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whatever is perceptible on their sur face. Omnibus road steamers, with indift rubber tires, travel easily eight miles an hour over common roads.— Other steamers have also been tested on grass lands, with plows attached and have been found to work admira bly. The invention o f Mr. Thomson promises to effect a revolution in or dinary road locomotion and trafic.— One of his road steamers has already been tested in Paris, dragging a heavy French omnibus with fifty passengers, and leave has been granted by the Government to ply over two routes, several miles in length, including some busy parts of the French c-apitol. An engine lias been despatched to India for the transport of troops, stores, and general merchandise, it being ascer tained that these engines can run five or six miles an hour at far less cost than the bullock teams in use, which •cannot Iteep up a third of that speed. Hoad steamers have been also shipped to Labuan, one of the islands in the Indian Archipelago, for the purpose of transporting coal from the mines on that island to the port on the sea shore to meet the great demand beiDg cre ated for the steamers by the opening of the Suez Canal. The distance from the mines to the shore is nine miles. These steamers are, in fact, exciting great interest throughout the world. The ease with which they travel over grass lands has attracted the attention of artillery officers, some of whom think they could be advantageously used in campaigning. To owners of large farms they are particularly use ful, and in the prairie lands of the West they will, no doubt, before a great while, be most profitably employ ed. —Baltimore Gazette. 4l T A{iMlJtB OF JHJ IOXT. Two Prussian divisions Swal lowed Pp. The battle of Mars la Tour, fought Au gust 18, was announced by King William in a dispatch to his Queen, as resulting in a German victory. Fer contra, Marshal Ba zaine claimed it a decided victory for the French arms; and subsequently, in the Corps Legislatif, Count Paliako flatly con tradicted his Majesty, saying; “I affirm to the contrary. The Prussians were attacked and driven into the quagmires of Jaumont.’ As murder will out, so sooner or later we get at the truth of history, And here it is in this case. The affair is too horrible to be dwelt upon ; From La Patrie.] Our readers will remember that on the 18th, two Prussian divisions were thrown in to the quagmires of Jaumont by the troops of Marshal Canrobert. A surgeon who assisted in that part of the action gives us the following details: “Th<e charge, of our cavalry was irresistible. They first drove the enemy from the woods surrounding these quagmires, then, arrived on the limit, they drove them violently into the hole, which swallowed almost an army. The men fell one on top of the other, in a terrible confusion. An entire regiment of lancers disappeared in that abyss. It was an awful mixture of arms, men and horses.— Ranks were thrown upon ranks, and in their fall the soldiers were killing themselves by falling upon the arms of their comrades.” One witness of that horrible scene, says: | “I have never seen the fear of death reach such a degree.” Prince Frederick Charles was beside himself with rage. The surgeon from whom we have the de tails, was made a prisoner against the rights of war. He offered to Prince Charles to take care of liis wounded. “Let him be shot!” said the Prince, in a moment of exaspera tion. Staff officers remarked to the com manding general that it would be a grave af fair, and condemned by the rights of men. The Prince was a little calmed, and author ized the suspension of the execution until the next day; however, the surgeon was es corted to the outposts of the French army. Le Publico says : “I have seen, relates an architect who was present at Jaumont, a frightful spectacle: it is that of that hideous oauaire (literally, boneyard.) Imagine an immense abyss, in which are stagnating a mass of bodies in decomposition, cut, hack ed, a mass of brains and hanging flesh.— There are, may be, ten thousand Prussians there.” The Rev. Fuller, of Atlanta, who does the lying and the howling of the Northern Methodist Church in this State says he is met on all sides by the Dev ii Ku-Kluxes. And if they were to gob ble up the Rev. Fuller some fortunate day, it would simply be devil eat devil, with the odds in Rev. Fuller’s favor as one of the original imps.— Monroe Ad-, kktfUeri Tim Cartersville Express says that General W. T. Wofford is its first, last and only choice for Govenor in 1872. Well, if nothing else will satisfy that paper, we suppose we will have to sub mit.—Monroe Advertiser In the Radical Congressional Nom inating Convention, at Kingston, Judge i Parrot opposed a nomination, and he and Col. H. P. Furrow withdrew, say- ! X ri that If a nomination was made Re publicans hod not the ghost of a chance for success. i THE SEMI-WEEKLY EXPRESS. SAMUEL 11. SMITH , Editor and Proprietor CARTERSVILLE, GA., OCT, 14. 1870 | For the 41st and 42nd Congress from the 7th Congressional District of Ga«, GEN. P. mTb. YOUNG, I Os Bartow Cjincy, jhor Hfsnscntatihtk to the HLrjgijflatuxe, JOHN W, WOFFOED, JOHN W^G-RAY. jFor WM. W. RICH. JAS. KENNEDY, Jor £lnk, ANDREW H. RICE. Jot ®ai Hftnhor, W. T. GORDON. jFor ®ax Collator, ZACH M’REYNOLDS (Eiorutt# Shtasunr, MILES A. COLLINS, doitntj JSurhfjor, GEO. W. HILL. Count# Coroiur, BILL ARP. GE5f. ROBT. E. LEE is no more !«•>He Is Dead ! We weep not as those without hope. He is not dead, but sleepeth. His pure spirit has, doubtless, winged its hallowed flight to realms of Eternal felicity; there, seated close by the side of his Saviour, with Jackson, Polk, qfid other blood-washed saints and vet rans of the Lost Cause, they will sing t-ud shine forever, while the Nation’s i tears gush profusely from all eyes, I both friend and foe, at our loss which is their eternal gain. I Hon. J. It. Parrott’s Speech East Nighl--Tlie Proposed Sale of 1 the State Road. The following synopsis of JUDGE Parrott’s Speech, delivered in the Representative Ilall, Atlanta, Ga., on the night of the 11th instant, on the proposed sale of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, Ave copy from the Xeoi Era of the 12th. It speaks for itself: A large and respectable audience assem bled last night, in the Representative Hall, to listen to an address from Judge Parrott, on the proposed sale of the State Road. Judge Parrott began his address by ac knowledging the courtesy of the House in tendering him the use of the Hall. He came before the audience for the purpose of dis cussing a very important, subject —a subject in which one million of people Avere inter ested. He regretted that he did not come better prepared for the discussion. The State Road Avas in danger of being disposed of, without consulting the people. It Avas the last vestige of property left to the State, It had survived the storms of revolutionary violence and now it was proposed to seize it with ruthless hands and sell it without the consent of the people. He envied not the man Avho would vote for such a measure,— Such conduct would bring upon him th e frowns of an infuriated constituency. Judge Parrott then reviewed the history of the road from the time Avlien tlie project was first introduced into a Southern Com marcial Convention. In that Convention route after route Avas proposed; the Geor gia delegation being over-ruled, left the Hall and reported in favor of the very route which is noAv pursued by the State Road. The question was agitated from time to time. Its importance was urged upon the Govern ors. A.t last the bill passed. He quoted from Governors Schley, Lumpkin, Gilmer, Crawford, and McDonald to show hoAv the importance sf the road Avas appreciated at that time. The Road was built, and it stands a proud monument to the intellects that de signed it, and the hands that executed it. — and there it will stand, unless ruthless and improvident legislation should se ; ze upon it, as long as our mountains look to the sky and our rivers roll to the sea. The Judge read from a message of Governor McDonald in opposition to a proposed sale of the State Road under his administration. The bill passed, but was repealed two years later. The proposition to sell the road AvasnotneAv. It had been made as far back as 1839. A glance at old documents would show how many battles had been fought over it in the Legislature, and many of our distinguished men had opposed it. Hon. Mr, Fitzpatrick here asked whether or not the expenses had been more than the receipts since the completion of the road. Judge Parrott replied that he thought the expenses had exceeded the receipts. He read from Governor Crawford’s message, urging the necessity of the work. The message stated that the time would come Avhen the wisdom of the outlay, lavish as it was, Avould be illustrated. And the predic tion of Governor Crawford had been verified. At the close of the war the State had nothing ! left, but the road. Everything else had been SAvCpt aAvay by the storm of revolution. The people were starving and naked. An appeal was made to Gen. Thomas, and lie sent a force to rebuild the road. It was turned over to the State. Cotton was ship ped away. Money Avas (he result, and by means of the road, provisions were distrib- I uted to the starving people. The road ac tually gave us life. Keep it and it will con tinue to give us life. Suppose it is sold ? What would be done Avith the money?— Start a central bank with it, as a corruption fund? The Judge read from a message by Gov Joseph E. Brown avlio had the charac ter of managing the road better than any other man. It appeared from the message that a proposition was made in 18 8 to leaso the road at $25,000 per mouth, and now af ter twelve years, Avhen the income of the i road is a million and a half per annum, a | proposition is made to the Legislature to j lease it for the sum originally proposed.— Even a lavish expenditure Avould not justify I the sale of the road. lie could read mes sages on the subject from 1835 down to tire I beginning of the war but it was not neces- sary. The of the road would only en rich a few speculators at the expense of the many. The people understood it and took that view of it. Corporations with brain, . muscle, money and peculiar privileges, could easily acquire power and plant their feet upon the necks of the people. The Erie Railroad in New York Avas an example. Hear the thunders of Fisk and Gould They monopolize the Legislature and plunder the stockholders It proves the poAver of these immense corporations. Sell the State Road. The rich would control it, and tlrere would be more danger to the liberty of the people than ever resulted from the East India Com pany in England, or the Erie Company in New York. These speculations would con nectthe road with others, and stretch the line from Tennessee to the seaboard. They Avould be able Avith their increased influence to control the Legislature. On the wftole it j Avas better to keep the road even if it did not pay. Keep it to accommodate tlie peo ple. The same objections, only greater, ap. plied to a lease. As it now stood the road was a check on the others, but if sold, the people Avould have to submit to extortion.— : The object of these speculators was?to make money, and they would charge high rates of j passage an 1 freight. Their influence would 1 be evil. Recollect Macon clamoring year after year for State aid to build another road to the sea. The Central Railroad and other monopolies sent their sharpest men to the Legislature and through their agency Ma- j con’s inquest was refused And it never was granted until the new regime was es tablished, He believed in letting the not j income of the Suite Road go to pay the ex penges of the State. Mr. Fitzpatrick interrupted Judge Tarrott by saying that if the road was a burden to the State he Avas willing to sell it. If the expenses exceeded the receipts he wanted to know how the road benelitted the State.— What was the use of keeping it just for the fun of running cars backward and forward betAveen here and Chattanooga ? Judge Parrott replied that he had ex- ! plained wherein the State would be benefit- j ted by controlling the road. He had dwelt i on the evil of monopolies. When the road Avas managed well it paid money into the : treasury. All depended upon management. It Avas safer for the people to control it. Mr. Fitzpatrick Avanted to knoAV Avbat , benefit it was to the State if it paid nothing. Judge Parrott did not care to continue the colloquy. If the road was sold the money would be lost like the investments in the Central Bank, Darien Bank and State Bank. The road would become an engine of op pression. The people were opposed to it, and the men who voted for it must expect, to meet the frowns of an outraged constituency. Thanking the audience for their attention, the Judge retired amidst general applause FOREIGN. Paris, October 10.—Gambetta is sued a proclamation to the people by order of the Republican Government, j and left for Paris to;transmit to you the • hopes of Parisians and others seeking , to deliver France. Paris presents a spectacle of two million of men forget ting differences to withstand invaders who expected discord. Forty thousand National Guards, now armed, and one hundred thousand Mobiles and sixty thousand regulars | are assembled. The foundries are : casting cannon. The women make one j thousand cartridges daily. Each bat allion of National Guards has two mit ralleuse field pieces prep;:ring for a sortie. The forts are manned by mar iners and are supplied with artillery of greatest exetlltuce, served by the fin est gunners in the world. The Enti eate on the 4th nit. had five hundred cannons, it now has 3,800 with four hundred rounds for each. Every de fense has its men at their posts. The nationals drill constantly behind the barricades, which are adapted to the genius of Parisians. The impregna bility cf Paris is no illusiuii— it cannot be captured or surprised, nor reduced by starvation. Anns are Pew coming from every quarter. of the globe.— Workmen nnd money are now forth coming. The provinces must resist torpor and panic, and all partiztins must aid the republic. Scon winter will come, findiug the Prussians far from home, decimated by French arms, hungry and naked. France shall nev er lose its dl. Joe in the vvoikl through the invasion of half a million men.— Paris gives the watch wo; d* “Yive Ilc publique, one and indivisible.” London, October 10.—Bismarck re cently informed the Mayor of Ver sailles that he had no objections to el ections. Georgia State Fair ! Ladies visiting Atlanta, duringthe State Fair, Avill find at J. M. lloi.brook’s one of the largest and most desirable stocks of FURS, consisting in setts complete. SABLE, MINK, SEAL SKIN, FITCH, BROWN & WHITE CONEY, SQUIRREL & ASTRACHAN: also, a great variety of CHLLHRLX'S FL r RS & CLOAKS, Avbich will be sold at prices that will j defy competition. J. M. IIOLBIiOOK, oct. 14-lm 40 Whitehall str., Atlanta, Ga. | Rome, Oct. 11.— Owing to the inclemency t of the weather this morning, tag Gherokee Fair at this place is continued to bat. urday night, and entries until to-morrow night. Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North and South (Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and New York are re presented. The attendance is fine. En tries innumerable. Georgia Stale Fair ! Gentlemen visiting Atlanta, during the State Fair, ran find one of the 1 and best select- j cd Stocks of consisting, in part, of'Dress-Silk and Cas-dmore. The Rhine, the Wit?,, and every other, style known to the fashionable world at .J. M. tIoT.TtTKK)K, Sort, U-swtm" 40 Whitehall str., Atlanta, Ga. The Cartersville Fair. The Bartow Apicrtlunnl Fair last week was quite a successful enterprise; on the kst 4ay, twenty five hundred tickets were sold sit the gate. The exhi bition of stock, we understand, was very fine,Tls was also those of industrial pro ducts, mechanical and art productions. The tournament was an interesting feature of the exhibition and was emi nently successful ahd worthy of the days of chivalry. —Home Courier. The Electian-Plan of Proceed ings Under ibe Akerman mill. We clip the subjoined from the Mil ledgeville Federal Union of the 4th, and recommend its suggestions to the con sideration of the people and the Dem ocratic Executive Committee: The Akerman Election law has been forced through the Legislature by hook and by ciook, by fraud and by force. The plain object of the law is to deprive the tax-payers of Georgia of a fair election, and to retain the carpet baggers and scalawags in power. It wili do no good to rail at the law or curse its makers and abettors from now until Christmas. Let us rather see if there is no way in which we can defeat the plans of these infamous Radicals, to rob honest men of their political rights We will suggest a plan by which at least a check ma, be put upon their rascality. At every place of voting kt the citizens have a box at a legal dis tance from the Bullock pen, and let honest men be appointed to guard it. Let every Democrat be requested, af ter he has marched up to the Bullock pen and voted, to deposit a duplicate of his vote in the citizens’ box. By this means it can be known exactly how many Democrat c votes are polled. Again, let the cLzens appoint a com mittee of four or more, who shall stand at a lawful distance from the Bullock pen, and count, and keep a tally, of every man who votes. Two at a time will be sufficient to watch the Bullock pen, so that they can from time to relieve each other. Let these men not only count all who vote but also watch all who vote, and without saying a word mark those who vote illegally and report them for prosecution. By these means we can know how many votes are taken at each place of voting: how man} 7 , and who vote ille gally and report tin m for prosecution. If tliis plan is followed, the mana gers cannot take out Democratic votes and put in Radical, or rob or stuff the boxes without its being known to the whole community. This plan will al so be a great check to repeated and fraudulent voting. This plan does not in the least conflict with the law -will ! not deprive any man from voting wdio chooses to risk prosecution, and will not lead to any dispute or controversy with managers, so as to give them any excuse for using their arbitrary power We think this plan, if carried out, would, in a great measure, checkmate the evil effects of Akerinan’s bill. If any one has a better plan, let him bring ] it forwaid. Texas. San Antonio, Texas, Oct. B.—The Agn cultural Pair of West Texas closed to-day. If was a grand success. The grounds* at San Pedro were crowded every evening. One feature of the Fair to-day was a sixty mile race, to be made inside of three hours, only Texas horses and saddles allowed. This eat was accomplished by Mr. Cooke of l'ex ar county, who rode sixty-one miles. Time, two hours fifty-six and a half minutes.— Horses 'were ready saddled for him. Special to tlic Daily Commercial. Atlanta, Oct. 12.—The Senate spent this morning creating new counties. The House killed the appropriation of fivo hundred thousand dollars to repair the State Road, but passed Scott’s bill to lease the same for a , sum not less than twenty-ffve thousand dollar a . : pjer month. Shumate Was the only pro min ont Demo crat opposing the bill. Tour. The following resolution was unanimously passed by the Democratic Nominating Convcatidn held at Marietta, Wednesday last: -Reaoloed, That while we differ with the mass of colored men politically, we rcc<>g- tlumi as citizens entitled to equal rights andproteetion under the constitution and laws of the land ; and we, therefore, de nounce the recent arrest of a colored citi zen of our county, and hanging him up by the. thumbs, which wag perpetrated by cer tain of the Radical revenue officers of the United States, as an unmitigated outrage. what Tommy & Stewart says in their Hardware advertisement in this Paper Btuimt 7 IT and DRESS-MAKING! MS, & MISS "RANDALL Beg leave to eall the attention of the Toadies of t ar. tersville and surrounding country, to their fine WjOI of* f, just opened. The latest styles in BlUmiltf A,\B DRFNN-JI iU„ OT€r exeented with dispatch. Having Just arrived in Fartcrsvifilc, we solicit your patronage, feeling confident we can please you in both branches of our business. Please call and examine our stock. B e are always glad to show our Ciroods. \% e may be found at the store oil main Ntreet, recently occupied by J. T. CSuthrie, Stock’s Building, one door Fast of S. Clayton «& Won. CARTERSYILLE, GA.. Sept., 29th, 1870.w1m STATE FAIR ! .//<««/«. Ga., October I!), 1870. Qverybody Coming! Save your FI3AIVCSF for it, ami Buy your F IT 11NIT IT R E . or RONDEAU & CO.. 1.-> Kti-ect, Oi>i>osito H. I. Kimbln Itousi'. October 1. 1870-swlf ATLANTA, GA. ■aor-jrei“..j. ii i■— ■iwum—Liqji a,— DRY-GOODS! Having just received a large and assorted stock of DRY-GOODS, Etc., I respectfully ask for an examination of the same by the purchasing commuuity, who will discover that 64 Small Profits 99 arc being asked. Amongst the stock will be found full lines of DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, CASSIMERES, EMBROIDERIES, LACES, HOSIERY, GLOVES, IRISH LINENS, V TABLE LINENS, NAPKINS, TOWELS, CRASHES, WHITE GOODS, c ; 1 SHIRTS, 7 ‘ NOTIONS. and other classes of goods usually found in such stocks, These goods ar- all new and fresh, having no winter goods on baud at the close of the last winter. A large lot of the celebrated “Eclipse” brand of ** S ng! isll ’’ Qicick. ASp£tCTiS v was opened on Monday, 26th ultimo, at the Store of JOHN Kfc'. ELY oc and, 1870.w1m Corner_of Whitehall and Hunter Streets, ATLANTA, GA, ©real LAND. Sale, fry HERE will be sold at Public Sale at the I Courthouse' door of Bartow County, in Car tersville, Ha., on the first Tuesday in November next, the following valuable Polk and Bartow County Bands : NO. DIST. SEC. COUNTY ACRES 1200 21st 3rd Polk. 40 1201 “ “ *• 1244 *• “ “ “ 1159 “ “ “ “ 1021 “ “ “ " 11 TO “ “ “ “ urn “ “ “ “ 1329 “ “ “ “ 410 18 3rd “ “ 460 “ “ “ “ .157 *• “ “ “ 268 “ “ “ “ 451 “" “ “ “ “ n (I U U it 938 “ “ “ “ 763 19th 3r<l “ “ 234 4i “ “ 2:35 “ “ “ 236 6t3 20th “ “ “ 663 “ “ “ “ 204 - Ist 4tli “ “ 203 “ “ “ “ 592 “ “ “ “ ~589 *• “ “ 398 “ “ “ “ 230 “ “■ •* \ “ 480 “ “ 481 “ 482 “ “ 838 o a it o 155 “ o u u 173 “ “ “ “ 567 .. “ 465 “ “ “ “ 470 « - “ 74 .. 161 U 4th “ 680 • 4th 3rd “ “ 3 53 11th „ Ist , “ “ 260 22d 2d Bartow. 160 The above represents some exceedingly valu able Mineral, Agricultural, and Timbered lauds. The Cartersville & Van "Wert Railroad runs through a number of these lots, and all cf them are very near the lino of the Road and its ex tension'. fn several instances three and four of the lots lie directly togther, enabling the pur chaser to locate, for agricultural or other pur poses, a respectable tern. wjW be found a Imre opportunity fa invest m PolkUovCnty lands, which are increasing one hundred per cent, every year. The titles are unquestionable.— Terms Cash. The lands will be sold to the highest bidder at public out-cry, within the usual hours of sale, bv W, W. RICH, Sheriff, 'Cavtersville.O Ga.jCl. I,lSTOswlm. NBW ©OOBS i r _ .... ■:■ .« WE ARE daily receiving and opening a general Stock of FALL & WINTER €§ fl 0 U fH i Which we offer to to the Trade at fair prices. ■ We invite orr friends to call and examine onv Stock, and especially to purchase liberally from us. NT. ©ILKUATH & NON, Cartersville, Ga., Oct. 10,1870. —*...-«■».■ ■■ ■ ■■ ■ Dissolution of Copartnersliip. UfflllE partnership heretofore existing under fi. the firm name of Banian, Conant & jUo., lias been dcsolved, and William W. Laman has retired l’yoju the lirm. Arrangements have ijecn made for resimliug operations ami the work on the Cartersville A Van Wert Railroad will be vigorously pressed to completion. Persons*having claims against the late firm will please present them at my office in the City of Atlanta, by the sth of next month. Such as are found to be due will be paid at Cartersville on the 21st of next month, or any time thereafter at my ollice in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Oot. stk. 11. I. KIMBALL. Sheriff sales for Nov., *7O. WiBB be sold, before the Courthouse door in Cartersville, Bartow CmiritV, GA., on the first Tuesdjtv in November, 1870, within the vis ual hon’rs of sale, the following property; to- wit : ; Oho lot or parcel of laud tp-wit : j lot of land Nq. 155* in levied on as the property of Thos. F. Jones, to satisfy a A fa in favor of Z. W. A M. J C. Jackson & Cos., vs. said Thos. F. .lones, issued from the .Justice Court 952-1 dis. <4. M. Bevy made and returned to iiie by Constable. Also lot of land Xa 89, Wii d||. hd Bar tow countv, levied on as the property pt Ruben Hall to satMY a Justice Court fi tft issued from 851stdis., G. 31., in favor of Sam. Shouts, y*. said Ruben Hall. Levy made stud returned to me by Constable. Also lot of land No. 1281, in 47tli dis. 3rd sec. Bartow county, levied on as the property of XV. P. Madden ,to satisfy a ll fa issued from* the Court of Ordinary of'said county, in favor oi Thos. M. Anstey, Ex’r David Madden ciec’d, tor 'he use of Officers of Court, vs. B. F. Madden and MVP. Madden. . W. W. RICH, Sheriff. jpi EOK GI A, B A RTO W COUNTY.—I VT Smith has applied for Exemption of rdty and I will pass upon the.same at ibo doc , . m., on llic 22.1 %of OetolK.r, SW.»‘ This Oct. 14th. 1870. J. A. HOP Ah ■