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Newspaper Page Text1 ^ es0F ..!! £ .^- •-* l 1 ^ lSV , A ^moVe one copy will bo far- I it ADVERTISEMENTS- I XiEflA 1, . „. r ist rators, Electors or I of kand 4l - v i bv low to be held on I *&£ «• between the li. U i^T° e -“ l3 'Vfce- “renoon and three in the E$ te “ 2 j Court House in the county m |5^j3£&*"* bc giTe “ in a pnV I 40 da " f/of personal property must r^ of . t ;teffl‘inner P through a public gar- XwdnTaei Credits” of an estate, I will be made to the rasest— to sei1 ' ani m fagtad f * T,2 r ° a Dt of Administration, Guar- l&i f ° r Imt be published 30 days-for J,S 4c ’’ ^Administration, three months- IpW*!” fro m Guardianship, 40 days. 1 ii!, “ teccloseure of Mortgages must ules for ,j i v r or four months—for es- ubliite* 1 m0 °*/f or the full space of three milling titles trom Executors or “wbU bond has been given by thef«H space of three months I V ' "'ways be continued accord- 1 publications wii. re ’ uircme nts, unless oth- j ! rin I i r<lir rates. Ll'^geTf^slUrPle'y- ^ g° fe“S3» ■»“?£“ )*£*$£*»from # ## Wtewand cVeditors, * “J ^URDAY MORNiyG, June 4. dUESCES- In this (Jay of extreme men and extreme Lues, we am led to remark that con- Liism is synonymous with cowardice. A Land determined stand taken upon a ,| ciearcut platform—a substitution mple, unadulterated pluck for whin- and conservatism—a pun; compromise ' g a way of all claptrap diplomacy, and [strict adberaacc to vital principle-these, U these only are the paths to victory, f lie people having been schooled for the Lj ltt jears to a bloody and brash system Ip political ethics, look with suspicion up- L, milt and water conservatism, however Lpered it may be with wisdom and jus te. Bright, blue and red arc the favorite lifasof the day—the bastard purple is of L mild a tint to attract attention. Cmrmtism to-day is cowardice. ITeat tnced Democrats who have ba be frightened at the advance and success Jf Medium, are scared by every fresh Hefeat into a new departure from Demo- ttic tanels. and huddle together in a sub- | iri:at tremor which they ca’I conserva- sx instances of this have been seen in Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and list notably in Soutti Carolina. In Vir- Kiii they have failed. Cahoon (a dirty Kbdical) swept the city of llicbmond against Ebn (Conservative). In Mississippi lit; have sent a negro to the Senate and have 1st beaten in every fight. The fate of the Benaessee milk and water men has been Imtelj less enviable. In Texas Davis C ) beat Hamilton (Conservative). In Carolina, in the v< ry inauguration of ■is disastrous movement, we see- Whit* pie, who bas just been expelled from feres, returned by his negro constitu- I ial we might spin the tale of disasters pcit hive befallen these misguided men to iMer length, but we forbear, feeling pmeed that every sensible man, who is E to Radicalism, knows that his right ia the ranks of the present Demo- |®iie party. It is the only bulwark against and if the people do not in- tscives behind it, they are lost, pic, in Convention assembled, ESp upon a vigorous platform, and hem fight it ont. Let them de- f e against the tariff—against the income r I ~*?unst the too hasty and unwise con- P® Ja of the public debt—against the le wrongs of the present j~Jnistrahon, and let the main and vital p ot the campainn be, J The right of each State to regulate the pter of suffrage in its own borders. [As UjiujcKY Wight.—George Evans, I >r blaster of the State Road at At- WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION." VOLUME XXTV. ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 10, 1870. NEW SERIES-NO 41. CENSUS TAKERS IN THIS SECTION OP GA. The following are; the appointees to take the census in the various conuties of this section ; with their Post Office address : Floyd— A. W. Caldwell, Rome. Polk—W. C Barber, Van Wert. Chattooga—W. Shropshire, Dirt‘Town. Cherokee—Isaac Ingram, Canton. Paulding—E. SL Carter, Dallas. Haralson—W. D. F. Mann, Tallapoosa. Carroll George W. Merrell, Carroll ton. Catoosa—C. S. Evans, Ringgold. Walker—L. K. Dickey, Frick’s Gap. Gordon—F. C. Wilson, Calhoun. Dade—G. Stephens, Sulphur Springs. Bartow—Aaron Collins, Cartersville Murray—R. M. Rembert, Spring Place Fnlton—Henry Martin, Atlanta; George B. Chamberlin, Atlanta ; Joseph S. Smith. Atlanta. Cobh— J. C. Bell, Marietta. Ask Fitch.—The Constitution is busily asking where the wines and brandies used on the late lamented Press Excursion came from. We don’t know where they came from, but would suggest that Fitch is a mighty good man to ask where a great part of them went to. Accident in Charleston.—A builds ing on King Street, that was being recon structed fell last Tuesday, instantly killing a negro and badly wounding several white workmen. Shooting in Savannah.—Daniel Li Moses, on last Tuesday, shot Wm. Smith ia an altercation abont laborers. „ beccnse he took r ® tE1 *of the large-limbed Variety girls There was no harm P*, for what ha, iifl' ■rm can there be in bath- KL l -Ry was that he did’nt L-1 ?ayl !“ Ie Blod S ett *» go along I ej swim with them. bjf ” 5 . r ' 0lne3 a Smart P b J sician > wl10 T proper care, Brownlow’s life Ftais ;r ed f ° r fifteen y ears longer.— nws <opcor oid Satan, who I. w ougaod so anxiously licking over the l on g expected morsel.— ljtwS.1- 6n ^’ Scratch; fifteen r,4«/ S ' A! * y,lASC0 - — ^As we prediet- filffls. ?' 5ns ' laTe mek with disastrous Hijjj 4v ory collision with the enemy r^jj" 0 *' lie awards. Oneilwasar- iiojl- * f P art of the raid, and fe^«nce thB has been the iitnij j,,to eat and drink.— ’ ms P irin s Nelv 2 > the J have been only mod;: CoI: Mosb y ™ ^ T 0 ^, interested, in this mid. r ^ DE l ( f pomun OAoqu atp |f'[og— ® a V2u;doo3i si nosuiopj p - g.voiR jcv oaxorr 'H >p 5(1 2 P '-’ 10 0Jl ’ P n ® “OpiM e S0AU9J ■0 'iu. q 10"!') paw p[o eucoT ggscai sa JlD 10uni seta noSeta sjq anqta P^l ‘uv osqoraqo I - M-^'J-Eaaiooy tvj;vj L Sl ^VwS BY ‘-' Wel - r ^hatt.he ir^atoAr !° d S “ teea hundrnd “ 1 hfo»uin»it, laON W ° BKS —The A Model Governor* The Atlanta Constitution pnblises three columns of charges and specification against Governor Bullock, emanating from Treasu rer Angier. A considerable portion of this indictment has already been made public. We give the concluding passages as a speci men : “While the Governor neither gives in nor pays any State, county, city, or reve nue (income) tax, there was collected, through one house in the city in the space of a few weeks, nearly $15,000 on the Gov ernor’s drafts or -checks’ dravn while he was in Washington in favor of parties there, on the bank hero, where the State railroad deposits are kept, mder circumstances that indicated to those who present the drafts or checks,’ that the Governor’s personal ac- oonnt was exhausted or greatly overdrawn, or that the State railroad funds were suf fering. One thing is certain, if he has these-tiens of thousands to his personal cred it, he is defrauding not only the General and State governments, but. county and city. This is the mortification the great ‘Em- >ire State of the Sooth’ is reduced to, of laving a Governor who prates loudly of elective franchise, while he has failed to place himself in a condition to be entitled to the common privilege of the ballot box by reason of not having paid even a poll tax, except one or two dojlars last year, un der city execution for double poll, for fail ing to give in. Where do his tens of thousands spent in Washington come from ? The tax payers would like for the committee to investigate this point.’ [Communicated. Railroad Enterprise. Rome, Ga., June 3d, 1870. Eds. Courier—I feel all of one hnn- dred*per cent better since 1 attended the meeting at the City Hall on Thursday night. It was emphatically a fastness meet ing—all seemed in earnest, and willing to do all they oonld to promote the interest of our growing city. What was done, was well done, and will no donbt lead to glori- ons results. We hope His Honor, the May or, will appoint a icorking committee—one that will take a proper view of all oar sar- roandings, and not be afraid of a few dol lars, but be liberal, for it will pay, and that in a short time. One enterprise will lead to another—one will secure another. The suggestion of “Coosa” is a good one, and I hope we will have the meeting and the barbecue, and an old-fashioned one at that, and invite all living on the line of the contemplated road. All that I have heard speak of it, are in favor of it. A Citizen. [Communicated. Chattooga, Co., Ga., June 3,1870. Eds. Courier—Chattooga county will second the motion of “Coosa” to have a rail.-oad meeting and harbecne in the city of Rome on the 25 th of .July. We hail the proposition with delight, and feel sure Walker will also. What say you, Polk? Have the meeting and barbecue by all means, and invite all interested in the road, from the seaport to Chattanooga. Chat tooga will send down her quota of meals, men and pretty women. Walker will do likewise. So, go ahead and make all the necessary arrangements for the meeting and bafbe* enc The road from the seacoast via Co- Iambus, LaGrange and Rome to. ChaUanoo; ga, is the one that we feel interested in, and. is the one that will receive our undivided energy and means Our prospects : for good crops were never more promising—the surplus of which vie will dedicate tb the building of the road, and the means ire already have at our com mand. So kaep the ball in motion.' ‘ "1”, ■“ . Chattooga. The total number of Indians in the Uni ted States; according to n’ census made in 1869 by Commissioner Parker, is 378,577. Alaska, California,and the Eastern States claim a,hundred thousand of -these, leaving for the Indian, population of the plains but a little oyer 270,000.- The tribes now en-‘ gaged in hostilities number about 40,000, of which.about J, or 5,000 are able-bodied warriors. . * . . Stamped Paper.—Commissioner Delano _ _ has approved a design for a.stamp to be im- with the words printed on blank' paper with the words, “Good only for a bank check” printed across it. This new form of stamped pa- per will be supplied under certain _ restric- tions, so that parties may have their bank checks printed where, and by whom they choose. M Tile White Man’s Issue. From all quarters of this State come the cheering intelligence that the Democratic party is standing like a breakwater against the inky tide which threatens to ‘ inundate and devastate the land. While the Radicals are prostrate in the dost before the ebony idol, wil ing to sacrifice their honor and manhood, the proud history, the glori ous achievements, the resplen lent future of the Caucasian race for negrp votes, the old Constitutional Democratic party prefers principles to success, and. is preparing to take the field against the last and most dan. gerous and disgusting heresy of the party in power. With the Democracy of thia.State, oppo sition to negro suffrage is not-a question ot policy, a measure of expediency. They do not and will not ask’which side of the ques tion will bring the largest support to na tional, State or local tickets. They believe this is a white man’s country, a white man’s government-. They know that white men framed and adopted our politioal institu tions for themselves and their posterity, and for wise reasons exelndcl negroes from Qy{ compact. They algo know that the 15th amend ment was forced upon the nation by fraud and the bayonet, and that the Radicals mean to use the negroes to perpetuate their power, to enable them to plunder the tax payers, and that the ballot in the hands of the black man will injure both the negroes and the nation. Armed with such facts as these, the Dem ocrat’s party has appealed to the white men of this State, and means to “fight it out on that line” against the Radicals and their negro allies.’Upon this issue the Democrat ic press is a unit, and are publishing arti cles full of point, courage and emphasis.— Philadelphia, Pa., Age. late Telegrams. Wbolesale Slaughter of Jews In a Turkish Province. Constantinople, May I.—The fearful vindictiveness of the native Christians, in Romalia, a Turkish Province, against the Jewish population,, culminated Sunday in wholesale butchery ot the Jews by the Christians. Thousands of men, women and children, were dragged frem their houses and slaughtered. The work of slaughter still goes pn in the interior. The authori ties have made no movement to check i£j— The Christians took advantage of the ab sence of the reigning Prince, Charles, and at a preconcerted signal, began the total extermination of their enenemies. Washington, June 3.—House.—A hundred brewers of New York petition not to be classified as manufacturers of spirit uous liquors, and two hundred tobacco manufacturers of New York petition for a uniform tux of 16 cents. Cadet Whitmore has been re-elected a member of Congress from Sonth Carolina. The President nominated R. M. Wal lace Collector of the 3d South Carolina District, vice his brother, A. S. Wallace, recently seated in Congress. The President’s nominations for West Point are confined to sons of soldiers and sailors. None from the Sonth. Senate confirmed Wallace Collector of the 3d Sonth Carolina District. Grant presented Spotted Tail with a fine pipe, silver match box and box of tobacco. Red Cloud was not present. He had a friendly interview with Spotted Tail thl morningand will, with his people meet the Indian Committee and Secretary of the in terior in conncil to-morrow. Spotted Tail and his delegation had a conference to day at the White House with the President and Secretary of War. Bout- well and Hoar were present bat did not take part in the conference. Toe Indians recited the old story of wrongs, and desired to be at peace with the whites. The President also spoke, as suring them of the desire of the govern ment to have peace, and told them that the whites were powerful, and would compel, if• necessary, but hoped for amicable rela tions between the nations. Spotted Tail said the Indians had kept' their promises but the whites had not. Columbus, O., June 3.—-The Demo cratic State Convention passed resolutions den >uncing the tariff and internal revenue laws, and pronouncing the law for the en forcement of the 15th amendment, uncon stitutional. Macon, June 2.—The Boaad of Trns tee’ of Oglethorpe College, in meeting here to-day determined to begin the erec tion of College buildings in Atlanta, to be finished in time for Commencement Exer cises in January next. David Willis, D. D., accepts the Presidency, and enters up on his duties immediately. The College bnildings at Midway are to be converted into a High School.' Col. A. H. Kennn, a prominent lawyer of Milledgeuille died to-day. . Geneva, June 3.—The agents of Ma- zini are active here. It is apprehended that a -formidable se cret movement is on foot. The Govern ment has taken precautions. Chicago, June 2.—Minnesota voted largely to pledge the State lands in aid of railroad enterprises. New York, June 3.—The widely circu lated dispatch that Seward is paralyzed, is false. His health is as good as usnal. John Connor, of Waterford, is dead— aged 92. He wasdh the Presidential elec tion of. Jefferson. A . fearful ride on a bell was lately taken by a lad in the village of Fully, canton Valois, Switzerland. He was seated on the bell when the ringer commenced to poll it. Not able tohold on, he fell from the tower, and was picked dp senseles ahoiit thirteen feet from the church. In his fall he had broken two wooden ernoi fixes. .Strange to.say he was hardly hurt, but could relate his own , adventures in a few minutes after the event. Twenty-seven millions of francs won on one bet! The Dnke of Hamilton .is the lucky- mortal. He wins twenty francs on each vote above six millions' given for the Emperor in the plebiscitnm, from the mem- of the .Jockey .Club. The bet was as fol lows: The Dnke te pfty to the members of the club two Louis to every vote,under six mil- loins, and to receive one Louis for every vote above that dumber. And he won. True.—-‘The itan that will take a;news- paper for a .length'of time, and then-send it back ‘refused,’ and unpaid for, would swallow a blind dog’s dinner, and then stone the dog for being blind.’—Ex. ’ He would do worse than that. He would marrv a girl on trial, and send her back with’the words ‘don’t suit’ chalked on her back, after the honeymoon.’—Iron City. *’_ W p “Quite correct, my dear, the natives of South Africa do not require clothes to keep them warm, because .they are Hottentots, don’t you see ! Coolies are a different sort of people altogether.’ The Recent Arson and Murder Case In Greene Co., Ala.,—Another Opportunity for “Loyal” Indignation. The Livingston Journal says that a ne gro man arrested on suspicion of beir g im plicated in the killing of Mr. Markham. It gives the the following account: His stoiy was, in effect that ten of them (negroes) formed a plot for murdering yonng Markham, and robbing the store. On the night appointed they repaired to the store, knocked at the door, aroused Markham, and on pretence of desiring to trade, was admitted. On entering he told nrMkam to pnt on his shoes,as he had con sidef. hle trading (o do. While Mr. was in thy back pan of the store patting on his shoes the negro went to the water backet got a dipper fnU of water, drank some, and then opened the door to throw ont the bal- ance—at the same time clearing his throat. This was the signal agreed npon, on hearing it the others were to enter, in a body. They did so; and Markham seeing so man; come moved towards the front, protesting against so many coming in at once. Upon this, one of the number shot him through the body. He fell behind the connter, when the same negro fired another shot, into his head. The negro making this confession then told the party to help themselves to what they wanted. They did su, and then fired the builing; which with the body of Mark ham was consumed. Upon the strength of this confession.and attending circumstances, twenty-three ne groes in all, were arrested; but three of the number were subsequently discharged, it appearing eveident they were not implicated The remaining 20 were taken to Entaw on Sunday, by a civil officer accompanied by aboard of citizens and U- S. troops. TheseKu Klux outrages are horrible! [Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Evening Tost. S'rategy in Congress—How a Radical got a Seat while the House was Asleep. Washington, May 20.—A ibarp dodge was practiced iathe House to-day by Mr. Cessna, member of the Committee on Elec tions, whereby Mr. Wallace, who was tke contestant for the seat of Mr. Simpson, from Sonth Carolina, was declared entitled to the seat, and accordingly sworn in. As soon as the reading of the journal had been finished, Mr. Cessna sent to the Clerk’s desk a resolution declaring Mr. Wallace en titled to the seat. But few members were present—not more than forty. The Clerk read the resolution in 3nch a low voice that members did not seem to no- tice wbat the nature of it was, or at least to consider that it was an election case. The Speaker then pnt the question of its adop tion to the House, and there being no re sponse in the negative, it was declared adopted. A morion to reconsider was then made, and a motion to lay that morion on the table, which was adopted with no dis seising voice. This sealed the matter. The calling of Mr. Wallace to the bar by the Speaker to be sworn in, was the first knowledge the majority present had os to the nature of the resolution passed a mo ment previous. Objections were made by a score of voices to swearing Mr. Wallace in, but the Speaker decided that there was no way in which the House could reconsider their ac tion unless by nnanimons consent, which of coarse could not be obtained. After sev eral had made protests, Republicans as well as Democrats, Mr. Wallace was sworn in. The Misunderstood Character of Iron. It is a singular and mistaken fact that the “tenacity” or “cohesive” properties ot iron are very much misnnderstord, even in this age of advanced science. Although the use of iron is so common, we are as- yet bnt partially acquainted with it, chcm ically, Mr. Joseph Thornton Adams, of Washington, has written a letter to the New York Herald on this subject. The purport of the communication is, that “all kinds of iron possess a progressive tendency to break. The bar of that metal which sustains ten tons to-day safely, will be broken by ten tons weight at some fntnre rime; and when this break will occur, sim ply depends npon the degree of progress daily made toward an absolute sudden sep aration; but that break it will, at some fu ture rime, under the pressure that it sus tains to-day easily forced npon the mind with alarming certainty. We see this in the parting of the iron rails which throw trains of cars off the tracks from fractnres ever veiy misterious. Such a break took dace on the Long Island road a’ year ago, >y an apparently sound rail snapping like glass. The cars ran from the track, and several passengers were killed. We see it in' the sudden snapping of the huge piston rod of the engine whioh had resisted the same, or even greater force, a thousand rimes. The Herald correspondent inriodnees the case of the terriJe explosion of ahugegnn on board the Princeton some years ago, which killed six distinguished persons, in cluding two Cabinet officers under Tyler’s administration. The gun had been repeat edly charged to the muzzle, and appeared sonhd. In this case it exploded under a quarter of that force. Here too, was a woof of the progressive tendency of iron to weak. True science to-day would undonb- edly declare that a bridge of wood is natnt- rally capable of sustaining a certain degree offeree, or tension, a greater number of years than one of iron. Let this matter be well looked into in this age, when we are constantly introd ac- ing iron to new, and, it would appear, most sky uses.—W. T. Day Boole. Lo tbe Poor Indian- Spotted Tail and bis staff, in foil Indian costume, visited the national capital in Washington on the 24th instant, and set in the House gallery some time. The on ly remark he made was, that it was a poor place for scalps. Of Spotted Tail and his Staff, tl>3 Her ald sxys: “The noble red man has arrived in Washington, fresh from his wild prairies. Spoiled Tail is his euphonious name. He is accompanied by a suite of those other chieis—the Bear Brothers and Yellow Hair (evidently a hlonde,dyed red) and a French interpreter. They strutted abont Washington last night with six shooters lavishly strung round their bodies, and expressed much pleasure at knowing that the Great Fathers aDd other white people at the capital had already heard of their prowess in col lecting white scalps. They are to meet Red Cloud, a greater chief than any of them,and one of their deadly enemies, irho is expect ed with a party of his own in a few days.” _ The Montgomery Advertiser has informa tion that abont eighty car loads of corn are daily transported over the Montgomery and West Point Railroad 1 All this to feed men and moles engaged in the cultivation of cotton 1 _ ■ Vermont is importing colored girls from Virginia for house servants. Taking tbe Censas., The division of the country into sub dis tricts and the appointments for taking the censas are at last completed, and the work commenced Wednesday, Jane 1, through out tbe nation. The forms prepared for the purpose in elude five schedules, as follows : 1. The censas of the people. 2. The mortuary record. 3. The productions of agriculture. 4. The products of industry—manufac tures. 5. Social statistics Census.—This schednle requires the dwelling houses and outbuildings to be numbered in the order of visitation, with the name of every person who was a mem ber of the family on the 1st day of Jane, 1870; age at the last birth-day; sex; color, distinguished by white, black, mulatto, Chinese and Indian; profession, occupation and trade of each person; value of real and personal estate owned by each; place of birth, and also that of the patents; if bon within the year, tbe month of birth to be given; if married within the year, the month of marriage; the nnmber of the fam ily who attended school within the year; how many cannot read or ear not write; whether deaf, dumb, blind, insane or idi ots, number of male citizens whose right to vote is denied on other grounds than rebel lion or crime. Mortality.—This scsdule begins with the number of the family, as given in the first schedule, and follows with the name of ev ery person of each family who died daring the year ending Jane 1,1870; age,sex, col or, married or widowed, place of birth, pfr rentigej native or ’oreign; the month of death, profession, trade, or occupation, dis ease or cause of death. Agriculture.—This schedule requires the name of the agent, owner or manager of each farm; acres of land, with the acres improved, of woodland and unimproved; present cash value of the farm; value of agricultural machinery; total of wages paid daring the year, including the value of board, number of horses; ditto of males and asses; ditto of milch cows; working ox en; other cattle, sheep, swine; value of all live stock; bushels of wheat, spring trad winter; ditto rye, Indian corn, oat,, barley, buckwheat; pounds of rice; ditto of tobac co; bales of cotton, pounds of wool; bosh- els of peas and beans; ditto Irish and sweet potatoes; value of orchard products; gallons of wine; products of market gardens; dairy products; pounds of batter and cheese; milk sold; tons of hay; bushels of clover and grass seed; ponnds of bops, tons of hops, tons of hemp; ponnds of flax; bush els of flax seed; ponnds of silk cocoons; pounds of maple and cane sugar; gallons of molasses; pounds of beeswax and honey; forest products; value of home manufuc- tnres; value of animals slaughtered and sold for slaughter; value of all farm pro ducts, including betterments and additions to stock. Manufactures.—ThL- schedule requites the name of the corporation, company, or individual producing (o the valne of $500 annually; kind of business; capital invested; kind of power; steam, water, number of horse power; descriptions of machines nsed, with the number of; average nnmber of bands employed, males above sixteen; fe males above fifteen; children and youth; to tal amount paid in wages during the year; number of months in active operation, part rime redneed to fall rime; material nsed, inclnding mill supplies and fuel, kinds and qualities, with the value thereof. Social—This schedule requires the amount of real estate and of personal es tate in each district, with the mode of val uation separately given; county, city, town ship, parish and borough debts of all kinds; the number of native and foreign, paupers, separately distinguished into white, black, and the total cost tnereof; nnmber of native and foreign criminals in prison June 1st. 1870, distinguished by white and black; State, town, city, court and church, Sab bath school, circulating and private libra ries; wages of farm labor per month and by the year, and board, with day wages with and without board; average wases to fe male domestics, and the average price of board to the laboring man per week; nni versirics. colleges and academies in law, medicine and theology, technological, schools ot mining, of art and music, com mercial and military: pnblic schools, nor mal, high, grammar, graded common, un graded common, with the day and boarding private schools, parochial and charity schools; nnmber of teachers in each school; average nnmber of pnpils; income from en dowment; taxation; pnblic funds, and other sources, inclnding tuition; newspapers and periodicals, with name and character, how often published, and average circulation; number of church organizations and church bnildings, denominations, nnmber ot per sons which the churches of each denomi nation will accommodate, and the valne of church property. Such are the facts which all our people will soon be called upon to report. No one need consider the assistant marshal imper tinent in any inquiries for these facts, as tbe law makes it his dnty to carefully and fully obtain them. It is for the general good that they ore called for, and we hope that the ninth census report will be more reliable than eithr ofjho paeceding reports. Wondeoeul Fish Invasision of New Jersey—It ha3 been a tradition of this vicinty that the hunters sometimes went ont to “shoot shad with a shovel,” and in Jersey they are realizing the possibility of that peculiar way of taking fish. An ir ruption of Fenian blneish on the peaceful c >ast has driven the shad and moasbnnkers shoreward in sneb numbers that they crowd one another op the beaeh and np all the lit tle streams for the whole length of Bame- gat Bay and Little Fgg Harbor. So lined is the shore and so filled are the little streams that the ecnotrymen arc actually shovelling the live fish into their great farm wagons as fast as they can carry away a load and return. Shad sell in that conotiy for twenty cents a bushel, and mnnhaden illhnitably feitUize the corn fields. This (all sort of fishing is fatal to many of the blnefish also, bat we hope it will not make them scarce later in the season. Rough on the Puritans. The Cincinnati Enqairer says: A prominent Re; nblican journalist who had excellent advantages daring the war, and who has enjoyed even better opportu nities at Washington since the war, to stu dy the Puritan character, in lamenting to us recently that the Republican party had come so thoroughly nnder tbe control of New England managers, said of these lead ers : “Sir, they will pray all night and steal all day.” The two services are insep arable with the Puritan —’ the services of ye Lord and great gain for his ministers and people.” As they appropriate the public plunder, they say, “Yours in ye bowels of Christ.” \ remarkable human institution is the Puritan. This is awful Why its almost blasphe mous We bav’nt been so shocked in a month. We ’riot it merely as an illustra tion of the doctrine of total depravity.— Why this ribald mocker might as well say that Frothingham and Beecher are net Christian ministers, or that Snmner docs nut represent tbe physical manhood, and Dr. Butler the refinement, honesty, and good looks of the Radical party. We shud der to picture the fntnre of snch a man. TBLEGFA ? 210. Reported for the Tri-H'eefcljr fourier. Beautiful and Appropriate Dedication. Mr.'Stephens sends lorth his second vol ume of the war between the States, with the following bemtifol and appropriate ded icatory: “To the memory of those whose lives, in the late war between theStates, were sacri ficed, cither in battle, in hospital, in prison or elsewhere, in defense »f the Sovereign Right of Local Self-Government, on thd“ part cf the people of the several States of th» Federal Union; and in defence of those principles upon which that Union was es tablished, and on whph, alone, it or any other anion of the States can be maintained consistently with the preservation of Consti tutional Liberty throughout the country,this volume is most solemnly and sacredly dedi rated; while others are to-day. strewing flowers npon their graves, this oblation, with like purpose and kindred emotions, is thus contributed by the author, to the same hal lowed shrine.” To be Hanged.—Blythe Barlow, for the murder ol John McCloskey, at Indian Spring, was tried in Spalding Snperior Court, last week, and fraud gnilty cf mur der in the first degree. Judge Green, as we learn, in a feelingly delivered sentence, consigned him to the gallows—execution of sentence to occur on Friday, July 1st. This was one of the most cold blooded mur ders ever perpetrated in the State, and the condemned man need not, we think, expect any executive clemency whatever. The accomplice his brother, is still at large, bnt we hope soon to learn that the vigilance of honest officials will speedily place him in position to answer for his share in the great crime.—Macon Journal. New Towns. Calera, situated at the intersection of the North and Sonth with the Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad, is rapidly assuming the KKition of a town. It has been regularly aid ont aad lots sold off, and many predict that it will one day be quite a place The cars ran r rom that point North as far as tbe Cahaba river, and sonth for a distance of twenty miles. They expect to be in cod - nectinn with Montgomery before the close of the year, and with Decatnr, Nashville and Louisville before long. Attalia is a new town which is not yet marked on the maps. It is near Gadsden at the point where the Alabama and Ten- nessee Railroad will intersect the Alabama aad Chattanooga Railroad. The work of connecting the new town with Gadsden by Railroad, is we understand already begun. Patona is Capt. Barney’s new town, near Cross Plains, and is now tbe bnsinc3s head quarters of the Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad. It is believed that other roads will intersect the Selma, Romo & Dalton Road at this point, that the machine shops will ultimately he moved to the new town, and that Patona will grow to be a city. Railroads have made these new towns, and will build np others.—Talladega Re porter. Colonel Mosby.—One of the sensation dispatches from the North, a few days ago, stated that Col. John S. Mosby, of Virgin ia, was-Qne of the officers connected with the Fenian invasion of Canada. We stat ed at the rime that the report was very doubtful, and it is almost unnecessary to state now, but it is due to that gentleman to say, that he is quietly attending to his law business at Warrenton, Ya,—Balti more Sim. i Court-Martial Law Bun Mad. The last case of ‘martial law ran mad' is tbe trial of an officer of the army for obtaining a divorce from his wife.— The domestic infelicities of ahjll-mated pair arc to be passed upon by a board of military Solons, who have been assembled for that purpose in New York. The offeer is Lient. Col. Elisha K. Bailey, and bis spouse is the daughter of thdate Jacob Broom, ex mem ber of Congress from Delaware. TLis is, we think, the first rime in the world th-t snch a matter was ever tried by court mar tial ; bnt this is what we are to expect, we suppose, nnder the new military regime — Nashville Union. White Indians. It has been frequently asserted and os often denied that some of those Indians who harasa the border were really white men plumed and painted, lpR we have now Gen. Sherman’s official declaration that, “in a recent ease between Fort Hayes and Camp Supply, the Indians, on being captured, tamed oat to be white men in disgnse.” The reader will also remember that in the case of the late horrible outrages at Ladore, Kansas, it was stated in the first dispatch that it was thought the ruffians who so bru tally maltreated two girls, were either Texans or Indians; whereas when the vil- lians were brought to the gallows they were found to he white men, one and all, from the Eastern States. These cases, coming so close together and in a rime of a threat ened war npon the Indians for alleged out rages, would seem to imply that while the red men are no donbt bad enough—render ed so, we believe, in most cases, by wrongs doae to them in the first instance they should not be held responssble for all the outrages on the border. A little soap and water might reveal many an Apache rape or mar- der to be the work of white men.-iVeio York World. A Blackberries, This sonree of immense profit is always entirely neglected by ohr people. Old and yoong, men, women and children, feeble and decrepid, caneasliy and .pleasantly, if they would, earn their board and clothes, by gathering this fruit, which nature in in her wondrous bounty has provided every where. on poor as well as rich soil. If not convenient to send regularly to market, they can be dried easily, and in winter sold at good prices, or make into delicious wine, at a cost of only abont 25 cents per gallon, for the sngar and the bar rel. In twelve months each gallon will sell for $3 or $4. Every industrious fami ly could make three barrels, which wonld give, after being drawn off from the sedi ment of lees, 100 gallons, worth at least $300, A lovelyfgirl in Wisconsin recovered $140 damages*in a breach of promise suit agaiost a perfiidious lover. Her lawyer congratulated her on the amount, when she exclaimed, with a ferocious glance at the mulcted defendant, and nervously clutching her fingers. “I’d give every pen ny of it jnst to have one good pall at his hair.” Washington, Jane 3.—Ilucgs.—Further petitions in favor of equal tobacco taxation. The bill passed allowing appeals from Pro bate to Supreme Coarts of territories. The House concurred in the amendment by the Senate to the deficiency bill. The amendment increasing appropriation $150,000 goes to the President. Taxation resumed. Bailer rose to report a Georgia bill. The Speaker decided him not in order. Butler moved to set aside the tax bill. Votes proceeding by yeas and nays on the various amendments to tbe tax bill. Tbe Reconstruction Committee last night heard Maynard and Stokes at great length, and concluded. The Tennessee investigation closed. Some Congressional action will be recommended at the next meeting: The am nesty question not considered. The Georgia bill, which Butler attempted to report, is the bill heretofore agreed npon. Georgia was not discussed last night in the Committee. Fourteen members of the Committee present, eight of whom, it is un derstood, will oppose the bill. The apparent contradiction lies in the fact tint it was or dered without a full committee present.— A sharp contest is expected in the House. The Senate passed a resolution for a spe cial committee te sit daring recess to consider a plan fo- protecting land on the levees of the Mississippi from overflow. Spencer made an unsuccessful effort to get np a bill to remove disabilities from Martin E. Reynolds of Mississippi. This morning’s Repnblican says the iron clad fleet, lying opposite New Orleans, has been ordered to prepare for sea, and their destination is snpposed to be Key West This looks ominous, considering the close proxim ity of Key West to the ever faithfnl lsle. In view of the reported outrages upon the Jews in Romania, Adolpho Bncknar, an Isrealite, has been appointed Consul General at Bnch- tvrish. Washington, June 3.—Revenue to-day two millions. The House Committee on foreign affairs decides against subsidies to foreign cables. Nominations, Wayne McNeagh, of Penn sylvania, Minister to Constantinople; D. B. CBffe, Assessor 5th Tennessee. The Judiciary. Committee of' the House unanimously agreed to report a bill author ising terms of the United States Court to be held at Helena, Artsnsng The Herall publishes 8 columns of Banks’ report on Cuba. The report opens : Tbe Cu bans had at Yara on October 11th, 1868,147 mem 4,000 the 12th of October; 9700 in No vein her, and 12,000 in December. They now have 20,000 well armed men. There ore are 60.000 enrolled and decided on, but without arms, and they chum that with a supply o arms they can put into tbe field 200,000 fight ing men. The citizens, fanners and eman cipated black men of the country are fighting for their liberties. These hostile forces have not forgotten the objects for which they were organized. From the declaration of Cnbtut Independence at Yara, to this hour, there has not been a week, scarcely a day, which has not been marked in the calendar of war, by fierce and bloody contests. No revolution presents a more constant and determined straggle. The captions of paragraphs showing the character of the report as fbllows:Proof of state of War—Brutality of Spaniards-Amcr- ican Diplomacy—Character of Struggle— Sympathy with Cuba—No Paper for Spain— Power of Spain in Cuba—Charter of Vol unteers—impatience of Spain—Dnty of U. S.—Precedence for recognizing Caban BeBg- erency. Bill introduced for on appropriation to. bnild a light honse at Banes Point, SL Joseph’s River, Fla. A Memorial and resolutions of the Israel ites of Indianapolis was presented calling attention to the reported massacre of Jews in Romania, and a resolution calling npon the President for any information in the Department of State on the snbjecL A resolution was introduced for an increase of pay to assistant Marshals of the Census. Indian appropriation bill farther consider ed. In the House the amendment making in- com» tax three per cent, was adopted 115 to 78. Exemption raised to $2,000 by a vote o 138 to 52. The amendment limiting exemption for house rent to $500, passed. Amendments to tax and interest on Uni ted States bonds was received. The previous question was moved, when the House adjourn ed. Will vote to-morrow—then comes the Georgia bill. Two sections covering Schoncks’ tariff bill was offered as amendments to the bill rcduc- ing taxation. Zurich, Jane 3.—Cnpt Charles Duncan Cameron, whose imprisonment by Theodoras caused the Abissinian war, is dead. Leutstowx, June 3.—Ex-Congressman Ju lias Holland is dead. Paris, Jnne 3.—The High Court commenc ed regicide inquisition. Several prisoners held for trial. London, June 3.—Government taking ex tra precautions against Fenians, of whose in tention . the government has private infor mation. Guards doubled at all dock yards and naval stations throughout Great Britain. Liverpool, June 3.-21,000 emigrants, mostly Irish, left for America daring May. London, Jnne 3*—Paris Physicians report the value of vaccination as a preventative of small pox has been demonstrated in that city during tbe present month. Ft. Monroe, Jane 3.—Spencer Wright; a colored man, was hong at half past ten o’clock this morning at Eastville, Va., for the murder of Mr. Wescott committed in April, 1868. Wilmington. Jane 3.—The Republican county Convention, which closed its session here last evening, nominated a negro for the Senate and three negroea for tbe Lower House of the Legislature; also, a negro can didate for Sheriff. Great dissatisfaction ex pressed by many white and some colored Re publicans, and a new Convetion will proba bly be held. - - - ■' -• i- K*.-. Dublin, June 3.—The final passage of the Irish land bill is regarded favorable by the Irish press. Washington, June 6.—House has adopted a resolution directing the Committee on Ways and Means to report a bill abolishing the du- tyon coal. SzsATe.—Bills introduced granting lands to the State of Alabana to aid in the con struction of the Savannah and Memphis Bail j town. road, and one to prohibit cont portation of Chinese laborers. The Reconstruction Committee has adopt ed a rule not lo receive disabilities, except upon written appli ation, and the recommen dation of friends or high officials. The pe tition must be accompanied with an expres sion indicating pruper submission. Authentic contradiction of the Jewish mas sacre in Romania causes great rejoicing throughout the country. Omaha, June C.—Geo. Thomas, city editor of the Republican is dead. He was formerly connected with tbe New York Herald.- Troy, N. Y., Juno 6.—The railroad bridge was set on fire and narrowly escaped destruc tion. The same bridge was burned in ’C2. involving the destruction of the business por- tior of the town. A high wind this morning would probably have repeated that calamity. Philadelphia, June 6.—Seven ships with Petroleum departed for Europe this vpeek with over a million gallons. Shipments from this port five million gallons in excess of tbe same time last year. Madrid, June —An Englishman cap tured by t!ie Spanish Brigands and rescued, arrived at Gibraltar. Havanna, Jnne 6.—DeRodas telegraphs that one hundred Spaniards and two gunboat dispersed the filHbosters from New York, landed near Neuritos, killing ten, inclnding Captain Harrison, wounding two and captur ing three, with all stores. Scvaral prisoners executed immediately. The steamerGeo. U. Upton, whieh landed the expedtion escaped. Washington, June 6. London—The police have discovered ram ifications of the Fenian plot in every direc tion, not only in London, but Wolesand else where. Their war materials have been seiz ed. In several places persons in charge of stores were arrested. Public excitement un abated. > Havana, June 6. Vera Crnz—The first Mexican Congress will probably hold on extra session to discass the constitutional reforms. Tbe stage between Vera Cruz and Jalapa robbed and one passenger killed. Six bandits wore recently captured at Zochatros. Citizens of Guatemala invaded tbe Mexi can Territoiy. It is generally believed that Felix Diaz, Governor of Oaxates, is the prime mover in this invasion, and intends establishing a sep arate republic. The National treasury bank rupt. Guatneas, June 6.—Revolution ended Lozada refusing to participate in reconstruc tion. . •> • Fire in the richest part of the city, on the North side of golden Horn. High wind. Residences of the English, American, and Portn-gese Embassadors, Consols, Theatre, many Churches, Mosque and richest store shops lrarnel. Loss of life by falling walls fearful. Loss incalculable. Fire this hour, noon, still raging^ Madrid, Jnne 6.—Great demonstration in favor of Espartese for King yesterday. Washington, Jane 6, House.—Bonner introduced a bill for tbe sole of certin Sea Islands.—Referred. A resolution, by Newshom, to repair tbe levies of Red River, from Shrieveport to the month. Foreign affairs made the special order for Tuesday next, when Banks’ Cnhan bill comes np. River dhd Harbor appropriations made the special ord:r for Tuesday. Schenck’s tariff amendments to tax Dill adopted. Also, amendment relieving coast ing and fishing vessels from tonnage duties The hill finally passed 150 to 35. Its features already published. Postoffice appropriation taken np. Sargent introduced a bill preventing ser vile labor contracts. In the Senate the New York merchants and importers petition for the abolition of tax on sales. Stewart introduced a bill to prohibit con tracts for servile labor, which he said was in tended to break np the system of Coo je con tracts, by which these laborers were import ed to this country, and held to labor for four' years. The contract is fo return the Chi nese to their own country, dead or alttre, at the end of four years, and the religions feel ings of the Chinese prevents them from breaking the contract This is really a sys tem of servile labor. The wages are exceed ingly low, and can't be collected by no means free. The hill provides that no contracts with the Chinamen will be good longer than six months. Immediate action should be had. as agents are now about to introdace them into Sonth Carolina'and other Southern States.— He moved that the bill be referred to tbe Ju diciary Committee, and gave notice that he should press it to an early action. Indian appropriations considered. A motion to make the Texas and Southern Pacific Railroad a special order, prevailed, bnt subsequently Drake moved a reconsider ation. • The Senate is in session to-night. Washington, JnneG. Tbe election passed comparatively qniet; Emory’s election seems conceded. . In the Senate to-night the bill for the set tlement of claims for-quartermaster and com missary Btores, famished to or taken by the United States within the States in rebellion, daring the lave rebellion daring tbe late war, came np in order, and was debated. Motions to pass over the hill, and to re commit to the committee, were defeated. De bate now in progress. Montgomert, June 6. The so-called meeting of citizens, called by . John C. Keffer,. and ether Republicans, to censure the action of Jadge Bastced of the U. S. district coart for the incarceration of auditor Reynolds, for disobedience of an in junction of court, resulted io a great failure. Thompson, negro, member of tbe legislature, was elected Prest., and announced that Bns- teed should be sustained. Attorney Genl. Morse said Reynolds disapproves of the meet ing.” Resolutions were introdneed by Keffer against Bosteed in severe terms, and the meeting voted them down, and broke up. A warrant was issued against Bnsleed this morning by Keffer, charging him with libel ling Reynolds; and two negroes were depu tized to serve the warrant which Bustced e vaded by being driven to the court room in a close carriage and giving bond. The Athens Homicide. The Athens Watchman gives tie partic ulars of the killing of Wm. H. Pnryear by his son-in-law, Wm. H. Jones: At the ex amination, which took place before Esqnire Barton, it appeared in evidence that after having had an altercation, Puryear fonnd Jones in a small room and advanced upon him with a chair in a threatening manner. As there was no means of retreat, Jonc9 seised a loaded rifle and warned Pnryear not to advance. The warning being neg lected, Jones discharged the gnn, shooting him through the head, of which he died instantly. Pnryear was drinking, and had been abasing his family and Mrs. Jones. Jones surrendered himself immediately, bnt was not committed on account, of in sufficient evidence.—At. Const. Tbe editor of the Hancock (Kentucky) Mesaenger in a farewell address in his ex piring journal regrets that he “has not bad the pleasure of writing the obituary of sev eral of the miserable skinflints of the

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The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, June 10, 1870, Image 1