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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, ’«.rkov^. ’■>» ——c woTl^ i NO .-H-n.wSSi rpHE d HoSl«“ ui *Tb! r i‘‘2 1 in De Soto. . Th .?Z, 0 f IheRL jutytMwtt brouznt before the 0 ,,* 2s»a«bloo55» th: W ILL be sold before the Court How ’ in the city of Rome, Floyd coentr, Gs.fi. ■ 1 *» F 1 ed: <P cf: ( All rot- h re it c the thii Vis Ctf '; i lii ibai #f t * the Vat Ti,. £nt pl=t But f’i joui Clrc Eac Tori bou; : T fi-Ju i T v-T ktt liti gl(l i »atc Well Bad Per, for t I T & S whii 1 T ' Itt. Kle, lead