book or
papers, shall be excluded from the
mails.
iieeton 2. That packages of matter
of the third class shall not exceed
.-four pounds in weight, and shall be
[subject to examination and the rates
of postage as hereinafter provided.
Tiie postage on mail matter of the
third class shall be at the following
rates : For all distances, one cent for
.each ounce or fraction part thereof.
jEvery package of the third class of
juail matter .shall bear the postmark
Njf the office at which the same shall
1e mailed for transportation.
* iS-'C. 3. That postage on third class
matter shall be prepaid by stamp,
If, however, the postage on third
!iass matter mailed at an office shall
<e less than the full amount above
imscribed; in cases where the sender
known, such sender shall he noti
#ed of the fact and the amount of
postage due slml 1 be collected from
such sender shall be notified of the
inct and the amount of postage due
shall be sent by mail. In case the
sender is not known and where it
has been evident that it is the inten
tion of the parly so depositing the
package to place less than the mil
postage thereon, such package shall
be forwarded and double the amount
of postage shall be collected from the
party to whom it is addressed or de
livered to at its proper destination.
Sec. 4. The sender of any article of
the Ultra class of mail matter may
write his or her name and address
thereon, or on the outside thereof,
with the word “from” above or pre
ceding the same, or rnav wrim
ty or print on any package the names
of the articles inclosed. Publishers
of newspapers or magazines, trmn
the office of publication to regular
subscribers, the time to which such
subscription thereof has been paid.
Sec. 5. That transient newspapers
and magazines shall be admitted to
and transmitted in the mails at the
rate of one cent for every three
ounces or fractional part thereof, and
one cent for each two additional
aces or fractional part thereof.
Sec. (> This act shall take effect on
and afier the first day of July, 187 G.
Blaine Blasted.
Cincinnati, April 11.—The fol
lowing appears as a double leaded
editorial in the Indianapolis Sentinel
of this morning: J. C. Harrison, a
prominent banker of this city, is in
possession of a secret, the exposure
of which will forever blast the pros
pects of a certain candidate for the
presidency. It is this: An entry ap
pears in the rnmutesof the executive
committee of the hoard of directors
ofthe Union Pacific railroad compa
ny of December Kith, 1871, showing
that $64,000 of the company’s money
found its way into the hands of some
person who had no right to it. At a
meeting of the board of directors in
September, 1872, Mr. Harrison, who
has been a member of the board for
a number of years,through the influ
euce of Senator Morton introduced it
resolution calling fin* tv committee
to investigate the matter, and report
who received the largesum of money
and ail the circumstances attending
its disbursment. No soonn* had (his
been done than Mr. It filins, secreta
ry of the board, quietly went to Har
rison and said; “You must with
draw that re-srH-atton. An investi
gation wiil involve Mr. Blaine and
defeat his re-election. He got th.
money.” The resolution was with
drawn. These facts are also known
to Mr. Wilson of lowa, who was
present at ihe time the resolution
was introduced and withdrawn as a
member of toe b urd of directors. It
is proper to say that a lot of worth
less Arkansas railroad bonds were
deposited collateral security for this
money. Nobody will be more sur
prised at the appearance of this arti
cle than Mr. Harrison.
latest, •
Indianapolis, April 11.—Mr.
Harrison has been asked for a state
ment of facts, but he declines to say
more than that if brought before a
congressional committee he will tell -
all he knows about it without con
cealment.
Bishop Quintard in England.
—Sometime since there was copied
into the American , as an item of
news of local interest, from a New
York paper, a paragraph which
stated, in substance, that the Bishop
of Tennessee, Rt. Rev. Charles T.
Quiotard. had been refused permis
sion to confirm certain persons re
questing it, by the Bishop of London.
A letter has been received from Bish
op Quintard, by a gentleman in this
city, referring to the newspaper
statement, from which we are per
mitted to extract the following,
which explains itself:
“A friend has forwarded to mo a
slip from a Memphis paper, in which
the statement is made that the Bish
op of London refused to allow me to
confirm in his diocese. The amount
of truth in it you may judge from the
fact that I h we twice confirmed for
the Bishop of London, and that his
Lordship is the chairman of my com- i
mittee and a libera! subscriber to the
University fund. He has treated me ]
with the utmost kindness and con-;
shier at ion— Xashv 'He A merican.
Bennett’s marriage w mi Mis- May
has been postponed a year. So he j
will not hhve his May-day this!
h *• '
Special Notices.
Directory of Couuty, Officer*.
Ordikarv—l. A. How-ant.
[ Clerk of Superior Cor rt —Thomas A. Word.
Sherief— V. At. Franklin. G. L. Franks,
j Deputy.
Tax Receiver—a. NI. I oute.
Tax GOLi-RCTOR—W. F. Corbin.
Covxt y Commissioners—Russel 11. Cannon,
Chairman. David V. Stokely, John C. Aycoek.
R. H. Dodd, John li. Wikle, Clerk.
Coroner— D. 13. Mull.
Sckveyor—ll. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill,
j Deputy.
COLOXISTS, KMIGKA.VH ASD TRAVELERS
WESTWARD.
FOR mar cirei.il >rs. eonden-od time table*
and jreneral information in regard t ■
r.t nsp.>rtati--n cilities to ai’-points in i’en
jnessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Colo
rado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New Mexico.
Utah and California, apply to or address At.
bert B. Wrens, General Railroad Agent,
Atlanta, Ga.
No one should go West without first getting
in communication with the General Railroad
Agent.and liecome informed a- to the. superior
advantages, cheap and quick transportation o;
families, household goods, stock and farming
implement genialtk. All information eheer
iully given. W. L. DASL Y. G. V. AT. A.
NOTICE TO SC. SGHBERS
The tames of all persons vve found u;>n our
feuU-eriptiou book whn we puiobased the
>ta vo.vku and Express, credited b.v advance
p-v m...ut will be furbished Thk Express until
the time paid for expires.
The names of those who had not paid up, we
have tr:i si erred to our new books, and begin
: their subscriptions from December 2, 1875.
These tire respectfully and earnestly requested
local 1 in and pay or send us two dollars for
the current year’s subscription.
We are determined to give' our readers a
good paper, and as it requires a constant c h
outlay to do so vve.hope ill wha h.tve not pa.d
will do so without delay.
CA!iT>RSVILCR CUT GOVERNMENT.
j Mayor—F. M Ford.
I ALDERMEN —A. U. Hudgins. (J. W. Satter
i field, C. 15. Conyers, A. L. Barron, J, A. Stover,
! S. F. Milam, Peter Marsh, 11. S. Best.
Clerk —j. li Conyers, acting.
Treasurer—A. L. Barron.
Maushal—M. P. Maxwell.
Attorney —I. B. Conyers,
j Sexton—ll. S. Revel!.
committees.
Finance—A. It. Hudgins, C. B. Conyers, S. F.
Milam.
Street— 11. S. Best, J. A. Stover, G. W, Satter
field. A. L. Barron.
OomeUry— Peter Marsh, S. |F. Milam. C. B.
Conyers.
LAWS RELITING TO NEWSPAPER SUB
SCRIPTIONS AND ARREARAGES.
1. Subscribers who do not Mive express no
tice to the contrary, arc considered wishing to
continue their subscription.
S. If subscribers order the discontinuance ot
their periodicals, the publishers may continue
to send them until all arrearages arc paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their periodicals from tho office to which they
are directed, they are held responsible until
they have settled their bills and ordered them
discontinued.
4. If subscribers move to other places with- j
out notifying publishers, and the papers are!
sent to the former direction, thev *■“ *-•*'* ,v ~
5. The Courts have decided that “refusing to
take periodicals from the office or removing
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie
evidence f intentional fraud.”
ti. Any (.or sou 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 subsci ibers pay in advance, they are j
bound to give notice to the publisher, at the
end of their time, if Urey do not wish to con
tinue taking it; otherwise the publisher is
authorized to send it on, and the subscriber
will be responsible until au express no
tice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent
to the publisher.
IF YOU
Want b aiders,
Want a situation,
Want a salesman.
Want a st rvant glt-l,
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 liou-e,
Want to sell a carriage,
Want a boarding place,
Want to borrow money,
Want to sell dry goods,
Want to sell groceries.
Want to sell furnituro,
Want fo yell hardware.
Want to sell real estate,
Want a job of carpentering,
Want a jo!) of hlacksmithiug,
Want to sell millinery goods,
Want to sell a bouse and lot,
Want to advertise to advantage,
Wan : t to find anyone’s address,
Want to sell a piece of furniture.
Want to buy a second-hand carriage,
Want to Hail anything you have lost.
Want to sell agricultural implements.
Want to find au owner for lost property.
Advertise iri
Till; CARTfiRSVILLK JiXFUKSS.
Professional Cards.
•fames W. Harris, Sr.
AT TORNE Y-AT-L A W,
One door Last of Express Office, Main Street.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
mat-30
LAW A REAL ESTATE.
W. T. WOFFORD,
A NY business led with Capt. Namford and
xTV Mr. Waters, who arc in my office, will re
cu vc my attention. I will be at my office usu- |
•illy between the hours of 10 and 11 each morn -
ing. ]lcblßl W T ttfufKawn
A. Itt. FOATE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
( With, Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice iu the courts of Bartow, Cobb, j
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray,Whitfield an.l ad
joining counties. dec 2-1 y.
R. W. MI IIPIIEY,
attorney at law[
CART R LLE. GA.
OFFICE (up stairs) in the brick building j
corner of Main and Irwin streets- dce2-tr. j
J. W. HARRIS, Jr.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cartersville, Ga.
OFFICE next door to TnE EXPRESS printing !
establishment.
JOHN W. WOFFORD, THOMAS w. MILNER J
WOFFORD A MIIAEIi,
ATTORNEYS A T LA W,
CARTERSVILLE, Ga.,
OFFICE up stairs, Bank Block.
JAJIF* B. COIYEBS,
ATTORNEY A LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee ;
and adjoining circuits. Particular attention
given to all business entrusted to mj care.
Collecting made a specialty, office up-stairs
in the 13a ‘k Block■ dcc23-1 v.
ii. U. BATTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Qffice'ln tiie Court House.
! dw#-qr .. j
Hardware and Farming Implements*
BAKER & HALL
CALL the attention of their rnstoroers to a general and complete stock of HARDWARE aad
Farming implements,such
PLOWS, HOES.ICOTTON PLANTERS, ETC.
We also hare a complete stock of FIELD SEEDS such as Clover, Red Top, Orchard and Rise
Grass, German Milletf, etc. as cheap as they can he soM in this or any other market. We also
have a complete stock of READY MADE PLOWS both Iron anti steel. He -ell
Nalls fS.I.N to4fi
Bar Iron ..S‘i to 6 cent*
• Steel Slabs •• Bl* to lict*
f Iron Slabs to * cent*
I ' ast Steel. 90 to *5 cent*.
j Sweed Iron StotoeoM.
j For the cash we can sell a cheap.the same quality cfuooils can be sold anywhere.
! jcd:t-tf HAKKft & HAIJL_
STOVES & TINWARE.
To tlie Citizens of Cartersvtlte and. Sur*
ip A
I'oiindiiijgf Country*. -
• . i r*
HAVING BEEN DISAPPOINTED IN Mf ARRANGB
-1 merits t> leave OnrtersVilte, I harts concluded to remain
and cast my lot among her people. In opening businca
vl®f \ here a S ain 1 have concluded fo do a STRICTLY CASH
I business, thereby enabling me to offer goods at EXTREMB
3 LY LOW FIGURES.
TgyVj.'j Those wishing to purchase
STOVES, TINWARE & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
For CASH, RAGS, BEESWAX, FEATHERS, OLD BRASS AND COPPER, CORN ANR
FODDER, or anything that will sell, can get ihe very Irnttom prices. But PLEasb DO not
ask l-oi! CKEiur. I cannot utf ml :<• give it, even to Ihe very beat men in the country, aa
my goods are marked at CASH PRICES
Thanking my friends for their pist patronage, and earnestly soliciting a continuance mi
tlx* same, I can always be found at my aid si md iu the old Eschange Hotel Building, ou tba
PUBLH' SQUARE, ~ fianl-li j J t> Alt AMS.
J. D. HEAD. Dlt. T. H. B AKER. W. G. DOfihUX.
tJ~. D. HEAD & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Clothing,
IIATS, BOOTS A\D SHOES, &c., &c.
No. 71 Peachtree Street - Atlanta, Ga.
OUR BARTOW, PAULDING AND ('HKIt')K ■ K COUNTY FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO
call and see n.* when in the city, preuisiiig mem the same courteous treatment ami fair,
honest dealing have h idin our h'Ht'e vrtme at Cartersvilis Our stock will he found fuli
and complete in all Ls departments, aud prices as low a, can be found in this market.
N. B.—We re* ice.tfully nk consignments of cotton from our friends who wish to sell in this
market, promising them the fullest market prices—and no unnecessary expanses attached W
the sale, of game. J. I). 11KADALO.
Atlanta. .a,. Jan it try 6 ___
CTOWAH HENDRY AND MACHINE SHOP.
"Wallace & Haclxett,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Hollow Ware, Steam Kupes, Grates, Mantels, Mill Machinery, k
Highest Market Price for
Old. Iron, Copper ana Brass
eyfiP-iA-g^Hßagg-i1 " 11 1
William L. Bradley’s Standard Fertilizers.
PRXNTUP 880 POLLARD.
toflM ERLY
POMjAB.n cb 00.,
Cotton Factors, General Agents, Augusta, Georgia
(j 0
33. 3D.
Sea Fowl Guano.
Sea Fowl Guiio. in Bags 200 lbs. each.
i!. ('oeN Muperpliottjkisale ot* Lime, in bags 200 lb*.
jpggr* The above standard Fertilizers having leen in use for the past seven years in the .South,
with unequalled siiccuks. are again offered at price. that cannot .tail to give sat is taction, while
the standard is guaranteed to be equal, if not 'uocrio'’ to an' ever -ol t.
For prices anil terms appl> to T. W. B IXTKK, Agent. Carters vi He. G. ielS-*fn.
THE GRANGERS
LIK ID HEALTH WSHSM I'D..
OF TH&IuNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Authorized Capital 4,500,000.
Of Which SIOO,OOO to be O naiin Each Department.
Policy-Holder is entitled to a vote in the management of the Company
PARENT OFFICE, MOBILE. A T*A.
CAPITAL STOCK, - - - 100,000.
W. H. KEXCHI'M, President. | F. E. DAVIDSON. Vice President, i R. W. FORT. Sec’y
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT, ROME, GA.
Capital Stock -....*10#.0W
Office No. 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
Major C. G.BAMUEL, President, ALFRED SHORTER, Vice-President, R. J. GtVALTNEY,
Secretary, C. ROW ELL. Attorney, Dr G-W. HOLMES, Medical Examiner.
Board of Directors :
A. P. Aligned, Trion Factory; C. Rowell, Rome, (Is.; Alfred Shorter. Rome. Ga.; John H
Newton, Mhens, G i.; A. Jones. Cedtrtown. Ga ; IL-n. D. F. Hammond, Atlanta, Ga.; Ho*.
D. It. Hamilton, Rome. Ga,; Cain Glover. Rom , Ga.; T. McGuire. K<w, Ga., F. Woodruff.
Rome. Ga.; M. H. Bunn. Cedar town, Ga.; A. J. King, Cave Spring, Ga.; Hon. W M-
Hutchins. Polk county, Ga.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT, MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Capital stock - •100,00#
lion. N. N. Clements, President and General Manager. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hoti. David CloptoaV
Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; W . L. Chambers. Secretary; >tone A Ciopton, Attorney*
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, MERIDIAN MISN.
Capital Stock 81O0,O#(
Col. Jttniict \V. -Beck, President. John H. Grar. Vice-President. L. A. IJuw.an. Secretary.
SECURITY, ECONOMY AND LIBERALITY,
Are the Leading principles of Company.
ALL approve and forms of Life and Endowment Pell ties issued in sums of fIX) up to SIO,OOO. Ala
Term Policies of one. three, or seven years.
All Cife policies non-forfeiting alter two annual payments, when the insured will he entitled
to paid up Policy or Cash Surrencer thereat.
Dividend- may lie used to protect policies against lapsing incase of failure to pay pre
miums. This with the non-torfeiting and C.th •surrender matures, fre sufficient to make thin
Company popular among thinking men. Jft"G()OD AGENTS WANTED,
dec 2-tf" W. ti. ENG LAND, o. Mobile, Ala.. General superintendent of \ encie*
W. K. HU.E, A-eot, Car.erevtlle,Georgia.
VOLUME XVII—NUMBER 10-
a uaranteed
Equal ti auj Eier Sold.