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Columbus forbids the letting of fire works
in city limits daring Cristman save in cer
tain localities. We pity tbe unfortunate
children wbo reside in that town, for what
is home without a mother,or Chrismas with
out fire crackers? -
Montgomery will have a gander pulling
Christmas.
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Proprietor.
John Onion is the suggestive name of an
Illinois editor. When he peels himself
and gets down heartily to his work, he
must bring water to the eyes of his‘waders.
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T ,,„ da W t eaca month, between the
L1 -n’tbc' orenoon and three in the
of lc “ he Court House in the county m
vn ' 1 r!v i5 situated.
Why not say instead of “bringing water
to the 3yes of his readers” that this Onion
creates little leeks.
A Jewish Rabbi delivered a lecture to
the people of Athens a day or two since.
His name was Brum.
kirt ftTi'e sale’s must bo given in a pub-
'!“ t ;!e a 'lle r Mpcrsonal property must
;; :f e= 'in ‘ike manner, through a public gar-
dlstfJ'J' D ^ e ™. t aed S Cred d it'ors of an estate,
^^mtoSSSwtn bo made to the
fortave to sell laud must bo
..uolished ^ ' Administration, Guar.
Ciuwns fcr l« te t r be uUiehod 30 days-for
lianship to- > al imin i.tration, three months—
'““""ardianship.dO lays.
tl>0 forecloseure of Mortgages must
Bn** 3 . _ nr *ui v for four months—for es-
c published month y ^ full gpace of three
ablishinjr lost P a P®i.» titlc3 tro m Executors or
boon given by
Jt.jthuse^he^IegalTequirements, unless oth-
”sUe ordered, at the fshowing
O- c loo ner levy'of ton lines or less $3 00
5 So
s oo
5!! a r f^lettert ol Guardianship 3 00
Sotiee/d appiieation for 6 0 0
fr °” 4 00
3«0
Sale of baud, perequare,
Young ladies are genera’ly honest—but
they will hook dresses.~-.Ex.
And men are brave—they rush into the
breeches with so little fear.
Mark Twain is to marry soon. Some re-
Marks may be expected soon.
Sale of perishable property, 10 days 2
FstraY notices. 60 tlays,
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square 4
tor • . his wife, (in advance) 10 0
STAXD firm TO honor.
We sc that a telegrapic correspondent of
tbe Atlanta Coustitution, telegraphs from
Washington that he is instructed by Radi
cals high in authority that if the Detno-
crali of Georgia will call a convention be
fore tho 10th of January, and promise to
ratify the 15th Amendment, and reseat the
aegrocs, that the Morton bill will be re-
pealed.
We do hope our people will not be caugh
by this tempting bail. CoDgress knows
tiiat the Jlorton bill is revolutionary, and
she would shrink from the responsibility of
enforcing it. She knows that Georgia will
file a bill of exception at some future day,
if the lath Amendment is forced upon her.
aadslie wishes to beguile Georgia into vol
untarily perpetrating the enormity of its
passage. I.et us not bo led into tbe trap.
Everv honest man knows that the bill is
wrong in essence and in tendency—that it
strops the whole platform of the Democratic
party, and that when we pass it, we
wipeout our entity. Hence we should
oppose it as we have done, and if it is forc
ed upon us, lay in quiet and wait till the
proper time comes, and it will come spee-
dily—for us to raise our protest against tbe
coercion of a free State—against an equal?
Union of unequally governed States—
against the greatest enormity that has blot
ted history.
SPIRIT OF TnE PRESS.
The Savannah News thinks tbe best way
j to treat the Morton matter in Georgia will
! to prevent a quorum at the asr “Sibling
of the Legislature.
The Savannah Republican writes along
Mining to the miserable creatures who are
Listed by bayonets into power,&saysthat the
goad people of the State will hold them re
sponsible for every act performed, and that
the people will net be held responsible for
the legislation forced upon them, when the
nay of retribution comes.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says that
the people should resolve to untwist at the
fet opportunity the labyrinth of legislation
that the bayonet buttons will create.
The Atianta Constitution shows shows
that from a nucleus of four people in 1729
tee Methodist Religion has spread over the
•hole earth and that the Southern Meth-
church has over half a million of mem-
te and four thousand preachers.
The Columbus Enquirer advises all tbe
members of the Legislature to resign and
c ' congress run the machine on its own
K He holds that we should not
eren by opposing it, this infamous
1 Tbe Southern Recorder endorses
lhls "i an editorial.
The Columbus Sun feels comfortable
* 1 e knowledge that we are out of the
“ Mould to Heaven we conld get
Cle,r »« of the Union say we.
the U ™ ai ' !e ^ Sentinel thinks that if
ji f® 1 ‘” atu ‘ -e remains firm and collected
o TLmicrats will have enough ma-
Bnl-a damnable designs of the
The Coal Convention in Atlanta made
arrangements by which more liberal rela
tions will be established between purchas
ers and miners.
A new building, joining the National
Hotel in Atlanta, fell on Thursday, and
killed two men.
Hinton Rowan Helper, the man who
wrote the iufamons “Impending Crisis,”
comes out in a card and refuses to run as a
radical candidate in North Carolina.
Powlonia Seep—Wo have received
from Mr. A. Reelin of Gordon Co., some
Powlonia seed. We have not room for the
insertion of the accompanying letter. The
Powlonia. is a good shade tree—provides
fine and fragrant flowers and is the fastest
grower in the world. We will give some
of the seed to any of our frienc s as a Christ
mas Gift if they will call atonr office—
and we strongly advise the yong ladies—
the rosy-lipped darlings—to be sure and
give us a call.
Mile Machinery pop, Sale.—Mr.
John Hume, Sr., offers to sell an engine and
all the machinery for wheat and com mill;
also, a cotton gin.
Prop. Holmes School.—The next term
of the above named School will commence
Monday January 10th. Mr. Holmes is a
good disciplinalian, an excellent instructor
and thoroughly competent for his responsi
ble and arduous vocation. We have no
doabt but that he will receive a liberal
patronage. See Adv.
Burning Fluies, Lamps Crockery
Jtc.—Thomas and McCrary have a beauti
ful assortment of lamps, glass ware and
crockery, and as they did exclusively in
these things and burning fluids, it must be
a good place to bny. You may besure of
clever treatment and good bargains at their
store opposite Norton’s.
Stone & Murray’s Circus.- Our town
is rendered absolutely gorgeous by the pic
tures of this mammoth show. From ex
perience, we can say that this is the best
Circus now traveling in the South, and all
people who indulge in that sort of thing,
should certainly go to see Stone & Mur
ry’s great combination.
S. Pinkus.—His friends and every bo
dy who desire to purchase goods oheap from
the above named good natured gentleman
can now see him at first door below Mitch
ell’s Drug. Store, Pinkus is a “brick” and
if he dosen’t sell lots of goods it will not
he his fault. Go and see him.
Liability op Freedmen fob old
Debts.—In the ease which was up on Sat
urday, Justice Coleman decided yesterday
that a freed person is not liable for a pur
chase made while a slave although he subse
quently has promised to pay it, that prom
ise not being in writing S. L. Downiug for
plaintiff; Alex. C. Mor ton for defendant,-—
Columbus Sun.
An examination has disclosed the fact
that each member of Congress has had over
four tons of books and documents to send
out under hie frank in two years. It is no
wonder the . people are petitioning for an
abolition of franking privilege. Over sev
en hundred thousand dollars are drawn
from the Treasury each year by this frank
ing process. _
An old tobacco ehewer finds that the Bi
ble sustains his favorite habit. He quotes:
“He that is filthy, let him be filty still.’
Bonner’s horses are valued at two hun
dred thousand dollars. Dexter cost him
thirty thousand of the amount.
Bullock
a..' ' MOn ' e ' e S ra ph publishes from the
cwfispondence between John A
c.l t ' 18 fadical Congressman from
Georgia Dttrict,
cir-ni . > an H Wogan & Goa
Tork Y'"' CClDter feit money, in New
ftelw 1 traa ^' ti3 l H at this fragrant scoun
at- t v tr)ingt0 P a * m °Hon his constitu-
,i la w °rtUes money. And of snoh
~ lh e radical pan-.
bur;
!^3,fl00 H ' SheS b0r “ in Mecklen ‘
stro fed i f , of tobacco, was de-
H’h t V W ™' ?ts efto•—-Sumfer Rep.
3,000 * ° "’° a men by being born with
, tbacco? and how was
. ’ Did you mean that
arn * as decoyed?
•mie a;V . tKRY ’ s ?°etary Cherokee Ma-
5a ‘ ,j unts i, Ssoclat ' on > nailed -the following
lad orril,,!' Je ® l, -rilay: 393,00 to the widow
^ Sherri, Preston,
I>aai e \ r.L, ., and orphans of
^sttea. Cnc ’ ^krcba’ville, Ga., policies
Nearly full returns of the Mississippi
election have been received at Gen. Ames
headquarters, and they show that Gen Al
corn’s majority for Governor is about 63-
000.
The mistress of the White House keeps
things in order. “Mack” made asit to sit
down in the ante-chamber of Grant’s office
the other day, when the lackey in obarge
—-not Dent—rushed up with “look here .
you must’nt sit down; if the old woman
comes along and sees you sitting down,
she’ll give me h—111”
The Woman’s National Suffrage Associa
tion endorse Beecher and Mrs. McFarland.
Mail Agents on a Strike.—The Sel
ma Times of iuesday says : “There tfas
a strike among the mail agents yesterday.
•A negro route agent having been pnt c"
the route between this city and Marie
Junction, Mr. Little^ and the other white
Mo 33.
“What shall we do now?” is a question
every hoar repeated. Perhaps the wisest
answer that conld be given to this question
is this: Do nothing; say nothing. All I
shall add,is only added to make the wisdom
of this answer apparent.
Of the legislation now being hurried
through Congress concerning Georgia two
remarks may be predicted:
First. This legislation intends both inju
ry and insult to our people.
Second. So great is the injury, and so
inexcusable the insult intended, that the
men in the Congress who propose them an
ticipate violent resistance by oar people,
and, therefore, have authorized the Presi
dent, on the requisition of Bollock, to em
ploy the army and navy of the United
States to enforce the legislation.
What a commentary is this on free gov
ernment! What a work for the army and
navy of the United States in a time of
peace!
. This is not.the Union of our fathers.
This is, emphatically, a Reconstructed Un-
- I 'u'A. Alas, for sach a Union! The inge
nuity of man, in its most devilish exercise,
conld not provide more certain schemes to
promote hate and to produce wars and suc
cessions of wars in the far (?) future than
these measures of Congress, which, under
pretence of reconstructing the Southern
States, are really destroying all the States,
and the liberties of all the people of all the
States.
Bnt this legislation now being enacted
by Congress suggests some valuable lessons
which, if well learned by our people, will
go far to compensate for the evils propos
ed.
1. When the Reconstruction measures
were first proposed in 1867, there were
some good men among us who thought it
would be better for our people to partioi
pate in the work of reconstructing the
State government,with a view to mitigating
or defeating its evils. To these I hu nbly
but most earnestly replied, that we could
not succeed by participation in defeating
the work of reconstruction, because that
work would be entrusted to men who
under military protection and by frauds
and false counting of votes, would, in any
event, declare the measures successful),
while, by participation, we should he hypo
critical in seeming to help a purpose we
despised; wonld relieve the iniquity of much
of its odium by giving it onr seeming as
sent, and would thus be parties to our own
degradation and bound by the results. Or,
if by any meaDS, we would snoceed in
mitigating the evils, Congress wonld either
not accept the work, or, after accepting,
wonld, under pietence of frand and decep
tion on onr part, recall their acceptance and
order the work of Reconstruction to be done
over again. In the light of subsequent
events, and, especially in view of the pres
ent legislation, will any man longer doubt
the wisdom, propriety and decency of non,
participation in this work of self-destruc
tion and self degredation? The only result
to us of participation is to lose our own re
spectability by imparting it to the scheme
for our ruin.
2. The itching for office which too many
have manifested during this rule of infamy
has been a source of no little mortification
to many of our people. We have been
constantly assured of great horrors if we
did not have Representative in Congress!
For jnyself, I am free to confess, I have al
ways thought that our people ought not
even to desire representation, until they
conld choose their own representatives. In
deed, a man of true honor, should feel in
sulted if even suspected of a wish to get an
office while his superiors were proscribed
by a wicked and unconstitutional disfran
chisement, When thieves seek agents it is
honorable to he rejected as unworthy.
if, then, this legislation shall convince
our people that they can gain nothing by
accepting and takmg part in this recon
struction iniquity, aad shall act as a caustic
to burn out all desire for Federal office in
every decent Southern man, its evils will
become more tolerable, and what our ene
mies intend for onr utter discomfiture
may become the beginning of our relemp-
tion.
There is another effect of this legislation
to reconstruct the State again which is not
wholly destitute of a compensating consid
eration.
There was quite a number, perhaps a ma
jority of our people, who had become dis
posed to make a concession to Congress and
the feelings of the Northern people in a
spirit of conciliation for peace. In this
spirit lam of the opinion the Democrats of
the Legislature had concluded to* re-seat
the negroes and ratify the Fifteenth Amend
ment. The result of such voluntary action
would either have dismembered the Demo
cratic party of the State, and caused the
formation of a Republican party, which
might have controlled tbe State: or, to pre
vent this result, it would have compelled
the Democrats to be reconciled to these acta
and not to have made the support of these
measures a test of party fidelity. But Con*
gress has prevented the voluntary adoption
of the measures, and has provided for their
forcible adoption. Congress has ordered
tto these measures shall not be adopted by
tw£,4who could have had any claims to
represihit the intelligence, and virtue, and
will of tho State, and has ordered them to
be adopted by those who will most certainly
represent neither the people, nor the hon
or, per interest nor wul of the people Qf
this State. Thus we are relieved of all
odium which might attach to a voluntary
adoptions of a dismemberment of the Demo*
cratio party by reason of such adoption; and
of all obligations to respect the adoption as
binding when made by the Carpet-bag
s'tTangers, deluded negroes, and thieving
outlaws whom Congress has entrusted .with
these measures as alone worthy to pasB up
on them. I confess there is much in this
fact to gratify me. The real people of our
State are relieved from the necessity of
passing through the only ordeal in which I
had reason to fear their manhood would be
forgotten.
' My opinion upon the eligibility of the
negroes undor the negro Constitution was
well known.. But the Legislature was the
solo judge of this question for themselves.
To reseat them after unseating them would
have been to admit themBelves stulified,
and to abdicate their own independence as
We still have bright skies, fertile soils,
and a healthful climate. These are the
gifts of God, and are above the cower of
Congress to reconstruct, and beyond the
reach of even Radicals to steal or carry
away.
Let ns devote all onr energies to the sole
work of enriohing onr fields, beautifying
onr homes, multiplying onr productions,
erecting foundries, building factories, and
developing in every form onr vast material
resources.
Toward the colored race let us redouble
our efforts to be just, kind and forbearing.
They are not the authors of onr wrongs.
Nine ont of ten of them wish to do right.
I doubt whether the same number of any
other color or race of the bnman family
could pass the same ordeals through which
they have passed during the last four years
and do as well as they have done. With
a few wicked or deluded exceptions, they
will join us in bringing contempt on all
these Congressional iniquities and on their
authors.
The black angel of political, social and
moral death is deepening the shadows of
his wings over the Continent. These shad
ows will certainly settle in the thick dark
ness of despotism and sorrow on the North
ern people. Then the snn of Liberty will
dawn again upon the Sonth. That dawn
ing will reveal us with coffers refilled, with
waste places rebuilt, with resources of all
kinds at borne, and with sustained honor
and unsullied manhood preserved. And,
to these, whatever else honor can commend,
or virtue desire, will be added for us and
for onr children.
I thank God that I was born in the Sonth
and with spirit that knows no fear of her
enemies, and wonld not escape a fall share
of her sufferings.
agents refused- to go ont on the same l ra m ■
As a consequence there was no agent on the
train hence to Meridian yesterday.”
Deadheads.—Deadheads on railroads,
so the courts decide, if killed while travel
ing, depart this life at their own expense.
Damages, therefore, not settled by the com
pany. How is it, though, if a fellow’s life
is insured ?
A hill to • encourage immigration has
been introduced in the Kentucky Legisla
ture.
a co-ordinate department of the State gov
ernment. So, the principle of the 15th
amendment is another subversion of the
whole system oftbe American Government,
and no earthly consideration could induce
me to support it, Yet, I confess I had'made
np my .mind to regard with tolerenco those
who should differ with me on these ques
tions, especially where it was known that
Bullock was really anxious for the defeat
of both the ntgrot3 and the 15th amend
ment, as means of enabling him to induce
Congress to reman! the State to a Provis
ional Government in order to extend and
enlarge his own powers for thieving- But
Congress, afraid the excuse for oppressing
ns wonld be averted by the Legislature, has
relieved the Legislature of the humiliating
iniquity of averting it.
it is well known again that the present
Legislature has been lavish—even reck
less—in creating debts in behalf of plun
derers for the people to pay. Now that
Congress has declared the Legislature which
created these debts only Provisional, the
people will not hesitate to declare the debts
so created to be only Provisional also, and
that,too,in spite of any provision by Congress
to the contrary.
My. humble opinion, therefore, is that
onr people sheuld receive this additional
attempt by Congress to destroy them as
the Roman Senate received the invaders of,
their country—with quiet dignity and stol
id indifference. Let it be onrstndy hence
forth to care as little as possible for Feder
al affairs and as much as possible for onr
own. If President Grant shall deem it bis
ditty to employ the army and navy of the
United States to guard and protect unas
saulted thieves and robbers, let him do so.
If he shall go farther and use that army
and navy in arresting unoffending citizens
who are only engaged peacefully attending
tbeir private affairs, why let him arrest—
yea imprison, shoot, and hang 1
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the Church.” He is not worthy of liber
ty who is not willing to be its martyr.
Above all, let os still preserve onr man-
hood, and do nothing which can possibly
be constructed into our assent to their re
construction infamies however often re-
Tbe Legislature.
Onr oo temporary of the Augusta Chron
icle & Sentinel, who has been counting
noses in the Legislature when reconstruct
ed under the bill now passed by Congress,
thinks matters are not so utterly hopeless
as some suppose. The Chronicle says:
We oannot give the precise strength of
parties in the Legislature when the ne
groes are reseated. We believe that there
will be a small Democratic majority in
both houses. The Senate was originally
Radical, but the loss of two Radical Sena
tors by death and resignation, and the elec
tion in their place of Democrats, if Bol
lock will permit an election U be held, will
make that body secure against the Bollock
faction.
In the House the question is involved in
some doubt, hut we incline to the opinion
that the Democrats and conservatives will
control the body. Several Radical mem
bers of the Senate and of the Honse are
now disqualified by reason of holding fed
eral office. Two of tho negio members of
the House are now holding office in this
city, and, we believe also, one or two of the
white radicals Throughout the State there
are perhaps ten or twelve Radical members
of the House who Cannot now take their
seats. If elections are held to fill these va
cancies, Democrats will be returned. If no
elections are held we believe that both
houses can be relied on to oppose Bullock
in all his infamous plans to bring about dis
order and violence, and a war of races in
the State.
New Idea for Congress —Gener
al Butler’s remarkable declaration, the oth
er day, that he belies cd the time is not dis
tant when the Federal government wonld
take possession of the railroad, express and
telegraphic business, has attracted great
attention. Already Congress has charter
ed an insurance company with branches
everywhere, which branches, without leave
or license, are interfering throughout the
land, with State institutions. ,vAll this may
be very right, however opposed to old-fash
ioned notions. It is' part of what one of
our neighbors calls the “unifying and sol
idifying process,” which is so essential.—
But why not extend it further ? “Marri
age and divorce” are subjects on which there
is a terrible “conflict of laws.” The con-
jurgal contract melts away, like bismnth,
or perhaps easier still in Indiana, while in
New York and Pennsylvania it requires a
much higher temperature and a harder
wrench to get rid of it. Before secession,
to her honor be it said, South Carolina had
never granted a Legislative divorce. Still,
there is great diversity of practice. An act
of Congress might be advantageously pass
ed on this subject—a “uniform system of
matrimony” might do great good.—Phila
ddphia Dap. Book
Never Leave Georgia.—The Louis
ville Courier-Journal thus compliments onr
good old State, and cheers her people : “It
is said that a good many of the people of
Georgia are emigrating to Texas, nut they
probably make a mistake. We think that,
as a general rule, Georgians make a mis
take ia emigrating anywhere. Tl ey leave
a State unsurpassed in its natural advan
tages. It is true that he suffers at present
the disastrous effects of Radical tyranny,
bnt this condition of things will soon van
ish like the morning mists from her streams
and the rain drops from her flowers.”
Eloquent Extract.—In some remarks
of Gen. Sheridan, at Cincinnati, a few days
ago, speaking of negro suffrage, he said:
“The man that is good enough to share
my dangers on the battlefield, as willing to
die there, if need be, as myself, is good
enough to stand beside me and vote.”
Pretty as this may be, it is difficult to
discover tho logical sequence. Sheridan’s
horse was, doubtless, quite as willing to
share his dangers on the battle field—why
not make a voter out of him ?
Great Freight Business on the Ssuth Caro
lina Railroad*
The Charleston Courier says: “A
friend, who always has his eyes abonthim,
yesterday being at Branchville, noticed
great activity in freight trains. He looked
into the matfor and began to count, and
fonnd that within thirty minutes not less
than eight freight trains, embracing one
hundred and twelve loaded cars, passed
Branchville in various directions. This
certainly looks like business, and we take
great pleasure in recording so cheering and
promising an event’'
DON’T LEAVE A QUORUM.
Luckily for the good name of Georgia,
the Morton bill provides for the reassem
bling of the original Legislature. This
will spare us the shame of seeing the ne
groes reseated by the two Houses as they
stood at adjournment The Legislature
that Bollock ^required to call will be a
Legislature created by Congress. It is es
sentially a sham Assembly, and we shall,in
the day of reckoning, have a noble reason
for exploding its nnlawfnl deeds. When
this illegal body oftCongressionol tools sha’l
have assembled together, it may he the du
ty of all the true men thus accidentally con
nected with it to refose participation in its
proceedings, just asit may be proper for
thrm to abandon it altogether. In such a
case, the Congressional conspirators who
formed this unlawful Assembly may, by the
power of a license which defies all limit,
rake np, after a fashion, dummies to take
their places. But in this event, the fraud
perpetrated will be all the more g’aring and
the force employed all the more abomina
ble.. Mr Morton himself,the author of this
last iniquity, let out the secret when he
said, in his seat in the Senate, that “Geor
gia never would adopt the XVth Amend
ment except under compn'sion.” The “com
pulsion has come, we are saved from stnpifi-
cation at last. We have to thank him for
anotfier thing. He has afforded the first
square issue with Reconstruction. Hence
forth, in Georgia at least, Congress most
assume responsibilities were once so adroit
ly thrust upon onr people. AH that Con
gress can do in the future must be done by
compulsion”—ond compulsion invalidates
consent. The day is coming when Mr.
Carpenter’s fears will be realized—the day
of retribution when the “Sonth files her
bill of exceptions,” and there will be just
judges to hearken to her claim; or the day
is coming when the cause lost in Georgia
shall be lost everywhere in the Union, and
a military despotism and popular serfdom
begin their iron task.—Augusta Const.
Southern (Colored) Methodist
Conference.—This body is now in session
in this city, and we understand that about
one hundred and fifty delegates are present.
A sub criptinn paper to raise money to de
fray the expenses of some of the delegates
was in circulation yesterday, and we are
glad to say onr citizens contributed quite
liberally. The delegates held their first
meeting last night ia the City Hall, up
stairs. It is, perhaps unnecessary for ns to
add that this organization is in no way con
nected with the Northern (colored) Metho
dist Church in this city, .of which the vile
wretch and hypocrite, H. M. Turner, is the
head.—Macon lei 7th.
l^»rd io Beat
Dr. John Bass, of Washington county,
with two mules, made this year thirty six
bales of cotton, averaging 450'pounds, 250
bqshels of corn,and 150 bnsheb of potatoes,
wt& an abundance of vegetables for his
family, and in addition raised pork enough
for his supply for the next year.
This crop was made on the ordinary lands
of this region, and is the result of skillful
cultivation and proper fertilizing. This
crop shows what. Middle Georgia can do if
her stalwart sons bring to their aid the im
provements which are daily made in the
system of modern 1 agrioulture.— Chron. &
The Dent Failure in Mississippi.
It would seem that - tbe defeat of Judga
Dent and the triumph of the Radical par
ty in Mississippi were due less to the supe
riority of the victorious party than to the
almost universal apathy of the Conserva
tives.
The Hernando Press says that there were
thirteen hundred whites in Da Soto county
who did not go to the polls. Fifteen hun
dred at least, staid away in Tishomingo oo.;
a thousand in Tippah; two hundred in Rap-
kin; and several hundred in each of the
eounties of Madison, Hinds and Harrison.
These, the Jackson Clarion informs us, are
only-examples of a universal indifference
among tbeawbifog throughout (he State.
This indifference, says the Clarion, had
its origin in two causes : First, the failure
of the Conservatives to conciliate the ad
ministration by the nomination of a tioket
composed of admitted and unquestioned
Republicans.
This itself was a great concession, and as
a proof of their sincerity in accepting the
reconstruction conditions, was expected to
seenre the favor of President Grant^ or at
least, to forbid his hostility. Bnt it did
neither, for President Grant turned his
face from the Conservatives, and extended
his favor to their opponents. This was one
oaqse of discouragement. The second was
a despondent willingness to exohange the
despotism of Gen. Ames for almost any civ
il government, and the conviction that,
though Alcorn was a Radical, his high
character and the favor he had received
from the people daring his career as a se
cessionist, were reasons for expecting a fair
and free administration at his hands.
j8®“A bashful youth was paying his ad
dresses to a gay lass of the country who
had long despaired of bringing things to a
crisis. He called one day when she was at
home alone. After settling the merits of
the weather, the girl said, looking slrorin-
to his face : % .
“I dreamed of yon last night.” '
“Did you ? Why—now!”
“Yes, I dreamed that you kissed me.” \.
“Why, now 1 what did you dream your
mother said ?”
“Oh, I dreamed she wos’nt at home.”
A light dawned on the youth’s intellect,
a singular sound broke the stillness, and
in less than four months they were mar
ried.
The Georgia State Dental Society meets
i Savannah on the 28th inst.
The railroad to the Chattahoochee is
progressing rapidly, the Columbus Sun,
states.
The Spring term of Emory College will
be opened bn the 19th of January.
A post office has been established it Erin
Georgia.
PERSONALS.
The late Lord Derby’s parents were first
cousins.
A gay and dashing daughter of P, T.
Barnum is said to have eloped from her
hqsband not long ago
Cornelius Contoy,' sixty years of age,
living at Barbary Hill, Mass., was' choked
to death by a piece of meat the other day,
While eating his dinner.
Jay Gould has legal Bummons to appear
in no less than five StateB.
Washawfampantoveumpoo is dead. He
was an Indian chieftain.'
The Prince of Wales owes so much mon
ey in Paris, that he is afraid to go there to
see his girl. In the midst of life we are in
debt.
John Rnssell Young, late of the Tribune
Km been offered a position on a Radical pa
per in Montgomery, Ala., salary 810,000.
Mrs. James Fisk, jr;, who lives in a Bos^
ton house four stories high, has upwards ot
four hundred thousand dollars worth of
jewels. She has a set of diamond earrings,
brooch and cross for necklace, that is val
ued at thirty thousand dollars.
Father Hyaointhe sings like a lark. He
is one.
The Fat Contributor j has purchased an
interest in the Cincinnati Times..
Beecher writes, “I am in trouble.” Mind
you get in no worse place.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was the
largest wheat-producing State in the Union;
now it is about the twelfth.
Tha sales in Hancock county on the 1st
Tuesday in December amounted to 863,-
000; prices varying from 14 to 87.
Increase in ’69 over ’68, 8 43,000
The receipts for September, October,
and November, 1869. in excess of the'same
months in 1868, are 8135,008.—Augusta
Chronicle..
Governor Soott, of South Carolina, stands
a good chance of representing that State in
the Senate.
Contrary to expectation, Gov. J. W.
Stevenson has beaten -McCreary for the
United States Senate in Rent
A large quantity of arms were shipped
on Saturday from the Fenian headquarters
in New York. The destination was not
known.
It is reported that a vigilance comir it-
tee has been organized in New York, to t>e
called the “Law and Order Regulators.”
TELEGRAPHIC.
Reported for the Iri-Weekly Conner.
Washington, Dec. 21.—Bullock has con
vened the Georgia Legislature, to meet Jan
uary 10th.
An opinion prevails here that Gov. Bul
lock’s proclamation will not secure a quorum
of he Legislature at Atlanta.
The President will not receive visitors dur
ing the holidays.
Many members of Congress who voted for
the bill to promote the reconstruction of
Georgia, have given assurances that a Con
vention of the people of Georgia, pledging
the adoption of the 15th Amendment and re
seating tho negroes, will secure the immedi
ate repeal of the act. Senator Morton says
'that the whole object of the legislation is to
seenre the adoption of the 15th Amendment.
Atlanta, Dec. 23.—Gov. Bollock issues a
proclamation summoning all persons to the
General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
by the proclamation of Gen. Meade, jane
25tb, 1868, who are qualified, to appear in
Atlanta, on tho 10th day of January next.—
Where persons are qualified to hold office in
accordance with the act of Congress, In such
cases made and provided, will he organized
irilo a Senate and Honse of Representatives,
respectively, as the provisional Legislature
of Georgia, for the purpose of promoting the
reconstruction of civil government in Geor
gia, in accordance with the laws of the Uni
ted States.
WAsnraoTON, Dec, 23.—Btanton died qf
heart disease.
The Cabinet, after session, will proceed in
body to the Honse.
Havanna, Dec. 24.—The occupation of Sa
maria excites the insurgents to desperate ef
forts to overthrow Bazzi before Congress can
ratify lease,
Two Haytian Insurgent Generals killed
upon their capture. m
Washington, Dec. 24.—The President
to-day issued an order through GenL Sher
man, assigning Genl. Terry to the command
of Georgia, as a district under reconstruction
acts, in addition to his duties as commander
of tne South.
Revenue today 384,000.
London, Dec. 24.—Later Parahuayan ad
vices folly confirm the flight of Lopez. .
Mobile, Dec. 24.—Cotton, Middlings, 23}.
New York, Dec. 24.—Cotton steady at 21};
Pork declining; new 30 25; lard, kettle, 18}
al8}; whisky unchanged; groceries quiet;
cotton, steam,}.
Chableston, Deo.. 24—Cotton in lair de
mand; sales 500 bales; middling 23}a24; re
ceipts 1623; .exports to Spain 322; coastwise,
1561. '
Savannah, Dec. 24.—Cotton, middling
23}; market dull.
Cincinnati, Dec. 24—Whisky dull at 94a
95; lard 17; pork held at 28 00; Offered at
27}.
Louisville, Dec. 24—Mess pork held at
30 O0a3O 25; shonldeis 14}al4}; clear sides,
17}al8; lard 18; whisky 94a95.
St. Lons, Dec. 24—Provisions utterly de
moralized—buyers and sellers wido apart.
New Orleans, Dec. 24.—Cotton active and
firmer at 24; pork 30 50; molasses firmer;
prime 68a70; whisky easier at 102al 08; cof-
feo firmer; fair 15}al5}; prime 17}al7}; oth
ers unchanged.
Auoesta, Dec. 24—Cotton.—Market quiet
hut firm at 23; sales 523; receipts 1246; stock
on hand 19940.
BLANCE & DODD,
ATTORNEYS AT SAW,
Cedsrtowa, 1 C< <5*.
Till practice in the several counties ofths^H
lapoosa Circuit, and Bertow and Gordon counties
of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention
given to collection. •
julyS-twtf
\Jt/lfH»* kept conatnatl
if complete aaaortment
Augustus K. Weight. C. K. Fiateeiitoe.
WRIGHT & FEATHERST0H,
Attorneys at Law,
ROME, GA.
S UCCESSORS to Wright A Broylee, the latter
firm being dissolved bj the removal of GoL
E. ST. Broyles to Atlanta.
may21-tw-ly
SAW PEL KiEK ft SOW*
173.. W* Baltimor »ltreet, 17*
•Baltimore, Md.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
SILVER WARE, WATCHES,
AND- .
FINE JEWELRY.
Established IS17.^j. „ . j
sep28-tw3m
Burns & RosS(
UEOKBfi G1.UND AfiENCV
Rome, G-a.
S ll City Property,
: Plantations and Vacant
or Wild Lands.
Special Attention given to Looking after,
and to the Sale of Vacant or Wild Lands.
JOHN T. BURNS,
A. E. ROSS, Late Comptroller LtanT.
Clerk Superior Court. decStw-w-tf
w. a. SAWBIE,
Late of Nashville, Tenn.
SAWBIE ft SPEKBY,
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS,
Dealers in all kinds of
Family Supplies,
BROAD STREET,
Four Doors above Pltner’a Coraer,
ROME, GEORGIA.
novlStwly.
B. D. BNELEB.
D. B. MILLBB.
KEELER & MILLER’
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Harness & Saddles,
ROME, GA. ^ ^
A SUPPLY of Saddles and Harness^A^
of various styles, complete. Also,^p^
Homes, Collars and other parts of Har- •
ness constantly on hand. A. large supply of
Whips and Saddle Banketa. All orders for now
work or Repairing promptly executed.
Messrs. Keeler A Miller sre both thororghly
versed in tha trade, and by devoting their undi
vided attention and energy to the business, hope
to merit and. receive a liberal patronage. Store
and Shop first door below the Courier Office,
sep28-tw6m
NEW
FURNITURE
STORE.
O N tha FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER next;
I will open in Roma a superior lot of Im
ported and Domestic Furniture, such as—
3?»rlor Setts,
Bedroom Setts,
Wardrobes,
Tables,
Chairs,
Cribs,
And all other necessary articles ©(Furniture,
and hope my old friends and the public will give
my stock an examination before 1
aog?8tw-irtf • WM.
WA LTERMIRE’ S
LIVERY and SALE STABLE,
(Successor to T. A. CleaTes,)
BROAD STREET. - - - ROME, GA.
New Buggies and Carriages.
FINE AND FAST HOBSES
Always on hand at the service of onr patrons, *n
reasonable terms.
Best accommodations for Drovers.
octAOtwtf.
B. 9. OOTHBANM.
COTHRAN A MAGUIRE,
BROKERS
ASD
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
ROME, GA.
B
UT and sell Exchange, Bj
Railroad
■ . Government, Railroad and other S*rantie>,
make eolleetions and remit promptly; Atteaa
to Shipment of Cottoa to Now York or olaa-
where, aad mb liberal advanemaa ike sama.
feb8-tw-tf .'
ATLANTA
MAP/RT.Ti 1 . YARD.
D. N. JTJDSON, Agent,
Manufacturer and Dealer la
Italian and American Marble,
Monuments, Box Tombs,
TTTTATI AND foot stones,
FURNITURE MARBLE, U
Office and Yard, cor. Peachtree A WalAo* »tfc*
Atlanta, Oa.
juneStwly
E>wnr tatxo*. a.«- aaamr.
juo. a. TESBEE
Manufacturers of all kind* of
AI
Tennessee Chair Factory,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
Office at 24, North College Street Fketeryon
the River, North Nashville.
We propose to sell Chairs cheaper tain eu
be bought in this or any Eastern w
octl4-twflm
TO RENT,
A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE. For'fcartfcft-
lars cnanire nt th* Saddlery Store ef
lars enquire at th* Saddlery Store __
‘Stftwtf KSSUS A MUUA
FRESH
GENUINE
Abac.U l,
CHEMICALS,
Oils, Paints,
Dye Stuff, Perftunery,
Ac., Ac.
WINES
AND
FINE IIQTTOES
Of every description for Medical Porpoeet
ways on hand.
PRESCRIPTIONS carefully prepared at Sit.
Dr. J. D. SMITH*
june8twly
TRADE MARK.
FFF
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*
<S^v'*<
;/v»
ik-
-
/ s£\
Tha letter, F, Fg, and FFF, a* a trad# J
far (oar, was first introduced by J. A. Steward
ia tho eity of Atlanta, in 1859. Thin Boar wee
always popular. Other miliar* an now retag ,
tb* v
Th* g*nuia* Stawart flour will d* 1 nr Ay
the above trademark.
Oet5tw-w-3m-'
M. 3V. CUTTER,
I ■
l
l
i
:
•
Tailor,
H
AS moved over tho MW *tor» af g b«l»E ,
Harkins A Glover.
AH Work Warranted.
Particular Attention paid to CmttlBf Mr elhare
t make. MlU If tf
^ingwi Sewing Machine tor Male*
A. J. KING,
Real Estate Agent,
Cave Spring, Ga.
W ILL Buy and Sell Lands at reasonhta
rate* in the surrounding country.
_ - - ‘
Can he found at Pinson's Hotel, or at k
residence. angitwwtf
BLAKEMAN, JENKINS & CO,
Contractors ft Builders,
Rome, Ga,
A RE prepared to CONTRACT tor WOOD
WORK of all descriptions. All work ex
ecuted with neatness and dispatch.
june3—twly
McKenzie & co.
ia
METALIC BURIAL CASES,
ALWAYS ON HAND.
Manufacturers of Plain, Covered or
WALNUT COFFINS,
■ ALSO
Manufacturers of Cabinet Ware.
Shop opposite the Buena Vista,
HOME, GA.
dec9tw6m. • .
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA
J. M ELLIOTT & CO,
WAM0US8 AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
y^OCATED immediately on ^he Jtail-
_ _ road track and at the fit<»amboatN
yharf. No drayage on Cottm or other produe
consigned to ns by Railroad. Cotton and Pra^
dace loaded in the Cara direct from the Ware*
house, thereby saving rough handling by dray
men. and exposure to the weather.
Goode of all kinds loaded on the Cars at very
short notice. oetll
99
3.
**Home Again
c. RAWLINS
iV
At Us own House Again.
CHOICE HOTEL,
Broad St., Borne, Ga.
Paseengere taken to end from the Depot Frew,
of Charge. octSltwtf
Southern Express Office.
OPPOSITE COHEN’S STORE.
BOMB, GA. *
H OURS of receiving freight lorn 8 A. K.
‘ iUfP - ,L J D.GRUVa
oett-tm
GATES & SHROPSHIRE.
GROCERS,
PROVISION DEALERS.
AND COMM1SS8ION MERCHANTS
At DeJoumette*’* Old Stud.
BROAD ST., RONE, GA.
High«*t Market Price paid for ell kind*
Country Produce. jenJStwly
Good* delivered in the oity free of charge.
Copartnership.
DBS. GREGORTT& CARLTON
A SSOCIATING thomselve* in the practice ef
Medicine, tender their profemional eervioee
■' public,
rial
attention, given to Surgery in aH Hi
of Mernr*. Harvey *
