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The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING, May. 19.
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CIRCULAR TO NORTHERN MEN.
We present the following circular to the
earnest consideration of the Northern pco-
,ple. It tells nothing but the truth. Its
facts are such as any man can safely and
readily satisfy himself of.
Dear Sirs—A univeisal desire exists
here that yenr people may beeo.ee better
acquainted with us and our country; and
that the exonerations written and published
with evil intont, and for selfish or political
ends, may be disproved in words of truth
and soberness, and by your own observa
tion, if you come among us.
The impression prevails that a Northern
man, who comes South, if he is not killed
outright, is so beset and unsettled that he
is in daily dread for life and limb; that our
people are full of rage resentment and re
revenge, savages, lawbreakers and Ku
Klux.
Now, sir, we are strictly a law-abiding
pcsple, quiet, peaceable and cu.incutly so
cial. As regards lawlessness, I ca 1 say,
without fear of contradiction, that Geor
gia will compare favorably with any State
in the Union. And although you may
have beard so much of evil, and slander,
,aod lying against this county (Floyd), we
who live, and have lived for twenty years,
know of a truth that there is no* a more
erderly, social, high-toned christaiu pop
ulation on the globe than we can boast of.
We have many Northern men here who,
will bear me out in the assertion. A n an
who is bad at heart, and in conduct is
frowned upon here as everywhere. All
such should go to some uninhabited coun
try and study nature for a cure; but a
good man, kind, humane and reasonable, be
his politics what it may, is taken by the
hand, respected and loved, and will find
friends, and home, and plenty here.
There is also a feeling of distrust with
you about the stability of our laws, owner
ship of property, confiscation, repudiation,
Ac. As to our laws they are enforced as
rigidly, both criminal and civil, as at any
period in the history of our State, and you
well know that every Georgian has had
cause to be proud of his State—the Em
pire State—standing in the front rank in
stability, science, learning and progress.
As to conveyances of property, all the
sale-guards that exist with you are in full
force and practice here, and our public
records are very complete, so that every
transfer from original grant to present
owner can be perfectly traced. Our rights
of property are scrupulously respected aud
indeed if it were otherwise our people
would bn filled with the same degree of
honor which you would experience if a
homestead in your possession which had
been handed down, through generations,
the right to which all know to be vested in
you, should be torn from you by a cruel
aud thieving pretender. No sir, our laws
are as good as yours, and any government
which would permit property to be wrench
ed from its subjects by pretenders and
rogues would fall to pieces from sheer rot
tenness, a putrid mass. Let our religion,
our liberty and our homes be guaranteed
to us, and good and true men will be found
to 3taud by the government. This is the
demand of our nature, instinct and educa
lion. This we will have, and hence you
may feel stafe to come among us.
Confiscation is one exploded idea f om
our standpoint. You, perhaps, believed
every man would be proven a traitor, and
that his property would be used to put
money >n the government coffers. We arc
not traitors, sir. The government well
knows the motives and principles that ini
polled us in the eouflict, and the severity
aud period of the struggle proclaims what
history will vindicate, and the reader of
the next century will be forced to testify,
in the light of history, that we were not
rebels and traitors.
Repudiation will not be entertained in
this State. Here we have honor, integri
ty aud unbounded resources. The fruitful
i arth is yielding her richest stores of much
wealth and teeming millions will reward
those who avail themselves of the open
doors to the store houses of nature, and it
is of this I wish to speak more at length
and which 1- mainly my object in this pa-
paper.
Rome is a city of about live thousand
inhabitants. Location all that can be de
sired for health, salubr ty, good water,
scenery, agricultural advantages, facilities of
communication and other advantages.
We have all rail to Montgomery, Vicks
burg, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville,
Charleston and Savannah, and three pro
jected lines of rail to Columbus, Decatur,
Chattanooga—the two first so in to be be-
gun with bright prospects of early cornple
tion. We have a noble stream, the Coosa,
now navigable one hundred and eighty
miles toward Mobil j, and an outlay of two
millions would open up a great water line
to Mobile to float steamers two hundred
tons, traversing seven hundred miles of
territory, rich in coal, iron, marble and
slate, and the greater part unequaled in
agricultural importance. The iron is in
such demand, on accout of its excellent
quality, that shipments of pig metal ate
almost daily made from this point to Rich
mond and Philadelphia and there com
mands prices much reatcr than the same
class of Northern metal, although the ex
pense of making is not half so great.
The coal is pronounced excellent, and is
mined so near the surface and so near the
river that the expense i3 small, compared
with Noithern mines. These areinexhaust-
alle—so of slate, marble, limestone, sand
stone, &c., Ac.
Within a radius of twenty-five miles of
this city, (and indeed there is much within
half that distance), there is an abui dance
of all these minerals, and some furnaces
are now in operation ; but wbat- we want is
men of enterprise who have money to de
velops those various deposits—furnaces,
here and there, iron mills, foundries We
want you to come with a friendly feeliug to
identify yourselves with the oountry a ad if
you make money, which you surely will, it
will afford us pleasure for you to do so. If
the roads are built to Decatur and Colum
bus Rome will have equal advantage with
any manufacturing city in the United
States. , O. S.
We are in receipt of the May number of
'‘The National Live Stock Journal” The
journal is devoted exclusively to the im
provement of live Btock and the interest of
breeders. The number before us contains
many valuable articles concerning horses,
cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, bees, Ac,
It or some similar journal should bo in
the bouse of every farmer, or those who
own stock of any kind. Only §2 00 per
annum. Address, Geo. W. Rust & Co.,
Chicago, Ill.
[Communicated.
Cheap Railroads.
Mr. Editor: Since my last article to
you I have seen notices of two narrow
guaga railroads now in course of instuc
tion, one ol three foot, the other of thirty
inch guage, both in Missouri, and both in-
tc-dcd for the transport of iron ere from
tire mines to some broad guage road; and
not for miscellaneous freight and passen
ger traffic.
I trust I shall be excused if I reftr to
few more points cone ;ring norrow guages.
In the construction of all buildings, engine
bouses &c. the engineering and inciicntal
expenses, and in land damages, the three-
foot gnage can save nothing over the broad
guage. The only place where any consid
erable reduction can be made is in the cost
of track, and here it will hardly exceed 33
percent of the 5 foot track. The sale of
bonds when it comes to that, will show what
confideDCc capitalists have in the success
of an enterprise that makes a three foot
guage the main link of a line six or seven
hundred miles long; the discount will be
doubled
It will be impossible to hire eDgines or
cars from cur neighbors and we shall have
to purchase for cash a lull and complete
outfit of cars and engines, at a cost—it is
true—ol 30 to 40 per cent less for each,
lut upon the aggregate equal to if not
gr- ater than the same outlay would have
been with a 5 foot gua c.
A.nd finally having finished our road and
footed up the cola un of expenditures wo
must not be ustinishod to find our invest
ment but a trifle less tnan it would have
been bad we built a broad guage read upon
a cheap plan.
Of the immense amount of capital invest
ed in the construction and the equipment
of railroads in the country,— an examina
tion of the reports of companies represent
ing over 5,000 miles shows that one half
of it is charge ible to superstructure and
motive power (by superstructure is mi ait the
track and the frame work of bridges) and
about one fourth of it to discount and de
preciated value of the means at the disposal
of the builders.
These items then are the points to which
we should mainly direct our attention with
the view of reduction and in their reduc
tion wc may develop the means of reducing
other items. The remaining ono fourth is
represented by graduation and masonry;
in these items the present system of Ameri
can Engineering has economised as much
probably as a duo regard for safety will per
mit, and wc cannot expect to save much iu
them.
The greatest obstacle we shall encounter
in the redaction of cost of track and weight
of eDgines is prejudice; prejudice against
returning to old measures and old systems.
But here let me instance some examples of
this return to old-fashioned practice;—Mes
srs Colburn and Holly, who examined in
’57 and '58 more than three fourths of the
railroads of Europe, state io their report
that “In 1854 rails of 85 to 100 pounds
per yard were considered to be the best.
Since that time it is found on tbe Eastern
Counties line, that the 95 pound rails made
tbe worst road, were less durable, and in
course of time became the most dangerous,
as compared with 70 lbs rails.” “Tbe
North London line, perhaps the heaviest
worked io England, is having laid down 72
pound rails in place of those of 85 pounds
formerly used. Brunei’s last rail—for the
Great Western line, is G2 p rands per yard
in place of 72 and 92 pound iron formerly
used.” Of over4000 miles of road io
Pennsylvania the heviest rail now in use is
70 lbs. per yard, tbe heviest laid since
18G5 was GGlbs.; and the average of all in
use at present is 54} lbs. per yard. The
writer remembers distinctly when stone
blocks,—and in the case of some railroads
near Boston,—stone cross-ties, were consid
ered indispensable for a good and substan
tial track. The report above mentioned
says upon this point “stone blocks have
almost been entirely discarded;” and the
last, it is believed, in use in this country
.vore taken up in ’63 on the N. Y. & Hnr.
R. R. and replaced by oak sills.
It will be observed that increase in the
weight of engines is successful only where
the tonnage to be moved has also increased.
The old Penn, and Ohio. R. R.—now con
solidated with others into tbe Pittsburg,
Ft. Wayne and Chicago R. R.—moved
during tbe year 1853 a total freight of270,
000 tons and 130,000 passengers, with en
gines for the former of not over twenty
tons and seventeen tons for tbe latter; this
road has grades ol 58 feet per mile. The
Cumberland Valley R. R. in 1869 with
seventeen ton passenger and twenty-two ton
freight engines did a business of 308,000
passengers and 250,000 tons freight; the
road is 75 miles long with 53 feet grades.
IIow many instance! are there where
the managers of a second class road, have
purchased engines and cars of the same
pattern and cost as those used on roads
with the heaviest traffic; and these heavy
engines—not the amount of freight carried
—requiring a stronger 2nd more substan
tial superstructure. All this for display
and not because the necessity of the trade
demands it. Is it not folly to use for a
train of two or three passenger coaches, an
engine of the same pattern and power as
that which draws the Cincinnati Expross
with ten cars over the 97 feet grades of the
Pennsylvania Central R. R.?
I desiie to show that an expensive track
and heavy engines are not a necessity for
new roads, but that we may use in such
cases e igines of sixteen to twenty tons, and
a track that shall not cost over $4,500 per
mile. And for this track let us use the
Oat-bar two and three-eights inches wide
and five-eighths thick, laid upon longitudi
nal stringers five inches wide at top and
seven inches at the bottom and eight and
a half inches deep, these to be supported
by sub-sills five feet apart. As before re
marked, the greatest abjection to this will
be prejudice. John B. Jervis, Esq., whose
reputation as a Civil Eogineer is secured
to more in the country, says of the flat-bar
road:
“ Though now generally out of use, this
kind of lailway has done much service iu
this country in a very economical way, and
paid the proprietors, in several cases, the
best dividends, and, in faot, better than
when subsequently laid in a more perfect
and substantial manner. With suitable
machinery and working at a moderate
speed such rails may do a perfect work.”
A track of this kind will be sufficiently
strong for the eDgines above mentioned,
and can be made entirely safe; “ snake
heads ” can be avoided by using screw
spikes at the ends of rails; and by employ
ing one-fourth more repair men than usual
the track can be kept in as good condi
tion. The superstrnctnre of bridges be
reduced in cost, as the heaviest engines
will be hut two thirds the weight of many
now in use—it is the weight of engines
that regulates the strength of all railway
superstructures. Tbe bridges may be so
bailt that the necessary timbers, rods and
bolts can at aay time he added to receive
heavier engines.
In the case of a road constructed with
55 to 60 pound rails, not iess than $7,000
per mile goes for iron rails and splices,
manufactured at a distance and brought
here at great expense; bnt with flat-bar
every dollar may be expended in your
midst. Tbe residents along the line of
road who have not a dollar of money to
contribute, will, many of them, be found
ready and willing to furnish the timber in
payment for suck subscriptions and the
rails and spikes furnished by your own
rolling mills. The whole amonnt required
to put the road in order to receive a train
is Bpent here in yonr midst, and does not
go into the hands of large iron manufac
turers at the North or in England,
As the traffic increases the saperstrne
tare can be strengthened, weight of en
gines increased, and . the flat-bar track
moved to oue side for sidlings, and we
find ourselves prepared for that increase as
it presen's itself. It certainly is had man
agement to provide onr road at the start
with track, bridges, engines and rolling
stock capable of a business of half a mil
lion tons annually when we shall have to
wait four or five years until our tonnage
reaches that amount.
Below are the estimated costs of a mile
of track of fivo-feet gnage with 55 pound
rail, and three foot guage with 30 pound
rail, these are from aa article oo “ narrow
guages” by Capt. O. G. Vanderhoff. of
Knoxville;aud also an estimate of cost of
one mile of fiat-bar track as I have pro
posed :
Five foot guage—rail 55 pounds per yard:
87 tons of rail at $70 per ton, $6,090 00
400 rail spikes “ $1 400 00
5,500 spikes “ 5 275 00
2,640 cross tics “ 50 1,320 00
Laying one mile track, 500 00
Total, $8,585 00
Three foot guage—rail 30 pounds per yard:
47} tons rails at $75, $3,562 50
330 rail splices “ 50, 1G5 00
3,520 lbs. spikes “ 6, 21120
3,000 cross-ties “ 25, 750 00
Laying aue mile track, 300 00
Total, $4,988 70
Five-foot guage, with flat bar tail:
23 65-100 tons bar at $90,
45,000 feet lumber “ 15,
1,000 sub sills “ 35,
2,500 lbs. spikes -- 5,
Laying one mile track,
$2,128 50
G75 00
350 00
125 00
S00 00
$4,078 50
Total,
Capt. Vanderhoff has assumed as the
cost of iron rails, the price at the rolling
mill, it will take fiom $7 to $10 per ton to
put them upon the ground for use.
The purchase of railroad iron has, of
late years, become nothing more than a sale
of bonds, without regard to the quality or
adaptability of such iron ; and upon ex
amination it is found that railway bars of
inferior quality have cost from 16 to IS
per cent more than the best, because they
were paid for in bonds.
In the purchase of engines let us select
the best aud the plainest; the amount of
polished brass and copper, with painting
and gilding that is frequently seen on en
gines, has frequently led me to suspect
some secret defect; it shows that the en
gine builder is catering to the taste of
others than a conscientious and practical
machine.
The engineer and his firemen spend
three-fourths of their time in brightening
and cleaning these gew-gaws, while the
guides, stuffing boxes, links, pumps, Ac.,
are becoming dangerous from neglect.
And finally, the Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad with grades of ninety-two feet
and a single track transported 1,302,041
tons of freight a»d 651,038 passengers
during 1869, the length of the road is 287
miles, and the tract cost a little over $10,-
000 per mile, the engines used averaged
30 tons. Now with a freight and passen
ger business of oae-fourth the above
amonnt, and on grades nearly one-third;
may wc not use a track costing but $4,500
per mile, and engines 16 to 20 tons weight.
Very Respectfully, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
E- Godfrey Rerrer, C. E.
[Communicated.
Mr. Editor,—It affords me pleasure to
announce that the Rome Female College
will be opened for tbe reception of pupils
and of boarders, on the first Monday in
September.
I earnestly desire to make this a school
for the people—an important element in
the progress and prosperity of Rome, and
of the country—an educational home, not
only attractive, but rich iu facilities aud
influences adapted to the culture of the
mind and hearts of those who may com
pose its classes.
A living energy in the great work pro
posed, and a hope and purpose of buildiog
up a permanent Institution worthy of Rome,
of Georgia and of the South, justify the
solicitation of a liberal patronege, and the
expectation of future success aud useful
ness.
J. M. M. Caldwell, Pres’t.
TRIBUTE OF KESPECT.
At a regular meeting of Rome Typo
graphical Union, No. 134, held in the
City Hall, on Saturday, May 6, 1871, the
following resolutions were adopted in due
form :
Oscar E. Langston-
Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly
Father to remove from the body of our
craft in this city, Oscar E. Langston,
recently deceased; and
Whereas, By the d-.ath of Brother
Langston we realize a severe less to our
membership, and it is dne from us to ex
press oar sorrow, in a formal manner; there
fore he it
Resolved, That we feel deeply the loss,
both to our calling and to the community
where we live, now inflicted by the with
drawal of one whose ability and manners
commanded our h’ghest respect during ma
ny years of acquaintance aud social contact.
Resolved, That a faithful craftsman and
exemplary citizen was taken from our num
ber when Oscar E. Langston ceased to
live; and his memory will be cherished by
us always while we sojourn in the world
whence he is called by an overrulin
Providence.
Resolved, That as we bow to that Supe
rior Wisdom which hath ordained this in
fliction to his family and us, we are com
forted in remembering the great worth of
onr dead friend, and that his consistent life
was well prepared for the change from
Time to Eternity.
Resolved, That a page in our journal be
inscribed to hismemory; that a copy of these
resolutions be furnished by the Secretary to
the family of the deceased; and that they
be published in the newspapers of Rome
Extract from the Minutes.
B. G. Salvage, See’y.
Sore Head.—The Commercial flourish-
ishes over us its wind bag, with a vim that
were our heads really as sore as it imagines
them to be and its weapon a Hercules
club, instead of a boy’s rubner battledore,
would be seriously damaging to our safety.
This is the way it comes at us.
Four editors in the State have charged
the Commercial with iuoonsistoDcy in the
proclamation matter.
Here they are! God bless their jiggling
little souls! Fitch and Whitman, Swayze
aad Sawyer! Slop-Tub and Starveling,
Slanderer Imd Sore Head.
Elegant, certainly,—nothing shabby
ahunt that. We only wonder that it should
have left oat the Savannah News, as it,
too, had something to say about the procs.
Bnt perhaps the editor, e. i. editor, and
managing editor ot the Commercial, bad
•xhausted their vocabulary of epithets, and
had to defer Mr. Thompson's case until
they coaid clean the sewers for a new sup
ply. Look oat Maj. Jones, when they, e.
i., tbe editor, and the managing editor, do
find something nasty they will sonse it up
on yon.
‘Mamma/’ said a precious little boy who
against his will, was made to rock bis baby
brother, “if the Lord has any moie babies
to give away don't yon take them?’
FIAT JUSTIHA RUAT CtELlTM.
And not wishing to have the Heavens
fall, we have dene Judge Wright the jus
tice to publish his letter, which will be
found u ion our first page.
We suspect, however, that it would
have been more kind, it not so just, to
wards tlic Judge, to have begged him not
to insist upon its publication as we are cer
tain that it dt-es not do justice to the
fudge’s ability as a writer, or character for
consistency.
Wc are glad that he disconnects Captain
Scott irora any implication in -the avered
State Read swindle; but iu doing so he
should have retracted his former letter in
stead of charging us with misquoting or mis-
constructing it. Tue letter appearved in
the same issue with our comments, and if
there is any meaning to be expressed by the
use of words, it means that the people of
Floyd county are to rebuke “ Scott of
Floyd” for the plundering of the State
Road. Here are bis own words, (italics
ours •)
And now, Democracy of Floyd, are you
willing that your railroad, plundered by
Bullock and Blo'dgctt of nearly one mil
lion of dollars, shall he quietly turned over
to Brown A Co. for a nominal rent; and
that to be paid not to yonr debt, but to the
same men who robbed yonr treasury. Can
we lose this source of revenue, and pay
onr debt and educate our children ? Are
yen roidy for new taxes?
Is the Commercial right this morning,
when it says the only issue is the ‘ union of
the Democracy of Floyd ?” Union on what ?
That this splendid property of the State,
because it was plundered ot its revenuo by
Bullock and Blodgett, shall be turned over
by “ Scott of Floyd” to Brown-Bnllock ?
If that does not connect “ Scott of
Floyd ” with the issue, not only by impli
cation, but by a direct charge, then we
confess that we have a mistaken idea of
what words mean.
The portion of tho Judge’s letter
in reference to tho comments of “ A
Dclogute ” we leave for Delegate to
answer himself, ouly doing that gentle
man the justice to say that when the com
munication was received he knew nothing
of the Judge's letter.
So far as the allusion to free passes, af
fecting our views in this matter is con
cerned, wc think it really beneath the
Judge’s better nature to indulge such un
worthy insinuations, and are ready to be
lieve that he use I it simply to make a
point.
His tribute to tho worth and abilities of
Gen. Toombs we endorse, and it was the
knowledge that Gen. Toombs approved
Capt. Scott’s bill that went for towards
confirming our own views in its favor.
Judge Wright is, however, mistaken as
to the action of the Convention of the
Stockholders of the Georgia Railroad in
refference to the repudiation of the action
of their directors in endorsing for the
Brown Company. The Judge says that the
“ honest stockholders refused to endorse
the lease.” The honest stockholders did
no suchthmg. A resolution was introdne
ed iu the Convention to strike out so much
of the President’s and Superintendent's
aDoual report as> referred to and endorsed
the ' lease of the road,” which resolution
elicited the debate referred to by Judge
Wright, in which he says the champions of
popular rights “ opened the campaign
against the public infamy,” bat the resolu
tion was not passed, but by a friend of
the leaso it was moved to lay the matter
upon the table, which was dene.
The next day Hon. J. P. King havin:
seen the false construction placed up in this
action, by the Chronicle and Sentinel, de
manded tl c sen?e of the Convention upon
the meaning of the action, when it was
explained by Mr. Hillyer, the maker of the
motion, and also by Gen. Toombs himself,
that it was not intended as a repudiation of
the action of the directors in endorsing the
lease. We regret that wc have mislaid the
Constitutionalists containing the report of
the second day’s proceedings, or we would
publish them to show our readers all that
was dooe.
The affecting peroration of the Judge
is indeed wonderful. Pilate, Herrod
Christ, Brown, Hill and the peo
ple’s road all jumbled up in one lugubrious
sentence is a rare mixture, and well calcu
lated to draw tears from the eyes of an
alligator. The sniveling of Anthony over
the mangled corpse of Ctcsar was nothin
to it. After such an effecting demonstra
tion of his powers of bathos, Tray, Blanche
and Swcetharl would indeed be crncl to
bark at the Judge.
Queen Victo-ia. The next year he was
elected lord rector of Marischal College,
Aberdeen. Honors during the entire pe
23. And he, answered him and said,
“Then this I will do: I will give onto the
widow fourteen hundred dollars of the mon-
riod of his life were heaped upon him, and ’ «7, and unto thee 1 will give sir hundred
his unambitious devotion to science has dollars, and with the remaioiog three tbou-
m tde them all riehly merited.
To practical science he has also contri
buted some valuable facts aad discoveries.
The photographic art stands indebted to
him for several of its -richest featnres, aud
some of its most bcautifu’ chromatic effects.
His death leaves a dark spot in the con
stellition of the scientific heavens.
AT His Post.—We see by its usually
bright appearance, that the Ajax Telemons
of the Commercial is at his post again, hav
ing returned from his Spring holiday, ie-
freshed and strengthened for the
dreary work of his editorial life. Like a
magnanimous hero of old he generously re
fuses to assume all the honors of the Com
mercial’s celebrity, but insists upon divid
ing them with his no longer, Locum Te
nons, bnt real “Jupiter Tonans” and “calls
us to tho mark” for the shabby way we
have of ignoring the claims of that gentle
man to editorial consideration. We must
assure him that it was iu all charity for the
Comm -rcial, and not to vent our spleen —
for God knows we entertain none—against
his managing editor, that induced us to pass
over his claims to editorial responsibility.
And here wc world earnestly protest
against the construction the Commercial
puts upon our language, ifoit construes it
to mean anything prejudicial to the co-edi
tor’s worthiness as'a coadjutor; bravery as
aa ally, or sincerely as a gentleman. We
meant no sneh thing. He with a frankness,
only equalled by its simplicity, confessed
himself a “feeble and decrepid lunatic”
and as sneh, expressed a pity for us; we
simply accepted his confession and thanked
him for his goodness.
THE SECOND BOOK OF TUE CHRON
ICLES OF GEORGIA.
CHAP. VI.
ANOTHER STAR SET.
Tho world of science has lost one of its
most brilliant lights in the death of Sir
John Frederick William Hcmchel, who
died on the 11th inst. at his residence near
LondoD, at the advanced age. of eighty
years.
Sir John was the only son of Sir Freder
ick William Herschel, the equally illustri
ous astronomer, and was born Dear Wind
sor, ou the 7th of March, 1792. He was
graduated atSt. John’s College, Cambridge,
in 1813.
The astiGnomical researches of his fath
er, and his no less distinguished aunt, Car
oline Lucretia, with whom ho was associat
ed, gave the widest range to his intellectm
al capacities, and he early began to attract
the attention of the world as a brilliant sci
entist. His first publication appeared in
1820, under the title of “Collection of Ex
amples of the Application of the Calculus to
Finite Differences,” being a reconstruction
of Lacroixs’ treaties, “On the Differential
Calculus.” His studies were chiefly devot
ed to observations in sideral astronomy, in
conjunction with those of Sir James South.
The result of eight years’ observation was
given in a series of catalogues to the Royal
Astronomical Sooiety, for which he was
honored with the Society s gold medal.
In addition to his astronomical works, lie
contributed to science several very inter
esting treaties upon Sound, Theory of Light
Preliminary Discourse upon the Stndy of
Natural Philosophy. But his greatest tri
umph was his observation at the Cape of
Good Hope, where he spent four years in
the constant stndy of the whole firmament
of the Southern hemisphere.
He arrived at the Cape in January 1834
and settled at.Feldhuyson, near Table Bay.
The expense of his residence and scientifio
services, during his sojourn of four years,
were defrayed by himself, although the
British government offered to defray them.
On nis return to England, in 1838, he
was created a baronet, at the coronation of
The Tribe oj the Greasers—The King’s Fu
gleman Chief of the Tribe—The King
still further oppresses the people— Ulysses
1 strengthens the hands of the King.
1. And it ct-me to pas-=thatin those days
there was also a tribe in the land of Geor
gia wichwas the tribe of he Greasers.
2. And of tbe tribe of the Greasers
nothing had ever before been written, nci
thcr in the Book of the Chronicles of the
land of Georgia, ror in the Book of the
Georgia Scenes.
3. Neither had anything ever before been
written ol the tribe of Greasers in any oth
er book that had ever been writ.cn, for the
like of the tribe of the Greasers had never
before been seen.
4. Neither upon tbe earth or nDdcr the
earth—since the flood nar even before the
flood, when the great wickcdocss of the
children of men caused the earth to be de
stroyed.
5. Only once did anything like the tribe
of Greasers ever before appear upon the
face of tbe earth, bnt then were their days
few upon the earth, for because of their
wickcdocss did the Lord raindowu fire and
brimstone upon the cities of old—even upon
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that
they might be destroyed.
6. And it is to be hoped that their like
may never again be seen upon the face of
the earth, least, peradventnre, the Lord
shall again rain down upon tho face of the
earth fire and brimstone, that they may
again be destroyed.
7. And it came to pass that there was a
very great affinity of meanness and of sen
timent between the Sniffle tribe aud the
tribe of the Greasers.
8. For the Snifille tribe were like unto
the little dogs kept in the lauds beyond the
seas, to smell out and grabbl: up (raffles,
their masters hying them on to the scent
and then gathering np the truffles unto
themselves,
9. And the tribe of the Greasers would
hy on the tribe of the Sniffles, and when
the tribe of the Sniffles had smelled o t a
pot of grease, then would tho tribe of tbe
Greasers gather np for themselves the
grease.
10. And the tribe of the Greasers was
also alike to the developers, only with this
difference: Whereas the developers did
things upon a large scale, the tribe of the
Greasers were given to little things.
11. And Chief of all this tribe of the
Greasers was the King’s Fugleman.
12. For inasmuch as it is written that the
Devil is the father of lies, so also did it
come to pass that the King’s Fugleman was
the father of the tribe of Greasers.
13. And it came to paES tbatthero dwelt
in the land of Georgia a certain widow wo
man who possessed a dowry.
14. And because that the great highway
of the State had tresspassed upon the dow
er of this widow, did the widow complain
to the Judges of the land of Georgia, pray
ing the Judges of the laud of Georgia to
do justice to her, aud grant her payment
for the damage that the highway of the
State had done unto her dowry.
15. And when the Jndgcsof the land of
Georgia had heard the complaint of the
widow, then did the Judges award to her
the snm of five thousand dollars, to repay
her for the damage done to her dowry.
16. And it came to pass that the King’s
Fugleman made it his duty to examine the
claims of all persons against the ereat high
way of the Stato.
17. And when the widow presented the
claim which the Judges had decreed onto
her as a compensation for the damage that
had been done to her dowry, then did the
King’s Fugleman see a chance for grease.
18. And the King’s Fngleman, after he
had received the widow’s claims into his
hands, said nnto the -friend of the widow,
“How much say ye will satisfy the widow?”
19. And the friend of the widow, who
was also a false friend, said unto the King’s
Fngleman, “What'mean ye ?”
20. Then answered the King’s Fugleman
and said, “I mean how mnoh of this mon
ey shall I give you for thine own, and how
much will content the widow ?”
21. And the widow’s false friend, who
was also a brother, answered tlv King’s
Fngleman and said, “Whatsoever. sccmeth
good for you to give to me, tha’ wiU I Lake,
and whatsoever share you gin. ante the
widow that will she take and be wu'ented
therewith.
:.- And the King’s Fu,:!uia.;n was
pleased with this saying ot the widow’s
friend.
sand dollars I will grease the boys.
24. And the widow’s friend did rejoice
over the pittance of six hundred dollars
awarded to his own share, and for its sake
did he take the fourteen hundred dollars
for the widow.
25. But the King’s Foglco.au kept the
three thon-aud dollars himself, and it be
came a proverb from that. day that the
King's Fugleman was a man of grease.
26. And thus it was that with the devel
opers to devclope, and the Sniffle to smell
out, and the Greaser to grease, that the
people ot the land of Georgia were griev
ously oppressed.
27. And the people of the land of Geor
gia did cry out in the bitterness of theirop
pression, and besought the King to remove
from their heads the weight of their bur
thens.
28. Bat'the King when he heard the
cry of the people of the land of Georgia,
hardened his heart yet more against the
people, and laid the weight of his tyranny
still more heavily upon them.
29. For the King could cot overcome
the instincts of his vulgar nature, and he
thought to govern a people as he was wont
to drive his dumb drayhorse.
30. Neither could the King distinguish
between a man and a brute, seeing thatthe
King was himself wsscssed of a brutish
nature.
31. And it came to pass that at length
the bnrthcu of the people became too grievj
ous to be borne, and the people ceased from
tbeir comp'aints, and determined ;o longer
to submit to the tyranny of the King.
32. AdI when the King saw that the
people of the land of Georgia ceased to bear
patiently the burthen which he laid so
heavily upon them, then was the King’s
heart faint with fear.
33. And the King sent his chief servant
with fear and with trembling, into the
presence of the King’s master, Ulysses I,
praying him to strengthen the hands of the
King with the strong arm of his power.
34. And the King’s master, Ulysses I,
hearkened UDto the fear of the King, and
he straightway sent his soldiers unto the
land of Georgia to strengthen the power of
the Kin
35. And when the King saw that his
master bad strengthened bis band with the
power of his soldiers, then was tbe King
yet more cruel towards the people of the
land cf Georgia.
36. Aud so the King gave unto his chief
servant, and unto his Fugleman, and unto
his fools aud thieves of tbe General Assem
bly a full license to their meanness that
they might the more oppress the people.
37. And it came to pass that a decree
was sent forth irom the Court of Ulysses
I commanding the King to have his fools
and thieves to elect a Senator to be near
the Court of Ulysses I.
38. And when the King received the de
cree then was he troubled in his own mind
who should be the man whom he would
have his fools and thieves to elect.
39. For the King did-in his heart se
cretly hanker after the place himself, but
he was afraid least peradventure, his true
littleness would be found out at the Court
of Ulysses.
40. And while the King had an ambi
tion to appear great and wise among men,
yet he knew that away from the land of
Georgia that he would be despised as a
shallow wilted rogue and fool.
41. And the King, notwithstanding his
ambition to bo a Senator at the Conrt of
Ulysses I, yet resolved to remain a King as
he was.
42. “For,” said tho King as he com
muned with himself, “It is better to he a
King amoDg fools than to be a fool among
Kings.”
43. And when the King had thas de
cline 1 himself to he a Senator, then was
the King beset by the rogues and fools of
his own Court to give to each one of them
the place.
44. And the King promised each and
every one of them the place—alway
understanding that the one that paid the
most money, was the one to whom the
King wonld have his fools and thieves to
give the p lace.
have great respect for' ‘Delegate/ regard
them as very rieketty concerns. They
have indistinct notionsthat there is more
or less intrigue about them. That they do
notstudy as diligently as they ongbt, the
will, nor yet, tlieictcut of the people, ’that
occasionally there is a bargain struck, and
some tolerably villainous deeds performed.
To some men’s minds it is a question
whether they are net doing more to de
bauch the public morals, than all other can
ses combined.
IVhen the p.-uplc indie ile a wish to he
rid of their road, either hy lease or sale,
provision w.ll be made to get the most for
it that can be got. 'V’hatever may bn got,
will he applied, it is to be hoped, to the lia
bilities of the Slat--. The public pluuder-
ers will be compelled to resort anually to
their victims, the tax payers, for their ill
gotten s oils.
It will not be paid into the treasury, to be
doled cut by the Executive in largesses to
democratic presses, genial and powerful as
“heavenly dewsonJHermon’s sides.” Even
Browns little railroad favors seems to have
thrown some of them into a state of cata
lepsy.
That artful men got the t o confiding car
of Capt. Scott and eDgrafied terms in his
bill in conflict with the interests of the pc-c-
plethere can be no doubt to any cos sid-
erate mind.
Bnt for the effort toju tifv his bill, the
democracy of Floyd w .old have acquiesced
in his nomination and rc-clecti n. It is
propahle that even now, no serious obstacle
will be interposed to the latter
If Col. Stewart is properly understood,
he not only favors the lea-c, hut the Brown
lease. In that view Col. Stewart’s best
friends make no point by supporting him.
The question made hy him in his printed
communication, “Whether secessionists will
support Uohn men ?” is not opportune.—
“That Brown will carry flour cheaper for
his merchant mill than the State did, or
can,” is not of sufficient public interest to
control public opinion.
As appears from the Angnsta papers,
Senator Toomls and Jndgc Stephens, id
the Convention of the Stockholders of tbe
Georgia Railroad, held in that city last
week, opened a campaign against the public
infamy. The honest Stockholders refused
to endorse the lease. The war cry against
it is not to be silenced. These champions
of popular righ's nevor foil to sound the
tocsin in the hour of danger, and to meet
it when tbe conflict comes. The eyes of
tho people of Georgia are upon them.
Brown and Hill having been enemies for
years, meet as partners of the people’s prop
erty. They bring in foreigners with them
whose names are strange to the people of
the State, “to develope, they say, the re
sources of the State.” Unless checked,
that it “will be full and exhaustive,” there
can be no doubt. Wbat a spectacle ! Pi
late and Herod shook hands over the death
of Christ, Brown and Hill kiss each other
over the corpse of the people’s road.
And now, having done my duty in tel
ling the truth, “ fray. Blanche and sweet
heart may bark at me.”
Adqdstus R. Weight.
as tli e
Rome, Ga., May 16, ’71.
Capt. C. Rowell,—I am requested by
the “Ladies Memorial Association,” to ask
for publication yonr very able and patriotic
address, delivered at Myrtle mil Cemetery,
on the occasion of the decoration of the
soldier’s graves, on Monday evening last.
Your compliance with the above request
will greatly oblige,
Very respectfully,
Mrs. D. M. Hood,
President L. M. A.
Rome, Ga., May 16, 1871.
Mrs. D. M. Hood,
President L. M. A.,
Yonr note of this morning, asking for
publication, a copy ot my address, deliver
ed at Myrtle Hill Cemetery, on Monday
evening last, on the occasion of the decora
tion of the soldier’s graves, is before me.
After thanking yon, and the Ladies of the
Association, tor yonr courtesy, I herewith
transmit a copy of the same, which yon can
use as you see proper.
With considerations of profound respect,
C. Rowell.
ADDRESS OF CAPT. C. ROWELL.
-TJSf f"Wgo’doTO 1 tod„ P 5 > ? d b ?“fc ‘■“lot t
And eleep in nameless grare*
We need net charge
future.years to i,
ator of old who said, •.yj e ,7'° n ’ “ ll ««-
whofellatPlatma^Mafc^
**3i DeTer by those who f.'i, bnl *e
aassas, at Shiloh, at Chits!.!! “ M,
cellersvillo. It was the :,- S:i .' cr Cfc* a .
Spartan mother, as tho badl°w“ B of
speed to the battlefield to r „ C «i-
With your shield or uno’n it “ eu! *r
countrymen, have silnali^fi f «r
Witii the sacrifice of their Uv„, T Tai >r
others may adorn the deeds of .T n, il(
braves with the fairest flowers
be it ears to gather oae after an,,,?'
chaplet of their virtues, and I av th W j^ e -
p;ng with the dews ot affection up, “ it
b ‘ er ’ , Pf® ” the which ‘ e “
over their heads, and fragrant a,tw£
arknds which eaeompats their ««« *
bo the recollection of our hero dead J
“Ai-.l a t-u recording history tell,
WberedmV pk<!l'!!, , em a t 0 SSt“ d JW -
The man itnt i.< not m„ved with ‘ ’“**•
Thai lake, not fire at H.eU toreie’^'^'
Uuuonhyul the blessing, lhe b ^ 1 ~
Is base in k.nd an 1 born to be mulcp
It is in the crucible of suffering t L.
nans true worth most appears. The ,
t-r oftc.n r wears the eyp re3a ra
laurel crown—-it ts not so much the
ders of Sinai, but the excruciating a »2
and suffering of Calvary that toueh«° n
hearts and warms oar soul. It
gifted orator has said “that there ar- f.-.
of excellence that’die and make no i
there are martyrs who miss the nala, U
not the stake; heroes without the hnr |
conquerors without the triumph.” "’
Success makes tbe hero patriot- while
defeat brands as the Rebel chieftain.
But here the fond memory of our obi
ous past lies embalmed in the breMi „r
tho;e left behind. ,f
“Liberty eternat spirit of the chainl.sj mind
Brightest in dungeons, libarty thoa art.
For there thy habitation is the heart.
The heart which love of thee alone caa Lind-
And when thy sons to fettera areconiiteJ.'
To fe tters.aod the damp vaalts’ d.jicss rlL,.
Their country conquers with their mirtrrdo-a.-
Credulity and devotion have, from ti me
immemorial, wielded authority over men
In ancient times, across the blue jJta,
in the land of the “Cypress and the vme ’
through its Delphic oracle, credulity shai>.
ed thp destiny of men. In Meumval times
devotion withdrew to the holy city, poked
oo finger the glittering spear’ aud pointed
to the Holy Sepulcher, and myriadsof Cru
saders forsook theii occidental homes for
Saracenic battle fields; and “Kings ewe
forth as pilgrims to Rome’s holy shrine.”
Bnt what devoiion can equal that belie!
which, stronger than that which causes the
Persian to turn to his sun God, or the Cn
sader to his cross, lea; ing across the dark
valley of the shadow of death, walks not
amid the rums of olden commonwealths or
in the silent twilight of past aces, but Gab
ing the past with the present, niscs a br
ing sepulcher, or spotless monument entomb
ed in the human heart, which time cannot
erase cr oppression destroy.
And when your beautiful rivers iu future
years shall gather within their ample arms
the full fruition of a mighty city, abon
the hum of its industry, or the shriek of
its steam whistle, will go np the swelling
orison of silent hearts to this “bivouac of
the dead to show to the stranger aud so
journer below these sentinels of your pros
perity; these silent head-board orators of a
cause lost, never while the heritage of lib
erty is bequeathed from “bleeding sire to
son,”—forgotten, never! while woman's
love remains to arner it up iu her affec
tions, or wreath these green hillocks with
the freshest offerings of spring.
“So sleep the brave who sink to rest.
By all their country's honors Mill;
When spring with dewy finger celd,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould.
“She there shali dress a sweeter soil
Than fancy’s feet have ever trod
• 3 * :
There honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the tnrf that wraps their day:
Aad freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there."
[Communicated.
Editors Courier:—“Fiat justitia ruat
Ceelum." Your oiitorial in reference to my
communication, is a very strange article.
In what part of it do you fiod the assertion
“tho road had been plundered of over one
million of dollars by Capt. Scott?” It is
not to be found in it—nothing like it.
Such au assertion would, and ought to be,
personally offensive to tho Capt. Our re
lations have been of the kindest character.
On my part, they shall not be disturbed
by political differences. Therefore your
editorial cam not pass withont notice, and I
hope correction.
The Captain’s “plundering” expediton,
will hardly go beyond, a good dinner, or a
cask of “Otard and Dupre,” or woman’s
charms, sibging for possession."
Tbe communication alledged, Blodgett
and Bollock had plundered the road of
nearly one million dollars. Do you take
issue on that? Why do you associate Capt.
Scott with it? The writer did not, even
by implication. No man, knowing him,
supposes he did, or would, ot that, or any
other amount.
Some gentlemen, signing himself “A
Delegate," who I respect for his simplicity
in intimating that the grand principle of
democracy is, “the cohesive power of pub
lic plunder,” does me the honor to sit in
judgment upon my communication, and
pronounce me a “firebrand in the democra
cy.” The lease of the state road, involving
millions, is, in his opinion a mere “local
question.” We should be pleased to hear
from him, as to what would be one of suf
ficient importance to mar democratic har
mony. Again, “Delegate” says, “it is an
acknowledged fact that all the governors of
Georgia (with one honorable exception)
have made political capital of tbe road.”
Sorely, he feels'better after such a de
livery. “Delegate” pray tell the ignorant
ones, what governor? Let ns have light.
Wa3 it some “old whig” that the democra
cy had. foiled to reverence; oris yonr “hon
orable exception,” “honest Joe?”
“Some one may feel aggrieved because
his particular friend was not nominated.”
Lo doth “Delegate”again deliver himself.
Unfortunate calamity! Such occurrences
are greatly to be regretted. It is to be
hoped that ‘some one* will survive the re
sult. Whose particular frit n I could it have
been? Scott aud Eight were the only can
didates. ‘Delegate,’ it is reasonable to
suppose,‘went for Scott.’ It .is to be hoped
‘Delegate’ will see him, and prevent disas
ter. It is hardly possible he- could have
alluded to the writer.
‘Delegate evidently ‘takes to’ conven
tions. Some moderately sensible men, who
la Memory of tbe Confederate Dead;
Rome Cemetery-
My Countrymen—We have met to-day
ill accordance with a time-honored custom,
to lay these offerings as a testimonial to the
brave hearts whose mortal remains slumber
ben ath these green sods, and in remem
brance of those who ooce followed tbe stan
dard ol tbe ttars aad bars.
It was abeantifol figure of ancient times
that represented Niobe changed into a rock
because of so much weeping for her chil
dren, because they were no*. Again and
again has it been tbe torn of a people to
assume the garb of the Niobe of Nations
—the Gaul has but recently worn the man
tle, and we are still to-day “all tears” for
onr lost aad dead, but the clustering vio
lets and blushing roses of early spring are
not more fragrant than is the sweet in
cense of their memorable and heroio dar
ing. Huge mausoleums, obelisks and arches
may have attested, in periodsgoneby, king
ly worth and knightly daring, bnt we will
consign the glories of onr soldier dead not
alone to these small tarnuli of earth, not to
the cold jaws of the inanimate marble, not
to the polished shaft or ehiseled Parian
bnt to that which is more lasting than time,
more durable than brass, the hearts o r their
countrymen.
“And now spirits of tbe bravo who roam.
Enfranchised through yon starry dome,
Rejoice for spirits of kindred fire
Have winged their flight to join yonr choir.
And while the enfranchised spirits ot
your braves departed may even now, from
the realms of Ether, be contemplating the
constancy and dgvotion of their comrades
who still tabernacle here below, the memo
ry of their glorious deeds while on earth
will remain enshrined in tho sanctuary of a
nation’s heart. “The heart’s pore planet
shining yet above the wastes of memory,
while all oti^er lights are set.”
Those weary voyagers from the din and
tnmnlt and conflict of life, have ceased to
bear with as the oppressor’s wrong, and
their voices no longer greet their loved
ones, bnt have died away dong the corrid
ors of Etornity; bnt shall not their example
serve ns a beacon light to fire the patriot’s
heart, and when freedom, driven by tho
hand of violence, from one citadel after an
other of her strength, shall seek an asylnm
from her oppressors, this will be a fit altar
to repair to and renew and energize its fal
tering courage. Pulseless may be those
arms, and sunken those eyes which once
flashed with the fire of battle, but may- wo
not indulge in the hope that it is so, bnt to
be hereafter “forever bright when staraand
sons are sank in night.”
These dead, bat sceptered sovereigns may
still rale onr spirits from their arns, the
mighty departed may live in marble, and
almost breath in canvass, bnt relentless and
corroding time most destroy the one and
consume the other. It is only the memory
of great deeds that can rescue from oblivi
on the man who defended the bridge at
Lodi, the Spartan, band who at Thermopy-
lse wonld fight in the shade if the arrows
should be so thick as to darken the snn; the
famous charge of the “Six Hundred at Ba-
laklava;” the achievements of the handfnll
of men who followed the fortunes of tbe
Father of onr country in its primitive
struggle; the efforts of freemen against fcar-
A correspondent from Cedar Grwe,Wal
ker county, gives the following brief pu
ticulars of an nnfortnnate affray that oc
curred in that county oa the 6th inst-:
Mr. Editor—Oar community ns
shocked by the marder of Mr. T. 31. Coul
ter, on Saturday, the 6th inst., by M. 4.
Ellison, by shooting him with a pistol.
The diffienlty was of a political tuto.
Both men were, intoxicated. Mr. EChoo
voluntarily surrendered himself to tie
proper authorities, and he was to-day com
mitted to jail, there to await the decision of
the Superior Court for marder.
A Sdbscbibes.
Im
ROME
Female College.
THIS Institution will bo ommJ »
the first Monda> of September,
f It will be FIRST CUSS m dl
its Departments. . . .
Circulars may be obtained bj ad
dressing IIA Smith, Boolcaeller, Rome, W.
J. M. M. CALDWELL, President
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