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Rome, Floyd County, Ga.
The Wbekly Courier is issued
EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,
At No 23 Broad Street.
M* Dwinell ....Editor and Proprielor
IL F. Sawyer Associate Editor.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC’R 10
The New York Herald notes the fact
that for the first time in the annual
messages of the President of this
“celebrated republic,” General Grant’s
message contains no allusion to Divine
Providence.
General Grant docs not propose to
fight it out on that line, and doubtless
thinks the less he has to say about
Divine Providence the better.
Chicago Ac < Ilaricstoli Ra lroad.
Charleston, Dec. 5.—Extensive pre
parations are making for the reception of
the members of the railroad convention
which meets in the interest of a direct
railway connection between Chicago and
Charleston. Strong delegations arc ex
pected from Chicago and various other
points along the proposed route, and the
South Carolina Railroad and New York
and Charleston steamship line will pass
delegates free.
Charlie Willingham.
We clip the following complimentary
notice of the gentleman who is to tak
our place at the round table of the
Courier from the Atlanta Constitution:
“We are delighted to see an an
nouncement that Charlie Willingham
takes editorial charge of the Rome
Courier on the 1st of January, 1S74.
He will certainly improve the Courier.
already a good paper. Willingham is
popular, and has just ‘roughed’ it
enough with city dailies to ‘ learn a
thing or two’ that will make him. as
the editor of a tri-weekly, hard to beat.
No man has more nearly the universal
good wishes of the press.”
And this from the LaGrange Reporter:
“We learn that Mr. C. II. C. Willing
ham will take editorial charge of the
Rome Courier next year. There is no
better man in Georgia for the position.
We are satisfied that he will do both
himself and the Courier credit bv bis
management.”
Old Grizzley—Ah, Tappy! it is well
that you spoke. So much gall Would
Irave given you the jaundice had it not
found an eruption. I hope you feel
better ?
Tappy—No. If I could purgesociety
of these festering parasites—miserable
cxercsonees, hanging like a witherin'
curse upon humanity, I would then
feel that my over-boiling disgust would
have been a relief. Rut as it is, I still
turn with a bitter shuddering upon the
revolting picture of. men-r-less kind
than the brutes—trampling tinder feet
the weak while uplifting the stroi
George Washington Algernon Soggs—
Tappy is right. But I doubt if the
vehemence of his contempt will im
prove his temper in the least, or touch
the evil. How much better does Joa-
piin Miller, the mad poet of the
Sierras, treat this same subject in; a
ittle poem which, with the permission
of the Colonel, I will repeat.
Old Grizzley—Oh, yes; repeat it, by
all means. We need something to
round off the sharp edges of Tappy’s
wrath.
George Washington Algernon Soggs—
It is called, “Is it Worth While?” and
it runs as follows:
13 it worth while that we jrstle a brother,
15 uriug his !oa'l_oc the rough roa.l cf life ?
Is it worth wh'le that we jeer at each other
In blackness of heft t?—that wc war to
knife?
God pity as all iu our pitiful strife.
The Wee Sma’ Hours Ayant the Ttval.
Scene—The Courier sanctum ; Time—
2 P. M. Present—Old Grizzley, George
Washington Algernon Soggs, Erin-go-
Bragh, Tappy, Guissippi Grossi.
Old Grizzley—Ah 1 Tappy, my boy ;
sad again ? Why art thou so cast down ?
What is it that has caused the shadows
of grief to 6eat themselves upon your
brow—your young brow, so girlishly
fair, and so much better suited for the
reflection of sunny smiles? Speak, my
boy, and let me try to cheer thy gloom
away!
Ta^py—What! look I frowningly ?
Then it is more in anger than in sor
row. It is the contempt I feel in my
secret soul for the littleness and mean
ness of my race, that is troubling my
brow with its gloomy reflex.
Old Grizzley—Oh, Tappy—Tappy 1
Tappy—Yes: my soul is fatigued
with its silent disgust, and 1 must speak
out.
Old Grizzley—-Speak then, my dear
boy. It requires the lightning Hash to
relieve the storm cloud. The efferves
cence of youth must be uncorked.
What ugly trait in human character is
it that has so outraged your usually
pleasant nature ?
Tappy—Ugly trait is not the word.
That devilish outcropping of a despi
cable soul is hardly strong enough to
define it.
Old Grizzley—Well! what devilish
outcropping of a despicable soul is it,
then, that has so disturbed the sweet
serenity of your mind ?
Tappy—It is that puppy pusilani-
mity—this cowardly meanness, and
fiendish disposition that is so ready
standing, gaping and grinning, to gloat
over the misfortune of a fallen man—
to hound him down with insulting
taunts; to stab him in the back with
slanderous innuendoes; to discourage
with cold neglect his efforts to rise ; to
put the Strong, hard and cruel foot
upon him, and to grind him still deep
er in the dust; to hound after his slow
ly dragging misery-laden steps, and to
kick him as he goes.
Old Grizzley—Tappy, you arc severe.
Tappy—No, not severe. I wish I
had a -whip of scorpions to scourge
this demon of cowardly meanness out
of the human heart. My soul is sick
in its loathing of the vile monster.
Erin-go-Bragh—I agree with Tappy,
and sympathize with him in his honest
contempt of such meanness. Let a
man—I care not how honest his pover
ty, I care not how sore his need, I care
not how deserving his merits, I care
not how laudable his efforts and how
worthy of encouragement—let such a
man but attempt to rise from his
poverty, and aspire to lift himself and
his family above the choking slum of
misery;- these fiends incarnate will
lam upon him as if he were a viper
too mean to lift its head above the
nettles in which it hides. Instead of
reaching out a kindly hand of help,
the brute heel, shod with iron, is thrust
In the pale struggling face. Instead of
speaking a gentle word of encourage
ment—a sweet word of hope, or even a
smile of friendly cheer—the cold whis
pers of cruel doubt arc hissed in his
ear; the bitter curse of failure, and the
ghastly smile of derision, arc all that
meets the longing eye.
Tappy—Yes; but on the other hand,
this same scurvy crew stands gaping,
ready to smile and help and encourage
those who do not need any smiles or
help. Let a man who is high above
the frowns of fortune propose an enter
prise—not for the purpose of getting
bread for his wife and children, hut for
the purpose of increasing his already
golden store—and the car of Jugger
naut is not moved along over its track,
slimy with the blood of willing victims,
with a more grateful subservience than
this man is lifted on his higli road to
fortune.
lo.i ]ciy us all as wo jostle each other;
God pardoz us all for the triumphs wo feel
Viun a fellow g >03 down ’n*ath bis load on the
hea’her.
Pierced to th j heart: words are keener than
steel,
And mightier far for woe or for weal.
Wcro i: not well, in this brief little journey
On over the isthmus, down into the tide.
We give him a fish instead of a serpent,
Ero folding the hands to be and abide
Forever and aye in dust at his side?
Look at the roses saluting each other;
Look at tho herds all at peace on the plain—
Man, end man only, makes war on his brother,
And laughs in his heart at his peril and pain :
Shamod by the blasts that go down on the
plain. ‘
Ts it worth while that we battlo to humble
Some poor fellow soldier down into the dust ?
God piiy us all! Time eftsoon will tumble
All ol us together, like leaves in a gust,
Humbled, indeed, down into the dust.
The Conn House, Milleilgeville, was
burned last Thursday morning. The
fire originated by the soot burning out
of the ehimnev.
A Heavy Gun.—At an experimental
trial in Boston harbor last week, Nor
man \Vlard's big gun drove a conical
ball through a fifteen-inch iron plate at
a distance of 150 feet.
The meanest steal of all yet reported
is that of Andrew S. Donnnn, of Texas,
who has stolen 81000 in State bonds,
which ho is trying to sell at two hits
in the dollar. Henry Clews & Co.
would have been above such a petty
theft as that.
Jay Cooke A Co. were forced into
bankruptcy the other da}’. These few
words tell of the mutability of human
affairs and the perils of greatness. The
lords of American finance are now
beggars at the gate, and muct bo sold
out just like any bankrupt comer
grocery. So we suppose all the bubbles
the civil war will burst in time.
It is reported upon the authority of
tin- New York Herald, that General
Tom Benton Smith has tendered to
Governor Brown of Tennessee a regi
ment of -5(H) men between the belicose
agi-s of IS and 55, to go to Cuba and
whip the bloody Spaniards out of their
moccasins. And now, who in the Dick
ens is General Tom Benton Smith ?
The same high authority says that
General X. B. Forrest has also tendered
his services to General Sherman, with
an indefinite force for the same bloody
purpose. “Indefinite” is very good,
and means more or less—probably a
great deal less than more.
Regular Meeting of the City Council—
December !, 1873.
Present, Hon. \V. F. Ayer, Mayor;
and Aldermen McGuire, Whiteley, Har
din and Mitchell.
Minutes of the last meeting read and
adopted.
The following report of the managers
of an election held in the City Hall,
for mayor and aldermen of the city of
Rome, Georgia, for the year 1S7-1, was
received, examined and adopted:
KOI! MAYOR.
\Y. F. A ver received votes 128
l-'Ol! AI.DEIUIEX.
C. G. Samuel - 125
C. II. Smith-- 10G
R. V. Mitchell 101
T. McGuire 98
II. J. Gwaltnev S8
J. E. Veal—1 S4
Sworn to and subscribed by W. D.
Elam, II. M. Smith and J. J. Cohen.
Report of U. Patillo, sexton; re
ceived and adopted.
Alderman McGuire asked an exam
ination as to tho ownership of a lot in
Myrtle Hill cemetery, which he paid
for and other parties claim; referred to
cemetery committee.
The following ordinance was read
tho third time:
Rc it ordained, That the street known
and designated as Maiden Lane, in the
city of Rome, shall be changed and
hereafter known and designated as
Elm street.
Amended by Alderman McGuire:
That the street known as Court street
be changed to Church street.
Amendment adopted; and on mo
tion, the original ordinance with amend
ment was adopted.
Account of Allgood &. llargrovc was
read, and on motion of Alderman
Mitchell, referred to finance committee
for settlement.
The following accounts ordered paid:
Noble Bros. A Co., for coal and
labor 871.85
J. II. Duke, for laying pavement
at Episcopal church — 10.00
Now Haven Wheel Company, for
wheel for Fire Department—65.00
M. Dwinell, for city printing 77.50
J. T. Warlick, for laying water
pipe, etc 183.63
J. N. Wimpee, blacksmithing— 34.90
Council adjourned.
H. C. Norton, Clerl:.
To My Friends of the Courier.
On the first day of January next, tty
connection withjtoegarter,.which has
been so Very, Very pleasant to me, will
cease. On that flay I purpose, in con
junction with Judge Donald M. Hood,
to commence at the capital of the State
the weekly publication of an old-
fashioned, Jeffersonian Democratic
newspaper to be called Tiie Common-
WEALTH OF GEORGIA.
Our motto shall be “ principles, not
men.” We shall, have for our object
^Renaissance of the'old-tide princi-
jlesof the party; the restoration to
SeuTegitimate’ spheres' of the old and
truer political lights of the State; and
the' revival of that purity of thought
and of action which characterized the
works and the lives of our public men
in the purer days of the Republic. We
shall wage war to the knife upon all
cliques, rings and cabals, whether na
tional, State or local.
Aside.;from its high political aims, it
feball be a grateful purpose of the paper
16, fester and encourage a pure and
healthy literature, to educate our people
up to the highest standard of literary
taste, and to inculcate in the minds of
the young men and women of the
South a love of the true and the beau
tiful in literature and in art To this
end one page of the paper will be
devoted to Song and Story, short but
conscientious reviews of current Eng
lish literature, art essays and criticism,
and notices of new publications. In
this department-we have the promised
assistance and friendly co-operation of
the best literary talent of the South.
As in politics we expect to handle
without gloves cross roads demagogues
and political quacks, so in this we shall
put our feet without mercy upon all
literary charlatans, pot-house wits and
back-alley poetasters.
We shall devote one page of the
paper to the great and underlying inter
est of Agriculture. Recognizing the field,
the orchard, the garden and the yard
as the life-springs of all prosperity, we
shall strive in an especial manner to
make the paper valuable to the farmer
from the variety and solid worth of the
agricultural, horticultural and apicul-
tural matter we shall present.
The remaining page will be devoted
to a general synopsis of news, foreign,
national, State and local.
In short, we shall honestly endeavor
to fill our columns with everything
that will conduce to the entertainment,
instruction and benefit of a refined
Southern home. Our paper will be, as
its name “The Commonwealth of
Georgia” implies, emphatically a
Georgia paper — not confined to the
local interest of a city or county, hut
working for tho great commonweal of
the people of the State.
It will bo a large thirty-two column
paper, printed in clear, bold type suit
able to the eyes of tho old as well as
the young. It will be published at tin
capital of the Suite, and will contnir.
the proceedings of the governmental
offices, legislative, judicial, executive.
It will T>e issued every Thursday,
and will be mailed to subscribers—
postage paid—for S2.50 per year, or 81.50
for six months. Our terms will be
cash without any exception.
May I ask my friends of the Courier,
whom I have so long and conscientious
ly served, to help me in my effort? If
each one would send me his or her
subscription for one year by the 25th
of December it would make me the
happiest man alive, and I would repay
them with a life-long gratitude if
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Domingo that the United States shall
exercise a protectorate. 7 I After a long
. The message discusses at some le ngth
the question of the right of expatriation, upheaved. the d
particularly as to citizens of the United
States residing permanently ■ abroad
with their families, and suggests legis- 2 on
could not give value returned in a first
class family paper.
Send me a Christmas gift in the
shape of a subscription, and let me
return the graceful offering by sending
you a New Year's greeting in the form
of a handsome weekly paper.
But while thus appealing to you for
myself, I must not be understood as
wishing to detract from the claims of
your old and tried friend the Rome
Courier. It has stood too long and too
firmly by you for any new enterprise
to now supplant it in your favor;
and in leaving it I have a real satisfac
tion in knowing that an editor older,
more experienced and abler than my
self will take my place. I refer to C.
li. C. Willingham, late of the Atlanta
Sun, who I can commend to you as
worthy of all confidence.
My address until the first day of Jan
uary will be Rome, Ga., after that date,
Atlanta, Ga.
In tho interim Mr. Thos. H. Cuyler
will canvass for and receive subscrip
tions and advertisements for the paper,
and courtesies extended to him will
be appreciated as a personal iavor to
myself. B. F. Sawyer.
The President’s Message.
We have no space for the message in
full, and shall present a synopsis of it
covering the principal points.
The message opens by a reference to
the financial crisis, the grangers’ move
ment and the Virginius matter, which
it says is in course of negotiation and
likely to be amicably and honorably
arranged. It refers to the Vienna ex
position, which was credtiable to the
artisans of the United States; to the re
ception of the Western ambassadors by
the emperor of China; and to the need
of further legislation to suppress the in
famous Coolie trade.
It recommends a commissioner for
the purpose of auditing and determin
ing the amount to be paid for losses
caused by the Confederate privateers.
It refers to the mixed commision for
determining claims between British
subjects and American oitizens, and
asks for an appropriation to pay the
amount of the decisions against the
United States.
It is also recommended a law creat
ing a special court of three judges, to
hear and determine all claims of aliens
against the United States, arising out of
acts committed, against their persons
and property during the insurrection.
It asks the decision of Congress on
the subject of the action - of the Otto
man and Egyptian governments in re
lieving foreign consuls of judicial pow
ers. The President transmits the ap
plication of the republic of San
lation on the subject It refers to the
establishment of a republic in Spain,
and to the efforts of the new govern
ment to abolish slaveiy in all its do
minions, which efforts are opposed by
the. reactionary slave holders of Cuba,
who are vainly striving to stop the
march of civilization.
This baleful influence has thus far
succeeded in defeating the efforts (if all
liberal minded men in Spain to abolish
slavery in Cuba, and in preventing the
proposed reform in that island. In the
interest of humanity, of civilization,
and of progress, it was to be hoped that
the influence might be soon averted.
In reference to the capture of thejVir-
ginius, and to the inhuman and illegal
murder of fifty-three of her passengers
and crew, he says that the Spanish gov
ernment has recognized the justice of
his demands, and had arranged for the
immediate delivery of the vessel, and
for the surrender of the surviving pas
sengers and crew, and for a solute to
the flag and for proceedings looking to
the punishment of those who majt be
proved to be guilty of any illegal acts
of violence toward citizens ot-the
United States, and also toward indemni
fying those who may be shown to be
entitled to indemnity.
The correspondence on tire subject
had been conducted in cypher and
by cable, and was, therefore, not in
a condition to be submitted to Con
gress. The President expresses his con
viction that the existence of African
slaveiy in Cuba is a principal cause of
the lamentable condition of the island,
and does not doubt that Congress shares
his hope that it will soon be made; to
disappear, and that peace and prosper
ity will follow its ibolition.
He suggests two constitutional amend
ments—one to authorize the President
to approve so much of any measured of
Congress a3 his judgment may dictate
without approving the whole; and the
other, to provide that when an extra
session of Congress is convened by ex
ecutive proclamation, legislation sfiall
be confined to suen subjects as the ex
ecutive may bring before Congress frem
time to time in writing.
He recommends the erection at
Washington of suitable buildings for
cabinet officers and for such officialsas
now receive commutation for quarters,
thus setting an example to the States
which may induce them to erect build-
gs for their senators.
The message goes very fully into the
financial question, and declares that
the country never can have permanent
rarity until specie payments be
tell. lie recommends legislation
ibiting national banks from pay-
interest on deposits, and forcing
them into resumption if only in legal
potes. He suggests tile.question w!«tk->
er banking should not bo made free,
but securing all thi present safeguards
to bill holders.
He notices the im provement in Amer
ican ship building during the past year
and hopes for a continuance of it.
In regard to the problem of cheap
transportation, he refers to the Erie
and Illinois canals, and suggests wheth
er it would not be wise statemanship to
pledge to the States that own those
canals that if they will enlarge them
the general Government will look after
and keep in navigable condition the
great public highways with which these
canals connect, to-wit: The Hudson
river, the St Clair flats, and the Illinois
and Mississippi rivers.
He recommends a Government ex
ploration of the upper Amazon river
and its tributaries; a revision and
codification of tire tariff laws, and the
opening of more mints. He endorses
the recommendation of the Postmaster-
General for the establishment of post-
office savings depositories, and invites
the consideration of Congress to the
proposition for a postal telegraph.
He recommend-- legislation in regard
to judicial proceedings in Utah, and
also in regard to the bankruptcy law,
which he considers as productive of
more evil than good. If not totally
repealed it should be modified in those
portions providing for involuntary
bankruptcy; those portions should be
the Tinker, floats upon'the effervescing
surface as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. Well may
we say parturhintmontes,nascetur ridiculus
mus when this stolid imbecile at Wash
ington Jbas it inhjs r hapds tp perfpri
some vital duty pf'statemhkrisbto- •
The appointment of. such a pett;
£ooFmicUBO^!on?empfi?3ealegal quae
as Attorney General Williams to the
highest judicial office in the Union, is
an outrage second to not even the
monstrous decision of the drunkard
Durell, and its executive sanction and
countenance; " :', L . h
Shades of Solon, Lycurgus, Black-
stone and,Story defend ns !
g*?-*-'. : a .,1
l ante • I ; [For tho Courier.] ,
repealed.
He calls attention to the immense
aggregate of claims against the Gov
ernment, many of them growing ont
of the rebellion, and not a few of them
participate, and supported by false tes
timony. He recommends that persons
having claims, be required to present
them at an early period, and that the
personal attendance of witnesses be
required by the court of claims, etc.
In regard to the Indian question, he
recommends a territorial form of gov
ernment for the Indian Territory. He
also recommends such action as will
permit the settlement of a body of
Russian colonists on the public lands,
and endorses the proposition for a
census in 1875. He eulogises the
Washington board of public works,
and speaks of the great improvement
of the city under the operations of the
board; recommends a liberal policy on
the part of Congress in defraying a
portion of the expenses, and suggests
the establishment here of a national
university.
He recommends the passage of an
enabling act for the admission of Cploj
rodo os a State, and suggests the
opening of a canal for the purpose of
irrigation, from the eastern slope of thq
Rocky Mountains to the Missonri riven
In conclusion, he renews his recom
mendation for general rimnesty, and
says there are a number of persons
yet laboring under disabilities, veiy
small, but enough • to keep up a con
stant irritation. There can be ho
possible danger to the Government in,
restoring them to eligibility to hold
office, and suggests the enactment of a
law better to secure the civil rights-
which freedom should secure, but has
not effectually secured to the enfran
chised slaves.
fc c^weCVrt
We understood that-it Spul-
lock, on Saturday night last, made a
stomp speeoh to a handful of about
fifty, in the City Hall, m which he
grew, rarnjparit and proposed toseize
and capture ,the above named little
towns, nolens volens. This is in keeping
with the age, and in aoobrdance with
the little phillipicsheretofore published
by hirh,,ifiut .since Mr. S. joined the
Good Tempters we hardly expected he
would get into such a demented rage.
He said the corporation of Rome
owed over 5400,000, and it must he
paid, and knew of na.otber way to pay
it but to hitch on to these little towns.
Would not this be financiering with a
vengeance? Why, if these little towns
were seized and ME S. appointed re
ceiver or administrator, and the 8aid
little, towns and-, aft their assets sold
out, all would not at an administrator’s
sale bring 25 cento in the dollar on
their debt—especially after the per
quisites, etc-, of the administrator .were
retained. • R ’
Did Mr. S. suppose he was address
ing ah audience of fifty honest men, or
did he suppose the times were so out of
joint thatthey were in favor of plun
dering their neighbors to pay their own
debts? Either idea is too bad. If he
expected to engraft his views on them,
it seems he would make it a question
of power and not of right
What had these little towns to do
in creating this debt, or In spending
the money for which it was created?
No more than one neighbor has in
creating the debt of his neighbor. Why
not, by dint of power, annex Chattooga,
Bartow, Polk and a few counties in
Alabama to help pay the debt of Floyd?
Perhaps the physical and legal force of
Floyd might not be found sufficient to
do it, and Mr. S. may not be found with
the legal and physical force sufficient
to accomplish his purpose of making
these little towns pay or help pay this
debt in which they had nothing to do
in creating. s,,..*
Not Idng ago the North and tho
South were united in one corporation
or constitution. The Sonth said the
North did them great wrong in violating
this charter of union in taxing them to
pay the debt and expenses of this
great national corporation, and inter
fered and intermeddled with their
private and domestic righto, because
they had the physical power to do so.
And all this was nothing better than
robbery and plunder, by the strong on
the weak.
They quarrelled and fussed about
this thing. The Sonth finally said,
Though you are the strongest, and have
done all this evil to ns, we will quit
yon at all hazzords. The North said,
Yon shan’t do it; we will keep you in
the corporation that we may tax you
to our heart’s content and regulate your
domestic afiairs as we please. The
South attempted to get out of this
corporation—“ peaceably if they could,
and forcibly if they must”
Soon they fell to fighting about it,
and over a million of lives were lost in
tills fracas. Every honest and true
man in the South said this was wicked,
cruel and unjust, and that they would
rather die honorably than submit to
these great wrongs, frauds, and robber
ies. The South, after exhausting
themselves, couldn’t get out of the
corporation, but were and are now held
in by brute force—whipped outside
but not inside. Some men got whipt,
but never the women — (tod bless
them!
But the idea of -Rome seizing these
little towns, with one hand on their
throats and the other in their exhausted
pockets, and saying, as Mr. S. said,
We have got the power and we will
make you come into our corporation
and help pay our debts, although you
had nothing to do in helping to make
our big debts; we will force yon in,
and tax yon every year to onr heart’s
content until it is paid; because we
can do it, and want to do it
Now, monstrous as this North and
Sonth struggle was, it. is:not to be
compared in iniquity to this proposi
tion of Mr. S. Let us run the analysis,
except the size of the controversy. The
North and South were incorporated as
one government; the North wronged
the Sonth, arid theSouth, impelled by
a high sense of . honor and justice,
wanted to get out to avoid these wrongs
in taxing, and thus interfering with
their domestic relations in violatingthe
provisions of the charter of incorpora
tion. ,
These little towns never were incor
porated with Rome, but are' each a
separate government of’ their own,
proposing to go. on aind- take care of
themselves, and in no riuriirieiV shape
or form to interfere with the personal
or chartered rights of Romo-rbut in
all things'to: continue in peace and
admisson at lutll hni'
their means'to pay,
immodest in film n
to determine.this qri
selves?—and tmlolic'
ing to represent them with no authority ?
When this question arises, if it ever
does, we think they will claim the right
to represent themselves. And should
they do so, and their people wish to
joiq the Rome corporation, and Rome
wishes to receive them, or they to re-
If” 11 ™" Wa n ri ° ht to ob
ject and none will object. Bnt to coerce
them 'in against their will for the
avowed purpose of taxing them to pay
the debts or Rome, would be a mon
strosity beyond human forbearance.
What good did the creation of the
water works ever do these little towns ?
If they get any water they must pay
for it. What benefit to these tittle
towns does the w&king the streets in
Rome amount to ? ' They have to work
mad keep in’ order, their own streets.
They ask no one to help them; they do
not demand of -Rome or any one else
to pay or help pay for it
What have they to do‘ with Rome’s
railroad stock? They get no dividend
from it, and wont none: Indeed they
think the taking of that stock was a
good deal like the -taking of the stock
by Floyd county in another railroad
the result of which is that the county
has to pay abont $40,000 or $50,000 and
no show for it These' tittle towns do
not think this sort of’stock profitable;
bat if Rome thinks it is, these little
towns don’t qaarrel with her about it
They only object to being forced in and
taxed to pay for such as this subscribed
by their neighbors, in which they have
and want no interest
If the Government of the United
States will open the shoals of the Coosa
river so as to let boats into the Gulf of
Mexico, then that would be a benefit to
Rome, to these tittle towns and to the
country around. But they are unable
to do it, nor do they ask Rome to do it
for them. Until that is done they want
no railroad stock; and if they did they
propose to buy it for themselves.
They don’t propose to pay for such
stock as may be selected for them by
others; yet this orator thinks they
should, or probably thinks they should
pay for it anyhow, and let Rome keep
it. One thing is certain: these little
towns will never have any of this kind
of stock—it is too fancy for them.
These things arc rather on a small scale,
not being tike the war, bnt on principle
a heap worse. Forrestvii.le.
Dahomeny.
Hillsborough.
East Rome.
DeSoto.
openly ;and. with ayoiyed purpose to
force ftwee tittie'totntojin. the cqipprar
-them to aid in paying
pose of
the delitadf
to'tifettfj and if tjusprator shoi
cfeive the idea tfiat it would lien
these little towns to come into this cor
poration, which according to his tacit
debt above
f it not be
j allow them
Jon for them-
■ or assum-
Mario was lately among the audience
at Les Itatiens, Paris, in company with
his daughters, whose great personal
beauty attracts much attention.
Mr. Tilton’s novel has to do with the
sea, and Mr. Tilton writes whereof he
knows, since he has been dreadfully at
sea himself for some months back.
Uncle Jesse Aycock, for many years a
justice of the peace in Forsyth, and well
known throughout that section, is dead,
aged seventy.
Wimpy, the daring dealer in counter
feit money, is endeavoring to prevail
upon the barbers of Atlanta not to work
on Sunday.
Serious disturbance is feared among
the Indian tribes of the Northwest, and
some uneasiness is felt in consequence
in the settlements, the more so because
of a suspicion that the half breeds are
connected with and fomenting the dis
turbance.
Severe Storm of Wednesday.
Chicago, Dec. 5.—The gale Wednes
day night caused considerable damage in
Detroit One hundred feet of brick wall
of the new Michigan Central car works
were prostrated and the whole roof blown
off. An iron roof of the Central freight
depot was blown into the river. The
steamer Burnsides was blown against the
steamer Mackinaw, damaging her to the
extent of 84,000.
The steamer Keweenaw was blown up
the river one mile and a half and beached.
Swo tugs were lost, and their whereabouts
are unknown. Propellors Caldwell and
Montgomery, besides many other crafts,
were blown across the river, sustaining
more or less damage.
. Cincinnati, Dec. 5.—Storms have been
very general throughout Kentucky, Ohio
and Indiana. Trees were blown across
the track, delaying trains.
Buffalo, Dec. 5.—There was a south
west gale here yesterday. The water is
higher than for twenty years. The lower
part of the city is flooded.
good neighborhood with’ her.
Yet ire .find an otytoy who proposes’ featfsfactorjriinterview with the Secretary
Washington News and Gossip.
Washington, Dec. 5.—The nomina
tion of Judge Williams as chief justice
was referred to the committee on judi
ciary. This is contrary to the usual
custom of the senate with regard to
senators and ex-senators whose nomina
tions escape committee investigations.
Senate elected Sunderland chaplain.
The committee on privileges and
elections meets to-morrow for organiza
tion and consultation. The committee
will take up the Louisiana case Mon
day. . Partisans are very busy. Senator
’.Morton to-night sent for Counsellors
Billings and Dibble.
After the interview the two gentle
men went in search of Judge Durant,
who is supposed to be retained in
Pinchback’s interest. They also con
sulted Schurz, who consoled them with
the remark that there would be twenty
speeches.in the senate before definite
action. The hopes of either of the
aspirants will be long deferred.
Senator Hamilton and the Texas
representatives’ in Congress have had a
of War and th6 Secretory of the Inte
rior,relative to frontier defense, and
tion, nolens miens,.simply for' the pur- have- received their assurances of co-
- ■'♦* •* » i .i ii—nn in flia oainWidKmnnf nf a
operation in the establishment of a
add telegraphic commnni-
ide to
• the Red
Board of C«mml$sloners of Roads and Rev
enues—Regular Term, Dec. 3.
The Board of Commissioners met
to-dzty. Present, Col. W. G. Gammon,
chairman; Maj. John H. Dent, Jno.
Skinner, Col. W. P. Whitmore, H. W.
Dean.
The minutes of the last term were
read and approved.
The petition of H. D. Copeland and
others for a new road commencing at
the State tine and intersecting the
Cave Spring road on lot No. 27, in the
16th District, was called up. The
citation not having expired, was con
tinued to the January term.
The petition of H. D. Cothran, and
others, for a road from Howard street
bridge to W. H. Jones’ or Mrs. Dick’s
called up, when the following objections
were read:
Rome, Ga., Nov. 3,1873.
Gentlemen,—Allow me to respectfully
lay before your honorable body the
following objections to the contem
plated road:
First, said road is not a public neces
sity. Second, it is not in accordance
with the views of the Commissioners of
this District, appointed by your body
to survey out the road. Third, it forces
the keeping up of two roads running
parallel with each other not more than
four hundred yards apart for two and
one half miles, and does not shorten
the distance of travel three hundred
yards. Fourth, it forces your petition
er to build and keep in repair one
fourth of mile of fencing in order
to give protection to crops and timber
in wood lots, which he prizes very
highly, and wishes to keep secure from
campers and travellers generally.
These objections I submit to your
honorable consideration.
W. II. Jones.
Tiie following order was passed:
For the matter of H. D. Cothran
al.. for a road from Howard street, in
East Rome, to W. II. Jones or Mrs.
Dick s, order passed at November term
1873, and citation published according
ly : It appearing to the court that the
citation has been published as provided
by law. under the order of this hoard
heretofore granted, and that all persons
through whose land said road runs
have been notified by law, and that no
application for a jury for damages has
been filed by any one, it is ordered by
the board that said road, as defined in
said petition and as ordered and pub
fished in the citation, be opened, and
the same is hereby declared a public
road.
The following petition was read:
Waters’ District, Nov., 7
To the County Commissioners :
We the citizens of that portion of the
above named District lying near the
Gordon county tine, and the citizens of
Plainville, in Gordon county, most
respectfully petition and pray your
honorable body to revoke the retail
liquor license of Messrs. Mosteller and
McGullion who are selling liquor near
this place, for the following reasons:
1st. Said parties made application to
the authorities of Gordon county to sell
liquors in the town of Plainville, but
were refused on account of that place
being incorporated and a petition of
the citizens praying that they might
not he licensed.
2d. Parties go to said grocery, get
drunk and seriously disturb the peace
and quiet of the good citizens of both
counties.
3d. The peace and good order of
both counties are interfered with, and
we are satisfied that the above named
grocery is the prime cause of the whole
of it; and we believe further, that by
revoking the same you will assist ma
terially in re-establishing the peace and
good order of this community.
Trusting that our petition may be
regarded and the license of the afore
said parties he revoked, and if that he
impracticable or illegal, to refuse to
renew the license of said parties when
it expires. Also that the said parties
or any other be not allowed to sell
liquors within one and one-fourth miles
from Plainville, in Gordon county.
Respectfully submitted,
J. M. Ellis. W. C. Rice.
C. Arnold. A. W. Lcet.
C. G. Barney. S. Morrison.
J. M.'Morrison. J. M. Surratt.
H. C. Barney. J. L. Boyd.
H. W. Sharp. J. II. Ellis.
W. H. Hickey. M. A. Moore.
R. M. Hickey. A. C. Morrison.
J. W. Shropshire. W. M. Neal.
M. F. Greer. John Gunn.
G. B. Morrow. J. H. McCoole.
Ordered, That the clerk notify the
petitioners that no license has been
granted to Mosteller and McGullion,
nor to any other person near Plainville,
by order of the board, and that their
remedy is through the grand jury.
The following petition was read:
The undersigned would respectfully
represent to your honorable body that
he is a citizen of Virginia, and that he
owns a farm near Rome, Georgia, ad
joining the lands of Judge Wright,
Mrs. Davis and others; that during the
war he removed from Floyd county
and left said farm, and when he left it
there was a lane between him and the
farm, on which Judge Wright now
resides, for a private road, and that all
of his land, in lot No. 159, was under
fence.
The fence was destroyed, as he is
advised, which left 50 acres or more of
land unfenccd, and he is informed
and believes that a road has been cut
through this land for half a mile and
the old road abandoned. He is also
informed that his tenant about three
years ago stopped up said new road,
but some persons re-opened it and
notified his tenant not to stop it up
any more.
Your petitioner was not aware until
very recently that such a road had ever
been made, and he was not asked for
permission to make said road and
never gave his consent that said old
road should be changed.
Your petitioner would farther state
that the Texas Valley road runs more
than three-fourths of a mile directly
through the heart of said farm and
subjects him to the heavy expense of a
lane fence, and now to run a private
road half a mile through the farm
parallel with tiie Texas Valley road
and sub J«t hi m
ptnse of ano’.her laneaL
f e 0f h * form Jg.
from water “or hi , ^
farm is scane offiJJ
only subject hi ra
venience as to Watw "“
keeping up sa ij ^
materially damage theW’’ 1
And your petiti^
order be issued by /
body permitting hi m ^
road and preventinr ot i.
lerting it, and that 6aid .
re-established by y ou
heat-lit of those wishing
of which is respectfully
a request for an early
your petitioner will ever
. L.S
Louisa C. H., V a .,0cti
Ordered, That Dr. L $
petition he granted, and
permitted to stop up hott
mentioned, that for
between said farm and J n !
those wishing to use sai
use the same, if they ch (
also use the old road
between said Pendleton
farm.
Thos. E. Dickerson made
for retail license to sell spihi
near Gave Spring. Refi^
Leah Ford was declared
The superintendent of t!^
made the following report-
Gentlemen,—During y ov ,
was one inmate discharged,
Eliza Henderson. She
bnt rcovered and left on tl
the same day Emaline Ws
ceived in a very destitute
and delicate health. On the
Leah Ford was received vei
destitute. Neither of the
any bedding and but litt
We had, however, enough
bedding to make them i
without further delay.
This leaves on hand 26 pi:
health of the inmates is
There has been no deaths di
month, or sickness requirin’
aid, except in the eases of the
mentioned.
We have sown about thim
wheat in the best possible ;t;
the implements at our
have about eight acres mereij
stalk land we intend to sow this
Owing to the press of work
been compelled to have a few
wood cut for the benefit of the
at fifty cents per cord, anil hi
honor will allow’ the account 11
der the same paid. Our stocki-
well.
J. B. SiiBorsHittE.j
Report approved. ’
The application of Col. Shorts Hj
jreiujiiica i— P -.-- tie, e,nnntv Urfe,
claims he holds on the county, refer ^
Col. Whitmore and the chai
York
(1 ba
higbei
witl
sd a:
D.I
adjustment.
Application of J. T. Wrights
cense to sell spirituous liquors in: I
tities less than one quart, in Q
District, near the old court grouai,
tinued to January term.
S. C. Trout submitted the foil* I
Georgia, Floyd Cots
Major John H. Dent, of the 11
State and county, claims that his:
erty was over assessed to the amo:
three thousand dollars—twelve i
of which tax belongs to the StaK
821.15 to the county.
S. C. Trout, Tax Cohr
State tax on $3009 Sl'2.00
County tax on S3000-— 21.15—(
Ordered, That Maj. John H. De
relieved of the amount over assess
represensed by the collector.
Ordered, That so much of the s
committee's report as ordered bj
honor Judge Underwood, be putt:
On motion, the chairman was a:
ized and instructed to take the
gang and work out the Bluff at
soon as the work at Dry creek bs
was completed.
Ordered, That the tax collector:
over to the sheriff and constable I
the tax fi. f:is. for the taxes due f I
ous to the year 1873, and instruct:
to levy on personal property, ins
of real estate, where any can befc
Whereas the hoard has receivt
liable information that a fair >3
ment of property has not been sire-
in many cases; ordered, that the rtf
er be instructed to make the asses:
in accordance with the law.
Ordered, That the clerk comsf-
with the ordinary of Bartow court? I
reference to the taxes collected ia^
county on improved land i
county.
The chairman reported tear -
bridge at Passe’s was completed : |
also that lie had to buy a mule
which he paid 8175.
Approved by the board.
On motion, the attorneys werf j
quested to ascertain from E. N-Bn™
if he will take bonds in payin'--' 1
the claims he represents against -■
county. ..I
Following claims were ordered f-■
Jas. M. Jenkins, jailor
Holmes, Battey & Holmes —— ,0
City Council of Rome *1. j|
Jas. M. Wardlaw, (balance) —
Holmes, Battey & Holmes—
Jack&Bro
C. Brown, bailiff
Ellis & Wyatt
W. C. Price, bailiff-—
Jehu Johnston, bailiff
Sam. Johnston, bailiff
Jas. M. Payne, bailiff
Howell & Williamson
Wright & Featherston
E. Lumpkin, bailiff l£|j)
R. R. Harris Lji
Ayer & McDonald <- J
W. P. Whitmore j;if
Coroner p/
Pay roll of hands pi
M. A. Nevin & Co pi
Lanham & Motheished
Joe Parsons j®
Joe J. Vandiver j fl
Mrs. Ann Dowdle 71)
J. H. Lumpkin 5 S
R. B. McArver & Co "
Mary Avery
C. E. Hills & Co
Peter Lackey
Seay & Walker
A. R. Russell j
Joe Canneday- Ctaffl,
Board adjourned to regular te
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