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The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING. April 15.
TIIE Q,UlT.l, DRIVERS ON THERAM-
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Our brethren of the Press do not be
lieve that the pen is altogether mightier
than the sword.
In the list ten days there have leen
three shooting scrapes in which editors
bore prominent parts.
First, Kirby (he of the Chattanooga
Times) had a collision with one McGlo
lion. It appears that Kirby had written
an article that reflected rather severely
upon the said JIcG, and that he, burning
with a fierce rage, demanded an apology.
The man of the quill refused to give one.
They met, pistols were drawn; McGlohon
fired, and missing Kirby, struck a negro in
the cheek; he then sloped, being closely
followed by the ireful Kirby. The negro
wept.
Mr. Ryland Randolph is the next fight-
est. He lifted the skin of a certain Pro
fessor Vaughn, with-the point of his per.—
Vaughn, assisted by a man rejoicing in the
bewildering cogiomen of Smith, sought
Randolph. They had four pistols and
double-barreled shot gun. Smith jostled
very rudely against Randolph, evidently to
induce that gentleman to strike him. Ran
dolph accommodated him by depositing his
fist, just about th.e mouth of S nith. They
drew their pistols, and then went to work
—both exhausted their repeaters, but nri
ther was hurt. Randolph at one time put
bis pistol to Smith’s back, and pushing it
against him, pulled trigger. Smith dodged
it. Randolph then threw his pistol at
Smith’s head. Smith then seeing that Ran-
dolph was unarmed, returnc i to the charge,
aul shot Randolph twice, when the latcer
drew his knife, and drove him off again.—
One of the stray shots struck a gentleman
named Byrd, and killed him instantly.
The third combat took place between
Hamil, oi the Opelika Locomotive, and an
outsider, whuse name we do not know.
Hamil killed him dead at the first shot.
Really, this editing is getting to be a
dangerous business both to the editors
themselves and the spectators of their lit-
quarrels Wheo our time comes, wa hope
that there will a negro standing ready to
take the ball that was intended for ns, as
there was in Kirby’s case.
Randolph’s life was saved by a well
filled pocket hook. The greenbacks stopp
ed the ball just as it was entering the
skin. Our delinquent subscribers are ear
nestly invited to step forward and settle
up their dues.
THE STREET CAR WAR.
lu New Orleans we see the outcropping
of troubles that will far exceed in magni
tude any that we have yet endured. We
olludc to the “street ear war.”
The managers of the street railroads de
cided that negroes could not ride in the
same car with white people, and arranged
a differeut set of cars for the especial bene
fit of the darkies. Toey, however, being
agged on by villainous carpet-baggers, jo
sisted on riding in the cars with white peo
pie. The managers resisted, and on certain
occasions persuaded the importunate, Afri
cans out of the cars by the application*-of
lively shoe leather. The case has gone in
to the courts, and will be decided. The
decision of the court will only augment
these difficulties.
There is a similar case io Charleston
where the manager of one of the theatres
refused to allow a negro to take his place
in the dress circle with the white people,
and was arrested therefor.
The school system presents similar diffi
culties. Negroes are already seeking ad*
mission into common schools, and before
long some impetuous darkey will knock for
admission at the door of our Universities.
The Universities of South Carolina, Ala
bama and North Caiolina, have already
been broken up by Radical legislation that
smacked of social equality, and the Missis
sippi University is tottering leneath the at
tacks already.
Ths Northern cities have already, (some
of them,) acknowledged social eqnality by
mingling with darkies at soirees and par
ties. As instances of this, witness Forney’s
reception at Washington, and Grant’s State
dinners, at which negroes have been gnests.
All these facts foreshadow the terrible
straggle that the Southern people will have
upon this social equality idea.
There is but one way to meot this crisis.
We know, and every candid man knows
that there is no practical social eqnality
possible between the white people of the
Sonth, and their former slaves. The sen
sible negroes do not hope for nor desire it,
It is the duty of evory man to deny it and
to practice his denial.
We have never believed that the negro
can be so refined and educated as to become
the equal of the white man. God did not
design him to be his equal, for he gave him
an inferior physical and mental constitu
tion We will never, by the slightest act
or assertion, acknowledge his equality, and
we shall, under no circumstances speak to,
or recognize as a decent man any one who
practice?, or preaches the inlamons heresy
of “social equality.” If our whole people
would adopt this same coarse, the social
oqnality troubles would fade away like a vi
sion. i
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Era 'says the 4tnaie-Courier- has
“fallen into line—commenced attempting a
“3piritof the Ffess.” We do not know
what the Era means, hut will remind it
Pearls.—Gulf of California.—The
Revenue returns for 1869 receivod by last
mail from City of Mexico, show, that the
catch of Pearls and Shell for the past year
on the Gulf Coast of the territory granted
to the Lower California Company ’amounted
to the large snn of 878,000.
This, of course, is the valuation of the
Pearls given by the divers and speculators,
and is consequently very much below the
actual value of the catoh.
A Pearl is sold frequently for 820, which
resold at Panama at 8200, brings 8,1000
in Paris; and in many cases mnoh great
er profits have been made on very fine
gems.
Not over one half the catch is ever re
ported to the Government, and the yield of
the Gulf for 1869 may be safely estimated
at $300,000 in gold. "
Mrs. Victoria O. Woodhull, who has pro.
claimed herself a candidate for the next
Presidential term, is one of the female bro
kers of Wall street. New York. She is
said to be in favor of rcoogniziog the inde
pendence of Cuba, and opposed to the
coarse of the 'Administration towards the
Cuban rebels Further chan t this her
V platform” is not yet known.
that since we took charge of the editorial every one if their neighbors to send in
columns of this paper, we have run a col
umn beaded “Spirit of the Press.” It is
barely passible that it is the Era that has
“fallen into line.”
The Constitution comments on the amend
ment of Morton’s to enforce 15th amend
ment, and especially that clause that pro
poses-to fine and impris. n whoever shall
“prevent, hit der, control or intimidate, by
means of bribing or threats of dopriviue
the voter of employment, or occupation, or
of ejecting such persons from houses or
lands, or other property, or hy threats of
reinsing to reuew leases or contracts for la
bor, or threats of violence to himself or
family.”
The Constitution shows that this takes
frorti the farmer the right to control his
labor contracts. For if he is forced to turn
off a lazy and shiftless darkey b .cause he
wont work, what is more natural than that
the darkey wiUgtwear that he was turned
off for political reasons, and the farmer fin
ed and forced to re-employ him. Treasure
this up, farmers, for the next election..
Fitch, of the Griffin Stir, having found
out that Georgia is the only State now
out of the Utiou, congratulates her on
being the last surviving member of the
glorious Southern Confederacy He advises
Gen. Ames, whuls going to marry But
ler’s daughter, to look out for his spoons.
The Telegraph & Messenger sees in the
dim future a {respect of a fierce “social
equality” war, and advises the people of
the South to instantly ostarcisq any mau
who declares that the negro is the social
equal of the white race
The LuGrange Reporter gives Gen. Ter
ry the following backhanded swipe in re-
lation to his arrest ol Stephens, of Atlan
ta, in direct and flagrant violation ol the
habeas corpus:
“Here we have the case of a good and
peaceable citizen being picked up and
thrown into prison for nothing. He is made
tl e victim of military oppression simply
because a detective imagiues that ho was en
deavoring to conceal a refuge from justice,
without the least proof to sustain a c.iarg-
of the kind. And to “cap the climax” of
this outrage upon personal liberty, General
Terry refused to allow Mr. Stephens to go
To the bedside of a dyipg brother, .offering
togive security in any amount for his re
turn; and then to make the proceeding
still more diabolical, Gen. Terry even re
fused to allow tile prisoner to telegraph his
reasons tor not goiog to his brother. This
exhibits a spirit of mean, vindictiveness
that would shame the meanest civilization.
There poijid have been no harm in tele
graphing tfie reasons for not responding to
the distresses oi' a dead brother's family.
The Savannah Republican has an able
editorial headed “Vox Pcpuli Vox Dei!”
He declares that the people are the rulers of
the country. This is true, and the eI"Ction
in Connecticut gives token that the peo
pie arc gjypking to a. sense of their power.
The Albany News sails for a Georgia
Press Convention, and suggests the assem
bles? of the Southern Convention in Sa
vannah as a good occasion. We second the
call and the suggestion.
The Columbus Snu resrets that efforts
are being taw. c to revive the iofamons
“Freedman’s Bureau.” The samo paper
thinks that with fresh shoals of school
marms and bureau agents will come at
tempts to force negioes iuto common schools
with the whites.
The Sumpter Republican has a leader
advocating the toughest possible resistance
to the schemes of RadLalism—a regular
die in the last ditch” spirit. Verily Mr,
Hancock recovereth rapidly from the effects
of the Press Jjxcursijn t
Let some one then call for a con vention
of the farmers to act upon tbesesugRWtioitt
If only a dozen attend the convention they
can organize, elect officers and an a gent and
publish the fact. Let them theD soli jit
IMPORTED CATTLE AND SHEEP
Cherokee Georgia has poorer cattle tliaa
any section we know of.
Poor, lank, dampy caws, that a Virginia
farmer would drown—melancholly balls
that looks as if they were actually ashamed
to live, and calves that in their meek in
feriority stir our very soul with pity. This
should not be so. In this tolling, rich grass
country, we should have as good stock as
even Illinois can boast.
Why is it not so.
It is not because it is cheaper to raise
poor cattle than it is to raise blooded stock.
A good cow is easier fattened, less troible,
and a far better milker than one whose
parent was a scrubby, ugly little heifer.—
It is not because this is not a good stock
country; for wc know o. no better. It is
not beeause our people cannot afford to
buy good stock, for nearly every tiirmer in
the country could buy a heifer or two, if
he was certain she was of good stock.
The reason is that the good stock was
killed out during the war, and that since
the war there has been no concerted action
on this point.
Now, we have a plan to propose; and we
beg every farmer who reads this article to
consider himself personally a ipealed to and
directly interested in the matter.
Let there be organized, at a speedy day,
a farmer’s club for the importation of blood
ed cattle and sheep. Let them elect officers
and send a reliable agent to a good stock
country, to purchase a car load of fine
calves. Before he goes, let every farmer
in the country inform him as to how many
calves he may want, and let this agent fill
these orders.
We urge the purchase of calves because
they are so much cheaper and so much leu
liable to die. A fine blooded calf can nc
purchased for about fifty dollars. A full
grown cow will cost four hundred dollars,
and is much more liable to die. The ex
penses of this club would be very little.—
It would only have to pay the expenses of
the agent on 1-is purchase trip. A very
smail addition to the price of each calf pur
chased would pay this. A similar method
might be pursued with regard to the sheep.
We have not mentioned the importation of
horses, because that would involve too
much expense for a young club to shoal
der. As to hogs we have already as good
hogs as wp need:—j. e., or wc soop wijl
have, for fine boars and sows are being
brought in constantly, and a man can get
bis bogs as he needs them by private order.
But what we need now is good cattle and
sheep. This is a good clover country. Five
times as much clover and grasses will be
sown this year as ever before. There will
betengood pastures this year to where
there was one four years ago. Let these
pastures be filled with fine, handsome, good
empered, silky-haired cattle.
the See retary ah order for as many calves
as ho wants, and the price he wishes to give.
As soon as enough orders have come in to
justify the agent’s trip, he will start to
good country, and bay them.
Let every one of oar friends who read
this, write os their views,on the subject at
once, so that we can publish them and come
to some un
vast interest to the people.
Lumpkin Weekly Telegraph.—A
very neat paper bearing this name, coines
to our office. It is edited by Messrs. Olis-
hy, and Christian. If the young Clisby
bas oje spark of bis father’s ability,(and'from
the paper before , us. wo think he has,) he
will be sure to succeed. We shall welcome
the yonng aspirant with cordia'ity, and
tender it oar good wishes.
Wn.vr Gov. Bullock’s Friends Think
of the Irish.—A Washington corres
pondent of the Atlanta Era, Gov.Bnllcck’s
official organ, in a late letter to that.paper
says j
From 1824 to 1860, the so-called Dem
ocratic party controlled the country when
ever united. They were enabled to do this
mainly through the Irish vote- hereafter
the colored tative element will bold this
balance of power, and it therefore behooves
Republicans everywhere' to .recognize the
fact and. be governed accordingly. Thirty-
six years of rule by foreigners occupying a
position in the scale of civilization lower than
the most dey railed negro slave, is quite long
enough fur an experiment It has strained
oar Republican torn] qf government to its
utmost tension. All this Is to.be changed
in the future. This is only one of the great
results be accomplished by the adoption
of lbs Fiftoocth Amendment.
Will not every respectable Irishman
io the land, remember this glaring insult,
when the polls are again opened in Geor
gia. - -
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A CHANCE OF REDEMPTION.
It is highly probable that a bill will pass
Congress at the present session, ordering
a'l elections for tbe next Congress to be
held in tbe coming fall.
This will give tbe peoplr a chance to put
in such Representatives as they desire.
We believe and hope that the Democrats
aqd Conservatives will change radically the
present s-atus qf tfie political parties in
that body.
It they do not do it, then this country is
doomed. If an election is resorted to and
the people do not repudiate at the ballot
tox the-e infamous tyrants who are wreck
ing tbe government and fattening off the
people’s misery, we despair of tbe Repnb*
lie.
It is the last chance—it should be im
proved.
If the complexion of Cong. ess is chaqg.
cd all will be well. The Senate is Radical,
and must remain so for years. Bat with a
Democratic Honse, the temper of the Rad
ical Senators would be vastly changed,
to Grant, why, nrhen a Ponjoeratio Con-
ress is elected he will, as Dona Piatt says,
“quietly swing over and smoke on tbe other
sitje.”
■**
THE T4RIFF AGAIN,
Will the Courier answer a plain, courte
ous question? Does it favor protection for
Southern manufactures?—At. Neto Fra.
The Courier will answer the question.
Under the present tariff system, we are in
favor of protection for Southern manufac
tures.
As long as the calico of New England,
the carpets of New England and the iron
of Pennsylvania, are protected by high tar
iff, we are in favor of the same protection
beiDg given to tbe sugar of Louisiana—of
to the young iron works of Georgia, and
Alabama.
Bat wo are opposed to the protection
tariff altogether—we believe that it should
be abolished. It is a monopoly enjoyed by
the capitalists, to tbe detriment of the
poor—it is a monopoly enjoyed by manu
facturers to the detriment of the other class
es of citizens.
As to the practical benefits that the
Sonth will derive from a protection tariff,
tbo following will show their nature.
A few days siuce the Alabama Legisla
ture, wishing to encourago the establish
ment of manufacturing in Alabama, recom
mended that the enormous import duty now
imposed upon English machinery be re
moved so that Alabama coujd import
tha‘ instead of the unreliable machinery of
the North. Immediately a strong lobby of
New England protectionists is sent to Wash
ington to work against the adoption of the
recommendation, and they kill Southern
enterprise, or weaken it,by forcing the pur
chase ofJhigh priced, inferipr machinery.
As to the point we make concerning the
driving of manufacturing capital • to the
South by the abolition of the protective
trriffj we reiterate the assertion made in a
first issuo.
It is a fact becoming noted, and already
established, that tbe Sonth can manufac
ture cheaper than the North. This is es»
pecially true of the iron factories. We
need not elaborate this point. The only
thing that is keeping the manufacturing in
terests conoeetrated in New England, is the
capital that is garnered there. As soon as
the high tariff is removed, disaster will
seize their factories: they will be stranded
in ruin, tbe capital employed to ran them,
will flow (o tbe Southern States, cotton and
iron factories will be erected in Georgia,
(their legitimate home,) and the present
abnormal condition of affairs, in which iron
atjd cotton are transported from- Georgia to
Massachusetts, there worked up apd the
products returned to Georgia to be sold,
will be removed.
Do yon like the picture?
^ ^ 0-
“The Demvitxon Bow-wows.”—A
Conservative Republican organ haviLg
characterized the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania as ‘a miserable body of scoundrels,”
Forney thus retorts:
“Whatsoever may be the political com
plexion oi a State or National Legislature
in this century, it will always repiesent tbe
teople. If tbe latter are scoundrels; out-
aws and reprobates, the former will not be
much bettes. If, on the other band, the
people are moral, intelligent and patriotic,
their representatives will be likely to pos
sess the same excellent characteristics.”
Judging the Northern people by tbe test
of Congress, they must be past all hepe of
salvation in this world or the world to eome'.
—At. Const. *
EDIaORtAL BREVITIES.
- This. is the age of paper. Paper collars
and cufis, paper hats and fans, paper petti
coats and flounces have each, in their tarn,
startled the world, and now we are to have
paper bedclotbing, paper tablecloths, and
paper shoes. Respectable gentlemen, with
unexceptionable linen will please step to tbe
background, and Snobs, with twenty coot
paper shirt bosoms, and glossy paper coats,
will come to the front.
It is raid that Ames married Blanche
Butler.in order to get her father’s influence
in his political squabbles. Does not the
misguiden youth know that by this alliance
be will more than lose in spoons what he
gains in influence?
We see Northern papers boasting that
there is a woman in Georgia who is in favor
of woman suffrage. Who is Bhe? Git
her name and put her out.'
A friend qf Jus. Fisk, jr., in attempting
to prove, that that'gentleman is a very saint
in his prirate life, states that “Mr. Fisk, at
present, supports no less than six poor
young actresses.” Ah, indeed 1
London is agitated now by the approach
of a “Bar-maid Fair.” These Bar maids
correspond to tbe white hou3e-girls of the
North, and a handsome prize is to be given
to the one wbo is-the most beautiful. There
will m t, as bas been stated, be a calf show
at the same time.
It is a rather significant fact that while
tho North is bowling ait tbe Southern whites
to give the negro equality and suffrage
they do-not descant upon th: injustice of
the Haytl negroes,-who will not give equal
ity and suBrage to the few whites who are
upon that island. #
The latest “good boy’' that has been heard
of is a sacrificing youth at West Point, who
went without paper collars all the year, in
order that his - sister might have money
enough to bay a blonde suit of' black hair
He is expected to die yonng. He is too
good for this wicked world.
The Anti-Slavery -Satiety, which has
been in existence for thirty years, having
-accomplished -the objects of its organiza
tion, has just dissolved. We hope the next
tiling we hear of its members will be toat
they are hobnobbing at arms length with
their friend, John Brown and their patron
stint, the Devil
The following facts may be interesting to
some people however harshly they grate up
on the feelings of others: “The difference
between tbe ;ex'es is illustrated by the cus
tom receipts for 1869. ‘Boor man' paid
for cigars $1,237,556 97; brandy, eta.,
85,111 862 80; playing cards, 85,162 30;
liquors 8104,438 12; Fast' Oi;, 810,310 09;
billiard chalk $300 50; total, 86,469,669 69.
Lovely woman’ cost for ribbons, 82,249-
799 58; silk dresses $5,951,993 60; titqcy
fans, 871,82Q 23; chignon hair 8128.680
20; beads 896,216 50; lily white; S69'o36
00; total, $8,579,536 23,
Aaron Aipeorla Bradley has been ap
pointed Superintendent of the Lnnatic Asv
lam at. Columbia. It is tbonght that the
lunatics will .submit to his control and like
him very much, because, yon know, “a fel
low feeling makes us wondrous kind.
There is a girl out West who goes into
the bar-rooms and preaches to the felloes
wbo are there sipping the rosy trine, and
paochiqg the festive bi.liqrda. They prin
cipally laugh at her,
The negroes in the Savannah Postoffice
look at the pictorial papers so mnoh that
they forget to distribute tbe mail matter.
fer,
every 7500 inhabitants; Switzerland one for
every 7000; England one for every
France one for every 2200; Prussia one for
every 2600 and Italy one for every 54,000.
It is a'rather significant fac„ that, in pro
portion to pop ilntion the only two Repub
lics mentioned (the Unite 1 States and Eng-
t'MEpcudlam of Crop Hem.
Tbe Talbottot. Standard knows of sever
al boys'in Talbot who will make six, eight
aod ten bags of cotton each. Th-y arc
planting plenty of corn, too, which is the
only true policy for the South.
There was a considerable white frost vis
ible in these pa ts early yesterday morning.
Irish potato tops were slightly nipped. A-
a general thing, vegetation was tod backs
ward to be materially damaged.—Col Sun.
A very clever and extensive plante* from
Southwestern Georgia, told tbe editor of tbe
Hawkinsville Dispatch recently, that last
yean he made 400 bales of cotton, and lost
'•>5.in the field, which be wob ''nable to
gather. At the same time he had to bn
bacon and corn on time at ruinous ‘
land) have three to one more newspapers W® plaoo tl.q mm. In the ground,—
♦ » Thorn 19 nnt mnnn niftnrnnnn in fha nmnnnf
than any monarchy,
One of the female ' colleges in Central
Georgia has introduced gymnastic and cal-
isthenic exercises into its edacationa] sys
tem. The editors down there ate going
crazy with rapture at the sight of the pret-
ty girls swinging, leaping & twisting about.
A reporter who did hpt^have any paper
with him took down a verbatnm report of
a speech on his wristkands and shirt, collar.
He was famished with - a- clean shirt and
promoted to an editorship at once!
Big John UuPEfriyooD wants Office.
—Big John says he wants the “ortho
graphy of a little office.” He desires the
same place, at tfie same salary of four
thousand dollars, on the Rome Railroad
that Dr. J. E- Blount has on -the State
Road—i. e., hunting np lost cars.
A Muddled Situation.
Large fragments of the so-called Demo
cracy of the Northern States show a great
tendency to wearthe old clothes of Radical-
n. yiHai /•
Weary of battling for principle, they
evince a hypocritical desire to abandon the
ftbe white man’s party by
seeking to oqt-radicaj tfie Radicals 00 tbe
negro question. This is the supreme of
folly. . In tbe first place they will sell their
sonls in vain. They will get no negro
votes to speak of. And, secondly, they
makeit impossible for disgusted Republi
cans to become Democrats.
If men are to chooee between two mon
grel parties, they will adhere to a bold and
successful faction rather than desert to a
pnssilanimously weak one. When Democ
racy sfiall become a second edition of Radi,
aclism, no man who once admired it need
mourn over its dissolution.
The faithful “Copperhead” of the North
may save the ark of the covenant. If they
fail in persevering true principles, no great
expectations need be wasted upon the in
tegrity of the shoo-fly War.Democracy.
They have been weighed in tbe Sunset and
found wanting in all save Cox-combery—
Constitutionalist,
—
There is - a eighty-year-old editor in
Ohio, wbo olaims to have voted for Harry
Clay in 1844 and for General Grant in
1868. Imagine, if yon can, the immense
velocity at which he most have traveled in
order to descend from Henry Clay to Gen
eral Granin the brief space of twenty-four
years—Courier Journal.
Tbe veiy latest novelty in Chicago is tbe
establishment of an association to insure
date glass windows. Several well-known
msiness men are interested in the company.
Many eases of poisoning bare occurred
by contaot oi guano with wounds. It
shonld be handled with gloves.
The School Commissi uers in Iowa pro
hibit “lady teachers” kissing schoolboy*
over eighteen years of age.
The spring style of bonnets is described
as “something like a snn-flower on the peak
of a hay-stack."
“Bat,” said he, “it taught me a lesson,
intend raising my own corn this year.”
Tbe Greensboro Herald reports farmers
in that section greatly behind band in tbeir
crop preparations; wheat looks well; oats in
different. Some few peaches have escaped
aod in son e sections it is said there is a
fine prospect for n crop. The large, and
perhaps tbo most valuable orchard |n' the
county, belonging to Capt. John Branch,
did not escape the breeze.
We were pleased to learn from many fe£
onr friends in Hall, thit they have com
oienoed, and from still larger numbers,
that they are preparing to begin the calti-
vation of clover. They will find in it the
means ol agricultural salvation. Nor are
they confining themselves to clover alone.
Timothy, herds grass, bine grass, and oth
er grasses, are being introduced. Corn is
too expensive, to raise stock on in this conn
try. and onr people are finding it oat.—
Whenever they manage to subsist stock
chiefly on small grain and the grasses —
Northeast Georgia will become one of the
most stock raising countries in the Sonth,
and tbe day is not far distant!—Alliens
W-itchuan.
, We are gratified that tbe. fanners in
Barlow county are devoting more attention
to clover and the grasses, and very soon
stock raising will become general in that
favored section. One gentleman has paid
out this winter for clover seed S150. We
saw some beautiful fields of this plant along
the Etowah, and hope it will soun be Tonne l
on every farm in the State The wheat
crop in Middle and Upper Georgia is prom
ising. though backward. Bdt little corn
and no cotton has yet been planted, the
forest-treea now, in April, are mostly - as
bare of foliage as in winter. Fruit has hetm
bat little injured above Atlanta.—Cor.
Ga. Herald.
We we grateful to learn, says the Cuth
bert Appeal,of the 7th, that stands of corn
promise to be much better than was ap-
prelier ded a few days since.
Tbe continued cool weather causes the
plant to look week and siekly, but a fgw
days of sgnshina wijl renew its strength
and vigor-
A considerable portion of tbe peach crop
still sarvives, also, and there is still some
prospect of a fair supply of fruit.
Tbe apple trees are jnst blooming, and
so far have escaped all injury. Of plqmx
there will be none. Blaeberries are col
yet- iq bj'issoip.
' As qn illustration of the backwardness sf
ihe rresent season, we. heard a gentloman
remark that at this date 'ait year, his Irish
putatqes were as large as an egg. Now they
have done little more than straggle to the
surface.
Lettuce and mustard constitute onr oply
“gardon sass” at present, though spring
turnips and English peas are coming for
ward rapidly. Tbe latter is in blossom.
Some of onr cotton planters are petting
in tbe seqd this week, apd jn a recent ride
through the country everywhere the preeze
was tainted with the odor "of gnqno.
As to the freedmen, they a]| smell like
they hqd been rooting for a month with
the erases of the Cbincba Islands.
To the husbandman matters begin to
wear a more cheering aspect.
A subscriber of the Constitutionalist
writes from Walton county “that the peach
crop is mostly killed; There are some few
iarni8 where they are not entirely destroyed
Apple trees are now in bloom, with q good
prospect lor frait. Wheat looks very fine
and mnqh mope land has heen sown - than
usual. Oats, such os were sown in the ear
ly tall, are very promising. The spiin;
sowing, owing to tbe cold, is backward and
very indifferent. Farmers are mostly en
gaged in planting corn. __ This week and
Iffiere is not much difference in tbe amount
of land planted .this‘year and last. Tho
ground for cotton is about ready. Gnauo,
of the many brands, baa been extensively
nsed, and it is hoped planters may realize
a profit, bat let as wait and see. The far
mere complain of a scarcity of labor, which
bas induced many to bay tbe “Salkey Cul
tivator ” which so far gives entire satisfac
tion. One band and two males can do the
work of four moles and bands. Some few
farmers are tryiog the various grapes, with
promise of success. I have seen one farm
er with very fair clover for any country.
Dick Taylor,’a colored youth of 105
summers, died at Cothbert last week. He
had 60 living children, 20 «f whom, were
by one wife.
The Savannah market shows these fig
ures : beef 25 cents; poultry 81 to 81 50
per pair; docks 82; turkeys 83 to 84 50.
The Fort Gaines Mirror notes the catch
ing of a rock fish in the Chattahoochee
river, at that place on Friday, weighing
thirty pounds.
The Cotton States’ Mechanics and Agri
cultural Fair Association will invite Hon.
George H. Pendleton to deliver an address
at the Fair next October.
A little girl aged eighteen mouths,
daughter of Dr W.Q. Phillips, of Augus
ta, was poigened oq Tuesday, by sucking
; fellow jessamine flowers, and died in two
Three hundred and twenty.eight saoks
of dsmaged com sold at Savannah Mon
day for 81 70 per bushel.
Samuel Bowman, one of the guards of
the Savannah street gang, was accidentally
shot on Monday. The limb * of a falling
tree struck and 1 discharged his gon.
The Savannah Republican extracts from
the American Missionary, a Radical
monthly pretending to be religions in
character, tbe following report of mission
ary operations at Savannah:
Rev. G. A. Good reported for Savannah.
Our church is yet small. Onr work for
this is to pat np a small building. Tbe
ehnrch was organiz; d in March, and has
had two revivals- The congregation 0 am
bers about sixty, sometimes eighty or nine
ty. Tbe colored people are a good .'deal
controlled by tbe rebels. In the last elec
tion the colored people cast two bnodred
and thirteen Democratic votes. .Tbe col
ored people are well organized into church-
We have in the school three bandied
pupils. The Catholic influence is strong
against ns. Many of the colored people are
Catholic. Nortbern.men keep very quiet.
Last spring they were compelled to go two
and two with revolvers in their pockets. -
The Republican ofSnnday says Savan
nah is particularly hoiored at tbe present
time by the presence of distinguished Con
federate leaders. Gen. Lee and Gen. John
ston stand in tbe front rank, and we learn
that Gen. Hardee is expected here to day
on a visit to his relatives. Gen. Gonzales
is also among onr visitors, and among those
resident and doing business in onr city, we
have Gens. Lawton, Lovel, Jackson, Sor
rel, Kirkland, Finegan, Anderson and
Dickerson, all of whom bore conspicuous
part* in tbe late straggle.
.tlanta City Council have probibi-
The Atlanta City
de Sunday—shaving by
nancU. - • ~-
A sturgeon s
200 pound-) —
chec river,
pro
a recent ord -
weighing
Chat taboo
jmm
The Savannah News announces inter
esting revivals at the'Mclhodiat Churches
of that city.
The first strawberries of the season were re
ceived from the Jasper Spring Farm.
Col. John W. Howard, of Bollock coun
ty, Alabama, has invented an apparatus
by which a gin can be made to feed it
self..
The Columbus Son says that 875,000
iifity tax. and 847,000 State tax. has
been paid by Muscogee comity within thir
teen mODths. .
3Ir. Joel: D.-.Estes, aged.82 years, died
in Columbus Saturday.
W. T. Lightfoot, one of Macon’s best cit
izens, was buried on the 9th.
The Macon Jonrual states that native
gold was found in blasting rock for . the
new bridge. - iAacaA
The fishing season, bas set in at Macon
Tbe Savannah papers convey the sad
intelligence of the death of two good citi
zens and clever gentleman—Charle- E.
O’Snllivan and John'C. Ferrell.
Death of the Oldest Citizen.—
Patrick 'Connor.the oldest resident of Atlan
ta, wbo settled in this vicinity when it was
inhabited by the Indian, and a'-out the
second white man who settled here, died on
Sunday, at an advanced age. He was buri
ed yesterday afternoon, atten led by a large
concourse of triends. He was a good citi
zen and a clever gentleman.
Under the.head “Important to Planters^’
the Snn says :
The case of the two negroes whom 3Ir.
Sid. Lowe had brought from North Caro
lina, under a contract to work for a year,
and who bad left, his employ, were brought
before Justice Torry, at the Jourt-housc,
yesterday. The charge was swindling and
cheating. One (Gen. Barber) was tried by
jury. Tbe verdict was; guilty. He was
sentenced to three mouths on chain gang,
or a fine of 850. The other negro (Gar
uant) declined to go to trial, and the coart
pnt him uod ir $100 bond for his appear
ance before the May term of the.Superi
or Court.
A telegraph line from Brunswick to Ma
con bas been commenced.
SAVANNAH.
A Relic.— On- tbnrsday last the dredge
boat brought np, from in front of tbe wharf
at the foot of Abercoru street, among a lot
of mad, etc,, q -moll oast-iron swivel gun of
nqe and a half inches bore and two feet
six inches in length, a wooden stopper be
ing io the muzzle. It was grappled five feet
below tbe bottom of the liver, and ia qu'te
an ancient looking affair. Its age is
matter of conjecture —some persons at
serting (bat It dates back to Oglethorpe's
tiepo—Redullicau 9th.
qENER.tl. ANU RORI.IC-M. NOSES'
i An old war-doff Drawling,
. Io a recent conversation, Gen. Banks,
one of tbe ablest. Radicals in tbe Honse,
averred,” If he bad bis way,he would make
war on the Southern States, and again take
military possession of them.” Being asked
to explain tbe object of snch a coarse
against States which have complied with
all the requirements of the reconstruction
arts, he answered that what the Republi
can party hare .to feeristhe Nortlernand
lYestern Democracy, af d safety in sucia
juncture demands a new and arbitrary con
trol of the Sonth.
The statement of which the substance is
this, was repeated by Gen. Banks at a din
ner party. Nor are snch asseverations
confined to him or to half a'dozen like' him,
—Balt. Gazette.
msmmmmemmmm
Secretary*’ Office,
A AUKICULTPIAL SOCIETY,
TED in Atlanta, and will b* open from
till 4 p. m. each day, except Sabbath
I -winners of Premiums, at the late
Macon'Fair, are requested to present their claim:
in person or by written order. Punctual atten
tion, a* well as to correspondence, is pledgad.
Tbe office of Chief Seer jtary is vacated by tbe
resignation of Mr. D. W. Lewis, but uttil
place is filled, which will be at an early day, ad<
dress THOMAS C. HOWARD,
Assistant Secretary,
aprI2tw-wlm Atlanta, Georgia,
L<V &
FAIR NOTICE
TO COTTON WAMEHOIMB MEN.
TO GUANO MEN.
Agricultural Implement Men,
ANl> THE FRIENDS OF
Special Premiums.
THE PREMIUN LIST
For 1870, is in the Hands of the Printer and
will be ready for distribution about the first of
May. Parties intending to offer
Special PrealMs,
are requested to band the notice in at once, tor
the purpo.e of having them embodied in the
Premium List.
<*- F. JONES, Sec’ty-
aprSttr-wtf
GEORGIA Polk Connty.
W HEREAS Mrs. A. C. Swanraa, Executrix
of J. It. 8waneon, deceased, has applied
for leave to sell the Real estate of said deceased,
all persons are hereby Betified to file their ob-
ectiors in m; office withit the time specified by
aw, to leave being granted the applicant to sell
said Roal Estate. Given under my hand and of
ficial signature, this April 11.1870.
F. M. CLARK. Ord’y.
S. A. BORDERS, Dep. C C O.
apr!4w30d
The Frails of the fifteenth Amendment,
‘As sure as tbe slightest altercation
taxes place between 1 niggej* and white
men at the polls of any town or city in a
Northern State, (and snch altercations will
qrlse,) United Slates'troops will be sent on,
and a military despotism in the North,
like that now reigning in the South, will be
set np. aod once commenced, will continue.
Thefraits of this will be the election of
General Grant in 1872, who can, if he
obooses, merely walk over the coarse.—
People of tbe Northern States, you forget
that “eternal vigilance” is tho price of lib
erty.
You have been sleeping. See where yon
are! Yon may by public meetings and
strong remonstrances, now stop the en
croachment of your rulers. Hesitate, and
yo are shackled. Are there noPatrick Hen-
rys left In the : democratic ranks?”—N. Y-
Day Boole.
Brick Pomeroy’s Doetria*.
In endorsing the fifteenth amendment,
Senator Hendricks is not helping the ne
gro; is qotaiding the Democratic vote; is
not, like a patriot, working for the good of
his country; but is tamely submitting to the
centralization of power to the in?ury of the
rights of States And no good Democrat
will thus stab the heart of bis protec
tion. . . } ..,4 , < .
It is a pity to see tall old hickories decay
and fall to the earth, bat thank God for
the second gr -wth of more hardy timber!
So long as the Republican party set up
wooden calves, and so lung as office-banting
Democrats kneel in the mud to worship, so
so long will there be abundant work for
truer, braver, and better meq,
The fifteenth amendment was not intend
edto benefit the negro, bat to make anoth
er liqk to tbe usurping. chain intended to
bind sovereign States the shve of a tyran
nical,- centralized despotism. And that
not a Democrat w^o will not defend the
honor and integrity, the purity and power
of this State.—aY. Y- Democrat.
What Ben Hill Jr. thinks or Universal Safi,
frage.
“The moral malady, the social distemper
the political epi Jeniio of this :>ge, is the ma
nia for equality. Equality! A word un
known in God’s vocabulary; which is fall of
infidelity to God’s law, and of treason to
God’s government.
The most fatal form in which this mad
ness has yet isen exhibited, is in the at
tempt to degrade woman to political equal
ity with man, in .many of the nations con
sidered civilized and Christian.
But to the stuaeotsof Southern civiliza
tion, there is inexpressibly comfort and hope
the fact that our true native Southern
women have thus far exhibited no symp
tom of this disease. Here at least, women
still combines courage witl modesty; intel
ligence with refinement; usefulness with
delicacy, an i power w : th retirement.
Here tbe voice of woman kas not degen-
politicians brawl. Whether we "should d>g
onr capital from the earth, or .invite it from
other lauds; whether we should fill onr
field and forests with immigrants; whether
we shall make our own laws, or live under
the rule, of others, are questions about
which Southern men differ. ,
Send ns if you will, Dutch, Irish, Turk,
Mongrel and Chinamen; send armies of
Union invaders, treasury thieves, oarpet-
bag rqlers and African voters, bat spare,
', spare onr Southern land the inflictirn
Womans’ Rights Conventions, female
demagogue, and Yankee sbe-he’s!
Vermont papers give credence to the
following rat story : “Rats are (making
savage work among cattle in Marshfield.—
Eli Spencer has hid five cows badly eaten
by rats while they were tied it the stable.
They have gnawed holes two inches deep,
and mangled them shoekingly.”
*• B^COLCIOCCH, JOBS BAKUXX, CA1H CLOTXX.
COLCLOUGH, HABHNS& GLOVER
Are in receipt of their Stock oi
SPRING m SUMMER GOODS,
Which is the largest and most complete of any
they have ever brought to this market. It con-
Staple Dry Goods,
Administrators .
B ry of Floy,i a CoMty 8 Iw-H il J!l*0-
)lenc« of Thom.s fj. ‘ "T 11 »?11
deceased, io Rome *£S|
sonal property belongiu*
. 4 nx 0fH„ a! e, lu ld and ki.%*«*W, ( fe|
The sale will begin at ele*. ’ 3
’t*;.
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DR. LA-miENCE,
Highly Concentrated PJoid
the greathealtu Eestoe ^'
No Quack Medicine Formula atoned ti.
prepared solely bt
DR J.*J. LAWRE^i
- ZtWAXIC
Norfolk, y a
Strikes at the Root of Duels, v.
Blood Rcxtoring the Liver uj
A Healthy action, and Inn*,
the Nervous
This is the secret of its
in CURING
Scrofula, Syphilis
vigorxt.j 1
Liver Complaint, Chronic -1 ._ _
gra, Nervous Affectionj.ThZ*! 1 :
tho Skin, Humors. Loii
Diseases of the Kidsev JU / r
Blander, and all Disra^
es caused bra
SAD STATE OF THE;
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LIVER. KIDNEYS, NEB roVSST.
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mor and Bad Taint, and rcstoiwihem^ 6 '
tem to a healthy condition.
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creatures, to strong. Healthy ,,/w
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Foreign and Domestic Dress Goods,
Philadelphia Custom Made
BOOTS & SHOES,
For Men f Women and Children, of Milea k Sons
make, (cheaper than ever before,) and an im
mense stock of Eastern made Boots and Shoe?.
Clothing,
Notions,
&C<| &c«
This S*ock has been purchased since the heavy
decline, end will be offered at extremely loir pn-
— for
O A. S
We will oflfer to those buying at Wholesale,
Goods as low as any other Jobbing House in the
oountry, and at retail, at unrivalled
LOW PRICES.
We will continue to receive Goods weekly,
hich will enable us to supply the Trade with
the latest novelties jf the season.
Wo respectfully invite the public to call and
teat the truth of what we say.
No. 9 Shorter Block,
Bobo, Georgia.
Endorsed and recommended by -As l,
of the .Faculty of the E. Medical Cota"
of. tbe City of New York
Prolessor R. 8. MEWTON, M. D.
Professor and Pea'-dentof tbe Fscnltr.ta-:-,
fessor Theory and Practice” of X*
cine, Cincinnati, Jtc.
One ot the most eminent medical ■oada
age- well known as tbe author of the C-
standard medical works: Newton's
iledicine,”. “Diseases of Cbildrss,”
Sjmcs Surgery,” Ac., in December sL - J
American Medteal Review—pageZH,i»j* I
“Among the more recent efforts to mm
popularly, some new remedies, weaoticem
preparation compounded by J. J. lewrene.1
D., ui Norfolk, V&, which is furniihel kh
profession and the public in any deiirtd m-i—
We recently examined kit Latcratm, uii
came fully satisfied that ail bis w.rkudom|
the be.t manner, by the most approved pi
and from the best materials,giving assn
medicine meeting the confidence of the '
cians and the public.
Koskeo Cures Scrofula In its Wont F #
- From A. W. MILLS, a prominent
known merFsnt of Norfolk R I
No 11 Main Street, Norfolk, Ts, f,epUj,j*|
Dn. Lawnrsca—Dear Sir: Yarn Kgbkl
worked wonders in my fiunily, Mj ends I
has been a sufferer from ScrolUa tmeafil
hood. She lost thirty one peices of toe til
her ancle, several from her erm, besijah—I
ulcers in several parts of. the body, ftier I
this condition shecommeneed taking jurbl
too—it acted fib a charm on her; under itiuil
ulcers gradually heated,and her jenirei til
greatly improved. It eeitainly saved her mil
suffering, and perhaps her life. Ireprdfcal
a specific tor all scrofulous affections. Tierlsl
too also cured my wife f dispepsis, fron rj I
she suffered greatly, She is sow is Utter b
than she has heen in five years.
With, the highest regards,
Ian gratefully yours, An,
f. ff.Hmi I
Kossoo is endorsed by the bestpkjsdtnwl
ery where. Read the lolloxiug frcnDrTer; l
a successful practitioner of msur teinthilel
in the Old North State: ' 1
Rocky Mount, Edgecombe Cs, I
September It. ISO. 1
D* J. J. IiAVBexcx—Dear Ein I lire oJ
your Concentrated Fluid EitncUfKo4»»|
my practice with the happiest result!. Ifclil
to be * powerful Liver Inrigorstor, Bkedho-I
fier, and Nervous Tonie. In til diy.nu dial
Liver, Scrofulous, Syphilitic and Strum his I
tious, it is a remedy of IMMESSE
fact, in almost every Tariety of Cbroee I
es its use is indicated. Hoping yen msrtdl
with the succoes which rondesmean no I
factarer of reliable medieioer, I am sir, c|
much respect.
Your obedient sernit,
B. B. TILLEBT, JLfi
Koskoo Cores Chronic Ehenmati® I
Nofolx, Va, Sept 7, I*- f
Dr. J. J. Lawrexcz—Dear Sin I
ceived to much benefit from yenrwmfamiw ■
koe that I cannot refrain fromeiprtm:j"T' I
itude. I had tried almost everythin* I
benefit. I believe, in all sincerity, tbjd* I
Koskoo is an infallible remedy lor tw F
from which he has suffered, and,» M u I
learn, has never failed. If you nlj^ I
immense amoun of suffering that he mar ■
gone, taen you could conceive thevsits* I
a remedy as Koskoo—that surely oat I
jreat amount of good it is now dotag ***! |
is ineatimable.
Wi much gratitude,
lam.respeeMyoms,^
Thu Utley Plow.
It is the Beet and Cheapest
All like it who know it.
It is a Toner, Sob-8oiler,
- Sweep, Ac.
rriHS is belisved to be tbe best Plow ever ia-
X vented for the general uses of the Flutter.
It is a complete model of simplicity, .-ombinsd
with straagji and durability. It bw hat threo
erated into the traders’ equivoque, or tbe bolts, and in one minute it can be converted
1 u'k-.i j:.. into Turner, Sweep, Sub-eoiler or Shovel. The
Caetiage can be bought of the Agents at $3,60
and any ordinary workman eon stock them. Or
the Plow, nil complete, will be sold at Rome and
Atlanta, far $6 SO, sad at Columbus at $0 W.—
These Plows are
Warranted to givo Satisfaction
and in nil esses tbs money will bo refunded .1
they bii.
They are being manufactured in Rome. Atlan
ta and Columbus:
The following are Agents:
Ayer, Hills A Co., Rome,
Morrison A Mitchell, fl
W L Wadsworth A Co, “
C W Nowlin, 8ummerville, Ga.
Addnsa J. P. GRIFFIN, ProaV,
aep7tw2w wtf Rosie, So.
Read the following from Mr. Wonl’-it^ I
inent Hardware Merchant of this _
Nr. 13 Market Square, KorSJLJ 1 ’-
H October I* ** i
Dr. Lawrence—Dear Sin X* 7*? ^ I
ber of testimonials which y(iffi offer * |
efficacy of yoar Koricoo, I lak* I
lug my own. I suffered greatly I
bifity. Headache, lot* of Appe&J• •
bottles of Koskoo restored me to healu-
Yours truly, Q ^ ■
From Rev. W. H. Christian, Pastor 1
die Street Methodist Church U» I
Fortsm.uth.VeJMifc'ftil
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well. He is a gentleman of 3* I
worthy of the fullest confidence. 1 t'.y, I
his Koskoo with advantage te n > J !e j rfi I
adopted its use in my family in e*=e o ■
debility and depression.
FBOMDR. LLOYD.A PHYSICIAN OF I* 1 ” |
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GreatBridgo, Vs., Octoher- 5 ^
d*\
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by far all the various compounds f
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