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The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING. Dec. 2.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
FOR COSGUESS
GEN. P. M. B. YOUNG.
OUR COUNTY NOMINEES.
FOR T1IE LEGISLATURE,
M. R. BALLENGER,
H. A. GARTRELL.
FOR CLERK SUPEEIOR COURT.
A. E. ROSS.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
JAMES T. MOORE.
FOR SHERIFF.
J. II. LUMKIN.
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR
JAMES II. REYNOLDS.
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
S. C. TROUT.
FOR TAX RECEIVllK.
1C. W. BERRYIIILL.
FOR CORONER.
U. RATILLO.
MOI!AI. RESERVATION OF THE
PEOPLE.
Martiu Van liureti characterized the so
ber, second thought of the people as being
always right and always efficient.
No truer political axiom was everpromul
gated, acd what makes its truth so happy
for .he conservation of the principle of good
government is the fact that this sober, sec
ond thought is almost always sure to follow
the rasher impulses of the first.
It is to this sober second thought—'-the
reserve force of the morality of the people”
ns Cicero more elegantly terms it—chat our
peopl ’ are after so long a time returning.
The anarchy of the first impulses that
have to long maddened them is gradually
loosing its force, and a more conservative
and catholic s[ irit is taking its place, and
in this dawning of reason we see the bright
promise or hope for our country.
The little Demagogues who have so foul
ly abused the public confidence, cannot
longer blind the people by appeals to their
drunkeu passions. Sober, second thoughts
arc beginning to obtain, and when the
voice of reason may again be heard, we
may expect a reform of the present abuses
and a return to a more excellent order of
public polity.
There is one of two tilings necessary to
the preservation and administration of good
government. The first is a moral and po
litieal integrity pervading the character
and contnling the actions of the public
leaders.
Men so constituted and governed would
not abuse the powers entrusted to them
even when they could do so with impunity
The other is a sufficiency of virtue, intelli
gencc and courage among the peopl
preserve the right, to love the truth, aud to
dare to condemn and defeat the wrong
A people t'ius endowed would not sub'
rnit to the oppressions of their rulers, even
though their rulers were lacking iu their
constituent characteristics of political in
tegrity.
The first of these conservators, viz
the moral and political integrity of leaders,
our nation lacks. Our leaders are unscru
pulous, b.i-e and corrupt. Neither moral
personal or political honesty finds a place
in the composition of their natures. They
are devoid of an intelligent virtue, and
therefore they fail to stand towards the
people as the conservators of their peace
and their prosperity. The first having thus
failed -our rulers proving unreliable—
follows that we are thrown upon the 1 itt
—the moral re-erve force of the people for
a remedy and for a relief. IVe can no Ion
gor tru-t our rulers, and tve must appeal to
our people.
We feel assured that this moral reserva
tion is strong in their hearts, That though
they have been maddened by Lhe impulsive
promptness of their passions, they are now
returning to their sober second thought
and that it will soon obtain once more.
It is to this sober, second thought of the
people we would make rur appeal. It is to
their honest patriotism wo would look for a
redress of the grievances that have so Ion
oppressed our land.
We want no greasiug—uo promises of
local preferences—no pledges of State aid
—ring patronage, or railroad favors, but
we want the sober, deliberate, unbiased
promptings of their honest hearts. If our
people will only he moved by these they
will do well, and a happy prosterity will
arise to call them blessed.
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.
A general order basjust been issued from
the War Department stating that the reg
ulation hospitals will be constructed on the
plans just approved, and will be erected at
permanent posts when specially authorized
by the Secretary of War. In the construc
tion of a new post the election of the hos-
pital shall go on jiart passu, when prac tica-
blc, with thatofthe store houses and men’s
quarters.
COTTON FLUCTUATIONS.
The following statistics will l e interest
ing to cotton growers:
The crop of 1867 was 2,498,S93, bales,
of 1868,2,439,039 ;of 1869 it was 3.154,-
966 bales.
In 1867-8 the highest price was in April
and July, when it New York it was 33
cents, the lowest was in December 1867
when it was 15 cents.
The crop of 1868 9 the highest price was
35 cents in August 1869; the lowest 25
ccuts in November and December 1868.—
The crop of 1869 70 opened in September
at 35 cents, aud was lowest in August
when it was 19 cents.
Seeding WuEAT.-The time for seeding
Wheat is not yet entirely over, and those
who have not already done so, should see
to it, that a sufficient acreage is sown to
ensure them a surplus of bread for the
next season.
A grainery well filled is one of the best
sureties of peace and prosperity. If every
home in the land was thus blessed, onr
State would scorn the taunts and indigni
ties of adventurers and pothouse dema
gogues.
AN INFAMOUS TRIO.
There are three names in Alabama that
will go down to posterity linked with all
that is vile and odious. Three names that
were once honored and kindly spoken of
by the people, but, as Beucdct A.mold was
ouec trusted and beloved by rhi people,
his treason become the more odious because
of the trust lie betrayed.
And so it is with these wr tehe 1 men —
the very height from which they fill sinks
them the deeper in the depth of th.f- iufi-
my.
These names, which are henceforth to bo
spoken only as synouvms of trea- -i and
corruption, are Alexander \V. While, Lew
is E Parsons and Samuel F Price.
They are the chief conspirators who are
seeking to crush the people of Alabama.
The puppy Smith, and less than puppy
Biugham, are too iusiguifieant ot themselves
to attempt s :eh an outrage. Such a gigan
tie thought could uot be conceived by their
piguey brains, aud therefore they are to be
despised only as the dirty tools of dirty
masters.
When in the madness of power and the
frenzy of war, Beast Butler raised hie arm
against us. aud by his brutal obseuities and
devilish cruelties he wo r for himself a name
of eternal infamy, the heart ot every
houest min the world overgrew cold at the
recital of his outrages. But beast as he
was, it wa- with an a uied and fighting
people be contended: and ha l as was his
conduct, he had at lea-t. the plea of war to
excuse, if not to justify it.
But when his victim lay crushed anil
bleeding at his feet, he turned from it and
left it in peace. Though in time of war
he scrupled not to vent his wrath upnu wo
men—yet, ia time of peace, he regained
from striking an uuarmed and wounded
man, But not so with these foul creatures
of perdition._Like jaekalls, they held them
selves aloof during the fight, bat as soon as
the victim was left sorely wetnded and
bleeding on the ground, they came l-*re*i
from their covers, aud with a fiendish greed
they pounced upou the writhing, suffering
form, and tore from its limbs the bauds
with which it had so pain lully struggled to
staunch its bleeding wounds
It is said that every animal body con
tains within itself the agents of its own
postbumus consumption. That as snnas
the vital spark is extinct, these animalcules
which have been carried so long in the liv
ing body, spring into active life, aud begin
to fatten upon the fostering flesh that had
so long sheltered ard preserved them. And
just such miserable maggots are thcse^croa-
tures, who an now gnawing at the quiver
ing flesh of Alabama.
It was an evil day for their native South
that dawned upon the birth of Samuel F
llice and Alexander \V. White, and a d .v
dark with shauie aud foul with misfortune
that saw Alabama open her ^onerous brea«t
to give a shelter to the viper. Lewis R Par
sons, who now turns, like the oue in the
fable, aud would poison her to death.
As for the perjured judges, of whom
these men have made such cmtcmptible
too!*, it is cot worth while to speak. The
miserable abortion of humanity. Pelham, is
not on!}' positively meau, but his depravity
shows still re ore disnus'injly iu the liiiht
of the virtue of his family. Brother to the
gallant’Pelham, who died for the State this
creature would enslave, his unnatural base
ness must appear still more base.
It is really an outrage to the memory of
the one t > whisper the name of the other.—
What a pity two such opposite characters
should be linked by the tics of consanguin
ity, and the sameness of a name.
SO L TUCK.\ CADETS AT WEST 1*01 NT
The annual report of Gen Shrivcr, In
spector of the Military Academy at West
Point, to the Secretary of War returns an
unusually large number of rejected candi
dates.
In accounting for this large number of
rejections, Gen. Shriver says •
41 It should be stated in explanation of the
unusual number of cadets rejected in the
present year, that many or them were from
the Southern States, where education was
greatly deranged by the late war, am: that,
for the first time, written examination? in
history, geography and grammar were re
sorted to as a'Fording a fairer test of the
candidates’ abilities and a better opportu
nity to profit by the law of 1867, which
raised the standard of admission.
Now Gcd. Shriver may have bei n, and
doubtless was iunoccnt of any design to in
jure the youth of the South, but in this
official paper of his he has given to the
world a very grave and unjust representa
tion of the Southern educational status.
The General bases his estimate upon the
capacity of the candidates thus rejected,
assuming them to be representative youths
of the South, when in fact they were not.
They may have been appointed from, aui
accredited to the Southern States, by men
misrepresenting the South in Congress, but
they in many instances were not Southern
at all, and when they were, did not repre
sent the Southern status.
The appointments were made entirely
by partizan carpet-baggers or ignorant seal
awags, and the selections were made from
the carpet-bag and scalawag ranks. Neither
tho intelligence or the manhood of the
South was represen‘cd at West Point. Those
who went there from the South were from
the low down and vile walks cf radical
ism. Tho South must not be held respon
sible for the outrage, and in justice to our
Southern youth who have been thm wiong
ed, we hope that our Noithcrn friends will
make the correction.
We very greatly doubt whether any re*
spcctable Southern hoy could be induced to
go there under the preseut order of negro
equality.
The Patriot at Washington will do an
act of justice to our Southern friends by
explaining the report of Gen. Shriver.
ALABAMA AND HER CA S15.
The cause of Alabama to- l av is the
cause of every State in the Uiima. If Grant
or Congress interferes to retain iu power
the miserable traitor Smith, it can, with
the same propriety tell Gov. Hoffman to
vacate aud scat Woidford iu his stead*
It is fi*r this reason that we regard the
matter with such keen anxiety It is the
issue brought fiiitly and squarely before the
ion. If elections are to avail and the
people are t) nil*.*, then Smith will not be
sustained
If. cu the contrary, the voice of the peo
ple are to be hushed and those wh? arc- ac
cidentally iu power are to be allowed to oer-
petuute t heir power, by ltfu-dng to allow the
vote counted, Smith will continue, not as
Governor, but as unlit try sat rip of Ala
bama.
IIis elentio" iu the first place was a fraud
and a lie-15,Olh) v->t s were hekin
elect him according to the provisions of the
law under which he was voted for. Y
Congress legalized by speem! enactment his
election, and it may ]
If it docs, it wilt n
same power that will retain
invoked t » Gran
should h * o lefujtcd befor
people mu t uude
'lad that the i?Mi'
stop there, but the
Lain .Smith will be
Grant in his office
the people.—
this, au i
•vie. *iud
the pel
ADDRESS OI' THE CHAIRMAN OF
THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMIT.
TEE.
The following notice we publish, that
our readers may profit by the suggestions.
11 wj would defeat
iu power, we m i-t
c- asingly.
Macos. Ga.. November 26,1870.
De\u Sir* It is very desirable that
there should be more th .rough orga^iza
tion ou the part of the Jenncrotic party,
PI
he thieves and tools
ginize and work un
in view of the approaching election.—
Clubs should bo formed and :iu Kxecutivt
’ommittee appointed in cu'*h county; and
the effort- of clubs aud c mmittees should
be actively and constantly directed to bring
about harmony aud the undivided cordial
support of nominees of the party; as well a
to provide agoncie to prevent fraud in ti e
conduct ot th • election, or, at all events,
to detect it if perpetrated.
Tho accom •liahmcu? of both these ob
iects isofore.it importance.aud I beg that
you will take imuiedi te steps to hav
club formed and the necessary committees
appointed I n* your county ; aud that you
will request the Chairman of the Executiv
Committee, or the President of the Club,
when formed, t> give me all the informa,
tion lie can ns to our prospects of success in
your county.
Iu kehall of the Stale Pern cratic Ks
utive Committee.
C I.l FIN iP.I) A nr>erson,
Chairman
THE MEC «T\c; MIXT TUESDAY.
\Ye trust th it every unu in the county
ill remember the mectinj next Tuesday,
id will come out and participate in mak-
g i* a mi-sing old Democratic rally.
T
i be
•pic
••ter—li
local
divides t
that tone
cratic l'o
Ever s
hare hail
3"3 and
i the
a mere dif-
uiatters ttiat
a parties, l>at it is a matii
■ every existence of Deni
lent itself.
he War the Radical thieves
vision of the powers of the
nd all th- indignities, the
[■press-ions that have been
ar people by these same rad
that wi
p-w- r i
iL-ll-it an I
re -tru-.'lino
i (’
oar
still
. Y' u
■ rtr.row this power
The Deaiocratic
been largely inercat
iy do our duty, like
dd to its strength
g we aiM one mo c
strength in Oon-
e taken from
ed. and if
frtcmcn.
By clectii
Vet- to the Dene er;
ores- -oue added is
enemies.
By permitting Barnett to be elected, w
reverse tins proposition and w afceu lhe
hand- of onr friends, while we strengthen
the power ol our enemies.
freemen of Floyd, and sc-
iincmber this
it that Young is elected.
Keep your t’atlle out olthcrolil.
Now that b~d weather is falling aud the
wintry winds are blowing, it is well
enough to look around aud see how well
one is prepared to endure it.
The prudent man has already done so,
and is now ready to rn -et the inclemencies
of the season,with a pleasing consciousness
that lie and his arc safe. Those who are
not thus confident have yet time to remedy
tho neglect, and t> strengthen their prop
ortions. among other things that shoald
be attended to, is the duty of providing
shelter foi the cuttle, good dry shelter is
ns much essential to the condition of cat
tle as is good and abundant food.
Every farmer should see that his cattle
ar thus provided for. Their own interest
as well as the interest of humanity de
mands it.
Battle in France.—Our noon dis
patches yesterday bronuht us tidings of a
great battle fought at Bcau-ias, in w ich
the French were defeated. This is from a
Prussian source, and may be qualified by
the next reports.
The inactivity of the two armies ihr the
past few days indicate that some decisive
move would soon bo made.
As upon the army of the Loire all the
hopes of France depended, this defeat, if
confirmed, will provo a death blow to the
cause, and will result in her complete hu
miliation.
Mr. II K. Cotton, special coircspon
dent of the S-ientifie American, is giving
i series of interesting articles of Southern
places and Southern interests in that Jonr
nai. His 1 .st, dated Atlanta, Oat. 23, is
particularly interesting. His report is in
the main correct, and we are glad to thus
have our industries acd resources made
known to the people of the North.
The Lexin-tou, Kentucky, Agriculture
Observer A Bepirter is one of tho best ag.
rieultural papers published.
It is published weekly at SI, 30 per an.
num.
Till. FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRON1.
CUES OF GEORGIA.
CHAP. r.
Audit came to pass that when those
evil days spoken of by Jeremiah the proph
et—feil noon the land of Georgia—that
the people of all the land was grievously
affiicicd.
2. And all manner of ev : l men oppress
ed the people
2. And it also ca ne to pass that a man
named Unfits Behemoth, surnamed tho
Bullock, wa3 called to rule over the land of
Georgia, aud all the people therein.
4. And ihe reign of this man, Rufus
Behemoth, surnamed the Bullock, was like
unto the wicked reign of Ahab.
5. For this same man Rufus Behemoth,
surnamed the Bullock, surrounded himself
with evil counsellors, and the words of
counsel that were whispered into his ear
were words of evil import.
6 Ho inclined his ear unto these 6au:e
wieked counselors, and did many things
that were evil in the sight of the people.
7. Aud among those same wicked coun
sellors with whom this man Rufus Behe
moth. surnamed the Bollock, surrounded
himself was a certain man whose Dame
wa? Poster—and he was also a Blodgett.
S. Aui this same Foster, who was also
a Blodgett, was a mail of war, and had
been a mighty man of valor.
9. And as for the mighty deeds of war
and of valor which this same Fos er, who
was al-o a Blodgett, did, are they not writ
ten in the book of the Coaled, racy.
10 And this same man Foster, who was
also a Blodgett, was not only a mighty man
of war and of 7alor, hut ho was also a man
of cuuuing and exceedingly tricky— _ ...
11. And this man Rufus Bohemolb, stir
named the Bullo.-k, knowing this man
Foster, who was also a Blodgett, to be a
man of war und of valor, and likewise a
man of cunning and exeecdim ly tricky,
called him t. he his chief servant.
12. And he made him to be master over
a great highway aud to collect aud receive
all the tolls that were paid thereon.
13. And th's same highway was very
grea ly traveled, and the tolls were a great
revenue to the treasury of this man Rufus
Behemoth, surnamed the Bullock.
14. And when the tolls bad been collec
ted by this man Foster, who was abo a
Blodgett, aud the same had been paid into
the treasury of this man Rufus Behemoth,
surnamed the Bullock, the same was puffed
out with its fullness.
15. And this same mau Rufus Behmotb,
surnamed the Bullock, was lavish with the
gold and the greenbacks that came into the
public treasury.
16. And he divided the mouey thus col-
Dcu-d among his servants—chief among
whom was this same Foster, who was also
a Blodgett.
17 Aud the e was also another servant
of this man Ilulus Behemoth, surnamed
the Bulloek, and whose name was George,
and who was likewise a Burnett.
IS. And this other servant of the Kiug
of the land of Geor.ia, whose name was
G'-orge. likewise a Burnett, was a lusty
man and fair to look upon, and he was also
a man of grease.
19. Aud all the people loved himbecau.-o
he was thus fair to look upon, and withal
so greasv.
20. And this same George, who was
likewise a Burnett, had given uutohiui the
office of I'uglema.i to the King.
21 And all who would approach the
King’s prcseuco, or would make a plea to
the King's court, had first to obtain the
favor of this mau George, likewise a Bur-
uett, who was lair to look upon, and so
greasy, and who was fugleman to the King.
22. Aud when it came to pass that the
King assembled the wise men of the land
to enact laws.
23. Aud they had assembled together
aud said what was best to be done for the
oppression ot the people.
24. Then it was that the King, this same
Ru us Behemoth, surnamed the Bullock,
had to affix his signet to the said enact
ments before they could be of any force in
the land.
25. And the King would then take these
same enactments and put them in bis breech
cs pockets, and keep them there until his
chief fugleman, George, who was likewise
a Burnett, was sufficiently greased.
26. And when the people petitioned the
wise men of the land to be allowed to
build themselves a highway, and the same
wise men decreed that tho people shoald
do so.
27. Then it was that the King would
turn a deaf car to the petition of the peo
ple, and much grease would have to be giv
en the fugleman before the King would sof
ten his heart, and give car to the prayers of
the people.
28. And all these things were mighty
juod for the fugleman and for the King,
but they were not good for the people.
ACTA HIUKNA..
Foreign.
November 29.
Great I atte iminent in the Southern de
partment of France. Prussians are within
twelve miles of the seat of th;- Provision
al Government. Officially stated that Pros
si a withdraws her demand for the abtoga-
tion of the treaty of Paris of 1856. Aus
tria congratulates Prussia upon German
unity. Prussians occupied Amien* with
70,000 troops.
* l 1 DOMESTIC. :
No Presidential message will be publish'
ed before the President delivers it in Con
gress. Monster mass meeting in the even
ing at Montgomery, Ala-, to consider the ae
tions of Smith and Bingham. Republican
members and speakers denounced them as
traitors, and so they are. Both Houses ad
journed until the next day.
Hoo. Zebulon B Vance elected United
States Senator by the North Carolina Leg
islature. Good for the old North State.
Liherton Hotel, at Buffalo Gap, Virgin
ia distrojed by fire. Snow in Virginia 9
inches deep.
Messrs. Moher, Solomon and Moher,
sugar dealers in Cincinnati, have failed.—
Eloppt ires & Bros, also failed. 500 recruits
from depot in Ohio ordered to Atlanta, to
be incorporated in the ISth Infantry regi
ment. Steamship Erie loaded with war
stores for the French, sailed to day. Cot
ton in New York quiet at 161. Gold 11a
IU.
LOCAL.
Weather threatens rain. Business brisk
Cotton drooping 131. River to good boat
ing order. Improvements are stiff going
cn. A large building is being constructed
on Broad street next to the Bonis lot.—
Ward mocting a night well attended and
harmonious—old Council renominated with
the exception of C. O. Stillwell—Thos. J.
Perry nominated in his place.
Wednesday, Nov. 30.
For foreign and domestic nows, sec tele
graphic dispatches.
LOCAL.
Weather wet and disagreable. The rain
came down last night, and continued falling
during the day. Business dull. Cotton
stiffened np fully a half a cent. Gold in
New York to day 10}. Cotton 161.
Banner of tiie Church.—We have re
ceived tho first number of this new publi
cation.
Tho title of the paper expresses the
character of its mission.
It is to bo the standard to which the
churchuieu of tho South may rally with
the sweet assuraucc that it is a “banner o
love ” It supplies a want that has long
been felt iu our State, and we greet its ap
pearance with unalloyed delight.
Its editorial department will be under
the immediate care of Rev. Joseph Cross,
D. D.
It is published in Atlanta, and is issued
every Friday.
The subscription price is three dollars
per year, ia advauco.
Address^W. S. Spiers & Co., Atlanta.
Bieistadt- is engaged on a large painting
if a scene on the Pacific coast in the re
An eminent Londth scene painter hu
gone to Sedan to u ake sketches for Oue an u of Vauenvers’Island. It is a grand,
new piece that will soon be performed at a : poetical subject, aud the artists will doubt-
Sundon theatre. j less make of it one of his greatest works.
llow the Parties will stand In the New
Honse of Representative*.
We copy from several papers. Choosn
for yourself:
‘The Republicans will have from fifty to’
sixty majority in the'ncw House of Repre-
scEtatixes. — N. Y. Tribune.
The losses and gains indicate that the
Democratic strength in the next Honse of
Representatives will be ninety members
aud Republicans one hundred and fifty-
three, or sixty-three majsrity.—N. York
Times.
The World mahes the majority only elev
en. The Democraticcoaraiittee at Wash
ington make it twenty-seven. This last
agrees most nearly with onr own estimate
—Mont Mail.
A steraoe passenger from Europe was
detected at New York last Friday, with
fonr thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds
in his tobac'i box, which he intended to
smuggle.
The Baltimore papers state that not less
than 50,000 people of that oify, chiefly
Catholics, turned out on Thursday last to
meet and welcome back to Baltimore, Arch
bishop Spaulding, on his return from Rome.
Spoaker John P. Hubbard.
The House on yesterday elected this
distinguished gentleman its Speaker; and
ic doing this paid a deserved compliment
to his recognized ability and his fidelity to
the beet interests of the Btate. We pre-
diot for Mr. Hubbard a highly honorable
and successful career in the service of the
commonwealth. We are also glad to learn
that the rumors of factious and revolution
ary resistance to the result of the election
turn as we hav- predicted, to be without
foundation in -ftefr. The 8enate is organ
ized and ready to count the vote when the
House shall be ready. —Montgomery Ad
vertiser.
KENTUCKY STOCK MARKET
John A Reid, of Shelby, sold 12 head
cf 2-vear old cattle, weighing 1,195 lbs, at
70 76.
All repoits from the South about the
mule market are that the market is exceed
iogly dull.
J D Helm, of Woodford, sold a cow and
thres of her calves a few days ago for the
suio of 450 dollars.
D Callaham, of S’.elby. sold 1 pair of ox
en for 90 50, 1 pair for 203 50, and I
pair for 160.
Thirty Berkshire hogs of II W Mitch
ell's, in Mercer, sold at prices ranging
fiom 10 00 to 75 OC per head.
Joho F Wright, of Shelby, sold 8 head
of two and three year old cattle, weighing
1,060 pounds, at 62 25.
Jas. Ferguson, of Scott county, bought
of Newton Williams, of Owen, 34 head of
3 year old feeding cattle, weight 1,180 lbs.
at 5 75.
Frisbic and Rowlanl, of Cvnthiana, sold
their brown harness horse to an eastern
gentleman for 200 00. He also purchased
several other horses at from 150 00 to
250 00.
From lhe best information we can obtain
the number of hogs which will be thrown
ou the Madis u market this season will be
considerably more than double that of last
year.
The other day W S Burton, of Barren,
sold four of his fine Burkshiro pigs to Ed.
Edmunds, George Young and Win Young
of that county, and Gilock Hurston, of Al
len eonnty. . The pigs, 6 weeks old, were
soil for 25 00 each.
M N Depeau, of Boyle, has just relnrn-
cn from his second trip to Pennsylvania
this season with males. He reports prices
lower and trade duller than a few weeks
ago when he was there. He sold in Cum
berland county this trip 40 head at 145.
At Snell and Shawhan’s sale in Bour-
bou last week, 2 year old mules sold at
102 00; yearlings at 70 00; colts 56 00;
sucklings 20 00; corn 1 85 per shock, av
eraging a barrel to the shock; hogs 300 lbs.
weight 20 00 per head; cows 60 00 to
100 00.
Late sales at Mason, 1 old sorrel mare,
41 00; 1 do horse 125 00; 1 bay mare
72 00; 1 sorrel horse 160 00; 1 do 31 00
1 brown horse 100 00; 1 brown horse 60
00; 4 small yerling mules, each 66 00; 1
cow 32 00: 1 black mare 36 00; 1 black
mare 36 00; 4 wagon wheels and axles
7 00.
A large number of hogs from Boyle and
Garrard have baen shipped to Louisville
by owners, who sell to the packers, and
the trade in this way has been quite lively
Col, Talbot has purchased and shipped to
Owsley & Co, about 1,200 or 1,300 head,
whieh were bought at 6 00 p r hundred.
Court day at Richmond, horses sold at
50 00 to 100 00; lot of 2 year oli mules
at 104 $0 per bead; mountain cows at 920
to 30 00; lot of 2 year old steers at 59 00
per head; lot. mountain steers at 18 35 per
head; oxen 94-60 to 175 00 per yoke; sev
eral lots of moubtain oxen at 12 00 to 15-
00 per head. Almost all stock sold on 70
days’ time. No money in circulation, and
bat little disposition on the part of the
people to lay. Nothing done in the hog
market.
At the sale of the estate of ffm. Shan
non, near Millersburg, 20 acres went at
75' 00; 97 acres at 59 00. This farm sold
in 1842 at 19 00. Moles, 2 year elds, 3
extra at 159 00; 19 medium at 95 10, be
ing just 10 oents more than they cost last
June. Other stock at fair prices. Corn
at about 1 35 per barrel; 5 shares of the
Millersbarg Deposit Bank stock at 103 50.
BANG FIZZLE BUTLER.
Spoons are so very good, and befit the
old cock-eyed thief's character so well that
it w-juld be a difficult matter to find a more
appropriate sobriquet for Benjamin F. But
ler—the bottled imps of Beoumda Hun
dreds. By way of giving a variety to his
appelation, as he has suen a variety of in
famous characteristic—the New York News
calls the gentleman Beast—“Bang Fizzle
Butler.
This is t e way it comes about.
No sooner does the rugged Russian beast
commence to growl, ' and the British lion
to snap his worn teeth in defiance, than
the Radical American coyotes begin to yelp
for war. Already their leaders are blow
ing Bcllona’s trumpet, as if conscious that
no other noise can awaken their party to
action. Their organization has sank into
the languor that precedes dissolution, anp
it is only by exciting the old appetite for
more plunder that any show of energy can
be elicited.
There is no doabt that the cry of war
witn England will prove a most powerful
stimulant for the exhausted enthusiasm of
the partisans that enriched themselves ia
our own domestic coiflict.
Visions of innumerable fat jobs appeal to
their greedy senses. Butler hears the jin
gle ot spoons in the cupboards of Canadian
housewives, and his martial spirit swel's in
the capaciovs recesses of his breeches’
pockets.
Besides, the very existence of the Re.
pnblican party is at stake. Noth hat the
fiery breath of battle with a foreign foe can
inflate anew tl is collapsed bladder of Radi
calism. All the issues that gave them
strength have been disposed of, and not one
popular plank floats within their reach up
on the political tide that is wafting the
the Democracy to triumph in the next Pres
idential election.
In this emergency the only resource is
to faff back on 'he time-honored expedient
of whacking the British lion. Like the
manager’s device of billing a display of
fireworks when the legitimate fails to diaw,
the war-with-England dodge is always con
venient, and possesses a kind of pyrotech-
nical virtue in exciting the popular pulse.
One caunct help looking when a skyrocket
goes off, and it is natural to applaud when
a pin-wheel whirls itself into a flaming ex.
tacy.
If Bntler had been first elown in a cir
cos—he may have been for aught we know—
he could not have got up a better pop.bang
fizzle sensation than this grand political
entree and doable act of Canada in satis,
faction ot Alabama claims.
Bnt Bang Fizzle Bntler will have to rec.
oecilc himself to the fate of a political pyr
otechnist. His war rocket may go up and
make a pretty show in 1871, and come
down a worthless stick in 1872. The peo
ple of the United States cannot be hurrah
ed into an unnecessary war.
Desperate, indeed, most be the condition
of a political party that cannot thrive in
the wholesome atmosphere of peace. The
Republican party owes its power to the op
portunities of war ; that does not prove,
perhaps, that it is destructive of the de
mon's of peace; bnt when we sec it seek
ing, within its first decade of existence, to
recuperate itself by a second war, the in
ference is plain that it has no healthy and
natural principle oflife.
On Tuesday last the one hundredth per
formance of Rip Van Winkle was given at
Booths’ Theatre, New York, with Mr. Jef
ferson in the title role.
Wm.Deiebanty, one of the meet success
fill song and dance men on the black board,
was errand boy in a store in Albany, New
York.
The vote in favor of'snbeeribing 91000,
000 to the Memphis Braneh Road, at
Rome, on this 24th, was 104 for andgjmdx
one against. *-*:.■■
[From tiie Augusta Constitutionalist.
“Why Don’t You!”
In onr callida juientus, which means in
the happy days when we were mnsh-and-
milky, we hoard a fable about a man and
his ass In experience since then, notwitb
standing the infinite number of men—and
asses—we have bien thrown with, we are
frequently acuiely reminded of this “old,
old story,” In no sphere of life does the
ubfortunate drudge have to make himself
so infinitely many sided and so entirely
chameleon-colored as in the traces of a dai
ly newspaper. Every single reader not
only expects, bnt peremptorily demands,
that his ret hobby shall be trotted out and
exercised every morning regularly; aud,
failing this, we are seized, interviewed and
otherwise bedeviled until life is a burden
to us, and with the young female in the
Moated Grange, so are “a-weary.”
Internal improvements Mir,as thinks the
only proper theme for agitation at this mo
ment. “What are we without canals, sir!
wbat are we? And then the Great Inter-
St ite-Golf-andFrigid-Zone-Conneeting-R.-
R.-C.! Those are the questions, sir! Why
don't you ?” And then Migos pounds
on, for a mortal half hoar, leaving us pul
verized and utterly convinced of one thing,
viz: That Miogs can run aground much
easier than he can run a newspaper.
Jiggs meet* us a square below, with
powdered cracker still dinging to his beard
and the gentle savor of cheese larding the
air that forms his first words, “Why don’t
you ” An . then Jiggs, seizes us by
the eighth t-uttiu, counting from the top,
and confidentially insinuates that we are
rained if we persist in harping on the string
wo have just been told is the sole salvation
of our unhap y sheet. Jiaas would talk
longer, but we don’t ask him what he’ll
take in the first fifteen minntes, knowing
in that case he’ll take himself off.
Many men of many minds is indeed a
verity; but the many minds of newspaper
readers have never the God-like faculty of
seeing themselves as others see them, far
less of reversing that difficult proposition.
Seriously to spoak, au editor's life is a
hard bitter on; and nothing in that life rolls
np each a sum of petty agravatinns into a
great grievance as the “damnable iteration”
of the three words that head this article
John Leech, the most famous of graphie
delineators, was ground into an untime
ly grave by the band organ men —
Faff many an editor of gentlest quill se
rene is badgered and baited into a snarling
and “aggerawatin” Qcilp, by. the patient
use of that wearing interrogatory.
One most kindly disposed critio will find
fault with the length of our article*. “Why
don’t you squib? ’ he will ask. “Look at
Pbextice, sir, Squibs made him!” The
echo of this ftieodly counsel his not died
in our ears, when the shocked tympana
eatob, “Why don’t you stop paragraphing?
Two line articles will ruin any paper. Ar
ticles four columns long have made the
Courier-Journal. Just look at that pa perl
Nevermind what they’re about—an elec
tion, a divorce, a book notice—let uv have
long articles!”
Gentle reader! as the romancista say, we
are not romancing. A coldly true history
of the diverse and peculiarly unsoniht ad
vice we get in the course of one morning
would harrow np pity in your tools yon
never dreamed lies bnried there. Nearly
every man in every sphere of life not only
believes himself capable of “running a news
paper,” but he deems it his special mission
secretly to impart to us this inborn convic
tion. He never considers the weary years
of drudgery, the thousand ills that flesh is
heir to, the long practice to acquire the
simple-seeming fluency, the midnight oil
and the narrow things of home What
are thsee to him? Does he not pay an av
erage of four cents per deim for all the
latest news, all the gossip and a large quan
tity besides of dessicsted brains? But
does not each and every oue of these kind
ly disposed, bnt all too aetiye, volunteers
remember that in perpetually advising an
editor he ia in act putting bis band into the
pocket of each anr every brother subscri
ber, and extracting from thence a very vul
gar fraction of his daily stipend of fonr
oents currency. Let onr advisers psnse
upm this point, and when found, make a
note on’L
What foolish old ancient said “Wow onaxia
pouumut omnesf" PshawJ Ever man of
the advisory tribe, in every town in the
oonnrry, can ran every newspaper. And
—“why don’t youF’
A Singular Cask—It is tneittoocd a
a singular ease of the mtrgy of a i old lady
that in England a spinster, aged seventy
year, who bad became bankrupt, and wh >
was posessed of a life intere-t in property,
whieh, on hrr marriage would go to her
grandchildren, in order to prevent the life
estate faffing into the hands of tf e crclitors,
the old lady married a pauper of about
her own age, so as to affect a forfeiture, aud
thus by oderation of law to transfer the
property to her grandchildren. The cndi-
tors uaintaincdjthat the marriage woscullu.
sivc and fraudulent, bnt the coart of
Queen’s bench decided that the property
passed to the grandchildren.
TELEGP. a e *io.
Reported for the Tri-Weekly Conner.
NOON DISPATCHES.
London, Nov. 30.
Tho following, dated Versailes, early this
morning, says on Monday and Tuesday the
forts around Paris, particularly those toward
the Sooth, maintained a ferocious cannonade
to cover a sortie in force. On Tuesday the
French came out towards Lc Hay, supported
by gunboats on the Seine, and attacked fierce
ly a position held by the 6th Prussian corps.
Other sorties made smultaneously in other
directions, probably- with a view to prevent
reinforcements to the 6th co~ps. In ail cases
however, the French were repulsed, anddriv-
cn behind their fortifications.
The entire loss of the Prussians iu these
actions was seven officers and a few hundred
men, while the French lust 1600 in prisoners
alone.
French have been badly I.eaten near
Amiens. Their army was totally routed and
fled towards Arras.
Four French guns were captured in this
action on Monday. Main body of the French
attempted to force a passage to Fontahleau b
a heavy and general attack. They encoun
tered 10 Prussian -orps at Beaene, a little
village in the department of the Loire, twen
ty-six miles North of Orleans. Prussians
quickly reinforced with Ihe fifth infantry and
first cavalry division.
French onslaught repulsed with heavy loss
killed and wounded, especially prisoners.—
The army of the Loire withdrew.
St. Pziersbcrc, Nov. 30.
Proposed Conference on the Eastern ques
tion favorably received here.
PorGHKEZPsiz, Nov. 30.
Excitement in the eastern part of Dntchess
county, over the sadden and alarming illness
of the cattle. Fifty head on three different
farms. Tongues swollen, half .rotten, no ap
petite.
Versailles, Nov. 30.
It now appears that the greater part ot the
army of the Loire was engaged against Prus
sian tenth corps at Beauvais on Monday, re-
S orts of the commanders coming in, leave no
onbt of the French defeat being complete—
1000 killed and left on the field; 1700 woun
ded captured. Captures increase by close
Prussian persuit.
London, Nov. 30.
The feeling in money circles healthful.
The Times urges King William, as an ally of
England, to urge on the Czar the folly of his
pretensions which the civilized world refuses
to tolerate.
Proposals win
signed until the 20th lK" r, J*>J tie-.,
of 200,000 Hoop Poles at the* 1 "' f ? r ,k « Oeih"'
Iron Manufacturing c£!£t? ork, ' ,, ‘hsL?
point on board csrs S „n sT/fe «•!&
or W A A R r. Proposals wpi*\, ’ WS
and time of delivery ard li, !Ut «
lo be delivered. s«dfiei?-* ^
Wring to the undwig^“
Manager Borne Iron
decltw3w.
Alabama and
Stockholders take \nrt„
meeting the Stockholder i/th"^ «*
td Cororanv, »,li be held a t tw r "
d.y. lhe ihh day of January
lug =>-u-cot Cothran A Mit-u.r.'’ f Uje , a ‘U-
JV’-'C °t electing a Board ofDir'JT ' h *Pe-
Company, and lor the tnsvati,in .i'™
business as may be brouent X?
novZMiiv Kt.i
3P&~V\ty papers copy.
CHAS Ratthat
W°f. l S A H^
G. J- DYKKS,'
W.SC0T" R » x
U. II. SMITH,
incorporna^
GEORGIA, Dade County.
I . •lUUEAN L-roy Sutlon sppiinOj,1
Thf-ee am thereihre to cite and .i. .
and singular, those concerned, ti l e li
at my office within the time prercribA u
show cause, if any thee have *h, . ; U, t!
shoald not be granted. ’ 7 !s "l Ha
Given under my hand and u Eci»l .
this Nov: 2S, 1870. 1 rio..-,.
decl*30d
JAMES C. TAYLOR,Ordijj,,
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA, PoJlt County.
I HAVE APPLIED to the Ordinary oll ,
county fur leave to stll the real esuteV j
G Gibson, lute *»f s»id county, deceased t’* 1 *
the settlement of Und on which-sZliilS
r «>ded at the time of his death, two njw
of Cedar Town, containing about SOD ic .„ 5
said Ordinary will pass upon my !aiJ
lion at his regular court, on the first
January next.
, . . S. P. GIBBON, K*
decIw4 » Of Jamu ti uitsJa
Administrators Sale.
. Floyd conntv, Gt k
tween the legal hoars of rale, on theSm
day in January 1871 the following frr . iW "
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Sr. PrraaBi-RC, Nov. 39.
Government ia in rcce.pt of addresses from
all parts of the Empire, showing that the
loyalty of the people makes Russia unassaila
ble, and fearless of any hostile alliance.
Antwerp, Nov. 30.
French prisoners here mode an unsuccess
ful attempt to escape.
Nzw York, Nov. 30.
Cotton warehouse of Hopkins, Dwight and
Trowbridge A Co., burned—loss $85,000.
London. Nov. 30.
Lord Lyons is wanting a decision from the
Tours government as to the matter of sending
government Plenipotentiary to Conference in
London.
London, Nov. 5 r. u. 30.
Romored capitulation of Paris causes buoy
ancy in the market here.
San Francisco, Not. 30.
Rain throughout California yesterday
promises continuance. IleaTV snows in the
mountains.
Montgomery, Nov. 30.
Last night Capt. Drum', Commanding the
Post here, had the troops at the capital re
moved by order from Gen. Terry, command
ing department.
This a. m. Smith and Bingham have
Sheriffs possee of negroes guarding the Ex-
ecvtiye and Treasury rooms.
Nothing done in the Legislature.
New Yore, Not. 30.
Steamer Robert Lowe sailed from Hearts
Content on Saturday last, to repair Atlantic
Cable of 1866, which was injured about 65
miles from that point. We haTe just receiv
ed information that the cable of 1865 has
also ceased to work, and that fault is about
Uie same distance from Hearts Content. It
is therefore probable that the steamer has
grappled the wrong cable. As the steamer
is on the spot it is hoped that both cables
will soon be required, although the French
cable is able to transmit westward with about
it usual facility. It is from some unknown
cause unable to transmit eastward except
with great difficulty, and very slowly. No
tice is herebp given, that for the present mes
sages cannot be received from any part of
Europe. The public will Be'informed at the
earliest moment that messages can be receiv
ed for Europe. Signed
CYRUS W. FIELD.
Brussels, Not. 30.
Independent Beige announces that Eng
land has agreed to accept the proposed con
ference for the settlement ot the Eastern Dif
ficulty, provided Russia satisfactorily ex
plains Gortscbakofis note.
Raleigo, Not. 30.
Manning, Deni, beats Joe W. Holden for
the unexpired term in the forty-first Con
gress from this district by 436 majority.
Augusta. Nor. 30.
Complete trains rnnning through on sched
ale from Aagusta to Macon.
TELEGRAPHIC I {^RKET.
New York, Not. 30.
Cotton dull; sales 4,000 bales; up
lands 16}; flour; State-Western, superfine
4 90a 500; Southern dull; common to fair ex
tra 6 a6 64; wheat, winter red and amber-
Wcstern, I 41al 45; redand amber Southern
1 40; corn lower, 82; old 88; pork $22}:
lard heavy; steam 13: whisky dull
at 89a90}; groceries quiet firm; turpentine
45}; rosin doll at 1 95a2 00; tallow
heavy at 8}a9; freights very firm; cotton;
steam, } a 9 1-16; money 5; sterling low
er; 9} gold 10}all; governments firm;
Soatheras quiet and steady.
Liverpool, Not, 30.
Cotton steady; uplands 9}-} Orleans 9}-}
sales 12,000; speculation and export 2500.
Cincinnati, Not. 23.
Mess pork higher at; 23 00; lard quiet;
steam 11}; kettle 12; whisky 83.
Baltinore, Not. 30
Cotton closed easy; middlings 16}; flour firm,
pork firm at 923; shoulders 15}, whisky dull
at 90.
Augusta, Not. 30.
Cotton dull demand; closed lower;
sales, 918; receipts 1410; mids 14}-}.
Mobile, Not. 30.
Cotton dull; middlings 14}al5; sales 1500,
Bet receipts 2341; stock 55,338.
NewObleans, Not. 30.
Cotton steady; middlings 15}-}; sales
6850; net receipts 1025: coastwise 829; total
1864; export to Great Britain 365; stock, 109-
lt Th« Propriltora beg leATe lo auuaia RJ
they Are now In receipt ot their Ur|«
fall and winter goods
Savannah. Nor. 30.
Cotton—middling uplands 15}; sales
500; net reoeipto 4383_stock 77,584.
Boston, Not. 30.
, Cotton; sales 400; net receipts 60; coast
wise 176; stock 5600; middlings 16}-}.
Wiuisoton, Not. 30.
Cotton; net receipt* 767; stock 3042; mid
dlings 15}.
Charleston, Not, 30.
Cotton, middlings 15} sales 200; net re
ceipts 1373; stock 26^)11.
GaltssiOn, Not. 30.
Cotton; sales 750£net* receipts 2128; stock
27,496. 13}.
Noetolk. Not. 30. -
Cotton£sales.700; net receipts 1543;exportl
coastwise 580;' stock 6149 middling* 15.
A partuf city lots Noj. 14:! and 144
Ouosa Division of the city of Rome, Floydr.c.
tj, Gs., together with the improvemea-jiieM
consisting of four tenements fronting or C~t
Street. The same * ill be sold at the rut
recent purchaser, for the benefit of thj -m,
of J. C. Whitehead, deceased, the term*«f
late sale not having been complied with.
ot sale Cash.
JOHN J. WHITEHEAD.A
nt.vfilwtd.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
L perac
Philli
_A.LLj>ereons interested are notifird thu Mir I
the E. Phillips of said county, applies losela I
exemption ol homestead in’ lands ia If,,;', [
county, of said State, end for setting iptaes f
uer the law, personalty in the eonnty of I'to
tooga, where she resides. I will pin a pet fit
umnVnr«TnW77 1S711 etlAnVInaV . — I
eamn November 27,1S70, at 10 o’clock, 9. a
oct27 J. B. HILL, Ordimry,
Clover k Grass Seed.
W. D. HOYT & CO,
M avei
r en of
MADE ARRANGEMK5I3 vithSei
the West, for an ample topplj«? I
the Tarioas Grasi SerJ*
For this Market.
These Seeds will be sold for CASE 05LT* |
the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. Alee,
WHOLESALE AGENTS
I^FOR ALL KINDS OF GARDE* flllDH |
noT5tw3t-w3m*
GRAND OPENING |
OF THE
Star Clothing House
—AND—
DRY GOODS EMPORIUM,
Mo. 123, Broad St., Borne, Gt I
consisting in part of Drers Goods, Pi«s Gy I
Woolen Goods, Blanket?, Cloikf,
Hosiery, Kotiom, Ac., end xnsnj othirw^l
not enumerated. j
FURS! FUES!! FUB2I
The Ladies are especially invited “I
examine our Urge stock of FUR& wtoei ■
selected with great erre, direct from fiat hi
selected who treat, two, ** 0.1
which enables us to *eli loeer thin 9Ttr * |
in this market.
OUR STOCK OF
YOUTH’S
-AXD-
Jlfll MIBIT’I
is the largeet ever brought to this nuriari I
cannot be excelled in STYLE, I
PRICE. Our Mr. M. Rosenberg a is t-VTI
watching for bargains, which enables s I
yon greater bargains. yE fl «
Coods arriving every dav lua* 5 ,|
COME ALL to be STAB CLOTHISbMi" r
GOODS HOUSE, and make it J « I
" Don’t forget that wo are it John** * Jn * I
old stand. J<o. 1J3, Broad SL,
oc, 6 w3m RMPeCtfU MWsB E B^
Administrator’s Sal*
A GREEABLE to an order from
Ordinary of Polk County J*.
fore the Coart House door in tbt {S i»
Town, within the legil hour ? 1 **.»*&!&**?
first Tuesday in January .nai*
lots of lan3 as tho property ol v 417.^*
Springer Gibson, deceased, "tj-jicict 1 *)
485, 515, 518, 518 end 52S, m thelw^, pjj
4th soction- of origlnilly CberoM*
Salpositive unless iold befort ik* 1
vatei,. T '™\ 00D , Attm .ri^
novlOwtd.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
7b Vie Ordinary of
JLHE undersigned, ae Admori
bUfford late of said county,
plication for letters of dismusK® ,.tfW
if raid Samuel L. Stafford,** »•
miniitered the lime according 1 c
ore praye the uaual citation isao^^ i^a*’
he may obtain letter* of distal bid*
Samuel L. Stafford’, eetafcb ““ J oT P.* i *'
will ever orar. JASPER
GEORGIA, Flo to Covstt.
W HEREAS, Elkanah Ererelt .
Vicks, KteorwdgffSa
for letters of fid"
of Thomas C. Hicks, late
ed, applies tome for Ietl
“SsSrS. therefor, to
to .how cure if any they f>»«
to enow c»ura lr am, j -*0
should not be granted.^ jqhjjsoX,
GEORGIA, Floyd County- j
WHEREAS L.C.
tor exemption ^3, I * aI ,ST* ,,f
and Tsdaatioa 1 * 1 '’
and
same on the
office in Rome,
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