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jl,£ Some farm - . „ ottlNELl-. l’ sA»VVER. Associate Editor. p^iiST^ 111 FRIDAY. f.ates of weekly. rce M °bate3"fob"tbi-weekly. ... $2 00 .....1 00 ,.$4 00 .. 2 00 . 1 00 IXvariably in advance. ' r Five or more one copy will be for- M. DWINELL, Proprietor. , k ,- a l advertisements. „f Lanil by Adm ; nistrator 8 , Electors required by law to be held on * > - -uca month, between the S*Ie3 -artIi» nS ' e nr.*t orenoon and three in the ">« le a " the Court House in the count, in "Tiw propertyis situated. to rh . 0 \ tnese sales must be given in dftvs previous. ! ? • sol* tho sale of personal property mast * !t ." e in like manner, through a pub ..lie l' 1 public gaz- . ious to sale day. t \. Debtors and Creditors of an estate, ‘ V .' ^published 40' days. » U J- ■ the napplications will be made to the N .V'„f Ordinary for leave to soil land must be ’^Vh.’ti fir two months. . . « f„r letters of Administration, Guar- ' -t f Tir , must be published 30 days—for Administration, three months l* 1 ®’fusion from Guardianship, 40 days. * Js for the forecloseure of Mortgages must Rule monthly for four months—for es f ,1 • i„ s t papers, for the full space of three 1 ^‘.Vl'lfor compelling titles trom Execntors or . -ni-1rater* where bond has been given by • T°ea«eJ.for th ‘‘ ful1 ? P uce of ll ? ree months ‘ ! u'- otinni 1 wiP always be continued accord- ” u i these, the legal requirements, unless oth- C? ; t je ordered, at the fallowing RATES. - ap* s«le? per levy often lines or less $3 00 'Mortgage fi. fa. sales, per levy, s no Nr ii,.Hector’s sales, per levy,.... „ letters of Administration 3 00 ir letters ol Guardianship 3 00 application for dismission from Cil' Ad: ; strati. Votire af applicatio for dismission from 6 00 •r.iardianship,.^ ^ ^ N'odreln^Debtorsand Creditors - . S.b- of Land, persquare •* P „f perishable property, 10 days r, t rav Notice'. SO days, Fo'eclosuro of Mortgage, persquare J m ,„ advertising bis wife, (in advance) 6 00 3 00 . 5 00 00 . 4 00 . 4 00 . 4 00 10 00 SATURDAY MORNING, Nov. 12. MATERIAL INTEREST PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHERS. It haeboeA the result of all our obser vation to demonstrate conclusively to our n n J ilie truth of this proposition. That nation is the best governed whose people are the most, prosperous. Individual prosperity is the surest basis „f a nations' power, and a nations’ peace. Whenever yon find a man surrounded milt a competency—industriously pursuing hi- o tn business, sowing tho seeds and r oping the fruits of his otn labor, there you will also Sod a freemao—one upon whom his country may rely in time of dan- ftr. and one too who is not rash to plunge. ;h?land into revolution and dqisuiet. The whole duty of a government should be to protect, encourage, and sustain Bucb a man—for the whole peace and prosperity of the nation depends upon that man. It is to the home industries and tbo home interest that a nation owes its - stand-, in: among nations. If its people ap4 indns liinns—if they are pro-pnrous—if peace- ial plenty abound in its borders, then it- - — ■ * ' • “WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.” VOLUME XXV. ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 18, 1870. NEW SERIES-NO 12. With etery grainery overflowing with wheat, we might well laugh at the frantic efforts of monthing demagogues to disgust us with living. HOOD FOR WHITMAN. Our clever young friend, Whitman, of the Dalton Citizen, fresh from tho classio shades of Athens, lets off the following . Who is Hr?—The Rome Courier has a long article entitled, “Damon and Phtnt- ias.” Who is Phintias ? We ask the erudite editor of that paper for informa tion, Perhaps he tried to write Pythi-as.' No we dident though; we tried to write Phintias—just precisely what wo did write —and since the blooming young collegian is anxious to know “Who is he,” we will enlighten him. Phintias was a Pythagorean philosopher of Syracuse, and the firm friend of Da mon, another Pythagorean of the same city. It seems that politics were in those days as they are now—rather dangerous things to meddle with, and Phintias having con cluded to reform the abuses of the State by removing its head, the tyrant Dionysius, was detected by that aimable monster, and was himself condemned to be decapitated. For this little contretemps, Phintias was not exactly prepared, and bogged that a respite and leave of absence be granted him until he could return home anl ar range some impoitant family affairs. To this modest request Dionysius demured, un less he could place a hostage in his stead. This Phintias proffered to do, when Dio nysius, skeptical as to the existence of such a friendship even among the Pytba- ;orean brotherhood, and curious to see the result of the matter, assented to the propo sition, and Phintias’ friend Damon, took his place, willing to die in his stead. The day fixed for the execution came, and Phintyus was cot yet returned. Da mon was Red forth to die. The tyrant had hecn i/uportuned in vain—nothing bnt the appcmranceof Phintias at the appointed hour could save him. The hour came, and the executioner had already bound Da mon, when lo Phintias, who had been de tair.ed by unforeseen and uncontrolable circumstances, came rushing up for very life—no death. A shout rf triumph went up from the multitude, and the tyrant was so muoh struck by this exhibition of their friendship that he not only pardoned the condemned Phintias, bat begged tho hon or of sharing the friendship of the two no ble fellows. The moral of this story is to teach men always to first arrange their family mat the elections. The retnrns from the Elections are com ing in rapidly,bntnotyet fast enongh to sat isfy the impatient anxiety of our people. All feel such a deep interest in this mat ter, that it is impossible for them to con tain themselves in patience, until tie result is knowu. And well may they feel the deepest interest in the matter for hardly ever before has the fate of American liber ty hung so tremuoasly upon the result of an election. The contest is not one of mere party supremacy—but it is one of liberty or slavery. If the Democratic party suc ceeds in wresting the government from the hands of the Radical traitors who are so wretchedly administering the laws, we may hope for a restoration of our liberties and a return to good government—but if the Radicals still maintain their held upon power, then wc have little else to hope than a continuation of the anarchy and out rage that has so long oppressed our land. The news so far as has yet been heard from, is favorable to the cause of patriot ism. The sumary foots up 108 Democratic members iu Congress, a gain of 41 from the last—and nearly a majority of the whole. If the unparalelled outrage,known as the Akerman election Bill,had not have been perpetrated upon the people of Georgia—she too would have voted last Tuesday—and the rancor and bitterness of party strife would have been over. As it is we have to endure it over a mouth lon ger, and for no reason in the world, only that Bullock and his infernal thieves may the better manipulate it lo their own ad vantage. If She election had been he Id last Tues day, and conducted fairly, as wc have no doubt but that it would have been, to the 108 Democratic strength in Congress we could have added at least four. This would have given the Democrats a power sufficient at least to restrain the villianous designs of the radical majority. And this tho Radicals very well know, and it was to defeat this result that Aker man was sent to the State to concoct the infamous election bill. There was no moral or legal necessity for this change in th 3 election law the time of holding the The story itself has been seized upon as the foundation of a very charming Drama called “Damon and Pythias, to which wo presume our clever cotemporary alludes when he supposed we tried to write Pythi- A fuller acconnt of the affair may be fonnd in the works of Diodorius Siculus, (Fragmcnta lib 10, vol, 4, page 55, seqq Bipont edition-, also in Valerius Maximus, 4—7, 1 ext. ed Hase. my expect a flowing treasury,?a contented citii service, and an internal support and aora,'e that will give it a position of honor - ters before dabblingin politics, in the family of nations, more to be envied than any that may be at'nincd by any super ri -rity of numbers alone. It is an old and ti-uo saying that charity tc.-ias at home, and this principle can lie Carrie 1 further and be applied to every fea tire of social economy. If wo would make our neighbors happy, we should first *(? that the joy we are to spread abroad, bits fount in the domestic fold. If we a.uid impart knowledge to others, we must tat enlighten ourselves. If we would build at the prosperity of tho country, we should fc: provide the means at home. It is a liaise and unnatural light that taiaes only abroad, that has no neulns ’•'"'and which its rays are evoked, and it is ; i t as unuatural to expect a community 1 prosper, wheu Us individual constituen ts :s starving. Far that reason, then, we should turn our Mention to our home affairs, before ven- tariag to build up the national prosperity, fl'e should provide for our household noons before supplying the nation with | ported kill 4 The wt ; teg who con i d THE NEGRO RIOT IN DONALDSON- VILLE. The following press dispatch was pub lished on tho 11th. It tells its tale of bor ror, and the blood of every white man in the land will boil with indignation at the fiendish outrage inflicted npon his brothers in Louisiana: Nbw Orleans, Not. 10. The evening papers publish exciting news from Donaldsonville. A negro mob, five hundred strong, are reported in pos session of the place. Judge W C Laws and the Mayor, Mark Sehowberger, are ro- ?Ye should devote all our energy to tho Finding up oi our lan gnishing industries; L the improvement of our domestic re sources. Me should turn our attention to the Cultivation of friendly and neighborly re- lations; tailing hand in hand in the great "stk o' raising our prostrate industries; of Clearing away the wreck and debris of the War ; filling our homes with plenty, and 01 ‘utu.-mg into our individual community tlj; lih and energy that wili give cbarac- ir aii 'i tone to all its surroundings. -bd i-ow is this great work to be done ? '■to be done simply by every one work- IJ ? out his own destiny, attending to his 5, u business, doing whatsoever his hand ‘W'to do, and leaving abstract questions, sounding theories, and foreign politics * ’these who can suck their living from ■col rich indeed is our land in opportu nities 11 do good. There is a profitable ,5r ^ b r all to do. Almost every household j* 1 Centre for the display of high and no- ‘t manhood. Not a home in all our broad soutlie-q land but what presents a field for esr:, cst action. Not a community bnt what pens ap an avenue to unwearying and ptjutab.e labor. If wo direct our energies *o th, fairs. confine onr ambition to home af« SqiJ Strive in our humble sp«re to shine.” Dot exercise ourselves so much about , la S ! above and beyond us, how much “ tcr avill it be for us and for ours. F-fer; household iu the land, is a little j'udd of itself. The inmates of tha- home ^ave hopes and fears, live, breathe and t “ fi-ins. independent of the great and aus J world without. To make this little ''appy, should be the purpose of ev- -'i nst man. To surround its inmates fl M „ C l JlfortS ani * P^asures is a solemn ^'. Jn( F ’F ah homes were thus made hap- obod hoa!elKlld land was the iron!*! ^ ^ eiCe and °fi plenty, how blest nation he. It is the great oh- its cif. "° TorDnients 10 bless and protect nhoJ aD ^ t ' lat g° Tera “>eut is blest Is tha- C ! l , Uens are ,ha happiest, and so it °hs aro moat prosper- crib .v ^ “ t Clt ’ lens - With every nt, ’a the land filled with i corn, we might escape were arrested and imprisoned, rioters threaten to burn tho town-and hang several citin Officers of the steamboat Allen, which passed Donaldsonville at 12 o’clock last night, report the plaos on fire. .. The riot createB great excitement here. A call with one hundred and fifty signa tures has been published under the caption of “Citizens of New Orleans, come together. Donaldsonville is in flam -a—onr citizens are being murdered—let us meet on Can'll street to-night at 7 o’clock, to devise means for onr protection.” This riot is hot the legitimate fraits of radical teachings. The radicals have for the basest purposes labored hard to pro voke a conflict between tho whites and the negroes, by impressing the negro with the idea that the whites are his enemies, and that his own protection demanded the ovtV throw of the white ioflnenco in the Souths The storm they have so long labored to raise is about to burst forth, and tbo land is about to be deluged in blood. The truth ought no longer to ne kept hack—it is a natural impossibility for the two races to lire together in peace, and justice to both requires that they should be separated. It was found necessary to re move the Indiana. More brutal in his nature, and less to be guided by reason is the negro, aad jnrtice to the whites de mand that he too ahonld be removed. We are opposed to a war of extermina- snch a thing, bnt anoh a war is inevita ble unless tne negroes are removed. Pol. icicians may howl as mnch as they please bnt they cannot invert the order of na ture or revoke natures’ laws. Tho riot at Donaldsonville is bnt the beginning of the struggle that is to event in the extermination or the extripation of the negro race Rom onr land. In a Sabbath school in Grand Haven, Michigan, recently, Miss Elder, the teach er, asked Burty Parks: “Who wag the father of Zebedee’s children?" Bnrty scratches his head for a moment and then asked: “Who did Zebeiee suspect. Fair Items.—The one hundred and seventy-five dollars diamond ring,, raffled for at table No, 3, Ladies’ Catholic Fair, was won by Baron Eugene LeHardy De Bolian, of Rome, Georgia. He threw election. Georgia was in no respect so peculiar as to require this extraordinary law to insure her citizens tho right of a fair : election. The old law was such as obtain ed in every other State and the day (8th of November) such a day as ovjr half the States in the Union voted npon. The whole thing was intcnded'to defeat a fair election—and is an outrage that one cannot well trust his temper to rpcak of. And yet this outrage is approved of and endorsed by George P. Burnett, and the Convention and party that nominated him, and we hear of men who claim to be patri ots, and Sonthern men—and men who move in respectable society, excited by what they term friendly considerations,who are willing to endorse this outrage too, who are willing to hazzard the peace of the country, and to weaken the Democratic strength in Con gress, and to streogthen the Radicals—by voting for this man Burnett. Have these men fully considered the ef fect of their votes—have they reflected that npon one vote in Congress may depend the issue of Democratic or Radical suprema cy- Do they feei in their sonthern hearts a feeling of gladness as they hear of the Dem ocratic gains that are being made—and e they yet determined to reduce those gains by voting far a Radical at home. We cannot see how they can conscient iously do so, or how they may expect to es cape the consequence. A TICKLED GOVERNOR. This is what the Atlanta True Georgian the ablest Republican Journal in the South says abont the railroad potage. Those who are so greedily gobblin up,will do well to scrutinize the mess close, ly before swallowing it down. A Tickled Governor.—It must have tickled Bollock and his cl m hugely to see- t e ‘‘fine impression” he made npon a few deluded Georgians, whom he was humbug ging with “internal improvement” speeches recently. Is it possible that the people cannot fathom thb man’s designs, with the light of his past deeds before them? It not, they deserve to be wheedled into still great er bankruptcy. A tricked Governor and a tickled peo pie. This is the way Bnrnett’s boys are greased. Ambitions Editors. There are no less than five editors aspir ing to Congressional honors in the city of New York, C. C. Noral of the Times, Robert B. Roosvelt of the Citizen, Horace Greely of the Tribnne, James Brooks of the Express, and George Wilks of the Spirit of the Times. Of these two are Democrats Roosvelt and Brooks, the other three are Republicans. In speaking of these ambitions editors the New York Herald says: Now, this being a free country, the edi tor of a newspaper has probably as mnch right to ran for Congress as any other mem- her of a community. A man who is a jour nalist is not to be blamed therefor,any more than a tailor should be a tailor;nor should he be deprived ot any of his political rights in consequence. But the fact is, a man who surrenders his indepenoecce and manhood as a respectable journalist to become a dab bler in the muddy pools of politics betrays a want of good judgment which should be extremely rare iu such cases. Journalism, properly understood, is a profession far more lofty than that of poli- itics, take it almost in any hape. The journalist's field of operations his opportu ne es to benefit mankind, his general nee- fulness, his power to expose vice and cor ruption and to sustain virtue, and his abili ty to do good in hundreds of ways are en tirely unknown iu the sphere ot the politi cian One has only to look into the in trigues of the political wire pullers to be came disgusted with the whole system. Take onr friend Roosevelt’s case for exam pie. We will be bound that schemes are on foot to accomplish his overthrow, if possi ble, to which he, with his natural instincts as a gentleman would not countenance on his own behalf; or if he did, >t would arise from the fact that in leaving his sanctnm he left honor behind, and bad become con taminated by the political atmosphere in which he is compelled to move. No gen tlemen. Better be a good journalist, re spectsd by a constituency whose influence is universal, than to hold any public office that has to ,be eached by political trickery and chicanery, whether that office be'fe pound-keeper or the Presidency of the Uni ted States. That editor we think, makes a mistake who allows his sanctnm to become a hotbed in which to cultivate Congressional aspira tions. Of the above aspirants, Brooks, and Roosevelt have been elected. Greeley Nor val and Wilkes, are still left to do service in the sanctum. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. Secure in the confidence of the people yet ever solicitous to deserve that confidence and favor,our esteem ei cotemporary of At lanta, the Conslitntion, has pat on a bran new suit,and now comes to us with a hand some face and enlarged column. This evi dence of prosperity is gratifying tons, we lore to sec the spread of snch able democrat ic journals. Independent of the public pass, they are able to battle for the rights of the peo ple,without truckling to the thieves in pow er, we congratulate the management of the Constitution upon jtheir handsome paper. The Atlanta Constitntion has long been promising to gi70 the pnblio some of the items of onr Legislative expenditures. It has now commenced the work, and it promises to show bow the boys were greas ed. We give the following : Any man who will start on the tremen dous journey of traveling through the par ticulars of Gov. Bollock's administration, will often pause, wearied and heartsick, at the dreary waste of official management, disregard of law, reckless extravagance and wanton favoritism. We say it sadly that hardly an act of the administration does not show incompetency or stain, disregard of poblic duty, or inva sion of private right. We lit by chance on the following item of payments ordered by Gov. Bollock out of the State Treasury, under the novel head of “Service rendered organizing pro visional Legislature : A L Harris, Wm. Pettis. Charleston Johnson, P M Sheiby, C W Francis, S R Kramer, D G Cotting, S W Bard, E F Blodgett, P O Keafe, T A Johnson, W B Smith, $ 204 171 171 153 95 45 180 171 171 126 57 45 Affairs in south Carolina. The good people of the noble old'Pal metto State, are to be pitied. Overran and downtrodden by a set of the most mist rable thieves and scoundrels that ever cursed people—they have to stand fearfally still and see their substance taken from them by taxation. Their ancestral lands—many of them held directly by the crown patent of Britain, are to be taxed nntil they are no longer able to redeem them. Their pleasant homes are to be taken from them by thiev ish radical and negro tax gatherers, and they have no means of redress. Under these distressing circumstances, is it very wonderful that they arc becoming restive. That their forbearance and patience has reached a point beyond which it would cease to be a virtue. That having exhaos ted every legal means they are now resolved to use all the means that the God of na ture has placed in their hands for the de fence of their homes, and their families. It is no wonder, and mnch as we depre cate violence and war, if nothing else will save onr brethren of South Carolina, we are willing to cast onr lot with them, and help them to rid the land of the enrse that hangs so darkly over it. The following report of the proceedings of a large and influential meeting in the district of Edgefield, will show how our friends there feel under the oppressive yoke. In debating the merits of a series of res olutions that had been introduced, Mr. Til- man said : ‘That he acquiesced in the resolutions as a whole, bnt that he had far more faith in the efficacy of some of the resolutions than in others. That the great danger was in attempting to do too much. He hoped for more good from compelling freedmen to help pay the taxes on land which they have voted, by electing ignorant asses, thieves and robbers tc office, than from any and all oth er remedial measures which could be pro posed at present. The negroes have been voting taxes on land at elections heretofore as if dancing at a frolic. They should now be made to pay the fiddler, or go to the Scalawags and carpet-baggers for employ ment. He contended that if only one-half of the land owners in the State would hence forth, in good faith to each other, require every freedman to pay 50 cents per acre to ward the tax on the land he cultivated wnich is none too mnch when a fair pro portion of waste land is taken into account there would be no difficulty in electing hon cat men to offioe two years hence, even with nnbongbt and unsolicited votes of freed men. Hu warned tax payers to be up and doing, for said he, the time is npon yon when the taxes of year land, and the freed men who have imposed those taxes wil shortly get rid of yon, if yon de not spee dily get rid ol one or the other of them. Mr. T. also dwelt on the happy effect of banishing had characters from a neighbor hood by non-emphyment, and on the bene fit arising' fo ta not hiring a laborer who has aifft . Alfog contract ?6r Service until the expiration of such contract. That dnr ing the last two years’ the land owners in Rocky Pond Beot had demonstrated the great advantages ot proscribing bad char acters and not employing each others la borers. He farther recommended the sternest and most unrelenting social proscription of every white man who might refine either to join a slab, or abide by its regulations; treat him as a white nigger sbonid be treat ed; pass him and his whole family with si lent contempt; let him, or any of his house hold get sick, or even die, with none to c’leer the lonely hoar, or to bary the taint ed remains bnt his nigger associates, the companions of his choice. Det ns agree with every white man who prefers the friendship of negroes to that of his own race, and leave him severely alone. He likewise said the high priee of cotton since the war has kept radicalism alive at the Sonth by the competition among white men to secare the negro labor, bnt he hop ed England would become involved in the present European wer, so as to knock cot ton, for years to come, down to six or eight cents, and thereby hit radicalism a death blow between the eyea. Bnt whether cot ton shall go op or go down, the land owner of South Carolina must quickly decide ei ther to part with Sambo or to make him pay the tax on every acre of land he may cultivate. The speaker expressed grave fear that the past two years'of Scott’s rale have been happiness as compared with what is in store for the white people of Sonth Caro lina daring the next two years, bat said he in addition to the measures far redress of wrongs, proposed by year committee, we have one other last resource left—the Ku- Klnxer’s power—the assassin’s privilege— tie Russian’s liberty. Let Scott and his crew beware of driving a brave, though conquered people to desperation. Acts Passed by the Legislature or 1070. To incorporate the Albany, Mobile and New Orleans Railroad Company. To require all railroad bonds endorsed I of Georgia. To incorporate the Polk Connty Minio and Iron Madofacturing Company. To incorporate the Bank of the State $1,589 AN APOLOGT. Little Dingy thus apologizes for his dirty existence: “A blackguard is not a very attractive or entertaining specimen of humanity under any circumstances. He is to the genus ho mo what a tadpole is to the trog, with this ex caption, that, whereas without tadpoles, thore would be no frogs, it is quite possible that a community of gentlemen may have existence without blackguards. The “Social Bvil” is not an indispensable necessity to civ ilized society; and virtue is all the more beau tiful and more appreciated when brought in to contrast with shameless prostitution. After the same manner blaokgnards have their plao that adorn true manhood in a more conspicu ous, and therefore more exemplary light.” Upon this theory then, we suppose that we will have to tolerate his disgusting presence, although we must wonder at the ways of na ture in making the existence of such a mon ster of blackguardism at all necessary to the completeness of its plan. Total, We thus eee that Gov. Bollock has paid for this service seve.al who were drawing money from the State in other offices. Sev eral were connected with the State Road, and thus get pay for time as State Road employees, that they did not work, and also drew pay for illegal work done for neglect of their proper duties. And when it is remembered that the Congre aional committee rebuked Gov. Bollock for calling into requisition the ser vices of outsiders to organize the General Assembly, it will be seen that the payment of these partisan tools was an outran. Their employment was a grave outrage— s violation of the Constitntion and lawa or the Sta e and ot parliamentary law—an in enlt to the Feneral Assembly—an aggres sion npon popular rights, an arbitrary, des potic exercise of gubernatorial authority. And their payment was a fraud npou the Treasury. Let the people when they vote remember the wrong, and mark it against the Bullock faction and its friends, as a reason for vot ing them down. After Mr. Tillman’s remarks, which were frequently interrupted with hearty ap plause, CapL W. F. Prescott, Mr. Thomas Garrett and others, addrrssed the meeting, whed the resolutions were pat and nnani- , ' “ 1 " lopted. Little Dingy says, “the Concordia associa tion are preparing for another entertain ment ” She-he had better have kept his grammar. Four women in male attire were discov ered amonng the imprisoned Turcos at Spadau; in Prussia. Why are horses in cold weather like med dlesome people? Because they are bearers of idle tails. Mark Twain says that the Sandwich is lands’ dish of plain dog is only onr cherish ed American sausage, with the mystery ra* The Atlanta Constitntion, says “Thst Democrat who works with the Bollock fac tion, in its wrongs, is no better than the men he co operates with.” Yes, bnt how abont friendship, neighbor. Most a man turn his cold shoulder to a friend merely because he is a radical, and goes in for “greasing the boys.” and how too, abont gratitude—most a man see an other build a railroad, and not vote for him for Congress. Your judgment is mighty good, triend, Avery, bnt then yonr phe- lioks are hard as granite boulders. Some men np here are not that hard hearted— they vote for radicals just because they love Stamp Laws. The following, relative to the amended stamp laws may be of service to aome of onr readers : 1st. An instrument issued unstamped at a time when and in a plaee where no col lection district was established, may be stamped by the party who issued it, or by any party having an interest therein, at any time prior to Janaary 1st, 1872, and the legal effect of the stamp thus affixed will be the same as though affixed by the prop er collector. 2d. In the ease of instruments issued un tamped, or insufficiently stamped, since the establishment of the collection district, the collector is authorized to affix the nec- ecssarj stamp npon payment of the price of the stamp required by law, a penalty of doable the amount remaining unpaid, but in no care leas than five dollars, and where the whole amount of the tax denoted by the stamp required shall exceed the sum of fifty'doHars, npon payment also of interest at tiie rate of six per centum on arid tax from the day on which each stamp ought to have been affixed. The collector is also authorized by the amended law to remit the penalty at any time from Jnly 14th, 1870, to August 1st, 1872, in all eases where it shall be shown to his satisfaction that the instrument pre sented him was issued without the neoessa- rj stamp by reason of accident, inadvertence or urgent necessity, and without any wilful design to defraud the United Stites of the doty, or to evade or delay the payment thereof. 3d. Where an instrament thus etampep has been recorded, it should either be re corded anew, or the fact that the error has been corrected should be noted upon the by the Stale to be registered in the office oi Secretary of State. To amend section 4514 of the Code. To amend paragraph in section No. 27- 41, article 2d, part 2d, title 7, chapter 7, of the Code. To declare the Poll tax for the years 1S68, -879, and 1870, yet nncolleeted;illegal and prevent the collection of the same. To change the time ior the annua! meet ing of the General Assembly. Assenting to,and confirming the purchase by the United States of certain tracts of land in the State, and for ceding jurisdic tion over the same. To amend the charter of the Geor gia Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Com- pany. To incorporate the Cnthbert Bankin Loan and Trust company. To authorize the Mayor and Conncil of Americas to issue bonds to aid in building railroads, etc. To crant State aid to the Polk State Qnarry Railroad Company and ler other purposes. To authorize Pickens cunnty to aid in the construction ofthe Marietta and North Geor gia Railroad Company. To amend the act incorporating the Geor- ;ia Historical Society. To authorize the Superintendent oi’ the Western and Atlantic Railroad to convey to the Macon and Western Railroad Com- pany certain land in exchange for certain and now owned by the said Macon and Wes tern Railroad. To empower the Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad to convey certain rights to the proprietors of the Kcn- ni-eaw House at ’1 arietta. To authorize the Ordinary of Chattooga county to issue bonds to the amount of $10, 000 to put in condition a wagon road from Summerville across Lockout Mountain to gone point on the Chattanooga aod Ala bama Railroad. To extend the limits of Augusta, and for radical purposes. Bully for that. To incorporate the Grand Trank Railroad Company, to grant State aid to the some, and for other purposes. To incorporate the Georgia Agricnltu ral Bank,and grant certain powers aod priv- leges t' the Gergia liailroad and Banking Company. To incorporate the Georgia Seabord and North Western Railroad Company, grant State aid to the same, and for other pnr- poses. To iu corporate the Americas and Isabel la R tilroad Oompany, grant State aid to the same, and for other purposes. To incorporate the Xewnan Bank, Loan and Tinst Company of Newnan. To reinstate certain parlies as execntors in a certain case. To change the time of holding the Su preme Court. To amend the act incorporating the Au gusta and Summerville Railroad Compa ny, and tor other purposes. To incorporate the Stone Mountain Gran ite and Railway Company. To incorporate the Georgia Loan and Rank ing Company. To incorporate the Darien Telegraph Com pany. To grant State aid to the Camilla and Cnthbert Railroad Company. To regulate tbe law of putting np and keeping gates across public roads in the counties of Gordon, Whitfield and Mar- ray. To require the commissioners to re7ise the jury box, and to take an oath to dis charge their duty impartially. To repeal the act organizing a Criminal Court in each county. To oiganize and lay off a new connty out of portions of Telfair, Pulaski and Mont gomery counties. To require all the railroads in the State to furnish equal accommodations to all with- ont regard to race, color previous condi tion. To provide for the crossing of railroads by other railroads. * To incorporate the People s Bank of Al bany. To incorporate the Planters' Exchange Bank of Macon. To incoiporate the Brunswick Bank and Trust Company. To incorporate the Ocean Bank and Trust Company. To incorporate the Bank of Ameri cas. To incorporate the Griffin Banking Com- To incorporate the Bainbridge Compa- To incorporate the Savings Bank ol'Bornes- ville. To incorporate the Georgia State Bank ing Comyany. To incorporate Cedartown, in Polk coun ty, and for other purposes. To incorporate tbe Boston and Greenfield Railroad Company. To amend the act assented to Angnst 27, 1870. To change tbe name of the Central Geor. gia Banking Company. To amend the road laws so far as applies to the counties ol Whitfield, Murray and Gordon. To amend the act to grant State aid to the completion of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and for other purposes. To incorporate the Planters’ Loan and Savings Bank. To facilitate the construction of docks, wharves, and ships, at Bronswiok. To incorporate the Merchants Exchange Bank of Angnsta, and to amend the char, ters of the Planters’ Banking Company of Macon, City Bank of Macon, Savannah Loan ana Trust Company, and tbe Central ,Georgia Banking Company of Ma. eon. To ineoaponte the Tatum Iron and Coa| Mining and Manufacturing Company of Dade conty. To incoponte the Dalton Tripoli Compa ny. To incorporate the Laborers, Merchants and Mechanics Loan and frost Company, of Savannah. To incorporate the Policy Holders Life Insurance Company ofthe Sonth. To incorporate the Atlantic and Great Western Canal Company, etc. To. authorize the Ordinary and Road Commissioners of Bartow connty to classify the pnblio roads, and prescribe the width and amount of work to be done on each. To incoporate the Laborers, Merchants, Mechanics Loan and Trust Company of Macon /■ To pay to Mrs. P. ti. Fyall, widow of F. H. Fyall, negro, the per diem and mileage of the session of 1870. To authorize the Rome Railroad Compa. ny to consolidate with the Memphis Branch To authorize the payment of costs doe officers of the court in Bartow couuty and provide for the same. To change the line between the counties of Houston and Macoa. To amend the act organizing a criminal court in aeu count. To amend section 14 of the act settiDg apart a homestead ot realty aad personality so far as applies to certain exempted arti cles specified in section 2013 < f tho Code To amend section 4235 of the Code by striking ont the words, “to work in a chain gang on the public works.” To regulate claims in certain cases. To amend section 3151 eftbe Code. To amend the act to protect the planters of this State from imposition in the sale ot fertilizers. To amend tbe act to carry into effect section ]2, division 2d, article 5, of the Constitution. To making certain persons bolding money under order of court subject to rale. To incorporate the Planters Bank of Fcrsyth, and tbe Houston Danking Com pany. To incorporate the Skidaway, Pine Is land and Seashore Railroad Company, of Sa vannah. To incorporate Cairo, in Thomas county; Subligna, in Chattooga county, and for other purposes. To incorporate the Georgia mntnal In surance Company of Sanaonah. To incorporate the Oglethorpe Manufac turing Company ot DeKaib connty. To organize the District Court, and for other purposes To extend the provision for alimony to the family of the husband, to provide ior the custody cf the children, etc. To regulate the mode of joioing issue upon appeal cases, li,uaded upon proceed ings had before Justices’ Court, in regard to tbe enforcement of laborers’ liens. To repeal section 415 of the Code, ;n re Iation to entering nolle proseqnis, and pie scribing the mode of settlement in criminal cases- To more effectually execute the home- stead and exemption allowed by tbe Coosti tntion. To regulate tbe practice iu the Supreme Coart in certain cases. To prescribe tbe practice in cases of in junction, and other extraordinary remedies io equity, aod the manner of taking judg ments in the same to the Supreme Court. To declare more fully tbe meaning cf sections 3203 and 4222 of the Code, and provide for entering judgments on bonds of supersedeas, where cases have been carried to the Supreme Court. To authorize executors, administrators and guardians of minor children to pur chase a homestead of reality in certain cases. To confer jurisdiction of misdemeanor on Superior Coarts. To incorporate the Planters’ and Miners' Bank ofthe State of Georgia. To allow C' W. Henderson, of Campbell county, and all persons f bq have lost a leg nr arm, to peddle without a license in the State. To amend the act incorporating Emory College in Newton county. (To be Continued.') “A. H. Stephens.” Very curtly and eharacteristieall; der the above caption, Forney’s Cl ofthe 7th lnst.‘ thus whines and “On the 14th of September an edi article appeared in the Chronicle npoi Constitutional view ot the war betwi States.’ It accompanied a portion o 1 review of‘A Bebel War Clerk’s Dia was based npon certain statements in that volume. Matter incorporated io this edit gave offense to Mr. Alexander H. Si of Georgia,and that gentleman has us a letter several columns in leDgtb,’ we have neither the will uor tbe spa print. In a word we positively refrnu allow Mr. Stephens, or any other of! rebel chiefs, the nse of ear colamas to . tilate their contemned and nnmitig treason. From beginning to eod, this commui tion is a detense of the rebellien whic wonld justify by argument The main pose of the writer, however is to den authenticity of the celebrated speech to have been delivered by him in Georgia Secession Couveution in 1861. declares that be never madeany such spi either in that convention or anywhere i 'It is a fogery—a gross fabrication fj beginning to end.’ This speech has quently appeared in the Chronicle, ar. doubtless well remembered. It opposes the withdrawal of the Soi era States, proclaiming that to attempt destroy the Government of the Uni States, ‘is tbe height of madness, lolly a wickedness. It has been widely publish and has found its way into nearly all of ' bistories of tbe war, including Leric Draper’s and McPherson’s. Mr. StepF states that in tbe “Rebel War Clerk’s D ry, above alluded to, the document is, posed as a forgery.’ So it is; but its losnre is simply tbe statement of one w ike the ex-Viee-Presidt nt of the uefu. C. S. A. was himself a traitor, and ops gizes for treason We give the honorable gentleman, b>: ever, the weight of this additional prooi, his word. He did not make the spee that for nearly nine years past has be pnblished in every newspaper of the ian Honorable Record for the Planters. We take the followingjost tribute to the worth and sterling integrity of the Sonth* era planter, from the Auguita Constitution alist. The most enobling of all avocations.— the planter may well be proud of the fair fame that rests upon his as a class. If those who are so busily preying npon the substance of tbe planter would only take to themselves some of his integrity the burdens of meeting bis advances wonld not be half so heavy : One of the most hopeful and cheering sigDS of the times, since the war, indicative of material recuperation and the trae chiv alry of this immediate seclion has been re cently manifested in Angnsta, daring the past weelt. It was well known that onr warehousemen and merchants hadacoepted very largely for their patrons. These ac ceptances amounted to nearly one million of dollars, the larger part of which was due and payable upon the 1st and 4th days of November. Much anxiety was felt in fi nancial oirclcs, particularly of course by the acceptors of the drafts—as to the promptness of tbe planting eommnuity in meeting their obligations, the more espe cially as cotton has been selling at a figure that will hardly pay the cost of production But this anxiety, though natural enough, was really superfluous. Fcr be it recorded to tbe honor of the planters that, dffpite the depeession of the market and the dis count supposed to exist, in these days, np- od private faith, they have, with very few exceptions, met their promises with a pane tnality worthy of ail praise. We learn, for example, that one firm in Angcsta accepted for over $70,000; all of which was either paid some days before doe, or upon the very day required. With snch record the great majority of planters can easily obtain advances to any amount. W e doubt not, also, that tbe very few who have been delinquent, through inability or negligence to protect their paper, will come forward at an early day and settle satisfac tory with their merchants. We have been called “slow” non-progressive ete In this part of the State; but what section of Geor gia can point to a brighter business es cutcheon than oars ? and is a part of the history of the count In law snch a document as tbe speech v repudirted by Mr. Stephens, citculated a endorsedfor so long a period, wjuld final - crystalize into an authority. Itisstran that his rejection ot it should only now ha appeared for tho first lime. We give hi. the foil advantage of his statement, b we hope the publicists and seho’.ors, w have relied upon the discarded speech.w let os know how they obtained possessi Of it.’ In other words, Mr. Forney having.. is his wont betimes, circulated editorial a base fabrication and built upon it a pvi mid of spendiferous rubbish to gh Radical regime,is furious because vens topples it down with the clean of a man enamored of the troth. In ti ; course of denial, we presume, it becan necessary for Mr. Stephens to enlarge son what upon the points raised by Mr. Fo ney. This, of course, would never do; for Forney hates the truth, he also dreads ii exposition, in an argumentative shape, fro a m ster of statesmanship, logic and tl noble Engiisn tongue. We dare .-ay M : Stephens was well a .'are that there nos bi slim chance of a hearing, at any length, i the columns of Forney’s venal press Ha lie enclosed a check for a good roand su of bribe money, the mercenary would hat j pmblished a defense of “rebellion” or an thing else. Bnt to yield his colams to i document from Alexander II. Stever which crashed his paltry literary egg-shel and to yield them also in tbe simple an austere cause of truth, without money an without price, this was indeed too much i require from a prolectary and a time se ver. Mr. Stephens must, we say, have su? pected snch a state of things. He mu.°; have known thatForney is very nueh afrai of genrine argument- Thn cause of Victorious Evil is to > weai to stand before the Majesty of ilcasai . which cries aloud, and will continue to er aloud, and will continue to cry alond fore' er, above tha dram and bugle or the yelp i the subsidized joaraalist. Since, then. Mjl Forney fears the light and clings yp dark ness; since he refuses to let his readers hen the other side, since his cause is too wee for examination or controversy, unless;gol yellow, glittering gold, be secretly or openl paid into his soiled and itching palm, Mdj Mr. Stephens sbonid withdraw his mam script from the Chronicle and let it b made public elsewhere.—Augusta Const iti tionalist. “Ladias in the Next Room.’ Under the above heading, a Clevelan correspondent of the Woman’s Journt ■; writes sensibly as follows: “On entering a stall in one-of our firs i class eating-booses, which only gentleme and ladies are supposed to frequent, 1 wa surprised to ebserve on the Wall thi j notice: “Gentlemen, while occupying thi room, are respectfully requested to refrai from using any profane or improper lat gnage. Ladies are in the next room.” It occurred to <ne at once, what an es cellent argument this in favor of wimai suffrage. And as I looked, and re.read tb notice, now easo, 1 thought, to obviate it necessity by taking down these walls. An how truly do these illustrate the partisa walls that custom and society have create between the sexes, and which this gre: reform, Woman suffrage, is seeking to over throw. Who cannot see that, as loDg a these harries remain, woman is more liabl ; to suffer from man’s unrestrained grossnes; - and tendency toward the evils indicated b the notice referred to, than if she stoo< before men in all the relations of life as a equal, free to exercise the moral power the this eating-house notice accords her? “Take down fhe partitions in politics— | in religion—in labor—in opportunity—an i allow woman to stand before men strong i. tbe consciousness of her moral power- who will for a moment doubt ahat the effei will be an increase in the moral force society?” Railroad Company, mid for ate Colt popo-es. Toincorp irate Colquitt, in Miller county and for other purposes. ’o incorporate the Mr. Greeley’s Handwriting. The first of the following letters shows what Mr. Greeley really wrote in reply to a request to lectnre in Illinois. The second letter shows how his reply was construed: FROM E. GREELEY LO M. B. CASTLE. “Dear Sir—I am over-worked and grow ing old- I shall be sixty next February 3rd. —On the whole, it seems I most de cline to lecture henceforth, except in this immediate vicinity, if I do at all. I cannot promise to visit Illinois on that errand— certainly not now. Yours, H. Greeley.” FROM ii. B. CASTLE TO H. GREELEY. Sandwich, III., May 12,1870. Horace Greeley, New York Tribune: Dear Sir—Yonr acceptance to lectnre before oar Association next winter came to hand this, morning, Four penmanship not being the plainest; it took some time to translate it; bat we succeeded, and wonld say yonr time—‘3rd of February’—and terms—‘$60’—are entirely satisfactory. As yon suggest, we may be able to get yon other engagements in thiB vicinity; if so, Both Foolish and Unpatriotic. Though an old Whig, savs onr esteeme cotemporary of the Savannah Bepublicai and having never cast a Democratic vote i other days, we cordially endorsed these sei . sible remarks taken from the Richmon d Enquirer : “In former times, when parties were i vided on debatable issue in Virginia, tbe results of party contests were by son regarded as doubtful, it is not wonderft that there was mnch party excitement, an some bitterness of personal feeling growio ont of the excitement. That Whig shoal J be averse to Democrat, or Democrat shonli be averse to Whig rule in those days, wt right ‘Bnt that any Virginian, adherent oft! old Whig party, should now go to thep that perseentes his countrymen, as the i tional repnblicon party has persecuted an does persecute Virginians, is truly remark ble. Hostility to Democracy, when that ho tility, it successful, pots the Whig of ttj American party in power, was one opposition to Domocraey, when that opp sitien. if successful, pats the Radical \ tn power, is quite another and intoierab ihing.” A lodging house keeper advertiser furnish gentlemen with pleasant and coi^ fortable rooms, also one {or two geutlen with wives.” we will advise yon. “Favor me a with a twist,” is now tf ?sh form of inviting a lady to join