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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.