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Newspaper Page TextHe §M Count-;. ' ^sheiTeveby Friday. RAT£S of weekly. 12 Of 0**7^rTZZZ~- 1 M ;,x ilontni--— f *“ tmmb TRI-WEEKLY 0n« ■ ■■ —- 1 « jljMonthJ-; ■ i « rir " ^VARIABLY IK ADVANCE. - ,-!ab- of Five or morc cne C0 P? k® ^ nl wfcrf st. DWIXELL, Proprietor. LEGAL ADVEETKEMEKTS. . -r t.ind br Adm-'tistrators, Elector* or . required by I»w to be held on iur ."roejday « eaca month, between the the fir'; in 'tte orenoon end three in the toe” 01 ,, the Court House in the county in property!, situated . :a-3e sales must be given in e pub- ^“oVtl day* previous. "iP-Aoi the sale of personal property must -'"“' in like maune^through a publicgai- **o v3 vrerious to sals dav. #1“ 1C . ^ Debtors and Creditors of an estate, published 40 days. ‘ ,lb- papplications will be made to the - r ' t , OrJinarv for leave to sell laud must be eobbshed for two month. Ciuti • - . “WISDOM, J.USTICE AND MODERATION.’’ - VOLUME XXV. ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 21. 1871. NEW SERIES—NO 34. r letters of Administration, Guar- • d _ Ac must be pabliahod 3W days—for H%nsti_p Administration, three months— '‘‘dismiss* 0 ’ from Goardisnship,4# days. “ r , . fur t be foreclosenre of Mortgages most .Wished monthly for four months—for a- l( ,, ; papers, for the full spare of three ,u,_forcompelling titles trom Executors or ® nt “ ;i, rs tors. where bond has been given by i s*ed -or th- full >n» of three months. "poWications wil' always be continued accord- --these* the '.e^al requirements, unless oth- ’iiTeorderni. at the fMowing RATES. a- -ale. lew or ten lines or leaa $3 M ttSrs Vertg.ge A', fa- rales, per levy, J CO V,T Cille. tor's ssies, per levy,..- «« r» X **or3 for Itftteie of Administration^^. 3 00 w'oaiforletters ol Guardianship....— J M <or *< a! application for dismission from ,, 3 '.plication for dismission from uin.hio 00 tonl’csti 011 to sell land ———— — * TotVet* Debtors and Creditors,-—— — 5 00 i-> of Land, peraquare.--..-.. * JJ Cile-f perishable property, 10 days 4 00 Ertiav Notices. 1,0 * JJ jv^iojure of Mortgage, persquare 4 •# I -.a advertising his wife, iin advance) 16 60 SATIKPAY-MORNING, Apr. 8. A PLEASANT TKir. I’aniic-’ for a whiff of the pure mourn ilia air. and a quaff of the pore mountain •treams. we snstebei a brief respite from ih* -'ni'i-t'rj of the “round table” and, in naicaoy with oar genial frierd,- Maj. liira-. turned our direction towards the j,- !jlL ed b.nks and braes of Chattooga.— A pleasant evening’s drive through one of ,!, c f a i-est regions the sun ever shone up w b.- night us to the hospitable house of !l.n. 0. C. Cie'horn, the sterling Demc- taiie KrprsM-ntative of Chattooga county. A ni_-iii\s re;«i*e. undisturbed by even a drrarn of the shadowy tn klnr, invigorat- t-lnar -piri'r. and grateful for the kindly lio-rgia h r;.i .luy of -ur excellent host ni hs elegant lady we continued our driie cl,et: tht splendid Talley of the Chat- I0n_3 tiler Ai fuuimerviile we halted until noon, where ve found our young friends, Pate aid IT.irl of the Chattooga Advertiser, card at their port, their usy fingers mak- ia> the type rattle with a musical sound that poly a disciple of Faust can appreciate Their otfic: presented a neat and sung ap- [eiriSce, and their cheerful wotk evinced « eoc-ruraginu promise of success. They set out a lively sheat, and deserve the sup. pert of the people. We honestly wish them ;»ceess, for we believe they are worthy of To our immediate readers it would he a rotations superfluity to speak of Somtner- r . :.- and its son onndings, but to those abroad wo must say that it is a thriving little town, s'-tuated in one of the finest valley* in the State—fertile lands, pure vut.r and healthy airs surrounding and tuiking it a place well worth the attention ‘ f those in search of such a location. All it needs is the North and South Railroad 10 'complete its perfection, and this it will etcntnally have. From Summerville, we recro6sed Taylor’s Ridge, a range of mountains rich io the fi- cr-t specimens of fosilferous iron ores we ever siw. At the foot of Taylor's Ridge we entered P.rt Town Valley, a splendid valley of land 'iisred by the waters of the Armuchee.— The opeu doors of Mr. George Burns io- ' red us to another night’s rest, after first rpsadinu a few hoars in trampling over the Kd« and meadows of the magnificent Bums estate. Here we enriched our col lection of rare geological and mineralogical sseeiiaens, by the addition of some fossil remains, found in the old red sand stone that juts ont from the mountains. The next day we returned to the ''table r aad” feeling in our souls that for such a ottutry ,5 ours, it were indeed a high priv ilege to Le permitted to devote our hearti est servi e. Peace and prosperity gladden the bor- ders if t'hattooga, and long may they both Wntiune to smile upon her worthy people. It’S TICE TO THE PARTIES IH THE KC KXUX REWARD. As a nutter of justice to the parties con- caned, we give the following paragraph •mm the Commercial of the 9th inst, and *« are t‘ • more ready to do so, as it affords B 10 opportunity of vindication our friends >a Cbanooga county from the censure nn- dsr which the publication therein retracted s bitterly called down upon them. In ff-aVing of oar strictures, the Com- i-'tcia! -jys truly that they were “Predi* “ted upon an article from the Commercial, ‘“ lt purported to be founded upon facts “id figures, but which has since been prov- ?n t0 Bare no foundation in feet” paragraph alludes to the charges t-biish.din tue Cammercialof the 3d, in re f=renee to the Ku Rlux reward, which lr tic!e we republished in the Courier, and -a which we based (as we so stated at the ! our strictures upon the action of the parries. Ae mphatic retraction made by the Cjamereial, in the above paragraph, af- ° T “ u -’ 1 pleasing opportunity to withdraw c " 3 r strictures so far as the gentlemen of Aq«".roaniy are concerned. ’ Jte a * so visited the parties in Sum- ® e rti .c an q f or onne i Tes wseertnined the J tU °‘ esse, and can, with a perfect ! J, acquit the parties of Mat county Hi Uame in the affeir. ^ aiTe moved in the matter actual* t J* 5,r *ightferward integrity, and have We ^ Wth towards the public, and fully and voluntarily do them the (O so declare. The Cherokee Advertiser report* Centre 0 "’•pteving condition. “THE WEESMA’ HOURS ATOHTTIIE TWAL,” “Full many a gem of purest ray serene The un Suborned eaves of arson boor." No. IV. n»x—30, a. u. Present—Old Grizzly, Mr. O’Riley, Wilhelm Von Speigle and a full board of Denis. Mr. O’R.—Poor Franc*’—the day of her humiliation has surely come. Her splendid Capital is convulsed with riot, and her pal aces are the spoils ofliceused robbers. The blood of her best and noblest is washing her streets, and the wail of desolatio and ruin rises iron, her sanctuaries. And what has she done to thus call down upon her head the a rath of destruction. O. G.—She has ucnrUI ed in her bosom the viper of Radicalism. Her men cf sci ence ami of intellect, bare prostitu'ed their high endowments to the worship of a de lusion and the practice of a lie. The infi delity of Robespeire was oo less fatal than the Radicalism of Rochefort—both go hand in hand in iniquity, and both are pregnant with the same mischievous result*. V. S.—And is not Radicalism as bad here as it is in France ? O. G.—The same the world over—the nn'y difference is that in Pars it is allow ed to eoneentrate its powers, and madden ed by its passions, and'emboldened by the countenance of its cumbers, it is free to throw off the serpent gnise of its hypocra ey, and to rush forth opou s ciety iu all its terrible energy and hideous rapacity. Mr. O’R.—It is indeed a fearful power; and our own liberties arc endangered by the same monstrous influence. O G.—They are truly—and this brings us to the continuation of the discussion we left off so abruptly in our last. The pas sions of men must be restrained, aod it i n ly belongs to the strong power of constitu tional law to restraio them. The outbreak now so feirfully des crating Paris wDl soon expend its force, and a reaction will preba bly drive even the Conservative element in to the other extreme of a . iron handed gov ernment, whereas if both parties had been regulated by the balancing power of con stitutional Uw. giving to each equal and eo-ordinate rights, the disgraceful scenes now transpiring aonld never have occurred aod the retribution that is aureate follow, wonld have never been called for Unman nature is not so different in differ, nt indi viduals and nationalities as one wonld im agine, and we will find any people, we care not what, subject to a dominant class, be it the higher or the lower, restive under the dominion—ready the first opportunity, be it the sudden development of a new strength in itself, or *he misfortunes of the govern meat, as is ihe present ease with the Radi cals in Paris, to assert its power and to mb use its privileges. The same disposition would develop itself in American pol tics, did the same opportunity present itself. V. S.—It did develop itself in the late war. Butler’s exploits in New Orleans were bat the outcroppings of the meanness of Radicalism. Mr. O’R.—And Butler so far excelled all others io bis meanness that he complete ly disgusted his radical confreers, and fifbm the utter hopeleaness of being able to rival him in iniquity, men were deterred from imitating him at all. O. G.—1 sbaU not dispute you there, and it is to restrain such miserable charla tans as Butler that I would have a revision of cur Senatorial organization. V. S.—Yes, but under your proposition of a property qualification, Butler, by his stolen goods, wonld be elligible to Senato rial honors, while those who were impover ished by bis robberies would be confined to the House. O. G —So much the better for the House and so much the worse for the Senate. I care not to which class he would belong, I only want him to be confined to that class without the power to misrepresent or op- press the other. Give the House power to protect itself and let Bntiergotot.' e Senate, and there he conld not injure the pc pie, because the Representatives of the people oould stand between them. I do not pro pose to cooler a superior honor upon the Senate, by restricting its constituency by a property qualification. In the law both bodies would Le equally honorable, and if any distinction would be made, it would be a conventional one, just ss is now made be tween poverty and wealth. The law now makes none, but we find that one is made. Society regulates this matter, aad society would still continue to regulate it, but so ciety ean never regulate the workings of t governmental ec:nomy. Society might turn up its nose at the Representative of the common people, but the aristocracy could not fix upon that people an unjust law be cause that Representative would have, in the Souse, an equal law-mating power. So, too, on the other bond, the common plod- theory will prove tery unpopular. The peo ple htTe no idea of legalizing orders ir ~o ciety O G.—The people have more reuse than you give them credit for, Mr. 0'Riler, and their good sense will tell them that it i- for their own better protection, that [ wonld make the reformation in our govern mental system. Under it they would have abso lute control of one branch of the Legisla ture. and c ith i they eould abundantly pro tect themselves; whereas the way it now stands, nnd still more sad, as it is rapidly drifting t<.. the common people are at the mercy of the bloated bondholders and the rail Mad kings. With the present constitu ency a man’s political prefe: met t depends upon the amount of money he is able to pay for it, and t ie times contiune to degen erate, it will soon be so that a poor mao, no matter what are his intellectual and moral endowments, will stand no chance at ail in a political race Y. S —That is my notion, too. Talbot McFiggs—The ‘ form” is ready- Mr. O’R.—Boys, get to work. The pi ess rattles ont itspmuiijnvaian din, and the wer sms' honrs are hours oj toil. Ed. Cockier— To my article ,>f the 13th inst.you make me say. iu the last para graph -'Lei the Ku Klnx, the procs, the Bads, the-Jeril—to which the three latter approximate.” It should read. -Let the Kn Klux, the R jlipck, the rr«cs. the rads, the devil—to which the three Utter r.p- prexiuiate.” Asotheu Focxbry.—Messrs George and Stephen Noble are now erecting the buildings for a foundry, on the river bank, backofHll.tr & Smith- We understand they intend t > manufacture stoves and hol- lowware an i will fay special attention tojob work and light eastings. We vis's them great success. Du. W. B. Youxc. —This elegant gen tleman, receu'ly from Sin-.for Va , fas set tled in Route for the purpose o- practicing medicine, lie has had some 23 years suc cessful practice in Virginia, coa.es highly recommended and we bespeak for hint a cord'sl reception in this community. For the present—until his family arrives—his office will be at the Choice Hotel. Farmers to the Rescue.—We clip the following from the Chattooga Adverti ser of the 13th. Cannot some of onr Floyd county farmers go three inches better on it? On the 7th day of April Mr. J. G. | ini arts a flash tq trade, and men who No Cur Throat Business —The skill displayed iu :h> job. printing department of the Courier office is finding appreciation with our merchants, and their orders are being received far all kinds of novelties in that line. The arrival of Spring goods Sims laid npon onr table a fair sample • f wheat, grown by him, in th>s county, mens uriog 3 feet 8 inches from stem to stalk.— This sample beats Floyd by one inch. On the 9th day of the same month Mr. Spurlock, a citizen of this place, surprised the town by piecing before us a superior lunch of beaded wheat, measuring 3 feet 11 inches fall, raised on an unmannred field w’-tich had been in corn the year 1870 We defy the Empire State to produce a like sample of wheat, grown npon the same kind of land, and at as early date as this production. Who says Railroad dawn this Valley ? May Day Celebration and Concert at Cate Spbiso — fke la its connected with Heart School pro*«'»c to have til ir May Dav c hbratioa on the n'lh: of the 4th, with a coLCcii f*-r the ben-fit of the j three t'-.cuU school. The object is a ^sod one and the lonncu iai riche-t kind ot a rich treat may keexp-cted know their interest# and Rome is fullof them —are not slow to speak to th eyes of their customers through tasteful show cirds usd circular*. We hate the fullest capacity for this Work; an J while demanding a fair price for onr labor, because vre will not do business without a legitimate profit, yet can afford rates to compete with any -a Uo lishnient North or South. The Strastmrs library. The efforts made in Germany to bring to- gelh -r hooks for a n ix libraty for Straps burg have so far been crowned a >tu the be-t success. To all app, inaiiecs the new library will -venta.Hy oxeeed ti-e oil me in extent u: ■*. value, thou h, «f -'l-.i r--\ there; wa*-.much destroyed that wan oev be rtwac.-d. KU KUII IX ALABAMA- tar. Lindsay’s Emphatic Denial of the Radical Reports, and His Nomination of Union Soldiers for the State Militia. The following interesting letter was ad dressed by Governor Lindsay; cf Abba us, to the Hon. Joseph lit Slass, representative io Congress, be tore- the former left for the North. It is a d >cnment which forms an important part of the official history of the preseal tiniest My Dear Sir: Intending to remain a day or two in Washington on my way to N. York, I eaeeladcd that in a personal inter view I would be able to present to you in a more satisfactory manner'my views upon a ujetter to which you invite my attention io your letter of the 18th last- On further reflection “ however; I deem it p oper to communicate with yen in writing. It is unnecessary for me to sty I deeply regret that a small and otherwise insignifi cant baud of political malcontents should have the power and influence to prolong an unnatural and unhappy antagonism between the Ftate of Alabama and any departure: t of the FederJ government. I hid amneere and earnest hope that we had irrived at a period in onr history when the asperities aod irritations of the past were rapidly yielding to a more kindly spirit—io that spirit of friendship and concord’ which shook! bind close together the eitizeos of all sections of the Union, aed wh eh is so essential to the material prosperity of the whcle nation, an! its social we fare. And I still trrst that the malignart aod unpatri otic purposes of the enemies of oar State will receive a rebuke from Congress which will end them tbrever. I ean not believe that the great "(•verntneot of the Unite J States will be diverted from its high and sacred duties to achieve a petty revenge for a few restless an 1 bad men in Alabama— men who have the esteem of no race, the confidence of to political party. The charge that a Kn Klnx organization controlled or interfered with the State election in No vember last is destitute of the least shadow, of troth.- I hazard the opinion that in no State of the Union, and at no time from the origin of t he government to the present day has there ever been an clectiou where a jalitic-.l pat ty recognized .n a more eminent degree the freedom and purity o' riu-Lk’l T b x.tb-ta did the Dcut cra'ic par:? jff Ala Ict'iia on Uu-t 3 f h of N *v: . 1 -*7(1/ The v ;/v hirt/hat ;Y7 I’ tsoit-a r-ujrtsf m re votes thaa"Geneh.rjiract recived' u S Alabama for the 1’residency. is-mrgcstiTe Mr. H. W. M. Aderaiu, au old and es teemed citizen of Cherokee Alabama, died at his residence, near Centro, on the 9th in t, at the ripe age of 74 years. Relreshing showers have gladdened the lace of nature during the past lew day*, and under their grateful influence, vegeta tion k growing rapidly. Own is eating np finely, and the wheat, oats and clover are just spereading themselves. Mistaken Advertising - Several day t ago a gentleman engaged in bnsints. adja cent to the city, had printed in our JOB Rooms a number of poster bills. The work was executed iu the usual superior style of the Courier job department; but probably much of the good to be fieri red from it was lost through the gentleman’s failure to distribute ad the bills promptly. so that public attention might be drawn at one impulse to the subject of bis business Some of the werk, paid for and ready to deliver, still remains in our office; and we suggest to the owner that his money should not be al owed to lie idle, but rather be making o her money for him, as it surety trill do it used before the public in the proper way. The congregation of the Methodist church will meet iu the City Hail ou Sun day Apr. I6th. Breaching at 10} A. M. and 7} P. M., by the Rev. W. P. Kramer. The Sunday school will meet at the same place at 4 o’clock P. M. Death of A. P. Neeld.—We are pained to announce the death of our esteemed fel low oitixea, Mr. A. P. Neeld, who died at his residence, in this city, on the morning of the 14th iost. His death resulted from injuries he received the Saturday before, by a fell from the seafftiding npon which he was working, repairing the roof to bis boose. The fall so injured his spine that his system became paralysed, and after lin gering until yesterday morning he died. Mr. Neeld was a <ood citizen, and an ex emplary Christian gentleman. Hia funeral will take place thb evening from St. Peter’s Church. His friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. Oscar £. Langston.—The friends of this excellent young gentleman will be pained to hear of his death. He died in this city oo the evening of the 13th inst., after a protracted illness of Consumption. He was buried yesterday evening, leaving behind him the plearing record of a kind and gentle disposition, an . honesty of pur pose and a strict integrity. His sorrowing mother and family have our rincere rym- P “ hy ' , . r .... Thb Steamer Etowah arrived at her der might throw mud at e g e jP“P* wharf on Thursday, bringing the following: age of the upper ten, but he could not fix 6 6 6 upon their property an unjust taxation because, in the Senate, they would have the power to protect their interest. Y S—Bat wonld there not be between the two bodies such an antagonism of interest as to clog the wheels of government and to stop the legislative machinery entirely. O. G.—There would, of coarse, be an mtogtHsim of views, and perhaps of inter est between the two bodies, but a common interest io the prosperity of the country would induce a mutual concession and un derstanding, and instead of legislating for a particular class, their actions would have to bo for the common good, or else they could not, without an extraordinary wosri- bility, be sanctioned by both bodies. Men apt to aeeord justice to one when the parties have an equal strength and an equal right. Mr. O’R.—You may be right, sir, and t am free to believe that you are, but your PASSENGERS. Mrs. A H Wimpee, Mrs. Henry Coop er, Mrs. Morton and children, Thos. Mo- Cnllough, T J Williamson and four steer age passengers. FREIGHT. 17 bates of cotton, 125 bushels of wheat, 3 bales of shucks,-! bale of hay, 3 sacks of peas, 1 lot of iron are, 200 dozen eggs. CONSIGNEES. • Berrys tc Co, Elliott & Samuel*, Grif- feth, Clayton & Co., Pitner & Smith, J & S Bodcs A Co, Dr. 8 P Smith, Hamilton Yancy, Ford k Glover, John Shropshire, J H Ellirtt, Agent. W. L. Appleton, CTk. £. S. Hendrick, and J. M. Daniel, are both candidates for Sheriff in Cherokee eonnty; Ale. : ■ Our Selma friends sre hixuriating in green peas a one dollar per'qnart. i*-' r r’t--!'— •oadndtd *bc. u( - one .{two things, ritbt r Bit toe charge no# existing there -"Hi Le referred,to is*falke, or that the Ku Klnx Klan was. impotent to accomplish its ends. The : truth i»* Major! the men who assert the existence of : Ku Klux organization in this Ktcte are themselves witnesses of their own . ■: fiction. f"T it does sceui to me that the tcr- L nroerfity .Librqry y ribtc I: dnilstiism” of the KIsd, if it existed jUhTr German uuivers ty, atnl the f.brary to be-formed will taifc the character dfa university library. A good l ook biq-is has already Wen formed by the arrival o 1 4(l,Oil0 duglie^tes From the Koeuig-bur^ repress* ting the must varied bra-ctcs of fiterature. Professor Hock, of the Univer sity of Gottingen, is almost about to dis pit ch a valuable collection to Strasburg, among them being seme valuable incuna- bles. The city libraries of Dresden and ISiem n have sent valuable gifts. The Academies of Munich, Vienna, and the Saxon Society of Seieaces iu Leipric. have placed their entire catalogue of publica tions at disposal. Most of the German publishers are giving copies of their best publications Trubner, of London, is mak ing collections in England and America: Through a Dr. Filgel, of Leipsie, the new iibraty is expecting to receive contributions from the Saiithsonion Institution at Wash ington. Private persons are also giving freely froa. their collections, and there is lope that Ftrasbnrg will shortly be in pos session of one o! the best libraries in Ger many. A Grateful Remembrance. [From the Detroit Free /"V-css j—One cv ning some years ago a young man nam ed Fred W. Goodale, now r siding in this city, was on bis wav home from work, in the village of Penn Yan; Yates county, N. Y , and while crossing a bridge he saw two children—a boy and a girl—struggling in the water A hasty glance at Use situa tion showe l that the children had been ri ding in a b tat, which capsized and left, them in the water. Goodale sprang into the river and caught hold of the girl, who appeared to be most in need of help just then, and tried to swim ashore with her. His strength failed, however, and when within a dozen yards of the bank he was compelled to cease any further exertion than was necessity to keep himself aod bis charge from sinking until help arrived, and both the rescuer and rescued were dragged ashore. The little boy was drowned. Some time afterward, when the incident bad been nearly forgotten by all except those who bad been more directly concerned in it, the father of the child whose life had been sav ed met the yonng man and assured him of his grateful remembrance of the act, adding that he should at some time take another way of expressing bis gratitude for the pro- serration of his daughter’s life. The young mao shortly afterward left the place, and heard oo more about it until a few days ago, when he received a letter from an at torney inviting him to be present at the reading of the will of a man whose name (asgiven by the attorney) he did not even remember. Thinking that some mistake must have been made, and being without paid no attention to the letter. In the course of time a second notice to the same effect reached him. Curious to know what in meant, he resolved to visit Perm Yan, and he accordingly did so. Calling upon the attorney who bad addressed him, he learned that the father of the child whom he had saved from drowning bad died aod bequeathed him the sum of 82,000, in ful filment of his promise of remembrance. If the latest reports from the Darien surveying expedition, under Oapfe. Selfrige, be true, the project of an interoesaaio ship canal across the Isthmus may be comaler- ed as an idea soon to be realised. More re- . cent surveys of the locality selected by Capt Selfrige show that along the line of the Atrato, Torgva, and Cue rivers, seventy five miles of navigable waters can be made available. As the distance between the two oceans at this point is only 125 miles, 50 Stiles of canal remain to be constructed, whieh, in connection with the natural route by the river*, wifi insure free and on impe ded communication by ships between the Atlantic and Pacific. Of these fifty; miles, thirty are throughJevei fetid, 8130,000,000. or at least before ting the labors of composition. at all, wu’iM :-i*irct its vietta s from .-liboag thi«:> eagerly labor "ior its‘overthrow. Yet I a?!e which one j t who so hi: terly arraign au-I denounce it. as ever been subjected to its scourge? No. no. M*j > r ; the Kn Klnx organization has Ions cessed to exist in the State of Alabinas. The' at one t'.me there was such an o-g»ujzitwa in the State Is generally conceded, but that it was disbanded at leist eigbteeo'insnths ago there is ss little doubt. Two years ago last tall I saw lour or five horsemen in disguise passing the Franklin House of Tascauibia. Never bef ire nor since hare I seen any of them. That men have occasionallv disguised themselves in order to perpetrat * crime with impunity or to wreak personal revenge there is every reason to believe, fcnt that there las been any such coo bmation or conspiracies for political purposes I ean positively and unequivocally deny, without tfie feitr of £ ucce-sfal conn a fiction. There is no desire or disposition * n the part of the people, or any portion of the people of this State, to use viuie-j i hr to exert unfair in fluences io cnntruliing'electioos. Nowhere die men of StR vaees and colon io Toller en joyment oi thefrye exeirtlse of the political franchise' But it is said the Onion men aretin dan ger. This is utterly untrue; it is not res- peetalle ronsense, as you are well advbifd Why, two weeks ago I sent t> the State Senate three names for confirmation as brig adier generals of the State militia; one of them and ex officer of volunteers io the Federal army, and' his con ioation was commended by leading Democrats. Union men.1 care not whence they come, are as safe in Alabama as the most ardent seces sionists. . Yiihny is the only source of dan ger to either; polities entail no peril. I have written you hurriedly, bnt hope to see you in Washington. Very respectfully, yonrs, Ac.. ROBERT B. LINDSAY. A Scrap of Georgia History. ' We rseord, from a high sense of doty, all mattrra of history connected with the Southern rale of Radicalism The people should know the obligations under whieh they rest to the Radical party. From the following extract Croat the speech of Mr. Beck, of Keotnekv,' made on the Kn Klnx measure, now "ought to be legislated for the injury of the South aod the benefit of the felling cause of rad icalism, it will be seen ho* near Georgia came, at one time, to crucifixion, through the suborned testimony of Radical peiju rers, aad how the State escaped the doom to fell a victim at the hands of Grant, Ter ry and Gov. Bollock, ai a naked piece of bayonet despot is a. Mark how Gov Bullock’s witnesses are branded, and how they slunk away detect ed peijorers. Bnt we can add nothing to this pag? of history. Its plain features present a cv-c for spontaneous overwhelming execratio--: ‘1 hold in my hand a volatile of evi dence taken before as relative, to Ku Klnx and other outrages in Georgia Men, white and olaek, appeared before the committee, claiming to be perseratei because \r‘ t’teir lovalty, and toll tales of b-.ril-f ..uitugts committed by Ku K ax aad rcbclsoa loyal men that made the blood run cold. Some of th tin score that they had been beaten with eiube, whipped with eawhidc3 and forced to leave the country; that the courts and juries refused them justice; in short, told tales precisely like those manufactured aod retailed now, so like that I sometimes suppose the current series are copied from the old set The committee was horrified. Authori ty, was given to take the affidavit* of the judges and other leading men of Georgia One hundred and eight gentlemen respon ded, embracing all the Judges of their Su preme and other coarts The sneak thieves who had stroru to such mom Irons outrages were convicted nf the boldest an s wet in famous perjury, and they slunk away from the committee room like detected robbers or sheep killing dogs. The committee ceased to consider th* ease and (hseW the evidence aside, and;if was only published on my uh.li d, as will b: #eeu by the order oo the first -age, .as I wu*. t-xouaed that the world annul i know tfy jl i .ia nios seon .drels the freedim-a# Aiea a agents, loyal leagues aod other vaia piree.wcrr.aw hi had overrun the .tiouth ro rub aad plunder that people a d shield :l.ea.-tives no der preten-e «r loyalty. It ■7s’ lliscejjaurrtiwt Document N->. 32, third s#>i*-u-iF.thj»-t'Atie6hjJ agrees The proof there made saved Georgia at the time, iro.il the attempted reconstruction though the President n-urprd tua power after*ard, to reconstruct her again under General Ter ry, as ; l shall; show hereaftcr.—Atlanta (hi.istituliou. Sew way of Paying Debts. The Montgomery Advertiser, of a re cent date, tells the following rtory. If Bach had lived in these dayc, virtuous leg islators would have spared him such a dose. A vote for ‘Telef,,’ so called, wonld have fixed him all right: Iin the early days of Montgomery, a Mr. John M. Bach was numbered among onr merchants. He became involved, and mueh of hit paper went unpaid. One cold night, a crowd of gentlemen (and Mr. Bach of the Bomber) were sitting sronnd a fire “expectations” of” that natnre^° Goodale M the “Mootgomery Hotel,’' at the lower end eT Commerce street, .a rat, in attea-pt- iag topMs fromlane side of the hearth to the . other; had - aD the hair tinged off his carcass, aod was captured The fete Gen eral Thomis L. Woodward, ever ready-for fim, proposed to saneoder np te Mi. Bach his note for fifty dollars, it he would; eat the rat alire indie presence of the compa ny. Unexpectedly to the ^Hattie crowd, he aeneptfed the proposition and accomplished the feat to the amazement of all. Not a Haw, bone or anything else pertaining to the rat did he leave fie ooolly remarked that he would like toapply that novel mode of paying debts to all of his outstanding Oram Cm* Digiotate.—Among other fabled stories told of San Domingo, ia-ooe averring that the inhabitants have reached the ootaide Ennta of economy in providing themselves with meat, drink and ekthee.— It is dose in this wise: Watermelons grow on that island to an immense size, and eanbe booght forasoog. On very hot days your Dominican goes to market in a state of nature and boys a wa- '" Seooping front hethnsprovidea est print hi the twenty remaining ntila' is driak^.after which aaitUabe not hundred fifty, feet ,n hctinqAere Art, himl hTfe and (fe^rige te W^of fiaT self "P with the other. Upon the melon ing m point wot higher than seventy-five or *• *?“ ^ lOffC Tj one boodred fest. ,» » A rough estimate of the cost -of oozstrae. away ting the canal plaees the expenditures at whether schoM keeps or cot.orknow — i CabraL It is to. be hoped 1 his great ad- Courier. Intelligence received from Washington Solicitor General of 'the Patonla City indicates that Blodgett’s suit for the has been suspended Cor mai-practi Legislature. - [From the Richmond Dia; atch. Colfax tout Grant. 8-o:tor Morton is a crael, vindictiv- h ir.l be:'ted wretch. We do not say this because of (he iu famous falsehoods which hv told in his speech in Washington oa Saturday night last, but because in '.b:t speech, delivered in the presence of the ever smiling Coif x, and when he knew that Colfax was to follow hint, h- landed Gea. srantV administration o the skies, a’tlioagii he well knew chat Colfax wi-bes to be Grant's successor, and thus compel!, d the Yice Pr esident to follow in the same strain. Colfax’s definition] of a carpet bagger and )f a fcalhwag were characteris:ie of the man. He is throwing away his blan dishments. however, when he bestows them npon these classes of hi* fellow partisans. There are few or oo sealfewags and parti sans who will not support Grant’s claims for a seeiad term. They are owned, body and i -ceche-.jby the titan who handl-s the government money. They will go for Grant through thick and thin. Schuyler doesn’t know the kind of birda las is trying to catch with chaff They wonM'ot give one of Grant’* dollars Wa dozen of his smiles. And then can't Schuyler see that his only chance for .vote in'the South is among sneb Republicans as might want a new deal? Uuw conld a scallawag assessor, calectpror porter, be beaefitted by the change of Ad ministration ? Does at Mr. Colfex under stand that all sneb Cattle will resist to the Utmost extremity any attempt to unseat the man from whom they draw their breadacd butter ? ‘ Bnt, after all, Grant will not be renomi- Dated. The nobfe army of carpet-baggers and seallawags*Eannot save him.' Without their ud his strength in the national eon- vention would be contemptible. With it he will only be strong enough to save him from contempt. His race as a civilian will soon be run. He is doomed to distr etion at the hands of bis own party. Bnt Colfax is too intimately associa'ed with Grant and his policy to have any reason for hoping that he ean xneceed to the hen on and emoluments of the Presidency. He most fell a victim To hia present high posi tion. The names of Grant and Colfax have been too intimately associated recent ly, if they are not now so, to allow the lat ter to be ased when the former is dropped. Probably Morton, who is a sort of Mephis- tophUes that stands in the background and chuckles over the success of his diabolical schemes, laughed in hfe sleeve* last Satur day night when he heard Oolfex endorsing his (Morton's) extravagant eulogies upon tike prevent administration. We wonld prefer Colfex to Grant, hot we prefer , al most anybody else to either of them, ex- cepting of oonrse, aoeh mons'ers as Mar- Butler and men of that sort. [From tbo Richmond Dispatch, nan. A. U. Stephens. Chav, tteemelin writes to tlje Gineim vri Commercial that Mr. Stephens regard# s) ,- very a* legally abolish'd through the aci;—. tak n bv the Stabs nt the bidding cf John- son *Ve doebt that ''r.' Stephens. Las ever made such an adruVion; bnt dp not <3. ul: that be a*.<i hca-’y ail other Southerner# are re* <y to tictn: *le lge i:rat sTavery is at an e .d; that fho Gooarttnti-n has been so altered as to prohibit it; : *rl that it would he wurse t! an folly in the .- titiff to attempt ti make an issue in the i’reshieiilial can vass upon ik; new amend ..ents. -Mr. lie meiin also r.ys of Mr Si- >hens : ‘•A Visit to a N-ble .ian.— The word noLIema.! may saara- ttra .-a in Ameiic. aad yet I cannot lake it Ljck. This conn- try has had noblemen, and it has them nof, not indeed in the sen c iu vaich some foals talked about tiouthai u wh><e men, bn* iu the literal sense of the woid. Abont ninety fire mile.- east of Atlanta lies Ot-awfordville, on the Georgia Railroad —it is a county seat, bnr worthy of ocr notice only fir being the ku - e of Alexan der IL Stephens, late Vice president of the Souikern k’onfedaracy. li .s Louse is called “Liberty Hall,” and I iouv i it well name!. In it reigns a Wjntdity s free and yet so dignified as to throw so inexpressible gharm over th# visitor. But .me other geu tieuian ere -r-erivcfl tbeM'iter hereof a; cbeeringly and uarv.-eiveil*, aud he was Ce-Ji, th-: -virc i»m of Hungary The great Hungarian and the great American rtaro many rcseuibianees. Beth are bacheh is and are about the same age, between sixty and sixty-fire; both 1 -re their Unions, and each subject to the tights of the States.— Both seek but one public employment— that of representing io Parliament their neighbors, honestly; and bo.h have such means as to make them, with their frugal wonts, independent. f the farors of power B->tli d-.fier :d from iii-petnoos leader# in thc^T:c?pe..-c r . stops tf r.sistipce to undue domicioii. au* b .th the same double star to guile them iu the dirk hoars that follow ed—to wit : atinerance to fundamental tad oral law and regard for Union. Of e-urs- there are also dissimilarit;#.-, of which the ai-st prominent is that arbi trary an- ij.-r.ty w..« wise enongh in llaoci r. to In-tcc to Dcak, a wisdom which party spirit forbi-Js-ju Amtv.ea.” We are glsd to sec t Ia3: a champion- itttpo Senate, th publican. On Friday Jot lion. Joshua' I made a #p.-eeh against the Ku Klnx uros i_ ud;ug in the Senate, thus ofo.: Sm'c. Bss giro on:y the sue ol his fer arls: M IT.!! d. n’-'i-J the ct ecesity of o ring this commh ce nf mr>stigation. that a bill was pending iu the Sutstc. hadle. r, in fav-r <•! a rommiiU'e c. l- i donu to Georgia' and seeing the people theajsel:c v He was sati-iid that to nlar Ku-Kiux organizatio;: existed in Gc g'a ihtt there was no genera! lawlorn that State. Ic the • Id slave Lrk oi idij The latest thing in woman rights it a St Albans lady who slaughters hogs. -» # As Important Decision.—Two weeks ago the Supreme Court delivered one of the most important derisions of the session. We have beat intending to call attention to it before. .... The discharge of a bankrupt does not re lieve his securities from liability oa hb pa- per. The discharge kills the debt as to him, bat not as to bis securities. life is an exceedingly important deri sion, that our readers will do well to note. —Al. Const. Voltaire’s gardener is to Europe what 'Washington’s coachman is to America.— This gardener has jnst died again, near Ge neva, at. the age of one hundred and fif teen. »*n—ssamj i,a * The Trustees of Racine College, Wis consin, have provided a billiard table and smoking room for the use of the students. — — +, The Cuthbert Appeal, stales that the - Cotton Fact; and Figures- Thee tt-.r. rei-eipts sines lit September lotfoi r.p ou l': -i:y eiil.; 3.3S3.08I bales, ago ust 3.443 93t» i,a'i5fq the same, period IStitiriTil—ssli'.-jriag «u increase, since Septitiu; cf 1st of the-; year, ..emunting >••' B3u;09-> oile- The I dal r-crip's of List. wee «r.c (i9_312 bale. agaT.’ist 42,491* the seme week li*fy --ar—showitii an in- crc.;;.; oi “7 342 i.a!es. The receipt.-, thv:v: ■; thutuh fa iing off rapidly, keep np atintir the same |«r eentace of excefs over la.-t peer, and that per rentage is more than 33}. Apfdy'aSr the iare nfone-third i; crease the a lance u! the year, we should have 947.943.balc-s n-t ta come in up to the night ni'tbe31#t in-ust, 1871; 2nj that wonld make the v.'rp of 1870 71 foot np 4 331.027 bales, i t ri is maivelous. but pruhafcly n-.-t iar sram the truth. The last year, as one of ear farmers remarked, was indeed -a mighty cotton year.” Sales of futures in New Yc.-k run itu next Scp- te-iber on a gradually reducing reale dowa to I4J on a basis of h.nr middling, which would allow the general range here abon: II :.j 13e- The Nr-.v . York Commercial md Fiaan'-ial Cbroaia’e of : ast Friday says about the growing cr p: “As to the extent of the planting, onr advices do not at pre-ent indicate any de rided falling off. There has been an in creased acreage put under food, prodm-t?, and a much less amount of fertilizers have beenused."’ ' The cotton in' siiht on Friday night last, anrumtedto 2,116,531 biles against 1,495,- 199 bales at the same date last yeir—show ing an excess of C21 382 bales.—Mr cm id : - ;* - Georgia—where : I-c I lacks dominate—where he resided, it a-uid testified by forty Northern families had settled there that perfect irai.quill prevailed; that tl.ey eould travel atiywh. by day •••! night i i perfect tceuritirs ! [Mr. i.) did not like to see these g< erd charges mad: against the wholeFouth. was a erael imputation upep the people Georgia generally to iDelude them in :*u] charges. As a mass, the people of Geoq wer a* good as ar y other f cople under I tun. If this cotnnuasiun did go to Georg he wanted them t :• ;ee the material evid ces of ser prne. erity, and they would th it her agrienhcral and mte I a in i-v i h 1 not been d rtu.-boj. VVlure li nl m-rutred, it had not been in such ! js'tiior as to in erftre with I.er a>atcri-jl ti-re.-i*. He was wiil.pgtVr slico#! auyjhing to ih-i e that would net interfere too tj with the liberty of the rii ixerrs, ihat m>u| have th* t-ii'eiu-y fo iij.se mid repr*.| ertflie; £>nt he ei'rsi couiws itu: he had yet seen no propositi, n niileh he tfaeng] w >u!d j-.ro at to anything practical. Tin; ti'i,?hiugton Patriot thinks that i PcDtisylv oil Kn Klnx need more attefl tion tha-j tiieir brethren at the Sooth, says they cteeed both in nambers a! c-ri:ee .:H ti e —rti-al ed lie Klux ontra iu N’T-! i 0:in>*io:i G r:i \*»ar past. The ■ \shtjTj-iGt: pj«t loxT at f insto For.-y t li e**untv. Nyrtli Caio!iii». ii.t> bet ordered iO l»L* £ iti TijC.VV’iuiMtOG. i Sc-Dtin is sor ty t«» rei the {ft Th*i whippir post :>:a ; Fe a relic of bar nmm. bnt !V-.r la « to. - 3 r-j rue. is wre efficacious sad press t]calTcattper ibaf? feedic^ ; ;h:tv.-s S1G a uiontb. Savannah is greatly excited over the : riva - of the mutual Base Ba! 1 Clab of Ne York. 13- Josh Dill. We care Senator Hill’s speech on the Ku Klux before ns. Itis a very calm, tempers' e earnest de:> nee id the State of Georgia from the charge a: disorder, lie invites tee fullest igyestigstha into the good order of this commonwealth It is in admirable temper anc tone. We dip the following par:;;raps as con- .tairing some very strong p data. He thus tetifics to the Georg a character; Bnt 1 believe I do them no rnu.e than simple ju-tice when I say of them as a mass that they are as good as any other people under the sun. That is my judgement of them. I believe that they are jnst, as char itable and that they possess in as. eminent degree all the cardinal virtues that distin guish good people everywhere as any other people on the globe. He then proceeds to make a practical point that is absolutely unanswerable. It gives the irresistible philosophy oi this whole matte] oi alleged lawlessness: This is no idle eulogy; and 1 say farther that when this commission shall go down in Georgia to examine into the condition oi society there, if they will take the ' pains, they will ascertain one fact: that Georgia has within the last three years, built more miles of railway than she ever did m any previous three years of her existence; t’at she has pot up more factories in the last three years Than she has in any other p. e- vioms three years; that she has made more pounds iff eotton within tiie last „ months than she exer aid in day ^previous any.'person or persons engaged as prioet] year; that the receipts npon her railways -=■ * are greater than they ever were before. When I call attention to the feet, we had better look to it as a lesson in political eeodomy. If it illustrates one thing more than another, it must mean that the agri- cultural end- mechanical industry of the State of Georgia has not been senonsly dis turbed by any thing that has occurred among its people. The laborer has gone -to the field to plough or to gather his crops, and the mechanic to his workshop or to the factory, without fear -of molestation, or theoe things, in the general, wonld not be as I state them. There is so escape from the log-e of these facts. Where crime has' occurred it baa occurred in so small an ex tent, that it has not materially interfered with the industrial progress of the State. Mr. Hill winds np his speeeh nth this sound suggestion: One ocher remark and Thaye done. In die enactment of any bill for the cure' of the alleged evils it occurs to me that it The brier-root mpea are nearly all made '<wg htnot * measure for fa^day, nor for from fenrelroote Sad » ta?e qwmrti- _ framed and perfected to lit all times and places. Mr Hill has risen above partisan feel ings and deserves well of our people for his fed!jriqdMf film of tham from the crimina tion that is charged simply with the ides of falprftg the Radical party continue its of power at the expense of truth and peace. —Atlanta Constitution. ^ o How to get t weigh him in his own scales. '-rp-tJ t l*ir l|»«- Tri-Weekly Co* NOON DISPATCHES. Cdicaoo, April 14. •R4m*;n ilar.-lou and wife, newly morric-3 in triaa in full speed, caught the I ay’s .ill--... Tin; husband attempted to sa her. when i>erli '.vere drawn under the whe| and kiHci. Sas Fkancisco, April 14 The C'.lunci of th« military aathoririe: Alaska has released the Civilians after .- eral m-'iidis imprieoniae^t. No evidenq found. The prisoners were carried to Oh pin. Washington Territory. Versaiu.es, April 14. Ovtf-airt railway has not been cut. Paris, April 14. Delegates t.-f the party eenciliaticn reiuri ed ir-.ii Versailles. They are silent as to t!j detail. ; i :;cgi)tiatii :n with the Thiers given moot. Nothing v.Td be made known untilj fill! n'rtTt u f- tiiC mission is completed. M-t d’ Oidroclaims that thoNationals ueeupy She wb-Je-.f Xae’ly, and espei.-t.a] general attack to-night from ihe army Vi .sailh-v. A. . ;i rc-< ;-'ill huid# out again.-; Yersailh to wia .-e every attack repulsed: Ensagemeiita it: pnigrcss a; Xueliy Shell from Yuloren are-ailing i:i Ctiamj* Iflysq Cannor-adingbeard South of the vi-v. The Object of the Versailte* vommai;d| to-day was apparently to reach Asnicrs. a-.l thereby reli.ve the detach in eutsarminded l| the Communists ou the island t.f Gc Jatte. Yer.-aillcs 'oatteries cannonaded the higes of Lera!h«s,‘ Ccsmperet and NueKy.-j There -was tnfotitry fighting at all the ap proaeiies to the villages. Communists ga< way at l o’chick. Ibmhrmvsk; asked rei| foroemems. They were sent forward, and J is announced hy to-night’s Communist j..n| nal that the Yersailles forces were onnliy r| poised. Wasihscio.v, April 14. The President has abaadond his Cali to 1 nla trip ’till tall. Referenccf que-tiocs irnf -high'commission, and the enforcetnent of til Kn Klnx bill keeps him here. WasittxcivN,-April 14. Senate passed the the Ku Klnx-with! amendments proposed by-the Judiciary i mitcee. with amendments striking out tl ,>eal of the test oath for 4 . S. Jarors, It: the law as at present, and'another by i man as follows that any house, tenc-men* cabin, shop, building; bam or gniiaary ri be nnlawfutly or feloniouslydeiaolh-hed, ] ed down, burned or destroyed, wholly i part, by any persons riotously and tumult J ously assembled together: or if any shall unlawfully and with forec and vi be whipped, econrged, wounded or killed 1 any persons riontonsly and f nmnltnously t sembl-d together: 'and if «r.eh offence ~ committed to deprive any person of any r conferred npon him by the constituti and laws of the U. S., or deter from, or punish him for exercising any suej right, or by reason of liis race, e ’ or previous condition ot servitude, every such case the inhabitants of the caun ty, city or parish, in which any of the ot fenses shall be committed, shall beTiable 1 pay foil compensation to the person or sons demniiy by snub offence, if living, r a legal representative, if dead, and such < pensation to the person or persons demnifi by such offence, if living, or to a living rf resentative, if dead, acd sech compensa 1 ' may be recovered by such person or his i resentative, by a suit in any coart of 1 United States of competent jurisdiction, the district in which the offense was corn: ted, to he in the name of the person injn tir his legal representative, and against f eoanty, city or pariah, and an execution i be issued on a judgment rendered in ~ Suit; and may be levied npon any prop rent or personal, of any person in said < ty, city or,, parish, which may satisfy judgment; or the perron cut oi whose pn ty said judgment shall hirre been satire the case may lie, may recover the foil am of said judgments, costs and interests. or accessory in soch riot, in an action of : court of competent jurisdiction; and the \ son ont of whose property, such jndgeme shall have been satisfied, shalljin inch ca have contribution as at common law; and t' Circuit C-onrt of the United States, for proper district, shall haTejnrisdtctkm of s The bill passed 45 to 19. The House resolution offered, to t the speech from the Globe and n_ Representative Garrett, for quoting in speech, which he had leave to print,-f the Yickshnrg Herald, to the effect that 1 ator Ames' was a shonlder-strap pappy, i paltroon, a most consnmatc liar ana f Without disposing of the.matter, the del eybill was taken np, and the ame adopted giving twenty thousand to the Orphan Asylum of the Sisters of 1 at Charleston; also, requiring the Nt banka topay the expenses of printing ti notes. Without disposing of the bill House adjourned. TELEGRAPHIC MARKET. Liverpool, April 14 Cotton, uplands 7£; -Orleans, 7f-$; ! 10.C00. Nsir York, April 1 Cotton 14} sales 3569; gold lOJ-ft m 6; sterling, 9§-ft G2’t 13} Cracis xati, April 1 Fork 19 50; lard 12al3; shoulders clear sides 9J-i0; whisky 86. Locistiele, j 24a2S; pork 19 50; lard 1 ear rib sides 9ft'clear 86. -\v - s

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, April 21, 1871, Image 1