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Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING, Nov. 25.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
FOR CONGRESS
GEN. P. M. B. YOUNG.
OUR COUNTY NOMINEES.
FOR THE LEGISLATURE,
M. R. BALLENGER,
H. A. GARTRELL.
FOR CLERK SUPERIOR’cOURT.
A. E. ROSS.'
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
JAMES T. MOORE.
FOR SHERIFF.
J. H. LTJMKIN.
-» for county surveyor
JAMES IT. REYNOLDS.
F0R_TAX COLLECTOR,
S.'c. TROUT.
FOR TAX RECEIVI1E.
K. W. BERRYHILL.
FOR CORONER.
U. PATILLO.
LET IS HAVE PEACE.
Old spooney Ben Butler wants another
war. Not content with the immortal hon
ors he won for himself and his country at
Big Bethel, at Fort Fisher and at Dutch
Gap, his military ambition is still craving
another and a broader field for the display
of his mighty genins.
And it may be too, that to this military
hankering after glory may be added an itch
ing’for spoons. That surfieted with looking
at the spoils that have so long enriched his
establishment, he is anxious to add to the ; r
variety by a new grab. To the glittering
he: ps from New Orleans he would like to
add an installment from the antique cheats
of Quebec, for with all Bea’s military
pride and ambition, he has a cocked eye to
the glifter of pelf, and if to be a great gen
eral is a darling ambition of his soul, to
hear the tinkle of silver plate and the jin
gling of silver spoons is certainly a great
stimulant to his energies.
Thus moved by bis ambition and his cu*
pidity at once and in the same direction
this nineteenth century Oalaban has raised
his terrible voice for war. The wrongs of
the poor codfishers lie heavily upon his soul
Their right to poach upon the fisheries of
the Blue noses is too plain to be gainsayed,
because nobody has a right in this broad
yankee world of ours, when that right con
flicts with the interests of a yankee free
man.
With all the eloquence of an Anthony,
burying the dead body of a murdered Oas-
sar, this redoubtable hero—a greater than
Caisar—paints the virtues of these dear
fishermen and denounces their oppressors.
And if these indignations heaped upon
the poaching fish catchers were not enough
to arouse his patriotic and benevslent soul,
he has a ready recourse to the steroetyped
Alabama claims.
These, like the speeches of a pot house
politician, are already cut and dried to his
hand, and like these same pothous ■ cut aud
dried speeches, there is about as little true
merit in them.
These claims are precisely like the cap
tious exceptions reserved by an attorney in
a bad case—sufficient perhaps to prolong
the litigation, but all incompetent to with
stand the verdict of an impartial judg
ment. Butler and his sort may howl over
them, and in their insane power may actu
ally plunge the nation into a disastrous war
but all their howling will not give to them
a moral significance at all commesurato wi'h
the importance they have already attained
in the public mind.
This Beverdy Johnston, one of the
brightest legal minds in the nation, very
well knew, and this J Lathrop Motley, an
other of the keenest intellects of the age,
also knows.
Both these distinguished gentlemen bi
ased, if biased at all, in the republican prej
udiees, have hai the matter in charge, and
after carefully studying it in every partic
ular, cannot make anything out of it.
They knew them to be devoid of all jus
tice, and unworthy the serious considers
tion of a government wishing to be right
or friendly.
And yet, after both these men—either of
whom is immeasureably the superior of
Butler, have abandoned the claims as un
worth a great nation, this miserable huck
ster is now howling for war—war -just as
if one short month of war would not do far
more injury to American commerce and
American inteieststhan it would cost to
pay a hundred such claims.
But it is not in the interest of the suf
ferers by the Alabaums’ ravages Butler is
howling. Neither is it against the Blue
noses be would vent his wrath.
There is a more subtle method in his
madness than either of these. As first pre
miaed, he is longing for the spoils—the
spoons and plate of Canada. These are the
pure causes of his belicosity, but he like
wise has a view to political spoils as well.
He sees that his party is fast falling to
pieces—that the prejudices and passions
that have so long furnished it with life and
strength, are fast 7 giving place to reason.—
That the issues upon which the people be
came so unaccountaoly insane, and by which
the radicals were elevated to place and to
power are becoming dead—that the people
are beginning to awaken once more to the
voice of reason, and with this awakening,
his party is doomed to defeat and to death.
It is to still this awakeningvoice that he
raises bis frantic howl. It is to divert the
minds of the people fretn the injustice of
Radicalism that he would spriEg other and
foreign issues. And in this purpose be is
encouraged by other and abler men. Sena
tor Trumbull shares with him his convic
tions of waneing power, and he too is anx
ious to divert the issue.
Unfortunately for the peace and prosper
ity of the country, the administration also
feels that something extraordinary must
be done to save it from ignominy and death
and as nothing better offers, it will counte
nance and encourage this ruinous policy of
war.
But before ihcse_oviI u.en push their in
sane schemes too far, it would be well for
them to pause a moment and consider the
post.
They should consider how far the peo
ple—especially the Democracy of the na
tion, can be brought into sympathy with a
measure that has for its only result the per
petuation of Radical rule, and the advance
ment of Radical interest.
They should also determine how well the
government can stand against the power cf
Britain without the aid of the South, for
in the event of a war, precipitated by But
ler, and waged for the purpose of strength
ening the Radical rule of the eouu'ry, they
need not expect that- aid.
Indeed, so far as the Alabama claims are
concerned, it is a quarrel in which the
South can have no part. It would be un
natural in the people of the South to assist
in chastising England for an injury which
they themselves inflicted.
We of the South hold that the Alabama
was a part and parcel of our own Confed
erate power. Of its achievements we are
justly proud, and no true Southron would
raise his ann to strike tho friendly hand
that in its hour of need gave it a succor
and a welcome.
Wo do not say this in a spirit of disloy
alty to the government, but we say it in all
the soberness of truth, aud for the purpose
of warning Butler and his ambitious con
frere to count well the cost before they go
too far.
The Southern people this day had rather
pay the Alabama claims themselves, than to
have England to pay them.
We do not mean that in the event of a
war with England that no troops would be
furnished by the South. The Southern
States would doubtless furnish their quota,
but it would not be such troops as fought
in Dixie, and battled for the Southern
cause.
The negroes furnished Massachusetts
with abundant material in the late war
and the colored troops fought nobly. They
might and doubtless would do so again, but
the troops needed to face tbe solid lines of
Britain would beg to be excused.
Butlers' chances of getting Canada might
be offsetted by the possibility of loosing
Dixie.
With this view of the matter, we do
hope that the Democratic press, both North
and South, will speak out against his iniq-
tous designs, aud ‘‘let us have peace,”
TAXATION AND REPRESENTATION
The old men of Bostou kicked up a dev
il of a row in 1775 about Taxation without
representation,well perhaps they wera right
aud it may be wroag to tax a lellow aud
not let him have a voice in the Legisla
ture.
But then there is such a tMug in the
world as ‘too much of a good thing,’ and
this good thing ol representation has been
carried to that extent—and now we have
the other thing of representation without
taxation.
If we are to estimate the matter right
ly, we should decide that the present state
of affairs much wirse than the first,
and if to pay taxes without rep-eeeotatiou
is a wrong, it is a greater one to represent
a constituency without paying taxes.
The following paragraph whie h we take
from the Richmond Dispatch illustrates
the practical enormity of the wrong. The
same principle can apply to all the negro
cursed States.
“It is estimated that of the sixteen hun-
d ed negro voters in Henrico county, only
some seveaty-five or so pay taxes, fifteen
hundred and twenty-fire paying nothin,,
whatever to tho State.
Tho ratio of taxpayers to the whole nutu
her of voters in Henrico is, we Buppo3e, a
fair illustration of the ratio lhroughout the
State-
Dere.then.wo have a society in our midst
which has entire equality political with
other peoole, and which pays hardly any
thing f.-r the support of Government; and
yet the plan of our oppressors was that this
nou taxpaying, non reading, incompetent
community should rule this State. Tho
fact is worth a little reflection. What
would be thought of it in Massachusetts,
were it brought ‘close to hum V
We kuow the hypocrites and knaves will
make a wonderful to do over the labor of
the negro. Even that point will bear vent
ilation. But how is it with white laborers ;
don’t the pay taxes ?”
MORE IMPROVEMENTS IN ROME.
There is nothing more certain than that
the progress of our “Mountain City” is as
rapid as its best friends can reasonably
hope.
The nail factory is going ahead with in
creasing activity They are now now mak
ing about 3,000 pounds of first rate nails
per day on five machines. Fifteen addi
tional machines have been ordered, and
they will soon be making from 12,000 to
15,000 pounds daily.
This is a business that is worth something
to tbe city and section. This is the way
to increase the wealth of a country, by lak
ing the iron that is almost worthless until
manipulated, and make it worth at least
$100 per ton.
The Rolling Mill is also beiug perfected
and extended in its facilities, and is doing
a splendid business.
The Foundry and Machine Shop is get
ting all they can possibly do in the wiy of
manufacturing, principally car wheels and
axles.
A new Foundry is about being built for
the purpose of making stoves and other
light castings and doing job work.
A joint strek company was organized a
few days since, under the nameof the Rome
Historical and Library Association Compa
ny, with a capital of ten thousand dollars.
The stock is twelve equal equal shares,
eleven of which have been taken as follows:
H D Cothran, Geo. E. Maguire, C W
Sproull, C H Smith, E R Smith, F I Stone
D Scott, H A Gartell, TT Wright, T W
Alexander and Grady Bros.
They propose to erect a fine two story
brick building on tbe vacant lot below J &
S Bones & Co., 60x90 feet. Tbe lower sto
ry will be for stores and the npper for a
Library and Reading Room. Tbe compa
ny proposes to purchase at first a Library
to cost about three thousand dollars, and
under suitable rules giTe individuals aud
families the use of it for say five or ten dol
lars a year.
This arrangement will fill a very impor
tant need lor our oity, and we wish the en
terprising stockholders a undant success.
The Agricultural Implement Manufactur
ing Company are moving forward in their
arrangements, and will be turning out
plows; cultivators, barrows, straw cutters,
seed planters, etc.
Dr. R V Mitchell has commenced build
ing a fine brick drug store on the lot above
Veal's jewelry store, and there are some
twenty dwelling boufes in progress.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
The newly eleetod Legislature of Ala
bama convened yesterday.
The lower IIou,e will be largely Demo
cratic. The Senate, by a usurpation of
power, held over io a body, and much
doubts as to its legality has arisen.
It is even apprehended that advantage
will be taken of this legal clau e in tho Sen
ates’ organization, to defeat the election of
Lindsay and to perpetuate Smiths’ illegal
rule a still longer time.
As Smith was fairly defeated before, aud
by the most unblushing outrage was forced
upon the people, he may possibly attempt
the thing again.
We Bhall await the news from Montgom
ery with the deepest anxiety.
THE DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP.
It is the distinguishing province of a
government to protect its citizens. To ex
tend a frirndly and fostering care over the
rights—ttic interests and the persous of all
who owe it allegi nee, or submit to its au
thority.
It was for this purpose that go vernal cuts
were instituted—for a government is but
the association of a people, who, for the
purpose of mutual advancement and bene
fit, delegate >o certain of their members
specified powers, for specific purposes, ana
being thus the creature of a people, in
whom reposes all its strength, aud from
whom it derives all its power, it is the
first and paramount duty of a goverumeut
to study the interest of its constituency,
and to meet out to all, even tbe humblest,
a just measure of protection, and an equit
able quota of encouragement.
There is no man io the land to whom the
government does not owe its protecting
care. It matters not how obscure his sta
tion, or how humble his circumstances, ev
ery man has a right to the protection of the
law, and every man is to that extent inter
ested in the maintaiuance ef law, and the
observance of order.
The relatious that exist between the two
—the governor and the governed, arc mu
tually beneficial and mutually binding.
Without a people to uphold, to strengtnen
and confirm a government, there
could be no governmental powers; and with
out a governmental system aud order, there
would be auarchy and confusion with no
security for person or property.
The humblest citizen is a constituent
part of the goverumeut uuder which he
lives, and occupying this mutual relation
towards the government, he i9 not to be ex-
c-i-ed from feeling and exercising an inter
est in it.
<\s every one has to be governed by law,
every man is interested in the character of
that law, and that man but poorly appre
ciates his duties as a subject, or his prerog
ative as a citizen who remains indifferent
to the political issues that surround him, or
w mid withdraw from participation in their
discussion.
We have been painfully surprised to hear
meo of intelligence express a total absence
of ioterest in political affaire, and that too
at a time when everything that may bo said
to be dear to a man wa3 at stake.
Even now when the struggle is waged
by the friends of liberty, of law and of or-
d, r, against the thieves and fools who have
ruled us so long and so foully, we find
some who, if not absolutely indifferent, will
for a consideration turn from their princi
ples, aud support the party which has
stricken their land with so much that is
wrong and oppressive.
These men occupy a fearful position, and
the responsibility that rests upon tDeui is
not to be lightly considered. The issues
now before our people are no ordinary ones
Tne party of prescription, of insult and of
injury seeks to perpetuate its rule. The
Demooracy, which is tbe party of concilia
tion aud of justice, is engaged in a mighty
struggle to overthrow this proscriptive and
hateful party. Thesy apathies of the good
and true, all over the land, are with it in
t! e contest. The prayers ot our purest
women, tbe wishes of our best and bravest
men are thrown in its favor. None but the
low and the vile, the ignorant and the cor
rupt are against it, and lor all this, men
can he found—whose wives arc. ornaments
to our society—whose daughters are to re
ceive the courtesies and the respect of our
bravest and host, who themselves are so
de d principle as to pander their interests,
and sacrifice their honor to this abominable
thing of radicalism.
Such men are infamous—the ’ vilest Pa
riahs in the whole land are better tlau
they.
For the sake of their wives and daugh
ters, we pity them. — -
REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAX
ATION.
In our last we alluded to this subject,
and illustrated our argument by au extract
from the Richmond Dispatch, showing the
number ol negroes who voted iu Henrico
county without paying one cent of taxes.
This instance was given not because we
could not find an example at our own
doors, but because it illustrated the general
application of the proposition.
In the State of Georgia matters are in
deed worse. Not one hundredth negro vo
ter in the State pays one dime into the pub
lie treasury.
The poll tax was tbe only one that ciuld
reach him, and Bollock, Burnett and
Blodgett, in their thievous designs to catch
his vote, has ordered its collection to ba
stopped, and now the negro does not pay
any tax at all, and yet Burnett has the im
pudence to appeal to the white men of this
district to endorse such an outrage.
He prates about internal improvements,
and calls upop tbe same non tor paying
negroes to vote a tax upon the white man’s
property.
The iniquity of this same Burner's par
ty is too gross, its villainy is too deep to be
treated with a cool temper. We cannot
approach it without s ich a sense of outrage
and indignation overcoming us as to unfit
ns for its discussion.
The infamous scoundrels ought to be
hanged—every one of them, instead of go
ing to Congress.
The Memphis Avalanche says that
the Bnppy of Generals, Colonels, Maj.
ore, Lieutenants, and Captains is as p’en.
tifol as were the leaves in-the ‘Vale of
Vallambrosa,’ and that the title of plain
‘Mr.’ is much more desirable and cornpli.
montrry.
TEE EASTERN QUESTION.
The stirring events of the active war
now flashing, thundering and -groaning
■round Paris, arc likely to lose their tragic
ioterest in the more threatening dangers of
the Eastern complications. For s time the.
great monied and commercial centres have
ceased to think of the war now raging, and
are standing appalled at the prospect of an
other and a more disastrous one.
The tele.raphic dispatches are loaded
with matters pertaining to the Eastern
question, and every one is waiting with ea
ger interest to know its result. "7
Being a matter of such absorbing a inter
est, it may not be misappropriate to , ive a
brief sketch of this question *
The Crimean war was commenced in
1354, on the pirt of Russia, to sccnre from
the Turkish government certain guaran
teed rights to the Greek Christians of Tur
key.
These rights the Ottoman Porte refused
to guarantee, as its compliance would com-
pron ise its absolute sovereignty over its
own subject3. The terrible war of the
Crimea followed, and resulted in the defeat
of Russia, and the imposition by the allied
powers upon the Czar of a humiliatin;
treaty.
Under this humiliation the Russian gov
ernment has long been restive, and looking
at the question from a disinterested stand
puiut, we are free to express that it has a
just right to withdraw from tho treaty at
aoy time it may deem it expedient to do
that, like her, had great commercial inter
ests as well as political, atstake.
Bnt the roaito India is by tbe Suez ca
nal and. the railway from the Medetcrran-
ean to tho Tn lian Ocean, and the pretext
for.crfppiiof - - -
We'do not''ffelievc ' Bngland will go to
war if the proposition goes no further. Ros-
siasdemaad 13 too reasonable—as some of
England's statesmen have confessed—to be
denied. War costs too much these days,
andsneh a war ns there would be if Eng
land an 1 her followers open upon. Russia,
has never teen witnessed in Europe. We
The following are the clauses in the
treaty that so excites the Russian discou
tent, and which aro manifestly unjust.
Art. 11. The Black Sea is neutralized.
While open to the mercantile marines of ail
nations, its waters and ports are formally
and 'u perpetuity interdicted to vessels ot
war, whet 1 er belonging to nations having
territoiy bordering on it or otherwise.
Art. 12. This article prescribes that all
regulations respecting trade in the Black
Sea, shall be conceived in a spirit favora
ble to the development of commercial traos-
actious.
Art. 13- The Black Sea being neutral
ized by a foregoing provision, Russia aud
T irkey engage neither to construct nor
maintain any naval or military arsenal on
its coast.
Arts. 20 acd 21 concede a portion of
Russian territory, to be annexed to the
principality of M ildavia.
Art. 22. Tne Principalities of Wallachia
aad Moldavia are to enjoy under the suze
rainty ot the Porte, and uuder the guaran
tee of the contracting powers, the privi
leges and immunities of which they are in
possession. No exclusive protection shall
be exercised over them by any of the
guaranteeing powers. There shall be no
private right of interference in their af
lairs.
Art. 23 The Sublime Porte guarantees
to the afiresaid Principalities and indepen
dent aDd national administration, as well
as full libertp of worship, legislation, com
merce and navigation
Art. 28. The Principality of Servia will
coutinue to be dependent upon the Sub
lime Porte, aad tubje.-t to stipulations near
ly similar to those named for the other
Principalities.
This restriction from the right to use
her own waters is one that a less proud
and powerful nation than Russia could illy
brook.
Russia’s right to erect fortifications on
the coast of the Black sea, and to build
and equip ships of war upon its waters, is
as much a natural right as is the right
of England to use the shores of the wa
ters of tho Channel or the North sea for
a similar purpose.
That Knssia has submitted to this in
justice this long is a matter of wonder.
Since writing the above, ne have read
the Richmond Dispatch of the 21st, in
which we find the lolk wing article on this
subject, which is so much in accoid with
our own views that we append it.
‘‘Gen. Sherman makes a strong point
when, Speaking of Russia, he declares
“you can’t hold such a powerful nation in
duress aud compell them forever to restrict
themselves to avoid the uao of such a high
way as the Straits of the Dardanelles and
the use of the Black Sea.” This is true.
And yet the European allies have been
patching up peace at different periods by
imposing restrictions unendurable, such as
those forced upon Russia It is not good
policy to cover np thus fires which cannot
be extinguished, and which will surely
burst out again. Eten the humblest far
mer is ent : tled in law to right of way out of
his farm. It is au acknowledged necessity
and we can’t sec how the world can deny
such a right to one of the greatest nations
in it.
Gen. Sherman says truly that a great na
tion cannot bo held in duress aed forever
restricted in the manner attempted upon
Russia. Great Powers are as overb taring
a3 they are arogant in victory, and are ever
essaying impossible strategems for perma
nently humiliating and crippling their ad
versaries. In all great wars we see . this
illustrated. Peace is patched up. not com
pleted. Wisdom and justice would lead to
terms that would not stand as constant pro
vocation to resentment and hostility- Even
this country, in tbe infancy of its history
and its experience, has not avoided this sad
error so common to mankind.
Gen. Sherman blames Russia for not
proposing a convection ot tbe allies to con
sider the objectionable points, ot the treaty
af ’56. In answer Russia says that they
are fairly abrogated by their violation in
the introduction of war ships and fleets of
parties to tbe treaty into the Black Sea
since the treaty was made; and Prussia
adds a strong argument for her, which is
that one of the parties to the treaty—
France—has no recognized "overnment,
and could' not be-represented in the con
vention. Nevertheless, Russia has declared
her inclination in favor ol such a conven
tion and has disavowed any intention ol
disturbing the Eastern question. Nor does
she propose to. disturb a treaty existing be
fore the Crirceap war between herself and
the Ottoman Porte, by- which tho number
and the dimensions of war vessels of each
nation in the SlackRes'were limited Up
on that treaty the Czar proposes to fall
back. - • , j
We repeat that tiufc:mode of crippling
Russia was adopted to gratify England.—
That kingdom has deluded the powers act
ing' with-her for fifty years. - Russia’s' na
vy mast be dwarfed to gratify England, and.
Russia must not be slowed to get toConstaiu
tinople because (iris * assumed) that- would
give her the road to India, and thus seri
ously threaten England’s interests there.—
BURNETT’S PAR TV,
No one understands lhe slipery ways of
the thievish Bi
than Dr. Satutrf
that staunch
True Georgi
paint its true vil
.-Burnett par#,
1 1, tbe able editqr of
blican. Journal, (the
1 one can better
y, than can he.
Here is what he says about the four mil
lion issue, of State bonds.
It will be remembered that Governor
Bullock recommended, nrged, and by all
the wily arts and tricks be is so capable of
maneuvered for.the passage, oy the Gener
a* Assembly, of la gold bond bill, which had
for its object the funding in gold bonds
think, foouutha sigms, Prussia would join. NritlF -quarterly gold ooupons all abe oat*
standing debt ofthe.State.
It was shown at the time that, taking
Bollock’s own estimate of the market value
of such gold bonds and coupons, and the
then existing market value at the old oat
standing State bonds, t at by the contem
plated scheme of this crafty and unscrupu
lous man, the State would be rdandrod of
Russia, and tbe fire and venom that would
be poured into ti e confliot from rankling
resentment and hates, wonld greatly aggra
vate the passions enlisted.
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
As corollary to oar article in our last
on the effort of the Republican party to
make party capital oat of the Alabama
claims, we give the following paragraph
from the New York Herald :
“Tbe Albany Journal, republican State
organ, makes the declaration that Eng
land’s danger is our opportunity, and says:
“With prudent and discreet manage
ment this Alabama question may, indeed,
be made to play a parr, in the next Presi
dential election—not in truculent and sen
sational platform, as a pledge of the repub
lican administration that is to be; bm in its
full and final adjustment, as a plume of the
republican administration that is.
“This is the very thing the Herald has
occn advocating ior a long time past, and
we await to see what effect this appeal from
one ot the administration's most influeo
tial supporters will have upon Gen. Grant
in the premises.
Thns it will be perceived that the Re-
publiean party, for the vile purpose of. per
petuating its power aud influence would
plunge our laud into all tho h»rrors of a
war.
Their unholy designs cannot be mistaken
and we call upon the Democratic press and
the Democratic party throughout the land
to speak oat against the fonl iniquity.—
Peace is what our country needs to bnild
np its wasted fortunes, and now that the
European war iu devastating that fair land,
and suspending its ihdustries. is the time
for us to profit by the confusion, aud tj re
gain our lost prestige on the sea as well as
oa the laod.
Healthy, hard licks, put in the right
place at this time will do more to build up
a permanent prosperity than years of toil
and struggle to come.
England's danger and foreign confusion
is indeed our opportunity, bat it lies in the
walks and the interest of peace, and not in
plunging our own land into the general
confusion. When their productions 'are
suspended their consumption is increased.
To supply t:iis is oar golden opportunity.
Let as profit by it, and “let ns have peace.”
MISS M. P. SWAIN.
We are pleased to greet the appearance
in our city of this talented young lady.
She makes her appearance in the edito
rial corps of the Daily, in a neat and taste
fully written salutatory.
Miss Swain is one of Georgia’s most gift
ed daughters, as a poetess, she has won an
enviable celebrity, as a prose es.3ayest, and
a writer of fiction, she has scarcely a supe
rior in the Sou'h, certainly not in the
State.
The editorial fraternity may wall con
gratulate itself npon this brilliant acquisi
tion, while out Roman society is equally
happy io its good fortnne.
With a sincere friendship wa tend to her
a kindly welcome to oar fraternity, and to
our city.
Notice.—Tho corporators of the Rome k
Chattanooga Railroad are eamsstly requested
to meet in this city on Saturday next, for the
purpose of organizing and commencing the
work.
The following are the names of the corpor
ators : *
Floyd County—Alfred Shorter, H. D. Coth
ran, T. W. Alexander, B. T. Hargrove, H. A
Gartrell, C. Rowell, C. IX. Smith, J. W. H.
Underwood, J. I. Wright, Ab. Echols. N. B.
Hall, Leslie Williams, J. T. Burns. 4
Chattooga County.—W. L. Groves, J. F.
Morton, J. T. Hamilton, A.' P. Allgood,' C.
C. Cleghorn, Samuel Hawkins, H. D. C. Ed
monds. W. H. Penn, Samuel McWhorter, F.
A. Kirby. Wesley Shropshire.
Walker and Catoosa Counties.—Spencer
Marsh, P. E. Patton, John Y. Wood, N. C.
Napier, Jas. Wardlaw, Wm. Gray, A. J.
Leet, J. M. Leo, A. S.. Fowler, I. G. MeFr.r-
!y-
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE ON BUT
LER’S WAR PROGRAMME.
It is. not often that we find in the
Tribune, matter that we can endorse, bat as
out of vile Nasarethy the greatest earthly
good came, so sometimes.it oecnrs that the
Tribnno emits something that is of real mer
it, andsonnd doctrine.
We are glad to find that on the foreign
war policy, of Benjamin Bader, the Tri-
Lane is right.. , y- i . ,-
It in a curt manner tells Benjamin that
it won’: do/eveVas a party measure.
Here is what the- white-coated philoso
pher says:
To-day we publish from a source which
we:know to be- authentic, Gen. Bailer’s
views upon the danger and the necessities
of the Republican party,. u • ,.»
.That they ere interesting am} soggi
we dp-qot need to say. That "there is some
troth iu them we readQy admit.
With mt agreeing wholly " wi b the Gen
eral’s opinions at to the present condition of
the party’ we recogoixein them an elnmeof
of justice whidh cannot be wisely overlook
ed. -*>• 1 «1 :: ur'i ’
• We want do foreign-war policy is a means
of constructing a!popuiai, platform, for the
next Presidential contest. We Sire 'no
wish to outrage British natiosal pride, and
insure, the gravest trouble by”S formal de
mand for territory, in settlenfcht of the
Alabama claims, under threqt-ofwar.i We
wantpp province of Canada as the price of
peace, and if there is to beany movement
for Annexation, we insist that .it shall begin
with the CanadiafiS;'and tfol with ns. Un
til they wantit more thin we do, there will
be no aKnexation that wonld net be an inju
ry tons as.well as to them-
We entreat'Gen. Butler l'. .ditote bis
great talents lb 'keeping ns out 11 rather
thtfh getting us into another-wav. "•
: Bright a3 is his record- during rite rebel
lion, he can thus achieve, as a uteman, a
reputation that wijl far eclipse it .4.nd w#
heg him to believe that, in the pi iseut rom
per 1 of lhe 'American people, tfic'party that 1
deliberately adopt a foreign war policy as a
means of electing its Presidential candidate
will bw.'wipe^oatbfiaiistenee’
Great , as would be the calamity of the
Aissolnthra oft! e Republican party,or even
.TAKING COLO.
. There is no more seasonable time in the
year to take, cold than the present; the fa
cilities are- abuodaut, and, as aconse
queries, every thcr person we meet ad
mits to having taking advantage ol the op-
ror tnuities furnish ed.
Tbe Technologist condenses the philosophy
of takmgdbld into a few lines, and we give
them for the benefit ot those who would
learn Low to avoid the disagreeacle com
plaint.
It sajs:
‘The human frame was intended forac
tivity, to run fast and to ran slaw, but it
mast 7 tie anmgeff.: A loc.-aiotive cao run
very fast, but if stopped instantaneously,
if -toing at a high rate of speed, is unjuint.
ed as badly as if it had had ioflaminatory
rheumatisiu for seven years. A skillful
engineer, however, tones down bis speed
gradually, and in this lies the soctet of tak
ing cold.
It is exposure or carelessness, after ex: r
nearly one million of dollars, by means of cise tbat bringa on c Ids Afwr walt
the value of the seven per cent. gold Qr or an y exorcise that quicken.
bonds over the value of the Currency
bonds.
This would have opened a wide and pro
lific field for that ring of speculators, who
who are always ready to fatten npon the ex
chequer of the State, and it was openly
avowed by well informed men, and credited
by every unprejudiced man conversant with
the character and plots ot the moo eoga.-ed
in the business, that his Excellency bad
organized such a ring, who were to, or bad
already, purchased the old six per cent
bonds at the then ^ market value of about
eighty-four (84) cents.
Bollock’s gold bond bill, by which these
old bonds were to have been funded, hav
ing been defeated, and the old Slate bonds
having declined to eighty (80) cents, caus
ed a circumstance which, were bonds forced
upon the market, would involve the specu
lators in a loss of about one hundred thou
sand dollars.
This being apparent, these sharpers ar j
necessarily forced to look arnnod tor some
expedient by which they can hold these old
bonds, or prevent them from being placed
upon the market, and the general conject
ure is that through his Excellency, the vir
tuous Governor of Georgia, Rofns Beclze
bub Bullock, they have resorted to the is
suing of the additionalvast amount of State
bonds alluded to in tbe caption cf this arti
cle.
It should also be borne in mind that an
extensive hotel is being built in Atlanta
under the auspices of the “Big Firm,” and
thh edifico, when completed and fornbhed
will not cost short of a half a million of dol
lars. Now would not these State bonds, in
case of an emergency, be a very convenient
and exceedingly hanuy thing to hypothe
cate in New York oity, for the purpose of
rabing funds?
Another fact is sigflcaot which b that
the Banking House in New York, which b
advancing money npoa these bonds for the
benefit of Gover ior Bollock, refuses to fur
nbh our State State Treasurer with a state
ment of the amount advanced by them to
Bullock.
Thb in connection with the fact that
over four million (14,509,000) of bonds
have been issued when the State io reality
does not require over one tenth of that eoor
moos sum for all legitimate purposes of gov
ernment, should cause every citizen of thb
State without distinction of party, race or
color, to reflect seriously whether sneb stu
pendous frauds as are being attempted up
on the treasury, by a banded “ring” of
heartless speculators and ineffably c rrupt
political shysters, should be allowed to go,
or whether it is not their sacred day to form
an instant coalation of all good and true
men, from one end of Georgia to the other
for the sole pnrpose of hurling thb scanda
lous set of pnblic plunderers from power,
aad to ventilate thoroughly the boles they
now occupy at the pnblic expense, and from
which the stench of their corruption arbe
daily and hourly, to offend and sick,
en honest men throughout our entire coun
try- __
Periodicals.—We have received the
Old Guard for November. It b rich as
usual with elegant aod interesting matter.
The name of Thomas Dnnn Englbh as its
editor, b a sufficient guarantee that the
Old Guard b worthy a place in every South
ern Household.
Christaio Reid, the author of Valeria
Aytaer, has a splendid story in the number
before ns. ^
Scribner’s Monthly for December b
on oar table. ...
Scribners Monthly b indeed what it pur
ports to be a “Magazine for the peo-
& • n
The distingubhed American scholar
and Poet Dr. J. C. Holland is its edit-
The number before os presents a pleas
ing and instructi 7e table of contents
J R. Thompson has an excellent article.
“Jail’ Birds and their flights,” illustrat
ed. '
The American Sunday School Work
er, for November b received. Its mission
commends itself to every christain heart.
J. W. McIntyre, pnblisher,St. Loub, price
81350 per year.
The Westminister Review, No. 184,
October 1870, b before na. We have
cursorily glanced at its contents and are all
impatient to steal off from our busy office,
and giTe ourselves up to an hour’s uninterr
upted delight.
The Westminister Review is one of lhe
standard Englbh repnblications of Leonard
Scott and company and like the others of
their series it is in valuable to every Eng-
KshYeaderi ' ,r ; ' ' '
. The October, number contains able re
views of several important,works—besides
a criticism npon cotemporary litera-
tnre ~'// *“ * ■ - - * : ’ ■"
'Messrs. Leonard Scott & Co., have’an
advertisement. of 'these, valuable works
in aa other eolumnyto which we refer our
tesden." - ' 7 * • vdi.vdI .od}.-;:
•; rr. — . •.'Mr.L-.ij
Blackwood’s : Edixbceo Magazine.—We
have received the Oct number of thb steliug
old Englbh' Magazine. The kindly face of
old KitNorth,uarer ahown mors brightly to
ns, and we opened its cover with the promise
of a rich treat, and we were not disappoint
ed. . ,'r ' [r ,• , , V , ^ .. ; .
The brightest intellects of the British Isles
arc mirrored in Blackwood. -Sincertbe.jolly
—we had almost solid drunken fit of Wilson,
Hogg, - ym and Loekort, which led to its es
tablishment over fifty years ago, this Maga
zine has stood at tho head of all British
journals. It looses nothing by its' age, and
b to ; day unapproached and unapproachable
iu its excellency.
,. We present pa advertisement in another
Cl luimi, to which we invite attention.
■ .■•- .. a
Helm A Braston declares that as a role
‘-interesting American girls develop into
____ ...... - sickly, oofnptainiog women, 1 who break
of its defeat in a national ooutestv tbe ca- i down and grow prematurely old, peeviih,
laniity of a war tbat might have Beeu honor-1 morbid, and good for nothing under the
, . . ably avoided, with any first-class foreign ! burden of matermt ■; whose nights and
Fo r these reasons the allied powers have o-'-'-'w.i be immeasurably greater. Lei 7 days are filled with anuuiah—who make
fought as allies with England under theidea f us haTO pnoe. | desolate and dismal homes.”
the ciiCnlation, a little current of air from
a window, a crevice, from a.-, open d>ir for
a few inini’te-, just to cause a chill, is sore
to produce cold.
Merely stopping on the street iu a c
rent of air—as at s corner where the wind
breaks or makes au angle—will do the job
Any sudden mbsidence of active threes of
tbe body m a temperature that chi b, will
produce* cold.
The little comma i-. sense tbat b need
ed, and for the iack of exercise of which
so much money b paid to doctors, b, pre
serve and equitable temperature, or, having
exercised freely, recover tbe proper state
gradually without a chill. This is it tain :d
io a simple aud easy manner.
After xer-ise, always seek rest in a shel
tered place, where you will be warm, never
being hasty to remove hat. gloves or cape.
Let the perspiration subside before disro
bing, if in.doors, and if ont doors, always
keep gently moving until tbe nsusl condi.
tion is attained.’
The LaGraage Reporter thus talks to
the Polot.
The same logic b applicable to Demo
crats in this district as well as in the
third.
Will they apply it. If they do not
they ought to be ashamed of themselv
es.
It b reported tbat there are Democrats
in thb Congressional District who announce
their intention to vote forjudge Bigby,ai.d
others who say they will support J. H.
Caldwell in preference to the Democratic
nominee. Col. W. F. Wright. Judge Big
by claims that a goodly number of Demo
crats have pledged thcmselves-to him unso
licited and nnrsked. We hardly think
there are many of these renegade Demo
crats.
For the sake of principle and honor, we
hope there are few. We undertake to say
there b no true Democrat, no man true to
the principles of civil lioerty and coostita-
tiooal law, who will thus stnltify himself.—
All such are false to trne principles and are
not to be trusted, because they thus iodi
cate a desire to affiiliate with the thieves
and plunderers who now control Federal
and State affairs.
Suppose tho nominee should be obj ec
tionable to Democrats on personal grounds,
we ask are we to vote for men or principles?
Are we to leave principle in abeyance for
personal considerations ? No ma of prin
ciple will entertain such propositions for a
moment. In voting for the Democrat uomi.
nee, ve vote for the maintenance and sac
cos* of Democratic principles.
We tote for a man whom we expect to
cast hb votes io Congress against the cor
ruptions aud usurpations of Radical iegbla-
tion and party policy.
We dd uot vote - npon the morals of the
nominee. The religion .par morals ot
the man is not a question at the ballot-
box.
; Very Sad-
Philosopher Greely is troubled. He de
clares that “every Republican journal or
speaker who decries protection b recogniz
ed by the Democrats as making votes for
their next Presidential ticket.’ 4’ery true.
Bat what is the lesson for the Philosopher?
To’oease pressing hb “Protective Policy.”
Bat will be ? No more than will a hen
Dursing a brood rf youug ducks cease to
fret and scold because they will go into the
water, Democrat or no Democrat. The
protective policy b dead. The debt aod
aod expeases of thb Government require
duties ou imports that are quite enough,
without discriminations, in favor of the
domestic manufacturer They wiU give
him as much protection as he can reasona
bly demand.
The policy of protection belongs to a
past age. The liberal international com
merce of these days utterly repudiates it.—
‘Progress’—‘Progress’—Sir. Greely : the
thing you deffed and idolised b against it.
And the party opposed to* it and in favor of
“reeonstrnetiag” the revenue system, wil
tiramph, Democrat or no Democrat. Tbe
philosopher of the Tribane would better
concentrate hb attention upon deep plough
ing and the cultivation of the black ier-
»y- i jij. : .7 .
It will bring him mor-' profit than ‘Pro
teetion and the black man.’’—Richmond
Dispatch.
Progress of tbe Hlgb Chmch 1c America.
A n Episcopal monastery b among the
signs of progres in the direction o( what
b known as the High Church in this conn
try. It b comparatively a new movement
in the Englbh church, where, under the
control of tho Oxford reformists; - it b re
garded at the same time as a. work of pro
gression and a return to the customs of an
(^reformation times. Tnere is airi-auy -i
monastery of the kiod at Oxford, from
which the present movement in thb conn
try emanates. Indeed, the reverend gen
tlemau, Mr. Benson, who, with a number
ot hb brethren; hra come to thb, oonntry
for the purpose pf introducing a monastic
system among protestante, b the founder
of-the institution at.Oxford,,. ;, -.
Associatod with him are several Ameri-
ican Episcopal clergymen of Maryland,
Conusctiaot 1 elsewhere They dbtin
gnish themselves, like _ the Jqnuts,. by. s
name, which is designed to spark the unity
of their order. . They are called the Socie
J<*9-tiilBMUgdlbt._ ub ...
They take upon themselves, after the
manner of .Jesuit -and Roman Cotholic
mooachbur, vows of poverty, chastity and
celibacy. They have for some time con
templated the estahlbhment of their order
in Ameriea,;agdJlave in;view, it u said,
two principal monasteries in New, York and
Boston, and an extenshu of the system in
.doe time to nt^er j>arta of .the country;
and they are supposed to have ample funds
for an efficient banning of the,undertaking
Beside the priest, the'design contemplates
the co-operation of lay brethren, and STen
sisters who all take the same vows. Father
Benson b the superior, and the “monks”
who .are already enlisted as hb coadjutors
are described as being eloquent, able, zeal
ous and energetioLmen; antheir chief mb
mob • fife?* “
most needed, among the poor. It will be
canons ii the monastic system, alter being
snppressed by law in France and Spain,
and generally in Europe,-snonld be. reviv
ed in-thb country—JFMs.
Jenny Lind contemplates another mhsi-
cal taip to the United States, under the
management of Mr. Ultman.
A son of Hon. George H. Pendleton in
among the defenders of Faria.
ATTENTION!
Democracy of Fi 0J tl
mass MEETI^q
AT XtOJVTE,
On Tuesday, December, 5
The democrats of n ov j r
Vested to assemble at tb, Ckv »*»
on the above named (i-i, I l, ‘- in k.-*
salting together, preparij™ “th’2
t'.on. Gon. P. M. B. Yoiin-i,
Or epeak.ni will be present W * 1 ’«-* 5
, 1 , wil0 a,e opposed to the ar-on
parly and Radical £u.. y
EX ecutive row.;®* «t
no»24tw-wtd c °MMlrr££
AdministratorTsair"
W ILL h“ Mld before the Court n'
» » m tho city of Rome, Fiord k
iween the legal hour, of sale, oa t ™.7’' G, -W
day in January 137!
A Dart of city lot, Noa In „ 4 ,
of tbe city or Rom,
K - ‘-wreie^S
’ 0
O >->ra
ty. Ga , together with thi improver,
consisting of foar tenement, lronu.° ail,r n
'tn-ct. The same nill be sold at C, «
lecent purchamr, for the benest
ol J.C. Whitehead, deceased, the
l* 1 a*!e tart baT ' DS b "“ com plied
JOHN J. WHIrEHijin
m.v24wtd M3 -«i
Tennessee^Housg
ROME, ga. 1
J. A. STANSBURY, Plop,,
The a bore Hotel is located within I.., .
of the Railroad Platform, and com!? 4 ’
to the Business Portion of Taw,^'
Servants polite and attentive to their
duties. All Beega-e handled Fi*^'*
Charge. Satisfaction GtiariitoJ 1
noTlO-twly
Farm for Sale.
A NICE FARM of tboat 300 ifw-iwi i
River Bottem, balance good Upland-A5vj?|
of (hairnet Fruit—Fine large inring t*.*!?
ing—Improvements very c,.mfortukl(-i Ji
than three miles from Rome. “
= nov24tw3m W. KEIcniy
GEORGIA, Polk County.
w HEREAS Michael Galliher fcamljju
exemption of personalty and setting rJ
valuation of homestead, and I will
same on tbe 7rh day of Nor’r next »t UVcb!
a m., at my office in Cedar Town. thii5or
1370.
bot19 F. U. CLARK. 0rdiu. 7 .
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
At
tha E
exemption ot nomeatead in lands ia Ihral
county, of said State, and for setting apart,x>
tier the law, personalty in the conntj of Chi
tooga, where she resides. I will pus dm 4
same November 27, 1370, at 10 o’clock, an
oct27 J. B. HILL, Ordinur.
Clover & Grass Seed
W. D. HOYT & CO,
S AVE MADE ARRANGEMENTS with &
rers of the West, for an ample lapp’y a
the various Grass Seeds
- For this Market.
These Seods will be sold for CASH 05LTs
the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. Ala,
WHOLESALE AGENTS
£#-FOR ALL KINDS OF GARDEN SEKDH
nov5tw3t-w3nr
GRAND OPEMd
OF THE
Star Clothing Hot
—AND—
DRY GOODS EMPORIUM, |
Ho. 123, Broad St., Borne,
The Propriitors beg leave tosMou*^
they are now la receipt of their large six*-j
FALL AND WINTER G
consisting in part of Dress Goods. Piec*
Woolen Goods, Blankets, Cloaks, Shiwj, ^1
Hosiery, Notions, Ac., and many other
not enumerated.
FURS! FURS!! FOES
The Ladies are especially injUed to ^
examine our large stock of FCRs l
selected with great erre, direct from afl*
which enables us to sell los er than erer |
in this market.
OUR STOCK OF
YOUTH’S
-ASD-
is the largest ever brought to this mariR®|
cannot b? excelled in STYLE.
PRICE. Our Mr. M. Rosenberg»■»
watching for bargaios, which enibles t
you greater bargains. . rtil
Coods arriving every day tv* ..jl
COME ALL to he STAB CL'>THIM>«*“ I
GOODS HOUSE, and make it j or “““ I
fers. _ , tjMi
Don’t forget that we are at Johnson * I
old stand, ho. 123, Broad SL, EooeO*-
oct«w3m K " PeCtfU M*R0SEKBEM*5|
A greeable to«order f»» “
Ordinary of Polk County, ^ ^ I
fore the Coart House door in toe »
Town, within the legal hom*■ °».
first Tuesday in January
lota of land as tho property “jr 4l?>& I
Springer Gibson, deceased, U> wit I
485,*5T5, 518, 519 and 528, in the lad ?|J |
4th soetion* of originally Cherok
^Sale positive unless sold before ti* 1 ^ I
^RWOOU.Ad-^^ l
norlOwtd.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
. To the Ordinary of said CoW
The undersigned, as
Stafford late .of said county, dec**?*^^I
plication for letters of diimi.-sioj* ft®*: I
of said Samuel L. Stafford, a» ■Vji.M
ministered the same according * s«
ore prays the usual citation ^ fees ^I
he may obtain letters of d»soi*£
StmoelL. Stafford’s aOM® foTP,^ > I
wiU ever pray- JASPEB no
navis.
GEORGIA, Ftovn Cocsti.
W HERBAS, Elkansh
of Thomas C. Hieks, late of “‘‘“^’2* 6
ed, applies to me for letters of .
said estate: j I
These are therefore to cite ^ ggl
and singular those concerns precriMfkpl
at my office within the time I
ta show cause if any they h I
should not be granted.^ JOHSS oX, OrM* 1 \
, novl0-w3in -—-
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
Whereas lc. w '^i° r Jj ‘’SI
for exemption ol.PfggSf
and valuation ofAemesteso, ,jj,, |
same on tbe l«b day of
i in Rome, ^ } J0 BSS0S'°* ^
GEORGIA, Flojd County.
Application wi 'Jj’Sr.ut i*jfrj I
This Bov. 7, fEATHER# 0 * •
noTtU