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Newspaper Page TextFry. f Morne (Courier. n C »«ai °'-t. 3 s ] yi. <4 ,VYER. Associate Editor. SiiiEP EVER^ FKIDAY - WEEKLY. $2 00 RATES of I ‘Viw*'r. . 50 ■-* 1 Jfoatl** fop. triweekly. ^ o() • >VAR iabI,Y *4*1 „J e ' r - hi,l IK ADVANCE. •re cue copy will be fur Stock and Crop News. • Core in the field is selling at .82 35 per barrel in Nicholas eountyi . ' i. T A It. F. Adair sold in Paris two Ches ter pigs to Wells, of Mason county, for M. DWINELL, Proprietor. volume xxv. ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 25, 1870. NEW SERIES-NO 13. TS, 1 1 davjl nd'dJ 1 beariJ >J tne| d*te (L Ddr«ci| »ard$ 0 lots, ti] °te, < Iced ofl aortgaf elve hi istriotI g fortX iringT ‘npaid,! .the 8 ore thl >t anfl he c r thed ^her a isbed I iD,Cl fifty J ADVERTISEMENTS, n 1 by Adwvtistrators, Ezectora or y,M n-uretl by law held on .trc r *;’l euca month, between the " ■ the orenoon and three in the JJ e CuU rt House in the county m *-»vis situated. P r ' ? ’ '‘calcs must be given i pub- 3 iota previous. 1 4 - ,11'.alc of personal property must nn0 r, through a public gai- n sale dav. 1 Creditors of an estate, -ill be made to the 0 sell laud must be K ’. r r t 1 pliers of Administration, Guar- "j.ut °~, J must be publishod 30 days—for J;r >P ie " administration, three months— i.*a ,ifiw ? jpn from Guardianship, 40 days. * forccloseure of Mortgages must F.'i'"I i monthly for four months—for es- , ,„. r5 fur the full space of three »>H- omnclliug titles trom Executors or V-'-.J where bond has been given by Its-- j , ' t i ie full spaco of three months. always be continued accord- , „ ■, -a! requirements, unless oth- 'K!.',..!. at the following RATES. . , low of ten lines or less $3 00 hsnj 1 ..ge til fa. sales, per levy, 5 00 '"■'f,'. .tor’s sales, per levy JJJ inters of Administration •> 0» 'tjndc*- ^tt^rsol Guardianship 3 00 3 V.„nlication for dismission from nt *IT 6 08 for dismission from a P? u .. 6 00 irillindV".’".'.'." •• - * JJ , r sand Creditors, t> 00 an-hip. _ .-0 D iht* f Laud.p ‘Sai'le J?o”«y',"l0d’kys V fio day? ,,’nVe of MortgafC, per square. r hi- wife, (in advance) . 4 00 4 00 10 00 SATI 'HDAY MORNING, Nov. 19. lU RNF.TT'S SPEECH. Somebody—Mr Attorney General A. I linker .Herman, we suspect, has written II speech /or George P Burnett. . Ami at a eraud radical pew wow in Allan. ,i be let it out. aud this is what he said; Air. Presiil nt aud Fellow Citizens :— prescotirg uiy.-elf befure you this even- 'j. is the Republican candidate for the I ’iConeressioual District, I wish it ds- j'sfllv understood that I came without mal ice or hatred to anyone, and without abuse I u auy party." reeisely so. Abuse is not Georges’ njje, he SaJi it much better to grease. ••Il is no easy m tter, gentlemen, to dis- n<s the politics of this day It seems to m list discussion is useless, for as yet, I lar; been unable to learn what that party iticl styles itself Democratic, means and liu it desires/ tieurec is right again. He will find it a, easy matter lor him to discuss the poli- [ lies of this Jay. The fact is, politics is en- :.:r. ton al his depth. It requires the ml of a Stephens or a Toombs, to grasp uK'uapreheuJ theii subtle principles — 'ienrge/ mind is entirely too weak to at- tsspt so much -Little boats should keep near the shore.” He may be fully competent to grease the ichinery of a railroad, but he cannot at- j um uu-o matters so high above him as are I. is true they proclaim in the loudest Icibs, their old and beautiful, and yet tuinejed motto, “The Constitution and ■' i aaderstaudiiig polities George does not *'nw what the Constitution mcans- A :t be belongs to a party that utterly •e: res that instrument, and proposes to a: ite corernmental machinery upon the ji.'.c.pe; of -higher law” du sking what they desir;. he at once responds, the Constitution as it was. dhich ot course, is just so much Greek : itesiaipleminded George. i - regard to the 14th and loth arnend- t“ts. be says : 'AH I have to say in reply to this is, | tbej have passed the highest tribunal in tt; *>d. they have been approved by mo e ‘"it t»j thirds of tte States of the Union I "Mia the language of one of Ohio’s dis tagaistied sons, “they will stand”—and : the combined political parties of this i atrv cannot and will not change them, mining then this to be a foregone con- ‘'■ssiin and needing no demonstration, I ta; ti that we should accept the situation, '-‘-ij and dispassionately, and strive with '•r almost ability to bring harmony where !: ®ity .listed, and prosperity wnere de- "■ti’tion was once seen.” Being fixed facts, he accepts them, but t does not say that he endorses and ap- proves them. Cunning George, but then Kirby did so for him in his Kings- H resolutions. Bat J am most happy t tell my friends -■R to night, that a grand and marvellous ““geis taking piace throughout our Bight here i agree with George—a change is taking piace, and if it had B:) t been for Akerman’s election bill, the tJs tgc would have already been consuma- : sli tbe infamous administration of * ^ t part, would have lecu hurled place and the ^ .... power it has so long x J l *-™ Been my fortune during tho past C' “ aTe visited several counties in my tb. lLt Un ^ ^Bcrever I have been I found tett t'* r ° f a Bing place, and a more con- tjjj 'I 4 fcelinjv existing. The people are ,.j ’ Jl , 13 eternal harping of the negro ilja. rsuffra ? c > an( i*re bending their ii.,'*'', t0 . tl ' c more lofty and elevated Hunt, ' ,J ° ’ uterna ' iu'provemcnts of the or ibis reason he will be very gia- ” rl f uoor ■’ "pon tbe Ttt i *ell that negro question. He knows 1rd las < th ICOpI 1 aWaY *' rom B* 10 tt-'lfottBe, as it wont pay in this district. tsilj i^y; 50 a ' ,J “g kheir lines, are almost :tr 00 o meetings, advocating in the v H and most liberal manner the ear- c ‘thti . I DCeiUcnt an< l tlte rapid completion hsetb^t art eries which bind the States t’ct c ,, [ an “ "’bieh promote to a magnifi- ibj. c , a ’ ^ ftteat material interest ot - '-‘uatry. Iiui ; J *a T J, 1 ? 3 ” e "o' 11 greasy things any tho,,,.. c no,TS very well how to apply vs,." ^ ut must recollect that these lb t j ue I >an Pi e af e all Democrats. All dlstrlct P at together „ Ih . b “ lld,e “ miles of railroad. "til k c ”wn't'o v iu f ernal improvement : s Republican 1°„ - a , Ve been Inaugurated by a r Jli *Ccraf' atUre ? h,le neaI >y the 5coai ?!aitisof suc P h eSa ° f <he Sta: ® Htter aat they .J „ Uoh measures, and cries b Wr»ij. 'p, ’ D ? us and disastrous to Bearh, " Lt-ivilv Cla ! m tbat taxation will ,ate will b/“ P “ the people; trat the pres Tk L^^hetimethe people redeem the fire columns of advertised wild lands —they will begin to think so too. On this subject he grows eloquent, and looms np mightily. “Show me a State where internal im- provemeats are not thought of, and I will show you a State lying dormant, filled with ignorance, crime and poverty. On the con trary, look at the States which are oelted throughout their 'ength and breadth with the iron rail, and I will point you to a com monwealth, teaming with wealth, prosper ity, energy and happiness.” Of which South Carolina is a notable in stance. But grand as are tho railroads, they are all too small to confine the ambition of the orator, and ho reaches oat tu the rivers. “I do not, gentlemen, confine myself to railroads alone We have rivers in Geor gia, and I am not so selfish, bnt that I wonid be proud to see the grand remedy, inter nal improvement promptly applied by the general government, as well as State, not only to the rivers in Georgia, but to those also that form a part of the same tributa ries, even though outside of our State. Well, we heartily agree with him in this, and tbe more so as it is a marked fea tare in tho Democratic programme. It he should by a lame possibility get elected, we hope that lie will adhere to this part of his policy, and co operate with our Democrat ic friends, Dox, Sloss aud Handley, of Ala bama, in their efforts to improve the C josa and Tennessee riTers. By an easy transition, he passes from the Railroad and river question to that of the inevitable nigger. The colored man has had given him civ il and political rights/ they will and should be respected. It is the law of the laud and will stand beyond all controversy. Tbe day was when the law required the white man to feed, to clothe, and to de all tor him that t e law now requires the col ored man to do for himself. It is his duty to take care of himself; if he neglects it he can blame no one but himself. I care not to what party you attribute his freedom! he has been made free; the issue is dead; he is free, a&d entitled, under the law to the same civil and political right that the white man is, and these rights, as 1 before said, should be respected.” A piece of legal news for which every man in the district ought to be thankful. “I hear some one say yes, this is all true but you are a radical neverthelesr. Now, my friends, what is tbe meaning of sd ex treme Republican ? When yon answer this, I will ask yon the meaning of an ex treme Democrat. There are extremists in both parties, and there always will be, bnt it is not necessary that we should all go to extremes in politics sny more than we should in religion.” As he artfully dodges ibis question, we will answer it for him. Gen. Grant’s ad ministration is radical. So radical in fact, that it is driving from its support all con servative Republicans-Schurz, of Missouri, Cox, Mot ley aud thousands of others. The power that has so long held onr poor State in abject subjugation and humiliation, post poning onr elections, seating bogus repre sentatives, convening and adjourning our Legislature at the will of a despot, is radi cal, and this administration, and this pow er Barnett's platform unqualifiedly en dorses. HON. PETER 1U. DOX. The redemption of onr sister State, Ala bama, from the blighting curse of Radical- ism is a matter of sincere gratitude to “But then say others, this social equality business, we don’t like this. What I have to say ou this subject is—if the colored man wants social equality, aud the white man agrees to give it to him, let him have it—its a matter between them; this is a matter for them to settle among themselves —the constitntion don’t settle this ques tion.” Oi course the Constitution does not, but Congress does. It says the uegro shall tat and sleep in the same hotel, ride in the same coaches, sit in the same boxes at the theatre, and don’t Burnett’s party platform eQdone and approve these things ? “Social equality must and will regulate itself, and so far as my individual experi ence is concerned, the colored man has nev er sought social equality with me. aud if he had, I am frank enough to say, his wishes would not have been met.” We are familiar with some of the indig nities to which her people have been sub jected. We have seen in her borders a grand jury dismissed, simply because they were white men. We have seen white men driven from the juTy box to give place to negroes. We have 6een her noble uni- versity, ooce the pride and the glory of the State—tho abode of learning art and re finement prostituted to a den of drunken radical thieves. We have recn good and true men push ed oat of their offices, and their places filled by incompetent and dishonest adven tures. All these things hung like a curse over her people. Many a good man has left that State to avoid the terrible misrule to which her peaple were constrained to sub mit. Bat now a brighter day haB dawned up on her. Her people have succeeded by a strong and honest effort in rescuing their land from tbe tyrants rule, and hate re deemed their State from tbe ruins of radi calism . With them we rejoice—and to those who labored most for this great rood, we join her people in honest heart felt thanks for their noble efforts. Among those who arc thus entitled to the gratitude of every true Southern heart, is Honorable P. M. Dox, tbe gallant and snccessful standard, bearer in the fifth dis-1 trict. This gentleman made a gallant fight, and although his opposition was a feble one and the people of his district belonged to that hardy Democratic yeomanry which makes North Alabama, secure in its na tive integrity, and to receive the Demo cratic nomination was i eqnivolated to an election, he yet had much of a personal vir tue to commend him to the people, and in dependent of his election as a Democrat,we we have reason to be glad of his election as a man. In the present Congress he has stood by the people of the Sooth, and iranfnlly op posed their oppression' Onr own State was tne recipient of his honest offices,and when the Bingham amendment was before the house he stood by our State. But it is for his effort in the matter of internal improvement that we have most to thank him. He has labored zealously in the matter of improving the Coosa River, a work in which we are all so deeply interest ed. It is to his efforts wo are indebted for all that has been done, and we have his as surance that the work will still be contin ued. The survey ordered by the government, and which is now being prosecuted by Fillebrown was ordered at his suggestion a general polieyof judicious internal im provements characterized by his views, and to the general gladness we feel in the Democratic success in Alabama, we add s special one for the election of this able and excellent man. ey, of the administration is criticised, and then the leader concludes as follows: As the exponent of these Opinion ; as meaning to give utterance to these just and reasonable inculcations, The Patriot makes its appeal to the American people. It will be our effort so far as we may with- ont presumption, from this central point of movement and observation, to give'be keynote of Democratic and Conservative expression- Nothing but the grossest in- discretiou can frustrate the &ith which is in us of a great political reaction throturont the land,which has already most auspicious ly and surely commenced. The Democratic press of the United States, ia whose ranks we are prond to en roll ourselves, is of one mind and one heart on all the great questions of the day. The ~ " ' party is hopelessly demoraliz- “f-'U tag ay 'Arp on a Wilier Tree.” By a/jcnonal friend I was caught by the 'and And wis led to a mountain 'igb, And 'e (bowed me e beautiful pnxpert there, And the pieces was fair to my eye. So I’ll ’eng my ’Arp on a wilier tree, Aud never will louteh it agin, And I’il vote for the men whet greeeee mo Beceueo > ’as plenty o’ tin. An office I eew in that prospect fair. And the picture is ’aunting me yet, For plenty good pickings ley scattered around. And did’nt I like it—you bet, So I’ll ’ang my ’Arp on a wilier tree. And never ’ill toutch it agin, For I'll vote for tbe man who showed it to me, Biel iso I am after tbe tin. Radical ed. The mercenaries of a once vie. torions host are plundering their own camp. The leader of that host,in whom a grate, fnl people so recently felt pride, is provid ing for the evil day pensioning his famil. iar dependants, and accepting tor himself the ‘benevolences’ (a word of evil omen) of his venal followers. There is no longer for us the glory of au unsuspected Chief Mag. istrate. Ours, iu view of all this, and much more hereafter to be developed, mast be an ac tive and, in a trno sense, aggressive policy These people must be pressed, exposed,and exhibited in their proper colors. To tbat end we enlist. Around ns, we hope, we have gathe ed education and high intelligence. It will be our aim to make this paper acceptable, uot only to the political, but the general reader. For onr enterprise wa ask an in dnlgcnt judgment, and sneb support as its merits may fairly deserve. Ob, General Young is a very nice man, Bnc 'e docs’nt know ’ot to grease, So I’ll cling to the tail of my pereocsl friend ’Till the waters of Tartarnr freeze, And ril’nng my 'Arp on i wilier tree, And aterer will tontch it agin, And m fall in the radical line you seo. Because they ’ave plenty of tin. Thus, out by one, do tbe mighty fell. When troublesome times appear Bike the summer vines from a cottage wall. When winds blow bleak and drear. So we’ll 'ang our 'Arp on a wilier tree. And never ’ill tontch it again, If it chooses to fall in the radical tea. Why—there, we’ll let it remain. The True Georgian is tbe ablest radical paper in the State. It is intensely loyal, and its editor, Sam Bard, was the first to suggest tbe name oi Grant tor President. Bnt “Loil” as it is, the Tine Georgian can- not stand Barnett’s great chief—and now and then he tells how the “boys” sre greased. Here is an instance: “Urease, Boys, Grease.” Pompey, Dinah and Squash ought to make a note of this, bnt how will he feel if he gets to Congress and his old hack drivel Ben Turner, (or Gee) who goes there from Selma, Alabama, wants to sleep with him. “I do not believe the colored man wants social equality; he is satisfied to confine his social relations to his own race, and my observations are that he has less social equality to-day than before his freedom.” And in this the gentleman differs very widely from the opinions, aims and pur poses of his party. He thus allndes to his claims above Gen. Young : “Then, gentlemen, I claim that all Dem ocrats who are ia favor of the Constitntion and the enforcement of tho law, recogniz ing the civil and political equality of free men, and who favor the school system, the homestead and the relief laws, can more consistently vote for me than for General Young, because he is allied with the nation al Democracy, which held in its last nation al Convention the reconstruction acts as unconstitutional, revolutionary, and there fore void. The same principal Was reaffirm ed in the last Democratic State Convention Hence the success or Gen. Young, and bis party most necessarily inaugurate a serious effort to undo what has been done by the nation since the late surrender. Such an effort, even talked of, will keep the North fretful against the Sooth and tend materi ally to retard our general prosperity, and prevent that national fraternity which should be the highest wish of all good cit izens. Which little matter we beg to take under advisement. With this grandiloquent peroation, he wound up his speech : 'Now, gentlemen, in conclusion, I hope to meet you again before this canvass is closed, bnt in the event I do not, remember tbe 20tn, 21st and 23d of December next go to the polls, with the determination to do your duty, vote for Bnrnett, stand by the parly of progress, whose policy is internal im provement and for the development of all the resources of our country, and for equal rights to all men, under the law and the Constitution. I thank yon, gentlemen, for yonr patience. And we must apologize to onr readers for theirs. THE DAIEY PATRIOT. We acknowledge with pleasure the re ceipt of the first number of this new Dem ocratic paper,published at Washington City by the Patriot newspaper Association,and under tie editorial control of Hon.James E. Harvey. The Patriot will be the organ of the Democratic party ot the nation. Its first nnmber promises a great sne- cess, and if the auspicious begining is to be carried to maturity, it will supply a dis- sideratnm long felt in onr party economy. We cannot better give an idea of its plan and its promises, than by quotations from its “Inaugural leader.,' After review ing the situation as effected by the results of the war it says: It is because the administration of Pres- ident Grant has failed, and we regret to believe, willfully failed in this great aim, that tbe Democratic and Conservative par ty—for they are one—North and South, East and West, oppose it. His election was not only tbe result of a greatfnl esti mate of military services, bnt of confidence in a soldier’s word of honor embalmed in a well-known and familiar aspiration for peace not the mere cessation of active holtUities —for they were over when the Confeder ate flag was furled—bnt tbe peace of reeon ciled affections and rennited sympathies. For this no adequate effort has been made and no result attained- What h s been done towards reconcilement and it is mnch hss been in spite, rather than in further ance of the policy of the 'Administration. Witness Virginia —East and West—snd North Carolina. Georgia and Teasx will bear their testimony whenever the net of technicalities whi-ih now encompa s them is removed or torn away. In North Carolina, uninfluenced by the marvellous success of a moderate and pacific policy in her neigh bor of Virginia, the Executive employed the military forces of the Government to sustain the action of local authorities who had no constituency at home, and was com pelled to withdraw them wiih shame, if not - : _» r — : with ignominy, at the bidding of an indig nant though half-enfranchised people. In New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland— although neither State ever sought to leave tbe Union, and all, especially the two for mer, sent large contingents to the Federal service—we have been compelled to wit ness the same daring Executive intrusion. Soldiers have been paraded, as in Philadel phia, and, as it were, massed in ambush in New York, and gunboats and frigate an chored,with batteries ready to sweep crowd, ed thoroughfares. The influence of terror without a law is as offensive as that of actual force, and the result, thanks to the prudence of the oom. munity aud the forecast of the local authori ties, has been also disappointment and discomfeitore. So it is throughout; and hence the resolute opposition which true lovers of the social and political Union feel it their duty to make. Then follows a review of tha Congress ional policy, after which the foreign poll Little Dingy sayB “Dean ?wift, who was ad dicted to cynicism, tells us of a chimney cor ner philosopher who once sought to create the impression that he was on terms po lemical and pragmatical with Sir Phillip Francis and John Keats.” Now, the good old Dean must have had a most wonderful prescience to have known any thing about Keats, who was not born until the year 1795—fifty years after tbe death of Swift. That intelligent, h’gh minded immacu late Metropolitan journal, the Atlanta New Era, has sgain crashed ns into infinitesi mal littleness, and lifted itself still higher upon the pole of journalistic eminence by showing to the world wbst an iguoramous we are, and how wonderfully wise is.it. This exhibition of a profound wisdom on the psrt of the great Metropol itan paragon ishowever made at the expense of its varacity, for in proving itself to be the wisest of all created things, it likewise proved that the wisest can also lie like a dog. We do not earo to trouble our readers any further with this wonderful embodi ment of all the wisdom that the wise bird of Minerva ever gave out, and will there fore leave it alone in its imaginary glory, only recommending that it should look again at the Richmond Dispatch, and see if it, in its despicable effort to reproach the memories and the ssntimant so dear to ev ery true Southern heart, might not, wise ss it is, possibly be mistaken as to the perma nent organization of the Lee Monument Association. The following are the officers of the As sociation, as permanently organised : Lt. Gen, Jnhal A Early, President. Executive Comittee—Col. Walter H Tay lor. Brig. Gen. Bradley T Johnson, Msj. Robt. Stiles, Capt R D Minor, R H Mau ry, Esq., Brig- Gen. Wm. N Pendleton, and Col. C S Venable. Col. T M RTalcott, Secretary. Col. W H Palmer, Treasurer. Sergt. C P Allan, Auditor. Chairmen of the Exeentive Committtees of the Lee Memorial Association in the following States, etc. Maryland, Maj. Gen. J B Trimble; Ken tnoky, Maj. Gen. John C Breckenridge; Missouri, Msj. Gen. J S Marmaduke; Ten nessee, Lient. Gen. N B Forrest; North Carolina Maj. Qen. R F Hoke; Sooth Carolina, Lient. Gen. Wade Hampton; Georgia, Maj. Gen. John B Gordon; Flor ida, Brigadier Gen. Peny; Alabama, Lt. Gen. W J Hardee; Mississippi, Brig. Gen. B G Humphreys; Louisians. Gen. S P Beauregard; Arkansas, Brig. Gen. W L Cabell; Texas, Maj. John S Sellers; Dis trict of Colombia, W W Corcoran. Somebody, with an ostensible right to the same, gobbled out of the State Treasu ry yesterday the little sum of seveu hun dred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents, on a warrant from bis extravagant-Exccl- leacy, -‘for proclamation printing” in the Governor’s pet sheet, the New Era. One thonsandand eighty-five dollars slid throngh the same groove to keep the ‘American Union’ afloat. Bollock’s pay days have no Sab baths. GOV. HOFFMAN. The Philadelphia Age says : The re- election of Hon. John T. Hoffman, Govern or of New York, is an event of marked significance. There were unusual exertions made by the Radicals, in and out of the State, to defeat this sterling Democ at and incor ruptible public servant General Grant brought all the influence of his administra tion to bear upon New York in hopes to elect Woodford. Money and promises were freely used in the canvass, and negro votes purchased by the most humiliating prostratiun at the shrine of the eb iny idol In addition to this, Governor Hoffman had to face and overcome military dictation and military intimidation in the city of New York. Many votes were in coniequenco of the excitement consequent upon the presence of soldiers in the city, and the rumor that they wonid be used ou the slightest excuse. Old aud timid persons would not go to the polls, and thus the majority in the eity for Governor Hoffman was not what it would have been if the bayonets had been kept oat of the esnvass. Bnt the Democracy stood to their gnns,and routed the combin ed forces of office-holdes, office-seekers and negroes in the most triumphant man ner. General Grant conld neither corrnpt nor intimidate the people of New York. They had tested Governor Hoffman, they knew his worth as a public man, and they have re-elected him over Woodford, the ballet candidate, by a decided majority. New York is entitled to commendation for the noble stand made by her sons in be half of the great principles of civil liter- ‘J- From the London Times ] The Late General Itobert Lee. Sun Tbe interesting memoir ofGen. Robert Lee, in a late impression, leads me, to think that some of yonr readers may care for a few reliable facta concerning this distinguished person’s ancestors, which I am able to give: I Richard Lee. the First Engish settler in Virginia, was the seventh snu of Sir Robert Lee, Knt , of Halcott. Bocks, by Elizabcch, daughter of Robert Chcvue, oi Onesham, Bois, in the same county. Sir Robert Lee was born at l.elatrapp, Bucks, June, 15, 1545, aud, dying at Stratborg Langton, in Essex, was buried in the chancel of Hardwicxe, Bucks, Aug ista 30, 1616, aged 73. His moon, ment still exists. His eldest son Henry, was the first baronet of Quarrendon. Tbe will of the above named Richard Lee, who calls himself “Colonel.” is dated 1663, and he describes hi uself in it “of Strafford LsngtoD, in tbe country of Essex, Es quire. ’ 2. Richmond Lee, bis second son, was born in Virginia, A. D. 1646, and was sent to England to be educated. He married Lctitia, the eldest daughter of llenry Cor- bin; obtained a large propriety ia theAmer- ican State of Westmoreland, where he built a resideucs, naming it “Ditchley,” after the chief Oxfordshire mansion of his En glish relations. Oa his monument it is stated, In magir tratum obeunda boni publici Uwliodiuimi. in litcris Uraecis el Latinis el alu't human' ioris literaturae duciplinis vertafimmi•” He died March 12, 1714, aged 78. This Richard Lee left five sous—vis., Richard, Philip, Francis. Thomas, and Henry. I am concerned with the last nam ed. 3. Henry Lee, born in Virginia, wts a member of the early conacilg of that colony and married a Miss Bland, daughter of “Richaidos Blann, armiger.” (See Camp bell’s “History of Virginia,” p.. 164)—Of this marriage there were two sons—Rich ard and Henry—and a daughter. 4. Henry Lee, tbe second sou, married Lucy Grymes, grand daughter of General Thom. Grymes, at Spring-green, on Satur day, December 1,1753. Spr : Dg-greeu was the residence of President Lee. An inter esting description of the old mansion is given in “The Virginia Historical Regis ter.’’ This Henry Lee, by Lucy his wife, had six sans and five daughters. 5. Their eldest son Henry; who was a general in the srmy, and was known by the sonbriquett of “Light Horse Harry,” was the well known ally and distinguished friend of Washington. He it was who, in 1739, pronounced the great eulogism in tbe American Congress upon Washington, and is Temembered as one of the most remarka ble men ofhis day. He married, as his second wife, Ann, daughter of Charles Car ter, Esq., and had three sons and two daughters. He died March 25, 1818. 6. Of these sons, the youngest, Robsrt Edward, is the General whose death has recently taken place. General Lee married Mary, daughter of George Wasbingtan Park Curtis, and has issue three sons an four daughters. 1 have thus briefly traced, from family documents in my possession and other sources, the pedigree of this illustrious man; connecting him by undoubted prolls with the Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Lees. The very fact that in the new colo ny of Virginia the names of their family’s old homes in England were given to the residences they erected, e. g., “Ditcbley.” Lee’s Rest,” and --Stratford,” are, in con junction with the wills and monumental ii - scriptions existing, clear proofs of their de scent from en old English family of note and repntation. I remain, sir, yonr obedient seivant. E.G L. No. 9 Lambeth tebbacb, S. E„ Oct- 26. ed and protected in future as they have not been for ten long weary years. Gov. Brown i? cue of the noblest specimens of a Tennesseean, being to the manor born, and having a heart and brain in full sympathy with its people. He will make an execu tive officer of whom the S'ate can well be pioud. and we congratulate him upon his splendid triumph.—Bowling Green, Ky-, Democrat. To be Head Out. The Washington correspondent of tbe New York Tribune, under date of 11th in- slant, writes: -Some of the Republican Senators now here are so much incensed at the course of Senator Schurx in ML-souri politics that they contemplate taking vigorous measures to punish him for producing dissensions in the party, in furtherance of this intention they will end aver to read him out of their ccuacil, take from 1 : s prominent place on committees, and exclade him from the par- ty causes.” So it seems that a German ia not loyal not Radical. The military party tolerate no differences. A Republican is nothing if not obedient to orlers from headquarters. W. W. Adams, of Bourbon, sold t year- ling colt for 81,250, end others at 8450, all by Pateben. i i ‘Billy Hoskins,’ Ward Macy’s fine trot ter, made a—mile-- «r'2:26i, and after wards 'Sofi to Barker, of Cincinnati, for 86,000. Scott- ccnnty ;ets 812 dog tax iiwa year, and loses nearly 81,000 wuith of mutton on sceount of the worthless can ines. m Stock Sale In Williamson County Tenn Franklin, Nov. 15. —At the late large sal of stock,farming utensils and farm pro ducts. by W. C. Ramsey & J. H. Ewin near Franklin, yesterday, everything sold well sbeep,in lots of ten, bronght from 83 85 25; best back, 815, hogs six moms old $10 75, each,aged sow, $46 and 836.sboats two months old. from 82.50 to $5.50, cows, from $35 to $35, work moles from $100 to $200, mares aged; $75 to $150, good rid ing horse $200, com $2.85 per barrel,Oats 40c per bushel There have been six gentlemen declro. ed the English Mission since the summary recall of Mr. Motley. President Grant writes to Morten that the reasons he gives for decling the mission are eminently sen sible. These reasons have not transpired, but they are understood to be two thousand six hundred and fifty eight in number—the Democratic majority ia that State. Grant’s troubles iu this respect may be set down emphatically as the ‘Decline and Fall off the English Mission.’ t The holder of a hundred thousand dol lar’s worth of bonds does not help to pay, in taxes, the policemen who guard them from being stolen. He does not assist to pay fo the repair of tbe roads over which his splendid eqnipapc rolls,nor for the pnb- Iic schools in which his children are edu cated. That, nnder law, is done for him by the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer — The Democracy are in lavor of stopping all this, and compelling all men to pay their jnst share of taxation. What say the people ? Shall it be done ?—Effingham Dem. A Milwaukee youth has gone into poe. try since his fsilnre. His failnre wsa trying to make a fall hand beat four sevens. Though pleasure still can touch my son], Though sorrow’s fountain still is open— Yet smile I not ss erst I smole, Nor weep I ss erst I have wopea. .The Moral of the Election. The St Louis Democrat, (Rad.), snms np tne resnltsand moral of thelate elections follows: The moral of these elections is simply this.- The administration of General Grant has so dissatisfied the people that it is already plain that any party attempting to run him will be ignomiously beaten in 1872, unless he shell do something to recover pnhlie fa vor. Bnt Barnett’s part; don’t think so. It intends to stand by Grant. The first plank in the platform is a dough ty slip of Grant timber. The True Georgian, the ablest radical paper in the State thus speaks of the head of Burnetts party The “Big Fires” In Mew York. H. I., of the big Hotel, Johnny, the banker, aud his traveling Excellency Bol lock, are in New York, trying to manipulate the three millions of Stale bonds recently issued, illegally, by the Executive head of the “Big Firm.” They are understood to be working bard among the financiers of Wall Street, bnt without suocesa, aa it is harderto pull wool over the qyesofWall etreet, than over those of the good peo* pleol Georgia. The “Big Firm” is evident- lp ‘hard up.’ few days ago by* crazy man, who offered to show them something they had never seen. He proved himself as good as his word, by taking one or two good swings on the wires and tiien dropping some 160 feet. The city paid for his interment. Some Utioa people, pasting over Lyon creek bridge, were handsomely entertained benefits of the emigration from Enrope, Courier Journal Special, The Grant-Cox Matter—Chief Justice Cbaae. Washington, Not. 10. The Repnblican leaders have made a demonstration on the President for more Cabinet changes. As in the ease of Secre tary Cox, the raid is again headed by Si mon Cameron. That veteran politician, in an interview which be he had with the President to-day, cited tbe fact tbat he bad two members in his Cabinet represent ing Democratic States, almost hopelessly Democratic, as he expressed it. They are Fish and CreswelL He nrged on the attention of the Preai- dent, that while Pennsylvania still remain ed on the radical side, she had no one in the Cabinet and although he did uot make the direct claim, he intimated that the sub stitution of a Pennsylvania man would be accepted by Creswell, who had lamentably failed after all bis boasts to make Maryland a Radical State at the recent eleetion. Mr. Cameron feels oonfident that after Decem ber 1st one, if not two Cabinet changes will be made. CHIIP JDST1CB CHASl. There is the proper authority for the statement that all the rumors from Wash ington alleging that Judge Chase intends resigning his office as Chief Justice are untrue. A letter from him Jo-day says his health oontiuues to improve. BBSCLT or THI COX CORUSPONDKNOS, It has been stated that Commissioner Wilson, of the General Lend Office, will resign in consequence of the strictures made upon him by the President in his Long Branch le'ter to Cox. The friends of Mri Wilson, however,- assert that he will not tender his resignation, but will ■wait removal from office if the Govern ment does not require his services any lon ger. Mr. Wilson has just completed his annual report, which is* meet voluminous and expansive renew of the land system of the United Statrs, and among other in teresting reviews contains » chapter on. the Nxw York Drt Go ids Market.— The trade review of the Journal of Com merce,for the week ending 11th inrt., snm» up the condition of the market to be as fol lows: Domestic Goods.—The decline in most of the raw materials, the apparent failure of the peace negotiations in Europe, and the general depression of feeling in finan cial circles, have contributed to the pre valent inaction, and we have little interest to report. Holders would gladly make con cessions tf buyers would take hold freely, but the latter are not to be charmed into considerable purchases by any offers,howev ■ ever flattering. There seems to be nothing at work to give an impetus to trade, bnt the sanguine still look for some partial revival before the final dosing in of winter. Thns far there has been a continued disappo ntment since the close ot September, np to which time tlfere had been an active season’s business. The whole country has felt this depression. and may possibly feel it yet more before trades revives. Distribution of Bank Profits. Tbe Boston Commercial Bulletin refers the fact that the question frequently arises in banking circles as to whether or not a bank may use any part of its surplus already laid aside noder the 10 per eeat law of the bank act, to pay dividends. The only prohibition in the matter of dividends found in the bank act is contained in set tion 38 of that act. It is there provided that no dividends shall be made to a great- amount than the net profits on hand.— The national bank act requires that baaks shall put aside each six months ten psr cent of their net earnings before declaring dividends nntil their surplus equals 20 per oent of their capital stock. Man; banks have made np the reqnired per cent long ago, and have accumula ted surplus funds equal to their capital.— The otdiuaiy view in the formation of a surplus fund was simply to guarantee uni formity of dividends to share holders by drawing upon the surplus funds to pay div ideuds when there were no other uudivid- profits on baud. The national currsncv act however, seems to have had in view the formation of a fund which should be a tort of additional guarantee to depositon for the amount of their deposits, and • sort index to the pnblie of the progress and managemi n. of the banks. It is to be pro earned that after the 20 per cent has beer accumulated, the bank wonid have * right declare s dividend out of the surplus fund if it was thought advisable, but, for reasons above stated, probably few na tional banks will do so. and the amount of wealth added to .the na tion thereby. He has also devoted a very lengthy chapter to California, and dilatan considerably upon the system of naturals xation in this country, in its bearing oi- Gov. Brown. The eleetion of Gen. John C. Brown last Monday to the Govern irahip of Ten nessee, by the handsome majority of40,000 votes, inaugurates a new era iu the politi cal annals of that State. Tennessee is once more thoroughly enlisted under the Demo cratic banner, and herpeople now feel per feed; at home again. Radical rale and Radical corruption can longer soil the - escutcheon of the feir questions growing out of our {and policy. State, and all her interests will be develop- During the month ol December next the United States Supreme Court will be called upon to decide three cases of mere than ordinary interest. Tbe first involving the constitutionality of the cotton tax, which is a question of much interest to the people of the South, will be argued by Judge Cur tis and Mr. Everett against the Govern ment. The second is also of interest to a large class of persons in the Southern States, as involving the constitutionality of the con fiscation act passed by Congress daring the war. This case will be argued by Judges Cnrtis and Cushing against tbe United States. Tbe third comes np on * writ of error from the State ol Kentucky, and' involves the constitutionality of the Civil Rights bill, the case being that of a white man who was tried a United States Court for the murder of a negro- Judge Black appears auainst the Government in this case, and will contend od behalf of the appellant that it is unconstitutional to try the citi zen of a State for murder in a United States Court when the State Courts are competent to exercise jurisdiction in sneb cases. It is seldom thst three cases cf so mnch importance appear together upon the dock et, and their decision will be awaited with more than ordinary interest.—AT. Y. Dai ly Bulletin. Newton Wiliiams, of Owen conoty, rold to J tunes Ferguson or-Scctt, 34 b-adof three years o'd feeding ccitle, weight 1,180 lbs., at $5 75. Lawson Camp bill, has sold his fine )|l blooded Stallion, Joe Stoner, to Messrs. Hakes & Stratton, of Lot g Point, IU , ler 81,000 cash. Tbe cattle disease in Litcolu county re- ported a week or two ago, has entirely dis appeared. It did nut prove as general as has been reported. James Brace of Boyle purchased of Al ex. Denny, last week two fine steers weighing 4,775 lbs., for 382 far the yoke. White wheat is sclting in Boyle coun ty at 85 cents cn the farm, snd 90 Cents d< - livered in Danville. An average lets of ‘1 00 pir acre is the result of one tarmerV crop. P. T Gentry, cf Boyle, hss sold to S S Myers, of Stanford, .his fine pah- of premi um moles for the snng little snm of 7 0000. They were awarded tbe premiums at Danville, Harrodsburg and Lexing ton. Prewitt & Mock purchased in Mer cer 191 head of hogs averaging 288 at 01 cents. We have heard of other sales at tho same figures. Mr. C. R. Gregory weighed the Mc- B-ayer hogs,purchased some time ago, viz: 50 head at 7c, and 150 head at 7* cents. Last Court day iu Lebanon, S rough brash c.-.lves brought 14 20 ; a lot of year ling steers,scalswags,23,00;2-year old steers, 40; fot cows, 35 ; cows and calves, com mon stock, 47 ; otheis of same grade withdrawn. Good aged work mare, 99. Fifty-two acres, including the dwelling and pond, of the well-known Blanchard form in Mason couunty.were sold last week for 13,000. William Winn, ol Maysvillo was the purchaser. The sale of J. S. Wiliiams and H. C. Lindsay, of Montgomery county, amount ing to some $43,000, one of the largest sales of stock evei made in that connty, came off on tbe 2d. Stock sold low ; fat cattle at 6c; fat hogs same; corn in the stack at 2 25 to 2 35 per barrel; yearling mules 85; broke moles 37 50 to 40 00 per pair. The corn crop about Hickman will fall one third short of last year’s yield. The opinion has prevailed that the yield this year would be larger than, that of 1869.— Too mnch rain is assigned as tbe canse of the short crop. In Boyle last week, W. G. Anderson bought of James A. Beazley, 42 cattle at 6 cents, average weight 1,103 pounds ; and 55 head from John S. Gill at 61 cents, weighing 1.300 ponnds each. Mr. Anderson also purchased from Lean- der Davison 20 head at 6 cents, weighing 1,032 ponnds. At the sale ol Dr. John L. Price, of Mercer county, November, 1st-, horses sold from 100 00 to lfiO 50;MiIch cows from 63 to76; calves irom 30 to 4C per head; snek- ling mule colts from 4300 7600;fat stock hogs from seven to eight dollars per hundred ; corn in the shock, estimated at 3 per barrel; wheat 1 00 per bushel. The fine yonng Jack, so mnch admired, was purchased by W. W. Goddard,of Wild wood, at the sum cf 2 99 60. At Everet Allen’s sale in Bourbon, hogs eigbing 230 lbs, 17 per head ; sboats weighing 90 lbs, 8; 10 2 year old cattle, weighing 1,200 lbs, brought 85 25*20 long yearlings 49 75 ; 5 calves, good grade, 30 ier head; 10 yearling cattle 44 per head ■ lorses from 1 40 to 2 62; one pair of fair broke males, 3-year olds, 3 22; one single broke mule 1 40; corn crib 2 20 per bar rel : potatoes 70c per bushel, about 100 bushels sold. m m Murder or an eminent Geographer. Sir Roderick Murchison writes as fol lows: -‘It is my painful duty to announce that the distinguished traveler, M . Geo. Hey ward, to whom the Founder’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society wos< awarded at the last anniversary of that body was assassinated and his property plunder ed abont the beginning of last August by the followers of the Chief Meer Wate Khan' of Yassim The details of this lamentable catastro phe will be laid before the Royal Geograph ical Society at ite first meeting on the 15th of November, when I will endeavor to do all justice to the memory of so enterprising and accomplished an explorer of wild eas tern mountains, and whose brilliant and hitherto successful career was unhappily terminated when he was on the point of reaching the lofty Pamir Steppe, which he had engaged to visit and dscribe. A Hundred Years Ago. The bayonet policy cf the administration is a retrograde movement. It was con demned and repudiated by England mz hundred years ago. It was condemned and repudiated a hnndrod years ago in this country. It was repudiated by the people of the United States in tbeir revolutionary straggle. Tbe right of military rale was once assumed by the adherents of King George, and denied by tbe men of1776.— Grant has gone back to just where King George and his tor; defenders stood in 1768 Here is ah argument nude by Samuel Ad ams in that year against the tories of that time. It is as clear and conclusive against tbe bayonet policy of Grant as though it had been written bnt two weeks age, in stead of one hundred and two yearsago, in stead of one hundred and two years ago. “No one can pretend to say that the peace and order of the community is so secure with soldiers quartered in the body of a city as without them. Besides where military power is introduced miltaiy maxims are propagated and adopted, which are incon sistent with and most soon eradicate every idea of civil government. Do we not al ready find some persons weak enough to be lieve that an officer is bonnd to obey the order of bis superior, though it be even Notth and Sou'll Railroad. The corporators of this railroad met in this city on Wednesday, the 16th inst., and had a harmonious and very active session. Much Was done and well done. Instead of entering upon the work listlessly, these gen demen appointed an executive committee, consisting of Messrs. B H Bingham, W A McDougald and J T Boras, with fall au thority to act for the company with the charter as their only check and guide, and marked ont for them by a series of well- timed resolutions, a line of action, whieh, faithfully panned, cannot fail, in the end to seenre the early completion of the On motion of Mr. W 0 Toggle, the Board also resolved, that each member should be a worker and active in ali that could be done, and the corporators in the respective counties were authorized to call meetings, and in co-operation with the ex ecutive committeo, to take stock and make arrangements for right of way, etc. This is a most excellent arrangement. Bnt the other good resolutions of the Board were equally appropriate- Onr space will not allow of a more ex tended notice id this issae of oar 'psper.— We will give to each one ot them fine at tention and explanation as occasion seems to require for the advancement of this great favorite enterprise. To the corporators, one and all, in lie- half of onr people, we say, thanks, gentle. tlemen, for one good faithful days’ work — We were glad to see yon in onr city, and hope olten to enjoy the pleasure, and Wfi also express the confident hope that the da; is not far distant when yon may all be able to ride over a finished railroad from Borne to Colnmbns.Xa Grange Reporter. The following coroners’ verdict was re turned last week in Calhonn connty, Illi nois : “We the jurys find the deceased dead man knm to his dead in the hands of some anbeknown person, with an unlanfhl iron weeping—namid an ax with a hickory handle; which unlawful weeping was used with the deadly intent to kill the aforesaid dead man. ‘P. S.—We the aforesaid undersigned jurys hopefully believe that the dead man was beheaded by the said Ax.” Cornelias Tacitus, in the first century, is the first known author who ever wrote about Germany ard the Germans. In the light of the present war his bookis as fresh as ever. Let those who will find pleasure in a scholarly or philosophic view of the duel of the 19th oentury take down and reread their Germania, and in that little tract, written eighteen hundred years ago, J , they will find clearly and logically set forth against the law. And let any one consider tbe causes, social and political, which have whether this doctrine does notSead directly even to tbe setting np that officer, whoever he may, as a tyrant 1”—Detroit'Free Press. evolved the great effects of to-day. At Terre Haute,Indi-ma, a man recently snceeaainly repulsed three. highways rob. hers because he had only thirty cents, and would be dry in the morning. The first negro juror in Indiana gave his age as 109. . ' Anna F. Watkins, of St. Louis, wants a divorce, because her husband calls her a hell cat.’

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, November 25, 1870, Image 1