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STANDARD AND EXPRESS,
CVRTKRBVILLE, GA., MAY 16, 1872.
j. W. HARRIS. I’olitloal Editor.
S. 11. SMITH, New* and I,oeal Editor.
P. 11. BREWSTER, Ajprlcnltural A I.oeal.
W. S. D. WIKLIK, PnhlUher Jt Com. Ed.
tST Reading matter on every page
MEETING OF THE STATE '
ic EXBCirrivE committee.
May 6th, 1872.
There will be a meeting of the Ex- (
ecutive Committee of the IK*moeratic
party of Georgia, in Atlanta, on the
15th of May, inst, (Wednesday), at
tho office of Col. E. F. Hoge, at 10
o’clock a. m. A full attendance is
earnestly requested.
Julian Hartridge,
Chairman.
The Irish Democrat, Irish People,
and Irish Citizen, Democratic week
lies of New York city, publish arti
cles supporting Greeley and Brown.
Lewis McKenzie, one of the Vir
ginia delegates to the Philadelphia
or Grant Republican Convention, lias
returned his credentials and declared
his purpose to supi>ort Greely and
Brown. _
Col. Luther J. Glenn was almost
unanimously elected Representative
from Fulton County,
The Cincinnati Comercial notices
that “Greeley has but one brother-in
law and no father, and his nephews
are all nieces.”
Aleck. Stephens is out in the Kun
against Greeley and Brown.
The contract for grading the track
of the Georgia Western Railroad to
the Alabama line, seventy miles has
been awarded to Grant, Alexander A
Cos.
According to the census of its city
clerk, the population of Griffin, Ga.,
is 4,050.
c. W. Howard, Esq., has resigned
the editorship of the plantation on
account of ill health.
The Supreme Court of Georgia, on
Thursday, in cases involving the
question, decided that the session of
the Legislature in IK7O was a legal
session. Warner, C. J., dissenting.
Z. B. Hargrove has been appointed
Post-master at Rome, in place of
Sheibley.
There is some talk of a railroad
from Griffin to Columbus.
For Greeley.—The Louisville
Courier-Journal comes out for Gree
ley- _
Helmbold, lately known as the
buchu millionaire, is bankrupt.
President Gr: lit was fifty years old
the"27th ult,
The North Cirolina peanut crop
cannot be planted on account of
drouth.
A correspondent gives a list of the
visible taxable property of General
Grant, which foots up $238,000.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of the United States
will meet in Petersburg Va., on the
Kith of May.
General Ransom, late of the con
federate army, is now in the senate
from North Carolina. There are
eight or ten confederate generals in
the house.
It is stated that tho Macon and
Brunswick Railroad is agitating the
question of building a railroad from
Macon, through Thomaston to Green
ville, in Meriwether county.
The Rome and Chattanooga
Road. — I The Chattanooga Advertiser
lias been informed that a party of
surveyors will leave Chattanooga
next week, to locate the Road be
tween Rome and Chattanooga.
According to the Home Commercial
the wheat crop of Floyd and Chat
tooga counties, is reported to be very
fine. The seasons so far have been
very favorably for this cereal, and
the farmers are confident of a fine
yield.
Washington, May 11.—The Pres
ident was at the capital to-day con
sulting with Senators. The consulta
tion countinues to-night at the White
House. Nothing has transpired, but
it is thought it means amnesty.
The Christian Union, Beecher,s
paper says: “The best service that
can be rendered to tho South, politi
cally, is to let them alone. Disabili
ties should be swept away at a blow.
There should be no more Federal
interference with local affairs.”
Let us have more peace and free
dom of thought. Another company
of United States soldiers has been
ordered to South Carolina.
Knoxville has a population of 8,628,
of whom 2,609 are negroes.
The first theater ever established
in America was at Williamsburg,
Virginia, in September, 1752.
Thomas Calk, of Montgomery coun
ty, Kentucky, has a quantity of peach
brandy which was distilled by his
grandfaher, William Calk, deceased
in 1808. _
Near Knoxville is a spot situated
between the mountains, and aptly
called Happy Valley, in which only
one death has occurred in twelve
years.
New York, May 11.—Several
addresses were made hoping for peace
between England and the United
States, and a reconciliation between
the Methodist churches, North and
South, in the Methodist Conference
to-day.
The first Greeley club organized in
Kentucky ordered one thousand
white hats from a Cincinnati dealer.
Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier, says: All roads
that lead from Greeley lead to Grant.”
Herrings and shad are so plentiful
in the rivers in North Carolina that
the former are selling for $1,50 per
thousand, and the finest sihad at from
ten to twenty-five cents each. In a
seine, at the mouth of the Chowan,
300,000 herring were recently caught
at a single sweep.
Married,
In Philadelphia, Pa., on 28th April
by Rev. R. H. Allen, Mr. Wm. It.
TOHMSON, of Philadelphia, to Miss
ANN E. Leak, of Griffin, Ga.
This is the no-armod lady who pass
ed through this State, some time ago,
giving soirees* She is native of Ga.
nr.MOCR.4TIC POLICY.
Mr. Stephens, in a late editorial
headed “ Choose you this day whom
you will serve,” calls upon all his
heretofore Democratic contem
poraries to “ choose forthwith and
lot us know on which side in this
contest you will be found ;” while at
the same time he unmistakably an
nounces himself of those who do not
intend to support the nominees of
the Cincinnati Convention. Just
here we think we may properly say
that all who have been Democrats
before the assembling of the Liberal
Convention, are Democrats still, not
withstanding his intimation to the
contrary in the use of the word
“ heretofore.” The intimation is
unjust and uncalled for, and we think
it unkind in him, or any other man,
not to say impolitic, to cast an asper
sion of this sort upon those, who in
this great political emergency, may
honestly differ from him as to the
proper course to Ik* pursued, and take
ground in favor of the Liberal nomi
nees, or who, really undetermined as
to the expediency of their course,
prefer to await further developments,
that they may Ik* able after a full
understanding of all the whole field
of action, to do the very Ixst for the
Democratic party and for the coun
try which the wisest judgment may
point out. This Convention neither
makes Radicals nor unmakes Demo
crats ; its object was and is to over
throw a corrupt ruling dynasty, and
j whether all the principles set forth
in its platform are such :is are aeeep-
I table to the Democratic party or not,
j it calls upon the whole country to
| join with them, in the defeat of the
j present administration, upon a decla
! ration of principles which if not ac
ceptable to all, may yet summon to
its aid a majority of the people of the
United States. And whatever course
any one in this emergency may see
proper to pursue, we are in advance
prepared to believe it the dictate of a
sincere desire to advance the interests
of the Democracy and of the country,
whether the ticket of the Liberals
shall be considered the most advisa
ble to be supported by us, or rejecting
all other aid or alliances, it be recom
mended that we go into the contest
under the lead of Democratic noini
ness, nominated by a Democratic
Convention, upon a straight-out Dem
ocratic platform. What then is best
to be done? This is the question.
Shall we support Greeley and Brown,
or shall we have a regular Democratic
ticket, and of the latter, can we elect
it? The defeat of the Radical party
is a necessity, it is in fact the great
disideratum. Success just here is the
point to be aimed at and secured,
with it we feel that the country will
bo saved, and in its final evolution,
no matter who else may now be elect
ed, will result in the ascendency and
culmination of Democratic principles
and Democratic faith, otherwise all
will be lost, and the people turned
over to the merciless rule which has
already ruined the South and dis
graced the Government. One thing
we hold to be certain and beyond all
cavil, that if the great body of the
Democratic party shall come up to
the support of the Cincinnati nomi
nees, Horace Greeley, and not U. S.
Grant, will be President. The
strength of that ticket in the East and
the West, and all over the South, its
power in Pennsylvania and New
York, forbid the supposition of any
other result. From all quarters an
enthusiastic reply to the nomination
has gone up, and strong at first, it is
still gaining strength, or rather bring
ing out from its concealment much
to Radical amazement, the real weak
ness of the present administration,
inasmuch as to raise among them
selves the question of the propriety
of withdrawing Grant from the con
test, and the putting forward of some
other less obnoxious to the people.
We consider this point already set
tled, that the combined forces of the
Democracy aud the Liberals are ut
terly unconquerable, and that with
this programme the country will be
freed from its present tyrranny and
misrule. This is what we want, this
is our necessity, this we must have;
and with this steadily in view and
never to be lost out of sight, it is
proper that all our political calcula
tions should be made. We must
leave nothing to chance or accident,
we must both scotch and kill the
snake. In this view of the case,
then, it is hardly necessary for us to
say that wisdom and expediency,
and patriotism and party fealty too,
require, however we may regret the
necessity, that the Democracy should
give its support uhesitatingly and
cordially to this Liberal movement.
Confederating and combining with the
best men, the virtue and patriotism
of the Republican party, not because
we are for them or of them, no, for
we be Democrats; not for that we
are the admirers and followers of
Horace Greeley, no, for he has al
ways been the consistent, insisting
and persistent enemy of the South,
and neither morally nor politically
has ever had any charms for us, but
because we would if possible save
whatever is left us of human liberty,
and dig up from the grave where its
enemies have laid it, our once glori
ous Constitution, and infuse into its
paralyzed limbs something of its old
life and power; we shall best sub
serve the true interests of the whole
country, and haply seizing on this
favorable tide, “ ride on to fortune.”
But if declining this view of the case
we nominate a ticket, can we elect
it ? If so, we are for this policy heart
and soul; but we do not believe it,
nor have we as yet ever seen or read
or heard anything to make us think
so. The Republican party is large
ly made up of ante-bellum Demo
crats, and the power of the Democ
racy in the Northern and Eastern
and Middle States has been so cut
down by reason of this very fact,
that not one of them can be set down
as Democratic. So hopeless and
helpless has been the Democracy
in Congress that she has virtually
taken no part in the legislation
of the past ten years, aud from
all that we learn, we believe
that single-handed and alone,
she would be defeated in any contest
with the united Republicans. Why
then go into such a contest? For
principle, it is said. Well, what be
comes of the principle when defeat
befalls the party? No; we cannot
succeed, and fighting thus, party,
principle, everything, will go by the
board. If, however, we do go into
the contest, in all probability the
election would be carried into the
House of Representatives, and before
that body Grant would be, as he is,
all powerful. The Democrat and the
Liberal would both fail. Grant would
be elected, and so the only effect of a
Democratic canvass would be to in
sure the re-election of the Radical. Is
this our policy? Can it be? Too weak
to elect ourselves, we are simply wise ;
and strong enough by such a policy :
to render certain the power of the j
very party and the man, whom we ;
most of ail desire to defeat.
We think, then, that it Ls our poli- j
cy and our interest every way, to
support the Cincinnati Nomination, !
and not to nominate a democratic i
candidate. So far as any expression
of public feeling or opinion on this |
subject Ls concerned, it decidedly fa
vors this policy. Mississippi, the two
Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia and
Missouri, and no doubt near all the
Southern State* are of a like mind.
The Press of Georgia indicates a
strong inclination to adopt such a
course, albeit some of its ablest men
are differently disposed, while among
the masses, so far as our limited
knowledge extends, opinion in favor
of Greely is decided, and so much so
that under all the circumstances, a
nomination at Baltimore could not
meet with the unanimous vote of the
party, no matter who the candidate.
ATTENTION
CITIZENS OF CARTEESVILLE !
Railroad Meeting on Thursday, the 16th
Inst, at the Court-House!
This meeting should be attended
by all who are interested in the pros
perity of Cartersville and the welfare
of our section. Now is our opportu
nity to secure the incalculable bene
fits which would result from an east
ern extension of the Cherokee Rail
road from this place. Another route,
which will supersede the one which
would build up our town, is in con
templation, as will lx? seen by refer
ring to another column in our paper,
and will be pushed forward at once,
if we sleep over our interests. Our
town is on an air line from New York
to New Orleans, as may be seen by
referring to a map, and if we suffer
ourselves to be ditched off by allow
ing the road from Gainesville to be
run to another point on the State road,
we and our children will regret our
folly. Cartersville may be made the
market for many of the counties east
of us, if we will secure this road, and
many advantages would result to us,
which any one can foresee by a little
reflection. It would advance real es
tate, invite capital, build manufacto
ries, and give new life and and ener
gy to every thing. Let us then not
sleep over our interests, but let us in
every possible w r ay encourage an en
terprise so full of blessings.
We were present in Atlanta, on
Thursday last, during the session of
the Press Convention, and were the
recipient of a few crumbs from the
long, broad, and bountifully supplied
table of hospitalities afforded the press
gang of the State by the generous
people of the Gate City—“the rising
star of the South.” Although we did
not participate in the deliberations of
the convention, from reasons best
known to ourself, it has our hearty
approval and best wishes for success.
We bid it God’s speed in the work of
reform, and promise, though not a
member of its organized association,
to conform to its rules and regulations
insofar as the dignity and honor of
the press is concerned, and will cheer
fully cooperate with the association
in all needful reforms in elavating
its tone and enlarging its sphere of
usefulness. The P., P. and P., the
three ruling powers of the world, at
this time stand very much in need of
moral reformation.
—♦—
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM IN
FULL.
We, the Liberal Republicans of the
United States, in National Convention
assembled at Cincinnati, proclaim the
following principles as essential to a
j ust government.
We recognize the equality of all
men before the law, and hold that it
is the duty of the government in its
dealings with the people to meet out
equal and exact justice to all, of what
ever nativity, race, color or persua
sion, religious or political.
2. We pledge ourselves to maintain
the union of these States, emancipa
tion and enfranchisement, and to op
pose any re-opening of the questions
settled by the 13th, 14th, and loth
amendments of the Constitution.
3. We demand the immediate and
absolute removal of all disabilities
imposed on account of the rebellion,
which was finally subdued several
years ago, believing that universal
amnesty will result in complete pa
cification in all sections of the coun
try.
4. Social self-government with im
partial suffrage will guard the rights
of all citizens more securely than any
centralized power. The people and
the public welfare require the suprem
acy of the civil over the military au
thority, and freedom of person under
the production of the habeas corpus.
We demand for the individual the
largest liberty, consistent with public
order, for the State self-government
and for the nation a return to the meth
ods of peace and the constitutional
limitations of power.
5. The civil service of the Govern
ment has become a mere instrument
of partisan tyranny and personal am
bition and an object of selfish greed.
It is a scandal and reproach upon free
institutions, and breeds a demoraliza
tion dangerous to the perpetuity of
republican government.
6. We therefore regard a thorough
reform of the civil service as one of
the most pressing necessities of the
hour; that honesty, capacity and fi
delity constitute the only valid claims
to public employment; that the offi
ces of the Government cease to be a
matter of arbitrary favoritism and
patronage, and that public station be
come again a post of honor. To this
end it is imperatively required that
no President shall be a candidate for
re-election.
7. We demand a system of Federal
taxation which shall unnecessarily
interfere with the industry of the
people, and which shall provide the
means necessary to pay the expeuses
of the government economically ad
ministered, the pensions, the interest
on the public debt and a moderate
annual reduction on the principal
thereof; and recognizing that there
are in our midst, honest but irrecon
cilable differences of opinion with re
gard to the respective systems of pro
tection and free trade, we remit the
discussion of the subject to the peo
ple in their Congressional districts
and the decision of Congress thereon,
wholly free of Executive interference
or dictation.
8. The x>ublic credit must be secure
ly maintained, and we denounce re
pudiation in every form and guise.
9. A speedy return to specie pay
ments is demanded alike by the
highest considerations of commercial
morality aud honest government.
10. We remember with gratitude
the heroism and sacrifices of the sol
diers and sailors of the Republic, and
no act of ours shall ever detract from
their justly earned fame or the full re
wards of their patriotism.
11. We are opposed to all further
grants of lands to railroads or other
corporations. The public domain
should be held sacred to actual set
tlers.
12. We hold that it is the duty of
the government in its intercourse with
foreign nations to cultivate the friend
ships of peace by treating with all on
fair and equal terms, regarding it
alike dishonorable either to demand
what is not right or to submit to what
is wrong.
13. For the protection and success
of these vital principles, and the sup
port of the candidates nominated by
this convention, we invite and cor
dially welcome the co-operation of all
patriotic citizens without regard to
previous political affiliations.
Horace White,
Chm. of Committee on Resolutions.
G. P. Thurston, Secretary.
11. Gk
ACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC COM- i
MITTEE.
Nashville, May 10.—The Demo
cratic Convention met. B. J. Lee
presided. Brown was renominated
Governor. The resolutions in effect
indorse Greeley and Brown. The
Convention elects Senatorial Dele
gates to lkil ti more. The selection of
the others is left to the respective
Congressional Districts.
Illinois Democratic Commit
tee .-Chicago, J/ayH.-The Democratic
State Central Committee met in this
city at 11 a. m. to-day. There was a
full attendance, nearly every mem
ber of the committee being
and all parts of the State reprise li
ed.
A resolution authoring the Execu
tive Committee to call a State Cos l
vention to be held two weeks prior
to the date fixed by the Democratic j
National Executive Committe for
the assembling of the National Con
vention was passed without formal
debate, and the Committee adjourn-1
ed.
The general tone of opinion as ex
pressed in conversational interchange :
of views appeared to be in favor of
the endorsement of the Cincinnati
ticket by the Democratic National
Convention as against any ticket ;
likely to be nominated at Philadel
phia.
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The South Carolina Conservatives |
areunanimous for Greeley. The!
Courier says:
The nomination of a straight out !
Democratic ticket, would, in our
judgment, be suicidal and foolish in !
the extreme. It can have but one j
result—the re-election of General |
Grant and the fastening upon the j
country of another four years of mis
rule, dissention and anarchy. It
cannot succeed of itself.
Horace Greeley. —Yesterday af
ternoon Maggie Jones, a young wo
man, went to the 12th District sta
tion-house, in Philadelphia, saying
she had been engaged as a domestic.
Shortly after her arrival she gave
birth to a child. It proved to be a
boy, and was named Horace Greeley.
SENATOR TRUMBULL TO TAKE THE
FIELD.
A Washington telegram to the
Philadelphia Inquirer says:
Senator Trumbull was waited upon
to-day by a delegation of Liberal Re
publicans from Illinois, who desired
to use his name as the Liberal can
didate for Governor of that State, to
which he assented, General Ogles
by will probably be the regular Re
publican candidate, and the Demo
crats say they will make no nomina
tion for Governor, but vote for the
Liberal candidate.
The New York Sun says Gen. Gor
don is in that city and says the Dem
ocratic endorsement of Mr. Greeley
is a thing which will be agreeable to
the people of the South.
THE ADMINISTRATION SENATORS
YIELD TO THE PRESSURE.
The Washington correspondent of
the Charleston News telegraphs the
following to that paper :
It is understood that the Adminis
tration Senators have at last reached
a definite solution of their troubles.
They held a caucus to-dav concern
ing the political situation, and, after
a stormy session, decided that Presi
dent Grant must be withdrawn as a
candidate for renomination by the
Philadelphia Convention.
Senator Cameron was deputed to
notify President Grant of the action
of the caucus.
It is now admitted on ail hands
that the nomination of Greeley has
utterly demoralized the Grant clique,
who see in it their death-knell.
Does Mr. Stephens not know that
it is not only possible but probable
that the Democratic Convention will
indorse Greeley ? If it should, what
good will have been accomplished by
those “ organs” that have taken sides
against Greeley, and appealed to the
people’s prejudices and old animosi
ties against him? While, on the
other hand, many will most likely
take positions in favor of Greeley,
and, after educating the people to
believe that it is a matter of impos
sibility for the Democrats to succeed
as a distinct party, it is possible that
the Convention will nominate a
“straightticket.” What good will
then have been accomplished by
taking “sides,” and shaking the peo
ple’s confidence and hopes for suc
cess ? The masses are tired of vot
ing without effect, and of two evils
they will choose the least rather than
hazard success. The party lash when
applied by so distinguished a gentle
man as A. H. S. will not deter them
from their own thinking, coming to
their own conclusions, and acting as
they deem best for their country.—
Middle Georgian.
John Mitchell has declared for
Greeley for President, upon which
the Richmond Dispatch says: If
Mitchell can stand him, we should
like to know who couldn’t. Besides,
it is telegraphed from New York that
the several Irish papers of that city
will all support the white-hatted phi
losopher.
The Galveston (Texas) News says:
“We think the probability is that the
Democratic Convention will endorse
the Cincinnati candidates. Mr. Gree
ley is remembered with gratitude in
Texas. We believe he is the most ob
noxious man to the Radicals that
could have been nominated.”
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOR
ACE AND ULYSSES.
The Troy (N. Y.) Times says a
Grant partisan said, when he heard
of Greeley’s nomination: “ Why,
Horace will, if elected, plant the
White House yard with onions.” To
which a friend of Mr. Greeley replied:
“ W eli, he won’t wait to have the on
ion seed given him.”
He might also have added that it
was better to have onions in the
White House yard than so many
beets in the White House as at pres
ent. — Tel. & Mess.
As to the Baltimore Convention, if
they should have the madness to put
out a seperate ticket, we are satisfied
the result will be a triumphant victo
ry for Grant. Under no conceivable
circumstances could such a ticket suc
ceed. Therefore, we are totally and
unequivocally opposed to any such
action; and should it be done we shall
be satisfied that August Bellmonthas
sold out the Democratic party to Grant.
These views will be enlarged upon
hereafter. — Griffin Star.
WHAT GREELEY SAYS.
Since Mr. Greeley has been put in
nomination by the Liberal Republi
cans, what he has said and may say
will be read with interest. Hear
him as reported by a Washington
letter writer: “ I saw the old man
on Saturday, and he is mad clear
through. He says he never was so
little a politician and so much inter
ested in a campaign as now. The
English language is totally inade
quate for his use when talking of the
administration, and he freely asserts
that even should the Philadelphia
Convention throw Grant over, he
wouldn’t support any of the d—d
gang of thieves. The Democrats, he
says, helped us to break up Tamma
ny, and now we are going to help
the Democrats break up a worse set
than ever Tammany was.”
Our worthy Marshal, J. D. W ilker
sou, has left at this office, several
heads of wheat, of the Beatall variety,
raised by himself. He has twenty
five acres of which this is a sample
The wheat speaks for itself. If we
were to say that it was fine wheat,
somebody would charge us with mak
ing a false statement, therby briugiug
down the price.
A WHITE HAT CAMPAIGN.
One “ humor of the canvass ” has
already developed. A dispatch from
New Orleans announces that white
hate have been adopted in that city,
and the demand for them on the day
succeeding the nominations at Cincin
nati depleted the dealers’ stock.
From Cincinnati we read: “The en
tire Louisiana delegation went home
thus equipped, and the Hon. John
Wentworth ha.-appeared in the same
speckless head-piece on the streets,
and announced that white hats are
going to be the fashion in Illinois un
til after November.” In Mr. Gree
ley’s biography we are told how. as a
boy, he read every book he could lay
hands on by the light of pine knots.
Perhaps the pine knot will come into
the present Presidential campaign
along with the white hat, the whole
somewhat grotesque, perhaps—as the
coon-skins and log cabins of 1840 were
but a sign of the times, portentous of
political movement. Adapting a line
from McCaulay’s “ Battle of Ivry,”
Mr. Greeley might cry to his follow
ers, “And be your oriflame to-day
the ’tile of Chappaqua.— Baltimore
Sun.
Another “ Coincidence.”— First
anagram, (copyrighted)—Read in
different ways we find the initials of
the Liberal nominees to produce the
same result, thus:
H. G.—(Horace Greely.)
G. B.—(Gratz Brown.)
Now, take the initials to the left,
up and down, and you will have it
again, 11. G. (Horace Greeley,) and
then take the initials to the right and
you have it again, G. B. (Gratz
Brown.) The fates are at work.— N.
1". Herald.
KU-KLUX HUNTING.
Deputy Marshal Hendricks return
ed to the city yesterday afternoon,
from Cherokee county, Georgia,
whither he went some days ago for
the purpose of arresting several per
sons charged with Ku-Kluxism. He
made the arrests, but says that on his
way back he was assailed by a crowd
who rescued four of the prisoners.
When he arrived at Atlanta, another
mob, headed by several officials,
came out and took the other prisqp
ers away. From the same source we
learn that in one of these affrays a
deputy marshal of Georgia was se
verely wounded.-^ Charleston News.
That is the way in which arrogant
and domineering Federal officials
speak of State authorities using legal
State processes to maintain the rights
of citizens against military interfer
ence with local government.—Colum
bus Enquirer.
Accident.— Charles McCay, a
wood-passer on the State Road, while
arranging tiie wood on the tender
just after leaving Graysville Saturday
morning last, slipped and fell be
tween the tender and freight car, and
was crushed and killed instantly. His
remains wore carried to Atlanta.
The telegraphic report of the New
York Dry Goods market, for Wednes
day last, says:
“There appears to be a turning
point in the price of fancy prints.
The Pacific Mills have reduced their
prices for prints to llsc. to day,
which is only a prelude in reduction
in the prices of all other makes.
New York, May 11.—C. H.
Phelps, a jeweler, was fatally shot
last night by burglars whom he dis
covered in his house. The burglars
escaped.
James Coorey, hailing from Savan
nah, Ga., confesses to the killing of
Robert Gallagher in a drunken fight.
Wallace & Shoemaker’s sugar re
finery has been burned. Their loss
on stock is $225,000 ; on machinery,
$150,000; on their building, $50,000.
Later.— Their total loss is $300,000.
Insurance $250,000.
Eight hundred carpenters, at a
meeting last night, resolved to strike
for $3 50 per day and eight hours.
Five thousand carpenters will join in
the strike.
The carpenters’ strike in Brook
lyn is over. The bosses yielded to
the eight hours demand.
The Radical reformers have adopt
ed a wonderful constitution. Mrs.
Woodhull spoke last night, prophe
sying that from this Convention
would issue a power that would
shape the world.
Mrs. Woodhull and Fred. Doug
lass were then nominated for Presi
dent and Vice-President, amid great
confusion.
A delegate nominated “Spotted
Tail,” saying, “Indians before nig
gers.”
Another suggested if “ Douglas de
clines, a heathen Chinee can be nom
inated instead.” The Convention
broke up in an uproar.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
We direct attention to the decision
of the Supreme Court of Georgia,
copied in this paper, upon cases in
volving the constitutionality of the
action of the Legislature after the
expiration of forty days of the session
of 1870. The question presented was
evidently a perplexing one, and
the Court was divided in opinion.
Leaving the legal argument to the
learned Judges, we may say that a
decision adverse to the legislatiou
would have upset a good deal of sal
utary work, and possibly some bad
or unfortunate measures. It would
have overthrown the present Execu
tive Government of the State, and re
stored Conley to the Gubernatorial
chair. It would also have vacated
the seats of Chief-Justice Warner and
Justice Montgomery on the Supreme
bench, and the positions of several
Circuit Judges. It would also have
annulled all the action of the Legis
lature at its last session. This would
have produced a state of confusion
and embarrassment such as we have
seldom witnessed. The decision was
a politic and conservative one, what
ever may be thought of the legal log
ic by which it was arrived at. — Co
lumbus Enquirer.
THE OFFICE-HOLDERS’ CONVEN
TION.
During the past few days our fair
city has been thronged with patriotic
aspirants for fat offices who were call
ed to meet in convention for the repu
ted purpose of appointing delegates
to attend the Presidential nominating
convention to meet in Philadelphia
on the sth day of next month. It has
been our good or evil fortune to have
attended many conventions, but we
do not remember ever having looked
upon such a boiling, seething, infuri
ated mass of human beings as were
I yesterday and to-day congregated be
neath the roof of the City Hall. Ex
i Governor Conley publicly declared
| the assemblage to be a disgrace to any
1 party, and said he was ashamed of
the whole affair. With which we
, most fully agree, but for the life of us
cannot see how it was possible to
| clothe it in the robes of respectability
when its acknowledged leaders are
known to be that perjured counter
feiter and lecherous scoundrel, H. M.
Turner, and his pal and boon com
panion, the notorious office-holding
carpet-bagger J. E. Bryant and his
i man Friday, the Great Wahoo of
Yamacraw, Aaron Alpeoria BCDE
FGH Bradley. Pandemonium in all
its fierv fury pales into cjuiet insignif
! icance beside the riotous yellings and
hootings of the office-seeking crew led
on by the Savannah Custom House
“ Ring ” whose champion is the veri
| table individual who hails from Po
dunk. For the sake of common de
cency, self respect and a few personal
friends who have been “roped” into
this convention, we are ashamed to
acknowledge that it has an existence,
but hope that it may terminate more
auspiciously than it began or than can,
under the circumstances, be expected.
—American Union.
ont NEW RAILROAD.
We rail especial attention of all
parties interested in the South of
Rome. to the foilowi ng editorial taken
from the Galnesvills Eagle. It opens
up such a flattering prosj)ect for Home
that we publish it entire.
Os course Rome will he the point
to which this road will stretch, as we
art' now building the air line connec
tion to Decatur, Alabama, the ulti
mate aim of its founders. —Rome t\»n
inerctal.
GAINESVILLE AND KINGSTON RAIL
ROAD.
It is not generally known that the
last Legislature chartered a Railroad
from some point on the Air Line
Railroad toa connection with the Wes
tern and Atlantic Road, somewhere
in the vicinity of Kingston. Such,
however, is the fact. Tne road was
chartered, but nothing has been said
of it outside, of a very small circle,
until within the past few days. It
was known by a few of those imme
diately interested, that the enterprise
was in safe hands, and that, in due
time vitality and life would be infus
ed into it. That time has now arriv
ed, and for the last few days the
Gainesville and Kingston Railroad
has been the absorbing theme of con
versation. On Tuesday last a corps
of Engineers in charge of Capt. Ira Y.
.Sage commenced at this place a sur
vey of this line, and are now actively
engaged in prosecuting the work.
Capt. Ira Y. Sage is Ist Assistant En
gineer of the Atlanta and Richmond
Air Line Railroad, and has shown
himself to be one of the most active,
efficient and skillful Engineers in the
whole country. The survey is being
made under the direction of the au
thorities of the Air Line Railroad,
and the enterprise is in the hands of
those who have the ability and the
will to make it a success. Indeed, if
they are supported by the people
along the line, as they should and
must be, plodding fogies will be as
tonished, and chronic false prophets
silenced.
As to the exact line to be selected,
and the precise point at which it will
strike the Western & Atlantic Rail
road we cannot now speak, for obvi
ous reasons. This will depend upon
contingencies that cannot now be
foreseen. .Suffice it to say, however,
that the objective point, at present, is
Decatur, Ala. By a glance at the
map it will be seen, at once, that this
connection would control a very large
proportion of trade and travel of Cen
tral Alabama and Mississippi, besides
being the shortest line between the
great commercial centers of the East,
and West and Southwest. This line
will be very near an absolute air-line,
and will run for eight hundred miles
along the Southern base of the moun
tains—through a country unsurpassed
for the purity of its water, and genial
healthfulness of its climate, besides a
thousand other attractions to the bus
iness man and tourist that might be
enumerated. An examination of the
way will show further that when the
great Southern Pacific Road shall be
completed, the Road here spoken of
will become the great thoroughfare
for trade and travel across the conti
nent.
The foregoing area few of the many
advantages to be gained by the con
nection contemplated by the Gaines
ville & Kingston Road. It is not
strange, therefore that they have at
tracted the attention of some of the
shrewdest railroad men in the coun
try, and that they are taking steps to
make them available.
From Gainesville to Kingston, or
vicinity, the Road will pass through
an excellent farming country, running
as it will nearly parallel with the Et
owah Valley, for 20 miles or upwards
—one of the finest and most produc
tive in the State. It will also cross
the Mineral Belt of Georgia—rich in
almost all the valuable minerals,
where larger amounts of the precious
metals have been obtained, and want
ing only the facilities afforded by rail
roads, and the stimulus that will
thereby be infused, to cause it to un
bosom its hidden treasures, and make
them contribute to the wants and com
forts of man.
THE CANAL.
While in Atlanta we called on Col.
Frobel, President of the Canal Com
pany. He is sanguine of the success
of the bill now before Congress,
granting aid to this great enterprise.
This bill requires the Government of
the United States to endorse the
bonds of the Company, and guaran
tee the payment of the interest until
the completion of the work; the
amount of the guarantee by the Gov
ernment to be eighty thousand dol
lars per mile.
The company do not propose to do
the carrying trade themselves, and
therefore there can be no monopoly
or unjust discrimination against way
freights, which gives so much cause
of complaint against the railroads of
the State. Everybody who desires
to can put a barge upon the canal,
paying the low rate of toll provided
by the bill, that being five mills on a
ton per mile. The expense of buil
ding a canal boat, with a capacity of
two hundred tons, will not exceed
two hundred and fifty or three hun
dred dollars. Ordinary farmers,
with small means, can" own their
own boat and transport their crops
to market with their farm teams dur
ing the fall and winter. We have
heard the question frequently asked,
what length of time will it take to
complete the work ? Col. Frobel’s
opinion is that if Congress passes the
bill this session, thereby affording
the company abundant means to
push the work forward, that it may
be completed in two years.
The important question now is,
what is the prospect of success ?
The bill is now upon its third read
ing and has been referred to the
Committee on Commerce, who are
waiting the report of Col. McFarland,
the engineer appointed by the War
Department to superintend this sur
vey. That report is now about ready,
and we are informed it will be as fa
\ orable as the most sanguine friends
of the enterprise could expect. As
soon as this report is presented, the
committees appointed by the cities of
Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Rome,
and other cities, and the delegates
appointed by the State Agricultural
Convention, will proceed immediate
ly to Washington and go before the
Committee. "The Secretary of War
has given assurances that his influ
ence will be exerted in behalf of the
project; numerous Senators and Rep
resentatives from the West are tak
ing an active interest in its behalf,
and the President will interpose no
objection, but the company expect
his hearty co-operation. Col. Price,
who is a member of the company,
feels confident that no organized op
position has yet been developed.
The prospect is bright, and this great
enterprise, which at first was regard
ed by many as visionary, may before
the first of June become a fixed cer
tainty.
The agent of the company left our
town last week securing the right-of
way on the line from this point to
Macon, which the people are cheer
fully giving. An agent will soon be
on the other end of the line.—Gwin
ett (Oa.) Herald.
Largest lot of Reapers and Mowers
ever received by any House in Atlan
ta or south of Tenn. is now in store at
Anderson & Wells’ Agricultural
Ware House, on Alabama Street, At
lanta, Ga. Both the Buckeye and
Ohio, one car load each; also, Pitts’
and Sweepstakes Threshing Machines
with horse powers, sufficient to sup
ply the demand of the State; all of
which they are prepared to sell on the
most favorable terms. Do not fail to
call and see them before purchasing.
Rome and Cartersvilie, Ga., have
set out competing lines for the big
gest fish. Cartersvilie led off with a
rock weighing 70 pounds; Rome then
captured a sturgeon weighing 142
pounds, and thought that she had
reached the highest scale; but Car
tersvilie actually “ saw ” that fish and
went 48 pounds better, hauling in out
of the wet of ihe Etowah a sturgeon
weighing 190 pounds! We wonder
if they examined to see if Jonah’s
old jack-knife or carpet-bag was in
side.—Columbus Enquirer. 4
Amur THE CROPS.
The Griffin Middle Georgian comes |
forward with a few words of agricul
tural consolation:
Sagacious farmers consider the dry
wrather by no moans a bad omen, as,
they say, they never knew a bad
crop year when there was a drouth
in May.
The same paper adds:
From every direction comes the I
cry for rain. Corn, wheat and oats
are doing tolerably well. Cotton late
ly planted is suffering. A good rain
would help everything.
Os crops in Troupe the La Grange ;
Reporter, of Friday, says :
Crops. —Col. Thomas C. Miller,
our Sheriff, informs us that in the
last ten days he has made a business
tour of our county, and the crops
generally, look better.than he has
seen them for ten years. Corn and
cotton is generally up and looks well. |
Mora corn has been planted this year i
than in ten years. We hope this is
an indication that our people have I
determined to live at home.
The Covington Enterprise has the
following:
Planters about Covington report
cotton generally very backward and
with small exceptions, poor stands
up, while recent extreme dry weath
er renders it improbable that such
crops as have not already done so
ran came up until the surface of the
ground is softened by rain. Wheat
and oats are suffering from drought,
and putting out unusually short
heads, under any circumstances the
yield of these grains must he very
far below the usual one. The best
corn prospects reported will not ex
ceed eight inches in height, on an
average. One gentleman reports the
best corn we have heard of, on land
fertilized with a preparation made at
home, costing not more than $35 a
ton, and worth more than any im
ported article costing double the
amount; the labor of preparing it
being less than the freight of the
commercial article.
THE HOUNDS UPON THE TRACK.
The Marietta Journal, of Thurs
day, has an article from which the
following is taken:
Last Friday one United Stab's
Marshal and assistant, from South
Carolina, visited this vicinity in
search of citizens accused of Awing
from the clutches of theinfamous Ku-
Klux law in force in South Carolina.
They succeeded in persuading some
South Carolinians, who had left that
down-trodden, negro-ruled, military
oppressed State, to leave their rented
lands, now in cultivation in this and
Cherokee county, and accompany
them to this place to be carried back
to undergo trial, as their warrants
read, “ for conspiracy, etc.” r Fheir
names are W. 11. S. Harris, W. A.
Foster, W. W. Scott, W. C. Scott,
and one little boy, and also C. M.
Whitlock. The prisoners were sup
ped, feasted, and expenses paid gen
erally by the United States Marshal
at the Kennesaw house, and all en
deavors \\Tre used to make them
content to be carried back to under
go trial for “ the light charge of con
spiracy.” About nine o’clock, the
prisoners noticed that said Whitlock,
who professed to be among them as
their friend, “juggled” rather often
and suspiciously with these officers,
and they concluded that absence of
body was equally as desirable as
presence of mind, and they very
courteously went in search of some
water, near by, and never more re
turned, greatly to the disappoint
ment of the U. S. Marshal.
It is well they did take this “ new
departure,” for the galling chains of
tyranny and hate would have been
riveted upon their wrists, as has been
the fate of other unfortunate South
Carolinians who are now in Northern
prisons, serving out some three and
five, and others ten years sentences,
and that, too, for no greater offenses.
New Advertisements.
DISSOLUTION.
mHE copartnership heretofore existing be
1. tween the Arm of Hoffman & Stover, is
this day dissolved b mutual consent. .John A.
Stover will complete all contracts, and is alone
authorized to settle the business oftlie Arm.
HOFFMAN & STOVEIt.
May 10th 1812. 5-16—8 m
I will continue to contract for
House and Sign Painting
in all its various branches.
KALSOMING, WALL COLORING, PAPER
HANGING, &C.
ENTIRE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN
EVERY INSTANCE.
Give me a trial and I will do you a
GOOD JOB
AT A
REASONABLE PRICE.
Orders left with W. A. Loyless will receive
PROMPT ATTENTION.
JOHN A. STOVER.
5-16-3 m.
Great Reduction
IN THE PRICE OF
PICTURES 2
AS 1 expect to remain in Cartersville hut
three weeks longer, 1 wish to say to those
Want pictures that I will take them "lierealter
at HALF the price charged heretofore. I will
furnish Fine Photographs at
$2 50 Per Dozen.
Come soon, as this is the last chance,
may 16 PAUL F WAGNER.
13 E C K W I T II
$lO
SEWING MACHINE.
HUMBUG, hut a perfectTand beautifully
finished Machine. Warranted for two
years.
Go to John T. Owens’ Jewelry store and sec
it.
R. STOKES SAYRE, Agent.
may 7—6 m
THE GENUINE GAINES’
GRAIN CRADLE.
lAM PREPARED to make and repair
Grain Cradles, at my Shop in Euliarlee,
Bartow countv, ha., in tlie very best style of
the art, upon the most reasonable terms, at the
shortest notice. 1 flatter myself that I know
exactly what to do with a Grain Cradle, (the
Yankee Northern grain cradle to the contra
ry, notwithstanding,) either in or out of the
harvest field. Send in your orders without de
lay. L. W. GAINES,
May 8,18~2.-3t.
STERLING
SILVER-WARE.
SHARP Sc FLOYD
No. 153 Whitehall Street,)
ATLANTA.
Specialty,
Sterling Silver-Ware.
Special attention is requested to the many
new and elegant pieces manufactured express
ly to our order the past year, and quite recently
completed.
An unusually attractive assortment of novel
ies in Fancy Silver, cased for Wedding and
Holiday presents, of a medium and expensiv
character.
The House we represent manufacture on an
unparalleled scale, employing on Sterling Sil
ver-Ware alone over One Hundred skilled
hands, the most accomplished talent in Design
ing, and the best Labor-saving Macliinory, en
abling them to produce works of the highest
character, at prices UN APPRO ACHED by any
cempetition. Our stock at present is the lar
gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia
An examination of our stock and prices will
guarantee our sales.
OUR HOUSE USE ONLY
925
BRITISH STERLING,
1000
Jan 4 ts
HARVEST I S COMING.
EXCELSIOR MOWERS AND REAPERS.
Sprague Mowers, Lawn Mowers
BAXTER ENGINES, HOADLEY PORTABLE ENGINES,
Grain Cradles, Cardwell Threshers,
l’ilt’s Separators and Horse Powers, llorse Hay Hakes.
Hay Forks, Grass Scythes,-Fan Mills, Fruit Dryers, Evaporators. Sugar Mills
Washing Machines, Walking Cultivators, Dixie Double Shovels,
Blanchard Churns, Vibrator Churns.
FLO W E R. POTS.
STORE TRUCKS, AXLE GREASE,
CORN SHELLERS, REVOLVING HORSE HAY RAKES
STRAW CUTTERS, WELL FIXTURES,
GUANO, SEEDS, Etc., all in good variety, at
MARK W. JOHNSON’S
Agricultural Warehouse,
12 Broad Street. ATLANTA, GA.
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tHBMTTitriIiH'TMMII A M——B——————
ISHAM ALLEY,
WEST MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, OA.,
DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES
111 AYE just returned from New York and opened one of the finest and most varied Stocks of
Goods ever before brought to this market.
Ladies Dress Goods, llats, Shoes, Parasols, Chignons,
! and every article of apparel worn by a lady, and also material to make every garment she wears.
Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods
Clothing, Hats, Boots shoes. Umbrellas, Valises, Trunks, Carpet Sacks, etc, In fact the ma
terial for the manufacture ol evervthing uertaining to a gentleman's wardrobe.
FAMILY GOODS :
Homespuns, Ticking. Jeans, Brown and White Linen, Cottouadcs, Cotton Y arns, Damask and
Laec Curtains, and a hundred other things pertaining to this department.
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, CROCKERY, MUSICAL INST’MENTS
Rifles, Shot-Guns and Pistols. of the best Manufacturers. For Farmers, Grain Cradles, Mowing
Blades, Shovels, Spades, Forks. Tin-Ware, Carpenter’s Tools, etc.
FAMILY GHOCELIES.
I A general supply. Nothing scarcely tHat can bo called for that is used by all classes but mav
1 be found included in my stock, and when you want them call on me and I will supply you, and
please you both in quality and price. 5 2
ISHAM ALLEY.
R. W. SATTERFIELD & BRO.,
DEALERS IN
D R Y - Gr O O D S,
CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY, CUTLERY, &C„ &C„ KC.
NEW SPRING AND "Si GOODS FOR 1872.
We are just receiving our new stock of Spring and Summer Goods, consisting in part, of
all kinds of LADIES’ DRESS GOODS—HATS, SHOES, Ac., in fact evervthing pertaining to
her toilet.
GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING GOODS—everything pertaining to his wardrobe.
DOMESTIC GOODS—a full supply of all kinds, for family uses. Our stock is large and
varied ; all sorts, all qualities, all prices, from the highest to the lowest. Call and examine for
yourselves both qualities and prices.
Also, a splendid stock of choice FAMILY' GBOCEBIES, CROCKERY, HARDWARE, and
CUTLERY.
Thankful for past favors, we earnestly solicit a continuation of the patronage of our old
customers, and promise to do as good part by all our new ones.
apriilß K. YV. SATTERFIELD & BRO.
T. M. COMPTON T. B. SIIOCKLET.
COMPTON Sc SHOCKLEY,
WEST MAIN STREET, CARTERSVILLE, GA„
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES,
GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES.
Also agents for sale of
LUMBER AND BRICK.
CLEAN COTTON AND LINEN RAGS, BEESWAX,
| TALLOW, EGGS, BUTTER, ETC., taken for Goods.
They will do a General Commission Business also. jan2s! 872-3 m.
si*itin« ash <u.ll mER.
G. H. & A. W. FORCE,
JOBBERS OF
BOOTS and SHOES.
TRUNKS AND VALISES,
OUR line of all Celebrated Makers of Brogans and Women Shoes, will be sold very low for
quality of goods to the trade. Merchants are invited to call and examine. Sign Big Iron
1 Boot. G. H. <t A. YV. FORCE,
nov 23 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
H. J. SLIGH,
T f AvING bought out both Grocery Houses heretofore owned by Geo. J. Briant, one on tbs
East: and the other on the YVcst side of the Railroad, will continue to keep up the two stocks of
IV amily GTroceries,
| where consumers may always find supplies in abundance. Every tiling, from a ask of Bacon
to an ounce of Mace.
COUNTRY PRODUCE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Invites the old customers of his predecessors in business, together with the public gener
ally, to call and make their purchases with him, as lie promises to do as good part bj them as
any other house in like business in Cartersville or elsewhere.
This is all he asks, and certainly all that consumers should expeet, aplll-ly.
LAW SHE & HAYNES,
ATLANTA, GA.
Have on hand and are receiving
the finest stock of the latest styles of
DIAMOND & GOLD JEWELRY
In upper Georgia, selected •w ith care for the'
FALL AND WINTER TRADE
Watches of the best makers of Europe and
America.
AMERICAN AND FRENCH CLOCKS;
STERLING and COIN SII.VEU-WARE,
And the best quality of
SILVER. PLTED GOODS,
At prices to suit the times. Gold silver & steel
SPECTACLES TO SUIT ALL AGES.
Watches and Jewelry repaired by Competent
Workmen. Also Clock and Wabsh Makers
Tools and Materials.
sep 13-ly
NOTICE TO FAH3IERS !
yOUB attention is respectfully invited to the
Agricultural Warehouse
OF
ANDERSON & WELLS*
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
DEALERS IN
Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds,
FARM WAGONS,
PITTS’ TH RESHEFLS.
Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or without
down and mounted horse powers.
SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS.
Size 26 to 32 inch eylin<UM, with or , vi t S O uL
down and mounted hoise powers.
Bali's Reaper and Mower,
Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower,
PLQWS —ONE AND TWO-HORSE
1 LO\ PLOWS.
Also General Agents for
“ Pendleton’s Guano Compound,”
c.,*h s6l per ton of 2,000 lbs.; Credit Ist Nov.,
l |7 . pcr ton 2iooo lbs .
“Farmer’s Choice,”
Manufactured from Night Soil, at Nashville,
* Tenu. -Cash $45 per ton; creditlst N0v.,550;
And ali other kinds of implements and ma
chinery, which we sell as low as any house in
the South. Call and see us, oi’ send tor Price
List. ANDERSON & \V fc. LLS.
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