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THE SEMI-WEEKLY EXPRESS. SAMUEL U. SMITH, Editor and Proprietor CARTEJISVILLK, HA., NOV. 25, 1870 For the 41st and 42nd Congress from the 7th Congressional District of Ga., GEN. P. mTIb. YOUNG, Os Bartow County. ;for i£Uj>rc*tntßtib»s to tit ‘Legislature, JOHN W, WOFFORD. JOHN r for Sheriff, WM. W. RICH. Ueputjj S&frfff, JAS. KENNEDY, jFor Clerk, ANDREW 11. RICK. jTor ©ax fteceiber, W, T. GORDON. ©ax Collector, ZAOU M’REYNOLDS County ©rtasurtr, MILEB A. COLEINS. Countj .Surbtjor, GEO. W. HILL. Countg Coroner, BILL ARP. [Special correspandence of the Express.} Second Annual Fair of llae Cen tral Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical Association. Selma, Ala., ) Nov. 16th, 1870 ) An Agricultural Fair is anew era in the history of Selma. It is one step, and u good one, of an advance march on the line of progress, which the at tired circumstances of the country have rendered necessary. One year ago, when this association was organized and held its first Fair, very few re garded if favorably, or at least extend ed it material assistance. It depended for success upon so many contingen cies, and the condition of those to whom it might reasonably have look ed for countenance and support, was so crippled, that its future was by no means hopeful. In addition to these unfavorable aspects, was the fact that the country in whose interests it was enlisted was devoted exclusively to the production of one article, and hence the varied competion and emu lation incident to a diversified agricul ture, and which are the life of such as sociations, were comparatively denied it as incentives. These considerations, however, did not damp the energies of its originator's. Splendid grounds were purchased, respectable buildings and other accomodations were provided, and the first fair held a year ago, with a degree of success that gave fine promise of the future. The Fair which has just closed, though really not as superior as I ex pected and perdicted, was yet an im provement on the first one, and but for the groundless reports which were in circulation to the effect that yellow fever was raging here, I doubt not its success would have been commensu * rate with the most sanguine expecta tions of its best friends. As it is, no one has cause to be discouraged, It gave evidence that there was anew spirit abroad among the planters of this section, and though that spirit has not accomplished as much as it might have done, it showed some good fruit in their full and regular attendance, and a disposition to exhibit the fruits of their industry. That these were limited both in variety and marked quality when compared with sections where every kiud of farming produce is eztensively cultivated, was to be ex pected. Hence a comparison between this and the Bartow County Fair, would be invidious to the former. — The same holds good as regards that portion of the ladies’ department de voted to preserves, canned fruits, fan cy needle work, etc.. Herg you were immeasurably ahead. But in the fine arts, I think 1 would place this fair by the side of any county fair South, with perfect cofidenCe of taking the highest honors. Most of the paintings on exhibition, (and the number was large,) were the productions of young ladks, graduates of colleges in this and adjoining counties, and were near ly all \voijthj T of high praise. In the department of manufacture, embracing implements, machinery, furniture, honse-furnishing goods, etc., the display was admirable; but the principle articles were of foreign man ufacture, and though the exhibitors are entitled to credit for their entry the honor of production properly be jongs to another quarter. In the stock 1 ne tl ere is wide room for improvement. Os Alabama raised Stock, though some of established and reputable breeds on exhibition, none of them I considered as first- class spec imens. One pair of mules, in every respsct as fine as one could well wish to see, stood out alone for excellence. But they were from Kentucky. I thought if “Mack,” and several others that gained such deserved honors on ,the Bartow Cos., track, could have been here, ,wha| a lively time we would have .had, and ho*v the dust would have Been raised m the splendid track of .this Aef**ia£y^j, Jliese deficiencies are by no means discreditable t o this Association. — Stock-raising and training have never been followed here. They are literally ‘in their infancy;’ but if the spirit of imrrovrmenfc and emulation now excit ed here continues, not many more fairs will be held before breed, style, speed, and bottom will become as noted in this section as elsewhere. , e I am afraid, however, that horses are \ obtaining, an amount of attention and influence unduly great in comparison with the more important questions of farm inprovement and productive ca pacity. Theii utility is unquestiona ble, and their improvement every way desirable; but I do not by any means think them entitled to the highest con sideration as a portion of farm econo my. It is far more essential to the in terest of agriculture that the highest awards of merit should be bestowed upon the farmer who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew be fore, than upon him who makes one horse trot a mile in a second less time than another. It is more to the inter est of every other pursuit, for all oth ers are based upon that one. Cities, states, nations, are wealthy, great, and commanding in their influences in the proportion that their rural districts teem with the golden, life-susta.ning harvests of the earth. But lam off the track a little. Os the proceeds of plantations on exhibi tion, the great staple was the principle thing for competition. The collection of small articles were neither in varie ty nor quality of a character to merit more than usual attention. This arris ses from the fact that everything is subordinated to cotton, many, if not a majority of planters looking to that ar ticle to furnish them with supplies from Western markets, which their own plantations should produce. The amount of money drained from this section yearly by this course is start ling. It is impolitic, even if a paying price for cotton could, with degree of certainty, be relied on. It is unwise to the verge of folly when all know that the cotton market is so unstable that for two thirds or three fourths of the year prices do not exceed the cost of production, and sometimes indeed are really under it. There was one peculiarly interesting feature of this fair, and that was a large and well fil ed table in the cause of the Confedeiate orphans. It was bountifully supplied, and handsomely patronized by the citizens. People ate whether they wanted to or not, appear - ing glad of such a chance to contribute to a cause so noble. The table was under the supervision of the ladies of the Presbyterian church, with whom, I believe, it originated, though ladies of other denominations were active in as sistance. The net proceeds, over and above all expenses, exceeded eight hun dred dollars. A splendid fund for four days exertion. The grounds of the association are as level as yours, and the arrangements for sight seeing superior. Instead of a circular range of seats with exhibition ring within that, they have a half cres cent on the outside of the main trmk, and fronting it across the track is the exhibition ring with music and judges stand in the center, thus bringiug all that is going on in full view of the spectators without giving them the trouble of changing position. The main building or exhibition ball is a two sto ry cross with its extremities equidist ant from the center, and the center ris ing to an elevated and commodious dome, the whole, inside and out pre senting an ii posing and attractive ap pearance. The association is compos ed of energetic business men, keenly alive to the interest of the city and the planting community, and its future is full of promise. That all which they anticipate may be realized, is the fer vent wish of every lover of agricultural advancement. Bartow. Bgk- Daring the last Legislature, for ty railroad bills passed both houses, and received the signature of his Excellency. JKa5“ A Paris letter, dated November 14, by balloon, reports tbe city quiet j and perfect order prevails. There are ample provisions For three months. a*is°° A especial to r,ne Tribune from Berlin reports the English and Prus sian ministers as saying that the dan ger of a rupture is abating. 9e& m The Times city article intimates that the restoration of Napoleon is on the cards. The great objection to children is, that when they commenc e having whiskers they leave off having brains. Boys that are philosophers at six years of age, are often blockheads at twenty one. By forcing the intellect of children, you get so much into their heads that they become cracked to hold it. What Energy and Courage May do. WHAT TWO NEW HAVEN BOYS ARK DOING AT THE SOUTH. From the Brunswick Seaport Appeal, Oct 21. To create is more difficult, and more ennobling Unm to destroy. Uncon trolled, the elements of fire and water often work fearful destruction, and in animate power and iron directed by the humau intellect have destroj ed the labor of centuries in a day. In our own time aud State—at At lanta—we have witnessed the destruc tion, substantially, of thq result of twenty years anxious labor in 24 hours —yet, with an erergy unflagging, bas ed on a faith in the future great desti ny of the city, which no adverse for tune could shake or subdue and a courage which quailed not before any obstacle interposed, her people set themselves to work to. accomplish, her destiny. It required four years of hard, unremitting, toiling, self sacrifi cing labor to restore to Atlanta the business accommodations she enjoyed before that twenty-four hours’ calami tous destruction. It is now something over five years since the work of restoration began. — To-day she stands proudly pre-eminent as the foremost city iu Georgia in all the essential elements of progress: and with a firm and steady, and seif-confi dent trade, she marches mnjstieally on ward to her high destiny as the Me tropolis of the South. But how have these great results been accomplished ? It is to the con sideration of this question we would invite the reader’s attention, as well as to the character and preformauces of one of her representativ men. The great results accomplished are due to the energy and courage, the faith and indomitable will, of her. activ# go ahead prominent citizens —each of whom is a “keen spirit” who “Seizes the prompt occasion—makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and preforms, resolves and executes— s each one of whom is, iu fact, almost the embodiment of the characteristics named. Among the new-comers attracted to Atlanta by its promise of future pros perity, and the field of it would afford their almost super-human energy and towering but honest ambition -nqfc on ly to amass aud secure fame, but to accomplish great good in attaining these —were two brothers of quiet hab its and retiring, modest deportment. They were uuobstruscive, compara tively strangers, without noticeable qualities, They located in a small room on the second floor of a building on one of the most public streets, com menced business, aud laid the fouda tiou of a reputation now unequalled in the South, and probably not surpassed in the Union for energy industry, bus iness sagacity and integrity, and un interupted success. These two persons were H. I. Kim ball and bis brother, E. N. Kimball, co-proprietors, and managers for the South, of the world-renowned gorgeous Palace Sleeping Couches of Pulman, Kimball & liamsay. Encouraged and emboldened by well merited success, and seizing “the prompt occasion” nHonied by the sale of the unfinished Opt ra House build ing, they at once entered upon a career of startling enterprise which has made the name of 1L I. Kimball a household word in the South, and given it a un ion-wide fame. When the purchase was made in May, 18G8, there was nothing but the unsightly bare walls, which, however, were substantially built three stories high. A contract made during the summer to have build ing changed and subdivided into the apartments suitable for the accommo dation of every department the state government, and ready for occu pancy the ensuing January, was more than complied with. The brothers now rested and Watch ed, and concentrated ther. energies for yet greater and grander achievements. * * * * Who tl are# greatly Great!}' does. and a mind like the elder Kimball’s “that claims and seeks ascendency,” which “mwlertplrt.o by *-«/»«*•'»* ** "' /l1 by chance,” whose courage and energy are * * * Seen in great exploits That justice warrants and that wisdom guides. could not be long or slow in finding tbe | oportunity for the employment aud exercise and of that tremendious ener gy and brain-power with which he was endowed. Scarcely had it been made known that he had concluded for a lib eral contract for preparing the grouuds j for, and conducting the State Fair, tbe present fall, before the additional an- j nouncement was made that he had bought the site of the old Atlanta Ho tel and would proceed at once to erect the greatest grandest hotel south of the Potomac, ami have it ready for guests during the fair. The announce ment was startling and almost incredi ble even to Atlanta. But the promise has been made good. These great uinlertakings— the com plete out-fitting, iu the most substan tial maimer, of the Fair (iron mis, and the construction of an eleganilv finish ed and faultlessly furnished hotel, 210 feet front, 165 feet deep, six stories high, containing 350 rooms, and of ca pacity for accommodating 1,000 guests, iu has than seven months’ time, have been successfully «cc< m[dished; and the H. I. Kimball Hodsc stands to-day. a splendid monument to the brilliant conception and grand constructive ge nius and combinations, no less than to the unparalled and untieing energy of him whose name it deservedly bears. It is a gratification to know that a gentleman combining such a rare in tellectual grasp and tremendous busi ness energy and power, with such dar ing enterprise and comprehensive pub lic spirit is intimatly identified with the Brunswick and Albany Railway— an enterprise fraught with interest of such momentous importance to our city. It has been suggested that while the financial head will continue in New York, a majority of the board of Di rectors, or its Executive portion, will be iu Georgia, and that of this State Board H- I. Kimball, Esq., will be the President. As this road is regarded as a part, or the continuation of the Grand Southern Pacific, destined to unite the two greut oceans and the 32d parallel it is not improbable that Mr. Kimball will be invited to become the head of that. In that event “the hour and the mui” will have met, and the speedy and successful accomplish ment of that grand enterprise may be regarded s assured. The vastness and grandeur of the work are worthy of the genius of the man; anil the graud intellectual reach, exliaustless resources and vast capa bilities of the man fit him for the work —designate him as its Chief. With the weight of only thirty-eight years on his shoulders, of unblemished moral character, possessing a sound, strong, physical constition, of quench less zeal, great powers of endurance, and the mental faculties and physical powers unimpaired by excesses of any kind it may reasonably be expected he will survive its completion and live to manage it for years afterwards. All honor, renown, succes and prosperity* say we, to H. I. Kimball; and to all who, like him, while honorably striving for their attainment, study, how, at the same time they may confer great pub lic benefits, and labor to that end. During the month of December next the United States Supreme Court will be called upon to decide three cases of more than ordinary interest. The first, involving the constitutionality of the cotton tax, which is a question of much interest to the South, will be argued by Judge Curtis and Mr. Everett against the government. The second is also of interest to a large class of persons of the Southern States, as involving the constitutionality of the confiscation acts passed by Congress during the war. This case will be argued by Judges Crutis and Cushing against the United States. The third comes up on a w it of error from the State of Kentucky, and involves the constitu tionality of the Civil Rights bill, the case being that of a wli.te man who was tried in a Uni ed States Court for the minder of a negro. Judge Black appears against the Government in this case, and will contend on behalf of the appellant that it is unconstitutional to try the citizen of a State for murder in a United States Court when the State Courts are competent to exercise juris diction in such cases. It is seldom that three cases of so much importance appear together upon the docket, and their decision will be awaited with more than ordinary interest. —Atlanta Sun. The weather for the last few days has been very disagreeable, mud in abundance—bad on pedestrians.— old.Knl Ims shown himself again, to the gieat satisfaction of ev erybody, but the prospects for good weather are gloomy. To The Citizens of Bartow County. ■ Cartersville, Ga., I*ov. 14,1870. At the solicitation of friends, in va rious parts of the County, I am a can didate for the office of County Treas urer, and respectfully ask your sup port. A. M. FOUTE. Bgk, Bishop Simpson has declared in favor of women sufferage. JW Whit a Colored Woman Thinks of the Fashions. —Women, you forget that you are mothers of creation: voa forget your sons were cut off like grass bv the war, and the laud was covered by their blood; you rig yourselves up in paniers and Grecian bendbacks and flummeries; yes, and mothers and gray haired grand-mothers wear high-heel ed shoes and humps on their heads, and put them on their babies, and stuff them out so that they keel over when the wind blows. 0 mothers! I’m ashamed of ye ! What will such lives as you live do for humanity ? When I saw them women on the stage at the woman’s Suffrage Convention, the oth er day, I thought what kind of reforms be you, with goose wings on your heads, tvs if you were going to fly, and dressed in such ridiculous fashion, talking about reform and women’s lights? Pears to me you had better reform yourselves first. But Sojourner is an old body, and will soon go out of this world into another, and wants to say when she gets there, “Lord, I have clone my du ty; I have told the whole truth and kept nothing back.”-— Sojourner Truth''s Speech at the Providence Woman's Rights Convention. A Country without G reenbvcks. —The Overland Monthly tells how the Mormons manage to get along with out greenbacks. Hundreds of farmes, living in reasonably comfortable ciicnm stances, and having large famlies to to clothe and educate, will not see a dollar in money for years. Such a fanner wishes to purchase a pair of shojs for his wife. He cot suits the shoemaker, who avers his willingness to furnish the same for one load of wood. He has no wood, but sells a calf for a quantity of adobes , the adobes for an order on the merchant, payable in goods, and the order for a load of wood, and straightway the matron is shod. Seven watermelohs purchase a ticket of admission to the theatre.— He pays for the tuition of his children seventy-five cabbages per quarter.— The dress-maker will receive four squashes per day. He settles his church dues in sorghum molases Two loads of pumpkins pay his annu al subscription to the newspaper. He buys a “Treatise on Celestial Marriage’’ for a load of "ravel, and a bottle of “Soothing Syrup” for the baby for a bushel of striug beaus. In this primi tive method, until the railroad was built, nine-tenths ol the commerce of the Territory was conducted. And even now, in the more remote settle ments, a majority of all transactions are of this character. “Where the Wicked Cease from Troubling.” We have sometimes thought that if heaven commences on eaith so does hell, for the simple reason that we see and hear so many cases of startling depravity which we can account for on no other hypothesis than they are the effect of a diabolical agency. The idea is neither unreasonable nor impossible. Satan is represented as the prince of this world, and certainly in the days of our Sa viour's incarnation he only assumed as much. As in heaven there was war for the mastery between God and the Devil, such is likewise the case on earth, at least so far as the feeble rays of human reason can deter mine. That the great spirit of evil has myriads of eniissar.es at work, to subvert the wonderful plan of redemption and win conquests for hell, the Christian world are pretty well agreed. That the cause of Christ and his kingdom will ultimately pre vail we are not left in doubt by the word of in spiration, but not until millions of souls have taken up their abode in those dolorous re gions of despair “where hope comes to none.” For if satan drew legions of angels after him in his fall from heaven, there is little reason to doubt that his conquests among men will be far greater. The disciples of Christ have no greater danger to encounter, and no more terrible ordeal to pass through than is brought about by contact with ene mies to religion, who have willingly and, worse than all, without reward, sold them selves to the devil These godless souls seem to entertain an especial malignity to those who, believing the Bible, are honest ly endeavoring to “flee the wrath to come.” llow many weak and unstable aouls have been subverted and ruined by having to en dure the obliquy and reproach heaped upon them by the avowed enemies of religion ! — False judgments, sneering remarks, slander ous reports are the inevitable heritage of those who would escape from the City of , . Ts 4l portion of Ad* ! Destruc ion. Ts “ . J * . am s rstce who will sink deeper in the roll ing billows of eternal damnation than an other, it will be that portion who have thrown causeless impediments in the way of even the humblest of Christian believers. Hell will be intensified tenfold by the re flection that a man Ins dragged others to the dark abyss. But take hope, humble be liever, there is a clime where the wicked trouble not. In the home of the blest we will have*notbing to fear from sinful asso ciations. What a blessed portion, to be for ever freed from the dominions of sin. J6 }r Stone & Murray’s Circus gave two exhibitions here yesterday, which well sustained its reputation as be ing the best Circus in the country, but they would n’t give printers free tick ets—bad sign, this. ItOHIHTIK’N Egyptian ||TOCK ffoOD!! WHAT EVKRY PER. HOX OUGHT TO KXOIY! THAT DOUGHTIER E OYPTIAY STOCK FOOD Is jnst what the Farmers, the Stock Raisers, and the Housekeepers should use to fatten and preserve the condition of their Horses, Hiiles, Cows, Hogs* Sheep, and Poultry. It has been tested by thousantls, and does all the Proprietors claim for it. MrScnd for Price Fists, showing Discount to Deal ers. Put up in boxes at sl,and $2 each, and 5, 10, and 20 pounds. Each box con tains directions. A. A. SOFOnOXS and CO., Gu, nov. I—sw3m Milittert; AND DRESS-MIKING BY MBS. & MISS CRANDALL, Millncr Uri<-lcl*iiiUliii(C, on the Corner of Main and Erwin Streets, Cartersville, Georgia, Where they will be happy to sec their friends and patrons. nov. 1-wtf ITT rtt T orENEi) Fal JtatU “ IN THE TOWN OF CARTERSVILLE, By the Long-Tried and Never-Flinching old Firm of HOWARD & ERWIN, who have on hand, and Keceiving Weekly, FIiESH SUPPLIES OF Staple and Fancy DRY-GOODS!!! W&t&f Shoes AND ETC. ALSO, BAGGING AND ROPE, GROCERIES, PRODUCE, Ac. IN FACT, Everything, nearly, kept In eantile Line, all Departments, j b j n _ at the lowest possible prices. • extensive vltc.l to c.U aiullooS I '",™ , V t I YpiEKWI.N, Establishment. HO” nov. 11—wtf