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CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
FROM and after this date the following
Schedule will be’run on the Cherokee Rail-
Leave Re e kin art at 7:00 A.M.
“ Taylorsville, 6:00 “
“ Btih sboro, 6:25 “
Arrive at ( artei3>ville, 9:10 “
Leave Cartersville 3:00 P. M.
Stilrsboro, 3:50
“ Taylorsville 4:30 “
Arrive at ltockmart, 5:15 “
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
The following Schedule takes effect April
30, 1875.
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4 10 pm
Arrive Cartersville -6 23 p m
Arrive Kingston 6 52 p m
Arrive Dalton 8 32 p m
Arrive Chattanooga 10 16 i> in
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 5 40 am
Arrive Cartersville 7 57 am
Arrive Kingston 8 26 a m
Arrive Dalton 10 08 a m
Arrive-Chattanooga 11 55 p m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 8 00 a m
Arrive Cartersville 10 20 a m
rrive~Kingston 10 El a m
a/rive Dalton 1 05 pm
SOUTHWARD* No. 2.
Leave Chattanooga 4 00 p m
Arrive Dalton •••• 5 51 pm
Arrive Kingston 7 21 p m
V-rive Cartersville 4 71 pm
Arrive Atlanta .10 10 p m
No. 4.
Leave Chattanooga 5 10 am
Arrive Dalton - 7 09 ain
Arrive Kingston 6 57 am
Arrive Cartersville 9 32 a m
Arrive Atlanta H. 52 n n
No. 12.
Arrive Dalton 12 R 9 am
Arrive Kingston 4 a m
Arrive Cartersville 5 09 a m
Arrive Atlanta. 9 45 a m
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be
ween New Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville. I
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos *a3 nd 2bc- j
tween Louisville and Atlanta.
fST-No change of cars hetw en New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta md Baltimore
and only one change to New Y * k.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 110 p. m , ar
rive in New York the second thei after at 4 00 ;
p. m. . I
Excursion Tickets to the Virgin'a Springs j
and various Summer Resorts will ne on sale j
in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Colum
bus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta, j
at greatly reduced rates Ist ol June. j
Parties desiring a whole car through to the
Virginia Springs or to Baltimore should ad- |
dress the undersigned.
Parties contemplating traveling should send I
for a copy of the Kennexaic Route Gazette , con- |
taining schedules, etc. I
Ask for tickets via “Konnesaw Route.”
B. W. WIIENN,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
may22—dtf Atlanta, Ga._ )
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, Dec. 12th trains on the j
Rome Railroad will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Leave Rome at......... •••£ a m !
Arrive at Rome 11.30 am
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMODATION.
Leaves Rome at 5-45 p m ,
Arrive at Rome at 9 p m !
ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD.
PASSENGEU TRAIN-OUTWAKD.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. „ L *; AVE i
Atlanta H'T? m ’ !
East Point 10:44 p. m. 10:44 p. m.
Red Oak 10:59 l>- m- 11:44 p. m.
Fairburn H :2l p. m. Itl>- m. j
Palmetto H *p< 1'- la *
I*owell’s ll io p* 11 •“**' I**
Ncwnan.'. :. I*:M P-m. 13:15 a.m.
Puckett’s 12:30a m 12:.s> am
Gr.uuviUe 12:50 a m 12:51 an,
Hogansville l:"8 a in 1.09 am
Whitfield’s 1:34 a 1,1 } a m
LuGrango 1:54 a m l:o5 am
Long Cane 2:21 a m —1 am
West Point 2:40 a m
PASSENGER TRAIN-INWARD.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. I.EAVK.
\V ( st P0int...... •• I*.w p in
Long lane 13:36 pm 13:36 pro
Whitfield’s 1:21 p m I ;-A J’
Grautville
Puckett’s 2:13 pm f^P™
PowplPs 2:44 u m p in
pnimlitov: • a**? m p
Red Oak .Pkf P m
East Point ’ " 3.07 pm
Atlanta 4:10i L22
SELMA, ROM >* DALTON.
MAIL TItAIN DAILY—NO Til.
Leave Rome.. •••• m
Arrive at Dalton.
m.,km.r connections at ® altcjn Wlt }; l !; e !
v7i* T^n g n Virginia and Georgia Rail- ,
and & and Atlantic Railroad for j
all Fa-tern Western cities.
MAI t TRAIN DAILY-SOUTH.-
T ~ vfm .00 p 111 I
Leave — 9.10 pm j
Arrive at Calcra "l’ft’ao -i m i
Tiaking close connection atCalera lor Mont
-oinerv and points South, and at Selma wit- j
Alabama Central Railroad tor Mobile, New Or
leans, Meridian, Vicksburg, Jackson, all
points Sutitb in Texas. Louisiana and Missis
sippi. 'M. STANTON, Ge r Sup’t.
Ray Knight, Gen, Ticket and 1 ass gi Aftt-_
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad,
Atlanta to Augusta, run as below:
Leaves Augusta at *; 'A : > i? ™
Leaves Atlanta at a ™
Arrives at Augusta
Arrives at Atlanta 6 * 45 P 111
Night passenger trains aslollows:
Leaves Augusta at P “
Leaves Atlanta at ‘’ * v
Arrives at Augusta ? ~
Arrives at Atlanta 6.35 a m
Accomodation train as follows :
Leaves Atlanta P ™
Leaves Covington a ™
Arrives at Atlanta "•*.<£> a
Arrives at Covington.... •‘•" u P lJ
THE COOSA RIVER STEAMERS.
Steamers on the Coosa River will run as per
schedule as iollows: ,
Leave Rome every Monday at pin
Leave Rome every Thursday. ••■•••••*■£ * m
Arrive at Gadsilen Tuesday and Friday.*® a in
Alt!**
POLITICAL,
Reform Needed and knw it should be Con
summated.
To the Editor of the Express :
j If ever the casual observer will
I look back for a few years, and pause
and think fora moment, a remarka
! ble state of affairs will bo found to
j exist, when compared with the his
! tory of the Slate in foimer times.
Our surroundings are peculiar in
more respects than one. The wide
spread financial pressure which is
now upon the country, is perhaps the
: severest her people have passed
i through in fifty years. A thousand
reasons are assigned for all of this
and as the number increases, which
is of daily occurrence, these financial
troubles seem to multiply in the same
proportion.
The shrinkage in value of every
commodity and property is entirely
unprecedented. The dose pressure
seems to gather force from above, be
neath and around; even the question
of plain bread, and coarse eiothes, are
being discussed in circles, where but
a few years ago, only ease and lux
ury were found. The outlook to
many is becoming terrmc in the ex
treme. This is a remarkable condi
tion of things for an American State.
And yet amidst it all, our peo >le be
ing of a nervous and disputatious
temperament find plenty of time to
discuss politics very largely, and the
people are right, there is a necessity
for reviewing many things, assured
ly the mender’s needle was never so
badly needed.
But, perhaps they do not remember
that the first result springing from
the dissensions of smaller politics, is
to carry more money, butter and
bread, and more of it to other peo
ple’s houses than is retained at home.
Our people are not. selfish, they will
allow this result to others for the
public good. A second product
may be, a scheiny effort on the part
of those who move in the sphere
thus created for them to use the oil
they are entrusted with, and that too,
on private account, and then to‘steal
the very machinery they are em
ployed to grease and run. Our peo
ple are honest as well as interested,
and they are going to be heard upor
that question.
The selection of a Governor is now
the all-absorbing issue, agitating the
public mind in the darkest nooks and
corners just as though a release from
all our ills was to come to prophecy,
through and by him, and we hope it
may bo so, but do not see exactly
how. But whenever such a great
stream of good is expected to flow
from one man, as well as know to
flow back again towards him, then
all of those who are in position to
enjoy the one or who may be forced
to furnish the other, are wise if they
look to the record of all aspirants for
this office, and take the best man in
the country, whether his name has
been suggested or not. No one cares
a Whit-what his name may be. Let
the State be thoroughly sifted, and
take a man as the candidate who is
found distinguished for his wisdom,
honesty, and determination.
No great question of national poli
tics is now before the country, and ,
if there was, Southern men would j
not be expected to tigure rnucli. ;
Nationally speaking, these things are j
all cut and dried before the fruit ever j
blossoms. There are other men in .
other sections, who feel called to
manage the sails of the ship of State
and having the power they are going
to do it independent of results, and
hence, our Southern Congressmen
are wise in their attempts to convert
Congress into a sort of grand jury, to
indict the thieves of a decade.
While we are striving with these
men as with a foreign foe to uncov
er the tracks of the thieves, and to
restore the national honor while
we are quarreling over the bloody
chasm, let us not neglect our home
affairs. They too have suffered
enough. .
Let us not forget to canvass, and
agree upon a line of State policy;
and who does not feel and know that
in a time like this, our policy should
be a most rigid economy, and scru
pulous honesty; these two qualifica
tions, a.one, would make a respecta
ble Governor. Nothing else is so
badly* needed —nothing else is so
loudly called for.
Give us some man as candidate,
whose high character and former in
tegrity will he a guaranty against
the recurrence of the disgraceful acts
brought to light by legislative inves
tigation since the war.
When we come to look back upon
the history of the State in this re- j
sped, and see the stupendous frauds
of some against the common inter
est who can restrain his indignation ? j
Who can suppress his blushes? In a j
great degree, however, these frauds
have grown and multiplied, on ac- !
count of the criminality, inattention,
negligence, or want ol ability in the ;
Executive chair, they might have |
been prevented. If our officials are j
sharp enough to detect a crime, the
exercise of thesameshrewdness would
have prevented it, or visited the
proper punishment. A storm raised
against thieves who are iar away,
becomes remarkable, when a veil is
furnished to those nearer home and
especially when oil and wine are
poured upon their wounded charae-;
ters. How many men .in this State,
who having borne, or while actually
bearing, sacred official trusts, have
positively sold themselves and their
influence to be used against the inter
est of their own State ; a species of
bribery and villainy, that would
crimson the skirts of Simon Magus,
I Guy Fawlkes, Belknap, Babcock,
i Schenck or any oilier thief? How
: many have been engaged in lobbying
I the Legislature for money, in lobby
j ing the other high officials of the
State, and by these means made
themselves rich, at the very points
where the country was made to bleed,
land that too while their perishing
honor was upon its knees, all muffled
up, and the State was in tears. The
history of the odious transactions
known as the railroad bond frauds
as well as other frauds connected
with the fugitive Governoror will
show who some of these fellows are.
They cannot cover up their trucks
nor hide under a mountain like a
i sinner’s ghost, from the searching
eye. They are very well known,
and an honest people will never for
get; nor excuse them, when these
things are talked about iu open day.
Thief is as boldly written as the own
er’s initial brand upon the oxen of
a Texas rancho.
Have any of these fellows been in
dicted or punished for their crimes?
Have any of them been made to dis
gorge their ill-gotten gain? VV heie
was the Governor and what was his
duty? Was such failure to indict
for crimes, and to sue for money thus
filched from the State tor want of au
tbt/tityTu the i&bctiUVb ? Was jt
for want of law under which to pro
ceed, or for want of proof to sustain
the charges? This will hardly lie
pretended by the guiltiest of the
guilty.
Let it be remembered that the pre
tense was to make ail the proof in
such cases public before the world,
then why were certain portions sup
pressed and certain inen wholly ex-
I cused ?
! Has it come to this, that high pub
| lie officials, are afraid of the future
influence of thieves seated on their
bags of stolen cash. There is a path
open purposely for all such men, and
they ought to have been made to
walk it; every track points in the
same direction, there is no return
and never ought to be. They have
had their day. They have used their
influence for the basest of all purpos
poses. They have sold their con
science. They have betrayed a trust,
and procured the others to taste of
the same villainy.
They have been the voluntary in
struments of defrauding the State
and henceforth nothing but a warm
reception awaits them in the great
hereafter, and a reception as cold as
an iceberg here. Pitiable it is true
but as good as they deserve.
Now, Mr. Editor, the people want
a Governor who will put General
Jackson’s emphatic veto upon all
such conducts as this, and when men
Wliu> nro cOLotofi nrith |](‘h POn til mi -
nation, come to the surface again,
and attempts to figure even in the
suburbs of politics, as they are sure
to do. If they beat the bushes, or
stand behind the screen, and assume
to pull the wires for any candidate
let the people take care to vote for
some other man; if they take a dif
ferent course from that of these men,
they are sure to be right. These
men always work for pay, and when
they succeed jn obtaining place, they
are sure to get the pay .even if it ex
hausts the power of the Vatican to
pronounce their absolution.
Bartow.
The Girls,
For the Expresss.j
Dear creatures, how I love them,
and my warm heart is drawn towards
them as the needle to the pole.
Were you to see me in my humble
cottage busy as a bee, with a hundred
claims upon my strength, you would
say how can that plodding old soul
find time to think of us bonny, blithe
girls so free from care, and so bouy
ant with budding hope! But strange
as it may seem a withered old wo
man sits by her lonely hearth to
night and her isolation is cheered by
the merry, chirping cricket, while
herbusy thoughts like birds of passage
seek rest in the sylvan shades of ex
pression.
Fair young innocent girls, though
my touch may not awaken a respon
sive cord in their own bosoms—yet I
love them still—and would open
wide my protecting- arms to shield
them from thejinshlious darts of your
enemy. Don’t imagine you are in
a place of safety, for in the perennial
gardens of Eden there was a devil
—and you all know the fate of that
beautiful woman, just fresh from the
hands of Deity. Think not that you
are invulnerable to the insinuating
expressions of flattery that float
round you, like grateful incense, for
many of these effusions are as fuise
as the holiow heart that dictates
them. It pains you to listen—and
me to write such bitter, bitter things
ot those the world styles—“ Lords of
creation.”
I frankly admit, however, there
are many noble exceptions to the gen
eral rule—but are you penetrating
enough to sever the wheat from the
chaff? Then, “be ye as wise as ser
pents and as harmless as doves.”
Now don’t conclude “my dears”
that I am some morose, spiteful old
woman who has met with some
direful disappointment and would
not presume to dictate to you who
are capable of “rowing your own
boats.” Nay, verily, I have enjoyed
more of what the world calls happi
ness than usually falls to the lot of
woman; but it has failed to satisfy
the yearnings of my heart,and 1 now
look beyond for the full fruition
that alone can satisfy it. Here 1
have known and felt the utter beart
leussess of some who should have been
my friends, and I do not tolerate or
appreciate a friendship that is not
unselfish—ingenuous noble—mag
nanimous, and I scorn the canting
hypocrites, who come tome in the
pure spotless vestments of friendship,
and while he takes my hand in
token of his good faith, 1 turn just
in time to see him stealthily raise
a dagger that he intended to pierce
through my confiding heart. Don’t
pale over this recital, my “bonny
birds,” and think this an overdrawn
story, for sin,like a mighty conqueror
lifts his proud head defiantly and
asks, “who rules this realm.”
Woman, the world’s destiny is rest
ing upon your integrity. True, thou
art called the “weake r vessel,” but
weak as thou art, you must enter the
lists “ready to break the lance for
truth with every crowding error,”
Infidelity is flaunting her gay banners
from every bill top, and she is seeking
to plant her cardinal colors at the
very threshold of our churches,
i Beware of any person,man or woman,
who flippantly mocks the religion of
your forefathers. eShun then) as
you would the Bohun Upas of Jam.
The venomed plant can only kill the
body, but the scoffer of religion will
destroy your soul if you heed his se
ductive teachings. We have brothers,
sons and loved ones, exposed to ruin,
and must we simply fold our hands
and imagine this work is too great
for us? Surely not; we must up from
this lethargy, put on Herculean
strength, and valiantly contest the
field with caiid usurper who is
seeking to defiie cur temples, and
use our altars for his distorted and
sin-conceived immolations in defi
ance of truth, God, and religion.
But my subject is too grand for
young hearts that leap and sport like
untamed roes on the mountains; but
by and by much of this bouyaney
will meet an eddying current and
then you will say the old woman
was right, and all life’s pleasures are
evanescent, ever ready to take wing
and leave us. This,too,is right. True,
the great reaper is always cutting
down some cherished loved one of
our household; and while I write I
am contiguous to^a desolate hearth
stone recently invaded bv death.
The little ones are pressing the pil
lows of orphanage and no fond moth
er bends over them in bodily form
to kiss her wonted “good night, dar
lings,”
Dear girls, I have drained the bit
ter cup of bereavement. I have
known opulence and poverty; I have
passed through many a changing
scene; once counted friends by scores,
now—t/ut ’tis to 9bow aU the
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 18,1876.
shadows that lie athwart my rugged
pathway,for soon the journey will he
ended and my weary panting spirit
will “cross over and rest under the
! shade of the trees” that flourish on
the hanks of the river of life.
Be true to your sisterhood, uphold
the sinking, cheer the desponding,
and sometimes give to the poor old
woman who loves you a passing re
cognition, for she feels the lack of
| sympathy, “the dearth of woman’s
tears.” But my specks have fallen
to the floor, nay lamp flickers in the
socket and my cricket has gone to
its rest 'neath the hearthstone and
now I wish you good night. O.
“Hard Times”—What Causes Them-
To the Editor of The Express :
These are emphatically hard times.
No goods are selling, no houses build
ing; men ordinarily in easy surround
ings are put to it to meet their obliga
tions, and poor men are not able to
buy even a few of the necessaries of
life. What is the cause of so much
trouble in commercial circles, depres
sion and discouraged facts felt and
seen on every side ? There are three
principle causes. Dishonest laws,
which prevent creditors from collect
ing their money have more to do
with it than any other cause. The
law allows oix t-*!--- sate
tor aeut, nominally, of three
and dollars in gold ; really it allows
all that the debtor owns. There will
not be any prosperity in Georgia as
long as this law remain upon her
statutes. Cotton may bring2o cents ;
the government may floo<i 4 the coun
try with greenbacks, hut as long as
this foul stain is covering with its
pollution our efforts to live, so long
will distrust and dishonesty press out
the vital energies of the people and
griuding poverty add new victims to
to its merciless embrace.
If the people of this State
knew their best interest, this vam
pire, this insult to our common hon
esty and disgrace to our civilization
would be blotted from the statute
book just as soon as it could be done.
Another cause of hard times is too
much cotton growing. Every tann
er will admit that if half the acreage
now planted in cotton should be
added to the production of grain aad
grasses, the price would be double
what it now is; he would receive as
much money for 10 bales as for 20
now, and he would not have his ba
con, flour, syrup, lard, &t\, to bay.
Every one will say this, but every
one thinks he is more knave than fool
and that he will allow everybody
else to make less cotton, but lie him
self will make more. Thus it is
5,000,000 bales crops are made and
Mr. Knave finds out too late he is a
fool like all the balance.
The mild cause of h-*rd times is,
too many people don’t work. Men
loaf on the streets all the year round
and wonder why times are so hard.
They are ashamed to gel sunburned,
afraid to go to hard work as God Al
mighty commanded and as their
pride ought to influence them.
That’s why times are hard.
People of Bartow county, before
we are irretrievably engulfed in debt,
before ruin and starvation brood over
the length and breadth of our fair
land, let us join hand in hand to
bi-oak up and destroy this accursed
law; let us act with common sense
in the proportioning of our crops and
w will oornu out Mil right. Our I
county will prosper and the cry of
hard times be heard no more.
Sentinel.
The Methodist Bishops.
Plan of Episcopal Visitation for 1876.
At the meeting of the College of
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Southeast week, the follow
ing plan of Episcopal visitation for
1876, was adopted:
BISHOP KAVANAUGH.
West Virginia Conference, Catletts
burg, Sept. 13.
Virginia Conference, Richmond,
Nov. 15.
North Carolina Conference, Greens
boro, Nov. 29.
South Carolina Conference, Chester,
Dec. 13.
Baltimore Conference, Alexandria,
March —.
BISIIOP MCTYEIRE.
Western Conference, Nebraska
City, Aug. 23.
St. Louis Conferencce, Washington,
Sep. 6.
Missouri Conference, Hannibal,
Oct, 4.
Southwest Missouri Conference,
Miami, Oct. 18.
Indian Mission Conference, Vinita,
Oct. 25.
North Alabama Conference, Deca
tur, Dec. 13.
BISHOP K EENER.
Kentucky Conference, Nicholas
ville, Sept. 13.
Tennessee Conference, Columbia,
Oct. 4.
Arkansas Conference, Yelville,
Oct. 18.
White River Conference, Bates
ville, Nov. 29.
Little Rock Conference, Arkadel
phia, Dec. 13.
BISHOP WIGHTMAN.
Louisville Conference, Louisville,
Oct. 4.
Holston Conference, Bristol, Oct.
18.
Mississippi Conference, Natchez,
Nov. 29.
Louisiana Conference, Trenton,
Dec. 13.
BISHOP PIERCE.
North Mississippi Conference, Sar
dis, Nov. 1.
Memphis Conference, Memphis,
Nov. 15.
North Georgia Conference, Sparta.
Nov. 29.
South Georgia Conference, San
dersville, Dec. 13.
Florida Conference, Monticello,
Jan. 11.
BISHOP PAINE.
Illinois Conlerence, Pava, Oct. 4.
Alabama Conference, Greensboro,
Dec. 6.
BISHOP DOGGF.TT.
North Texas Conference, Long
view, Oct. 11.
Northwestern Texas Conference,
Calvert, Oct. 18.
West Texas Conference, Seguin,
Nov. 1.
German Mission Conference, Gras
sy Fork, near, Bastrop, Nov. 15.
* Texas Conference, Huntsville, Nov.
29.
East Texas Conference, Hender
son, Dec. 13.
BISHOP MARVIN.
Denver Conference, Colorado
Springs, Aug. 23.
Columbia Conference, Sept. 15.
Pacific Conference, Oct.*ll.
Lot Angeles Conference, Oct. 25.
Bishop Keener has charge of the
missian in Mexico and EJraail.
Bishop McTyeire has charge of the
mission in China*
The Bourbon Platform.
It is refresing in these days of
Radical “progiess” and national de
generacy to recur to the sound Demo
cratic principles upon which our re
publican system ofconstitutioual rep
resentative government was based.
We find them succinctly set forth in
the following utterances of Thomas
. Jefferson, who, in a letter to Elbridge
Gerry, dated January 26, 1799, thin
puts his ideas of the principles and
duties of the Democratic party:
“I do, then, with a sincere zeal
wish an inviolable preservation of
I our present Federal Constitution, ac
| cording to the true sense in which it
j was adopted by the States, that in
which it was advocated by its friends,
land not that which its enemies ap
prehended, who therefore became
its enemies; and I am opposed to
the monarchizing its features by the
1 forms of its administration. With a
view to conciliate a first transition to
a P resident and Senate for life , and
from that to an hereditary tenure of
these offices, and thus to worm out
the elective principle. I am for pre
serving to the States the powers not
yielded by them to the Union, and to
the legislature of the Union its con
i stitutional share in the division of
j powers; and lam not for transfer
■ ring all the powers of the States to
I the general government, and all those
1 - r o-oveminent to the Executive
branch, lam ior u
, orous, frugal aud simple, applying
i all the possible savings of the public
revenue to the discharge of the na
tional debt; and not for a multipli
cation of offices and salaries merely
to make par Pans, and for increasing
by every device the public deot, on
the principle of its being a public
blessing. lam for relying, for inter
nal defense, on our militia solely,
till actual invasion, and for such a
force only as may protect our coasts
and harbors from such depredations
as we have experienced, and not fora
standing army in time of peace,
which may overawe the public senti
ment; nor for a navy which, by its
own expenses, and the eternal wars
in which it will implicate us, will
grind us with public burthens and
sink us under them. I am for a
commerce with all nations, political
connection with none, and little or
no diplomatic establishment. And I
am not for linking ourselves by new
treaties with the quarrels of Europe,
entering that field of slaughter to
preserve that balance, or joining in
the confederacy of Kings to war
against tiie principles of liberty. I
am for freedom of religion, and
against all manoeuvres to bring about
a legal ascendency of one sect over
another; for freedom of the press,
and against all violations of the Con
stitution, to silence by force, and not
by reason, the complaints or criti
cisms, just or unjust, of our citizens,
against the conduct of their agents.
I am for encouraging the progress of
science in all its branches, and not for
raising a hue and cry against the sa
cred name of philosophy, for awing
ttie human mind .by stories of raw
head and bloody bones, to distrust
its own vision, and to repose implic
itly on that of others—to go back
ward instead of forward to look for
improvement—to believe that
eminent, religion, morality and ev
ery other science, were in the highest
perfection in the days of the darkest
ignorance, and that nothing can ever
ho devised more perfect than what
was established-toy our forefathers.”
This is wisdom of the best and
highest type, and he who implicitly
follows its teachings will never go
astray.
Bust in Wheat and Cotton,
Dr. E. M. Pendleton, in Macon
Telegraph: Ycur correspondent B.
writes a suggestive article on rust in
wheat and cotton. A part of his
suggestions apply very well to rust
in cotton, but with all due deference
for his opinions, we think they are
not applicable to rust in wheat.
There is perhaps no fact better estab
lished in agricultural science than
that rust in wheat is a microscopic
fungus (Puceinia Grammas)’ It
has been investigated with great as
siduity by botanists since Flontana
published an account of this pest in
1767. It attacks stems, leaves and
glumes of all kinds of grain, on ev
ery kind of soil, but it is rarely de
veloped in cool, dry springs. The
reason why warm, damp weather
develops it, is for the same reason
that mould on bread and old cheese
(which are microscopic fungi) is do
veloped only during such weather,
or when placed in dark, moist situa
tions. The reproductive spores are
very light, and float about adhering
to the stalks and leaves, but will
not germinate (if we may use tiie
term in this connection) in cool or
dry weather. Who ever saw wheat
injured by rust in long spells of
bright sunshiny weather? What
farmer dots not dread lts'.advent after
several days of continuous damp,
foggy weather? Plants have spores
or stomato, which are closed in dry
weather, and open and expand in
warm moist weather. While thus
opening moist weather the spores
germinate, and cannot bo closed
again—hence the plant becomes un
healthy. It is estimated that one of
these stagma will hold from twenty
to forty fungi, and each of them pro
puce at least one hundred spores of
reproductive particles, which will be
enough to infest a whole plant.
Some varieties of wheat, owing to
their more delicate structure, are
more liable to rust than others. In
England farmers affirm that wheat
sown in the neighborhood of the
barberry bush seldom escapes this
blight, as it is supposed that the
spores are generated and preserved
on these bushes. We have been ask
ed what effect would nitrate of soda
have upon rusted wheat. Asa rem
edy it could certainly have none ; as
a preventive, and we suppose this is
the object of its recommendation by
the commissioner, it would act just
like all other good nitrogenous fer
tililizers for wheat, by giving a
coarsertalk, or more rapid and vig
orous growth, and thus enable the
wheat to keep ahead of the disease.
As it is very soluble, it is best of its
class, but costs too high to pay well
on wheat. Certainly it would not
pay well on rusted wheat, as it would
do but little good until a rain came
to leach it iinto the soil. By that
time it would be too late, as the rust
only requires a few days to destroy a
crop.
Thimblerigging.— We have rea
son to believe that Gen. Colquitt and
his frieuds, including those journals
friendly to his claims, expect and
hope to have the weight of the pres
ent administration’s influence iathe
convention to assemble. We*nave
further reason to think that Col.
his frieuds, including
those journals favorable to his cause,
are looking to be backed by the same
potent power. Now, how about it
anybtt/iwertf&i jfeufc
Special Notices.
Directory of Connty Officer*.
Ordinary—.J. A. Howard.
Clerk ofScperior Cocrt—Thomas A. Word.
Sheriff—V. M. Franklin. G. L. Franks,
Deputy.
Tax Recf.lVer—A. M. Foutc.
T ax Collrctor—W. F. Corbin.
County Commissioners—Russel H. Cannon,
Chairman. David V. Stokely, John C. Ayeock,
R. H. Dodd, John H. Wikle, Clerk.
Coroner—D. B. Mull.
Surveyor—ll. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill,
Deputy.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
The names of all persons we found upon our
subscription book when we purchased the
standard and Express, credited by advance
payment will be furnished The KXPKE9S until
the time paid for expires.
The names of those who had not paid up, we
have translerred to our new books, and begin
their subscriptions from December 8, 1875.
These are respectfully and earnestly requested
to cal' 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 aconstac cash
outlay to do so. we.hope all who have not paid
will do so without delay.
CARTIRSYiLLE CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—F. M. Ford.
Aldermen —a. U. Hudgins, G. W. Satter
field, G. B. Conyers, A. L. Barron, J. A. Stover,
S. F. Milam, Peter Marsh, li. S. Best.
Clerk -J. B. Conyers, acting.
Treasurer—A. 1.. Barron.
Marsh at,—M P Maxwell.
Attorney—J. B. Conyers.
Sexton—H. s. Revolt.
committees.
Finance— A. R. Hudgins, C. It. Conyers, S. F.
Milam.
Street —H. S. Best. J. A. Stover, G. W, Satter
field. A. L. Barron.
Cemetery— Peter Marsh, S. JF. Milam. C. B.
Conyers.
LAWS RELATING TO NEWSPAPER Srß
scriptioas and arrearages.
1. Subscribers who do not give express no
tice to the contrary, are considered wishing to
continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of
their periodicals, the publishers may continue
to send them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their periodicals from the 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
out notifying publishers, and the papers are
seat to the former direction, they are held re
sponsible.
5. The Courts have decided that “refusing to
take periodicals from <he office or removing
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie
evidence f intentional fraud.”
6. An y person who receives a newspaper
and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it
or not, is heid in law to be a subscriber.
7. If subs-ci Ibera pay in advance, they are
bound to give notice to the publisher, at the
end of their time, if they do not wish to con
tinue taking it; otherwise the publisher is
authorized to send it on, and the subscriber
will be responsible until an express no
tice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent
to the publisher.
IF YOU
Want b arders,
Want a situation,
Want a salesman,
Want a servant girl,
Want to rent a store,
Want to sell a piano,
Want to sell a h..ra
Want to buy a house.
Want to buy a horse,
Want to rent a house,
Want to sell a carriage,
Want a boarding place,
Want to borrow money.
Want to sell dry goods,
Want to sell groceries.
Want to sell furniture,
Want to sell hardware.
Want to sell real estate,
Want a job of carpentering,
Wanta job of blacksmithing,
Want to sell millinery goods,
Want to sell a house and lot.
Want to a Iver tise to advantage,
Wan’ttofiud any one’s address,
Want to sell a piece of furniture,
Want to buy a second-hand carriage,
Want to find anything you have lost.
Want to sell agricultural implements,
Wanttollmi an owner for lost property,
Adveitise in
THE CARTERSVILLE EXI’RESS.
Professional Cards.
J. JI. 100\,
ATTORNEY AT LAW*
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office: Up-stairs over stokclw & Williams,
West Main Street. ' apr2o
James W. Karris, Sr.
ATTOR^EY-AT-LAW,
One door East of Express Office, Mam Street.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
m a i-30
LAW & REAL ESTATE.
W. T. WOFFORD,
ANY business left with C'apt. Sain ford and
Mr. Waters, who arc in my office, will re
cieve my attention. I will be at my ollice usu
ally between the hours ot 10 ami 11 each morn
ing- ]ieblb] W.T. WOFFORD.
A. M. FOUTE,
ATTOItiNEY AT LAW
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
( With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts oi Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray,Whitlield and ad
joining counties. dec2-ly.
11. W. MIRPMEY,
AT T OItNEY AT LAW
Cartersville, Ga.
OFFICE (up stairs) in the brick building
corner of Main and Irw in streets. dec2-tf.
jrw.TIAUIS, Jr.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
OFFICE next door to The Express printing
establishment.
JOHN w. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILNER
WOFFORD & MILKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
OFFICE up stairs, Bank Block.
JAMES B. COKYERS,
ATTORNEY A LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee
and adjoining circuits. Particular attentiou
given to ail business entrusted to iny care.
Collecting made a specialty. Office up-ttatr
in the Bank Block. dec23-ly.
G. Kl. RATES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office in the Court House.
dec9-ly
DENTAL NOTICE.
Drs. Tigner & Johnson
Office up.otairs. in Brick Building opposite
The Express office.
i TREAT diseased enms and ab
£3? scessed teeth, ml and clean
I vTryipssWfc teeth, cxtiact teeth, ano |n
seit artificial teeth. All work
i THE SIHGEH SEWING MACHINE
THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE.
The Largest Sales because the Most Popular.
The Most Popular Because The Best.
VERDICT OF THE PEOPLE.
I Sales in 1871 .. 131.9*.
! Sales in 1872 219,753
Sales in 1873 238,444
Sales in 1874 * 241,676 !!!
Nearly 130.0iX) more than was sold by th next highest competitor and oyer 00,000 more than whe
sold by all othor companies combined!!!
Address the Singer Manufacturing Company, 179 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga., C. 8.
I Beatty. Agent; Corner Bioad and Alabama st*.. Atlanta, Ga., tJeorge W. Leonard. Ag*t.; and
at Stokelv and Willsams’ Popular Store, CartersvlUe, Us., K. W. B. MKKRITT, Agent.
I fvb3-ly, r
i ■! ■' ■.■..'11. ■■ ■_s fi!t !uea-
Hardware and Farming Implements*
BAKER & HALL
CALL the attention of their customers t* a general and complete stork of HARDWARE ul
Farming implements .such as
PLOWS, HOES, COTTO PLANNTERS, ETC.
We also have a complete stock of FIELD SEEDS snch as Clover, Red Top, Orchard and Bide
!,c s °l'' in this or any other market. Weals*
have a complete stock of READY MADE! LOWS both iron ana tesi. rv
Nails $3.75 t* 4 M
Bur Iron ~ (n 6 csdU
Steel Slabs •• ~..944 to ltd*
Iron :Mab ” 6X to 7 cent.
Cast Steel 90 to 95 tni
Sweed Iron Stottcente.
For the cash we can sell as cheap as the same quality of goods can be sold anv where.
feblS tf H * BAKER A HALL.
STOVES & TINWARE.
To the Citizens of Cartersville and Sur
rounding Country:
.. HAVING consolidated our business at the old GILBERT
STAND on the corner of Main and Tumlin Street., W
will carry on the business under the name and firm of
Wmgj STALL & ADAMS
We will keep constantly on hand a large and complete
STOVES, lINWARE & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.
which we will sell at the very lowest price to suit thi me*. We keep the celebrated COTTOH
KING, IRON KING, CAPITOL A aud various other store* ol all sizes and prices. We will du
plicate prices lrom anj market in the State. All job work and repairing promptly done for
cash Country produce, rags and old brass and copper taken in exchange for goods. Wrap
ping paper always on hand at Atlanta prices We will furnish galvonixed Iron Evaporators lOr
Boiling Syrup, li) ft. loug.4oin. w ide, complete, made out of a solid sheet, No mm*, at fit
c ish, frame and all. Ten dollars lower than ever turnished in the South. Those desiring to
purchase please give ns 15 days’ notice. (janl-lv) STALL A ADAMS.
J. D. HEAD. DR. T. H. BAKER. W. G. DOBSON
J. D. HEAD & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Clothing,
HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES, &c., &c.
No 71 Peachtree Street - Atlanta, Ga.
Out tiAUTOW, PAULDING AND CHEROK COUNTY FRIENDS ARE INVITED T*
call and see ns when in the city, promising them the same courteous treatment and fair,
honest dealing they have h.id in our house while at Cartersville Oar stock will be found full
and complete in all its departments, and prices as low as can be fouud in this market.
■ ——
N. B.—We respectfully ask consignments of cotton from onr friends who wish to *ell in thi*
market, promising them the fullest market prices—and no unnecessary expenses attached to
the sale of same. J. L. HEAD A CO.
Atlanta. Ga. ■ daimary 6. 1876.
ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP.
Wallace TTackett,
;MANUFAUTURERS OF
Hollow Ware, Steam Engines, Grates, Mantels, Mill Machinery, k
-- - - m
Highest Market Price for
Old lron, Copper and. Brass.
STILL. AT THEIR, OLIV STAND.
STOKELY c WILLIAMS,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS,
Clottiing, Hats, Boots and Shoes.
WE desire to state to our old friends and patron* that we are still running onr bu*in*M
w-ith onr paying patrons on the usnal time heretofore given,
But will Expoct Prompt Payment at Maturity.
Those paving ca*h at purchase will get the benefit of a heavy deduction. And we would
most respectfully request those purchasing for cash to say to us at the time: “We will cah
this bill,” as we’will then the more readily affix prices. If there i? nothing vaid onr prices will
be given at time rates. STOKKLY St WILLIAMS.
Nn Those owing us due paper will do us a great favor bv calling and making early par
. D. roent. (march 2) STOKELY A WILLIAMS:
THE G&ARNGrES
LIFE M HEALTH MM 01..
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Authorized Capital 4,5500,000
Of Which SIOO,OOO to be 0 nedha Each Department.
Each Policy-Holder is entitled to a vote in the management of the Company
PARENT OFFICE,MOBILE,AT.A.
CAPITAL STOCK, - - - 100,000.
W. u. KETCHCJI, President. |F. E. DAVIDSON, Vice President. | .W. FORT. Sc*'/
GEORGIA DEPAKTyiEIT, ROME, GA.
Capital Stock .1190,909
Office No. 9 COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
C. G. SAMUEL, President, ALFRED SHORTER, Vice-President, R. J. GWALTNET
Secretary, C. ROWELL. Attorney, Dr G. W. HOLMES, Medical Examiner.
Beard of Director* :
A. P. Allgood, Trion Factory; C. Rowell, Rome. Ga.; Alfred Shorter, Rome. Ga.’ John H-
Newton, Athens, Ga.; A. Jones, Cedartown, Ga.; Hon. D. F. Hammond. Atlanta.'Ga • line.
D. B. Hamilton, Rome, Ga,; Cain Glover, Rome, Ga.; T. McGuire, Rome, Ga.- r Woodruff
Rome, Ga.; M. H. Bunn, Cedartown, Ga.; A. J. King, Cave Spring, Ga.; Hon. W M.
Hutchins. Polk county, Ga. *
ALARARA DEPARTESt7MOITGOMERf, AtA.
Cftpitsl Stocki,•• <•••• ...*••*•• e. • #••••••*• •••••••. 000
Hon. N.N. CTemonts, President and General Manager, Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Hon. David Olopton.
Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; W. L. Chambers. Secretary; Stone A Ciopton, Attorneys’
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, MERIDIAN MISS.
Stock .fIOO,Ma
Col. James VV. Beck, President, John H. Gray, Vice-Pre*ident, L. A. Duncan Secretary
SECURITY, ECONOMY AND LIBERAXITY,
Are the Loading principles of thia Company.
ALL approved forma of Life and Endowment Pci! ties issued in sum* of ItOO nn to tiaono a u
Term Policies of one, three, er seven year*. ¥ * ***
AU Life policies non-forfeiting after two annual payments, when he insared will be entitle.!
to paid up Policy or i-urrencer thartoi. on entitled
Dividends may bused to p-ote-t police* tgalnst lapsing incise of failure to -vav nre.
miums. Thi.- with the nou-torfelinsr ami Cash Surren ler featnres, are suffi-ient to make thi*
Company popular among thinking men. toy* GOOD AGENTS W tSTED.
*l®® G- ENGLAND, of Molulc, Ala., Ueueral vuperiaten tout of Age nolo*
I w. k. hdse, kfjettti canvrsviite* cMetttfo-
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