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(®hc Horitt^mtrlett
Rome, Floyd County, Ga.
The Wkkkly Courier is issued
EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING,
At No. 23 Broad Street.
M. DwmelL........ ....Editor and Proprietor
B. F. Sawyer...., Associate Editor.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC’R 24
A sub-committee of two has been au
thorized to proceed to New Orleans to
take testimony in the Durell matter.
Nearly all the rivers in Pennsylvania
and Ohio have suddenly swollen. In
Pennsylvania the Monogahela and the
Alleghany are very high, and much
damage has been done, especially at
Pittsburgh. In Ohio the Hocking,
Scotia, Ohio and both of the Miamisare
very full.
Mr. Seth Adams, of printing press
fame, who died in Boston a few days
since, left an estate valued at SI ,701,-
000, and provided in his will for the
establishment within fifteen miles of
that city of a home or hospital for the
treatment and accommodation of per
sons afflicted with hypochondria, from
which disease he liadsulfered for years.
Rev. Father Duggan, whose declara
tions of apostacy from the Catholic
faith caused such a sensation in San
Francisco, and who advertised a lecture
making an exposure of Catholicism,
and failed to appear, is said to have
written an humble and abject letter to
Archbishop Alemancy acknowledging
his faults and sin, and praying to be
taken back into the church.
The late John Stewart Mill was a
precocious youth. He began Greek
when three years of age, read a good
deal of Plato at seven, and began to
write what he called a “ Constitutional
History of RomS” by the time he was
nine years old. He began logic at
twelve, and went through a complete
course of political economy at thirteen,
and he was a constant writer for the
Westminister Review at eighteen.
Read and Remember
That John D. Carver has the largest
variety of confectioneries and fancy
groceries, for the holidays, ever offered
in Rome, consisting of seedless raisins,
layer raisins, French prunes, citron,
dates, figs, oranges, lemons, California
pears, apples, cocoanuts, currants, cran
berries, tapioca, sago, white pepper,
mustard, gelatine, preserves, jelly,
French and fancy candies, nuts, canned
fruits and vegetables of every variety.
Atmore’s mince meat, Guava jelly. All
kinds of fire works, old Connecticut
cigars, etc.
Call opposite the postofiice and get
all vou want.
Fuueral of Professor Agassiz.
The name of Professor Agassiz is
familiar to all of our readers. It has
become a household word throughout
the land, and the announcement of his
death will be received with a sincere
sorrow by all who venerate the good
and the true. The following account of
his funeral will be read with interest:
The funeral of the late Louis John
Rudolph Agassiz, the greatest natural
ist of modern times, and one of the
most beloved of all the philanthropists
of the nineteenth century, occurred in
Cambridge on the ISth inst. For an
hour, during the services, the church
bells of Boston and Cambridge tolled
in unison a requiem to the manes, and
all walked about with sad and solemn
steps. Such a scene of general mourn
ing has not before been witnessed here
since the day of the burial of Abraham
Lincoln.
Appleton chaple, on the grounds of
Harvard University, had been appro
priately decked for the occasion. The
choir balustrade, as well as that of the
entire gallery, was draped in sombre
black, caught up at intervals in grace
ful folds, and festooned with evergreens
and callas. The entire chancel was
draped in black, the floral decorations
being placed outside of the drapery
and forming a pleasing contrast. Upon
the front of the pulpit was a cross,
formed of the choicest and most fra
grant exotics and ferns, from each side
of which depended festoons of smilax,
caught up with clusters of white ca-
melias.
Below this cross was another, formed
of evergreen foliage, while still lower
down, at the foot of the pulpit, was a
wreath formed of carnations, roses and
other choice and fragrant flowers. Upon
the font at the right of the pulpit
rested an elaborate floral design in the
form of a pyramid, from which de
pended to the floor festoons of passion
vine and smilax. Upon the opposite
side, at the left of the pulpit, was a
table, which was also draped in black.
Upon the table rested a large basket of
roses, violets and other flowers. Over
the front of this table hung a wreath of
English ivy and violets.
The partition at the rear of the pul
pit, separating it from the retiring room,
was also draped in black and festooned
with leaves of laurel. At the centre,
over the pulpit, was a large wreath,
which was connected with crosses on
either hand by festoons of smilax.
From each of these crosses depended
wreaths of evergreen. Above the wreath
was a cross of fragrant white flowers,
while the entire decorations were sur
mounted with an ivy cross, flanked
with ivy leaves.
The remains, enclosed in a rosewood
casket, draped with white cloth and
free from ornamentation, lay in the
parlor until fifteen minutes before two
o’clock, when the hearse was drawn up
to the door, and the casket was brought
out and deposited therein by three of
the undertaker’s assistants. The hearse
was then driven through Irving and
Cambridge streets to the chapel, while
the carriages containing the immediate
relatives of the deceased proceeded to
the chapel by another route and through
the college grounds.
On arriving at the chapel the casket
was placed upon a bier and borne up
the centre (lisle an4 placed before the
altar. The top of the casket was com
pletely hidden beneath a profusion of
rarest and most beautiful flowers, in
the forms of wreaths, anchors, crosses
and other emblems—the tributes of
loving friends.
While the casket was being borne
slowly up the broad aisle, the organist,
Mr. K. K. Paine, performed a voluntary
from the final chorus of the “ Passion
Music,” by Sebastian Bach.
The services were then begun by the
chanting of the “ Pie Jesu ” from the
requiem of Cherubini’s Second Mass,
by the Harvard Glee Club.
The burial service, from the King’s
Chapel Liturgy, was impressively read
by Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D., preacher
of the University, and was immediately
followed by the singing of the hymn
Go to the Grave,” set to original music
by the organist, who is the professor of
music in the University'.
The organ then performed the Dead
March in Saul, during the execution of
which an opportunity was afforded any
who desired to gaze upon the features
of the great man. With the exception
of a marble paleness and marked rigid
seeming, there was but little change to
be noticed from his appearance when
in life. The same genial and placid
expression remained, and although the
kindly light that once beamed from his
sparkling ey T e was forever quenched,
there seemed to hover about his mouth
a contented smile that betokened that a
peaceful rest was his.
After the viewing of the remains the
casket was closed, and the funeral cor
tege proceeded to Mount Auburn where
the body was deposited in the Carey
lot, there being no special ceremonies.
Among the notables who were there
to pay this last tribute, were Vice-Pres-
dent Henry Wilson, and a long list of
others occupying the highest positions
in the scientific world, as well as those
whose names are honored in every
department of society.
The Bankrupt I»vl
Adfices from Washington i:
the repeaLof the Bankrupt Law,
flection of its most
ions Seat:
swindling dodge, and ought never
have been passed. Vj _
The New York Tribune, in comment
ing upon the matter, presents ihe
following sensible views:
The original bankruptcy act was
passed in 1841 and served as a model
for the present one of 1867. In each
ashixgtox, Dec. 18.—In the Senate
ieral Gordon's resolution enquiring
regarding the seizure and sale of cotton Reation-of
and the disposition of the proceeds,
passed. It is sweeping, and will un
earth some state secrets. t
The Marietta Journal says: Judge
Underwood has held the scales of jus-
instance the reason; for enacting such a tice with a pretty even hand during
‘-l * ^ -* • 1’ il i * X— ilia aiffin/Mi af PaIaVi rinriAP anni4
law was precisely that which is now to
be urged for ite repeal; the relief of Offenders have been made to feel the
Particulars of the loss of the Ville da
Havre.
New York, Dec. 20.—Capt. Robert
son, of the ship Loch Earn, in his
official report of the collision between
his vessel and the Ville Du Havre,
says:
November 22, 2 o’clock A. M., in
latitude 46.54 north, longitude 35.6
west, winds S. S. W., true ship braced
up on port tack, heading by standard
compass N. IV. or W. half N. true, a
steamer's mast head was seen from one
to two points on port bow. Our side
lights were out and burning brightly.
Shortly after we saw steamer’s three
lights ; she was coming straight for us;
almost immediately she showed only
her port and mast head lights and was
steering apparently to pass under our
stern.
After a short time we rang our bell
and ported the helm, as we thought
she was coming too near, the steamer
still showing only her port light
When close to our bow the steamer’s
helm was starboarded and she ran
across our bow. A collision was ren
dered inevitable. The order was given
to back our afteryards, but before the
braces could be let go the two vessels
came in collision. When the first boat
from Ville du Havre, containing an
officer and four men, came alongside,
I asked if the steamer was much injur
ed. He said she was injured, but did
not say she wanted help.
As no signals of distress were made
by the steamer I thought then that the
boat was sent to render us assistance,
but while talking to the officer I saw
the steamer apparently’ settling down,
and lowered a port life boat at once in
charge of the second officer and four
men, who made towards the sinking
ship. Our cutter and starboard life
boats were then cleared away’ in a few
minutes and dispatched to the scene of
the catastrophe, their only’ guide bein.
the cries of the drowning people, the
steamer having disappeared. We kept
our boats out till daylight, until every
one floating among the wreck was
picked up.
Capt. Robertson then gives an ac
count of his struggles to save his vessel.
He had to secure his foremast and fore
topmast, the stays being gone. His bow
was knocked in right down to the fore
foot, so that the security of the vessel
depended entirely upon the safety’ of
the bulk head, without the protection
of which the Loch Earn must have
sunk as rapidly as the steamer. En
deavors were made to shave up a bulk
head in front of the main hold. The
jury bow, spars and sails were con
structed in a compartment to protect
the bulk head.
The weather, however, proved very
unfavorable, gales prevailed and the
vessel was obliged to be left to roll in
the trough of the sea, as directly she
was brought head to sea, the strain of
water rushing in threatened to sweep
away the bulk head and all its sup
ports. The vessel was trimmed after
wards, but leaks broke out of her
bulk head and matters became so bad
by the morning of the 28tli ultimo that
the crew refused to stand by the vessel
any longer, when all on board were
transferred to the British Queen.
When the British Queen left the
Loch Earn the latter had eight feet of
water in her after hold. She had not
been able to make any headway’, but
in sixteen days she had drifted more
than 110 miles to the northeast.
A Washington correspondent states
that Thos. Bocock, of Virginia, and
John H. Reagan, of Texas, whose po
litical disabilities were removed by
Congress last week, will be candidates
in their respective States for the United
States Senate. The new legislature of
Virginia, as well as that of Texas, has
a Democratic majority on joint ballot.
Bocock is anxious to succeed Senator
Lewis, whose term expires in 1875, and
Reagan wants to succeed Flanagan,
who goes out the same time. The
election for senator takes place in both
States this winter. Of course there are
other aspirants among the Democracy,
but none quite as prominent as the
gentlemen named.
the mercantile community.- The form
of relief afforded by such an act has
always been regarded as among the
possible consequences of commercial
crisis, and the constitution adverts to it
in terms indicating an expectation that
it might at some time be required.
A good bankruptcy act, faithfully
and economically administered, should
serve to aid and ease, rather than op
press those who are struggling with ill
fortune. The bankruptcy courts of
England not only release the honest
debtor from the clutches of his grasp
ing creditors, but add a certificate of
character which frequently serves as a
letter of credit to start the unfortunate
man in business again. Our present
bankruptcy law was largely advocated
at the time of its passage as a measure
of relief to the South and to merchants
who had been engaged in Southern
trade at the outbreak of the war. It
was argued, and with justice, that a
wrong to individuals, as well as in
jury to the community, was inflicted
by holding this class of debtors in a
position where their business talents
and energy were permanently repressed;
where every effort to better their condi
tion and regain their standing in busi
ness did but draw upon them again the
hungry brood of creditors.
But in the actual work of this act it
would seem that a new class and set
of oppressions has originated. The law
is needlessly and astonishingly expen
sive in execution. It is a notorious
fact that in the vast majority of bank
ruptcy’ cases there is little or nothing
left after the forms of law are satisfied
and the lawyers are paid. Only a rich
man should attempt to pass through
bankruptcy; the fees, the references
the precentages, the thousand and one
minor expenses, are far too much for
honest, poor insolvents. Merchants,
recognizing the fact that they will get
little or nothing from a bankrupt, are
placed at the mercy of a designing
debtor who only threatens bankruptcy
and to accept whatever he may offer as
a compromise, as better than such an
alternative.
The Spanish minister of war reports
the reserve recently called out
obers 46,000 men. j .
the siftings of Cobb superior court.
weight of the law with a stern and due
enforcement
In' political circles the query is,
“TVho is to be the successor of Sick
les?” and the conclusion is arrived at
without debate, that it is a matter of
precious little moment—as it is certain
that Grant’s blundering can’t possibly
recommend Sickles’ inferior; and under
the circumstances the President is
certain to win applause, no matter who
he selects.
Judge Bustced and Judge Durell — The
Bankrupt Law in the Senate.
Washington, Dec. 17.—Wilson, -of
Indiana, from the judiciary committee,
reported a resolution authorizing the
committee to bring persons and papers
on the enquiry as to the official con
duct of Judge Bustced, of Alabama,
and a resolution instructing that com
mittee to enquire into and report wheth
er Judge Durell, of Louisiana, should
be impeached for high crimes and mis
demeanors, with power to send for
persons and papers. The resolution
was adopted.
Montgomery, December 17.
The Senate last night unseated Hatch,
Senator from Hale county’, elected last
spring to fill a vacancy. It seems Hatch
was three years ago postmaster at the
county seat of Hale county. Money:
were missed from the mail, and Hatch
made affidavit accusing Sanborn, his
clerk. After Sanborn had been jailed
several months, an investigation press
ed Hatch so close that he wrote a con
fession of his own guilt, which was
published, and agreed with Special
Agent Pethorbridge to pay up. Suit was
commenced in the United States Court,
and Hatch was turned out of office.
Hatch then ran for the Senate, and
was elected by a large majority, but on
the above showing the Senate declared
him ineligible. He was a Repub
lican.
The Chicago Times wants a mint, and
it demands the largest mint in the
world—larger than that at Melbourne,
Australia, San Francisco, or Philadel
phia. It claims that Chicago is the
centre of the world, and that all the
railroads of the continent centre at
Chicago. The Times looks forward to
the time when the United States will
coin bulls’ horns into eagles and half
eagles, pigs’ feet into nickles, and raw
hides into currency, and it wants to be
ready. Chicago ought to, by all means,
have the largest mint, or at any rate,
the largest mint-julep, in the world.
The Cartersville Express says: The
adjourned term of the superior court
for Bartow county’, closed on Saturday
last, after two weeks continuance, until
the regular term in March next. The
case of the State vs. J. L. Pierce occu
pied five day’s, and after a laborious in
vestigation, was submitted to the jury.
The jury were out from one o’clock at
night till ten next morning, when they
returned a verdict of guilty, with a
recommendation for mercy.
Defendant’s counsel have moved for
a new trial, and arc confident that the
motion will be granted by the presid
ing judge; if not, it goes to the Su
preme Court.
The Pious Howard.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The House
committee on military’ affairs held
meeting this morning and resumed the
consideration of charges made against
General Howard by the Secretary of
War. Belknap was with the committee,
and explained the details of the exhib
its accompanyiug his letter.
The committee has not determined
whether the case will be remanded to
the War Department, with authority to
prosecute by court martial, or whether
it will be most expedient to proceed to
recover by civil process; but the majori
ty of the committee are in favor of re
porting a resolution for the action of the
house directingthe General of the army
to convene a court martial to examine
into and dispose of the alleged charges
of defalcation.
A Milwaukee man who was about to
leave for Chicago, recently, and whose
wife came with him to the train to see
him off, attempted to kiss her good-bye
without taking his cigar from his
mouth. The effort was a failure, and
the unfortunate man leaped from the
cars, pursued by’ an infuriated woman
with a hat in her hand, a patch of
ashes on her cheek, and a great deal
of fire in her eye. He got a livelier
send off than he bargained for.
London, Dec. 18.—The Times this
morning, editorially approves of Sec
retary Richardson’s additional taxation
propositions, and thinks the demand
for retrenchment is inopportune, in
view of the large expenditures .neces
sitated Jby the Cuban difficulty.
The Times says that without a sur
plus of revenue, return to specie pay
ments will be indefinitely postponed.
If Congress desires to practice economy,
it might relinquish back salaries.
By mutual and friendly
agreement between ^
and B. F. San
The}
ed. Captain
connected with
gives the enterprise hiscordial wishes,
and cheerfully commends it to his
many friends. D. M. Hood.
B. F. Sawyer.
Words of Friendly Cheer.
The following. letters from old apd
alued friends are so cordial in their
valued
spirit, and* spestk'’su&h eUcbtm^HI? Vfflffll' •filWPlflie pluck "to stand up to
words for our new enterprise, that we
may be pardoned the liberty we take
in publishing them. It is pleasant
indeed to have one’s efforts to conscien
tiously discharge one’s duty thus kindly
appreciated by r the good and true of
the land.
Judge IVright may rest assured that
the columns of The Commonwealth will
ever be open to his views. It is to
reflect the sentiments and open a com
munication between such old and tried
statesmen as he, and the heart of the
people, that we propose to publish our
journal.
does not believe increased taxation will
be voted this session.
Bankruptcy the Only Remedy.
When Bullock and his valiant host
of vampires were revelling in the blood
and substance of oar State, and after
having drained the treasury of its last
drop, had set the mills to grinding out
bonds by the million, the voice of our
people arose in protest, and in order to
save the State, had to resort to the
mortifying expedient of decrying its
credit and depreciating its bonds.
Our only hope lay in the worthless
ness of our credit. The only check put
upon the exploiters was that of insol
vency. So long as they could get
twenty cents in the dollar for the bonds,
so long would they continue to grind
them out The letter our State credit,
the fodnr-AtngtSSfe' ft'was for our
interest.
It wafe a relief when the credit of
the State was exhausted, and no'more
bonds could be sold. Then could the
vampires be choked off from a no
longer gloating repast. Georgia felt
redeemed when her credit was gone
for with it went the thieves and fools
who had so cruelly despoiled her.
The finger of Yankee scorn was
pointed at lier T and she was taunted
with her poverty—but she was saved.
And now the same remedy is prescrib
ed by Butler for the financial disorders
of the Union, and he would hail the
discredit of the Government as a finan
cial safeguard.
In a debate upon the question of
ways and means, in the House of Rep
resentatives, he says:
My colleague talks about affecting
our credit in Europe. I have heard
that before, and I want to say here and
now that we have had too much credit
in Europe for our bonds. We have had
it until we are now sending one hun
dred and twenty-five millions in gold
every year to pay the interest on them,
and the quicker they stop taking our
bonds the better I shall be satisfied,
have been told, whenever I said a word
about bringing back the currency for
use in the country, and bringing down
the rate ofjnterest by which the na
tional banks make their dividends of
10 or 15'per cent, and lay up 20 per
cent, surplus every year, that I was
hurting the credit of the country abroad.
Why, sir, we carried on the war without
any credit abroad; and wo passed an
act by which our Credit abroad was so
raised that those bonds for which we
had received from 30 to 50 cents on the
dollar we had to buy back at 110 to 112.
I do not want to see that process going
on any longer. I am not anxious what
the Jew bankers of Europe may think
about our credit. The quicker they
stop loaning us money the happier we
shall be. If they send us over what
they are .now sending us—the strong
arms and willing hearts of our immi
grant laborers—we shall be able to
work out;our own salvation, not in fear
and trembling.
Literary Items.
No teacher who can get it shouldTail
to read Prof. Wm. P. Atkinson’s address
before the National Teachers’ Associa
tion upon the liberal education of the
nineteenth century. It was first print
ed in the Popular Science Monthly for
November, 1873; but has since been
published! in pamphlet from by D. Ap
pleton & Co.
Mr. John Fiske, Assistant Librarian,
and formerly Lecturer on Philosophy,
at Harvard University, who is now pay
ing England a visit, has in the printer’s
hands a work entitled “Outlines of Cos
mic Philosophy, based on the Doctrine
of Evolution.” It will be published in
London as well as in the United States.
Ex-Mayor Pierce of Boston, signalized
his departure for Washington to take
his seat in Congress by presenting his
salary as mayor to the Boston public
library.
Home, December 15,1873.
Messrs. Saieyer & Hood:
Gents,—Enclosed find subscription
price for one year for your new paper,
The Commonwealth. You have my best
wishes for success. CoL Sawyer’s able
editorship of the Courier has placed it
in the front rank as an interesting,
reliable journal. (We are pleased to
learn its high reputation will be main
tained.) If the Colonel carries the
same honesty, ability and enterprise
into your new journal, it must be a
success.
You have, in my opinion, wisely
determined to make it a weekly. Such
a paper can be made much more enter
taining and instructive in science, liter
ature, agriculture and politics, than a
daily. In the centre of the State, and
perhaps its largest city, it will be well
located in every particular.
I shall take great pleasure, with your
permission, of occasionally speaking
through its columns on matters of pub
lic interest.
With assurances of my best wishes,
I am, your obedient servant,
Augustus R. Wright.
A Sham Race.
The Louisville Courier-Journal thus
delicately him
oped virtue mi
salary grabbers'is
all:
“ Both partii
•ly.deyel-
trying:
to get the credit of the,movement to
rescind the ‘salary grab.’ Yet every
body must know it is a sham race.
There is no sincerity in it. It is rank
poltroonery and hypocrisy; the off
spring of fear ainl charlatanism. We
did, think, Wjhateyer his ' shortcomings
in general may be, that Ben Butler
his bravado,
the rest.”
But he backs down with
Rome, December 17,1873.
Col. D. F. Saieyer:
Dear Sir,—You may put me down
as a subscriber to your new weekly
paper, The Commonwealth of Georgia, to
be started 1st of January next in the
city of Atlanta. I regret that we are
to lose you from our midst, as you
have always been found a reliable sen
tinel on the watchtower of journalism
and the readers of the Courier will miss
you much; but as your new enterprise
will afford you a much better and
wider field for your talent as a journal
ist, I bid you Godspeed.
I am glad to know that your paper
will find a hearty support in our com
munity. Enclosed please find the
amount of'subscriptioh for one year
and with the best wishes of the writer
I subscribe myself, your friend,
Jxo. IIarkin
Atlanta Medicul Journal.
This spendid monthly is still on the
high road to popular favor, and is
steadily pressing on to the very front
rank of medical journalism. The last
number contains the following graceful
salutatory from our former fellow citi
zen, Dr. Robert Battey. Dr. Battey
stands second to no scientific gentle
man in the Union, and his accession
to the editorial fraternity is a proud
one to the profession :
“ Our readers will note with regret
that the old flag-editorial, bearing lion-
omed names, long and favorably known
to the profession of the South and the
whole country, has been, lowered from
the mast-head, and a new and unfamil
iar penon now floats in its stead.
“ Of our predecessors, so long identi
fied with this Journal: impaired in
health by continual professional labor,
chafed by much wearing of the
harness, longing for a little quiet and
rest; it would ill-become us to speak
in terms of fulsome eulogy, which
could add nothing to their well earned
fame, and but offend their modest
worth.
“For ourself and our associates we
have nothing to say. M e have no
apologies to make; we have no pledges
to offer. With an earnest desire to main
tain courteous and amicable relations
with our brethren of the medical quill,
and feeling in our hearts an entire wil
lingness to labor diligently in defense
of the right, we mount the tripod.”
Robert Hughes, the defeated Radical
candidate for governor of Virginia, it is
said, will succeed the late Judge Under
wood as.judge of the district court of
Virginia.
Apropos of the sudden death of Judge
Underwood, is it not fortunate that the
Radical press have not laid his death
to the hands of McVeigh, who recently
thrashed the old scoundrel so sound
ly ? ' They evidently stand in no need
of a martyr, else such a golden chance
would not be allowed to slip.
The Atlanta Herald says:
“There seems to be an opinion in
some quarters that the State convention
that is being discussed, is for the pur
pose of amending or abolishing the At
lanta Constitution. This is .a mistake.
It is the State constitution it is proposed
to work on. We merely mention this
to quell the incipient enthusiasm in
favor of the convention.” ‘
No need of a convention to abolish
the Constitution—Us gift enterprise hum
bug, will perform that Jittleibit of State
service. -
The Senate Transportation Committee.
Washington, December If, 1873.
The Senate committee on transporta
tion routes to the seaboard will leave
this city on Monday, for Atlanta, Geor
gia, where they will continue the ex
amination of the subject referred to
then), and then proceed to New Orleans
and other Southern points.
Honor to Whom Honor is Due.
Politically, we are as far apart from
Horace Maynard as is the North Pole
from the sunny tropics; but wc are
constrained to honor him for his move
ment in the matter of the general am
nesty bill. He brings it forward unen
cumbered with Sumner’s bete noir the
negro equality bill, and in this he rises
above the demagogue and takes ground
as a statesman.
There are no more contemptible spe
cies of lowbred demagoguery than that
of hampering a good measure with a
bad. Sumner’s amnesty bill becomes
a. stench in the nostrils of honest men,
because of its contagion with the civil
rights bill; both are put forth for des
picable party purposes. Maynard has
had the patriotism to sever the baleful
connection, and to present the amnesty
bill upon its own merits.
In this connection we present the
following from the Courier-Journal:
Horace Maynard will lose nothin;
by his display of liberal opinions. No
man has been more unyielding, per
haps more cordially resentful, than he
has been, but he is one of the few Rad
icals in the South who have been sys
tematically consistent, and who, whilst
occupying high place in the party of
conquest, has had no personal share or
profit in the plundering.
Maynard’s honest}’, joined to hi3
want of spontaneity and magnetism
has stood in the way of his advance
ment for years. Yet it is a fact that
few men are more obliging and kindly
disposed. Cold in demeanor, litigious
in controversy, lowering in appearance,
often captious and never sunny, May
nard has forced his way in public life
solely by the bent and power of his
abilities, which are of the first class
His demonstration of Monday pro
duces the pleasant effect of a surprise,
and has the merit of the genuine con
viction in it
The following are the closing pro
ceedings of the North Georgia Confer
ence, as reported in the Atlanta Herald
of the 17th:
The Conference, by vote, gave its
unanimous voice in condemnation of the
holding of fairs, concerts and theatricals
in the interest of the Church, as con
trary to the spirit of Christianity.
The important subject of denomina
tional education was discussed at some
length.
The Bishop announced the followin;
as the board of visitors to the different
institutions of learning under the im
mediate control of this body:
Emory College—Rev. Dr. \V. P. Har
rison, Rev. IV. J. .Scott, Rev. IV. I’.
Rivers, Rev. Wm. Watkin Hicks, and
Rev. Dr. A. T. Mann.
Wesleyan Female College—Rev. J. W.
Heidt, Rev. Josiah Lewis, jr., Rev. W.
R. Foote.
La Grange Fannie College—Rev. P. M.
Ryburn, Rev. F. A. Kimball, Rev. J. R.
Mayson, Rev. D. D. Cox, Rev. IV. P.
Pledger.
Dalton 'Fcnudc College—Rev. Dr. W.
P. Harrison, Rev. Dr. W. M. Crumley,
Rev. W.P. Pledger, Rev. Louis .T. Davies,
General C. A. Evafls.
The following young men were ad
mitted on trial in the travelling con
nection :
Reverends Wm. E. Shackelford, Geo.
E. Bonner, Thos. J. Adams, Andrew J.
Hughes, G. IV. Thomas, John W. G.
Watkins, Lemuel Wootten, jr., Wm. H.
Speer, Wiley T. Laine, Chas. E. Dow-
man, Wm. O. Butler, Walter L. Yar
brough, John P. Jones, JosodIi H.
Bentley, Wm. R. Foote, jr., and John
D. Gray.
Cartersville was selected as the place
for the meeting of the Conference next
year.
Rev. G. J. Pearce was granted a
superannuated relation for one year.
The first Friday in April and Sep
tember of next year were designated by
the Conference as days of fasting and
prayer—the former for the special bless
ing of God upon the General Conference
and upon our educational institutions.
Bishop Paine made some impressive
closing remarks, when Bishop Pierce
read the closing hymn, and Rev. Dr.
Hicks led in prayer, and the seventh
session of the North Georgia Conference
closed its session, which has been a
most pleasant, harmonious and profit
able one to all.
The following appointments have
been made for the Rome District, of
which Rev. W. F. Cook is Presiding
Elder. •
Rome—IV. M. Crumley; Rome Cir
cuit to be supplied.
Forrestville Circuit—T. G. Reynolds.
Ccdartown—Wm. H. LaPradc.
Van Wert Circuit—.Samuel P. Jones.
Cave Spring Circuit—W. A. Sim
mons.
Floyd Circuit—To be supplied.
Villa Rica Circuit—Sanford Leake.
Cartersville—L. J. Davis, and J. T.
Norris supernumerary.
Bartow Circuit—R. II. Jones and
Robert A. Scale.
Marietta—W. Fisk Glenn.
Acworth Circuit—T. S. L. Harwell.
Roswell Circuit—Joshua M. Parker
Powder Spring Circuit—W. A. Parris.
Douglassville Circuit—S. M. Mc
Whorter.
Augusta District—C. W. Key, P. E.;
i. John’s—Wm. Watkin Hicks; City
fission — Charles E: Dowman; St
James—James E. Evans; Asbury — T.
A. Seals.
Richmond Circuit—Benjamin F. Far
ris, i Belle Air Mission — E. P. Bonner,
supernumerary.
Sit | ApplingCircuit—Daniel Kelsey,
after Thompson Circuit—W. T. Hamilton.
Warrenton Circuit—Wesley F. Smith.
Sparta—George H. Patillo.
Hancock Circuit—F. P. Brown and
John T. Newell, supply.
Crawfords ville Circuit—T. J. Adams.
Milledgeville—A. J. Jarrell.
Baldwin Circuit—G. W. Hardaway.
Athens District—T. F. Pierce, P. E..;
Athens- tir_. and P. A.
Heard, supply; Oconee street—M. IV.
Arnold; Factory Mission—to be sup
plied by J. E. Sitton.
Watkinsville Circuit—W. W. Oslin
and W. W. Lumpkin.
Madison—A. T. Mann.
Morgan Circuit—-Jno. W. Yarbrough.
Greensboro’ Circuit—Albert Gray.
White Plains Circuit — James L.
Pierce.
Lexington Circuit—W. A. Florence.
Winteredle Circuit—C. A. Conaway.
Washington—W. I’. Rivers.
Broad River Circuit—IV. F. Quillian.
Little River Circuit — Thomas II.
Gibson.
Eatonton—W. It Lovejoy.
Putnam Circuit—IV. .7. Wardlaw and
IV. L. Wootten, jr.
Elbcrton District—G. W. Yarborough,
P. E.; F. G. Hughs; A. G. Worley.
Bethlehem—A. IV. Williams.
Lineolnton Circuit—J. L. Lupo.
Jefferson Circuit—J. R. Parker.
Mulberry Circuit—E. G. Mnrrah.
Carncsville Circuit—B. W. Williams.
Franklin Springs—L. D. Lovelace.
Danielsvillc—B. Sanders.
Homer Circuit—J. W. G. Watkins.
Clarksville—W. P. Smith.
Hartwell—W. P. Foreman.
Air Line Mission—J. H. Mashburn.
Gainesville District—W. A. Dodge,
P. E.
Daldonaga—David L. Anderson.
Curaming Circuit—J. A. Myers.
Alpharetta Circuit—J. W. Baker.
Canton Circuit—IV. G. Hanson.
Cleaveland Circuit—IV. P. Martin.
Blairsville Mission, supply—T. J.
Edwards.
Morganton Circuit—Harwood.
Gainesville—J. M. Dicky; Circuit—
M. L. Underwood.
Hall Circuit—J, L. Embry.
Lawrcnsville Circuit—J. R. Pate.
Logansville Circuit—Jas. H. Bentley.
Duluth Circuit—M. H. Eaks.
Ellijay Mission, supply—J. M. Sul
livan.
Dalton District.—R. IV. Bigliam, P.
E.; D. J. Myrick; Circuit — B. J.
Weems.
Ringold Circuit—J. B. McFarland.
Summerville Circuit — George R.
Kranier.
Subligna Circuit—G. IV. Thomas.
LaFayette Circuit—H. C. Christian.
McLemore’s Cove Circuit — A. D.
Stewart.
Spring Place Circuit—Alex. Odom.
Resaca—IV. R. Foote, Jr.
Murray Circuit and Mission—John
Oates.
Calhoun Circuit—P. G. Reynolds.
Kingston Circuit—.T. J. Singleton.
Dalton Female College—IV. A. Rog-
Atlanta District.—IV. II. Potter, P. E.;
First Church—E. IV. Speer; Trinity—
C. A. Evans; Payne’s Chapel—A. C.
Thomas; City Mission—IV. G. Butler ;
Evans’ Chapel and Oakland—J. H.
Harris; St. Paul’s—IV. P. Pledger;
Edgwood—IV. R. Branham, Jr.
Fulton Circuit—I.. P. Nuse.
East Point Circuit—A. G. Dempsey.
Decatur Circuit—-F. G. Davies.
Flat Shoals Circuit—IV. T. Laine.
Norcross Circuit—C. C. Carsey.
Conyers Circuit.—IV. T. Caldwell.
Covington and Mt. Pleasant—.T. H.
Baxter.
Newton Circuit—A. IV. Roland.
Oxford and Social Circuit—IV. R.
Branham, Sr.
Shiloh Circuit—B. E. L. Timmons.
Newborn Circuit—M. F. Malsbv.
Monticello Circuit—IV. IV. Wads
worth.
Oemulgee Circuit—J. II. Mashburn
Jr.
Monroe Circuit—IV. D. Heath.
Emory College—M. Calloway.
Sunday School Secretary — A. G.
Haygood.
Superintendent and Agent of Or
phans’ Home—IV. R. Foote, Sr.
Bible Agent—IV. A. Parks.
Griffin District—Josiah Lewis, P. E.
Griffin—J. IV. Heidt.
Zebulon Circuit—David Nolan.
Fayetteville Circuit—G. E. Gardner.
Jonesboro’ Circuit—R. II. Johnson.
McDonough Circuit—J. R. Meapon.
Hampton Circuit—J. D. Gray.
Pleasant Hill Circuit—IV. H. Speer.
Pike Circuit—Eli Smith.
Barnesville and Salem—G. G. Smith.
Culloden Circuit—B. J. Johnson.
County Line Circuit—S. A. Mitchel.
Thomaston—J. B. Payne.
Forsyth—D. D. Cox.
Forsyth Circuit—J. A. Reynolds.
Clinton Circuit—Jos. P. Carr.
Jones’ Circuit—E. II. IVotten—sup
ply.
LaGranqc District—H. J. Adams, P.
E.; LaGrange—IV. J. Scott.
West Point—P. M. Ryburn.
Newnan—A. M. Thigpen.
Troup Circuit—L. Rush.
Long Cano Circuit—II. .1. Ellis.
Wliitcsville Circuit—J. T. Lowe.
Greenville—F. A. Kimball.
Chalybeate Springs—J. J. Bryan.
Grantvillc Circuit—IV. .T. Colter.
Pierce Circuit—Jas. Jones.
Ilogansville Circuit—.J. M. Bowden.
Scnoia Circuit—R. F. Jones.
Palmetto and .Tones’ Chapel—Thos.
H. Timmons.
Fairburn Circuit—Jas. Chambers.
Carrollton Circuit—IV. C. Dunlap.
Cowden Circuit—C. A. Mitchell.
Franklin Circuit—J. IV. Stipe.
Missionary to China—G. J. Allen.
Transferred to Florida Conference—
IV. F. Lewis.
Transferred to Western Conference—
S. D. Evans.
Transferred to Arkansas Conference
—R. N. Hughes, A. J. Hughes.
Tranferred to White River Confer
ence— J. F. Richardson.
■ Djes Not J,n e
Tho redoubtable Bu Uer , ,
the press. Among th e S
amiable dislike the ChJ>
gives the following; %
It is no wonder Genera]
the press and takes every „
vent his spite upon it
the General might have
governor of Massachusetts
cowered before the pre^
bly agreed to aid in the *
pet measure, the salary.;*
--- Pr w“ C “ St0 “tand the
to withstanding its afeiS
him every time. These '
make him sore, and defeat^
furious. “
The General lias anoth a , I
with the quill pushing f rat{ ,
sunk several thousands of A
effort to found a newspaper,
or (I in New York, that shotfj
hurt the Tribune. Jlenjj
show more charity, less pa
learn more of his enemv -
ing his own forces less to s
tack. His peace of mind
hanccd by following our 4
the press will he no whit
worse oil'.
Ohio State taxes amount to (J I
this year.
Market Quotatii
The quotations below are car*
for each is*ue of the Courier,
responsible wholesale merchant
and may be relied upon a9 corn?
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Bacon, clear sides per pound •
Shoulders
Dry salt clear rib.,
Dry salt shoulders
Butter, Goshen per pout] ,Cj3R
Western ....
Tennessee...
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Bran per hundred pounds fij
Beans per bushel....^
Candles per
Candy per pound
Coffee, Rio per pound
Java..........
Laguayra...
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Corn Meal per bushel
Corn loose...
Grits perhumlf
Hominy
Wheat per bushel .$li
Cotton seed per ton f. fijMg)‘
Canned fruit, all kinds...per dox.J
Flour, choice per barrel .?
Family and extra
Superfine
Fish, fresh per pound
Cod
Herring, in bxs
Mackerel in barrel? i
Mackerel in kits
Dried apples perbushel
Teaches
nay per hundred poanJ?
Lard in tierces per pound
Lard in naif-barrels...
Lard in kegs
Molasses in barrels pergaHon.l
Molasses, hlf-bbls and kegs
Oats, for stable pcrbu-dieli
Oats for planting
Ouions per bushel $1.
Mess pork
Potatoes, Irish
Soap, extra family per pound
No. 1 Palm soap
Starch, best quality per poun.
Sardines, quarter bxs ...per case
Spice, cloves per pound -
Cinnamon spice
Ginger spice, Raee....
Ginger spice, ground..
Mace spiee .*.
Nutmeg spice
Pepper, unground
Pepper, ground per dozen
Allspice per pound-
Tea, Young Hyson .....per pound
Imperial tea
Gunpowder tea
English breakfast
Japan tea
Tobacco, all grades per pound
Whiskey, best rectified..per galk-M
Choice brand whiskey
Brandies per g^* 011
Rum, best qualities
Gin, best qualities
Rye and Bourbon
Sherry Wine, superior...
Port Wine, best quality
Pickles, in glass jars ...per doxea'
Pickles, half-gal jars..
Pickles, quar-gal
Pickles, eighth gal ...
Rice, Carolina P cr P° UCu
Louisiana rice
Salt, Liverpool Fcr ^ £
Virginia salt
Sugar, crushed, pow’d, pcrpo Dc2 '
White clarified sugar
Yellow clarified sugar
Louisiana sugar
HARDWARE .VAbff--
Anvil-, Wright’s ..per pound
Eagle anvils _ ..
Horse shoes per keg
Mule shoos ‘ L
Ifoes, planters' per dozen
Hames per dozen
Iron, refine i bar...per pound j
Small bar iron...
Plow slabs |,
Swedes iron
Steel, cast in bars..por pound *
Steel plow slabs..
Steel plow wings
Wedges, fluted .... per p«
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Naiis, 10J to 60J...per keg
Nails, 8d
Nails, 6d
Nails. Ad.
rots and skillets ...per pound
Powder, DuP. rifle..per keg
DuPont's blast...
Caps, pore., G. D...per
Caps, E. B >s;
Rope, Manilla perpo u
Cotton rope $9
Rope, grass per pound ^
Jute rope J0*
Cotton rope
LEA TREE
Leather, white oak sole, P er |
Good hemlock leather..•••••
Good dmgd hemlock lea
French elf, Cornclean -
French calf, Susa *
Country upper leather...--
Kip leather
Country calf leather. -
Harness leather.
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