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VOL. 0. THE WEEKLY Cartersville Express Is puMinheTcvery p 1 kiTT) A.7Z~ morning. in Cartersville, Bartow County, Ga., by Sam’l H, Smith, Proprietor, at '|’hhek OoIIUIM, per an num. utricth/ in advance ; Two Dollar* for Hix Month*; One Dollar for Three Month*. Ailverti»emerit* for one month, or less time One Dollar per nquarc. (i>f ten. line* or less,) for each insertion ; all other advertisement* will be charged Fifty per cent on old prices. PROFESSIONAL CARDS!” JEBE A. HOWARD, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. CARTERSVILLE, GA. PRITCHETT 4- IVOFFORI), Att orn cy s at Law. CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE OVER ELSAS STORE, Oct. IT, 13(17, THOMAS W. MILNER, Attorney at Law, CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, Will aticml promptly to business entrusted to hi* care. Oct. 5 wly John €. 15 rnn4 oli , ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, KINGSTON, GA. PRACTICES LAW in the several coun ties of the Cherokee Circuit, also, Polk, ll'irral*on and Floyd counties, Prompt at tention given to business. Nov. 23. ly (Professional cards .$lO cash perannum.J JOHN J. JO NES attorney at law. Cartersville , Ga. WILL attend promptly to all business en trusted to hi*care. Will practice in the Courts of law, and equity in the Cherokee Circuit. Special attention given to the codec tion of claims. Jan. 1. 1860, ly John J- Jones. JOHN J.JONES REAL ESTATE ACJE.YT, CARTERSVILLE GA 1 »n authorized to sell, and have on hand several JI ,mo < and hot*, slid alio numerous building lots in the town of Oarteravtlte. Also several plantations of vuri ous sizes In Barlow county. I’arties desiring to buy or «*ill will »1 > well to give must call. All comiuuniCttUons promptly answered. July I*L 1800. S u r geo it a ti <1 Mechanical Dentist. rpilE undersiirned respeotfully offer his pro | session il services to the ctiaens of (ar tersvillc ami vicinity.-iz-jgstx He is prepared to do all kinds of 'JttAyvSS wo: '' belonging to hi* profession. lull setts of teeth put in an gold plate. Work all war ranted. F. M. JOHNSON, Cortcrsvillc, Feb. 13. ® in ° DR. HUGH A. BLAIR, Physician and Surgeon, Gariersville, Georgia. 30 F.HPF.CYFULLY teuders h!s professional services to \ tlie public. t JifOllice ki his residence, on Main St., t**- resi de* e or Ur. P. Marsh. Ju,ie 21 - TAIL O. PINKERTON, | y Cartersville, Georgia. Tenders his professional st'vices to the citizens of arlersvllle and surrouudlnK country, and will » it" l r nit at nil hours. Ollics up-stairs in l)r. Samuel U»J ,O', New Brick Building* May 10. lsSJ.ivly Lan ic r H ous c, MAR.IETTA, OA., by ELLISON A DOBBS, r> oprietors riMUS House is located iu a few steps of the I Railroad, where the.car* stop. Passengers take three meals a day here. Meals prepared a all hours. july 24. S. 11. Pat till O, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, ■FTfrill attend promptly to tiie Cutting, Repair \t uir and M aklug Iluv's and Men’s Clo-hlng. wa Office in back room Os llialr ,t Bra Jshaw'S store, fl.# Cartersville, Ga. Dress Tailor. IS prepared to execute all kinds of work in the Fashionable Tail !ii iug line, with neatness and in du- ..1,1 rable style. Over J. Elsas & Cj’s store, Cartersville, jau 25. jT W- MAXWELL, BRICK MASON. Is prepared to ilo all kinds of work in Brick anil tone at short notice, lias on hand a tine lot of newly burned brick and Is prepared to do work upon the most reasonable terms. Cartersville Ga.. May Sr.L IS6T. Tlie Cartersville Hotel. DR. THOMAS MILAM bavins charge of this House, would be fie! pli used to accommodate a few Hoard- H J i 5 ers with BOARD, with <u without Lodging. Call and see him at once for terms Cartersville, Jan 17. MEADOR & BRO’S: TOBACCO Commission Merchants. (UNDER UNITED STATES HOTEL.) ATLANTA, GEORGIA. aug 15, \v3ru, j7h. PURTELL! MERCHANT TAILOR, White Hall Street 7 Atlanta, Ga. CII.OTHINO made to order in the very ) latest style, and at short notice. Oct 25. 3t. Notice. I respectfully notify those parties who have made accounts with me. and tailed to comply with the terms, that I shall be under the necessity ot placing all such accounts in suit unless paid now promptly. W. H. GILBERT. Cartersvillc, Sept. 27, 1867 fiissolution of late JFirm. The Law Firm of Wofford and Parrott here tofore existing has this day been disolved bv mutual consent. The business hetetofore un dertaken by said firm will be jointly attended toby them. Each member of said firm will continue the practice of law in Cartersvillc on individual account. WM. T. WOFFORD, J.R. PARROTT, Nor, 7th. 1867 4t, THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS. CARTERSVILLE ADVERTISEMENTS, ECLIPSE! Sf Et(lU, J. G. Stocks, RESPECTFUI.LT notify the Public generally that he has just openned his New and Commodi ous LIVELY AND BALE STABLE, and has it stock ed with good horse*, bugzies, Ac., and is prepared to furnish those traveling into anil acres* trie country With any kind of private conveyance. He is also prepared to I! ,ard Stock in any quantity with comfort able quarters and bountiful feed at reasonable rates. Stock bought and sold at his stables, ifls stock all being fresh and equipage new lie tiutter himself with the belief tha* he can furnish hi* customers with as neat and complete an out-fit as any like establishment in Upper Georgia. All he asks to establish this fai tis a ti iai. CARTERSVILLE, GA., March 22, 1807. We are requested by C°l‘ J- G. Stock* to an nounce to the public, that he has bought out the Livery Stock of J. J. Jones Jr, a'd that the two Stables will be consolidated, and that tlie following list of price* will be strictly adhered to. Hack horse*,and driver per day $7,00 II rse. Buggy and Driver “ “ t ',OO liurse & Buggy “ “ J*,®® “ •• % day #'.so Sadd-e horse per “ f 50 .i “ •* % day $1,50 w. L. Kirkpatrick & Cos., Druggists, cartersville, ga. WILL keep constant on hand a well seeded stock of pure DRUGS AND MEDICINES. ©s& © * V tent Medicines* &c. Jones’ Carriage Repository, Jar, 17. mm-mm mmm G-A-Sli'S AJSTU CASKETS. By Erwin & Jones. ASSORTED sizes kept on hand. Also WOOD COFFINS made to order. A good" HEARSE ready at all hours. CARTERSVILLc.Feb I, 1807. wiy OLD DEBTS!! OLD DEBTS.'!! All persons indebted to the oh! Mercantile 111 iiis of in' CO.. and J, A. & S. ERWIN, are respeclluliy urg ed to make liberal payments on these debts out of the present wheat crop. All who refuse to respond to this call for only part payment will he sued. 1 hese debts are from six to ten years standing, and longer indulgence cannot lie giv en. Call at J. A. ERWIN &. CO.’S store where the • iaiins are, and make liberal pay ments and save suits. Cartersville, Ga., June 18, 18fi7. . «L MOUNTCASTLE, Jeweller and Watch and Clock Repairer, In the Front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s' store- Cartersville jan 25 W. M. Shackleford, Wholesale and Retail GRO C E R AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, CARTERSVILLE, GA. A GENT FOR UNIVERSAL LIFE IN- Y V SU RANGE COMPANY, of New York. Office in new Store next ;o Post Office. Aug. 15. wtc NO DECEPTION! MR. (rl PHRIE who has recently located inourtown is now receiving his fall stock ot tall Lry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Hats ,Vc. <Src, He. has employed as salesmen, two most ex- i eellent young men of ou>- midst,Mr. W. L. BRAY of our town and A. Y. CHAPMAN of Stile-boro. Asa further evidence of good taste, he de sires to show to all a well assorted stock of fall goods —which will be exhibited by these ob liging young men free of cost,and sold lor as I small amount of money as the same goods can l>e purchased elsewhere. P.S. Tell every body to bring-fur skins by the hundred—He wants 5000 Mink steins caught after Ist Nov., wi l pay most for those not split. Come and buy Steel Traps. Remember the place, Post Office street, first door north of ('apt. Jones’ brick Law Offi-.-s (Jartcrsville, Ga- Sept. 20, 1567. J. W. F. BESTr DEALER IN AND MEDICINES, Linseed, Tanners and Lard Oils. Paints, Putty, WindotT Glass, l>yc Stuffs of all kinds ALSO Ptent Medicines and TOILET ARTICLES SUCH AS SOAPS- IBZR/CrSEmB Combs, Perfumery &c. &c. CARTERS YILLE, G A . sept .30,1867 1867 ' ito Jail M m inter 1867, JnMSooH |).iece (fobfe, Clolpng, §oob anb §>\m, HARDWARE, 1 1 $ 1111 g, cvv&b&y. OSNABURGS, €©fl©S mi COUNTRY PRODUCE bought and sold Highest price paid for hides, im BEESWAX, FEATHERS, Old Copper, BxctsSg LIAS), Sint fe st. Agt. for wrap ping Paper. Mercliauts can buy it in any quantity at Mill prices. J. ELSAS, Main Street, Cartersville, Ga. Oct 17, IS67—wly. CARTERSVILLE, GA., NOVEMBER 29, 1807. Tiie poem below is as seasonable as it is beautifully expressed ; railing Leaves. They are falling, slowly falling, Thick upon the forrs-s side, Severed from the noble branches, At heie they waved in beauteous pride. They are fall ing ir. Ue valleys, Where the early violets spring And the birds in sunny spring time First their dulcet music sing. They aie falling, sadly falling, Close beside our cottage door ; Pale and faded, like the loved ones, 1 hey have gone forevermore. They are falling, and the sunbeam s Shine in beauty soft around ; \ et the faded leaves are falling, Falling on the mossy ground. They are falling on the streamlet, V\ here the silvery waters flow, And upon the placid bosom Onward tvith the blue waters go. They are falling in the church-yard, Where our kindred sweetly sleep, Where the idle winds of summer Softly o’er the loved ones sweep. They are falling, ever falling. When the autumn breezes sigh. When the stars in beauty glisten Bright upon the midnight sky. They a-e falling when the tempest Moans like ocean’s hollow roar ; When the tuneless winds and billows Sadly sigh forevermore. They are falling, they arc falling, W hile our saddened thoughts still go To the sonny days of childhood, In the dreamy long ago, And their faded hues remind us Os the blasted hopes and dreams Faded like the falling leaflets Cast upon the icy streams. THE lOUMJ MOTHER’S EES NOY. ‘•You look sober, Bella, what’s the matter ?” The remark and question came from Aut t Rachel, who had called io spend an efiernoon and take tea with her niece. “ I feel sober just at this time, aunt ” •‘ No unusual cause for uncomforta ble feelings, I hope,” said Aunt Rachel, the pleasant light which had come into her face beginning to lade away. “Oh, no, nothing unusual, lt’slhe old story with me. There are a few days in which I am not disturbed or made to (eel unhappy.” “Whv, Bella, this is very strange news; disturbed, and made to feel un happy everyday? You pain me very much by such an acknowledgement. What has gone wrong with you ?” ••Nothing wrong with myself aunt.” was tlie reply, “but that oldest boy of mine is growing so self-willed, disobe dient and ungovernable, that I’m in half despair about him.” “I am sorry to hear that, Bella. Perhaps you have indulged and humor ed him too much.” “1 think not. From the very be ginning, I have made it a rule to re press, so fir as lay in my power, everything disorderly and evil; to require strict obedience to my word on pain of certain punishment. No, aunt. I do not think the fault lies at my door. Edward has a strange disposition. I don’t know what to make of him sometimes. He seems bent on doing the things I interdict. Only- half an hour ago I found him in the library with a handsome book lying upon tlie floor, marking some ol tlie fine illus trations with a pencil. Once befote I had punished him for this very thing, and here it was again.” “And you punished him again?” “I did, severely,” “Where is he ?” “Shut in a room by himseli?” “Overhead ?” “Yes, that’s him pounding' on tire floor now. Just hear the r.oise lie is making! And it isn’t ten tninutessince I threatened to whip him, if he did it again.” Bella went hastily from the room, and going half way up stairs, called out in a sharp commading voice— “ You Ed ward !” The hammering ceased in an instant. “What did I say to you about the noise a little while ago?” No answer. “Edward !” There was no kindness, no softness, no motherly love in the voice that uttered liie name. “Do you hear me, Sir ?” Slid no response. “YVhv don’t you answer me?” The mother was growing excited. “Edward; if vou don’t answer me, I'll punish you severely !” A sulky muttering now came from the room. “Don’t let me hear that noise again, sir, or you will be sorry for it.” “Can’t I come out. mother? I’m tired of staying here.” “No, sir, you can’t come out, you naughty boy !” “I will come out !” screamed the child, with a sudden wildness o( man ner. as if he had crown desperate ; and he rattled the lock and kicked passion ately against the door. This was more than the excited mother could endure ; and springing up stairs, she unlocked the door and entered the prison room. Aunt Rachel sighed as she heard the rapidly follow ing strokes and the crie= of Eow^rd. “Yor see,” said Bella, as she re turned. with flushed face and angry looking eyes, to the sitting room, ♦•what trouble I have got before me.” Aunt Rachel did not reply. “I’ve never seen such a child,” she continued, “and 1 do not know what is ; ,n become of him. He prefers wrong to right always, and recognizes authori ty only for the sake of disobedience. If, in sending him from the room in consequence of some misdemeanor, I tell him to go tip stairs, lie will almost surely go down ; if I had said go down, he will go up. Always, he is desirous to gain the interd : ctej object. It is marvelous, this perversion of his mind. \ ou don’t know how it distresses me. There, just listen. lie is pounding on the floor as I live ! And v. hat is more lie will keep at it, in spite of threat and punishment. Now what am I to do with such a boy. aunt Rachel? I’ve tried every thing, but it’s of no use.” “Suppose. Bella, you let him come down and see me. Perhaps that will get him out of Itis present unhappy, state ot tnind.” “But, aunt,” objected the mother, “do you not see that lie would then consider himself as having triumphed?” “1 am not sure that lie would think anything about it. He would come into a better state of mind than tlie one that is now ruling him ; and this, it seems to me, would be something gained. It is in tlie sunshine that good affections grow, not in storm and darkness.” Delia sat reflecting for some time. She did not like tlie idea of yielding to her rebellious child in the smallest degree. Pride and love of rule influ enced her as much as a sense of duly, perhaps a little more. In giving up, site felt that she must experience a degree of humiliation. “Forgve him this time, for my sake,” urged aunt Rachel. "I shall not enjoy my visit, if he is under punishment all tlie afternoon.” “Alter a further debate with herself, the mother left the room and went up to the room where her imprisoned hoy was. He was pounding tlie floor when she turned tlie key and entered. ‘•Edward !” She spoke sternly The little fellow started up with a look half defiant. “You are a very naughty boy.” Edward set his lips firmly and knit his lair young brows. “How dare you pound on the floor, after I had forbidden it ?” Edward moved back a step or two. There was danger in his mother’s eyes. “Why don’t you answer me when 1 speak ?” “I couldn’t help it, mother, stam mered the child. “Couldn’t help it! Ain’t you afraid to give mo such an anwer?” and a hand moved half involuntarily, as if a blow was about to follow. “Aunt Rachel is down stairs?” ••Oh, is she ?” The two little hands came together with a sound like a kiss, and waves of sunshine swept •suddenly over a face that was dark and stormy a moment before. “I have a great mind not to let you see Iter, after all this bad behavior.” The mother could not forgive him. Instantly tlie smile went out from Ed ward’s face, but he looked neither pen itent nor deprecating. She turned Irom him as if she would leave him still in prison ; but there was no sign of weak ness— only the disfiguring scowl on his face, that made it so painful to look upon. “Come,” said the mother, coldly extending her hand. Edward advanced with slow steps, and gave his hand in a reluctant man ner, as i! there was no pleasure for him in the touch, and following her down into the sitting room. “Here’s that naughty boy.” This was Edward’s introduction to his moth er’s aunt. “Now, don’t pout your lips after that fashion,” was added, reprovingly.— “Kiss Aunt Rachel.” Edward wauled to throw his arms ab.’ut Aunt Rachel’s neck, and kiss her to his heart’s content, but the reproof and command sent an evil spirit of resistance into him, and he merely put up his lips with an air which said to his mother, who did not see his face, ‘I don’t w"nt to kiss her.” But Aunt Rachel saw love in his eyes. “If you can’t behave better, go up stairs again !” “Oh, he’s behaving nicely,” said Aunt Rachel, as she drew an arm around the boy; and then began to talk to him in a way that commanded all his attention. But his mother would give him no peace. It was “Don’t lide on your aunt in that way, or— “ Just see, there, you rude fellow, your leet are on Aunt Rachel’s dress;” or “Don’t twist your shoulders so!” or— “ You had belter go away from Aunt Rachel, you are annoying her.” “Not in the least,” au*u Rachel re plied to this, drawing her loving arms about the pleased child, in whose bright face she read a volume of golden promise, if there were only a wise hand to turn the leaves. But half an hour did not pass before Edward and his mother came into direct collision, and he was sent in disgrace from the room. “Now, what Em 1 to do, aunt Rach el?” said the mother, in a half despair ing voice. “You see what a self-willed, disobedient and reckless boy he is. How he resists me in everything ? \Yhat am 1 to do ?” “Learn the first lesson in governing others,” replied Aunt Rachel, with considerable gravity and manner. “What is that?” asked her neice. “To govern yourself.” “Aunt Rachel'” “I mean just what I say ; and until I you learn to do this, you will strive in vain with your child. Anger awakens anger; harshness naturally produces antagonism; ofr.-repea?ed punishments, and fpr trival are offenses, the parents of rebellion ; but love. Bella, quickens love into hie. There is more true power lor good in the tender,sympathet ic tones ol a mother, warm with a motherly love, than in her most imper ative command or sternest inter diction. Her mission is to lead, not to Drive her children in the right way.” Aunt Rachel paused to rote tlie efleet of her plainly spoken admonition. Her neice had a startled look, but she made m reply. “I have not heard you speak a kind, approving word to that hov since I have been here.” resumed Aunt Rachel. “How can I speak approvingly when lie does wrong? How can 1 encour age him to disobedience hv smiling when he sets my commands at deft* ance?” “1 fear, Bella, that you can call many things wrong that are Gone in nocently iu part. You follow him up too close, and scold him too much for tilings that are of no account. Forgive me, Bella, lor this plain talk ; but 1 see your error so plainly that 1 must point it out. You have forgotten the pithy adage about honey catching more flies than vinegar. Try the horey, mv dear—try the honey. lam sadly afraid that you are shadowing the life of the child—shutting out the sunshine, by which alone good plants can vegetate in the garden of tiis soul. I have seen little besides an evil growth to-day, yet down among the ranky springing weeds, trying to struggle up into the air and light a lew flowers of affection for these as for precious treasures; water them with tiie dew of love, and let the heart’s sunshine go down into the earth around them. Don’t think so much of the repression and exter mination of evil, as about tlie growth and development of good. But, first, ol all put your house in order. Regulate your own heart. Repress anger, pride, self will, love of ruling, indignation at rebellion—let only affection reign in } our heart, and thoughts oi’your child’s good fill your mind.” Bella sat in a kind of bewildering silence, and her aunt kept on “Will you not act upon my sugges tion ; go to Edward and speak to him as if you loved him. Let him feel the love in your voice, and see it in your eyes ; and, as the magnet attracts iron, so will you attract him. Forget that he offended you ; or if you would think of it and speak of it, be as though you were grieved, not angry. Love to his mother will bind him to the law of obedience, when fear ot punisment would only impel him to us valua tion.” Bella arose quickly. Sue looked into tier aunt’s lace, but made no response. Tears were in her eves as she left the apartment. Going up stairs into the room in which Euward had been ban ished. she opened the door and went in with a quiet step. The boy started as si.e entered, and looked around from his work of marking with a pencil on the white window sash. He was doing wrong, and being caught in the act, expected punishment, or an angy lec ture. So he put on his usual look of defiance. But his mother, instead of blazing out upon him, as was her wont, sat down in a strange, quiet way, and said, » Edward,’ so softly and gently that lie could only stand and look at her in surprise. “ Edward,” she repeated his name, and now with a tenderness that made his heart leap. Her hands were held out towards him. Dropping the pencil he advanced a step or two, looking wonderingly at his mother. She still held out her hands. “ Conte dear.” He was by her side in an instant.” “Do you love mother?” An arm was gently wound around him. He did not answer in words, he put his arm around her neck and kissed her. What a thrill of pleasure went trem bling to her heart. “ l love Eddy.” The arms tightened about her neck, and the little head went down nestling upon her bosom. “Oh, I lo' eyoe so much!” The half smothered voice was full of childish earnestness. “Will Eddy be good for mother?” “I won’t never be naughty again !” Edward stood up speaking in a reso lute way, and looking full into his mother’s face, “If I can help it,” he added, a little less confidently. “Oli, Eddy can help it if he will,” said his mother, smiling encouragement into his face. Something was on the lip of the bey, but he kept it back from utterance. “What is it, dear? What are you going to say ?” Tims encouraged, Edward said, drop ping liis eyes as he spoke: “I’ll forget, sometimes, I’m almost sure I will, but “But what, dear?” “Don’t scold me then mamma. Kiss me. and I will be sorry.” He cauglit bis breath with a sob,and his mother drew his head against tier bosnm and laid her tearful face down among his golden curls. When they entered tie sitting room, Aunt Rachel saw that all was right with them. She held out her hand to Edward, who came and stood, with a bappy-looking face, by h°r side. Scarcely within her memory had the mother spent so pleasant an afternoon. Edward, of course, soon fogol himself, soon meddled with forbidden things, made unseemly noises, or conduc.cd himself in a way that tried severely his mother’s patience. But she controlled herself—and it required no light effort to use honey instead of vinegar—to speak in affectionate remonstrance, in stead of angry threats —and instantly' the troubled waters grew still. She could not but notice the singular dis ference, in effect, between the loud, emphatic and commanding utterance in which she bad so long indulged, and the quiet, loving words mow spoken in under tones. Will then oppi sed itself to will hut now lore yielded to love. I he hoy, once so rebellions was now anxious to gain his mother’s approval. She had governed herself, and the work of governing her child, so impossible before, became a thing of easy achieve ment. ‘•Don t forget it. dear,” sahf Aunt Rachel, as site held the hand of her niece, in parting at the close of her visit. “Never,” was the earnest reply.— on have removed scales ‘rout my eyes, and selfishness, self-will and passion shall never blind 1:1c again. I will try to govern my child—trv to stiimil ite the growth of loving aff-c --tion, rather than give up all thought to the weeds, in seeking to tear up which I have already hurt so im.iiv tender plants.” “All, mv dear child, that is the (rite way,’ replied aunt. Rachel. “If you can get the life forces of his young spirit to flow vigorously into the good plants, wilt soon spring up into the sunny air, spreading out their branches and striking their roots wide and deep into the earth, leaving the evil plant to droop and wither for lack of nourishment.” [From the Savannah Republican. I nffeil XfatcsCant ts lor Soulh eru BJslrlcl vfdeurgla, CIRCUIT COURT. IION. JOilft (JRSKINE, JUDGE, PRESIDING. November 1;j, 1867.—The petit jury was called and discharged until 10 o’clock on Monday morning. Sarah. A. A. Shelton et. al. Vs. Si meon Rodgers, Executor—lit Equity. The hearing of this case was resumed and the testimony on part .of the respondent was read. It appeared from the evidence that the executor pu r . chased in February, 1865, bonds of the State of Georgia, of two classes, to the amount of the legacies due the com plainants, which he tenders in court in payment of such legacies, of which the following arc copies : CLASS r. Milledoevii,i.e, Ga., January 15, 1862. —Receivable in payment of all dues to the State, and to the W estern and Atlantic Railroad. The State of Georgia will pay to bearer five dollars, redeemable in eight per cent. State bonds or specie, six months after a treaty of peace, or when the banks of Savannah and Augusta resume specie payments, if before that time. Signed by the Comptroller General and Treasurer of State. CLASS 11. Milledceville, Ga., February 1, 1863. —Receivable in payment of all dues to the State and the Western and Atlantic Railroad. The State of Georgia will pay bearer ten dollars in specie or six per cent, bonds of ibis State, six months after a treaty of peace shall have been ratified between the United States and the Confederate States. Signed by the Comptroller General and Treasurer of Slate. These notes bore no endorsement whatever, and there was no written evidence made at the time to show that they were set apart as the property of the legatees. Judge Law, with his usual ability, addressed the court on behalf of the complainants, at the conclusion of which the court adjourned to 16 o’clock to-morrow morning. DISTRICT COURT. HON. JOHN ERSKINE, JUDGE, PRESIDING. November 15, 1867. 'The petit jury was Called and discharged until 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. At the request of cx-GoVernor J. E. Brown, as counsel for Foster Blodgett, Mayor of Augusta, the grand jury were brought into court, and after their names were called the counsel stated to the court that there was pending be fore the grand jury a charge of perjury against said Blodgett, and proposed to challenge several members of said jury on the ground that they had been en gaged in the late rebellion, and as counsel, he said, because his client had reason to believe, and did believe, that he would not receive justice at the hands of the jurors named. After hearing the argument of ex* Governor Brown in support of his motion, District Attorney Fitch, who was in New York at the time of the empanelling of the grand jury, address ed the court in ■ u el queut and spirited argument in opposition to the motion, in which he contended that it was only the Government that could take ad vantage of the provisions of the act of Congress passed on the 17th of June, 1862. 13th, Statutes at Large, page 430. The District Attorney desiring fur ther time to produce authorities in support of fiis position, the court ad journed the further hearing of the case until 9 o'clock termorrow morning. Freights os the .M. <i W. Rail road. — We are gialified to learn that freights on the Macon and Western Railroad has increased to some extent. A large amount of cotton having been raised on the line of this road, and ail of it seeking a distant market naturally increases, to some extent, the business of the road. Griffin alone ships from six to eight car loads of cotton per week, while Forsyth, Barnesville. and other depots ar.d stations fall but little below these figures.— Opinion. NO. 22. From the Nashville Banner) I f OSi! My Drain Goes Democrat.* I [to the popular air oe pitty-patJ ns su - ft by SENATOR BROWN LOW AND TIIAD DEUS STEVENS, ill character. [William G. D. as the ’pretty Carline,” and Thaddeus as the amiable Greppo.) Both sing : CIIOHOS. Oh ! my brain (joes Democrat, Democrat f Oil f my hcuit goes whirligig, whirligig! Oil ! my brow goes rcbcMorn, robeldom ! D—n hail news! precisely oh l Brnwnlow (solus :) Trembling in each palsied knee. Thaddeus (ditto): Just niy symptoms to a "T.’* Brownlow (hopefully): News is had but might be worse. Thuddeus (derisively) News bo d— d—’taint Worth a curse, CHOItUS. Both singj Both our hvnins go Democrat, Democrat! Bulb our States go whirligig, whirligig ! Bath our knees go ftbeldom, rebeldoiu! That’s the case precisely, oh ! Rebeldom, whirligig. Democrat! Doubling, jubilee, chiekcn-orow! Democrat, rebe doin, whirligig I Don’t think we’ve done wisely, oh! IJrownlowJ Stand by me—l’ll staud by you! Thaddetts: “Stand,” bo d—d—What can you and« ? Brownlow : Why, 1 come .’n after sixty-eight!!! Thaddcus : I know you do but nr it’s —TOO LATE l !!!f CUOUI’S. Both sintr: All our lir>j>en Democrat, Democrat! 15 To our States go whirligig, whirligig! All the North goes rebeldom, rehelJoinl Can’t impeach precisely oh! Rebeldom, whirligig, Democrat! Juggle-in, Juggle-in, chicken-crow! Democrat, tettcldom, whirligig! To many thumbs in the ole von boo- t JOHN HAPPY. - Fi'oiiLWaHlilugfou. Washington, November 16.—Ste vens is quoted as saying: “We must take no steps backwards. The recon struction of the Southern States on tho basis of the military hill must be hur ried up, so that as many as possible of them may he represented in thecoming Presidential nominating Convention. ' 'The republican party would assuredly elect their nominee in the next Brest, deutiul contest, and there was no need to run after or coax any man into accepting their nominations. In less than three years they could recover the Northern States, and with tho Federal patronage, the loyal wliilw element ol the South would always carry the negro population with them, and thus give the party a base of power for the next fifty years. Cbtircli Musis-. A speaker in the Old School General Assembly said : --My venerable father once asked a man from a neighboring church, what kind of music they hail there. ‘lt was had,’ he said. The proverb was quoted *A bird that can sing, and will not must he made to sing,’—hue what, enquired the stranger, can he done with a bird that can’t sing, hut will sing? He said they had too many such birds, A leader of music, in a church where congregational sing, ing was practiced, selected a tune with the wrong metre, to be sung to tho words, ‘With hyssop purge mv soul, <) LortU’ He tride it twice, when some old lady cried out: ‘Mister, you had better try some other yerb.' ” THE amount of blo.nl in an adult is nearly thirty pounds, or full one-fifth of* the entire weight. The heart is six inches in length, ami four inches in diameter, and beats seventy times per minute, 4,206 times per hour, 166,866 times ner day, 37,772.000 times per year, 2,503,440,000 in three-score and ten, and at each beat two and a half ounces ol blood are thrown out of if, one hundred mill seventy-five ounces per minute, six hundred and fifty six pounds per hour, seven and three, fourths tons per day. All the blood in the body passes through the heart every three inmutes. A pert Miss in Portland was reading the parable of the wise and loolislt virgins, when she suddenly paused and began laughing. “Well, what did they forget?” asked the teacher encourag ingly. “They forgot tlwir kerosene,” promptly responded Miss Five-year old.” Ceylon lias a fig tree 2,155 vears old. There is documentary evidence that it was planted in the year 288, before Christ. It is estimated tiiat a million of children meet weekly in the Methodist Sunday Schools of this country, and 160,606 teachers. Baf* A few years ago the ladies wors a kind of hood called •kiss-me-if’-you dare. The present style of bonnet might he called, with equal propriety, ‘kisj me-if you-want-to.’ Forney’s Washington Chronicle says that miners consider the gold regime of Georgia superior to those of California. WQT The editor of 1 lie Fort Valley Times has been presented with soma sweet potatoes. He says ttiree of llicm "weigh.t seventeen pounds,” Prior to the war the bank circulation of Augusta, Ga., amounted to nearly 110,060.000, all of which w as well am! profitably employed in legitimate trade. Now the available bank circulation is about 8449,069.