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STANDARD AND EXPRESS. CtRTERBVILLEj| «?, Al‘«fT- H 1872. J.XV. UARHI|| Political Kdttor. s. H. KHlTß.nowi and Local Editor. T. 11. BREWSTER, Agricultural A Local. XV. 8. D.IHKIK, Publisher X Com. Ed. i T £■s- Reading matter on every page The finest and largest stock of Dry (foods, Clothing, Hoots, Shoes, Ac., Ac., Ac., has just besn reedxed by 8. AM. Liebman. There is no use of saying anyth iug about prices, but one thing vve will say, and guarantee that if you ever go there with the inten tion of buying goods in their line, you will buy them twenty-five per cent, cheajx-r than in any other house in this town. Their motto is quick -alt's and small profits. Wc publish, this week, to the ex clusion of much other matter, the able and unanswerable letter of ex-Gov i baric* J. .Jenkins to Gov. James >l. Smith, in vindication of his (Jenkins) administration, which will be read, with interest by all our readers. Sheriff Sales for May, Vandivere’s, Sligh’s, and Hanson’s advertisements, Report of Secretary A Tress. Town < Vjmmissionci's, anti new Schedule of Cherokee Rail-road, will be read with interest by our readers. Messrs, it. W. Satterfield & Bro., are receiving their new and beauti ful Spring and Summer Goods. Ad vertisement next week. A line stock of Ladies’ Dress Goods at astonishing low price's at Lieb mau’s. Tin; Reign of Terror in South Carolina. A special dispatch from Laurens Court House, S. C. to the Charleston Neics, of yesterday, says : The following persons’were arrested here yesterday, by the Deputy United States Marshals, upon charges of Ku Kluxism. They are, all of them, among the most respectable of our citizens: It. E. Richardson, J. A, Leland, W. E. Black, A. McCarleyj J. 11. Richardson, Thomas McCoy, U. 1). Eidielberger, 11. W. Anderson 15. West, W. M. Richardson, R. I.! Potter, B. I*\ Ballew, William And erson, Autone Mark, A. W. Teague, of Clinton, J. T. Craig, It. It. Blakely, I. Compion, E. Young, R. 11. Wil iams, H.Suber, S. Pearson, G. David son, B. S. Jones, and Bluf Meadow. The last named is a colored man. “More arrests will probably be made to-morrow. There is a perfect reign of terror here. All the roads leading from town are strongly guar ded, and no one is allowed to pass ou.” Grant and hi minions seem deter mined to force the people of South Carolina into 'armed opposition to their acts of tyranny. None are safe from arrest on the charge of Ku Kiux ism if they do not belong to the dominate party. The effect of these arhitary measures will probably be in the end to depopulate the State, as far as its Democratic white people are concerned. An Atlanta correspondent informs the Macon Telegraph there are nine judges and solicitor generals to ap point, and there are eighty-threo ap plications for judges places, and ninety-one for solicitor general’s. The Board of Directors of the At lantic and great Western Canal met in Atlanta on Thursday and resolved to open books of subscription. There is no doubt of the passage of the bill now before Congress granting aid to this great work, and that its success is now assured beyond a doubt. The annual convention of the Pro testant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Georgia, meets in Colum bus the Gtli day of May. MISSISSPPI. Jackson, April 6. —The Legislature njourned sine die. Appropriations were reduced over £.">00,000 from the estimates. The negro equality bill was defeat ed. Volunteer Companies.— The re organization of the old volunteer companies is progressing throughout the Slate. We understand that arms will be procured from the State for their use. Under the Bullock reigime, 1808- I 71, the is- ue of State bonds is $6,648,- 000, and the railroad indorsements amount to $0,066,000, making $12,- 181,000 of the entire debt of 817,983,- 000 due to three years of reconstructed Government. Queen Victoria has over 300 tons of gold and silver plate. The Queen City Circus will visit s Griffin on the 15th. The Columbus guards have reor ganized with some forty old members. 17,050 letters were received at the Atlanta Post office last week. Forty thousand pounds of Califor nia butter wore shiped east last week. There Ls a movement on loot to re organize the “ Young Guard,” of Convention. Georgia corn has been sent to Egypt and planted, with satisfactory results. Nails have advanced fifty cents per keg, making >0.50 rates. There seems to be a general move ment throughout the State looking to : a reorganization of the old volunteer companies. Full returns frpm Connecticut give Governor Jewell a plurality of 1,940 over Ilutbanl, and a majority of 30 over all candidates. The Pitsburg iron manufacturers have advanced on all sizes of iron three-tenths of a cent per pound, and on nails twenty-five cents per keg. The Tariff.—The House of Repre sentatives has tabled the Senate Tariff Bill, and so made an end for a time of all the business of free tea and coffee legislation. Flint river is higher than it has been for many years, and the country around is completely inundated. Prepare in TiME.-Messrs. An derson & Wells, of Alabama street, have received a car load of Ball s ;e,^r S andm6we K .-4«®'*0»“"- tutiotl. , ■ Near 40,000 prisoners are now in carcerated inside the walls of the dii ferent State prisons and pemten inn ■» of the United States. 0^ T vote in favor of Atlanta, astoe pj for tho meeting of our Assoc Maty uoxt. OOVEKNOK JENKINS’ RITTER. COKTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. T hat worthy gentleman and faith ful officer, refused payment, in the absence of an Executive Warrant. Alxmt this time General Pope, (proofs of whose numerous abuse of power, had been multiplied to the President by myself and others,) was removed from his command in Georgia, and General Meade, appointed to succeed him. < >ne of the successor’s first acts was a requisition upon me for a war rant upon the Treasurer to satisfy the demand of the Convention. xV ith this I refused to comply, on the ground that the constitution, under which I was elected and inaugurated, and which I had sworn to obey, ex pressly provided that no money should be taken from the Treasury, except by Executive warrant, upon appropriation made by law; and that no appropriation laid been made by law to defray the expenses of that Convention. 1 insisted that the re quisition was unwarranted, even by the reconstruction acts. The Con go— had not ventured upon an act so flagrant as the direct appropria tion of money from the Treasurer of < ieorgia. But they had bestowed a largess of power upon a military chieftain, whose lack of traininiug in the principles of civil government, rendered him little scrupulous in overstepping constitutional barriers. 1 felt, and feel, that the argument was with me; but the jtoicer was with the General, and beneath its pressure, I, and the argument went down to gether. I was ren loved by ami li tary fiat, and Brevet-Brigadier-Gener.il Huger, of the U. S. Army, a subordi nate ot Gem ral Mead, appointed to succet and me. On presenting himself to assume the Gox’ernrnent, the appointee in answer to a question by me, read me an extract from his instructions, di recting him, in ease of resistance, to employ such force as might be neces sary to overcome it. Having at my command no force whatever, I con tented myself with a protest against the proceedings, as a flagrant usur pation, violative of the Constitution of the United States, and a declara tion that 1 forebore resistence, oniy because 1 was powerless to make it — and so retired. 1 believe it is pretty generally un derstood, that as far as was practica ble, in the brief interval allowed me, I placed the movable valuables of the Suite, and certainly the money then in the Treasury, beyond the reach of the spoilers, and in the exercise of a legal discretion, suspended the col lection of taxes then in progress. At all events the immediate object of this extreme measure, the placing of the funds actually in the Treasury at the disposal of the Constitution-mak ers, then unconstitutionally assem bled at Atlanta, was defeated. C'o temporaneously with this entire, un disguised usurpation of the Execu tive Office, those military men took actual possession of the State Capitol, and its grounds—of the Executive Mansion and its furniture and grounds, and of the archives of the State. Furthermore, they revoked my order su pending the collection of taxes, which they required the col lector to pay to their own appointed treasurer, seized upon the income of tiie Western & Atlantic Railroad (then in good order, and successful operation,) and, in short, took with in their grasp every dollar of the sub sequently incoming revenue of the State'. No insinuation is intended" that they appropriated to their own use any portion of the State’s money, un less in the way of salaries to which they were not entitled, and about which L know nothing. It is doubtless true that they went out witli cleaner hands than did their immediate successors, the so-called Representatives of the People. The charge is, that by the strong hand of power, they wrested this property from the rightful possession of the constituted authorities of the State and applied it, in their discre tion, to public uses unauthorized by her fundamental and statutory law, and subversive of her sovereignty. Seeing that they had then made themselves ameneable to thejurisdic tion of the U. S. Supreme Court, as that Court had been understood to define it, in their decision of the pre vious ease, and believing myself still de jure , though not defacto, Gover nor of the State, I again went before that tribunal, alleging these acts of aggressive usurpation, and seeking redress against the wrong-doers. The hearing of this ease would have brought distinctly under the review' of the Court the constitution ality of the reconstruction acts, which J especially desired. No so the Court. They—or a majority of them —felt a royal repugnance to that delicate is sue. Leave to file the bill, on appli cation made in open Court, and upon a statement of the allegations con tained in it, was unhesitatingly giv en ; the Attorney General of the United States, being present, and making no objection; and the bill was delivered to the Clerk. Put this permission was revoked within twenty-four hours, as having been improvidentially granted, al though it neither infringed any ex isting rule of practice, nor committed the Court to anything touching the merit of the case. Then why re- I yoked ? For no conceivable reason j other than to open that case to the j operation of anew rule of practice, adopted after the permission to file j the bill; and which produced un necessary and vexatious delay. Yet I more, in subsequent stages, addition al delays were occasioned by excep tional rulings of the Court; and at last we were gravely told that there diil not remain of the term time enough to hear and determine a me- ; tion for injunction. Before the commencement of the ! next term (as the Court had probably 1 anticipated) the Atlanta Convention j had done its work—Meade and Huger had disappeared from the scene, and Bullock and his hungry horde, by force of the bayonet, though un der the flimsy veil of constitutional reform, had become “lords of the ascendant.” The suit before the Court was not a fa vindictive charac ter-damages were not sought against the defendants ; but only a riddance from their usurpations. . Os course, it j would have been folly to pursue them j after their abdication. The cause could not have been pressed against them. Let it not be said that the object aimed at by this litigation was accom plished without the action of the Court. Far from it. Had the Court pronounced the reconstruction acts | unconstitutional, we would not only I have been delivered from Meade and j Huger, but from the whole Atlanta i Convention. The existing State Gov ernment would have been sustained ; Bullock would have remained in the Express Office, and the present de rangement of our finances, as well as many other evils, would have been avoided. When it is considered that the en- j forcement of the reconstruction acts, then in progress, would inevitably i throw existing State constitutions, ! and with them existing State govern- j ments; that the Executive and Leg- j islative Departments of the Federal j Government were distinctly at issue, upon the question of the constitution ality of those acts, and that there was ; in the Supreme Court a case pending, and a motion in that case, ready fora hearing, which called for a judicial ! settlement of that question, what can ! excuse a refusal to bear it ? No more momentous question was , ever submitted to. that court. If the allegations in the bill failed to give the Court jurisdiction, who nor say so ? If the Executive Department were wrong, and the Legislative Depart ment right, on that great issue, why not, by a solemn judgment, terminate the controversy, and give quiet to the country ? They said there did not remain of the term time enough for the hearing I —but why not ? The term was not closed by legal j limitation, but by judicial discretion, i Were these, their Honors, weary—ex i hausted by their judicial labors? Ah! j let them contemplate the weariness of spirit, tho exhaustion of resources, ! sinceinflicted uponthepeopleofGeor gia bx the misrule they were called upon* to arrest, but would not even in quire into, and then justify, if they j can, their delinquency. I entered that court with all the • veneration for it inspired by a Mar i *hal, a Taney, and their compeers. I left it with the painful impression, which time lias not mitigated, that the then incumbents (or a majority of them j had, by procrastination, delib j erately evaded a judgment they could not have refused , xvithout dishonor to themselves; yet could not have ren dered without offense to the despotic and menacing faction then and still wielding the power of the Gox rem i ment. It was probably under the prompt ings of a similar feeling that the x-en erable Justice Grier, the senior in vears of them all, about the same time, from his seat on the bench, in open session, declared himself ashamed of the attitude assumed by the court (in another case resulting from post-war tyranny,) and like an old Roman, j shook the reproach from his skirts. Here I turn aside to notice a rumor, invented and circulated to my preju dice by certain mendacious Radicals :of Georgia, that in these suits I had, without authority of law, expended thirty thousand dollars of the people’s money. The expense of the first suit, instituted and ended whilst I xx’as still undisputed Governor of Georgia, amounted in all, including laxxyors’ fees, court costs and printing expen ! st'S, rendered necessary by their rules of practice, and excluding my person al expenses, to two thousand sex’en hundred dollars ($2,700.) This sum I paid out of the contin gent fund, placed at my disposal, a balance of which remained unexpend ed on my retirement. That the paasage of the reconstruction acts, and the con sequent rape of the soverignty of Georgia, presented a contingency un anticipated by any, sav'e its unprinci pled authors, and that it cried aloud for all possible resistance, no right minded man will deny. Having been sustained by the opin ion of eminent jurists, as to the prac ticability of judicial relief in the premises, I am content to stand or fall by the judgment of my fellow-citizens regarding the propriety of this expen diture. The smallness of the expenditure in the first is attributable to the public spirit and disinterested patriotism of the solicitors employed for the State. I take pleasure in testifying in regard to both cases, that the people of Geor gia oxve a debt of gratitude, they can nex’er cancel, to Messrs. Charles O’Connor, Jeremiah S. Black, Robert J. Brent, David Dudley Field and Edgar Cowan. "tr* When I left the Executive office I I took with me the record of warrants, drawn upon the treasury, the book of receipts for them, and other papers therewith connected; and the seal of | the Executix'e Department. It was [ my purpose to retain these things in ! my own custody until I should see in the Executive office a rightful incum | bent, and then to restore them. The removal of the books and pa pers was simply a cautionary measure for my own protection. Not so with | the seal. That was a symbol of the | Executive authority ; and although j devoid of intrinsic material value, | was hallowed by a sentiment which j forbade its surrender to unauthorized j hands. Afterwards, xvliilst I xvas in ! Washington vainly seeking the inter l position of the Supreme Court, a for mal written demand was made upon me by General Huger for a return of these articles, with which 1 declined to comply. The books and papers I herewith transmit to your Excellency, that they may resume their place among the archives of the State. With them, 1 also deliver to you the seal of the Executive Department. I derive high satisfaction from the re flection that it has never been dese crated by the grasp of a military usur per’s hand—never been prostituted to authenticate official misdeeds of an upstart pretender. Unpolluted as it came to me, I gladly place it in the hands of a worthy son of Georgia— her freely chosen Executive—my first legitimate successor. Anticipating as the fruits of your administration, dis tinguished honor to yourself and last ing benefits to your confiding constit uents, I am, Your Excellency’s ob’t servant, C. J. Jenkins. Written lor the Standard & Express.] EDUCATIONAL PAPERS. BY MISS A. C. SAFFORD. NO. 111. PUBLIC EXAM I NATIONS. For sometime I was connected with large Female Schools at the West, whose principals believed in public examinations; and having been year ly victimized, under protest, to a custom which had its origin in a less enlightened period of popular senti ment than the present, I take the ground, from personal observation, that these displays in girls’ schools have an injurious tendency. Against public examination for boys I have not one word to say. They have to go forth as they grow up and contend with manly, victo- 1 rious self-confidence amidst the | roughest elements. They must lift their voices on the world’s highway, j abovo its bustling throngs, anil a lit tle seasoning before hand is not amiss, For our girls a different sphere is | ordained. The busy-tinge red lives of j most women, though they may be j filled with cycles,” are veiled and silent. The ministry by which the daughter saves her mother from fa tigue, the wife lessens the cares of her husband, the neighbor shows lier kindly feeling, the thoughtful spirit breathes the bldssing of her gentle presence around the sick and sorrow ful, is a quiet ministry. The work of the patient toiler for bread, whilst subjecting her to “ the grind of the hard and actual,” usually removes her far from the places where great audiences congregate. The slender limit of woman’s bodi ly strength, the exquisite anil easily crushed vitality of her mental na ture, her refined moral organization, seem perpetual protests against her quavering out learning, law, or gos pel, to promiscuous crowds. Why, then, during the brief period of their education, in the days when the sensibilities are most shrinking j and tender, force girls to come for ward in public once a year anil de liver lectures in minature in answer to the questions addressed to them ? : Should they, a few years later, ven ture to speak from the rostrum, keen j sarcasm would be liberally darted at j them, and they would be severely blamed for doing the same thing, on ly on a larger scale, which they were once taught to think very commend able. One reason that female lectures in fest certain sections of our country and in wailing conventions pipe the wrongs of woman, (themselves work ing the worst wrong to their sex,) is that in those sections girls are accus tomed during their school-life to much of this public parade. They argue that if, in their timid years, it was not only considered right for them to speak, but thought' positively disgraceful if they failed to do so; that surely the original thoughts of maturer age have a bet ter claim to be ventilated than the memorizations of the school-girl. I have seen young girls in a first examination their fact's tremulous with a kind of agonized “stage fright” and aflame with blushes, whilst, their voices came in gaspe as they choked down the “pure xxo manly” in their natures to go through their parts. I have seen the same girls two or three seasons later walk out on a stage with perfect nonchalance and meet assertix'e air, and recite topics or read essays in the presence of hun dreds without flinching, ex" ltly delighted to show off their learning and charms. Said a learned man and fine orator, who was present at a “ splendid ex amination,” so called, in a celebrated institute: “ MissS ,it almost takes my breath to see the confidence of those young ladies, and i. ve often address ed thousands, but t<- this day I hax'e not acquired the utter unconcern some of them exhibit. Can’t your President see the miserable workings of his plan ? A< somebody says, ‘ the material world, with its hardness and impudence,’ is coming on his girls, and their simple, sweet, child-nature I will be lost forever.” It is not averted that such effects follow such exhibitions in every ease, any more than that every person j who has the small-pox is pitted, but as in nine eases out often pock-marks ■ are left; so, the legitimate tendency of public examinations is to mar the I subtile modest charm of a truly girl ish nature. It is generally admitted that these examinations are no tests of scholar ship. Often the best scholars, owing to that timidity which plays upon every fine-strung fibre of an intellectual na ture as if it xvere a nerve, increased by the study with which they have ox'erworked their brains, fail almost completely, whilst a poor scholar possessed of self-confidence will show off the little she does know to fine ad vantage. Again, a pupil of quick mind who has been deficient in ap plication will frequently cram just before an examination till her mem ory is “stuffed full of scholastic straw,” xvhich she then draws out with the utmost readiness. Teachers are sometimes astonished at the brilliant show made by schol ars who have not been x T ery studious. The Yankee’s explanation is perhaps true, “ It’s faculty, —that’s it; them that has it has it, and them that hasn’t—why, they’ve got to work and not do half so well neither.” And, for my part, I am not disposed to encourage a faculty to appear well on nothing, at the expense of modest merit. “Examinations are incentives to study,” urged one of my principals. Granted; but they are amongst the lowest. The fear of failure, the de sire to eclipse one’s classmates, the envy aroused if one is surpassed, are very foreign to the cultivation of that amiable, unselfish spirit which “ Seeketii not its own, is not puffed up.” The grand motive to stimulate a scholar arises out of the belief that God, who created the mind with its wondrous capabilities, expects us to improve them for Him, that some xvhere in the distant xvorld where one star differs from another star in glory, higher homes await those who on earth consecrate their intellects to him. “In the dim, daily walks of life, the noblest impulse is God’s im pulse, God’s reminder to the soul of something better to be obtained.” Then, to the pupil should be held up the desire to honor and please her parents, to qualify herself to become an ornament to society, and the minor motives of obtaining good marks upon her school record, etc. Surely these are sufficient. For one sluggish pupil aroused to study by the dread of an examination, there are ten actix'e ones quickened into feverish excitement, having the same effect mentally as strong drink has bodily, and the knowledge thus ac quired is in an exceedingly ferment ed, undesirable state. Another evil connected with these things is waste of time. Weeks be fore hand everything points towards examinations, there is an unnatural strain on the faculties of the pupils, and ghosts of lessons haunt their very dreams. lam sure there are very few teachers who would be so dis honorable as to “ make individual assignment of questions and topics and drill the pupils on them prepar atory to examinations.” Conscien tious teachers employ no more time than would be necessary to review a whole class thoroughly over the studies completed during the year, and try to impress the understanding and memory not for one day only, but for all life. Yet despite of every precaution the scholars labor as for dear life, and on the day for which they have worked so hard, are hurriedly questioned on a few topics and dismissed before the have done even the few justice. “Do make each girl say something and get through,” I have heard a principal say to a teacher whilst ex amining classes of twenty and thirty, on such branches as Astronomy and Chemistry, and I never knew him to give more than twenty-five minutes for recitation in the most advanced studies. Once he allowed fifteen minutes to a large and well prepared Bhetorie class to cover the ground gone over in ten months. He boasted that in his school of 210 girls, examinations could be “ finish ed up to the satisfaction of all con cerned in two and a half days.” Such things are mere shams and nuisances, cheating with the trash of education when the kernel is lost. A celebrated teacher says of exam inations, “ They tend to encourage haste rather than thoroughness. If pupils have been able to answer a few questions from different portions of the book, it is deemed sufficient, and yet they may do this without thoroughly understanding a single rule. Too much importance is at tached to the amount passed over, too little to the manner in which it has been done.” “ I do not believe in examinations,” remarked a gentleman, “but they make a show and advertise my school, and the public like them.” If the public has such a taste, it ought not to be encouraged, but in truth the great common instinct is lightning-like in detecting anything like clap-trap, and the force of learn ing, while it amuses for a season, will not long be countenanced. And what a motive to present to a young girl, “You will make such a show if you succeed!” It is the key-note to a life of folly, which it might be safe to lead did there not stretch beyond its three-score years and ten an eternal existence where show and deception are inadmissible. Had not every parent rather that a daughter should be trained into a se rene, loving woman, with well-bal anced nature, ready to mingle with self-respect and dignity amongst the j bread-winners of earth, equally ready to be the cheerful, busy, house wifely keeper of some happy home, than have her made showy, vain, so craving the stimulus of excitement j that sometimes she will fairly loathe I the quiet routine of a sheltered life? “ Would you do away entirely with examinations?” No; I would only substitute in place of public dis play, thorough prix'ate examinations on the various studies, conducted ou the system of writing, questions to be selected without reference to those in the text-books, whilst the answers can lie examined by parents, and by competent committees, if the teach ers so elect. This written system has been adopted by a majority of the best schools in America and Eu rope, and has borne well the test of expe rience. In the old way, an absurd effort was often made to ha\*e it appear that ex’ery scholar knexx everything in the books when, on the contrary, every teacher knows that in daily recitation some pupils are uniformly perfect, others only ap proximate to this grade, and some seldom reach it. The same thing must be expected in a review, and written examinations show what a pupil does not, as well as what she does understand. With this xvritten method let there be combined oral reviews in some studies similar to those held in the school, week after week, and let these be open to parents, and any friends of education particularly invited by the teachers. The child’s dearest in terests belong to the parents, and they hax’e a right to be present. In deed, could their interest be awaken ed to the pitch of visiting a school informally and frequently, they would get a better insight into the way their children are taught and managed, than they could possibly obtain otherwise, and their presence would cheer the teachers and stimu late the pupils. Let it be distinctly understood that parents are always welcome in the schoolroom. But a teacher should have too much respect for young la dies committed to her care to drag them into unseemly publicity to the endangering of that retiring grace that can no more be restored than you can bring back the blush to a withered rose, or the dew-sparkle to a long-plucked lily. Nor is it her place to “ furnish ex citement in a mild form, in place of the theatre or circus;” nor, because she is obliged to earn her bread, forget that she has the instincts of a gentlewoman and forego her birth right. A gifted woman, who had been martyred to public examinations, once wrote a “ Teacher’s Examina tion Song,” a parody of the “ Song of the Shirt,” by Thomas Hood. A few stanzas from this will point the mor al of my essay: With a voice piping and shrill. Standing alone in a crowd, A woman performed that unwomanly tank, St/eaking in public aloud. Talk, talk, talk ! All tremulous, flushing, and faint. Questioning now with a querulous tone. And now with a weary plaint!” » * * * * * “Talk, talk, talk!— Mid a crowd whose gazs never flags, And talk, talk ! ’Till the heart’s like a hunted stag’s ! It’s oh !tobe a man, In some cloister lonely and drear, Whose “Sisters” can speak to never a one, If this is woman’s sjdiere !” * * * * * * “ Talk, talk, talk! ’Till the tongue begins to twist! Talk, talk, talk! ’Till the eyes look out through a mist. Ask, and question, and prompt, l'rompt and question anew, Until in a Cretan maze I am lost, And seek in vain for a clew.” * * * * * * “ Oh ’ men with careless hearts! Oh! men who listen and stare, ’Tis not a machine that grinds out words, A woman'B soul is there. Talk, talk, talk! All dazlcd, bewildered, and blind, Reaching at once with a double voice, The heart as well as the mind.” * * * * * * “ But, why do I talk of hearts, When almost 1 loathe my own 5 Would that I could harden its human flesh, Change it to flinty stone, Because of my flushing cheek; O, God! that man should be so strong, And woman’s heart so weak!” * * * * * * “Talk, talk, talk! XX'ill this task never be o’er ? And what are my wages ?—a breathing sport, Aright to live, —no more. A blazing hearth, a happy home, A father, a mother dear. E’en dreams of these would my heart appease, Where but shadows fall cold and sere. .So, with voices piping and shrill, Standing alone in a crowd, A woman perlormed that unwomanly task, Speaking in public aloud." New Advertisements. REPORT Os Sec. and Treas. to tlie Board of Com missioners, for tire Ist Quarter, ending March 30, 1872- By cash on hand at last report $2220 “ from tax on liquors 1487 48 “ “ “ drays 26 00 “ “ “ fines 3600 “ “ “ taxes 66 52 “ “ “ rent of llall 17 50 “ “ “ tax on billiard tables 1500 “ borrowed from J. C. w offord 9000 “ “ lir. Clayton 25000 “ Judge Parrott 75000 “ from peddlers 500 “ “ chapman on pump.... 548 $2780 1 8 PAID OUT. To paid lab. ou streets $322 74 “ marshals 345 76 “ feeding mules .04 20 “ lumber 197 88 “ M. E. Church, Hall seats 364 50 “ J. J, Howard bul. on note 268 95 “ note to J. C. Wofford 100 00 “ Jas. H. Gilrcath’s account 20 83 “ N. Gilreath & Son’s “ 360 “ XV. C. EdwardjS “ JJjjj “ insurance on Hall I°oo “ expenses on wells "" 22 00 “ H. Saxon, blacksmith, account.. 950 “ L. Chapman's account 19 98 " 11. XV right, shade trees, 400 “ for steele square r * 5(4 “ Puttillo & Baker’s account 6 50 “ Marshal cost case, J. M. Lackey 250 “ Sec. and Tr’s salarv to date 30 00 “ Mrs. M. Smith, bal. note, By cash assets on hand 76503 1275018 Respectfully submitted, J.C. MADDOX, Sec. & Tr. B. C. NEW S OHEDULE. CHEROKEE RAILROAD FROM and after this date the following Schedule will be run on the Cherokee Rail road : Leave Rockmart at Jj®? '■ “ Germantown „ “ Taylorsville, “ Stilesboro, „ Arrive at Cartersville, ~ %r Leave Cartersville Stilesboro „ “ Taylorsville “ Germantown, „ Arrive at Rockmart, 4 I). W. K. PEACOCK. April 13,1572. FOB EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS. —A new two-horse iron-axle wagon. Call early and secure a bargain. Also, a number one new one-horse wagon, for SIXTY-FIVE dollars. Call on JOHN F. HARWELL, aprilll ts. Cow peas and com for sale cheap at Alley’s. H. J. SLIGH, JJAvISQ bought out bo;h Grocery Uoß»es heretofore on ued by Geo. J. Uriaut, one on the Kn-t and the other ou the West -ide or the Railro.i 1. will continue to kee-. np the t#e st.Kks of^ Fam i1 v Groceries, where consumer* may always ftad supplies iaawadance. Kwriluag. Item a ask > ti:vi to an ounce of Mace. Produce bought and sold. Invites the old customers; of his predecessor* in business, together wi.li the public or ally, to call and make their purchases with lain, as ho promise lo d> as good (J .. .t by them as any other house in like business in Cartersville or elsewhere. This is all he asks, and certainly all that consumer- should expect, aplll-lv. VANDiVERE S MARKET, WEST SI DE It 41LROAD, MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, v„. • - N *V EEPS constantly ou hand an abundant suppplv of FII E BIT MEATS, BEEF, MUTTON, and PORK, SAUSAGE, PRESS MEAT,TRIPE,CHICKEKS, EGGS, BUTTER, Country Prodnee bought aad sold—Chickens, Eggs, liutter, &c. WANTED.— WiII pay the highest market price for Hides and Pelts. a P ul A. C. G. VANDIVERE, City Butcher. WIVL GOULOSMITH, MANUFACTURER AND DEADER IN FXT IT IST I r F UR E, METAUG BURIAL GASES AND GASKETS. Also keeps on hand WOOD COFFINS of every description. All orders by Night or Day promptly attended to. Cartersville, Ga., April 4, 1872. T. M. COMPTON T - B - SHOCKLEY. COMPTON ft SHOCKLEY, WEST MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GA., DEALERS IN DRY-GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, FAMILY GROCERIES. AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Believing the CASH SYSTEM, at Short Profits, the only practical system for the times, they therefore adopt it, but will take the usual products of the country in exchange for Goods at reasonable rates. They will do a General Commission Business also. jan251878-3m. OF? C(h A MONTH to sell our Universal Co zy / Qihment, Combination Tunnel, Button s# I V V Hole Cutter, and other articles. Saco Novelty Cos., Saco, Me. AA f I fcS C V .MAHE H A l'l DI.Y with Stencil ITIUn L I and Key Check Outfits. Catalogues, samples and lull particulars FREE. S. M. spencer, Brattleboro’, Vt. AGENTS!AGENTS!AGENTS! AY e will nay S4O per week in cash, and expen ses, to good agents who will engage with us at once, everything furnished. Address F. A. ELLS & CO., Charlotte. Mich. ANTED Agents lor our new 16-page pa per. the Contributor. Thirteen depart ments, religions and secular. Rev. A. B. Earle writes for it. SI.OO a year; a 2.00 premium to each subscriber. For Agents’ terms, address James 11. Karlk. Boston, Mass. $4 I )SYfHOMAXCV. ORSOILCHAHM JL ING.”—How either sex may fascinate and gain the love and affections of any person they choose, instantly. This simple mental ac quirement all can possess, free, by mail, tor 25 cents, together with a marriage guide, Egyp tian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies, &c. A queer, exciting book. 100,000 sold. Address _ T. WILD!AM A CO- Pub's, Phim. i Yon Take a Relipns Paper ? SUBSCRIBE FOR THE SOUTHERN CHURCHMAN Published in ALEXANDRIA, Yu., at s3ayear, TRY IT FOR ONE YEAR! ACENTS WANTED FOR “jSSttS.” HU divinity eatakflahed and ratlonalUm routed, tm most popular rapldly-Setllng reliiloaa ”rig"7ver lune^, er CffgttUf. *<Ure»a O.H.' BLISHIPtI CO- W. Y. WELLS'CARBOLIC TABLETS FOE IOK.HS, COLD* A HOAKMMSS. These Tablets present tbe Acid in Combina tion with otlier efficient remedies, in a popular form, for the Cure of all THROAT and LI N(, Diseases. HOARSENESS and ULCERATION of the THROAT are immediately relieved and statements are constantly being sent to the proprietor of relief in cases of Throat difficul ties of years standing. « a TtrnTriTT Don’t be deceived by wortli- U lIUiN less imitations. Get only Wells’ Carbolic Tablets. Price 25 Cts. per box. JOHN Q. KELLOGG. IS Platt St., N. Y. Send fort ircular. Sole Agent lor the U. S. ts BURNHAMS M. New Turbine is in gen- •SRk; HH eral use throughout the IT. HS. A six inch, is used by the Government in the Patent Office, Washing ton, I> C. Its simplicity ■ of construction and tlie power it transmits dors it the best water wheel ever invented. Pampahlet free. N. F. BURNHAM, York. Pa. ELASTIC JOINT IRON HOOFING FIRE, WATER AND WIND PROOF. Durable, Cheap, easilv applied bv any one. Provides for expansion and contraction. In practical use sixteen years. Boxed for shipment to any part of the country Address for Circular, CALDWELL & CO„ Cin cinnati, O. LIFE OF JAMES FISK. Brilliant Pen Pictures of the Sights and Sensations of New Y'ork. TAMMAMY FRAUDS. Biographies of Vanderbilt. Drew. Gould and other K. It. magnates. All about JOSIE M ANB - the siren anil EDWARD S. STOKES, the assassin, octavo of over 500 pages, profusely illustrated, AGENTS WANTED. Send SI.OO for outfit, and secure territory at once. Circu lars free. UNION PUBLISHING CO. Chicago, Cinn. or Phila. HILL SHIRT If you want the best fitting and i^rrtk vour clothier for tTwHToTiTenTfiTfl njll -cun I■■ ■■ i l . 1 1 1 ai.i ■T-liiLUIL-l' “senTlor^m-uhtrgmn^lul! particulars. ——l-I— HENRY C. BLACKMAR, 6»7 Broadway. New York. Importer and Manufacturerof Ms*’9 FCBKISH GOoDa for the Trade. Tie Rest Paper! Try It!! The Scientific American is the-cheapestand best illustrated weekly paper published. Eve ry number contains from 10 to 15 original en gravings of new machinery. novel inventions, Bridges, Engineering works, Architectuie, im proved Farm Implements, and every new dis covery in Chemistry. A year’s numbers con tain 832 pages and several hundred engravings. Thousands of volumes are preserved lor bindiug and reference. The practical receipts are well worth ten times the subscription price. Terms, $3 a year by mail. Specimens sent free. May be had at all News Dealers. PATENTS obtained on the best terms. Mod els ot new- inventions and sketches examined, and advice free. All patents are published in the Scientific American the week they issue. Send tor Pamphlet, 110 pages, containing laws and full directions lor obtaining Patents. Address for Paper, or concerning Patents, MI'NX & CO., 37 Park How, N. Y. Branch of fice, i or. F. and 7th Ms.. Washington, D. C. OH, WOULD I WERE A CHILD AGAIN! sighs the weary and exhausted one, as the lan guor and lassitude of spring comes upon him.- Come and receive vigor ana strength from the wonderlul South American Tonic, JURUBEBA. Long and successfully used in its native coun try, us a Powerful Tonic, and Potent Puri/ier of the Blood , it is found even to exceed the antici pations founded on its great reputation. Ac cording to the medical and scientific periodicals of London and Paris, it possesses the Most Powkkfci, Tonic properties known to Materia Medic a. DE. WELLS’ EXTRACT OF JURUBEBA is a perfect remedy for all diseases of the BLOOD, ORGANIC WEAKNESS, GLANDU LOUS TUMORS. DROPSY, SCROFULA, IN TERNAL ABSCESSES, and will remove all ob structions of the LIVER. SPLEEN, INTES TINES, UTERINE and URIN ARY ORGANS. It is strengthening and nourishing. Like nu tricious food taken into the stomach, it assimi lates and diffuses itself through the circulation, giving vigor and health. It regulates the houels. quiets the nerves , acts directly on the secretive organs, and, i>y its powerml Tonic and restoring effects, produces healthy and riaorovs action to the whole system. JOHN Q. KELLOGG, IS Platt Street, N. Y. .Sole Agent for the United States Price, One Dollar per Bottle. Send for Circula r 11-4 t. SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! I HAVE opened a Shoe House in the Brick Building opposite Gilbert & Baxter’s Hard ware House. I shall keep a general stock of Northern Shoes, made especially for this mar ket. I shall always sell cheap, nud nothing but Frst-class Articles. I am selling my “EUREKA” ENGLISH LASTING SHOES for the small sum of THREE DOLLARS! I defy the world to produce their superior. I am now prepared to make to order any kind of Boot or Shoe desired. FITS GUARANTEED! ALL WORK WARRANTED AND REPAIRED GRATIS if it does not stand. I have secured the services of Martin Walker, who will continue to make the ‘OLD RELIABLE’ BOOTS which have given him such a favorable name. Mr. Walker sends his greeting to his old friends and acquaintances, and will be glad to see them at his new place. Remember, “ EUR.BK.AS” for Three Dollars, and all Warranted. Re pairing done Cheap. H. C. HANSON. Cartersville, Ga., April 11,1872. Printing in Colors done at the Standard & Express Job Office, with dispatch and in the neatest style of the art, on anew octavo Nonpareil Job Press, put up expressly for this office, by the Cincinnati Type Foun dry Cos., Cincinnati, 0., samples of which can be seen at this office and sticking up around town. NEW GOODS! NEW OOODSI ERWIN, STOKLEY & CO. A re daily receiving new SPRING AN’I) SUM ME!? GOODS ! Their Stock is Large. Varied, and Elegant. Special attention is call* Ito to their Dress Goods, Piece Goods for Men and Boys’ Wear, BOOTS and SHOES, and CLOTHING. Their Stock also embraces every variety usually kept in the trade. They are selling at small profits to sash buyers, or prompt paying customer.. Liberal discount made on Cash bills. They solicit from their old friends and customers, as w ell as the public, a liberal share ot patronage. ERWIN, STOKELY k CO. Cartersville, March 18, 18Ti. GEORGE W. JACK, manufacturer ok Candies and Crackers. DEALER IN CONFECTIONERIES, TOYS, AND WILLOW-WARS WEDDING PARTIES, SUPPERS, Ac,, GOTTEN UP IN THE BEST STYLE, AND OX THE SHORTEST NOTICE- We would respectfully call the attention of the public to our larga and complete took—selected with great care, and bought at the LOWEST CASH PRICES. , iFIUTEUAEE STREET *iTLJ!J%TJ, ilJt marchlO-wly. GOWER, JONES & CO. CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA. ji'’ \ " MANUFACTURERS OF C A K 111 AG E S, BUGGIE S, ONE, TWO and FOUR HORSE WAGONS. | fXAN KILL ORDERS AT SHORT NOTICE. A large quantity of well seasoned timber on V> hand. Mr. E. N. Gower—who has had forty years experience in the business—tormerly of Greenville, South Carolina, and lately of Gainesville, Georgia, gives hi j personal attention to the business. Repairing done with neatness and dispatch. Aljlj work warranted. We defy Competition, both in Quality and Price. feb. 1-ly WAND© FERTILI ZER, FOR Gotton, Corn, Wheat, Tobacco. PRICE: CASH SSO per 2000 lbs., at Factory. TIME, $55 per 2000 lbs., at Factory, payable Nov. Ist, 1872, WITHOUT INTEREST. FACTORY EAST END EASEL STREET; MINES ON ASHLEY RIVER. W A N I) O ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIU! FOR COMPOSTING WITH COTTON SEED. PRICE!: CASH, S3O per 2000 lbs., at Factory. TIME, $35 per 2000 lbs., at Factory, Payable Nov. Ist, 1872, WITHOUT INTEREST. WM. c. dukes & CO. GENERAL AOE>TS, No. 1 South Atlantic Wharf, Charleston, S. C. • J. Gr. HOLMES, Jr., Sup’t oT Agoncio*. GILBERT & BAXTER, Agents, Cartersville, Ga. TOMME Y, STEW ART & BECK HIMME UHITS, 79 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Sole Agents for Low’s Patent Improved SHINGLE SAWING MACHINE jgJTO EV’jiRT’S P*ITEJ%'T SEEF-FEEMJFB Shingle Machines, Capacity of Machines from 15,000 to 50.000 Shingles per day, and BURT’S LATHING MACHIXC manufactured by C. S. & S. BURT. ALSO AGENTS FOR Portable Steam Engines of all S 1 FRENCH BURR AND ESOPUS MILL STONES. Bolting Cloths, etc. Sycamore Powder Company Rifle and Blasting Powder . MINES ON ASHLEY RIVER.