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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1875-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1876)
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS. ;Y c. H. C. WILLINGHAM. Hie Cartersville Express. ,yjj) STANDARD AND EXPRESS.] lIATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. • year f® 00 ' ' six months 1 C) V three nonths 50 Ouc cvi j 1, Advance. h—For (le’is of ten copies or |more , Vi" , evannn n for each copy. rates of advertising. _ . iiiowiog are our e~tablis'ied rates for . iv ami .v ill <e strictly adhered to in all ea* I '' ■<- • "'i 4 2 in..B m.ifi m.il2 m - 777 .•i’v) $2 001*2 DO SO Hi 00 $9 ( )jsl2 00 1 ’ !", ■; ,;■) '4 <H| 5 00, (I 00 12 I 17 001 22 (X) ~ I 5 75 li 7:. 12 00 16 00,21 C) 30 (XI , - ~- t 725 850 14 50118 75 15 00 86 (X) 1 - 7 7 0(> H7SIOCD 17 00;21 5o 29 00! 42 00 *- >0 25 IS 1)0,19 f ) i\ 25 33 ( J 48 Oil -,, ~-.iiil 75113 TD 2- 0i1.27 (HI 37 00 54 00 • ' j■ :j 25115 DO 2 * 50)29 75 41 (XI 00 00 ".. 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' i .p-ic.iatC toe department of tile paper l’ 1 ' '' , ~ ■|■ v wish them inserted—whether in •J* “special” or “local” column; 1 , .|.r leu&th of time they wish them pub ’ • ' ,j ine space they want them to occupy. 4 iri r tiames of candidates lor otUu®, dollar', invariably in advance. Legal Advertising. .-hoi-id f 1 C f a ‘ sales, per inch 4.50 , ivdion- foAetters of administration.... 3.00 tU“ llulu u u *• guardianship 0.00 Application for dismission Iron i - - leave to sell xnd 2.50 s-lesof land per inch 2.50 f JterSßSti&fZ? S Application lor homestead 1-50 . )f . L , a i advertisements must be paid for in l officers must act accordingly; •T ,t tii, v may know how to collect for :V : ‘! c arwd lor bv the inch, we will state lh.lt 125 words An -his type) make an inch. W hen Bills are Due. p „iiK for advertising in this paper are due • I- time alter the lirst insertion of the same, ,1 I ill he collected at the pleasure of the prictor, unless otherwise arranged by con professional Cards, j. ;ii. noox, VTTOKNEY at law. CARTERSVILLE, ga. 0.V:.... ) ~-,inirs over Stokely & Williams, tv,-) Main street. api2o James W. Harris, Sr. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, iM ; loor East of Express Office, Main Street. CAUrERSVILLE, GA. mar'W. l •' j 1 4\V A: BIiAL ESTATK. W. T. WOFFORD, I will lie in my office between the hours of 10 ,n each morning, and will attend to any ■ inr.-s entrusted to my cam. A. 51. FOUTE, i’TORA E Y AT LAW CARTERSVILLE, GA- Wi Col. Warren Akin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb, 1,,1U, li > :, Gordon, Murray,Whitfield and ad joiuing counties. (Icc2-1 _ . St. W. MIRPMEY, ATTOIt NE Y AT LA W Cartersville, Ga. OFFIt K (up stairs) in the brick building enviicr of Main and Irwin streets. dec.-ti. J. W. HARRIS, Jr., ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cartersville, Ga. OFFICE next door to The Express printing establishment. __ JOHN W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILNER WOFFORD A: MILDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA., OFFICE up stairs. Bank Block. J AJI ns 15. COXYIvBS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cartersville, Ga. WILL practice m ttio Courts of Cherokee and adjoining circuits. Particular fltutiou Kiveuto all business entrusted to my c.ue. Collecting made a specialty. Office up-stairs in the Bank Block. dec23-ly. G. 11. BATES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office in tlie Court House. 'let 9-1 y ; ; ... ■ ■ - r w - - ,li_i j $ DENTAL NOTICE. Drs. Tigner & Johnson Office up-stairs. in Brick Building opposite The Express Office, ... .im-n. TREAT diseased gurus and ab* Cv4Sr"s scessed teeth, All and clean teeth, extiaet teeth, and in* sert artificial teeth. All work guaranteed. Terms reasonable. jjusiness Cards. SUE, LIVERY AND FEED STABLE, THOMPSON & SCOTT KEEP constantly on hand good vehicles and fine horses, and every convey ance to a'-'-ommodate the public. . l-w Main street, Cartersville, Georgia. mayll -tl' ' THE TENNESSEE HOUSE, Cartersville Gra.** JOSHUA SUMNER, Prop’r. rnili: accommodations and fare .at this House I ire i.nsun.assed in this section, and the | Hiarges are as low as the lowest. ,mne- NEW PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY MESSRS. BUSH & BRC. fipve now opened their pliotosruph gallery over Messre -1 laytou's and MeUonald's store where eveiy tldug in the line Of Photographic Portraiture, " ill be executed in a first-class, style. Old pic tures copied, enlarged and finished in a st that vv-ll surpass the original. A Iso stei eo pic views and large views ot resideiicea taken on short notice. niayn-n._ Wit. t. Wofford, C. H. C. W illingham, Attorney-at-Law. Editor Express. WOFFORD h. WILLINGHAM, Real Estate Agents, Cartersvilles Georgia WE will se ll and purchase Heal Estate upon Commission. Any l l *,”®* - oi t foe .ale or wishing to purchase, ean havp our services by application either at om mu ing office, or by letter thvoug ! -i office. We will alo examine lands toi distant owners, and give such inform at ion as piu'UeiiiiHv| desire, of price etc. warm Speci*al Notices. NOTICE TO CANDIDATES. Parties desiring to announce themselves as | candidates for the Legislature, to fill any of the county offices of Bartoyv, can do so in this ! paper for five dollais per square each, to Vie paid in advance. No such announcement will ; be inserted until paid. All these notices will he published for the same price, whether the time he long or short —running from time of insertion until the election. Directory of County Officers. Ordinary—J. A. Howard. Clkuk ofSuperior Court—Thomas A. Word. Sheriff— A. M. Franklin. G. L. Franks, Deputy. Tax Receiver—A. M. route. Tax Collrctor— W, F. Corbin. County Commissioners— Russel H. Gannon, Chairman. David V. Stokely, .John C. Aycock, It. 11. Dodd, John 11. Wikle, Clerk. Coroner— D. B. Mull. Surveyor— ll. J. McCormick, G. W. Ilill, Deputy. IF YOU Want b arders, Want a situation, Want a salesman, Want a scrvant girl, 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 house, Want a hoarding 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 advertise to advantage, Wan’t to tind 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 io sell agricultural .implements, Want to find aji owner for lost property, Advertise in THE CARTERSVILLE FAPRESS. Travelers’ Guide. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. FROM and after this date the following Schedule will be* run on the Cherokee Rail- Leave Itockmart at 7:00 A. M. “ Taylorsville, 8:00 “ “ Stilt sboro, 8:25 “ Arrive at ( artersville, 9:10 “ Leave Cartersville 3:00 P. M. Stilesboro, 3:50 “ Taylorsville 4:30 “ Arrive at ftockmart 5:15 “ WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD AND ITS CONNECTIONS. The following Schedule takes effect April 30, 1875. NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta 4 io pm Arrive Cartersville 6 23 p in Arrive Kingston 6 52 p m Arriv’e Dalton 8 32 p m Arrive Chattanooga 10 16 pm No. 3. Leave Atlanta 5 4(1 am Arrive Cartersville 7 57 am Arrive Kingston 8 26 am Arrive Dalton. 10 08 a m Avrive.Chattanooga 11 55 pm No. 11. Leave Atlanta 8 (X) a m Arrive Cartersville 10 20 a m Vrrive’Kingston 10 53 a in .’rive Dalton 105 pm SOUTHWARD- No. 2. Leave Chattanooga 4 00 pm Arrive Dalton 5 51 pm Arrive Kingston 7 21 pm . i-ivo <Jm tcrsville * Ti i • Arrive Atlanta 10 10 p m > T o.4. Leave Chattanooga 5 it) a m Arrive Dalton 7 09 am Arrive Kingston ® “6 am Arrive Cartersville a m Arrive Atlanta “ 11 No. 12. Arrive Dalton 12 59 a m Arrive Kingston., 4 16 a m Arrive Cartersville a W Arrive Atlanta 9 45 am 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. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos -a3 nd 2be tween Louisville and Atlanta. jEP"N T o change of cars betwi en New Orleans Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore and only one change to New T< k. Passengers leaving Atlanta at 11° P- m ’ a jA rive in Now York the second thet 'altey at 4 00 ' ‘Excursion Tickets to the Virgin ! a Springs various Summei* ltosorts will oc on sale in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Colum bus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta, at greatly reduced rates Ist ot June. Parties desiring a whole car through to the Virginia Springs Of W> PftßifuPl'P should ad dress the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should send for acopyof the Kennemic Route Gazette, con taining schedules, etc. 'iff Ask lor mH-Ai TiH “l^n^esww^Roiite.” General Passenger and Ticket Agent, may 22 dtf Atlanta. Ga. ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday, Dec. BJtfi trains ftn tfie Rome Railroad will run as follows: DAY TRAIN —EVERY DAY. Leave Rome Mr;,i.'m 8 “ Arrive at R0me....... ;r pbsW a fit SATURDAY EVENING ACCOiIOtMTIOH, Leaves Rome at 6 - P Arrive at Rome at a P n ‘ ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD. BASSEN HER tra in—out ward. STATIONS. ARRIVE. Atlanta 10.25 p. ill. Ealt poiu::::; p* Mg* g- Red Oak '-58 P-ID- Vi V; ' Palmetto 11:37 p. m. 11.38 p. m. Powell’s 11 >* R P- ta P- ’P- Newnan .. .... .. ...12*11 P- ™. 13:15 a. m. Puckett’5.V............. •’■2:3o a a g (Iraiitvilio 1*2 .5)0 ani Hogansyille... a W Jiffl 8 W \\ hitticld’s Blu |;d? 8 g I *i(riit£?c 1 !<>l a ** a ! J.ong Cane 2:21 ft 111 u m West Point 2:40 a in PASSENGER TRAIN—WWABP. STATIONS. ARRIVE. >.KA'E. 2S>* ,> > ■ Ia ffrange 1:0*2 pin 1:3 pm Whitfield’s,,, i : 4nm Hogansyille f D*l S S l n m Grantville i’wlgg PnckeM’s 2:13 pill 2.13 pm Newnan .... - • 2:20 p in 2:-10 p in Po'yeU's. 2,44 P m |:£ P m Palmetto H:W)p m f.fPg East Point 3:o‘i> m 4-o< Pl Atlanta...... 4;l.<|p m SELMA, ROM A DALTON', MAIL TRAIN DAILY -NO TH. Leave Rome... o ; ,i°iV, m Arrive at Dalton P m Making close connections at Dalton with the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail road, and Western and Atlantic Lailioad lor all Eastern and Western cities. MAIL TRAIN DAILY—SOUTH. Leave Dalton ffi p m Arrive at Rome MU’ Arrive at Calera ‘.J " Making close connection atCalera lor Mont gomerv and point- South, and at Selma wit- Alabaina Central Railroad for Mobile, New Oi leaus, Meridian, Vicksburg, Jack>on. all points South “pV 1 ay Knight, Gen, Ticket and GEORGIA RAILROAD. pay Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad, Atlanta to Augusta, run asbelou : Leaves Augusta at pdb ain Leaves AUanta Arrives at Ai'gusta &;45 m Night passenger trains asiollows:^ Leaves Augusta at ™ Leaves Atlanta at l fn Arrives at Agnsta * 1“ Accomodation train as follows : Leaves Atlanta ? ™ Leaves Coviogton V.V"’"V.V.B;TS a m Arrives at Atlanta T-30 p m Arrives at Covington ‘• JU p pivfk steamers. Steamers on thp Coosa River vill run as per schedule as to}lo's. , l p ni IJJK W fSgHjKSB i ? iISS Si “■ wißf v " TILDEN AND HENDRICKS. Stirring Letters from the Presidential Candidates. MR. TILDEN’S LETTER. Albany, N. Y., July 31, 187 G. Gentlemen: When I had the honor to receive a personal delivery of your letter, in behalf of the Democratic National Convention, held on the 28th of June, at St. Louis, advising me of my nomination as the candi date of the constituency represented by that body for the office of Presi dent of the United States, I answer ed that at my earliest convenience, and in conformity with usage, I would prepare and transmit to you a formal acceptance. I now avail my self of the lirst interval in unavoida ble occupations to fulfill that engage ment. The convention, before making its nominations, adopted a declaration of principles, which as a whole, seems to me a wise exposition of the necessities of our country and of the reforms needed to bring back the Government to its true functions, to restore purity of administration and to renew the prosperity of the peo ple; but some of these reforms are so urgent that they claim more than a passing approval. REFORM IN PUBLIC EXPENSE. Tne necessity of a reform in the scale of public expense, Federal, State and municipal, and in the modes of Federal taxation, justifies all the prominence given to it in the declaration of the St. Louis Conven -440.* Tho pnoeont lUajii'u wiiHi in till the business and industries of the JJtxiplc, which i-; rlppi’i •"‘X* lalinf nf j its employment and carrying want into so many homes, has its principal cause in excessive governmental consumption. Under the illusions of a specious prospect engendered by ( the false policies of the Federal Gov ernment, a waste of capital has been going on ever since the peace of 1860, which could only end in univer sal disaster. The Federal taxes of the past eleven years reach the gi gantic sum of $4,500,000,000. Local taxation has amounted to two-thirds as much more. The vast aggregate is not less than $7,500,000,000. This enormous taxation followed a civil conflict that had gmt|y impaired our aggregate wealth, and had made a prompt reduction of expenses in dispensable. It was aggravated by moot unscientiflo and ill-adjusied methods of taxation that increased the sacrifices of the people far be yond the receipts of the Treasmy, Tt \vas aggravated more by a financial puliev which tended to diminish the energy, skill and economy pf pro duction, and the Frugality‘of private consumption, and induced miscalcu lation in business, and an unremu nerative use of capital and labor. Even in prosperous times the daily wants of industrious communities press closely upon their daily earn ings. The possible national savings is, at best, a small per centagp of na tional papojnga. Y et n °W, mr these eleven years, governmental con sumption has been a larger portion of the national earnings than the whole people can possibly save even in prosperous times for all new in vestments. The consequences of these errors are now a present public calamity, but they were never doibt- fp!—never invisible. They were necessary and inevitable, and were foreseen and depicted when the waves of that fictidous prosperity ran *lna S speech made by me on the24th of September, 18b8, it was said of these taxes: “They bear heavily upon every man’s income, upon every in dustry and every business in the coun try, and vear by year they are destin ed to press still more heavily unleas we arrest the system that gives rise to them.” It was comparatively easy when values were doubling under repeated issues of legal tender paper money, to pay out of the froth of our grow ing and apparent wealth these taxes; but when values recede and sink to ward their national scale the tax gatherer takes from us, not only our income, not only our profits, hut also a portion of our capital. I do not wish to exaggerate or alarm. I simply say that we cannot afford the costly and ruinous policy of the Radical majority of Congress. We cannot afford the magnifiesnt and oppiessive centralism into which our Government is being converted. We cannot afford the present mag nificent scale of taxa'ior*. To the Secretary of the Treasury I said, early in i860: “There is no royal road* for a government more than for an individual or a corpora tion. What you want to do now is, to cut down your expenses and live within your income. I would give all the legerdemain of finance and financiering—l would give the whole of ft tor the old homely maxim, ‘Live within your income.’ This re form will he resisted at every step, but it must be pressed persistently.” We see to-dav the immediate rep resentatives ot the people, in one branch of Congress, w'hiie struggling to reduce expenditures, compelled to confront the menace of the Senate and the Executive, that unless the pbjectional appropriation bp consent ed to the operations of the govern ment thereunder shall sutler cletri CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THUtSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1876. ment or cease. In my judgment, an amendment of the Constitution ought to be devised separating into distinct bills the ap propriations for the various depart ments of the public service and ex cluding from each bill all appropria tions for other objects and all inde pendent legislation. 111 that way alone the revisory power of each of the two houses.and of the Executive may be preserved and exempted from the moral duress which often compels assent to objectionable ap propriations rather than stop the wheels of government. THE SOUTH. An accessory cause, enhancing the distress in business, is to be found in the systematic and insupportable misgovern ment imposed on the States of the South. Besides the or dinary etfects of ignorant and dis honest administration,it has inflicted upon them enormous issues of fraudulent bonds, the scanty ava'ls of which were wasted or stolen, and the existence of which is a public discredit tending to bankruptcy or repudiation. Taxes, generally op pressive in some instances, have con fiscated the entire income of proper ty and totally destroyed its market value. It is impossible that these evils should not react upon the pros* perity of the whole country. The nobler motives of humanity concur with the material interests of all in requiring that every obstacle be re moved and a complete and durable reconciliation effected between kin dred people, once unnaturally es tranpfAMcl, on the basis, recognition liy the St, Louis platform, of the Consti tution of l.ho TTrjitprl •!b*s with amendments universally accepted as a final settlement of the controver sies which engendered the civil war. But, in aid of results 50 beneficent, the moral influence of eyery citizen, as well as of every governmental au thority, ought to be exerted, not alone to maintain their just equality before the law, but likewise to estab lish cordial and fraternal good will among citizens, whatever Lieir race or color, who are now uniting in the one destiny of common self govern ment, Jf the duty should be assigned to me I should not fail to exercise the powers with which the laws and the Constitution of our country clothe its chief magistrate to protect all its citizens, whatever their former condition, in every political and per sonal right. CURRENCY REFORM. Reform is necessary, declares the t, Lotds Convention, to establish a sound currency, restore the public credit and maintain the national honor, and it goes on to demand a judicious system of preparation by public economies, by oflieial retrench ments and by a wise finance, which shall enable the nation soon to as sure tiie whole world of its perfect ability and perfect readiness to meet any creditor enUtled to payment. Xbo object demanded by the con vention is a resumption of specie pay ment in the legal tender nolbs of the United Htat es - That would not only restore the public credit and main tain the national honor, but it would establish a sound currency for the people. The methods by which this object is to be pursued and the means by which is to be obtained, arc dis eased by what the convention de manded for the future and by what is denounced in the past. Bank note resumption—resumption of specie payment by the Government of the United States in its legal tender notes—would establish specie pay ment by all banks on all their notes, Official statements on the 15th of May show that the amounts of the bank notes was $:'.00,000,tX)0, less 820,- 000,000 held by themselves. Against these 8280,000,000 of notes the hanks held $115,000,000 of legal tender notes, or a litile more than fifty per cent, of the amount, but they also had on deposit in the Federal Tieas ury, as security for these notes, bonds of the United States worth in jokl aoout $.050,000,000 available and cur rent in alt the foreign money nar kets. In resuming, the banks, even if it were possible for all their notes to be presented for payment, Mould have #800,000,000 of specie funds to pay 3(280,000,000 of notes, without contracting their loans to their cus tomers or calling on any private debtor for payment, Suspended banks undertaking to resume have usually been oblifpd to collect from needy borrowers the means to redeem excessive femes and provide reserves, A vague idea of distress is therefore often associated 1 with the process of resumption; but the distrust which caused restless ness in these former instance do not exist. The Government haionly to make good its promises aril the banks can pike cafe of tllChiielves Without distressing anybody. The Government is therefore the sile de linquent. LEGAL-TENDER RESUMPTICN. The amount of the leyaj puder notes of the V n i te d states nov out standing is less than 8870,000, (jO, be sides 885,000,000 of fractional curren cy. How shall the Goveifffrpffi make these notes at qll times sg good as specie ? It has to provide, iu ref erence to the mass which waild be kept in use by the wants of bisiness, a central reservoir of coin, adequate to the adjustment of the temporary fluctuations of international balances, and as a guaranty against transient drains artificially created by panic or by speculation. It has also to pro vide for the payment of such frac tional currency as may be presented Air redemption and such inconsid erable portions of the legal tenders as individuals, from time to time, may desire to convert for special use, or in order to lay by in coin their little stores of money. RESUMPTION NOT DIFFICULT. To make the coin in the Treasury available for this reserve, to giadu ally strengthen and enlarge that re serve, and to provide for such other exceptional demands for coin as may arise, does not seem to me to be a work ot difficulty. If wisely plan ned and discreetly pursued, it ought not to cost any sacrifice to the busi ness of the country. It should tend, on the contrary, to a levival of hope and confidence, The coin in the Treasury on the 30th of July, including what is held against coin certificates, amounted to nearly $7,000,000. The current of precious metals which have flowed oqt of our country for eleven years— from July 11, 1865, to June 30, 1870— averaging nearly $76,000,000 a year, was $832,000,000 in tjie whole period, of which $617,000,000 were the pro duct of our own mines. To amass the requisite quantities by intercept ing from the current flowing out 01 the country and by acquiring from the stocks which exist abroad, with out rlittturblng the equilibrium o” foreign money markers, is a remit to '>™etical j With respect tq whatever surplus ' of legal tenders the wants of business j may fail to keep in use, autl which, j in order to save interest, will be re* j turned foy redemption, they can be j either paid or they can be fund‘d , Whether they con J •>”“ as currency! or be absw^ ueU j nto t | ie vas j- UJass G f j securities held as investments is merely a question of the rate of in terest they draw. If they were to re main in their present form and the Government were to agree to pay on ! them a rate of interest, making them desirable as investments, they would eea.m to circulate and take their place with Government, State, municipal and other corporate and private bonds, of which thousands of mil lions exist among us. In the perfect ease with which they can be changed from currency into investments lies the only danger to be guarded against in the adop tion of general measures to remove a clearly ascertained surplus, that is, the withdrawal of any which is not a permanent excess beyond the wants of business. Even more mischievous would be any measure which affects the public imagination with the fear of an apprehended scarcity. 111 a community where credit is so much used, fluctations of values and vissitudes in business are largely caused by the temporary belief of men, even before these beliefs con form to ascertain realities. AMOUNT OF NECESSARY CURRENCY. The amount of the necessaiy cur rency at a given time can not be de termined arbitrarily, and should not be assumed upon conjecture. That amount is subject to both permanent and temporary change. An enlarge ment of which it seemed to be dura ble happened at the begining of the civil war, by a substituted use of cur rency in place of individual credits. It varies with certain states of busi ness. It fluctuates with considera ble regularity. At different seasons of the year, iu autumn, for instance, when buyers of grain and other agri cultural products begin their opera tions, they usually want to borrow capital, or circulating credits, by which to make their purchases, and want these funds in currency capable of being distributed iu small sums among numerous sellers, the addi tion of currency at which time is five or more per cent, of the whole volume, and if surplus beyond that procured for ordinary* use does not happen to have been on hand at the money oentresa scarcity of currency ensues, and also a stringency in the loan market. It is in reference to such experi ences that in a discussion of this sub ject, in my annual message to the New York Legislature of January 5, 1875, the suggestion was made that the Federal Government is bound to redeem every portion of its issues which the puhlio do not wish to use. Having assumed to inonoplize the supply of eurreucy, and enacted ex clusions against everybody else, it is bound to furnish ali which the wants of business requires, The system should passively allow the volume 01 circulating credits to ebb and flow according to the ever changing events of business. It should imi tate as closely as possible, the na tural laws of trade if has su perseded artificial contrivances; qnd in sinuliar discussions, in my message of January 4th 1870. it was said that resumption should be ef fected py @u\ih ffieasures as would keep, the aggregate amount of cur rency self adjusting daring all pro, cesses without creating at any time an artificial §airoity and without ex eifipg the puhlic Dtuagiaation with alarms which impair confidence, con tract the whole large machinery of credit and disturb the natural opera tions of business. MEANS OF RESUMPTION. Public economies, official retrench ment and wise finance are the means which the St. Louis Con vantion indi cates. Asa provision for reserves and redemptions the best resource is a reduction of the expenses of the Government below its income, for that imposes no new charge upon the people. If, however, the improvi dence and waste which have con ducted us to a period of failing rev enues, oblige us to supplement the results of economies and retrench ments by some resort to loans, we should not hesitate. The Govern ment ought not to speculate on its own dishonor in order to save inter est on its bonds—promises which it still compels private dealers to accept at a fictitious par. The highest na tional honor is not only right, but would prove profitable. Of tne public debt—s 9 85,000,000 bear interest at 6 per cent, in gold, and $17,000,000 at 5 per cent, in gold the average interest is 5.58 per cent, A financial policy which should se cure the highest credit wisely availed of, ought gradually to obtain a re duction of 1 percent, on the interest on most of the loans. A saving of 1 per cent, on the average would be $72,000,000 a year in gold. That sav ing regularly invested at 4] per cent, would, in less than thirty-eight years, extinguish the principal. The whole $1,700,000,000 of the funded debt might be paid by this saving alone, without cost to the people, PROPER TIME FOR RESUMPTION. thVTiitf6 m^.W. ne vfrr resumption is shall have ripened into perfect ah' ty to aoomplish the w jth a oertainty nnrl *>ase will confident an q encourage the reviv- Vng|of business. The earliest time in which such a result can be brought about is the best; even when the pre parations shall have been matured the exact date would have to be chosen with reference to the then ex isting state of trade and credit opera tions in our own country, the course of foreign commerce, and the condi tion of exchanges with other nations. The specific measures and the actual date are matters of detail having ref erence to ever-changing conditions that belongs to the dominion of prac tical administrative statesmanship. The captain of a steamer about start ing from New York to Liverpool does not assemble a council over his ocean chart,and fix an angle by which to keep the rudder for the whole voy age. A human intelligence must be at the helm to discern the shifting forces of the waters and the winds— a human hand must be on the helm to feel the elements day by day, and guide to a mastery over them. PREPARATIONS FOR RESUMPTION. Such preparations are everything. Without them a legislative command fixing a day—an official promise, fix ing a day are shows. They are more—they are a snare and a delu sion to all'who trust them. They destroy all confidence among thoughtful men whose Judgment will at least sway public opinion. An at tempt to acton such a command—on such a promise, without prepara tion would end in new suspension. | It would be a fresh calamity, pro ductive of confusion, distrust aud distress. THE ACT OF JANUARY 14, 1875. The act of Congress of the 14th of January, 1875, enacted that on and after the first of January, 1876, the Secretary of the Treasury shall re deem in coin, the legal tender notes of the United States on presentation at the office of the Assistant Treas urer in the city of New York. It authorized the Becrotury to prepare and provide for such resumption of specie payments r>y the use of any surplus reserves not otherwise ap propriated and by issuing in his dis cretion certain classes of bonds. More than one and a half of the years have passed. Congress and the President have continued ever since to unite in acts which have legislated out of existence every pos sible surplus applicable to this pur pose. The coin in the Treasury claimed to belong to the Govern ment had, on the 30th of June, fallen to less than $45,000,000, as against $59,000,000 on the first of January, 1875, and the availability of a part of that now is said to be questionable. The revenues are falling faster than ajvpropriations are reducing, leaving the Treasury with diminishing re sources. The Secretary has done nothing under his power to issue bonds, The legislative and the offi cial promise fixing a day for resump tion have thus far been barren. No practical preparations towards resumption have been made. There is no economy in the operations of government, The homely maxims Of every day life are the best stan dards of its conduct. A debtor who should promise to pay a loan out of a surplus income, yet be seen every day spending all he could lay his hands on in riotous living, would lose all character for honesty and ve racity. Ris otfer of anew promise, or his profession as to the value of the old promise, would alike provoke derision. {(Jv/iifautd on Fourth Faye.) r’rloes to Sviitttie Times- The Southern Shirt Manufactory! IS MAKING Best H ams ntta Muslin Shirt, with fine linen bosoms at a cuffs, c0mp1ete... 924.00 Per Doun. Best I* ruit ot Loom Muslin, and uooo Lin-m 1800 Best Wamsntta, Partly made Shirts, 14.00 “ rit to \ ,onc . on our P/**y made shirt than any ether make, ltamsey’s Paten ’ i "*i lc .!\i S T^ wo P air ttfouffs attached to each shirt, is manufactured; also al grades and kinds of COLLARS, BOSOMS. DRAWERS and UNDERSHIRTS. . .* rt*es in Cartersville ordering from us can have their measures taken at Mr. Patillo’s jHn2O-6in° P ' *■- SDiopsKiro b 00. janju nin 21*4 East viuhama St., ATLANTA. GA. THE SINGER SEWING MACHS the PEOPLE'S FAVORITE. The Largest Sales becauseCthe Most Popular. The Most Popularßecause The Best. C 1 . VERDICT OF THE PEOPLE. Stiles in IWI Sales in 1872 219,753 Sales in 1873 . . 233 .444 Sales in 1874 1.241,CT0 !! ! Sales in 1875 249,852 ! ! ! RoVbJ*’*JJ I .®. - S Snj n * er Manufacturia* Company, 172 Broughton Street. Savannah, Ga., C. S. •7t t i'vv <> . r I,Ulir 1 ,Ulir anil Alabama sts.. Atlanta. Ga., George W. Leonard. Agt.; and fvM-1 v *" ‘ S!UnS 1 °l‘ u,ar St °re, Cartersville, Ga . K.W. B. M EKHITT, Agent. Hardware and Farming Implements* BAIvER & HALL of their customers to a general and complete stock of HARDWARE and * ARMING IMPLEMENTS .such as PLOWS, HOES, COTTON PLANTERS, ETC. r e £ a j w*'i I ',? stock of FIELD SEEDS such as Clover, Red Top, Orchard and Blue iHett, etc. as cheap as thin- can he sold in this or anv otlier market. IV e also have a complete stock ol READY MADE PLOWS both Iron and Steel. We sell irtJVSSS S„, S cpl to 15 cents. Svveed Iron Sto Scents. rni°q tr e c;lbl1 ' ve CiUl se *i :lb cheap as the same quality of goods can be soid anv where. BAKER & HALL. STOVES- & TINWARE. Po t lie Citizens ol* Cartersville and Sur rounding Country: HAVING consolidated our business at the old GILBERT ' STAND on the corner of Main anil Tomlin Streets, We t -isSiwi will carry on the business under the name and firm of 4£r/ STALL-V ADAMS We will keep constantly on hand a large and complete STOVES, TINWARE L HOUSE FURBISHING GOODS, which we will sell at the very lowest price to suit thimes. We keep the celebrated COTTON KING, IKON KING, ('A PITOLA anil Various otlier stoves of all sites and prices. We will du plicate prices Iron) any market in the State. All job work' and repairing promptly done for ca>h. Country produce, rags and old brass and copper taken in exchange for good*. Wrap ping paper always on hand at Atlanta prices. We will furnish galvonized Iron Evaporators for Boiling Syrup, 10 ft. long, 40 in. wide, complete, made out ol u solid sheet, \<> -<->, at sl2 cisli, irame and all. fen dollars lower than ever turnisbed in the South. Those desiring to purchase please give us 15 days’ notice. (janl-ly) STALL & ADAMS. ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP. W enlace M AN U F ACTURE RSJOF Hollow fare, Steam Ernies, Grates, Mantels, Mill Machinery, &c< Highest Market Price for Old'Jron, Copper andJßrass jan2o-tl', STILL A.'Tl TIIEIR 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 onr paying p itrons on the usnal time heretofore given, 'But will Expect Prompt Payment at Maturity. Those paving cash 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 cash this bill,” as we will then the more readily affix prices. It there is nothing said our prices will be given at time rates. ' STOKELY & WILLIAMS. Nn Those owing ns due paper will do us a great favor by calling and making early pay , U. liicnt. fin arch 2) STOK ELV Jt WIL LI A M THE GRANGERS’ Lilli 11H11LTII Mil 10.. OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A-iitlioi’izecl Capital 4,5500,000 Of Which SIOO,OOO to be Owned in Each Department. Each Policy-Holder is entitled 10 a vote in the management of the Company PARENT OFFICE, MOBHJE3, AXiA. CAPITAL STOCK - - - 100,000. w. H. KETCHUM, President. | F. E. DAVIDSON, Vice President.!. W? FORT.iSec’y GEORGIA DEPARTMENT, ROME, GA. Capital Stock -....•100,000 Office No. 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDING. Major C. G. SAMUEL, President, ALFRED SHORTER, Vice-President, R. J. GWALTNEY' Secretary, C. ROWELL, Attorney, Dr. G. W. HOLMES, Medical Examiner. Board of Directors : A. P. Allgood, Trion Factory; C. Rowell, Rome, Ga.; Alfred Shorter, Rome. Ga.; John H* Newton, Athens, Ga.; A. Jones, Ccdartown, Ga.; Hon. D. F. Hammond, Atlanta, Ga.; Hon* I>. It. 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 DEPARTMENT7MONTGOMERY, ALA. Capital Stock 9100,000 Hon. X. N. Clements, President aud General Manager, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hod. David Clopton. Vice President, Montgomery, Ala.; W. L. Chambers,Secretary; Stone A Clopton, Attorneys, MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, MERIDIAN MISS. Capital Stock 9100 o©~ Col. James W. Beck, President, John H. 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 JIOO up to *lO 000. Also Term Policies of one, three, or seven years. All Life policies non-forfeiting afte'r two annual payments, when the insured will be entitled to paid up Policy or Cash Surrencer thereof. M Dividends may be used to protect policies against lapsing incase of failure to n&v dbo miums. 1 his with the non-forfeiting and Cash Surrender featnres, are sufficient to make t&U Company popular among thinking men. AGENTS WANTED, dec *-tl W. G. ENGLAND, of Mobile, Ala., General Superintendent of Agencies W. K. HUSE Agent, Cartersville, Georgia. VOLUME XVII—NUMBER 33.
