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Newspaper Page TextftOfflo Uouner ROME, GA. TUESDAY MOttlifWG, July 20. FLOYD SUPERIOR COURT. This body commenced its July term in this city yesterday, with Hon F. A. Kirby, Judge, presiding, and Solicitor Forsyth almI other officers of the Court present. The following Grand Jury were sworn in for the first week: George S. Black, Foreman. L 0 D Payne. B H Reynolds, S Mobley, Wm. Bailey, A J Lunipkiu, D F Selman, SI E Pentecost S P Smith, John Partlow, J If Perkins. W W Dejournett, C 0 Stillwell, R S Zuber H H Richards, John Berryhill S Reynolds, John Moore, *5 H Kyle, J P Ayer. G R Duke, Yancey White, Wallace Warren, This ii the first court held by Judge Kirby and in his Charge to the Grand Ju ry, he made a favorable impression. It was short and to the point. He adverted, in a complimentary manner, to the constitution al and statute provisions for the selection of juries, now, stating that it is now the fault of the commissio ers if any other than upright and intelligent men are selected.— He called upon them, as good and patriotic men to discharge their whole duty without fear, favor or affection. He gave in special charge the crime of gambling, and urged that this demoralizing vice should be prosecuted to the full extent of tiie : aw, telling the jury that it was their duty net only to indict all gamblers for ev ery indivinual case, but also to iudiot those parties as vagrants. He also oallcd special attention to the fact that the law against carrying conceal ed weapons is frequently violated, urged the indictment of all offenders, and re minded the jury that our best men never carry concealed weapons, and bad men ought not to be allowed to violate this stat ute. lie urged the importance of having good public roads and bridges, and told the jury - it was their duty to present every Commis sioner who has been negligent or remiss in his duty. His Charge in regard to public build ings and property of all kinds, and Records was just what it should have been. In regard to the subject of public schools he gave the following sensible charge It is made my duty to call your attention to the subject ofedaeation. The old law and with its distinctions, is abolished, by that provision in the Constitution of 1868 which declares that “the Legislature shall provide, at the public expense, a thorough system of education, to be forever free to all children in the State.” I feel the delicacy of this subject, gen demen, for you and me, but it is the quirements of our State Constitution and the Legislation for its enforcement will be made at no very distant day. . Jt ought, by all means, to be so framed as to seoura its blessings in exact equality to all without distinction, and insure peace and harmony to the people of the State. It will ba well for us, as a people, to look this whole sub ject square in the face, and dispose of it There are but few communities in the State, which can accomplish more, in the adjustment of this matter, than the people of Floyd county. A people growing so rapidly in numbers, wealth aud intelli genee, with a young, active and able repre sentation like yours, in both branches of the Legislature, may speak with assurance upon any subject, for it will be heard by every intelligent community in the State. You are not specially required to make any recommenlation upon this subject at this term of the court, but as no other op portunity, as good, may occur before the sitting of the next General Assembly, it would be well for you to suggest some plan for carrying into effect this clause of the Constitution. While you are in no wise bound by any p'an I may suggest, yet it is not improper to give you a word of recommendation up. on the subject. If we are to have a sys tem of free schools, it becomes an enquiry of importance, how they can be establish ed, at the public expense, without the haz ard of perpetual litigation, disturbance and , bloodshed, j To my mind, it is clear that it can only be done by the organization of separate j schools for each race. The language of the ! Constitution is intentionally broad, so this can be done. And to insure protection to the race, weaker in any particular locality, and to secure equal benefits to all, the law ought to prohibit, in express terms,' uumis- ' takably so, any mixing of the races A plan of this sort, elaborated and guard ' cd by proper and unequivocal legislation, is - the only one my mind can invent that 5 would not insure ruin. No effort would be - 1 made, in some localities to enforce any oth- | or, and in others, where physical lorce was sufficient, the dominant race would seize the school and the fund, and destroy in some way the benefits of the charity. I be j lieve too, this plan would give satisfaction -to the whole people—especially to the - col ored—when brought to understand it. It - is the only one that will insure to them any • benefit at all. I leave now, gentlemen, the -whole matter with you. Make each |port, if any at all, as you think best The Court will meet regularly at 7 J a. sin.—Juries at 81 a. m. and at 2 o’clock, Ip, m. M. Tuner. The trial of the negro Postmaster at Ma con, for counterfeiting, had not been com pleted up to last Saturday night. It is al most certain that'he will be convicted. He confessed the whole matter to - the notori ous Swaize, and Turner’s only chance of es cape is to prove that the witness is such an unmitigated liar that his evidence shojld bo thrown out of court. The Dead of the Rome Light Guards. The relatives and friends of such mem bers of the Rome Light Guards, Company A, 8th Georgia Regiment, as were killed or died during the war, are requested to send to R. F. Hutchings,'any good photo graph or deguereotype they may have of the deceased. The object is to have all these pictures taken ins group, iorthe benefit of eir friends. The pictures, sent as above 11 be carefully preserved and returned, soon as used, to their owners. Not yet Heard from. The stranger that mysteriously disap peared irom Cave Spring on the 13th inst., had not been hea-d from np to the morn ing of the 19th, nor is there any clue to his name or place of residence. Another Atlantic Telegraphic Cable. - The French cable, extending from Bre't-, iin Fiance, to St. Piere, on the American shore, has been successfully laid, and there i now three of these wonderful lines of amunication in operation between the 3arcpe.au and American continents, The Jreat Eastern, whioh proved a failure, for I ordinary purposes of commerce has prov ed to be jnst the thing for laying ocean co lt is reported that she will impiedi- ely be sent to the East Indias to lay a ca- s from some locality there to Snez. Personal.—We had the pleasure of lag the following named Attorneys, ho are in attendance at oar Superior ourt. W. H. Dabney and E. If. Broyles, ’ Atlanta; Warren Akin, of Cartersville, 1 Col. Thos. M. Hooper, of Kingston.— bey are all in fine health, and seem eager r the contests of the Fornm. De Witt’s Sixpenny Series of Choice Mu sic. We have received the &st eight num bers of the above named series of cheap mnsie. The following are the names of the pieces: Pretty Polly, if you leve me, do say yes, The Fisherman’s daughter that lives over the water, The Lovers’ Let ter Box, I’ll tell your Wifj, Thy Voiee near, Blue Eyed Violets, Up ia a Balloon, and the Maiden and her Linnet. Most of the songs ore new and all of them good. Price six cents each. Ad dress R. M. De Witt, 13, Frankfoit street, New York. Cure for Hog Cholera. Mr, A- A. Jones, one of the best plan ters of this county, informs us that he has several times stopped the spread of chol era, and cured those of his hogs that al ready bad it, by the following prescription Take equal parts of Bardock roots, pine tops and Poke roots, use a plenty of water, and boil it down strong. Make a swill by mixing this decoction with wheat bran, which should stand and sour before being fed to the swine. This treat ment has invariably effected a cure, when ever tried, so far as our informant knows. The medicine should be administered as soon as possible, after the disease makes its appearance. Brainard's Musical World for July is at hand and is as entertaining and val liable as ever. The present number con tains a largo amount of choice music, both vocal and instrumental, besides musical stories, sketches, news, gossip, hints, etc, The Musical World is the best and cheap est musical monthly published. The mu sic given in each number is wertb a years subscription. It has an immense circula tion throughout the country,and is famish ed at oply ,81,00 per annum. Pianos, Or gans, Sewing Machines, Bo-'kg, Music etc. are given fur clubs. Send ten cents for specimen copies, with full fist of premiums. Address S. Brainard ft Sons,Publishers. Cleveland, Ohio. A Great Industrial Exhibition — The American Institute will give an exposi tion of Agricultural, Mechanical Artistic and others production, iu the City of New York, commencing on the 8th of Septem ber next. Persons having anything to ex hibit aDd wishing to be represented, will receive circnlars with fall particular? Ly addressing S. D. Tillman, Corresponding Secretary of American Institute. New York Fertilizers. The Charleston Courier, of the 10th inst. contains the following notice : Cotton planters are invited to visit the farm at the Etiwan Works, of the Sulphu ric Acid andr Super-Phosphate Company, about three miles from the city, to see the cotton produced by their fertilizers. The seed were planted on the 22d of April, and the forms, on many of the plants exceed eighty; and on one plant one hundred and sixty-two were counted. The attention of visitors is partioularly palled to the fact that the Etiwan Fertilizer No. 1, which consist of Snper-Phosphate alone, shows finer cotton than No. 2, which is mixed with Peruvian Guano; and also than that por. tion which has been manured with Peruvi an Guaqo oJobp. Another Murder Reprieved—We see from the Savannah papers that Govern or Bullock has reprieved for two weeks, Jessie Watkins, negro, convicted of the murder of Chos. G. Wilson. The reprieve was grouted at the re quest of the culprit’s “spiritual advis er," who proves to be the cashier of the Freedman'* SaviDgs Bank of Savan nah. The reprieve is regarded as the forerun ner of a pardon. Death ot G.eo. T. Rogers. We are pained to learn that Geo. T. Rog ers. Esq., one of the oldest and most widely known business men of Macon, died at his resideneo in tfrig city yesterday afternoon,of infiamatipn .of the bowels. Mr. Rogers was one of oar best citizens, and but a few days ago apparently in robust health. His sick- must have been brief, and the suddenness of the summons hence, warns us all o r the Uncertainty of Jife and the transitory nature of all earthly ties pad Interests-—Tel. of 100. Foster Blodgett to Have Another Deal. The Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday, publishes the following item: On Dit.—That the incorruptible Treas urer of the State Road, W. W. Clayton,is to ha removed to allow Foster Blodgett to take the position, apd t-baf Ifulbert, \Ynik- and Flynn, will have to “wajk thp plank." Gov. Bullock, knows he is “playing his last card," and he wants to play it strong. The banks being closed aioinst him, why, he turns his attention to the State Road. If a irotest could be cf any avail, we would leartily enter it against such a policy. The irospect is that thp State will lose even the 1125,000 per month, Tennessee Wheat Crop. The Knoxville Wh'g says there are one hundred and thirty thousand more acres, under wheat in Tennessee this year than last. The same papier says the mercury was 96 in the shade lost Sunday apd it was a de gree warmer last Monday, Norway Oats.—The Knoxville Whig Dr Harris’ crop of Ncrway Oafs average a hundred bushels to the aero. Galveslton, July 16.—Advices from San Antonio report the Guadalonpe river higher than ever knowD. The entire val ley is overflowed and nine-tenths ofthe crops of Gonzales county are destroyed. The Comal river rose to the third story of the Cotton factory at New .Braunfels and destroyed all the material and machinery. Every Flouring mill, Woolen factory and bridge on the Comal river is swept away. No lives lost at Bastrop or Webberville. The Colorado is going down. The Brazos is still rising slowly. Macon, July 16.—The examination of Turner on the charge of attempting to pass connteifeit currency began to-day before United States Commissioner, W. C- Mor rill. The Government concluded its testi mony to-day, and proved that Turner, the early part of this year attempted pass to a bank in this city a hundred dollar bill which was rejected as counterfeit. Al so, that he confessed to J. Clarke Swayze, editor ofthe Ameiican Union, the princi pal witness, oh the fourth of July, that he had, for fear he would be killed and the notes found on his person, given eighteen hundred dollars in counterfeit notes to Ma rian Harris, to he returned to him when they get home. It was proved that 8900 of the counterfeits of the First National Bank of Jersey City, was found on the per son of this woman in Atlanta, whioh were introduced, as also a letter from Turner, to the woman, found at the Bame time. The Court adjourned till ten o’clock to-mor. row. TENNESSEE. Memphis, July 17.—A Chinese Emi gration Society w»» organized with a capi tal of one million dollars, which may be doubled. Forty thousand dollars suhscrib ed immediately; shares 8100. The conven tion ordered 3,000 copies oi the proceed ings to le printed, and finally adjourned sine die. Inevitable Consequence of Bullock’s Par dons. The Columbus Enqirer has some just and conservative remarks ou this subject, which we append .- Charity may reject the suggestion- that partiality for the negro race, on acconnt of the political association of them prompts many pardons of negro murderers and oth er violators of the law. But even charity cannot be blind to the certain effects of such a liberal exercise of the pardoning power. It will embolden the negroes to the com mission of more numerous and greater out, rages. Every Southern man knows that the negro has been raised to fear punish ment, and that his fear has much more in fluence in restraining him from crime than any conscientious compunction of Datural aversion to it. Whatever increases the chances of his being able to commit crime with impunity, to the' same extent breaks don n the restraint that prevents him from committing it Only let the negroes con ceive the notion that thoy have a protector in the Executive Chair of the State, and riot aud rapine will run wild in the indul gence of passioD. The Chatham county negroes had com mitted murders of the most aggravated character. They committed them in a spir it of wanton defiance of law, and to show tliat they did not intend to snbmit to the laws of the State as enforced by white men Gov. Bullock’s pardon of murderers act ing under such an impulse, throws the man tie of Executive clemency over conspirators plotting against law and order, and com mitting mutder in the carryiugout of that plot. Is not this a novel aod extraordinary position for the Governor of a Stale to oc cupy ? Again, the pardon of so many negro criminals will have a strong tendency to convince white men that the laws of the State will not be enforced against negroes and that they must protect and avenge themselves ? Can a worse state of society be imagiued than that which would follow such a conclusion and action in accordance with it ? It would prodrec just such state of affairs iu Georgia as that which Radical politicians have for months been falsely reporting ’■> Congress as the actual condition of society iu the State. Can it be possible that some reckless and design- radical partisans have influenced the Governor to grant these pardons in the hope that they may lead to such a condi tion of things in Georgia as they desire for party pnrposes ? Whatever may have been the design, the effect can be seen by thoBe not gifted with “mystic lore ” “Let us ha7c peace,” says Grant; bat what does Bullock invoke by such intervention to shield a class of population from punishment for heinous crimes ? The Albany News exposes the utter fal sity of all the grounds on which the Worth county negro murderers was pardoned, the editor having been present at the trial, and adds It’s a bad alternative, fan’ if such crimi nals as Fowler, and those at Savannah, are to he turned loose by a corrupt Executive for party pnrposes, we shall only advise lynching in vindication of the law, the pun ishment of crime, and the protection of so ciety; and to this complexion it most come at last, if siiol} policy is persisted in. A New and Sweeping Movement.— An agrarian movement is spreading, and the agitators outstrip either Sprague or any oth er man. Ou the 4th instant some tbiee or four thousand people met lq sober N ew England to resolve, first, that “property earned nothing ;” second, to demand “the immediate withdrawal of the notes of the National banks, to be replaced by Treasury certificates of servioo, receivable Hr taxes and bearing no interest, and the provision of free banking associations whereby mon ey based on commodities may he purchased at cost;” and third, “all men who continue to rule woman against their will are tyr- rants.” Further, it was resolved “that no great national debt jyas ever paid or otherwise discharged, except by repudiation ; that as dissenting men two shot down or drafted into battle, while disloyal wealth was allow ed f co remain at home with increased liberty to fatten on the public distress; and that as tb n ffill amount originally loaned the Government wijl anon, a? interest, have been more than paid, we demand the immedi ate payment of the war debt by assesment e whole property of the nation, inclu ding Government bonds.” Here are sever al nuts to crack, and Massachusetts leagues, composed of men and women, are very busy in doing the work.—Savannah Mills. ■CTorefr a? RSfltawnan is destined to be the last ter minus ofthe Cincinnati Southern Railway; Chattanooga being the first* and Rome ., the second.—Meicnan Herald. Murrain iN.OqTTqN.-r-We bays b e 0 informed that for the past week' this tab disease has been raging with alarming ef fect in the country around Dalton, in the northern part of this State. Cattle die in the' woods and fields after a very short ill ness, and if some remedy is not discovered i«D people mll neither hr-ve work stock or Cows ip p ghoft tiffi 0 ; Many of the most violent remedies have feegg pflggPBfcu by various persons as sure cures, Imt pp early death is the only relief after the distemper assumes its hold. Prentice says one murder in the South creates more excitement among Northern people than ten murders in the North. The reasop is that one murder iu the South is moreuncommqp than ten iu the North. fi$?*The Masonic brethren, of Catoosa nnty, Jipvp incorporated a “Masonic Male aud Fetnale Institute," at Ripggold, sritb ? cash capital of §.6,4fj0.—Dalton Citi zen. [Special Correspondence of the Nashr-illo Banner ATLANTA. — A Gossippy Letter from the Cate City. Atlanta, July 15,18b9. After a spell of hot weather unpreccdcut ed in Atlanta, the hcaveu3 vouchsafed" open their windows this afternoon, and your correspondent in consequence thereof, is in a good humor with “the world aud the rest of mankind.” He resumes for. the time his gossipy pen. and proposes to igive you the floating on dits in and around the Gate City. Speculation in real estate constitutes t chief employment of moneyed men here.— Almost daily the real estate agents have anctiou sales of lots, and by free rides wagons and railroad cars, they invite the orcscnce of people, and the tiotinabulations of large hand bells, those peculiar favorites of auctioneers, who ev< termined “to make a uoi-c in the world. Arrived upon the premises to be sold, lager beer is freely dealt out to the public; the sales generally go ou os met ry as a mar riage bell. The property changing hands is for the most part situated more than three-fonrths of a mile from the car shed, the center of the city. On the occasion of these sales, yon may hear marvellous stories—true too, of tho enhancement of real estate since this city was known as Marthasville, and the iron horse first snorted in the woods here abouts. Atlanta’s corporate bouadaiy is the cir cumference of a circle, of which the' car shed is the center. This circle has a radi us of one mile aud a half. Its diameter therefore three miles. Its circumference nearly nine and a half miles. Its are fraction over seven square miles, four thousand five hundred and thiri and eight-tenths acres. Its capai lowing forty inhabitants to the acre allowance at that) is, in roound one hundred and eignty thousand soi This is territorially a very big pity, and yet I believe, with West end, a separate corporation thrown in, the highest claim ~ had heard as to its censut is thirty thou sand. In respect to raising money to ran this city government the city fathers here have some strange and crude ideas. They have a registry of every mao aud woman carry ng ou any business, and for entering their names in the aforesaid re; try, they demand of almost every one pur suing a profession or handcraft, twenty-five dollars per annum. A man who cobbles shoes is only charged ten dollars. A car penter who contracts to build a bouse must haul out twenty-five dollars in greenbacks, aud so with many other mechanics and toil ing weaUh producing enterprise within its limits, taxing their sons aud daughters toil, who make their living by the.sweat their brows for the privilege of exet rising their handicraft l They tax. milliners well as blacksmiths, instead of exempting them from taxation; they tax every man who runs a flooring or any other kind of mill, twenty-five do.lars. Truly the pres ent city fathers are much ? enlightened on political economy, or they do not want oth ers than gentlemen and ladies of leisure settle in their town. Perhaps they have read left-handed Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, cr conned over Say’s Political Economy, upside down ! Since the war so b"sy have the specula tors in real estate been, that the extreme limits of the c'.ty have received more atten tion on the part of the city fathers than f j .st to the central part of the city, which extending one-half a mile from the car shed in every direction, should be regarded as the city proper. Yet, within this limit, there is not yet-a single well constructed sewer, and during the late hot weather, in manyflaces near the freight depot—indeed almost at the very door of Glenn, Wright ft Carr’s large ware house—I have seen myr iads of maggots flourishing and fattening in the surface drains in the midst of as stink ing a mass of slops and excrement as ever flowed from the water closets of hotels and boarding houses. In the vicinity of the railroad crossing and in the closely bnilt business part of the city, it is difficult to get a drink of water that has not a “bad farewell” to it, forcibly reminding one of the salt" of ammonia and sulphurated hy drogen This city is swarming with medical moan tebanks, and four or five of them are large ly patronizing the daily papers aod gath ering the loose greenbacks of their numer ous dupes. Among them is a Dr. Foster hailing from New York, who acquired some notoriety in Nashville and Huntsville, oonneotion with a notorious cyprian of your town, known as the “Queen ofthe Jungles” in your columns. He and his queen are stopping at tho National Hotel. I have to-day seen a letter dated at Brooklyn, N. Y., purporting to be from Dr. F’s lawful wife, now living in that city, having two children by him. Would it astonish yon if the aforesaid doctor should prove - to be bigamist ? The recent hot term has been for this lo cality peculiarly fatal to chronic invalids, such as feeble matrons and delicate 'chil dren. Among the deaths this week I have seen the names of Rev. K K. Porter, of the Presbyterian Chnrch, Unele Billy Hill an aged auctioneer, Mrs. R. W. Joiner and Mrs. Gaskill. The Banner is being daily more sought af ter, and I doubt not that ifsome one or more ofyonr newsboys were here to sell It a large number of copies would be disposed of. A live newspaper is hard to find in Geor gia, and somewhere in the State such an institution is much needed- The members of the editopial corps, so far as I h»ye been thrown iu contact with them, are fully alive to the necessity of which I speak, but are cramped by either the want of capital or enterprise on the part of proprietors, irho have pot recovered from the timidity which seems to have fastened itself upon newspa per owners in this State since the war. A Colored Jnstic a of the Peace in Trouble. The Savapnah Republican says that “it will be seen by reference to its report of the proceedings of this City Court, that Ring Solqmon Than;as, colored, who was recently commissioned by Governor Bul lock as a Justice of the Peace for the Mili tary District, has been indicated for mal practice in office. It is alleged that some two weeks ago he issued a warrant charg ing one Charles Edward Thorpe, a mulat to, tyith the offence of perjury. Thorpe gave bonds for his appearonae for examina tion upon the charge in two days after his arrest, and pail costs amounting'to eight dollars. On the day before tne examina tion was to be held Thorpe paid him fifteen dollais, and the cass was dismissed without an examination,f.<r which th -modern King jSojomcn gave him a receipt in substance as PjgPi In consideration of the sain of fifteen dollars in hand paid to me by Charles Ed ward Thorpe, I hereby agree to dismiss and compound (he ease of the States YS, Ch»rle3 Thorpe oharged with perjury, no « in of fice. igned] K. S. Thomas, J.P. ne, and Imprisonment, and removal from office is the penalty prescribed by the Code to sqeh offence!!, BSuMrs. George Battey, ol Georgia, is now engaged in this city soliciting assist ance in the cause of Southern education. She has succeded in establishing in Atlan- a first-class female seminary, which is supplied with an excellont corps of teach ers, and is now educating a number of ben- efjciari^a. -fhe means secured by her will henceforth be applied to whatever educa tional institution of the Sontb, may be in absolute need of such help. Her address is No. 204 East fifteenth street, ‘New York.—AT. F. Times. . The steamship United Kingdom, as most of our readers aie now aware, sailed from the port of New York fur Glasgow on the 19 th of April last she had a fair cargo od board, and a goodly Dumber of passengers. On the 20th, the day after she sailed, she was spokcu some 150 miles from Sandy Hook. It is supposed by some that she was seen on the 4th May, about 500 miles from New York. This is all that we know of the United Kingdom since she has left her harbor in these waters- It is now a long time since April 19. April is gone; May and June have followed, and now we have entered upon Julyjbut the fate of the Uni ted Kingdom is still unknown. That she has perished with all on board it is now reasoaable to conclude; but from what cause, or in what circumstances,we are left to conjecture. Op the 26th of 'April, six days after the United Kingdom sailed, the City of Paris arrived in this port and reported icebergs and heavy gales in the neighborhood of Cape Race. It Is possible that the Uni ted Kingdom perished a uid these ga and probably from collision with an ice berg. It is hard to give np hope, but we ore not left any foundation on which longeT to leau. Like the Hibernia, of painful mem ory, the United Kingdom has no donbt gone down; but, unlike the Libernia, has, in all probability, carried with her her en tire living freight! It is, in fact,another terrible sea-tragedy, all the more terrible, in truth, that no one has survived to tell the tele.—Scottish American Journal. Oar Milled cavil le Investigating Commit tee. A committee of three officers and thirty privates of the United States army, have been sent to the ancient capital of the State. This committee of observation, examina tion and investigation are specially charg ed, at whose instance we know not, upon what authority we are not informed, with inquiring into the management of the con victs of the State of Georgia. The fife and the kettle drum, the bayonet aud the knapsack aod the tent, typify the charac ter of the examination and the' powers of the committee as to these civil matters.— The alleged cause for raising this commit tee of thirty-three is imputed mismanage ment of Peritentiaiy convicts by Grant, Alexander k Co.,'railroad contractors, and public rumor, which has beeu convenient ly pat abroad, asserts this mismanagement to be too little regard for the rights of the convicts and too great, a regard for the rights of the community. We know nothing of Grant, Alexander ft Co’s, management It may be they make bard labor in railroad building excessive punishment. By general reputation these contractors are asserted to be energetic and industrious, and prompt in their obli gations and faithful in their contracts.— They have been life-lcng at the business, J.N. COMMISSION Rob SOI land 2 ATLANTIC CHARLESTON, g. , ’ Married—At the church of the “Good Shepherd," Cave Spring, Ga., ou the even ing of the 19th inst, by the Rev. H. K Beta,[of Maeon, assisted by Rev. Meier*. W. C. Williams, aadR. W. B. Elliott, Fanny L., youngest daughter of the late Rev. Ed ward C. Ford, and Stephen N. Noble, of Rome. No earda. Anguata and Macon papers please copy. We acknowledge the receipt of some de- — liciouscake that accompanied the above i”“onVr*Now lr -^rk*ha“n 4 ^"^1 notice, and tender to the happy couple our of lwo *>«rk«t« »*>>„„( — •-- « ? “ e I earnest wishes that tbeir pathway, through a long life may he strown with dowers. without operating on" his own - S, wh^ 4 r ,>m,ota JE82H2£5a5?> (D&ifuarjr. Mrs. Francis Elizabeth Cothran has gone to her final rest. She has accom plished her task—fulfilled her miassion up on earth, and is now at rest. The talent that was given her was to be a dntiful and affectionate child, a gentle and loving wife, a kind, prudent and Christian mother, and Astonishing Feat for a Bey* A boy circus rider performed the aston ishing feet of turning twenty-five consecu tive somersaults on horse back in Louis ville the other day. A dispute having and are experts, one of the firm at least, to a friend to all. our knowledge, having commenced life io I How faitbfulljr ihe accounted to her the State of New York with the store!, ^° rd Master for the trust we all know, aud the former following the same occupa- j Hear relatives^ aud ^ friends surnre and tion then as a day laborer, which he now mourn, bat it is a grief without anguish, a follows as a contractor, there is every rea- sadnesa tinder and ho!y and indulged with- son to suppose that he is a practical judge out murmur or regret. Fond memory is of the exact amount of laboi which may e^erbuay recalling her many virtues; her be justly required ofthe convicts employed. Christian hope and faith, her unselfish love, Hut whatever this bayonet committee of I her abounding charity—-but memory brings observation, examination and investigation, I sorrow, for she has gone unto her rest, consisting of three officers and thirty pri- Oh, blessed word! Oh, happy home! to la- vates ofthe Unite! States army, may re- bor aud to wait, to suffer pain, anxiety, ap- port or do in the premises, we have the sin-1 prehensiou—to mourn and grieve for de- gular spectacle presented of having the | parted relatives and friends (who has civil matters of a State government super- I lost afriend?) is the lot of all. But if^ af- vised by military power, clad with all the ter all, we shall be at rest, it is a glorious A RIFLE GUN from J. J. Coh* n '» *71 I paraphernalia of war, in times of peace. I hope—without it, what can save us from SK1 SffiSSs®" j**?*’ on «ta!l These convicts were duly tried and con-1 despair ? Oh, let those who hare gone be- riseu between him and the manager as to rioted by the civil courts of the offence* fore teach us and warn us. Let their hal how manv he was <?ananlft nf turnin'*, thp. -ai ai i 1 _ I i.a *l •. how many he was capable ot turning, the latter promised him the horse, pad and bridle with which he performed the feat if be turned twenty-five times. After being introduced into the ring, and performing a number of very difficult, bat beautiful acts of horsemanship he threw aside the whip and prepared himself for the trial. Until hecomple-ed hi- tenth somersault, the crowd remained quiet, hut when fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen were called, the most intense interest was manifested, and when he had fairly accomplished his twen ty-fifth somersault, the applause was deaf ening. Immediately after his great act, without leaving the back of his steed, which he had fairly one, he successfully accomplished the perilous and difficult act of turning five backward, back somersaults making thirty in alL The horse and eqnip rnents are valued at two thousand dollars. AnalyziDza Woman. A celebrated Parisian belle, who had ac quired the habit of whitewashing herself— so to speak—from the sole of her-Feet the roots of her hair with chemically pre pared cosmutics, one day took a bath, and ’—from it was horrified to find herself as black as an Ethiopian. The transformation was complete. Not a ves tige of the supreme t'ancassian race was left. Her physician was seat for in alarm and haste. On his arrival he langhed immod erately and said: “Madame, you are longer a woman, hut a snlphnrct. It is noc a question of medical treatment, but simple chemical action. I shall analyze yon. Come, I shall snbmit yon to a bath of sulpbnric acid dilated with water. The acid will have the honor of combining with yon; it shall take np the sulphur, the met al will produce a sulphate, and we shall find as a precipitate a pretty woman.” The good-natnred physician went through with his analysis, and the belle was restored to her membership with the white race. Yonog ladies who are ambitions of having snowy complexions, should rememler this and be careful what powder and cosmetics they use—if they use any at all. with which they were charged. Our so-1 lowed memories invite us—yea, let their called Governor executes » contract with a blessed spirit* linger near to entreat us to firm by which, without any. surrender ef I prepare for the rest that remaiaeth for the exrcutive powers, this firm utilizes, with- people of God. out expensa to the State, but for their ova How sweet is the memory of a noble life, benefit.this convict labor. One would nai- For twenty years this estimable Christian orally suppose that the Executive did possess lady has lived among ns—lived to do good; and wonld exercise, the power to provide a I to soften the asperities of 'ife; to diminish legal remedy for an infringement of the law its cares and enlarge its blessings—lived to of the State by the contractors, and see I enjoy a hope without fear, a faith without that the judicial sentences that bad been mistrust. Who can aay bow far and wi !e pronounced by the civil courts were prop-1 her gentle influences spread, and when will erly carried out. Bat we see that this j its workings cease ? Let the bereaved speak, power has been vested in the military fore- Let children and children’s children an ces of the United States. Let us have swer. peace. Let us have another peace jubilee. I Noble mother and gentle wife—univer- Thn Boston jubilee has had no effect.— sal friend. With Christian humility, with Chron. <0 Sentinel. | large charity, with untiring patience, she has filled np the measure of her mission [From the Hew York Commercial Advertiser.] I Rod f-One to rest. Kindred and friends HOPEFUL. I owe to her a tribute—the tribute of emula ting tho virtues and treasuring her meru- The Good Time Coming in the South. I ory. I Mrs. Francis Elizabeth CothraD, whose The condition of the Southern States at I maiden name was Francis Elizabeth Spr jull, the present time is full of promise. They was born in South Carolina, intermarried to seem to have fairly tided over their indus-1 with CoL WadeS. Cothran in 1828, re trial and politimd troubles, and the future [ moved to Georgia in 1847. For nearly is bright with the promise of a high, and forty years she has lived in Christian mem- we trust, enduring prosperity. Another bership with the Presbyterian Chnrch. Af- good cotton crop, of which the indications I flirted in body for many months prior to appear to be the most firrorable, win place her decease, she was nevertheless patient in them in a position which even the North-1 suffering, and cheerful at aU times; she ern States may envy. The S:uthern peo- died as she had lived, “without fear ard pie, fortunately for themselves, have bad no without reproach," on the 5th of June, credit fir several years past, aod therefore, 11869, at Borne, Ga., in the fifty-eighth no debts at the present time. They have] year of her age. C been forced to live economically and depend entirely ou their own resources, while the] Poetical Extracts. Northerners, as a role, have been extrava gant and wasteful. It is probable that, in EPL-Tycho Brahe, the ostrouemer chang ed color, and his legs shook nnder him on meeting with a bare or a fox. Dr. Johnson would never enter a room with his left foot foremost; if by mistake it did get foremost, he would step back and place his right foot foremost Jolins Ctesarwas almost con vulsed by the sound of thundqf, and ways wanted to get into a cellar or under ground to escape the dreadful noise. T Queen Elizabeth the simple word “death 1 was full of horrors. Even Talleyrand trembled and changed color on bearing the word pronounced. Marshal Saxe, who met and overthrew opposing armies, fled aod screamed in terror at the sight ofa cat i'eter the Great could never be persi to cross a bridge; though he tried to master the terror, be failed to do tq; whenever he set foot UR one he would shriek out in dis tress and agony" Byron wonld never help one to salt at table, nor wonld he be ed himself; if any of the article happen ed to be spilled on the table, he would jump np and leave bis meal unfinished.—Scott'. B®*Before Judge Dent accepted the nomination for Governor of Mississippi,he had a lengthy interview with thePresir" 4, who Advised him fo jcpep.t the nomins and expressed the hope that he vfould be elected. The President at the same time said lhiat it was' desired to haye a fair elec tion in Mississippi and Texas, an4 if pilber Genera] pg General Reynolds in terfered therewith he would remove them immediately.—rMashville Press. Working ofthe Prohibitory Liquor Law in A single week’s experiment has sufficed to show how absurd,unjutt aud itUPpH ’ the Massachusetts Prohibitory Liquor law The attempt to enforce it in Boston ias virtually failed. The closing of the lager beer saloons provoked so much popu larindignatiou that the leaders of therergblj can party became alarmed lest they ghonli Jose the whole German element of their election majorities. A special (nepi ‘ _ the Executive Committee was held" on Saturday to consider the expediency of ig noring tho law partially or altogether for the present. Subsequently the chief con stable was eent for by the Governor and instructed to “looeen the screw” on tho lag. er beer dealers. On Saturday evening all tiie saloons were open and ip |q]l oaten correspondent says that bar rooms where liquoTS are sold do their busi ness in closets or back rooms, and their sales have not thus far materially diminish: Seif ures [have been made only from small dealers. It seems likely that in Bos ton,the law will bo less rigidly enforced than in the rnral’distriotsjbut throughout the State it will doubtless develop the usual amount of hypocricy, injustice aod drunk enness, inseparable from the working’of a law modelled on tbu old Blue laws of Con- neoticut. Nothing is more demoralizing than iho habitual' secret violation of a dead letter statute. -The Massachusetts legisla tors, in passing the Prohibitory Liquor bil], betrayed their proclivity to run everything into the ground and their inherited Puritan ical indifference to individual liberty. Where the law is there . doth sin much nore abound,” and this phnoyipp} liquor air wiH dire'ctly^ilifoat its own avowed' ob jects, injuring instead of benefiting the cause pftompsraaoo.—M. Y. Herald. the event of the, financial panic which some I O, Absalom! my son 1 my son ! persons regard as imminent, the Southern His fleece was white as snow; people would feel the shock much less keen I Ho stole a pig and away he run ly, and recover from it much more rapidly I To the Bay of Biscay, O 1 than some of the more wealthy, and appa-1 rretly more prosper jus Northern people. I The boy stood on the bnrn’ng dock, The condition of the cotton market, at | And smoked his pipe of elay, the present time indicates that no material I And bet his money on the bob-tailed nag, redaction is likely to occur ia the present] Wheathe moon had gone away, prices of the great staple. The snpply of I _ cotton in both England and the United | I’m lonely since my mother died— Stater is scarcely adequate to the require-1 The ioe is round her still— rnents of consumers daring the interval that I So I’ll peel a bag of taters, O, elapses before the new crop begins to come ( With the sword of Bunker Hill, forward. The cable quotations of 12jd lor tune price is apparel . . . . .. t quaoy of all the eotton flelda in the world to j °f any other man. supply the demand for consumption. The j supply is falling off from India in spite of I Hh, what are the wild waves saying ? all the efforts of England to stimulate pro- j I cried the long night through; duction in that region- The Sonth for a And a voice replied far up the height, series of years to come will be the great A little more cider, too. so Jrce of cotton supply for the world.— I King cotton is recovering his lost throne, I The harp of nature’s strung bat he will remain henceforth as a const! I I s OOBHUg through the rye; tutional monarch over free men, not aj » I Thau kis* .uie quick and go my honey, deposit over slaves. Free labor will n]ti-1 Said the spider to the fly. mately vindicate it* superiority even in the i cotton fields. j ®fy Willie’s on the dark, blue sea, Nothing then, but the contingency of un-1 And with fife hundred thousand more, expected and anlooke! for disasters to the I And my 4uFI aye gliding swiftly by by now crop, can prevent the Sooth taking g | Tu W ” ” new start^At present the accaqgtg of the cotton andcorn crops am favorable, and the yielt] of bo^h these products will be largely in excess of last year. With the nsussiiir Pic Nie Excursion, the ST’R Eto Will Ie»Te her m. rf ** r B ciiDla 3 o’clock,^ pT^ Kurday, July 24th at i o ±\ M. > it-., Ticket* $1 • 0. Children under ]*> h.ir 1 T'ckets tan be had at H. A. SmitbV audit J. M. Elliott i Co’s office juIyl5-tw-Vrtd A Stockl^am WASTED. .v<- STEVENS A CO., Rome. G , 8 Cash, srill be j jalyUw3t-srlm GTJ2J STOLEN. half stocked, nb barrel, the cylinder and by taking out the tube it can be .i! I ha, been bi.ei.ed with brasr, and by u&l the hammer one-third of die neck ef .1. 4*1 Wing iron is split off, and a new WrY^I screw pnt in to hold the hammer on. Tl. i I is aKnut Iftft </v 11 V . . * U'.N 1 i, about 100 to the pound. It has.» dootl, i • I ger. A liberal reward for tho eun orthict *1 Ad-Ire?, JACOB H0S3 Eom- G, I july3tw-wtf ' I Sewing Machinesl REPAIRED, - •> * Mr. W. B. HIGGINS I 1 8 prepared to Repair Sewing Heebbscfcl sort, and styles, in a meat and workman, I manner. " I ALL WORK DONE WARRANTED FOE ONE YEAR. 8hop first door below Courier office. jnne22tw-wlm CEDARTOWN 7 MALE & FEMALE SCHOOL | “ CEDARTOWN, POLK CO., Gl FALL TERM will open Acrat I 36th and close 26ih November ntit. RATES PER TERM. Primary Intermediate ** - - - .13 53 Higher “ - .... is do Incidental—each pupil, st I Discpline mild but firm. For further pirfin. I lara apply to the Principal or hi. Assistant. I J. F. MIXON, A. M PrinciM’ I ANNA E. ALDEN, Ajjistant" I j'ulystwlm-wlt-pd I CLEAN WHEAT HAKES THE 1EST I FLOUR. THE McGINNISS SHUTTER t The Johnston Bran Duster, At Reduced Prices. Both Machines warrart edto fcive entire satisfaction, or theaonejre. J. R. NOBLE, Ag% Cham,->:onMills, Rome, G*. jane ’ 2 twlm-vrlt D. G. CO WAND. B. J. niRRU. Co wand & Harris, COTTON FACTORS, :i juts .-■■Ti.aiaistA General COMMISSION MERCHiHTS 26 COMMERCE ST. Norfolk, Ya. Will attend promptly to sales of Cotton, Grail Lumber, Tobacco, Naval Slores, N. C. Fish, he. •od purchase of supplies. Consignments Solicited.. judel-w6m To Ibe old Kentucky sboro. The Wha Crop. ^ The Hew Orleans /toiletin corrects the , of money, and with no I ■ tate me8t of the New Yoik Ucra’d that Jebts oa hand to absorb it, th? Sou[lj I notion crop of the present year will be the close of another sqeof^sfq] - harvest, j 186.8- Tho Bulletin is of will possets the tgtana and eqpi^l ret * * * to Jijmnhte the great railroad and . _ . . _ „ _ , —, industrial enterprises that are destined, to l IU WvIhiD? like a ratio of two to impart to it a new impnlsa on the Wild to! 01 ! 0 '. The crop of last jesr was greatly di prosperity. j minished by the casualties which occurred - ..wm .mi q, toward the season of gnthemu, and the Naw York in Atlanta.-Ob Marietta * am<! be the case w.tb the crop of this street, there is a saloon at which five waiter I ^ Cs * r \ -** ie hroauth ot land planted this girls preside, dispensing intoxicating fluids I J eilr ** aeiaewhat greater than that jila ,ted to their guests. There is is also a band of I l!iat Y e * r ' ™ l ' le Bulletin cal! attain ion musio in attendance, who assist to beguile 5° a “ ot . element o ungertointy which the innocent. What are we coming to.— “ ee “ ,ntr °duce<J into the cotton produc- Al. Const. I b0D —is the unce tainty of the labor at present employed. The Bulletin txpress- q| a qood Dow. | *• *he opinion that thejiope of a surplus •! She's lung io her face, she’s fiqe in her !f‘ on ^e future rest, upon ihe tuhsti- h 0r n,:8bc’ll quickly get fat without cake or , tuUon c f * tb . er ^ «<«', corn; Bhe’s clean in her jaw, an4 fqll in her 0 ihe vacuum, chin; she’s heavy io flank and Xt ‘4° 'll loin; she’s broad in hef rib, aqc] long in her rqmp. \ Straight and flat back *ith nev-- era hump; she’s wide in her hips, and {compare with the faithful attachment of Diuiel Webster mice said: “Tlwruyi nothing upon this earth can her hip*, and (eomparu with the faithful attachment of a ifl b.et j>jcsj she’s (lne iq her ahaul- f *ife;_na orenlure rbo, for the object of her ers and thiq ]q'her thighs; she’s light in Move, is so indomitable, so persevering, so her neck and small in her tail; she’s wide I ready to suffer and die. Under the most in her breast, and good at the pul; she’s I depressing circumstances, woman’s weak- fine in her bone, and silky of skin; she’s a I B *s* becomes a mighty power, her timidity graziers without a butcher’s within.—Lon- becomes a fearless courage, all her ahrink- don Farmer's Magazine. j ing and linking passes away, and her fpit- m m - I it acquires the firmness of marble, adamau- A Bankrupt Governor.—Several | l ne . fir “ n . e J 8 Tr" l l?? oireqmstaueea drive jeks weeks ago, a note drawn by T. G. Gamp-1 f* er “ 'IB u ‘ wder the bell, Sr., for 8250, and endorsed by Rufus B. Bullock, was hawked about the streets, and poqld not be disposed of at- five. oents I fl®*“Father,” said a cobbler’s boy, as he on the dollar, until it was endorsed by a I w “ pegging at an old shoe, “they say that responsible party. The note was given to I teout bite like every thing now.” “Well, >ay Campbell for services in Washington, [ well,” replied the old gentleman, “stick to 1 iwtiying to get Georgia out of the Union. J oaT work and they wont bite you.” What a pity that wheq Turner ia sent ‘I will bet you a bottle of wine,’" 1 *” ’** s *~"* " ” ‘ ~ said a gentleman to his friend, GEO. W. WILLIAMS A GO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, Cotton Factors and Bankers, ITAYNE ST., CH VRLESTON. ' Williams, Birnie & Co.,. COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 65 Reaver Street a-id 20 Erchr.n5rPD.re, NEW YORK,. jal;ltw-w3m hearn school, Cave Spring, Ga. T HE Exotfetses of this School will bfi resumfrl on MONDAY, August 2<L TUITION per session of Foot Months—Twclre Sixteen and Twenty Dollara. BOARD,, in good Families, Fifteen Pollan por month. P. J. KING, A. B. Principal, Julyl3w3w Cave Spring, G*. Gcoruia Chattooga County B Y rirDteof an order from tho Court of Ordi nary Ot Chattooga county, Ga., will be soli before the Court House door, in the town oi Summerville, on the first Tuesday in Septem* next,*between the legal hours of sale, the fol lowing property, to writ- AU the real estate belong*ng to iho estate ot James Harper, deceased. Sold for tho benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. TonM- WM. HARPER, P&rtt .Adin'*. GEORGIA, Cmattooga Covntv. B Y virtuo of on order from the Conn oc Ordi nary of Chattcoga County, Go., wilt before the Court Howie door in the town flf Summcrvilie,, on the 1st Tuesday in September next, between the legal hours of sale, the fol lowing property to wit; All the roa! estate belonging l o estate & Thomas Latimer, deceased. Sold tor the be** 51 of the heirj and creditors of said ootatfe. Ter®* -•fl- J. G. SIMMS, jwly22 Adm'r. GEQr GIA, Wk County. WHEREAS, Bookin Wester having opplfo^ VI for an exemption of personality, and ra ting apart and valuation of homestead, 1 will put upon said application on the 26th of July* by 10 o’clock. A. M.; at my office in Cedartown- By order of the Ordinary. july20 g. A. BORDERS, C. C. O. s of wine,” 1 40 ***• pooitoqtUry by tfee Fetfeca) Court, I, “tlpt yoq W frieqtj will Mys no power to bafr before I ? a . r * ) “ bite i Perhaps though, bis other will come to the rescue.— will oomp down out of that chair before I P* r *>n him 1 P I ask you twice.” ' “Done !” replied the I friend, Cromwell, friend. “Come down !” cried the other. ^ av - R<*ph. “I will not,” said his friend with much ob-1 stiuacy. “Then stop till I ask you a sec- U^teOn Saturday, the Tth of August, oadtiine, ’ said the other. Perceiving that there "will occur a total eclipse of the »uo, he would never be tsked a second time, I visible in the United State*. 1 the gentleman in the chair came Howrj jp I bfgia* t|h. 8^:3 pi., ends Oh. 81: * I 8 m.—Athens Banner. . _ A Frenchman lias purchased five I fl®“_Mea*rs- A- T» Stewart ft Co, are in thousand, acres of swamp in Tennessee, and t ^W'Ul*** Roman into their establish- proposes raising frogs for ]hp Mfnj.pl^|| intend in^faie to employ ooly GEORGIA, Polk County. llT’HEREAS.Honry D. Wray havingappl*** YT for an exemption ef personalty, and setting •part and valuation r*" upon taid application 18M, by 10 o'clock. A^ H|-» »* »y « town, Ga. By vder oi tho OrdiL~„ julj20-2t 8. A. BORDERS, C.C.fr ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. By virtue of an order from the Court of Or dinary of Ch*Ooogo couaty, will bo sold bsfof* tho Court Honao door in Summerville, within Uie lego! hours of solo, on the first Tneed*7 in September next, the following property, ri«5 Tho Lend belonging to the exude of N* Al*- moa deceased, the Wloow'a dower excepted. Term* Cosh. NELSON A. ALLMAN. july26 Adm’fc- trietc ASSIGNEE’S SALE. Y virtue of an order frem the District Coo/ 1 of the United State* for the Northern T>i*’ of Georgia, will bo sold ot the P 1 ***. 01 public gale, in Summerville, Chattooga count/* G»., on the l*t Tuesday io Soot'r, 1IW, } 0 } „ lend No. 227 end the half of lot No in the 6th district og^d 4U» section of Chsttoef* oonity. ag the property cf Jomee M- hookrupt. Terms cosh. H. M. MUJ*. J Amigueefe jnlj2t J.JF. HOLTON*

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, July 23, 1869, Image 2