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UG INJUN OVER THE RHINE.
Not long ago a delegation of Indian
Chiefs from the far west, who had
been on to vshington on business
connected " their tiibes, pass*
ed through C?| i en route for their
home; . Or ' " jflfr ber became
so inlavuated f~~?er that he
was left behir T touch
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noble re-' —.. .*on'±l.
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, J Mare Chance to Buy Goods Cheaper than
ever before Offered in this Jtlarhet JF*e have a
Large Lot of
which we offer for 30 cento per yard, worth 00 cents.
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Dj,® §§P Jifflit tfc a large asssortrrilnt, at 25 per cent less than cost
we offer at 35 cents per yard, worth 75 cents per yard.
hiOh’AGS, SHAWLS, Etc., Etc., at less than cost.
We' Offer, MJOVB&OOjLto .It
CJ«xss<jsiiiiioi*e we offer from $8 to $lB worth sl2 to $25.
Slate h JJufe fie Cinttf-tteuse m
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CARTERS l s ILL E, GEORGIA,
corner of Public Square and, Main street.
Having determined to
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OF
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we take this method of informing the
adjoining counties,
of that fact, and have mentioned above a few of tlic Arti
ticles to show what a GRE AT RKDUCTK >IV of Prices we have
made on our present stock of Goods.
and try us if you want to save from
25 TO 50 PER. CNT.
on your purehases ? for we will sell all goods as
above stated ; remember the place and firm.
LOEWENSTEIN & PFEIFER,
January 2-ith, 18G7.—wlm « gSMi CARTERSVILLE, GA.
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SAM’I. H. SMITH, Editor and Proprietor.
CartersvUle da, Jan. 24, 1868
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Tlie County Conservative 31cet-
Let every man who feels interested
in the succes of Conservative over Rad
ical principles and measures, in Bartcw
County, attend the meeting in this place
on Tuesday, the 4th d%y of Febuary.
Speeches will be made and a Uuion
Conservative Club Organized. Let
each Militia District in the County
send up a full delegation. Our friends
at the North and West are calling upon
US to rally, and prvparo for the coming
Presidential contest.
Tiic dicat Reaction aud tlie
Coming Contest.
Eighteen months ago the staunchest
fiieuds o{ the Democratic party looked
on its futuer prospects with gloom, ap
proaching, almost, dispair. The great
war, the inception of which it had op
posed, and the prosecution of which
it had indifferently aided, had termina
ted, contrary to its predictions, in dis
aster to the South, and in glory to its
enemy, the Republican party. The
indications seem to be that the latter
party, exacted by its pre-eminent suc
cess, in one of the greatest enterprises
of modern times, would use what little
wisdom and foresight it required—and
it would have required but little—to i
perpetuate its power, and add to the
prestige and honor of success, the vir
tue of forbearance and the glory of
successful and peaceful rule. That
wisdom and foresight however have
been discarded. Tlie same-fanaticism,
madness and folly, which origirated
the party w ithout reason, have retained
supremacy in its counsels, but to run
it into inevitable ruin. The demolition
of States, the destruction of civil gov
ernments, the trampling under foot the
constitution, the attempted degradation
of anglo-saxon blood, and unnatural
elevation of ignorant hordes of Africans,
just emerging from Slavery, to be the
civil and political masters of the most
Christian and enlightened people on
earth, are Crimea —we say at
rocities, too great —too overwhelming
not to receive rebuke at the hands of
the American people North anti South.
The people of the United States have
been much imposed on by political
parties, and necessarily when there are
so many to be instructed, informed and
persuaded, reaction in public sentiment
and the accumulation ol public indig*
nation, must from the nature of things,
be slow. But when it does come, it
will only be the more terrible and over
whelming, from the slowness and com
pactness of its growth. It comes like
an avalanche, which has been gather**
ing through the winter, crashing, des
troying and consuming every thing in
its rout. We verily believe now the
solemn fiat lias been pronounced, the
hand writing has appeared on the wall,
and it requires no Daniel to foretell
that mighty Babylon is rapidly coming
to grief, and a blind man can almost
see the shaking of the knees of the
Belshazzars of black Republicanism.
Disregard of the fundamental princi*
pals of our government; violation of
plighted faith and falsification of the
most solemn promises; usurpation of
undelegated powers, dangerous to the
government, and utterly subversive of
liberty; unjust,-unequal, oppressive and
unconstitutional taxation, for the bene
fit of the lew and the expense and ruin
ol the many; and universal and unex
ampled corruption in everything—all
of a nature and character never before
tolerated by a few people, have brought
this vast engine of wickedness and
mischief to the brink of the abyss of
political damnation, in which the geth«
ering host of the democratic party,
will forever bury it before the end of
the year eigntcen hundred and sixty
eight. The sing and excesses of which
we we have spoken have arleady caused
a terrible thinning of the ranks of the
parly, and the work goes bravely ou.
The deserters naturally fall into the
democratic ranks, and thus the party
that was supposed to he dead still lives
—lives we hope and believe to save the
country—to drive away the foul Har
pies that for years have been praying
on the vitals of constitution and literally
fatening ou the blood of the peoile.
If the black republican party had ex
ercised, two years ago, the least wis
dom, the democratic party would not
have had to-day the ghost of a chance
to rise again to power. But its very
excesses and its unscrupulous devices
to perpetua'e a power, which at the
time was not at all in danger—the in
dubital evidences which it has lately
given—not (o speake of times further
back—that it loved plunder and power,
more than country or liberty, the un
hallowed perversion of powers dele*
gated for noble and patriotic purposes,
which has filled the land with distress
and wrong and oppression, have given
opportunity to the lately despondent,
but ever watchful democracy, and now
with a cudgel lor every excess, crime
and violation of right, it stands master
of the situation, dealing blow after blow
on the wicked back of its unscrupulous
enemy.
“Lay on, Macduff;
And damn’d be him that first cries, hold
enough.”
Two issues, growing out of these
black republican excesses, beyond all
others, will constitute the basis of the
coming fight for the Presidency,—
‘First, this was always intened to be,
ever has been, now is, and ever must
be, a white mans government. This
is in accordance with democratic prac
tice in the past, democratic usage for
the present, and democratic faith for
the future. There has never before in
our history been occation or reason lor
giving this article of faith particular
prominence, but the recent nefarious
attempt of these heaverrdefy ing radi
cals, to reverse the order of nature, de
fy the laws and ordinances of our Cre
ator, and cover the bright genues
of modern civilization and progress,
with black mantle of Eethiopic barbari
ty and superstition, by the degradation
of the whites and the elevation of the
blacks of the South, has forced an issue
of a matter which might and would
otherwise, have remained a dormant
article of the general order.
Let us be understood. It is not to
the elevation of the black race that the
democratic party objects. Catholic in
its hopes and aims and wishes, it em
braces in its purposes and includes in
benificence, the whole human race. It
is the manner and not matter of eleva
tion of the black race to which it objects
and against which it will mover cease
to direct its blows, 'The aim of black
Republicanism is to depress and de
grade anglo-saxon blood in proportion
as it raises and elevates african blood.
The one must stffck while the other
rises. The democratic party says tliev
must all rise together; but rise in their
order, as God has made them, and as
the history of world teaches, nature and
Providence lias designed. This is the
issue plainly stated. Black republi
canism is a war on civilization war
on nature and opposition to Providence
itself—war on anglo-saxon blood and
therefore war on the crowning glory of
the works of our Creator, for the pusi
lanimous ends of parly purposes. /Vr
contra , the democratic party is waring
for our religion and civilization, past,
present and future—for the purity of
the blood of the race and the elevation
and ennobling of the race that origina
ted, improved and perfected this civili
zation—grand in its proportions, benifi.
cent in its developements arid splendid
in its achievements. White men of
Georgia—of the ten degraded Southern
States—don’t you think you can stand
and fight on this platform, with this
faith, with this aim—for this purpose —
with ill will for none and with charity
for all?
The second great question growing
out of radical misrule, and which will
more than any other, except the one,
mentioned, decide the coming contest
is the payment ot the enormous debt
which the republican party has accu
mulated during the seven years it has
been in power. In round numbers it
is something over two billions five hun
dred millions of dollars. The debts of
the individual Slates added to it, makes
it the largest debt ever owed by any
people on earth. This debt is brought
on the blood and bone of a ball million
of men North and South and the cries
and tears and broken hearts and per
ishing bodies of millions of widows and
orphans all over the land—all sacrificed
to appease the Molockof radical fanati
cism. It is chiefly in the hands of the
puritanic nabobs of New England and
the middle States, in the shape of gov
ernment bonds, and was bought up by
them with a heavy depreciated curren
cy — greenbacks. The black republi
cans say these nabobs must be paid
hack dollar lor dollar in gold, and the
gold must he raised by taxing our ex
hausted, depressed and war ruined
people. The democratic party saj s
they must be paid, if paid at all, in
what they gave, greenbacks (for no na
tion on earth ever paid a great war
debt). Our faith is that if greenbacks
are good enough for our farmers, mer
chants, mechanics and others, they are
good enough for New England nabobs
or any other nabobs in this country.—
We have neither time nor space to en
large on this idea; but it will be the
grand foeral idea of the coming cam
paign. Let the government issue its
obligations, discharge the debt and give
us all plenty of money. It may not be
the best in the world, but it will be
abundant, and a thousand times better
than no money at all, and enormous
taxation.
In conclusion, let us ask if these two
planks d’/Ei’t make a platiorm broad
I enough and strong enough and bcnili
cent enough for every body to stand
on, to write ort, and to fight on? We
think they do. The signs of she limes
indicate that a plenty will get bn to car
ry them safe through. We leel that
we are looking success, victory right
straight in the face. To our radical
friends we would say that the old demo
cratic church—perhaps the object of
your first love—she that has stood by
the government and the country and
people, through evil and through good
report, through sunshine and through
storm, she that took the infant Republic
by its hands as it entered ttie stage of
life purified by the struggles and sorrows
ol revolution, and sanctified by the
prayers and watered by the blood of
our grand old ancestors, and led it on
ward and upward over the shining steps
of political glory and eminence, that
same old church, is now opening her
doors to receive back-sliders and con
verted sinners. Now is die accepted
time, come in and go with us. We
will do you good.
“While the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return.”
Alexander 11. Stephens’ View of
Affairs In tlie South.
'The following article we copy from
the Savannah liepnblican , because it is
the reported opinion of one of Geor
gias wisest and most cautious sons, on
a subject that should be, above ail oth
ers, at this time, looked to and bandied
with discretion. Let the prayer of
every honest heart be, to Almighty God,
that such a catastrophe as a war of ra
ces may be averted.
Alexander 11. Stephens, in conversa
tion with a fr;r .id who saw him recent
ly in Philadelphia, says the Washing
ton cerrespondence cf the New York
Herald, took a very despondent view
of affairs in the South. He pronounced
the future before that section of the
country fraught with gloom and dis
aster, and can see nothing in the policy
of reconstruction but the operation of a
fearful scheme, whose ultimate result
will be the destruction of either the
black or the white race. Every day,
be says, it becomes more painfully
evident that the estrangement between
the races is widening—on the part of
the negroes from the effects of such
instruction as teaches them to distrust
and oppose the whites, and on the part
of the latter from an abhorrence of the
negro leaders and an instinctive aver
sion to he ruled and legislated for by
ignorance and semi-barbarism. From
what fell under his own observation
in Georgia, lie was unable to detect
anything like a spirit on either side
lending to mutual sympathy of senti
ment and interest. Radical emissaries
from the North have sown the seeds ol
evil dissension with a terrible earnest
ness, and the diametric opposition of
the race now visible all over the South
must, in the very nature of things, lead,
at some time or other, to fearful colli
sions. This inevitable result, Mr. Ste
phens declares, as a dispassionate
observer, forces itself irresistibly on
llis attention. A war of races, desired
by some and indifferently heeded by
others is to his mind, a consequence as
sure to happen, under the radical
method of reconstruction, as it is impos
sible to avoid, if the precedents of
history or the impulses that control
human nature be taken into account.
Thc Country tor the IVegrc ,
Wages are so high, money so plenty,
piovisions so cheap and friends so abun
dant, in the Northern States, that we
advise all the colored people tn move
there at once. In one or two little
trips under Mister Lee through Penn
sylvania we had the opportunity of ob
serving the condition of the negro
among his dear friends, but we do not
base our advice upon what we then
saw. Our recommendation is made
upon our great confidence in the perfect
sincerity of the good Puritans in their
profession of the grand passion. We
knew a man once who kept a hilly goat
in his yard because he liked the aroma,
and upon some idiosyncrasy like this
we imagine Boston would he glad to
have a few thousand of their beloved.
Let our starving South Carolina and
South Georgia colored friends tak#
shipping at Charleston and Savannah
for a northern port and cast themselves
lovingly upon the generous bosoms
which throb and pant to embrace them,
Tlic Couveution,
Is still pegging away fixing up a fcon
stitulion for the Territory of Georgia,
As soon as they gel the documeit to
gether we will publish this new Con
stitution, so that all our readers may
have the pleasure of reading it. and of
voting upon it too, if not disfranchised.
We do not think it necessary so under
take to report the discussions on the
reports of the various committees, as
it would fill up our paper to the exclu
sion of everything else. As soon as
the Constitution is framed we will pub
lish it in full.
A Grumb of Comfort —lt is some
satisfaction to the Conservative, law
loving people of Georgia, to know that
Gen. Meade has apptinted military
men to the office of Governor and
Treasurer, instead of giving those
offices to plunder-seeking demagogues.
To Farmers. * (
The bread and meat question being 1
one of vast importance to us as a peo
ple, it becomes us to consider what
means can be adopted to increase the
supply. Now that we cannot afford
the expense of clearing fresh lands, and
it being apparent that our open fields
are becoming annually impoverished by
constant tillage in corn and cotton
yielding but scanty returns, ani more
over it being true that our present sys
tem of labor is becoming each year
more uncertain. What is the inevita
ble result, if we continue in the same
suicidal system of farming ? A reason
able conclusion will clearly show that
less and less provisions will be raised,
and yet the same number of mouths, and
perhaps more, to be fed and no money
to buy with. Out- own favored section
of Georgia will soon become as im
poverished as tiie old and gullied fields
in the of this State and
South Carolina. What then must be
done? Farmers must change the
schedule i( they would save themselves
and their ehildien from want. They
must seed more of then lands down in
grain and the grasses. This will in*
volve them in less expense for labor and
we shall then have food for man and
beast in abundance, to say nothing of
the lasting benefit that will accrue to
the lands in increasing their fertility by
resting and fallowing properly.
A large breadth of iand has been
sown in wheat, it is to be hoped, the
pa6t fall; now let the farmers see to it,
that they sow down, between this and
the Ist of March, a liberai portion of
their good lands in Clover and other
grasses. By the blessings of Provi
dence, in two years, cattle, sheep and
hogs will be raised on each mans farm
cheaply. These provisions will be as
money to the farmer in buying labor
and the country will rejoice in plenty.
Now since it has been asertained be
yond all doubt, that the lands in Chero
kee Ga., are well adapted to Clover
and oilier grasses, no man in his sen
ses can hesitate as to the course to be
pursued.
Radical Policy,
The northern papers are contrasting
the prices of labor North and South,
and one assigning various reasons why
laborers receive from fifteen to thirty
dollars per month in the former region
and only from five to ten in the latter.
Many of them are stupid enough not
to see, or criminal enough not to admit,
that the difference is caused by the
Radical party toward the southern peo
ple. To that policy is mainly due all
the suffering af the pool ii: the South
ern States, whether they be white or
black. In short, it is the radical plan
to keep the entire South poor as long
as possible. It is their purpose to re
tain absolute Congressional rule over
this part of the Union, and therefore
they legislate so as to repress its everv
effort to rise. By disfranchising a part
of the people, and giving suffrage to the
hopeless negro, they hope to tyrannize
under the forms of popular government;
by taxing agriculture, and deranging
trade with panic-producing laws, they
expect to continue our poverty, liv
the presence of armed soldiery, and
continued threats of confiscation and
the bolter they design to awe us into
submission, they know well enough
that neither the negro nor the laboring
white man is benefited bv such a ru
inous policy*, yet they make great show
of friendship to them, because they
have party ends to serve, and a Presi
dent tc make. What care they if the
poor pan and his family starve, orovi
ded, they can delude him into a vote
for tie radical ticket? Let it be re
membered that it is the Radical party
which associates the negro and the poor
white man together as a class in com
mon. They ask to break down all
distinction between white and black,
apd in their congressional speeches,
tkeir newspaper articles, and their
legislative proceedings they mingle the
two together, on terms of equality. We
have no idea that this unnatural and
unwise programme will prosper, but it
has done, and will for some time yet,
continue to do incalculable mischief.
State Tax Notice.— The Comp
troller General of Georgia, Col. John
T. Burns, announces that the tax of
two per cent, due from the Agents of
Foreign Insurance Companies, must he
made in accordance with the Code of
Georgia. The tax act for 1867 re
quires that the returns shall be made
fiom December, 31, 1807, to May 1,
1868, inclusive.
Atlanta, Jan. IG.—The report of
the Committee on the Militia, made
this morning, was very short. It au
thorizes the formation of volunteer
companies of cavalry, artillery and
infantry, and makes all males between
the ages of 18 and Jo, not exempt by
law, liable to military duty, and says
the whole matter shall be subject to the
paramount authority of Congress over
Depreciation of Real Estate.—
I here is a splendid plantation near
Eufaula, Alabama, containing two thou
sand acres of fine cotton land, with at
least $5,000 worth of slock and imple
ments upon it, being offered in this
market for SB,OOO. The same place
was offered one year ago for §40,00Q.
(Georgia Telegraph, 1
#»© War often
The Pulaski, Tenn., rr'f ,
the Trouble—Buttle of //,',
and the Blacks -The *•
Wounded.
The following is a stateme*
difficulty, as related in the p,
trcnFriday January 10: ,#r i
Avery unfortunate and rail,, \
collision occurred here on t|, J
of the 7th inst., between J j
and black men, in which one J
mer and several ol the latter w I
ded* The difficulty or i„i n j
quarrel between Mr’ Calvin [1
a merchant of tins place, an j 1
by the name of Calvin c ut j
summer this negro went inti J
store, and Irom some cause a J
occurred, and in pursuance 0 | ']
every man has of protecting j T
ses, thought proper to expel | i
the house with a kick. £ Ve !, J
occurrerce the negro and
friends have been open!, J
serious threats against Mr, j j
the night before this occurred!
ly insulted and thieatened h, m j
street, whereupon Mr. L , J
chastise his insulter, but | K ."|
Again, on the nnrningofthe J
menaced Mr. L. in front ul J
door, and when Mr f lt
chastised him. again fled, p,, j
ring the day, a large crown of \
congregated at a negro drinking
immediately opposite the |i
L. They were drinking ant! «i
and making many thrpamingl
stralions and remarks, intended i
L; he (Mr. L„ ) happening topi
the grocery, was met by a negrol
threatening demr ostrations* J
him, which he resented and dej
expli nations. A quarrel enJ
which a pistol was diavvn nponf
and snapped at him, where, J
drew his pistol and fired at ||J
who ran into the house, Mr. L,|
ing.
Another negro then appear,!
fired upon Lambeth. Mr. L, J
stepped out upon the street. J
the fire. Several of Mr. bJ
friends, seeing him in a difficult!
his assistance, and many othern|
appeared upon the opposite side!
negroes again made the attack Lt
at Lambeth, whereupon he and J
three friends returned the fire. 1
negroes retreated into the growl
the whites ceased firing; hut thmJ
in a few moments reappeared, J
been reinforced by Orange RofJ
others, and made another altafJ
ange snapping a pistol at the rJ
The whiles returned the fire, »**
o( Lambeth's friends ha vim; rod
his assistance, whereupon a nund
shots were fired from each side,bi
negroes, being much worsted, mil
in bad order, and there was no I
fighting.
There were six negroes worn!
two of them seriously—one of <|
Orange Rhodes, lias since died j
other is > erv badly shot, the rti
slightly wounded. One white J
ceived a small shot in one ol InJ
—a very* slight injury. This«]
extent of the casualties.
Since (lie foregoing was pui i
the parties arrested have been
over in bonds ol Si,ooo each,to;
v»t the next term of the Circuit(i
Fourteen white men were arresia
of whom proved an alibi, the!
waiving an examination. Eiffl
groes were arrested, IwoofwhnJ
discharged, two hound over, thnj
able to appear, and one was rij
dead.
IN E W AI)VERTISEMENT']
s. O'SHIEL^
Fashionable Tailor ,
CARTERSVILLE. BARTOW COUNTY- Ell
tIS prepare-’ to execute nil kinds
of work in the Fashionable Tir
ing line, with neatness and iiidnj
rablo style. Over J. Elsas &Cos ssW
Cartersville, j?.n 23.
“ It'ait for the 'W-A.GCf
we’ll all lake a ri(U
W ag-ou-Maliin
and REPAIRING!
J. W. MANLEY,
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, j
HAVING completed my new
Main Street. West side of the
1 am now prepared to put up to order j
One, Two and Fonr-B»|
WAGONS, CARTS, Wheel-B»r*|
Plow Stouts ; also, RE PA I RING of* B
of vehicles done at short notice. 0!
the stringency in money matters n? !
will be as moderate as circumstances
mil. My work recommends itself.
Cartersville, Jan. 23, J&67.
MURREUC& BR«j
Resident Dentistg
CNFFER THEIR PROFESSION!
/vices to the cit’zens of Carter l ' 1 *!
vicinity. Having all the latest ini
provements in JOental Material,
Murrell are prepared to Extract Tutiu
out pain, (by means of Ana-sthe ic*).i*fl
Pivot, Fill wilh Gold or Os Arti6ci«i®
gam, and put in Partial or Whole
tificial teeth on Gold or Vulraniwd pfj
Will direct the second Dentition of
and do anything pertaining to the p'®!
Alt work warranted to give
OlTice ovcrS. Clayton A Son’s
References : —T, J Young, M J
' r homas, M D and Dentist, W S R R*!
M I). Cartersville, Jan. 23, ’6l ■
PIANOFORTES.
riIHE undersigned would announce 1
I citizens of Cartersville and vicingf
he is fully prepared to furnish
PIANOFORiiS. Jfk
rrVPI 7or 7 1-3
OCTAVES, with all the very lateslMj
ments, and most elegant style and wo' |
ship, qpv hundred dollars less than in f ‘|
be purchased elsewhere south. They *1
fully warranted. j
PIANOS TUNED and REPAIRS]
In the very best manner, and ell work w*l
ted, and shall bo pleased to giv* j
prompt attention.
MR. S. T. ANDERSON, will kindly
further information at present, »n0 H
any orders; or you can address by
F. L. l’K
(Residence, Kennes
January 24"» 18’ '