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Newspaper Page Text•|, f |lontf (ftritrint Home, Floyd County, Ga. ,e ff,EKl.V CODWEB is UsUCll h'}'K' WEDNESDAY MORNING, E ' At No. 23 ....Editor and Proprietor • ""'^sT^-er.- Associate Editor. weekly subscriptions. " ^ year ** 1 00 juoalbs *** ^'““bSeekly '^bsckiptions. e rear — |x months, ..100 Irae ** Term? invariably in advance. , clubs "f fire »r more - one co PI wi,i •» ] Fbee. ..$4 00 I tr To ,-k»J» writes thus of a recent visit unatic Asylum in Mil- The Sta* e !- u “ atlc Asylum. [ \ correspondent of the Savannah lirtrfi , the State **'^1 a visit to the asylum and ■ i;,Vi'.Ttly enlarged and improved • m " "respect, with new rules and y at ion.= that seem to give general L n ’j’lie halls are ns clean as wash them, and are so kept There are at this time “WJ8DOM. JTJSTIgTOtaun MO.DEBtATXo K.* VOLUME XXVIII. ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 1. 1873. liflaction- and sixty-three patients ,1 J] the rooms are filled, though I Ilf , m0 rc. can lie accommodated, four hundred and fifty I and to give you an idea of the t> 'in i.f the building, when a full L,1 i< made of every department 1., would have walked near two miles, negroes are the most destructive leads breaking down doors,, knock out the lights, and injuring the tins in every way imaginable, and lance to sav. the negro women are ° the men. Near two thou- [id lights are put in every year ,„|| 0 ut the whole building, lor the t | do a great deal of dama ,’nne ca n have an idea of the care U n-pnnsiliility of the situation until L 5 ;.‘ themselves. The wants of the fiiati -. as may he imagined, are count- 11., - ttiousaiids. The queer and strange | t inn S that possess most of them are notable, as well as pitiable. I saw Queens of England,” one old lady i counted her money by the hun- 1,1, of thousands, and wanted a law- r to represent her who did not smoke, '.or drink whisky, or curse. , [i„. phrenologist, it is a fine field examine heads, and odd heads some v,, One girl has a head that meas- - twenty-seven inches, but idiotic 1 -object to tits. There is now, I be- ., . a classification of patients, and so who arc improving are moved to Itiiu quarters. where the noise and Illusion of the more excitable does . -Iisturb them. Il'lio officers of the asylum are Dr. T. superintendent and resident incian: Dr. T. 0. Powell, first as- m: Dr. T. II. Kenan, second assist- E. D. Brown, steward and Treas- ,1. A. Orme, assistant; W. A. Cot- L. apothecary; F. (I. Grieve, secreta- : ami Mrs. M. A. Green, matron. Ilian- are about one hundred em it! all. The new board of . 1 am told, an- discharging their |ti(5 and have made many needful has ever been anxious to [ante the lunatics and idiots and llcpiics, but so far all are in the same lildiugand under hissuperintendence. "ere ought to lie a school for the ni-. as some have more oy less.brain, 1 could be made useful^ after being Lilt at home. A Twiinasviilc correspondent of the annuli AVtcs writes as follows: A melancholy accident was reported I was leaving TUbmasville. Two ang ladies, Miss Norris and Miss I. whose parents live on the planta- i of Mr. Burch, on the Oclocknee r, were drowned in that stream on inlay fast. It is .supposed they' were bathing, as their clothes were all ml on a sand liar, and ventured too into the current. Duse ladies were found about two lied yards below the sand-bar on li their clothes were,in a deep eddy I led.-. The place of the accident is bu! -ix or seven miles from Tliomas- Cvmjwst Manures. I" lien so much material is accumu- iie on or about tlie farm from the imposition of which the fertilizing Rrties might be stored up, do not pcct the opportunity of increasing J 1 ;' manure piles and compost heaps. |1 in dung from the stables and cow 1 h»g pens, the trash and waste from house, scrapings of the roads, ashes §i -out. weeds and grass all properly Ted and mixed together, with an ce il" 11 "' sprinkling of plaster, will form [ accumulation of considerable value. |dtl substances ever possessed of life, Tiiiial or vegetable, will add to the val- f." “is mixture, and should bo put I 11, father than he allowed to contam- fR the air by rotting in fields and orni-rs. Tlie Vellow Fever. pwv Orleans, Sept. 18—The How- 11 Association of this city are in re- [{; . 'I 1 a dispatch from one of their Ibicians in Shreveport, stating that l._ ore pl'.ysiClillL- or nurseo Ilian arc I,-. 01 ' duty there, are required. I u- Association here believe that the _‘-.mm contributions received by them 1." a'!, Paris of the country, up to to- . - sufficient to pay all ex es incurred. - atcliez has been quarantined against - die outside world. I-kw York, Sept. IS.-The total In, b transferred through the Western P? Company for Shreve- ibe Mi.9issi|>],i Democracy. MKRUmvx, Miss., Sept 18,1873. fiumeratic State Convention ** n >uled, with representatives ,'k\-, ■, v . c counties,Col. S. O. Rey- tit(.i\ . ''o' 1 ?!?- The resolutions de- P'hcra l '° m iuated State ticket inex- lj { . ( J’ “sked a governess to lier i,i.r 1 '^° we pray God to give f '; al '. v bread? Why don’t we s-k '- T, r „ d ays, or five days, or a Bei n ' • " e want " | demons child. 1 hi.-’ i the iiii-i r°( - 1Ce J“ stlce6 of Troy report that Ihjci, „ llr f * s occupied with cases in rfi'i faib, W < e 00111 Plains that thehus- H'irei *“ f-!'! fails to support her and her • shrewd bridegroom recently in,. r Ct U P ? runaway on the way S rfnT - UlC Z ed ^’ -Hi the r “Haw’s neck was broken. ' remLk U of him in .V!i 0 " oase >” was attend lad .y wll ° recent- I a city funeral. “tioxatm slloul d throw out a bait for * ^ Xatl0n - " ou fd Secretary Fish bite Golden Dell. Beyond our moss grown pathway lies A dell so fair, to genial eyes It dawns an ever fresh surprise ! Totouch its charms with gentler grace, The softened heavens a loving face Bend o’er that sweet, secluded place. There first, despite the March winds cold, Above the pale hued emerald mould. The earliest spring-tido buds unfold ,• There first the ardent mock.bird, Jong Winter’s dumb thrall, from winter's wrong. Breaks into gleeful flood- of song: Till from coy thrush to garrulous wren. The humbler bards of copse and glen Outpour their vornal notes again ; While such harmonious rapture rings, With stir and flash of eager winga Glimpsed fleetly, where the jasmine clings To bosk and brier,— we blithely say, ** Farewell! bleak nights and morning gray, Earth opes her festal court to day !*’ There, first, from <*ul sumo balmy nest. By half-grown woodbine flowers caressod Steal zephyrs of the wild Bouthwesl O'er purpling rows of wild.wood peas So blandly borne, the droning bees Still suck their honeyed cores at ease ; Or, trembling thro’von vor lurous luasa, Dew-starred, and dimpling as they past The wavelets of the billowy gras* ! But fairest of fair things that dwell, ’Mid sylvan nurslings of the dell. Is that clar stream whose murmurs swell. To music’s airest issues wrought, As if a Naiad’s tongue were fraught With se-retsof its whis|>cred thought Yea, fairest of lair things, it flows Twixt banks of violet and of rose. Touched always by a quaint repose. How golden bright its currents glide ! While goldeulv from side to aide Bird shadows flit athwart the tide. So Golden Dell we name the place, And aye may heaven’s serenes! face Dream o’er it with a smile of grace : For next the moss-growth path it lies, So pure, so fresh, fo genial eyes It glows with hints of Paradise ! Paul It. ITaynt. IDA DELZONS. Chapter X.—Continued. “ You are very good, and I thank you again for your generous oiler, llut ibis is now my country'; it offered me an asylum when my own sent me forth an exile and an alien. The services of my son are consecrated to it,” answered McConnell. “Yes, that is well,” gravely answered the young gentleman; “and since I cannot serve your son, I trust you will give me the grateful privilege of serv- your daughter. 1 will he her friend.” “My heart will bless you for any kindness you show my dear little Kat- tie,” answered the father, with a voice tremulous with emotion. “ It is a great crucifixion of my heart—the sac rifice I make in giving up my precious child. Only the wishes of tlie good Father Clialon could have moved me to do it. But he has been too good a friend and benefactor to me anil mine, not to he deferred to in his every wish. feel glad of the assurance you give of protection over my little one. During the voyage she will need it. I hope she will not he troublesome, however; and when she reaches'Creve-Ceeur the Superior will then take charge of and provide for her.” “ Yes, she will l>e in good hands at Creve-Coeur. But still it is well to have friend outside to watch over and care for one,” replied Gilbert. And then turning to Kathleen, he added, “ And you will let me he your friend, on’t you, Kitty ?” “ I could wish, sir, for everybody to be my friend,” simply answered Kath leen. “ And you would be everybody’s friend?” he smilingly asked. “Oh, yes: I coaid love the whole world. And I can love you, sir, for the good you wish to do my brother.” “ Then I have a pleasant reward for the simple wish of doing good.” “ Oh, in this case the wish itself was goodness,” replied the little maiden, with such an arch sweetness that it charmed the young man. ' ’ ' * “ Then I see we shall be friends,” he said, taking her hand in his with a brotherly kindness. In the borders of the forest they found Pat awaiting the coming of his father and sister. He had hurried hither from the chapel, to think over and over the brimming thoughts that filled his soul with such varied emo tions. These thoughts were too sacred —only to be thought to himself, when alone and in the solitude of the silent woods. At the sight of the young nobleman, with his father and Kathleen, he put them all away down in his most sacred heart, and liis face flushed to think, “what if they had possibly divined what he had been thinking!” His honest good nature rallied in all instant, and he arose to meet them. The acquaintance with Gilbert had during the summer warmed into a cordial liking. The two had spent many pleasant hours together in the woods hunting, and on the river fish ing. They were both spirited and pas sionately fond of the chase, and every hour that Pat could spare from his books was spent in the woods or on the river. N othing hardly assi milates characters more readily, and knits friendships more quickly, than the common danger and excitement of a hunt. A month r t in the woods together will go far- towards harmonizing the conven tional differences of life and cementing a friendship, than a year of social in tercourse regulated by the standard of social etiquette. It had leveled tlie mountain of rank that stood between those two young men, and in the woods they met upon a level—face to face— each mutually pleased with the manly qualities of the other. As for meeting anywhere else, it was not expected by ither. “ Ah, Pat, I am glad to meet you. I saw you at the service, and expected to speak to you, hut you hurried away be fore I knew it And you see I nave followed you up,” said Gilbert, as he offered his hand. “Yes, I preferred a rest out here under this old beech by myself than to wait at tlie chapel for Kattie. But I am glad to see you,” answered Pat, ac cepting the friendly hand. .OH, I couldn’t go off to-morrow without seeing you again and telling you good-bye. I would even like one more canoe ride on the river if it were not intruding too much upon the fam ily.” “ Oh, it will' be no intrusion. Our preparations are all made—only, we must take Kattie. f cannot think of being away from Kattie this evening,” answered Pat “ Yes, certainly; Kitty must go too.’ Kitty will enjoy it I hope: will you not, Kitty?” “ Yes, sir; I would like the ride very much, but 1 had rather stay with fa ther.” softly answered Kathleen, draw ing closer to her father’s side. The action was very simple, very touching, and very sweet; and the fa ther’s eyes filled as he stooped and kissed her. Would you, my darling? That is so lovely in you! But I can spare you for an hour—only it must be a very short little hour,” he said. “Oh no, father! not for one minute,” she answered, with the thought of part ing rushing like a flood over her senses. Instinctively Gilbert Delzons uncov ered his head in tlie sweet presence of that filial love. With a low bow and in a voice earnest and low he said, “ In my thoughtless selfishness I have been guilty of an unpardonable intrusion. This evening must be sacred to your family. Permit me to apolo gize, and to hid you adieu.” ‘ My dear sir, let me beg you not to think so. Your presence is notataU unpleasant,” ossuringly answered Mc Connell. “ You arc very good, sir, but I had better return. Will I have the pleas ure of seeing you at Bellemont to-mor row ?” “ No; my son will carry his sister down. I would prefer parting with her at home,” he answered. Then I must again bid you good bye. Pat, I will see you to-morrow— and Kitty.” “ Adieu, M. Gilbert. I thank you for the honor you have done my house. Take good care of my precious child,” cried McConnell, clasping the parting hand of the youth. “ I shall—I shall. Trust me for that!” answered Gilbert “ Then God bless you!” Gilbert turned and walked slowly back, while with sad steps the others continued their way to their home. The parting next morning, as the father sent his fair young daughter out into the far away world, was one of sadness too sacred to touch. The quiv ering lips—tiiebrimming eye—the con vulsive clasp—the sobbing blessing, all told how fondly that father’s heart could love, better than any words could tell. And the silence of the brother and sister during the ride down to the Belle mont landing, was equally eloquent of deep stirred affection. Not a word was uttered as the little canoe glided along with the current—just brushing now and then the low bending willows. At length the cabin of Mama Zouzou came in sight, and Kathleen cried, half sobbinglv, “ Oh, Pat! here it is, right upon us.” Kathleen’s cry broke the spell, and Pat was aroused to all his firmness-. - Yes; noody; Dut we mustn't mind it. You must be a little woman, and hush back your crying.” “ It seems so dismal!” she murmured. “ But it will soon be over, and then it will all be bright. Think of all the sights you will see, and the grand fun of riding on the boat. You must be glad, Doody.” “Oil, Pat, but you and father—!” cried Kathleen, with another burst of tears. “ Yes; but we are goingtoo, Doody —on the next boat, you know. And we will be so happy thinking of your good fortune,” soothingly answered Pat “ And you can write to us, Kattie, and it will be such a joy to get your letters. It will be worth all the sorrow of part ing.” “ Yes, I will write.” “ And bye and bye, when you have finished your education and have be come a fine young lady, and come back to us all, think how glad—how proud we will be of you 1” “ Oh, that will be so long first!” cried Kathleen. “ No, no; you mustn’t let it be long. You must hurry up and grow fast, and study hard, and you will be surprised how short the time will be.” “ And you, Pat—you will be grown up then too?” asked Kathleen. “ Oh, yes; and I will study hard too, and work hard; and maybe by then 11 will be making money. And we can have a nice little cottage of our own. And you can have your books and flowers and music and birds; and oh, Doody! we will he so happy 1” lines and puffed oat in the stream, iwfttettSsg np, md die thinks that die then went on her puffing way, leavinjrj will be very proud other sweetheart. I Pat gazing wiih brimming eye after her, 1 -- ' * ’ and pressing his breast because of its leaden heaviness. Father Chalon noticed his gaze dreary sadness, and he led him away to comfort him. The next day the Buffalo came do- and on it McConnell and his son c barked for Baton Rouge. They 1. behind them no lingering regrets—sav the_ reverential yearning that drew, their thoughts kindly around their be- 1 neficent friend Father Chalon. Those yearnings, though, were more of chast- ened gladness than of regretful sorrow. J to us. Sister Madeline is veiy goocl to At Baton Rouge McConnell entered me, and when I gave her the letter at once upon the responsibilities of his Father Chalon wrote, she raid it and office, ana in its duties all the energies cried, and then she put her arms around of his nature were absorbed. Pat was my neck and kissed me. provided for, and in the pursuit of his : But I have written a -long letter. I studies he found but little time to look nope you can read it. I put my heart back upon the past—that bitter past, jn it, and I send it to you. Please, my upon which he had so bravely turned brother, write to me. I tell you how his back forever—a past that held for to direct your letter: address it to him. not even the memory of a home.J^ , ifrfinrfm^ A AM Samr iTaAdint. &MOT-j think so too, for he is very We stayed at MaisviUe a week before the Superior Sister Madeline came for us, to bring us to the convent We dreaded so much to come here— e bad heard so many ugly stories it it But they were all stories, convent is a grand building, the ids are beautiful, and we nave and flowers and a fountain in the ; and we do not have to eat little at all, but nice French roll and 'Utter, and icy cool milk. And the sisters are so kind and good Glad thoughts of his sweet sister would come to gladden his sadder hours, and with these wwiM owh gwiltkihoiigiits of another, whose very name it was a gladness to breathe,.but a sacrilege to utter. Kathleen had now been gone two months, and the glad thoughts began to shape themselves into torturing fore bodings, and his hopeful heart to fret a^ the shadow of a sickening uneasiness. “ Why don’t -she write?” he wonder ed ; and the yearning fretted him. But the uneasiness was not allowed to grow into an anxiety before Kathleen’s letter came. It was a child’s gossipy letter, writ ten in a child’s scrawling hand. It told about the voyage across the Atlan tic, and how she was installed in her new home. And this was the way it read: ^JtnadS'&nir MMmu, •? v jies — Creoe-Oaour, Normandie, France. Isn’t that funny, Pat? You wouldn’t know me with all that tail to my name, would yon ? Good-bye. Kiss my dear tether for me. f Your loving little sister Doody. P. S. Miss Ida asked me what I had been doing, and I told her I was writ ing to you, and she said, “Tell him not to forget me.” (To be continued.) c6oD TEHPBAM UO TUB StOKO QUESTION. “ Oh, that will be nice!” and a smile broke through her tears. “ Yes, and we will build our cottage near Baton Rouge so that father can stay with us, and maybe I can get rich enough for him to do nothing at all, Doody, but to stay with you and be The brightness of tills last picture- completely lifted tlie cloud, and with its bow of promise lighting up her sun ny face the maiden answered, “And that, Pat, would be worth years of trouble, wouldn’t it?” “ Yes, Doody, that it will.” At the landing they were met by Gilbert, who kindly invited them to the chateau. —»■ . I “ No, it’s no use. The boat is coming —just around the bend, and will be here in a few minutes,” answered Pat Madame Delzons had assumed the charge of Kathleen’s outfit, and her baggage was packed with Idas. “ Kitty must have no care at all. We will see to everything,” said Gilbert to Pat A moment after the Cherokee bleWi her whistle, and the party from the chateau hurried down to the landing. Major and Madame Delzons were to .accompany the voyagers as far as NeWi Orleans, and so the parting with Ida; had not yet reached its dreary clhnaxi The boat landed; the baggage was put aboard; and aU was ready. “ Good-bye, Doody—God bless you I” cried Pat as he knelt and clasped his sister in his strong brotherly arms. Kathleen clung to his breast a mo ment and then he put her arms away and drew himself up to his bravest he “ S Mama, I must tell him good-bye 1” cried Ida, starting forward with an im pulse she could not control. “Good bye, Pat Please don’t—don’t forget at Convent School of Lady of Mercy, Creve-Coeur, Normandie. My own dear brother Pat: God bless you! and bless my dear, dear father, too. I long so much to see you, for I love you so much dearer now than ever before. I didn’t think before that this world was so large, and 'that two persons conld both be in the world and yet so far apart When I think of the great green waves that roll between us, and how sick it makes one to cross them, I stretch out my arms like a baby, and my head almost swims in its giddiness. Why, the beautiful stars which the books tell us are so for away, do not seem half so far—so very, very far away, as seems my home, ana my brother and my father, in that world beyond the sea. I wonder if I will ever see that home anymore — that home, I mean, which we talked of as we toid each other good-bye. I wish so much to see you, my broth cr. • I can tell you of so many sights I saw—““ iVfX .7®® about. Seeing of these sights kept me from thinking so much about leaving home; and now, when I begin to get homesick again, I just think over these sights and it doesn’t seem so dreary. I will tell you how I got along. We had a good time on the Cherokee down to New Orleans. Madame Delzons was very good to me. When we got to New Orleans we had to stop there three days before tlie steamer sailed for New York. She made me pull off my own dresses and put on span new ones she had made for me, just like Miss Ida’s—(I mean Madame Delzons, and not the steamer)—and Miss Ida kissed me and said that I looked like a little lady. I felt quite vain at first, butthen I thought of my dear brother at home, with bis shabby clothes, and I didn’t care then at all for my finery. M. Gilbert was very kind to me, too —to Miss Ida and me—and he bought .us so many nice things, and bonbons. Well, after awhile the steamer sailed for New York. She was named the Tonawanda. We left New Orleansinthe morning, and after dinner we came in sight of the great broad sea. I can’t tell you how I felt when I first saw it, and reached mv sight away out to nnd the other bank and couldn’t The ship crossed over the bar, and then the sea began to look green; and soon the ves sel began to rock and the chairs and tables to turn round, and my head be gan to swim—and oh ! I was so sick. Poor Miss Ida was sick too, and we went to our room and did nothing bat cry, and vomit and cry, until the vessel got to Havana. Then the water was smoothe, and we got well enough to go ashore and ride over the city; next morning, when the vessel started on again, the sickness came back, and we were sick all the way to New York. We staid in New York a week. 'Mi Gilbert was good to ua there too, and carried us to the theatre every night. I wish I could tell yon, but I cannot, of all the pretty Bights we saw in New York. We sailed from there on the 10th, on the steamship Vide de Paris. We were sick again—sick all the way until we landed at Havre on the 25th. Havre is a queer old town, not half so fine as New York nor so gay as New Orleans. The people all talk French just like they do everywhere else here, even to -the little children. That is why they learn to speak it so well. I was at great loss at first to under stand them, hut Miss Ida told me, and saw I can pariei vows back at them almost os good as they can. We only stopped in Havre one day, when we look the cars to Paris. Oh! Paris is the grand city! There is no end to it, ana I almost felt sea side again: when I got in it and could see nothing but ah ocean of houses, streets and people. I cannot, begin-to tell you half Fsaw in Paris, tor ve stayed there nearly a fortnight before „ we went to MaisviUe. MagvillBisthej moaaentafter an ofier to cany freight, home of Miss Ida’s unde, and awrand bouse it is. We have nothing, like it in our country. I hardly, felt myself at all as I walked through itshalls and looked at all its gold and diver, and pictures, and boom, and flowem. Oh, it was splendid I They have such queer servants here, -ana they dress so funny—aR just alike. And are just as humble as the me ?” she cried, offering her hand. Pat caught the hand, and could hara- ly restrain his wild impulse to stoopi and kiss it But with an effort he put the presumption back, and chokingly ™^Goodbye, Miss Ida. God tdohj A moment more, the boat cut off her OiCcfal Circular Iron Grand Chief Templar. Worthy Rome, Ga,, Sept 8,1873. To the Independent Order of Good Tem plars of Georgia: The Right W. G. L. of the World having by their repent; action at Lon don, decided in effecttha^ in ourState, as -jell as elsewhere in the world, the col ored race are entitled to charters and r<4 the privileges nnd rights of the Or der, it becomes pur duty to face to the; front, and absolve ourselves as early as paqsible front all connection with the: Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the World. By our constitution the Order in this State is a white man’s Order and we cannot afford to affiliate with those who Id differently, and, in my judgment, -ought not to do so if we could. By ce of tlie recent constitutional amendments, the colored race have had bSstowed-on them equal political rights, nnd equality before the law, but they are not yet raised to social equality, nor can this be done by the fiat oi man. Those who ore engaged -in this vain enjAavor will have to set themselves :~ p —— .. atm ■ ■ of nature, and of defeating the will ol God. The difference is one made by the God of the Universe, and is not very likely to be changed by man. I therefore recommend that each Lodge instruct its delegates to the Grand Lodge of Georgia to sever their connection with the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the World as soon as possible and with all others who agree with it, and take such measures as are primer to form a Right Worthy Grand Lodge of our own, composed of those' who agree in sentiment. I recommend that the Grand of the different Southern States be re quested to take early action on th subject. We have succeeded too in tobie willing to abandon the order. Ti touch good has been done by the ord. to Bartender to the fell destroyer. Oml hopes of the redemption of our reed from the evils of intemperance are too high to be given up. We must stand by the order as it was before this foul blot was put upon it Let us remain Good Templars with our motto, “Onr Constitution os it is —the Order as it was.” Heed nothing tending to divert you from the great principles of the Order—run after no strange gods. Very respectfully, J. W. H. Underwood, G. IF. C. T. of Go. From tbo New York Jrarnalof Commom. Hates of Freight. The following is one of many such complaints sent to us: Augusta, Ga., Sept 8,1873. Editor of thejounuilof Conmeree: Your answer to the annexed will ilige a subscriber: A corrected tariff freight on grain was sent to ns the 2d of Jmy last We purcha wheat In Murfreesboro’,Tennessee, some month, based upon 55a per 11 Itet, the corrected tariff rate. On arri val of the wheat the railway freight bill was made for 57c. per 100 lbs. W< made outa claim for the difference, am received the following reply from th General Freight Agent of the ~ Line:' Nashville, August 25 r 1873. i Respectfully returned. Wedonotunj dertake to notify shippers or consign ees of changes in rates, and all onr tarifis have plainly printed on than that the line reserves the right fo change classifications, conditions and rates at pleasure, and without notice. We must respectfully decline to enter tain the claim. (Singed) CL W. Anderson, General Freight Agent Green Line. What recourse have we to collect our chum? Have the railway companies the right to adopt such a rule? Respectfully, A Subscriber. Reply.—Our subscriber has no rem edy. The tariff of freUt sKfetDiofo. tomers, like a list of pnees sent out by a dealer,'-is not a contract and has no ipa Eerily the wind doth bio* Thnogh tbo woodod hollo*; Eerily forlorn *nd low, Where the weird wind's tortured plaint? Burden hopeleee, dreery. Aetho naguish tones that fetnt Down the oiirtte? From ier off Sem ite now Dnrkeeme wwree end lonely. When the .tempest overblown, Leone o deaib-cnlm only. Thence it caught the awful cry Of come lost pels swimmer, O'er wboee drowning Wnin end eye Life (rows dim end dimmer— Em the billsws clnim their prey. Settling item end lonely, Wheee the sterm-eloods, rolled awny, Leers death silenee only! 8u wilh pein the wind-heart sighs; Through its sad commotion W«»ry see-tides sob end rise Wailing binta of Ocean! Diet! oh hist! as spreads Die mist, Wood and hill slope doming. By BO grace of stsdigkt kissed, ’Hit lb -1—I—r gi-uoung. Till s place of doom and hit Sterna that La unfed hollow ! Paul II. IIaynt. to create irrational sympathy for thu farmers. The Western tenner is, as a rule, a man who has emigrated from the East in puranit of wealth; and, so far from representing, the sacred cause of oppressed labor, ne is himself in nine cases out of ten an employer of labor, -or, in other words, a capitalist He is just as necessary to the world as the man who drives his reaping machine for him, or as a man who transports his grain to market for him, but not more He is very far from being a yeoman, aud in tect much nearer being a specu- ' term is ah establish- • few linndrpd to a thousand acres, which he leases or «ms; the funds not being generally a handful of gold dollars, the hard earned savings of his tether’s lifetime; on the rower quite as much as the Western railroad. He is not, as a rale, any more God fearing or law fearing than any of the rest of ns. He is not bound to hia term by strong local affectionand old traditional feeling; on the contrary he would as lief term a thousand acres in one place as another, provided he can make enough from the soil to pay interest on his outstanding paper, and obtain a fair profit himself. He is in short, a gentleman who goes into the business of producing grain from the earth for the same reason that other gentlemen embark their funds in the production of iron and coal from the one, he'may change his mind and up thereto, or the price: even f his offer be accepted by the cant In plain terms, a man may backottt and gave them their They were a I good tome—I mean the • Marquis rM }||ri3tftefe4fc&iMttad me almost as man, and he is Very fond Ml And by the Ire- Pat, he is Miss Ida’s I sweetheart—that is. he is to be M von too I Be kind to my precious sis- while and thau'they are to be married, ter Hood-bye !” H&sldabffd mere hemd£ I of an offer he has made at any tijnebe- fort he doses a bargain, the accept of the offer by the other party, in] nary circumstances, notbmding M party, unless lie consents to the ance and there is a mutual agr^ Most genpemen ■ iif there is any in^ hold good until *tho respondent has ihild time to reply; but then the obliga- that can- fthe railroad above cited, her mama and her uncle Gabriel fixed From *he Atlantic Monthly. The Grangers vs. Railroads* We have deferred hitherto sa; any thing about the rising, as it is of the farmers against the Western rail roads, in the hope of being able to get from the various conventions and their ilatforms some idea os to the political ntentions of the moveis in the matter. The movement has now gone on long enough to give the spectators a clear no tion of its origin and causes, and the public.are in a position to judge of its merits. Of course nothing is more com mon in the history of politics than the adoption, by foodies of men organized for a given purpose, of a new ana unex pected palmy. The granges, Patrons AfTIno^onrlnr on/I Formnro'A conmafiAn of Husbandly, and Farmers’Amociatibn may adopt Some plan at some fntnre lime which will give a wholly different look-to their movement We speak of it as it is now. There 6eems to be in the public mind _ _ ..... t „ . a grave misapprehension of the charac- is also an undoubted feet that- these ter of the operation known in the West who were defrauded were the old stock- as terming, which has donea good deal holders, at bane and abroad. It was cessfol in money making than there is for sympathizing with one of the share holders in a Lowell mill or a Pennsyl vania coal or iron mine when his hands are on strike. Sometimes they make, and sometimes they lose money; and whether they make or lose is a question depending partly on prudence, partly On chance, partly on the state of the market, partly on the condition of the weather; in feet, on precisely the same causes which determine the profits of the railroads themselves. • There is the best possible evidence— the evidence of men who have seen it with their own eyes—that within the past year or two the farm are have been producing too largely, as we might al most sav, speculating for a rise on a falling market Two years ago there have been delayed, hustled, was already aglat Along some of the and killed in great numbers. For. lines leading to the Atlantic coast there maltreatment many suits , at law 1 were stacked thousands of bushels of been broughtand usual damages recov- grain, waiting for a market In other cred. We have never beaitUht places farmers had begun to bum their of any loud, complaints on the ; transportation in .the country, railroad has to what rate at what price" it On the other hadd, if direetqre-wisb-to riwumit fawd^.tiwa is always stock and there are ih bonds.to do it with. How many toadr have we seen within years, with thousands of dollars^ w of stock of a nraninal value, in market, on which no one aver d»*i of receiving a dividend, but which used solely for the purpose of manag ing the roads! No attempt is made in: the these roads to collect' pay dividends. The edasitcaribe; able fraudulent or toimweasehirffreight rates toapofrrt which he knows to Im* wlrtw it is perfectly open to him to tisane a of tfox usual^'' tits lease of some old line, ing of Infrinvifivss, cr fcr sossa^rifcer ed advisable not to declare any dend for-the past six .months,is monstrous. If we taks the most fraudulently managed rood in the coontxy-rihe - ■■!«» must k State H-i-lf, a ,i (1 I third, that they ^■on the pro r „,„ principle j in the fourth place, they I as** earned the contest into the E nature of one State, and secured the passage of a law a freight schedule in accordance with their views; fifth, they have elected a judge of the Supreme Court in the same ■State, who announces that he will decide in any case arising before him that the railroad charters are subordinate in all ■cases to State law, and that the freight be controlled by State law seems snopgb, until wc know what it a When wc find that it means control of the charters by State law in the teeth of the Constitution of the United States MHvantesingtfas in viola- blow at all con- Pfor even if, by elabo- tne technical otjsctious ■ the fundamental ob ^■fthe the State, and if the has reserved no right of regula- , be company has under the con tract full powers within the limits of what is reasonable. This has been de cided over aaff iflwfogain bv the Su- psoas Court of tbs United States, and fifty inferior courts. If at this day it is.to bc disre&irdedbysom Erie—we shall see- how -plain this is. The Erie Railway has some |1B0,000,000 stock in the market, issued, in greitt part by Fisk and Gould: No seriotte attempt:has bean mmda-to pay-divi dends on this, except inotfecsrej even since the “ reform directors” took, pos session; they, it is true, declared a div idend of three and one-half per cent A dividend of three and one-half per cent on' the earnings of-eight, or-ten years, however, may safety ie • ered as tantamount to no dtyideffd at all; so we may.safety.say.that the-E way pays ncr dividends. It rrit be obvious from this that the manag of toe line hare not beat «bligM- A» (-. make aity attempt at an exorbitant in crease of freigbt rates for the purpose knew to be law, andtoat t an attack upon the independence of toe judiciary quite as dangerous as toe election of men like Barnard or Car- dozo mNew York—so much is gener ally admitted. Whether Judge Craig hod or had not already- pledged him self in advance to the railroads seems to be still in doubt To sum up what we have raid: the rmera’ movement declares itself a movement on the part of an oppressed , . « class to redress its wrongs by honest re- of paying dividends.. Somebody un- form of toe abuses of which it com doubtedly has been defraOded; but It these old stockholders, too, who felt themselves defrauded, ond who formed committees and passed resolutions, find employed counsel, and ejected toe cor rupt management We betud nothing in there days of the oppression of the farmers in. toe interior of New York and farther West It will be admitted that the Erie may well serve as the type- ef-Soy frauds that have been committed m railroad msnrewraont toieBghoitt lhai country during the last few years ; we see that toe.people. * ' them, or at aqy rate 1b thought i toeaaaeivee tteAiawded, were, rtoftoe people wtto paid -the Irsrepcr- tation tax. Very little can be said in favor of toe railroad management of the country. Railroads are managed according to a contrary, his funds are to a great extent system which enables directors to make credits, the Western fanner being a bor- enormous fortunes, at toe expense of those whose interests they are bound in honor and equity to protect; and if the object of toe termers’ movement were to secure the greater responsibility of directors, or to bring to justice di rectors already known to have engaged in frauds, we should cordially sympa thize with it. But, as we have seen, the movement is directed against that already op pressed class, the very-stockholders who am now said to be so swfodkdihor trustees. What is to become of the 5.20 per cent, on toe coet,and the per cent on the stock, now paii here unfortunates, if -they are fo- be - of freight charges . proved a complete failure. The law was hardly passed when loud com plaints were made on every side. Sis: effect was a general increase of rates. < • The election of Judge Crnigto take the place of Jndge Lawrence on toe Su preme bench of- EHnois has been so .widely commented on in tire press that it is hardly necessary to aay anything here. That Jndge Craig was elected for tlie a quarrel be- een producers and carriers os to prof its. It is characterized by .a great deal of ignorance; for it attemptf tcr saddle toe railroads with: toe Hams properly belonging to the termers themselves for their tmprudent over-production; and besides this, it mistakes the misfortunes which their imprudence has brought -upon them for toe result of impositions wnieh have realty: been for toe most p«qrtpracticed on the people with whom they are quarrelling. ’ u also displays toe same ignorance in toe development of the - monstrous idea that amodern State legislature is plex burinessof'a railroad; and it has for avowedrirefaration of an intentrorTto intimidate the judiciary into unjust and illegal decisions. These are all the facta from which at present we can make inferences as to toe future of toe termers’ movement, and the question which has been agi tating many peopleVminds during the summer—whether the new party of which we have heard so much for the last few years, is to find its foundation in this movement It seems to ns per fectly safe to say that, unless some vio lent change takes place, toe termers’ .rising will come to little or nothing. The foundation of a party depends upon other things than the assemblage In public places of large numbers of men, excited by a temporay depression of business, for toe' purpose of de- earth, and still other gentlemen manu- subjected on the on* hand' to “raids” tectum cotton and flax into cloth. from directors, and - on .the l other. to| He is as much entitled to pursue this “ raids” from the: State legislatures id occupation as they are theirs; but there easy to see. is no more reason for sympathizing with Besides the stockholders and the him in his hard lot when he is unsuc- f farmers there is another class of peo] whore interests are doeety with the management of . toe. railroads. In all toe dismission which has been going on about the granges, toe transr Mirtation, and reasonable rates of reights, very little has been heard about the rights of passengers. The Illinois law, if we remember rightj does include passenger fetes, 1 branch of toe- subject attracts any attention. If toon is any class which railroads have an opportunity to impose however, it is the travelling. There is no class, certainly,- to personal convenience ranroadi paid less heed. They have been, np in ill-ventilatedcars, they have- seated in uncomfortable seats; : grain for fuel. Meanwhile the situation of the rail roads was not much better. When it is said that toe average net earnings all the railroads in toe country is oJ per cent on toe actual cost, and f per cent on their capital stock, the may possibly be made that ‘ not represent toe state of toe in Illinois; indeed it does not, v " in Illinois there are only four i paying regular dividends at all, only one as seven per cent seems to show that if, as the termera assert, toe railroads have been making such enormous profits dr -5 toe last few yeare, they must have frightfully defrauding their stock bond holders, and it zb there capitalists who ought to make (»mmon cause with the down trodden agricul tural population. No such, movement The | has yet been beard ofj though, speak- 3 ^ . zgbt, -ing seriously, there is much antecedent or to saU goods, has been made by any probably that whatever railroad direo- 3, ora haive enriched themselves unlaw-l p- fully during toe past few years have m aone so through robbery at those who placed them in their position of tzus% fraud, rather than of those whose volunlnry irt tlie roads. For fi enough in one sense a i tax, is in another sense somc- quite different from anv tax; it collected only so long as the pro- 1 to Dav it. " rr will paj^|H ■change his business or other^H VlfrmniA Ihn iiywjwf nf ■ 4inng pg to This feet is probably bette r there may have been good, nasonsfer and mezekeanty appreciated by the, ttior—.....—^ - . ,.... advancing the rate of freight railroad men wno assess and levy the charters must be controlled- by State fee etafeBw: public Abag: flat: chargad by the.cattreads There have been suggestioj era’ trains mijtor jfe fifo itWtWSh hut there sOgmd&arm, even, -did’- rn i mu i n ferah thiThhoi feti hall titite' 1 '** rislstmitete Xttfch railsaffd _ Th is s trance aDathv on the Dart traveuingpoblicwe canonty expl <me wav: that of general bene the roads understand-the busiwess w(jmhg rates of-fere- bolter anyone else; they know wfeaA passengers- will pay, and .what they .will not pay. The control < roads over the pawmgers iffmuch doee than any which* they ttti* . few moHjp* Wit ira m hwflafi betides, this cause of. the prodneem one easily- made q common cause; mass meeting ana associations or pas? associations, , axe very--unlikely iini Before tbo roods mnntoty impose either pasagjpra or termers, ho we: tbs movement thoroughly 1 ,-it is fokyintof wi iferalifn resolutions hars focenM buttoeirH btHMi IjHwijiwilffw -fanned unto various organizations and- iniquity o* all sorts. No great party has ever been formed' withoui some definite policy and some definite practical method of attaining that pol icy. The Republican party desired to exclude slavery from the Territories, land the means were very simple, for they consisted of fining the control of Congress. The Democratic party was found on a theory of {government which, though erroneous, was popular, bad been elab orately thought and written about for a generation or more, until its ideas bad permeated every mind, and, indeed, be come part of toe mental constitution of toe age. (totoe other hand, the labor party, as it calls itself, has never been able distinctly to let the world toiow either what it wants or how it wishes to attain wbat it wants. One labor-reformer desires to throw all the possessions of the capitalist? into a common fund and divide it pec 'capita; another wishes all “ industrial corporations which refuse to adopt the co-operative principle at once abolish ed; . another wants bis trade made Into an hereditary caste. A few years ago we -beard a great deal about the labor party. It was rising in its might, and very Bgoa it would have control of tiie country, ft has done, nothing of fere kiod, however, and will probably in the future do less than in the past bitionisto'whe bare indeed a definite (aim, have never ktea able to discover y means of securing it They have ear after year, local triumphs in jor another, and there was at some talk of a national pro- feikifont POtiy- Pte movement how- ,erm w>are8 no effect on national poli- - ’ :cau;e it is impracticable. fanners am m the aame position. They are ttad OMb- a vague dnsatis- ■fectem.whir tire psstewt state of affairs, * reue notion, derivedprincipally iding newspaper editorials on frauds,- that the railroads arc to blame for it They accordingly set to-Wbtk to ramintytiiesr troubles by at tacking the judiciary for renderinga per fectly just aecMraMfod then turning to the legislature, they secure the passage of a law which aggravates aR their evils. 'Store than this, they propose to hand Sfere totitis same lsgialataze the abeo- ■a lyiiwarn which spy one can.: legislature knows anything about .^fOet tM? circumstances, we .«ui , dirty regret toe apparent probability f Msisf ton fit rams’ mnmniarl will Even if it sbouRLobtoin a temporarv control of some of the YVest- ern States, its chances would not be improved, for it has undertaken to ac complish wbat it cannot accomplish. - Its action may lead to a great deal of anarchy and confusion, may injure the bosiDeas of.aame. roads and bmld up that of others, but it cannot make the production of-wheat profitable where it is unprofitable, nor is it likely to at- fContinued on Foitrth Page.)

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, October 01, 1873, Image 1