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The Express.
SAMUEL 11. SMITH , Editor and Proprietor
CARTE RS V ILLeT~QA., A UP.,4th, 1870
Public Meeting —Election <*ues_
lion.
Cartkrsville, Ga., Aug. 2, 70.
There assembled at the Court House
a large Dumber of the people of Bar
tow Counly, regardless of political dif
ferences, to consider and give an ex
pression to their sentiments upon the
question of an election this Fall.
Col. R. H. Cannon, of Stilesboro }<
washed to the Chair, Thus. W.
Milnor and R. W. Murphey, appoint
ed Secretaries.
Upon motion of General P. M. B.
Young, a committee of seven, was ap
pointed to draft suitable resolutions*
expressive of the sense of the meeting
upon the question then under consider
ation.
The following named gentlemen
were appointed on that Committee:
Gen. P. M. B. Young, D. W. K.
Peacock, M. J. Crawford, H. F. Price,
J. G. Mcßeynolds, Miller Collins, Jas.
Wilkerson.
The committee retired, and while
he same was absent, Col. K. H. Can
non, Col. James W. Harris and Gen.
\V. T. Wofford, made brief and ap
propriate addresses.
The committee, through their Chair
man, reported the following Resolu
tions:
Wiiekeas, The State of Georgia has
just been admitted into the Union, by
an Act of Congress, passed at its last
Session, and approved on the 15th
ultimo, in which it is affirmed that
the State of Georgia, having complied
with the Reconstruction Acts, and by
a legal Legislature, ratified the 15th
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United State*, and is, therefore, enti
tled to Representation in the Congress
of the United States; and
Whereas, By the provisions of same
Act, the right of the people to hold an
flection in November, next, is estab
lished in tko following terms, to-wit:
“That nothing in this Act contained,
shall be construed to deprive the peo
ple of Georgia of the right to an elec
tion for members of the General As
sembly of said State, as provided in
the Constitution thereof; and nothing
in this, or any other Act of Congress,
shall be construed to affect the term
to which any officer has been appoint
ed, or any member of the General As
sembly elected, as provided by the
Constitution of the State of Geor
gia.” And,
Whereas, One branch of the Gener
al Assembly Ims just enacted, (so far
as is in its power,) a measure, in effect,
to prolong the term of office, and in de
fiance of the Constitution and Laws of
Georgia , and in defiance of Right, and
every principle of Free and Itepublican
Government, to foist over the people of
this Stale, for two years, and perhaps, for
ever, a Legislature not elected by the
people, aiul in the choice for which they
have not the slightest choice. And,
Whereas, Certain Officials of the
Stale, and members of the Legislature,
are conspiring against the liberties of
the people, and the laws of the State,
in attempting to overthrow the Consti
tution and deprive the people of the
right to hold an election in November
next, according to the law. Be it
therefore
Resolved, Ist. That we, the people
of Bartow County, regardless of politi
cal differences, in Convention assem
bled, and threatened by a common
danger, express our astonishment and
alarm at the measure now under con
sideration by the Legislature to take
away the liberties of the people, and
.destroy the right of freemen to elect
ffheir own liepresentatives.
Resolved, 2d. That we regard the
•attempt to overthrow the State Gov
ernment, in no other light, than that
it is a piece of the most unblushing ei
frontry ! That it is the most outra
geous attempt at usurpation of power
ever attempted by a Legislative body,
under a Republican form of govern
ment.
Resolved, 3rd, That no terms can
express our condemnation of the ef
forts being made by certain Officials of
the State to ride over the law, and
trample every principle of flight and
Justice under toot; they arc the ene
mies of the peace and happiness of tlio
people ! They are the enemies of tho
property of the State !! They are the
assassins of liberty 11 !
Resolved, 4tli. I] hat the people of
Bartow have no cause to doubt tiie fi
delity of their Representatives, but
they expect them, as heretofore, to
stand by the Canstitution and Laws,
in this hour of peril, and to use every
Influence to prevent this last outrage !
These Resolution were, upon mo
tion, unanimously adopted —meeting
then adjourned.
R. H. Cannon, Clim’n.
ThOS. MILNEIt, )r, ,
XL W. Mummy, j
wo come with our Semi-
Weekly, each number containing about
as much reading matter as our old
Weekly, all for $3 per annum.
RILL ARP”!
Letter from tlie Great Georgia
Humorist.
He touches some Men and a few
Measures.
From the Atlanta Sun.
Mr. Edilur: I’m sorry I can’t fill my
promise to call on you. I’m goin home,
lam I’m tired of this everlastin fuss.
There’s some develment up and I’m ju- j
bus about it. I’ve heard lots of war
talk in the Legislatur to-day. There's
signs of fight. I don’t think 9 dollars
a day would provoke such hostile lan
guage. One feller said they was
just rarin and chargin for their consti
tuents and that it was all 9 dollar gas,
but it didn’t smell like gas to me. The
day I got here there was shootin all a
bout, and a man killed. Then agin I
see the members and the outsiders di
viden up in little squads about at night
and whisperin and jugglin and pirou
tin around. They are plottin agin
somebody, I know. I heard one feller
say “prolongation,” af!d another said
“hell,” and another “dam,” and I hoard
jaw teeth grit. I was a private in Cor
put’s Battery, and I know what a pro
long is It’s a big hemp rope with
hooks on the ends what hitches the
cannon to the powder box. There’s
goiu to be a slio6tin certain, and some
body’s goin to be hurt, and I wanfc
Captin Corput to understand that I’ve
resigned. I heard another crowd talk
in about State aids. I suppose they
are to be be on the Governor's staff.—
Brown had many a one in ’G3 and ’4.
Hal said he had 700, and Hal ought tu
know. A Stait Aid is a good thing.—
lie can see the battle from afur off.—
The futher the better forme. I hoard
a member say he was afeerd all the
Stait Aids would be killed, but that he
should fight mity hard hard on the
road from Macon to Knoxville. An
other said he should do his fightin be
tween Rome and Columbus. If a man
can pick his ground it’s a good thing.
Mr. Editur, there’s a heap of fuss
generally. A man tawked 2 days in
the House about the penitentiary and
the conviks, and whippin and slashin
and delicate parts, etc. I thought he
thought a good deal of Lisself. I was
sorry to see the members asleep while
he was a speakin, for I think it very
disrespekful. One man said that the
speakist dident care a dam fur the con
viks, but was jess play in his last card
agin the Governor, and that he was
then goin to sink down between Silla
& Karybdis, unkenelled, unhonored
and unsung. I notised his tawk was
all about kulord conviks—he dident
seem to be sorry for a white man.
A mail in the gallery was powerful
mad W’ith somo eefitur; maybe it was
you, I don’t know, but ho axed a man
whether lie should whip the editur or
not. The man said he dident know
and couldent say, for lie hadent read
the piece, but that, as a general thing
in tlie abstract, it was right to whip em-
Ff I was you I would carry a weepin
of some sort, even if it was only an
umbrell.
I got tired of all this, and wanked
over to Whitehall for peace. A friend
(I suppose be was a friend) found me
and said he wanted to see me pertik
larly. He took me away back and
hauled out sum little thumb papers full
of figures, and said lie wanted me to
insure- my life. That skeerd me worse
than anything, for it looked like I was
in danger, and he had just found it
out. I axed him if he thought there
would be a fight. He explained things
to me, and I felt relieved, and declined
to insure for the present You sec I
felt mity well, and couldent see the
necessity. At the next corner I met
another friend, who seemed glad to
sec me exceedingly. He held my hand
in his several moments. He axed mo
if my life was insured. He said he
was agent for the very best company
in the world. I axed him how long a
man would live under his company.—
He then explained to me that a man
might die at any time; that they did
ent undertake to keep a man from dy
in. So I declined, but expressed my
gratitude for his interest in my welfare,
and promised to buy a policy as soon
as I got right sick. Jest as I left him
I heard him call some feller a dam
pliool When I got to the hotel there
was a teller waitin for me on the same
business. He talked to me for an
hour about the uncertainty of life and
the certainty of death. I thought, per*
haps, he was a missionary, tie seem
ed much concerned about my wife and
children, and once or twice wiped his
eyes with a white pocket handkerchief.
I kiiowed he was a friend, and told
him J would reflect seriously about the
I believe that company is a purely
philanthropic institution and would
lend a poor fellow a few dollars es he
was suffei'in. I think I will try to bor
row a little from their agents to-mor
row T . This mornin the fust one come
to see me agin and I concluded I was
lookin mity bad, and axed him to ex
cuse me as I was not feelin well. I
went to Dr. Alexander, and got a dose
of salts. He axed me if I was sick. —
I told him I supposed I was and the
reason why. He then told me all a
bout it and said there was about 100
of them fellers in town, and they all
had augurs, long augurs, and they bo
red about half an inch at the first in
terview and an inch at the second in
the same hole, and so on until they got
to the hollow, and the patient give in
and took a policy. I don't know a
bout that, but I will say they are the
friendliest, most sympathizen and kind
hearted men I have ever struck; only
I don’t like so much talk about coffins
and graveyards. I dident take the
salts.
But, Mr. Editur, I tell you there is
trouble a brewiu. I saw old Rock and
Gen. Gordon and Col. Styles a tawkin
together, and old Tige wasent fur off,
Old Rock’s grey beard was a wagin
ominously, and old Gordon’s scars was
a jumpin about all over his face, Styles
looked like he wanted to eat somebody-
I heard him say something about “Or
gean Stables,” I suppose that is where
he keeps his wsr horses. Scott came
up and said somethin about the rear
guard. He’s the devil on rear guard,
and the army knows it. Jim Waddell
dropped in and remarked he had “just
as leave die as live if old Rock said so.”
At this moment a feller come along a
singin
‘‘l feel, T feel, T feel, I feel like a Griffin Star,”
“And if tliar's ff tin to be, wby then, why
then I’m tliar.”
Shoo fly don’t botlie:- me.
The whole party looked like Gettys
burg, and old Tige was just a waitin
for old Rock to tree. God bless em
all. I know they’ll stand ’twixt me
and all danger.
I tell you, Mr. Editur, thar’s trouble
a brewin. Says I, “Mr. Macbworter
you are the speaker, you know it all
from the steeple to the sellar, you have
capacity and sagacity and viracity and
rapacity and the like of that, ala ‘bar
becue,’ that is from the snout to the
tail, tell me, do you think there’ll be a
fight ?”
“Yes, sur,” sais lie, “yes, Bur; they
will fight shore. They are obliged to
fight. Old Bonaparte can’t get out of
it, and Pismark has got a chin just
like Joe Johnson. France w T ants a
blood lettin like we had—” “Is it that
fur off’?” says I, “I thot it was to be
gin in Atlanty to-nite.” “Oh, no,” sais
he, and went on.
I got sum cumfort from my old
friend t Bev. Thornton. He said that
if they did get up a fight the old sold
iers wouldent be into it much, except
the Generals, for that the original con
sistent Union men, like Josh Hill and
Dunning and Tom Saffold and old
man Stewart and Ackerman, would
make short work of it. He said they
were mity slow men to get mad, and
it had taken em about ten years to git
to the biliu pint, but that such fitin as
they would do now’ the world nor the
flesh nor the devil never saw. He said
one would whip a thousand and put
ten thousand to flight. I hope so. I
like a man who takes ten years to get
mad. Yours truly, Bill Arp.
P* S.—l heard several fellers tawkin
about 9 dollers, and about the offices,
and a man told me that was what was
the matter with Hannah. Mr. Editur:
Who is Hannah, and what is the mat
ter with her? I hope she aint danger
ous • B. A.
N. B.—l am now satisfied there
wont boa fight here. Do you think
there’s any truth in the report that
Josh Hill A Saffold & Cos., are goin to
Prusshia ? A man said that when it
took a man ten to get mad, lie
was bound to site somethin, or take
spontaneous combustion. I reckon
they’ll go. B. A.
A Beautiful Idea.
Far away, among tho Alleghanics,
there is a spring so small that a single
ox, in a summer’s day, could drain it
dry. It steals its unobtrusive way a
mong the hills, till it spreads out into
the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretch
es away a thousand miles, leaving on
its banks more than a hundred villa
ges and cities, and many a cultivated
farm, and bearing a half a thousand
steamboats. Then joining the Missis
sippi, it stretches away and away some
twelve hundred miles more till it falls
into the emblem of eternity. It is one
of tho greatest tributaries of the ocean,
which, obedient only to God, shall roll
and roar till tho angel, with one foot
on the sea and the other oil the land,
shall lift up his hand and swear that
time shall be no longer. So with im
mortal influence. It is a rill—a rivu
let—a river—an ocean—and as bound
less and fathomless as eteruitv.
Sabbatli School Pfc-Blie at En
liarlcc.
Mr. Editor. —Oa Friday morning
last, in company with the Cartersville
Brass Band, we started bright and
early for the pleasant little village of
Euharlee. Messrs. Henry and Robert
Stiles, most cheerfully and kindly fur
nished transportation for the Band,
in the shape of two elegant four-horse
spring-wagons, for which they have
our most profound thanks. We had
a very pleasant trip of it, indeed, but
nothing of material interest oecured
we reached our place of destination.
Upon arriving, we were met and
welcomed by that genial, whole-soul
ed and clever gentleman, Tlios. Tumlin,
who spared nothing that would con
duce to our comfort and enjoyment
Judge Jones, the incorrigible, Georgo
Briant, the irrepressible, Capt. Tom.
Lion, the inimitable, and Tom. Tumlin,
the infallible, kept the whole party in
an uproar of laughter, until we were
summoned to the Church to listen to
the address.
The Church is an elegant one, and
it was crowded almost to overflowing }
by the beauty and intelligence of Eu
harlee. Mr. J. C. C. Blackburn, of
Van Wert, delivered the address, in a
highly credible manner, and it was
listened to with no small degree of in
terest, by the entire audience, and es
pecially the Euharlee Sabbath School.
Mr. Blackburn is a ripe scholar and
an eloquent speaker, and a perfect
gentleman, and the Euharlee Sabbath
School displayed great taste in select
ing him to address them on that occa
sion. After the speaker had conclu
ded, the Band played a spirited piece
of music, and was followed with vocal
music by the School, which was beau
tiful and had a tendency to lift our
thoughts to things higher, holier and
purer; and we could but imagine, as
we sat there almost spell-bound, listen
ing to those soft, melodious strains*
that they were caught up by bright
winged angels, and reverberated by
the angelic choristers around the em
pyrean throne of Him, who gave him
self a ransom for us. We must say
the Sabbath School at Euharlee, from
evidences unmistakable, is prospering
linely, and will continue to do so, from
the fact that all take a deep interest
in it, and spare neither time nor mon
ey to make it both instructive and in
teresting to the scholars. A good
well-conducted Sunday School, is the
best, most unmistakable evidence, that
the community in which it is located,
is a respectable, refined, intelligent
and Christian one, and where can a
better, larger, more flourishing school
than the one at the beautiful little vil
lage of Euharlee be found? We have
no doubt but that many of tho blood
washed throng who, to-day, are bask
ing in the sun-light of Heaven, and
walking the golden streets of the new
Jerusalem, ascribing peans of praise
to God, owe their unspeakable joy
and happiness to the Sunday School;
there the first impressions were made;
there they learned to love and serve
their Creator; there they were learned
to walk in the straight and narrow
way, and they would eventually reach
that mansion in the skies, whose mak
er and builder is God. If this be true*
and no one dare contradict it, how ve
ry important it is that we should do
all in our power to aid in establishing
and perpetuating Sabbath Schools.
After the speaking and singing, a
procession was formed at tho Church,
and marched to the table in the beauti
ful grove close by, where a sumptuous
dinner awaited them. We have been
to many pic-nics where they had big
dinners, and plenty of it, but never, in
our life have we seen any that equaled
that one, and iyo, came to the conclu
sion that those people knew how to
prepare pic-nic dinners.
Tho best order was maintained
throughout the day, and nothing trans
pired to mar the enjoyment of the oc
casion, save a severe storm, which came
up about noon. Although the thunder
pealed forth in deafening tones, and
the forked lightening flashed vividly
across the blackened horizon, and tho
rain descended in torrents, accompa
nied by a terriblo display of the pow
er of iEollus, the multitude clung to
the tables with the greatest tenacity,
and it was not until they were drench
ed with water that they evacuated the
ground, and did it with great reluc
tance then. However, the appetites of
all were appeased, and an abundance
left over.
We must say, that it was the most
pleasant, best conducted affair of the
kind we ever attended. The Carters
ville Band appeared to give entire
satisfaction, and contributed to the
’ . i
pleasure of the occasion.
Success to the whole-souled, gene?- j
ous people of Euharlee, and vicinity, ■
and their thriving Sabbath School.—
May their pathway through lifo be
strewn with flowers, and when they
embark upon the dark stream of death
for that unknown port, whence we
all have to travel, may they find a gol
den gondola, with angels of bliss to
waft their spirits to that Heavenly Ci- 1
tv, where they may unite with tho re
deemed who have preceeded them, in
shouting hallelujahs, to the King of
Kings. Respectfully,
_ J. T. G.
Letter from a Oeorgtan in Was*li
ington —Tlic Cicorgiu Kill.
Washington, D. C., July 17, 70. m
Editors Constitution: A true Geor
gian, whose interest in tho welfare of
his State is not to bo estimated by
other than patriotic motives, could but
feels deeply interested in tho proceed
ing of the Senate last night.
The question which called up this
interest was the report of the Confer
ence Committee, in the form of a bill
to admit Georgia to the Union. Up
on the presentation of the report, there
was manifested upon the part of the
Republican Senators but little opposi
tion, and this little was embrsced in
the query of Mr. Drake: “Does this
bill authorize an election in the fall for
State officers?” In answer to this
question, * the response came from the
conservative Republican and the Dem
ocratic Senators who were on the Com
mittee of Conference that it did au
thorize the election , and, to use the lan
guage of Mr. Thurman, “An election
would bo held, unless there was a
most unwarrantable usurpation of tho
State government.”
This bill was adopted. You have
published it by this time, and the
common sense of your readers can
readily see that Mr. Thurman was
right.
The people of Georgia are mainly
indebted to the indomitable zeal and
diplomacy of General i*. M. B. Young,
the representative elect from the 7th
district for this result. I have been
assured from Republican authority
that the bill which passed the House
some time since, and lobbied to the
Senate by Blodgett & Cos., would have
passed tho Senate but for the interpo
sition of General Young. In behalf
of the Democrats of Georgia, he pro
tested it to the Democratic Senators,
and the eight votes which otherwise
would have been given for the House
bill were withheld, tho bill defeated
and the result we now report arrived
at. Several of the members elect to
fho 40th Congress, yes, all of them, I
learn, but General Young, favored the
House bill, because it gave them their
seats; and even after the adoption of
the present bill, were after the flesh
pots in what might bo tei'jnod “imlo
cent haste.”
I am glad to know that neither the
honor of representing‘his grand old
State nor the pay roll of a member of
Congress for two sessions had any ef
fect upon your representative. Ho
stood up here as in other times at any
sacrifice for the honor of Georgia, and
refused, to make an application for his
seat unless ordered to do so by his con
stituency. The General is very popu
lar with both Democrats and Republi
cans in Congress. His straight-for
ward, frank, manly bearing has won
him friends among all but tho mean,
narrow-minded putitan, who hates
gentility" and Southern manhood from
the native instinct of the animal —while
tho proverbial energy of the General
and his disinterested course have sav
ed Georgia from absolute ruin.
I learn to-night that Mr. Farrow
has declared his convictions, that un
der the Georgia bill, an election must
be held throughout the State in the
fall; and furthermore, I am informed
that if Governor Bullock should re
fuse to call an election, President
Grant will do it through the other Geor
gia Governor, Terry.
Congress adjourns this evening, to
December. In the event of foreign
complications growing out of tho im
pending war in Europe, an extra ses
sion will be called.
The weather is intensely warm;
thermometer ranging from 90 to 104
degrees.
Let this bo an excuse for a short let
ter. If lam not baked or boiled, you
may expect another soon.
H. D. C.
ISishop Pica’cc’s Opinion of Tal
lulah.
It will appear by the following ex
tract from a letter of Bishop Pierce’s,
which wo copy from the Southern
Christion Advocate , that the learned
gentleman was somewhat disappointed
at Tallulah. This was no fault of the
falls we opine, but his vivid imagination
had probably over-drawn the picture.
This frequently happens in visiting fine
scenery. To one not expecting too
much, Tallulah is not only “torrible ”
but wild, grand and beautiful:
“On tho way to Clayton wo had ar
ranged to go by Tallulah Falls. So wo
went out early, and in good time
readied this far ; f*med natural wonder.
Two hi three years ago I visited tho
Mammoth 9 ftve in Kentucky, ailt ]
have been frequently told that I wan
the only man who had dared to tell
the truth about it. Tourists go into
ecstacies over a thing and set a fashion
and everybody talks and writes in tho
same strain. It is my fault or misfor
tune to differ again from the universal
fCCO
truth, I was dis
appointed in Tallulah. I had expect
ed to see a river compressed by rocky
walls into a narrow compass, and then
pitching with an immense perpendicu
lar fall into an abyss below. Instead,
I found the river rushing down a suc
cession of inclined planes more uftor
the fashion of rapid shoals than my
idea of Falls. However, tho surround
ing scenery is wild, weird, terrible.—.
The walls of rock on either sida of the
stream—the altitude when you look
up from below and tho abysmal depths
when you gaze downward—the roar
and foam of the tumbling waters, and
awful solitude of tho place, all com
bine to make those falls W'orth visiting.
In peril of limb and life, you must go
down the precipitous side of the yawn
ing chasm, stand awhile in tho mist
■ and spray as tho firm rock hurls back
the current, as it comes charging like
a Mameluke, and then crawl buck
with panting breath, and when wea
ried and exhausted you roach the top,
you will feel like you have been some
where and seen something. Whether
tho expedition pays, you must judge
for yourself. While I lay on the grass
in the shadeof an oak, bathed in perspi
ration and my heart throbbing, as if it
would break its bounds and tho hot
blood coursing along my veins like a
racer, I had my doubts, but when all
was cool and calm again, I was glad
I came to see this Georgia wonder.
There was quite a company of
ladies and gentlemen, and whon our
baskets were all brought together
and the contents were displayed, appe
tite was both stimulated and satisfied.”
A Texas Editor who could not
appreciate a Clean Shirt.
Whenever anybody does anything
particularly absurd he is immediately
located in Texas, and if some person
wishes to perpetrate a joke, as to whoso
excellence ho is somewhat in doubt, ho
ascribes it to a Texas editor, thereby
clearing his own skirts of all responsi
bility" in the premises. The Texas ed
itor is made to sutler in various ways,
and he is, accordingly, a convenient
creature. “Editors,” we are told for
instance, by some exceedingly droll
writer, “have a first rate time in Tex
as.” The ladies of a town, out there,
have given to the eJitor of a paper an
embroidered shirt, which contains a
pictorial history of Texas, including tho
war with Mexico, and meeting of the
first Legislature, and also pictures of
the fruits and cereals of the State, all
worked in red and worsted. The ed
itor never wore a shirt in his life, and
he thought it was a banner for the
temperance procession which was to
come off the next week. So he made
a little speech of thanks, in which ho
said ho ‘‘would fling it out forever to
the breezes of heaven, that they might
kiss its folds, and that, until his hand
palsied, it should never be trailed in
tho dust —never!” The ladies didn’t
understand him; and when he jtalked
about its trailing they blushed, and
said they were very sorry they made it
too long. But a committee man took
tho editor aside and explained the shirt
to him in a whisper, and the next day
he appealed at the office with that
shirt mounted over his coat and wrote
four columns of explanation for his
paper. The shirt is much admired by
the boys of the town, and whenever
the editor goes out for a walk they
follow him in regiments, studying the
history of Texas and the fine arts off
the back of it.
A Commendable Resolution. -I plows,
I sow's, I reaps, I mow's, I gets up wood
for winter; I digs, I hoep, and taters
grows, and for what I knows I owes
the printer. Ido suppose all knowl
edge flow's right from tho printing
press; so off I goes, in these ere clothes,
to settle up—l guess.
Concert, Tableaux and Supper at
Stilesboro, Oa.
Let the citizens of Cartersville and
vicinity, attend the above entertain
ment, on the evening of the 11th inst.
The object is to build an Episcopal
Church in our town, and therefore it
should be liberally patronized by our
people. Remember Thursday night,
the 11th inst. 50 Cents to each.