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Rome, Floyd County, Ga.
new clothes, and with a general mush
room aspect about him, who smiles
withering smiles of contempt on the
The Weekly Courier is issued
■EVERY WEDNESDAY’ MORNING,
At No. 23 Broad Street.
1)|. DwinelL....Editor and Proprietor
B. F, Sawyer Associate Editor.
WEDNESDAY MOR’NG, OCT. 22, 73
“Help one Anothek.”—There are
some five hundred subscribers to the
Courier who owe from one to four years
for this paper, making in the aggregate
over $2000. They are nearly all good
men and fully able to pay this little
indebtedness at almost any time.
Same three months since we sent his
account to everyone in arrears, and to
those who promptly responded we are
obliged; and we hope that all others,
now that they are bringing in their
crops, will not forget to pay the printer.
It is a very small matter to each one,
but very important to us—don’t forget
it.
Burning of a Steamer.
Memphis, Oct. 18.—The Mary E. Poe
burned yesterday afternoon above Osce
ola. Eight lives were lost. No de
tails.
striving negroes, as he endeavors, from ^ | the Cherokee Cpun-
a carpet bag point of view, to show
them where they are in error. S
The scene would be ludicrous were
it not so saddening; had it not already
been enacted for five weary years,
while the State has meantime gone
nearer and nearer the verge of ruin,
deeper and deeper into the abyss of
crushing taxation. Even the governor,
who has to do with this legislature,
must now and then wish that he had
better material to work with.
try of Georgia and Alabama will be
Held at tfic City Hall, in this ciiyj on? lie straight
The Plague ill Memphis.
Memphis, Oct. IS—Catholic Fathers
Loo and Ashea, from Louisville, are
down. Thirty deaths yesterday,. _ _ ....
dead. Five Catholic priests and five
Sisters of Mercy have died since the
fever began. Mayor Johnson reported
to be worse.
Whenever people find their burden
utterly unbearable, they throw them
aside with a giant effort, and the world
is convulsed by the shock of the fall.
People there should not be crowded so
closely to the wall; they should not be
placed at the mercy of irresponsible
governing officials, whose main pur
pose is the acquisition.
There is no rebellious spirit in Louisi
ana against the United States—no
desire to undo the war’s legitimate re
sults; but there is a gradual accumula
tion of indignation against the plun
derers, who have been numerous in the
State, which bodes something very like
the ugly form of revolution. Capital
and immigration must be allowed to
come in, and the legislators who stand
much longer in the way of an influx
of those two prime necessities will do
Monday, the 27th inst, at 10 o’clock A.
M.
Every stockholder is earnestly re
quested to attend in person. Proxies
are not desirable.
The following is a list of stockhold
ers and the number of shares held by
each: nimir
Ayer & McDonald —— 5 shares
Alexander, CoL Thos. \V— — 2 shares
Adams, David 1 shares
Black, Gen. Geo. S— 2 shares
Bones & Co., J. & S 5 shares
Bowen, Geo. W 1 shares
Burney, Thos. S i shares
Bunn, M. H 1 shares
Bowie, Langdon ■ 1 shares
Bale, Capt Jas. A—— li shares
Bums, Maj. Jno. T-J —21 shares
Bayard, CoL N. J 1 shares
Black, John J 1 shares
Bryant, T. F. E 1 shares
Bass, Col. Nathan i shares
Camp & Clark 2 shares
Carver, J. D. & J. B 1 shares
Cothran, Jr., W. S I shares
Atlanta comes up with a little defal
cation. Only about five thousand dol
lars exploited from the postoffice, by
Jambs Dunning, son of Postmaster
Dunning. Women and wine are said
to be his excuse. The poor victim of
these cruel wiles has woodbined towards
the everglades of Florida. Peace to
his exit!
The Ohio Election.
Columbus, Oct. 18.—The Democratic
committee claim that Allen’s majority
is 869. The chairman of the Demo
cratic committee claims the State ticket,
except supreme court judge and comp
troller. The Democrats claim sixteen
majority on joint ballot. The Repub
licans claim nothing, but do not give
up. The official returns, they say, are
required.
The Washington Star says that the
appropriations which Congress will be
asked to make at the coming session,
including the estimates for the next fis
cal year and the very large deficiencies
for the present year, there is reason to
believe, will be greatly in excess of the
appropriations for any year since the
beginning of President Grant’s admin
istration.
Assassination of a Catholic Bishop.
.New Yoke, Oct. 18.—Private advices
settlement of St. Pierre, give informa
tion of the assassination of M. Devore,
the first bishop of that diocese. The
bishop was murdered in the sacristy of
the chapel of St Jean de Dieu, having
been stabbed in the heart and lungs
while at prayer.
One Emil Pelletier, cousin of the
bishop, charged with the crime and
arrested, said that the crime was incited
by the fact that the bishop inherited
all the fortune of his father. Pelletier’s
father was a wealthy Frenchman.
Army Orders.
Washington, Oct. 13.—The following
general order has been issued from the
War Department to-day:
The President of the United States
commands it to be made known that
all soldiers who have deserted their
colors, and who shall on or before the
1st day of January, 1874, surrender
themselves to any military station,
6hall receive full pardon, only forfeit
ing the pay and allowances due them
at the time of desertion, and shall be
restored to duty without trial or pun
ishment, on condition that they faith
fully serve through the term of their
enlistment.
The superintendent of the general
recruiting service has been directed to
send 125 recruits to Oinaha for assign
ment to the Fourteenth cavalry.
The Great .Sonth.
The second article of Edward King,
upon the South, appears in Scribner's
Magazine for November. It is devoted
to Louisiana, and conveys a true but
sad picture of the condition of affairs
in that grand but down trodden State.
The following is his view of the
Kellogg legislature:
Around the comer, on Dryades street,
when the legislature is in session, you
may see the law-making body which
is upheld by the executive department
of the United States. Around the
doorway of the Mechanics’ Institute
one or two negro policemen, armed
with clubs and revolvers, are standing;
mounting a staircase covered with old
and tobacco stained matting, you may
enter a long hall carpeted with dirtier
matting; and there, at clumsy desks,
sit the law makers—a heterogeneous
mass of negroes standing outside the
railings, listening with open mouths to
the eloquence of their fellows, who
have been dignified with office.
Nearly all the honorable representa
tives are black; and their opposition is
instant and determined to anything
which is likely to better the present
horrible condition of white society in
Louisiana.
In the Senate chamber the same
scene is repeated; if a colored man is
in the chair, he is constantly falling
into the profoundest errors with regard
to his “rulings” and “decisions,” and
finds it extremely difficult to follow
any bill the moment it becomes the
subject of dispute; and there is always
the black man who is perpetually hop
ping .up to say, “ No, sir; no, sir; I ob
ject to that, sir!” and the lean white
mfin, dressed in the extraordinarily
Louisville Live Stock Market, Oct. H.
SOUTHERN STOCK YARDS.
Cattle.—The supply to-day has been
very light. Several lots of nice fat
heifers changed hands, balance being
poor and thin stock. There is no ma
terial change is the general tone of the
market. We quote best grades butch
ers’ and shioping cattle, $4.25 to 4.75;
medium $3 to 4; common and thin
cows, heifers and steers $1.50 to 2.50
per 100 pounds gross; milch cows sell
as to quality at 820 to $40 per head.
Hogs—Supply light. Most of the
hogs arriving have readily changed
hands on arrival at good prices. There
arc very few hogs remaining in the
yard. We quote nominally good fat
hogs, $4 to 4.65; medium $4.25 to 4.45
per 100 pounds.
Sheep—There is only one car load
in yard, which is being held for better
offerings; quotations merely nominaL
Horses and Mules—The shipments
South continue light; markets unfa
vorable.
BOURBON HOUSE STOCK. YARDS.
Cattle—The market opened tame ;
but before noon the market revived and
became active, so that all the offerings,
amounting to 508 head, changed hands
during sale hours. There were 85 head
of shipping beeves in the yards, which
are owned by Edwards & Allen, from
Danville, Ky., on their way to New
Y’ork.
The best grade sold at fair prices,
while common and rough sold ex-
tremelv lnw A rrr—l iy»<hw v
steers were bought by parties to put on
slop and this class of cattle are eagerly
sought after. We quote for best butch
er stuff', such as fat steers and heifers,
$4.25 to $4.50; good sold at $3.50 to $4.
and the low grades sold at $1.50 to $3
per 100 pounds gross.
Sheep and Lambs—The market
seems to be more active, as buyers are
purchasing all offered. Best sell at $3
to $3.50 per 100 lbs gross; mixed lots
sell a $1.50 to $2.50 per head.
Hogs—The receipts are large and
market overstocked. Prices fully 25
cents lower, and owners are forced to
hold their stock until they can get
buyer. Shippers cannot operate on ac
count of the margin being too small
between this point and the Eastern
market.
We can give no advice as to what
would be best for owners and feeders.
The money panic has not fully recov
ered, and packers are not disposed to
buy at present. We quote for best
butcher hogs, weighing from 260 to 300
gross, $4.10 to $4.25. Good light sell
at $3.75 to $4.00 per 100 lbs gross.
Horses and Mules—Several car
loads have gone South during the past
week. No news as to the market.
Annual Convention of Stockholders.
Rome, Oct 15,1873.
The annual convention of etockhold-
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
Let Us have the Truth.
.The good God has made some people
near sighted, and others cross eyed.
The near sighted ones cannot see much
farther into things than the tip of their
noses; and the cross eyed ones cannot
Our community is unlucky iu hav
ing in it a few of these unfortunates,
whose imperfect “vision on the one
hand, and distorted vision on the other,
are continually at work misrepresent
ing and falsely reporting the -move-
_ j _ c A . 1. L A tpL
ments of their neighbors. The weak which will suffice to show our readers
eyed ones cannot see for themselveg,
and the cross eyed ones are liable to
impose their distorted views upon
them, and between the two the plainest
act of a man’s life is very certain to be
perverted.
We find it so in this pother about
the Courier's advice to the farmer.
These weak eyed fellows had. not the
capacity to see and understand for
themselves, and so the cross eyed ones
completely crossed our meaning and
held it up before their noses until it
has grown into a mountain of iniquity.
We are charged with.advising the
farmer to repudiate, his debts, and to
swindle his creditors. These cross ey<
fellows said it was so, and the wet
eyed ones are fools enough to belie'
Cohen, Joseph J —91 shares
Cothran, Capt Hugh D 3 shares
Cothran, Col. Wade S — 1 shares
Dent, Maj. John H 1 shares
Davis, Archibald r i
Echols, Abner ’ 2 shares (Sep2. $0), we gave this:
Important Internal Revenue Decision AI
fecting Patent Medicine Venders.
Upon a question as to whether cer
tain medicines, the packages of which
are encased in a wrapper, the directions
upon which are alleged to have been
copied verbatim from a work claimed to
be a dispensatory, now and hitherto in
common use among physicians and
apothecaries, and not sold under any
other guise, are liable to tax under
schedule C, it is held by the Internal
Revenue Office that if medicine is put
up in retail packages—packages that
are intended to be sold directly to con
sumers—accompanied, each package,
with this wrapper, that the style' of put
ting up is similar to that of putting up
patent or proprietary medicines in gen
eral, and, therefore, they are liable to
the stamp tax.
The Commissioner further says that
where the medicine is accompanied
with all the directions as to the time
when and the manner in which the ar
ticle is to be taken, and the article is
put up by the maker, manufacturer or
compounder with a view of giving such
specific directions directly to the pa
tient, no matter from what sources such
directions and such information are ob
tained—from the experience and ob
servation of a physician, from medical
books or otherwise—the style is the
same and it is similar to the style which
the makers and venders of patent med
icines adopt, as witness the thousands
of such articles in the market, and the
labels, handbills and wrappers which
accompany them.
The Northern press is parading the
following interesting item:
Mr. D. R. Locke—Petroleum V.
Nasby—has just erected a monument
over the grave of his brother John in
Auburn.”
And now who stands ready to erect
0115 over Mr. D. R. Locke?
Fleetwood, Geo. W 1 shares
Fort & Todd 1 shares
Foster, Col. Wm. G 1 shares
Griffeth, Capt Archer 1 shares
Gailliard, I. D 1 shares
Gammon, Col. W. G 1 shares
Holmes, Drs. G. W. & J. B. S— 1 shares
Hamilton, David B 1 shares
Harpold & Hillyer 1 shares
Hight, Fielding 1 shares
Hargrove, Robt. T 5 shares
Holmes, Dr. J. B. S 1 shares
Hoyt, Dr. W. D 1 shares
Hiller, W. J 1 shares
Jones, Col. Addison A 1 shares
Johnson, Henry J 1 shares
Karlsruher & Hoff 1 shares
Kinnebrew, Newton 1 shares
Lamkin & Co., G. W. F —I— 2 shares
LeHardy, Gen. Eugene 1 shares
Langley, Thos. J i shares
McGuire, Judge Terence 1 shares
May, Capt S. M '2 shares
Montgomery, Dr. J. M 2 shares
Mann, John T 1 shades
McGhee, Thomas 1 shares
Morton, Clinton P 1 shares
Norton, Reuben S 1 shares
Nagle, G. W 1 shares
Newton, John H 1 Hares
Pence, Franklin 1 shares
Perry, Thos. J.-: — 1 shares
Patrick, A. S 1 shares
Pitncr, Albert G 1 share
Powers & White-ley 1 shares
Rush, Charles W -zz- 1 shares
Rawlins, J. C— — 11 shares
Ross, A. E -i-' 1 shares
Rameev William. . 1 shares
Stillwell, Capt C. O 2 shares
Sproull, Col. C. W 1 shares
Selkirk, J. M __ : 1 shares
Shorter, Col. Alfred 5 shares
Samuel, Col. C. G ,. 1 shares
Stansbury, Capt J. A 2 shares
Scott, Capt. Dunlap - 2 shares
Shanklin, Col. J. F 11 shares
Turner, Capt. Jno. W 1 shares
Thomas, Col. George W 1 1 shares
Trout, Capt S. C — 1 shares
Veal, Joseph E 2 shares
Whitmore, Col. W. P 1 shares
Yancey, Hamilton 1 shares
The President and Board of Direc
tors will submit their reports; after
which the election of officers for the
next year will take place.
Thos. J. Perry, Secretary.
Scribner’s Monthly for November.
Scribner’s Monthly for November
begins a new volume. Edward King’s
carefully and profusely illustrated
paper on Old and New Louisiana, in
the Great South Series, is remarkable
for its calm and dispassionate statement
of the actual, state of affairs in New
Orleans and Louisiana generally. Two
American serial stories are begun:
Katherine Earle, by Adeline Trafton
(author of “ American Girl Abroad”),
to run through the year, and the other,
“ Earthen Pitchers,” by Rebecca Hard
ing Davis,, which will be concluded
within three or four numbers.
Mr. Froude’s historical sketch of an
English Abbey,” is also here begun;
and in Stcdman’s series on the “Victo
rian Poets,” there is~jm admirable
paper on the “most inspired of wo
men,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In
the same number appears a biograph
ical sketch of Steelman, by A. R.
MacDonough, with portrait, in the
scries of Y’ounger American Authors.
Professor Newcomb gives an inter
esting account of the making of the
new telescope at Washington; there is
an illustrated story by Edward King,
“ Only Half a Woman ;” a story by
Louise Chandler Moulton, “For Pas
time,” and verse by George MacDonald,
Celia Thaxter, H. -H, Margaret J.
Preston, and Richard Watson Gilder.
Dr. Holland’s Topics of thA-^ne are
“A Greeting to our English Readers,”
“St. Nicholas,” “The- New York
Observer,” and “Old Types.” The
Old Cabinet is written “In the Woods.”.
The Departments of Home and
Society, Culture and Progress, Nature
and-Science and Etchings have their,
usual variety of contents. Scribner’s
for December will haven new dialect
poem by Bret Harte; and to the
January number he will,contribute a
Christmas story, entitled “How Old
Man Plunkett went Home.”
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will trust them, ergo they keep out of
debt, nolens volens. Such men are
very capable of giving advice to honest
people—very.”
We clip the above rich sperimen of
what the exquisite Mantanilla would
cftll a demnition bow-wow, from our
amiable neighbor the Commercial of
Tuesday morning. Presuming, from the
caption and sundry expressions taken
from our article last Saturday, that the
morceau was intended for us, we have
thought it worth a moment’s notice,
Now*, to show these weak eyed creat
ures what fools these cross eyed fellows
are making of them, we reproduce be
low our advice to the: farmer. On
“ Walk up, Mr. Planter, and Set
tle.—The resolutions adopted by the
meeting of merchants yesterday, call
ing upon the farmere to bring their cot
ton and sell it at a fair price or leave Jt
with their creditors, while at the same
time glossing over the suspension of
the brokers’ shops for ninety days, is
decidedly the coolest feature in this
whole financial frost.
“Why not call upon the iron men
to bring in their pigs, and the bankers
to unload their stocks and their gol4
and the merchants their real estate, as
well as the farmers? Our advice pi
the farmers is, to suspend for ninety
days, too.” ~ -
“A writer iii"the Selma 77m#
thus plausibly telltfVhat’s the mattd
with Hannah. We partially agree witl
him, and heartily approve his advict
to the farmers to keep a stiff upper lip
and hold on to their cotton. They
have as much right to suspend for
that his honest indignation is about as
well put on as his indignant honesty is
doubtful. .
Now, let us pull off our specs and
look at this matter in the naked light
of truth, and see how much cause the
immaculate and highly scented ances
tors of our neighbor have to be charmed
with the impartial honesty of their
distinguished progeny.
Some two weeks ago, at the very be
ginning of the financial flurry, a large
meeting of our merchants and citizens
was held in the City Hall, in Which a
set of cutrand-dried resolutions - were
introduced and adopted, advising our
hanks to Suspend the payments of their
debts for ninety days, and at the same
time calling upon the farmers to bring
in their cotton and settle their bills.
This action was highly applaudedby
our indignantly honest neighbor as
being emiq§glJa
it, we saw- in an entire
ly opposite direction. We saw no
difference between the obligation pf the
banker to pay his innocent depositor
his money, and the obligation of the
farmer to pay his indebtedness; and
in commenting upon the matter we ad
vised our farmers to suspend for ninety
days too.
We thought, if the merchants would
advise a banker to lock up in his safe
the. honest money of his depositors and
thereby withdraw it from circulation
— deranging trade and destroying
confidence — that there could be no
heinous offence in our advising our
farming friends to hold their own cot
ton in their ginhouses until the money
was released from the banks, the trade
was regulated, and confidence restored.
And thinking thus, we advised them
to suspend too.
Our neighbor says it was dishonest
advice. Perhaps it is; but we would
like to know by what ethical hocus
pocus he can make it out any worse
ninety days as the shaving machines than his advice and approval of the
who are hoarding the money.” - '•__ suspension of the banks? The farmer
There is no repudiation here. If so, does have some claim upon and infer
tile merchants, some of them cross est in his cotton until it is sold. The
eyed ones at that, are guilty of setting
the bad example in advising the banks
to repudiate their just debts.
In our next issue we advised as fol- right for the banker to hold back the
laws:
“ Certificates of Deposit Wanted.
—We will take, on aU open accounts
due this office, the certificates of de
posit recently issued by Cothran & Jack- is an honorable man”!
son or Allgood & Hargrove. We achnpr
Ail tepay tLcir debto ait feat as they cah,
and do all in their power to allay -tire
fears of the timid.
“ The banks here are entirely solvent,
and, if they are not unnecessarily en
barrassed, will resume payments in
short time. Our merchants will tale
cotton in payment of debts, at fifteen
cents, or will ship it to New Y’ork aid
allow all it realizes.”
And again:
“A Liberal Proposition.—Ottr mer
chants, with a liberality characteristic
of them, offer to take, in payment pf
debts or of goods, cotton on a basis of
15 cents per pound for middlings. This,
in view of the Liverpool prices, is a
liberal price for cotton, and those wlo
have such debts to pay or suppliesrio
buy will do well to take it
“The actual money price of cotton }s
121 cents, and no disposition to buy it
at that It may be two or three montls
before the reaction comes, and when it
does, the chances are strongly againsta
higher price than 15 cents.
“Futures for February in New York
are only 18 cents, and this is a pretty
fair indication of its value then. Fifteen
cents now wiU pay better than 15 cents
in February.”
And again on October 9:
“ We are delighted to see the business
of our city returning to its former
channels of prosperity. The money
crisis is rapidly wearing off, and com
mercial men begin to look cheerful
again.
“ There is now plenty of money in
the hands of the buyers to pay for al|
the cotton that is likely to come tothiq
market, and they are paying 15 cents
for good cotton; and some little that
classified New Y’ork Middling sold yefri
terday for 151 cents. This is a fair
price, and planters, can now sell with
out-feeling that they are sacrificing their
crops)
Now, pur weak eyed brethren, we call
upon you-honestly to say if there is any.
repudiation, rascality or swindling in
any of this; or if not in these, if youcan;
find any utterance of ours that leads in
that direction, we will honestly thank
you to bring it out. It will not do to
say it is there: we want you to put
your finger upon it
banker has none to the money of his
depositors.
And it does seem to us that, if it
money of his depositor for ninety days,
it should not be so terribly dishonest
m the farmer to hold back his cotton.
But Anthony says it is, “ and Anthony
panions of-the samerodcK
ThteRev.’ -Father (Paolo’
incumbent of the
gliore, in Rome, recently recanted 'his
former faith wasliaptized as # Baptist
The Press and the Planters.
“At this particular season, when
honest co-operation between the planter
and the -factor is vital and necessary,
the gratuitous efforts of some newspa
per editors to clog the course of trade
and bring about a general disaster, by
advising the planters to hold their cot
ton at any risk, to dishonor their .obli
gations to their faotors, or, in plain
words, to swindle the latter in the most
outrageous manner , possible, ought to
damn.them in the eyes of all honest
men foreyer. In fact we do not doubt
but that the majority of such advisera 1
r, as were their ancestors be-
Some men are never in
Sir Charles Lyell has been given by
the King of Sweden the Grand Cross
of a Commander of. the’ Order of the
North Star, and Professors Huxley and, _
Tyndall have been made Knight Com- debt, and therefore have no apprecin- Jf
tion .of-.wbat nn honest obligation to
pjujMuauu, Right here we do not desire ’
tejJSdTbisundefBtood. It is not opposi
tion to _tlio principle that keeps some'
men out of debt, but some men are so
So much for the morality of the ques
tion.- And now a word in regard to its
financial feature. We say that more
money has been withheld from circula
tion by the suspension of the banks
than - by the suspension of farmers.
This being the legitimate fruit of the
CommereiaTs honest policy, we have to
reverse his thunder-jug and let its con
tents'fall upon his own honest head.
As for the insinuation that the Courier
has ever advised the farmer to repudiate
his debts or to swindle his creditors, it
is a deliberate and malicious perversion
of facts, let it come from the lips of
whom it may. Only in connection
with the action of the meeting of the
merchants have we advised them to
withhold their cotton; and our advice
then was based upon the action of that
meeting and its consequent derange
ment of trade.
At the time we made it, cotton could
not be sold in our market for more than
121 cents. To have advised them
otherwise would have been to seriously
prejudice their interest.
Grangers and Middlemen.
The Griffin Star, a staunch friend of
the farmer, has this to say about the
action of a recent convention of grangers
|n that city. We commend its remarks
as pertinent and sensible:
Now, a word as to this last move
ment We do consider it a very haz
ardous experiment, and one that the
farmers should watch very closely. We
are decidedly opposed to the farmers
making a fight on the merchants as a
class. What they should do, is to dis
countenance the slippery ones, and
through their secret meetings they can
come at this better than by -attempting
to establish grange stores on the idea
of the lowest per cent of profits.
Let the merchant understand that
the farmer has means of investigating
his transactions, and the merchant will
be more apt to a rigid scrutiny. We
think both fanner and merchant should
watch each other; and the farmers
should counsel together as to the best
places to buy and sell.
But that a committee shall go around
and chaffer with -the merchants as to
the lowest per cent, at which a.vial of
paregoric or a bottle of/Vinegar Bitters
can be bought and sold, and then dic
tate to the grange what house to get it
at, we don’t think it will work at all.
Rather than do this, each grange shonld
put up a store or stores of its own.
We favor the grange movement, but
^oppose a general warfare upon the mer
chants, both from principle and inter-
The merehants aie onr liberal ens-
tomers and friends, and are indispen-’
sible in alLcivilized communities.
The fanners are also our patrons and
friends, and it would be utterly impose
sible to get along without them. Let
the grangers’ correct the errors and
abuses of the middlemen, but not un
dertake to abolish the class, for it can’t
be done, and wonld be a great calamity
itcomd. -
William Cullen Bryant is in a re
markable state of good preservation for
veteran of ’seventy-nine. He has
it returned from liis summer sojourn
dishonest that qobody ltimong his native Berkshire hills.
Amenities of the Press.
“The editors of the Commercial and
the Courier might personally vilify one
another, for the next ten years, and ac
complish nothing in the end. life is
entirely too short for such things, and
time and space cgffi be so much better
occupied. It is far more commendable
to work together for the common good,
while it is called to-day, for the night
cometh when no man can work. We
never wrote a harsh, personal article
against a contemporary yet, even when
we considered ourselves acting in self-
defence, that we did not feel heartily
ashamed of it, after mature reflection.
“It is essentially our nature to desire
peace with all mankind—and especially
do our hearts wanq towards those of our
own profession—a profession that we
love, and the elevating of which we
ever desire to make our chief pride.
There are sufficient perplexities coming
from the outside world, and common
alike to all editors who honestly en
deavor to serve the people, to beget
a certain amount of sympathy and
charity for one another. So long as
men are not given to see things alike,
honest differences will arise, and there
is no necessity for intolerance.”
We with pleasure transfer the above
graceful article from the columns of
our neighbor the Commercial of yester
day, to our own, and hasten to assure
him that a loyal hand stands ready to
sssPoife* # * t t-™‘.x~
We expect to occasionally differ
from our neighbors on current matters
of policy; but we wish to do so honest
ly and courteously. Such differences
are of the greatest uses to the correct
enlightenment of the public. Differ
ences of opinion invite discussion, and
discussion presents both sides of a sub
ject. Without a difference of opinion
there would be no discussion, and con
sequently our opinions would be
deformed and all one sided.
But a difference of opinion ought not
to evoke unfriendly feelings, and does
not justify bitter personalities. Such
personalities may please the taste of
the mob, but a quarrel between two
fishwomen would please them as well
and we hope to be above them, and let
them look to the fish stalls for their
daily pabulum.
We can imagine the disappointment
of some of these “ gaping deevils” yes
terday morning, when, instead of find
ing the half column of bitter personal
ity they in their own bitter hearts
hoped to see, they read the courteous,
manly and graceful article they did.
It was like going to see a dog fight and
seeing a pleasant picture instead. H
for no other reason, the idea of pander
ing to such brutal tastes ought to re
strain editorsJrom personal invective.
Like our neighbor, we take this oc
casion to say that we have said many
things in this way that we are heartily
ashamed of.
hundred and ninety-nine—other part
ners who will object.
In fact, it is the attempt—and a poor
one at that—to make every one his own
merchant, factor and banker, under this
delusion which originated in commu
nistic ideas, that “ co-operation is the
soul and rule of trade.”
When will grown up men quit these
childish plays, and regard with due sus
picion the apostles and prophets of such
new creeds ?
Is it not a necessity of civilized so
ciety that, by the division of labor and
the proper sphere assigned to each
member, commerce becomes the true
bond of nations? Who does not re
member the signal and disastrous fail
ure of the “ co-operative stores” and the
sad lessons they taught to their unso
phisticated victims?
If the return to, or the inauguration
of such system, is the best the “granges”
can do in in the way of reform, we ad
vise them to sell out theirstock of Pagan
divinities and return to the realities of
life, as made by society christianized
and civilized.
• This must not be understood as pass
ing condemnation on those institutions,
but simply to warn them against the
false and retrograde steps they are now
led to take and which they can, perhaps,
never retrace, so long as the broad light
of the sun does not shine over their
wq^jis. as well as over their words.
Nutmeg spice^
Pepper, onground ,.!T
Pepper, ground
Tea, Young Hyson
Imperial tea
Gunpowder tea
English breakfast
Japan tea
Tobacco, all grades m, m ®t|
Whiskey, best rectified.per
Choice brand whiskey
Brandies 2aUo„ l
en, not until then, will the Run
enter the listo foe m against them.
The Election.
Last Tuesday, elections were held in
Pennsylvania, Iowa, Oregon, Ohio and
California. In Pennsylvania, where
there was a Liberal fusion, the Demo
crats were beaten, but gain considera
bly on the last election.
In California, the independent can
didate for Supreme Judge is supposed
to be elected. But from Ohio comes
the glad notes of a pure, straight-out,
old fashioned Democratic victory, Gov
ernor Allen being elected by a hand
some majority, with a Democratic Leg
islature.
In Oregon the Democrats have large
gains, with probable victory. Iowa
gives a Democratic gain of 15,000—a
Democratic majority in the lower
house, but a Republican senate.
A French customhouse officer of an
inquiring turn of mind, noticing the
Secession Movement of the Strong-llindeu.
And at last it has. come, says the
Cincinnati Chronicle. From out the
redundant femininity of Massachusetts
has gathered a colony of women in the
village of Woburn. No men will be
allowed in their midst, though we are
not informed whether the embargo ex
tends to animals. It certainly should
do so, else the enterprise will be incom
plete. All the workers, however, will
be women.
The ground, divided into small lots,
will be tilled by women, and the har
vests garnered by their fair hands.
Dairies will rise up and flourish, laun
dries and shirtfactories supply the
needs of surrounding towns, and
brooms, hose, mittens, and all knitted
garments furnish remunerative exports.
Tidiness, virtue, peace and industry
will prevail on all sides, unmarred by
the wooing of a lover, or the rating of
a husband.
We shall watch the experiment with
deep interest, and wait anxiously until
it has reached that point where rivalry
with our own Mount Athos shall com
mence, and then—a fair fight, and may
the best sex win.
arrival of a large herd of rocking
horses, wanted to find ont what the an
imals lived on. He opened several,
and found their little stomachs full of
cigars. Fearing that they would devour
the whole tobacco crop if they were
turned loose, he confiscated the lot.
Good men to attend auctions—Men
whose faces are forbidding.
Market Quotations.
The quotations below are carefully made
for each issue of the Courier, by the most
responsible wholesale merchants of Rome,
and may be relied upon as correct.
Rum, best qualities......
Qin, best qualities
Rye and Bonrbon
Sherry Wine, superior...
Port Wine, best quality
Pickles, in glass jars ...per Jan !l
Pickles, half-gal jars..
Pickles, quar gal
Pickies, eighth gal... gi
Rice, Carolina per pound
Louisiana rice
Salt, Liverpool per sack m
Virginia salt ,
Sugar, crushed, pow’d, perpomi
White clarified sugar \ iv e w-
Yellow clarified sugar j x-3
Louisiana sugar ^ 13 t
DltT GOODS MARKS, I 1 ®* '
Brown sheetings an-i shirtings.
; Augusta 4 4 — —...„pa
Lawrence 4-4 ....
Trion 4-4
Princeton 4-4
Pequot 4-4
Nashua R, 4-4
Massachusetts B B, 4 4...._
Eaeln A rnujuix t
Columbus
Roswell 7-8,10}; Rosw. 44
Ba'timore _
Androscoggin 10-4
Monadnock 10-4....... .
Stripes, 09nahurgs
Plaid
Roswell yarn, per bunch
Bleached sheetings and shirtings.
Peqoot 10-4 .j*,
Lowell 10-4
Wamsntta 5-4 ,
Fruit of the Loom 54
Lonsdale 4-4
Wamsutta 4-4...........
New York Mills 44,-
Br’n drills, Massabesic per
Graniterille
Columbus
Domes, ginghams. Union,
Lancaster
Glasgow
Glazed cambrics
Paper cambrics
Checks, park
Lawns per yard
Alpacas
Poplins
Black Alpacas
Merinos ,>TTOS
Cloth gloves nBreek a
Balmorals..... per dozen nUl c
Blankets, gray...._ per pair !il id--450
White blankets ,
White fiannels 3-4 . <fflli
White flannels 7-8
White flannels 4-4
Red flannels 3-4 .. per yard
Red flannels 1-8
Red flannels, twilled - ' ^ '
Opera flannels, Gilbert’s le Bip
Lanark checks - X t
Worsted braids, all colors i ks, two
Needles, sewing................-priljy ahi;
Pins, assorted - _prpki
Gloves, buckskin -per dox 1#
MONEY AND BONDS.
.baying 8 selling
Gold. .baying 8 selling 11
Silver 107 Ill
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 Golf Railroad 78
Doubtful Policy.
We present to the careful considera
tion of the grangers the following
article, which we extract from that
staunch old fanners’ journal the Mobile
Register. It is true as preaching, every
word of it. Farming is one business
—merchandising and factorage is an
other; all are dependent upon each
other, and no one can usurp the func
tions of the other.
And it is all a lie that “co-operation
is the soul and rule of trade.” Co
operation is but another name for
monopoly, and monopoly is the banc
of trade. Independent, untrammelled
action and competitive industries arc
the soul of trade.
But this is what the Register says
An organ of the new popular move
ment says: “ The granges have estab
lished ageneral agency and commission
house in Memphis. The cotton of the
grangers will be sold at the low com
mission of one dollar a bale, and
supplies purchased and sent to mem
bers of the order at wholesale prices.”
So, farmers have become factors, com
mission merchants and retail grocers;
they elect—we suppose this is the mode
of operation—they elect a “popular’
gentleman as their “agent”—that agent
being of course, the elect of a majority,
the minority has no rights he is bound
respect
He has no capital—may have no ca
pacity, no credit—hot is set up in busi
ness without either, and what is more
—without any responsibility but a
moral one which stands to his constitu
ents severally in the proportion of the
unit divided by the number of those
constituents—say, he is accountable to
each one separately for one hnndredth,
or onethoimndth part of his said moral
responsibility and no more.
He gets a dollar a bale—but how
much he can make asihe “ middleman”
of the buyer, none; can teU,.and also
when and where he bayB the supplies,
none need enquire,’ns, no .'matter the
quality, however bad or wor&les% it,
cannot be returned, or payment refund
ed, as there are ninety-nine—or nine
GROCERIES AND PRODUCE.
Bacon, clear sides per pound 11 to 12
Slioulders 9} to 10J
Dry salt clear rib 10 to 10J
Dry salt shoulders 8J to —
Butter, Goslien z...per pound 45 to 50
Western 32} to 35
Tennessee — to —
Country 30 to 35
Bran..„..per hundred pounds...... 80 to $1
Beans per bushel......$3 to $4}
Candles per pound 21 to 25
Candy -per pound 16Jto 25
Coffee, Rio per pound 27 to 30
Java 33 to 35
Laguayra 27 to 30
Mocha — to —
Corn Meal per bushel 75 to 80
Corn loose 50 to (D
Grits per barrel $7 to 9
Hominy $0 to 8
Wheat .per bushel $1.50 to 1.C0
Cotton seed per ton,.....$10 to —
Canned fruit, all kinds...per doz... $2jto $3J
Flour, choice per barrel .8ID to 12
Family and extra 9 to 10
Superfine 0 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 .per bushel 75 to $1
Peaches $1 to li
Harness leather. 40 to 45
Opera flannels. Keystone 45 to 55
Lindseys per yard 15 to 25
Prints, different brands
Kentucky jeans, all makes....
Spool cotton per dozen
Carpets, hemp...............per yard
Carpets, Dutch hemp
Carpets, ingrain ..........
Carpets, two ply and heavy
Carpets, heavy three-ply.....
Osnabnrgs...
Tickings, all makes
Stripes, different styles
Denims .... .....L. .....
Hats, all kinds ..per doxen 5.50 to 17.00
Hay -. :ii..per hundred pounds $l}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 38 to 50
Molasses, hlf-bbls and kegs 55 to 85
Oats, for stable... per bushel 40 lo 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.: per ponnd 8 to 10
No. 1 Palin soap ...... . 6 to 7
Starch, best quality:.. ..per pound 6 to 9
Sardines, quarter bxs ...per case $20 to $21
Spice, clovfs. ..per pound30 to 50
Cinnamon spice 75 to $1
Ginger Spice, Race.... 15 to 25
Ginger spiee, ground™ . $2 to 2}
Mace Spice.$2 fo 3
and,
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HARDWARE ALARS2T j®
15.00:1
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4.5H
7 to 11
18 to 80
40 to 70
35 to 40
27 to 40
55 to 65
75 to 135
1.60 to 1.75
13 to 20
8} to 30
11 to 15
14 to 16
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Axes, Collins’ per dozen 14.1ft
Mann’s axes 1400
George’s axes... 13.00
Anvils, Wright’s ..per pound
Eagle anvils..... 13
Bellows, 28 inches 12.50
Thirty-inch bellows ..15. 1 Z
Thirty-two inch bellows 16.09:
Thirty-four inch bellows....li.W
Thirty-six inch bellows.... JOA 1
Forty-inch bellows 25.®
Horseshoes per keg 8.00:
Mule shoes $.W>|
Hoes, planters’.....! er dozen 6JBt|
Warren’s hoes...
• Warren’s hoes...at retail
Homes -per dozen
Iron, refine 1 bar...per pound
Small bar iron...
Plow slabs ........
Swedes iron
Steel, cast in bars..per pound
Steel plow slabs..
Steel plow wings
Plows, Red Eag’e..one horse
Red Eagle two horse 10.0J:
Solid sweeps per pound
Wing sweeps
Wedges, fluted per found
Avails, lOd to 60d...per keg
Nails, Sd...........
Nails, Od
Nails. Ad
Pota and skillets ...per pound
Powder, DuP. rifie..pcr keg
DuPont's blast...
Caps, pcrc , G. D...per thousand 45:
Caps, KB *•'
Rope, Manilla per p<
Cotton rope
Rope, grass per pound
Jute rope
Cotton rope
Cotton cards per dozen
l bains, trace per pair
Breast chains....
Stay chains
Log chains .per pound
Saws, cross cut per foot
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Men’s kip hoots, pgd...per esse 36.W*.
Men’s grain boors, pegged
Men’s calf boots, pegged ......
Men’s split boots, pegged...
Boys’ kip hoots, pegged
Youths’ copper tips, pegged... 2*.W
Gents’ call Congress. per p»i'
Gents’ buff Congress pegged...
Gents’ buff Balmorals pegged.
Gents’ calf brogans pegged
Men’s unbound brogans, pggd
Men’s plow shoes, pegged......
Boys’ unbound brogans, pggd
Youths’ unb’d brogans, pggd-
Women’s buff shoes
Women’s kip pegged shoes...
Women’s calf pegged shoes...
Women’s pggd grained shoes
Women’s cable grained shoes
Women’s sewed elf shoes
Women’s serge shoes -
Children’s copper tipped...—
Ladies’ fine Berge laoe Bel’s—
Child’s copper toe lace Bal’s—
Men’s buckle plow shoes
Women’s A elf Ind pgd shoes
(Extra sizes 10 to 15 cents
Misses’ shoes about 25 eta per V s
women’s.)
LEATHER
Leather, white oak sole, per
Good hemlock leather———
Good dmgd hemlock leather
French elf,
French calf, Sosa. ..—
Country upper leather.
. Kip leather - — F
Country calf leather——
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