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SEMI-WEEKLY EXPRESS, j • J " r v?r Harris «»d same h. smith[ EDITORS ANTI T*ROrKTETOHS. CARTEHSVILLK.G V.. M \Y -j:;, 1871. I>r. Lvvick l'icrcc. j It Wfis our good fortune to be pres s IJ t Sabbath morning at the Methodist ) Church, occupied as it was by this ag- , ed servant of God. Dr. Pierce is now S7 years of age, and, though bearing j about him manifest evidences of failing bodily powers, he is yet the same mas ter spirit in the pulpit which he has been, by universal consent, for many long years in the past. On his Return from the Sunday School Convention in Nashville, he call ed by Cartersville, ond is the guest of his son, Rev.' Dr. J. L. Pierce. Not withstanding the weariness of travel and the sorer evjl of a severe attack of asthma, under which-he is laboring, with a power, a clearness, an ability, an eloquence, w hich is simply his own, and in which he lias no superior, if any equal, any where at. all,- for one hour and ten minutes, he held his large and deeply interested congregation spell bound by one of the most forcible, af fectionate and solemnly persuasive ser mons we remember ever to have heard. Surely, the man is a wender, a very miracle in our midst; and, as he stood before us arrd so “mightily” persuaded the people, we thought withiu ourselves that, would Providence allow, it would Ire good that he could abide another 4 score and ten for the good of the church, the proclamation of the gospel end the benefit of tl.e people. On the Sabbath before, we listened to that “Prince of Preachers,” Bishop Pierce, from the same pulpit, and perhaps no more difficult task could be prepared, than to decide which was the ablest and most effective man oi the two, the father or the son. A comparison of these two very eminent and godly men brings to mind the opinion of Bob. Martin, celebrated for his wit and his great powers of narration, as once ex pressed by himself: Very soon sifter Bishop Pierce was admitted to the Conference, his great pulpit ability became not only appar ent but was the subject of frequent conversation among his friends. At tnis period of his life it was that we met with Martin, and asking him how the sou competed with the father, ‘‘Well,” said he, “the folks all say that while they are trailing and running on t.he track, that one is about as good as the other, the old man may be a little the bot-t, but that after the ‘varmint’ is treed, they think that George can outbark him.” But be it as it may, they are priceless gifts to the church, and prized and loved for their great talents and great labors—devoted to the greatest of all ends, the service of vheir kind and the glory of God. Few fathers ever had such a son, few sons ever had such a father. Editorial Miscellany. A negro woman was run ovor by a runaway team in Savannah the other day, and instantly killed. Rev. Joseph Cross D.D., has resign ed the pastorate of St. Stephens Church at Atlanta, and \\i]l go to Memphis.— He will edit the Banner of the Church, which has also been removed thither. According to the Census return, the total colored population in the United States and Territories is 4,857,000. Oscar Ulmer had both of his feet crushed off by a locomotive at Savan nah last week. Georgia has given $6,818 to the American Bible Society, the past fiscal year. Edward Dickey a writer in Apple tons Journal, says that “Paris has out lived its prime," and that he sees no prospect in our days that she will ever recover her pristine grandeur.” A Good Gun. —The other Jay, Mr. John T. Arnold took out a rifle that had been leaded for. some time to dis charge it. He fired at the wall of his larn, and the lead penetrated ibe plonk, went through the other side and killed a fine young mule. South em llecorder. The Alabama & Chattanooga Rail road was finished on Monday the 15th, and the first train ran through from Chattanooga to Meridian on Tuesday, making the tiip in thirteen hourp.' [Columtnis Enquirer. A Bill conferring suffrage on women/ 1 base been introduced in the Territorial It gislatnie at Washington. Rev. D. W. T. Brantly Las had a call to take charge of a church in Bal timore. It is doubtful as yet whether he will leave Atlanta. The good people of Atlanta, failed to give Henry M. Law a hearing, and so the lecture on Eloquence did not take place. The Era says, “if Demos thenes himself could rise from his grave, he wofild find it an impossibili ty to collect an audience in Atlanta.— .We are disgusted,” Mr. Law in our judgement is without a. peer in decla mation. Ruloff the scholarly murderer has been hanged. The Sontheren Baptist Convention will be held at Raleigh in May next. Judge J. O. Morton of Brooks Coun ty shows a cabbage raised by him weighing IG| pounds and is one of a thousand weighing 6|, so says the Quitman Banner. The city of Chicago pays the tax levied on the grave and monument of Stephen A. Duglaes, and so the ashes of the Little Giant barely escapes the hammer of the auctioneer. Street Car Biots are almost daily occurrances in Louisville. The negroes demand equal privileges with the whites and will not ride in the sepa rate Cars provided for them. The whites have pretty well abandoned the Cars altogether, and the negroes have them all to themselves. Negro women have hitherto assumed to ride on the inside, and the negro men on the out side, Lut now they are all on the inside with the ; whites. Savannah is to vote on the 25th i* she will subscribe $500,000 to the At lanta and Savnnah Railroad. Jewell Las been inaugurated Gover nor of Connecticutt. Sir John Herschell the astronomer ditdj on the 12th inst. ugod 81. A great drought is prevailing in Ilh" -nois. Harrison Westmorland was found guilty by the jury of an assault with intent to murder, at the Superior Court of Fulton county. The Court has sentenced the prisoner to ten years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. A motion has been made for anew trial, and the scentence suspended until the motion is determined. The Cincinnati Times has a compos itor Win. McDarmaid by name, who is 90 years old, and used to set up Wal ter Scott’s poems from the original manuscript. A Dutch Judge on conviction of a culprit for having four wives decided “He hash banishment plenty, for I hash to live mit one.” The Mississippi Legislature passed a bill giving S4OOO per mile to all pro jected Railroads in that State. Bonner has lately purchased Mam brino Bertie a three year old colt from Dr. Herr of Kentucky, at and for the price or sum of SIOOO. By a late decision in the United States District Court at Pittsburg, in the oil torpedo case, E. A. L. Roberts is threatened with an income of $15,- 000 per week. Os the present members of Congress, four w ere boru in Ireland, two in Eng land, two in Germany, and one in Scot land, and one in Germany. Columbus Ohio, May 17, Adams Express Office was entered. Two per sons sleeping in the office were drug ged, aud fifty thousand dollars in cur rent funds taken. No clue. Horace Greely made a speech in New Orleans the 16th inst. The Atlanta Constitution says the first train of cars over the Georgia Railroad to that city arrived there on the 15th September, 1845. The Ku-Klux Chinee—That Hea then Outrages His Man and Brother. —The New Orleans Times , of Monday, Bth inst., has the following: One of our coast planters, who has a number of Chinese laborers in his employ, seeing a disposition on the part of some of the negroes to annoy the Orientals, and apprehending a re sort by the latter to the use of the sharp knives which they always wear, cautioned them not to take the law into their own hands, but in case they were troubled by any negro to bring the offender before him, and he would see that jnstice was done. Accordingly, one day the planter, whilst sitting onjhis gallery, observed a procession of the Chinamen coming from the quarters, bearing at their head a dark package. They marched with great deliberation and dignity up to the mansion, and laid their burden on the gallery at the feet of the plan ter. It proved to be a “chunk of a ne gro,” securely bound as only Chinumen know how to tie a parcel of goods.— The negro| was scared out of| his senses, though eutirely unhurt. Lay ing him quietly down on the gallery, the leader of the Chinese, pointing to the dark mass, said to the planter, '“Niggah too much! too much Niggah!” and then the whole party trotted back to their w’ork. It was an hour’s hard work to uniie the frightened negro, who, on his re lease, very cheerfully acted upon the suggestion of the planter to “make himself scarce.” We publish this incident in antici pation of the accounts which will doubt less Ire forwarded to the North by the correspondents of the Radical journals, as one of the incidents of lawless vio lence so common in the South, against which President Grant has just issued his high sounding proclamation. Governor Walker, of Virginia, being interviewed by a woman who desired to know his position on a cer tain question, asked her what she thought of the matter hereif, and being answered that she was on the fence, graciously replied: “Madam, I wish no more agreeable position that titling by your side.” The Old Woman’s Railway Sig nal. The most effective working force in the world in which we live is the lawl of kindness. For it is the only mora force that operates with the same effect upon man kind, beast-kiud, aud bird kind. From time immemorial, music has wonderfully affected all beings, un reasoning, that have ears to hear.— The prettiest idea and simile of ancient literature relates to Orpheus playing his lyre to animals listening in intoxi cated silence to its straius. Well, kind ness is the spontaneous music of good will to men aud beasts. And both lis ten to it with their hearts instead of their ears; and the hearts of both aie affected by it in the same way, if not to the same degree. Vol umes might be written filled with beau tiful illustrations of the effects upon both. The music of kindness has not only the power to charm, but to trans form both the savage heart of man and beast; and on this harp the smallest fingers in the world may play heaven’s sweetest tunes on_ earth. Some time ago we read of an inci dent that will serve as an illustration of this beautiful law. It was substan tially to this effect: A poor, coarse fea tured old woman lived on the liue of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, where it passes through a wild, unpeopled district of Western Virginia. She was a widow, with only one daughter, liv ing with her in a log hut, near a deep, precipitous gorge, crossed by the rail way bridge. Here she contrived to support themselves bj r raising and sel ling poultry and eggs, adding berries in their season, and other little articles for the maiket. She had to make a long, weary w ilk of many miles to a town where she could sell her basket of produce. The railway passed by her cabin to this town; but the ride would cost too much of the profits of her small sales, so she tiudged on gen erally to the market on foot The con ductor came finally to notice her walk ing by the side of the line or between the rails; aid, being a good-natured, benevolent man, he would often give her a ride to and fro without charge. The enginemen and brakesmen were also good to the old woman, and felt they were not wronging the interests of the railway company by giving her these free rides. And soon an accident occurred that proved that they were quite right iu this view of the matter. Iu the wild month of March, the rain descended and the mountains sent down their rolling, roaring torrents of melted snow and ice into this gorge near the old woman’s hut. The Hood arose with the darkness of tho night, until she heard tho crush of the rail way bridge, as it was swept from its abutments, and dashed its broken tim bers against the craggy sides of the precipice on either side. It was near ly midnight. The rain fell in a Hood, and the darkness was deep and howl ing with the storm. In another half hour the express train would be due. W hat could she do to warn it against the awful destruction it was approaching ? She had hardly a whole tallow candle in her house; ana no light she could make of tallow or oil, if she had it, would live a moment iu that tempest of w ind and rain. Not a moment was to be lost; and her thought was equal to the moment. She cut the cords of her only bedstead, and shouldered the dry posts, side-pieces and head-pieces. Her daughter fol lowed her with their two wooden chairs. Up the steep embankment they climbed, aud piled all their household furniture upon the line a few rods be fore the black, awful chasm, gurgling with the roaring flood. The distant rumbling of the train came upon them just as they had fired the well dried combustibles. The pile blazed up into the night, throwing its red, swaying, blooming light a long way up the track. In fifteen minutes it would begin to wane, and she could not revive it with green, wet wood.— The thunder of the train grew' louder. It was w ithin five miles of the fire.— Wotild t hey see it in time ? They might not put on brakes soon enough. Aw ful thought! She tore her red flannel gown from her in a moment, aud, tying it to the end of a stick, ran up the truck, waving it iu both hands, while her daughter swung rouud her head a blazing chair post a little before. The lives of a hundred uuconscious passengers hung on the issue of the next minute. The ground trembled at the old woman’s feet. The great red eyes of the engine burst upon her as it came round a curve. Like as a huge, skarpsigkteu lion coming suddenly upon a lire, it sent forth a thrilling roar that filled all the wild heights and ravines around.— The train was at full speed; but the brakesmen wrestled at their leverage with all the strength of desperation.— Tho wheels ground along on the heat ed rails slower and slower, until the engine stopped at the decaying fire.— It still blazed enough to show them the beetling edge of the bluck abyss into which the train aud all its passen gers would have plunged, aud into a death and destruction too horrible to think of, had it not been fur the old woman’s signal. They did not stop to thunk her first for the deliverance. The conductor knelt down by the side of ihe engine; the eugiue duvei and the brakesmen came aud knelt down by him; all the passengers came and kueit by them; and there, by the expiring light of the burnt-out pile, in the nun and the wind, they thanked God for thj| salva tion of their lives. All in the line of the kueelefs and players sent up into the duik heavens such u midnight voice of thanksgiving as seldom, if ever, as cended from the earth to Him who se eth in darkness as well as in secret. Kindness is the music of good will to m* n; and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven’s sweetest tunes on earth. —Eiihu Burr tit. ft cad the flaming advertisement of Me liritie & Cos., Atlanta, Ga. Rich music—A million air. A woman’s ailment—The stitch. Notes of admiration —Love letters. The seat of war—ls that of a camp stool. “Tozzleeompoop’ is Illinois for busy body. ‘I m a ’tickler friend of yours,” as the snuff said to the uose. M ateriug places that remain open all winter-—The mouths of milk-cans. M kich is the better off, tea or cof fee? Coffee; it settles itself, but tea has to draw. 1- ;f* * <“*.«*.' * i | Aged Fish.— The possible extreme old age to which certain animals may at tain has often been a subject of specu latiom There are a number of carps at present in the lake at Versailles which have silver rings attached to their noses, which riugs were placed there by La Belle Feuioniere, the mis tress of Francis 1., before the discovery of this continent. Recently au eagle was shot near Belfort, which bore about it a presumable evidence of great age. Around its neck was a steel collar, upon which was cut the date 1646, and also au armorial bearing half effaced. The ancient bird has been shifted aud presented to |fie Museum Agram. Ihe Countv Jail. —The contract for building u new jail, we learn, has been let by our Ordinary. Messrs. Jackson A Cos., of Cartersville, and Mr. H. B. \\ allace, of this place, have contracted for the work at an aggregate cost of about $4,000. — Marietta Journal. «A ew Advertisements. SHARP & FLO YD, Successors to Geo. SHARP, Jr., ATLANTA, GhA„ Wholesale And Retail Jewelers. We Keep a Large ami Varied Assortment of FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, AND SPECTACLES. sdub mm mm, A SPECIALTY. We Manufactuae .Tea Sets, Forks, Spoons Goblets, Cups, Knives, etc. TVmiums 3for L cultural Ufai^s. We arc prepared to All any order for Fairs at short notice; also to give any information in regard to Premium*. Orders by mail or in person, will receive prompt and careful attention. We ask a com parison of Stock, Prices and Workmanship with any house in the State. Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired and Warranted. M titanic- Badges and Sunday School Badges made to order. All Work Guaranteed. ENGRAVING FREE OF CHARGE. MIvVRP A FLOYD. May 53, swlv. Mil SCO., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. TO MERCHANTS. 500 CRATES of As- GRANITE and Exactly suited to the wants of Countrv Merch ants, of our own Importation, packed to our own Order IN EUROPE. i Wo sell them for net cash for SBO.OO Direct Importation OF TABLE Asl> POCKET C utlerv. *tO Any New York bill of Cutlery-^ Silver Plated Ware, nnd Crockery, Duplicated. Sure Freights, Itrenkage, and Delay, bv inly ing from us. Manufacturer’ll Agent** for - Glass-W are • The largest aud cheaj>est stock of FIRST-CLASS FECIT JABS, in the South. SATE IftO>Uß FRUIT. for Price Fists. Mcßride & co. may JJ2 wly ATLANTA, GA. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Eastman’s Business College A Southern Institution, located ut ATLANTA, GA. PATRONIZE A HOME INSTITUTION, and the rmtfaiwd Head of all (Joiumetrial or Rus iness Schools for the practical, useful Educa tion of Young Men. training them for an active, successful life. Students are admitted every week-day in the year. For further particulars of the course of studv. terms. Ac- address A. K. EASTMAN, Principal. FOES" PER LINK We will insert an advertisement ONE MONTH In thirtv-fonr first-class GEORGIA NEWSPAPERS, Including live dailies. We refer to the Publisher of this paper, to whom our responsibility is well known. LIST SENT FREE. Addres GKO. P. ROWELL & CO., Advertising Agents, No. 41 Park Row, New York. 1 QOG use thT -vegetable” i I Balsam”!O »1/ The old standard remedy for Coughs. Colds, Con sumption. “Xvthing fatter." CUTLER BROS. A CO., Boston. FRACANT SAPOLIENE Cleans Kid Gloves and all kinds of Cloths and Clothing: removes Paint, Grease, Tar, Ac., cou *tanthj, without the least in ! urv tothetlnest fabric. Sold l»v Druggists asd Fancv Goods Dealers. FRAGRANT SAPOLIENE' CO., :« Barclay St. New York, 46, La Salle St., Chicago. flh /Y A DAY FOR ALL, with Stencil J.V Tools, Address E. A. Graham, Springfield, Vermont. jgb -k A month, horse and carriage fur tushed. Expenses paid. 11. B. Shaw. Alfred, Me. Agents! Read This! WE WILL PAY AGENTS A SALARY OF *3O PER WEEK and Expenses, or allow a large commission to sell our new and wonderful inventions. Address M. WAGNER A CO., Marshal, Mich. CUT THIS OUT!' And send twenty-five cents for a ticket and draw a watch. Sewing Machine, or some article of value. No blanks. Six for one dollar. Ad dress Packard A Cos., Cincinnati. Ohio. HERE'S YOUR GOOD PIC The Mky-Light Gallery, In Carters Ville, having just been rcruoddelled, repaired and rearranged, is now in sublime trim for taking correct and perfect PHOTOGRAPHS FERROTYPES. We respectfully invite Ladies, Gentlemen and Children of Cartersville and adjacent country, to come to our Gallery, over the stores of Messrs 11. A. A 11. M. Clayton and G. L. McDonald, on Main Street, and get the handsomest, cheapest and yet the most life-like pictures, taken by any artists in upper Georgia. MOSELEY BROTHERS. Cartersville, may 3, ’7l-swtf For Sale. A T PUBLIC OUTCRY, before the court house door in the town of Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday iu June, 1871, what is known as the Cartersville Male and Fe male Academy. This applies to the house and not the ground. Now occupied by the Rev. J. L. Pierce’s school, and located near the Presbyterian Church in the aforesaid town, for cash. Said house is sold under an order from the Honorable Superior Court of said county, for a distribution of the proceeds of the sale among the stockholders, according to the interest of each iu said pro perty. This the 2nd May. 1.871. ABDA JOHNSON, P. L. MOON. W. L. KIRKPATRICK. Commissioners. VJTJTE STATES INTERNAL REVENUE T X. U. 8. Internal Revenue, Collector's Office, 4th 7 v District Georgia. Atlanta, May 15th, 1871. J I will attend by my deputy, Wells B. Whitmore, as follows, to-wit: Cartersville, Cass County, Thursday, June Ist. Calhoun, Gordon, Saturday, June 3d. Spring Place, Murray County, Tues day, June sth. Dalton, Whitfield County, Thursday, June Bth. Ringgold, Catoosa County, Satur day, June 10 th. La* nyette, Walker County, Tues day, June 13th. Summerville, Chattooga, County, Thursday, June 15th. Rome, Floyd County, Saturday, June 17th. Trenton, Dade County, Tuesday June 20th—for the purpose of Collect ing the Internal Revenue Tax, assessed on the Aunual List for 1871, by W. L. Goodwin Assistant Assessor for the Third Division of the 4th Collection District of Georgia. Payment at the times and places above mentioned, for the several Comities will save COSTS and PENALTIES imjjos ed by law. JAMES ATKINS, Collector. Strayed, From the Old Lewis & Jones’ Furnace on Stamp Creek, about ten dayg ago, two Colts —One a bay horse colt, and the other a gray mare colt, about two years old each.— Any information of their whereabouts left at the Cartersville Express Frinting Office, or conveyed tome at my home, will be thank fully received. R. M. STILES. Cartersville, may I9th, 1871-swtf Georgia, bartow county.-By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of said County will be sold on the lirst Tuesday in July, 1871, at the Court House door in said Coun ty, Within the legal honrs, a house and lot in the town of Aduirsville, in said County, whereon Charles Hollis now resides, containing three acres, more or less, fronting on. Centre Street, and bounded on the North bv the lot of James M. Vcach, and on the East and South by streets; also a vacant lot in said town, on "the West side of the W. & A. It. R., 20 feet front, by eigh ty feet deep, being a corner lot, adjoining the vacant lot of A. Johnson, and known as tne E. Porter lot. Sold for the benefit of the heirs of William 11. Eidson, deceased. Terms, Cash, TIIOS. if. BOM AR, A dm'r, tie ftonix non, chw tmUimento annexo. Os said deceased- J. & S, BONES & CO.. IMPORTERS OF AND DEALERS IN IRON AND STEEL Hardware, Gwtlery, Gits, & Ct| 5 ROME, CA. Besides having D£€IDEDLY the LARGEST HTa of HARDWARE, in all its Departments, i n the kee country, we arc the Exclusive Agents for in,. H ,‘! * ■E X Celebrated Portable, Stationary. AND Plantation Engines. PORTABIi: < IIU t I.AR SAW AND GRIST MILL*. AYR MILL MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS. Persous intending to erect Mills of any kind, would do well to consult with u . Ami can he furnished at Strictly Manufacturers Prices Blandy’s Portable Steam Engines and Saw-Mills have taken the First Premiums at The United States Fair, The Ohio State Fair at Cincinnati, The Ohio State Fair at Dayton, The Ohio State Fair at Zanesville, The Ohio State Fair at Sandusky, The Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis, The Missouri State Fair at St. Louis, The Tennessee State Fair at Nashville, The Goergia State Fair at Macon, The Arkansas State Fair at Little Rock, The Agricultural Fair Association Ga. & Ala. Rome Ga. The Kentucky North Western Agricultural Society The Great Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati, And many other Fairs of less consequence, and never failed to beat all competitors, in any contest in which they were evei entered. We give a full square guarantee upon all the Machinery sold by us. Send lor Catalogue ar and Price List. March 31, 1871. J, & S. BONES & CO. RUBLE & HIGHT, AGENTSTFOE EUBSELL & CO’S. €ELEBR.iTF,n UOI’BLE FAX, PIVOTT CYLINDER THRU HITSH]REAR THRESHER, And Separator, and also, Impi’ovcd Sclßßnking Reapers mid Mowers. Jttsf Hettbeil A NEW SUPPLY OF (fftkbratlb Jfartit (Uflagons, IMPROVED SINGLE AND DOW STAR CORN SHELLERS. Improved Peacock Flows, Cast-Steel Excelsior Flows, Silver Steel Clipper Flows—All sizes. THE EUREKA SMUT AND SEPARATING MACHINE. GALE'S COPPER-STRIPPED FEED CUTTER, HAY-PKESSBS, Jffiauaey’s Broad-Cast Seeder and Caltlvator, And a General Stock of Well Assorted AGRIUCTURAL IMPLEMENTS, always on Hand. FARMERS CAN OBTAIN FROM US DUPLICATES OF ANY FARTS OF MACHINERY WHICH MAT RREAK OR WEAR OUT. We keep nothing which cannot be warranted No. 1 of its kind. Finding by long experience in this trade, that it is much more profitable to keep none but good, substantial and reliable Imp’ e ‘ meiits Soliciting your orders, we are, Respectfully, RUBLE & HIGHT, Agricultural Depot, Cor. Market and Eight Streets, Chattanooga. Tennessee. Janl7th 1871—ts. PHILADELPHIA and ATLANTA Wine and Liquor COMPANY. NO. 8. GRANITE BLOCK, ATI.ANTA, DEALEIiS IN PURE WINE jS. Nl> UQUOft*. Call Particular Attention to their Peach 1 Apple Brandy June 7, 1870. wOrn