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VOL. XXIV. EDITO RIAL EXPRESS-IONS. We de sire to apologize for a non appearance Jast week. Our silence i was oeca: jfoneu 1 by •providential oe-I eurrence rather Than any desire we mighthnv e had patriotically celt’" j brate the glorious /ourth Three -of the brightest legal lights; of North Georgia have been gather** ed to tljei r father’s this \vear, the like of whom wiii hardly tie i uised up in our midst again. Hon. Amos T. Akerman, lion. Dawson A. Walker and Col, A bda Johnson. Galves ton, July 11.—The first #bale of cot' ton of the season of 1881, raised by Messrs. M. Houseman & De Witt, \\ nd consigned to T. W, Ildhsewas received on Saturday and was so and at the exchange to-day for $825 to i Harris it Bro, and con signed I>y them to Lehman. Bros., New Y. jik. Duriugiij, 9 summer Mr.' Stephens will be engaged on a work, the scope and intent o f which have not been announced, It has been hinted, ! however, thi it the veteran statesman' will gather i ip the shreds of contro versy which various southern lead ers have left hanging in the wind, end weave U tern into a volume sup p!erm>r>tiry' to his work on the war betwennfch® states. So oVd )tn Artcr” is peeping throu; ;h th port-hole of the general delivc jry rat Gift .Macon post office. Henr y GfcVi r and Burrell Stout al ways did say it was a good position to er joy fema.’e lo\ ’eliness, and we’ll wag our hat that- 'Mrs. Arter” al read y has her / )r oom Si' ick ,une(l for mt Bridges muk - president, the kindest at id simplest of human bein,^— but f*rur mouths in office mid h> r the most part inj murid in the sick rontn of fils wife--t vvo amiable and chi win bjg topes t,f ( , U r system our civil ,ZI *‘ tion and-our race—two gentle a nd pleasant in u j rati >us of what an hoiD cst, aspiring t toyhood and girlhood, going har dii i hand, may achieve Tom. the lm mb Vest beginnings in lids land tf ,cCiie —siparabd for a few days—are about to meet for a lit tle holiday got >d. Christian people, their hearts ftrl lof thanks to God for sparing the n eaker ; plain, unpre tending offspri ngs and representa tive-of the pei j ole, and no crowns, nor uniforms*. l ior escortege—a sweet July morning, ; uid the children peep ing over w'istfkj lly i'nto his coming forth—presto r all it'll a bullet, a flash, another bt diet —a’ n d With peace and plenty all a; round ad>out, and not a private enemy in the world, and not an act or a t vord to wl ’ong or in jure any Jiving thing—th.'S happy berried man—girded by that sover eignty only which doth hedge an honest citizen—i 3 shot down ’ike a doer or a czar.— l fcnry Waiterstfl it the pros! lent recovers —Lod grant it—Guittef iu’s punishment un der the law will be the merest mock ery of justice. If the wretch is able to avail himself c I the humbug plea of insanity, he wi H be sent to an asy lum, from which he will be entitled to release hs soon ns he can show that he is sane. If he cannot gull a jury into believing tha the is insane, he will be sentenced under this section of the district cod e: Section 1150. E very person con victed of manslau; J'ter or of any as sault with intent l o kill shall be sen tenced to suffer 1 nipriaontnent and labor, for the first offonse for a peri od not less than tv m nor more than eight years, and ft, r the second of fense for a period c >f not less than six nor more than flfti en years. Davis is ver y near the truth when he says : “I J eople want news and information, at want it in para graphs. They will l: ardly stand liiueu more than a paragr i>h of editorial, and rebel against any thing like an essay.” Newspape r readers demand their news prepared l for them in at tractive form, strip! >ed of the has -s, so that it may ho ti iketi easily and assimilated readily. It may be nee essary to give a gre at deal on one subject, but the lon* teat article must be what is left after the whole thing has been boiled dow >• Trie journal ist who knows hi; * business boils down as he writes. The day of the ponderous leader is c ver i° America; it is tit its meridian * n England, where they print the heaviest news papers in the work f * I n the kes f American newspaper offices the long est editorial articles,! oust have dash and spirit and justify themselves in subject or treatment!*) r the supervise r ■ •• ' " •'' ■ " ' jjj: 1 KHUUMB.. -. ■ ... .... . " ing pen slashes off the'r pretentious' length. The paragraph—the torpedo, the whip lash, the bowie-knife, the scalpel of the press—a) ready a great favorite, is growing rapidly in tin public estimation. For shooting fol ly as it fles there is not the equal of the paragraph. “I don’t so mucl mind their nig said Gener al Grant of the opposition press, '‘but I hate to be cut up with those ugly little paragraphs.’' ing pen slashes nff the'r pretentious length. The paragraph—the torpedo, the whip lash, the bowie-knife, the scalpel of the press—a) ready a great favorite, is growing rapidly in tin public estimation. For shooting fol ly as it fl *s there is not the equal of the paragraph. “I don’t so mucl mind their nig leaders,said Gener al Grant of the opposition press, '‘but I bate to be cut up with those ugly little paragraphs.’' The Georgia Legislature met in adjourned session last Wednesday. Alter the* usual welcoming speeches by the presiding oftteeirs, a set of res olutions 'vere unanimously adopted expressive of the feelings of the Leg islature o n the subject of the at tempted assassination of President Garfield, and the resolutions wen ordered 1 jiegraphfd to the Pre-ident. Rev. J. W. Ileidt was elected chaplain o/ the Senate in place of Rev. John P. Duncan, deceased. Tlu members a. re said to be iu good healti and spirits. They have lost no tinn in gutting fi ) business. In the hot tse a deluge of local and special bills have been introduced. Mr. Dav is, of Lumpkin, has in troduced a bill to bring on the elec tion of state and county officers a< the same time. This is a good law. It is admitted by all that wo are af flicted with t oo many election days. Mr. Rtnki n introduced a bill t* let the Governor invest the surplus] funds of the Slate, I'll is is cquiva-j lent to I.sing the bulla nee of tk< j Sore’s n o;n y. The Teima‘ranco people are resolv-s ed on a great fight in Georgia this year. A most stringent bill has been, put in by Mr. Sweat, of Clinch. 111 would, -malice a tippling shop of every| drug store by confining the said of| liqu r to drug stores alone. We gent ; ly hint to our temperance friend-; that Mr. Sweat has been about tie | legislature a long time and he knows; pretty well how to kill or pass a| measure. Representative Branson of this| ounty h:is introduced a bill in the'; legislature to make public drunken ness a misdemeanor. The Const it.u * lion says the temperance bills con- , t.inue to pour in. A bill to amend the charty of Car j tt'rsville was introduced in the housefj of representatives on Monday lastl which was read by consent and ref*; ferretl to the committee on corpora-! tlons. On Monday last the committee ap b pointed at the last session to exam J ine into tlie condition of the convict*' camps submitted through its chair-? man Mr. Milner, a long report giv--; ing the results of its labors. The re- g port was severe on the present system| and sugge-ted the necessity for a| thorough reform. A plan for the ap j, pointment of inspectors for all the| camps was submitted by the commit- fj tee. The tour of the camps disclosed | some terrible abuses of the power placed in ttie hands of the lessees. At | the camp in Montgomery county | convicts are worked from twelve tojj fifteen hours a day. Many of tip § camps' are * n a horribly filthy condi-i tion, anu’ there is a general disregard! of tlie health and life of the convicts.! They are whipped severely by theii! guards in several localities and at om | camp were found three persons still| held for service although their dis-l charge had been ordered. The report| was bng, t*ut it wag on such an 4 m portantsut ject that it held the closest 4 attention of the entire house. Five hundred copies for the use of, members were ordered printed, and| when it comes up for discussion a lively debite is certain to be had. The Legislature will be in forty or sixty days. Oartow Superior Court. Court met at the usual hour, pres-1 ent his Honor J. C. Fain, Judge of s iid court. The jurors were organized, ex-1 cepting the charge to the grand jury. | The first hu-iness was the setting o<j cts* s f. .r. Thur-d ay, after which court | a journed until Tuesday morning at* 8 o’clock in respect to the memory of j Cos!. AhiU Johnson, who died on tbe| 10th instant. O I Tuesday morning the usualS able and ci ar charge was given th*4 grand j try suit! they at once entered j upon their duties. The court is now engaged in nr-, ranging cases lor trial under the; rules. f Next Monday the criminal docket will be taken up. - Several visiting attorneys are in attendance, among whom are MeCutchen, Col’s Shumate, Culber son, Ecwiu, Trippe aud Moo*. f CARTERSYILLE, GA., TUESDAA r , JULY 12, 1881. HE SINKS TO REST. Mournful and Distressing News for the ' People of Cherokee Georgia. It is with unspeakable sorrow that? we are called upon to announce the j deatli of Col. Abda Johnson, wh<f j departed this lit: on last Sabbath af | ternoon. Since January Ir*st he hasp: a been confined to his room and house, h suffering with a severe and painfu*! ittack of rheumatism. lender tin care of skilfull and devoted medical attention he had so far recovered | from his very dangerous attack as tojp ; luapiro almost certain hope of a| speedy restoration to Ids usual health Evidently he was on the high road top health and the resumption of hL-|j usual heavy duties as a member of)'- the bar of the Cherokee circuit, thus" relieving the minds of his family andl rrieadsuf the great anxiety which f nis disease had created. While sitting alone iu his library; room on Sabbath last he was hearu to make an unusual noise, as if o! -j suffocation, when on some of hi family entering his room lio was-1 found struggling for breath and in a I few moments after being laid dow’b | jeeased to breathe forever. Thus has this long and painful <*ontest ended, and our whole com jleft to mourn this lo*s*. I “Death loves a shining mark.” In the last few years has this truth been most painfully illustrator I among the members of the bar ol the Cherokee circuit: First, Cos) [Warren Akin, the well-known and ;;ble lawyer and member of the Con [federate Congress; Next, the Hon. Dawson A. Walker, formed judge ol the Superior court of the Cheroke* circuit ami afterwards associate ju ice of the Supreme Court of Gem gia; Next the Hon. Amos T. Aker on an, former attorney-General of tin United States and member of Gen [Grant’s cabinet, and .justly- regardeo jss one of the ablest lawyers of tin Commonwealth; and, last, though j lot least of all, our departed fellow citizen and fiiend, Col. Abda John son, former legislator of the State, Colonel in the Confederate service, and *i th time of i.k death the gen rally admitted and . pronounce leader of the bar of this circuit. Thi.- high position, so proudly gained and worthily worn, ranked him decidedly imong the first lawyers of the state and long will it be before the gaj created by this decease shall be filled. if ever. In the intercourse of life he wic the unpretending, modest, yet ele gant and accomplished gentleman, Hid without any pretentious man nerism, was the post courteous, kin< considerate and polite gentleman wi ever knew. Strong in his attach ments, he was an invaluable friend. ,caving kind remembrances behind mm on the hearts of the poor and ob scure of his goodness and unbkuzone< charities. No kinder husband, moro !e and tender father than he. Th< j family*and the social circle have 10-1 i heir best and most valued ornament while among his brethren of the bat out one sentiment of deep regret pr* vails at the departure of their fore most man. We look for him invol autarky in tlie room where the com is now in session, and the painfu knowledge of his lamented taking <>fi turns us away to the little mound ii thes neighboring cemetery, where ii j -ilence he shall sleep until the trUin i pet sounds. Andjtero we leave him j slumbering in the faith of the Moth j odist church, of which he was a j-trong believer for more than half r century. ACTION OF THE BAR. Cartel’.sviLL k, July 11, 1331. The bar of Cartersville met thi> ■A, M. at the court house to take suitable action in regard to the dealt) ;f Col. Alula Johnson. | Col. M. It. Siansell was called to -the chair and John 11. Wikle re quested to act as secretary, il lie object of the meeting was stated by A. M. Foute, F-q. On motion of A. P. Wofford, the chairman appointed Messrs. A. P, Wofford, James B. Conyers, R. W. iiMurphey, T J. Lyon, F. P. Gray, J. W. Harris, Jr., T. W. Akin and S. R. Attaway, as pall-bearers. On motion of F. P. Gray, Esq., he chair appointed Messrs. T. W Akin, A. M. Foute and E D. Gra ham a committee to draft suitable I'-esolutions on the death of Col. |Johnson and to report at some fu ture meeting. On motion of A. N. Foute, E-q. he bar was requested to attend the funeral services in a body. On motion of J. W. Harris, jr., the bar was requested to wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days in respect to Col. Johnson. On motion, his honor, Judge Fain Was requested to adjourn the Supe- ) rior Court, alter organizing, to B}j o'clock, Tuesday morning. The meeting then adjourned to | ueet on Jhe call of the chairman. | M. 11. Stans ell, Ch’mn. | John 11. Wikle Secretary. FROM A WANDERER .Letter from an old and familiar citizen who is now out West. La Junta, Col., June 21, ISBI. Dear Neil: —lt has been almost one h eai ago since I left your little peace jiul town with my brow burning hot vith the westeren fever and it has een almost that long since I wrote vou last. During that time I have visited iki, principal mining camps, Silver Cliff, Ruseta, Leadviile, Rob uson, Ivokoneo and others of this -stale hut have not been siizvd by the nining fever yet. Mining seems to pave no attraction for me, I am daz |zled for a moment when I am told or ead of some magnificent strike, sold >ut for some enormous price, but when I meet a d< zen poor heart bro ken, careworn, poor fed and hardly ised old prospectors who tell me hey have been pro-pectiug in Cala oruia ami Colorado for the past fif teen or twenty y ears and that to-day itiey have no better prospects than he first day they began buoyant vi h hope. I must say I feel some i hat discouraged in that direction. And again, I know at precent there is only some forty or fofty-five pay ! ng mines in the Hate of Colorado. |£ do not mean holes in the ground, I >oid for fabulous prices, but paying mines. Now I know the state of Colorado lias been prospected ever •ince ISSO, thirty years, and that, luring that time there has been at he least calculation, five thousand prospectors at work each year upon oi average. Now, with these facts erore me and with no reason to be ieve that I would be more fortunate ban the average prospector, I had •ut littie encouragement to go pros >ecting, Mining proper, in a devel >ptd mine offers no higher wages nd hence no superior inducements o ang other occupation; A mine, when dsseovertd, is sold to some eastern Company or capitalist and worked by them with large ma :hinery and hired labor. For these easons, besides numerous others, I lave not, nor do I intend to engage in mining pursuits. I have no con iidenee whatever, in the permanency it any of the mining camps of the State. Should you and I live out ur allotted time we shall see, in my lumble opinion, tiie prairie dog and the eayote resume their sway on Garrison avenue. 1 will talk to you husly and ttie next man you may ueet, who has bee'ii here equally an lung andjprobably has had as good m opportunity to know such tnings .a I, will tell you exactly to the con rary. You never will, in this coun ry, meet.a prospector or old miner vho will not soon inform you of his xcelient prospect holes and tell you he large assays they have from it, he length ayd breauth of the ‘’Hue usher vein, but they never can i-ay hat tiny ever were offend, or ever \ ill get ten dollars for the hole. I have told you what I have not lone and why I did not do it. Ii uoyv behooves me to say vvluyt X have lone and why I did it: 1 will first preface what I may say with this, that I have not, as m> inends in their letters seem to thins, been accustomed to plenty to tat, and feather beds or spring mattresses sleep upon lut my dear sjr X have with a good grace munched the “hardstock” and slept upon the bor rowed overcoat spread upon the great American desert with no other covering than “the blue canopy of heavt u.” There I have rented mv weary limbs aud dreamed, O! happy |d reams, of the sweet bygones which Sure oniy mine to remember, j have ihowever been very fortunate in se curing good positions at good wages. I was for three months engaged in 'he forwarding bussiness at a salary of seventy-five dollars per. month and after that was ticket agent and hill clerk at the Denver and Rio Grande depot in Canon City for about five months at a salary of $65 per month, besides a commission on coupon tickets. On account of the very close confinement my health became bad and I was forced to re~ ■Jgn, since that time I have in the true sense of the word “roughed” it until withiu the last few days, I have secured the position of express mes senger with the Adams express com pany and run from this place, La Junta, (pronounced La Hoouter) to Doming, N. M., a distance of five hundred and severity-eight miles Detning is the junction of the A. T. & S. F. and the Southern Pacific and is but a short distance from old Mex ico and the Arizona line. I have made but one trip, as the scenery and the Mexican and Indian towns are something so entirely new to me. KfThe Indian is seen in his original dress, living in the same house they occupied a hundred years ago. An Indian adobe house has an appear ance of neglect and poverty no ne gso’s house in Georgia can possibly assume. It is amusing to see the larger ones, with the little naked ones, climb out on top of their little flat-roofed houses and sit there in the sun gazing at the train as it passes. The larger ones carry the little ones strapped on their backs in the old fashioned way. I did not know the Indians ever met to wor ship their God, but evidently they do, because they have their churches in their larger towns, with its two or three bel’s and spires. An ludian town has more dirt, more bed-bugs and more solid discomfort, jndging from their looks, than any man in the world can imagine unless he can see one in the lower part of Mexico near the Arizona line. A Mexican town is is but little better. The weather is intensely warm in Doming and the dust is from four to eight inches deep. The smallest wind will rai-e such a dust that you cannot see twenty feet before you, and during a gust of wind you must breathe through your teeth, I run from here to Doming in 34 hours, get a sleep of eight hours and run back iu the same time. That consti tutes a week’s work, hence, you see 1 have three nights to lay over here aed rert up. In goiug from here to Doming we cross the Rio Grande river just oe tl ;w Albuquerque (pro nounced Albukirk) and run for two hundred miles on the west side of the river. Deming is some ninety miles due west of El Paso, and west of the Rio Grande about the same. I try to locate it for you, for unless you have a very recent map you will be unable to find it, for it was not in existence until very recently. Mrs. E. still remains in Canon City, She stands the hardships of this country admirably and, though born to greater things she does her own cooking and washes the [smaller pieces without a murmur, like the true little heroine that she is. Hoping that I have not tired you, and that I will receive at least one copy of your sprightly paper, I re main as ever, J, A. Baker. Inquiry after cur Fair Poet. To the Editor of The Expres ; Who is “liatti of “Bonny Brook ?” Please request her to give us something more just as she has written. Sexex. Our venerable friend is respect fully referred to the cardinal law cf newspaperdom which forbids the di vulge! ice of a norn de plume. We deliver the request to ‘•Hattie” with the remark that it conveys no small compliment even if it does come from an old man. His heart has not been, nor will it ever be, enough sered by the struggles of a long, eventful and useful life to fail to re spond to the touch of a true, simple and beautiful minstrel. Xegro Drowse*. Another case of drowning is re ported from the Seventeenth Dis trict, which occurred at TumUn’s Ferry Friday evening last. Frank Howard, a netro, who had been digging a w< II for Mr. W. H. Gil bert, on the R. M. Stiles place while crossing on the fiat fell from a sitting position on the gunwale. It is not known what caused his fall. His body was recovered Sunday after noon in a frightfully decomposed state. REPORTORIAE RACKET. James Attaway is the watchman it the car-factory. Grass gets its dew Somewhat dif ferent with a printer. Virgil Williams is doing the roof ing at the car-factory. Don’t forget The Express while you are in attendance upon court. Harrison Sligh. a former resident of Bariow, died iu Alabama recently. Harris Best has returned from a vi6it to the Southern part of the state. It has been stated on the streets that the Free Press has changed hands. Capt. J. L. Rice, of Nashville, took his departure for Nashville to-day. Several hundred old newspapers cau be bought at this office very cheap. Hugh Young is now taking a short vacation. He visited Atlauta last week No country watertnecons in yet. Will Jim Field, of Pumpkiuvine, please rise and explain. The man who didn’t complain of beat during the past few days must be second cousiu to a salamander. Thomas O. Roberts, of the Ala bama & Chattanooga railroad, spent a day or two of last week with us. The attendance upon court is quite large, show ihg that the farmers, as a general thing, are well up iu their crops. Mr. J. T. Norris is foreman of the grand jury this week, but on certain occasions he resigns in favor of Dr, Lelaud. Do not tell a man he lies. It is vulgar. Say that his conversation suggests to your mind a summer-resort circular. We will take anything in payment of subscription except old rags. A bountiful supply already ou hand. The Curry and Johnson building is being erected with due speed. The con tract is iu the hands of that old veteran, N. S. Eaves. Nothing adds so much vigor to the country editor’s style as the knowledge that there is a peck of meal and a mackerel in the house. It is now quite time for us to de cide what farmer has raised the largest wa termelon. Bring them along and let us do the measuring. Mr. Charles B. Willingham, of the Dalton Argus , and stenographic reporter of this circuit was in town yesterday, file gives a most encouraging report of bis paper. Miss Mary Lou Young returned from South Carolina on Saturday last. . She will spend a short vacation with her family and fiends here after which she will resume her duties. The city council made city assess ors at or.G meeting and cut off their official heads at the next. It is the opinion of many in the community that the city council, ought to have some kind of a rudder. The Ideal Dramatic Company is stranded at Cedartown. Traveling compa nies iu the south at this season of the y< ar generally have a rough time and should ai • ways go prepared with a pair of roller skates. We are in receipt of a handsome pamphlet catalogue of the Bartow Instiloi* at Adairsville, and its lists are full. Prof- Dickey, the principal, is gaining new laurels every day. We call attention to the adver tisement of this school iu *olamn. Jere Field is now a lone widower, Mrs. Field having departed last week for a visit to her people in Kentucky. Miss Char lotte Kirkpatrick, a popular young miss of our town, accompanied her as far as Millere burg, Kentucky, where she will cuter school to remain two year3. We paid a flying visit to Bartow Iron Works last week and found everything in busy preparation for starting up about the latter part of August. Mr. John H. Johns is uow in charge of affairs and with his expe rience and faithfulness there can be uo doubt of the ultimate success of Bartow. Dr. Memmler has been spending several days iu town the past week. lie rc* pons his gold mine as very flourishing. Col. J. W. Pritchett, who is connected with the mine is also in town alter several months of absence. AVc are glad to notice the Colonel’s fine uppeararce. The mountains have evi dently agreed with him. Will Hudgins, the young fireman oif the “Amos G. West,” is one of the moat industrious young men in the land aud hit •liorts lully prove that he is entering upom the duties of life in the proper spirit. By tho time the loafing town-boy is forced to pull a p ow line over a mule’s back he will be the mister of a fine trade, aud therefore, inde pendent, _____ We desire to call the attention of those in need of such goods to the elegant stock of harness, saddles, etc , kept by \Y. 0. Bowler, lie doubtless has the largest stock ever kept in the city, from which can be se lected geods to suit the taste and purse of every purchaser. Mr. Bowler’s reputation, built up by loug years of faithful, arduous labor and fair aud honest dealing is a suffi cient guarantee of the goods he sells. Give him a call. The young men of Cartersville have organized a military company under the name of the Cartersville Light Infantry. The following named are the officers: Captain, M. L. Sohnson; Ist Lieutenant, T. M. Smith; 2nd Lieutenant, C. A. Moon; Ist Sergeant, 8. R- Attaway; end Sergeant, G. Harwell; 3d Ser geant, S. R. Phillips; 4th Sergeant, H. D. Williams; slh Rergeant, W . H. Best; Ist Cor poral, R. A. Williams; 2nd Corporal, L. G. Joues; 3d Corporal, George McGuiie, 4th Corporal, W. A. Skinuer, NO, 22