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Newspaper Page TextCourier and ^ommemaJ, ;0NS oUDATEP APRIL IQ. 1878. 3ATES OF SUBSCR1PTI0HS. fob the weekly. nr» w 0 " 1 *'* fob the tbi-weekly. Moatl r , . nx d Ptrictlr in ed-rence, the price of : W..ILT Comres will b« $1 50 a yen, and f,, T !.$5 CO. *• 1 ,' nh ,sre or more, one copy will be fur- ,, B 1 T*“- Reports from the famine-stricken dis- ,,f India represent the situation as It is estimated ; ( (|v improving, 7 ‘, -vi i <0.1 people have perished pi e -alary of Marsha! MacMahon as pp-'ident of the French Republic is hundred thousand francs. He re- ceivcF, in addition, his pay and per- ouisites as Marshal of France. ntussiNc mi; kio craned. I n:t. Bullis crossed the Rio Grande of.th ult.. and was followed a / ‘ v j a y S later by Col. Shafter. This invasion of Mexican soil by our forces created "cite a sensation, but the report ‘rntn Galveston, October 2d, that they Vive returned to American soil, on the K : o Grande, without loss, is calculated to rdlav apprehension of further com- plication. The expedition resulted in JUSTICE AND TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOLUME XXXII. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 6 McDonald and mortoh. the capture nf twelve horses and seven ty-two mules which had been stolen. pvt u ,t eu! The New York Graphic sorrowfully yet gracefully. It says: "In truth the mission of the Republican party ended with tha con- •juest of the South, the passage of the three last amendments to the Consti tution, and the reconstruction of the v n ion. A party cannot'live without iJeas or without a mission. Called into existence to perform a most bene ficent work, after a record of which it need not be ashamed, the Republican pa-ty is now somewhat stormily pass inpout of the public view.” “Stormily passing out of the public view,” is good. Investigations thus far have shown shat was already widely suspected— that the K-cent fire in the Patent Office was the work of an incendiary. The Baltimore Gazette says the Board of Inquiry are not only satisfied of this, but they are of opinion that the fire was started by some one well acquainted with the building. Now, this investi gation ought to go on until the person orpersons concerned in it are brought to justice, and, if necessary, agents skilled in the detection of crime should be employed and set to work. It ought not to lie difficult to discover the author of this abominable crime, and unless he is discovered there will always be a ruq it-i-in that iie is already known and pr ft-cted by those iu authority. THt: I It W TIONAL CURRENCY. The public debt statements show that hi: -til'll there is still a large amount tractional currency nominally out- un iing, the redemption of it is proba- iy nearly at an end. When the issue ■ diver coin for the currency began, ~r- w.i-- about 8-52,000,000 of it out- -ntiog. In Febuary last this had «n reduced to 824,435,420; in April ha-i been further reduced to 822,1S6,- i in to May21,205,930; August to 19,- 2114. andinow it is reduced to 818,- 'V-'-hJ—the amount redeemed from ■v islrf August to the 1st of October,be- IC only 83.So.472. The redemption of ■ dwindling and will soon virtually e-use, wite perhaps as much as 815,000,- ■ti-i unredeemed. This will be a ear gain to the government, for it will ■; resent so much fractional currency f- r.y -lestr-.yt-l that can never be pres- ■f- i f -jr redemption. Senator McDonald, of Indiana, has entered into an agreement with his col league, Senator Morton, that is the sub ject of much criticism. Senator Morton is anxious to be present at the special meeting of Congress this month, but is not probable his heolth will permit him to attend the daily sessions of the Senate. It is said that McDonald, be tween whom and Morton there exists personal friendship, notwithstanding their political antagonism, has entered into a compact to pair off with the in valid Senator on all important votes when the letter shall be too ill to be in his seat. The Indianapolis Sentinel not pleased with this bargain, and open ly expresses its disapproval. “If,” says, “Senator Morton ^continues aid and is unable to take his seat in the Senate, and on account of this fact Mr. McDonald refuses to vote upon ques tions which come before that body of party- character, he will fail to comply with the wishes of those who made him Senator.” It must be admitted that the arrange-, ment has more of romance than reason in it It is hardly fair that the Demo cratic party should lose Senator McDon ald’s vote because Senator Morton is. sick; that would be carrying the pair ing-off business to a ridiculous extent The Louisiana Senatorial question would illustrate 'its unfairness. SeDa- Morton is in favor of the admission of Kellogg, the worthless pretender chosen by the now defunct Packard Legislature to succeed Senator West, while McDon ald is in favor of Spofford, chosen by the existing Legislature. Spofford ought to bs admitted because he repre sents the State, and when the vote is taken in the Senate every Democratic Senator ought to be in his seat and as sist in securing his admission. If Sen ator McDonald should refuse to vote for Spofford merely because his colleague is too sick to vote for Kellogg, it would be sacrificing the public good to a sen timental friendship. It is not probable that Senator Morton would he so con siderate of his colleague if the positions were changed. MISSOURI’S NEW senator. DICK Isl'S TEED. Il,e closing paragraph of a letter aom one Richard Busteed, appointed Judge of the Federal Court in Alabama -f President Lincoln, (it is said as a .use will be amusing to such of our ‘w-ers as live in Alabama, or are ac- .'tainted with the workings of affairs -n^that State for the last twelve years : Tou and I, John, have this abiding consolation: we are speeding to the •Mile of the blest, where sickness and ’ 0,row come not, where moth and rust a ° not corrupt, and where venal politi- S 8 not annoy us. No Parsons -‘tc—r.o Semples—no Bob Smiths— ; “forge E. Spencer trash. But Pope , r "ill be there, and old Elmore, Gopton, and Cochran, (the fat boy) . Micnel, and you and /. I am not oteabout Sam Rice, or Adam Felder, i me me, dear John, and believe e - Faithfully yours, ,, Richard Busteed. , “ ar, ly, Esq., Dixie, Chilton conn 'd- Alabama. episcopal convention. Tie triennial convention of the Epis- ^pal Church of the United States con- in Boston on the 3d instant eputies from each of the forty-five in the different sections of the We copy from an exchange ■ ' ‘ --‘lowing in reference to the open- “^“lonies and organization of the ‘t-vention : ‘1 o clock a line of Bishops, near- . ‘ ll number, filed in at the main and marched down the center ,1,"' 0 the chancel. The younger ones ,;j er ? nter ‘Eg the aisles formed on each -L 1 “ at ‘he seniors in the order of to it , s °f consecration, might lead - e chancel. The Bishop of Ken- CJ’ l ,he Rt. Rev. Bern. Bosworth ■or,- ’ Th, I-L. D., whose date of ononis 1832, headed the line, ofy- ?. immediately by the Bishops skj .'8 an i Maryland, Delaware, Mis- Ofi-J’P' 1 others in the order of seni- P-ev ’\i- l “ e ,,^i 8 h°p of Iowa, the Rt las,' if' StcveDs . Perry, D. D., coming theVb. i l ^ e bishops were seated in tFedp/- the services began, and pro- the r-i,„ ln i ac ^ or<lailce with the ritnal of .\' t , t y rc ,h- Dr. Potter, of Grace Church, . or k, made the exhortation and ofi.( the sermon was preach- i.lli John Williams, D. D., -- ’ ■’ Wsaop of Connecticut. The eoruniu Be n ; w , ils celebrated by Rt Rev. Thefe« h Smith, D. D' L.L. D. ^ hfc Horn -‘resident j ur 2 eES , of Massachusetts, sc of Clerical and Lay Dep- ttsident. Gov. Phelps, of Missouri, has appointed Col. David H. Armstrong to fill the va cancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of late Senator Bogy. Of the fortunate gentleman the Missouri Re publican. has this to say : Col. David H. Armstrong was born in Annapolis county, Nova Scotia, in the year 1S12. He came West and settled in St. Louis in 1837, where he engaged in business. He became, before many years had passed, well known in local politics and was in 1852 a member of the Demo cratic State Central Committee. For many years he was chairman of that body, and a leader in its deliberations. In 1870 his influence was strongly felt when political matters were so mixed, and since that time he has been promi nent in Democratic councils. During the administration of Buchanan Cal. Armstrong was postmaster at St Louis, and has since that date occupied many official positions of influence. He has held twice the position of police commis sioner has become known as an efficient and active officer in that department of munnicipal affairs. It is the office of po lice comraisssoner which he will resign in accepting the Senatorship. Virginia elects a Legislature Nov. G i GEORGIA GLIMPSES. On Sunday night last some thief stole Rev. W. W. Carroll’s bay horse, two miles below Marietta. The Gwinnett Herald learns that diptheria is prevailing to an alarming extent in the eastern portion of the county. One hundred and eighty-five thou sand pounds of dried fruit have been shipped from Barnesville, Ga., this season. At Augusta, last Friday, eleven shares of Georgia Railroad stock were sold at public outcry. Five shares brought 721, and six 721. Mrs. W. A. Whitehead died last Tues day at Rockmart. She had been sick several days, but died unexpectedly, and was found dead in her bed. The City Council of Augusta gener ously appropriated 855 to meet the ex penses of Judge W. Milo Olin, who has gone on a mission of mercy to stricken ere Trtr e four clergymen and four Fernandina. •- v Eputies frnm ..f ik» The Georgia Register says of the tru ly reverend Dr. Lovick Pierce that he is rapidly failing. He preached re cently a short sermon, scarcely audible. He is now 93 years of age. The Savannah News is urging the enforcement of strict quarantine regu lations in order to prevent the introduc tion of yellow fever, which is both above and below Savannah on the coast The Cartersville Express says there we twenty-nine persons baptised at Pettit’s creek on Sunday last, the result of the revival which has been progress ing at the Baptist church for the past few weeks. The Griffin Sun remarks: Jonesboro has hitched up her teams and com- The Capital Question. Mr. Editor—“Fair play,” they say, “is a jewel,” but the writer in your issue of the 27th ulL, who signs himself “An old Farmer of North Georgia,” has for gotten the axiom. One would suppose from reading his article that the State owned no property in Atlanta, and if the capital was located there by the vote in December, that we would have to commence at the bottom rail and build up, when, in fact, the public build ings in that place are superior to those in Milledgeville. Should the capital remain in Atlan ta, there would be no necessity of spending one dollar for public improve ments until the last cent of Georgia’s indebtedness wa9 paid. To return to Milledgeville will require an outlay of at least fifty thousand dollars, and un til that amount is expended the State Government cannot he accommodated in the old capitol. In my opinion, the article alluded to was written many miles from the Chat tahoochee, and not on this side either. No man living in North Georgia would write an article bearing such bitter ha tred throughout to his own section, and I say this because the writer well knew we had public buildings in Atlanta equal if not superior to those in Mil ledgeville, and that it would not re quire the expenditure of one million of dollars if Atlanta was chosen as the fu ture capital of the State. As to public buildings, Milledgeville can claim no advantage over Atlanta, and the same objections as to the build ing of a new capitol applies to one as to the other. Now, let us see if they are equal in another respect. Atlanta proposes to donate the City Hall lot, containing five acres, in the heart of the city, to the State, and place thereon a capitol equal in every respect to the one in Milledge ville. What does Milledgeville propose to do ? Do they even propose to pay the expense of removing the State De partments bock to Milledgeville, [to say nothing of repairing the public build ings so that they will answer the pur poses of carrying on the State Govern ment ? Not one dollar do they propose to give, and not one dollar will they give. And if Atlanta was to give noth ing, the two rivals would stand on an equal footing. But Atlanta proposes to give the State about three hundred thousand dollars, whilo Milledgeville proposes to build two hotels to accom modate the Legislature. All the writer’s talk about the public debt is simply poppy-cock, or, in plain English, to deceive the people. Now, the question for the people to decide is simply, which is the best lo cation for the capital, Atlanta or Mil ledgeville, The public debt or the building of a new capitol has nothing to do with the question. The only question that could arise would be whether it is cheaper to build additions to the old capitol at Milledgeville, and the expense of removing from Atlanta to that place, which will not cost less than fifty thousand dollars, or remain at Atlanta, where the State will be at no additional expense. As far as I am individually concern ed, I would not give the toss up of a copper where the capital was located, as I never have any business that leads me to that plaoe, the only object I have is to do justice, and that does nobody an injury. If the reader will observe what I have written carefully, he will see that I am correct, and that the only question to determine is, which is the best location—the most accessable. While Milledgeville is about fifty miles nearer the geographical center of the State, Atlanta knocks out the bull’s eye as the railroad center, and, as I have to vote, I shall choose Atlanta as a matter of economy—retrenchment and reform being the order of the day. Fair Play. For the Romo Conner. The Capital Question Again* Mr. Editor—I notice that the Tribune charges the Courier as having been the author of the article on the capital question written was the signature os An old Farmer of North Georgia.” The Courier is at perfect liberty to in form the editor of the Tribune who the old farmer of North Georgia is, and the Tribune will learn that the writer of that article is nothing more nor less than an old farmer, and that farming has been his only occupation for forty- two years. Since writing that article see that Atlanta has renewed her proposition, made to the convention, to the people. But the proposition, as liberal as it is, will not release the tax payers from paying a tax for a new capitol. I/Ocate the capital at Atlanta, and would the present building used as the capitol answer the purpose? Never. Atlanta, and all who voted for Atlanta, would insist that Georgia should have fine and as elegant a capitol build ing as any other State. That will be the next question sprung; and the re sult will be, a splendid capitol must be built—an ornament to Atlanta, and a credit to the State of Georgia. Now, we sume, taxed as they now are; and repeat, it would be better to go back to Milledgeville and make use of our ol 1 capitol, even if it took 8100,000 to ii >- pair it, and add on additions wanting. It is a matter of local and selGsh inter est with Atlanta and Milledgeville, bdt with the people it is a matter of dollare and cents—which comes out of their pockets; and as such, they had best con sider what the cost will be before they vote. The question then to be decided by your votes is simply this, Atlanta and a capitol that will cost at least two millions of dollars; or Milledgeville and repairs on the old capitol, say one hundred thousand dollars. We are now heavily taxed, more than we can stand, and there is a State debt of twelve millions and interest yet toj®- paid through taxation. Under such circumstances, is it prudent or wise to add another two millions to such debt when there iB no necessity for it? I look upon the question in a financial light, as a farmer; and I am for incur ring no more debt than can be helped, feeling well satisfied that our State Gov ernment and legislation can be as well carried on at Milledgeville as at Atlan ta, and if we can avoid a large debt by doing so, Milledgeville is the place, whilst Georgia is so largely in debt and our taxes are so high and oppres sive. Now, my brother farmers, bear this in mind, that what taxes Georgia raises are needed to pay her debts, and the expenses come out of the pockets of the farmers and producing classes. All pursuits, lawyers, merchants and me chanics, place a profit on their capital and investments, and their cost of liv ing, taxes, etc., are placed on their cost account, so when you employ them or buy fiom them their taxes are placed on their cost, and the one employing them or buying from them pays their taxes. So. whatever is the debt or ex penses of Georgia it finally comes out of the pockets of her farmers and other producers; as such, it stands in hand for the farmers to go in for an econom ical administration of our State Gov ernment, and economy in our county affairs, so as to reduce taxation as much as possible. We must do so, or con tinue a heavily taxed people. If At lanta wants the capital let her build a capitol and donate it to the State, and that settles the question forever. The people are too heavily taxed now to build a new capiir'E orb nut against Atlanta, bnt against heavier taxation. As old Farmer of North Georgia. Extracts from our Washington Correspondence. menced hauling cotton and goods to aa t i how much will Atlanta’s donation and from Atlanta again, rather than be imposed upon by Wadley’s intolerable monopoly. It is well that Judges have the pow er of correcting judicial mistakes. In a county court in Georgia Joe Wadley was found guilty of larceny. Judge Beeks. in writing the sentence, inserted the name of Lewis Nutting, the prose cutor, instead of Joe’s.” go toward building such a capitol? It will be merely a drop in the bucket. Atlanta’s gift will be 8350,000, and such a capitol as Atlanta wants, and the State is entitled to, will cost at least two and a half million dollars. So the taxpayers will be saddled with an adi- ditional debt of at least two millions of dollars. This is, as I said before, too Washington, Oct. 1,1877, It will be remembered that Mr. Ira Ayer was one of the special agents of the Treasury under whose lynx-eyed suspicion the custom house at Norfolk was robbed and defrauded of nearly 830,000, these crooked transactions ex tending through a series of years. He is said to have uniformly reported ev erything in apple-pie order. It is now given out that his instructions were so limited that he could not have known anything about the rascalities being perpetrated in his very presence. To those who do not regard this statement as very thin, indeed, the conclusion that it would have been money in Uncle Sam’s pocket to have abolished the secret service division, so far, at least, as it related to the custom house in question, is inevitable, for of what possible benefit can it be to pay officials big salaries to report everything all right, when it is all wrong, and rapidly going to the dogs ? It was supposed by many simple-minded people that Ayre was stationed at Norfolk to prevent, among other duties, just such thefts as were perpetrated. Contrary to general expectation, the jury in the Sawyer conspiracy trial, which retired after a very clear charge from Judge McArthur, Saturd«y after noon, had agreed before midnight on a verdict of guilty as to Sawyer, Haines, and Brooks, and not guilty as to Bars- tons. The prisoners received the an nouncement without any special show of emotion, and were at once conveyed to jail, and to-day the motion for a new trial will be argued. The Indians attended church yester day at the Foundry, and, in common vernacular, proved a good card. They are to have a final pow-wow with the President to-day. Secretary McCrary will recommend that existing regimental organizations be recruited to their maximum strength, adding about 15,000 efficient men to the military establishment, and avoid ing the objection to any increase of offi- cere. It will increase the army budget over this year’s estimates by about 89.- 000,000, allowing 8600 per annum for the expenses of each man. Knox. The Bankrupt Law. New York, Sept. 27.—A petition, which has already been signed by more than nine hundred New York bank presidents, merchants, manufacturers and business men generally, and which urges the Senate to confirm the course of the House of Representatives in re pealing the bankrupt law, is nowin circulation in this city. The petition itself is a remarkable document, con taining as it does the autograph signa tures of many of the most eminent men of the mercantile community of New York. The reasons assigned for the proposed repeal are that die law af fords an opportunity for fraud, and that it is differently intepreted in dif ferent places. - Gen. Howard is called Dsy-after-To-, r heavy a debt for the taxpayers to as- morrow by the Indians. ' iM liy and a dangerous man. ‘ Hard Times.' We publish the following extracts from a lecture of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, because they strike us as being full of good, hard, common sense. Even if the reverend lecturer’s views upon religion and morality are a little shaky, and his knowledge of farming such as to cause him to raise onions at a cost oi one dol lar and fifty cents per bushel, when they are sold at his door for a dollar, he seems at least to have pretty clear views upon this subject; Hard times came like a paralysis on in dustry. The causes were given various ly as overproduction, over importation, over consumption—too mnch tariff—not enough tariff, luxury or want of confi dence. In 1873 the banner of industry floated far and wide over tbtriland; in the short space of a month it was trailing in the dust. In America a crash came around about every fifteen yeara and in England every twenty-five years, and the reason was the system of credit Then people cried; “Let us have done with credit Pay as you go.” But if a man is nnable to pay can’t he go? A man with everything ready except cash should not be kept down for want of credit Example—A good carpenter comes to a town in Michigan. Stands idle. Why don’t he work! No tools. Buy them. No money. Then credit steps in. The man gets the tools—works and pays for them. Every one is thus benefited. Cash says, “What have you got?” j’Notbingbut a jack-knife.” “Well, then, yhittle.” Paying as you go has no discrimination, bnt credit has. A man with gold can get what he pleases, no matter what his morals, but credit demands that the man shall be an upright, honest man. * The honest young man without gold is not a punctuation mark to the sentence of the immoral man’s riches. Credit is a premium on enterprise, en- eigy and ability bnt if we take credit we must take its attendant evils. Credit causes crashes—but life with mistakes is better than death with noth ing. Business that slops over occasionally is preferable to stagnation. Cities-are better than grove-yards. Bat credit brings out all the elements of human nature and it causes men to lie, cheat and be dishonest. Light was breaking through the dark cloud that covered the land. At first the lending line and the paying line start out together, and probably will keep so for three months Only gilt-edge men need apply, for loans ana debts are paid when due. After a year prosperity sets in and there is more leniency in lending. Then the paying line drops behind the lending line. In six years time the lines have bade a lasting farewell and can’t see each other. The credit begins to drag a lengthy trail of unpaid debts—dead ducks. If there is nothing to scare the country this may go on indefinitely. At last when everybody is debtor to some one else, when debt is interfiliated into the whole business structure, a stroke comes. Every one wants at the same time to gather in his skirts—otherwise his debts. Then comes a day of judgment on the pocket Through the business world is thundered, “Pay what thou owest.” People say it is want of confidence, but it is want of cash. American people are mercurial. They act quick, eat quick, live quick, and die quick. This is the reason the crash comes around in every fifteen years in Ameri ca, while it takes twenty-five,years in England and about a hundred in Hol- land. Thus, with the stimulant of credit, the business tinder catches fire, and flash it goes through every fibre of the country. Yet these lessons do not remain on the American merchants’ mind. The average merchant can only remember ss long as a bank credit. By the war four thou sand million dollars were flung on the country—an Atlanta Ocean, whose every drop was a dollar. It no wonder that the wheel of industry revolved so fast with such a deluge pouring on it. There were now two thousand million bonds paying no interest, and until this was replaced—by labor and intellect stamping their impress on the raw mate rial and property until that amount accu mulated—hard times could not cease. Mr. Beecher himself had been taken in on worthless bonds, and, and he wished to say at St Paul said—“I would that thou wert not almost but altogether as I am, except bonds.” Labor had been doing its work in the country since 1873. and better times were not only at hard but actually here. And it is to be hoped that the youthful generation had learned that there is no real prosperity without labor, and this was the lesson taught by “hard times.” Lawful for a Radical to Shoot a Colored Man ? Cincinnati, October 1—Hon* Cassius M. Clay, yesterday morning shot and instantly killed a negro named Perry White. Gen. Clay had employed White’s mother as cook, but finding that she had been robbing him of sil verware and other articles discharged her. Yesterday morning he started from his farm six miles from Rich mond, Kentucky.to visit a negro church in the neighborhood for the purpose of hiring another servant While on the way he discovered a loose horse in the pasture near the roadside, and the negro Perry White endeavoring to conceal himself behind the animaL White had threatened Clay’s life and was known as a desperate character. Upon perceiving him, Clay immediate ly leaped down, confronts the negro and ordered him to throw op - his hands. The negro obeyed and Clay talked to him roughly and ordered him to leave the place telling him that if he moved from his position un til Clay was remounted he would kill him. As soon as Clay started for his horse, the negro rushed after him, bnt Clay turned suddenly, fired twice, hitting the negro in the neck and breast General Clay then rode to town: and delivered himself fo the authorities. The feeling of the community is entirely with Clay. White had the reputation oi bemga bul- Leaves of Gold. One Dight when the earth was so silent that the footfalls of the guardian angels who passed to and fro could almost be heard, and when the grand canopy of Heaven blazed with bright stars, an old man, who bad made his bed oh the grass undera lone tree on the'eommons, awoke with a shiver. The chill night air had crept through his faded and worn gar ments and pinched his flesh. He sat up and looked out him with that long ing expression in his eyes which comes only when men feel that the earth is fast passing away from them forever. He had no friends. Even the wander ing dog which passed near him growled angrily as it caught the flutter of the old man’s rags in the gentle breeze. When a tree becomes old and with ered, and ready to die, men despise it They forget the beauty it held for years, and they give it no praise for the grate ful shade it offered to thousands. They would have its shade and strength and beauty endure forever, forgetting that every living thing must grow older day by day and at last die. Men had fergotten all the good words ever spoken by this old man. If he had smoothed the rough paths ol the poor—if he had turned the wicked into better paths—if his kind words had filled despairing hearts with new hopes he had no credit for it—in the hearts of men, They had sneered and scoffed at his slow step and his many tatters, and they had laughed in derision as he fell upon the hard earth. No sailor, cast npon a lone isle in the great ocean, see ing ships sailing to and fro, but none ever turning toward him, could have felt such isolation as this old man felt. With his long, gray locks—with his rags_ and tatters—with his wounded and aching heart—with his knowledge that his hoars were numbered, he turned his pale face to the bright stars and mused; “When the leaves flutter down I shall die, and like them I shall be forgotten by all men. They will bury me, bnt they will not mark my grave. They may write my name in a book, but no one will eve turn to it Let me die to night—let me be no more when the golden leaves flutter down to the chilly earth!” Shivering in the keen air of mid night, he held his face in his hand and pon lered, and prayed. Few hearts had sinned less, even when smarting under the sense of the world’s ridicule and neglect—few hearts had deeper long ing for the blessed rest of Heaven. By and by the air no longer chilled him. He grew warmer, and his old heart grew larger, and as sleep came back to his eye-lids he whispered : “If I evi-r wronged one human bein The Pennsylvania Invasion G*b. Lcc’i Purpose In Crossing the Poto mac—The Musing Cavalry. in God’s great world may the angels forgive me!” The frost was creeping onward (.from the north—creeping over hill top and orohnrH :md meadow SO soltly that the blades of grass hardly quivered. It crept to the tree and lingered for a mo ment in its branches. The green leaves shivered, then the green faded away, little by little, and, lo 1 each leaf was robed in gold 1 They quivered in their joy and gladness as the breeze whisp ered: “The old man below you is dead 1 He was waiting for these golden robes to come to you. I will waft yon down, and you shall cover his gray head with such a crown as no king ever wore.” And while the leaves were floating down to glorify what men had despised, an angel in Heaven turned the golden pages of a book and wrote: “Earth has sent another soul to dwell with us and find eternal joy and peace!” Gen. H. Hath, in the Philadelphia Times. Only a short time before Gen. Grant crossed the Rapidan, in the spring of 1864, Gen Lee said to me: “If I could do so—unfortunately I cannot—I would again cross the Potomac and invade Pennsylvania. I believe it to be our true policy, notwithstanding the failure of last year. An invasion of the ene my’s country breaks up all of his pre conceived plans, relieves our country of his presence, and we subsist while there on his resonrees. The question of food for this army gives me more trouble and uneasiness than everything else combined; the absence of the army from Virginia gives our people an opportu nity to collect supplies ahead. The le gitimate fruits of a victory, if gained in Pennsylvania, could be more readily reaped than on out own soil. We would have been in a few days’ march of Philadelphia, and the occupation of that city would have given us peace.’ It is very difficult for any one not con nected with the Army of Northern Vir ginia to realize how straitened we were for supplies of all kinds, especially food. The ration of a General officer was double that of a private, and so meagre was that double supply that frequently to appease my hunger I robbed my horse of a handful of com, which, parched in the fire, served to allay cravings of nature. What must have been the condition of the private? In speaking of the fight of the 3d of July at Gettysburg, Gen. Lee said: “I shall ever believe if Gen. Pender had re mained on his horae half an hour long er we would have carried the enemy’s position. After Pender fell the com mand of his division devolved on an officer unknown to the division; hence the failure of Pickett’s receiving the support of this division. Our loss was heavy at Gettysburg; but in my opin ion no greater than it weald have been from the series of battles I would have been compelled to fight had I remain ed in Virginia.” “Gen. Lee,” says Maj. Seddon, “then rose from his seat, and with an emphatic gesture said, ‘and, sir, we did whip them at Gettysburg, anc it will be seen for the next six months that army will be as quiet as a sucking dove.”’ The army of the Potomac made no aggressive movement, saving the fiasco known as Mine Run, from the 3dof July, 1863, until Gen. Grantcrossed the Rapidan in May, 1864, precisely ten months afterward. > The failure to crush the Federal army in Pennsylvania in 1863, in the opinion of almost all the officera of the Army of Northern Virginia, can be ex pressed in five words—the absence of our cavalry. Down to Hard Fan. David A. Wells, seer and philoso pher, discusses the present economic condition of the United States, in the last number of the North American Re view. The whole article should be read by political students, whether they are willing to accept all its conclusions or not. It is, of course, too long for re production in these columns, and we therefore give a summary of it that has conveniently come to hand : 1. It is well for all of ns to under stand that a great and permanent change has'recently taken place in the condition of our country. The day of small things has come to ns. Incomes, wages and expenses mast be scaled down. The profits of all sorts of bus iness have been permanently reduced. 2. Capital is feeling the influence of this deranged condition of things. This is shown by the fact that the United States is now placing a loan at four per cent-, which, a few years ago, would not have been taken at less than six per cent. 3. The present condition of trade is the result of circumstances which have permanently reduced profits, so. that the future prosperity of individuals will depend more npon economy than npon large profits. ' / 4. Events since 1760 have tended, to equalize the conditions of life as be tween Europe and America, and these conditions have new approached each other so nearly .that the American lar Iwrer must make up his mind hence- forth not to be so much better off than the European laborer. It will be hard er for him to cease to be a laborer and become an employer of labor. 5. Men will hereafter in this country have more of a struggle to escape from the place in which they may he born. We are now abont down to hard pan, economically. Oar ccndition does not differ much from that of Europe. Small savings of small earnings must be the foundations of fatnre fortunes in this country. Sale of a Railroad. Louisville, October 1.—The Louis ville Cincinnati and Lexington rail road extending from Louisville to Cin cinnati, was sold by order of Chancel lor Sruce to-day mortgage bond holdera and floating creditors, purchased the lhe line for 8731,000, subject to tlese mortgages one in favor of the city of LotnayTllC for ’one hundred thousand, another in favor of Guthrie, Knight fi Bowles for - seven hundred thousand, and a third in favor of Morris, Green and others amounting tothree millions. The road is an unusually prosperous oiie. - . ' - _ :' | r Hayes found one old line whig in the South. Col. W. W. Gates, the ven erable editor of the resuscitated West Tennessee Whig, nominates Hayes and Hampton for 1880. The President’s Southern Tour. Cor. Cincinnati Gazette. Washington, Sep. 27.—Now that the Southern tour of the President, with a portion of his Cabinet and members of the administrative household is ended, it may not be amiss to make a brief review of it. In magnitude it exceeded anything of the kind hitherto attempt ed. In the early days of the Republic the Presidents made pilgrimages, bnt they were necessarily tedious and lim ited without railroads. Beginning at Cincinnati Monday morning and end ing at Washington Tuesday evening of the following week, the Presidential party, numbering about twenty-five, in cluding the historians of the journey, traveled through nine States, made stops that could be called visits at nine cities and tows, and rode over about 1,400 mites by rail, without the slighest accident or loss of time. I*, is a rail road achievement of some importance when the number of different roads traversed is taken into account, and also the fact that Bpecial trains were furnished, running on special time schedules. The trip to Atlanta is due, it is said, to the energy of a railroad man, Thomas McGill, of Atlanta. When the President had declined the invita tion of the committee, McGill resolved to capture the President anyhow. He first approached Mr. Evarts, who posi tively reaused to urge the President fur ther. McGill, not despairing, begged him to not stand in the way if the President consented. Mr. Evarts said he wanted to go, and would certainly not object McGill then went to the President with a time schedule, showing that by traveling three nights Atlanta could be visited, Sabbath spent in Knoxville, and Washington reached by Tuesday night The President adopt ed the plan, and the most important visit on the route was thus secured. The Adopting Business- Drtmit Free Press. There is a grape arbor in front of a house on Macomb street, and the tempt ing clusters of black grapes make more than one pedestrian’s mouth water. A boy ten years old softly opened the gate yesterday forenoon and passed in. When he came out fifteen seconds later he was only sixteen inches in advance of the family dog, and he seemed great ly embarrassed. “Hello, bub, been in after grapes?” asked a pedestrian. “N-no, sir,” stammered the lad; ‘T-I went in to see if they wa-wanted to adopt an orphan, but they didn’t s-seem to c-care much abont it!” “I see they have grapes in there,” ob served the man. “Y-yes, sir, but grapes ain’t good this time o’ year—they p-pucker the mouth all up!” Sowing Wheat. Experiments on sowing wheat at dif ferent depths favor, in ordinary soils, 1 to 2 inches. Samples of pore seeds i inch in depth came up in 11 days, i of the seed germinating; that sown 1 inch in depth came np in twelve days, and all the seed germinated; 2 inches deep, 1 of it came up in 21 days; 5 inches only } grew and came up in 22 days, while that planted 6 inches deap came up in 23 days, bnt only i germinated. The Brooklyn Eagle looks with alarm upon the “brilliant weddings” of this country as a sign that we are drift ing into aristocracy and idiocies of the old world. The Eagle forgets that the Constitution gives to every man and woman the right to make fools of them selves, and that if this right were, to be taken away there would be arevpldtion bloodier than the worst Frenchman in Paris has ever dreamed of. On*-fourth column nx wsnths , , Ona-Ioarth coiuon iwelre bobIEs.. Ono-oftlf column on* Ono-hilf column three month*.....* One»half column aix month**...... One-hall column twelve month*..., One eolumn one month. On® column three month*.... One eolumn aix month*- Oae column twelve month*.—.. The foregoing rate* ere for either Weekly 3r Tri-Weeklj. When published in both paper*, P er cent, additional upon table rata*. Cincinnati Southern Railroad' A correspondent of the Courier-Jour- na l gives an interesting account of- the Mndition of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, which is now completed south ward to Somerset, 157 miles from Cin cinnati. It will require about 177 miles more to complete it to Chattanooga. For this latter distance they have the grading and ties pretty much all ready, and the iron nearly ’all bought. Six teen millions of dollars have been ex pended by the city of Cincinnati thus far, acd two millions more will be re quired to complete it. Whether this will be paid by the city, or the road put into the hands of other parties npon condition of completing it, is not yet determined upon, bnt indications seem to point to the latter. In reply to a suggestion that pnttiDg an unfinished road into the hands of others to com plete, it might result in its eventually being thrown into the hands of a re ceiver for the amount advanced, as is too often the case, R. M. Bishop, one of the trustees for the city, replied very emphatically that such a thing never could happen, because the parties com pleting it could have no power to mortgage the road at all. It was furth er suggested what security could they have for their lr.oney advanced, and the reply was, “The faith of the city.” At present the road is under temporary lease to a company, of which W. H. Clement, Esq., is President, which com pany has put the rolling stock on the road and are running it, paying over to the trustees all they make over ten per cent, and it is probable this company will obtain the permanent lease when th3 road is completed, as it never was contemplated that the city should op erate the road, but only own it, regu late rates, and let others equip and operate it. The bridge over the Kentucky river is said to be the most wonderful, in re spect to its hight, in the country or the world, being 275 feet above the low watermark, which is higher, by 79 feet, than Washington’s monument, in Baltimore, and higher, by 25 feet, than the arch of the natural bridge in Vir ginia. There are three spans, each 375 feet long, and the ends terminate upon the solid limestone bluff banks on eith er side; cost, 8402,000. Adopting John Phoenix’s Strat egy. Some Democrats seem inclined to adopt the tactics of John Phoenix, who, in describing a fight in which he was engaged, said: “We held our antagon ist down by inserting our noee in his mouth, which we did for that purpose.” Some Democratic editors and politicians one of that sort of tacticians is the ed itor of the North Alabamian, who says: “No Democrat abates one jot or tittle of his faith, or compromises in the slightest degree his professions or his principles. Neither is there any prob ability that there will be any note worthy desertions from the party. If Mr. Hayes wishes to join the Democra cy, after appropriating our platform, we have no objection ; but it is absurd to think that any Democrat with a thimbleful of brains is going to aban don the organization now, when it is the only one in the country, and when the principles for which it has always contended, and the platform on which it has always stood, are being approved and adopted by the whole country.” St Louis, Sept. 29.—Col. David H. Armstrong, an old citizen of St Louis and a wheel-horse of the Democracy of this State for the past twenty-five_ or thirty years, was appointdd United States Senator this evening by Gov, Phelps to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Lewis V. Bogy. CoL Arm strong is at present Vice President of the Board of Police Commissioners of this city. The nswly-appointed Senator was serenaded at the Planters’ House at eleven o’clock to-night by a large num- of friends, and made a very brief speech in which he said he had not sought the office but did hot state whether he in tended to accept the appointment or not Several speeches were made by gentlemen present, all highly eulogis tic of the new Senator. The London Times has the informa tion that the Turkish soldiers have been forbidden to fire on any more of the Russian Generals for fear they may be killed or disable and their places taken by better men. The Bul garian campaign has convinced the Turks that with the present Russian generalship their county is tolerably secure. This view is by no means complimentary to the Muscovites, but conclusions of the Turks it must be confessed, are quite logical. The report from Austin, Texas, to the effect that several regiments will be or ganized immediately for active service on the Rio Grande, and that G -a. Ord bas gone to Austin to consult with the Governor, refers entirely to the State militia, and does not imply that these troops are to be raised by the Federal Government, as seems to be undeistood. The War Department bas no authority to organize new regiments, but the Gov ernor of Texas has power to organize the State militia. The Constitution learns that the suc cessful competitors for the scholarships it the normal college of the Nashville university of Tennessee, tendered to Georgia by Dr. Sears, are Hugo B Platen of Savannah, James A. Noyes, of Cedortown, Miss Florence A. Adams, of Atlanta, Miss Anna Crossmon, of Lumpkin, and Miss Lelia Barton Ful ler, of Blackshear. These were select ed from eighty applicants who present ed papere. The Iowa election will take place on the 9th instant, as will that of Ohio. Iowa’a “old fashioned majority” will undoubtedly bp badly cot down, as the Greenback and Temperance people hove split the Republican party, and the majority of the “regulars” are dis pirited and in mourning because of foe reputation bloody shirt by the Administration. Gen. Hood’s new borne brigade con- fists of nine children, all under right years of age, including three pairs of twins. They are offiderM by four nurses, a governess, bis wife : and mother-in- law. The “corps” is said to present a fine appearance on drees parade. 4

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, October 10, 1877, Image 1