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Rojjie^ Floyd County, Ga.
The Wxbklt Courier is issued
EVERY .WEDNESDAY MQRNING,
At No. 23 Broad'ffixtiofc
M. Dwmell......... ....Editor and Proprietor
B* F. Sawjer Associate-Editor.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 27
Vienna Heard From. — Nino first
class prizes have been awarded Ameri
ca by the Vienna Exhibition.
Hon. A. H.~ Stephens is on a visit at
Marietta. He is the guest of Col. J. D.
Waddell. His reception by the people
was cordial, and .shows in what high
esteem the great and good are held.
The honorary degree of D. D. has
been conferred upon Rev. A. J. Battle,
the President of Mercer University, by
the State University. The honor re
flects credit upon both parties.
For the truth of one of his confeder
ate reminiscences Henry S. Foote pom
pously offers to personally vouch. Now
it is a matter of some consequence to
know who Foote is going to get to
vouch for himself.
The Other Side of the Question
In reference to the arrest of W. H.
zjtcixiiouxr An luuutug me mail, we have
this from the Constitution of yesterday:
Prior’s, Ga., August 18,1873.
Editors Constitution:
In your issue of Sunday, August 7,
we see a card headed “ Arrest of a Pos-
al Thief.” Now the circumstances are
as follows:
The registered package of postal
funds claimed to have been abstracted
by the route agent, W. H. Harrison,
was put in the mail at Cave Spring,
Ga., and received by W. H. Harrison,
going south (the wrong mail).
In emptying the bag the package
stuck in the bag. He put the mail for
the next station (Prior’s Ga.), in the
bag and locked it and put it off at Pri
or’s. The package was found by the
deputy postmaster at that place, and
he notified the next mail agent that he
had a stray money package. He heard
nothing more from it until after Har
rison’s airest. He then gave the pack
age to the next agent that came along,
and ere this time the package is at its
destination.
Now, we have nothing to say about
Mr. Walker; he is probably a good of
ficer, but it seems to us if he had in
stituted a few inquiries for the package
he might have saved a gentleman from
being branded as a common thief.
Mr. W. H. Harrison is a one armed
soldier, and his empty sleeve ought to
keep him from such charges until they
are proved beyond a doubt. He is as
honest as any man in Alabama, and as
clear from doing such things as Mr.
Walker himself.
Justice requires that you should set
Mr. Harrison right before the world.
This is written without his knowledge,
but simply because I know the. truth of
the affair. I suppose he will vindicate
himself at an early day.
L. B, Stone, Ag’t S. R. & D. R. R.,
At Prior’s Station, Ga.
Cotton Crop Prospects.
New Orleans, August 16,1873,
The Cotton Exchange Committee on
Statistics and Information submit the
following report condensed horn letters
received by them from July 31 to
August 10, in answer to interrogations
sent out during the month of July:
MISSISSIPPI.
Sixty answers were received from
forty-two counties. The weather is
represented as having been less favora
ble than last year, excessive rains caus
ing the abandonment of a portion of
the lands- planted. The plant, how
ever, is almost unanimously reported
to be well formed and boiled, and
though many of out correspondents
report the appearance of caterpillars,
only few speak of damages actually sus
tained. : t. :i ' \ :
Our reports are not precise enough
to enable us to form a definite estimate
of the area under cultivation compared
with last season, though the majority
of the answers received represent the
same to be fully as large, if not larger,
than last year. The condition of the
crop in this State is about the average;
but picking will be fully two weeks
later than last season, commencing
about the 10th of September.
LOUISIANA.
Fifty letters were received from thirty
parishes. The majority of our reports
complain of excessive rains and repre
sent the weather as having been less fa
vorable than last year.
The plant is generally represented
as being well fruited, though we have
some complaints. Shedding worms
are reported, but they have done little
or no damage. The area under culture
is estimated to be about equal to last
season.
TEXAS.
Fifty-one letters were received from
forty-two counties. Most of our corres
pondents complain of too much rain,
though the season will compare favor
ably with last year.
The great majority represent the plant
as well formed and boiled. A few
counties only report damage from the
army worm, though their appearance
is generally spoken of throughout the
State. The area under culture at this
date shows a marked increase over last
year.
ARKANSAS.
Twenty-nine letters were received
from thirty-three counties. The weath
er is reported dry and rather more
favorable than last year.
Theplant though small, is wellformed
and boiled. The same area is under
cultivation as last year. Picking will
not be general before September 20.
The condition is a fair average one.
There is no report of worms.
TENNESSEE.
Thirty-five reports have been received
from twenty-five counties. The major
ity of the reports are favorable in re
gard to the weather, as compared with
last year, and represent that the plant
is well formed and boiled.
The areas under cultivation show : a
marked increase over last season. No.
worms are reported except in one c»nnty.
The condition of the crop is decidedly
promising. The picking will commence
about the middle of September.
ALABAMA.
We have thirty-two letters from thir
ty counties. The most of our corres
pondents represent the weather as hav
ing been propitious and rather more
favorable than last season.
The plant is unanimously represented
as fruiting remarkably well by appear
ance. The army worm is reported in
seventeen counties, but no damage has
been done thus far, except in one county,
Marengo. The area under cultivation
is about equal, or possibly a little larger,
than last year.
Picking will be general in this State
by the beginning of September—say-
about a week later than last year. The
indication is generally represented as
good and promising.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Sixty-one letters were received from
forty-five counties. The weather has
been more propitious than last year;
in fact, all that could be desired, and
the plant is represented as well formed
.nd boiled.
There is no report of worms. The
area umier culture is larger than last
year. The condition is unanimously
reported as promising. Picking will
not be general before September 15,
against September 1, last year.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Twenty-two counties send in thirty-
two reports. The weather has been
generally seasonable, as much so as
that of last year, causing the plant to
grow finely and to boll well. The aver
age shows some increase over last sea
son.
Neither boll or army worm is report
ed in any instance. The picking will
probably be commenced in the early
part of September. The general con
dition is very good.
GEORGIA.
Ninety-seven letters have been re
ceived from seventy-eight counties.
Southern Historical Convention. (
It sometimes requires the test
time Jo vindicate a people’s honor.
1: ces engendered by- the ex-
contemporaneous issues, it
The weather has been generally favora
ble for the growth of the plant, and the
improvement noticed in our last report
has been continued, allowing, planters,
to some extent, to regain the delay ex
perienced in the spring.
The season is reported as comparing
favorably with Last year, with very few
exceptions. The plant, though small
is represented as fruiting remarkably
well. The army worm has made its
appearance in seventeen counties, but
in only limited force, and no damage
has been done.
The area under cultivation exceeds
that of last year. The general condi
tion of the crop is reported as being
flattering. Only seven of the letters
show complaint, while all the others
represent the crop as good, very good
and excellent. The picking will be
general by September 1, against August
25, last vear.
FLORIDA.
From this State we have received but
three answers to our inquiries. They
complain of perpetual rains, though
reporting the plant well formed and
boiled and the condition of the crop
equal to last year’s.
Caterpillars made their appearance
throughout this State, without, how
ever, causing damage. In regard to
the average views differ; from no in
crease, compared with last season, to
four and five pqr cent. more.
'Picking will commence same time as
last year, from the 15th to the 20th of
August. _
Ur.tfin and North Alabama Railroad.
From the Atlanta Herald we clip the
following:
One million five hundred thousand
dollars have already been expended
upon this important railway. Sixty-
three miles have been completed, or to
a point three-miles beyond Whitesburg.
It will be finished to Carrollton by the
middle of October—tapping one of the
richest counties of Northern Georgia
Thiroadis at least exceptional in
one respect; it has not asked for or ob
tained one dollar of State aid. The
Great Central Railway Canal loaned it
$300,000, the rest has come from private
and county subscriptions.. Captain A.
J. White, its energetic and wide-awake
President, has gone to New York for
the purpose of purchasing enough iron
to complete it to Rome fifty miles be
yond Carrollton.
Its directory have not as yet deter
mined an objective point It was in
tended originally to go to Decatur,
Alabama; but the late combination
effected by the Nashville and Chatta
nooga and the Memphis and Charleston
with the line running from Nashville to
Decatur and from Decatur to Mont
gomery, makes that point no longer
desirable.
It is thought that if it does not stop
at Rome and there act -in conjunction
with the North Georgia and Alabama
lines in competition with the State
Road, it wiR be pushed forward as an
independent route to Chattanooga, but
as said above, nothing has been defi
nitely determined yet beyond “the eter
nal hilled city.’’
The Thomaston Herald has the fol
lowing:
On Sunday night last, while the
clouds were showering their contents
upon the earth, we ore informed that
lightning struck a house on the planta
tion of Mr. Weaver, of Monroe county,
and burned it up.
A negro woman and some children
were in the house, and the woman was
burned up, but the children were res-
the
citementjof/contemporaneous issues,
is almoSi 1 impossible to: attain an: im
partial est^aate'M peopled wortfij or
of a people’s cause. It is the province
of history to preserve the facts, that
those who come after us may judge i
motives.
The cause of the South is yet to
tried. ..-The judgment of the intelligent
world is_yet to be pronounced. It
therefore of the utmost importance
her that the history of her people
should be faithfully preserved, and im-
partiaRy transmitted. It was to the
furtherance of this object that the
Southern Historical Society was formed
in 1869. Its proceedings up to this
date have been partially successful, but
sufficiently so to encourage its mem
bers and friends in the prosecution
its work.
A convention of the society met
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, last
Thursday, with Gen. Beauregard
temporary president. The following
is a synopsis of its proceedings:
The secretary read a communication,
signed by Dr. Palmer, Gen. Hays and
Gen. Beauregard, the Executive Com
mittee of the Southern Historical Soci
ety.
The paper gives the origin of the
Southern Historical Society in 1869.
sketches their effort to obtain material
for a true history of the war; gives the
reason for the fact that their success
has been only partial; and urges that
the work is too noble, too patriotic, too
necessary to be abandoned, and the
thought is intolerable of leaving the
vindication of our principles and of our
brave and martyred dead to the honesty
of some chance antiquarian of the fu
ture, who may mourn over the loss
of records which it should be our busi
ness to preserve. The society has
called this convention in the hope that
something might be done to promote
these grand objects, and made two prac
tical suggestions:
First—That the headquarters of the
parent Society be removed from New
Orleans to some central locality.
Second — That a general agent bo em
ployed who shall give his whole time to
the collection and preservation of his
toric material, and that funds for this
purpose be raised by the society.
Georgia was represented in the con
vention by Judge D. A Vason, of Al
bany, and Maj. John A. A. West, of
Augusta, and South Carolina by Gen.
M. C. Butler and Maj. C. II. Suber.
•Ex-Gov. John Letcher, of Virginia,
was made permanent president of the
meetin]
Maj. John A. A. West, of Augusta,
was chosen. assistant secretary of the
convention.
Gen. J. A. Early addressed the con
vention in a vigorous and able manner,
urging the importance of preserving
the truth of history in general, and of
the late war in particular—the true his
tory of which was yet to be written by
the men who fought it.
On ! *l-« ««««.
bled, when the committee on business
made a lengthy report, in which the
objects of the society were fully set
forth and defined.
The chief object of this association
seems to be to preserve the records and
incidents of the war, and the report
provides for the collection of the his
tory of the Southern States; files of
newspapers, pcrodicals and magazines;
geological, agricultural and commercial
reports; sermons and speeches relating
to the late war; official reports; the
military mass; reports of munitions
and arms; reports of adjutants general;
naval operations; operations of the
nitre and mining bureau; commercial
operations; foreign relations; currency;
medical statistics; names of officers
and men; names of wounded and
dead; reports relating to treatment of
diseases; conduct of the hostile arm
ies ; Southern poetry, ballads and songs.
Richmond, Va., was selected as the
locality of the parent association, with
auxiliary societies in States and dis
tricts.
The fee for annual members was
fixed at $3; life members, 850.
The committee on the appointment
of permanent officers for the society re
ported:
For President, Gen. J. A. Early, of
Virginia; Secretary, Col. Geoige W.
Munford, of Virginia; Vice Presidents,
Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia;
Gen. J. R. Trimble, of Maryland; ex-
Governor Vance, of North Carolina;
Gen. Butler, of South Carolina; Gen.
Colquitt, of Georgia; Admiral Semmes,
of Alabama; Gen. Hood, of Louisiana;
Col. Jack, of Texas; ex-Qovemor Har
ris, of Tennessee; Gen. Buckner, of
Kentucky; Gen. Marmaduke, of Mis
souri; Hon. A. H Garland, of Arkansas;
Gen. Martin, of Mississippi; Col. W.
Call, of Florida; Hon. W. W. Corcoran,
of District of Columbia. ’
The report was adopted, and Gen.
Early made a few remarks and returned
thanks. He offered a resolution ten
dering the sympathy of the convention
to Gen. Hardee in his illness, and a
committee was appointed to visit Gen.
Hardee, consisting of Gen. Early, Gov
ernor Letcher, Admiral Semmes, and
Gen. F. Lee.
On Monday, President Davis address
ed the convention. The following is a
telegraphic abstract of his remarks:
He was introduced by Governor
Letcher, and received standing amid
great applause. He returned thanks
for this nearly welcome to Virginia,
where he always felt welcome and
where brave men were only excelled in
their deeds by the bravery and devo
tion of the women, whose zeal and he-
. He spoke of old Jubal Early as one
“1 who. was ever faithful throughout the
war, and as being the props .man to
this great object He said we
cued. It is supposed that the lightning
so stunned the rfbinan that she was un
able to get out
Busmen for the season is quile live
ly. Every department 'seeins active,
and all are pushing ahead in fine spir
its. Farmers, too, are hopeful,: and
speak in pleasing terms of their prbs-
peefe.
roism throughout the war highly
praised. 1- ttn —
He spoke of the objects of the histori
cal society, and said that to write true
history it mustibe done- by Southern:
men who knew the facts,' and that all
material must be gathered for the pur
pose South. The actxon oflhe .South
in war and the causes that brought' it
on might he farily lad before mnnkin d
more cheated than conquered
ions oftheFederalPresident,
and Generals, for there never
could have been a surrender had we
anticipated what followed; and we
would to-day have been free.
He still had hope ‘of the causa
Whatever the men might be, he never
yet had seen a reconstructed woman;
and while themenof the day were might*
ier than the principles for which thg
had struggled, he yet hoped the child '■
ren who succeeded them, would grow
up to maintain and perpetuate them
and redeem all that we had lost
Mr. Davis’ remarks contain no senti
ment of hostility to the federal govern ■
ment, but evince an earnest devotion
to constitutional liberty for which the
South had struggled. He was listens
to with deep interest, and frequently aj
plauded.
Resolution offered by Adm. Semina
that his Excellency President Giart
be requested to permit the Secretary rf.
this society to examine all papers aijd
the archives of the Confederate Govern
ment captured by the federal foras
from the Confederates during the war,
and to make copies of such of them
as he may think fit, was adopted.
The convention then adjourned aid
the Historial Society met. A resolutisn
was adopted admitting ladios who had
lost relatives in the war to membersh^)
of the society, and then adjourned jo
meet in Richmond at the call of tie
President »
The Democrats in Virginia are gird
ing up their loins and preparing fdr
battle in all their might Among the
" old war horses who mount the stump
Are the following: 3 •-> T ...
Governor G. C. Walker, ex-United
Kates Senator R. M. T. Hunter, Mr.
Jf 8. Bocock, ex-Speaker of. the
United States House of Representatives,
and ex-Judge Robert Ould. Zjaa
m 7 '— -
An Indiana man claims to have suc
ceeded in playing a thorough confi
dence game upon the potato bug He
planted a grain of com in bach potato
hill, and, as the com came up first, the
bugs thought it was a ccm field, and
started for other scenes.
Oh Where, tell me Where can my LSle
Dog be f
The Montgomery Advertiser is unessy
about the whereabouts of its State ofi-
cials, and begins to wonder i£ after dl,
Alabama has a head, or is turned li
in the woods—abandoned for taxes. It
says: ~
Have we any State Government it
this time? We understand that tie
officials of the State are unpaid, aid
that there are no signs of life, at tie
capitol, except that the Secretary if
State and Auditor may be occasionally
found at their posts. Indeed Mr. Raj-
land seems the only live man in tie
concern!
There is no money in the treasury,
and poor Alabama’s credit was kicked
to death when some smart men in Ala
bama took it into their heads to assist
in presenting to the money markets of
the world a set of negro party Radicals
as the representatives of Alabama’s in
tegrity and solvency!
Where our financiers MitcheU aad
Bingham are we do not know.''This
latter is apparently prospering on his
own private account, for we observe
that his interesting organ speaks of-soon
introducing into its printing room a
825,000 new printing press! The treas
urer should turn his talents to public,
as well as private use, and- show the
presses! , • _
As for poor Lewis, his lot is hartLV-
:r—v, , - -— ---r»«Bi-
ancholy specimen of a Governor that
ever yet lived! He seems indeed to
be a kind of a ghost of a Governor; ex
cept we are told that he still boasts a
sanguineous countenance, and we never
have yet saw or heard of a red faced
Ghost!
Where our Governor is we cannot
guess. The last time we heard of him
he was on a hand car, rather dirty with
travel, inspecting the Alabama & Chat
tanooga Railroad, intending to sell it to
somebody!
A Valuable Invention.
The World’s London correspondent
announces that Mr. R. Hoe, the iambus
Press” man, and his London man
ager, have at last succeeded, after fif
teen years’ trial, in perfecting:! perfect
ing printing machine, which the dor-
respondent says will deliver 22,000
completed sheets an hour.
The cylinders are so wide that each
one will print two copies at once, and
the perfected sheets are delivered nice
and straight in piles as accuratly as
if they had been put in a press and
trimmed. Two men and a boy are all
that are necessary to attend each press.
The difference in wages between the
ordinary ten cylinder Hoe press is as
15 to 84. The daily Telegraph, of Lon
don, has ordered ten of these presses at
cost of thirty-five thousand pounds,
and will save fifteen thousand pounds
by the change.
Messrs. Seay & Walker, of this city,
are putting up a working model of a
perfecting press that will do the wotk
of the Hoe press, with a difference ha
the cost of 6 to 17 against the Hoe ten
cylinder, and the difference in wages is
as 10 to 90. They hope to have if made
by the Fair.
The newspaper is the product of vast
laboi- and thought. And yet, when
yon are face to face with it, and it talks
in such an easy, natural way, making
itself completely at home with you,
you are prone to forget at what costit
has been brought into life.
It comes to you so quietly and so
smoothly, that you may well be par
doned for tripping into the delusion
that it springs into voice and being-i-
something like Minerva sprang into
full panoply from the brain of Jupiter
—at the mere touch of a magic wand.—
Turf,. Fidd and Farm. -
The A. Ac C. Baflraad.
Maj. R. C. McCalla has been appoint-,
ed by the receiver, chief engineer and
general superintendent of the Alan
bama & Chattanooga Railroad. He has
accepted the position and enters at once
upon the duties of the office.
Much good is expected to result from
appointment.
he flexile Alabama sling is disturb*
the placidity of Watson, the poet-
iealj localizerlof' jhp Macon ; Telegraph
— J: :Efe.-gcestiy prefers the
ic gftx sling —which; if it does oc-
casionaUy throw a fellow, does it with
less!danger to. the eyes'.than, the Ala
bama. "
To be Hung.—Mitchell Cogswell, the
negro murderer, will be hung in Savan
nah on Friday next; the Superior Court
having refused to grant a mandamus in
the case.
In the Massachusetts State prison at
Boston, aconvictnamed Daniel Wheat
on, threw a shovel at the head of the
warden, Chamberlain, inflicting a se
vere but not dangerous wound. Cham
berlain then drew a pistol and shot
Wheaton in the left side; breaking one
gf-hisaibs.
State Pomolosleal Society.
On Wednesday last the State Borno
logical Society was organized in Atlanta
by the election of the following offi
cers:
President—J. R. Wallace.
Vice Presidents—1st District, J. E.
Jones, of Burke; 2d District, John
Stark; 3d District, R. J. Redding, of
Schley; 4th Distriifi, J. L. Fannin, of
Troup; 5th District, Dr. J. S. Lavender,
of Pike; 6th District, E. C. Greer, of
Jones; 7th District, H. J. Berckman,
of Floyd; 8th District, P. J.Berckman,
of Richmond; 9th District, John B:
Walker, of Morgan.
Brilliant Financial Remits.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times,
referring to a Republican officer recent
ly removed in that State, gives the fol
lowing brilliant results of his three
years’ official strategy:
“ I have held office three years, at a
salary of 86000 per year, 818,000 in
all; of that sum I spent several thous
ands to influence the Legislature, and
and have lived at the rate of 85000 a
year.
“ I have put 820,000 in a wholesale
drygoods establishment and $10,000
into bank stock. It will cost me $25,-
000 to purchase a private residence,
and I will purchase one-half of a news
paper for 87000, and will deposit the
remaining 820,000 of my salary in
bank to rcm the paper.”
Another Steamboat Disaster.
The railroads and steamboats seem to
be vieing with each other in the work
of destruction. One day we hear of a
horror on the Potomac, the next comes
people how toraisemoneytopavtaxes, the news of a railn«d disaster in Ali
as he makes money to pay forprintij n<MS; and n ° W ^" e * C foUoWmg
from Helena, Arkansas:
terday afternoon. Twelve persons are
known to be lost and fifteen wounded.
The officers of the boat are all saved
except the second engineer, who was on
watch at the time of the explosion, and
is missing.
All the lady passengers were saved.
Mr. Nelson, from Shreveport for Mem
phis, was drowned. A deck hand
named Dawson, with his wife and two
children, bound for Tupelo, Miss., were
killed.
The cabin of the boat was blown to
pieces. The hull may be saved.
Ex-Govemor Palmer of Illinois, in a
recent speech before a farmers’ meet
ing, urged that there is no necessity of
any legislation in regard to railways.
He took the ground that the Dart
mouth College decision is the law of
the land, and cannot be upset short
of upsetting or amending the Constitu
tion; that the railroad charters are
contracts betwen the corporations and
the State, and cannot be amended in
any material respect without the con
sent of the corporators.
He said that railroad companies ore
common carriers, and ore subject to the
obligation imposed by the common
law; that the common law is ample
in its powers to correct all abuses of
railroad and other carriers, if enforced;
and, finally, that we have more laws on
the statute book, additional to the com
mon law, than we can enforce.
Tbe Modoc Sentence.
The result of the Modoc trial has
heed made public. The military com
mission found them guilty on the sev
eral charges and specifications, and
Sentences them to be hanged.
The following are the charges and
The proceedings ofthe military com
mission over the Modoc prisoners, ar
raigned Captain Jack, Schonchin, Black
Jim; Boston Charley, Bamcho alias
One-eyed Jim, and Sloluck alias Cok
Modoc, Indian captives, charged with
murder, in violation of the laws of war.
Thei second charge is, assault with in
tent to kill, in violation of the laws of
war.
Ihe prisoners were found guilty on
all the charges and specifications before
the Commission.
Sentence—“And the Commission
does therefore sentence them, Captain
Jack, Schonchin,-Blade Jim, Boston
Charity, Bamcho alias One-eyed Jim,
and Slolnck alias Cok Modop, Indian
captives, to be hanged by the neck un
til they be dead, atsuch time and place
as the proper authority shall direct,
two-thirds of the members of the Own-
mission concurring therein.”
The President approves these sen
tences, and orders that they be carried
into execution by the proper military
authority, under the orders of the Sec
retary of War, on the 3d day of Octo^
From the Selma (Ala.) Argus.
Patriotism North and South*
“A letter from a Southern superin
tendent of schools, recommending to
teachers the so called University Series
of text books, suggests a bit of salutary
reflection. He urges that these books
should be used not less because of their
general excellence than of their ‘un
biased’spirit ‘Bias’in the Southern
vocabulary, it is well known, means
belief that the North was in the right
during the late rebellion.
Hete are the questions which seem to
ne6d a little consideration: Are school
histories for Southern children to be put
together on the principle that an unholy
resistance to national honor and law
was absolutely righteous, and that the
Southern people are all' martyrs? Are
these children to be brought up with
no sentiment of loyalty to their conn-
try, no real interest in its affairs, and
no comprehension of the citizen’s duty?
Alas for the foolish people who desire
to send down through the generations
the conviction that rebellion is right! 1
The New York Tribune, from which
the above is taken, is anon-partisan re
publican paper of the best class. From
the highest stand point of Northern
journalistic independence, it affects to
look down with disdain and contempt
on the petty squabbles of faction and
the petty prejudices of section. It is
the exponent of all that is generous
and liberal in the spirit of the party now
dominant in the nation. And it pro
nounces an irreversible sentence of
foolishness on the people who will not
profess to believe themselves wrong be
cause they were defeated.
It lifts up its hands in patriotic hor
ror at the iniquities of those who revolt
against accepting a brand of infamy
for what in their hearts and consciences
they believed to be a God-imposed
duty. It pours its maledictions upon
the parents of the South for not teach
ing the children of the South that the
late struggle of the Southern States for
the maintenance of their independence
was “an unholy resistance to national
honor and law.”
If the exactions of the North are to
take this shape, there can never be
restoration of good feeling between the
sections. H the conviction that the
States of the South were right in the
war through which they have passed
be inconsistent with “ loyalty” to the
country, no sentiment of loyalty will
ever again find lodgment in any honest
Southern breast.
The Union has been preserved. The
constitution of the federal republic has
been utterly overthrown. The indepen
dent existence of the States has been
blotted out. A centralized and absolute
government has been established at
Washington. To these results, bayonets
were sufficient.
These facts are accepted by those of
this section who resisted their accom
plishmenk There is no satisfaction
here with the existing order of things-
But there is no spirit of revolt, no de
sire to resist, no purpose of rebellion in
lBe' people ol tbese siaieis lougm
four years for constitutional govern
ment; and in that war they did all that
could be done with their numbers and
resources. They fought in vain; and
now they have only to share with their
late enemies the evils which ther failure
brought upon what is still their country,
whatever its form of government or
whoever are its rulers.
The Tribune is unworthy of itself
when it pretends to believe that the
Southern people have “no real interest
in the affairs” of the government under
which they live and their children are
to live. It insults all the people of the
South when it asserts that they have no
comprehensions of citizen’s duty.
But it seems that it is not enough
that we accept all the results of the war.
respect the authority ofthe government,
obey the laws, and live quietly, peace
ably, and industriously. Unless in the
name of the living and dead we brand
as traitors all who bled with Jackson
and fought with Lee, and teach the
craven lie to our children’s children
from generation to generation, we are
to be given over to a consuming wrath
and devoted to endless punishment.
The people of the North rushed to
arms to maintain what they believed
to be a fundamental idea of the govern
ment The people of the South took
up arms to assert and establish what
they believed to be the vital principle
of the federal system. The purest
spirit of patriotism animated the masses
on both sides.
The differences submitted to the arbi
trament of shot and shell have been
settled. Northerners and Southerners
know what the government is now; and,
whatever they may think of it, however
they may regret the enlargement of its
powers, they must acquiesce in the fait
accompli.
To expect the people of the North to
plead guilty to waging a war of con
quest and subjugation, or those of the
South to plead guilty to a causeless
and unholy insurrection and rebellion,
is to expect the one or the other to stig
matize themselves as liars and cowards.
The War Department has issuedr a gSta-J
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Organization of tbe 13th Georgia Battalion.
In pursuance of notices served, and
in sympathy with the organization of
the Southern Historical Society,
meeting of the surviving members of
the 12th Georgia Battalion was held at
Atlanta, on the 21st inst The Battalion
was organized into a branch of the
Southern Historical Society, and asocial
and benevolent institution, by the
election of the following officers:
President—Lieutenant Colonel H. D.
Capers, Covington.
Vice Presidents—Major G. M. Hanvey,
Atlanta; Major Samuel H. Crump, Au-
gosta.
Secretary—SeigL R. Stokes Sayer,
ilesboro’, Ga.
r—Joseph T. Derry, Augusta,
general order enforcing the above sen
tences to he executed by the connnand-
ing General at Fort Klamath.
Executive Committee—Capt. J. M.
Anderson, Newnan, Ga.; Capt. J. R.
Rudisflle, Forsyth, Ga.; Capt. Joseph
H. Taliaferro, Augusta, Ga.; Capt Ker
Boyce, Augusta, Ga. ; Capt-. A. S. Pea
cock, Sandersville, Ga.; Lieut T. J.
Willingham, Stone 7 Mountain, Ga.;
Lieut. J. J. Doughty) Augusta, Ga.
Chairman of the Committee on
Records—R. Stokes Sayer, Stilesboro’,
Ga. {
The Executive Committee will meet
at the city of Macon on Tuesday night,
October 28th, at the Court House.
£ny surviving members of the com
mand are invited to he present, and it
is earnestly requested that complete
muster rolls of each company, with an
authentic listoftbe killed, wounded or
those who diedof disease be furnished.
Special information as to the condition
ofthe families of-the deceased is also
asked for.
The following delegates were elected
to the State organization as soon as the
meeting is called by Gen. Colquitt, the
Vice President of the present Associa
tion:
Lieut. Col. H. D. Capers, Maj. G. M.
Hanvey, Maj. Samuel H. Crump, Capt.
J. R. Rudisille.
After a short and touching address
Ity Col. Capers, the meeting adjourned.
W. S. Clements,
Acting Secretary.
P. S.-vAll communications, records,
or information are requested to be di
rected to Col. Capers, at Covington, Ga.,
or to R. Stokes Sayer, Stilesboro’.
r pound lq J
Passage to the Fair Visitors*
Secretary’s Office, Rome, Ga.,
August 5,1873.
In answer to many enquiries by par
ties living at a distance, wishing to
know if any arrangements have been
effected with any of the railroad and
steamboat companies to pass visitors
and transport articles for exhibition at
reduced rates, it affords me pleasure to
state that the following companies have
very generously proposed to do so for
me fare. By paying fulP fare coming,
they return free. Return tickets to be
endorsed by the secretary.
Those exhibiting articles must get a
certificate that the article was on exhi
bition and had not changed hands:
Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad,
Rome Railroad, Western & Atlantic
Railroad, Memphis & Charleston Rail
road, Georgia Railroad, Central Rail
road, Macon <fc Western RailrrmH, nher-
okec R. R., and Ga. & Ala. Steamboat
Co. Thos. J. Perry, Secretary.
P. S. Will the papers in Cherokee
Georgia and Alabama, and such others
as fed interested in the cauEe, publish
the above one time for the informa
tion of those wishing to visit or send
articles to the exhibition. T. J. P.
Courage is always greatest when
blended with meekness; intellectual
ability is most admired when it spark
les in the setting of a modest self dis
trust ; and never does the human soul
appear so strong as when it foregoes
revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Market Quotations.
The Quotations below,hxh.carefully mode
responsible wholesale merchants of Rome,
and may be relied upon as correct.
MOXET AND BONDS.
Gold baying 13 selling 17
Silver - 107 1U
Sterling - 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 Rome bonds 75
City of Savannah bonds 84
City of Atlanta bonds.; 80
City of Macon bonds - .... ... 75
Central Railroad of Georgia 90
Montgomery and West Point Railroad... 85
Western Railroad of Alabama 85
Mobile and Girard Railroad 90
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad 78
Sherry Wine, superior...
Port Wine; best quality
Pickles, in glass jars rM
Pickles, halfgal j are "^ 4)
Pickles, qnar gal
Pickies, eighth gal...
Rice, Carolina-
Louisiana rice
Salt, Liverpool , "1
Virginia salt. Z r* *
Sugar, crushed, ptnr’d, per
White clarified sagar
Yellow clarified sugar
Louisiana sugar.
Dlir GOODS MABKsr
Bn. - n sheetin s and shirtings.
Augusta 4 4 .
I awwncc 4*4 _ t<< ** ^1
Trion 4 4
Princeton 4-4
Peq-iot 4-4
Nashua It. 44
Massachusetts BB,4 4 ......
Eagle A Phceriix J ...
Columbus }
Roswell 7-8, 10J; R>sw. 4.4
Baltimore
Androscoggin 10-4
Monadnock 10-4 ... ^
Stripe.4, osnaburgs
Plaid
Rosweli yarn, per bunch
Bleached sheetings and shirtings.
Pe <I >ot 10-4
Lowell 10-4 '
W.-imsutta 5-4 "
Fruit of the Loom 5-4
Lonsdale 4-4.
Wamsutta 4 4
New York Mills 44-,
Bpn drills, Massabesic perju;
Graniteville
Columbus
Domes, ginghams, Union......
Lancaster
Glasgow
Glazed cambrics
Paper cambrics
Checks, park
Lanark checks
Worsted braids, all colors.
Needles, sewing p r
Pius, assorted ....
Gloves, buckskin per dor 5.00
Cloth gloves.
Balmorals per dozen 8X0 b.
Blankets, gray - per pair 125 >
White blankets 3.25 u
Lawns per yard 11
Alpacas j|,
Poplins
Black Alpacas
Merinos -
White flannels 34
White flannoi. 7 e
White llacnels 4-4 ......
Red flannels 3-4 .. per yard "Jl
Red flannels 1-8 tj
Red flannels, twilled on
Opera flannels, Gilbert’s 05
Opera flannels. Keystone li
Lindseys per yard lii
Prints, different brands 1:
Kentucky jeans, all makes..,. Ill
Spool cotton .per dotes li.
Carpets, hemp ..per yard li]
Hi
-pr pk J),
850
L00»
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE.
Bacon, clear sides per pound 12 to 13
Shoulders 101 to 11J
Dry salt clear rib 10 to. 10J
Dry salt shoulders — to —
Butter, Goshen per pound 45 to 50
Western 32Jto 35
Tennessee - — to —
Country 30 to 35
Bran .per hundred pounds $1 to 811
Beans per bushel $3 to $4J
Candles per pound 21 to 25
Candy per pound 16}to 25
Coffee, Rio .per pound 23 to 28
Java.... 30 to 35
Lagnayra 24'to 28
Mocha — to —
Cora Meal per bushel 75 to 80
Com loose C5 to 80
Grits per barrel 87 to 9
Hominy. 80 to .8
Wheat per bushel 8125 to 1.50
Cotton seed per ton $10 to —
Canned fruit, all kinds...per doz... S2jto 831
Flour, choice .per barret .810 to 12
Family and eztra..... 9 to 10
Superfine 0 to 7
Fish, fresh per pound 10 to —
Cod 10 to 13
Herring, in bis to 40
Mackerel in barrels.....^12 to 18
Mackerel in kits : $2 to 831
Dried apples .perbushel 75 to $1
Peaches $1 to 11
Hay per hundred pounds $11 to 82
Lord in tierces .......per pound 10 to 12
Lard in half-barrels... 10 to 11}
Lard in kegs. 12 to 13
Molasses in barrels .per gallon 35 to 40
Molasses, hlf-bbls and kegs 55 to 85
Oats, for stable....perbushel 40. to 50
Oats for planting — to —
Onions per bushel $1.50 to $2.00
Mess pork — to820
Potatoes, Irish 50 to $1
Soap, extra family... per ponnd 8 to 10
No. 1 Palm soap ...... 0 to 7
Starch, best quality... ..per pound 6 to 9
Sardines, quarter bxs ...per case $20 to $21
Spice, cloves .per ponnd 30 to 50
Cinnamon spice 75 to $1
Ginger spice, Race.... . 15 to 25
Ginger spice, ground.. $2 to 2}
Mace spice $2 to 3
Nutmeg spice $1.10
Pepper, unground..... 27 to 40
Pepper, ground -pel- dozen $2 to 3
Allspice .per ponnd 22 to 25
Tea, Young Hyson .....per poand 81Jto —
Imperial tea............ $l}to —
Gunpowder tea.. . $l}to 2}
English breakfast 811 to 2
Japan tea................ ~ " Si te 2
Tobacco, all.grades. .per poand 40 to 85
Whiskey, best rectified-per gallon $1 to 2
Rye and Bourbon 1 to 3
Carpets, Dutch hemp.
Carpets, ingrain
Carpets, two-ply and heavy
Carpets, heavy three-ply
Osnabnrgs -
Tickings, all makes
Stripes, different styles
Denims
Hats, all kinds per dezen 5.50 tc
HARDWARE MARKET.
Axes, Collins’ per dozen 14.u0 toi
George’saxesTL 13.W) to'.
Anvils, Wright’s ..per ponnd 181
Eagle anvils 131
Bellows, 28 inches......... 12.50 ti
Thirty-inch bellows— 15.00 it
Thirty-two inch bellows.....l6.00 0
Thirty-four inch bcllows....i8.00 B
Thirty-six inch bellows SOM b
Forty-inch bellows .25.00 U
Horse shoes .........per kog 8.00 b
Mole shoes S.00 b
Hoes, planters’ per dozen 6.00 b
Warren’s hoes... 15.00 B
Warren’s hoes..-at retail 156 k
Hames _per dozen 450 B
Iron, refined bar...per pound 5J B
Small bar iron...
Flow slabs
Swedes iron......
Steel, cast in bars..per poand
Steel plow slabs..
Steel plow wings
Plows, Red Eag’.e..onc horse
Red Eagle two horse 10.0b S-
Solid sweeps .per pouud
Wing sweeps
Wedges, Anted per pound
Nails, 10d to 60d...per keg
Noils, 8<f
Nails, 6d.
Nails, id.
Pots and skillets ...per ponnd
Powder, DnP. rifle..pcr keg
DuPont’s blast..
Caps, perc., G. D...p*r thousand 458
Caps, E. B
Rope, Manilla -per pi
Cotton rope
Rope, grass per ponnd
Jnte rope........
Cotton rope
Cotton cards .per dozen
Chains, trace .per pair
Freast chains.....
Stay chains
Log chains .per ponnd
Saws, cross cat per foot
BOOTS AND SEOES.
Men’s kip boots, pgd...per case 36-001
Men’s grain boots, pegged..... 36.03 b
Men’s calf boots, pegged 40.00 b'
Men’s split boots, pegged...... 30.08 b
Boys’ kip boots, pegged 21.00®
Youths’ copper rips, pegged... 2*.00b
Gents’ calt Congress .per pair
Gents’ buff Congress pegged...
Gents’ buff Balmorals pegged.
Gents’ calf brogaim pegged..—
Men’s anbonnd brogans, pggd
Men’s plow shoes, pegged..—.
.Joys’ unbound brogans, pggd
Youths’ nnb’d brogans, pggd..
Ladies’ fine serge lace Bal’s...
Child’s copper toe lace Bal’s—
Men’s bnckle plow shoes.—
Women’s A elf lad pgd shoes
Women’s buff shoes
Women’s kip pegged shoes...
Women’s calf pegged shoes—
Women’s pggd grained shoes
Women’s cable grained shoe*
Women’s sewed elf shoes
Women’s serge shoes..——
Children’s copper tipped—-
(Extra sixes 10 to 15 cen
Misses’ shoes about 25 cts. p*r
women’s.)
LEATHER MAE^ 1
Leather, white oak sole, per l* 1 g
Good hemlock leather-—- fl p
Good dmgd hemlock JeatM* jg*
20 cl
25 b I
15v I
525»l
6.00 el
6.00 c I
6.50 aj
Ctrl
725B|
4.75 s J
90b|
22b I
15 v I
30 b I
6.00*1
85*1
75*1
LOO* I
18*1
85*1
LisH
inH
DOT
L#1
150*1
\S*i
1.13*1
153*
L80*|
95*
135 1 *
DO*
180*1
1**1
fO*f
1 cents 1*0
4i*J
•French elf, Comelean
French ealf, Sosa. ",
Country upper leather—•••"
Kip leather ""
Country calf leather.
Harness leather..-—
54K|
*
80*
LOO*
40*1