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Rome, Floyd County, Ga.
The Weekly Courier is issued
EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,
At No. 23 Broad Street.
M* Diviiiell......... ....Editor and Proprietor
B. F. Sawyer..... Associate Editor.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 13
“ Gallows rapture” is wlmt Mr. Gree-
Mv was accustomed to call psalm-sing
ing on the scaffold.
Old Arm3' Officers.
Our city can boast at present of a
proud array of distinguished and war-
scarred veterans. Tuesday morning
wo noticed, standing in one group,
quite a number of these gentlemen, all
of whom were officers in the United
States Army, and who resigned their
positions to hike part in the gallant
and glorious siruggle for Southern in
dependence.
It was very pleasant to look at these
war-scarred veterans, all of whom arc
engaged in civil pursuits. They were
General William M. Gardner, wounded
at first Manassas: General Alfred Cum
mings, General Charles W. Fields, Sur
geon William A. Carswell, Colonel
Alexander B. Montgomery, and Major
John N. Perkins.
Political Chaos.—Politics are slight
ly confused in San Francisco, and avadl-
ing themselves of the confusion, four
different leaders have organized parties,
and four different tickets are fairly in
the field.
Speaking, of party names, the New
Dcparturists of Ohio can boast of quite
an array of goodly names. They have
already been christened “ the nameless
party,” “ the what is it,” “ the homeless
party,” and the “ love-lorn party,” hy
the Cincinnati Enquirer. Some other
paper calls it “ the new party of free
dom.” - -•
Cholera.—Wc learn with regret
that the cholera has made its reappear
ance in Chattanooga, and is extremely
'fatal. It’s ravages, however, are con
fined to the negro population, and is
supposed to be induced by imprudence
in habits and diet. The Mayor has
prohibited the sale of vegetables.
Let our own people now look out.
The streets are paved with melons.
The Liberal Sandwich.
The Louisville Ledger has a special
artist, George Kerr, who gets off some
capital hits. His caricatures of Wat-
terson, the “loitering” editor of the
" Curious-Jingle” are all good. The
best hit, however is “ the liberal Sand
wich,” where we have a jolly blubber
lipped negro sandwiched between the
Commercial and the liberal Courier-Jour-
mil, with the unmistakable Watterson
cautiously smelling the snack to see,
perhaps, if the bait is too rancid to be
easily swallowed. A pot of reform
mustard sits handily by, with which to
season it for the more delicate stomach
A l-’uol and his Money arc Easily Parted.
The Atlanta Constitution and the
Herald, in their quixotic ideas of jour
nalistic enterprise, have each chartered
a special engine and car to carry their
mails over the Western Railroad to
Macon, at a cost of $2000 per month,
liiey do this, they say, in order to
supply the backwoods citizens of Macon
with the earliest news. Now, consider-
ing the fact—patent to every newspaper
man in the State, outside of Atlanta—
that the Macon Telegraph and Messenger
contains more wholesome, good, honest,
reliable news and reading matter in
one issue than both the Atlanta gas
bags together contain in a week, we
can but wonder at their egotistic pre
sumption no less than their business
folly.
The Gubernatorial Cauvass lu Virginia.
R. W. Hughes, once a bitter Demo
crat and “ die in the last ditch” secess-
ist, is now the Radical candidate for
governor of Virginia.
During the war he was editor of the
Richmond Examiner, and vapored his
hostility to the Yankees as none but a
hectoring Craigingelt could vapor.
Soon, however, as the crash came, he
made haste to change his tune, and as
the Richmond Dispatch classically puts
it, “ Like Queen Anne, whom Richard
III wooed and won as she followed her
husband’s corpse to the grave, Mr.
Hughes was wooed and won by the
Federals before the grave had closed
upon the Confederacy to whose perpet
uation he had devoted four of the best
years of his life.”
As to his election, the Dispatch is free
to answer:
“ Certainly not. A new Legislature
is to be elected. This last fact insures
Hughes’ defeat. Grant carried Virgin
ia last fall solely because of the apathy
of the voters west of the Blue Ridge,
who cared for neither candidate and
lied no local candidates for small of
fices to call them out.
“Hughes will faU from fifteen to twen
ty thousand votes short of election,
“ He represents whatever in the politi
cal world is hated by the real people of
Virginia, including the Smiths, Seners,
Wickhams, Lewises, and others of his
own party. It is written in the book
of fate that Jtobert W. Hughes will
never be .Governor of Virginia.”
Excursion Swindles.
The practice of chartering trains,
getting up sensational programmes,
and fooling the negroes into spending
their money on excursions, is becom
ing a nuisance that ought not longer to
be tolerated.
The Canvass In Virginia.
Both parties in Virginia have made
their nominations, and the canvass has
fairly begun. The Radicals have put
forth their strongest man in the person
of R. W. Hughes for governor. He is
a man of unquestioned ability, and
will make the best fight that can pos
sibly be made for his hybridised party.
He bears the taint of treason, however,
and his once proud spirit must be
weakened by the consciousness of his
degenerate treason to the people who
once honored and trusted him.
Against him stands General James
L. Kemper, the Chivalier Bayard of
Virginia, a knight sanspuer cl sans re-
proaehe. His honor is as fair to-day as
his sword was bright the day he sur
rendered. His lieutenant in the can
vass is Colonel Robert E. Withers, who,
too, stands without suspicion or taint
of dishonor. Of him and of Mr. Dan
iel, the candidate for Attorney General,
the Richmond correspondent of the
New York Herald says:
Colonel Robert E. Withers, the nom
inee for Lieutenant Governor, has a
war record not inferior even to the
splendid record of Kemper. A physi
cian with large practice before the war,
Colonel Withers promptly entered the
Confederate service at the commence
ment of hostilities, and at Manassas
commanded the Eighteenth Virginia
regiment, which is believed to have
been the regiment which captured the
famous battery of Sherman in that en
gagement.
Participating in the subsequent move
ments of this Army, of Northern Vir
ginia, Colonel Withers was desperately
wounded in the grand charge upon the
federal works at Gaines’ Mill, and was
permanently disabled.
Withers, in the minds of Confederate
soldiers, is emphatically one of the
heroes of the war. By the ex-Confed-
erate soldiers he and Kemper arc re
garded with an affection kindred to
that of the Old Guard of Napoleon for
Cambronne and others of the heroic,
leaders of the command which boasted
that it died, but never surrendered.
Colonel Withers is a brilliant orator
and stirs the people to the utmost en
thusiasm wherever he appears as a pub
lic speaker.
Raleigh I. Daniel, the nominee for
Attorney General, is one of the most
eminent of the Virginia politicians of
the old school. A devoted whig, he
figured conspicuously in the party con
tests of the State before the war, fol
lowed the flag of Clay, Tyler and Scott
and heroically resisted the secession
movement until secession was an ae-
complished fact, when he embraced; ac
cording to the Virginian idea, the cause
of his native State.
Since the war Mr. Daniel has been
conspicuous for his wisdom and tact in
the organization of Ole Conservative
party and for his admirable tact in
shaping the canvasses of his party.
He is an able lawyer, a scholar of re
markable culture and a public speaker
of extraordinary gifts.
Upon the reassembling of the Con
vention, at half-past eight o’clock, the
Committee on Business, through Mr.
James Barbour, of Culpepper, reported
the following series of resolutions on
the declaration of principles, which
were adopted:
We, the representatives of the con
servative people of Virginia, in conven
tion assembled, do declare :
First—That a contest of the condition
of Virginia under conservative govern
ment with the condition of these South
ern States which have been under Rad
ical rule iRustrates the wisdom of the
people of Virginia in the adoption of
their plan of State policy, and' demon
strates the necessity of continuing the
powers of the State government in the
control of the conservative people of
the Commonwealth.
Second—-That the chief purpose of tbe
Conservative party of Virginia is to se
cure to every citizen of the Common
wealth, whether native or adopted, of
the white or the colored race, exact and
impartial justice, and to promote by
wise and beneficent legislation the
prosperity of our whole people.
Third—That the Conservative party
of Virginia, disclaiming all purpose of
captious hostility to General Grant, will
judge him impartially by his official
action, and will cordially in evftry
measure of his administration in its de
sign and calculated to promote the wel
fare of the people and to cultivate
sentiment of good will between the
different sections of the Union.,
j'burtA—'Tfiat ihe interests of a large
quircr., condemning the practice, and
holding, the swindlers up to public
scorn. Other papers are equally denun
ciatory of the practice. They are
shrewd swindling schemes, devised to
cheat, the ignorant negro.
We see by a grandiloquent poster on
the streets that such an enterprise is on
foot in our community. We deem it
a friendly duty we owe the colored
people to warn them against it, and to
urge them to. save their money for a
better purpose. It is expected that
200 tickets will be sold here for the oc
casion. These at $2.50 each will
amount to $500. This 3500 will pay a
public teacher for six months. Will it
not be better to spend if in that man
ner than to give it to parties who care
no more for you than they do for so
many dogs?
We ask the leading influential friends
of the negro to consider this thing, and
to warn them of the folly of wasting
their money upon such humbugs.-
railing on the rock wall
wisdom and zeal of a conservative
government: Liberal provision ought Court House, at $1.25 per
to he continued for the support and be accepted, and. the ™
extension of the free, schools for the inside of the rock v
e P!nnrf TTrrnsA filled hr?
eiy-
igthe
late oyster law oppressive and unjust,
and deserving correction by legislative
enactment, changing the plan of the
city and county party organization,
and providing for only three resident
members of the State Executive Com
mittee.'
The following telegram from General
Kemper was received:
Gordonsvii.lE] August 7,1S73.
,2b Hon. Thomas Boeock:
1 accept the nomination with a pro-
found sense of its just responsibilities
but without fear of defeat. Let all true
Virginians stand together for Jhe sake
of Virginia. James L. Kemper.
The Convention adjourned sine die,
and was resolved into a mass meeting
at eleven o’clock to allow the most
prominent speakers to address the vast
assemblage.
Meeting of Floyd Connty Board of Com
missioners of Hoads and: Rercuuc.
Rome, Ga.,'Aug. 4,1873.
Board met Present, W. G. Gammon
chairmanJohn Skinner, Jno. II. Dent,
and W. P. Whitmore.
Minutes of last term read and ap
proved.
1 A few , days ago' we publislieA a , _
strong article from the Columbus JEhr section of the Umonjmp less than those
of Virginia, demand .the speedy en
largement and completion of the great
James River and Kanawha water line
that should connect the waters of the
Ohio with those cf the Chesapeake, af
fording to the teeming population of
the West cheap transportation of their
products to the points of shipment and
marts of trade in the East. The com
pletion by the government of. this great
design of George Washington would
be an additional bond Of union, be
tween the communities whose products
and commodities would pass over the
line of the great national work,
Fifth—We recognize as a fundament
al political truth that upon the intellir
gence and virtue of its people-'must
rest the prosperity, power and pre-Thhi-
nence of a State. We point yith'piide
to. the successful establishment .and
progress of the free school system of
Virginia, inaugurated and conducted
under circumstances of peculiar diffi
culty, for which we are indebted to the
The following counter petition was pre
sented, read, and the application re
jected:
State of Georgia, Floyd County,
July 28,1873.
Petition to the County Board of Commis
sioners of Floyd County:
We, the undersigned citizens of Coo-
saville and vicinity, respectfully peti
tion your honorable body to grant no
more license to sell, by retail, any
liquors at Coosaville, or in the vicinity
of said place, for the following reasons
The grocery at said place has already
been, and is at present, a nuisance to
the citizens of Coosaville and vicinity,
a great obstacle to the church at said
place, an injury to the school near
Coosaville, and an injury to the citizens
in the neighborhood generally; and as
such, we make this petition to your
honorable body.
Names of citizens petitioning: Eli
Hardin, J. G. Pollock, Milton Hardin
Dan. T. Brunson, R. B. McArver, J. A
McArver, T. M. Shaw,T. B. High, J. F.
McLeod, P. A. Brunson, Jno. L. Hardin
J. A. Hardin, W. M. Hardin, T.
Wright, Wm. Brunson, F. M. Cbalker,
J. P. Holland, Isaac Woodward, F. H.
King, M. D. L. Veal, Wm. McCullough
IV. S. Barnes.
W. C. Howell was summoned to be
and appear before this Board, at this
term to show what authority, if any he
had, for changing the road near his
place. He appeared and made his
statement; which was satisfactory to
the Board; and was discharged, and the
changed road declared to be a pub
lic road.
The petition of J}. D. Cothran, Jno.
Jones, Mrs. Sallie U. Stevens, and
others, for a new road from Howard
street bridge to W. H. Jones, or Sirs.
Dicks’, taken up.
The Road Commissioners appointed
at the July term to lay off and mark
out said road, made the following re
port:
We the undersigned Commissioners,
appointed to review a new road leadin;
from the new bridge to Mrs. Dick’s, or
W. H. Jones’ house, would recommend
the following route, provided the right
of way can be had free of cost to the
county: leaving the Van Wert road at
the foot of the hill below W. H. Jones’
house, passing through a piece of wood
land belonging to Jones in a northeast
direction, until it comes to the north
and south land line between Mrs. Ste-
vens’and Mr. Mobley’s land; thence due
north on said land line until it reach
es to the Selma, Rome & Dalton Rail
road, thence following said Railroad
until it intersects the Spring Creek road
at the railroad section houses, thence
up the Spring Creek road to J. E. Lloyd’s
grocery at the terminus of Howard
street
A. T, Harper,
W. H. Boyd,
H. B. Pope;
Rome Ga., July 26,1873.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 26th July, 1873.
Thos. J. Perry, N. P.
The Road Commissioners, appointed
at the June term to lay off and mark
out said road, and who submitted their
report at that term, made the following
additional report to this term:
To the Honorable Board of Commission
ers:
Gentlemen,—We, the Commission
ers ippoiufed.by your honorable body
to survey out the road through the
Coolly and Mobley-farms, to connect
with the Cave Spring or Van Wert
road, beg leave to enter .our protest
against-the reception of die report from
the board last appointed by . your hon
orable body.. We do this not through
any unkindness to afiy ‘one, but from a
firm belief that their road will not
meet the wants of the people; and will
necessitate tire' building Qf- iinotEltiX
road, thereby making more rpads than
we have hands to work. • -In
havn ..better; opportunity ; qf',£noS?ing
the geography pf the country through
whiph said.road will pahs; and flmlr
if either report is received/ bhrir tlairb^
^..preference. ,
.' :A11 of which is respectfully submit
ted. c-J oh blffoo . i :s: gniv*if .-isnoenq
; tail! • W. W. Montgomery; '
A. W. Black, - .<I
*—"—
-After, a - full-’i and -impartial Hearing
pro-ihd conoft.wSB ’’
tition and reports of tj
sionqrs .be laid on the.tal
ed that the road; as-
Boards df Road
T.hoth
e Spring
/jfo&l'&Cbin-;
niissioners of Siidi5ii&55ffieP^pipintf-!
ed to lay bff a road £ro)Dn;|^(ippj^^> j
the bridge at tho: Fair Grounds, )!
It was : Ordered that the bid of Sdiy 1
& Walker for putting up wrought iron
House filled as
ble, and have put up
walls as may be m
iron railing.
The report of the Road Commission
ers,^on 1 recommending the o£enin£ nf
anew road from Chub’s to Farmer’s
Mil, was contiu.
hcr'term. >
id an officer during
Federal army.
We honor him for the manliness that
proHjfts MnrtohoW oty jioble women
—God bless them!
were declared paupers.
The overseer of the Alms House made
the foUowing report: ~, ‘
Aj.iis House, August 4,1873-
To the Honorable Board, of Comnds- j
signers: • ■ .star
Gentlemen'—I beg: leave to make my
report for the month of July as.to the
condition of this institution:
On the 1st day of July there were
twenty-four inmates; since that time
there has been seven' received and one
discharged, as foUows:
. once sent them off to gladden the heart
jf a little girl, whose fate is very close-
1. Tia> *w*! r, . -
On the 3d of -
July Dollie Luke and three children,
(colored)—the woman sick' and very
destjtute of'clothing; also; the children.
On the 10th of July' Ellen Stewart
and a little girl ten years old (white)
were received, sitk; ' She recovered,
and on the 23d of July she was dis
charged and turned over to Mr. AT
happier to know her-jmsl
appreciated,
ihe will bend and kiss that smaller
girl on her knee, and feel she has found ’
friends to compensate her for the dear
■ones left in her far oft' Northern home.
wasVhafdt
On the 1st day of August, mstapt,
Eliza Henderson (colored)!-and -fee derrofs, and fierrih:
cMld was repeived, sick, very destitute,
of clothing and bedding; and, -as-well
as DoUie Luke, remains sick, leaving ‘-U
on hand tMrty pauper inmates.
There are two on hand I think ought
to be discharged, as they are, I think,
able to make an honest living at work,
to wit: Miss Silla Ford and Miss Leah
Ford.
There is one other woman that the
Grand Jury has called your Honor’s
attention to as a lunatic, to-wit: Mis..
Caroline Hawkins. I believe her to
be affected with lunacy, and as she'-is: Mivfkept i
dangerous to the Institution, or at least
for the safety of the building, for if one
room was set on fire all .would be
burned. j
As to the health of the Institution,
I refer your Honors to Dr. Holmes’re
port for the month.
Our wheat was sorry, turning out not
more than four bushelsq>cr acre. We.
made only eighty-seven bushels, less
the toll for threshing, eight and three-
fourth bushels. Oats eighty, bushelp
less eight for toll. Our com and pea
crop is good— will compare favorably
with any in this connty on the some
quality of land. Our clover crop, was
short, though we have an abundant,
supply for the place for another year.
Our garden is good, having an abundant
winter use. Our stock is fat and fine.,
All of which is respectfully submit
ted as my report for July. ;
J. B. Shropshire,
Overseer Alms House.
It was ordered that Silla and Leah
“ I like the tone of you
ifiah'you that success wMch yoi
justly merit I am one of your many
friends near Upatoie, Muscogee county,
nc-IoiO txud
words Of cheer for the well, to show
the soldier boys the women were think
ing and praying for them.
More like ministering angels, they
went to thehospitals, and soldiers turned
on tirexr.cots of pain to bless them as
they passed. They took down the
words of the dying husband ere its
j°v STggS spirit took its flight and sent them to
ly Imked withtouife. ItwOl make her owi&mraa
>d .the flowers and fruit
■"fair correspondent,- and at
Messrs. Howell and Vann made ap- Harper, hy order of T. J. Perry, Clerk to^Hwith our^in thiTsouther^Hiid' have wondered if in the great hereafter
plication for retail license at Coosaville. 0 f the Board. ere fhisrlins Wntn her , terra ^parted spirits will have sex, toi if
rtMrJias been to her a terra
of fabulous
of the Potomac.
»B U
„ il spirits of women will
nearest to the throne of God, and
eir voices will hear the sweetest song,
_icf their fiarps resound with the sweet-
; eststrain in praise of that God who rales
which Southern ladies are supposed to
orthem
receive
fou and yoiir wife kindly,- for Southern
conrtebuB and
in accordance with his great design.
We meant not to have said so much,
but the subject is prolific, and our pov
erty of treatment is compensated for by
ohr ; having thought on a subject so en-
: rSon
tictn?’. We did not heEeTO this; as .we
land, Rod
whom-we. sBirt i
t Jgyiir-spd flowers,
^•cne/. wliitfwm ftte'i wBs in-
ffrlk 'C-r-; IL
l JRit the threatened Upas valley; oha
nearer approach, his tamed! out tq be
a land o£rfr»alcSWi dftawers,' and . the 1
Southern asters hats taken her hy the
ifi&&3ih9!^i^3h<£ c tb thear'htSKI
all that is good in' our natures ia
; But the falsehood has gone
abroad about the bitterness of? Southern
ladies; it might lfe'welFio look atthi
cause.' * nGldr B ' T -
When the wanbmlte out there could
be no kindly feelings in the hearts of
women on either side, for they saw
. ... ,. their brothers, hnshahds.' sons arid
supply of all vegetables for the season.- , . J. - .
s , . j! VrTJ loversgopog ont.to soldiers’ graves for a
We have sown our tunnps for fall and
Ford be discharged from Alms House^ j tearing out the.
they being reported able to work.
hey being reported able to work.
Ordered, that the Road Commission
ers of the 829th District G.^M., appoint
an overseer and apportion hands on
the road leading from Cave Spring to
Jno. Baker & Co.’s mill via Mr. Craw
ford’s farm, and. have the said road
worked and put in good .condition at
once.
Ordered, that the Clerk forthwith is
sue an order to all the Commissioners
in Floyd county to have their roads
thoroughly worked and put-in good or
der; also, to have the roads: measured
and finger boards erected, and apportion 1
hands oh roads on which hands have
not been placed, .andhave thqm imme
diately put in good order.
Further ordered, that each Road
Commissioner of the couniy report to
next meeting of the.Boardthe condition
of their respective roads, and if said
roads are properly posted, with finger
boards at all crossings and forks, and if
not, show cause why it is not done ; and
fail not under penalty of the law;'
The foUowing accounts were exam
ined and ordered paid: r 0 f>
A. T. Hardin-2 ...2—.$ 5 00
J. & S. Bones & Co —... 6 00
S. P. Smith, Son & Bro—278- 78
Jail account-._—: 149
Ayer & McDonald • 80
R. S. Norton & Son -1 50
J. J. yandiyer /r . iT ,— ..Lil; 7 '
Johnson Hall’s account for $33 00
for holding, three inquests in 1863 dte>
allowed: : v'jk-.q edHur*
Board adjourhed. cf;f.Y <i0 „?* w ®?
: Thos. J. Perry,J
- (Bcrr} Ini»ntry),30tli Ga.
Rome, iAugurt 5,1873.
At our; last ahnivereiirf otfeeSng,
September 17,1872,
lutiori waa r t^animbiiely;^i(^^^ > ^’
“ Resolved, That this company hold
annual meetings: on the ilTth dayfof
cajKe eaefcdeeinqd right/and woman’s
heart of faith was more sorely tested in
those black days ; ihah were the men
who went down before the blaze of ar-
fiUery, or feU .in. thejungle, or gave up
life, for; God and Fatherland in-the
hwpMur^rfkjWsdfc^yj*
in the cause of ha
and
d those poorly fed, Ql clad, nqsft)y
the endt.
plaifit, f £
did those
droops of the Confederacy; and if
[throwinfc'iBft- i )BpgijTprif5HSSe»tPU
'scale with /the sword’ be the test of
patriotism, thenfindaedydothey deserve
the name. mso4alA
.—..if -m j™ — —--front of
down tothe warm
jit was
compared to that WMch- was endured
in the enCC ofrthb'Janii;
f his'heart,, be
a brave
flowing earthward
the bullet that struck him
when: the tide .of ffiisHfe hadrrun out,-
and settled in a mother’s heart, earl
struck down a loved one whose young
Kfe was crushed'by the blow dhat sent
the young 'soldier to his grave; The
charge, the terrible struggle, the night,
the escape were the things that tested
the pfayFi fpirmml 'plnnlrnf-mph.
But the real suffierih^bf- the war ^
in the anxious hearts of women, who
felt the; blow whoa- it'pame, and in
dtowl anticipaticmrofrits ever coming,
in silence , through the long
sympathy became mute, for she <
contagion that every honest man, North
or South, would loathe; and it was
these men who have betied the
i hero-
true hearted daughters.
* We hear little^
ism of those wopien, though their as
ters of the North emulated them in
works of mercy and sympathy with
suffering. Here in the South women
worked for the soldiers who never had
worked for themselves. In every ril-
and hamlet and valley and plain
made' clothing, scraped lint, pre-
the sick and wrote
the widowed one far away; they cheered
the feinting boy into life; and the touch
of their soft hands had a healing balm
»r .the homing brow on wMch they
-erq, placed: Kind words for the
; gentle acts for those racked
with pain, and tears pure and sympa-
eticas the angels for those who lay
i a soldier’s bier.
All this has often came to our minds,
and in thinking of these women we
j Grant’s Chaplain*
. . ■ The Hartford Times contains the fol-
many other lies that lowing in the shape of an extract from
' “way from this fair a; private letter written at sea on the
to come, she to voyage from San Francisco to Japan
Steamer Japan, June 2,1873.
We have two ministers on board, and
fhe/sMp still floats. We have Dr.
Newman, chaplain of the United States
and pastor of President Grant’s
He is appointed Inspector of
s in China and Japan, and to go
aronnd the world at Government ex
pense. His arduous duties are to visit
each consulate on his way, eat and
drmk a couple of days with each, and
bask oh—thus saving all hotel bills.
For these trying services he draws
g X) a year and traveling expenses,
wife, who is with him, draws from
Government $2000 a year more and
her traveling expenses as his private
secretary.
; He Las eighteen months’ leave of
absence from Mb post as chaplain from
the Senate, and draws his salary ail
the time; and I suppose he draws Ms
salary as pastor of Ms church inWasa-
would not be minister of the
to Ulysses I ? How different is
this worldly profit and pleasure
the character and lot of the honest
minister of my boyhood, with his $300
i year ! Bat I suppose we most allow
something for the wear and tear of
sonscience (?) in a court minister to
[Rysses I.. The laborer is worthy of Ms
A Democratic paper in England, dis
gusted somewhat with the honors pud
lathe Shah, .declares that in all London
inly a monkey was found with inde
pendence enough to resent an insult to
^outraged manhood. That animal,
kqpEhj trrrnlnrd in the zoological gar
hid moife .'spirit than all that
Lbfbdasted freemen.
_en the Shah attempted to poke it
rff&ja .stick, ^^ the indignant creature
- ’ it, turd grinned defiantly at the
“ And this,” philos-
onr newspaper, “shows how
ior monkeys are to mayors. Had
tl]e-Shah kicked one of the latter, aU
the- mayors in the kingdom would
led him the distinction, and
that their persons had not
been honored hy a similar infliction.”
The Centennial Buildings.—Forty-
four different plans have been submitted
tb.the UMted States Centennial Com
mission for the centennial hnildings at
jPMladelpMa, in 1870. The awards
aretobe made next week. They will
be of-one thousand dollars each to the
number cf plans considered the best,
not exceedtog tbn, and from these ten
<*->9*0} ddll j&fiboeeH the successful
eft^ani o' bairn kill qp . J: ~i -noil >1 -
ugiuiL ^
a mother’s blessing, though he .did mot
see the tear that followed;; but hq nev
er retuiried-Hhe»as garnered in, in one
of those harvests of death that dot -the
s-rfT
BadiraUim Well Delincd.
vTheTLdUisville Ledger, in- scorning
tlfe: Impudent 'Whines of a. Radical
“taper fjir ; reform, thus analyses the
reature’s pretentions:
■ “ Impudence in a Radical oi
as natural as warts on a toad,
eare oh an ass. Where
^ertrisho'impjfidfface'.th^e is no Rad
icalism. They are like cause and
effectr-fchitohed j together hy imniateble
laste-^—pTwis o;
agsn i
Five coaches of live freight, of the
A Card to the Citizen! of Borne.
As your representative in our Com
mon Council, I deem it right and prop
er to assign my reasons for entering
my protest to their action last Saturday
evening, prohibiting the sale of melons
and cabbage alter, by my efforts, a sim
ilar ordinance had been repealed.
It is true there are a few new cases
of cholera in Chattanooga, among the
darkies. That should not alarm ns, as
in former years, when it swept over
Tennessee and up the Western waters,
the very same route it has now traveled,
we never lyui a case in Rome or in .this
section, and consequently I have never
apprehended any danger of cholera
here. I have therefore looked upon all
ordinances prohibiting the sale of mel
ons, vegetables and fruits as an uncaUed
for interference with the rights and
privileges of the people.
Two-thirds of our citizens have cab
bage in their gardens, and use them if
they choose to do so-; and besides, one-
tMrd of our population or more is in
our suburbs, Desoto, Hillsboro*, East
Rome and Forrestville, over wMch we
have no control or right to regulate
their diet
Our heavenly Father has furnished
ns with melons, fruits and vegetables
that are as indispensable to health os
any other diet, and in all warm trop
ical countries melons abound, and ap
pear to he essential to health, when
used fresh and in moderation. Persons
may gormandize too much fresh beef
or anything else, and make themselves
sick. That we cannot control.
We might say that our rivers were a
nuisance, and ought to be removed for-
fear somebody might get drowned in
them. So that yon see this whole thing
is ’ uncalled for. And I say this in no
unkind feeling to the Mayor or any
member of the Council.
I used my best endeavors to have
honest, capable men appointed to office,
and have opposed all unnecessary ap
propriations, and advocated the curtail
ing of our expenses and the increase of
our revenue, so as to meet our honesti
liabilities and preserve our credit, as
the best means of building up our city
permanently.
In conclusion, this office I accepted
reluctantly, and it is the last one I ever
expect to hold. I came to this county
in 1838, and in all my ups and downs
yon and. the citizens of the connty have
been uniformly kind to me in former
years, placing me in prominent posi
tions. But whatever trust has been
confided to me has been sacredly and
honestly discharged; and whatever
I can do to promote your interest, the
growth of your city and the prosperity
of our county, shall be done.
Respectfully, A. T. Hardin.
Gold Found In Heard Connty.
Cave Spring, August 4,1873.
To tha Editor of the Courier.
As requested, I send you a little
gold, panned from about a half bushel
of dirt taken from the farms of W. M.
Simms and Z. Hardegrel, in Heard
connty, on the Chattahoochee river.
Some has also been fonnd on the farm
of J. H. Maddox. These farms all
White clarified sugar
Yellow clarified sugar ..
Louisiana sugar... **• 13
Soap.exba Untily J{j|
No. 1 Palm soap! a
Starch, best quality... ..per pound c!! T
Sardines: quarter bxs ...per tut $22 *
Spice, eloves .per pounds u?
Cinnamon spice ^ .
Ginger spice, Ease.... .
Ginger spice, ground™
Mace spice ££
Nutmeg spice........... ^ ^
P**pper f ungnmnd..... 27
l’epper, grou..J per doiea J21, *,
Allspice __per pound 22 toil
Tea, Yoong Hyson „„per pound $1^ A
Imperial tea
Gunpowder tea
English breakfast.
Japdn ten ^
Tobacco, all grades per pound 40 to>|
Whiskey, best rectified, per gallon $1 ^ ,r
Bye and Bjurbon j I
Choice brand whiskey 5 ^ !
Brandies i-er gallon 3 to J
Bum, best qualities j ^ J
Gin, best qualities. 5 ^
Sherry Wine, superior... 0 tt
Port Wine, !>est quality 2 b
HARDWARE AND LEATREi.
Axes. Collins’ per clcien HuOtoU
Macn’saxe: 14.00 to 1
George’s sxes ... 13.00 to 1
Anvils, Wright’s ..per pound 18 to
Eagle anvils 13to
Boilowa, fS Inches 12.50 to
Thirty-inch bellows 15.00 to
Thirty-two inch beUaws.....l6.00to
Thirty-four inch lellows....l8.00 to
Thirty-six inch bellows 20.00 to
Forty-inch bellows 25.00 to
Horse shoes .per keg 8.00 to 1
Mule shoes.......... 8.00 to 1
Hoes, planters’ per dozen 0.00 to K;
Warren’s hoes... 15.00 to
Warren’s hoes...at retail
Homes per dcicn
1.50 to
4.50 to
Iron, refined bar...per pound
5} to i
Small bar iron...
6J to •
Flow slabs.....—
8 to
Swedes iron......
8 to 1
Steel cast in bars..per pound
22 to i
Steel plow slabs..
12 to |
Steel plow wings
12 to |
1 Flows, Bed Eagle..one horse
8.00 to HI
Bed Eagle -two horse
lO.OutoU
Solid sweeps—.per pound
20 to
Wing sweepe
25 to
Wedges, Anted per pound
15 to
Nails, 10d to 60d...per keg
6.00 to
Nails, 8d
0.25 to
Nails, 0d..
6.50 to
Nails, id.
0.75 to
Pots and skillets ...per pound
C to
Leather, white oaleper pound
42 to
Hemlock leather
32 to
Medium leather..
35 to
, Common leather.
33 to
Country leather™
25 to
French calf
50.00 to S.
Powder, DnP. rifie..per keg
725 to
DuPont’s blast...
4.75 to
Caps, perc , G. D...per thousand 45 to
Caps, E. B 90 to l
Bope, Manilla —.per pound — to -|
Cotton rope —
Bope, grass .........per pound
Jnte rope .....
Cotton rope
Cotton qords per dozen
22to
15 to
30to
0.00 to t
Chains, trace .per pair
85 to 1.
Breast chains
75 to
Stay chains
1.00 to
Log chains —per pound
18 to
Saws, cross cut. per foot
85 to l
join.
No doubt if some experienced miner
were to examine, he could locate the
bulk. Some think it will pay at almost
any point along the river through the
above mentioned farms.
I saw the gold that 1 send panned or
washed out myself; from dirt taken
from the road. P.
Market Quotations.
The quotations below are carefully made
for each issue of the Courier, by the most
responsible wholesale merchants of Borne,
and may he relied upon as correct.
MONEY AND BONDS.
Gold .baying 13 jelling 17
SUver... 107 ... 111
Sterling 2. 127
New York exchange premium!
New Orleans exchange. .premium
Mobile exchange .premium
Alabama Treasury warrants 85
Georgia eight per cent....— - 100
Seven per cent 95
City of Borne bonds™ —...» 75
(Sty of Savannah bonds 84
City of Atlanta bonds™.—................. 80
City of Macon bonds..... — 75
Central Bail road of Georgia 90
Montgomery and West Point Bailroed... 85
Western Bailroad of Alabama 85
Mobile and Girard Bailroad...—......... 90
Atlantic and Gulf Bailroad.....—......... 78
Memi
hre;respetJtfully im
"tomtor- will he selected for
K. IV. Berryiiilt., J. M. Payne,
Com. Arrangements and Invitation.
colored-way of excurting, left for the
depot yesterday mom-
trip to Macon. These
iht sixty seats, for two per
sons each/ and the coaches seemed
crowded even beyond their capacity.
At this calculation; six hundred per
sons were aboard; feary, however, that
five hundred went, the aggregate
amount, at three dollars a head, the
price charges hy. the managers; is
fifteenhundred dollars. “• / • ; . /
We learn that the other coaches
were tiFBe taken on at Cuthbert, Daw
son,. Americas, and perhaps interme
diate stations. The same price was
charged from these places as from Eu-
faula, and we learn that seven Hundred
dollars was,the sum -for which the
train was chartered. ’’ ‘ "
This piec-e of financiering heats hard
times to death. Somebody will make
inoney by that little operation.—Eu-
)id’tiio : faula Ha vs.
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE.
Bacon, dear sides per pound 12 to 13
Shoulders 10}to 11}
Dry salt dear rib 10 to 10}
Dry salt shonlders .—... — to —
Butter, Goshen -per pound 45 to 50
-Western ......™ 32}to 35
Tennessee — to —
: Country — 30 to 35
Bran-..—per hundred pounds $1 to $1}
Beans............... per bushel™.—$3 to $4}
Candles —.......per pound 21 to 25
Outdy—: —:..~per pound 16}to 25
Coffee, Bio.—per pound 23 to 28
Java.....™.. —.. . 30 to. 35
' Lagnayra............... . 24 to 28
Mocha.— —....... — to —
Corn Heal —per bushel 80 to 90
Com loose.:..— 65 to 80
Grits........ . ......per barrel $7- to 9
Hominy..:'.!...—.....-. SC to 8
Wh«d.J^^-,.a3pttJ)dahd.;...4i;40:tolAb
Cotton reed..... —......per ton™.—$10 to —
Canned fruit, all kinds.-per doe... $2}to $3}
Flour, choice —.....per barrel 440 to 12
-'Familyand-extra....... , '
Sapftfine.—. - 6 to 7 .
Fish, fresh.................per pound. 10 to —
Cod-.™™——...,.... 10 to 13
Herring, in bxs.—.. to 40
Mackerel .—in barrels 4(2 to 18
MackereL™.. — jn kits...... $2 to $3}
Dried apples ™ —perbushcl 75 to $1
Peaches —1— SI to. 1}
Hay—......—per hundred pounds $l}to '$2
Lord in tierces ............per pound U to 12
Lard in-half-barrels...
Lard in kegs.
Molasses in barrels .per
Mdasses, hlf-bbls and
Oats, for stable per
Oats for planting.
Onions ™: per bushel S1.50 to $2.00
Mess pork — to?20
Potatoes, Irish 50 to fl
Pickles, in glass jar3 ...per dozen $7Jto 9
Pickles, half-gal jars™ $4Jto G
Pickles, qunr-gal.„— $3}to 4}
Pickles, eighth-gpl... ,- $lito2}
ice, Carolina .per pound 9} to 12
DRY GOODS MARKET.
Brown sheetings and shirtings.
18 to"
11 to
GO to
Augusta 4-4. .—......——per yard
Lawrence 4-4 — .—
Trion 44
Princeton 44
Peqnot 44 —
Nashua B, 44..
Massachusetts B B, 4 4
Eagle & Phoenix }
Columbus i. -
Ba'timore
Androscoggin 104. .....—
Monadnock 104.—
Stripes, osnaburgs
Plaid™.—
Bleached sheetings and shirtings.
Pcquot 104— ..—per yard
Lowell 104
; Wamsntta 54
Fruit of the Loom 54
Lonsdale 44——— .....
Wamsntta 44
New York MHls44.
Brin drills, Massafaesic —per yard
Graniteville
Columbus
Domes, ginghams, Union......
Lancaster —
Glasgow
Glared cambrics ..—
Paper cambrics
Checks, park
Lanark checks ...........
Worsted braids, all colors
Needles, sewing.—„™™„.„—pr M 1.25-1
Pins, assorted'.... —„pr pk “
Gloves, bnckskin —..—per doz 5.00
Cloth gloves 1.75
Balmorals ..per dozen 8.00 to
Blankets, gray .per pair 2251
White blankets.™..—™™™.™. 325 to
Lawns . ......per yard
Alpacas 30 Oj
Poplins™ ii toi
Black Alpacas..—::.,
Merinos....;.. ® to
r hitc flannels 34
White flannels 7-8 ;...—..—
White flannels 44....— •— 55 to
Bed flannels 3 4 per yard 30 to
Bed flannels 1-8 ............... ^
Bed flannels, twilled ™™—™ ® 19
Opera flannels, Gilbert’s..
Opera flannels. Keystone... 15 #
Lindseys™.™— per yard 151*
Prints, different brands'—.™.™
Kentucky jeans, all makes—.
Spool cotton .per dozen
Ocrpets, hemp....—.—.per yard
Carpets, Dutrii hemp.........
Carpets, ingrain —-r—.
Carpets, two ply and heavy
Carpets, heavy three-ply
Osnabnrgs. ..........
lickings, all makes ™. , —1
Stripes, different styles™-
■Denims —— AV.'gftl
; 50 M
11 till
35to3
3Ctod
7 to®
40>i*i
35K
27 to?
. 55 to*
75 to 1^1
LC0 to IT
13 toll
8}toJ|
21to»|
14t»J*S
Hate, all kinds;-..-per dozen 5.50 to 1
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Men’s kip hduis. pgd—perdoz 33-OOto*...
Men’s grain boots, pegged-™3*-“'“^
Men’s calf hoots, pegged
Boys’ kip boots, pegged—.™ jfljO
Boys’ split boots, pegged —
Youths’ copper tips, pegged...
Gents’ call Congress .per pair L gjjj
Gents’ buff Congress pegged...
Gents’buff Balmorals pegged.
’ huff brogans pegged...
Men’s unbound brogans, pgS J t0
Men’s plow shoes, pegged..-- 0
Boys’.unbonnd brogans, pggd
Youths’nnb’d brogans, pffid- « w 3l5
Ladies’ fino serge lace Bal
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