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Railroad Co n panics In their Political
Respects.
In the January number of the Noith
American Review there appears jn article
from Clias. Francis Adams, Jr., written
■with remarkable ability, in which the evil
iiiflueice of railroads in the Uuitcd States
are fully exposed. As we have exhausted
the financial aspect of the subject, we in
tend to prescut an abstract of its political
aspects, by the hand of Mr. Adams, under
the general head, “The Governmeut and
t’ e Railroad Corporations.” He commenc
es with a review of the incidents of last
year, under the sub-caption of “The rapid
growth of individual members of the sys
tem; the tendency to consolidation aud com
bination in all the members; the scandalous
internal abuses incident to corporate con
trol. an J finally the development of a dis
turbing, if not controling inllner.ee in our
f olitieal system.”
••ft is unnecessary to dwell,” lie says,
‘•upon the details of growth of each of
those four trunk Hues now rapidly parcel
ing among themselves all the Northern
iMntes cast uf Missouri. The same princi
ple • >!' development, though manifesting it-
i 'll' through various outward phases, has
< ontralled the :i all; mntatis mutandis, the
t xporieuce of one is the experience of all-”
The writer then enters on the discussion
c.f ihc remedy, lie inclines to the exercise
1 y the Federal Government of a control
i.vcr the railroads under that clause of the
• ’uiistitutiou authorizing CoDgress to regu
Jute commerce between the States Cuder
» his clause, says he. Congress has always ex
i rciseda control over navigable rivers, but
i lie commerce between the States is colon-
p er carried on by barge or by steamer, but
) iy rail.
lint he arrives at the conclusion that the
• xerciso of the power would be nugatory in
aoiitraint of the evils of consideration He
Mates that legation iu sever il of the States
fgainst the consolidation ol competing
lines has proved futile. That a provision
’•> this effect was passed in the New York
.Legislature, and a similar provision was in-
• orperated into the Constitutions of Illinois
Mid Michigan, and yet, the evil has assuin-
• d increasing magnitude. He observes that
• •ertainty and responsibility in management
mo two of tlie most important requisites of
i good railroad system. So far as railroad:
sue concerned, competition puts both cer
tuinty and responsibility out of the ques-
»ion; it reuders the first impossible, and by
• livisiou destroys the last.”
Excessive competition lead to consolida
tion—the lowucssof the fares produced the
• ombination of large capitalists and the
union of separate lines. The losses com-
3’clled the etmpanies by concentration to
• •btaiu a living profit. The interior towns
• f New England and New York were shut
"Ut from the markets on the seaboard and
•'ice versa. La some cases the freight was
ten jer cent on the value of the article
transported. The consequence has Deen
i he breaking up cf many manufacturing
• stublishmcnts i i the interior.
The final conclusion of the writer is that
5 •gislation cannot provide a remedy, be-
•"itiso legislation must be special, aud can-
:-'"t embrace those diversities that charac-
• rizc transportation by railroads. He thinks
that a fixed minimum of railroad charges
no less essentia! to the community than
n lixed maximum. He suggests the estab
lishment of a tribunal to regulate the rates
.1 freight and fares There aie functions
V hitaining to railroad management that are
beyond legislative competence.
Hr. Adams is most powerful iu his cx-
} i-itionof the various forms of corruption
3 icidcnt to the present railroad system, as
• following passage will show :
" "bore only remains sufficient space to
iuitf to one or mure subjects in this con
nection. The power of these corporations,
i ' the hands of corrupt men, has a disturb
ing and degrading iuflu ucc in our politics,
i-ud the crying abuses so notorious iu the
i .tcrnal administration ol* corporate affairs,
1 ive of late occasioned no considerable de-
p.ee uf public solicitude.
Examples of both descriptions of evil re
J ired to are always at hand, and the year
.1 ist past lias been peculiarly prolific of
t lem (lerlain iastauees, however, pall bv
) >rec of repetition; certaiu men succeed ia
t cquiring a pre-eminence in infamy which
: dually destroys their value for purpose of
i lustration. The frauds aud outrages iu
t io Erie management for instance, have
perhaps been dwelt upon ad nauseam. Not
that justice has been, or, outside of a pri-
V ite door, well can be done to their perpe-
ti itors, but nothing implicating them can
longer excite surprise From the leading
criminals themselves to the counsel who
r ve! in their dirty work, these men have
Dow brought all the discredit they cau on
everything with whieli they live in contact,
flout American credit down to th; New
I "rk bar. It is therefore hardly worth
■while to gi on with the contributions of an
other year to tt.eir long• bead roll of of
fences.
A new illustration from i ther quarters
ol the abuse of po'itieal influence would be
more effective. Even if no evidence should
be found to exist of the perpetration or
fraud, yet the opportunity for it may
exist so evidently—the way, if the will
were only there—that the propriety of re
moving from erring humanity such an ever
present temptation may , prove a subject'
w orthy of grave discussion.
Upon looking over the broad field, vari
ous scandals at once suggested themselves
Tl. e ineideuts of the recent Congress acd
its suspicious squandering of public lauds
would naturally he the first. Especially
those vast grants which have endowed a
single corporalIbn—the Northern Pacific
- -with an appanage nearly equal to a dez-
• States of the size of Massachusetts, and
loudly, if at all, falling short of the united
Mens of the five second class European
Kingdoms of Peutnark, Holland, Belgium
3‘irtugal ; nd Greece. At one time during
i io last winter there were railroad schemes
J ending before Congress which appropriat-
• I lour hundred million acres of the pub-
J ■ domain—an area larger than the whole
to iginnl thirteecn Colonies. Of the South
ern States it would be a mere waste of time
t" speak.
•Summary.—\Ve have considered the sub
ject ol railroads under four general heads :
I • The grants of public lands as the nu-
C.cii-i fur the formation ol companies.
”. The use of the banks for obtaining
Luge advances by the hypothecation of
stocks aud bon Is, aud the consequent per
manent conversion of circulating into fixed
capital.
U. The undue extension of credit, by
"which a spasmodic action is produced in
the money market, and a system of liypoth
ecation of stocks and bonds that divers
capital from its legitimate uses in augment
ing the products of the country.
■I, Th 3 combination of cliques or rings,
and the corruption by which political con-
tiol is obtaiued, that threatens to absorb all
the powers of government in the interest of
a si upendous monopoly.
it must be supposed from the tenor of
tlic above remarks that we are it irnical to
railroad improvement, but it is desirable
that snch improvemrnt should bs effected
by a private subscription and not by grants
ol pub'ic lands, subsidies of the public
money, or Slate and municipal subscrip
tions.
Tt is, however, for the moral and politi
cal results of such a system—(or the .pause
of good government, and the erdit of free
instituiions, that the still increasing tide of
legislative corruption should be arrested—
that tbe odious word lobbyism should no
longer find a place in our political vocabu
lary.
[From the Scientific American. Suddenly as we were hastening along
Facts aud Figures About the 31 out Cents j the muddy, lonely path which skirted tho
earthwalls of a little village almost in ruins
Tunnel.
This tunnel completes the continuous
rail line of the same guage, from tbe En
glish Channel to Briudiei, in the south of
Italy, 1,800 miles in length, which latter
point, is even now tbe great Mediterranean
port, for the departure and arival ol steam
ships for the east via Suez Canal.
Mont Cenis lies between “St. Jean de
Maurienne,” in Savoy, and “Susa,” in
Peidmont, consisting of a high table land
7,000 feet high, rising abruptly to a peak
nearly 12,000 feet high. The first Napo
leon built a road eighteen feet wide over
this mountain, costing 7,000,000 francs.
Theu fol.owed the railroad with three rails
in 1867, which has had fearful snows,
and heavy gradients to content with, and
being of narrow guage, has been only of
temporary benefit.
Tho tunnel was commenced in 1857, and
work has been nnceasining day and night
every since. Its length is 7 miles, 1,020
yards. “Bardonneche” is the name of the
Italiau end, while the French terminus is
callel • Foumcaux.” The Italian end is4,
380 feet abote the level of the sea, the
French end being elevated 3,94G feet.
The tUDonl grade line is one in '2,800 ri
sing from the Italian end to about the cen
ter, then falling ore iu 35 to the French
end.
The rock passed through seems to have
been sctiist, quartz aud Freestone. Com
mencing at the Fiench end, there was
schist for about 2,400 yards; average pro
gress 4 feet per day; then 550 yards of
quartz, average progress, 2 feet per day;
then limestone for about 3,000 yards,
average progress, 7 feet per day; the till-
once of the distance being principally schist
with an average progress of 5 feet per day.
The tunnel is iwen'y-five feet high, and
during the prosecution of the work was di
divided by a temporary wooden flooring in
to two galleric'—one above, the other be
low—bad air passing out of the formet, and
fresh being supplied by the latter.. About
4J miles was done from tbe Italian cud,
and the rest from the French. Fonr years
after the boring was commenced, comprtss-
ed air was first used for running drills on
the Italian side, lmmence “eompressers”
w ere necessary, which were worked by wa
ter power, and the air compressed to one-
sixth, or a pressure of six atmospheres.
Ten machine drills have been constautly at
work at each end, but those on the French
side did not commence until 1SG3. Powder
and and nitro-glycerine were used, but we
have no statistics as to their relative rner-
we saw thre > paces from ns, lying in the
grass beaten down by the.frost, a little bas
ket made of matting, with the opening
sewed up; something seemed to move in
side it; we cut open the course stuff with a
knife, and found a poor little uaked crea
ture, frozen and blue with cold, about 24
hours old: as soon as the light fell upon it,
it set up a plaintive wail; in another mo
ment this waJ answered by fresh cries com
ing from a neighboring bush, where anoth
er infant was struggling in its death agony.
This one had apparently been thrown over
the wall, for it seemed to have its bones
broken.
We soon found, within a space of five
hundred yards alongside of this path, sev
en dying children, only a few hours old;
some were attacked with leprosy, others al
most completely frozen; one bad been stab-
ea in the side with a knife. Seven in less
than half a mile; is cot the sight ioo horri
ble and heartrending ?
During our first day in China chance
made ns witnesses of this example of the
most frightful cruelty; we searched still
further among the rubbish, but could not
discover one of these little creatures that
there was any chance of saving; from one
blood was flowing; another bad its feeble
limbs lrozen by the cold, a third with the
death rattle in its throat, vomited the poi
son given to it.
All my life I shall preserve the memory
of these seven children thrown out to die,
at the gate of the first Chinese town we
visited, seven children discovered in cur
first walk taken at hazard in the country
around Canton. I can no longer be sup-
prised at the number of twenty or twenty-
five thousand, of which I recollect rightly,
the Ani alsof the Propagation of the Faith
estimate the number of children exp fed
annuallyin the large towns of Chine.”
The Fate of Judas.—Quite recently,
at one of the hotels in New Orleans, the
late Confederate General Longstreet, who
for a paltry office joined the Radical party,
was Seated opposite two Louisiana ladies
whom he had formerly known, and in
whose families he had been intimate. He
lddressed them across the table, but re
ceived no recognition in return. Finally,
he said “You do not seem to recognize
ms, I am General Longstreet.” The elder
of the ladies replied, “sir, you have really
changed so much since tho war, that we do
not recognize you.” Tho dinner was a has
ty one by Longstreet.
Mr. de Mortie, whose marriage at Wash
ington to Mr. Dowiog’s daughter created,
considerable excitement about a year ago,
has been ejected from a Chicago restaurant
on account of his color, and has brought
suit against the proprietor of the restaurant
laying his damages at 85,000. De Mortie
is a french creole and nearly white.
Some Cincinnati ladies thought to in-
cr ase their beauty, when wearing low-
necked dresses, by painting blue veins on
the exposed skin, but were disgusted at the
remark cf a physician, who looked at them
to 3 clcady, that they hadn’t got those
veins painted witbin four inches of where
they should be naturally.
The “shifts” were eight hours each, sim
ilar to those on the Hoosac tunnel, giving
the men sixteen hours rest alternately.
The wages paid miners were about five
francs per day, and “muckers” about th-ee
francs per day.
Many lives have necessarily been lost
during this great work, but far less than
one would snrpose; probably from six hun
dred in all, from t:m ■ to time.
W e have not seen the whole cost of the
work mentioned so far, but it canuot be
much short of 1GO,000,000 lrances, or 829,
920.000.
a the Cincinnati Commercial.
Don Platt,
Woodhull Catches Gen. Pleasanton in
a Delicate Position.
The other day, General Pleasanton, a
delicate,sensitive little gentleman,was dres-
tor dinner. He had divested himsclt
of every garment except the one spoken of
by Hood in that melancholy song called
“The Song of the Shirt.”
lie was sailing about under bare poles,
when he heard a knock at the door, and
sup; o.-ing it to bo his m->u—who ought to
have been there,and was not—he sang out,
‘Come in.’ To his utter consternation, that
constitutional female known as Mrs. W’ood-
iiull, with a peaked bat and a man’s over
coat, terminatin in unmistakable crinoline,
stalked in. As the did not immediately
stalk out, but stood looking at the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue in the absciaet,
the last named gentleman, hiding behind
on arin-ehair, stuttered out, ‘Excuse me
madam !’
‘I want to see von on business, Gener
al.’
‘Well, madam, woi’t you be so good as
to come to my office. I am not in a condi
tion to see any one on business just now,
and I beg of you to desist and come to the
Bureau.’
‘I don’t care anything about your Con.
dition, General Pleasanton; but it is a mat
ter of some importance that I wish to see
you upon, and this is as good opportunity
as any.’
“My God, madam,” exclaimed the ag
onized Commissioner, shifting his financial
peiEon from one ieg to the other, “won’t
you please permit me to dress for din
ner?”
‘I have no objection to your dressing
for dinner, but what I want to know is this,
what are yon going (o do about the Vander
bilt case?
That Vanderbilt case is a great outrage,
sir, and I can see that somebody is to be
swtudled out of half a million of dollars,’
and here followed a statement of the Van
derbilt case, that occupied just twenty min
utes by tho clock, and was very forcible
and emphatic.
And at the end of it, when the strong-
minded constitutional Mrs. Woodhull
paused for breath, the Commissioner
said:
‘I don’t know anytning about the Van
derbilt case,madam. I have not looked at a
siuglc paper. 1 have not heard anything
hut what you have told me. 1 have not had
time.
My God, I don’t get time to put
my breeches. I don’t want to be rude,
but I wish ycu would go away and let me
dress.’
At this ciement a knock was heard at
the door,and Pleasanton ycl'ed louder thac
ever he gave command to a batallion,
“Couie in.” The door opened, and the
substantial figure and handsome face of our
Commodore Alden appeared upon the en
trance.
So soon as he did this, the Commissioner
ehassezed from the rear of his arm chair to
the back of a sofa, aud Alden, thinking
that he was intruding upon some tender
scene between the General and the female,
beat a hasty retreat.
But the Commissioner was not to be for
saken, and he ran to the door, jerked it
open, and, with the tail end of his linen
flying in the wind, seized Commodore Al
den and brought him back, when the cool
and courageous Woodhull rose in a ma-
jest'c manner and wished them a good
day.
Pleasanton sank quite exhausted into
a chair, ard begged Alden for a little bran
dy to try and rally from this tremend
ous attack of woman’s rights made upon
him.
THE RADICAL CONSPIRACY.
Beside the fact that ice is lighter than
water, there is another carious thing about
it which many persons do Lot know, name
ly, its parity. A lump of ice melted will
become pure distiled water. Water in free
zing turns out of it all that is not water-
salt, air. colloring matters, and all impuri
ties. Frozen sea water makes fresh water
ice. If you freeze a basin of indigo water
it will make ice as clear and white as that
made of pure rain water. When the cold is
very sudden, these foreign matters have no
time to escape, either by rising or sinking,
and are thus entatngled with the ice, but
do not make any part of it.
Stealthy Movements of the Radicals—The
New Enforcement Bill,
The Washington correspondent of the Bai
timore Gazette says:
Those who have watched closely the steal-
Thc will of a defunct California doctor
directs that his body shall be dissected,
and the skeleton shall be well “wired to-
jetlier and placed in a medical college in
ease his wife shouldn’t want it as a mantle
ornament.
thy movements of the Radicals need not be
told that a civil war will be risked rather
than power surrendered at the behest of the
ballot box.
The encroachments of Co-'gress and the
Executive move steadily along. The new
Enforcement bill, which has just passed
the House, is hut another of a series of
measures designed to drive the people to
extremes.
With a fourth of the real legal voters of
the country,the revolutionary leaders think'
they can perpetuate their rule; and unless
the people display more concern and earn
estness than they have for the past six
years, the programme must undoubtedly
succeed, for a time at least—perhaps for
the ner t decade.
Whatever may be tlnught or said to the
contrary, it will appear plain enough when
an impartial historian shall have written of
the origin o r the war of I861-’65, that hos
tilities were premeditated and forced by
the Radical leaders. It is notorious that,
for this ox; res3 purpose, Mr. Seward was
thrown overboard at the Chicago Conven
tion in 1870, and a man of “more nerve”
selected in bis stead. Then,as now,North
ern hate was appealed to—then, as now,
the principle of force was insisted upon, in
the outset, as the only panacea for d fferen.
ces of opinion iu a Government founde i ex
presslv upon the consent of the govern,
ed.
Virginia (tho “border States” agreeing
with her) had just decided against sece-sion
by 60,000 majority, when “the man of
nerve” called for 75,000 troops, with which
to invade kcr soil. The Radical leaders
now intend to exclude the Southern vote,
ca masse, if need be, under the cry of Ku
Klux.and as many Northern electoral votes
as shall suffice their purposes,on the plea ol
frauds in the elections—especially iu large
Democrat cities.
The plot is perfect. Such desperate Ro-
bespierres. Dantous and Marats as Mor
ton, Chandler and Butler have beou given
the reins uudis. uisedly, and with apparent
ly almost the universal consent of the Rad
ical party in Congress. Senator Blair
touched indirectly, these poin'sju his great
speech, with a significance that the couu
try had better pay some little attention
A Chicago girl siys she does not get
married for the rca j on that she does not
know whose husband sh 3 might be marry-
Reported for the Tri-Weekly Courier.
Wasuixctgx, Feb. 24.
House is on the omnibus appropriation bill
It contains appropriations for public build
ings in New Orleans, Charleston, Knoxville,
St. Louis, Nashville and Montgomery.
A Herald special says a Dominican leader
lias issued a proclamation, calling on all true
Dominicans to rally to expel Baez.
Proclamation speaks of the country being
sold as a piece of merchandise.
Affairs in Arkansas are approaching a cri
sis. It is thought to-day will determine the
future course of all parties.
IxDiAX.vroi.is, Feb. 24.
Presiding officers of the Senate and House
decide that resignations have left the respec
tive Houses without a quorum, and legisla
tion for the present is impossible.
Appropriation tax and other vital bills had
been passed before tho bolt.
Loxdo.y, Feb. 24.
Brussels Xord says Bismark hints at the
restoration to Paris of two hundred million
francs, if the Prussians are allowed to pass
through Paris without hostile demonstration!:
A Paris letter says a conflict is expected
should the Prussians attempt to pass through
tiie city.
Journal De Paris says Bismark, at the re
quest of Thiers ordered a cessation of requi
sitions in all sections, and declared that con
tributions levied since the 28th of January,
will bo deducted from the French indemnity.
submitted Saturday to the consular commit
tee. Peace is certain. •
Armistice not to be prolonged, Prussians
enter Paris Monday.
Washixgtox, Feb. 20.
The Government will purchase 2,000,000
bonds each Wednesday, and sell a million of
gold on the first, third and fifth Thursday,
and two million the second and fourth Thurs
days. Transactions for the month—purchase
ten million of bonds and sell seven millions
of gold.
Bordeaux, Feb. 26.
Official dispatch from Paris states that the
preliminaries of peace have been signed. Thi
ers arrives at Bordeaux to-morrow.
Berlix, Feb. 27.
Emperor said to Augnsta, “With deeply
moved heart in gratitude to God, I inform
yon that the preliminaries of peace have been
signed. Bordeaux Assembly most yet rat
ify them.
(Signed) Wilhelm.
Versailles dispatch of the 26th says Thiers
proposes the purchase of Luxemburg for
Prussia in consideration of the restoration of
Metz to France.
Armistice prolonged two days.
Welhelm returns to Berlin Saturday. Thi
ers offered another million Thalers for Metz.
Offer refused.
New Yoee, Feb. 27.
World special from London 26th says the
English government at the last moment inter
vened and persuaded the Germans not to
march through Paris. *
Paris, Feb. 27.
France cedes Alsaace and Metz, pays five
million francs within a year, .the Germans
hold the fortresses until paid. Armistice
prolonged a week.
Washixgtox, Feb. 27.
McPherson’s list for the next House of
Representatives : Republicans 130; Democrat
96, independent 1. vacant 14; 15 contested
seats.
Henry D. Cooke nominated Governor of
the District of Colombia.
No Southern nominations to-day.
Baron Gerott has been recalled. His suc
cessor not known.
Resolutions paying the Georgia Senators
and contestants, as hcrctotorc telegraphed,
Another ineffectual struggle to get up the
Cincinnati and Southern Railroad,
Post Office appropriations resumed.
Senate in session to-night.
In the House the conference committee on
Indian appropriations and the Omnibus ap
propriations resumed. The bill passed with
out changes affecting the South, but finally
under vote to reconsider, was tabled. Ad
journed.
New Yoke, Feb- 27.
A special to the Tctegraui, London, 27th,
says a dispatch from Puns this morning states
that the Germans will make a triumphal en
trance on Wednesday. Thirty thousand Ger
mans will take possession of the line of tri
umphal march.
Germans will remain within prescribed
zone until tne treaty is ratified.
Wilmington, Feb. 27.
Henderson Oxemdine, one of the negro
outlaws, for whose arrest large rewards were
offered, was captured by a party of citizens
of Robinson county, and lodged in jail Sat
urday night.
Galveston, Feb. 27.
Thompson H, McMahon, a leading hanker
of this city, and prominently connected with
heavy business circles in America and Eu
rope, died of pneumonia this afternoon.
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JOBBERS OF
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-A.RE NOW IN RECEIPT OF HEAVY ADDITIONS to their already very large Stock of Sea-
s rouble Goods, to which they would respectfully call the attention of Merchants.
They have just received in their Shoe department
Liverpool, Feb. 27.
Cotton, uplands 7J-{; Orleans, 7d-i; sales
10,000.
New York, Feb. 27.
Cotton 15} sales 3850; gold 11-1; money
5; sterling, OKI; 62’s 12}.
Cincinnati, Feb. 27.
Pork 22 00; lard held; shoulders 9J;
clear sides 11}-}; whisky 86.
New Orleans, Feb. 27.
150 Cases of Boots and Shoes,
Which will be Offered to the Trade at
XJiSrTJSTTALLY LOW PRICES.
Many Goods arc much lower than in the early part of the season.
We feel greatful lo the Merchants and Planters who hare se liberally sustained ns in onr new
enterprise; and we promise them onr best efforts to please in the future.
Money to Advance on Cotton for Shipment at Liberal Bates.
Borne Ga.
No. 9, Eroad Street,
nov29wtf
BIG THING. Hills, Dailey & Co.
Cotton, middlings, 14J-J; sales 8700; stock
238,684.
Telegraph has a special from Paris of the
ail tho conditions of peace are set-
The short turn of the Administration
the Alabama question, may here lied a so
luion. It is utterly impossible that a Gov
eminent can be permanent, founded, as
will probably be, in a lew years, upon th
principle of military force, and yet remain
under the forms of Ilepullicanisni. Let
the people stand ready to meet the crisis
when tl e mask is thrown asido.
“One Half or France to Eat up the other
Halt.”
‘With the brief garment of a weak defense
He stood appalled.”
The Indianapolis Journal says: “We now
believe in the doctrine of total depravity.
Some one bus stolen the only pair of boots
owned by the editor of the Leavenworth
Independent, thus confinin' him to the
house till the opening of tho bare-foot sea
son.
“Pauperism,” says Herr Waehenhusen
of the Cologne Gazette, “wili on the con
clusion of peace prevail in ono half of France
aud will eat np the other half. Already
armed hands are roaming about, whief
plunder the country houses aod chateaux
aud murder their own countrymen with the
very arms put into their hands by tho coun
try as francs firreurs.
Hundreds ol thousands have been suffer,
ing for months. The are enduring all pri
vations for a time as a sacrifice imposed on
them by the misfortunes of the country,
but with the war their resignation will
cease.
Ilundredf of thousands of officials are
starving with their families, because they
aro too old to carry a musket; in the unoc
cupied towns the inhabitants have long ceas
ed work, and have Dot the means to pro.
cure the requisite materials. Entire com.
munities hav3 emigrated.and will, perhaps,
on their return, find half their property
burnt.”
The last Bleat of the Buck.
Italy has published seven hundred and
twenty three newspapers.
The number of poems composed iu
G erman on the war is said to be about
6,909.“
A visitor to New York said he stopped at
a house kept upon the European plan,
which, according to his experience, is to
charge so much for the use of the room
that you have no money in the morning to
invest in a breakfast.
| (Buck, politically expiring Congressman
from the First District of the State of Al
abama, is ustDg his last hours of political
lif e io malicious defamation of the people of
Alabama. On the 14th February, he de
livered himself of a speech that was but a
rehash of the slanders of this people with
which the Radical press] have teemed
for months past, supplemented by tbe most
unwarranted and false assertions concerning
disturbances that have, within a recent pe
riod, occurcd It would be idle to attempt
any refutation of the slanders of this base
carpet-bagger, for, no matter how clearly
the fa’sehood might be shown, ‘his party
would simply pronounce the refutation a
rebel lie. We, down here, know the value
to be put upon Back’s statements. We
know that he is po’iticolly and personally
corrupt, and that he cannot, and docs not,
affilia'e, when in the State, with any but
the lowest tod most abandoned of our pop
ulation. Buck is a fair type of the carpet
baggers, whom the late civil war has thrown
into office in the South. The race is fast
expiring in Alabama, and, in the course of
another decade, they will live only in the
recollection that onr people will have of
tneir rascalities aud villainies. And, among
tho names ou the future monument of
shame, none will occupy a higher place
than Carpet bagger: Buck.— Selma Times
The Rochester Union says just six hun
dred and sixty-nine thousand persons de
signed to take the fatal train ou the Hud
son River Railooad for New York cn
Monday night, who missed by chance get
ting on hoard. The number is increasing
daily by names published in the papers ev
ery where. Most of them had berths oh
the buffalo car.
2od that alt tne conditions of peace
tied, except indemnity in money,
Miller, from Georgia, seated in the Senate.
He took the modified oath. Congratulations
seemed general.
Judiciary Committee made a report, five to
one, that the decision of Attorney General
Akerman, upon the right of the government
to withhold the entire amount of money for
transportation over the Pacific Railroad, is
not in accordance with the letter and spirit
of law.
Iu the House the omnibus appropriation
hill was up. It appropriates 334 million, in
cluding 265,000 for the freedmen’s bureau.—
Vcnuie Ream gets 5,000 more for the Lincoln
statute. After disposing of 20 of the 55
pages of the bill, the House adjourned.
In the Senate the House amendment to tbe
bill for the hotter security of travel on
steamboats, passed and goes to the President
Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee
reported favorably upon the bill abolishinj
the test oath.
Mr. Howard called up the Texas Pacific
Railroad bill, and moved tbe appointment of
a committee of Conference.
Sawyer wished Senators to understand
that if this bill eras sent to a committee of
conference, there would be great danger of
its being lost.
Warner moved to concur in the House
amendment.
Pomeroy moved to commit the bill to the
committee on Pacific Railroad.
Mr. Blair said if this bill was accepted as
passed by the House, it would bo a
Northern Road, a Northern guage, and point
ing to the North, all lhc Southern franchise
hail been studiously cut off. If there was
anything that this Congress was pledged to
it was to give the Southern people a Southern
railroad, hut this bill was a delusion and a
snare.
Pool said he would sooner have no bill than
such a bill.as this.
Conklipg said it was now evident that de
bate on this bill would last all day, and he
therefore would insist upon the regular order.
Enforcement bill resumed.
Senate still in session.
Louisville, Feb. 27.
Bagging 24a25; pork 22 00; lard 12j; shoul
ders 19 j; clear rib aides 12; clear 1-1; whisky
80.
Montgosierv Feb 24.
The following resolutions passed the House
11 ~
to-day, and it is thought will pass the Senate
tomorrow: That the Governor be and he is
hereby authorized and required to enquire
into, and ascertain the amount of Bonds loan
ed to the Ala. and ChattanoogaRailrod Cp.,-
and of the bonds of said company endorsed by
the State, and when such amount is ascer
tained, the Governor shall make provision,
by temporary loan, or from moneys in the
the State Treasury not otherwise appropria
ted to pay the interest upon said bonds wnen-
ever the coupons attached thereto shall be
presented to him, or to any agent he may ap
point for that purpose, provided that no inter
cst shall be paid upon any of said bonds not
iroved to be held on tbe first day of Jany.
871, by innocent and bona fide purchasers;
provided further, that no interest shall be
paid upon any of said bonds in the bonds of
said Railroad Co., or merely hypothecated by
them, any incorporation or agent thereof, it
being the object and interest of this enact
ment to pay interest only to innocent and
bona fide purchasers of valid claims against
the State.
The Alabama Immigrant Society had first
drawing to-day. First ticket for $25,000 held
in Dover, Delaware, one far $10,000 in Jaek
son, Mississippi, one for 5,000 in Montgome
cry.
New York, Feb. 24.
It is reported that the Quaker City, from
San Domingo, for New York, exploded her
boilers and lost at sen.
Charleston, Feb. 27.
Cotton; middlings 14J-J; sales 03; stock
30,859.
Savannah, Feb. 27.
Cotton, middlings; 141; sales 3Q0, stock
81,146.
Augusta, Feb. 277
Cotton, middlings, 13jal4; sales 300.
Mobile, Feb. 27.
Cotton, middlings 14; sales 1090; stoek
82,585.
Rome Fair. Oct 11th, 1870.
SAVE YOUR CHANGE FOR IT.
AND BUY YOUR CROCKERY,
Glassware, Lamps anfl Oil From
1- A. THOMAS,
Broad Street, Borne, Ga
Successor^ to
MILLS, DAILY, & CO.,
CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS,
Dickson’s Compound,
STEAM ENGINES
PORTABLE
SELF-CONTAINED.
MANUFACTURED 8T
J. C. HOADLEY & CC,
XaTt'rencc, JITass.
For Cotton and Corn,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Sash, Blinds, Doors,
FURNITURE,
DEALERS IN
Imported Furniture,
Lot. of l.nd No,, a; „ ,
« in the j
levied on ai the Dronerl— r ’J'tiea of p hf
tn satisfy
Stvor or Rufus Barker for m 6 "P ,r '<r rC*
No. 2tMyi°4 north west of Ih** n ^ P»Ue
Also, some two hondnxl k„ l ^
•mall lot of fodder, levled ou b.' ' 1 '' nt
a r™ for ren ‘. in favoJ S"«f»t
’i°5 e9 ’ ® xecot ’r of8 ^4
vs. Ishmeil Brznnon. for bb ^ d,,*
Brannon, *
Also, at the same tine t.. , T
the f"L ot . ? cme - ir«- M and «C T "‘-h )jk J
nanla Division, adjoining D r P.L"‘ n ttle
SE*-“ gropert/of EdgaTv, P 4
virtue of a distrcVwairanL ^ °P*^*
mitt, j
J - g- LUMPKrc a.
G CORGI A, Floyd Cofsty.
ed, applies to roofer
dinaSadpT^!
These are therefore to cite and ad„ •
and singular those concerned to h. i.
at my office within th, time pna^S AN
to show cause if any they ha?e wh,n ‘-'M
should not he granted. W “ J !,; d led
novl0-w3u H ’ J ' JOHS:,0 S. CMicy, 1
GEORGIA, Floyd County. "
W HERE AS, Mrs. Elizabeth Rn
application for letters of AdministS?' 7 “ li!
estate of William H. Burney,^
county. J iiweotni
These are thcicfore to rite and ,
and singular the kindred and “?*
deceased, to be and appear at mr oB ‘
the time proscribed by law to shw ca™ 7®
they have why .aid letters should nwKS
to said applicant. w
2 £.S my hand
jan26w30d
actl,tia
H. J. JOHNSON, Oidisnj
Administrator’s Sale
B Y VIRTUE of an order from the Coim
Ordinary of Floyd County win b, U 'fA.
Rome, before the Court House door,on tl,*
Tuesday in March next, within KCtH
of ule, the tract of land in said eomtJVkeSl
S. P. Otta resides, known as the estitetf
Otts, deceased, subject to tho widow', ul
Ho. Z0, If th district, 3, ection, cnfel
acres, 14 acres open land,’the tulincs
mountain land, the remainder good tilishui.Ti'l
on which is a comfortable log house itahk,!
crib and other buildings necessary for aFsmi-l
Also, good springs on the place, and .
churn nn tni» w!non Tone■ —a 3 *"■
i the place. Terms cash.
. 8. P. OTTS, Adm. Debonns 5on
janjSwtd.
GEORGIA, Flojd Coantr.
WHEBEAS, James King having tpp!i*j ..I
be appointed Guardian of the person and a B
ortj ofElixer, Josephine and Henry
minors under fourteen years of a Ve, rtsidial
of said county: I
This is to cite all persons concerned,lobeuil
appear at the term of the court of Ordinary,u|
b© held next after the axpiratioa ol t&tr|
days from the first publication of this notice, t»|
show cause, if they can, why eaid James Ji«|
should not be intrusted with the Goirdimlil
of the person and property of Elixer, Josepkul
t nd Henry. F
Witness my official signature.
feb97I H. J. JOHNSON, Ordinny I
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
Whereas David Mostellea baring applies I
to be appointed Guardian of the perron id I
property of Anna and O. Nelsen, minors of Thai
Wright, deceased? I
This ia to cite all persons concerned, to os ai I
appear at the term of court next after the exp:-1
ration of thirty days from the first pnblieat’osl
of this notice and show cans*, if they ess, vhr
said David Hosteller should not he in * eitedrii
Anna and O. Nelson.
Witness my official sigeatnre, this Februrr I
15th 1871.
H. J. JOHNSON, Ordinary.
febl6w30d
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
Wh
BURIAL CASES, &c.
SMALL GRAIN AND GRASSES,
Manufactured by tbe
Dickson Fertilizer Company,
Augpasta, Ga.
Warranted of the best material and free from
adulteration."
rpiIE business of the old firm has been thor-
onghly re-organised. Mr. G. C. ALBAUGH,
formerly of Louisville, Ky., takes charge of the
Contracting and Building Department. First
class Northern and Southern workmen have been
employed; and we are now prepared to finish
work in any style desired. Mr. J. G. Dailhy con
tinues the manufacture of Furniture, and can
meet the wants of tbe wholesale and retail trade.
Mr. Henry A Hills succeeds Hr. Mills at tho
Wareroom.
Our nriccs have been reduced to Atlanta rates,
and all work will be guaranteed as represented.
<ga»OfEce and Wareroom, Broad Street
aorlw9m.
Price $60 per Ton.
(A
46 COETLAXDT STREET,
Now-Tort.
Send for Circulars.
septlTtw-wly
PRICES REDUCED.
Nashville, Feb. 26. -
Negro Convention ask protection from Con
gress.
Haxilton, Feb. 25.
Ticket number 28,889 wins the Opera
Uonse.
Little Rock, Feb. 28.
Absent Senators returned. Court dismiss
ed tho quo warranto against Lieut. Governor
Johnson.
Pabis, Feb. 26.
A dispatch from Ycrsailces, dated -mid
night, Friday the 24th, says Thiers, Favre
and Bismark, held a long interview Friday.
Terms of peace were agreed upon, but the
exact nature is a profound secret—will he
FOB BALE BY
WILCOX, GIBBS & CO.,
IMPOBTERS AND DEALERS IN G0AJTO&
148 Bay Street Savannah,-da.
241 Broad Street. Augusta, Ca.
151 Bast Bay, Charleston, S. C.
BERRYS & CO., Borne. Ga.
For farther information apply or aJJtess as
above for pamphlets containing prices, terms,
eertificstes, Ac. . jas7tw-w3m
SALE,
near the center of the
FOR
A BEAUTIFUL 1
City—fifty feet front on Etowah Street, running
back 250 feet, or more. rThercla e *mill dwell
ing and out-housea on' it. For terms apply to
Alexsndez A Wrighf, No. 129, Broad Street,
MART S. HAZLETON.'
Rome, Ga.
©ct8twtf
Jlpi
of Potash aud Ammonia, German Potash SaitsI
Dissolved Bone, Sulphate of Magnesia, and al,
Fertilixing 8alts.
Send for Circulars.
JAMES T. GARDNER,
dec29tw-wtipl President.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]
D AJR BY 5 S
Prophylactic Fluid,
TAILORING.
A* P. NEELD
F EELS gratified to announce to his old pat
rons and the public that he has opened a
Shop, and is confident that he will give entire
satisfaction te all who wish neat and tastefully
fitting garments, cut upon the right principles,
and according to the latest styles, whether made
in or oat of his shop.
His stand is at No. , over the Dry Goods
Store of Messrs. Hardin A Johnscn, north side of
Broad street, Rome.
M. ^ Cutting is a specialty with him.
sept IQ-wtf
WIINSHIP & BRO-,
ATLANTA, GA-
Manufacturers of*
IMPROVED COTTON BINS
Brooks' Cotton Press,
HORSE POWERS &0.
^fUSmr^uableMFamil^Medicine^jijgiurif^
iog^o|«Kaifi^remoYsnj^ha^do^i^^ncinda
sickness; for barns, sores, wonbds, stings; for
Erysipelas, rheumatism, ad j all skin diseases;
forCatarrh^sor^montb^ore^throat^dijjhtheria;
for colic, diarrhoea, cholera; as a wash to soften
and beautify the shin; to remove ink si
£ots.
mil-
dew, frait stains; taken Internally as well as ap-
plied externally; so highly recommended by all
wb^hav^uijd^i^is^^ijjl^^raUJDrngjfjts
Jtt^coun^r^erchmnt^Md^mg^^rdereddi-
rectfy of DARBY PBOPHYLATIC CO„
Samples of onr work can be seen at the store
of Messrs. J. & S- Bones k Co., Rome, Ga
Send for Circular and Price List.
jnnc9w3m.
CEDAR VALLEY
LAND FOR SALE,
^l^HE subscriber offers his Plantation kno
formerly as the Mocrison place, three-fourth* of
a mile from Cedar Town for sale. The place
contains 700 acres of as good land as there is in
Cedar Valley. In 1888, the net profits, from the
rented lands planted in cotton, was forty-eight
HEREAS, Harriet L. Aron hu applied fcr I
the Guardianship of Samnel T. Aron, minor ca-1
der fonr teen yean of age.
These are therefore to cite and sdmonnh £ I
and singular those concerned, to be and apper I
at my office within the time prescribed by In I
to show cause, if any they have, why said let r
tors should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signatoe I
February 16,1871.
H. J. JOHNSON, Ordinirr.
febl6w30d
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
WHEBEAS, J. T. Hosteller hu tppliel h I
letters of administration on the estate of 1
as Wright, deceased: j
This is therefore to cite and admoniihaU^I
singular the kindred and creditor* of aid «• I
ceased to show cause, If any exiat, why »*d *?■ I
plicant should not receive letter* of Admim» I
tion on the eitato of *aid deceaeied, in term* I
the law, I
Given under my hand and official tfutei I
February 15,1871.
Hj J. JOHNSON, Ordinary.
febl5w3Gd
GEORGIA, Floyd Connty.
Whereas Harvey Washington W* I
for an exemption of personalty and »eta r l I
apart and valuation of homestead, I ^ I
upon the same on the 16th of Febrn*iy» WUi f
at my office in Rome, this Feb. 6th, IS7L
H. .1. JOHNSON,Ordy.
Feb7w2w ^
POLK COUNTY.
POLK AND FLOYD COUUTI
Lands for Sale.
HE Lands, known as tbs Dr. Greei pn>P
on tho line of Polk and
miles from Rome, 8J miles from Cedartovi,««
tbe waters of Silver Creek, are offorod for
The wholeplace contains 1000*cre*» wf» [
cleared. There are
e place contain* iwvu I
There are two good
good orchards and enng eppointment* w .
also, savaral other improvements that nisMP”
tennsnt houses. The rltce will be4ivi«n»
small arms if desired. The Unds srepn«
u aesxrea. * r. ,
tive, and are offered very low, and on l J on Jf w j* !
“ - ‘ Addre** the nbienbr»
Titles are perfect. Addre** the ,
Cedsrtown, Gs., who will MADM-
ehow the place, S. M. H. BTBD, AP-
Postponed
dollars per acre. The place a admirably' water-
lenuy be divided into two oi
181 William Street, N, Y.
*S~For silo by Dr. R. V. MITCHELL, Broad
Street, Rome, Ga. de«2#tw-wly
GEORGE PAGE & CO.
So. S North Schroder Street, Baltimore
Manufacturers of
PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS
PATENT IMPflOVED, PORTABLE
Circular Saw Mills,
GANG, MULAY AND SASH SAW MILLS.
GRIST MILLS, TIMBER WHEELS, SHINGLE
MACHINES, Ac. Dealers in Circnlar Saws, Belt-
ding, and Mill supplies generaly, manufactur
er’s agents for Leffel’a Celebrated Turbina Water
Wheel and every deaeripton of Wood Workin
Machinery. AGRICULTURAL ENGINES A
SPECIALTY.
.A^Bend for descriptive Catalogues A Price
Lists.
a«pH0tw-wly'
Straw and Shacks for Sale
—AT—
T. T. ELLISON’S.
febdtwlal
ed and can conveniently be divided into two or
three farms. There is an excellent two story
Dwelling, with nine rooms, well finished—an
ample supply of good out bailings, a good Gin
House nod Screw, and eight or nine eomfortahle
house* for renters. If any ons is willing to pay
anything like a FAIR PRICE for GOOD LAND,
we can trade.
I will take one-half the amount that lands,
which are no better, have recently sold for in
this valley. HIRAM PHILLIPS.
febSStw-wtf.
THE BRIDAL CHAMBER
ESSAYS FOR YOUNG HEN,
—ON—
Great Social Evils and Abuses,
Which interfere with MARRIAGE, with rare
means of reUof for the Erring and Unfortunate,
diseased and debilitated.
Sent in sealed letter envelopes, free of'
Address, HOWARD SANITARY AID.
C1ATION, No. 2, Sooth Ninth St, Philadelphia,
Pa. IsnlTtw-wSm.
Letter Heads and Bill Head*
THE BEST OF
BILL HEAD PAPER
ALWAYS ON HAND, AND NEAT JOBS
WILL BE EXECUTED AT THE
COURIER OFFICE.
JjY virtue of an order from iheCoortofOri'^
of Polk county, Ga, 1 will cell to tbs
bidder, before th* court howe d°or# ^
Town, en the first Tuesday in Slirch ^
in tho legal hours of sale, , t k* Ja
third interest in a town lot tn Cedar _ ,
— Sold aa the property of Tho®**,®' re9 i
minor orphan of
miner orphan
cash.
jan26wtd
The Utley Plow.
It is the Best and Cheapest.
All like it who know it-
It is a Turner, Sub-!
Sweep, & Ci
* * ^ ||>
1HIS is beliaved to be the Just*
T^Wfertt.general
It is a complata model of tin*
with strength and dmaMMY- * ^ eouriSj
bolts, and in ons minute it czn ,. . II*
Into Tumor, Swusp, ".Salt *>£
These Plows aro
Warranted to give
Willi
w ,itls*-
and in all cases the money
^They are being manafaetnred in 6°®*’
tn and Columbus:
The fallowing are Agenta:
Ayer, Hills A Co., Boms,
Morrison A Mitchell,
sepTtwlYWtf
s ■*!