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SAM’L H. SMITH, Rilitor and Proprietor.
eurleiM flh*, Oa, ApriiJO. IM»*.
For Governor,
GEN. J. SB. GORDON,
of Fulton County.
FOR CONUREsS.
GEN. PM G YOUNG,
OF BARTOW COUNT Y.
FOR THE STATE SENATE,
JOHN T. BURNS,
OF CHATTOOUA COUNTY.
County Ofiicors.
~ ~ , . *1 s\ AS SO Hi*,
tort ie LejjH-'lature, j g Crawford,
For Sheriff— If’ JL ./T| fCOfk-
For Deputy Sh riff--fj W FSryant,
Clerk Supr. Court— T. */§•
Ordinary— j. .1. Howard,
Tlx Collector. ~.lVtf/trtt! S.if’.ld.
Tax Receiver —YtJc ftteyiiolds.
jpiunty Treasurer—. 1 ,T J E'rClilhlin,
< U'ltv Siirvtvor —€w ff’ Hill.
4»cu. .fuhss tl, Gordon.
Shire nnr lost issue we have received
the intelligence that Gen. Meade lias
declared Judge Irwin i'nelligible to the
office of Governor, and Judge Irwin
has consequently witiidrawn his name
as a candidate for that position. The
name of Gen. J. un It. Gordon, the
Christian warrior, the humane cornman"
der, and another one of Georgia’s most
noble sons, has been placed in nomina
tion by the Committee, whose name
now proudly floats at oar mast-head. —
Here Whig, here Democrat, here Union
mall is presented for your suffrage the
name of one who has no past political
record to refer too —no intriguer—no
wire-worker —no demagogue. A
gentleman against whom ought can be
said, save that he staked his honor, his
4»
fortune, his life, his all upon the suc
cess of the lost cause. No military
officer ever won brighter laurels, or did
or dared more upon the field of mortal
strife than Gen. Gordon, in so short a
space of time. A true patriot, a schol
ar, and a gentleman. Was never known
t<> falter when his country demanded
lus services. True to God truelo his
religion —true to Ins country and true
to his race, he has won the confidence
and eateem of his enemies in war and in
peace. A man of honor and integrity
he baitied for his rights, his country’s
rights, and the rights of his race until
tue fates decreed bis defeat, then sheath*
ing his sword and laying aside his
armour, in good faith, returned to his
first love, and planting himself upon the
Constitution ol the United States and
of his fathers, he stands to-day and
raises his voice anti bears bis arm in
defence of that sacred instrument, and
calls upon bis fellow men in Georgia
1.» rally to its support in this dark day
<>f threatened innovation upon its blood
bought declarations and heaven prized
liberties.
SECRET ORta\lZ4T*o\S.
illctideN Ortlca*.
We have received from Military
Headquarters, a lengthy order forbid
ding us to publish anyiTimg m rc-fn
i nee to secret organizations calculated
to alarm and excite the public. As no
particular organization is named, we
are therefore forced to the conclusion,
that (ion. Meade is leveling his artil
lery against what is called “Loyal
Leagues.” that being the only secret
organization in this country whose
; vowed object is mischief, or that cre
; re anv alarm among our sensible peo
ple. We have not heretofore felt it to
be our duty to declaim against this
mysterious institution ; we feel now,
however, that vve are armed with mi li
-1 irv authority to go forward and battle
against it. We are glad the order has
been issued. It is too lengthy for pub
lication, else our readers should see it
in full. In spite of some things to the
contrary, we have always felt kindlv
for Gen. Meade. Though liable to
«rr. be is trying to do the best he can.
The bold measure which he is taking
against this terrible organization is
confirmation strong of bis disposition
to do right. We hr pe this order will
find its way among the negrrtes and the
whites who art-'given to collecting them
at nights to drive them to evil deeds
bv all kinds of measures and threats.
Savannah, April I. A. A. Bradley,
the Boston negro, is circulating through
the city and county, the following in
cendiary circular, causing considerable
excitement:
Aulire —All bad men in the city of
Savannah, who now threaten the lives
<>i lead* rs and nominees of the Repiibr
I'can party, presidents and members of
'be I’ nion League of America,'if you
should strike a blow, the man or men
' v dl be followed and the bouse in
''hic.li he or they take shelter will be
10 l * ie P r "iiud. Take heed!
I'.ark well 1 ! Members of the Union,
Ual f, ! MI'!! Hally! fur God. life,
auu liberty !”
From the Macon Telegraph.
TfilE RELIEF INIQUITY t\-
POSEU.
Letter from lion. SJ, IS. llill.
Athens, Ga., Mareh 2S,*IBRB.
My Dear Sir : - Pardon ni£ for so
long delaying to comply with Tour re
quest. 1 will endeavor to give you, in
a brief space, the arguments against the
“Relief features’’ of the proposed negro
Constitution.
1. In the first place, all the piovis
ions of this negro Constitution on tliis
subject, are contrary to the Constitution
of the United States, and therefore,
j cannot afford the relief promised.—
I Now, lawyers and judges have some,
j times differed as to the validity of what
(are called Stay laws; but the relief pro
j posed by this negro Constitution is to
destroy private contracts, either by re
fusing the courts juriuliotvo-n over them
or by taxing them out of existence, or
by exempting property already liable
from continuing liable for their payment
Now 1 affirm that no court, no jutltre
and no respectable lawyer has l>een j
found who will pretend that a Stale or
territory can destroy private contracts
in either of these ways, or in any other
way. The moment the question is ex
amined, that moment it ceases to be
debateable. The Constitution says no
State shall pass a “law impairing the j
obligation of contrasts.” Now, why ■
was tills clause inserted in the Cousli- !
lotion? Mr. Madison says it was insar i
led because ‘•'our experience'' taught us j
it was "necessary." What experience?
This: after the revolutionary war the
people were in debt and hard pressed
Therefore, says Mr. Madison. “In the
internal administration of the States a
violation ot contracts had become fa
miliar, in the form ol depreciated paper
made a legal tender, of property substi
tuted for money, oi installment laws,
and ill the occlusions of the * court of '
justice.' Now. reader, what is meant
by dcollisions of courts ol justice ?
Why, closing them up, or denying them
jurisdiction oi certain debts 1 So, an
other distinguished author, giving the 1
reason for this clause in the Constitu
tion, says that it was because, among
others* shutting up the courts for
certain periods and under certain cir
cumstances were not infrequent upon
the statute books of many of the States
composing the Union.”
So this clause was put in the Con
stitution for the express purpose of pres
venting the State from doing exactly
what this negro Constitution proposes
to do! I find the authorities high, nu
merous and direct on this point. And
to show that the authority covers all
the modes of repudiation mentioned in
this Constitution including the very
dirt v and contemptible device of taxing
debts ('tit of existence,l will quote one
more sentence: “The great object of
the framers of the Constitution un
doubtedly was to secure the inviolabil
ity of contracts. The principle was to
be protected in whatever form it might
be assailed. No enumeration was at
tempted to be made of the modes oy
which contracts might be impaired.—
The intention was to prohibit every
mode or device for such purpose." A
very great writer on this subject speaks
of the devlish ingenuity of bad dema
gogues, who always beset republcis,
watching every opportunity to lake ad
vantage of the passions or misfortunes
ofihe pmple to make corrupt promises
for no purposes but to push themselves
forward.
Ii was upon this very subject of Re
lief that Shay’s rebellion in Massachu
setts was stirred up. And it is signifi
cant that the demagogues in the Con
vention, and their dirty advocates now
on the stump in Georgia, are using tlie
very ideas and borrowing the very
speeches of the wicked men who stirred
up Shay's rebellion! But these crea
tures in Georgia are much worse than
were the men in Massachusetts, be
cause there was no Constitution to be
violated in that day, and the clause we
are considering was put in the Consti
tution to prevent the recurrence of such
filthy demagogues. The creatures
have reappeared tn Georgia to indoc
trinate New England ideas into our
r „.» r u What a shame that they
should have found already tier men tar
meaner than themselves!
Headers who desire to fully uuder
staud,this whole subject can do so by
reading Minot’s History of the Insur
rection in Massachusetts, Ellen’s De
bates on Ratification of the Constitu
tion in Virginia, Massachusetts and
otl.es States, Madison Rapes Ist and
3d vuls, Story of the Constitution, and
the Decisions of the Supreme Court of
the United States referred to by Judge
Story. There is also a short but for
cible passage in the Federalist, No. 44.
See also 5. Marshall’s ‘‘Life of Wash
ington, and 3. Hildreth,” U. S.
IE But in truth it is well known
that the men who were chiefly instru
mental in putting these relief provisions
in this negro Constitution, did not in
tend they should have effect. They
were deliberately devised as a cheat. —
This is now well established. I have
have heard men ettgaged in this cheat
admit it. 1 have the highest authority
for saying that assurances were sent
front the Radical leaders in Washington
that relief might be put in the Consti
tution to get votes, but would be strick
en out after the votes were obtained. —
1 cannot allude to these fasts without
feeling indignant. I cannot see thought
less people going to hear men speak
who are ifotoriousiy engaged in the
disgraceful work of helping to carry out
this cheat upon the people, without
feeling ashamed lor humanity and the
developments offree institutions. How
can honest men permit such filthy de
ceivers to enter their houses, associate
with their families or talk with their
fa miles or talk with their children?—
Such men must be driven ffbm society
and influence, or society will he des
poiled of all decency, and free govern
ment deprived of all hope of continu
ance.
Think of if, reader! Our people to
be cheated into submitting to negro
domination by a false provision of relief
and the negroes to be used to make
success certain! And Georgians! who
boast of having been “highly honored”
by our people, leading and prompting
. in all the lies by which the cheat is to
be accomplished!
But the half is not yet told. This
false promise ol relief in the negro Con.
siitntion is not only itself a cheat, but
it is to defeat all legitimate relief, and
prevent our people from doing what
they otherwise would do to improve
their condition. Let us enumerate
some of the •'ils that must result from
this agitation :
Ist. A iarge majority of creditors are
now willing to act liberally with their
debtors, and take a reasottaWe portion
of their debt.* But by this re
lief agitation, are en-co-uraged to pay
nothing. Creditors will be compelled
to hold on to their debts until the laws
can be enforced, and all the time inter
est is accumulating. The time will
come when courts will be ojrened and
law will be administered. These cred
itors outraged by the efforts of the debt
ors to get rid of al! the debt, will exact \
the last dollar and listen to no compro- !
mise.
2d. Very unfortunate bitterness of
feeling will spring up among our people
Elforls which ought to be given
to production and imriroverneot of
property, will be given to conceal, hide
and cover uppropeity. There are un
scrupulous lawyers now engaged in en.
cmiraging this business. 1 know of
lawyers who are now promised large
amounts to defeat the collection of debts
1 know some foolish debtors who are
paying lawyers amounts to defeat debts,
which the creditors would accent and
give up the debts.
Why, you will say such men arecra
zy! So in one sense, they are. They
are crazy with a passion against cred
itors, They prefer to pay the money
to lawyers who flatter them to creditors
who trusted them. So many men are
crazy. Every man who votes to accept
negro dominion to gel false relief is cra
z\ ! Every man who so votes is sell
ing ins children’s hopes and his wife’s
happiness for a cheat —worse than a
cheat.
Why, some id th? banks offered for •
ty thousand amhirs to the negro Con
vention if they would frame the relief
so as t.> include their stockholders and
put in such form as their attorney
would say the people would ratify it!
I speak advisedly. Men are urging the
people to ratify this Constitution who
are to get fees from interested parties if
this Constitution is ratified, and Judges
can be put on the Bench who will agree
(some have agreed) to take contracts to
commit perjury by holding the relief
constitutional. What a state of things
we shall have! Debtors and creditors
every day getting poorer. People every
day getting more embittered and etn
poverished. Judges every day com
mitting perjury. Hope every day dy
ing; and Dwyers, robbers, and New
England outlaws every day growing fat
on the universal ruin ol all honest peo
ple!
3d. While all this is being done vve
shall have negroes and vankees in the
Legislature establishing free schools for
negroes, to be supported by taxation
upon the whites, and taught by New
England teachers to increase the hatred
between the races; and, while our in
dustry will he paralized and our pro
ducts almost destroyed, our taxes fully
doubled. Property will also be depre
ciated still more and more, and our peo
ple will lose more in increased taxation
and by the loss of property-values than
would be sufficient to pay their debts
three times over.
4th. In the meantime the Bankrupt
Act will have expired, and thourands
will have failed to avail themselves of
it.
sih. Every nan who votes for this
negro Constitution to avoid paying his
debts, will nev ; cr be able Ur get credit
again. Many live by credit;
ing shown themselves willing to dm*
fraud, no sandman will ever alter trust
them. rich man can live without
credit, or get iit on fiis property. —
The pour man is dependent on his
character, any when that is gone he is
mined. ;
6th. Those who are agitating this
question of relief are not the oppressed
men, or the poor men. or men of in
dustry, or mi nos any class who de
serve'relief 3IUI ICnll} proteotinn.
They are : 1. 'Rite wealthy men in
debt who desire to hold their property
and evade their debts also. 2. They
are unprincipled,ambitions demagogues
who are seeking to take advan
tage of the people’s misfortunes, to in
flame their passions and create false
hopes, to enable them and the thieves
who always follow them to obtain the
offices of the country and get posses
sion of the resources of the people.—
3, They are the men who*have de
frauded orphans and widows and wards,
and have made fortunes using trust
property, ar»d now wisli to live in lux
ury and turn ofT these orphans and
widows with nothing. A special pro
vision is put in this Constitution lor
tliis very class. A just God ought to
burn up a people with fire who would
ratify a Constitution with such a pro
vision in it. I repeat, by this Consti
tution a trustee who has preserved and
taken care of his ward's property must
account for it; but tbe trustee who lias
used the orphan’s property and made
a fortune for himself, however rich
row, is relieved of alt accountability !
It is a crime to vote for such a Consti
tution, or to approve of it, which ought
to send every man guilty to the peni
tentiary for life. Isa man who would
approve such a Constitution fit tube
trusted again with an orphan’s prop
erty, or left as executor or adviser lor
a widow ?
7th. .The Homestead feature is so
arranged that a ricli man in a city may
be worth a hundred thousand dollars,
and not a dollar of it be liable for his
debts; while a poor man may have
only property worth two or three thou*,
sand dollars and he cannot use one
dollar of it to enable him to get credit
to buy a pound of meat or a bushel of
his family, A man may have
a vacant lot set apart under tins Home
stead law, and then he may spend all
his other property improving it, and
baiid a factory, a foundry, a hotel, or
anything else he may choose, and not
one dollar of it can be taken for his
debts, and the legislature cannot pass
a law to make it liable ! A poor man
may have his land, and no mule or
provision to enable him to work it, yet
he cannot use that laiwi to get either
stock or provisions to enable him to
make his land support him. A me.
chanic can collect his bill for lumber
or work on a palace, but the farmer
can’t collect his debt for peas, potatoes,
chickens and butter sold to the people
who own the palace !
Was ever such a Constitution heard
of before in a civilized country ? Who
can now doubt it was made by negroes,
felons, carpet-baggers and renegades
to deceive and destroy all honest, de
cent and respectable people, and to
provide plunder for rogues, robbers,
thieves and New England vagabonds ?
Pardon me, my dear sir, if t have
made tny brief letter a long one. I
could increase the damning features
and effects of this negro Constitution
until not a book could contain the true
record. I cannot close without again
summing up the loss and gain proposed
to our people if they will ratify this
Constitution, because of this promise
of relief.
Here is the bargain rn a few words :
il we establish the Constitution we
get negro voters ; negro jurors; negro
mayors and municipal officers ; negro
sheriffs, clerks, ordinaries, constables,
negro militia end malitia officers, and
negroes in every other position which
renegade and New England whites
will not appropriate to themselves.—
Also we shall have New England Gov
ernor ; New England Congressmen ;
New England Judges; New England
superintendents of our great Railroads,
of the Asylumns for our lunatic, deaf
and dumb, and blind ; New England
tax collectors ; New England treasur
ers ; New England teachers, and New
England adventurers in every other
position not occupied by a negro, or
not given to some miserable Southern
renegade who has agreed, m consider
ation of getting the offire, to be dirtier
than a corn-field negro, and meaner
than a New England Radical, and to
go further and lie more nnblushingly
tlian both, in the work of degrading
and robbing his own people. As the
direct elFects ot this rule, we shall have
our property depreciated ; nearly half
of our State rendered unfit for the res
idence of white people; our orphans
robbed; our widows impoverished;
our society demoralized ; our credit at
home and abroad destroyed ; our taxes
doubled ; our laws incapable of pro
tecting our property, Strangers wii!
be our rulers, thieves our legislators,
end perjured and bribed crim.nals our
judges. We shall have no peace save
in the presence of a perpetual military
power, and no hope of recovery from
our fallen condition except through a
despotism accompanied with the exter
mination, banishment, or ie-enslave»
ment of the African race.
And what is the consideration we
get for all this degradation and ruin ?
This—only this : a promise from
rogues that we shall not be required to
pay our debts ; and which promise we
know beforehand, these rogues are
neither able nor willing to keep, which
they do not intend to keep, and which
they meiely make to entrap ns ! Geor
gians, read this picture! Turn back
and read it again ! Thick of your
wives and children ; our buried dead ;
our glorious past, and our once bright
future, and read again ! Then you will
be able to understand this wild, mad,
brigand promise of “Relief!” relief
from honest debts by putting your
wives, your children, your property,
and your all into the protection of
rogues and under the dominion of the
negro.
All nations, especially all republics,
have their days of trial, trouble and
revolution. Always at such times “art
ful, restless, discontented individuals,
deceivers rather than deceived, step
forth for plunder, and for the sake of a
little notoriety, to inflame public dis
content, and to llatter popular delu
sions.” The follow and worry an op
pressed people as certain (lies do the
victims of wounds and putrid sores.—
They devilled the Jews and despoiled
the Temple of Solomou, forming far*
tious combinations to ’rob and rule,
while the public enemy was in the
very act of battering down the wall** us
Jerusalem, and women and children
and old men were perishing in caves
and hiding places. They underminded
and destroyed the commonwealth of
Rome when the combined world in
arms had vair.ly attempted the task.
They brought power, and pride, and
beauty, and wealth, and men, and wo
men. and maidens and children to the
guilotine in France, and washed the
streets of Paris with the blood of the
gifted and the good. But after careful
considering the men who lead, and the
measures they adopt, the ends they
propose and the means they employ, I
fearlessly, and with earnest warnings,
affirm, that thj men at Washington
who are engaged in the daily work ol
trampling upon the American Consti
tution and destroying American liberty;
and still more, that tbe men at the
South who are aiding in that work by
countenancing the oppressions heaped
upon their people ; and most of all,
that the men of Georgia who are addi
tionally engaged in devising schemes
and making false promises of relief in
order to entrap and deceive our people
into the acceptance of a Constitution
which they hate, are exhibiting features
of depravity far beyond any which
revolutionary malcontents have ever
before exhibited, and leading the peo
ple—Llack and white—to scenes ol
blood and horror which have never
before been experienced in any age or
country.
In the first place, revolutionary lead
ers in other times and countries have
been supported by the people of their
own race, color or blood, and who had
grievances more or less real to redress.
But the revolutionary leaders of this
country are using the ignorant, semi
barbarous and long enslaved negro to
destroy the liberty and government of
the white race. Without the negroes
what support would the Radicals in
Georgia have ? They l ave laterally
no decent native while supporters. —
The report that over thirty thousand
w ii lies vo tpd lor Convention is the dirty
lie of a New England Radical. It is
well known that those whites who
; voted for delegates in some counties,
bat who refused to vote for or against
Convention because they wished to be
counted on that question with those
who did not vote, were falsely counted
for Convention ! There are not, this
day, one hundred w hite Georgians in
favor of negro suffrage or the recon
struction measures of the Radical
Congress.
In the next place, these revolutionary
leaders of this country, do not permit
even the negroes to act upon tb? na»
tural instincts, or to vote according to
their voluntary preferences.
Miserable agents flood our State,
whose only business is to organize ma
chinery to get control of the negro,
and compel him by force, fraud, and
deception, to vote the Radical ticket.
We all saw this work in the election
for Convention, aud the encouragement
support and countenance given to it
by Gen. Pope. And now dirty agents
aie going over the State employing
black and white hired subordinates to
manage the polls and “scour the coun
try,” and compel, and deceive and
frighten unwilling negroes to help in
this work of political, social and inor
al destruction.
In the third place, over twenty thou
sand intelligent, educated white men
are disfranchised and not allowed to
vote on the Constitution under which
they are to be forced by negroes and
strangers to live ! Ignorance, vice and
pauperism of every grade and charac
ter are to be forced, frightened and en
trapped to the polls, and intelligence,
virtue and property are forced away !
In the fourth place, if this exclusion
of intelligent whites, and deceit and
force of ignorant blacks, shall not be
sufficient to accomplish the work, tlien
a false count is to be again relied on,
and those who are known to have been
guilty of his Iraud before are continued
in their places, and are additionally
promised lucrative places if the Con
stitution can be forced upon the peo
ple, and the avowed candidates for
robbery shall be proclaimed as chosen
to administer it.
And lastly, as a fitting cap for this
pyramid of shame, Georgians and
Southern white men—-aye, some who
have had high honors in days past —
tiave been employed to bring their na
tivities and their honors to give char
acter to this movement, and are hired,
paid, to lead this charge of traitors,
cowards and hypocrites upon the liber
ties, the lives and the fortunes of our
unarmed, unresisting, unoffending, im
poverished people !
The blackest annals of revolutiona
ry hate and crime in countries civilized
or savage would be searched in vain
for a parallel.
White men ! you who are still con
scious that God made you white, will
one of you join in such a work, and
only in order to get a cliance —a hope
lesss chance—to cheat your neighbor?
Yours, verv truly,
' B. H. llill.
J. R. Sneed. Esq.., Macon, Ga.
g£2?*Mrs. McMurry, of Cassville,
Georgir. who is now in this city solici
ting aid for the orphan children in Cass
county, desires us to return her thanks
to the community of Salem church in
Barren county, for their kindnesses
and contribution ofß7l, and also to Mr.
Williams Martin Wilson fora donation,
ol ten dollars.
Mrs. McMurry comes tons highly
recommended by some of the best
known and most influential citizens of
Georgia, who urge the necessity and
benificence of the work in which she
is engaged. Those therelore who
may be willing to aid her in this work
of love may feel assured that their
confidence will not be misplaced if re
posed in her, and that any donations
they may make will be religiously and
scrupulously applied to the object for
which the donations are solici
ted.
The support and education of the
orphan appeals to ttie noblest impulses
of the human; heart, and there arc few
who do not feel it a duty, which they
cannot well escape, to assist in gath
ering up these waifs on the. great
ocean of lile, and giving them such
protection as will enable them to
weather the storms of adversity until
they are able to struggle for them
selves. Mrs. McMurrny will remain
in the city for fevr days, and will
make her appeal in perseu to our citi
zens. and we trust that she may meet
with that success which the object for
which she is laboring deserves. Louis
ville (Krj .) Courier.
Washington.
Washington, April 7. —In the case
of the steamer Battle, captured at
Mobile, the Supreme Court decides
that capture vitiates liens. The Su
preme Court decided that a contract
interrupted by war must be completed
on return of peace.
The new Constitution in Michigan
is defeated. The negro suffrage clause
killed it. Seventy towns, including
Detroit, give B,ICO votes against
it.
Sandusky, Ohio, elected the entire
Democratic ticket by two hundred
majority.
The democrats have carried Keokuk,
lowa. It went Republican last
year.
In Connecticut, except eighteen
towns. English’s (Dem.) majority
is 1,‘294. The Legislature is Radi
cal.
From Cleveland, Ohio.
Cleveland. 0., April 7, —The Re
publicans elect nineteen out ol the
thirty cotmcilmcn.
Fellon-citizeng of Bartow
County.
Cartersville, Ga., )
April Ist, 1868. j
From the demonstrations of vester.
day, I suppose the campaign is fully
opened. After Col. Gray declined to
run, I had hoped, from remarks which
were made by some of the most wor
thy and sagacious citizens of our
county, that there would be no other
candidate brought out; hut where a
party is composed ot men who former
ly differed so widely in their political
views, it is almost impossible to recon
cile that party to the adoption of a
moderate course. The feeling of
some of the leaders is here made man
ifest, that they are not willing I should
represent them in the State Legisla
ture.
1 am the nominee of no party, no
class, or combination of men. I an
nounced myself an independant can
didate, as I wished no nomination.—
With all due respect to those who are
simply my manly opponents as well as
to those persons who would, if possible,
grind me into the dust, it becomes me,
and is due to my many Reconstruction
and Relief friends, that I should enter
this contest with that degree of energy
and determination to succeed, which is
characteristic of my person, and gen
erally crowns my labors with success.
I shall take the Constitution as my
platform. In the framing of that in
strument, I was considered a compro.
mise man, always endeavoring to get
the very best possible terms.
There are a few clauses which cov
er the ground I advocated before the
election. These, by the assistance ol
moderate men, we succeeded in adopt
ing. Such as no imprisonment for
debt, no proscription lor white men, a
liberal homestead, universal suffrage,
a fair relief measure, which is beyond
the reach of our Courts, and can only
be repealed by the consent of the peo
ple, and lastly, but not the least, is the
organization of a general free school
system, which will eventually redound
to the glory of our good old State.
Now lor a few words of explanation.
1 was governed in my aetion on the
subject cf universal suffrage, by my
better judgment of what was necessary
to be done in order to have our Con
stitution received. I believed we could
not necorne reconstructed if our Con
stitution failed to give the negro the
right to vote. This it does, and I be
lieve it goes no farther.
My labors on the subject of relief
were unceasing. The bill was framed
bf one of the ablest lawyers of this
State, and I have full confidence in its
practicability, regardless of all the
slang we hear as to its being merely a
bait, a clap-trap to make votes, My
great desire now in offering myself for
the Legislature is that I may help pro
test this measure, until the people have
had a fair opportunity of seeing its
workings: and if, after having given
it a fair triJ, it does not result benefi
cially to the whole people, 1 am willing
it should then be repealed.
I am fully identified with the State
of Georgia. Her people are my peo
ple, and their interests are mine, and if
elected to this position, no one shall
have a cause of regret. Consider well
your own interests, lay aside all preju
diccs, do away with party strite and
elect one to represent you and your
interest, who will do so faithfully.
Yours truly.
W. L. Goodwin.
Fro in Uaitfort, Conn.
HJRItUKT, April 7. —The Democra
tic majority is 1,500. The Republi
cans increase their majority on joint
ballot, thus securing a Radical United
States Senator.
From Ohio.
Cincinnati, April 7. —The Demo
crats have elected City Commissioners
and Wbart Master, The Republican
majority cl last year was 2,100.
From Evansville, Iml.
Evansville, April 7.—The Democ
rats carried the town, for the fust time
in several years.
/ From Richmond.
Richmond, April.—General H. H.
Wells, of Alexandria, this morning
took oath of office as Governor of
Virginia and entered upon the duties of
his office.
From Washington.
Washington, D. C., April 7. —
Pierpont, Hauxhurst and Dr. Pavne,
(negro) from Iliehmond, called on
General Grant to-day, ineffectually
endeavoring to induce him to interfere
with General Schofield. Membeis all
at Cabinet, including Thomas.
GEORGIA, Bartow county.—Whereat)' M. P.J Good
win applies to me for letters of admiuistration on
the estate of Jane Hatch, late of said county deceased.
These are t herefore to cite and admonish all and sin
gular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to
he and appear at my office within the time prescribed
by law, and show cause, if any they have, why said
letters should not he granted said applicant, otherwise
they will be granted. Given under my hand and offi
cial signature, tills February 12,1565.
J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BARTOW COUNTY,—Whereas Thomas
H. Botnar applies to me for Letters of Administra
tion, De honis non, with the Wl'l annexed, on the estate
of William 11. Eidson, late of said county deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and sin
gular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be
and appear at rny'offiee, within the time prescribed by
law, and show cause if any they can, why said letters
de bonis non with the will annexed, should not i,e grant
ed said applicant, otherwise they will be granted.
Given nnder my hand an 1 official signature, March
12th, 1668. , J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. (
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LAMPS AND ESTRELLA 101 L
Em 1 »o i’ iiiin !
COME one, come all ! and secure a Lamp, which for
Beauty, Safety, Cleanliness, Economy and Brillian
cy, car not be excelled anywhere in the World I The
Oil is prepared in Cartersville by the undersigned, and
he will always be ready to satisfy the most incredu
lous.
Old Lamps fitted up with new Burners and Chim
neys. Safety Lamps always on hand three hundred
per cent cheaper than candles.
P. MARSH, Proprietor,
KIRKPATRICK'S DRUG STOFE.
ayr 0 why Cartersville, Ga.
Hardware Ac Iron
STORE!
HARDWARE,
STOVES,
Iron and Steel,
ZL ZL,
implements,
Direct from Manufacturers, LOW ECU CASH.
II II GILBERT and CO
Cartersville, Ga.
. April 9,1858 wty
N. GILREA7H l SOW.
Are receiving anew stock of
Spring mid
summer goods,
se'ected by one of the firm in person, consisting in
part, of e
Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
Ladles’ Dress Goods,
Rcady-Jflade CLOTHIJI'G ,
laiifs’, attiJ (Kents’ satfr,
Boots and Shoes,
Hardware,
QUEENSWARS.
Also, a well selected stock of
GROCERIES,
To which we invite the attention of our friend?, and
beg them to cal! and examine—especially to buy from
us, as quick sales and short profits is our motto.
N. GILREATH & SON,
apri! 9,1868. Cartersville, tia.
H un-sm ithing.
Cartersville, On.
tTAKE AIM! .
READY!
F-X-R-E !! J|J
j-no. IF 1 . HARWPLL-
Is still hammering away at his old tricks re
pairing Pistols nn«l Guns, Thresh
ers, Gins, and all kinds of mctalic ma
chinery , also any kinds of work done in Iron,
Steel, Gold, Silver, Copper, BraEs or Zinc,-.
Shop adjoining Strange’s Tin Shop.
april 9th
DICK THOMPSON,
ANNOUNCES to his former patrons, and all others,
that he has returned to Cartersville, and Is pre
pared to do anything in the line of
House, Sign and
Ornamental painting,
with cheapness, neatness and dispatch. Only try me
and be satisfied, Sattisfacdon warranted in every in
stance. april 9,156S wtf
“ To Wheat Growers.”
On hand for the coming season
Wheat Threshers and Fang,
Railway and Lever Horse-
Powers,
Reaping and Mowing Ma
chines,
Grain Cradles,
And, In fact, every thing needed for harvesting and
Cleaning the coming Grain Crop.
P. W. J, ECHOLS Th# Horse-power Threshers and
Fans I bought of you for myself and neighbors, last
year, gave perfect satisfaction. On the Railway pow
er, though working constantly, my mules fattened,
while my mules that we re plowing were falling off.
J. E. SHIPP, Social Circle, Ga.
‘■The four-horse lever power and thresher and clean
er, boughtof P. W. J. Echols,in 1367, we unhesitating
ly say is the best we have ever seen. Though rather
late in the season when wc received it, we threshed
over T.OOO bushels of Grain.”
BEGGARLY & HUNNICUTT,
Coweta county, Ga.
Any amount of evidence given as to the quality of
these Machines. Call and examine or address
P. W. J. ECHOLS/
Georgia Agricultural Warehouse,
Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
April 9,1568.
To Consumptives.
The Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON will send, free o
charge, to all who desire it, the prescription with the
directions for making and usingthe simple remedy .by
which he wag cured of a lung affection and that dread
disease Consumption, Ilis only object is to benelit
the afflicted, and he hopes every sufferer will try this
prescription, as it will cost them nothing, aud may
prove.a blessing. Please address
Rev EDWARD A. WILSON,
i No. 165 South Second Street, Williamsburg, New York
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SE ARE NOW RE»
. CEIVING OUR
STOCK
o f
! r ju * &
zest id
sußvia
J)RY jgOODS,
AND OFFER TO THE
Tra and e
ONE or TIIE
LARGEST AND
BEST SELECTED STOCKS IN
NORTH GA.
tdJl
OUR GOODS WERE BOUGHT while
they were at
lasia imm,
AND TO THIS FACT ME INVITE
THE ATTENTION OP ALL CLOSE
cash buyers.
iisi jEm!
QUR STOCK OF
mBHm
M'£,
&9v ® @ *
CASSIMERES,
HATS,
Brady-Made CLOTHING,
ANO
MOT® All
will be found complete.
BLAIBI BRADSHAW.
CARTERS J'MLLE,
April 9, 1868 wly
Important notice
TO CONSUMERS OF GOAI
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD-) f
Office of Hauler of TrantportoVf"’ , v |
Atlanta, Ga., March 28,186 s - I
ON and after April Ist, 1848, the rate of J.l
Coal will be reduced to ONE AND A HAL* li; |
per mile per ton of 2000 pound*. This rate to cod |
ue in force until October Ist, after which the P" f
rates of two cents per ton will be returned.
By order of the pgCK.
apr 9 3m Master of T-riaapoi' l *^ 1 " I
