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ESTABLISHED IN 1843. M. D W XNTELL, Proprietor. Wednesday Morning, Oct. 3,1877 SUDDEN DEATH OF COE. II'II.LIAJI J". SHORTER. Col. William A. Shorter, associate editor of this paper, died at the Rome Hotel in this city, at one o’clock and ten minutes on the morning of Friday, the 28th inst. He was taken sick on the Monday night previous with violent pain, and his disease was pronounced to be con. gestion of the bowels. During thal night he suffered intensely, but the next morning the disease seemed to yield to medical treatment, and he seemed bright and cheerful during the day Tuesday. Slept well that night, and continued apparently convalescent until two o’clock Tuesday afternoon. He then experienced another violent paroxysm of pain, from which he never ed associate and brother of theBar. "A young gentleman of the highest intel lectual culture and refinement, o.f most pleasing social qualities an bearing, has left us and long home. For the short time that he was with us here he ha&ipos^. jronder? fully endeared himself to many in our eommunity, and especially 1 to myself. But a few days ago he was in seeming good health and spirits—to-day he is no more; showing the wonderful and mysterious ways of Divine Providence: and ye are loft to rotmro over his loss and sympathise with those near and dear to him. *• Ilon. D. 15, Hamilton moved that Col. W“i. H. Dabney, T. W. Alexander, Halstead Smith, Joel Branham and R. D. Harvey be appointed a committee to draft resolutions and submit them to the meeting. The committee reported the follow' ing resolutions; which were unani mously adopted: Whereas, in the providence of Al mighty God, Col. Wm. A. Shorter, a member of the Rome Bar, has been truck down by the hand of the destroy ing angel, and whereas it becomes us as brother lawyers to show by some testi- fully rallied, though for the greaterjgp 11 ^ 1 the re S ard which we felt toward part of the time he was nearly or quite8j° ur deceased friend and co-laborer, we AW EX-PRESIDENT ON THE TARIFF. Gen. Grant ought to limit himself to generalises in hisjeplies to receptions. When he attempts to discuss special lubjects, he is apt to make a failure. He rashly ventured on the tariff, ques tion at Sheffield, and the result was lu dicrous. The Sheffield cutlers, we pre sume, are free-traders, and this fact ■seems to have been thought by the ex- President a cause for explaining and defending the protection policy main tained by his party during the eight years of his administration. His apol ogy for it was that “the United States had to raise money to pay off a great debt incurred by war, and the duties from imports were regarded solely as a means of attaining that end.” It is strange that a man who has been Presi dent of the United States for eight years] free from pain. After Thursday nooni his physicians considered his-case near ly hopeless, and his intimate friends, who knew his condition, began to des-j pond. He gradually failed from that] time, though occasionally was brigh and cheerful. He was in posession of] his full consciousness and senses up to eleven o’clock, when he went into a quiet slumber, from which he never] awoke. Just before going to sleep hi said to a friend: “I am free from pain,| and wish to go to sleep.” After a shorl nap of say five minutes he roused up] as from a dream, and said: “These things will get mixed.” He then turned toward the proprietor of this paper and] said: “Here, take the pencil.” Hi never spoke more. Col. Shorter first began a general ac- eem it not improper to give a shert lynopsis of bis career. He was the son of the Hon. Eli Shorter, of Eufaula, Ala., nephew of the late ex-Gov. John Gill Shorter, of Alabama, and a cousin of our es- iemed townsman, Col. Alfred Shorter. Col. Wm. A. Shorter was a graduate of the Lebanon Law School, in Tennes see. From there he went into the prac- ice of his profession in Brooklyn, New jYork, where he remained for the space if two years. Upon his removal to the city of At lanta, he became: the law partner of [Gen. L. J. Gartrell. He was Alternate Elector for the Fifth Congressional Dis trict on the Tilden and Hendricks tick- jet. In January last he became the Georgia Department of the Grangers' quaintance in this community about _ . nine months ago, when he accepted the! Life and Health Insurance Company, PRESIDENTS IN GEORGIA. they be put in the way to become civ- „ , . , T j j , ilized citizens. Another interview is to and says that Mr. Hayes is not the only President who visited Georgia while _ , ,, „ . ', o, cate of incorporation of the National office; that Mr. Monroe was in the bate rT • t, .„ , in 1819, and (a fact we remember to havi heard often before) that Gen. Jackson also visited the State while President- Union Publishing Company; Among the trustees Appears the name of ex- Congressman Lynch, the projector of , . , , ,, .™the paper; Gen.C.D. Gilmore, Sargeant- An amusing anecdote or two could be / r “ A* B-Anns of toe Senate, French and told of a despute between the old Scotch' Irishman and one of Georgia’s honored sons in regard to the politics of the day, while President Jackson was in Georgia But that is nothing, the President may boa3t of having been in Georgia, but Georgia need not boast of having enter tained a President. The man is honored, not the State. THE WAR IN EUROPE. There seems to have been material should make so extraordinary a state-g ohaDge in tha poB i t ion or condition of ment as this. The very name and na-g the Russian and Turkis h forces. The ture of protective duties imply thatg Russians to be re inforcing, and they are levied for protection, not fo; revenue. There object is not to pay! interest on the public debt, but to en rich certain home manufacturers—to protect them against foreign competi tion. This the protected manufactur ers admit They do not want reasona ble duties that will yield large revenues from a large amount of imported arti- :les; they demand duties so high as to prohibit foreign goods from being im ported, or at least, discourage the im portation of them and give them a mo- opoly of the home market at their own prices. Our duties range from 25 to 100 per cent. On many articles they yield almost norevenue at all to theGov- the Turks confidently holding their ground content, for the present, with ‘•successes already gained.” Each side tells its own story, and, as is usual with nations at war, tells of successes and keeps silent as to reverses. The winter will soon be upon them when both armies will have to remain| completely inactive. The proceedings of a meeting of thi Democratic Executive Committee Floyd county will be found in anothei [column. Ir will be seen that toe com-| mittee contemplate such action as will keep up the organization of the Demo cratic party. We hope the Democrats Yesterday there was filed the certifi- Enoch Tatten. The paper will appear the 1st of October, to be moderately Re publican, ^and mildly Administration. Mr. Lynch’s energy and ample means starts it under favorable auspices. Knox. England’s Cotton Trade- The Sceptre of Manchester Passing America. Ten Thousand Operatives out on a Strike at Bolton, and Pear that it will Spread. L. J. Jennings to N Y. World. London, September S.—The English cotton trade is in a very unsatisfactory Rate, as I have had occasion to tell you from time to time during the last few months. There is occasionally a little] Love Before the Mast. *an Francisco Mail, 8epL 14. sea scl The captain of an English ship just WO uld nothaye it So the young fools, irnved in port relates a singular story without a sixpence to bless themselves which is worth adding to the already with, come on board my ship. Sounds extensive budget of marvelous tales of like a novelt-hut it is all just as I told the ocean. The names of captain and yotf, an§ here .are the proofs.” hip are not given, as sailors are pro verbially sensitive about their veracity, and there is a strong flavor of romance in the skipper’s anecdote. The official log contains this entry: “August 15, latitude—, longitude - James Colton, a stowaway, fell from the foretopgallant yard to the deck, and was instantly killed.” “August 16, latitude —, longitude—. William Bean, an ordinary seaman.] while the funeral service was being read over the body of Colton, jumped from the topgallant rail and sank imme diately. Ship hove to at the time. A boat was lowered, bnt no traces of the] man was discerned.” “That,” said the captain, “is an en try that gives the key to the yarn I’ll la after.- that, and she went back to :hool. When he returned they tried to make it up with the old folks, but they “Have you any objection to my giv ing the-DamC of the ship ?” asked the reporter. “Well,’ said the skipper,- “Idon’t-like Mr. Hayes Highly Gratifiei »-./ '> I Saw In the SontE N WAsmkGTON, September 27 dent Hayes, in an interview .1' ^ as far as he was able to j n s J8 ^ southern people were as enthiS’ ^ and loyal to the representative ^ common government as any , hoped there was no particular p 1 vu, oaiu ““‘r l .. • 1 .1 _ r “*v,uid that sort of sensation, and the owners t “ a ' ; southern and northern don’t want these sort of thines about the ship in the papers. Here is the boat alongside,” said the'eaptairi, •and the reporter took a seat in the stern iheets and-was soon at the landing. The Dipper. ‘T A writer in the “Contributors’ Club” jof the August Atlantic tells of his dis- spin you, as: cabin yesterday afternoon after the| noonday meal. “I shipped Bean at Liverpool. He was a tall, good looking young fellow, 1 jand did not appear to be much of a faring man by his appearance, but discussion on the subject in the news-H be ba( j a couple of good discharges and papers, and the decline in this greatgf took him. After he went forward source of national prosperity is vaguely[j]a m ong the men I did not notice him importation of the articles on which they are levied; but they increase the price of the home manufactured arti sles by the amount of the tariff. Thus the tariff on some articles yields tht home manufactures $3 for every $1 yielded to the Government; the tariff on others yields the home manufactur ers S5 for every SI to the Government m .. , . „ , ,, ... It is the free traders, not the protec- Presrdent and General Manager of the who demand a tariff ^ sbal] bed tojvarious causes. When [the theories and explanations of the wise men are sifted down, there is om [broad fact visible to the least observan jof eyes—namely, that England has tin until the second day out The Imate came aft lugging alorig a little hit f a fellow with short curly hair and a ofl ]y the words but the things varied that is, they don’t have ‘dippers’ strict- ernment, because they discourage the ] of the county will not fail to select proper delegates on the day designated. General Grant, it seems, does not fear j the ghost of Charles Sumner sufficiently to deter him from calling Sumner hard names. In fact, if he is reported correct- buTofThe Atlantic^ This feet Presidency of the Georgia Division of the Grangers’ Life Insurance-Company: J Since that time a considerable portion of his time has‘been spent in. Rome. We will venture the assertion that no] man ever made more rapidly firm and warm friends than he did. His fine talents commanded admiration, and hi: glowing, generous heart warmed into affection all who knew him. He had but just entered upon a career of journ alism, upon which his heart had been set for years—a profession in which he] gave promise of becoming one of its strongest supports and brightest orna-| ments. But he is gone- His noble as pirations, his brilliant prospects, and promise of great usefulness, are all sud denly cut off by a strange and mysteri ous providence, and the dark shadow, of death now casts a saddening gloom] over this entire community. His remains were lying in state in the parlor of the Rome Hotel durin making his headquarters at Rome. Re cently, and at the time of his death, he] was Associate Editor of the Rome Cou rier, and was also practicing the pro fession of law in this city. , While bnt a little time with us his affa ble manner and gentlemanly conduct en- [deared him to all whese good fortune it was to be thrown in his company. His [qualities of both head and heart gave us promise of an association alike honora ble to himself and pleasant to ns all. Though;but in his 27th year his industry had given him -learning as a lawyer and produce plenty of revenue and nothin; I else; the protectionists demand some-] thing else—a tariff that will give a small] amount of revenue to the Government and a large amount of protection to certain favored classes to New England and Pennsylvania manufacturers. The British experience shows that the larg est amount of revenue ;is to be deriyed from the moderate duties levied on a ji didates, very few, say a dozen articles, the pro ceeds of which all go into the treasury: for re"-eand down the,*, of power. (fostaRlcais en. He was social as a companion and warm as a friend and had the promise of youth been allowed to attain the ma- ;urity of years we feel assured that his ife would have been covered with honors ,nd his name have become is friends; Therefore, be it Resolved, That we mourn his death: hat we deplore his loss and extend our Without taking sides for either the New York or New Orleans custom: house officials, for on general princi- r to§ P^ es we are against them all because L°" er 0 they are Republicans, we clip from the] New York Herald the following para graphs. The editorial from which they| are extracts is headed "Senator Conk- the afternoon of yesterday, and a large ™ dd ^Tby 4^6^’blo^Th^t f“ k and the Resident ” and the Her- number of friends called to pay the „ .. * , .. . aid seems to espouse the cause of Conk- „ , . we offer this, not as a consolation to them, - . r . failed. A h A.., .WK Lng. It is a family quarrel, and, while last tribute of affectionate regard, most interesting scene was when the last graduating class of the Baptist Fe-j male College, whom he so appropriately addressed at the late commencement,! called in a body with a beautiful trib ute of flowers. Religious services were] had at 8 o’clock by Rev. Mr. NunnallyJ Ilis remains left last night for Eufeula, Ala., toe home of his parents, under, charge of T. F. Howell and M. Dwinell.j We tender our sincerest sympathies] to the relatives of the deceased, and join the vast concourse mourn his early death. of friends.. Resol ved, That the bar in a body attend the remains to the train. Resolved, That a copy of these pro- JcLUuacU) iAiiua' ; j. 1 . , ii - /■ .1 _r* .1 J n f- WIUu. He lUIlUtVcU Ulclil UU WILLI of those who* Ceed 7 3 ^ 3ent * e fath , e th p e de ' written instructions ami order^ And reused and nonies be handed to the itome axa oniiroKr The sudden death of our young: friend, Wm. A. Shorter, who so recent ly was among us, so full of life and buoyant with hope, casts a shadow ofi sorrow across our pathway that cannot] soon be effaced. Journalism, whose sphere he was] just rising to adorn, and the law, whose arena he had begun to illustrate so] journal for publication, Respectfully submitted, Wm. H. Dabney, T. W. Alexander, Halsted Smith, Joel Branham, R. D. Harvey, - |gbn. grant on the democratic PARTY. Gen. Grant is reported to have Bald the A special to the Baltimore Sun, from hio, reports that the Republicans there to carry the State by a handsome ma jority. The reasons given are unusual Democratic apathy, in neglect to regis ter, and the withdrawal from the ticket of some of their leading legislative can- for protection. Iround face, whom he had found stowed, [of eyes—namely, that England has awa y under the fore hatch. A. lot of llvTrJponpf/ in'Emriand fewer customers for her cotton manu- j tbe men got around to see what I was wL p^f Prn ^ r , ping to say about it. “What the blazes made you hide away in my ship ?” I said. He didn’t .nswer a word, and seemed scared to death. Then Bean stepped out and aid: “I know that young man, captain; he factures than she used to have. Some may talk about “over production,” and ime may declare against the “selfish- ness” of the masters, while others de nounce the blindness and stupidity of the men in perpetually stumbling on, from one strike to another—but all] these causes, mischievous as they un-N; s an old chum of mine. He wanted questionably are, would not have duced the present depression in coshire if the shop, so to speak, had ly, he thinks Sumner was guilty of will ful prevarication. Grant should remem- some rime to come, for it seems to touch ber that Sumner is dead, and he ought to talk about dead men like he takes his whiskey—straight. the pride of many Englishmen; al though why it should not appeal to jto get a passage to California and had no money." “I swore some at them both and theD 3till been crowded with customers. But] Colton off in charge of the third mate, the shop is half empty; the customers wbo goon got him to work on a broom, are going elsewhere, chiefly to the h r handled the broom pretty well, and “other side—not the other side or tne took sort of to poiisnmg up am crass may when, in speaking to some Eng- y mp tnrougnout. lhe countn lish friends about the star group of the a PP ar ently recovering from its business prostration, and the agricoi^ - -— —1 . — —“Dipper,” and «»f»ts .uo wu.j . , - ■ —r-’-sueuits 3 the key to the yarn I ll ; 0 f the constellations wnose appearance . son , see 1 nas t0 have felt the W: a Mail reporter sat in his reaUy conforms w ith the name, he was “ mes .‘ es3 thaa othfc r sections. jT group the only one — “oimern i n * - were identical, and (hat the ject to fie considered was unitv terest in improving the material 11 perity of the country. He deiLL learn the wants and conditionsTf people throughout the union and a the people were the best ju(W„ the effect of his southern visit he" med it up by saying: “Nothing could be pleasanter my trip throughout The met with the blank query: “What is a dipper ?” “Here,” be says, “were people with! whom I could talk for an hour about Locke, Berkeley and Hume, who didn’t know, after all, what a dipper was!" When he tried to explain, the result was: “A ladle! We understand. Oh, yes, A ladle!” “In this case,” the writer adds, “not When Prof. Proctor was asked by the editor of St Nicholas to write a paper ] on the constellation of the “Dipper,” he embarrassed for a moment, and then said: “Oh! you mean the ‘Cleaver.’ We |call that constellation the ‘Cleaver’ in England.’, However, the Professor had at last \ found out the American name, and j : could SO far Americanize himself as to iPhiladelphia North American.] 1 poiisnmg up tire Drass i •sj work, and seemed so inclined to be in not yet admitted here, nor will it be for dustrious that I took him out of the vious. There can be no doubt that the mere statement of the truth that tbe American manufacturing industries are have made gains recently, and expect growing while the English are deefin- stay up all night with him. Then he c i a i mSi f orm 0 ne family and travel to- L_ ii. _ nr i 1. 1. j . - inor iq tnIipti tt/1T.h ftrpni, nTTPfiflP 1 n illjitiv Ja 11 aaina 1 f^ aA ta .* « .« .« « a■ • mg is taken with great offense m many go t to like going aloft, and used to ge ther; but the other two have distinct nnarters. and a man is called iinnatn-E handle the royals as well as any ordi- motions of their own, and are slowly nary seaman on board. One day the drifting out of their relative positions matesaid to me: in the “Dipper.” “I heard those two men, Bean and quarters, and a man is called “unpatri otic” who dares to suggest it. “He is attacking his country,” runs the cry. To me it seems that a man has as much right to point out a change in the enr- Colton, talking together last night, sir, rent of trade as he has to record the dis- Presidents have not shown any greater! inclination to abdicate than emperors! very that Mars has moons. The great it. Bean was telling him that his] ing wonld be to find a remedy for the ivil, not to deny its existence. The depression in the trade cannot but the protection theory in this coun- and king3 . An exceptioD> ho wever,H be ^Xard it is ready prorudn; try requires that duties, some of themi must be made in the case of the Presi- prohibitory, shall be levied on a thou-j dent of Costa Rica, who hasjust thrown ne of those happy spots where it is snme- [times prudent to abdicate. Who would have thought that Geo. [William Curtis, editor of Harper’s Weekly, would have ever “let up” on the South? but only as that mitigation of pain which „ . , , , . J , . . . well-bred people despise family quar- comes to the sorrowing one in knowing , . , . r. r. . . ... , ■ , ,, rels, we cannot help saying, let it go on ahat the stricken form bore a noble and ’ , , - ... s , , , . « • , ,, S “The remarkable events which oc- manly hearty, that tbe hand, now cold, BUrred at Rocbest;)r on Wednesday will had ever found warm greetings from ba y e a good result for the country if armest palms. That though his spirit they awaken the President thoroughly- had passed from the present life hiB mem- to the fact that promises, good inten- ory would remain hallowed in the breastll 11 ^f n igf"ff al _ or ^ e ^ are . a iL aI ” 1 civil executive as in the commander if an army. Mir: Hayes took possession if the White House wiih, as everybody There were no rivals along with Stan ley, and he can tell the truth without fear of contradiction. Several more Washington Correspondence, Washington, D. C., Sept. 28. The sympathizers here of the Mexi- . . n, c , , breaks are like the small-pox—wcv are can war party in Texas find it decided- contagioas> Mrs. GaskelPs novels, and i knows, the very best intentions in the :orld. He published them far and ride. He followed them up with well, will long mourn one of thoiJother day in an interview wrth some man brightestmembers, gone to that boornegwith a pencil, over in England, that the: from “whence no traveler returns.”!Democratic party was always sure to do] ceased and copies be handed to the Romeg tben _ bc d i d no t entirely stop, but he began to go very slow; so slowly, in fact, that the people, who at first flung up heir hats in universal acclaim, have ieen ever since waiting, doubting, wondering and becoming constaptly more and more puzzled. “Let us have a thorough reform of the] civil service; but not a 1 alf-way reform. Let us abolish political favoritism, but let us abolish it entirely. When every body stands on equal ground nobody :an reasonably complain. But we rej eat what we have said to the Pres! ppt before: half measures are not ten-| ,ble. For instance, it is generally un- erstood that Mr. Hayes intends to re-| love the heads of the New York cus- the public are less inclined to listen to ties more disinclined to their prompt redress than formerly; but the impresj sion has gone abroad that the eviden purpose to precipitate hostilities exist-] ing on both sides of the Rio Grande, is] founded on the desire of a few loafe: for personal aggrandizement at the ex- ense of both nations; that whatevei 'revocation to such recourse residents] orth of that stream may have had eretofore, Diaz, very likely from in- crested motives, is rather solicitous ;han otherwise to earn our good-will by ■emoving them, and by making such !ts inevitable fruits in the ‘way of 'kes. At Bolton more than ten thousand work people are now wander ing about the streets doing nothing. The mill owners insisted on reducing wagesjfive per cent, the operatives de mand instead that tbe mills shall be mother and brothers wonld never for- ;ive him, and the best thing to do when le got to San Francisco would be to] write to some friend at home, but not to let his people know where he was. Colton was citing and seemed to feel K e ^ ntv or eigbty dbllars, to rihe cap- very bad. Then they saw me and shut ^ a j ? 0 g J ive tbe ^Want clctL up I think Bean has made that boy ing ^ n | boa ^ a ” d at toe end of three Coiton run away from school, or some-§ e ® rs - gervice i wenty or thirty dollars, thing of the sort. One day a gentleman, a man of for put rn short time. “Produce less,” say H gb t aa he could for him, and once they, “and the market will right itself. 1 They, like others, still fancy that the same customers are still coming to the “old stand,” and that there is nothing more the matter than that the snpply of goods has been turned out too fast. Tliull piu JA/owl lojj ku >11 appvmwuw.; more injurious to the trade than that of savings banks have the masters. Except for that, I cannot 8 see why the masters should refuse to adopt it They want to pay five pi cent less wages; they would pay fir per cent, less, or thereabouts, if the mills were put on short time. If the strike is not speedily closed it will ex tend to other districts, for such out breaks are like the small-pox—they are ly up-hill work to arouse enthusiasm racb p i ays ‘ ^ u Tbe Long strike,” have in their behalf, not, perhaps, because g iven most of your readers some idea of the serious, even terrible, character just complaints, or the national authori- of those labor revolutions in Lancashire. ■ I hope the coming winter is not des- the scenes of past years, when hund reds of thousands of men and women were destitute of food, and when the childre died “clemm’d” in the streets. irem wnence no |1 some silly thing just in time to keep it move the heads of the New York cus We feel thqt we can freely mingle our|f y S J . ; . _ r tom bonse on civil service grounds, ol; tears with those most near and dear topp 0 ”! bearing the Rep “ ^ course. : 'But it is a fact that he keepsL him, and feel that ours is a commonP an 2 lia S e , t0 tllat eff ' ct - And t|ie Gener- ; n the New Orleans custom house a[ sorrow, and that we mourn with a cbm-| a l kindlj^urnished toe reporter withto^pfenmii like J. Madson Wells. a man[ mon grief. Where shall we loot again for such generosity, such high sonse of honor. . ,,L '- ' Those who knew him so well‘_at the University of Tennessee, and of .Geor- r. - - -■• ; ™——.— J .v rauuu vn/ *on ^ UC cu- eia at Lebanon and Athens can bear effect of whmh was to deprive them of ble on reform grounds or on any others,| le8gly contribute to their speedy reenr- gia, at Lebanon ana Ainens, can u g four years, and that was to he except the most unblushing and cyn-g| ^ __ ; v «. „ r vni 4S.5A fA hoiLT, D ical of all. Nor is this all, for he h: party. may laugh; ami”w? ( confess that the Dem&rats did'orie Very silty thirig.tlie who is notoriously a politician of the! lowest type, and whose appointment ort retention in office is totally indefensi-s testimony to his extraordinary prom--., - . , ■ « . .i r - go child-Hke an toerr faith as to believe lse. But those numerous friends, in a . ... ., ,, more than one State and. city, wfib he- rnu.e inau one “ L t one that woulddoright. We thought gan to discern the maturity of hrs tal- 8 , , * , * i,'and U .was silly to think so; bat Gen tal':Grant.i-might .spare! onr feelings b« 1 inough to keep quiet-about it, and riot [v® 8 at^hat^J 5 ; " f 'T r ! ' SL ace towara ins renew on urn ups outin tbe p atent office, and before it id may we not hope that when hrs could be Bubdned a ritmount of a PP 0lntment3 ~ _ irit crossed tLe waters of tnat nn- * < . - a ya* / : ««« ~ «n nnH nntripd eternity the same raluabIe m0 ^ ^ Chambers’ Journa tribute of the-rome bar. A meeting of the Bar of ‘Rorne, in- cludipg Hon. J. W. H. .Underwood,jcif the Rome- Circuit,* and A. E.,;R<is, Clerk- of Floyd Superior/ Court, was held at ; the office > of Halsted -Smith; Esq., to consider what testimonial of respect 1 ’ 1 ’ of occurred Friday morning Upon motioii7Col.' I£ S', Printup yfg ca))j|§ ^^4e'c$al^’and §ffiit$lpLnad. ymoi edl reqaestodtb act as secretary* •'• s Riobi* !. ] f. .•.•-.Pit .LJft The object of the meeting was’ tHen stated by the chairman as follows: . ,... . _iaeddistiriguished-'offi , 5pect could be shpwn to the, memory rec ^ t relSption in Madia, Col. Wm. A. Shortei, whose death to-day, iti^r EpeecIiea jasiref enrred Friday morning an 1 o’clock. ents and genius feel that while o' friend has gone but a little before us,| still the bright soul that has; sped so] quickly and so quietly to his maker: left us in this early autumn before hie §ratent office at * young hopes had been realized, almost i!*»i burned.: with the words of Reconciliation and peace toward his fellow on his lips. And spirit known and untried eternity toe same voice that once said,to the angry waves, “Peace, be still,” guided and-bore him to the bright shore beyond, id G. : R.j sumed. So far as a .money; value can be placed on the thing;: destroyed •' the 11 ..: ... t*...* , **m 1a3l.mllfinn of all. appointed as collector in New Orlean: erson also notoriously incapable, :ence on this continent. Yet a cloud if advocates in that behalf.are expected with the other workers of iniquity who pi- _ . . . ........ and who is commonly understood tog make j ba pational capital their stamp- mmvaaanf in fliaf TiltJDO flTintVlPr mfilB-M. « *>- • • • >• ■ ■ represent in that place another mem ber of the Returning : Board, Mr. An; erson. Now, while the removal of toe heads of the New York custom ■ii :: ;• •• ■—»ooi might offend their'friends it u-icniwrTAN could never become the occasion of a washing ion _ fnrmidahlfi attack on. the jneral or formidable attack on- the] __ . president, if men did not remembe-j About noon last Monday a fire broke Chambers’ Journal records that Lady Lewson never -washed her petson or make them. The debris is being cleared allowed lifer. sWfept flhe away preparatojiy to putting on a tei»- the hath as the originator of porary roof in ; plaoeof th»t destroyed; and cdlds. She : anointed her and the secretary; has ffiade' Tjrrr SPEECHES . OF GOV. COLQUITT AN! PRESIDE NT: HAYES. i. ,31110*1 ttttI ,vja axsix eeidH 57e feel pure that pur, reedfr* .■ WOCld | like ' to.know: exactly; whit toe ‘ named distiriguished* ‘6ffie^iri > ^»iid''rit 'l ■ "-'i -. V - * .genius aua coins, one : bhoiuuju uei 1UU uie gnmaij u» usauo pu*. ejSj drained. , 1 9 al W[... l)e 5 ep -^“’a^fw^aco with lard, and. lived in «toel)ent for accommodating those burnt oul -gtheirvaluecanu^^^ni, ,^ birthday. Bh’e of, cloak. sc&r.camwBlTT .AMPlohght to have .beeif toe. Queen .Of , Bffi* tera. . : puq hoop -pc-Kt .^iiloa Wp paper was found upon his person by where . yromeii, never wasb . but i Yesterday ComiriiaBioner Smith ana w hich he could be identified. The ver : •nice iWtheir-lives. v \ ? I/ieut Clark presented the Indian del- diet of tffe jdiy was that ho was murder- h j Gen;* Aji'dre^ Jai^soy set ; a pretty as:rep°] ms n-hlyery. Georgian rot lutoem man * will be interested .halb bus * DEATH OF JUpGF. fflll., Son. Barijard Sill, Judge of the,!, . Gentlemen, I have fo thank youTor earn circuit died .of heart disease whili en. Jackson was elected President' Bent reservation to the Missouri] ^risi.i- : 1 i ’ : - Heir most imperative'needs,s A colossal statue of the late'Andrew to the testimony of each thats mument wagons a^rpj>.~fB.jnw> W d .; t jc -l!* ii> f j|ii^«iryed in BhfiNdfeiphla. irgently of white marble, arid is be'Hschoo: mi: mate’s watch and gave him odd jobs about toe cabiD, lending the steward a hand, and so on. He had all night in their business-like qualities instead of and better grub than they got in the these with careful diagrams of his own. to a narrow sentiment is not very ob- forecastle, but he used to always slip”' — — — - - ' I.A aa IRa r-lr rr.. and there was something queer about ive a capital paper on the “Dipper” to IL Nicholas, which appeared several [months ago. The breaking up of the constellation jof tlie “Dipper” is prophesied in nn article by Lroressor mcnara A. rroctor in St. Nicholas for September. The Professor finds logical reasons for his belief in the motions of the stars com posing the constellation, and illustrates] lieve the era of good feeling 'bet»« i the north and south is permanent, - ^tocy are sincere in their ezpreaL" to the existing community of ii/ ests.” ' * mu. Stephen’s opinion. Alexander H. Stephens to-day '. speaking of the president’s policy ’' bis reception in the south, said: ‘ “He has made grand strides in doir- way with the north and south and ' putting aside the barriers betwen t” two sections, and in assuaging the i* ter feelings engendered by the , His course, so far, receives my et support and approbation. I think j Hayes has done for the paciBcatioa, the country, under the doctrine of hot- rule, more than Mr. Tilden could 1 done had he been inaugurated," Something more about Scotch Irish. The Lost Found* Georgia, or that part at least which i; eludes Augusta and Atlanta, is much v plexed over the nature of “ Scotch-L-i men,” and toe Augusta Chronicle ti~ tliA Atlanta Cnnstt.ifidmn “What Scotch-Irishman ?” Journals paL,i t ] so near to toe home of Orr and Jlci fie, and having so many kindred a among their subscribers, should be a_ of facts which Froude has recently t _ Seated'at much length that the Sea ,- , , _ _ - , . _ In one map the “Dipper” is' shown asHwho were driven from home underJsc some of it forward to Bean. Those two R was 100,000 years ago, and in anoth-Hsettled in Northern Ireland, and and were a good deal together on Bean s e r as it will be 100,000 years hence.f jter years of industry and battling th watch, and Colton would sometimesjjpjye 0 f the seven stars the Profe=sor§|came to this country. They were a® the pioneers in some parts of Pennsvii nia, Georgia and New England, aid always mentioned as Scotch-Ireh cause, though of pure Scotch blood,: A rrived here after years of residence reland, where some of them were bm Neither creed nor politics enter into ta| classification, though the race i have - decided ideas and hold strongly. ,. France. Intense Excitement in tbe ProflsciilD , i trieti. London, Sept. 26.—A Paris com pondent of the Daily Naci telegraph:] the Prefect to interdict coiportige i placarding Thiers posthumous addrs The Times correspondent at Paris a graphs tbe electoral period, namely, d id which public meetings may lie tfJ has now been open two days, but fef has been no excitement in Paris w:q meetings are not necessary, as thesnea of Republicans is almost a foregone^ . In remote provincial distric • w ' —- ho foi Lutd abrj of the bitterness already arising betreu political parties. They are like twoG| [rile nations confronting each other, i “I told the mate to make work as when he brought me up a cup of tea on the poop, I asked him if his friends knew that he had started for California, Oh, no, he said, bnt I could not to g0 wRb b j 3 daU ghter, and after some _ t along well at home, and I thought - - ° - it best to go away. ^ x his time. “Well7 now,” said the old did’nt you ?” I asked. and confused. “Did he induce you to run away ?” he was coming in this ship.” “That was all I said about it then. A week or so afterward, when he was cleaning up my cabin, he got hold of a photograph of my wife, which an artist in Liverpool had undertaken to color and had made a botch of it. “Did you ever do any painting?” He said he could paint a little, and J gentIe man, and they had got a box of water color paints from the „r l;’ . th, paints third mate and some brushes and gave tined to be darkened by a repetition otj< him a few photographs to color. Yotf see how well he did it. He surprised me.” Then the captain opened his album and showed the reporter some photo graphs which were very skilfullly and The Civil Service Reform Sham, artistically retouched. “I saw him once,” continued the eap- Fifty or sixty years ago it was the ustom for gentlemen wishing servants visit emigrant ships as soon as they rived in port Selecting toe man or [woman who pleased them, they would ay his or her passage money,, about tune, residing in Philadelphia, went od [ board an emigrant ship to hire a girl, ir “purchase her time,” as it was theD called. He selected one, and was shown her father. The old man was anxious his time. .. ...... . . - 111 " “' UCCO HMJ *.m Wife; to La }, fiI elusion. uv - ■ it •, , , , , , ,{ also.” There was something so attrac- “ he> and looked rer, I live in the countenance of the old woman that the gentleman bought her time. Going together to the registerV “No, no, sir,” said he; but he told me to^complete the bargain,^theto come to blows. Never M » mac nnminrr in true chin . * . . . S . ’ . ° m I * A <U*-, ^ ^ a„.‘~ —.’i_ A. tleman was surprised to find the name- which the emigrants gave was spelt and| pronounced like his own. Inquirie: ended in discovering that he had bought the time of his own father and! mother. ■••<*•* ; 11 • When six years old a son of the old . . , folks had been taken to America by » l^et any one of our readers who U I Install knowl edge of him; indeed, they had almost <*a>aiaUar n ID A IY1QW1M forgotten they had a - spii 1 in America, oast orf the acre, and plough it in n: ] They recollected, however, that thei: - boy had a figure of a cucumber on one of hi3 shoulders. The newly found son was stripped in the office, and, to the elignt of the aged couple, there was the birth-mark. tain, “painting the photograph of a fine looking old lady. He told ree it was Bean’s mother. Well, to come to the day the accident occurred. I was on deck at the time, and Bean and Colton were sitting for’ard. I was just going to call the yoUDg chap aft to help the 3ailmaker, who was working on thi poop, when a squall came along. Th, mate sang out, the royal halyards w let go and Colton jumped into the fori A Washington letter to the Balti more Sun says: “Two or three days ago a well-known Ohio Republican came here and inti mated very plainly to those high in authority that it was a matter of neces sity for the Ohio clerks to go home and vote at the ensuing election. He said .mends as he is able; at least, that we that several close legislative districts e bound by all the higher interests-of could only be saved, if saved at all , by ivilization and humanity to fairly test[ ££« ^ k d 8 ’“ d d ^ t a “ ri^n^to ;gei alofLand Now toe_for, i , . . , .. , , t | Legislature toe urgency of the case jus for the past and secure the.fa ture be- C puld be easily perceived. In conse- ore going to war, f.r we learned so paence of these representations a meet- |mu'ch of the inherent barbarity of war ing of Ohio clerks was held last night !n our late civil contest, and have had ft the..house of* high treasmry official rr’“r °L t -u refreshed by the shocking intelligence possibly, leave ’ should go home to vote, ming to us by every dispatch from arid that those who could not go should e theater of war in Europe and Asia, contribute what funds they could spare, at very few here are anxious to need- rt “ understood that satisfactory assur ances were given that the new civil ser vice regulations would be held iaabey anco for toe present occasion. A Printer Murdered by two Ne- : groes tit Stevenson, Ala g ground etfery winter to"prey upon ’ ” |toe resources of the nation. , .... od effect to stimulate the authonties Thursday] afternoon, an unknown printer prompt precautioriary measures lela- being the victim. He had been drinking .ve to the other publid auildings here that morning. In consequence two ne- ;nd elsewhere; and theris seems to be. a groes became his crimpamons and drank principles "in his NewDrleaps and other|universal demand thatjdlinay be made ^ed’ d ’ wn fold togetoT and wme axridned the matter. But FifteB yoi nfirerproof a^d the safety of the Govern- seen talking st IJ'.’ o’clock that night about that afterward. As soon as Bean] ment archives shall be made as certain The fallowing i^opi as judicious expenditure of money can roiind at toe spot. 1 •oyal, for it was darkening up to wind ward. Bean also got into the riggin( and seemed to want to get np, bnt Col ton got ahead of him. “He laid out on the yard, got hpldj if the canvas, and the next thi mew something came whirling down] on deck with a thud that made mi shudder. The first one at the poor’fel low’s side was Bean. He tinned him] oyer, for the face was toward tha deck and then he fell down in a fit, and ,th[e boatswain attended to him. The watch] carried Colton’s body - aft His necl was broken. I pulled off the shirt, and] then I knew the whole story,” and thi <oan Association and Liqnor Taxes. The Supreme Court of Georgia has Recently decided two cases of interest to the liquor dealers and drrggists and [loan associations of the State. Both j were taken up from Savannah. The Legislature imposed a, apecial tax bn loan associations similar to that Lpn- posed on banka of discount. This tax i resisted on the ground that the fex id this painful animosity attain tbei tensity to which it has been growing&sl [the 16th of May. Che Use of Rye s>” J * >eas “ Imni-.-niff Land. acre of cotton near hi3 house mmedfately a half bushel ofrye brt-K sweep. From December 1st, to Mar:j 1st, or even later, this will afford soil pasture for hogs. From April 13 «j 15th, apply a hundred pounds of la--l plaster, and sow one bushel of pesii| the acre; turn under the rye and p| with a good turn plow. As soon as peas are fully grown in weed, so* other bushel of peas, and turn 1 whole under again. When six inttf I high use one hundred and fifty poc-l of land plaster, while the dew is oc'-'I plant. Pasture this wilh sheep or to?-1 and turn under again, and yow will be increased 120 per cent in tility.— Georgia Grange. New York, 8ept. 26—A from Sanderval, Illinois, says in®! id to the city for a license covtertd l he Illinois Central railroad »*| *U taxes due. it was held by thegthrown from_ the track at u ocioc^l Court, however, that such .specials tax3j r - er dny morning, killing seven p '• i3 perfectly, legimate, aud is separates!? 018 tf 3 *! rnjunng a number o fend distinct from the municipal tax. Masked men were seen by pa=- - The Legrelfeture of 1876 impos^;spA‘ ,Br — * l ’“ — ** ,hfl m0 ° 1 :ial tax of 825 on every dealer in iritox- |icating bitters. Byrequestofthe.deal- irs the Governor suspended tha colleo- iou of this tax until top meeting of ae General Assembly, but rio me of relief was passed, and the d&e 1 ■’uto the Courts. The tafe'-art o iresent year imposed a tax of 825 os very dealer in spirituous) liquorsi ,amd coribiliatory ^pblicy wUl make Rep« repeatedthe tax of 825,on-every dejdei ^ng ont ofSpnthem Democrats kw lire tafe act of‘the is going the rounds: He who believes that the skipper took a glass of sherry, and hisffp intoxicating . bitters: The liquor I----—x “dealers diSavaflnan united tax, relyingchiefly on the _ tat the tax on spirituo\ls.liqtlora incTu- eyes were moist. . - “What was the mystery ?” asked the The Nashville American states that'a reporter. -“ - ti t ~ v ' 1: 1 — * **»-a_u«.s-i ijleWeiJ,” said toe captain; “just this Colton clidnot belong to our: aide of the| deck.. The body • that was -sewed np nd launched into the deep was a young woman, and she was Bean’s wife, for I found the marriage certificate in Bean’sl trunk with some letters that partially! e had been struck five times' on the head with a car-link. His cranium had been crushed st ev< stroke. Either one would have kill hip. His gold watch, diamond pin and was got right he oame aft looking like ghost, and he knew by my lace that 1 had discovered the seoret _,,the tax on into: *as held ’felso in.' dad tax on intoxrcatirig 'hi 1 erate and distinct from ! that paid tierally on .intoxication liquors; and ould be collected.—Ckom. Cup,,., The D. ht of, 6epi5jia^ ^ A dreular just issued by‘Mk' JoMf H. tbe Federal Government, and still fe James, Banker of Atlanta Mtimatekthe (a not happy, but would, prov fntnl hnnrlfid debt ofGenreia at S10.945. tb< oviaoqs lix dollars were missing, A pair of gold out with spectacles, a "rule” and 85 cents In change “Captain," said he, taking off his hat, 500- The new CoDstitation, whi ‘would you havo any objection to lot* no doubt be adopted on the oth ting we stay alone with it thia night ?” cenaber, sa^ tbe railroad- proper «o w I le£ him stay all night by the body, l° n o in o from the car siindows, as the moon shining brightly, but after the a«M could not be found. It is they intended to plunder and nw passengers, but were frightened a*A T ' : Here’s the- shape in which the t’ ry little of the facts. Southern- blicans have no hope of tanyw gle State lir the next election- » wo wmowo tVinf. the oreature 1 mat>In , we presume that the o> Will hot be kept up 1 at all in .—Krtoyp Chron. tit)# has the President, the eral, Lieutenant-General and°ne^- General of the army; the Chtw J d one Associate Justice oi irrie Cdurt, and the Secretary total bonded debt of Georgia gfe 0 i ey Matthews misses tbe too ^ hlm od the Supreme be fe tween Waite and Swayne. "KJhio', =;<j'i . Li ■:]_ ieven millions ofdollars,. ehalV,"' when New York Commercial: “It* never saw such a dies- sold, be us^i toi pay .th® fitatoiidefft- believed that Osman j and I can imagine what the poor fel- 1. I ‘ ‘ low suffered, pairing face ...... that which met me when I opened the cabin door and the hands were sum- gation to “thri ^GiSt ^Fatherl’ sd by two unkniown r - riegfries.; • .• ‘ White House. , A]l ; Bave Spqttied v Ta^I ] !, , arid Red Clond-*,wete doitoed oit in i ;• ■ ii .v - ; [jdfiiw m .“ P re Mr 11 Jfl^e rMd,cj»,,8l ^ispute:aK» e asfe’the.. 6 — r of teams passing ia opposite di- ions, pud one negro-picked up h dm seat and .struck the other .ovi vaAthe head fepd, killed hiin.-—Macon Tel gj # I «p8iv< T • 0ffic« al Foundry, corner Franklin St‘and Bov. . 4 , toip face on a man in my life as Thiq gives toe hold; - B ga lien on this property unoerttois Con- This question : stitution.' Thete is" a ptovisidri also foi fifcve the word of Sitting Bull is too ***— the hand of the President at -wdl urn House, in. Chattanooga.‘‘‘y day, and reminded Mr. Hay* J, 'the speaker) was “wantioe ^ luntsville pdstofflce.”-Y»i»^ Georgia bonds tTamilirm. Who, then is Sitting undeiftois Con iThia question perplexes 03, oauau UV a» *•***» - ,. w*. „****. . revision also for have the word of Sam Small toi moned for the funeral services. He ^sinking fund to pay $100,000 anntial- Sitting Bull is the man ff a0 and It oo the dqfct, If tha: railroads, ate the hand of the President at |,1 ^ In thirty,-fiye. ycar3, Gpo Trr1 *- “ill — r.K«H«nootza, . '--Is e nothing. No rnore^feta. givOn. Tli'esfe'restriction ate worth f ifoifatioN, by r 'WWy”State hr th 'Hbm Georgia’scteditosnowafe 1 gooi Ofjyiotoer^latevirtdihtN-hopdq sell 8| ‘“ ", “ & ‘Bfea&PSS-JW stood by until the J . the' . , it raw body slipped off into that the shot carried it down, down i e, blue depths he watched it Until it ppeared.1 Than he jumped,anfthi it rajlj trad ;before': any^ic ' iwasigosfti?) am5 ——i?t; t::h oao tsos^oi t'unted through •his rteuuk,” sto**_^ : . ‘land found *, bundle -of which lam. going Jo -eneloee to s , friends at home. .From what I uld learri from them it appears that .can "(which was an assumed nemo) was a young fellow of good; family hut wild.' r The girl’s people wore also TOfcS# what 'Htfes Joe’s und yonr'wxistvt.en yoty«« on.t-gato lastnight?” asked P M tidy of nis sister. , ki^I 'irii If . “His arm wasn’t round W, ;The yonng• .iovers, oWho drat; e^ing I won a ^*| swot* .hy.sdV that jmy^wasure.- well off aud reputable. hoy and ran away with;him, v were married. He went, to iioes in on ms 1 srae uuo iuipu»u,. coyerBioff. nil ;: mostly sought after.]