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. SEW ‘YEAR.
* Y-.'Xher y? F. with ail its nssoci
its li'upeS and its fears, its joys and its
rows, nis gone tottering beneath the s
of winter, down to its grave, in the
chamber of tile inexorable past.
Monk-winds of a wintry midnight h
rang its retjuiem—deep beneath the
and tlie snow it lies buried, and if it
again upon the face oVthis earth, it will
lydje if* thodt-caitls and the memories
man-ii- mU >ii
; g\v with la-shivering dread it passed
into- the yawtiiug’ darkn'ss of the past
chiming: bright eyed child of the fut.
appeared, and lightly caring for the e:
ctate fqrpi of the dead old ' ear, it k
merry vigil until with the rising sa
burst upon the- \Yorhl.n glorious, beau
New'Year.’ • :
flow-that the old year is deads
bariefi.Ht’taffy be a fitting- time to revi
thifhiibnr'of his short stay upon earth
belbic many of the things that, he has d -
he .forgotten. * ' T
And’that’history is au eventful one-
However rapid thc^., flight jaf th
wheels that drove it through its measure
mortal hours—each revulut'on was
with an effect that will shape the character
of ages to come’. ’* ~“"
Within the epoch numbered by the fig
ures 1$70, lie the most important events
that .ever, marked the history of man.
Within its short side we have witnessed
thp downfall and numiliation of one of the
mightiest potentates of the earth
tWitbin the same timo wo have seen the
overthrow of the grandest empire ever
built by human statescraft. France, the
proud empire of the world, lias collapsed.
Its-Imperial head is pillowed upon a prison
suttle. Its Imperial Eagles have been torn
from the nigh places and trampled in the
dirt beneath the feet of- a frenzied mob.
Within the same time a gieat nation
lias been sho n of its greatness and pros
trated at the feet of an alien foe. France,
the arbiter of Europes’ destiny, has been
humbled—her strength destroyed, her high
born chivalry pierced to the quick, aud
her soil is new overrun and crushed by the
feet of her despised enemy.
Within the short space of twelve months
Queens, have been unmade and Kings en
throned. The Royal brow of Isabella has
been stripped of .its jewel crown, and her
smile of queenly grace has given place to
an exiles’ gloomy frown.
Aosta has been called from the com
panionship of his books and is now ou his
way to pnt cn the royal robes so uneasily
worn by Isabella.
While these revolutions in power aud in
Slates’have bofen surging and upheaving in
Europe, a'revolution equally ai grand, but
more quiet and bloodless, has distinguished
uur oyynHdved land. Tiie free hearts of
American citizens, that have so long been
uroaning'undev the sense of outrage and
oppression have been made to boat again
with the.quick and joyous pulsations of
liberty _ The radical despotism that has so
long tyranized over the peace, the happi-
neSM&nd the prosperity of our country, has
bem overthrown, aud with the old year
i s power and its iniquities are alike buried
neve: again to disturb the prosperity of our
people.
And with the uaw year comes the dawn
of ii,bright political future. Under the
njgis of democracy our nation will com
mence nuew its season of usefulness and of
honor.
The Southern Slates, which have more
especially been under ihe ban of this Rad
icalTntquity, are now redeemed North
Carolina lias” shaken off the incubus, Al
abama exults in the dawning of Ireedom.
anifatTast our own noble Georgia is also
free, and her people are bearing their arms
and uerviug their hearts for the greutjduty
of bringing to light her hidden resources,
and developing, her inexhaustible treas
ur ^‘*«hs-r,:\ -
Rut it is not in political quarters alone
that the events of the past year are to be
historic.
lance its achievements
are ^wonderful, i’v.’o of the most liopor
tant events of this or any age of the worlds
history, have been accomplished. The open
ing.cf., the Sues Canal.is.an achievement, of
seicnc'SHhar stand?'unparalleled in its gran
deur, of. conception, magnitude ol execu
tion and- importance of consequences.
Nexi to jthi3 .tie. opening of the Mount
Oenis Tunnel! -reserved for thv last days
of the year,..stands in importance. The
rock ribbed Alps have been ’ pierced, and
iioWu->*long-tv- the trackless snows that
uleanf frou) Ilk'summit', can interpose be
tween thc.iuti!reour3e-;of.the people its tow
eling peaks have so long divided, llanibal,
with'liis bailing vinegar, and Napoleon with
his strong.limbed soldiery are no longer the
•mnii that overcome its mountain barriers
but;thc baud pf seiche 2.'has chiseled a pas
sage beneath the Simplon, and the iron
horse plutfgos through .the darkness of its
subslerunean recesses with a .morejspee ly
transit than eagle ever wipge-1 over its
heights fi
Rut amid the. triumph of the old year
we fuive to notice its sorxo’ws as well.
flj glim and remorseless Azrau! has
becti : busied-with the good and the groat of
thejworld." ' " .- .. .. o .
First Dtekeoa—the geuia!, glowing, glo
riou^P'rckens; whose name is lovingly sp a-
ken.yg every household, is gone. Iu ail
the vigor, of his mighty intellect-1 e was cut
d«vn! and mow all thatis leftof him is his
work#j-.which'will always- ha read, and his
naa&i Which ’will never die. __
Then followed our owuSimm-, hut a few
day^^afaHughioi tieia the new life of
his ^.temporary. His presence will
be aasaccbfrom-auioagEt us, bat his oame
-’.'LfeSfesiW greatest-of modern
musit5in8B'-Dejpfoll9wed, and the skill that
i,so .often thrilled the. human heart is
if. giTc^rofeyer more.
.fejWinW.hc illustrious ones gathered to
^^MfaiA]dxiander.DnvyDuicas,OYor
wli0 r. irr.die cold earth has not yet set-
tied. . . -
But the greatest—most crushing sorrow
a all remains to be told. We allude to the
loath of Robert E. Eee. He the honored
j. i'je South—the gallant soldier, the
'.-X*, the pleasant gentleman, and
ban,-Jl, the true Christian, is gath
ered to the grave. This of itself wotfld
The London Telegraph announces on author
make theoyeer - *4870 reffiarkaUe-io-th©- I^FT^ongreiiifonal District—Forty-Sec.
by the British cabinet relative to the seizure
hearts of our people
The building of the Alabama and Chat
tanooga railway is mainly due to .the indom
itable c-crgy of one man, Mr. .1. G. Stan
ton. A Knoxville contemporary! tho Whig
& Register, says he has accomplished won
ders, aud lias done more for the South dur
ing tiie last few years, than any dozen men
in it.
Some of the Bourbou papers of Ala
bama are abusing him for being a radical
and a Yaukce. The time for that sort of
thing has played out Vt e wish there were
more Stantons in the South. Such men
build up tlto country,’ahd'arie oupha .h.:tic-
faetors. Theft-politics we enre hot for.—
Their enterprise, capital and energy, we
sorely need. Business has no politics.
The above we. clip froth the Nashville
Banner, to show haw a man may pluuder a
people, and then be accounted a public
benel'ae or. The taxpayers of Alabama
built tho mid so far as it has bean built,
and the taxpayeis of Alabama will have to
finish it it it ever is finished. No greater
outrage has been perpetrated upon a peo
ple than this man Stanton fixed upon the
peo; ie of Alabama, in buying up -its venal
Legislature, and appropriating G,000,000
dollars to too building of the Alabama and
Chattanooga railway
We do not core three straws about Mr.
Stantons’ poli’ics. although he did vote his
negroes auJ ercatureasolidly against the peo
pie of Alabama, but we do protest against
our Tennessee friends making him out such
a paragon of public enterprise and useful
ness- Almost any one could build railroads
if he could steal enough to build them j
with.
This thing of Northern capital and en
ergy is all a myth. The taxpayers of the
South are the capitalists that have to build
their railroads. Georgia has experienced
something of this Northern capital and en
terprise. H. 1. Kimball built a magnifi
cent Opera House iu Atlanta, but, ah,
there’s the rub, Georgia taxpayers have to
pay for it. The Brunswick and Albany
Railroad is a yanlceo enterprise, hut Geor
gia has to foot the bill.
Corollary to this we would invite the
attention of our readers to the article be
low, from the Montgomery Mail :
Too much Railroad.
Tho following, which wo clip from the
Montgomery Mail shows how the railroad
dancers are being called npo u to pay the
fiddlers. If Georgia does not mind she
will be in the same delightful fix :
The Montgomery Mail states that Mr.
President Stanton, of tho Alabama aud
Chattanooga Railroad, has asked Gov. Lind
say that the State meet the interest upon
the bonds endorsed to that Road by the
State, and that all the other roads are clam
orous in this case of Stanton to have the in
torest met by the State, in order to keep a
good face upon the vast, pile of endorsed
bonis and keep them saleable until the
roads are completed.
The Mail adds Stanton lias received
enough bonds to build two Railroads, he-
sides a number ot imposing hotels and em
bryo towns, but now he aud his wealthy di
rectors confess they cannot borrow $240-
000 to meet a semi-annual interest, aud ap
peals to the State to stand between himself
and protest.
The Mail a’so says :
From the late message of Gov Smith we
earn that railroad bonds have been endors
ed or loaned bv the State a3 follows :
Ala. & Chat. ;Rail. 250 mile.-. $0,000,000
South & North “ 95
>Iout. S: Eufaula “ 45 -
Selma it-Gulf •* 30
Seima A .Memp’s 40
Mont. A Mobile “
Grand total. $12,850,000
The interest upon $12,850,000 is $1,028-
00, payable semi-annually in gold. If we
are in for it iu Stanton’s case, are we not
for it in the case of all the Roads ? To pay
such an annual debt will double our taxes,
and if we take possession of the roads, and
attempt to run them in order to reimburse
the State, we will lose money. A” at
tempt lo run au unfinished road will prove
that we will not only lose the interest money
which we are attempting to save, but will
actually add to our loss.
NEW BANKS AND OLD ISSUES.
The creation of new banks is rot to add
to the vo'ume of circulation. The Oontp
trailer of tho Currency in his report to tho
Secretary of the Treasury, states that
there are new banks making applica
tion for circulating uotes to the amount
of ihirtv millions. Of this amount he esti
mates ihut one-half will be uraLted—that
is to say fifteen millions.
To the general understanding this would
imply an increase of the volume of cunen-
cy, now iu circulation to that amount, but
such will not he the ease, as for every dol
lar thus issuol by the National Banks the
Secretary o 1 ' the Treasury will be required
to redeem a corresponding amount of ma
tured 3 per cent government certificates,
the money for which will have to he drawn
from the currency balance ia tie vaults ol
the Treasury.
It is to anticipate the redemption of
thes v three per cents that the Secretary of
the Treasury adheres to his policy of hoard
ing in his vaults money that the commer
cial world is so loudly clamoring for.
The old system of banking is best. Let each
State Legislature controle its own banking
affairs, and whoever can have the capital
to engage in a safe, responsible and legiti
mate banking business, be allowed to do so
—only tequiring their issues to be redeem
ed in gold and silver. 'That would solve
'the financial problem at once, and would
bring: about a specie basis without fuitlcr
ado.
acta diurna.
FOREIGN.
Tuesday, -Jan, 3d.
The Berlin Court is on the que vivo for the
surrender of Paris. The Royal family of
Prussia is lavish with its courtesies to Napol
eon.. who is still hopeful of being restored to
the throne of France. The Empress is not
sp sanguine, and spends her time in weeping
and praying for peace. Troops are concen
trating ou the Southern frontier of Russia—
looking out for a New Years’ Turkey. Mr.
Gladstones’ constituents are like Mr. Bul
locks’—anxious for a change of administra
tion, his policy having impoverished them, ns
Bullock’s has bankrupted the State. Jules
Favro has boon appointed to raprosont France
■in . tho European Congress. The Empress ■
Eugonia had a reception on New Years’ day.
It was hardly so brilliant as tho one at tho
Tuileries one little year ago. Quite a num
ber of distinguished ImperiglistTv?
e it
pres
and sinking of English Colliers in the’ 'Seine,
are in a,fair way of adjustment.
Print* Louis telegraphs the'jgovemment at
Do Armstadt that two Hessian regiments
whippad a superior force of French Saturday
southeast of Orleans. Hessians lost fifty men.
This is hardly on so grand a scale as Sedan
and Metz.
Several engagements, in which ihe French
were successful, preceded the evocation of
Guay, by the Germans.
The reports that the German army of the
Loire has retired on Greene, are apparently
confirmed. So says the telegraph, and we
suppose that the Greene referred to means
Greene county, Ga!
King William gave an egg nogg at Ver
sailles on Monday, and like Grant, he made
a speech iu which—unlike Grant—he ascrib
ed all the glory of the situation to the hero
ism of his officers, aud t ie bravery of his sol
diers. .‘But, continued the King, onr goal
is still however to be attained, and important
tasks remain before we achieve a lasting
peace, as it would be censurable to make any
peace which involves a continuance of the
duties which brought us here.”
The King was not drunk when he thought
of that. Advices from Paris say that the cit
izens urge Troehu to make frequent and des
perate sorties, as it thereby reduces the nuni
her of m mills to he fed. A philosophical con
clusion, certainly.
DOMESTIC
New York Legislature is organized under
democratic ouspices. Pennsylvania Senate is
Democratic, but the House of Representa
tives is Republican. A harmonious session
may be expected.
The following is the telegraphic election re
ports of Geoagia :
Atlanta, Jan. 3.—Official election returns
are not fully in. Enough has oeen returned
to show the election of Gen. Young, of the
7th Congressional district, by nearly 9,000
majority; Bigby and Bethuue in tbe 3d dis
trict, by 7,000 or 8,000; Long and Speer, 4th
district, by about 500; Tift in the 2d district,
by about 300 votes; other districts are previ
ously reported.
O. A. Lochranc was appointed Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court to-day.
Attorney General Akerman has purchased
a home near Cartersville. As Elbert county
went so far back on him we do not blame
him for rnoviug. lie ought not to have stopp
ed in Bartow, however.
LOCAL.
As our feet are so broad, and everybody’s
toes are sore that we cannot move without
raising a row, we shall dispense with our lo
cal to-day.
[Communicated.
CITY FINANCES.
Mr. Editor:—A number of communi
cations have appeared of late, from “Tax
Payer,” and others, calling on the City
Council for an exposition of their manage
ment of tbe city Finances during tbe past
year. These calls have been made mostly
through the Courier; aud, pardon me sir,
we are not altogether satisfied with your
conduct in the matter. You have publish
ed these calls, it is true, but in such a man
ner as to leave tbe impression on the pub
lic, that you attached but little importance
to the subject, or even considered them, as
the City Council affects to do, as imperti
nent demands of meddlesome persons.—
Why do you p it these arlicles in close print
and off in some obscure corner of your pa
per? The arlicles were respectful to the
City Council, so lar as I have observed,
and, cast no imputations upon their hon
esty. They simply demand to know how
they have executed the trust confided to
them hy the people. And this is a demand,
I apprehend, which the humblest citizen
has a right to make, and to have respect
fully heard and considered; and I am in
formed that in auti-war times, it was worth
the official head of any public functionary
or jourua.ist, even, to treat such a demand
contemptuously, or refuse a rosponse, as the
City authorities have done in this instance.
Now, sir, th; Courier is an old residenter
here, and has established a solid reputa
tion for rec itude and integrity. It has
been looked upon as tho people’s paper,
devoted to the advancement of their mani
fold interests, and above the influence of
rings and combinations. Upon their sup
port it has prospered, without aid from the
corruption fund of Bullock and the Radi
cal party. I pray you, sir, to careful that
you preserve the good name you have won
for your paper, and that you slight not the
respectful inquiries of the people into the
conduct of those they have put in position
as their servants.
These inquiries, as I said, have been
treated with contempt by the City Council.
I made none of them, and do not know,
and it is of n a importance who did. They
were proper, not at all unusual, and I had
nc doubt would be promptly amd cheerful
ly responded to. Nobody supposed the
Mayor and Council 1 ad dishonestly app'O
printed the city funds, or made any use of
them that they were afraid or ashamed to
make public. But as they were the peo
ple’s stewards, we thought it not unreason
able, or indecorous even, to ask of them an
account of their stewardship. We still
thick so. Their silenci, however, is signif
icant. We fear, very greatly fear that there
is something behind which they are afraid
for ilie people to know, Tho only expres
sion I i ave heard offered in their behalt, is,
that it is “au insult to honest men to call
on them lor an account of their official con
duct ’ I? it not, sir, rather an insult, to the
tax payers of Rome, from the smallest to
the greatest, to treat with such persistent
and haughty indifference their just and
reasonable request? Mock dignity and
.-ham indignation will not avail you, gentle
men of the Council. The people, I am
sure, will be much pained to wound your sen
sitive feelings; but I am equally sure they
will oot hesitale to do so, painful as it may
bo, sliould you still refuse to accord them
their wishes in the matter. The party in
power last year has still a majority in your
body, counting the Mayor with them in
case of a tie. So the responsibility is still
upou that party of giving or withholding
au account of its administration of the City
finances. C.
In answer lo the complaint made in tbe
above agaiust the Courier, we only have to
state that the communications refered to
were published in accordance with our in
variable rule, i. c\ to set all communica
ted matter solid, and that the place occupied
was altogether accidental, as the foreman
of tho office has ihe arrangement of his
forms. We ha7e on more than one occa
sion, called editorial attention to tbe matter,
and endorsed tho proprietyof the enquiries,
and we have no donbt but that they will
soon be responded to by the Council.
African Wineb.—It is not generally
known that Capo Colony produces the most
delicious wines grown on the face of th*
earth, A cargo received as a remittance by
our neighbors, Dr. J. C. Ayer A Co., contains
several varieties raised there, . among [which
tho Constancia commands the highest price
of any wine in the world. Almost the en
tire crop of it is consumed in the palaces pf
Europe, this rare exception being sent to
them in exchange for their medicines, which
-have long been thp :staplo remedies of South
America, [Boston Journal-
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THE CONGRESSIONAL VOTE.
Bryan
Brooks,
Effingham,
Pierce,
Chatham,
ond Congress.
Mclnlyre, Dem Hiilyer Bad
299
813
416
113 majority.
2,826
356
669
280
Liberty,
McIntosh, %
Glynn
Camden,
Charlton
Ware,
Appling,
Tattnall,
Bollock,
Colquitt,
Scriven,
Emanuel,
259
171
616
542
578
570
704
232
332
733
350
* 20
1
ROC
OoD
Montgomery
422
Telfair,
Coffee
Clinch,
448
12
Echols,
252
51
Lowndes,
682
740
Berrien,
Irwiu,
Laurens,
752
650
Johnson,
Thomas,
024
1,606
Second DUtrict—Both Terms*
Tift, Whiteley
Decatur,
1,191
1,524
Early,
17 majority
Miller,
325
125
Bakers
747
377
Mitchell,-
325
124
Worth,
335
96
Dooly.
855
532
Miller,
280
Pulaski,
549 majority.
Cha tahoochec,
579
341
Macon,
875
1,378
Y-arion,
669
358
Sumter,
1,972
1,238
Webster,
465
841
Stewart,
1,318
300
Quitman,
412
277
Clay,
493
499
Randolph,
1,163
900
Terrell,
946
533
Lee,
413
1,222
Dougherty,
G29
2,230
Dodge,
104
21
Wilcox,
380
Third District
—Forty-Tecond
Congress.
Bigby.
Wright
1,187
2,104
5GS
631
42 maj
23
majority
1,576
1,574
1,196
854
378
435
1,549
1.165
408
360
357
373
509
751
448
476
1553
653
3,079
873
Muscogee,
Schley,
Taylor,
Talbot,
Harris,
Troup,
Merriwether,
Heard,
Coweta,
Fayette,
Clayton,
Carroll,
Campbell,
Crawford,
Houstoi,
Fourth District—-Forty-Second Congress*
Lawton, Dem. Speer Bad
Bibb, 2,745 2,785'
Upson, 931 846
Newton, 1,353 962
Spalding, 590 566
Jasper, 769 676
Pike, 343 maj.
Henry 411 do
Butts, 180 jdo
Jones, maj. 100
Baldwin, do 489
Twiggs, do 580
Putnam, do 307
Wilkinson, do 180
Monroe, do 327
Fifth District—Forty-Second Congress.
Richmond,
Dubose. Fannin.
445 maj.
Jefferson,
241
Glascock,
310
Talliaferro,
18C
Warren,
395
Washington
666
Lincoln,
583'
Wilkes,
1,216
Greene,
maj. 437
Oglethorpe,
347
Burke,
681
Hancock,
793
Columbia,
776
Elbert,
758
Morgan,
do 622
Sixth District—Both Terms.
Milton,
Price Wimpy Boyd
219 52 151
Walton,
933 375 2
Gwinnett,
1120 74 4
Clark,
959 1196 4
Jackson,
Madison,
414 42
Hart,
453 236 8
Banks.
422 207 17
Franklin
709 116 14
Hall,
572 215 19
Foray th,
562 162 47
Pickens,
195 371 51
Dawson,
Lnmpkin,
193 211 190
White
Habersham,
462 47 3
Rabun,
Towns,
Union,
Fannin,
312 306 9
Gillmer,
452 258 10
Seventh District—Forty-Second Congress-
Fulton,
Young, Dem* Burnett Kad
3,147 2,330
Bartow,
1,G00 589
Polk,
639 365
Gordon,
781 213
Floyd,
S9S maj.
Whitfield,
700 do
Chattooga,
759 do
Cobb,
498 do
Dade,
300 do
Catoosu,
366 do
DeKalb,
750 do
Cherokee,
791 do
Walker,
Murray,
448 do
500 do
Paulding,
100 do
Haralson,
000
Senators Elected.
1st District, Rnfns E Lester, dem.
3d “
J C Nichols, dem.
5th “
M Kirkland, dem.
7th «
Clark, carpetbagger.
9th “
Benben Jones, dem.
11th “
L C Hoyl, dem
13th “
B C Black, dem.
15th “
D W Cameron, dem.
17th «
J S Cone, dem
19th “
Columbna Heard, dem.
21st “
Devanx, negro, rad.
23d “
L H Anderson, negro, rad
-25th “
Dr. W P Mathews, dem.
27th “
Cel. E. Steadman, dem.
29th “
W M Reese, dem.
31st “
W S Erwin, dem.
33d “
M Van Estes, dem.
35th “
Geo Hiilyer, dem.
37th “
Dr. G W Peddy, dem.
33th “
Col. J P Brown, dem.
41st “
J A Jarvis, dem.
33d “
L N Trammell, dem.
Representative Elected.
Appling— — Sellers, dem.
Bullock, dem.
Bryan—C H Baker, dem-
Berrien—
Brooks—J H Hunter, dem.
Baker—H A Tarver, dem.
Butts—Judge T A Hammond, dem.
Bibb—Fitzpatrick, Turner, (negro) Pol-
look, (negro) Bads.
Baldwin—Peter,O’Neal, (negro).
Bdrke Murphy, dem., — Cox, dem.
Berrien dem.
Banks— — Wcffard, dem. ft' •***
Bartow—J W Wofford,dem., J W Gray,
dem. -
Chatham—Russell,dem fleidt, dem. Kel
ly, dem. j, . - ...
Camden—H L Hiilyer, rad.
■5. Chariton. -, dem. A&J
Colquitt—Isaac Carlton, dem. _
Coffee— -
Clinch. H A Mattox, dem.
Chattahoochee, D C Cody, dem.
Clay,. J B Johnson, dem.
Calhoun ' '
gro,
Coweta HJ Sargeant, rad S Smith, ne- ““teing 0 ppo*d to a reckless and extrav
agant expenditure of the tax payers' money,
Clayton, W N McConnell, ind dem.
Carroll J S Pentecost, dem.
Campbell J Goodman, dem.
Crawford Rutherford, dem.
Colombia Sim. Lampkin, den. G
Stovall, dem.
Clarke Davis, negro!RRichardson,ne-” *°
■
Cobb W P Anderson, D., W A And
ersoD,dem.
Cherokee J B Bichards, dem.
Chattooga C C CJcghorn, dem.
Catoosa W H Payne, dem.
Dade E D Graham, dem.
DeKalb W L Goldsmith, dem.
Decatur J D Williams, rad Adam Bra-
ton, negro,
Dooly J H Woodward, dem.
Dougherty, F T Putney rad, Phil John-
er, negro.
Dawson, John Palmer, dem.
Effingham, M Rawles, dem.
Emanuel, dem.
Echols, R W Phillips, dem.
Early, B Chauucy, dem.
Elbert, E P Edwa rds dem.
Fannin, W Franklin, dem.
Fayette, W Whatley, ind. dem.
Forsyth J Hughes, dem.
Floyd, M Ballenger, dem. H A Gartrell,
dem.
Franklin,A Brcwner, dem,
Glynn, James Bine, negro.
Glass cook, G Brady, dem.
Green, R McWhorter, rad, Abe Colby,ne
gro.
Gilmer, N Cooper, dem.
Gwinnett, W E Simmons dem,G H Jones,
dem.
Gordon, J C Fain, dem.
Harris, J W Murphy, dem, C F Patillo,
dem.
Heard, Britton Simon.
Honston, Joal B Griffin, rad G Oormond,
negro, Asbnry Simmons, negro.
Henry, Bryan, dem-
Hancock.G F Pierce,Jr., dem F A Butte,
dem.
Hart, J W Jones dem
Hall, L A Simmons, dem.
Habersham, G McMillan, Dem.
Haralson ,
Irwin
Jones
Jasper, A Waters, dem.
Jefferson, W Johnson,dem, Abraham Beas
ley detu.
Jackson, Hancook, dem.
Johnson
Liberty, J Farmer, dem.
Lawrence, Col. C Guyton, dem.
Lincoln, H Lang,dem.
Lumpkin, H Riley, dem.
Lowndes, A Converse rad.
Lee, G F Page, dem. H P Lipsey,
dem.
Montgomery dem.
Miller, J A Bush, dem.
Mitchell, L Collins, dem.
Marion T Harvey dem.
Muscogee, J M Smith, dem, J F Pou,
dem.
Milton, Dr J Howell, dem.
Madison, I Meadows, dem.
Murray, S Fields, dem.
Pierce, D E Knoles, dem.
Pike, J Baker, dem.
Pntnans, A Turner, negro.
Pickens, John Aired, rad.
Polk, M Bnnn dem.
Paulding, Captain Robert Trammel,
dem. ’ / '
Quitman, J Guerry, dem.
Randolph, S McNeil, dem, R F Critteu.
den, dem.
Babun • •
Scriven, J C Bell, dem.
Sumter,Wright Brady, Sr. dem. Sterling
Glover, dem.
Schley, —— dem.
Tatnall, Brcwton, dem.
Telfair dem.
Thomas, Jasper Battle, negro, A T Atkin
son, negro.
Terrell, J Jones, dem.
Taylor, W Bateman, dem.
Talbot, Woodall, dem. P Morris, ind.,
dem.
Troup, W H Clarke, dem, W W Cato,
dem.
Twiggs, E Griffin, rad.
Taliaferro, S Fly at, dem.
Towns
Wayne, No election.
Ware •
Worth, B B Jenkins, dem.
Wilcox —dem.
Webster, A C Bell, rad.
Wilkinson, C H Hooks, rad.
Warren, O L Cloua, T J Darksdale
dem.
Wilkes, S W Wynn, dem. H T Slaton,
dem.
Walton, C L Bowie, dem.
White
Walker, J Wood, dem.
Whitfield, C J Emerson, dem.
[Communicated.
i*<Mi«img I’ll as- toasted -on' Tnesaay
night, by Maj. C. H. Smith, and published in
the Rome Daily, as the loremost man in a
bad cause.
If being in favor of the old Council mak
ing a public statement of what funds has
come into their hands, and what distribution
has been mode ct them, then l am m a bad
and then issuing thirty or thirty-two thous
and dollars ot city sbinplasters, without au
thority, and against law, to pay the debts of
the city, then I am in a bad cause.
If being in favor of adopting some means
;nd,-or lake-tip, the $30,000, or $32,000
of city sbinplasters, besides an unknown
amount or other indebtedness, then I am in a
bad canse.
If being in favor of macadamizing Broad
-and Bridge streets, working and putting in
good order the other streets, making good
crossings a'd sidewalks, without discriminat
ing in favor of any part of the city, then I
am in a bad cause'.
I am opposed to contracting a debt of
$100,000, when there is not one cent in tho
Treasury, money tight, cotton low and trade
dull. Bat when the above is completed, then
I am tor progress, waterworks, fancy bridges
etc. A. Griffetfi.
Jan. 4th, 1870. '
[Communicated.
Mr. Editor—Seeing my name suggest
cd in your paper far one of the Board of
Education for this District, permit me to
say that while tbe kindly feelings and con
fidence of tho3.- who caused the same are
fully appreciated, I most positively decline
to allow the use of my name for that post
tion. R. D. Harvey.
Tbe Ochranlsee Accident.—Ells’ Body Re
covered—A Perishing Man Saved by a
Hog.
The Macon Telegraph, of yesterday, re
ports the finding of the body of Mr. Henry
Ells, drowned by the accident reported
yesterday, and the safety of Mr. Henry
Napier. A party went in search of the
lost hunters, and the finding of Mr. Ells is
thus referred to:
Soon after tbe place where the accident
occurred was pointed out by Mr. Barclay,
the party found the body clinging to a tree
in fifteen feet of water, and abont twenty
feet from the bank. It seems that Mr.
Ells bad sunk near this tree, and he had
climbed np it to the surface of the water, as
he was found with his feet and arms tightly
embracing the tree in a climbing position,
and the top of his head ont of.the water.
It required considerable effort' to release
his frozen limbs from the tree, bnt after
this was done, the body was taken down
the river in a battean to Dnnhom’s Land-
ing, and thence to the railroad station, and
bronght home yesterday afternoon abont
five o’clock. v.
Of Mr. Napier, who swam- ashore and
landed in a dense canebreak, [where it was
feared he had perished from £>ld aud hun
ger, the Telegraph says: J
Mr. Napier then turned his attention to
his own desperate condition, for he was
chilled to the very bones, and he immedi
ately set abont finding his way ont of the
swamp. After wandering for sereral hoars
threagh a dense thicket, ice and water (at
times np to his waist), and finding nothing
that indicated a way oat, he sank down in
despair by a tree on a dry spot, and began
to think of the horrible daath he would
soon have to suffer, if not providentially
delivered. He sat there, shivering and ex
hausted, for some minutes when a hog pas
sed him, and he determined to follow its
track throngh the swamp, thinking that, as
it was nearly night, it was wending its way
home to some settlement. Aroused thus
with the desperation of a last and only
hppe, he conragconsly straggled forward,
and, as he had hoped, the narrow track led
him ont of the swamp and to the planta
tion of Mr. 1 rederick, where he was kind
ly and hospitably received and refreshed,
and, after resting for the balance of the
night and drying bis clothing, he came in
yesterday, as above stated, to the great
gratification of his friends, and relieved
them of a most painful anxiety as to his
fate.
KENTPCKg-gTagg * KWS ’
White and Black—How Divided.
The recent election in Georgia has made
more evident a significant fact, which was
apparent before, viz : that there is no white
Radical party in the State. There are, to
be snre, in many of the counties, a few
white men attached to the radical negro
arty; but these few white men are office-
oldeip who have obtained, or office-seek
ers who look for position dependent upon
negro votes. They do not constitute a par
ty, bnt are merely interested hangers-on or
managers of a party composed of a differ
ent race. They assume to control or direct
the negroes politically, just as the overseers
on the plantations nsed to direct their work
under the old slavery system. Many of
them are no more for Republicanism of
Radicalism as a policy than they do for the'
home politics of Turkey or China.
As the prospect of obtaining office-at the
hands of the negro diminishes, these white
Radicals decrease in number and relax
their exert'ons. They have now nearly
ran out in Georgia, and will ha-dly ’ make
any showing at all in onr next eljctiona.—
An examination of the election returns will
show that the white radical strength in the
upper counties of the State, where 3 there
are few negroes, has entirely di lappezred.
The considerable white Radical vote cast
in that part of the State for the new Con
stitution and for fiollook for Governor has
:, gone where the woodbine twineth” (Jim
Fisks’ more elegant rendering of, “np a
spout”)
Among all the counties of that region,
j have heard of bnt one (Pickens) that
has elected aTadieal representative. All
the other radical representatives elect,
throughout the entire State (and there are
not a great many of them) were chosen en
tirely, or Tery neariy so, by negro votes.—
We are at present not able to say positive
ly whether the white or coljrcd radicals in
tbe Legislature will be more pumerqus, bnt
we believe that the colored members will.
This fact, too, is significant. It shows that
the negroes are learning that they only con
stitnte ttffi radical party of Georgia, and
Uiat they can just as easily, elect 1 ’men of
their own race to office as white rad’cals.—
Columbus
All the Chinamen in this country who
had.tne means,have gone home to celebrate
in Febraary, the comtpencewunt of anoth
er thousand years.
They declare that the iast festival of this
kind was eelenrated in China ten centuries
Wt^:. .-.A is:
Arlington.
G: G-, tho female correspondent of the
New York Tribnne, gives her views of the
duty of the government to Mrs. Lee, be
cause of its appropriation of the Arlington
estate. She srys:
Mrs. Lee was not a citizen, but a wife,
and first of all, according to the prevailing
ideas, owed loyalty to her husband. Surely
the Conservative gentlemen of the Senate,
who accept the poets’ lofty ideal of true wo
manly devotion.
“I know not, I ask not, if guilts in my heart.
I know that I love thee, whaterer thou art.”
should give Mrs. Mary Curtis Lee all hon
or, instead of speak ing of her slightly as
“that woman” Had she fled from the Con
federacy, repudiated her rebel husband,
and sought sanctuary and release in Indi
ana, would even Senator Morton have held
her in highor esteem ? Or bad she been
loyal and long-sighted enough to hoist the
old flag oTer Arlington and sta id gnard
over her effects, would not gentlemen have
said: Here is a matron of Roman virtue,
plucky and strong mined; a weman to be
admired, bnt not loved.”
Her name hrs for me the charm of
great association, as that of the daughter of
tne beloved adopted sou of Washington. I
respect her love for the grand old pla'-c,
the home of her childhood; but aside from
these things I protest against the injustice
and harshness of making her .suffer more
severely than many of the ringlealers of
the rebellion have suffered.
I think Mr. Patterson is mistaken in say
ing that ihe fled away in the storm before
her husband. Fiom an old servant of the
lamily I have heard that she lingered in
her home till£her hnsband had repeatedly
written to her to join him; that before
leaving she packed np such valuables as
she could not carry, precious heirlooms and
papers, and left them to the honorable cus
tody of onr soldiers—(O, woman, great
was thy.faith !) that, at the loet L she went
all about the house and grounds, and to the
graves of her lather end mother, weeping
bitterly. I hove also heard that when time
ret by the will of her father; for the aman-
cipation of eertain slaves, arrived, she
promptly and honorably sent throngh onr
lines such as she had with her in Rich
mond.
As we are in the forgiving line, can we
not forgive this heart-broken wife and
mother, and make her old age comfortable
by geneionsly paying for the noble inheri
tance, forfeited by no crime of hers, unless
it be a crime to stand by a beloved hus
band,'whom in her happy youth she took
“for better for worse?” May we not be
lieve that the angust spirit of Washington
himself woold approve of snch an act of
magnanimity toward the daughter of
George Washington Cost is, the dear liltle
lad whom he solemly adopted by the death
bed of a brave -yoong father, who died in
the service of the Republic?
In this matter I have simply spoken
my feelings as a woman, and for a woman.
The iron rails that already reach to the
'Pacific will be extended in no long period
to Alaska itself, and a tunnel under Boh-
nog’s: Straits, oonneeting the oldest with
the newest continent,- and forming part
of an unbroken railroad Irom New
York to St. Petersburg, may be among
the possibilities of tho iuture.—New Tor/c
Times.
les are cheaper in the South than in
Kentucky.'ul..
Mr. D S Harris, of Shelby, so’d to Mr.
John A Beid one lot of three year old cat
tle at io 00 per head.
Thos. Shanks, of Mercer, has purchased
of Mr. Bennett 30 head of smooth aged
cattle at 6 cents per pound.
D C Torhane, of Mercer, has sold to W
L Beed, same county, 16 yearling males,
average height 15 bands 1 inch, fur $116
per head.
At the Ho^flc Court 30 youngcalves went
at 25 00; oxen from 80 00 to 107 00;
horses from 35 00 to 110 '00; 9 yearling
steers (common) 18 50.
Mr. T B Mattinglyvof Marion, parchas
ed iu Boyle county, a few days ago, 28
bead of 2 year old mules. 144 to 15 hauds,
at 118 00 per bead.
At Mr. John Robinson's sals ol lisft-
shirrs, in Shelby, pigs Urge euough t->
wean, brought fnJ.-u 15 00 to 20 00, g -lts
30 00 tj 50 -00, and aged sows 50 00 to
4 00. : -
At the late sale of Th os*’ D Harris, of
Shelby, Berkshire gelts bronght 35 io
50 00, 1 sow and pigs, 1 month old, 80 U0
1 yearling colt 80 00,1 “Clark Chief” fil
ly, 2 year old, 305 00. Good common
work stock 100 00 to 1 40.
E W Hayden, of Jessamaiue, bought of
Arthur Passmote of Harrodsbnrg, his four
yeai old blood chief stallion 81,500 cash.
Tbit is the same hors a that won the 100
dollar prize at the late Jcssamaiae coanty
Fair.
Mr. E H Parrish, of Scatt, sold to B P
Snell 20 bead of fat 2 year old males at
107 75 per head; 20 head to Smith Aliord
of Bourbon, at 130 00, a pair of broke
mnles to Wash Samuel, at 280 00, and a
pair to Hail & Lyle, of Fayette, at $350.
Mr. G A Lackey, of Lincoln, has sold
the remaautjof his lot of 2 year old moles
to Mr. Wm. Miller, ol Wayne, for 100 00
per head. He also purchased of Mr. Mil
ler 25 he id of smooth aged mountain steers
at 5 cents, average weight 1,250 lbs.
Phil Jordan, of Mercer, sold a lot of
hogs last week at 6 cents. One hog weigh
ed 715 pounds, of the breed called in Gar
rard county, Grass hog. A L Walden sold
one which weighed 730 ponnds. One 500
pound hog, a Berkshire, weighed only 90
ponnds last March.
Mr. John McElroy, of Marion, has lost
several head of fine hogs and cattle daring
the last two weeks, and is unable to account
for or name tbe disease with which they
died. Several years ago he had cholera on
his farm and hst quite a number of hogs
by it, bnt the stock which he lrst recently
gave no symptoms of that disease, although
they died more suddenly—well and hearty
in tbe morning and dead at night
The reports from the South continue dis
conraging. The New Orleans market is re
ported fiat, and sales can only be made at
all at very low rates. Moles in that mar
ket are 50 00 per head lower than last sea
son. If an advance in cotton occurs it is
believed that the mule market would im
prove. There is no immediate prospects
for a revival of the trade.
M C R Gregory, of Boyle coanty, on
Tuesday shipped from that place two cars
of the finest cattle ever raised in central
Kentucky, the largest weighing 2,480
ponnds, and many of the number weigh
ing over 2,000 pounds each.
He also shipped one car of fine s heep,
several of which weighed 200 lbs each. Mr
Gregory has shipped on the Central Road
the present year about 100 car loads of cat*
tie, hogs and sheep, to Louisville, Cincin
nati, and other points North.
Mont Cents Tonnell.
This great tunnel was so nearly opened
on Christmas eve that workmen from the
French and Italian sides shook hands
throngh the small aperture in thtf barrier
of rock that remained.on Christmas day the
brrrier itself was removed.
It is calculated that the road will be fin
ished to the tnnnell at both ends, and the
whole be pnt into operation, by the 1st of
July next.
This tnnnell is within a fraction of eight
miles in length.
It was Lonis Napoleon’s ambition to have
completed this work as one of his great
achievements during his reign, as the road
across Mont Cenis was a famous enterprise
of his uncle, Napoleon I.
It will add a pang to his mortification that
his reign terminated before the completion
of this tonneh ,
It was estimated at the commencement of
the work,that it would be finished by the 1st
of April, 1871. This calculation was a pret
ty good one, when we allow for improve
ments made in the machinery with which
the labor was condactcd. It is tbe longest
work of the kind in the world, and has cost
$10,000,000.
Snch was the height of the mountain im
mediately over-ihe tunnel that it was not
practicable to sink any shafts to facilitate
its construction.
The entrance to it on the French side is
at Fonrnean, three miles fr am Modane, in
the Valley of Arc, and on the Italian side
at Nordooneehe.
X HOS. J, Perd v: »i
for the tal« 0 r 11 dulj, nf ,
saSapaSS
i.n5“2ran he ’ r " raijl »<>4^?
n College, Vi,
Jjen.G.W.C0STIsiW
-“■.JSSB
All the Academic Scfcnni. -
^ell as the Profesai. v, i o , 0t (a
ENiIINEERING, are?n' n n' hools of]
For farther inforiaatitn addretf 1011 -
erto:
So REVV 4RD
Henry Mitchrn,' ^>4 Wi
me .ending to Uwf »
az.ini.t .nyeaeao ,l» in ^ h
y.*rs old, coinnIezi .il ll. i. “ l »Ja
j in it# Is ' ,r:0 - V
GEORGIA, Floyd Counly.
W HEREAS Amanda Mootmr.
applied to be appointed h
K!** PmpeHy of .
Eliza, minors tm-I.-r fourteen
residents •{ said county:
This is to cite all nar-on*
appear at the term Ht court u »i
ratic-n of thirty da.isirom t£
of this notice and show const
said Amanda Montgomery ahmH T at -’
ed with the Guardianship of
erty of Mary, Jane,
^Witnesamyo^iMsigeatu® ’
jan5w30d
H. J. J0HXS05 (
T
3VOTTCE.
A HE Undersigned will Wa--,.,j
business, in order ti close oat. »n !° ,Cl
debted to them will please call and
They also offer their Store KoJy
is one of the oldest and best a j
fora Family Grocery trade. ° 1 ■ M
. ANDERSON A LlMztr I
jan3tw-wlm. h 0 4 1
GEORGIA, Floyd Coanty.
W HEREAS, Wesley Shropshire
plied to be appointed Guardian of the
property of Augnslns, Elirabeth
Bula, minors under iourtcen years
dents of said county,:
This is to cite all persons ooncerntj v u
appear at the term of the court of 0
be held next after the expirati oa „ »
days from the first publication of thir Bo) ; “
•now cause, if they can, why said Weslw 5 '
shire should not be intrusted with the’' -
anship of the person and property of t-
Elizabeth, Wesley and Bula,‘ minor
Frank Shropshire deceased.
Witness my official signature
d< * 31 H. J. JOHNSON, Ordinal
GEORGIA, Polk County.
■ HEREAS Sarah E Mobley has. ,
exemption of personalty and setting iJk
valuation of homcatead,andIwilipan™
same on tbe Hth day of Jan’y nextitll
a- m., at my office in Cedar Town, this De.
1870.
dec-1 F. M. CLARK, OnjitnJ
;!#! I
Administrator’s Sale.
B Y VIRTUE of an order from the Coal
Ordinary of Floyd County will be i:i|
Rome, before the Court House door, 01
Tuesday in March next, within the li,_
of sale, the tract of land in said countyV
8. P. Otts resides, knowc as the estiie cf
Otts, deceased, subject to the widow’s dotal
No. 20, 16th district, 3 section, containitjff
acres, 14 acres open land^tbe balance «ner
mountain land, tne remainder good tillablelu
on which is a comfortable log house, si
crib and other buildings necessary for aFi
Also, good springs on the place, and &
ebard on the place. Terms cask
8. P.OTTS,Adm.DelwMs5a|
janySwtd.
GEORGIA, Floyd Coanty.
w HEREAS Lucinda C. Patman has
for exemption of personalty, and settin_
and Talnation of homestead, I will pass npa’i
same at my office in Rome, Ga., on the litir
of January, 1871.
dec29-2t H. J, JOHSSOS,
Grcr.l
HIG-H PRICES
SMASHED
TO PIECES
THE STAB
C L O T HP t (
—AND—
DRY GOOD!
HOUSE
WILL SEEl
DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
Goods 20 per cent cheaper than e'B 1
. Call and see fer yoursell-
Incomes of New York Xawyerr.
It is stated that David Dndley Field has
the hugest practice of any lawyer in this
country.
He receives from one client alone, the
Erie Bailroad, fees amounting to $200,000
a year, and his regular income is siated is
enormous.
Wm. M. Evarts, Charles O’Connor and
E. W. Stoughton have very large incomes
from their practice. Mr. Stoughton’s prac
tice exceeds $150,000 annually, and whioh
he is said to spend in the most luxations
inner.
In the second class of eminent New York
lawyers are ranked: Fred Seward, Blatch-
ford A Griswold, Barrett, Briosmade &
Barrett,Beebe & Donahue, Marl in & Smith
and Brown, Hall and Vanderpool, whose-
practice ranges in some instances as high as
$150,000 per annum.
‘Among 'the third-class,''referring sole
ly to ages,’ the Commercial names Jos. H.
Choate, John E. Parsons, W. E. Curtis,
George Thicknor Curtis, A. R. Lawrence,
Ac.—with incomes from $10,000 to $50,-
000.
The four leading criminal lawyers of
New York are . John Gaaham, Henry
L. Clinton, Charles S. Spencer and W. F.
Howe.’
BaUed Ont. __
The movement to displaoe Mr. Sumner
from his plaos as chairman of the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations has been abandon
ed.—Forney.
Telegraph poles are rented to bill [ osters
ia New Orleans at 810 per each pole.
4r. n. oozes.
NEW FIBM AND NEW
.. irtiU
Jones & Alima*
106 Empire Bl ° cl "
Broad Street, Rome.Ga-
DEALERS IS
GREAT INDUCEMENTS
Offered to Cash
CALL AND EXAMINE
Goods andPrit*
Fair Trade with no Deception or s P M ^s«{»j
offered. .——J"
BOOT &1HOEST0B*
W E have now on hand thfjff
WaSiMEtSL
for
benefit^ 1
“iT fgoeaX-
give
by saving them a
Vie offer to Merc
cost.
octflw3m
nEffTpiEHiija
We Took at the Late
1 SI Premium lor beet
D'“l m.forth.taltdlifcV*?!'#*
flWedge.array wK>
ft™ hjgaggfis;
having them gffinfSejreiMj;
.hop if they require it _ GO yi
sole.
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