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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. - - 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. mav 16 • 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. 62-