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M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR
VOLUME XXXI.
‘WIS
DOM, JUSTICE Ltd MODERATION.’
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.
NEW SERIES-NO. 2
Our New Ycrk Letter.
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.ihe L’nited Slates maiu-
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ntilrv liuvegiveu orhavc
. .i-iii in-: ructions are in
■ ,. u’ltwaet that partial
; • a.lfiiie-.- or iuconsidera-
. .iaivs triumphs at critical
conservative and ge^-
: „ ro es of society, and to
-•wilt and passing condition
■ v more than ordinary
:. t.icr.fore, requires the
particularly observe and
ni-cti in. 1 advise that you
r.-ir l.-jmtie-, general and
. agio i,., -ummou to your
,r- venting and quelling dis-
r- .ii in the district above
igr. whatever may i>e their
i:;-:!it-r civilians or not. auti
• military of ail denotniua-
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•to.-c.mc.iiat e command oi
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.-;;il cliarac'ers. They are
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i-n iH of tiie law upon thi>
. •’imiiiiii by ray predecessor,
•i-d-ra. Gushing, because it
t.ave heeu well suited for
v. opinion 466, May 27,
': va-! lthat th* re can be
' official iu this couu-
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i.... -d States. If such iu
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• ;!.t United States are su-
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•>!' the United States iu
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v i may not, by summons,
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B - v.'me part of the Juited
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Ability which devol ves upon
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alvi-c you that in preparing
_ i have considered the recent
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: l uited States upon
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i nave founded the above
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•'.'-nieiu.-. I need iu this
- r - 're than that these judg-
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•“•Ututory provisions as it
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'j iu the advice of the
I r. A::,,r!h -y fir your district.
I ■ have been submitted
*v" :, '. a:i ' 1 ,l,ave liw approval.
ll, h\ your obedient ser-
Ai.i'Md.nsii Taft,
Attorney General.
1 !t of Georgia, a
■u.-l,r»-atli(-i|, pock-marked
• u 1 uitt-d States Deputy
!l ‘ ,r -di iiv h ind upon th*
; ^oru.»r Sniiili or C'hie'
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r ' d! ' fk> lf "l" hi- insolent bid-
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enport, stopping
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“'L' him ti» stand gaurd
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geance ;
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, x f -hutianooga friends
s >n having se-
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e,ie Times worthy
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IL \ l ,r "Pnetors must
,t,r ,"c are informed
Paper will noi be
‘ ;t was intended and
■j| ' ^ ,j rgan, the Republi-
i° r f ' OVernor of New
Ter ‘dtr Act
ol a just debt ?
^nen able to save
H. . 115 sala D' as President,
expenses of
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a Ud world ?
Ibsurd Fallmries relative t«
Journalists Dispelled- Hm:
Journalists- the Dying }
Mississippi Steamer staked »
poker hands—The “King Pins” of Swin
dlers—.4 Dutchman’s Hetab.mtuld Drift
Ity Church.
Corns londence of the Courier.
New York, September 187fi.
A vast amount of nonsense lias been
indulged in by writers as to the remu
neration received by journalists and
literary men of well-known reputation
is well as the lower lights who hold
subordinate positions in the sanctum
oi the city dailies. As one of the re
sults ot tliis ignorance, hundreds of
young men on leaving colleges seek
places on the press, and after a little
ameteur experience on their local pa
pers, they drift lipre, believing that
they can easily step into a soft position
that will net them all the way from
82,000 to SfiJKMI year. They are
young men of great expectations who
follow this vain delusion. The seeker
after fame comes here, and the moment
we veterans set eyes on him at the
editorial stairs we know him. We
have been through the mill ourselves.
Timidly he enters the reception room,
hands his card to the porter, asks for
tile chief editor, and tightly clasps a
roll of manuscript that lie lias incuba
ted as his master-piece. He is ushered
into the presence of the chief editor;
his heart comes up into his mouth ;
lie stammers, hesitates, and when lie
does succeed in regaining his power of
speech, it is to lie assigned a desk as a
writer on the Tribune, Herald, World,
Times or Sun. He assays to read his
manuscript, but is cut short with the
remark, “Excuse me, young man, I am
sorry to say we have no vacancies.”—
Disappointed, he retires, descends the
stairs and seeks another office. That
roll of manuscript is carefully hid
away in his side pocket. He tries an
other line of approach. Blushing like
a girl, he descants upon his collegiate
life, his editorial aspirations, relates his
experience on the Blackville Bugle or
the Squashtown Masher. Again those
fatal words, “I am sorry to say we have
no vacancies,” greet him. Down an
other flight of stairs, or maybe a series
of flights, lie takes his weary way, only
to receive a like reception in every
sanctum. Vain ambition! Genius is
not appreciated in the great metropo
lis, he thinks. Wiping the dust of the
great city from his feet, he slowly be
takes himself to his native town, and
becomes a farmer, a green grocer, a
blacksmith, or a school teacher, if he
he cured of his penchant fur scribbling
Fortunate man, he, if lie accepts one
of these callings which usually points
the way to independence and peace of
mind. If he still insists upon a news
paper career he naturally drifts back
to the office of the Bugle or the Masher.
If lie be really the possessor of latent
genius as a writer there it will show
itself, and he will not long remain in
obscurity.
His writings will certainly attract at
tention of some metropolitan editor
whose argus eyes are continually scan-
ing the country exchanges for just such
talent as he may possess. He is sur
prised to receive a polite note inviting
him to accept a position on one of the
great city dailies. He comes, but not
to conquer a S3,000 salary at a jump.
He must work up through all the
grades from the lowest round of police
court reporter, at 815 per week, to a
general utility writer, who must be
equally at home describing a dog fight,
a Methodist camp meeting, agreat rail
road disater, a disgusting scandal trial,
a great conflagration, a boat race or a
meteorical shower. Then lie may com
mand a salary of S‘25 to 830 per week ;
and if he be a good reporter there he
will stick fast for his natural life. He
may cast longing eyes towards the ed
itorial chair, as the children of Israel
looked for the promised land. He has
no chance to obtain a place as editorial
writer at an average salary, ior those
positions are usually moupoiiszed by
men who fail as reporters, yet arecapa-
able of addressing dry • ssayson finance,
weather probabilities, political econo
my, the sciences of government and
other kindred subjects. There is as
"Uch difference between the “heavy ,
writer and the reporter as there is be
tween the man of original ideas and
fertility of imagination who is contin
ually improving upon everything he
"ees, and the plowman who is satisfied
to guide his team in a particular direc
tion and turn over the green sward a-
is grandfather did before him. He
an plagerize enough from old eyloj ce
dias or old volumes co ered by dust or
mildew. The reporter must be a man
of quick perception, always on the
, /H i nre, excellent judgment, ever ready
to describe what is presented to him ir>
concise and elligihle terms. V\ bile the
peer of the editor in ability, and pos-
,tbly in education, he is rarely able to
.•ommand one-hall or two-thirds of the
sum the editor receives.
The pay of newspaper men is indeed
most outrageously small. W ith the
exception of three managing editors,
not one chief editor of a New York
daily receives over S70 per week—the
majority of them range from $40 to
875 per week. Editorial writers of
well-known repute and force, command
$50 to 75 per week ; but there are few
on the great dailies who secure more
than the well-established rate of 840
per week. Routine workers—men who
read, edit and prepare for the printer
foreign and domestic letters,telegraphic
dispatches-are mere machines, who
usually fail in all othtr positions, and
are shelved away in the intellectual
department, at from S25 to 830 per
week. Tiie regularly salaried reporter
receives trom -.1$ to $30 ner week, "nd
if lie remains half a century in that
position he lias no hope of advance
ment. Of late years the English pen
ny-a-line S3’stem has been brought into
vogue by nearly all the morning pap-
pers. There is tliis difl'erenee, however,
that instead of paying by the line they
pay a stated sum per column. The re
sult is, that wnile many of those “piece-
writers" are gentlemen of education,
ability and clever resources, nearly all
tiie offices are infested by a crowd of
seedy and would-be-journalists, who
bring tiie profession of journalism into
disrepute and palm off upon the pa
pers much bogus news. This has been
a severe year for journalists of tins
class, few of whom make more than
from 810 to $15 per week. If a youn
man aspiring to a journalistic career
in the metropolis were to ask my ad
vice about coming here, I would say
“Halt! better stay where you are, even
if you have to heard cattle or groom
horses for a living ! There is some hon
or in being a good herdsman or an ex
pert stableman—none in being a jour
nalist under such chiefs as now control
nearly all tlia leading dailies.” In tiie
days of Bennet, Raymond and Greeley,
tiie profession was an honorable one.—
Their successors, or rather their imita
tors, have degraded the standard of
journalism by replacing high-toned
gentlemen and life-long journalists by
“street bums” and “beats,” who parade
the fact while the modest editor and re-
portor, when he shakes the dust of his
office from his feet at night, becomes a
gentleman, and carefully guards the se
cret tnat he is a journalist from all ears,
until duty calls him to take up tiie pen
the next morning.
THE DYING COMMODORE.
The approaching dissolution of the
great railroad king, Commodore Van
derbilt, recalls to mind some of the
characteristics of Uiis great man. Be
ginning life as tiie captain of a little
cut-boat, that plowed the waters of
New York bay in the time of Robert
Fulton, lie distinguished himself as a
daring and desperate fellow,who fought
and cursed his way through the world.
Cornelius Van Der Bill, as the name
was originally spelt, was early recog
nized as a plucky fellow, easy to get
into a fight and always ready to fight
his way out of a difficulty. When a
party of Jersey capitalists resolved to
contest Fulton’s right to the exclusive
steam navigation of these waters, and
constructed an opposition boat, Van
derbilt was selected as her commander.
■She was engaged in the Hudson river
trade, and started upon her raids to
break up Fulton’s monopoly. At near
ly every landing tiie law officers raided
upon her and her captain, who was of
ten arrested three and four times a day,
only to give bail and get under steam
again. For over two years the war was
carrieil oil in the courts, and in an ap
peal to the United States Supreme
Court, Fulton was beaten, and tiie prin
ciple was established that the waters of
the bay was a public highway for the
commerce of the world in which to
compete. After that Vanderbilt’s suc
cess was rapid and sure, and jhe is now
reputed to be worth $60,000,000—all of
which, alas ! lie must leave behind liim
for others to enjoy.
Many incidents are told of his gam
bling propensities that show tiie pluck
and coolness of the man. Many, many
years ago he was a passenger on a Mis
sissippi steamboat, bound to the Cres
cent City. Van was singled out by the
gamblers as a victim, and was roped
into a game of poker. He lost, as a
matter of course, heavily, and at last
admitted that he was cleaned out. He
retired for a moment and promised to
renew the game.
Hying away to the captain he learned
that the steamer could be purchased.
Then he returned to the game, 'and at
the opportune moment he “called” his
opponent, remarking, in all seriousness,
“I’ll stake this boat against your pile.”
The gamblers laughed.
“I mean it,” said Vanderbilt-; “I’ll
bet the boat on my hand.”
“That’s a good joke, Judge,” said his
opponent; “but you’d better own this
craft first.”
“Call the captain, steward,” said the
Commodore, quietlv.
The captain came.
“Captain, will you oblige me with a
check-book—excuse me. gentlemen.”
Van laid down his cards, drew a
check for $275,000, handed it to the
captain, and, turning to his adversary,
said:
“Well, sir, 1 call you "
“What does this mean,” asked the
gay gambler, turning to the captain.
“It means that this gentleman has
just purchased and paid for this boat.”
“The devil he has!”
“I call you,” said Vanderbilt.
He won on the “show’ up” more
than he had lost, and rising, left the
gambler and his chums to wonder who
had bluffed them so badly. ^ This le
gend does not record how Vanderbilt
disposed of his purchase, but nis friends
claim that it was a “put up job ’be
tween him and the captain to “beat” the
professional gamblers, and teach them
a trick. The Commodore has a great
infatuation for play, and it is said he
makes his expenses every season out of
the nabobs he meets at Saratoga. His
poker days are, however, about num
bered, as he can scarcely hope to run
his “corner” in the next world with
Dean Richmond, Dick Schell, Thomas
Scott and the old boys who have faced
him here in many hotly contested
games.
COM JliKN'CK MYlM.l.ERs.
New \<>rk has always been the great
centre for all the confidence swindles
perpetrated upon verdant countrymen
Nearlj- all tiie saw dust swindles, coun
terfeit money schemes* lottery plans,
etc., are started here. The “king pins”
are a firm in this city. Years ago they
began a career of swindling with the
envelope game in a Broadway base
meiit and made money. Now they fur
nish tiie capital to flooel the country
witii circulars, advertising various
swindles, anil have in employ an army
of “pigeon stools,” who act as members
of tiie “highly respectable firm,” re
ported at tiie head of each swindle, ad
vertised far and wide. They have in
their employ some of the best legal
talent in the city, which enables them
in their management of their various
swindles, to evade tiie Slate and Fede
ral laws and escape punishment. In
consequence the police are unable to
convict 'hem. The recent action of tiie
post office authorities in excluding all
such circulars from the mails, lias em
barrassed them very much, but they
will adopt some dodge to bridge the
difficulty and draw to their nets nu
merous country gudgeons, who bite at
anything likely to give them a heavy
return for a small venture in the way
of greenbacks. It is estimated by the
police that these fellows have made a
fortune of over a million at the ex
pense of verdant countrymen, who are
not familiar with the tricks of New
York sharpers.
a Dutchman’s ret.
He keeps a beer saloon in Sixth ave
nue, and his name is Speicht. This is
his description of his last bet:
“Pyshimminy! I never makes any
more pets. Der last one I made va*n’t
a pet, und I paid der pet schure. It
vas shust this vaj’: Zwti shendlemens
dressed so goot as you, corned in ter der
saloon, and onesaj’,‘I pets you one keg
of lager pier und der switzer kase eef
Drinidy Church stlieeble falls, eet falls
on Proudway.’ ‘Und I dakes der pet,’
said der udder shentleraans, ‘und eef
der stheebles falls eet falls on Church
street.’ Und den lie say, ‘Speicht, you
hear der pet. Now put up der peer und
kase, und hold der sthakes.’ Gott in
Ilemmel! I’ve been holden der sthakes
ever so hard ever since, und I gdessl’ll
hold them till der tammed stheeble
falls. You’ra reborter, shendlemens,
und I poard you for zwei week eef you
shust publish in your baber that ter
tammed stlieeble fulls od Proadway so
I gets mine monish.” Vipette.
Our Washington Letter
Washington, D. C., September 1.
The clerks and other employees in
the various departments have been in
a state of suspense ever since the pas
sage of the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, which or
dained that seven hundred and sixty-
five of their number was to be dis
charged on or before the 10th of Octo
ber next. It being pretty generally un
derstood that a large reduction would
be made yesterdaj’, the fluttering in
the various depaatments fully equalled
that created by Corioianus among the
Voices, which he described as being
like that created by the entrance of an
eagle into a dove cote. This is an un
fortunate state of affairs, as those dis
missed will cause much suffering, but
it can’t be helped. If the Republican
party chose to make a Government ap
pointment, the reward for party or po
litical services, and has filled the de
partments with unnecessary numbers,
they have themselves alone to blame
for the state of affairs produced by the
retrenchment that the late house o f
representative plainly saw that the
financial condition of the country ab
solutely demanded. But this thing
would not be so bad if honest merit
was the test by which these dismissals
were determined, but such is not the
case, political influence or personal
preference alone determines it. A case
in point occurred in Chandler’s re-or
ganization of the pension office. In
the medical reference division there
was a Dr. T. C. Kane, appointed a year
or two ago upon a pure question of
merit. He had served in the army
for a long time upon the staff of the
Surgeon General, and was in every
way highly qualified as a surgeon.
There occurred a vacancy in the medi
cal reference division, and Dr. Kane
applied for it. There were eighteen
other applicants. There being no strong
political influence brought to back any
of them, a public examination was
made, the result of which was the ap
pointment of Dr. Kane, without a
single political elemenKo support him.
Of course when a reduction became
necessary, he was selected as one
among those to be discharged, simply
upon the ground that he had no friend
powerful enough to make‘rouble about
it Now, when really deserving men,
who have families dependent upon
them, are being turned out, a late ap-
apointment made at the request of
Senator Morton, appears as a most no
torious illustration of rank injustice
and favoritism. Walter Morton, a lad
just from school this summer, has been
appointed to a twelve hundred dollar
clerkship in the post office department,
that too wheu good men of long expe
rience are turned out. While this or
der is being carried out more than the
required number are being dismissed
to make room for favorites. Morton
has now a son and nephew in the post
office department, while his constitu
ents outnumber largely the appoint
ments from any other State. The day
before yesterday they comm .-need re
moving the pension office property to
tne'Snepherd building from the Seaton
Home. A large crowd assembled at
the first named place, and much feel
ing was manifested and such expres
sions as outrage, fraud, trick, etc., were
f'eely made. At one time the crowd
was so great that the workmen were
impeded in carrying the cases up stairs,
but the police preserved order, though
much feeling was manifested, and even
Republicans say that tliis hasty re-
rn.-erfi looks as though Shepherd was
playing th, same game that he 'did in
tearing down the old much loved land
mark, the Seventh street market house,
under the cover of darkness.
Judging from the nominations that
have Aiken place in several of the
States, the Democracy appear to cor
dially indorse the actions of the repre
sentatives in the last house. In the
eighth Virginia Gen. EppaHunton has
been cordially re-nominated, as has
also Tien. Milton Saylor, of the first
Ohio, and Hon. H. B. Banning of the
second. T ie ninth Illinois lias re
nominated Hon. G. A. Wilson. The
second Alabama has re-nominated
Hon. H. A. Hewitt, and the first dis
trict of Pennsylvania has re-nominated
Hon. S. J. Gilpin.
The Republicans call Kilpatrick’s
letter to Hayes “tnat unfortunate let
ter,” and are very sore over it.
Reno.
Seventh Congressional District
Editor Atlanta Republican:
Sir—I desire, ttirough your paper, to
arouse the Republicans of the Seventh
Congressional District to a sense of
their duty.
It appears, from the non-action of
the Executive Committee, that there is
to be no convention called for the notn-
natiou of a member of Congress in this
district. Can it be possible that, at a
time like the present, when it so neces
sary that the full vote of the party
should be drawn out, that our Execu
tive Committee is not wide awake
enough to our interests to at once as
semble and cal! a convention for tin
purpose of putting forward a man who
can and will make a successful race ?
Never was there a time in the histo
ry of our party, iu this State, when it
was necessary that we should
show our strength ; never has there
been a campaign in which we had more
reasons for exerting ourselves, or in
which we had equal prospects of suc
cess, in this Congressional District.
The Democratic party is split wide
open!
The Independent candidate has al
ready announced himself, is canvassing
the District and parading before the
people what he calls “his Record,”
asking their support for a re-election on
the grounds that he ha? been fully as
Democratic as the majority of the pres
ent “ Confederate Congressand from
his statements one would believe that
he certainly was a very prominent man
in the Democratic ranks at Washing
ton City.
This Independent candidate who,
two years ago, was so anxious to receive
the Republican vote, and who now
disowns the power which elected him,
of late has been forced to define his
position. He yesterday, in a speech in
Cartersville,announced himself straight
out for “ Tilden and Hendricks” and all
of tiie most rigid Democratic measures;
rejoicing in the thought that very soon
this entire Government would be in
the hands of the Democratic party;
then would follow the good old times
of peace and prosperity; and that, un
til this present horridly corrupt Ad
ministration, as he styled it, had been
set aside, we could, under no circum-
stanceSj expect to again be a prosperous
and happy people.
Many Republicans supported Felton
at the last Congressional election ; but
with the lights now before us—with his
actions, his sayings, and votes in Con
gress, and with the plain assertions that
tie now makes—it is impossible for
any true Republican to again vote for
him and do justice to himself and his
party.
The Democratic Convention will
meet in a few days, and I have no
doubt but what some straight-out, true
Democrat will be put forward as their,
nominee.
Col.. Dabney will again be the man.
lie is a strong naan—-a Democrat, true
to his party ; and one who will make
a good race; therefore, as things will
then stand, we Republicans will have
or can have no incentive for voting for
either. As there would be but a very
small choice between two evils, we
might either take Dabney for bad, or
Felton for worse.
I earnestly desire that each county
in tliis district should icake up. Let
every member of the Republican party
constitute himself a committee of one
to canvass his immediate neighborhood
and impress up his lriends and neigh
bors the great neceesity which now ex
ists of electing our Preside it and Vice-
President. Convince yourselves of the
folly of supporting either of the Dem
ocratic candidates for Congress, as it
can be no possible advantage to the
Republican party that either of them
should lie elected.
I for one shall still strive to have
some true Republican put forward as
our nomiue.e—one who will be found
canvassing the district and fighting for
Republican principles and the Repub
lican tiqket until tue polls are closed on
the first Tuesday in November next.
And, rather than fail in this, or rather
than that the Republicans of this dis
trict shall be forced to choose between
the two Democrats alone, I hereby an
nounce myself as an Independent Re
publican candidate for Congress, with
the understanding that my name shall
not be withdrawn until the race is run,
excepting it be that I am not the
choice of a nominating convention—if
such is held I then will support any
Republican who receives such nomina
tion, by His pledging die party that he
will, under no circumstances, withdraw
from the contest until it is lost or won,
■f- W. L. Goodwin.
Proceedings of the Dalton Con
vention-
Dalton, Ga., Sept. 7.1876.
At 11 o'clock A.M.thedelegates from
the various counties of the Seventh
Congressional District met iu the court
house, when Col. J. W. W’afford, of
Bartow, chairman of the district exec
utive committee, called the meeting to
order.
On motion of T. R. Jones, of Whit
field. C. A. Dunwoody, of Cobb, was
made temporary president Upon tak
ing the chair, Mr. Dunwoody made a
stirring speech in favor of Democratic
harmony and the necessity of complete
organization in our ranks.
Mr. Jones, cf Whitfield, moved that
C II C Willingham, of the Cartersville
Express, and W H Walker, of the Ca
toosa Courier,be made secretaries,which
was adopted.
The call of counties was then called
when the names of the delegates were
called:
DELEGATES.
Bartow—Abda Johnson, R W Mur
phy, T J Lyon, A F Woolley.
Catoosa—W A Woods, A T Hackett,
A II Gray, W G Cook.
Cobb—C A Dunwoody, A M North-
cutt, J D Waddell.
Chattooga—J N Taliaferro, T R
Jones.
Dade—W W Carlton
Floyd—J U Towers, jr.
Gordon—Dr W J Reeves, Dr R Bor
ders. i
Murray—W J Peeples, S LTrammier,
A P Wofford, W W Giddens, J L Mc-
Entire, Wm Luffman.
Walker—R M Dickerson, J M Lee,
R Dougherty.
Whitfield—J T Whitman, H H
Green, N Wofford, T R Jones.
Tiie following dispatch was received
from a part of the Floyd delegation:
Rome, Ga., Sept. 7,1870.
To Towers, Jr., care 31. It. Cramer :
Because of the train’s delay our del-
egation cannot go to Dalton.
. , • r T. W. Alexander.
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qfffe following letter was then read
from Col. Abda Johnson:
Atlanna, Sept. 6,1876,
Dear Sir:—It is impossible for me
to leave here to go to Dalton to-mor
row, however much I regret it Please
notify an alternate and have some one
to go in my place. While I have neith
er right nor authority to direct any one
in my place, I will express a preference
honestly felt, and that is that the con
vention will unanimously nominate
Col. W. H. Dabney. I believe it is not
only due to him, but that it is the in
terest of tin- Democratic party.
If Dr. Felton’s proposition as to a
nomination should be made, I would
ol»j ct to considering it for several
reasons. Among others, that it does
not oecon e the Democratic party to
invite or allow tiie Republicans to aid
in the nomination of a Democratic
ticket; that his plan is now impractic
able and almost impossible of execu
tion to the satisfaction of those inter
ested, and that he ought not to be al
lowed to dictate to the party.
Very respectfully,
A. Johnson.
On motion of Mr. Jones, of Whit
field county, the following committee
on permanentorganization wasappoint-
ed:
Bartow, T J Lyon; Catoosa, W A
Wood; Chattooga, J N Taliaferro;
Cobb, A M Northcut; Dade, W W
Charlton ; Floyd, John R Towers, jr.;
Gordon, Dr W J Reeves; Whitfield, T
R Jones.
The committee then retired, and, af
ter a short absence, returned with the
following report:
President—Col A T Hackett, of Gor
don.
Secretaries—C II C Willingham and
W H Walker.
Assistant Secretaries—T E Hanbury
and D B Freeman.
On motion of Col Waddell, a com
mittee of three was appointed to con
duct the president to the chair. Upon
taking the same, Col Hackett made a
warm and enthusiastic speech of twen
ty minutes, counseling harmony in the
Democratic party.
A motion of Col Luffman to go into
a ballotting for a candidate for Con
gress was read, which was amended by
a motion of Sir Murphey to nominate
Col W H Dabney by acclamation,
which was carried without a dissenting
voice, and amidst great applause.
On motion of Col Waddell, the fol
lowing committee on resolutions or
platform was appointed:
Bartow, T J Lyon; Catoosa, A H
Gray; Cobb J D Waddell; Chattooga,
T R Jones; Dade, W W Charlton; Floyd,
John R Towers, jr.; Gordon, Dr Reeves;
Murray, Wm Luffman ; Walker, R B
(Dickerson; Whitfield, J T Whitman.
On motion of A P Wofford, a com
mittee of five, consisting of A P Wof
ford, R W Murphy, C A Dunwoody, J
M Lee, and J R Towers, jr., was ap
pointed to notify Col Dabney of his
nomination.
On motion ol Mr Dunwoody, the
Convention adjourned to 2:30 P M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention reassembled, and
was called to ordei by the president.
Col Waddell, chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions, made the follow
ing report:
The Democratic party of the Seventh
Congressional District of Georgia in
convention assembled, reaffirm their
undeviating devotion to the time-hon
ored principles of the old party, which
the degeneracy of the times has left to
the real lriends of popular liberty, and
renew their v.ows of eternal fidelity to
the only political organization which
has maintained the theory and illus
trated by practice in the past, through
out a long series of years, the ideal of
citizen—liberty for which so many of
the fathers and founders of the Repub
lic fought and bled and died.
This convention fully endorses the
principles set forth in the platform pro
mulgated at St. Louis. This convention
fully endorses the nominations of Tilden
and Hendricks thereat made. This con
vention folly indorses the platform of
principles laid down by the recent State
Gubernatorial Convention, this conven
tion fully indorses the nomination of
Hon. A. H. Colquitt for Governor of
Georgia, and this convention also folly
condemns any course of policy which
may in auy degree tend to disturb the
harmony or lead to disintegration. In
unity only lies strength, and this conven
tion as an assurance of its faith in the
principles above enunciated, feels a pride
m presenting to the freemen of the dis
trict Col William H Dabney as a fit per
son to reflect their sentiments and repre-
United sent them in the Congress of the
States.
The report of the committee was unani
mously adopted, amidst great applause,
upon motion of Mr. Murphey.
Mr. Gray moved that the President of
the convention appoint an executive com
mittee, to be composed of one member
from each county in the district.
Mr, Murphy, chairman of the commit
tee to notify Col Dabney of his nomina
tion and request his acceptance, reported
that the committee had discharged its
duty, and that Colonel Dabney would
signify his acceptance in person before
the convention. [Loud and vociferous
calls for Dabuey.j
Col. Dabney then, in a few remarks,
oppropriately chosen, thanked the con
vention for the honor conferred, and ac
cepted the nomination. Invoking the
aid of each individual member of the
Democratic party, he pledged himself to
carry alcft the banner extended to his
liaDds, above the clouds of dust, and to
bear it to victory, or if it should fall to
fail with it.
Col J W Harris, of Bartow, was then
called upon for a speech that aroused
great enthusiams and cheers for democ
racy.
Colonel J W Wofford was next called
upon and made one of his strong speeches,
exposing the conspiracy beiDg under ne
gotiation between Dr Felton and Major
Hargrove for an alliance defensive and
offensive.
The president of the convention an
nounced that inasmuch os three counties
were not represented he. would hold up an
announcement of the executive commit
tee for a few days.
Ordered that the papers of the district
and those of Atlanta publish these pro
ceedings.
On motion the convention was ad
journed sine die.
A. T. Hackett, Pres’t.
C. H. C. Willingham,
W. H. Walker, Sec’s.
T. F. Hanbury,
D. B. Freeman, ass’nt sec’s.
The New Postal Law-
All third-class matter, except un
sealed circulars,are charged one cent for
each two ouncse. Unsealed circulars and
all classes of merchantdise one cent per
once. The name of sender of third-
clx=s matter and the word “from” can
bewritten thereon and the article in
cluded may be enumerated.
Postal cards, one cent each, go with
out further charge to all parts of the
United States and Canada; with an
additional one cent stamp they go to
all parts of Europe.
All letters, to all parts of the United
States and Canada, three cents per half
once.
Local or “drop” letters, that is for
the city or town where deposited, two
cents at letter-carrier offices, and one
cent where there is no carrier sys
tem.
Newspapers, daily, tri-weekly, semi
weekly and weeklies, regularly issued
and sent to regular subscribers, two
cents per pound, payable at the office
of publication; newspapers and maga
zines published less frequently than
once a week three cents per pound.
All other printed matter, including
transient newspapers, magazines, pam
phlets, handbills, books, bo»k manu
scripts, proof-sheets, etc., one cent for
each two ounces. Unsealed circulars,
also seeds, cuttings, bulbs and roots
and merchantdize, not exceeding four
pounds in weight, one cent for each
ounce.
The following are the postal rates
with Europe: The rate for letters are
for the half ounce or fraction thereof
and those for newspapers for four
ounces or fraction thereof. Great Brit
ain and Ireland, France, Spain, all
parts of Germany, including Austria,
Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Russia,
Norway, Sweden,European and Asiatic
Turkey and Egypt, letters are five cents
and newspapers two cents.
C01TRACT RATES OF ADVERTISIHG.
0 to iqoaro one month.. ...$ 4
Ote square three months. 3
• to square six months. 13
0 aa square twelve months 30
Ore-fourth column one month.............. 10
Ono-tourth column three monthe.......... 30
One-fourth column six mouths 33
Ota-feurth column twelve months 30
One-half column ono month .... ....—. 30
One-half column three months 33
One-halt column six months. 30
One-hall column twelve months...104
One column one month........... 33
Ono column three months... .... 00
One column six months 104
One column twelve months 130
The foregoing rntee are for either Week];
nr Tri-Weekljr. When published in both papers,
00 per cent, additional upon table rates.
Democratic Negroes.
We regret that we have not the space
to give the numerous items from our State
exchanges about the negroes votiBg free
ly and of their own accord, for the Dem
ocratic ticket. In Marengo county alone
over one thousand negroes voted for
Houston and the entire ticket. In Lime
stone county there were over sixty at one
precinct. All of our exchanges give ac
counts of the negroes voting with their
white friends. The Limestone News gives
one instance of intimidation—that is Rad-
cal negroes met CapL Porter Bibb going
to Mooresville with six colored men in
his wagon, which was surrounded by the
roughs who swore personal violence if the
negroes dared to votd for Houston.
Where are the troops?
We are satisfied beyond all doubt that
thousands of negro votes were cast for the
reform ticket; and that those colored
men voted of their own free will. It is
this fact, this indisputable fact, which
makes the Radical leaders so crazy, so
reckless. They see all is lost.
A Cursed Village.
Ctiarlestun (S C.) News and Courier.]
Hamburg bids fair to be a des rted vil
lage ere long. Tho colored population
have been gradually moving away, and
a census would show that the exodus has
made a sensible difference between the
present status and the orignal number of
inhabitants. Those who have no criminal
charges against them on this side of the
river have become citizens of Georgia,
while the others wh» have particular rea
sons for not visiting Augusta, are taking
up quarters in different parts of South
Carolina. Hamburg has had an event
ful history, but like its old rival, Cambell-
toD, which flourished higher up the river
at the beginning of the present century,
it is destined to pass away at do distant
date and be forgotten of men. Its ware
houses have crumbled, its once proud
residences become the battered abodes of
fugitives from justice and streets, in the
olden time all life and bustle, overgrown
with grass and weeds. Ichabod has been
written over its ]>ortals.
The markettnen of Boston have had
a public dinner without wine, and the
Journal says, contrastingly:
There was a class supper, not long
ago in this city, which the papers next
morning characterized as brilliant and
successful, but they omitted to mention
that some of the young men who at
tended it were carried away in such a
state of intoxication that they mode
their journey back to college lying
prone upon the floor of the car.”
There is a cavern near Decorah,
lows, called the Ice Cave. It is 200
feet deep, and in the summer tiie water
which drips from the rocks freezes as it
falls. The strange thing is that, in win
ter no ice forms in the cave, even licit
of summer disappearing.
N» bab Precedent.—I cannot qie
to have always escaped errors of informa
tion or of judgment. But I have en
deavored, in so completely novel a situa
tion, t» set no bad precedent for my suc
cessors. Not unmindful of tiie equine?
of individuals, I have done the best I
could for the State.—(roe. Tilden. rein
message. 1875.
*** No Granlism in that.
It is announced that the son of Hen
ry D. Cooke, at Washington,has recent
ly paid to the comptroller of currency,
a sum sufficient to enable that officer to
declare a final dividend to the creditors
of the First National Bank of that city,
of which the Cookes were the principal
stockholders. It is now said that the
Cookes ask that the right to reorganize
the First National Bank of the District
of Columbia te granted to them.
The old New Jersey towns have gen
erally declined, and the network of
new railroad* has built up series of
new places with counding names, like
Vineland, Bayside, Seabright, Mont
clair, Bayonn, and Eaglewoed. We see
only on old maps or wayside, roads
euphonions Bottle Hill, Long-a-Coming
Poverty Beach, Turtle Gut, Tuckahoe,
Backshtem, Sculltown, Battertown,
Squankum, Pennypot, Mount Misero,
Scrabble town, Ongs’ Hat, Recklesstown
Tray, Cranberry, Suckasttnny, Snutll-
towm and Hohokns.
Washington, Augost, 29.—The bay
onet policy of the Administration is
fully developed, and will Boon be made
public, The opinion of the attorney
general that marshals haye right to
make a direct call on officers in com
mand ef troops for their services will
be at ones transmitted to the marshals
and the secretary of war will give the
same information to the district pest
commanders at the South, Secretary
Cameron is expected here to-morrow
and it is understood that his return is
only for the purppose of carying the
new policy into effect.
New York Sun: One of the most
prominent men in the South is Isham G.
Harris, who was Governor of Tennessee
at the breaking out of the rebellion, and
who to»k an active part in the secession
movement. Iteceatly he was nominated
by the State-at-Large, an office which
seems to be considered of great impor
tance there; but the opposition mani
fested against him in consequence of his
rebel record was such that he withdrew
his name from the ticket. His letter of
withdrawal is a manly and patriotic pro
production, beside which the harangues
of Morton and his kind seem pitiful in
deed.
Article 14, Section 4, of the Consti
tution reads as follows:
“The validity of the public debt of
the United States, authorized by law,
including debts incurred for payment
of pension and bounties for services in
suppressing insurrection or rebellion,
shall not be questioned. But neither the
United States, nor any State, shall as
sume or pay any debt or obligation in
curred ia aid of insurrection or rebellion
against the United States, or any claim
forjthe loss or emancipation of any slave;
but all such debts, obligations and
claims shall be held illegal and void."
The above provision of the Consti
tution forever disposes of the pretense
that there are any persons in the United
States who expect to secure tiie pay
ment of the war debt of the Southern
Cenfederacy.
Bank’s eyes are all bloodshot, too.
He cannot look South and see Demo
crats without the rising of that fatal
redness before his vision. He declares
with tha added emphasis of an ex-
lamation point that the Democrats are
going to carry the elections in the
Souther* States “by murder.” He
might as well have said—by thunder.”
This view of his of course excuses to
his mind the ordering of the army in
to those States. Has he read the story
of affairs i» West Feliciana ? Does he
know that the plan is to get up the
very reddtst riots where tiie black vote
is the most overwhelming? The Grant
party is all in it, and it is in it to win.
A kind Providence above will avert tiie
wicked design, though the lasting dis
grace and crime of employing Federal
troops for party service will be bran
ded forever into the party front as the
seal of its infamy.—Boston Post, Sr) >f. 1.
A Church Wiiipbek.—The South
Carolina negroes seem to have started
a new office bearer in the church. The
Spartanburg Herald says:
The colored Bap ist Church of Lime
stone Springs has an official called a
“ whipper,” whose duty it is lo give a
thorough castigation to ail parties vio
lating the rules of the church or tiie
proprieties of private lift. The present
incumbent is an old woman about <><l,
who wields the rod with a vim that
strikes terror to all evil-doers. From
the way we saw her slinging an ox
whip *ver the shoulders of a young
African, on Saturday, her whipping is
no child’s play. She whipped lour
grown perions, and children not enu
merated, during the past week. Tiie
whipper” is not resisted, but tiie
stoutest black stands as meekly as if
his salvation depended on it.
A Washington letter says : “ Leading
Republican politicians express some anx
iety over the announcement that Gov.
Hayes has accepted an invitation from
President Grant to spend some days witii
him at his cottage at Long Branch. Ordi
narily »o significauceor importance would
attach to such a visit, but at this time it is
feared the visit will be regarded as furnish
ing evidence that Hayes is in full accord
with the President touching matters of
policy and administration, and that somc-
tliiag may grow out of the visit which
would be used effectively against Hayes
in the Presidential campaign. It is no
ticeable that the Republican managers
do not warn a defence of President
Grant’s administration to be made a
prominent part of the campaign, and tlic
fear that Governor Hayes’ visit to Long
Branch may precipitate that Issue is what
makes them nervous about the matter.
Several friends of Governor Hayes have
writtaa him advising that the visit be not
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