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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 ing lines w V£g the noble re-' —.. .*on'±l. ged ir 7* - A iBF Wf ■* ©laM© t. * ~ ■ : ' - ■ ~~ , 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. 33M61a1@11 ™ 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 <M ms ©it rM CARTERS l s ILL E, GEORGIA, corner of Public Square and, Main street. Having determined to ®fe©sss ©us ©us Swiss m&es, OF mto wmTEn 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. ' Hr -jjjjfc 'flic Ixptess. fe) SAM’I. H. SMITH, Editor and Proprietor. CartersvUle da, Jan. 24, 1868 |ttttimii-i niiiTrui ~~i —i 11 mini ■ m\mm mu niti.inanumuuL—« i mi— m 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’ '