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yflTHPAY MORNING, Not. 5.
' TUE issue.
I Many of our people seem
Le is uo vital principal involved in the
Lg elections, and look upon the candt-
L;„f Gen. Young and Geo. P. Bur-
a simple trial of j ersonal populari-
to think that
j* jj ilt.se gentlemen were running
tdependent candidates, owing their notn
... in no party, and representing no
rolitical sentiment, this view of the
W'fct be adinisable, and the preferenc
f friendship might be allowed to obtain
reighins the claims of the candidates.
: such is not the case. Gen Young is
n-guiar nominee ot the Democratic par-
| n—made so too by acclamation, and amid
applause of a large and full rep-
of the Democracy of the dis-
::itt. He represent* the interest—the,
IT.cws and the hopes uf the Democratic par
a this district, and as such he should
I aboil receive the support of every true
| .sVcrs.
Oa the other hand, Mr. Burnett is the
a Grace of the Radical party—put forth
rufwention which not only proclaimed
te i* it* choice, but made it a condition
'feciolidatuic that he endorses the ad-
Issitratien of liullnck nod the corrupt
J disgraceful proceedings of the radical
fei-ature, including the infamous elec-
bill, which threatens to cheat the pco-
ItW the State out of their rights as VO-
:-:s.andt" continue io power the hateful
rames uho hare so long and so shame-
f:iiy oppressed the State.
.Y:tsatisfied with this declaration of rad-
l-alfhith.rhe convention went further and
Iciaal the administration of Grant and
pinion of the Radical Congress.
3# that those ol our friends who may
SBliing but friendship in the contest,
at tun exactly what they are support-
■aVio they talk of voting for Burnett,
I'ttve the resolutions in full, and urge up-
3 friends the importance of consider-
“hut well aefore they commit them-
I *5 to tlicir support:
felted. 1st. That wc heartily approve
Ihtiisinistration of President Grant, an d
j'aiaiiiedly indorse all his official
lit-.
J -Hat to this administration and the
Iwstsofthe Kepublican party, both
federal, wo can look as the only
's lope lor peace and prosperity to this
JP 5 *'- nation.
1 - That we depreciate all divisions in the
I^Mitan ranks and call upon all who are
■Srthe good of the country to unite with
■ ■•lathe coming elections, in the ehoice of
If 1 *! 1 tine men who love peace rather
|-a violence.
■ lhat wc earnestly invoke the firm and
Ift-ed :,cl 'on ofGeneral Terry in the ap,
r, i"Selection to preserve the peace,
-' re t0 Loth political parties, white
I in every section, of the State an
| Wnniiy to vole, without intimidation or
•Strain;.
n I* 4 re = arJ “' s Excellency Rufus
l.. 3 " Ci ! Governor of our State, with his
I mV 3 tlct ' ca l aiiad, as a pure immovable
. "t and without reservation indorse his
I ld ®»«nti on .
I 8m we ou,lor3e the administration of
tai - i tCr - Blodgett, Sepermtendent,
Ilie Finance Committee of the pres
*®*«l Assembly.
ita , 11 Vc regard the Relief and Home
■ •: : :a- IL€15Ure °* tlle Gonvention, the Con-
I tarim- 31 ^- ‘* le P resent Legislature, as of
tot importance to the people of the
i^dcall.
[)*r,. r,5s Lar xe in his wower lies, to see
aeot ' )r ° 1 ’ er a ' dm >uiBtration and'enforce
I strrL f 11:11 we again pledge t our earnest
tts- ' i V° C 1 " econst ruction Acts of Con
I ciritv • * e SUrest means of peace and se-
n' , ' , r ' jUr coaim on country.
I ’soli,,
if— " Js - T0U are expected to support,and
t;:- J° tC ^° r ® nrnetfc i you will by that
-i S V to the world, that the outrages
]i-t I ou have so long complained ; are
,’j,- 3,1 r 'Sht,the reconstruction laws
t«r» 0 '.- e fo 0011 to the South, the rob-
I ft;-!,,, ' ®! at<! lloi di by Bullock and
ari»hte ous piece of villainy, and
' ,on 1,111 °f Akerman a matter for
111 V)l
"’bat
u might to be thankful.
a, fJ j. ,^ an ls tllere so dead to principle
Li®< 'I- r! Sllrel y uo such man can call
1 Democrat.
XtW nf° M NEW ORLEANS.
rati rc . , ANS > 0ct °her 26.—The last
3r,ji. \ ln F *he Mobile and Chattanoo-
- ttcen Mobile and New Orleans.
t to-day. 1
^ Mobile
f ,ra 'n leavi
tlteruoon.
driven at 5:15
The first train
arrived here at 7:30.—
es to morrow morning for Mo-
^ r «0r of Utah' n h#8 * leen a PP oln! «i
VOLUME XXV-
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER U. 187<L ! '
70X TOl
NEW SERIES--NO 1 lv
BEECUENBROOK.
Lookiog over tho well filled shelves of
onr friend H. A. Smith's Book Store, a few
days ago, onr attention was attracted by a
aj small and unpri lending volume, bearing
the above title., ,..
S imething.. it was in the name that
canght our attention, and as we laid onr
hands upon it without knowing by whom it
was written, or what was its subject, we
instinctively felt that we had stumbled up
on a treasure. < if ,
This instinctive anticipation was strength
ened into a positive conviction when we
opened the book and found that it was
written by Margaret J. Preston. An ex
pression of delight called forth thb :gencr-
osity of our friend, who immediately put
the volume at onr disposal, and that even
ing was spent in the quiet enjoyment of a
real literary treat.
1 ■ Beechenwooi, a rhyme of the war,
deed what, its name purports to be,
rhyme of the war.” Till story is one that
touches a chord of sympathy in the hearts
of every Southern homo, for its every scene
and character finds a realization in the exr
perience of thousands, whose homes was
made desolate, whose strength was destroy
ed, and whose hearts were-crushed by the
terrible disaster of defeat and of death.
It is dedicated “to every Southern wo
man who has been widowed by the war —
•during the progress of which the rhyme
was first published, and is now reproduced
as a faint memorial of sufferings of which
there can he no forgetfulness.”
The story is told in the chaste and elo-'
quent, yet tender and simple style of which
Mrs. Preston is so completely mistress. It
has beeu complained of in a recent critique
that Mrs. Preston's excessive admiration
of Mrs. Browning had the effect' to ‘bias
her own taste, and to betray her into an im ;
itation of the style of that elegant writer.
We cannot appreciate the criticism. Cer
tain are we that no such servile imitation
occurs in Beicheobrook.
A freshness, a vigor and a pathos runs
through the whole original with and pecul
iar to Mrs. Preston alone.
We regret that the limits of our columns
will not admit of copious extracts from the
work. Wc cannot refrain from presenting a
few. .'. ..... „i. :
The story opcos with the following mu
sical picture:
There is sorrow at Beecheabrook—brightly the
day
Has beamed with the earliest glory of May;
The blue of the sky is as tender a blue
As ever the sunshine came shimmering through;
The songs of the birds and the hum of the bees.
As they merrily dart in and out of the trees—
The blooms of tha orchard, as sifting its snows,
It mingles its odors with hawthorn and rose—
The voice of the breok, as it lapses unseen— '
The laughter of children at play on the green—
Insist on a picture so chcerlul, so fair,
Whoever would dream that a grief could he there?
And immediately following:
‘The last yellow sunbeam slides down from the
wall,
The purple of evening is ready to fall;
The gladness of daylight is gone, and the gloom
Of something like sadness is over the room.”
And on page 31 is the following autumn
picture :
‘The gums by the brookside are crimson and
brown;
The leaves of the ash flicker goldenly.down;
The roses that trellis the porches, have lost
Their brightness and bloom at the touch of the
frost.”
On page 35 we fiud the following snow
song—which is a picture as well, for it
paints a scene familiar to those who so
faithfully wore the grey :
•‘Halt!—the march is over !
Day is almost done:
Loose the cumbrous knapsack,
Drop the heavy gao;
Chilled and wet and weary,
Wander to and fro,
Seeking wood to kindle
Fires amidst the snow.
“Round the bright blaze gather.
Heed not sleet nor cold—
Ye are Spartan soldiers,
Stout and brave and bold:
Never Xerxian army
Yet subdued a foe.
Who but asked a blanket
On a bed of snow.
“Shirering midst the~darkness,
Christian men are found.
There devoutly kneeling
On the frozen ground—
Pleading for their country,
Id its hour of woe—
For its soldiers marching
Shoeless through the snow.
“Lost in heavy slumbers,
Free from toil and strife;
Dreaming oftheir dear ones—
Home and child and wife;
Tontless they are lying,
While the fires burn low—
Lying in their blankets,
'Midst Decembers’ snow!"’
Occurring here and there through the
story is a vein of genuine philosophy. On
page 65 we find this :
When fierce and fast thronging calamities rush
Restless as destiny o’er us and crush
The life from the quivering heart till we feel
Like the victim whose body is broke on the
wheel— .
When we think we have touched tho far limit at
last, ! * • i'ii: v Z- 1 ’ • fl0IV »-.
One throe, and the point of endurance is
passed— *
When we shivering hang on the verge of de-
n spair-i-' . will O’.v * o
There still is'capacity left us to bear.'l
The rhyme is ended in the following out
burst of feeling, and patriotie devotion
that wonld do honor even to a Byron’s
genius: ‘ , .
“Though wrapped in the weeds of her widow-
Though Ufeieem, all sunless and dim through
the veil ...
That drearily shadows her dot rawful brow—
Is the cause of her country less dear to her wow?
Does the patriot flame in her heart cease to stir—
Does she feel that tlm conflict is over for hat?”
By her pride in the soil that has given her birth;
By her tehaerest memories garnered on earth;
By the legacy blood-bought and precious, which
Would leave to her children—the right to bo free
By the altar -where once rose the hy nm and the
By tSehoia left behind fieri nlL.filnckentf and
By tWpangs that have raked her—the ills she
has borne; .
By the desolate exile through which she must
By the struggles that hallow this fair Southern
By the vows she has breathed in the ear of her
By the blood of the heart that she worshipped—
• the
That enfolded her own; by her love, as fits wife;
By his death on the hattlefiold, gallantly brave,
By the shadow that ever will; wrap her—his
By tfefodth she reposes, O Father, in Thee—
She olaims that her glorious Sontfi musts* fswu
Mrs. Preston has recently re-appeared
before the pnblie in a new volume. “The
Old Song and New, 7 of which the critics
speak in the mest exalted praise. As for
Beechenbrook, a copy ought to be in every
Southern home.
The Diamond Excitement in Africa.
The excitement created by the diamond
discoveries in South Africa promises to ex
cced even that which was created by the
gold discoveries of California.
Thousands are rushing to the diamond
fields, bent on the hope of diamond for
tunes. Some will realize ail their brilliant
dreams-but thousands will corse the day
that ever they heard of the diamond ol
South Africa. A copper case at home and
in the band is worth more than a diamond
fortune beyond the Afric sea.
YVe append a few items relative to the
excitement, which we clip from the New
York Ile’old:
Mr. Ingram, of King Williams’ town,
has received a letter from a Kanrarian, dat
ed a few days after his arrival at the field,
in which it is stated that he saw no; less
than sixty-three diamonds, weighing from
one to eight carats each, disinterred dur
ing one day.
We are informed that a German resi-
in King Williams’ Town has received
by list post an encouraging letter from a
friend at the diamond fields. This letter
was shown to several persons on Saturday
week, one of whom asserts that the writer
states that he has had the good lack to find
two diamonds; for one of these he was of
fered £3,5U0, and for the other 8300.
The E. P. Herald is informed that Mr.
John Coxen (son of Mr. C. Coxen, of Port
Elizabeth) has been fortunate enough to
disinter eight or ton diamonds during his
sojourn on the fields.
From a private letter the Somerset Cou-
rant learns that Messrs. D. & A. Hockley,
who went to the diamond fields from Phil-
lipolis, a snort time ago, have found four
teen diamonds—all small.
Mr. Lucas, who arrived at Cradock,
from the fields, gives a very flatteriog ac
count of recent success.
The Free Press has been permitted to
make the following extracc from a letter by
a gentleman in Queens' Town from a party
workiog at the diamond fields : “There is
work cnongh here for all who have not any
business or employment; bat I would strond
ly caution any one and every one from
leaving a certainty for an nncertainty such
as diamond digging. The glowing acconnts
published and stared by returned diggers
are not to be swallowed without a good
pioch of salt.”
A correspondent to the Colesberg Ad
vertiser writes from the field : “The stream
ol people entering these diggings now is
something surprising. On one dav last
week it is estimated that 500 arrived, but
this was evidently above the average. The
yield of diamonds npon this side of the
river, at the old ground has been but small
daring the week, but Hebron is now com
ing into repute, and many persons have
gone thither to try their luck. On tho
Mission grounds as many as fifty diamonds
have keen registered in one day of the past
week; but this, considering that there are
upwards of five hundred diggers at work,
and that the diamonds are mostly very
small, is nothing to boast of. The scenes
of drunkenness, fighting, etc., are growing
daily more frequent here, as disorderly
characters accumulate.”
A letter received from Hope Town at
Port Elizabeth, written by a gentleman who
had just arrived from the diamond fields,
states : “ Diggings extend two miles on each
side of tho Vaal river, and the immense
number of tents, wooden houses, etc., gives
the place a very imposing appearance. A
diamond of five carols picked ap close to
Hope Town. Search being made for oth
ers. If successful, Hope Town will soon
be a large place.”
Mr. Drevfns, Port Elizabeth, has receiv
ed a letter advising him that a parcel of
fifty-nine diamonds, valued at j£4,000, will
be forwarded to him for shipment to Eng
land by the first trustworthy opportunity.
A letter received at Port Elizabeth states
that Geo. Eaton ha i picked up a diamond
valned at £350 pounds, and Mr. Innis, of
Bloomfontem, one valned at £2,500.
Messrs. Mackie, Dnnn & Co., Port Eliz
abeth, have received a few diamonds, and
Messrs. Lippert are expecting a parcel of
ninety-one, of which they were advised by
post.
The K. W. T. Gazette says: We havo
been kindly favored with the following ex
tract from a private letter received yester
day by Mr James Alyiff, from Mr. H. J.
lse, of AUwal North
‘I have just received a note from Mr.
Sheppard, of Smithfield, who says: “I
have just seen a clergyman who retnrned
from the diamond diggins by the post cait
of this day. He says, as he left, an enor-;
mons diamond of the length of two joints of
the index finger was fonnd; that £9,000
was offered in cash for it, bnt refused, three
times that amonnt being its e Unrated val
ue.”
A private letter received in Graham’s
Town states that Mr. Lawrence; Jr.,r Las
secured seven diamonds; their value is not
stated . j.Lt ti; i
Messrs. L. Lippert & Co., Port Eliza
beth, have received a packet containing
thirty-two diamonds.
Many of them are very beantifnl gems.
One is a large diamond weighing 17} car
ats, bnt some of the small stones have a
more brilliant appearance. Altogether
it is a very fine lot and well worth sce-
ing-
All the farmers at Tyumie, Kaffraria,
with few exceptions, are off to the diamond
fields.
By post of the 25 th August intelligence was
received at Graham’s Town by Mr. SwaDess
formerly in Mr. AlifPs employ, of a favora
ble character. He had snceeded in get
ting two diamonds, one six carats, the oth
er two and one-half carats. Chapman’s
party had not added anything to their two
diamonds.
Extract from a letter:—“I may mention
that when'P. went to the diamond fields to
look at it only—he was there a day and
two nights—he picked up two small dia
monds! value twenty pounds and two pound
sterling.”
A private letter, dated August 14, state
that daring the three preceding days there
had been fifty-three, seventy and fifty dia
monds picked np npon the Free State side.
These were all registered, so that there can
be no doubt as the correctness of the state
ment.
A gentleman writing from Fturesmith
under date 19th August, 1870, says:—It
will be necessary for me to go to the dia
mond gelds, as I have just heard of a dia
mond mine (which is a feet) on the adjoin
ing farm to mine (called Jagersfontein,)
and I intend going over to-day to have a
look at the nature of the soil and see whetn
er I cannot find snob a place on my own
farm. One of the farmers qn Jagersfontein
picked np a diamond on Tuesday for which
he refused £2,500. It is strange. Bnt
nevertheless true, that daily diamonds
are being picked np all over the Free
State.
The'following is an extract from a letter
Received in Gape Town:—“ ” I take
the present chance to let yon know how
thiDgs are going on in these parts. First
as to diamonds; they are beiug turned np
daily. I'tielieve I told you in my last
about the 26} carat one that we got sinee
that we have got another of .two carat
got one of 15 carats, sold for £300;—
of 11 caiats,soldfor£320 (first water),one
of 291 carats, value £2,700; mine . valued:
at £2500, and sent to Europe.
We—Somerset Conrant—have been in
formed by a 1 gentleman just retnrned from
the diggings that there he says, are picket?
np every day, nnmbering between fort; and
fifty, which come to lig\t, bat firmly be
lieves that. mauy ; more - are, found daily
1 which are kept secret.
This gentleman showed ns a diamond
picked up by himself, a perfect beauty, ex
ceedingly regaiar in shape.He also brought
samples of other curious stones with him.
He further informs ns that the river has
been narrowed at least forty feet from the
washings on either side, by the sand or
gravel deposited. '. •
Very lucrative businesses are earried on
in various ways at the.diggings. A youth
who works a boat on thc river has taken
much as £14 in one day for ferrying peo
pie across at the rate of sixpence each. The
same reliable informant confirms 'the car-
rent report about the 52} carat diamond
fonnd by Mr. de Viilers, for which he has
been offered £9,000.
‘ROME.’ -z -ns
A Burnett diciplc, writing unfertile above:
name, in the Daily, is anxious to know
who contributed most to' the passage and
approval of “Our Railroad Bill,” for “says
he, although he had rather vote' for Yonng,
if Burnett has really affected this great
good for our city, I want to know it, for it
will control my vote in the coming elec
tions.’
Now if the vote of ‘Rome’ is to be coo-
troled by saoh local 1 and mercenary influ
ences as this,it is a great pity for the cause
of good government, that sueh : a creature
is permitted to vote at all. He is no more
fit to have a voice in the control of a peo
ple, than the most ignorant negro to whom
Burnett and his pdrty look for their sup
port. - a j.
Since however, unfortunately for the
country, each men are permitted to vote,
and the poor fool is so anxious npon the
subject—we will state for “Rome’s” benefit
that it is generally conceded that William
Higgenhotham did the most to effect the
passage of the bill—and if Rome is so anx
ious to. relieve himself of the tremendous
load of gratitude under which he is labor
ing, he will cast his vote for that influential
gentleman.
LITTLE DINGY.
Scattered along the backways and lanes
of a barnyard are found certain Jittle de
posits, crusted over by the action of the air
and the snn, and seomingiy of an inoffen
sive character, but only let them be touch
ed—even thongh it be touched by the
perfumed tread of a feiry, and straightway
the air is filled with such a disgusting odor
as' to take the breath and sicken one’s stom
aoh.
Now, just such a lump of filthy stink
ing corruption is Little Dingy—the inde
cent swill guzzler—boot black and foe kis
ser of Gov. Bollock. Only tonch this mass
of moral and political corruption, and the
whole atmosphere is filled with a stench as
intolerable as that which exndes from the
reaking pores of a putrid carcass. The very
air becomes heavy with its weight of stench
and one is constrained to hold one’s nose in
abject fear and;sickening disgust.
Dr. Bard speaks of this monster of offen
sivo odor as a certain amall animal, whose
only weapon of defence is a disagreeable
smell, bnt the comparison is hardly just to
the skqnk.
The skunk uses its weapon onlj, in self-
defence. Little Dingy lives entirely hy
his. It is his breath, his very being, and
he could no more exist without it than a
fish conld without water. It is for this rea
son Bullock keeps him, and most excellent
service does he do the Governor.
' Such a party of corruption, of oppres
sion and of unblushing villainy as the rad
ical party of Georgia qonld not do well
without sach a deposit of stench and filth,
with which to hedanh tliose Vrho condemn its
infamies. Bloated with corruption, its
proper breath is a volume , of stench, and
Little Dingy is the qnintesence of tiiat
stench.
Greeley and Coaeoanut Cracking.
The black West Fuint cadet, Smith; who
has been oonrtmartialed' tbr several offenc
es, including lying, was charged with break.:
log a coacbannt dipper over the cadet head,
of W ilson (white). This mode of expres
sing hij resentment seems to-gratify thfe'
Tribune, which 1 >oks upon Wilton’s head
on that occasion as the collective head ’of
ail the white cadets who bad snubled the
black cadet. . ..
The Tribune concludes that Smith has
lost no “standing” by the coaeoanut smash-
ing. We wo-ider at the Tribune’s mild-
ness--its tweetness on Smith. It has not
been given to favoring the cracking of co-
coanuts. If a rebel Were to break a coa
coannt over a freedman’s head, it wonld
talk very differently abont it. It regarded
Sumner’s head as the collective heads of ail
philanthropists, bnt it certainly did not
consider that.Brooks’standing wir unim
paired by cracking the collection.
Democratic? Convention.—The Demo
cratic Convention met in the City Hall to
day. A large and respectable crowd were
in attendance.
On motion of General Black, Hon. Dun-
lay Sco.t was called to the Chur, and Mr.
Henry W. Grady requested to act as Sec
retary. ■: •'
The Chairman having taken his seat,
Gen. Black stated that the object of the
meeting wa:- to receive the' report of the
Executive Committee as : to ita appoint
ments and organization of tho party Gen.
Black, in the ab enee qf the Chairman of
said Committee, reported that the organi
zation of the party was comp!ete;tbat good
active men had been appointed fn etetf
distriet to attend to the Canvass, and that 1
the Democracy of Floyd county arc ready
for the fight, , ,
On motion of Cdl.Spnrloek and by amend
ment of Col. Tom. Alexander, the meeting
adjourned until the first Tuesday ia Decem
ber, when the Democracy of this country,
are invited toYneet en masse at the City
Hall to hear the reports of the Committees,
and appointees, who will give the strength 1
of the party in Floyd ‘ Bounty ahtt its-ehti'-
dition—and to hear, speeches from various
distingnischd gentlemen in the after-
noon. , • ; _ t^
, 'Donlap. Scott, Ch’n-
H. W. Grady, Sec’y.
Tkw,Great Trees or Califoonla. ' '
A California correspondent of Charleston
Courier has the following: :
One of onr big trees has been cat down,
and is to be forwarded East for exhibition.
Barntnn, I believe, is the projector of the
scheme, the difficulties of whioh wonld cer
tainly deter a less enterprising man- The
one selected is in Fresno county, and al
though by no means a giant amongst giants
it will give thoee who see it a good idea of
the mammoth proportions sometimes at
tuned by onr forest kings.
After being felled it took three saws fas
toned together (making in length twenty
four feet) with two men at eaeh handle,
four days to saw off the bnttent. The dia-
emter of the stomp is twenty-three bet
six inches, without bark, and the annual
rings show an age of 1590 yean. Three
men accomplished the felling in fire and a
half days, by cutting at the roots, whioh
were interlaid like the muscles in the hu
man system.
One of its neighbors measured one hun
dred and twenty-two feet and four inches
in circumference, and was nearly one hun
dred feet in height
Improved,—The Lexington, Ky., Ob
server and Reporter comes to os in a new
dress, and otherwise greatly improved. We
hare always regarded! the Observer as
one of onr very best “ exchanges, .and we
take especial pleasnre in noticing this
mark of its sneoess- It is Democratie and
agricultural.
[Georgia Cor. of tho Cicinnati Commercial]
GEORGIA POLITICS-
HOW the Radicals Expect to Carry the Elec
tlon.
In thb momentous crisis it was a fortu
nate thing for Georgia that she had an Ak
erman. At a moment fraught with, mid
night caucuses and bloody skulls,that great
man came down from his official perch in
Washington, and began to speak peace, or
rather his peace.
He saw that it would be folly to gp to tlle
entire extreme of either party, and so be
adopted a happy medium, and neither en
dorsed the November election theory, or
any other election theory but hisown,which
was to hold the election in December in
stead of November.
To thb end he drew np a bill to be en
acted into a law by the Legislature. The
Legislature passed it, the Governor attach,
ed his signature, and it b now the law pi
he land.
In some respects thb election bill, as it
is called, b a remarkable document, and b
open to criticism. The first and second
sections provides for the postponement of
the election until the 20th of December, at
which time the polls are to be opened and
kept np three days.
Another remarkable feature of it is that
election is to be held in the coart house of
each county and no where ebe, giving bnt
one polling place to the county. In other
words, no man can vote who does not go to
his connty seat on the 20tb, 21st or 22nd
of December.
Ali the officers or managers of the elec
tion are to be appointed by Governor Bol-
look and the Ordinary, and in case auy one
so appointed refuses to serve, he b to be.
fined one hnndrei dollars. The Governor
appoint three and the Ordinary two,
making five officers to each baUot-
box.
Section 8 b in regard to challenges and
does away with them altogether, for the
Managesr “shall not permit any person'to
chaUenge any vote ” _
Section 9 declares it to be the dnty of
the Managers to prevent rioting and -.dis
turbance on the days of elections, and lo se
cure peace at the poUy. They are required
to prevent more than' one person,' and he
only while voting, from approaching or re
maining within “fifteen feet of the place of
receiving haUntu, and said Managers may,
if they see fit, require the persons desiring
to vote to form themselves into a line, and
when a line b thus formed, said -Managers
shall prevent any person not in line from
approaching the poUing place nearer than
fifty feet; bnt in no case shall more than
one voter at any time be permitted to ap-
preach the - polb nearer than fifteen
feet.” ei teal «f* .'ti. i
No doubt that will prevent rioting* and
it might prevent voting also. These imag
inary lines of fiiteen and fifty feet drawn
around the seeond arena, of which but one'
man can enter at a time, unless they form!
themselves into a line, will be the sontce of
infiinito amusement on the days of elec-
1.
No donbt the distances wiU be measured
and marked off with-dde solemnity
The other sections of the biU relate fe a
multitude of detaib covering thb red-tape
electio a, and I cannot understand even; to
go into a synopsis of them! Suffice it to
say. that provisions of the bill cannot stand
ifjweighed py the square and compass of
the Constitution. •' itisa lo t!i
-It eneonnters violent opposition from
the Democaats^hd some of them counsel an
open resistance to it by gonig ahead - and
holding the election on the 8th of Novem
ber, agreeable to the provisions of.the Con
stitution. Thb wiU hardly be done how
ever, and after the nsual amonnt of blaster
and wind-word, we may look for the De
mocracy to “form themselves into line,” and
try to win the election-under the provbion
of Akerman's red-tape.
It it dear that the Radicals fear an over,
throw at the polb in December, or whenev.
er tha next election is hdd; and to keep
themselves in power, they' need the sasist.
ance of every colored vote. With them it
is victory or political death.
Another point: this dection bill b deem
ed a great outrage by the Democrats, and
they will exert every nerve to earrythe
day under itand torn the tables. To beat
Akerman at his own game b what inspires
them with more determination than usual,
and nerves them to. extraordinary efiortiL
Taken all in all, the Georgia campaign o*
thb Fall and- Winter wiU ’ becne of extra*
ordinary interest.
«r
The writers of communications to news
papers swear so when their effusion b re
jected that the dd saying should bo chang
ed to read “rejected communications cor
rupt good manners. , 1 '
Address to the People.
T», the Democriitic and Conseratirc -JPurtJf
\ of Ac Slats of Alabama: - £
• We are now upon tho eve of an election
secqqdjn importance to npne : that has
ever,been. held.in; Alabama. Wo believe
tjmt success b certain, if lor one day yon
will lay aside.everything ebe, and vote,
and not only vote yourself, bat see that, ev
ery other man over whom yon have any in--
flncncc also votes. -
Another matter of importance b.that the
election should be conducted according to
law, in a peaceable, orderly manner. False
charges are constantly made by onr: Qpe-
mies that force and ! violence are used! by
us, which ‘they themselves inongufatod..
bit. there be no excuse for each charge - i ••
the coming election. . . '
Bear aU thainffin %'nTear, and a 'ittle
more: An excuse is till that the Radicals
want for setting aride an election however
fairly won.
Give them no such excuse, 7 Dse.your
personal influence to preserve order, and let
a sufficient number of men be appointed at
each precidct by the* Sheriff
os his d puties to preserve order. See each
Sheriff and get him to do thin- '.Ye ham
everything to loose, by election riots. We
therefore urge yon te see to it that none
occur.
The prospect ofTsncccss is,molt bright;
do.nothing to endanger it.
'Bnt on the 8th day of November let ev
ery man ia Alabama who loves hb State
hb wife; hb children, .and' those who are to
come after him, strike one blow for them.
Crash, thep, this Radical monster which i?-
.now devouring our land.
‘ Freemed'of Alabama, on that day quit
your home! and come to the ballot
“Corneas the winds come when forests are
rended;
Come as the.waves come when iravies are
stranded!” ,; a-ad, -ml
JAMES,-H. CLANTON,
GEO GOLDTH WAITE;
: ■ • THOS H. WATTS,
‘ oil ,.;. THOS.J; JUDGE.
It PdS.tS&YRBjoil: Y... ij ... .
j a7ol lolwsaed 'Centrsl Committee-
j "• i - '**•'' “ *[Cor. N: Y. Sum]
Northwestern Georgia Inducements.
• The Northwestern oonnties of the State
of Georgia have long been regarded as the
garden spot of the State, if not ol the en-
tire South It b tne country known as
the Cherokee purchase, embracing the en
tire limestone belt lying west and north of
the Chattahoochee river. It b a country
of hilH had valleys,having fine water,beau
tiful’scenery, and abundant mineral resour
ces. The climate b mild for nine months
of the year; and the winter months of De
cember, Jannary and February are only
unpleasant in rainy weathir, as there is
bnt little cold weather,the thermometer rare'-
ly falling below 25 degrees above ! zero in
Severest weather.
The population for the most part are in'
teUigent and energetic, and are rapidly re
cuperating from the desolations of the late
war. " .
Great advances are making, particularly
in agricnltnre. The demand for improved
for implements b largely increasing, and
the numerous fairs throughout the State
evince a lively interest in thb department.
The State fair, to commence in Atlanta on
the 19th instant,will doubtless proven grand
saccess, as preparations have.been made on
a grand and'liberal scale.
The labor question b causing much trouble
in Georgia, as the freedmen as a general
role have not proven efficient or trustworthy.
In thb section of Georgia, however, there
are very few negroes. _Jt is ajwhite man’s
country, and the people are industrious,
law-abiding and quiet.
We are on the line between cotton and
grain, and grow both successfully. Grain,
clover and tha grasses all succeed here, and
frnit also,does weU. , ' . # j,
Improved lands may be bought here at
(5 to 825 per acre,and emigrants from the
North or elsewhere, who noma to follow the
peaceful pursuits of life, will be warmly
welcomed by ,oor people, and wiU find thb
an excellent country, and for more desira
ble than the cold and inclement regions of
the Northwestern States, to which the tide
now seems to be flowing.
Boring into the Snbterahean Sea.
On Thursday last the labors of the par
ties who,had been boring for the last 1 eigh
teen months in Litfeoltf,’ the capital city of
Nebraska, for salt water, were crowned
with so*cess. At the depth of six hundred
feet below the surface, in a stratum of sand
stone a lead of the great sabteranean sea of
ta b wafer was struck, and the briny torrent
came struggling np around the auger, and
shot into the air some eight or ten feet It
has since fiowed strpngly and steadily, and
with great force and increasing strength,
forming a briny, rivnlet. It b believed by
the experts who have seen the flow that
when the anger b Withdrawn and tubings
inserted a steam of water will he projected
from the weH to r the height of fifty feet,
making it the- most magnificent artesian
weU of salt water in the world.—Cbtiitet?
Bluff. Iowa Monpareil.
in nn.l fchlS COQlltrj
are giving, moch attention to a. new kind
o£ bearing, call, metalinc or dry-bearing
hich requires, no fabrication,but developes
sarcely any heal or friction.
Metaline resembles black lead, and is
tbi'd on the well known principle that fric-
tion reifttlia from the tonghness hf the sur
faces in contact; fnrnbhing the smoothest
possible seriate, it does away-with ths use
of oil, and reduces the heat to a minim nm.
Itb in use at various establishments in thb
country, and sustains as many revolutions
per minute as the best oiled bearing with
out wearing loose,, -
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[Fron, tho Scientific.American-]
What Breaks Down Yonng Men.
It b the commonly received notion that
hard! study b the unhealthy element of a
” " “ " 'lie
Bnt from the tables of Harvard
University, coi'ccted by Prasessor Pierce
from the last triennial catalonge,it is clear
ly demonstrated that the excess of deat h
for the first ten years after graduation b
found in that portion of each’class of infe
rior scholarship. Every one who has seen
the cnrrionlnm kUpws that where ASschy-
fas.and political economy injure one, late
hours and rum punches nse up a dozen, and
that their two little fingers are heavier than
the loins of Euclid. Dissipation b a snre
destroyer, and every young matt;who fol
lows it b as the early flower exposed to un
timely frost. '
Those who have been inveigled in the
path ofvioe are named legion. A few hours’
sleep each night,. high living, and plenty
of “smashes,” make war npon every funct
ion of tlie body. Tha brain, the heart, tbe
lungs, the liver, the spine, the bones, the
flesh, every part and faculty overstaked and
i by the terrific energy of passion
from’restraintjUtitil,like a duapida
ted mansion, the .'earthly hour of
thb,:.tabernacle” foils into ruinous de
fay-
Removing Grease Spots, .: jp
A simple agent for removing grease-spots
from carpets and silks and woolen fabrics
is very useful. Carbonate of magnesia,
saturated with benzole, and spread npon.
a grease spot to abont one-third of an inch
in thickness, answers for thb purpose.—A
sheet of porona paper should be spread np
tne benzonated magnesia, and a flat ifa).
moderately warm put npon the top ot all.;—
The.heat.of the iron passes thronghand'
softens .the grease, which is then absorbed
by the porous magnesia. -The flat-iron may
be removed in the space of .one hour, anc
(hc'tnagneria dost brushed off. Soap-stoiii
dust may be used in the same maimer, tijffiJ
answer nearly as good a purpose. : ' ,D
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COTTON MOVEMENTS. ,, n
New Yore, October 30*—The cotton
movements for the week, both receipts and,
exports, are larger than any week dnring
the season. - l; -ini'
The receipts for the week at aU the ports
were 85, 935 hales; total receipts for tha:
season, 437,622 bales, showing an increase;
of 12,799 bales over hat. week.; exports
the week from aU the ports, 41,832 balss;
•exports for the season, 160,295 bales.*—^
The deficienoy of receipts and exports : b.
rapidly disappearing. , • at -to sot
..Stock at all the ports, 234,802 bal^a,.
against 176,081; bales last year; stock in in
terior towDS, 40,530 bales, against 327,775
bales last year. ’ ,
. UOUV
HittlngMtyNaR on the Head,
A' few dayssrnee tho Dbpatoh said that
Wore the warjit was proclaimed by tbe t
leading men at the North,, that the Union
could cot exbt half slave and half free,and
that it was as true since’as before the war
that the Union could not.exist half free and
half slave.
Mr. B. Gratz Brown, who is the liberal
candidate for Governor in Missouri,brought
out the same idea recently in a very point
ed manner.
He was in,a public speech commi
npon the interference of Pfesident Grant
in the eternal politics of that‘’State, and
among many forcible things said: ' ! - 1
‘He did not care tbe Reap of a finger for
the opinion of the President in hb question
of internal politics. He bad been one of
those who had helped to teach the Presi
dent what freedom meant when he came to
Missonri, in 1861, declaring that if thb
war meant the liberation of the slaves he
wonld strip off hb epaulettes and abandon
the service.
He intended to teach him further that
freedom meant the liberation of all the white
men of the nation, as well as aU the black
men of the nation, and that he could not
go back nnder the specious pretences ofpar-
ty policy npon the freedom of the white
man after having accomplbhed the freedom'
of the Mack man.’
A very palpable bit, andone that every,
body, will understand.*—Richmond Dis.
pathc. -' .* -.
Ludicrous Scene at a Funeral.
An Iowa paper says: ‘At tbe funeral
of a young man in Des Moins recently,
services for the dead took r place at the dwel
ling of tbe parents. After a most pathetic
address, which brought tears from all the
yonng ladies present, the minuter inquired
if any of the dear friends of the deceased
wbhed to say anything on thb solemn oc
casion. ' * ‘ *
A stranger stepped forward, and, after
expressing sympathy with the friends of
tho deceased, remarked that the ways of
Providence were inscrutable, and, in this
connection, he wbhed to mention that he
was the agent for a first rate article of hair
vigor for the State oflowa. -
° . u •*, .*• f 1 »:> . ,
The corpse had nsed it for, years with
great advantage, and he confidently recom
mended it, especially to the minister and
undertaker present, as he pereeived they
were both painfully bold. ‘Shake the bot
tle, gentlemen, and rub the matter well in.
with a stiff brush,’ said he. At thb stage,
of the proceedings a slight dbfurbance oc
curred,' and the hair vigor man disappear
ed.’ . hsli t*‘
'W-fcke the following from the Savan
nah News. Pat ourselves in ite place, and
we are rieft’sb'sure bat that there b such a
thing as “too much of a good thing” acd
a sections zeal in its own interest' may
out vie its regard for the interest of the
whole'State: ’
Bullock, the Great Developer of tbe Re-
. - / - r .Sources of the State. .
• ■ After uSiiigfnbfllgotten official position
for the basest partisan purposes—after
exerting all tBe mean ability he possesses
to array the Federal—Government against
the State—after doing all in hb power to
slander a,i)d>ldegrade,, insult and plunder
to onr people—Bullock ,has struck upon a
new scheme for deceiving and delading the
the unsuspecting voters of portions of the
State. Hb logrolling and corrupt railroad
policy having enabled him 'to carry many
of hb partisan measdes throng the Legisla
ture, he now appears before the country as
the great railroad intro of Gaorgia—the great
developer of the resources of the State.—
Hb promises of a profligate appropria
tion of State ttid'to every railroad projected,
in Northern Georgia,_seems .o be wroning
for him golden opinions from all sorts of
ad Democratic .presses who only
a month'ago were denouncing him for eve-
thing that was vile,'corrupt and infamon*
are now hailing hi.n as' tbe States bene
factor. .T'io; .') y.
Railroads are to take~the place of coun
try roads, and every, man, by the aid of
Bnilock and State bonds,';is to have a rail
road from hia corn crib! or gia- house to the
most eligible market. . Town and conutry
b afflicted with a peifeqt railroad mania,
and hb ring are reeefying ovations all over
Northern Georgia. As an illustration of
tire ‘ehthdiiAsm' SWd good' feeling which
THE KNICKERBOCKERS.
A Novelist’s Impressions of the Old New
York Families.
Mr. Justin MCartho, in hb;, serial now
pnblbhing in the Galaxy, fans describe the
New ¥i>rk ; Knickerbockers:'
‘ What b a Knickerbocker? One. of lfie n
old Iegedary families who in’} in what may
be called tbe Faubourg St. German of New
York; one of those who had grandfathers
and ancestors, sad are proud of them; who
date back to Peter. Stnyvecant and hb
peers and paladins; who are BepnbUeans
with the picturesque Old World dash of le-
gitiiiiaey over them; who shrink hack from
Shoddy as a Larockejacqne might from a
Mires; who wonld rather be poor, if needs
were, than be mixed np with any of the
vulgarity of modern wealth; and who wonld
be offended if they were, mbtaken for resi
dents of Fifth 4;enpp. , t ...
Leave the lbxorious vassals of Fifth Av
enue, Murray Hill and Madison Avenne
yon inquiring European stranger of intel
lect and pensive mind; wanner toward the'
East River, until yon emerge from shops,
and nobe and traffic, and modern activity,
into the solefon, stately monotony and ma
jestic silence of second Avenue.' There
dwell the Knickerbockers in dignified iso-
lotion, fading gradually Sway, cito peritnri,
bnt touching and sublime in their-tail.
Modern degeneracy has not reached .thorn..
Go there, contemplative stranger in the
garish day,attdnay whether even New 1 York"
has not its rnias and ita romance; whether
even modern oommeroe may * not have'its
old noblesse, democracy its traditions of
gentility, republicanism ite legitimacy and
ite stately futile protests against a, tootofogi-
orons and vulgar progress. The Coliseum
has been done to rag^ ' the' Alhambra is
“played;” the Fanbonrg St.Germain is worn
out.
WiU no poet of melanchoUy spirit feed
his sad soul with meditations among the/
Knickerbocker mansion of Second Avenne,
New York?
Speaking of the factions report that
Bang William had committed snioile by
doing down on hb helmit, a lnnatic sng.
gesta that that wonld play hel-mitany king
or any qther man. , ,
' When a steady, ‘ WeH behaved yonng man
b ifiaking hands with a pomp, and bidding
it an affectionate good night,' or “saying
“Poor old Corbison Bobscrew,” there may
be faint apprehension that he has been “ta
king some) hing.,’
prevail in that*'section of Georgia, we give
~ 'lowingnpecial dispatch-to the Atlan-
^ALiri'etta,' ' Ga., ] .October 31.—There
was an immense railroad meeting here to-
day.“ The Honorable Joseph Irwin presi-
ded. Addresses were made by hb Excel
leocy, Governor Bollock, Judge Joseph E.
Brown, Judge -McCay, Judge Gibson, and
others.. ' ' .
Tbe Governor was enthusiastically rccciv-
L/abddus made a fine impression. AU
e speakferg manirested much -interest in
jgjj^atfer^ and, tito people are thorough
ly aroused and determined-the road shaU
Mwufc*r~‘ .- %»!> -;.-
The Governor and party leave for the
mo'ubtainB“to-morTDW at daylight, and will
probabl; be gone the. whole week, visiting
Jasper,Elijay and other places.
Thanks to Governor ' Bullock’s wise de
termination to develop tho resources of onr
Slite. North Georgia wiU soon blossom
as the rose. '' n sw
• . -. :-.-:IixS••*■* i .t Idaho.
, All jrery well,gentlemen of Upper Geor
gia. We wish yon eminent enecess in all
your legitimate railroad enterprises. Bnt
b it not barely possible that the tax-pay
ers of other sections :of the State may bo
come tired of thb lavbh State aid system,
by which railroads are being projected, if
not constructed, all over the State ? The
people there not immediately interested in
these railroad projects, are beginning to
panse, they are beginning to consider the
immense amount in which the credit of
the State b becoming involved. Z,here fe
snch i thing as overdoing tho business of
railroad construction as weU as overstrain-
ing the credit of the State. A large crop
of bond' too b like an excessive crop of cot-
ton, apt to depreciate prices.
Railroad bonds nnder the manipulation
of those carpet-bag developers, Littlefield
and Swepson, have gone down to a very
low fignre—the same class of securities with
which the money market-has been inunda
ted by Littlefield and Reed, of Florida,
are scarcely worth the paper they are prin-
■ SJSft: ihni ‘
3.it not possible that, with the treasury
plundered as it has been by Bullock and
hb clan, and' the State credit pledged for
some sixty millions of raUroad bon b, that
of Georgia securities may become a drag
in the market? .,
Thb business of developing the resourc
es of the State, hy means of railroads built
with bonds, may be a very good bnsineas
for Boioek and hb Northern carpet-bag ad
venturers—it may serve to enable Bollock
to puH the wool over the eyes of the peo
ple, and have popular ovations for a time
—Tmt there'is no surety it will tarn out so
weH forthe tat-payers, who will be inclin
ed to pnt down, the brakes when they dis
covered, the bankruptcy and ruin to which
it b sure to lead.
We venture the opinion that in less than
twelve months thefe will be an abatement
in’thb railroad Inrore, and that many who
are now crying out Tor the indiscriminate
'development of the resources of Georgia,’
through tbe illimitable bsne of the bonds
ot the. State, wUl repudiate the policy as
reckfos3 and impracticable For one, we
have no faith in snch a use of the
State's! credit, even in honest bands, much
less in the hands of a corrupt and unprinci
pled executive, snch as that with which
G eorgia .is' at present cursed.
‘^LeardlngaFool Vflsdoin. "
Among tha advertisements lavbhly scat
tered through the col tunas iff.the New York
papers is one that agrees to forward by ex
press or otberwbo, as may be preferred, ‘an
elegant muaic-box, composed entirely of
metal that plays with exquifito beauty six
different [fashionable airs'that are just now
extremely popular,’ and aU for the trifling
consideration of two doUars.
An acquaintance of oars, thinking sack
a present might prove very acceptable to
hb little boy, concluded to make the invest
ment, forwarded the requisite amonnt, and
rcoeived from tbe Express Company, with
their charge of transportation, added of
coarse, a.tiny month harmonican, such as
can be hongbt at any toy shop in the city,
for twenty-five tents. Of course it wonld
play six tones; or six ■ dozen tones for that
matter,after afashion ft the owner had learn
ed to play npon it, rather a difficult feat, by
the. way, for any one to accomplish. Onr
friend gazed'upon hb investment with min-
gied-feelings of sadness and indignation,
folly resolved never to make a similar pnr-
chase if he knew,it. 7 As all the foob are
not.dead yet, the chanccp. are that similar
bargains will frequently occnr before the
winter’Season 'b Over. New Yorkers can
bett everybody at that little • game.—Sav.
Netcs. .lb '
r^r+S—-
The Colored Man'in-Politics.—We
have received a copy of an address to the
colored people and Democratic party of the
State'of New York on' theaitnation in the
Sontheni States. Also a copy of a letter
from -Gerritt-Smith to- hb colored breth
ren-.- -Kjq* vd ,m>berJ a .... . t
In the former foe ides of amalgamation
of .the two races b, encouraged, and in the
latter the anthor expressly declares that he
‘deeply desirfes the death of tbe Democrat
ic party.’ 'Both these propositions will be
solvpd by the natural coarse of political
events, .without precipitous action from any
8onrees.' “ ’ ’
'When foe faro ‘ races mingle and the
Democratic party 1 b annihilated, look ont
for foe miUenninm or resurrection day.—
The,colored man has now aU the political
ghts nader foe Constitution vouchsafed
te white man', and if he aspires to more
lie makea a mistake. That’s aU.—W. Y.
Retold. ,«i:! tOTis * - J - WI
A refined way of chronicling ordinary
events exhibited by a Cincinnati reporter,,
who Bays that “a quadruped^enns Capri*
corn, denominated Billy,, took umbrage at
a Bluegras belle’s Grecian band, and
went for it. The impact of the goat’s head-
accelerted the lady’s Andalasian glide con!
siderably.
The explosion of a kerosene lamp causa
the destruction, on Friday last, of all the
saw-mills pn the'Mbsissippi near Minneap-
if olb! loss 8150,000; no insurance. Three
hnndred men are thrown ont of work.
Barnet is the radical candidate tor con
gress. Young b the Democratic. Thb is
foe difference.