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UILXEIt & HARRIS,
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
odicoon West Main Street.
J Oil A W. WOFFOR I>,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cartersville, Ga.
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CAHTERSVILLE, GA.
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Carteksville, Ga.
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Cartersville, Ga.
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KEEP constantly on hand good vehicles
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East Main street, Cartersville, Geoigia.
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Travelers’ Guide.
THK COOSA ItlVlilt STEAMERS.
Steamers on the Coosa River will run as per
schedule as tollows: 1
Leave Rome every Monday at 1 ~ m
Leave Rome every Thursday ... .H a m
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday’and Friday.. 9 arr
A rnve at Rome Wednesday and Satunlat 6 n m
*M- ELLIOTT, G|.n'l Si .|.’t
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
o , FR .°. M an,i aflt!r this date the following
Scheonle will be'run on the Cherokee Rail
.cave Reckinart at 7:06 A. M
“ Tav'orsville, g : (’x) *'
“ Stilt sboro, g’ ; 05 “
Arrive at Cartersville, 9-10 “
Leave Carlarsvillc 3-00 i> 5,5
St 11 isboro 3;50
Taylorsville 4:30 *
Arrive at Rock mart 5;i5
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. ~
On and after Sunday, Dec. 12th trains on the
Kuinc Railroad will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN— EVERY DAY.
Leave Home at a m
Arrive at Home 11.30 am
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMODATION.
Leaves Rome at 5.45 ~ m
Arrive at Rome at 9 j, n ,
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad,
Atlanta to Augusta, run as below :
Leaves Augusta at 8:45 am
Leaves Atlanta at 7;ix) .1 ni
Arrives at Augusta 3:30 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 5:45 p In
Night passenger trains as follows:
Leaves Augusta at 8:15 p m
Leaves Atlanta at 10:50 )i m
Arrives at Augusta 3:15 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 6:35 a m
Accomodation train as follow s :
Leaves Atlanta... 5:00 p m
I, eaves Covington 5:50 a m
Arrives at Atlanta 8;15 a m
Arrives at Covington 7::I0 p m
SELM ROM & I) ALTON.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY-NORTH.
Leave Koine _ 6:10 p m
Arrive at Dalton 3:24 p m
Making close connections at Dalton with the
Last Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Hail
road, ami Wes* :ii and Atlantic Railroad for
all Eastern an ! Vestern cities.
MAIL T a AIX DAILY—SOUTH.
Leave Dalton fi.oo p m
Arrive at Rome 9.10 p in
Arrive at Calera 5:40 a m
Arrive at Selma 10;20 a 111
Making close connection at Calera for Mont
gomery and points South, and at Selma wit-
Alabaina Central Railroad for Mobile, New Or
leans, Meridjan, Vicksburg, .Jackson, all
points South in Texas. Louisiana and Missis
sippi. M. STANTON, Gen. Sup’t.
K ay Knight, Gen. Ticket and Pass’gr Agt.
ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD.
P ASSEN G E R Tlt AIN- OUT W A RI).
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE
Atlanta 10:25 p.m.
East Point 10:44 p. in. 10:44 p. in.
Red Oak 10:59 p. m. 11:44 p. in.
Eairburn 11:2l p. m. 11:22 p. rn.
Palmetto 11:37 p. m. 11:38 p.m.
Powell’s 11 ;5 [. in, 11:59 p. m.
Ncwnan 12:14 p. in. 13:15 a.m.
Puckett’s 12:30a 111 12:35 am
Grantville 12:50 a m 12:51 am
Hogansvillc 1:08 a m 1:09 am
Whitfield’s 1:34 a m 1:35 a 111
LaGrange 1:54 a m 1:55 am
larng Cane 2:21 a m 2:21 a in
West Point .2:40 a m
PASSENGER TRAIN—INWARD.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
West. Point 12:30 p m
Long Cane 13:36 pm 13:36 in
La Grange . .. 1:02 p m 1:03 p m
Whitfield's 1:21 p m I:2lpm
Hogansville I:2lpm I:42pm
Grantville 1:57 p m 1:58 p in
Puckett’s 2:13 p in 2:18 p m
New nan 2:29p in 2:30 p m
Powell’s 2:44 p m 2:45 p m
Palmetto 3:06 p m 3:07 pm
Eairburn 3:32 p m 2:23 p m
Red Oak 3:38 p m 3:42 p ni
East Point 3:57 p m 3:57 pm
Atlanta... 4:ls|p 111
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
The following Schedule takes effect April
30, 1875.
NO RTIIW A RD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4 10 pm
Arrive Cartersville 6 23 p ni
Arrive Kingston. 6 52 p ni
Arrive Dalton 8 32 p ni
Arrive Chattanooga 10 16 p m
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 5 40 am
Arrive* rrtersvillc 7 57 am
Arrive Kingston 8 26 a in
Arrive Dalton 10 08 a m
Arrive. Chattanooga ~..11 55 pm
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 8 00 a m
Arrive Cartersville 10 20 am
Arrive'Kingston 10 53 a m
ii.-rive Dalton 1 05 p m
SOUTHWARD- No. 2.
Leave Chattanooga 4 OO pm
Arrive Dalton 5 51 pm
Arrive Kingston 7 21 p in
Arrive Cartersville 4 il pm
Arrive Atlanta 10 10 p m
No. 4.
J. Chattanooga 5 10 a m
Arrive Dalton 'I 09 a in
Arrive Kingston 8 5< a m
Arrive Cartersville 0 32 :i m
Arrive Atlanta G 11
No. 12.
Arrive Dalton 12 59 a m
Arrive Kingston 4 10 a m
Arrive Cartersville 6 09 a .11
Arrive Atlanta •* 45 am
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, be
ween New Orleans and Raltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos -a3 ml 2oe
tween Louisville and Atlanta.
|3*~No change of cars betwi on New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore
and only one change to New \i k.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 110 p. in , ar
rive in New York the second thei -after at 4 00
Excursion Tickets to the Virgin-a Springs
■u.'* various Summer Resorts will oe on sale
in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Colum
bus Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta,
at m-eatly reduced rates Ist of June.
Parties desiring a whole car through to the
Virginia Springs or to Baltimore should ad
dress the undersigned. ~ .
Parties contemplating traveling should send
for a copy of t lie Kennenaic Route Gazette, con
taining schedules, etc.
iVyA.-k for tickets via “Ivennesaw Route.
B. W. WRENN,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
in ay 22—dtf Atlanta, Ga.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
First-Class Faro $2.50 Per Day f
An “Old Virginia Welcome” by Hewitt.
Wl. K. HTJSE,
GENERAL
INSURANCE AGENT
Represents the following first-class
companies :
GEORGIA HOME,
a
OF COLUMBUS, GA.
Rates ow and guarantees dividends yearly.
The private property of the stockholders hound
for all of the obligations of the company.
NIAGARA,
OF NEW |YORK,
The assets arc nearly a million and a half.
ATLAS,
OF IIARTFORD,!CON NECTICUT.
Assets are over half a million dollars.
AMERICAN,
OF PHILADELPHIA,
Incorporated in 1810. Charter perpetual. As
sets one a„d a quarter million. Surplus on
the first ol January, a quarter ot a million.
HOME PROTECTION,
OF NORTH ALABAMA.
Invests only in United Stat bonds. Issues
against Lightning as well asfire. Guarantees
dividends yearly. Losses adjusteu by the
agent,
Also represents
OTHER FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES,
not enumerated above. Insurance guaranteed
at the lowe>t rates in first-class companies.—
All looses promptly and equitably adjusteu.
Cartersvillc, us.. May 4,1870.
ORG AN J /.ED DEMOCRACY.
Lively Correspondence Between Dr.
Miller and Mr. McClatchy.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct, 11,1876.
Gentlemen: —l have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of yours of
the 10th; inst., Inviting me to attend
a mass meeting on the 28th of this
month. You are pleased to say
•‘knowing the deep interest you have
ever felt in the welfare, success and
triumph of organized Democracy
over every other competitor, we
earnestly request that you will honor
us and the people of this county with
your presence on that occasion.” I
cannot accept so flattering an invita
tion without permissing a short ex
planation. It is impossible to over
estimate my desire for honest Demo
cratic government, nor the interest I
feel for the triumph of Democratic
principles ; hut if you have been led
to suppose that I am in favor of the
creation or maintenance of an “or
ganization” unknown to the law,
which is intended or calculated to
wrest from the people the power to
choose th ir own representatives,
you have mistaken my position.
The recommendation, or nomina
tion, if you will, of any name as a
candidate for oftice by ten or ten
thousand people, carries with it
properly an influence proportioned to
the number and character of those
who make it, but when under name
• k*v wromii to dictate to. or domi
nate the consciences and central the
votes of others, their fellow-citizens,
their equals in intelligence and in
tegrity, they impudently attempt an
i usurpation of the rights of the people
and open wide the door of irigue, to
fraud and to corrupt political tattle.
The people are the depositories of
political power. Our system of gov
ernment assumes that they have in
telligence and virtue adequate to the
trust, without the instruction of a
body of self-appointed guardians and
sense keepers. Experience has prov
en that it is safer to trust to the hon
est instincts of the whole constituen
cy than to the seltish ambition of a
few.
. Conventions or caucuses may act
wisely and honestly, but the only se
curity for their good behavior is to
reserve to the people the inalienable
right and duty of bolting. “Organ
izations” to establish party tyranny
or peipetuate party slavery are odi
us, soon become corrupt aud intoler
able, and it is always gratifying to
patiotism when indignant public
virtue repudiates and overwhelms
them.
Two years ago General Benjamin
F. Butler was the candidate of the
“organization” for Congress in his
district. A wnole people was re
joiced when the news came over the
wires that there were independent
voters enough in that district to de
feat him, and rebuke the organiza
tion of which he was the tit standard
bearer. This year he is a candidate
for Congress of the “organization”
in another district, and a
thrill of pleasure over-spread the
nation when it was announced that
an independent candidate would in
all likelihood save the next Congress
from the disgrace and contamination
of his prseence.
It is to be hoped that an “organiz
ed Democracy” will never descend
so low as “organized Republicanism”
and nominate for a high place an ad
mitti'd and proven scoundrel, hut if
you desire to dignify and enthrone
over us a system which may lead to
such results you may count largely
on my patriotism, but I desire you
to draw sparingly on my zeal for “or
ganization.”
J have written the above without
reference to the pending canvass in
the Seventh district. 1 have no desire
to meddle in a question which does
not personally interest me, but I will
add, that jf I were a citizen of that
district the fact that Dr. Felton is an
independent candidate would of
itself decide me to vote against him.
I am old enough to remember that
Andrew Jackson was an indepen
dent candidate for the Presidency,
and none the worse Democrat because
he ran against the nominee of his
party and broke up, and utterly de
molished an organization, which had
ruled the country with legal sway
for nearly twenty-four years, The
owners and stock holders of that “or
ganization,” of course made an up
roar and shouted lustily, “great is
Diano of the Ephesians,” but no one ,
now can be found to call in question
Jackson’s patriotism or Democracy.
I have known Dr. Felton from Ins
early manhood, and that long ac
quaintance induces me to think that
vou are mistaken in supposing that
he is “the avoid colleague as well as
the candidate of the organized Rad
ical party.” In times of high politi
cal excitement charges will be made
on very questionable testimony, and
even good men sometimes take up a
railing accusation against a neighbor,
I remember to have heard very
naughty things charged against Gen.
Jackson himself when he was an in
dependent candidate.
But if, per chance Dr. Felton is not
so good a man, so able a Congress
man, so incomparable a Democrat as
I have thought him, there is no con
stituency in this State more able to
discover his weakness and detect his
short comings than the quick witted
people of your district.
No body of citizens in tins world
have ).ess need of anybody to tell
them who to vote fop. I am very
respectfully, your fellow-oitßen,
H. M. V. Miller,
To P. McClatchy, chairman, and
others Marietta, Ga.
Marietta* Ga., Oct. 13, 187 G.
Dr. XI. V. M. Mjlueh—Sjß: For
the purpose of promoting the ejection
of the Democratic nominees for pres*
ident, Vice-President and Congress
men, many good and true Demo
crats of this county determined to
have a mass meeting and barbecue
at this place on the 28th of the preseut
month. The undersigned were ap
pointed a committee fo invite sppajv
erg to address the people af that
meeting, and iu discharging our duty
we addressed yoga polite note re
questing you to honor us thp peo
ple with your presence on that ocgat
-don. Our note was a private com
munication, expressed in respectful
terms, and we had a right to expect
an answer from you by the same
method either ac
cepting or declining the invitation,
and there the matter would have
ended. But instead of such cour
teous answer which we had aright to
expect from one oocupying your
high social position- you have taken
no notice of our invitation except p?
publish in the Constitution a very
strange and ill-timed letter, in which
you discuss questions entirely foreign
to the correspondence which >ye
opened with you, and which we are
not willing should pass without fur
ther notice from us. After avowing
your desire for honest Democratic
government, aqd yonr interest in the
triuuiuh of Democratic
you proceed to say to us: “But if you
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1876.
have been led to suppose that I am
in favor of the creation and mainte
j nance of an ‘organiaation’ unknown
to the law, which is intended or cal
culated to wrest from the people the
power to choose their own represen
tatives, you have mistaken my po
sition.” we are not at a loss to know
what you mean by this sentence. We
know of no such an organization in
this region of the Stale. Certain it
is, that we do not represent such an
l one when we addressed you. We
did not hint in the remotest degree,
that we desired your presence, at the
meeting alluded to, to advocate any
i such organization. There was noth
; ing in our note which you could tor
ture into the idea that we wished you
to favor anything but the mainte
nance of sound Democratic princi
ples, and the election of worthy Dem
ocratic candidates, fairly selected, ac
cording to the law and usages of the
party. The Democratic party is an
organization intended and calculated
to promote these desirable ends, and
it was that and that alone that we
desired you to speak for, and you
publish an answer, in which you
state that you cannot accept an invi
tation without premising a short ex
planation. You speak truly when
you said we had mistaken your po
sition. We. supposed you were a
Democrat, but now find that you are
not in 1 [lie or sympathy with the
Democratic party.
In another part of vour letter, you
refer to the fact, that in his district,
two years ago, Beast Butler was the
candidate of the “organization,” and
that lie was defeated by indepen
dent candidate, whereat the people
rejoiced, and that he is again the
candidate of the organization with
the prospect of again being defeated
by an independent candidate, and
that the people again rejoice. Now,
Doctor, what do you intend to illus
trate by this allusion to Butler and
his candidacy ? If, in this district,
we have neither nomination nor can
didate like those in Butler’s, the il
lustration is inapt, and out of place.
Do you mean that two years ago,
Dabney was the candidate of the or
ganization and was defeated by Fel
ton, the independent candidate,
whereat your patriotism was grati
fied, and that he is again the candi
date of the organization with a like
lihood of again being beaten, and
that your patriotism will be again
gratified? Are you so wanting in
candor, as to wish it understood that
you think the race for congress in the
6th district is like that Beast Butler’s
district, and that in your judgment a
like result should take place? If you
do not wish to be so understood, why
do you cite the case of Butler as an
illustration of your position ? A few
more steps like the one you have
just taken, and the radicals, north
and south, will shout themselves
hoarse in applauding tlie gallant, the
independent, the progressive Miller.
We think we understand you. We
think we can see where you will
finally land. Certain it is that your
present rate of progress in political
wisdom is too rapid, and your patri
otism will soon become so ajsthetical
as to unfit you for association with
common mortals.
If by the sentence before quoted
from your letter, you intend tocharge
that the Democratic party of the
Seventh Congressional District, who
are laboring to socnrejthe election of
Tilden, Hendricks and Dabney is an
organization “ unknown to the law,
and intended or calculated to wrest
from the people the power to chose
their own representatives,” you mis
judge the motives and utter an un
founded accusation against as good
and true men as there in the State,
whose patriotism is quite as heavy as
your own, and whose devotion to
good government is far more reliable
than that of any political mischief
maker or party come
from what quarter he may. In
another part of your letter, you give
your estimate Of the value of “re
commendations or nominations,” and
then add; “But when under any
name they assume to dictate to or
dominate'the consciences end control
the notes of others, t heir fellow-citi
zens, their equals in intelligence and
integrity, they impudently attempt
an usurpation |of the rights of the
people, and open wide the door to
intrigue, to fraud and to corrupt po
litical traffic.” Now, Doctor, what
(100 you strike at in this sentence?
Are you simply bcatingtheair? Are
you merely combating an abstrac
tion, or do you mean that you can
not attend our meeting as a speaker
because our nominations are of the
kind you condemn? Tilden and
Hendricks were fairly nominated at
St. Louis and Dabney was fairly nom
inated at Dalton, and these are the
“nominations” which we are endeav
oring to confirm at the ballot-box.
Now, do Jyou mean to charge that
these conventions in placing these
candidates before the people, assumed
to “dictate to, or dominate the con
sciences and control the votes of oth
ers,” and that therefore they “impu
deeply” attempted an “usurpation of
the rights of the people” and opened
“wide the door to intrigue, to fraud,
and to corrupt political traffic?” If
this be what you mean you utter a
gross libel upon two democratic con
ventions, fairly conducted fairly got
ten up, fairly conducted and com
posed of as good citizens, as incor
ruptible patriots, as sound demo
crats and as pure men as can be found
in any company of mischief makers
and disorganitsers, even though your
honored self may be of tfie number.
If you do not mean to make this
charge upon these conventions, then
in violation of all rules of propriety
and courtesy you have thrust upon
us your own views upon an abstract
question which our correspondence
with yoq did not involve, and upon
which we did not solicit your opin
ion. How truly yau spoke when
you said we had mistaken your po
sition. We supposed, that in com
mon wiih most men of intelligence,
you thought somqsort of organization
necessary in carrying out any enter
prise in which unity of purpose and
action of purpose and section fiatj to
be secured, but we now find that we
were addressing one who has so far
outstripped the world in wisdom as
to find oqt tfiqt confusion and disor
ganisation are best, and that it is
safer to trust everythiug to the in
stincts of the whole people without
any plan to secure co-operation. In
a word your letter clearly indicates
tfiat you ape opposed to party organ-
and Ml ptheu piapsto
unity and co-operation.
In another part of your letter yon
say: “Organizations to establish party
tynany, or perpetuate party slavery
are odious, soon become corrupt and
and intolerable, pqd it js fil wavs grat
ifying to patriotism whep inuignanf
public virtue repudiates and over
whelms them.” Now, doctor, in
your present djseqntent. why did you
not come out like a man and deeihre,
that in your judgment, the Demo
cratic party is an organization “to
establish party tyrany and perpet
uate party slavery,” and as that you
were pqtqup pi tfio ipasters, your
patriotism would be gratified to see
it repudiated and overwhelmed?
This is what you mean, or your letter
is nonsense. * For the sake of man
liness, you ought to come from be
hind the bush and fight it openly.
That vour entire letter is a fling at
the Democracy organization, no one
who reads it can fail to see; and if
you want to di-rupt it and break it
up you '•lioukl say so. You ought
not to thrust at it under the pretense
| of answering an invitation to make a
speech. Such a course is neither
manly or ingenious. Unless you
' should happen to be the nominee,
you evidently want the people to ex
ercise the right and duty of bolting
nominations, whether they be fair or
! unfair, and you ought to have so de
clared in straightforward terms. It
is very clear that you are not pleased
with the “situation.” You are not
satisfied with your “hand” and there
fore you wish to bunch the political
cards and have ajiew deal. This is
tlie whole secret and you ought to
have let it out like a man and th;n,
neither we, nor any other committee
will mistake your position hereafter.
One more point and we have done.
After expressing the hope “organized
democracy” will never descend so
low as “organized republicanism,”
and nominate for high place an ad
mitted and proven i*ooumlrel, you
add: “But if you desire to dignify
and enthrone over us, a system which
may lead to such results, you may
count largely on my patriotism, but
I desire you to draw sparingly on
my zeal for organization.” Sir, we
are absolutely amazed that agentle
num of your pretensions should so
far ignore the courtesies and proprie
ties of life as to intimate to a com
mittee, who had complimented you
with an invitation to make a public
speech, that they desired to dignify
and enthrone over you a system
which might lead to the nomination,
for a high place, of an admitted and
proven scoundrel. What did we say
to you, to provoke such a suggestion?
Did we ask you to advocate or favor
such a system ? Did we ask you to
advocate or favor the election of an
admitted and proven scoundrel?
Did we intimate in our note to you,
that we desired to dignify and en
throne over you a system that might
lead to such a result? You know
that we did not. It is true, that we
did not count largely on your patri
otism to aid us in electing to high
places sound Democrats, who are un
der solemn pledge to maintain dem
ocratic principles and to secure as far
as they may he able, honest demo
cratic government, but we find that
we counted in vain. We had mis
taken your position, and therefore in
our count, we reckoned witnout our
host. We did draw on your zeal for
an “organization,” made up of sin
cere democrats, who are laboring to
secure the election of Col. W. H.
Dabney, to the Congress of the United
States, lie is a candidate of acknowl
edged ability, spotless integrity, and
sound political principles, lie was
nominated by a fair convention, com
posed of respectable citizens, wholly
free from intrigue or fraud. But our
draft upon your zeal was protested
and dishonored. We had mistaken
your position. Well, doctor,
we will not mistake your po
sition any more. Everybody under
stands you now. Your letter settles
the question. The bankruptcy Jof
your democratic zeal is now so
established as that you can obtain a
certificate of dismissal upon applica
tion. and in the future no one will
think of making the slightest draft
upon a concern so utterly insolvent.
Respectfully your fellow-citizens,
W. P. MoClatoiiy,
Chairman Ex. Com., and others.
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COM
MITTEE.
To the People of the United States.
A meeting of the National Demo
cratic Committee, the Chairman, Mr.
Abram S. Hewitt, presiding, was
held last week at the headquarters of
the committee at the Everett House.
Nearly every State was represented.
There were mutual congratulations
over the remit of the recent elections,
and it was regarded as favorable to
the success of Democracy in Novem
ber. It was resolved to carry on a
general vigorous campaign in all the
States. Governor Tilden called while
the committee were in session and
was congratulated upon the prospects
of Democratic victory. It was de
cided to issue the following address:
To the People of the United States:
Fellow Citizens : We congratu
late you as patriots, as partaken with
us in the common destiny of Ameri
can freedmen, upon the results of the
October State elections. We rejoice
in the victory which the people’s
have bestowed upon the friends of
reform in the valley of the Ohio,
where the Republican hosts had an
overwhelming ascendency in every
Presidential election since 1856. We
rejoice in the assurance these elec
tions convey that your ballots will
bestow decisive majorities to the al
lied forces of Democracy and reform
in the November elections through
out the Union. But vve rejoice not
as partisans ; we rejoice with you as
fellow-citizens.
And when the decision of this
week of one million voters along
the valley of the Ohio shall be rati
fied next month by the fiat of eight
million voters throughout the whole
Republic, weshall still rejoice, chiefly
for the reason that not one of its citi
zens can miss of an equal share with
us who are Democrats, in the politi
cal peace and good will which will
then and there be established among
till sections, races, classes and condi
tion of men, and in the prosperity of
which political peace based on equal
rights and fraternal good will, is the
first condition.
CONCENTRATION OF ADMINISTRA
TION INFLUENCE. #
Upon the three States of West yjr
ginia, Ohio and Indiana were concen
trated all the influence of the admin
istration, all their efforts, and all the
vast spins of money forced from the
100,000 office-holders of the party in
power.
These were fearful odds, not again
to be contended against so concentra
ted, for in the November elections
the contest will be in every one of
thirty-eigfit States ppon tne same
day.
Nevertheless against these odds
the Democrats and reformers of West
Virginia and Indiana have been vic
torious, and in Ohio they have all
but rescued a State hitherto deemed
hopeless, apd have created an assu
rance of victory in November.
If it falls to our lot as a National
Democratic Committee to congratp
fale the people of the Onion upon
this victory in the first battle of the
reform campaign, it is only because
Democrats have been honored to be
the leaders of - the people in the work
of national regeneration.
The victory won, the victory still
to be won, will be a deliverance as
much to Republicans as to Demo
crats.
THE DAWN OF A BETTER DAY.
The patriotic masses of the Re
publican party may be thankful that
the misdeeds of their unworthy
leaders have been rebuked and are
to be arrested. The suffering whites
of the South may lift up their heads
to greet the dawn of a better day for
tPetti as well as the nation at large.
The colored citizen may share the
general joy that he will soon cease to
lie the stock in trade of corrupt poli
ticians. but shall enjoy his rightful
liberties and hir equality before the
law amid universal good will.
•As for the reform Democracy, to
whose standariis victory has been
tied, with all her garlands on, it only
remains for them to welcome every
ally, every friend close up the ranks
and press on, shoulder to shoulder,
under the banner and with the one
watchword, reform.
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DEPRIVED OF.
Fellow-citizens, peace between all
sections, prosperity in all our homes
—of these you have been for years
deprived by the mistaken solicitudes
of patriotic Republicans, played
upon by selfish and corrupt leaders,
who have kept tanning the dying
embers of civil strife in order to es
cape inspection of the trusts which
they have betrayed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. At no time have
you had the substance of peace. In
lieu thereof you had the grinning
taxation and wasteful expenditure of
war. Just before every election ev
ery election every year you have
had the preaching of anew crueade
against a section utterly defeated in
war and anxious only to be complete
ly reconciled in peace.
For eleven years the power of the
men who have seized away the con
trol of their party from the hands of
its statesmen and founders has been
supreme in almost every department
of the Federal Government.
Discarding the hope of prolonging
their domination .by beneficent pub
lic measures, they have created and
trafficked upon public calamities.
The policy they adopted lias been
worked out. Its failure has been ab
solute.
WHAT TIIE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Promise and profess.
In place of past persormanees these
same courrupt and elfish leaders now
proffer promise already broken as
their titles to further trust.
Having prostrated our manifold
industries by the vast aggregates and
the worst methods of Federal taxa
tion they now again solicit your con
fidence as the instrments of retrench
ment and reform.
Having debauched the public ser
vice, and having just now, in the
face of open day, assesed their army
of 10,000 office-holders—the peoples’
servants —paid by the people’s taxes
—in order to create immense corrup
tion frauds to frustrate the people’s
will, they now profess to be the
champions of civil service reform.
Having imposed upon the Southern
States the rapacity, fraud and plun
der of the earpet-bag governments ;
hiving almost ruined the prosperity
North by destroying the prosperity
of the South ; having created terror,
uncertainty and confused in all the
productive industries of the South,
which furnish most of the exports of
our whole country, keep in motion
the commerce and manufactories of
the Nortli and East, and furnish a
market for the agricultural products
of the West, they now propose, by
renewal of the same fatal policy, to
prolong their own power in the hope
of concealing their misdeeds, and for
this purpose they do not hesitate to
renew the cry of intolerance; to re
vive the dying memories of frater
nal strife and to appeal to the fears
and predjudices of the timid or the
ignorant.
WILL THE PEOPLE TRUST THEM
AGAIN?
Fellow-citizens, these men and
their measures have been completely
tried and have completely failed.
An oppressive taxation, an exhausted
South, an impoverished North, a
fluctuating currency, the enterprise
of an industrious people locked fast
in the paralysis of hard times—such
are the achievements of their long
supremacy. Your ballots in Novem
ber can alone dictate a change of
measures and a change of men. Shall
not the uprising of patriotism along
the valley of the Ohio go on to a
complete and beneficial revolution
in the administration of the Govern
ment of the United States,
Will you not buy the voice of over
whelming majorities at the polls,
proclaim your invincible faith, after
all these years of corruption and
passion, in the high immortal prin
ciples of government by the people
for the people, in simple honesty and
strict economy as the supreme wis
dom of public policy, in justice as
the mother of power and in civil
freedom os the be-all and the end of
a true Republcan nationality.
Will you not build up anew pros
perity for all the people on the old
foundations of American se> f-govern
inent, on peace, reconciliation and
fraternity between all sections, all
sections, all classes and all races
embraced within our system of
American commonwealths ; on fru
gality and economy in all govern
ments; on honesty and purity of ad
ministration. and having lost your
prosperity through governmental
misrule regain that prosperity
through governmental reform? We
commit this science of the American
people, with an‘unfaltering trust in
the wisdom and justice of their de
cision,
By order of the national Democrat
ic Committee.
Abram S. Hewitt, Chairman,
Frederick O. Prince, Secretary,
New York, October 13th 1876.
The new tunnel being built unde
the Thames is intended ohiefly fo
the of about 8,000 workmen who
have to cross at that point, and who
are often detained by fog that stops
the boats. It will be an iron tut>e
nine feet in diameter, lighted with
gas, thoroughly ventilated, and only
for pedestrians.
A California man na3 cleared $6,00
this year from eight aeres of black
berries.
“Where’s the bar?” asked a di
looking stranger of the bell-boy
the hotel the other day. “Who
kind of a bar? “Why a saloon baa
of course; what do you suppose 4
mean?” “Well,” drawled the boy
tl didn’t know but you might mean
a bar of soap.”
The Hon. T. J. Turnbull was re
ejpeted from Banks county by a large
majority. This gentleman lias won
an enviable reputation in the Geor
gia Legislature, and his last triumph
over independent opposition* shows
that he is appreciated fit homefis, wtII
(is, hqnQi<ed apro^d.
CUT THIS OTJT FOR REFERENCE.
I
Clapp’s 99 Cent Bazaar.
27 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
Kea<l the Ust, Kxnmine the Slock, and wee what Bar*
gains are offered for 99 Cents.
! B '. n g 1 Pair beautiful vase* *
l Omu Mlvor Bing 1 Black walnut toy belsteat|
} y®® Amethyst Bmg l Black v.alnut toy bureau
1 tine Topaz King 1 Willow pheaton—l drum.
1 t iue Alos Agate Ring 1 Set paalor Croquet-1 toy bank
1 tine Gobi l'late-1 King 1 Box games
1 Solid Cold Emblem Pin 1 lox Prussian French or German Toy*
1 Cold Front Tail Fin 1 Box buildiug blocks.
1 Set Cold Front Studs * 1 Box ten pins
1 Set Cold Plated Stu.ls 1 Bovs tool cbe6t
1 Set Cold Plated Studs and Buttons 1 Beautiful tin tov
) Pair Cold-Platen sleeve Buttons 1 Beautiful Secretary
1 Gold Pen 1 Bird eag€ ;
i Holder 1 Whalebone whip
is 11 l Wool double print table cover
1 cold Plated Toothpick 1 Bedspread
1 Cold plated Jet Jewelry 1 Linen table spread
} i Br * c . leta 1 Pine umbrella—l stylish cauo
; ,V°,\ llated Breast Fin 1 Black walnut Jewelry box
, ? ,n . 1 P'ack walnut work box
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i , * £l,, K 3 1 Black walnut writing desk
1 Cold l lated Chain 1 Black walnut shoe box
1 Set silver plated dinner knives 1 Black walnut picture fraiuo
} SetsiHer plated dinner knives a Black walnut picture frame*
1 Set silver plated tea knives 1 Black waluut view holder
1 1 air silver plated butter knives 1 Black walnut table
J a,r s V, ver P , , llUs ‘i napkin rings 1 Black walnut towel rack
1 Coin silver plated napkin ring 1 Black walnut wall pocket
1 Silver plated call bell 1 Black walnut cornb cao
1 Silver plated Teapot , Black walnut bracket
i Silver plated cotteesteeper 1 itu c k walnut (13 pin) hat rack
i V i 2 bottles) Castor 1 Black walnut book shelf
1 Set silver plated tea spoons 1 Covered market basket
1 Set silver plated desert spoons 1 Clothes basket
1 bet silver plated table spoons 1 Willow Rocking chair
1 bet silver-plated lurks 1 Knife basket
1 bet knives and forks (steel waraanted.) 1 Tumbler basket
1 Cai s lug kniir lork ami steel, (steel war- i Flower basket
, „. f aated) ...... 1 Work basket
1 line l ocket kuile, (steel warranted) 1 Nursery basket
* Beautiiul leather wallets j Truck
1 genuine lleerchaum pipo i Gent’s hat, very fine
1 Beautiiul cigar case , 1 Gent’s shirt. liucu Bosom
1 Beautiiul Photograph album 1 ce; t’s w.kjl overshirt
1 Beautiiul pocket photograph album t Gent’s wool undershirt
iii rk P H n,m . , _ 52 Gent’s Wool undershirts
1 Backgammon board men and dice 1 Fair gent’s omits
lAccordeon 1 Gent’, coat
1 at -key concertina , ueut’s Vest
1 Music folio I i a j r nrcut’s shoe*
i °J u ' i ‘ t, *J‘;” la tical instruments - Ii Pair gent’s slippers
I t ,alnt . s (* ar ßi') Ia Pairs geuts drawers
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1 Elegant paper weight 12 Glass goblet.
1 Elegant ink stand 1 Large glass pitcher!
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i j ,tt ‘ ruosC '°l’ c . I (4 pieces] glass set.
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OF MOBILE, ALA.
ASSETS S7O 0,000.
S
MAURICE MCCARTHY, President, JAMES L. MURPHY, Vice-President, SHEPPARD
HOMANS, Actuary; 11. M. FRIEND, Secrci-.ry.
REMEMBER, That the Mobile Lifo Insurance Comjwiny insured over two thousand policies
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surance.
REMEMBER, The Mobile Life makes a specialty of the “Life Endowment" by which an en
dow ment is secured at the cheap life rates of premium.
REMEMBER, The “Yearly Renewable” is the cheapest plan extant, and therefore best suited
to secure debts, or to “bridge over” for a term of years.
REMEMBER, That fortune is uncertain, hard to (/ft, harder to hold and although you are rich
to-day, you may die penniless .to-morrow.
REMEMBER, That thousands of families have been rescued from poverty by husbands having
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REMEMBER, Thatby investing a mere pittance you at once secure a legacy for your lovod
ones, sure and steadfast.
REMEMBER, That life insurance is not an expense like fire insurance, but a wise and prudent
investment.
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and should you die the whole insurauce to go to the loved ones, thus protecting
them from want,
REMEMBER, It is a duty you owe to yourself, your family and your neighbor to keep your life
always insured,
REMEMBER, That “Procrastination is the thief of time” and that the longer you delay the
more it costs to insure.
REMEMBER, To get insurance, you have to apply when you aro in good health. Don’t wall
until it is too late.
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REMEMBER, That delay is dangerous so insure at once in the
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ot to-morrow.
REMEMBER, That good, reliable men aro wanted as agents in every town in this section of
the State.
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A. C. PICKENS, Cen. Agent, Cartersville, Ga.
COL. R. TI. .TONES; Special Agent, *epl4-i v.
NEW CASH STORE.
Great Bargains. Goods at New York Cost.
J. H. SATTERFIELD
• HAS returned to Cartersville and opened next door east o( A
R. II udgins one of the largest and best selected stocks of
, STAPLE & FANCY DRYGOODS
Notions, Fancy Goods,
CENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
READY MADE CLOTHING. HATS. CAPS, BOOTS 4 SHOES
That has ever beee exhibited In Cartersville, which he offers to the cash trade at prices that
cannot lie beaten Ibis side of the Knstern market. He respectfully asks his old frieuds and
Customers and the pabiic generally to exuminc his stock before purchasing elsewhere.
may2s-3ts
THE SINGER, SEWING MACHINE
THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE.
The Largest Sales because It he Most Popular.
The Most Popularßecauso The Best.
VERDICT OF THE PEOPLE.
Sales In 1871 ... 131 SdO.
Bales in 1872 21V,763
Sales in 1873 233,444
Sales in 1874 241,676!!!
Sales in 1875 249,852 ! !
Address the Singer Manufacturing Company, 172 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga., C. 8.
lUeitt.v. Ageut; Corner Bioad and Alabama A|Uut, Ga., QeorgwW, Leonard, Af’t.; and
at Stokely and WHlsams’ Popular Store, Cartersvme, Ga., W. M. uECKWITK, Agent.
ivb3-ly,
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