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The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING, Apr. 14.
A MODERN COSTARD—THE COJl-
S3ERCIAE FLUNKY IX A NEW ROLE.
The locum tenens-—not Jupiter Tonaus
-—of the Commercial has become iudig-
naufly virtuous our expression of con
tempt for the littleness of its attempt to
lot itself down easily. by snatching at the
Courier; and with all the pomposity of a
-enuine journalistic quack—which we are
strongly inclined to btiicve he is—seizes
the cudgels, and lams away, like an idiot
beating the air in an imginary contest with
spectres.
Here is the way he lets off—Dot his cat-
for his slubber has not enough stamina
in it to be venomous—his frothy mouth
•ngs, which we publish that our readers
may see what a fool may sometimes dan le
his legs from a tripod.
•‘The Courier Venom.”
In the absence of Mr. II. W. Grady, the
principle in the adjustment ol the late pub
lication, relative to the 87,000 reward, we
propose to notice an article in the Courier of
yesterday morning, which bears upon its
lace a spirit of meanness that is almost too
contemptible for notice, and is as disc r ur-
teous as it is unjournalistic.
We expressed a simple regret that the
I i t tor political feeling of the Courier should
have led it into an attack upon Col. For
syth, predicated upon an article from the
0 immercial, that purported to be founded
upon facts and figures, but which has since
in an proven to have no foundation in fact.
Ja reading this extraordinary paragraph
one does not know which to wonder at, the
c ^sequential egotism with which the wri
ter seizes the cudg3l3. or the stupidity with
which ho uses them in whacking his own
chucklehead. “Predicated upon an article
li.r.n the Commercial that purported to be
founded upon facts and figures, but which
h since been provm to have no founda
tion in fact,” is certainly a direct, if notan
honest confession, and doubtless was very
good for its overburdened soul.
“The ‘subterfuge’ of the editor of the
Commercial amounted to this: He charged
a gentleman with having been guilty of re
eeiving a part of a 87,000 reward illegally,
upon what he believed at the time, good
authority; that gentleman, in a spirit of
fairness and justice, proposed an amicable
adjustment and explanation. The affair was
between two gentlemen, and has been set-
r ed amicably by gentlemen, without a sin-
I itccr or unkind feeliog left to mar the
intercourse of gentlemen. The settlement
was made as the editor’s sense of justice
kiiiaaded, and, as his sense of honor ap
; roved, regardless of the opinion of the
Courier as to his “better nature.”
The petty spite poured upon the Com-
uiercia-1 by the Courier for expressing are-
ret iliata political feeling should enter in-
:o ;l controversy, the basis of which was
derived from the Commercial, is unjustifia-
b'e and without cause.
We had hoped that the Courier was gov
erned by other feelings than that of bit-
terneas and hatred, but the animus of the
article yesterday morning leaves us no room
to doubt but that its prejudices, not only
towards the Commercial, but aga'mst a po
litical opponent, are so vindictive as to pre-
■ la.lu it from doing the simplest justice to-
. ini either.
Our remarks were due alike to all the
parties to the affair, and we believe the pub-
: will approve the reparation we have
•ado. however much the Courier may de-
. ire that it may “recoil upon us,” and swal-
low us up, aide! by its bitter invectives of
Saturday morning.”
In the abseuce of the editor of the Com
:a jtvial we shall decline to further notice
t- tnauilii y slummery, knowing that the
•■t laid and egotistical Costard, whoso ab
surdly fills his place, would be utterly inca
pable of understanding our meaning, or ap
preciating any argument addressed to the
re isoa, however simple in its character or
p'ainly it may be put.
A man w'ao has Dot seuse enough to dis-
tiuguish au honest contempt from a spiteful
venom, would not he like'y to very well
distinguish between reason and sophistry,
and to venture an argument with such,
w mid be a simple waste of time and space
—unjust alike to ourselves and our readers.
When '.vc stoop to the meanness he so vir
tuously charges us with, vie may be brought
to condescend one degree lower, and en
gage in a bandying of idiotic moulhings
with hi a.
TIIE COURIER VS. THE COMMER
CIAL.
The iollowing very modest manifesto
we find in the Commercial of Sunday
morning. It is redolent of the Commer
cial's characteristics, meekness and modes-
The envious aad invidious remarks of
lie proprietor of the Courier renders it
proper for us to call attention to the follow
ing indisputable facts.
The Rome Commercial is not twenty-
!x years old. It is a young vigorous, and
i! lurishing paper. -•
The presen . Proprietors took charge of
lire Commercial about eight months ago,—
Very have positive proof of the fact that
at thattiyue this paper circulated weekly,
1: =~ tliaii" oue fourth as many papers a?
« ic sent from the Courier office.
From the very word “Go” the Commer
ce il has gained ra- idly upon the Courier.
—And, whereas, eight months ago it did
not circulate one Jmirth as many papers as
the Courier, the proprietor? are now confi
dent (as near as they can honably know
such things) that there is not a difference
of one hundred in the circulation of the two
papers. And with equal confidence (a
confidence justified by the facts above nara-
tedjproclaim that in another eight months
the Courier will be lers ready to spring a
point of “difference in circulation:”
We are detiriniued to coutinue publishing
i he largest, the best, (and all things co i-
sidored) the cheapest paper in this section.
The Commercial publishes no official ads
vertisements- It derives support from no
corporation, or frem no official. It relies
ion snpp.ort upon the people,
And if slavish attention to business— 1
devotion to the right—fearlessness in die
tion and independence in action mean any
tiling, they intend to win that support. We
invite advertisers to examine subscribtion
Regretting the necessity of the present
publication, we leave the matter with tho
people-—Commercial.
As a fit earollary to the above we also
give the following paragraphs which we
clip from a circular issued and circulated
from that office s->me two or three months
ago. This of course is not invidious nor
eni>'Ous, it is too ridiculously absurd to bd
either. It however contains - about as
much truth is the above Query.—What
oue paper in the State is. the probable ex-,
ception, is it tho Hawkinsville Dispatch?
The SovxiiEapr and Commercial is a
Large, Eight Page Weekly, printed upon
fine book paper, and issued every Friday,
It las the Largest Circulation of any week
ly paper published ip-the State, with prob-
.:f>ly one exception.
It is the largest paper published in the
South, and the managers make it an espec
ial point to cram and pack it with palata
ble news, and racy intelliuenco.
The Proprietors take some pride in ass-
crtii g that the Southern’ and Commer
cial is the best advertising medium in the
State of Georgia.
And new, Rubble-de-dub and High-ti
te tight
The Mystery Solved.—Amos says
that he knows what prompted the ridieu
lous stupidity of the Commercial’s Courier
venom article. He says that the sub heard
that the Chapman Sisters were c:niing,and
that they would play “Midsummer’s Night
Dreams” and he wanted to put in a3 “bully
Bottom.”
Well, he would make a good one, for though
he might not be able as a lion to make the
duke say—“Let him roar again; let him
roar again,” yet in his metamorphosis he
would bring down the house.
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRON
ICLES OF GEORGIA.
Commonly called tile Book of Rufus Behe
moth, the Bullock.
CHAP. II.
1. Aud it came to pass that after this
man ltufus Behemoth, the Bullock, had
been made Governor of the land of Geor
gia, that the people of the laud of Geor
gia Rid murmur thereat.
2. For the people of the land of Georgia
wanted one of their own number to be Gov
ernor over thtrn, aud not an express cart
driver to govern them.
3. For, said the people, “because a fel
low can govern a donkey in the shafts of an
Express cart, it does not signify that he can
also govern a people.
4. But the satrap who held the iron heel
of power upon the neck of his people,
heeded not the murmurs of the people, but
he laughed them to scorn.
5 For this same satrap, was an ignorant
fool, who could not tell his headquarters
from his hindquarters, and who, during the
dark days of the rebellion was wont to date
his orders from headquarters in the saddle
—the place where his hindquarters were.
G. And so this satrap upheld ,the man
Rufus Behemoth the Bullock, in power over
the people of the laud of Georgia.
7. And it came to pass that under the
sham and deceit of the law, it was meet
that the Governor should have a General
Assembly o! the people that they might do
his bidding.
8. And it also came to pass that when
the representatives of the people had assem
bled at the headquarters of the satrap, that
it was found that the same were composed
in the main of good aDd true men.
9. And there were also a few ignorant
and blubber-lipped negroes among them,
whom the good and true men loathed and
despised.
10. And the good and true men arose
and cast them from out of their midst, as
the gurgling stream of the mountain
would cast out a foreign impurity, that
mi,-ht per chance fali into it.
11. And because the true and the good
men of the General Assembly did this
thiug, then was the Governor wroth.
12. For the affinities of the Goveruor
were of a grovelling and debasing charac
ter, and he Fund iu the ignorance and
stench of the negroes a congenial associa
tion.
13. And so he complained to the satrap
of this thing which the good and true men
of the General Assembly had done that
they had east out the ignorant and venal
negroes from their midst-
14. And straightway did the satrap or
der his sargeant to go before the men of
the General Assembly, and to east out from
the General Assembly all the good and the
true men, and to fill their places with car
pet baggers, scallawags, and negroes.
15. Aud theseargent of the satrap did
go before the General Assembly, and with
muskets and sharp bayonets, did eject all
the good and the true men there and plac
ed ia their stead a scurvy set of thieves
and fools and liars.
16. Howbeit, there remained in the Gen
eral Assembly a few good and true men, but
they in their minority were powerless to do
any good, or to prevent any wrong.
17. And after the good and the true
men had been east out of the General As
sembly, and tho negroes, the fools and' the
thieves had been put in their place, then
did the satrap hand the same over to the
hands of the Governor, to do as he bid
them.
IS. And when the Governor had thus
been given the power over the fools and
thieves, then did he cast aside his modest
title of Governor, and assumed to he a
King.
19. And thus it was that Rufus Behe
moth, the Bullock, who once drove the Ex
press cart, became to be a King.
20. And the people remembered that
which was writtea in the Scripture, “Whei
the wicked bear sway, the people mourn-
eth,” and they said unto one another, that
time has surely come.
21. And the wickedness of the reign of
the King was grievous indeed, and in sack
cloths and ashes did the people mourn.
22 And it came to pass that after the
General Assembly had been given over to
the fools and thieves to do the bidding of
the King, that the first thing which they
did was to seize upon the people’s money
that was in the Treasury.
23. And the King, after he had been
seated upon his throne by tho power of the
satrap, did cast his eye about him that he
might find congenial rogues to be unto him
servants in his household.
24. And in order that he might be kept
in countenance, for he was ashamed to look
ao honest man in tho face, he sent out all
over the land of Georgia and invited the
greatest rogues in all the land to come to
hi- court, and tc be unto him servants and
chief servants in his household <
25 Audasitwas written in the First
Boob of the Chronicles of Georgia, he
chose from out the rogues whom he had in
cited to his court, a certain noted rogue
who had been his familiar when ho drove
his Express cart.
26, And th6 name of this rogue was
Foster, the same that was also a Blodgett.
29. And unto him did the King give
the management of the people’s highway,
that he might collect the tolls of the same
and bring them to the King.
30. And after he had brought unto the
King the tolls that ho had collected from
tho people’s highway then did the King di
vide them with his chief servant—only re
serving to himself the larges shares of the
people’s money.
31. And the King also appointed unto
himself a Fugleman, tho should be to the
King a mouth piece and a tacky boy.
32 And it was also the duty of the
King’s Fugleman to attend upon the pres
ence of the King, and when the King had
anything that l e wished to be handled, and
did not wish to soil his fingers with it, then
would the Fugleman lay hold upon it w’th
his hands aud handle it for the King.
33. And the King’s Fugleman, whom
the King appointed to handle his uncleaD
things, was also a very great rogue, the
same of whom it has been written in the
First Do ik of the Chronicles of Georgia.
34. And after the King had appointed
the chief rogue of his hous .‘hold, for be it
remembered there were no lack of rogues
from which to choose, and the same had
each entered udou his career of roguery.—
There was the grandest spectacle of official
roguery and moral depravity presented that
the world ever beheld.
35. And the wickedness that the King
and his servants did, stuuk in the nostrils
of the people, and the oppres.-ions of the
people were too grievous to be borne.
36. But the iron heel of power was up :
on theuecks of the people, aud the people
could only cover their heads in the dust
and weep.
Planting Corn and Cotton—The
farmers'in this section generally, completed
planting their corn crop last week. We
are glad to learn that an unusual large crop
has been planted. The major part of the
cotton crop will be planted this week.
The geneal disposition seems to be fo
plant only the best lands or what can be
well manured, and to cultivate less than
the usual crop.
Who is “Bill Arp.”—We happened
to see a copy of the Tuscaloosa Monitor a
few days, in which there was a tirade of
scurrilous abuse thrown at our esteemed cit
izen, Cha3. H. Smith. That editor says,
“we had the disgust ot meeting this Bill
Arp * * *he is a miserable, low, vul
gar scalawag &c.
This slang is so utterly and ridiculous
false that it needs no denial. There Is no
mote elegant ’or high toned gentleman in
North Georgia than this same Bill Arp;
he has the confidence of the best men iu
this community. So far as we know or be
lleve, he has always, with one exception,
voted the Democratic ticket, aid that vote
for Burnett was explained immediately af.
ter the election.
Floyd County Demorcratlc Executive Com
mittee Meeting.
At a meeting of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of Floyd couu'y, field this
day, in Rome, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted :
Whereas, A vacancy exists in our rep
resentation in the next Ganera! Assembly,
occasioned by the death of Hon. H. A.
Gartrell; and whereas, the Governor of
Georgia has issued his order, dated March
17, 1871, directing and requiring the Or
dinary of said county to order, and pullish
a day for holding an election for one Rep
resentative in the General Assembly, by
giving at least twenty days notice, as re
quired by law; and whereas, we deem it ad
visable that the Democracy of said county
should hold a convention for the purpose
of making a nomination to fill said vacan
cy; therefore,
Resolved, That the delegates from each
Militia District, who composed the last
Democratic county nominating convention,
he, and they are hereby requested to reas
semble at the City Hall, in Rome, at 11
o’clock, a- m, on tha 1st Tuesday in May
next, for the purpose of nominating a can
didate to fill said vacancy.
Resolved That the various Militia Dis
tricts be requested to fill any vacancies that
may exist iu their respective delegations
Resofra?, That the Ordinary be, and he
is hereby requested, to appoint Wednesday,
the 31st day of May next, as the day on
which the election shall be held, aud that
the same be held under the regulations pre
scribed in the revised Code, at the various
election precincts of the county.
Resolved, That the proceedings of the
meeting be published in the city papers.
Dr. G. W. Holmes was elected to fill the
vacancy in the committee occasioned by
Mr. Gartrell’s death.
N. Bass, Ch’n
D. M. Hcod, See’y.
April 10, 1871.
the Ku KIux, the procs, the rads— thi
devil, to which the three latter approx!,
mate, alone, at least, for a short period,
and give yonr papers to building up Borne.
Do not wait for the voxpopuli, but put the
ball in motion, and then keep it rolling.
Viol
The Connecticut Election.—As
near as can now be ascertained, the major
ity of English (Dem.) for Governor, over
Jewell (Rep.) is 107; but there are scatter
ing votes, and it may be that there is no
election by the people. A majority of the
Legislature are Republicans, so if the elec
tion goes to that body, Jewell’B election is
certain.
The way the Money Goes.—The
Atlanta Era received for the year 1870, for
publishing Bullock’s proclamations, and
other State printing, S37.675
For State Road printiog, 11,440
Total,
849,115
Wm. T Martin.—We are always glad
to hear of the success of a printer, espe
cially if at aay time he had worked on the
Courier. This remark is prompted by in
formation recently received, that Billy Mar
tin, some six months since married an ele
gant hdy iu Taylorville, Illinois, is “well
to do in th: world,” and has settled down to
be an industrious, good citizen He is
joint editor and proprietor of the “Chris
tian County Democrat,” and is manfully
battling for the rights aud liberties of the
people.
HOW THE REPUBLICANS WORKED
THE TRICKS IN CONNECTICUT.
Tho New York Herald feels good over
the result of’the election^ in Connecticut,
and approvingly tells hew the thing was
worked. Hera was the way it was done.
Iu rnauy respects the Conrecticut elec
tion i3 a curiosity in politics. The ma
chinery was admirably managed on the
par of the republicans. The clever
scheme, whereby the voters were made to
believe that Tammany Hail had seized up
on the State, by means of an imaginary dis
patch from Governor English to Mr.
Tweed, was an admirable contrivance.
Tammany itself could not beat the trick in
adroitness. The dispatch purporting to
come from Governor English to Mr. Tweed
which we may safely assume was never
written and never worried the telegraph
wires, was cunningly circulated in the
weekly addition of a republican paper- at
Hartford -the Courant— throughout the
country districts with such appeals to the
prejudices of the farmers aud others in the
rural places as brought the spectre noir of
Tammany before them in hideous aspect.
Shall the honest voters of Connecticut or
“the thieves of Tammany” carry this elec
tion? was the question presented to the ru
ral voters. Naturally enonnh they were
alarmed at the alternative; they were not
goin : to be sold like cattle, and they came
out, consequently, in considerable strength
to assert their claims to New England back
bone. Hence, in a measure, the full vote
polled. It was a cunning trick, well de
vised and lucky in its operation; but all is
fair in polities, as in love aud war.
And so instead cf being sold by Tamma
ny like cattle, they were sold by Grant like
27. Ani} this noted rogue it was wboiq
the King appointed to be chief servant .of
the King.'
28. For Inasmuch as he was the chief
among rogues, did the King estequi him tq
be also a chief among the thieves of his
court ’
[Communicated.
NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD.
The time for action has now arrived, if
the people of Floyd intend doing their part
in the building of the North and South
Railroad. The counties on the lower end
of the line are moviog in this great work,
and have subscribed liberally; and Floyd,
the Northern terminus of the Road, should
show the people of Columbus, Troup, Har
ris, Herd, and other, counties, below, that
they will not be behind them in this great
enterprise.
Fhyd county should take one hundred
thousand dollars stock in this road, and I
hope to see the people moyfog to that point
and at once. Columbus has subscribed
two hundred thousand dollars to this work,
and Harris, Troup and Heard counties, two
hundred thousand dollars more. If Harris
or Heard counties can pay fifty thousand
dollars to this great work, Floyd can well
afford to pay one hundred thousand dollars,
and Polk county fifty thousand dollars.—
These amounts, together with the individ-
al subscription i and State aid, will build the
Road, aud Rome will then have but sixty
miles of road to build, to connect with the
great Southern line of road from Cincin
nati South.
With the Noith & South Road we eon-
neot the Gulf with the Lakes, and accom
plish that which has Iqng been desired, an
nil railroad line for the shipment of grain
and bacon to the seaboard, instead of wa
ter navigation by tte-Mississippi :river.“
TheDecatnr, or Memphis Branch Road,
will be trail! beyond doubt, inride of two
years. By thU line, we connect the • Pa
cific with the Atlantic. This city will be
the point at which the two great thorough
fares will croB3, aud'Floyd county can well
afford to-spend five hundred thousand dol :
lore to effect'this object: But that, amount
is not necessary—one hundred thousand
dollars, witido the.work.
Are our newspaper, men. taking a “Rip
Van Winkle” snooze, that they do not fill
their papers 'with the necessity that is upo
one's of building these two roads? Let
Warning from “Junius.”—The fol
lowing sentence from the mas.eriy pen of
“Junius” ought to be committed to memo
ry by the leaders of the Democratic party,
and to be adopted as tho motto at the head
of the Democratic newspapers.
Never suffer an invasion of the political
constitution, however minute the instance
may appear, to pass without a determined
persevering resistance. One precedent cre
ates another. They soon accumulate and
constitute law. What yesterday was fact
to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed
to justify the most dangerous measures,
and whore they do not suit exactly the de
feet is supplied by analogy. Bo assured
that the laws which protect us in out civil
rights grow out of the Constitution, and
they must fall or flourish with it.
Wiiat the Radicals have Done in
Arkansas.—Clayton’s Legislature has ad
journed. This is a summary of the mis-
chief done by that Radical body:
The disabilities of about two hundred
persons have been removed, taxes are great
ly increased, a number of new offices crea
ted, salaries raised icstead of being reduc
ed, a registration la if so amended that the
Governor can carry almost any election over
tho will of the people, and no measure of
retrenchment or reform adopted.
[Communicated.
SHARP.
The Pastor of one of the colored
churches in this city has adopted a novel
plan in taking up collections at the cfose of
each sermon. .
He sends around two hats—one he calls
the church, and the other the world. The
church is sent to the members—the world
to the non-professors; b ’t, before starting
ihem around, he makes a very affectionate
appeal to both classes, by admonishing the
members that it would b3 a disgrace to
them and the cause of Christ, a the world
comes back with more money in it than the
church; and tells the non-professor that they
must show the members how to fling iu
money for de lord. The hats go around
and come up. The church is handed to the
officers of the church, and the Pastor takes
the world, and takes charge of the con
tents, and claims it as his, independent of
his salary, as it was given by the world, and
not by the church.
He says the church agrees to pay him a
certain sum, and that must be paid by the
members alone, and not by the non-profes
sors. Therefore he claims and takes all
that is contributed by the non-professors.
The Income Tax*—Important Modification.
The following communications from the
Commissioner.of Internal, Revenue make
some important changes in the method of
lg.the income tax. It will be seen
that one of the most obnoxious features of
the tarn is removed:
Office of Internal Revenue. 1
Washington, March 22,1871. j
S B. Duther, Esq., Supervisor of Internal
Revenue, New York:
Sm—In making their annual income
return npon form 24 tax payers shonld not
be required co include amounts received as
dividends, interest or coupons from any oi
the corporations, institutions or companies
mentioned in sections 120 and 122 of the
act of June 30,1864, as amended, except
the. interest allowed or paid to depositors
in savings banks or saving institutions, ev
en though no tax has been withheld there
from.
I shall cause this letter to be published
in the Internal Revenue offices.
All previous rulings inconsistent here
with are hereby revoked.
A. Pleasonton, Commissioner.
Office Internal Revenue; 1
Washington, March 27. j
Editors of the Internal Revenue Record:
Gentlemen—You will please publish
the following in the next issue of yonr pa-
pen
Tax payers who prefer not to make re
turn oi income for the year 1870, >n detail,
as set forth on page 2 of form 24, will be
allowed to make a statement in the form
following (and this state nent may be made
by the proper interlineations and erasures
on pages 2 and 3 of form 24):
Statement of income; gains and profits of
, of , county of ,and
State of , daring the year 1870, af
ter making all legal deductions:
Taxable income 8
Amount of tax at 2£ per cent 8
affidavit.
State of , county of , sst ,
being sworn according to law, deposes and
says that the foregoing statement contains
a full, trne and correct account of tis in
come for the year A. D. 1870, which he
has received, whether derived from any
kind of property, rents, interest, dividend,
undivided profits, wages, or salary, or from
any trade, employment, or vocation, or from
any other source what ever, from the 1st
day of January to the 31st day of Decem
ber, A. D., 1870, both days inclusive, aud
subject to an income tax under the exis
ting law of the United States; and that he
has not received and is not 'entitled to re
ceive from any or ail sources of income to
gether any other sum for the said year be
sides what is herein set forth, except such
amounts as, though justly due to the affiant
are not good and collectable; and that he
is honestly and trnly entitled to make the
deductions from his income for said year as
made by him, in accordance with the true
intent* of the excise laws of the United
States, and that the several lates and
amounts therein contained are stated in
the legal-tender currency.
■ day
-Mr J.
Georgia Mineral Wealth.
W. Jones, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has
recently spent some time in exploring the
iron regions of Upper Georgia. Mr. Jones
is the proprietor of large mining interests
in Pennsylvania, and he gives it as his
opinion that Georgia and Alabama are
richer in iron ore tban any State in the
Union. Iron which costs 88 p r. ton for
getting out in Pennsylvania can be gotten
out iu Georgia for 81 60.
Mr. Jones, in connection with other cap
italists, has made large purchases in oar
iron regions and it- is his intention to trans
fer his entire interest to this Slate next
fall. The well known Messrs. Thomas, of
Pennsylvania, are now making arrange
ments to put up furnaces, etc., at the mines
purchased by them in Alabama.
Sausage.—Housekeepers will do well to
preserve the following first rate recipe for
sausage, which we find in the Germantown
Telegraph: “To every twelve pounds of
meat' take three tablespoons of salt; not
much heaped, three tablespoons of black
epper, eight tablespoons of sage, and a had comc to gt
teaspoon half full of red pepper.” j ^
^ Mr.
libber
choice of the Independent.' Democracy for
the Mayoralty of that city
1870-71, place it at 4,060 : 831 bales.'
Sworn to and subscribed this
of , A. D., 1871, before me,
sietant assessor divisqjji, district,
State of .
Written answers will not be required to
the questions on page 3 of “form 24.”
Affidavit No. 1, on page 4 of the said
“from 24” may be modified by erasures of
the words “and that during said year his
entire gross income from every source, esti
mated in said currency, without any deduc
tion or diminution whatever, did not ex
ceed 82,000.”
A. Pleasanton, Commissioner.
A gentleman took a lady out to ride the
other evening, aud came home with a
false curl attached to the button on the
side of bis cap. He wonders how it could
have got there.
The Paris Jacohlns and their Sacrllipous
Outrages.
Our latest news from Paris does not con
vince us that the lovers of order have any
good reason to think well or hopefully of
the Communists. The roughs, who have
obtained control of Paris, aud who through
Paris have vainly tried to get hold of
France, have made Borne serious blunders.
Every latest blunder is an additional illus
tration of their bad principles, aud au ag
gravation of past proofs of lolly and crime.
With honest Republicans we have every
sympathy. We wish them—we cannot
help wishing them—all the world over, suc
cess. But much as we love Republican in
stitutions, we cannot recognize the Paris
mob. Republicanism, as represented there
to-day, means mob rnle, disorder, anarchy,
chaos—everything in fact, which a good
man despises and dreads.
The imprisonment of the Archbishop of
Paris and the pillaging of the Mxdaleine,
reveal all the worst characteristics of the
ancient, but: not yet forgotten Jacobins.
AU property in oommon, the Goddess of
Reason, no Snnday—that is their pro
gramme.
Some sixty years ago France worked her
weary and bloodstained way out of Jacobin
rulej and oneof the most popular acts of
the first Napoleon was his restoration of the
Sabbath. The French C-ommnnists forget
that the French peasant class, which con
trols the nationaljvote is religions and Cath
olic. If they don’t forget, they close their
eyes to facts. The imprisonment of the
Archbishop of Paris and the pillaging of
the Madeleine have kUled Communism. If
the Paris insurgents had kept off the
Church they might have had a chance. As
it is, the last shadow of their opportunity is
gone. The priest will now preach and the
peasants wiU fight for the restoration of
strong government. In that government
the “reds” will find no place.—N. Y. Her
ald.
The Scientific American says it is now
impossible ~to construct a burglar proof safe
—for the'thief, with his eyUnders of com
pressed hydrogen and oxygen, can, in a
few seconds burn holes of any size in the
hardest metal—his fire drill enabling him
in. a few minutes, to work his way into the
strongest safe that was ever constructed.
The Petersburg Index says that the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Com-
■y had-to pay about $350. to the United
.tea Revenue Department on Satnrday
last, for innoeently permitting the transpor
tation over its road of an empty whisky
barrel which did not have the revenue
stamp Iawfnlly canceUed.
The Chinese in West Baton Rouge.
-Says the Sugar Planter: The Chinese
laborers of our parish are fast becoming civ
ilized, in fret tre begin to think some of
them will never attempt to return to the
“Flowery Kingdom,” for earthly sepulture
or heavenly repose. To see him lounging
about on holidays, smoking cigar*, drinking
playing “old sledge” and casting
soft glances at the African female persua
sion, is snffioient to-induce the belief that
they wUl shortly take a hand in the politi
cal game of the oonntry and run for office.
To keep up the iUostration, we saw oue a
few days since poring over the columns of
a.newspaper, and chatting, occasionally to
his'safiron-hned brethren sitting around as
jif he was dilating upon the San Domingo
ktbising upon the retirement of
jfamngt.)- It looks as Jf the “cowing man’
-. G. AV. Childs, the well known put- - SoTA Kansas paper pleasantly refers-to
of the Philadelphia Ledger, is the Senator Morton as “the beacon light.in the
«... , ... gulf*, of ..human A
I rays along the broa
who will take his proper place in
As she was—As she is—As she may he-
Rome was born and baptised on the 3lst
of May, 1834. She was like all other in
fants, a small concern, but she gave some
promise in the fature. At that dav none
inhabited within her lines Few pale Faces
were found within miles or leagues of her
borders. The red man was moaarch of tbe
forest, and around her precincts his name
was legion. In four short, fleeting years
he left for the wilds of the Great West.—
Daring this short period the whits man
commingled with the Red, and on his exit,
closed in as the lords of this part of God’s
creation. From that day to this Rome has
been moving on through the whirl of time,
from what she then was to what she is now
And what is sLe ?
She is located at the head of the Coosa
river, in the fork of Oostanaula and Etowah
rivers, Floyd county, Ga , about 34° 20”
North latitude, on one ol the, most beauti
ful and picturesque localities on earth's sur
face. To tho West and South West rolls
the magnificent Coosa. From the North
east and the rising sun comes looming dowi
the surpentiec current, the bine and heavy
columns of the Oostanaula. Frou. the
East and Southeast ponrs in the golden rip
pling and chattering currant of the Eto
wah; and at the foot of Rome these bright
waters meet; and, without baiting for cere
monies, or waiting for sluggards, on they
move, as wedded lovers, neither havin
dividual or personal identity, through the
magnificent channel, broad, fertile plains of
the noble Coosa, until they reach their
home and haven of repose, in -Mexico’s
grand and tropical Gulf.
Rome, like her ancient Italian sire, num
bers her seven hills, (and a wee bit more )
The surrounding country is undulating, fer
tile, fruitful and healthy, sometimes approx
imating to mountainous. Tbo scenery is
grand and picturesque. From North to
West, in full view, may be seen John’s
Mountains, Taylor’s Ridge, and far behind
in tie distance, looms up heavenward the
higher and spiral peaks and points of the
grand old Lookout. These intermediate
ranges are bat outlines from the grand old
father of mountains, The Alleghany Range
Indeed, the identity of this great Alleghany
Range is often contested between the voln-
minous Lookout and Walden’s Ridge, in
the State of Tennessee. However this may
be, it is sufficient to say that here, within
the States of Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama, lie piled up the eternal vasques of the
American Continent.
If scenery were the summumbonum of all
bnman good, we might stop here, but the
utilitarian is looking for an Eldorado more
rational and substantial than that which
alone satiates the eye. Here around Rome
lies a country which the God of Nature has
intended and marked oat as tributary to
her, unsurpassed for agricultural and min
eral resources. Here lies her broad and fer
tile valleys of virgin soil, bidding and in
viting the husbandman, and the stalwart
one of industry come, come!
Many of her smaller valleys and rising
hills, stand forth as a bold relief, a type of
the hill coantry of India. Here on earth’s
surface, ani in the bowels of the hills and
mountains, for an area of two hundred
miles, lies, and is imbedded volumes of the
richest and purest iron on the face of the
globe—Sweden not excepted. This iron is
inexbaustable, accessable, and world with
out end.
Here in the gorges of the mountains
crop ont seam3 of bituminous c aal, of first
quality, in volumes of thickness from 12
inches, to 10 feet—enough for now—enough
forevermore We .have no time or room
here now for the precious metals that
abound here.
Rome has slowly marched on, from a
small beginning until now. and she and her
environs hold a population from 4.000 to
5,000. Her healthiness is proverbial, ao d
her commercial locality remarkable. She
is seated at the head of the Coosa, the up
per point of good steamboat navigation, con
seqnently her trade and navigation goes
down instead of up the river, and this
downstream trade and navigation extends
for 180 miles to Greensport, at the head of
the ten islands in Alabama. She ha3 about
one hundred trading houses and shops of
one sort or another. Indeed, she is almost
too big now for all the trade and commerce
which she can now common 1. Heavy com
petition knocks the 3ugar ont of most all
the trade she now controlls—her merchants
and tradesmen can scarcely keep soul and
body together and make buckle and tongnes
meet. The town is now, and always has
been, a little ahead of the agricultural and
manufacturing products of the country.
Rome has, for twenty years been the ter
minus of a little rather rickety railroad,
something over three pistern rods loig"—
Whether this road has or has not promoted
her growth and interest, we shall leave oth
ers tojsay. One thing is pretty certain,, it has
pretty mnch had things ils own way, and
some think that it has not manifested an
extra liberal spirit. Be this however, as it
may, an extension is now about being made
from Rome to Decatur, Alabama. When
this is done, Rome, for the present, most
bear the same relation to this road that she
now does to the Selma, Rome & Dalton R.
R.—a mere wiy station. This of course
will be the legitimate result, whilst things
remain as they now are; and, such indeed,
to a great extent, most be her relation to
the great North and South Railroad, when
completed, provided nothing else, in the
meantime occurs to effect this relationship.
The indications and prospects are now good
that these outside occurrences will take
place e’er loog; that will change Rome’s re
lations to all these railroads, from that of a
way station to that of an important ship
ping point; and when this occurrence takes
place, which we think we s-.-e looming up,
in the no great distance, then will all these
Roads become valuable and important aux
iliaries and feeders to Rome.
When this era comes, with another to
which we shall refer, then will Rome awake
from her slumbers and arise in the majesty
of her strength, and say to the city’s of the
world—Here I am, seated upon the broad
and water tight platform of tropical com-,
merco, underpinned with the coal and
iron mountains of Georgia, Tennessee and
Alabama.
Now for a photograph of these coming
events, which we say we think we see loom
ing np in the.distance (some of which may
not be so very distant) Many will donbtless
sty they are the mere chimeras of a dis
eased brain. Be it so.
During the past there have been several
prospective surveys of the ten islands on
the Coosa river shoals, between Wetump-
ka and Greensport, with a view to these
shoals being opened for a good steamboat
navigation, eaeh of whioh have declared
this practicable and capable of a perfect
success, at a very moderate cost. The last,
by Maj. Fillebrown, an officer in the engin
eers service of the United States, who has
net only endorsed all former reports, but
has made a report more favorable and san-
gn no than any. previous report—none run
ning theeost higher than $6,000,000; and,
if it were ten millions, we should not be
alarmed-at the cost.
. Wethentake it as - admitted that this
is trne. Then ean it, and will it be done ?
Sooth has had none, except on the Missis-
ippt (which has been treated as an inlaid
sea) aLd small amounts ton few el the Bca
port cities.
' If her representation in Congress be faith
ful and energetic (and we doubt not that
it is) a demand upon the naked qnestion
of justice -will bring it If not, Georgia,
Tennessee and Alabama are directly inter
ested in this great work, and will move
with their combined ’uflnence. Through
the East, North and West there are not
perhaps two dozen members in Congress
who will Dot hope some day to ge' a chance
to be President of the United States. The
South must and will be conrted and accom
odated, especially wheh it' would be palpa
bly unjust to refuso iu
We believe- the appropriation will be
made, if it were doable the amount. With
the prospect of a Democratic government
getting into power, many Radicals will be
in a hurry to show to the South acts oFJtft
tice and kindness.
The work is practicable, and tbe appro
priation will be made. Consequently -.re
believe that in less than five years, the ten
island shoals, on the Coosa, wilt be opened
for good steamboa* navigation from Rente
to the Gulf- What arc the consequence-
to Rome? ; v > • . T
They are too palpable for argnuetj
fixed as the laws ol gravitation.
Rome is a quasi seaport, over 600 miles
in the interior, al the base of her liLitn
tains, with the laps ol her fertile valley-
all around, emptying their rich products iu
to her bosom; and, in return, handin : them
tbe rich and delicious products of a t
cal region. She is llie distributing potrit
for a radios of hundreds of- miles around
her in every direction. Now is tho first
time she will find much nse for these Rail
roads of which we have been speaking.
Now they are in full play in transmitting
her commerce back and forth, filling their
own coffers, enriching Rome, and dispens
ing blessings to her customers.
sprutg^oo^
JONES
106 Empire Block,
BaoAD 6TEEET>KoUE>GE0 ^
ITav) r„c,i Te ,i tnei r Stock of
SPRING & SUMMER
L'cdtcs and Gentlemen are in
reflecting his
road' of degradation,
e sphere
Present estimates of. ti:e cotton crop for of the damned astherotton knot on the
!I7/Vt7!t i* A AfiA Q51 Vinlnn 1 i)RCH0£} Of’llcHw
The p'atform of her tropical commerce is
near finished. She is several hundred
miles further in the intorior lhan any other
city in the South, East of the Mississippi,
She stands np as the grand commercial
distributor and receptical, for hundreds of
miles aronnd her, East and West, North
and South. . • .
Let us now look a little after the coal and
iron mountains that nnderlie this “commer
cial platform,” and hold it up, firm as “the
rock of Gibraltar,” The great mineral re
sources of this highly favored country, are
to a great extent, undeveloped. Enough
however, is known, to eDable U3 to say, that
the coal, in quantity and quality, is not sur
passed by any other coal formation on the
continent,—that these coal seams will be
tapped by these railroads that pass throngh
Rome. Her proximity, accessibility, and
facilities for shipment, will most certainly
indicate her as the grand distributing point
of these valnable and nsefnl articles of com-,
merce. When it is certainly known that
this article of coal is good, accessable, and
cheap of transportation, ample capital will
scuffle for the boon.
The same reasoning will apply with
doable force to the iron deposits which are
now commanding considerable attention by
capitalists; it being now known and admit
ted, that the iron of this c'ountiy, in point
of abundance, access, richness of ores, mal-
ibility and tenacity has no eqnai, but for
many uses, exceeds any ores discovered on
the globe. As this is an exceedingly lu
crative business, and especially so here, on
account of tbe facilities for its manufacture,
almost every mountain aud valley will re
verberate with the rambling of furnaces,
forges, rolling mills and steam whistles.
Manufactories of every description will
spring np almost with the magic of Jonah’s
goaid. Then it will be a live coubtiy,
and Rome will be a live city. Rome now
has a very respectable start in this business.
A large Foundry—a large and well manag
ed Machine shop, with and excellent and
efficient Rolling mill; and others of a sim
ilar character strongly threatened. Fur
naces are now springin r up all over the
iron belt; all with mnch success ani profit
to their projectors. Is there aDy reason
why, by or before the year 1900, Rome
should not become one of the largest jron
markets in the world?
It may be said under the infinence of
onr wild and distempered braia, we are
making a right sharp.thing out of it. Let
it be so now. If we had time or space, we
could add many other cogent reasons for
the faith that is in ns. We could root, up
an immense army of other valuable miner
als, which may be seen cropping out, and
that lie covered up at present; with many
products of the soil, wbich the logic of
events and arm of indostry, and indomita
ble energy will ere long develops.
Before closing we have a few words to
say to onr Roman brethren. The God of
nature has not‘'made these, valleys^ moun
tains and rivers, with their capdeities of.
being applied to man’s use for nought
You have very little financial ability to
hasten these prospective resnlts, but con
siderable to retard, if not to defeat them,
in your day. In calmness and patience
possess your souls, that you may bide yonr'
day. Be not puffed up with vain glory.
Be prudent; labor on economically; Rome
can’t bear straining; she is big enough for
the circumstances which snrrohnd her, and
the commerce of the country which she
pan now command. J-'- -b ft I-a-i
Try yonr hands to frugal industiy ener
getically. Plant yonr feet on the eternal
principal of right and justice. Keep your
heads light and yonr hearts clean. Down
with clans, ciiqnee-antbrings.-— Dealjostly
with all men.’ Govern ybur city -well and
wisely, without favoritism to any, and the
logic of events will do the balance..--.
There may be some here now, doubtless,
that will be here ou tbe 31st day of May,
1900. To such the mutations oi Rome
will scarcely be perceptible. Suppose some
of you, who are now of mature years,
should fall asleep and wake up in tbe year
1900, and cast yonr eyes on Rome and her
surroundings, with what astonishment
and surprise would he be seized. Provide'
yonr pilots—make no mistake in steering
her safely throngh. Romulus.
Wo thinkit can and will be done very soon 800 workmen placarded-on his largo'
As to the constitutional questions on each ry in the Boulevard' Hausmann, “No
appropriations, that is'now practically a —-~~:-.
dead issue. The North, the East and the
West have had like appropriations, for like
purposes by the hundreds of tcBlions.' The
A Judge Without a Cquet.—Judge
Simms seems to meet with disappoint
ment in all his efforts to demonstrate
his judicial acquirements. In Chatham, his
coart broke down before it was fairly born';
nobody wotild officiate ministerially or.cler-
ically, and his mandamus from the little
bench in the corner was disregarded by all.
In Effingham, where he had an opportu
nity to dispense justice according to: law,
last week, he appears to have been even
more unfortunate. Upon repairing to the
county site, he found the cohrt house, which
had been wide open for twenty years; .tight
ly closed and secured with a bran spanking
new lock, and every officer in the county
“gone a fishing.” After taking ai survey
of the situation, the Judge, we learh, re
tired in dignified disgust. . Vt,,.-,
Bryan is now his last'chance for a conit,
) i* I < 1. — > lL._ .Uv'Ja
I - not- W |
REdONs-raucTEb State governments are
expensive institutions for the people. The
total value of real and persdhal property in
Florida is given at $34,673(753, and the
State tax to be collected this'year amonhts
to 8475,029.67. Yet'the State is altogeth
er ' fh the' power of-the blacks who' will
probably not return in taxes 85,000.
M. Binder, the great carriage boildet of
Paris, wKtf generally employs ftoni'600 to
««« i*, I—-fabto-
'o'Ger-
mans who have been serving against the
French cause employed here.” Several
other large houses that have recently re
opened have done the same thiBg.
Goods and
•Prices, I
*■*»■O.
v CAHD.
M. D - inlenafcd in the sale oi aSeS <tfi I
[•rotes, to suit thctnseWe* ’ *"*
upr!3lw vrll.
And il jou desire any P»ISmad M «, c < 1 i # u|
or plain, large or small, at a high pn«oM,j
low price, to suit your taste in every i a „l
yoor orders at the 1 1
Courier Job Rooms,
and yon ehnll be pleased vith the remit I
fear to advertise yonr bnsineu, if y« h,,,^ I
but make your name and number KNOWS " 1
We have the best facilities for printin'
HANDBILLS
LARGE POSTERS
and in this line we can't le best. Every kid I
of plain and fancy work, for
Railroads, Steamers,
, EVERY BUSINESS!
EVERYTHING can be adrertiied to XYEllI
BODY by naing the magical printer'* ink, uin I
hare abundance of it on han*!, together with ill I
the* other means for' producing good rapid I
•work.
D ooleys
YEASTf
Powder
Is sow rewarded as the 8TA5DABD lime P0¥- ,
DER, and the best article prepared fcrcatinr lirii,
wholesome and delirious BISCUITS, KOLU,
BREAD, («RIDDLE sod other CAKES, 4ft, te L
- Ills In&IUJble, sod aliws rtiij tar Imat&k I
we. The best TEAS! rOWDEBformcaloqSB 1
VOYAGES to ANY PART OF THI GLOBE
by GBOCEHS, t
DOOLEY Sc BROTHER, Minxifactnren,
WHOLXSALK DZTOT,
69 NEW STREET, EBTt-YOML
mar9tw-weow6m
Administrator’s Sale.
W ILL be sold before the Court Homs MI
in La .Fayette, Walker Co, Ga, by Tutus of«I
order of the Court of Ordinary of aid
on the first Tuesday in Jane next, within tti I
; hours of sale, . ■
of Land 3To. (651) six hundred sad
one, in tho 4th district and 1st section, of I
ally Cherokee, now. Dawson county, CMWBJf I
40 acres, more oir less, wild land. Sold *” I
property of the estate of R. M. Betren, dea* j
ed, for distribution. Tennsjeasb.^
aprll TL.
R. K. DICKEBSOY, Adnr.
GEORGIA, Floyd County..
A LL_persons haying demands tgsnu* I
tate of James H. Colquit, deceased, 1st* «JJ* ; I
county, are hereby notified and reqtuwdwP ■
sent them, properly attested, to the nnde»P» P
within the time prescribed by I
sons indebted to said deceased, are heresy L
ed to make immediate payment to the |
sisped, thiS JOHNSTON, Ida
aprIS-40d ; -
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Election Notice.
JlJy virtue of authority rested
itive order issued by his Excellency, .y|
k. Go Timor. I do order an election to . ■
ecutive c
lock. Governor, I do order an ejecta"*—. *»■
in theeonntyof Flr-yd, rod.r the I
Gartrell—this April U, 1 8 ^L
' AprlStwlt-wtd
Leave to Sell-
S.IXTI days after
Side to th'e Honorable Ordinary of
made
Jan
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GEORGIA, Dade County.
)B it known, that Lee
the court ot Ordinary of ssiij»■»£, ,
- court of Ordinary of raid *1 I
ion of jrereoiialty^ *f» f
valuation of homestead, and
itition at 12-o'clock m.
tbi*AprU10;im^ a TATL0B ,0rf**-
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GEORGIA; "Dade, County.
Whereas,
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and «ngnl«y^h. kmdred^^ dgj
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mar.9w3m
GBGCGIA, Walker Conaty.
Wh
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should not bo panted fetter*
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Straw and Shucks for B
H. j! JOHNSON, Ordinary- <1
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