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THE CABTEBSVILLE EXPRESS BY C. H. C. WILLINGHAM. Cartersville Express. I (jLI) standard AND EXPRESS.] RATES of subscription. I o .-our one year $2 00 I""' ~mv mx months 100 ■' three months 50 ■M Bt " In Advance. I nb.—For Clubs of ten copies or 'more ■oV' /<*■/■'annum for each copy. KATES OF ADVERTISING. I -p,.. following arc our established rates for I cr ti-ing, and will be strictly adhered to in |g!l ea?e-~: . . 2 ws ( 3 ws 4 wsj2 m.|3 m.|6 m. 12 m I I'm fT&)'s2 00 |2 50 *4 50 JO 00 $9 00 sl2 00 J ,m :i uoj 400 500 900 12 00:17 00 22 00 ' i 50 : 5 75 6 75 12 OOjlO 00 21 00 30 00 I 5 75j 725 8 50,14 50118 75 25 00 36 00 L , - 25 10 25 12 00 19 5() 24 25 33 00 48 00 : - 9 50 11 75 13 75 22 00j27 00 37 Ou 54 00 ' 1 ou 10 75 13 25 15 50 24 50 29 75 41 00 00 00 . ,112 00* 14 75 17 25 27 00 32 50 45 00 o*3 00 . i r. 13 (*>ll6 00 18 75 29 25 35 00(48 50 71 00 „) 50 11 00117 25 20 25-31 50 37 50 52 00 76 00 ‘ , 15 00;i8 50 21 75'33 75 40 00155 50 8! 00 7 •> do 10 00 19 75 23 • 5126 00142 50 59 00 86 00 ; .7 17 00121 00 24 75(38 25 45 00,02 50 91 00 ;7 VI 18 00 22 25 20 25110 50 47 50 06 <-0 90 00 : i •>.-) 19 00.23 50 27 75 42 75 50 o*' 050 101 00 ■ i 7‘, 19 75 24 50 29 00 44 75 52 25 72 50 105 00 : 7 20 50125 50 30 25 40 75 54 50 75 50 109 00 7 -1 25126 50 31 50 48 75 56 75 78 50 113 00 , 25 22 00 27 50 32 75 60 75 59 00 81 .70 117 00 75 22 7.7,28 50 3 4 00,52 75 01 25 84 50 121 00 : I7 -7 23 50 29 50 35 25 51 75 03 50 87 50 125 UJ ‘ 7.7 24 25,30 50 36 50 56 75 (15 75 90 50 129 00 18 ou _[ 75 -71 25 37 50(58 50 67 75193 001132 00 I’ersons sending in advertisements will vh-a.-e dei-ignate the department of the paper ‘ \vidch they wish them inserted—whether in hi. *'-.• ” “anpeial” or "local” column; •ii the length of time they wish tnem puo- L.lied and tlie space they ant them to occupy. tnnouncing names of candidates for ollice, !jjv*e dollars, invariably in advance. Legal Advertising. Sheriff sales, per levy $2.50 mortgage fi fa sales, per inch 4.50 Citations for letters of administration— 3.00 “ “ " guardianship 3.00 Ar iilication for dismission front admins’n. 0.00 1 •• " “ guard’shp 2.50 “ " leave to sell 7nd 2.50 pes of land per inch 2.50 ; . , of perishable property, pi - inch— 1-50 ; N',t ice to debtors and creditors 3.50 | V ,i t-.-losures of mortgage, per ic di 4.00 y t -.-iv notices, thirty days 2.50; \ ■ ~t! ii-atiou lor homestead 1.50 i \il legal advertisements must be paid /or in | , and officers must act accordingly; j hi, i that they may know how to collect for j pi -charged lor by the inch, we will state tii.ii 125 words (in this type) make an inch. When Bills are Due. | All oills for advertising in this paper arc dne j at .m v time after the first insertion of the same, ; ai, i will he collceted at tiie pleasure of the, Vi 'iprietor, unless otherwise arranged by con- | Travelers’ 0 uide. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. I’l.oM and after this date the following Fcheiiule will he’run on the Cherokee Rail-; mart at 7:00 A. M. Taylorsville, 8:00 ** Stillsboro, 8:25 “ j Arrive at ( artersville, 9:10 “ 1., ave Car! ersville 3:00 P. M. j •* Stilishoro, 3:50 Taylorsville 4:30 “ Arrive at Rockmart 5:15 “ | ATLANTIC RAILROAD and its connections. liic following Schedule takes effect April j 30, 1875. NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta..'. 4 10 pm | Arrive Cartersville 6 23 p m Arrive Kingston 6 52 p m j Arrive Dalton ....8 32pm Arrive Chattanooga 10 16 pm No. 3. Leave Atlanta 5 40 am Arrive Cartersville 7 67 a m ; Arrive Kingston 8 26 a m j Arrive Dalton 10 08 a m , Arrive, Chattanooga 11 55 p m Leave Atlanta 8 00 a m ; Arrive i artersville 10 20 am t •Vrrive'Kingston ...10 53 am ,-v rrive Dalton 105 pm SOUTHWARD- No. 2. Ani\Vi>aiton".T. ’• • • •••• i') sT pm Arrive Kingston 7 21 p m Arrive Cartersville 5 ~ Arrive Atlanta No 4 1 Leave Chattanooga }S. “ ™ I Arrive Kingston E ! a . rive Cartersville i Arrive Atlanta Arrive Dalton v ~ ™ Arrive Cartersville ; ® " Arrive Atlanta?. ; J ™ “ - n Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be !u ecu New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run ou Nos. 1 and 4 be tween Atlanta and Nashville. ! Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos *a3 nd -be tween Louisville and Atlanta. . r*r So change of cars betw. en New Orleans Mntule. Montgomery, Atlanta and Lalumoi e 1 ami only one change to New A . k. U Passengers leaving Atlanta at HO V- m- - I rive in New York the second thei after at 4 00 I ‘’'Excursion Tickets to the Virgin-a Springs I ai.' various Summer Resorts will oe on sale iu New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Colum -1 hu-. Macon, Sava unah, Augusta and Atlanta, at greatlv reduced rates Ist ot June- Parties desiring a whole car through to the Virginia Springs or to Laltimoie should ail ° Parti^T^mplating traveling should send for a c-ipj of tlie Kennesau Route Oazette, con taining schedules, etc. „ ~ J3T Ask for tickets via ‘H^n^esaw^Roiite. General Pu-senger and Ticket Agent, may22—dtt Atlanta, Ga._ ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday, Dec. 12th trains on the Home Railroad will run as follows. PAV TRAIN—EVERY DAY. l eave Rome at (UiA ? m Ar. ii e at Rome 11,30 a m SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMODATION. T ~ , 5.45 P m Arrive at Rome at “ K ATLANTA VIVEST POINT KAIIEOAD. passenger train—outward. I xAT*Ti 0KS * ARKnE ‘ 10 m. I K. i nnut'.::: l p. m. 10:44 p. ni Ii;. 10:50 p. m. 11.44 p.m. I Fairi-uni" It3l p. m. 11:22 P- 1,1 ■ I , , ii pj. 11:S8 u.m. •}}:£&& HS££ I . I°*so a m 12:51 am liiicvid’s • ISM a m l:g am I.a*.range a m 2:21 am West Point 2:40 a m passenger TRAIN-INWARD. I ..STATIONS. ARRIVE. f.‘*u I Whitiield’s.:. V*i ? m 1 -42 p S I 'on- 2:13 pm 2:18 pm ' 2:29 p m 2:30 p m j J’YJ. . 2; 14 p m 2:45 pm .:f r , 3:06 p m 3:01 pm Itirluirn 3:32 p m 2:<W p m Red Oak 8:38 pm 3:42 p m hast i-mni::::::::::.... ® 3:07 pm I Atlanta 4.101 P m SELMA, ROM & DALTON. MAIL TRAIN DAILY—NO TIL It tt 6:10 pm Making close connections atD al ton wi th the I Ea-t Tennessee, Virginia and Rail Ii ad, and Western and Atlantic Rainoad loi nil Eastern and Western cities. MAIL TRAIN DAILY—SOUTH. I Arrive at Rome £ “ I Arrive at Selma 10,20 am Making close connection at Calera lor i oni I feuinury and points South, and at ‘l' v ‘ () . i Al abama Central Railroad for Mobile, New Oi i leans, Meridian, Vicksburg, f | !'..mu South in Texas, Louisiana ml AM— | m. |i. M. STANTON, o n- *UP J b w Knight, Gen. Ticket ana 1 ass gr Ag • : GEORGIA RAILROAD. Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad, | I Atlanta to Augusta, run as below: 0.45 aml 1-. .i\es Augnsta at........••...*••*• T.on *.,.. l eaves Atlanta at a m Arrives at Atlanta p Night passenger trains as iollows: Leaves Augusta at " v io ! lu P. I!) Leaves Atlanta at vißam I Arrives at Atlanta m Accomodation train aslollows • Leaves Atlanta • •• '2?> ? ;!! Leaves Covington P.’iv m Arrives at Atlanta ... Arrives at Covington *• 1 THE COOSA RIVER STEA3IERS. steamers on the Coosa River will run as l^> I schedule as follows! . . nr . Leave Rome every Monday at....,..* ■ •••*, 1 Leave Rome every Thursday . .•••• ••_ ‘ Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday and I nday ■• • The Fence Law. What a Farmer of Bar tow County lia%to Say on the Subject. To the Editor of the Express: As elections and issues of govern ment of all sorts is the order this fall, would It not be well to bring the fence question before the people of our county? We have a statute which provides whenever so many as fifty freeholders of a county shall petition the ordinary he shall aion©e make known throughout said county hv advertisement In the public ga j zette and by notice at all election pre citffs and public p'aces therein that such petition has been filed in his office, and such notices to be publish ed twenty days. If a counter-peti tion of freeholders is filed, amounting to fifty persons, then the ordinary shall proceed no further. If such petition of freeholders is not met by such counter-petition, or if met by 1 such counter-petition is supported by a petition of so many as twenty-five additional freeholders, then the ordi nary aforesaid shall at once p>*<reed to have an election held in such pve cints on the first Monday in July following in which the question of “fence” or “no fence” shall be sub mitted to the lawful voters of sl id county. Said election to be held at 1 t’o pluoo and undor tho aame TPIeS and regulations as are provided for members of the General Assembly, j and after thirty days notice at the most public places in said county, and the returns to be made to tne or dinary, etc. If a majority of the votes so cast is for no fence, then six months thereafter this law takes effect. You will see by this statute it is an open question for the people to de t?rmine. AH who rre entitled to vote for legis’ation are voters on this question. This is certainly under law the settlement of which would would be by the people—that good old principle that has beeu. Would this not be one step towards reform ? Take the question without bias and solve it, the result both to landholder and tenant is the same. Fences are the heaviest burden belonging to agri culture, and since our labor is tree and cropping the principal system, the tenant feels the burdens of fences brought home to himself, for it is tlie established rule now that corners must he cleaned and fences kept in repair by tenants. This is a heavy burden without directjremuneration, aid one which can be dispensed by doing away with fences. All prac tical farmers, both landlord and ten ant know if there was no fences that landlords would have to have lots or pastures for their tenants, these iots to be "kept up by the tenants and for their sole use. Would this not be much cheaper thau fencing out stock? As our fences now are, but few are up to the requirements of the law, and we hear of had cows aid bad hogs, and of one neighbor kld ing or forcing his neighbor to put up his stock. This is always done just at the busy season when there is no time to prepare lots, and the conse quence is stock is almost a loss to tile owner. Farmers, let us hear from you ©n this subject. Farmer. PoirmAiint VTR. T.llflvillft. Is the Bible a Greater Evidence ot tne 1 insistence 01 non mu i, ..wins t. Nature ? To the Editor of ehe Ecpress: With your permission I will give my final respects to “Hannibal” and dismiss tiio cas6 to tho verdict of an enlightened public. That the teach ings found in the bihle clearly point ed out inspiration was by argument so clearly and overwhelmingly es tablished and yet .0 plain and simp e as to carry conviction to every un preiudiced" mind on that occasion. Its truth was proved by the nyra cles wrought by our Savior and his apostles bv the fulfillment of prophe sv and bv the excellency of its doc trine. We showed that no other system of religion that ever prevail ed among men compared in the, least with the Christian, it excelled them all in the purity of lis precepts, the sublimity of its doctrines and the j revelations it made to us of the wis- j doni, power and goodness of God m die great work of man’s redemption, Thai it alone answered the great question that sin would arise in every mortal’s mind sooner or later. What must I do to be saved? and that without a religion that answered this all important issue how wretched would be our condition. The great hook of nature tails to answer it. Infidelity did not; Paganism could You may catechise the winds of heaven, the waves of the sea, the mountains that pierce the sky, and the clouds that gather around their summits, but they coukl not tell us how mortal man can be just with God or appear before him wk.i ac ! eeptance. They could not tell you how to escape from hell and 1 y to i heaven. Tne bible answered every | question. All this and much mo e was argued by our Fairmount c eh. | but stifi the Ludville mills ground I us to powder. 1 Fair Hack. Eduoational. The Closing Exercises of the High School at Sonora. Mr. Editor: On last Thursday night and on Friday following, June Bth and 9th. I witnessed a high school exhibition at Sonora, Gordon county. A more pleasing spectacle cau scarcely be imagined than to see a goodly number of students, male and female, arrayed before an intelli gent throng who have come to share in the innocent triumphs of such an occasion. It forcibly suggests the query, How can these varied capaci ties be utilized ? They are all needed for cultivated intellect is the most precious commodity that the world possesses. Thre prices were awarded, one to j the little girls tor the best reading of, r composition, one to the young la thes for the best composition reader, and one to the young gentlemen for the best deolaimer. Miss Zara But ler gained the juvenile prize, Miss \ddie Hill, the one for the young ladies and Mr. G. W. Tate, the one for the young gentlemen, the decis ions being made by a competent, dis interested committee. Their efforts were free from the common tau t of immaturity, The young ladies’ es says displayed fine sentiment ano thought. The young men threw pa thos Ind feeling into their delivery, tilting the lance of elocution with a ! chivalry seldom found in school The exercises cjosed with ft chaste on ‘‘belles-lettres” by Bey. Ilillhouse, of Calhoun, and the pre sentation of the prizes by the writer, Sonora is a pleasant, healthy, moral little village, and institute, masonic, with good facilities for hoarding. Dormitories are furnished those wishing to board themselves, and withal, it affords ample accommoda tions for inducing a good patronage. Prof. Bradley is a keen, practical educator, who well keen pace with the changes, attending the progress and growth of thought, cultivating and directing the natural aptitudes of of pupils in reference to their useful exercises in after life. Good instruction for one genera tion will beautify our dear land, and bestow upon it charms that nothing else can give. Let all become edu cated ; then virtue will be upheld, and vice almost unknown. Xotie ought to let adversity deprive their children of the advantages of these good schools, for tuition is now with in the reach of any one who is in ear nest. Quid est juventuti melius sdentia f T. G. Reynolds. Colquitt’s Brilliant Administra tion. A few days ago the Atlanta Com monwealth, in its usual reckless style, in speaking its praise of Gen. Colquitt referred to his administration of the ScatA -Agricultural Society as one of brilliancy and credit. We promised tnem to look inlo the society and see if he had indeed covered himself with glory, and earned the plaudits of the people by his brilliant management of its affairs- We have done so and have to make a compendof it3 histo ry, truthful but not at all creditable, to Gen. Colquitt. In 1869 by the patriotic endeavor of a number of gentlemen, the Sta'te , Agricultural Society was resuscitated and Col. B. C. Yancey, of Athens, I was made President. He found it without money, and a chaos. He restored order, reorganized its ma chinery and went to work to build it up into public favor and public usefulness. He held two State E'airs one at Macon and one at Atlanta. He did not draw one single cent from the State Tresury, hut relied upon the energy industry and judici ious management of the society tor success, and he did succeed. In 1871 he declined a re-election and was suceed by Gen. Colquitt. He left the society in a thriving condi tion, out of debt and a surplus of some seven hundred dollars in the Treasury. Colquitt’s first act was to spend to tlie $7,000, in paying the board bills of his committee, when the ci.izens had given it to them free a kind of back salary grab that Yancey would not have tolerated one moment. His next was to draw from the Slate Treasury the sum of $7,500 claimed to be due the society under an ante-bellum act of the Legislature This was back dues, to which he has added yearly ever since the sum of $2,500, all drawn from the Slate Treasury making a total of 17,500. He has held four fairs receiving from the c’ties the same aid that his pred ecessor did. and each of his four fairs lias been a financial failure so much so that, instead of accumulating a a surplus as was done before he took charge, the society has spent the seventeen Liousand drawn from the I*7oo left forr <vd *0 uui give a fair this year, but has to put i< off under the specious excuse that it will conflict with the Cen tennial, when in reality it is .00 poor to undertake it. , . This is Colquitt’s brilliant admin islration of the Slate Agricultural Society. People of North Georgia look at it and see what you can promise vourselves with such a man at the head of your Slate administra tion.—Home Courier. Hersehel V. Jolipson, YVe publish below the corsespon dence between certain prominent gentlemen of the State and Governor Johnson. His answer to their com munication is such, precisely, as might have been expected from the noble Roman. He is no aspirant for the office of Governor, and will be no candidate for nomination before the Convention ; but still he is ready to de any patriotic work the people may require of him. Governor Johnson is a natural Democrat, and voxpopuh be regards now, as a'ways hereto/ore, as vox Dei —“the voice of the people i is the voice of God.” — Atlanta Times. True. The Colquitt organs find : an easy way of fighting Governor Johnson by saying that he is not a ! candidate for Governor of Georgia. The declaration is made for the pur j pose of deceiying his friends in the different counties of the State, and preventing them from voting in the primary meetings for the man !of their choice. Governor Johnson is not a candidate in the vulgar sense !of that much abused word. He will not solicit the office. He will not travel over the country and beg tor it speak for it, combine for it, slate make for it. If the people of Geor o ja—the real people of Georgia, anti not the office-seekers, ringsters and their satilities—desirs his services, he will serve them. Farther than this he could not with propriety go, I ath er than this, he will not go ; and it is for this verv reason that a majority of bi S fellow-citizens desire his nom ination. It is because he has scorned to enter into an unseemly scramble for the highest office in the gift of the State that the people wish him to serve them. If he should be nomi nated, there is no man who will work harder to secure the triumph of Dis party, hut he will do nothing novv to obtain a victory for sell. —Chroni- \ cle and Sentinel , The St. Louis Time 9 presents the case in a nut-shell as follows: The contest resolves itself at once into that of Democracy pure and simple, with the same adulterated Republicanisms that has so long had iis own way and a very shameful way in the administration of the Government. Evidently, then, an uncompromising, agg“~ss ve policy directed at the abuses of the pftity in power, its infamous covrqpaons and its manifestly sectional pvincipies is the only policy upon which jjem oc ■ats c n expect to win tne fight. The pu -Uy, the liono~, the prosnen ry_eVen the stability of the Govern ment are involved, and out of are to he produced the issues of the campaign, ••*♦**"' —: tt- A forgeman of Warrington, Eng land lately sohl his wife to a friend for half a gallon of ale, Number 2 was so delighted with his bargain 1 that he stood another pint, and then the young wife, who was equally pleased with it, stood another half gallon. ~SiFCharles Adder’y has invented a new phrase. In speak b-2 the other night in the House of Commons about American seamen, he described them as United Statesmen. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, IS Hi. POLITICAL. The Platform of tlie National Republican Party. The following is the platform adopted at Cincinnati. When iu the economy of Provi dence this land was to he purged of human slavery, and when the strength of the government of the people by the people and for the peo ple was to be demonstrated the Re publican party came into power. Its deeds have been passed into h ; slory, and we look hack to them with pride. Incited by their memoiies and high aims for the good of our country and and mankind, and looking to the fu ture with courage, hope and purpose, we, the representatives of the parly, in national convention assembled, make the following declaration of .principles: 1. 'The Uni led States of America is a nation, not a league. By the com bined woi Ring of tiie National and State Governments, and their re spective conslitu.ions, the I, ghts of every citizen aresecuredat home and protected abroad. 2. The Republican party has pre served these governments to the hun d. anniversary of the na*lon’s biLli, and they aie now the etnbod : - inejis of the jfreat truths spoken at its cradle—“that all men are ciealed equal; that they are indowed by their Creator with certain in.iPenable rights, among which are life, lioerly and the pursuit of happinc .s; that for the attainment of these ends, gov e. nmenls have been insdiaied among men, deriving t hei** just powe rs f om ' tlie consent of the governed.” Until these (ruths are cheerfully obeyed, | or, if need be, are vigo - ously "en forced. tne work of the Republican i party is unfinished; 8. Tfio permanent pacification of the southern section of the Union, and the comple e protection of its cit izens in (he iree enjoyment of all their rights are duties to which the Republican parly stands siciedly pledged. The power to provide for the enloi cement of the p mcipies em bodied in the recent const! utional amendments is in tne congress of the United 8-ales, and we declare it to be tiie solemn obligation e f the legisla tive and executive departments of the government to put into imme diate and vigorous use ail the : r con stu utional powers for removing any just cause of discontent on the part of any class, and for securing to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equal!.y in theexerei e of all civil, political and private I'ghts. To this end we impera-'ively d<- maud a congress and chief executive whose couiage and fidelity to the-.e dulio shall no* falter uadi these re sults are placed beyond dispute or reo 11. 4. i.> the first act of congre-r signed i by R esident Grant, the Na oual j Government assumed to remove any j doubts of is nu; >o..e .0 discharge us j juit ou'gado a to public c.ed : o.s, I and-solemnly pledged its fr.i h 10 1 make provision, at e earl'esi: pw (;■ Hue moment, for the redeuM-ion of Uni cd B!.t ©s notes in coin. Com-1 mt cml p.-osoe fry, public morals, j and he national * ed>, demand that j ibis prorni >e be fulfilled by a con- 1 tinuous and steady prog re s o specie i deut and heads of depaitmen s a e to make nomine lions for office, (lie Senate is to advise and -onsent 'O he appoint men! s, and ihe Hou-e of Rep esenia. ives is to accuse and pros ecute faithless officers. The best iu te c,sis of tne public service demand that 1 distinctions be respected, and ihatsenato sand represen.atives who may be judges and aceu&ei3,! shoidd not and elate appoint men s for j office. Tiie invaTable rule for ap poio-'menls should have re e enee to tlie honesty, fidefrty and cap city of; the appohv'ees, preferring f lends of tlie party in power for p ace > wneie harmony anti vigor of adm-nis,ra tion equire its po'icy to be repre sented, but periniuing a'l others to be filled by pe..*.ons selected with sole reference io the efficiency ot the pub-; lie service and the right of a'l chi- j zens to share in the honor of rende j ing iauhful service to their country. 6. We rejoice in the quickened con science of ihe people concerning po litical affairs, and will hold all pub lic officers to a rigid responsib-lily, and engage that tiie prosecution and punishment of all who betray official trusts shall be speedy, thorough and unsparing. 7. The pubHc’school system of the several Sta : es is the bulwark of the American Republic, and with a view to its security and permannenee, we recommend an amendment to the constitution of ihe United Slates tor bidding the application of any pub lic funds or property for the benefit of any schools or institutions under sectarian control. 8. The revenue necessary for cur rent expenditures and the obligation of the public debt must be largely derived from duties on importation, which, so far as possible, should be adjusted to promote the interest 04 American labor and advance the j prosperity of the whole country, s 9. We reaffirm our opposition to j 1 the furifiei grants of the pubUc lands i I to corporations and monopolies, and | demand that the national domain be j devoted to free homesteads for the people. 10. Tt is the imperative duty of the government so to modify existing treaties with European governments that the same protection shall he af forded to tiie adopted Amerh an cit izen that is given to the native born, ! and that all necessary laws should be pa -e l 10 p.otect immigrants in the absence ot power in the btates for that p ■•i)0-e. 11. at is the immediate duty of Congress to fa.ly mveidgftte the effect of the immigration and impor tation of Mongolians upon tne moral and material interests of the conn v. 12. Tie Republican party re og mza wi h approval the suosianfal aivan. e re ant'v made toward the estabfi hment of equal rights t'qr wo men, by the many impoUant'amend menb effected by republican legisla tes, in the laws which ponneyn the pe son-d and property relations of wives, mothe r and widows and by the appointment of women to the superintendence of education, ciiari ties and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class qr citi zens for additional light t.ud •Privi- leges and immune ies, should be tree, .ect with rr pectful consideration, j 13. The cons u n lion confers noon' congress sovereign power over the j territories of the United States, for their government, in the erereise of i this power it is the right and duty of eongress to prohibit and extirpate in | the territories that relic of barbarism polygamy, and we demand such leg, lslaUon as will secure this end and the supremacy of American institu tions in all the territories. 14. The pledges which the nation have given to onr soldiers and sail ors must be fulfilled. The grateful people will always hold those who periled their lives for the country’s preservation, in the kindest remem brance. 15. We sincerely deprecate all sec -1 tional feeling and tendencies. We therefore noffi with deep solicitude that the Democratic party counts as its chief hope of success on the elec toral vote of a united South, secured through the efforts of thooe who were recently arrayed against the nation; we invoke the earnest attention of the country to the grave truth that a : success thus achieved would re-open sectional strife and imperil the ra tional honor and human rights. 16. We charge the Democratic par ; ty as being the same in character and spirit a$ when it sympathized with treason: with making it3 control of the House of Representatives the triumph and the opportunity of the na ' ion’s recent foes; with re-asserting and applauding in the national Capi tol the sentiment of unrepented re bellion; with sending union soldiers to the rear and promoting Confeder ate soldiers to the fr-onl; with delib erate'y propo a ’ng io repudiate the plighted faith of the government; with being equally false and imbe cile upon ihe shadowing finan cial qurSiiou; with thwarting tlie ends of justice by Us partisan mis management and olr.i ruction of in vestigation; with proving itself, through <he pe tod of its ascendancy in the Lower House of Congres3, ut terly incompetent to administer the government. We warn the country against trusting a party thus a'ike unworthy, rec-eant and incapable. 17. The national administration merits commendation for its hon orable work in the management of our dottiest c and foreign affairs, and President Grant deserves the con tinued and heavly gratitude of the American people for his patriotism and immense services in war and in peace. General Gartrell Declines. Atlanta, June 16,1876. Editors Constitution : After ma ture deliberation I have concluded to withdraw my name from the list of gentlemen heretofore suggested as suitable persons to be presented to the approaching convention for the office of governor. From present appearances I fear the contest for the nomination will be an exciting one, and I am unwill ing to enter into a heated contest for any office. The harmony and success of the Democratic party of the State and throughout the Union, at this time, are of paramount importance, and the triumph of true Democratic principles in the election to office of able, competent and faithful public servants, pledged to retrenchment, economy and reform, will be of more advantage to thepeopleat large than the elevation to office of any particu lar individual. Asa private citizen desiring the welfare and prosperity of tiie peoule, I shall strive to accom plish these results. In withdrawing from the contest as I now do, I take this occasion to state that I shall ever hold in grate ful remembrance the many warm and generous personal and political friend in all sections of the State who have manifested their prefer ences for pm bers ot the press for the kind and complimentary terms in which they have been pleased to allude to my name. lam truly yours, L. J. Gartrell. Hon. R. R. Harris. The above named gentleman of Floyd county has written a letter to the Democracy of his county, an nouncing himself as a candidate for Senator from the Fo.'ty-second Dis tiict,. He says that the principles and measures he wiU advocate, if elect ed, are as follows: 1. The calling of a convention to frame anew Constitution. This, be cause I am in favor of electing the Governor for two years ; of biennial se.sions of the General Assembly ; of making the Secretary of Siate, the Treasurer and Compiroller-Gnueral elective by the people; of electing Judges of the Superior Court by the people, and having fewer of them ; of establishing a Court of Chancery where all equity cases can be tried without the cost to the county and trouble to the people of having ju ries; of having criminal couris at small expense in such counties as want them, with original, exclusive jurisdiction of all offenses againt the laws of the State. 2, The abolishment of all such fifth wheel arrangements as the Agricul tural Bureau and Medical Bureau, and kindred sinecures. a. All just measures that, in mv judgment, will tend to lessen the burden of taxation which is now weighing down the people, crippling their energies, and rendering unprof itable their industry. There is a story that an eminent microsconist had a bit of substance submitted to him to decide what it was. To an unaided eye it might be a morsel of skin which the baggage mas.er had knocked off the corner of a*smoothly worn hair trunk. Th© savent applied his microscope. En id ely ignorant of this tiny bit of mat ter, except as he had taken counsel with ms instrument, the wise man dec’ared it \va" ihe skin of a human being, and that, judging by the fine hair on it, it was -he so-called naked port’on of the body, and further, that it once belong to a fair com piexsoned per&on. The s- >. ange facts now made known 'o the man of science were 1 the e '■ That a thousand years before 1 a Hroish marauder had robbed an Engli-ih church. In the sp rit of the i old fashioned piety the robber was flayed (’et us hope that he was killed first) and tho skin was nal'ed to the i church door. Except as a tradition j or areiqtogieal lose had it, the affair ; had been foi gotten for hundreds of ye o s, Time, the great erodent, had long ago removed the offensive thing. Stil', however, the church door held to'iis marks of the great shame, for the broad headed nails remained. Somebody e 1 acted one, and under neath its flat head was this atomic Vemnai t of that ancient Scandina vian malefac or’s pelt—that fair skin ned robber from me North. A New York man, slightly boozy, who was riding in a street car, got 10 his feet his legs as well as he could, asjusied his hat, looked up, measured for an instant the dis tance of the bell-strap, made a dive for it, caught it at the third attempt put his entire weight upon it, and of course rang both bells violently. “Here; what’s the matter with you?” Yelled the conductor, ‘‘What are you ringing the bell at both ends for?” “Because,” replied the passenger with great dignity, “because (hie) I want both ends of the (hie) car to stop. Special Notices. Directory of County Officers. ! Ordinary— J. A. Howard. Clerk of Superior Court—Thomas A. Word. Sheriff—A. M. Franklin. G. L. Franks, Deputy. Tax Receiver—a. M. Foute. Tax Coi.lrctor—W, F. Corbin. County Commissioners— Russel 11. Cannon, Chairman. David V. Stokely, John C. Aycock, R. H. Dodd, John 11. Wikle, Clerk. CORONER— D. B. Mull. Surveyor—H. J. McCormick, G. W. Hill, Deputy. NOTRE 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 Express until the time paid for expires. The names of those who had not paid up, we have transierred to our new books, and begin their subscriptions from December 2, 1875. These are respectfully and earnestly requested to cal' in and payor send us two dollars for the current year’s subscription. We arc determined to give our readers a good paper, as it requires aconstan cash outlay to do so, wediope ali.who have not paid will do so without delay. CART! KSY ILLE CITY GOV ERNMENT Mayor— F. m. Ford. Aldermen -A. It. Hudgins, G. W. Satter field, C. B. Conyers, A. L, Barron, J. A. Stover, S. F. Milam, Peter Marsh, H. S. Best. Clerk—J. B. Conyers, acting. Treasurer- A. T.. Barron. MARSnAi—M. P. Maxwell. Attorney— J. P. Conyers. Sexton—ll. S. Revell. COMMITTEES. Finance— A. It. Hudgins, C. B. Conyers, S. F. Milam. Street —H. S. Best, J. A. Stoves G. W, Satter field. A. L. Barron. Cemetery —Peter Marsh, S. jF. Milam. C. B. Conyers. LAWS RELATING TO NEWSPAPER SUB SCRIPTIONS AYD ARREARAGES. 1. Subscribers who do not give express no tice to the contrary, arc considered wishing t© continue their subscription. 2. It subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. 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If subset ibers 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 respousible until an express no tice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. „ r ~ If YOU Wantb 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 horse, \Yant tj. Iwe .. 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, Want a job of blacksmithing, Want to sell millinery goods, Want to sell a house and lot, Want to advertise to advantage, Wan’ttofind anyone’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, W ant to find an owner for lost property, Advertise in THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS. Professional Cards. J. M. MOOS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office: Un-stairs over Stokcly & Wi'V, a ms West Main Street. aov2o ’ James W. Harris, Hr. attorney-at-law, One door East of Express Cilice, Mam Street. CARXERSVII i?E, GA. marCO LAW A REAL ESTATE. VY. T. WOFFORD, 1 will be in my office between the hours of 10 and 11 each morning, and will attend to any business entrusted to my care. A. M. FOIITE, ATTORNEY AT LAW CA.RTERSVILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb, Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray,Whitfield and ad joining counties. dcc2-ly. It. W. MIRPHEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW C ARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE (up stairs) in the l.rick building coiner of Main and Irwin streets. dec2-tf. J. W. HARRIS, Jr., ATTORNEY AT LAW. C ARTERSVILLE, Ga. OFFICE next door to The Express printing establishment. JOHN W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILNER WOFFORD & MIIAEB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA., OFFICE up stairs, Bank Block. ~JAMES B. CONYERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cartersville, Ga. WILL practice in the Courts of Cherokee and adjoining circuits. Particular attention given to all business entrusted to my care. Collecting made a specialty. Office up-stairs in the Bank Block. dec23-ly. O. H. BATES, attorney at law, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office in the Court House. decfi-ly DENTAL NOTICE. Drs. Tigner & Johnson Office up-stairs, in Brick Building opposite The Express Office. TREAT diseased gums and ab- £ T X-c-~*a> scessed teeth, fill and clean teeth, extiact teeth, and in sert artificial teeth. All work guaranteed. Xenns reasonable. Prices to Suit tlie Times- The Southern Shirt Manufactory! IS MAKING Best Wmsutta Muslin Shirt, with line linen bosoms aril cuffs, complete... $34.00 Per Dozen. Best Fruit of Loom Muslin, and noon Linen 18.00 “ Best Wamsntta, Partly made Shirts, 14.00 “ I.ESS WORK to be done on our partly made shirt than any ether make. Ramsey's Paten Reversible Cull', which is two pair of cuffs attached to each shirt, is manufactured; also al grades and kinds of COLLARS, BOSOMS, DRAW Fits and UNDERSHIRTS. ft" if" Parties in Cartersrille ordering: from us can have their measures taken at Mr. Patillo's taTlorshop. ZEel. JE*. Slu opshixo tfc 00. jan9o-hm :\ ~ East Tlahama st.. ATLANTA, GA. THE SIUGEU SEWHTG MACHINE THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE. The Largest Sales because'the Most Popular. The Most Popularßccause The Best. VERDICT OF TIIE PEOPLE. Sales in 1871 131.960. Sales in 1872 219,753 Sales in 1873 233,444 Sales in 1874 _ 241,070 !! ! Nearly luO.OA) more than was sold by th" next highest competitor and over Go.tXX) more the n was sold by all othor companies combined ! ! ! Address the Singer Manufacturing Company, I*9 Broughton Street. Savannah, Ga.. C. S. Beatty. Agent; Corner Btoad ami Alabama sts.. Atlanta, Ga., George W. Leonard, Ag’t.; end at Stokely and Willsams’ Popular Store, Cartcrsville, Ga., K.W. M. MERRITT, Agent. IvbS-lv, Hardware and Farming; Implements. BAKER & TTAT/T, AJ JL ,SSt 0 V n . 1 f their customers to ageneral and complete stock of HARDWARE and y Farming implements such as PLOWS, HOES, COTTON PLANTERS, ETC. e . * lflve a .®®™ b' o stock ofFIELD SEEDS such as Clover, Red Top, Orchard and Blue ei^ 'man Millett, etc. as cheap as they can be sold in this or any other market. We also have acomplete stock ol READI MADE PLOWS both Iron and Steel. IV e sell •i;^V°cV ) Cast Steel rent ' sweed iron ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;”.7.7;5 u ;,, VV”, . f FIJ caa h we can sell as eheapas the same quality of goods can be sold anywhere. LI iak i:n .< h \ 11. STOVES & TINWARE. To tlie Citizens of Cartersville and Sur rounding Country: HAVING consolidated our business at the old GILBERT STAND on the corner of Main and Tomlin Streets, We will carry on the business under the name and firm of STALL*ADAMS . Wo will keep constantly on band a large and complete Tjjp _ lock of STOVES, TINWARE & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, which we will sell at the very lowest price to suit thimes. We keep the celebrated COTTON KING, IRON KING, CAPITOL A and various other stoves of all sizes and prices. VVewill du plicate prices from any 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 galronized Iron Evaporators for Boiling Syrup, Id ft. long, 40 in. wide, complete, made out of a solid sheet, No at |l2 cash, frame and all. Ten dollars lower than ever tarnished in the South. Those desiring to purchase please give us 15 days’ notice. (janl-ly) STALL & ADAMS.3 ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND . MACHINE SHOP. W allace & TTaoLett, . IMANUFACTURERSJOF Hollow Ware, Steam apes, Grates, Mantels, Mill Machinery, k\ i * Highest Market Price lor Old. iron, Copper andSßrass* STILL A.T' THEIR OLD STAND. STOKELY $c WILLIAMS, DEALERS IN STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS. DRESS GOODS, Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes. WE desire to state to our old friends and patrons that we are still running our business with our paying patrons on the usnui time licretolore gi\en, • But will Expect Prompt Payment at Maturity. Those caving cash at purchase will get the benefit of a heavy deduction. And we would be given at time rates. || g Those owing ns ducpaperwill do us a great favor by calling and V : j THE GRANGERS’ Llfl ill IIILIII li.W CL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Authorized. Capital 4,500,000 Of Which SIOO,OOO to be Owned in Each Department. Ea ch Policy-Holder is entitled 10 avote in the oftheCompsn^ EAR-ENTT O h'-L’ICE, ]MLO±sXXiE. AXjA. CAPITAL STOCK - - “ 100,000. XV. H. KEXCHUM, President. |F. E. DAVIDSON, Vice President.!. W. FORT, Fee y GEORGIA DEPARTMENT, ROUE, GA. Capital Stock Office No. 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDING. Major C. G. SAMUEL, President, ALFRED SHORTER, Vice-President, R. -I. GWALTNEY, J secretary, G. HOWELL, Attorney, Dr. G. W . lIOLMLs, Medical Examiner. Hoard of Directors : a All,,nod 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.; Hon. b B Hamilton Rome, Ga,; Cain Glover, Rome, Ga.; T. McGuire, Rome, Ga.; F. Woodruff. Rome. Ga.; M. H. Bunn, Cedartown, Ga.; A. J. King, Cave Spring, Ga.; Hon. W M. Hutchins. Polk county, Ga. ALABAMA. DEPARTMENT, MONTGOMERY, ALA. Capital Stock *IOO,OOO Hon. N. N. Clements, President and General Manager, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hon. David Clopton. Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; W. L. Chamber?,Secretary; Stone A Clopton, Attorneys, MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, MERIDIAN HISS. Capital Stock *100,00(> Col. James W. Beck, President, John,ll. Gray, Vice-President, L. A. Duncan, Secretary. SECURITY, ECONOMY AND LIBERALITY, Are the Leading principles of this Company. ALL approved forms of Life and Endowment Polities issued in sums of SIOO up to SIO,OOO. Also Term Policies of one, three, or seven years. All Life policies non-forfeiting after two annual payments, when the insured will be entitled to paid up Policy or Cash Surrencer thereof. Dividends may be used to protect policies against lapsing incase of failure to pre miums. This with the non-forfeiting and Cash Surrender features, are sufficient to make tni9 Company popular among thinking men. AGENTS WANTED, dec 2-tf W. G. ENGLAND, of Mobile, Ala-, General Superintendent of Agencies W. K. HUSIE, Agent, Cartersville, Georgia. VOLUME XVII—NUMBER 26.