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Rome, Floyd County, Ga.
The Wbeklt Codrieb is issued
EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,
At No. 23 Broad Street.
31. Dwinell. - ....Editor and Proprietor
n. I 3 *. Sawyer Associate Editor.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEFT.
Texas Democracy on the Back Salarj' Steal.
The following resolution was unan
imously adopted by the Democratic
State Convention recently in session at
Austin, Texas:
“ Resolved, That we deprecate the ac
tion of and denounce members of Con
gress who co-operated with the Repub
lican majority and President Grant in
the passage of the 1 Kick salary bill.”
The resolution passed by the 01 io
Democratic Convention, denouncing
Grant’s policy in regard to Louisiana,
was concurred in and the report of the
committee on platform was unanimous
ly adopted.
“One by One the Roses Fall."
A special dispatch from Springfield,
Illinois, says Colonel John D. Harper,
collector of internal revenue for that
district, has been discovered default
er to tiie government in sums vari
ously stated at from §50,000 tp 8300,-
000. It appears that Harper wrote up
his resignation last Friday and left it
with his chief clerk to be forwarded to
Washington, and then left for parts un
known.
Wouldn’t it be well for the govern
ment, instead of hunting down the
picayune one horse whiskey distilleries
in the mountains of North Georgia, do
well to let slip some of. its hounds after
these full fledged gentry?
Radical Educational Work.
McKee, of the Selma Argus, thus
epitomizes the history of Radical school
legislation:
One of the first things the Radicals
attempt when they get power in a
Southern State, is to close up the pub
lic schools.
In Tennessee, they stole the school
fund in bulk.
In other States, they have wickedly
squandered the moneys set aside for
educational ends.
In other States, they have sought to
kill off the schools by race antagonisms
brought face to face in the same classes.
Southern Radicalism has no power
but in craft and ignorance. It shuns
alike the light of the sun and the light
of education. It loves mental and
physical darkness because its deeds are
evil.
The Southern Republican party has
everywhere, open or insidiously, di
rectly or indirectly, antagonized public
schools. Many of its leaders have
gained honors and been enriched by
emoluments in this service against
knowledge.
In Tennessee and South Carolina,
and Florida and Arkansas and Louisi
ana, Republican superintendents of pub
lic instruction have distinguished them
selves in this warfare. In Alabama,
Cloud achieved wonders while he was
in office, and if continued in place lie
would, in all probability, have done all
that could bo reasonably expected of
him.
But it has remained to these latter
days and to our own State for the genius
of misrule to gain its grandest triumph
in this branch of administration. To
Speed, above all others, belongs the pre-
eminent distinction, won in a fraction
of a single year, of closing all the pub
lic school houses and barring out all
the children of a commonwealth—of
“ wiping out” completely all of the sy:
tern which he found in practical opera
tion except its theory and the payment
of his own salary.
shrewd, untiring; who drank no wine
and prayed in public, and, caRing these
qualities virtues, wore them on his
forehead like a plume; in his states
manship seeking the highest places by
the smallest ways, never contributing
an idea, a thought, an aspiration or a
generous sentiment to his time; always
lagging in his party rank when it was
taking new ground; ready to desert if
disaster came; only too ready to hurry
to the front and hurrah and claim the
honors of victory after the battle was
won; never.so much of a Republican
that he was notquite willing to be a
Democrat—simply a business politician
in active business life. There are not,
we repeat, nine in ten of his followers
who did not know him all the time as
the world know shim now.
Why is it, then, that this man, who
is simply the incarnation of the frank
ing privilege, and who could only escape
pleading guilty to perjury by admitting
he had been bribed, should rise to the
highest political level of the generation?
Simply because the spirit of Ccesarism
has permeated our politics and finds
expression in a creation like Schuyler
Colfax. The robes of our Senators are
enseamed and foul, and Mr. Colfax
only' looked white by comparison.
It is the tendency of Ciesarism to en
courage insincerity. The augurs never
laughed over their incantations and
auspices in the highway. So while all
Washington knew Colfax thoroughly—
his slippery ways, his skill in skipping
novel and dangerous issues; how he
shook hands with everybody and never
forgot a face, and wrote letters from
morning to night, and dropped an old
friend as soon as he found a new one,
and never, never, never did a service
beyond giving a Patent Office report to
any human being—while all knew that
he could smile on an opponent or a
rival and wound him with a dexterity
that Richard III would have envied, no
one ever breathed a word of this to his
disparagement.
He was an augur like the rest, and,
since he wanted to be President of the
United States and wore his two-feathered
plume of temperance and religion in
public, let him be nominate and let the
people be cajoled into his election.
Lifting the Veil.
The New York Herald sometimes
lets its wrath get the better of ijs pru
dence, and in a fit of virtuous indig
nation tears aside the veil which hides
the deformity of its political gods. It
sometimes requires a drunken man to
tell the truth, and it always requires a
hot wrath for a politician to unearth
the corruptions of his leaders.
The following is the beautiful picture
the Herald draws of the immaculate
Smiler. The Herald may bo drunken
with its idea of Ctesarism, but its truth
is none the less clear for that:
Let us make our meaning clearer by
an illustration. The highest level this
political generation has reached
Scuyler Colfax. Until within a short
time Mr. Colfax was the most popular
man in the United States—Vice Presi
dent and candidate for the Presidency,
the envied, the successful, the darling
statesman, the model of all virtues, the
example to youth.
A day came when the turn was
known, and in an hour the worshipped
of all men became the despised of all
men. The Credit Mobilier investigation
did not damage Mr. Colfax in his
character. He was as good a man
when it ended; he is as good a man to
day and deserving of popular approv
al as at any time in his career. The
wolf that falls or is wounded in the
hunt is at once rended asunder by other
wolves, and how swiftly poor Colfax
was torn limb from limb!
And yet how much fitter he is now
to be President than he was last year,
when his friends were seriously think
ing of running him against Grant! We
say that he is a better man now than he
lias ever been, and more fitted for the
Presidency.
He is a creation of this time, an em
bodiment of false pretence. There are
not nine in ten of the men who carefully
nourished Mr. Colfax, and led him
from place to place until the tips of his
fingers touched the diadem of the
Presidency, who did not know his true
value from the beginning.
They knew him to be false, insincere,
limited in capacity, absolutely selfish;
seeing no aim, end or principle but his
personal advancement; wealing his
friends like gloves, only to be thrown
off when it pleased him; industrious,
A Delusion.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
of the 2d has the following touching
the negro problem. The Messenger is
right. Let the issue be made square out.
This is a white man’s government, and
white men will govern it:
We see some of the Democratic and
Liberal organs in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Virginia are felicitating themselves
upon prospective favorable results from
the recent fulminations of negro con
ventions against the Radical party', be
cause, as they allege, it has neglected
their claims to office.
It is not as very long since 1872, that
the Liberals should forget the delusions
of that campaign—-how extensively
Mr. Greeley was going to divide the
negro vote—nor their profound morti
fication when the votes were counted.
The negro voter is essentially a bad
voter. He is incapable of intelligent
suffrage, and, if he has the intelligence
and judgment to cast a sound vote, he
would never do it. He gravitates natu
rally towards a stealing, corrupt and
venal public administration, and will,
as a general rule, alway's vote that way.
Democrats and Liberals waste their
breath and deceive themselves by efforts
to conciliate negro support and co-oper
ation. It will never come. But the
people of the United States will not
permanently assent to a pepper and salt
administration of the government.
They will never agree to put negroes
in office, and when Sambo makes him
self sufficiently noisy and troublesome
in his scrambles for office, his white
allies will suddenly find themselves
and their negro followers quietly put
under foot. Let the Democracy keep
clear of negro politicians.
Bishop Q,uintard Denies the Allegations of
the New York Independent.
We have read a letter addressed by
Bishop Quintard to Rev. Geoige Harris,
of this city, in which we find a plain
denial of aff the aRegations contained
in the article copied by us from the
New York Independent, and by it from
the London Church Times, and upon
which we made some comments that
will be fresh in the memory of our read-
Bishop Quintard says that he offici
ated twice in St. Ignatius,’church, both
times appearing in the ordinary sur-
pfice worn by priests of the Episcopal
Church, not having his own robes with
him, and that he used always the com
mon prayer book, and that nothing like
“mass” was ever said.
The service on the occasion of the
celebration of the holy eucharist was
perfectly plain, and in strict accordance
with the formula of the church, as it is
understood and practiced in Tennessee
and the other States of the Union.
This is an expficit denial of aR the
aRegations contained in the article we
commented upon, and which has been
very generally published by the leading
papers of the country, and we have
much pleasure in making the statement
as we' find it over the bishop’s own
signature.
One thing more, and we wiR dismiss
the subject, which wRl be laid before
the standing committee of the Episco
pal Church of Tennessee, and it is this:
The Bishop says: “ It is most shocking
to think that the Memphis press con
tinues to pursue me with such bitter
ness.”
This is news to us, and wiR doubtless
be to our contemporaries. We are
guiltless of ever having persecuted
Bishop Quintard, and do not remember
that he has, any more than other pub
lic men, or indeed as much, been the
subject of comment of any kind, let
alone persecution.
The Bishop must expect that, occu
pying the position he does, his acts will
be commented upon, and he should be
above attributing unfavorable comment
to persecution.
With this wc are done, glad to be able
to give our readers assurance that
Bishop Quintard is in full fellowship
in acts, words and deeds with the
church he presides over.—Memphis Ava-
anche.
Tile Bread Supply.
The New York Bulletin, in a review
of the bread question, points to the
present condition of the trade as
happy illustration of the economic
principles governing the law of supply
and demand:
“ There is scarcely less deficiency in
the English grain crop this year than
the last, and the demand in food pro
ducing countries will be very little, if
any, below the supplies required for
1872-73. These have been drawn from
many sources, but mainly from the
United States and Russia; Amsterdam
however, is one of the new sources of
supply that have been opened.
“ At the present time, we are told
the tonnage of the whole world is taxed
to its utmost capacity to transport grain
to England. The shipment from this
port is usually large, and would be
still heavier if the supply of ocean
tonnage were equal to the demand.
“ Reports from the different countries
and the utmost certainty of crops in
this country being fully up to last sea
son, show that in the grand essential of
breadstuff’s the production of the world
fully equals its consumption.
“A deficiency in one country is bal
anced by a corresponding surplus in
others, and the equilibrium is restored
by the ordinary operations of trade.”
Tiie State Fair.
We call especial notice to the liberal
advertisement of this grand institute in
this morning’s paper. The programme
is a splendid one. The arrangements
are all complete. The grounds are
beautiful, and all promises one of the
most interesting exhibitions ever offer
ed in the State.
Mayor Huff has devoted his entire
time for the past two months to the
interest of the Fair, determined to make
it the grand exhibition of the season.
That he will succeed, aR who know
anything of his solid judgment, ster
ling qualities and energy, feel well as
sured.
The turf has been liberaffy provided
for, and all who delight in fine stock
wiR have an opportunity to gratify
their taste. Several of the most emi
nent racers in the Union wiR be there,
among them the great Harry Bassett. I
Ex-President Davis’ Speech.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of the
27th ult. says:
We print, this morning, the best sy
nopsis of ex-President Davis’ speech, at
the White Sulphur Springs, which has
yet appeared. In the same connection
we publish the comment of the New
York Journal of Commerce, as the most
temperate expression of dissent from a
Northern stand-point.
That the speech was calculated to
offend the pride of ultra Northern poli
ticians we admit. But there is positive
ly nothing in it Mr. Davis need be
ashamed of, and it grieves us to see
how some Southern editors have joined
the hue and cry raised by our bitterest
foes. We even hear his speech de
nounced as “Jefferson Davis Twaddle.”
This is an unkind and unjust expres
sion. Whatever it may be, the speech
was not “ twaddle.” It contains senti
ments honorable to Mr. Davis and
dear to every Southern heart.
We did not like Mr. Davis, in many
things, during the war; and, since the
war, he has perhaps chosen courses
which were indiscreet; but his love and
suffering for the South can never be
questioned and will forever entitle him
to respect.
If his remarks, on a recent occasion,
were untimely, it at least shows that
he is still a power in the land and far
from being a “twaddler.” If a few
sentences from him can explode the
hopes of Democracy in the West,
what a formidable influence he still
wields, and what a weak-back the
Western Democracy must possess
If it be true that this old man elo
quent, who lingers over the past and
still presents an undaunted front to the
enemy, never surrendering the justice
of his cause, can strike such awe upon
his foes, and our foes consolidate every
thing he seems to favor—it is very plain
that he is no “ twaddler,” however inop
portune his utterance. If the Demo
cratic party depends for success or faU-
ure upon the words of a single man,
broken by storm3 of State and, stripped
of authority, it has feeble claims to
battle for Constitutional Liberty, and,
by such confession, flies the signal of
by such confessions, flics the signal of
distress.
For our part, we are shocked to see
such frantic attempts to make a scape
goat of Mr. Davis, and pained to per
ceive that Southern men are so swift to
disown his sentiments. It is a pity,
perchance, that Mr. Davis should have
stepped in to furnish a convenient pre
text for possible defeat; but it is ex
tremely doubtful if the result would
be different had he been as dumb as
Cheops in his stony pyramid.
The crowning misfortune of Mr.
Davis is that he has lived too long. It
would have been better for him, dra
matically speaking, to have perished
amid the wreck at Richmond, or on
the lines at Appomattox, or in the case
mate at Fortress Monroe. He has lived
to witness the indifference of his coun
trymen and to hear their revifings.
His fate resembles Kossuth, as his
life and struggles were singularly paral
lel to those of the illustrious Magyar.
A11 this teaches the vanity of earthly
fame, the uncertainty of mundane pop
ularity, and demonstrates to the ob
scure and lowly that there is abundant
compensation for them in an untroub
led existence unknown to the restless
great men who seem to survive them
selves.
nothing to do with the matter in issue.
Newpapers are private, not pubUc
property. They are published to make
money for their owners, and if any
body would use them they must pay
the cost
Never did we go toamerchant and use
his goods for any purpose without pay
ing, and if we and hundreds of others
—the pubHc—employ a lawyer about a
street or other highway we pay the
lawyer. The dodge is very tiresome, it
is very old, and we hope to hear -of it
no more forever.
If you want some scheme ventilated,
whether it interests yourself alone or
thousands, you and your thousands
must not expect us to pay the cost.—
Memphis Appeal.
the fifty dollar cooking stove “ can cook,
upon the ground, on the stove, the best
dinner for ten persons.”
You notify me that three entries have
been made, and that three others are
expected.—This wiR make six good
dinners, one for each day. Upon the
supposition that the judges wiR have
to test the cooking before making their
decision, according to the old adage,
“ The proof of the pudding, etc.”
This of itself makes it a “very in
teresting committee.” But it wiR be
more' interesting by far to an old man
Whose head is sRvered by the snows
of near three-score and ten winters,
Who has the proffered honor of passing
judgment upon the _ culinary skiR of
competing damsels to the manor bom.
-If is refreshing to the hopes of phi
lanthropy and patriotism tp witness
f alacrity and ease with which the
and daughters of our beloved
South have accepted the situation which
Official Ingratitude.
A writer in the Savannah .4<
has this to say about official ingrati
tude :
“ The whole affair has been a strange
one from beginning to end. I cannot’ reienfless hatred and dastardly oppres-
understand how Gov. Johnson, whUe
holding an office given him by Gov.
Smith, should be guffty of saying any
thing against him.
“ It would seem that a man of good
sense and high honor ought first to have
resigned the office given him by Gov.
Smith, at Johnson’s soRcitations (this I
understand to be the fact), before bring
ing an accusation against Smith of hav
ing deceived anybody. This is the way-
it impresses me, and such seems to be
the general opinion.”
Now, without in any degree express
ing an opinion as to the merits of the
controversy between the two distin
guished gentlemen, we have to protest
against this argument of the writer.
The office was not Gov. Smith’s to
give. It is an office belonging to the
people, not to the Governor. True, its
appointment was in the hands of thq
Governor—not as his individual prop
erty, but as an official trust. The giv
ing of the office did not imply any
mark of personal favor; neither could
its acceptance entaR any degree of per
sonal obligation.
The Governor has no more right
make an appointment for personal con
siderations than he has to appropriate
the funds in the treasury for personal
gain.
We are aware that it is the fashion
for officeholders to fawn at the feet
those who appoint them; but the hab
it is a debasing one. No judge should
feel under any more personal obliga
tion to the executive for his appoint
ment, than the humblest citizen feels
to him for the faithful discharge of an
official duty.
Mrs. Stephens’ New Society Novel.
“ BeRehood and Bondage,” is the tak
ing title of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens’ new
society novel, to be pubfished in a few
days by T. B. Peterson & Brothers,
Philadelphia.
No one is better adapted to give us
correct picture of society than this
well known and popular writer, and
we predict for it a generous reception,
“ BeRehood and Bondage” wiR be issued
in a large duodecimo volume, unifbim
with Mrs. Ann. S. Stephens’ twenty
other works, and wiR be for sale at all
the Bookstores at the low price of 81.75
in cloth, or 81.50 in paper cover; or
copies wiR be sent by mail, to any place,
post paid, by the publishers, on receipt
of the price of work in a letter to them,
The new novels just published by
this well known house, The Heiress in
the Family, by Mrs. Daniel; Miss or
Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins; The Gipsy ;
Warning, by Miss Dupuy; The Heiress
of Sweetwater, by J. T. Randolph; Mar
garet Maitland, by Mrs. Oliphant; The
Artist’s Love, Mrs. E. D. E. N. South-
worth, etc., are especiaDy good, and are
having large sales, and should be read
by aR.
The Kentucky KuKlux.
The Frankfort correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-Journal thus writes
of the Kentucky KuKlux:
That these desperadoes act entirely
without motive it were iRogical to as
sume. That this motive is not influ
enced by political or party considera
tions we have pretty well established,
When all their outrages are properly
connected it will be seen that the Owen
KuKlux are a band of the most un
blushing Communists.
That such a system of agrarianism
exists in this age and in this region is,
indeed, strange, but that it does exist
we have abundant proof. For what
was the widow Warner frightened from
her little farm ? That her vendee, as
was afterwards manifest, might purchase
her effects at one-third their value.
Why were Plaster, the Walkers, Tyn
dall, and others forced to seH? The
question answers itself.
GeneraRy speaking, the klan is com
posed of the most poverty stricken,
flea bitten set of sans culottes to be found
in the country. Too lazy to work, too
stout for appeals to charity, too poor
for a regular income other- than their
labor produces, they think by making
labor scarce, sales of real and personal
estate frequent, they can finally come
into a good property without adequate
compensation.
The terrorism they have excited has
this extent, no more; save where,here
and there, some one is whipped or
murdered through motives of ven
geance. MurreR’s gang were absolute
gentlemen by the side of these outlaws,
and every day of their existence deep
ens the stain upon the escutcheon of
our once proud old commonwealth.
Newspaper Sponges.
Whenever a gentleman wants any
thing published, whether it interests
the public or only an individual, he is
wiRing and proposes to pay. Some
body must pay for it, and hereafter it
wiR not be the printer.
The fact that the proposed publica
tion would interest the pubfic has I mine which of the Fair competitors for
The Cooking Contest at the Fair.
The foRowing interesting letter is so
opportune that we give it a place in
our editorial columus:
Centre, Ala., August 30,1373,
Titos. J. Perry, Esq., Rome, Ga.
Deab Sm: Yours of the 26th inst. is
before me, announcing that I had been
“ by the Board of Directors of the Fair
Association placed on a very interest
ing committee, and the board earnestly
requests you [me] to act on the same.”
By the reference you make to page
26 of the premium list, I am advised
the duty of that committee is to deter-
sion have vainly opposed to crush
Southern pride and Southern indepen
dence. Nothing could afford me more
pleasure than the honor of being pres
ent, tc witness the landable emulation
of competing rivals for a premium so
w3Ualculated to stimulate the admira
tion of aR who can realize that woman’s
real loveliness consists in blending the
useful with the ornamental.
The duty and honor assigned to this
gommittee is far more enviable than
the^rask assigned by Priam’s Rl-fated
soa, when rival -goddesses his decision,
with proffered gifts, invoked: because
no vain ambition of boasted beauty
seeks renown. *118 modest merit seeks,
alone, to gain the prize.
I have for a long time felt that the
man who invented the cooking stove
was deserving the lasting gratitude of
the mothers, wives and daughters of
the land. A Whitney, a Fulton, and a
Morse wiR five for aR time. This is
weR; but the stove man has not re
ceived his just meed. He was a friend
to women; and he who can combine
the most convenience in the smaRest
space for the least money, can success-
fuRy enter the roR for fame. That fame
which rests in woman’s gratitude,
endearing fame; it never ceases. When
woman loves,-she loves forever, and
that love finds sympathy which passes
from generation to generation, and his
tory gathers and embodies traditional
recollections and gives immortality
the inventor.
I am sorry to inform you that it
not possible for me to avail myself
the honor conferred, or of the pleasure
which it would afford me by bein:
present upon that interesting occasion.
Our Circuit Court wiR be in fuR blast,
and professional engagements demand
my presence during the whole term,
am consoled, however, that in my hon
orable friend from JacksonviRe, Hon.
Thos. A. Walker, you wiR have a rep
resentative from Alabama on the com
mittee who is every way quafified to
serve—epicurian himself in taste and
habits, and blest with a wife who was
reared by an old style North Carolina
nlSSher, who fived in the old time days
of affluence and hospitality, when wo
men raised daughters to be useful as
well as ornamental. That mother kept
to traditional usages, and made women
of her daughters, who could grace the
pantiy and the parlor, and can set
dinner which would make the abste
mious forget prescriptions and the epi
cure give fuR scope to indulgence.
My friend, whose head is alwayi
Rvel, and whose judgment is reliable
in matters of usefulness and business,
and. whose taste is well trained in mat
ters of good cooking and eating, is ad
mirably qualified to give a correct
decision as to the quality of the several
dinneis which may be prepared by the
competitors for the prize; and his de
rision will be more valuable to the
reputation of the successful competitor
than the stove can be remunerative.
Hoping that the Fair Association
may in all things prove a success, and
that your city, with all its institutions
and enterprises, wRl- continue to pros
per until it shall become the Queen
City of Georgia and the great center of
commerce, of learning and of the arts
between the Mississippi and the Atlan
tic, the Ohio and the Gulf. Such is its
destiny, and such must be its culmina
tions, if the people intermediate can
see and understand and wiR pursue
the indications of a directing Provi
dence.
Thankful to the board for the honor
tendered me, and to yourself for the
courteous manner in which you made
the communication, I am very respect-
fuRy, Thos. B. Cooper.
Mar*. Bitter Fruit* of Bullock’s Clemency.
"Our readers wiR remember that some
fouriyears ago a desperate character in
Gordon county, named John Long,
Wantonly murdered a good citizen by
the name of Echols, for which offense
he was tried and condemned to be hung,
but was pardoned by BuRock, and
fymed loose upon the community to
kill again when his devilish instincts
prompted him.
.This murderer has turned up in De-
Kalb county, Ala., where last Tuesday,
the 2d, he treachously murdered a
worthy gentleman named Taylor—Blev.
Taylor—and afterward attempted the
life of Wm. Taylor, who was present.
He made his escape? and is still at
a sad iRustration of the
wretched policy of Bnllock.
Distinguished Visitors.
His Excdlency Governor James M.
Smith; Hon. P. W. Alexander, Private
Secretory of the Executive Department;
Hon. J. B. CampbeR, Financial Secre-
taryoftheExecutive-Department; Hon.
E. A. FleweRen, Superintendent of Pub-
Re Works; Hon. John T. Brown, Prin
cipal Keeper of the penitentiary; and
Hon, Thomas Howard, wiR be visitors
to the Fair.
The.Govemor and Hon. Thos. How
ard wiR deUver addresses whUe here.
We hope they wiR have a pleasant time,
they doubtless wiR have. We hope
they wiR take time to visit' our differ
ent manufacturing interests in and near
the city.
The Cmt ol Narrow Gauge Railroads.
Home, Sept 3,1873.
To the Editor of the Courier.
In the yesterday number of your val
uable paper I found a letter of W. D.
Chipiey, Esq., superintendent of the
North & South Alabama Railroad Com
pany, dated from New York, on August
18,1873, and directed to the Hon. W. C.
Jorboe, LaGrange, Ga.
This letter has a value, as it gives us
from an official source the cost of the
narrow gauge railroad system lately
advocated by a few persons in this sec
tion of country. In this letter I read
the foRowing item:
“I mention these facts to show you
how much easier it wiR be to repeat for
the second section what was done for
the first, now that the company represents,
as it does, a bona fide investment of 8650,-
000, with, 20 miles in operation.” That
amounts or costs to the stockholders
S32,500 a mRe, if I am not mistaken.
On the other hand, I have read in the
number for the 21st of August, of your
paper, that Capt. A. J. White, president
of the Griffin & N. Alabama Railroad
Company, has spent 81,500,000, upon
which he has completed 63 miles of
broad gauge railroad from Griffin to a
point three mfies beyond Whitesburg,
making the average cost per mile of
that road 823,509.52, or 88690.48 cheap
er per mRe than the above road.
The 20 mfies of the North & South
Railroad are provided, you wiR reply,
with rolling stock; but it is reasonable
to befieve that the 63 miles of this axe
also made use of by the company.
From these facts it is natural to en
quire what becomes of the assertions by
E. Hulbert, Esq., in a pamphlet pub
lished in Atlanta in 1871, and repeated
by himself and his adherents in many
railroad meetings, as to the low cost of
the narrow gauge roads, their economy
of working, and in dead weight.
On page 24 is a comparison of cost
between a broad gauge and a narrow
gauge railroad, thus:
Five feel gauge—Rail 55 Vjs. per yard.
Right of way, clearing, grading-8 8,500
Bridging, masonry 3,500
87 tons raRs, at 870 6,000
400 raff splices, at 81 500
5500 lbs. spikes, at 5c 275
2640 cross ties, at 30c 792
Laying one mile
500
Average cost per mile 820,067
Three feet gauge—Rail 25 lbs. per year.
Right of way, clearing, grading-8 4,500
Bridging and masonry 1,200
40 tons raRs, at 875 3,000
330 raft spRces, at 5c 165
211
3520 lbs. spikes, at 6c
3520 cross ties, at 20c 704
Laying one mRe 300
Average cost per mile 810,080
Giving a difference of 89977 per mRe
in favor of Mr. E. Hulbert’s theoretical
narrow gauge raffway—a result entirely
in contradiction with the facts as above
stated in your paper; and you wffl no
tice that the rails of the broad gauge
weigh 55 pounds per yard, against 25
pounds for the narrow gauge, and that
superstructure of the former is heavier
and stronger in every respect
As to the dead weight I wiR say, M
Editor, that the actual weight and
strength of rolling stock on railways
made from the result of experience
more than forty years. *
I remember of having seen, 38 years
ago, in Belgium and in England, a very
light rolling stock on railways—so light
that, in case of a violent shock, half the
train or the whole train was smashed
up. The robing stock had to be re
placed several times in the year. Rail
road companies, finding it a poor busi
ness, ordered it stronger and stronger
until rolling stock has become what
is in these days.
The apostles of the narrow gauge
railroads begin railroading at its A B C.
Mr. E. Hulbert is from Atlanta, has his
interests there, and it is natural for him
that he should work for her. In adv
eating all around the narrow gauge or
the break of gauges, he knew that all
the through travel and traffic wiR re
main in its present channel by way of
Atlanta.
Sir. Hulbert has acted as a good home
citizen and patriot, and I give him
a-red it for it Yours, truly,
Eugene le Harpy, C. E.
The famous Beau Hickman is dead.
He died in a hospistal, and was buried
in the potter’s field. So it seems after
aR, young man with your pretty looks,
that your beauty doesn’t amount to
much anyhow.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
This sterling old Georgia journal
comes to us in a new dress, presenting
a much improved appearance, and such
a clean, live and cheerful look that it
is a real gladness to see.
Its typography now is equal in excel
lence to its sterling news and editorial
matter; and all combined, it makes
one of the best papers in the South.
We congratulate its proprietors upon
this evidenco of their deserved success.
Worms.—The worms are playing
havoc with the farmers of Alabama.
A young gentleman who had witnessed
the destruction of a fine field of cotton,
one day, called that evening upon his
sweetheart, and much astonished the
lady by replying to her friendly en
quiries after his health,
“ Oh, the worms, the worms! They
are nearly kiffing me!”
But the lady’s mama stiff more as
tonished the gent by sympathetically
recommending a dose of “ Perry’s Dead
Shot“ That will clean you out slick
as a whistle.”
It is needless to say that the wedding
indefinitely postponed.
Relative Value of Food compared with 100
Pound* of Good Hay.
Clover, green :—Bbs. 400
Com, green—
Wheat straw -—, Li
Oat straw ——— ——
Cornstalks, dried
Carrots i
Barley — '. „
Wheat ——
Oats— —
275
374
195
400
276
54
54
45
*57
59
The Massachusetts Democracy.
The foRowing is the telegraphic
synopsis of the resolutions adopted by
the Massachusetts Democratic Conven
tion-at Worcester, on the 4th:
Resolved, That the Democratic party
seek to revive no dead issues, but stands
by its principles which are suited to aR
times and circumstances, supports the
Federal Government in aR constitution
al authority, regards at this day as
Jefferson did in his day the true prov
ince of repubRcan government to be the
protection of rights and not of interests;
defends the reserved rights of States and
of the people, and opposes centralization
that would impair or destroy the con
stitutional rights or independence of
other departments—as the executive
and legislative departments under this
rule have done in over-slaughtering the
honest opinions of the Supreme Court
of the United States by increasing their
number of appointments of new Judges,
who are subservient to the executive
and legislative wilL
It opposes aR interference by law
with private affairs or business of men
that is not required by public safety,
and advocates the greatest individual
Rberty consistent with pubUc order.
It beffeves in the capacity of the peo
ple for self-government.
It holds that the nearer the approxi
mation can be made to universal free
trade, the greater wiR be the advantage
of the Federal Government to the peo
ple of Massachusetts.
It insists on the substitution of a
banking system that shaff not cost the
people a higher per centage to create a
currency in a few hands to loan at their
own price to the industrial masses, than
any other people pay for money loans
wherewith to unfold their enterprise
and compensate the laborers of the na
tion.
It opposes alljlegislation that places
railroads or corporations beyond the
jurisdiction of the people through their
Legislatures.
Resolved, That intervention by the
Federal administration instate pofftics,
for the benefit of its favorites and the
advancement of its intrigues, notorious
ly felt in this commonwealth, is hostile
to the freedom and purity of elections,
an insult to the popular intelligence,
and merits the indignant reprobation
Resolved, That the time has now ar
rived for regulating the hours of work
in manufacturing estobRshments to ten
hours for a day, for sixty hours per
week for women and chffdren, and that
the convention pledges itself to support
such legislation as wiR secure the en
actment of such a law.
The remaining resolutions are the
same as those adopted by the Ohio
State Democratic Convention of August
6th.
The total deposits in savings banks in
Great Britain in November last amount
ed to 8198,402,810, of which 811,100,-
000 belonged to depositors in Ireland.
The number of depositors was three
milffons.
Market Quotations.
The quotations below are carefully made
for each issue of the Courier, hy the most
responsible wholesale merchants of Rome,
and may be relied upon as correct.
MONEY AND BONDS.
.baying 13 jelling 17
Choice brand whiskey
Brandies 1
Rum, best qualities.."” 54 '
Gin, best qualities..
Rye and Bourbon.!!!"
Sherry Wine, superior".
Port Wine, best qualitL
Pickles, in glass jars.—, I
Pickles, half.gal jars.. j|
Pickles, qnar-gal.....! I|
Pickles, eighth gal"’ 1
Rice, Carolina — 1
Louisiana rice ^
Safi, Liverpool !!!" per , ’
Virginia salt I
Sugar, crushed, pow^'p* j
White clarified sugar -
Yellow clarified sugar '
Louisiana sugar
Pesr**
DRY GOODS JLfsJ
Brown sheetings and shirtiup
Augusta 4 4 * 8,
Lawrncc4-4
Trlon 44 **
Princeton 4-4
Fequot4-4
'♦aslr.a R. 44
Massachusetts B B, 4 4
Eagle Sl Pboeuix \
rolumb is } m
Roswell 7-K, 10J; R-isw.4.4
Baltimore
Androscoggin 10*4
Monadnock 10-4
Stripes* osnaburgs
Plaid
Roswell yarn, per bunch
Bleached sheetings and shirtings.
Pequot 10-4 - ■
Lowell 10-4 ^
Wamsutta 5-4. heU*
Fruit of the Loom 5-4
Lonsdale 4-4
Wamsutta 4-4...........
New York Mills 4-4...
BFn drills, Massabesic HI
Ornnitavilla 1 BL
m 1
stlto
Graniteville
Columbus
Domes, ginghams, Union
Lancaster
Glasgow
Glazed cambrics
Paper cambrics
Checks, park
Lanark checks .
Worsted braids, all colors......
.Needles, sewing ..p,j
Pins, assorted „p f j
Gloves, buckskin .per do:
Cloth gloves
Balmorals per dozes
Blankets, gray per pair
White blankets 3.
Lawns per yard
Alpacas _...._
Poplins
Black Alpacas
Merinos
White flannels 3-4...
White flannels 7-8
White flannels 4-4
K:
Red flannels 3-4 per yud tfASj c
Bed flannels 1-8
Red flannels, twilled _
Opera flannels, Gilbert’s........
Opera flannels, Keystone
Lindseys per yud
Prints, different brands
Kentucky jeans, all makes....
Spool cotton per dora
Carpets, hemp per yard
Carpets, Dutch hemp
Carpets, ingrain ...............
Carpets, two-ply and heavy
Carpels, heavy three-ply—
Osnabnrgs
Tickings, all makes
Stripes, different styles ~
Denims
Hats, all kinds per dozen Si
theyi:
fee Boa
Gold...,
Silver 107 Ill
Sterling 127
New York exchango ..premium |
New Orleans exchange premium
Mobile exchange premium
Alabama Treasary warrants 83
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 Galf Railroad 78
HARDWARE MAEKE
Axes, Collins’ per dozen 1-L I
Mann’s axes. .
George’s axes... 13.0-H
4
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE.
Bacon, clear sides ...... per pound 12 to 13
Shoulders 101 to 11}
Dry salt clear rib 10 to 10}
Dry salt shoulders . — to —
Butter, Goshen perponnd 45 to 50
Western 32}to 35
Tennessee » — to —
Country 30 to 35
Bran per hundred pounds...... 80 to 81
Beans per bushel .§3 to 84}
Candles per pound 21 to 25
Candy .perponnd 16}to 25
Coffee, Rio per pound 20 to 28
Java 33 to 35
Lagnayra 27 to 30
Mocha — to —
Corn Meal per bushel 75 to 80
Corn loose G5 to 80
Grits per barrel S7 to 9
Hominy $6 to 8
Wheat per bushel §1 25 to 1.50
Cotton seed per ton ...,.110 to
Canned fruit, all kinds...per doz... $2}ta $3}
Floor, choice per barrel .$10 tt> 12
Family and extra 9 to 10
Superfine C to 7
Fish, fresh per pound 10 to —
Cod 10 to 13
Herring, in bxs. to 40
Mackerel in barrels $12 to 18
Mackerel in kits $2 to $3}
Dried apples .perbuzhel 75 to $1
Peaches $1 to 1}
Hay per hundred pounds SI A to $2
Lard 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 .per bushel 40 to 60
Oats for planting...... — to —
Onions per bushel $1.50 to $2.00
Mess pork — to$20
Potatoes, Irish 50 to $1
Soap, extra family. par pound 8 to 10
No. 1 Palm soap 6 to 7
Starch, best quality per pound C to 9
Sardines, quarter bxs ...per case $20 to $21
Spice, cloves perponnd30 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 $1.45
Pepper, ungronnd 27 to.40
Pepper, ground. per dozen $2 to 3
Allspice ...per pound 22 to 25
Tea, Young Hyson per pound $l}to —
Imperial tea ...» $l}to —
Gunpowder tea......... $l}to 2}
English breakfast $l}to 2•
Japan tea $1 to 2
Tobacoo, all grades. .per podnd 40 to 85
Whiskey, >est rectified..per gallon $1 to 2 I
Anvils, Wright’s ..per pound - Le Sel
Eagle anvils
Bellows, 28 inches 12J>
Thirty-inch bellows 15 ®
Thirty-two inch bellows I- 1 - 1 '
Thirty-four inch tellows—13.®
Thirty-six inch bellows SUt L
Forty-inch bellows EbA B
Horse shoes per keg Hi
Mule shoes S.vfi of tl
Hoes, planters’ per dozen 61
Warren’s hoes..,
Warren’s hoes...at retail
Haines per dozra
Iron, refinod bar...per pound
Small bar iron...
Plow slabs
Swedes iron
Steel, cast in bars..per pound
Steel plow slabs..
Steel plow wiogs
Plows, Red Eagle-one horse
Red Eagle two horse 101
Solid sweeps per pound
Wing sweeps
Wedges, fluted per pound
Nails, 10d to 60d...per keg
Nails, 8d
Nails, Cd
Nails. 4 J._
Pots and skillets ...per pound
Powder, DaP. rifle-per keg
DuPont’s Hast...
liBBt
an
Caps, perc., G. D...per thousand f jU-j ,
vk $ eSH-
Caps, E. B.
Rope, UaniViA,,, perpoaad'
Cotton rope.
tiie it
Bontj, crass
..per pound
Jute rop-j
Cotton rope
Cotton cards
..per do-en
Chains, trace
..per pair
Breast chains...
Stay chains ...
Log chains
„per pound
Saws, cross cut....
..per foot
BOOTS AND SEOtt
Men's kip boots, pgd—percas* *^ v ■
Men’s groin boots, pegged ® .
Men’s calf boots, pegged
Men’s split boots, pegged— .
Boys’ kip boots, pegged - *’' 1
Youths’ eppper tips, pegged... J
Gents’ calt Congress .perpa-’- "‘I
Gents’ bnff Congress pegged—
Gents’ buff Balmorals pegged-
Gents’ calf brogans pegged
Men’s unbonnd brogans, pggd
Men’s plow shoes, pegged——
Boys’ unbound brogans,
Youths’ nnb’d brogans.
(Extra sizes 10 to 15 < , f9
Misses’ shoes about 25 cl
women’s.)
LEATHER ■
Leather, white oak sole, per H> p J
Good hemlock leather - (t f
Good dmgd hemlock lestk* 1 jP!
French elf, Comclean •- $‘11
French calf, Sosa....—•
Country upper leather. - gflk
Kip leather -
Country calf leather. * jgfJ
Harness leather.—..———* j»j»
Ladies’ fine serge lace Bale-
Child’s copper toe laceBsl s-
Men’s buckle plow
Women’s A elf lnd pgd
Women's huff shoes....-—
Women’s kip pegged »**-
^omen’s calf pegged