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The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING, Dec. 9.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
FOR CONGRESS
GEN. P. M. B. YOUNG.
OCR COUNTY NOMINEES.
FOE THE LEGISLATURE,
M. R. BALLENGER,
fl. A. GARTRELL.
FOE CLERK SUPERIOR COURT.
A. E. ROSS.
FOE COUNTY 'TREASURER.
£ JAMES T. MOORE.
FOR SHERIFF.
J. H. LUMKIN.
FOE COUNTY SURVEYOR
JAMES II. REYNOLDS.
FORjTAX COLLECTOR.
S. 0. TROUT.
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
K. W. BERRYMLL.
FOR CORONER.
U. PATILLO.
tiii; tariff.
Moro than one cause conspired to work
out the recent Democratic triumphs. The
partizan interference of the administration
in the State elections was one of these can3
os. The people were properl} indignant at
this unwarranted interference, or usurpa
tion rather, and moved hy this indignation
determined to rebuke the insolence. The
outrage of negro suffsage and negro equali
ty forced upon the States 1 y Congress was
another.
But the prime moving cause of the up
heaval of public sentiment may be found in
the fact that the people are becoming tired
of the excitement of hatred and of passion,
and are permitting their sober, s 'cond
thought to influence their judgments. This
return to sober reasoning is manifest in the
revival of the old questions that were be
fore the country ere the madness of radical
fanaticism took possession of the minds and
the hearts of the people.
The frenzy of fanaticism is giving place
to the discussion oi great questions of com
mercial and political economy.
The narrow views that had no broader
range than the limits of a soational bound
ary are being liberalized by the develop
ment of a policy that knows no State and
no section, but embraces in its sweep the
whole land.
The old question of free trado vs protec
tion, upon which statesmen from Maine and
from Louisiana could afford to think alike,
is again to become the question of the day.
And we are heartily glad to see these old
questions revived, for the surest way to for
get the bitterness of the war is to revive the
memories that preceded it.
It does one good to feel and think once
more injunison with such men as W C Bry
ant, with Dani. C Wells, Charles Francis
Adams and Horace White. To feel that the
dark days of trouble and of sorrow that saw
us divided,are to be forgotten, and that once
again we can strike hands in a common
cause against a common enemy.
And all these men are shaking off the op
pressive and bloody shackles of radicalism,
and uniting with the Democratic party in
its mission of usefulness and conservation.
The old love of justice to the great agri
cultural interest o! the nation is rekindling
in tueir hearts, and wi.h their potent voic
es raised against the outrages now heaped
upon them for the base purpose of fostering
the interest of a few manufacturers, we may
soon hope for a still greater triumph of Dem
oeratic principles.
And well for the nation is it that the pas
sions inflamed by the war are giving place
to other and more conservative feelings. A
few years m >ro of the outrages perpetrated
hy the party which so adroitly employs
these passions to disguise its selfish designs,
would have irretrievably ruined the nation
During all the time of the country’s trou
bles this party kept the one object of pro
tection steadily in view. While the Demo
cratic party so far forgot its party interest
in their zeal of its mistaken loyalty, the
radical leaders adhered to the tariff and du
ty, after duty was added, under the plea of
financial necessity, until at length all com
merce is destroyed—prices of domestic man
facturcs arc unbearable, and the country is
half ruined.
But as wo before said, tho sober, sccoud
thought is a-aiu begun to be entertained—
tho people are beginning to awaken to a
sunso of their condition. The farmer wants
to know why it is he has to pay such enor
mous prices for his iron, hi3 salt, his
shoes, his axes, his .hat, his sugar and his
coffee.
And somehow it is beginning to appear
to his mind, so long befuddled with loy
alty that all these high prices is not exact
ly right. That things were not as thay “used
to was,” and with this consciousness of a
wrong somewhere he is ready to listen to
nny ono who may trouble himself to tell
him where that wrong is.
And naturally enough he is being told.
His merchant tells him that the fault is not
his, that his profits are not extravagant, and
that ho has to pay the advance in the first
cost. This merchant inquires of tho impor
ter why it is so, and the importer lets the
cat out of the wallet by stating, as he has
to do, in self defence, that it is the t-iriff.
But says the merchant these hoes and
these spades are not imported, and you have
00 duty to pay on them. No, but the duty
on foreign hoes and spades gives the home
manufacturer a monopoly, and we have to
buy from them upon the best terms that
we can.
And thus it is with everything else, and
this is the great injustice to which the peo
ple all over the land are awakening, and
in this' awakening we see the hope of a bet
ter day for American prosperity.
. ^ Tf -with all our natural advantages for
manufacturing, manufacturers cannot afford
to manufacture goods and wares as
cheap, as they can be imported, then it is a
great piece of injustice to require the con-
earner to pay him more.
CHRONICLES OF GEORGIA.
CHAP. HI.
And it came to pass that after Rufus Be
humoth, suruamed the Bullock, the King
had assembled his chief servant, Foster,
who was also a Blodgett, and his fugleman,
George, who was likewise a Burnett, in
council.
2. And had been determined in council
that Amos, the Tinker, was to be greased,
to the end that he might devise some cun
ning trick of the law, whereby the evil day
of the election might be put off, that the
King spake unto his chief servant and his
fugleman.
3. And he said unto them Sec ye to it
that my raiment is prepared fm and bring
hither to me all the money that is iu the
Treasury, and I will put on clean attire,
and will go to the city of Washington,
where this man Amos, the Tinker, abides,
and have him to do this thing, namely, pat
eff the evi 1 day of the election
4. And then departed the Kings’ chief
servant, I ostor, who was also a Blodget,
from tho presence of the King to do as he
was commanded—namely, to bring unto the
Kiug all the gold and the silver and the
greenback that was iu the Treasury.
5. And the Kings’ fugleman, Georj
who was likewise a Burnett, also arose and
departed from the presence of the Kiug, to
provide clean raiment for the King.
C. And the Kings’ fugleman provided
for the King a clean suit of raiment, even
unto a clean pair of socks for the Kin;
that the King might appear decent in the
eyes of Ulysses, and in the eyes of Amos,
the Tinker.
7. But when the Kings’ chief servant,
Foster, who was also a Blodgett, came to
the Treasury box, where the gold and the
silver and the greenback was kept, to fetch
the same to the King, that the King might
have the wherewith to grease Amos, th
Tinker, and he opened the strong lid of the
box and looked therein.
S. And lo and behold, there was oo gold
—neither was there any silver, or any green
back therein—no nary red.
9. Then the chief servant of the Kini
when he saw that the box of the Treasury
was empty, was grieved and moved.
10. For the chief servant ot the Kin,
knew that without money to grease, the
King could not prevail upon Amos, tho
Tinker, to put off the evil day which his
master, the King, so much feared.
11. And he lifted up his voice unto him
self, and cried. Miserable scalawag that I
am, what shall I do foi the King.
12. And he went straight way to the
King, and when he again came into the
presence of the King, his countenance was
cast dowt)..
13. And the King saw by his counte
nance, beeiuse it was cast down, that some
evil matter had befallen him.
14. Aud the King spake unto him and
said, why art tbou so cast down, and why
hangest t’aine under lip so heavily.
15. And then Foster, who was also a
Blodgett, fell at the feet of the King, and
cried, Blame not thine unworthy servant,
oh, King, but there remaiueth no mouey in
the Treasury—neither cold, nor silver nor
greenback.
1C. And then was the King also troubled
and he answered and said, “The devil you
say.”
17. And this saying of the Kiag still
more oppressed the grief of his chief ser
vant, Foster, who was also a Blodgett.
IS. Then did the King turn unto his
fugleman, who had not yet gone out of his
presence from dressing the King, and the
King spake unto him aud said.
19. George, who art likewise a Burnett,
thou art a rascal after mine own heart—thy
roguery hath never yet failed me, what shall
I do?
20 And the fugleman of the King an
swered and said, What need ye of gold or of
silver or greenback—is not the credit of the
State all thinr wn.
21. And is not the credit of the State
good—inasmuch as the money changers
know that its borders are large, and its
lands are rich, and its people work hard and
live poor.
22. Takeycabox full of bonds, and
these ye can sell for the gold or the silver
or the greenback.
23. And then was the King again pleas
ed.
24. And he commanded his chief serv •
ant to ai ise from his feet and go at once and
grind out the bonds.
25. And straightway arose the chief ser
vant to the King, and went to the bond
mill to have the bonds ground out by the
hundreds aud tens of hundreds of thous
ands.
2G. Aud it came to pass that when the
bonds were ground out by the hundreds and
tens of hundrods of thousand!, that it was
the law that the same should be signed by
a certain scribe, named Angicr.
27. And this same scribe, whose name
was Angier, was of an honest nature, aud
a man of rectitude, and he had long ago re
pented him of his evil association with tho
King.
28. And when these same bonds
brought to him, that they might be signed
with the seal of bis office, then it was that
he woul 1 not sign the same.
29. And when the Kings’ chief servant
again approached the presence of the King,
and told the King that the scribe would
not sign the bonds.
30. Then it was that the Kiug war trou
bled again.
31. And the King’s fugleman again spake
unto the King, to console the King.
32. And he said unto tho King, Be not
troubled about this matter, sign the scribes
name fo the bond yourself.
33. But the King was still troubled, and
shook his his bead and said, “It it lawful to
do that thing."
34. Then answered the fugleman, saying
who cares a cuss for the law. Ait thou not
a King, and is it not lawful for a King todo
that which ssemeth good in his sight.
35. Aud are not the people all rebels and
ku-kluxes, aud have rebels aud ku-klnxes
any rights that a loyal King is bound to re-
ANOTHER RICHMOND IN TIIE FIELD
Mr Z. B. Hargrove is out in a three
quarter column of the Daily—d&wlt—
pronuuciamento, announcing himself aa a
candirate for the Legislature, and defines his
“posish.” ~Y
Now that this gentleman has popped his
head up as a target, we propose, from time
to time, to amuse ourselves by taking a few
cracks at it, although we must ackuwled;
that we hardly consider the game worth
the amunition.
Mr Hargrove opens his budget hy stat
ing that “I have consented to bcccme a can
didate for the Legislature, iu the election
soon to take place in Georgia.” Which con
sent must have cost the gentl man a great
sacrifice ot native modesty.
After an eloqueut trilute to the White
Winged Peace so fervently invoked by
Geu. Grant, and a caution against steppin;
into the bitter waters out of which we have
just emerged, and again stirring up all the
bitterness that he hopes is buried in the
past, ho establishes his party identity with
the following:
“I shall sustai the present State and
National Administration in all measures,
looking to the peace and security of our
common country, and in developing the vast
iesources of the same. I shall support lion
Geo. P. Burnett for Congress, because he
is our friend, and doing all in his power to
aid us iu this particular section. 1 believe
he is best suited for the position at this
time, and shall give him my warm sup
port.”
After this distinct enunciation, whatfol
lowed iu his declaration of faith was whol
ly unnecessary for tho man, who avows his
determination to support the present thiev
ish State administration, and to vote for
Geo. Burnett, can with no more truth claim
to be a Democrat than the devil can claim
to be a saint, and it requires the most un
blushing effrontery for any one to do so. And
this the people very well know, and this too
Mr. Hargrove aud Mr. Burnett must know.
If they choose to run with radicalism, they
are wolcome to do so, but they must not
claim to be Democrats.
The subterfuge is too shallow. They are
not Democrats—all their associations are
disgusting t > Democracy.
. The N- GA. Conference adjourned last
^Tuesday evening. Rev. Mr. Cook isTeap-
speet.
3G: Then was the King again pleased
with this saying of the fugleman.
37. Aud the King answered and said, I
will sign the scribes’ name to the bonds.
38, And the bonds were then brought to
the King, aud the King pat them in a box
and departed to the city of Washington that
ho might grease Amos, the Tinker.
THE PRESIDENTS’ MESSAGE-
We propose noticing some o: the most
important features of the President’s mes
sage, delivered in the Congress of the Uni
ted States, on last Monday—tho full text of
which is now before us.
After a very proper and appropriate ac
knowledgement of gratitude to Divine
Providence for the fruits of the season, and
immunity from all foreign complications,
the President says :
“In our midst comparative harmony has
been restored. It is to be regretted, how
ever, that a free exercise of the elective
franchise has, by violence and intimidation,
been denied to citizens—in exceptional
cases—in several of the States lately in re
bellion, and the verdict of the people has
thereby been reversed.”
And since the President is himself re
sponsible for this violence and intimidation,
he and his minion3 being the only ones who
resorted to or employed violence to control
the ballot and reverse the verdict of the
people, we are heartily glad that he does
regret it.
That stain of infamy will cling to the
memory of Grant and his administration as
long as that administration has a remciu
brance among men.
The States of Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas have been restored to representttion
in our national councils. Georgia, the on
ly State now without representation, may
confidently be expected to take her place
there also at the beginuing of the new
year, and then let us hope will be complet
ed the work of reconstruction.”
This, however, we suppose, will depend
upon the efficiency of Akcrmans’s election
swindling bil 1 , to defeat the Democratic
party, and to continue in power the thieves
and fools, wlio so truculently bow their
knees to him and his creatures.
Two lengthy sections are devoted to the
France-Prussian war, and to Cuba, when
he takes up his pet speculation, the San-
Domingo job, in which lie hat a considera
ble “personal” interest.
During the last session of Congress a
treaty for the annexation of the Republic
of San Domingo to the United States fail
ed to receive the requisite two thirds vote
of the Senate. I was thoroughly convinc
ed then that the best interests of this coun
try, commercially and materially, demand
ed its ratification. Time has only confirm,
ed me in this view. I now firmly believe
that the moment it is known, that the Uni
ted States have entirely abandoned the
project of accepting, as a pait of its territo-
ty, the island of San Domingo, a free port
will be negotiated for European nations in
the Bay of Samana.
A large commercial city will spring up
to which we will be tributary without re
ceiving corresponding benefits, and then
will be seen the folly of our rejecting so
great a prize. The Government of Sau
Domingo has voluntarily sought this annex
ation. It is a weak power numberiog prob
ably Ies3 than one hundred and twenty
thousand souls, aud yet, possessing one of
the richest territories under the sun, capa
ble ofsupporting a population of ten millions
of people iu luxury.
The people of San DomiDgo are not ca
pable of maintaining themselves in their
wore present condition,aud must look for outside
support. They yearn for tho protection of
our free institutions and laws : our prog
ress and civilization. Shall wa refuse
them ? The acquisition of San Domingo
is desirable, because of its geographical po.
sition. It commands the entrance to the
Caribbean Sea, and is the Isthmus transit
of commerce. It possesses the richest soil,
best and most capacious harbors, most sa
lubrious climate,and ' be most valuable pro
ducts oi the forest, mines and soil, of any of
tbe West India Islands.
Its possession by the United States will,
in a few years, bulid up a coastwise com
merce of immense magnitude, which will
go far towards restoring to us our lost mer
chant marine.
It will give to us those articles which we
consume so largely and do not produce,thus
equalizing our exports aud imports. In
case of a foreign war, it will give us com
maud of all tho Islands referred to, and
thus prevent an enemy from ever again pos
sessing himself of a rendezvous upon our
very coast.
At present, our coast trade between the
States bordering on the Atlantic and those
bordering on tho Gulf of Mexico, is out in
two by the Bahamas and the Antiles.—
Twice, we must, as -it were, pass through
foreign countries to get by sea from Georgia
to the West coast of Florida. Sau Domin
go, with a stable government under which
her immeuse resources caq be developed,
will give remunerative wages to tens of
thousands of laborers not now upon tbe is
land.
This labor will take advantage of every
available means of transportation to abandon
the adjacent islands, and seek tho blessings
Porto Rieo ard Cuba wiJ have to abolish
slavery as a measure of self-preservation to
retain their laborers. San Domingo will
become a large consumer of the products of
Northern farms and manufactories.
The cheap rate at which her citizens can
be furnished with food, tools and machin
ery, will make it necessary t hat contiguous
islands should have the same advantages,
in order to compete in the production of
sugar, coffee, tobacco, tropical fruits, etc, —
This will open to us a still wider market
for our products. The production of our
supply of these articles will cut off more
than one hundred millions oi our imports,
besides largely increasing our exports.
With such a picture,it is easy to see how
our large debt abroad is ultimately to be
extinguished. With a balance of trade
against us, iucluding interest on bonds held
by foreigners, and money spent by our citi
zens traveling in foreign lands equal to the
entire yield of the precious medals in this
country, it is not so easy to see how this re
sult is to be otherwise accomplished.
The acquisition of San Domingo is an
adherence to the Monroe doctrine. . It is a
measure of national protection; it is as
serting our just claim to a controlling in
fluence in the great commercial traffic soon
to flow from west to east,by way of the Isth
mus of Darien; it is to build np our mer
chant marine; it is to furnish new markets
for the products of our tnrms, shops and
manufactories; it is to make slavery insup
portable in Cuba and Porto Rico at once,
and ultimately so in Brazil; it is to settle
the unhappy condition of Cuba, and^gnd
an exterminating conflict; it is to provide
honest means of paying our honest debts
without over tnxiug the people ; it is to fur
nish our citizens with the accessaries of ev
ery day life, at cheaper rates than ever be
fore; and it is, in fine;i rapid stride towards
that greatness which tne intelligence,indus.
try and enterprise of the citizens of the
United States entitle this country to assume
among the nations.
Iu view of tho importance of the quns-
tiou, I earnestly urge upon Congress early
action, expressivCof its views as to the best
means of acquiring San Domingo. My sug
gestion is that, by joint resolution of the
two Houses of Congress, the executive be
authori cd to appoint a commission to ne
gotiate a treaty with the authorities of San
Domingo, for the acquisition of that island,
and that an appropriation be made to dc.
fray tho expenses of such commis
sion.
The question may then be determindd
either by the action of the Senate upon
the treaty, oa by the joint action of the
two Houses of Congress upon a resolution
of annexation, as in the case of the acquisi
tion of Texas.
So convinced am I of the advantages to
flow from the acquisition of San Domingo
and of the great disadvantages—I might
almost say calamities—to flow from non
acquisition, that I believe the subject has
only to be investigated to be approv
ed.
The Mexican Libra Zona—Free Zone—
claims a short paragraph; also the extradi
tion treaty with Central America. The
claims against Vanvuille, and the Chinese
massa ere are referred to briefly, and then
the President stands aside and lets old spoo
ny Buticr speak on the Alabama claims,
and the codfislicrs quarrels with the Blue
noses.
Here is what the Bang Fizzle has to
say :
“I regret to say no eonclusiou has been
reached for tho adjustment of the claims
against Great Britain, growing out of the
course adopted by the government during
the rebellion. The cabinet of London, so
far as its views have been expressed, does
not appear to concede that her Majesty’s
government was guilty of any uegligeDCe,
or did or pcimitted any act during the war
by which the United States has just cause
of complaint. Our firm and and unaltera
ble convictions are directly the reverse. I
therefore, recommend to Congress to au
thorize the appointment of a commission to
take proof of tbe amounts and the owner
ship of these several claims, on notice to
the representatives of Her Majesty at Wash
ington, ana that authority be given for the
settlement of these claims by the United
States—so that the government may have
the ownership of the private claims, as well
as the responsible control of all the demands
against G re .t Britain. It cannot be nec
cssary to add that whenever Her Majesty’s
government shall entertain a desire for a
full and friendly adjustment of these claims
the United States will enter upon their
consideration with au earnest desire for a
conclusion consistent with the honor and
dignity of both nations.
The course pursued by the Canadian au
thorities towards the fishermen of the 'Uni
ted States, during the past Eeason, has not
been marked by a friendly feeling. By the
first article of the convention of 1818, be
tween Great Britain and the United States
it was agreed that the inhabitants of the
United States should have forever, in com
mon with Great Britain subjects, the right
of taking fish in certain waters therein de
fined. In the waters not included in the
construction of the convention of 1818, it
cannot bo acquiesced in by the 'United
StaftHkg It Is hoped th&tit-will -naCbe in
sisted on by Her Majesty's; govetjfraent—
During the conferences which preceded the
negotiation of the convention of ISIS, the
British commissioners proposed to express
ly exclude the fishermen of the United
States from the privileges of carrying on
the trade with any of His Brittanic Maj
esty’s subjects residing. within the limits
assigned for their use; and also that it
shonld not be lawful for the vessels of the
United States, engaged in said fishery, to
have on board any goods, wares or mer
chandise whatever, except each as maybe
necessary for the prosecution of their voy
age to and from the said fishing grounds;
and any vessel of the United States wbieh
shall contravene this regulation may beseiz
ed, condemned and confissated, with, her
cargo. ... :
This proposition, which is identical with
the constrncsion now pat upon the len-
goage of tbe convention, was emphatically
repudiated by the American commissiot.-
ers, and therenpon was abandoned by the
British plenipotentiaries, and article first,
as it stands in the convention, was substi
tuted. . ,
If, however, it be said that this claim is
founded on provisional or colonial statutes,
and not upon the convention, this govern
meat cannot but regard them as uofriendly
aud in contravention of the spirit, if nut
of the letter, of the treaty for the faithful
execution of which the Imperial govern
ment u alone responsible.
Anticipating that an attempt may possi
bly be made by--the- Canadian authorities
in the coming season to repeat their un-
neighborly acts towards our fishermen, I
recommend you to confer upon the Execu
tive the power to suspend by proclamation
the operation of the laws authorizing the
transit of wares and merchandise in bond,
across the territory of the United States to
Canada; and, further, should each an ex
treme measure become’ necessary, to sus
pend the operation of any laws whereby the
vessels of the dominion of Canada arc per
mitted to cuter the waters of the United
States.
We regret that we have not the space io
give more of the message to-day. We shall
however, continue it it in onr next.
withdrawn at 22 10; 1 yoke oxeu (com;
mon) 35 00; 12. good 2-year old mules $110
Sold at Edwhrd Elmore’s sale, in Madi
son, on the 15th inst: Horses from 50 00
to 90 00; mule colts (second rate) 56 00;
good oxen 1 90; medium cows 25 00 to
60 00;; short yearling cattle 47 00; calves,
mixed lot, 23 00; fat hogs 17 00 per head
shoats 4 55; per head; corn 2 00 to 2 20
per barrel in the field.
L E Brown, of Eminence, has lately
sold 2 Imported Berkshire sow pigs, one 4
months and tbe other 5 months old, and
one-half interest in the im r jrted Berkshire
boar pig “Grand Dnke,” 4 months old, to
Newton Bright, of Shelby county, for $125
Mitchell & Williams, of Harrodsbnrg,
bought his imported boar pig “John Mor
gan” 5 months old; for 50 00.
Samnel H Shonse, of Woodford connty,
weighed 50 hogs of his own raising that
averaged 393 pounds; 25 of the largest av
eraged 436 ponnds. The largest hog
weighed 543 pounds; the smallest 326 lbs.
Their ages ranged from sixteen to 13 months
old. A majority of them were 16 mouths
old. They were the Irish Grazier stock,
with a cross of the Woburn, and a cross of
the Berkshire. This lot was sold to Ja
cob IIo.sU.tter about one mouth since, and
driven to Lexington and butchered.
REMEMBER THE ELECTION—IT IS
THREE DAYS.
Dec.’20tli. 21st and 22d.
Let no Democrat fail to vote. In Floyd
county the polls will only be opened at Rome
and Cave Spring; in Polk at Van Wert and
Cedartown; in Chattooga at Summerville,
Trion Factory and. Subligna.
Printed tickets will be furnished at this
office at $4 00 per 1,000. Send cash with or
ders. * ’ c >'■
Gen. Youngs’ Appointments.—Gen
P. M. B. Young, the Democratic nominee
for Congress for this district, will speak as
follows:
At Summerville, Saturday, Dee.
Lafayette, Tuesday, “
Vanwert, Thursday, “
Buchanan, Friday, '!
Maj. J T Burns, .the gallant Senator
from this District, will accompany General
Young, at the above appointments. These
gentleman have some startling disclosures
to make, and we hope the people will tmn
out eu masse to hear them.
16
Aelasta Municipal Election—Negro
Riot.—By a telegram received here yester
day afternoon, we learn that for riotous con
duct about the polls, tho police arrested and
put in the Callaboosc some sixty negroes. A
negro mob undertook to release them. The
police fired into the mob, killing four negroes
and wounding sixteen-more. One white man
was badly cut We will probably get the
result of the election before going to press,
and perhaps further particulars.
limits named in the convention, within
miles of parts of the British coast, it has
been the custom for many years to give to
intruding fishermen of the United States a
reasonable warning of their violation of the
technical rights of Great Britain.
The Imperial Government is understood
to have delegated the whole or a share of
its jurisdiction or control of these in-shore
fishing grounds to the colonial authority,
known as the dominion of Canada, and this
semi-independent, but irresponsible agent,
has exercised its delegated powers in an un
friendly way. Vessels have been seized
without notice or warning, in violation of
the custom previously prevailing, and have
been taken intojthe colonial ports—[That
is to say have been caught poach
ing, and withous saying “git out of my
premises” hava been arrested and compell
ed to give np their booty.] their
voyage broken up and the vessels oon
demned. There is reason to believe that
this unfriendly and vexations treatment was
designed to bear harshly upon the hardy
fishermen of the United States with a view
to political effect upon this government,
The statutes of the dominion of Canada
assume a still broader and more untenable
jurisdiction over the vessels of the United
States. They authorize officers or persons
to bring vessels hovering within three ma
rine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks
or 1 arbors of Canada into port—to search
the cargo—to examine the master on oath,
touching the cargo and voyage, and to in
flict upon him a heavy pecuniary penalty,
if true answers are not given; and if such a
vessel is found preparing to fish within 3
marine miles of any of such coasts, bays
creeks, or harbors, without a license, or aft
ter the expiration of the period named in
the last license granted it, they provide
that the vessel, with her tackle, etc., shall
be forfeited.
It is net known that any condemnations
have been made under this statute Should
the authorities pf Canada attempt to en
force it, it will become my’Suty to take such
steps ns may bo necessary to protect the
rights of the citizens of the United States.
It has been claimed by Her Majestys’
officers that tho fishing vessels of the Unit
ed States have no right to enter the open
ports of tbe British possessions, in North
America, except for tho purposes of .shel
ter and repairing damages, of purchasing
wood and obtaining water, and that • they
must depart within twenty-loor hours after
notice to leave.
It is not known that any seizure of a
fishing vessel, carrying the flog of the Uni
KENTUCKY STOCK NEWS.
Rowland & Frisby, of Cyjthiaua, sold
their fine saddle horse, “Dick” to a gentle
man from New York for 400 00.
Harry Lampton, near Sonora, has % sow,
five or six years old, that has raised for him
a thousand dollars worth of pigs.
At A Morrows’ sale fat hogs brought
5 55 per head; shoats 4 cents; corn 1 20
per shock; 1 horse 161 00; cow 42 00, and
calf 27 25.
Roy Stewart, of Lincoln, sold a let of
hogs a few days ago, 18 months old, aver
age 449 pounds—oue of them weighed 800
pounds.
Mules 151 hands high, arc selling in
Georgia at 165 00 to 175 00—less than
they bring at home. Georgia is fall of males
and horses.
Matt Carry: o! Mercer, has just deliver
ed to Smith Alford, of Woodford, seventy
moles which he sold to him last fall at 170
per head.
Joe Weisigor, of Garrard, sold to E II
Burnside, on the I9tb inst., 55 head of 2
year old eattle, averaging 1,150 pounds, at
6} cents der pound.
In Paris, a few dayssioee, Eastern par
ties made an offer of $5,000 oash for J oo.
M Clays’ fine filly, Sance Box, by Star Da
vis, dam Skedaddle, which was refused.
J M McCormick, of Montgomery, sold
to E N McCormick 22 hogs of his own
raising that averaged 4231 lbs—14 of
which were 16 months old, and 8 and 12
months old.
Court day in Danville, a few sales of
hogs were made at 5} cents; 15 2-year old
cattle 46 90; 6 head of do 65 00; 30 head
of 3-year old .brush cattle 52 75; 1 horse
121 25; 1 do 46 25; 1 do 100 00.
John C H Dean, of Mercer, sold the oth
er day a let of 36 hogs—25 were fourteen
months old and the rest were trine months
old. The average age was eleven months
and a half, and the avera >e weight was 426
ponnds.
Stock shipments from Paris (or tlio week
ending Nov. 5. aggregated 102 cur loads,
as follows: 56 cars of eattle; 80 do hogs;
11 do mules; 6 do sheep—being the largest
shipment ever made from Paris in one
week: -• o' - - i
Tho yearling colt that made the 'extra
ordinary fast time at Dexington, a lew days
ago, was out of the dam of Sumter Den-
mark, the celebrated saddle stallion of W
W Goddard, of Mercer.
The following sales were made last court
day in Mason county : l.bay horse 100 00
1 brown mare 120 00;.l sorrol horse 8110;
1 gray maro 85 00; 1 old mate 20 00; 4
small yearling mnles 258 00. Plenty stock
on the market, bnt few buyers.
At the sale of Mrs. Baxter, in Casey
connty, fat hogs brought 7i courq -broad
mares from 40 00 to 100 00; caws (com
mon) 40 0(Tto45 00; corn in the field
2 50; oats -2 50 per hundred; I lot of good
sheep 3 00 per head; 1 yoke oxen (good)
14$ 00; 1 yoke oxen (common) 50 00;
commoD calves 13 00.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.
Rome, (Ca.) and its Surroundings.
Rome, Ga., November 26. 1870.
Mr. Editor Leaving Augusta o
Tuesday morning list, I arrived here at
midnght, the time consumed inclnd-
iugordinary stoppages,being about seventeen
hours.
AEort of general ides based upon uufin
ished reports and statistics, had impressed
me favorably with Rime and its adjacen
cies, and awakened a cariosity to come and
form my own estimate, of its claims to con
sideration on the part of men of practical
intelligence, energy and capital. Disclaim
ing to be a prophet, or the son of ODe,
I yet unhesitatingly predict for this portion
of the Ttate a rapidity of development, pro
gressed wealth, such as can scarce be hop
ed for any other, the reasons for which
are too patent and apparent to admit ot
question, and point clearly to this becom
ing, at no distant day the Pittsburg of tho
South.
Contiguous to the carboniferous forma
tion, it commands an inexhaustible field of
iron ore,the quality of which for all leading
purposes is very superior, while the bitumi
nous coal beds soon to be intersected by
the projected railroad heDce to Decatur,
Ala., will afford full availability of those
essentially important elements of nati nal
wealth. Referring to the concise and em
inently practical report of Col. C. M. Pen
nington, chief engineer of the above mention
ed road, I quote as follows:
“The mineral wealth distributed along
the route is deserving of particular atten
tion.
Iron ore is found soon after leaving Rome;
next comes the rich fossilifcrous ore at
Cornwall and Round Mountain, the beds
of which yield in unlimited quantitiesjthen
follows the bituminous coalof Lookout Moun
tain, lying in a lap of sand stone of an ex
cellent character for building purposes and
for furnace hearths.
Brown’s and Big Spring Valleys show
the sandstone and limestone, and a careful
search woul doabtlcss reveal the iron ore
as is found in Will’s Valley and the Chat
tooga Valley.
Forty-two miles of the line lies over coal
deposits, as follows: Savon miles on Look
out Mountain, tweaty-two on Sand Moun
tain,aud thirteen ou the Second Sand Moan-
tain.
These beds of coal are brought fifty-five
miles nearer Altanta and the Southeast
than any other, and in connection with the
iron ore^nd business seising from the work
ing of both, will alone furnish a supporting
traffic.
Notwithstanding tho prostrated condition
in wbich the war left this, in common with
other portions of the Soutb, an apprecia
tion of the mineral wealth as rapidly as
control of capital will admit, is being dem-
strated and proving successful, as instanced
by the furnaces at Cornwall, iEtna Iron
Works, and the Round Mountain, the roll
ing mill and nail factory, and the foundry
of Messrs. Noble & McCulloch, the two last
named in this city. The capacity of
loth is being extended as fast as practice
blc.
Situated between the Oostanaula and
Etowah rivers, the junction of which forms
the Coosa, with ample elevation in rear of
the peninsula on the toa of which the city
rests. An abundant supply of water can
be secured at unimportant cost, and tbe
City Fathers are now advertising for
proposals for the construction of water
works.
The above named rivers are fringed with
lands which will compare well, in point of
yield, with the Mississippi and Ohio Valley
country, as applies to cotton, all the cereals
and grasses. Clover here attains as great
luxuriance as in the bine grass country of
Kentucky.
As regards the absence of extreme de
grees of heat and cold, good water and sa
lubrious climate, I feel confident that Rome
and'its surroundings will contrast favora
bly with any portion of the United
States.
A fall development of its mineral re
sources will call for. a large manufacturin'
and mechanical population, while the fer
tile soil will readily afford ample supplies of
provisions
Contemplating the foregoing facta, and
noting Ihe very extensive area naturally
tributary to it, the limited population oc
casioned mo snrprise that was only quali
fied by a consideration of the interferences
which the war and the impoverishment of
nearly every one had presented ; yet, whilo
the population of the town and the suourbs
does not exceed 4,000, or 5,000, there is a
vastly greater amount of improvement here
than in Augusta.
Quite a number of brick buildings, for
business purposes, are being erected, wLile
residences are in coarse of construction in
almost every direction.
Streets are now being macadamized,- and,
in fact, everything denotes thrift,enterprise
and progress.
There ase several flouring mills in and
aroand tbe town, which obtain supplies of
wheat irem the immediate neighborhood.
The yield of that cereal to the acre is very
large, aud in excess of the average from
any other grain-growing portion of the
State.
The Library and Historio Association,
an incorporated company with a capital of
$9,000, is now erecting a brick structure,
which will be a very creditable building
and reflect gratifyingly on the fonn lets of
an institution designed to promote literary
culture. ' ■ '
The Library will be supplied witn well
selected books, and with the news room at.
tached, containg all tbe leading papers of
the day.
As pertains to already established and
contemplated railroad connections, I will
ive yon the particulars in my next.—
hey, togethor with the proper development
of its natural advantages, even in the ab
sence of an appreciation of its being the
centre of an inexhaustible mineral region,
will' give to Rome a commercial importance
Sherman’s Campaign In Northern Georgia,
His Finns against Johnston.
We extract as follows from the speech
of General W. T. Sherman at the recent
anniversary gathering of the army of the
Combqriand at. Cleveland, Ohio, as publish
ed in tbe Herald of that place:
“I well remember that morning in May,
when over the telegraph was flashed to ms
the order for the army to move. We ad
vanced in three armies, bearing direeily
down upon Joe Johnston, at Dalton. We
all remember when we first saw upon those
bills tbe first bine puff of smoke from tbe
rifles of the skirmishers, followed by the
boom of the cannon, which told that the
battle bad began.- From that time till the
Ia3tgnn of tbe campaign was fired; one
hundred and nineteen days, it was one un
ceasing battle. Not only was the crack of
the rifle onr rcvillee, bnt the sotmd-of the
canDon in the distanco soothed -ns to sleep
at night, and when the sound was hashed
we awoke from Bleep. Sc long-as the firing
of tho pickets told ns.that they were awake
we were secure, bnt when all was quiet we
felt disturbed and anxious. I wish I .had
time, and it were appropriate for me, to
follow in detail she movements of those
armies throughout the .whole of that devi
ons canq-aqn, over mountain*. acro.s
Court day sales at Standford, 1 cow (com and population many fold in excess of what
------ . ... . — it now enjoys. Yours,
streams, aud through those dense woods
and thickets. 1 have only time on this oc
casion to give you a few points, bnt before
I proceed further I want to thank you for
jour silence aDd attention.
It was my hope and desire to crush the
army of Johnston by a tingle blow, and
while you i f the Army of the Cumberland
were climbing the rough sides of Rocky
Face, I knoe, what yon did not, that a
brave and well appointed army was moving
to the right upon a far more important line
than that you occupied. I listened anx
iously for the boom of the guns of Mc-
Phets-ju, who had moved through Soaks
Creek Gap and was advancing on Resaca.
When the welcom - sound came to tuy cars
I thought Joe Johuston was my victim,
bat my plan was not entirely successful,
Then all the armies passed down through
Snake Creek Gap, like a stream of lava
from a volcano, upon Resaca. Here I came
within an ace of accomplishing my pur-
pose. Johnst in only escaping by a few
minntes, as I have had it from the lips of
Johnston himself since the war. Then we
moved down the valleys to Cassvilie, where
I supposed Johnston wocld fight. He has
told me since the war, and shown me a copy
of hi; order to that effect, that he intend
ed to give battle oa tbe range of hills be
low Cas-ville. He said that he bad been
ont all day, and at night, when worn and
weary, Hood asked him to snpper. The
subject of the coming battle was discussed,
and Hood told him that h>s lines were en
filaded, Johnston told him that it was im
possible, but Hood reiterated the state
ment, and Johnston could not go into bat*
tie when one of the most trusty corps com
manders was dissatisfied. Tbe next morn
ing, when I bad expected to commence the
decisive battle of the campaign, I found
the enemy’s position vacant.
Twenty years ago, when a lieutenant of
artillery. I passed on horseback tbrougb
Altoona Ga, I knew the place and its ad
vantages for defence, and I surely thought
Johnston would make a stand there. I was
not a little surprised that be did not, and
we had no choice but to push on, for we
would be satisfied ODly with victory. Be
low Altoona we met Johnston at New Hope
Chnrch—that “hell-hole,” rightly named.
The trees there yet bear the marks of that
couflict, torn and sundered as if by light
ning. The hardest fighting of the cam
paign was during the few days we confront
ed Johnston at that point. There was no
clear ground; it was all a dense thicket,
and none of ns will soon f rget the fearful
boom aod crack of those bloody days. We
pressed on and at length reached the rail
road. Then the heavy rains came on, and
at length, with the soldiers almost stripped
and so dirty that one could scarce tell what
color they were, we arrived at Kenesaw.
The war became more interesting. We
all remember that assault and deplore the
loss, but aueh is war.
But one day I saw in the early morning,
with my telescope, the bine coats clamber
ing up the side of the mountain. Eagerly
I watched them, and at length I saw a man
creep to the summit, peep over for au in-
slrnt, aud then wave bis baud to bis com
rades, as if saying, “come on, boys!” I
could almost hear his his voice, although I
was four miles away, and I knew the enemy
had gone.
The General went on to narrate the pres
sing of the rebel army across the Chatta
hoochee, on the banks of wbich they speet
the Fourth of July. The rebels supposed
he wonld stop there, bnt he did not—he
war bound to go. He detailed briefly the
crossing of the Chattahoochee; the flank
movement of Schofield to Stone mountain;
the battle of Peach 'T'Tpi Creek, which
Hooker would always ' OJmbea; the clos
ing in of the lines aroudn the fated city of
Atlanta; the fierce attacks of Hood, whose
army was hurried back with frightful alangh
ter; the grand flank movement after the
weeks’ siege below Atlanta, resulting in its
evacuation, and gave a summing np of the
results of the campaign, which was in fact,
a continuous battle for 119 dyas.
w * n. Jones.
NEW FIBM AND jjfEW r
*u»„,
Jones & Alima-
Emm™ Bl aB '
Broad Street, R ome , (J* 5
DEALERS in
osejt inducements
Offered to Cash Purchase*,
CALL AND EXAMISe 18,
Goods and Prices
^.d.withn.D^.,,, *
NOTICE!? "
Agricultural Fair Association!
The i
o t*> r«ve:vv tbe rejM.rt of f,, . y ' M
the; pent »,ur, unit «le,-i Direct™
Directors wi-l m«t
a. 10 ..VL„:k a ,i„c „ p Ms,
Since the lest Fair, there hai h,,„
from ilie Exhibition Hull, a mijia,™ .®T ,JL W
[Soldier Man) all hail work. wTrluJ*"^
except to the
paid ?«*r it: recovery
By order or the P:
r '»«dVijJh
ident,
docStwlw B ’ F ’ *«*M*fc
.PS-Commercial an.I Daily copy l
NOTICE.
. VL , AlfT some four or fire Fimili.. ,
in Trion Factory; want etch family t,
or more grown girls and son,. girl)
f ™ wn '.,. St * uJ Y H0rk and good wages
11Fam,lna mint be of good moral charLto I-I
make application m peraoa or by letter
Trion Factory, this Dec. 5,1870. 3
decSw-lt MARSH A ALGOOp.
Floyd Sheriff Sales for Jan.
W ILL be sold before the Court How*,
m Rome, within the legal hoursof*
m JaD - **<=*>. the followin-prej.
erty to wit:
All of lot No. 254. in the 21od diatrirrejo
section, of now Floyd county, extent
. , Floyd county, except I2ro.ii,
west aido lo Spring Creek, making
aonth hue: alao, 12 rodo off 255. same to
and section, on north lino east of aoid credo
mg 8 acres moro or leo>; alio 35 rods cto
aidoot 288 and 28T in same district, malls, „
all of the settlement 300 acres supiosei■ ,v
one gin, one Thrasher, one inammootb Fau ci
Inciting; levied on as the property of P JL Lvrr
by virtue of 3 fi faa trom Floyd Superior car?
one m faror of A P WVvdruff, ris t „M
ant, and other fi faa in my hand*
decS J.H. LUMPKIN, Shi.
Floyd Mortgage Sale for Feb’y.
XYTILL bo sold to tho highest bidder beLrr
IT the court house door, in Rome, Fieri Ce,
Ga-, on tho first Tuesday in February ten i*
tween the usual hours of sale, the fbllowiar
property, to wit; 1
Lot of land No. 23, in the 22nd district tad 34
section, of now Floyd county, levied on bjiia
tueof a mortgage fi fa. in faror of Wsihi-K.
Arnold ts Alfred J. Stewart from Floyd Sapcriw
J. H. LUMPKIF.ShI
$95,000 in. Prizes.
$19,000 Premiums.
ONE P0B EACH SHABEHOLDEI
Great Premium Land Sale i
Valuable Property.
Tn calling attention to the great Premise Lcl |
The London Money Market.
The London Economist, of Nov. 12, bas
the following remarks on the London mon
ey market:
There appears to be, for the moments
supply of money in excesstof demand. De
posits are accumulating, became of the pre
vailing suspense, people not being disposed
to invest till affairs become steadier, which
is generally not evpected to he the case un
til peace is actually made. On the other
hand, though tbe market is for tbe moment
weak, it is considered probable that, wheth
er there is peace soon, or a long continuance
of the war, rates for money cannot remain
long so low as they are. The be'igerent
governments mast eontinao their borrow
ings, though the ramors of both Prussian
and French loans in this market; which are
verp currrent in the city to-day, may not be
immediately confirmed.
To some extent too the demands of pri
vate French boirewcrs,- iucluding the (de
partments and municipolities, are being fcl
in the market, and will probably be more
felt, as the present exhaustion of French
reionrees continues. Trade moreover is
sound, and the strength of the trade de
mand in the country will tend in the same
direction. The immediate coarse of the
market is somewhat difficult to preiict, but
it can hardly be doubted what it general
course will be for some time to come.
The Bible RevUIon in England.
The re-isersof the New Testament in
England have just finished their, fourth ses
sion. The Pall Mall Gazette says : We
arc assured that the interest in the work
is increasing with each meetiog, and the
progress snen that there is. now every rea
son to believe it will be completed within a
reasonable time. There is, however, a clear
intention on the part of the revisers to do
their work thoroughly, and to subject it
when dose to a careful reconsideration,—
No attention, therefore, onght to he paid to
s irts of what may have been understood
to‘have been decided on. Nothing will te
really settled till the second and final revi]
eion. The attendance of members is Oood.
Gabel, tbe famous gens d’armo of “Gene
vieve de Brabant,” was reported to hare
been killed at th storming of Sedan. At
the commencement'of hostilities he joined
the regiment to which he was originally at
tached before going to the stage. His per
formance o! Pito was one of the 'character
istic successes oi opera bonffe in Paris and
f estJ
other proptftr.ii I
Aiken, S. C., wo Sesiro to direct special atttt'i* I
to the fact that every purchaser of & ticket pr:- I
cures & splendid engraving or a beautiful Chroma \
fully worth tho price paid for the ticket I
We have examined these picture^ md hi I
them really beautiful and valuable worh * I
art. The large steel engravings, “The Sfirrup I
of Pocahontas” and “Tbe Landing of Columbia,’ |
and the beautiful Chromo, “An America i! I
tumn,” will be beautiful and ftttmtiTC oru-1
meats fhr any gentleman's pxrlor, and *eid«» I
all our readers who desire to procure such pi- J
tares, to apply at on:e to tbe general I
Mr. J. C. Derby. . 1
But tbe features of this enterprise, I
it peculiar value, is the distribution 50025 ta 1
ticket holders of the valuable rwl estite in Aim I
known as the Derby Fruit Farm. Thi3 is d«* I
edly the most valuable and attractive prop®v I
in the South. The property comprises sbontw- ■
en hundred acres of desirable fanning I
and near the village of Aiken, and is dinwi
into ninety-four lots, villa sites »nd feras. I
This is no bogus concern. Mr. C- ^ I
the general manager, is well and
known throughout the United States uu
riencod and successful book publisher a ■
York. For more than two years be bn b*jv
resident of Aiken, and for the past twelves^ ■
has been at the head of a large publish! I
in this city. We hare known him long I
and feel no hesitation in saying that h« I
not be connected with any ente/priss vm*? I
not entirely meritorious, and we re quite pv I
that all who onrebase tickets in tui I
dent that all who purchase tickets ii
land sale will be fully compensated w»
amount invested. . ^ .
The drawing will be so arranged as lo *^r I
tho utmost fairness in the distnuoum«. I
prizes, and each ticket bolder I
that his interests will be fully and |
ed.—Augusta Chronicle, November20W-
Alphabet for the People-
A’ikin Premium Land Sale. _
Blsureand take advantage of it
C ountry Homes, Farms, Villa Sites.
Distributed ameng shareholders.
E;very one remitting Five Dolls* 3 I
| Shareholder. .
F;or every Share yon receive a xrt®
G rent opportunity for
H'omefl, Health, Happiness. I
I mproved Plantations, Farm*, Co |
ust the place to avoid k UD 5 411
diseases.
nown os the Southern Saratoga
00k into the matter.
ake your Fortune. . p
inety-fivc Thousand Dollars m x
rchards, Vineyards,
lan tat ions, farms, Country Horn .
uantities of Peaches, Grape*; 4C -
ViHit
It 'arc opp
portunity to
S eo What Fii o Dollars will do.
rj it!
will not regret it.
will not rogret it. A
1 ilia Sites, Country Homes, Fortan*
ithin the reach of all.
crcisc your own Judginent )
ouare sure to get a Premium on
a proof see tho td* L
cal with wbieh shares are n0 . I
Yon will be convinced that wM |
says is true, that:
is a tide in tno r jrW 86 »
•Taken at the flood, leads on to »
Address for particulars,
J. C. DERBY, Gen’l
Cornnr Reynolds t Jackson Su.,A"S
dec8tw-w2w.
1 to til 1
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
Notice is hereby s'” 11 l „s«r. l*v,0l
«raed, that, on the
A. Tonne, iato of Floyd *1
life intestate, and no peraoo
ministration on the
Young, and that in term, of ^ £<l
lion will be reeled io
Coart, or some other fit pf™ 1
ter publication of this ciUfion, .
GEORGIA, Polk County. .
W HE REAS, Calrio
ler has applied foy.««n of poll I
the estate of Joel
deceased:
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This iydtggfeglf ^d
[insular tbe kindred/” -
ISSito. slow_*“£J,eIcticn-V;,,
November 30,137#- S-A .B0g n
fair
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GEORGIA, Floyd Connty.
WHEREAS J. F. M. Sbireler having sppE- I
ed for an exemption of personalty and letfej
apart and valuation of homettesd, I will pis
upon the same on the 15th of December, 1871,
at my office in Rome, this Dec. (5th, 1370.
H. .1. JOHNSON, Ord’y.
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