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BY C. 11. C. WILLINGHAM. The Cartersville Express. [OLD STANDARD .AND EXPRESS.] RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year $2 00 one copy *l* months 1 00 One copy three months 50 In Advance. Club.?.—For Clubs ot' ten copies or more i |l. W per annum for each copy. HATES OF ADVERTISING. The following are onr established rates for' advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in I aU case-; itTT wk i \ ■> WS;4 w- 2 m. 3 ni • ni. 12 in ' 1 ojfi 50 |i >',}2 5.1 St 50 |6 0 |<j t- '■s 200 i 2 2 ot! iOO 4 tfo, 5 ■*) 000 12 017 OOj 200 3 4505 15 To h> 00 16 021 Oo| 30 00 ! 4. i 00 0 75 7 2, 8 50 U 50 18 623 tfii 36 00 j 5i 5 J-! i '>J 8 iS; 10 25'17 n0 21 0|29 OOj 42 00 ij COO 25 10 4*1.2 00 !95p 24 533 <X)| 4K 0d ! 7' 7 a * it 50 4i 75 ! 3 75122 UU 27 0 -37 0 j 54 00 OJ iO 75 13 ;>:is 50; 24 50 20 541 00! 6o 00 O>l jOl2 DO 14 7>i 17 '3'27 00 ‘32 5> 4., 00 66 (JO ' I**l <j 75 1300 16 oOil - 7 29 25 3.3 00 43 50 7* 00 11! 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All Dills for advertising in this paper are due j tajiv time a*ker th-i first insei'tion same, ; aa f will be collcete-i at the pleasure of the j pr-iprictor, unless otherwise arranged by con- j tract. j Travelers* Guide. CUE ROKE E R AILKO AD. FROM and after this date the following j -cheiiule will be run on the Cherokee Rail- j .Leave Hue it mart at 7 ;00 A. M. I •* Tuy \oi\sville, B:UU ~ Stili ?boro, “ ArWiro at t artersville -j" „ ~ Leave Carlarsville 3:00 1.53. •* tot-1 jsDoro, 3 “ Tay.orsville 4630 Arrive at Koekmai t 5:15 WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD and its connections. The following Schedule takes effect Novem ber 3-, 1875. NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta •'*2o pin Arrive Cartersville 63b pm j Arrive Kingston 6 42 p in Arrive Dalton J P ,n i Arrive Chattanooga 10 la P iu No. 5. Leave Atlanta 6 20 am Arrive Cartersville 8 42 am Arriv* Kingston U u m Arrive Dalton - * "J “ ,n | Arrive. Chattanooga 12 4 p in , No. 11. Leave Atlanta ® H™ ! Arrive < artersville 8 Pni j Arrive Kingston .9 24 p m .arrive Dalton **>’ i 1 *“ i ftOUTiiW ARD" No. 2. Avive Chattanooga -4 j la:are Dalton 5 , t I Arnve I l *-, V;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; k- {. m Arrive Atlanta • •H* 10 p in No. 4 Leave Chattanooga 6 H> a m ; Arrive i*alton 7 14 ain ; Arrive Kingston !* *'7 u nt , Arrive Cartersville 645 ant j Arrive Atlanta H 65 ii’n No. 12. Arrive Dalton 1 00 a ni j Arrive Kingston 4 21 a to j Arrive Cartersville 6 18 a in j Arrive Atlanta .9 42 am Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos 1 and 2. be vvi en New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. I and 4 be tween Atlanta an i Nashville. Pullman Palace Cars run n Nos -3 nd 2ite twc-'ii Louisville and Atlatu . . • v ’Ni)ch hi go of cal' betv. t n New Orleans *; d'-e, M > iigomery, Atlanti nd Baltimore an.i -ulv one eh t"ge to New Y k. Pas'chgers leaving Atlanta at 10 p. m . ar id v iu Nt iv York the second tliei 'liter at 400 p. m. hv ursion Tickets to the Vityia it Springs i. * various s|imm*r Resorts will oe on sale m New- Mdeaus, Mobile. Montgomery, i olum- I !,>, M acon. >av i nnah, Augusta and Atlanta, at greatly reduced rates Ist ot .June. Parties desiring a whole ear through to the Viritiuin springs or to Baltimore should ad tress the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should send - *or a . -ui_\ of ilu‘. A e/tui' ato llouio Gazette, con- ; ; iuing schedules, ole. i Ask tor tickets via "Kennesavv Route.” 14. W. WKENN, ! General Passenger and Ticket Agent, , ru n22—iljm Atlanta. Git. i ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. Du and after Sunday, Dec. 12th trains on the ; Rome Rail road will inn as follovys:. DAY 1 TK AIN - EVES Y DAT. Leave Rome at ....7 a m Arrive t Rome a m SATL’apAT EVENING ACCOMODATION. Leaves Route at .5.4;) p m Arrive at Rome at — 9 P m ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD. PASSENGE K TRAIN—OtTTWARD. STATIONS. ARRIVE; LEAVE Atlanta 10:25 p.m. East Point 10:44 p. ni. 10:44 p- m Red Oak 10:59 p. m. II :44 p. m. 1 Fairhuru 11:21 p. nt* 11 :'s2 p. in. I Palmetto il :37 p.m. ll:3Sp.m. : i’vnveli's It :5- p. m, 11 :9 P- “>• , New uan 12:14 p.m. 13:15 a. >n. | Puckett's 12:30 a m 12:33 aui; siraatvilie. 12:50 a in 12:ol a ni Rogansville.... 1:98 a m ] :< am; Wim lie Id’s 1:64 a m am ] LaGrange L 54 a m l:a.> am Long Caue 2:21 a in 2:*l am West Point 2:40 a ft P ASSENG ER Tit AIN-INWA UD. STATIONS. AiytlVK. hf.lTf’ West Point vT'u; *’ n Long Cane 13:36 pm P La Grange 1 :U4 pin 1:03 p m Whitfield’s 1 :21 p in 1 :R P m Hogansvilie 1:24 pm 1 R UI Grantville 1:57 p in 1-oN p m Puckett’s - 2:1? P to 2:18 p m New nan 2:29 4* Hl 2:30 pm Powell’s 2.44 p m 2:40 p m Palmetto 3:t-6 p in 3:0. p m Fairhurn 3:32 p m 2:23 p m Red Oak 3:38 m p m East Point 3:57 pm 3:o7pm Atlanta 4:lsip ni SKL3IA, ROM & DALTON. MAIL TRAIN I> AIL Y-- NO TIL Leave Rome 6:10 p m Arrive at Dalton 3—4 p tu Making close connections at Dalton with the East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia L ”•- ton I, and Western and Atlantic Railroad lor all Eastern and Western cities. MAIL train DAILY—SOUTH. Leave Dalton ‘f- 90 P n) Arrive at Koine 9 - 19 P 151 Anave at a Arrive at Si 10,2 u a m Making close connect ion atCalera *or Mont gotnerj and points Somh. and at Selma wit •M.ltaiiui Central Railroad for Mobile. New Or leans. Meridian, Vicksburg, Jackson, all i dots South in Texas. Louisiana and Missts *i i. M. STANTON, Gen. bup’t. liiV KNIGHT,- Gen. Tieket and Pd-s’gr Agt. GEORGIA RAILROAD. Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad. Atlanta to Aft gust a, run as below: Leaves Augusta at .8:45 ain Leave* Atlanta at .1 m Arrives at Augusta 8:30 a ill Amves at Atlanta p in Night passenger trains a tollovvs: L ives Auuusta at s -i"* P n> Le ives iil iiuaat p ill *i, - ives nt August.-. 3:lo ani tuiy’es at 6:-lo a m Aceoiu nlation train as follows : f. .v.-s ACai’t-i 5:00 p m i. tV ; - CoviggplQ StiHJ a 111 Arrives it All 6'.<5 a IU Arrives at Covinguru i; 3O P m THE COOSA RIVER STEAMERS, rituameri on rha Coo.sa River will run as* per ■clietUile as follows; 1. ivu U-iine every TUurs-lay £ ll ,u Arrive a! Gadsden Thus Uy ami r’ri lay-- 9 R in Arrive At Korins >V e-luos liy and . turd *. 1 P w j< ii. auM/Mi gvu’l v*n( 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.