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ESTABLISHED IN 1843.
M. DWiUiXL, Proprietor.
Wednesday Morning, Oct 10,. 1877
Some of Uie Republican county
meetings in Iliinoise vote down resolu
tions endorsing Hayes’ Southern poli
cy, and very few, if any give it explicit
endorsement.
The point of interest at the seat of
war now is : Shall the Turkish army
winter in Bulgaria or in Roumania. If
Mehemet Ali keeps his present lines
during the rigors of winter, he will lose
his arm} - by disease; if he falls back to
the sunny side of the Balkans he will
lose Bulgaria. He takes his choice.
Among the Democratic nominees for
the Legislature in Charles county, Md.,
is Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who adjusted
the fracture of J. Wilkes Booth’s leg af
ter the assassination of President Lin
coln Dr. Mudd was sentenced to the
Dry Tortugas, but was pardoned by
President Johnson. His innocence of
any knowledge of Booth's crime at the
time he set the limb was clearly estab
lished, and his skillful services at the
Tortugas garrison, after the surgeons
had been swept away by yellow fever,
were highly complimented.
PATTERSON DODGES.
Senator Patterson, from South Caro
lina, is at Washington, but is wanted at
homo to answer to various criminal
charges against him. There was an at
tempt to arrest him in Washington last
week, but he avoided arrest until his
lawyer had the papers in a habeas cor
pus case made out He then allowed
himself to be arrested, and gave bond
for his appearance before the;court two
days after the meeting of Congress,
when, his lawyers think, his privilege
as a Senator will stay proceedings.
THE COUNTY CONVENTION.
Let every Democrat—every man—
who ieels an interest in the success of
the Democratic party be on hand at
the district meetings on Saturday, the
2Dth instant. If all will go and con
sult together, and send up to the Coun
ty Convention on the 27tb, clear-
head, fair-minded men, there will be no
difficulty in selecting such candidates
for Representatives from this comity as
will meet the approval of all, and the
action of the convention will be en
dorsed at the polk in December.
Do not stay away, expecting other
men to do the work, but go yourself
and take part in the meeting.
RAILWAY FRAUDS IN ENGLAND.
They have a good way ot disposing
of people over in England whose ways
are crooked. The following, from a
correspondent of the Leeds Mercury,
gives us as idea of how the English
people deal with railway officials who
have a weakness in the way of appro
priating the goods of others to their own
use:
“The Midland is the railway de
frauded. The fraud has been systemat
ically carried on for some time by some
of its officers holding positions of re
sponsibility, in whom the utmost con
fidence was placed. The principal
means by which the company has been
defrauded has been by persons erecting
private dwelling houses and other
buildings, both for themselves and oth
er people, with material and men be
longing to the company. Several of
the delinquents are, it is said, in prison.
It is rumored that others will be ar
rested shortly.”
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CON
VENTION.
The action of the Executive Commit
tee of the Democratic party of this
county in calling upon the party to
hold meetings in each district on Sat
urday, the 20th inst., for the appoint
ment of ten delegates each to a County
Convention, to met in Rome on. Satur
day, the 27tb inst., will meet, we sin
cerely hope, with the approval. 1 of the
people, and .be responded toby all who
love an honest administration>of pub
lic affairs, and government' administer
ed by the people for the people.
Many good reasons might he .offered
to show the prudence and -deslrable-
nesa of such convention. One fact that
strikes the mind on the very threshold
of the subject is, that the 'Democratic
or Conservative party, as it bas existed
for the last ten or .twelve years, is the
party, and-is composed off'the people;
that oughno“con'tr(fl~the political af
fairs of"the State, iWithin the rank?
of the party are men of honest .purpose,
and ambitious who may be . willing to
risk the success of the party rather than
relinquish, while under the excitement
of acaavass, their hope of personal pre^
ferment. As. has often been the case,
many such candidates being in the
field divides up the party vote, and a
man of views totally at variance with
the wishes of, the majority is put into
office. .».. . : .."i .. i
Suppose, for instance, that six good
clever Democrats choose to and persist
in running for Representative from this
county at the coming, election, what
would be the result if .the Radicals put
candidates in the field ? Democratic
defeat andja Radical triumph, of bourse.
All which would he heralded abroad as
an endfirsement of Radicalism and a
turning away -from- Democracy by
Mojfd'GoUnty. u - ria avs.,1 nil 7:
lit'will be remembened 1 that ‘atthe
eleetlqii'iast fall Tilden feceiyed twen-
■ iy-tliree hundred and sixteen .votes, and
Hayes twelve Bundled and twenty-sixi
showing ovoroneMhird cf the vote to be
Republican in a hotly contested elec
tion on purely political grounds. How,
then, would it be with a Republican
disguised under the name of Democrat,
living here among us, becoming a can
didate for the Legislature? Of course
he would carry the solid negro vote,
and along with it many unsuspecting
Democrats.
THE SHERIFF SALES.
Lest some good people should be de
ceived by an article that was .kept
standing several days in the Bulletin,
we make the following statement: The
sheriff sales for Floyd county have been
published in the Courier, off and on,
for over twenty years. For no one year
during that time has the Courier re
ceived $100 for it, and the average per
year has been less than 8200. So, even
if the Bulletin should do this work as
advantageously to -.the parties, for half
the regular lawful price, there would be
a'saving to 'defendants in fi. fa. of only,
on an average, of 8100 a year, instead of
8500 to SI,000.
But an advertisement is expensive to
the publisher and advantageous to the
advertiser in proportion to the circula
tion of the paper. Now, the general
circulation in Floyd county of the
Courier, after leaving the city, to the
best of our knowledge, is at least four
times that of the Bulletin, and conse
quently an advertisement in its columns
is worth nearly four times as much as
in the latter paper. And the Bulletin
instead of charging half the Courier’s
rates, really ought, in justice, to charge
only one-fourth.
But some one may say a newspaper
is a narspaper, and the subscription
price of all are about the same. Sup
pose you apply this idea to other things;
for instance, a gallon of milk is a gal
lon of milk; but a cow that gives four
gallons a day is worth at least four
times as much as one that gives only
one gallon. Again, a mule is a mule,
but one that can plow two acres a day
is worth over four times as much as
one that can only he made to plow a
half acre per day. But it is unnecessa
ry to multiply instances. We only
wish to call attention to the fact that
newspapers, as advertising mediums,
are valuable in proportion to their cir
culation. It costs nearly four times as
much to print a weekly edition of 4,000
a3 it does one of 1,000, and an adver
tisement in the former is worth four
times as much to the advertiser.
The following is what the Tribune—:
an impartial authority—says in regard
to this matter:
“Moseley and Sheriff Jenkins are on
the line of retrenchment and reform,
and propose to save the people of Floyd
county 81,000 a year by advertising in
the Bulletin. Now, if the efficient Sheriff
Jenkins is really “that sort of a man”’-
he can save the people 81,000. more by
not advertising at all, for so far as an
advertisement in the Belletin is con
cerned, it amounts to no advertising at
all; and if Moseley is as honest as he
pretends to be he will reduce the charges
from one-half to one-fifth, and then
would not have it down to an equitable
ratio. The circulation of the Bulletin
is not one-fifth that of the Courier, and
justice to the people, whose interest the
efficient Sheriff should look after, would
demand that he charge only one-fifth
the price of the Courier. If a reduction
of one-half the Courier rates saves the
county of Fioyd from 8500 to 81,000
per annum, Moseley should be just and
rcAnfo it mip-fift.h—just what his circu
lation oftlla fo.—tViprpKjr cnvitip from
SS00 to 81,600 per annm. Will Mose
ley carry out hiB pretensions, or will be
held up to the people of Floyd as
humbug?
BORE AS A COTTON MARKET.
Seven years ago Rome received about
fifteen thousand bales of cotton, and
the receipts since have beeD year by
year gradually increasing, until at the
close of the cotton year 1876-7 the re
ceipts were something over thirty-three
thousand, and had it not been for the
unprecedented low water on the Coosa
river last fall, and the failure of the
steamboats to make trips just at the
time when cotton was most freely mov
ing, the receipts would have been
swelled by several thousand more bales,
which were compelled to find other
outlets ; by the Alabama and Chatta
nooga railroad from Gadsden particu-
larly.
The cause of this increase in the
number of bales received is not to be
found in the fact that more cotton i/
raised in the section of country imme
diately contiguous to Rome, for such is
notthecase; but, on thecontrary, we be
lieve that our farmers are paying more
attention to the raising of grain now
than ever heretofore, and that in order
to do this and make themselves inde
pendent on the bread and meat ques
tion, they are planting less cotton. But
the true cause is found in the fact that
cotton is being annually attracted and
drawn hither for sale because of the
price obtained for it.
A careful review of the markets at
Rome and Atlanta shows that Rome
has paid a full , quarter of a cent per
pound more for cqttqfujrom; wagons
than Atlanta has paid, and, we believe,
will continue to do so. The latest quo-,
tations from Atlanta are, “markit quiet
at while attire same time here the
market was'active at 101, thus qiakipg
a difference in favor of Rome of . three-
fourths of a cent. v ii-i-iV:-,
i.'. This ability to pay the prise.which
our buyers-do pay is caused by-the
fact that cotton madejintbe rich valley
and bottom lands of Northwest .GeprjT
gia and Northeast Alabama, and which
seeks a market at Rome, is -of better,
body and'staple than cotton raised fur
ther south on thinner lands. ‘ Then,
again, our buyere are active, energetic
men, who have large orders from spin
ners in the East, and in buying they
buy upon classification,’ paying what
the consumer ia willing to pay, for
which the buyer here,-gets a fixed com
mission so much per bale, and there is
no speculation abont it.
At Atlanta, as we understand, the
cotton is handled by men who.buy .with
a speculative margin- and sell again for
themselves. ni | -fe
VEW YORK DEMOCRATIC CONVEN
TION.
railroads . .desirous; of controlling the
cotton shipments; from this point, and
the shipments being direct to the,spin
ners, (with no charges , for handling or
selling on the way) the freight; rate is
always low. And then to add to the
chances and reasons for low rates, we
have two cotton compresses which bring
the balesfo so small a compass that now
a car load of cotton is abont forty hales,
when without being compressed it is
difficult to get in a car mors than twen*.
ty-fivehales, a-' ■' ...; V-t j i
The following gives the pith of the
platform of the New York Democratic
Convention, held last week at Albany:
The people having in the last Presi
dential contest elected fcy an over-"
whelming popular and clear electoral
majority the Democratic candidates for
President and Vice-President, and the
will of the nation thus constitutionally
declared having been wickedly and
boldly nullified by means of the gross
est usurpation and frauds o£. returning
boards; protected and adopted, if' hbt
instigated, by the party in possession of
the Government, and'rendered practi
cable by a threatening of military force. rDeu -
Resolved, That at this, the first con
vention of the Democrats of this State,
held since the consummation of this
great crime, it is not only just and fit,
but it is the plain duty in the interest
of Constitutional Government, and
in the vindication and preservation of
the sacred right of the majority to
choose their rulers, to denounce with
the warmest indignation this stupend
ous wrong, and we hereby denounce,
condemn and hold it up to universal
execration.
Resolved, That this duty of setting a
mask of infamy upon this transaction,
and preventing any quick forgetfulness
or easy condonation of it from raising a
tempting precedent for future outrages,
rests especially and peculiarly upon the
Democratic party of this State, and
whose most illustrious leader was the
President actually chosen by the na
tion.
The resolutions endorse the late
House.
Resolved, That the present National
Administration, by its withdrawal of
the troops from the South and its cessa
tion from the mischievous, unconstu-
tional and oppressive interference with
the internal affairs of State, has, in that
respect,abandoned thevicious precedents
of the Republican party, followed the
course market out by the Federal Con
stitution, and to which the Democrats
stand pledged, and it is therefore en
titled in that particular to the approval
of all good citizens.
The -financial planks reaffirm gold
and silver the only legal tender; no
currency inconvertible with coin;steady
steps towards specia payments.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the
gianting of subsidies by the Govern
ment to corporations or individuals for
the construction of railroads or other
internal improvements as unnecessary,
beyond the scope of Federal power, and
inevitably producing corruption.
ticket.
The following ticket was nominated:
For Secretary of State—Allen C.
(Beach, ... .
• Comptroller—Frederick P. Olcott.
Treasurer—James Walker.
Attorney General—Augustus Schoon-
maker.
State Engineer and Surveyor—Hora-
tion Seymour, jr.
the officers in the direction of Powder
Springs. At a fork in the road the offi
cers took one road and sent a negro
m(in the other to follow and watch for
the fugitives. The negro man was on
the right road and soon came up with
the fugitives. He followed them near-
. ly all day, once or twice passing them.
They met persons upon the road and
would turn out into the woods to escape
observation, but were seen and describ
ed to the officers pursuing them.
When near Powder Springs, the ne
gro, whose name we could not learn,
passed them and gave information of
their approach WMrL Varner, a consta
ble. He summoned a posse of ten or
twelve men-acd went out to arrest the
They were found crossing a field
and their capture easily effected.
They were then taken under guard to
Marietta, and thence returned to this
city.
The Fulton county officers, the ne
gro trailer and the arresting party de-
seive great praise for their activity and
energy in the pursuit and capture.
CASSIUS it. CLAY.
The coroner’s jury in the matter of
the killing of a negro by Hon. Cassius
M. Clay, in Kentucky, returned a ver
dict that the killing was done in self-
defense. Of the man and the deed the
St. Louis Republican has this to say:
“It wa3 certainly a curious freak of
fortune which compelled Cassius M.
Clay, at the close of a long and promi
nent public career, to bill a member of
a race which he championed so gallant
ly and persistently in early days. Mr.
Clay is best known as one of the old
original Abolitionists. Unlike hiB as
sociates in that cause, he carried the
war into the enemy’s camp, and preach
ed aboltion in Kentucky when Ken
tucky was a Blave State. No one can
doubt the purity of his purpose or the
honesty of his convictions, for he cheer
fully endured social ostracism, and
fearlessly risked his life for the sake of
what he believed to be the truth. He
was not a featherbed philanthropist,
but one always ready to work and
equally ready to fight 1 His discretion
and his judgment were frequently open
to criticism, but nobody ever question
ed his sincerity or his courage. His
indomitable pugnacity on more than
one occasion led him into bloody quar
rels which might have been avoided,
but in the present instance he seems to
have acted solely in self-defense, and
shot an antagonist who would other
wise have seriously, if not fatally, in
jured him. An old man of sixty-seven
is no match for a young, burly and vi
cious negro. Nevertheless, Mr. Clay
and his friends will deeply regret an
event which throws a tragic shadow
over a path that had enough of such
before.
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has
hit upon the real reason of the strength
,pf the President’s position on the South
ern question. He sayB the policy can
not fail because it is based upon the
fundamental principles of the Republic
itself.”—A T . I". Tribune. '
Of course it is, because it is a Demo
cratic policy. It is exactly what Dem
ocrats have always fought for, and
Radicals have ever heretofore bitterly
opposed. ■ ,
Gus Johnson and Shnw In Jail gain.
In last Saturday’s issue we publish
ed the substance of a. dispatch from At
lanta, to CoL Gammon, Chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, stat
ing that Gus Johnson and another man
h^d escaped; from Fulton county jaiL
The other man was Shaw, who was un
der sentence of death for the murder of
hre-wife in Baldwin OiJUDty.
‘IhA’A-tlaiita Constitution rf Sunday
mqrqing.gives aa.qccpimf of the recap
ture,'and.'tire story of their escape, as
told by Johnson, which we give.
The man Lawshe mentioned was in
jail at Atlanta under sentence from the
United States Court of seven years’ im
prisonment: in the Albany, N. Y„- pen
itentiary for counterfeiting, and has
since been sent on to Albany to be con
fined’there accordin^to sentence 1 :
As stated yesterday, as soon l a!g i the
escape was-discovered, prompt meas
ures .were tokeo for .overhauling the fu
gitives. Deputy Sheriff” Greene and :
Policeman Starnes went one road and
Deputy Sheriff Wells, while Pplicc Csp-
.m. Connally took- another.' joad. They
Jlowqd clof I fit'
tam.^onnaUy „
followed close upon/jhe fugitives and
There are several competing tines of ^ ^
j Thera they faunae that the men had
iorrenred (without, his knowledge) the
dind horse,of a negromanjand upon
this horse;had;ridden .some.five miles,
ithey thph fnraed the horse .loose and
jioqeeded to IGreehe’a f, ferry- They
railed the ferryman upon the opposite
side of the river, but he 'failed tb re
spond. They then broke open a black
smith shop, took out of it some bundles
of fodder and laid down upon them
untti near daylight. They then went
to an upper ferry, near by, and taking
a batteau there crossed the river. From
this point they were easily tracked by
A TALK WITH JOHNSON.
Yesterday afternoon a reporter of the
Constitution visited the jail and found
Johnson and Shaw occupying cell No.
5. Johnson was pacing the floor,
while Shaw lay upon the bare planks
in a corner fast asleep. Johnson said
that Shaw was sick and he did not
want to wake him. After some talk,
we asked Johnson
“How did you manage your escape?”
“Well, I sawed the bar of iron in the
floor, and after {hat it was easy
enonghr” .
“What did you saw the bar with 2”
“With a saw that Jim Lawshe made
for us. He made the saw from a piece
of clock-spring that an outsider brought
in to him. He first made one out of a
corset-spring, hut I broke it, as I didn’t
know how to use it Then he made the
other one and gave it to me, and lent
me a patent handle for it that he had
He told me how to use it, and I took it
and cawed the bar in two.”
“How did he tell you to use it ?”
“To keep it greased and to saw the
bar slanting in, so that it would fit back
in its place and not fall through. Then
nobody could tell, by just looking at it,
that it was cut. I did what he said.”
“How long did it take you saw it ?”
“About two days,” ' 1
“Did you work at night?” -
“No, Bir; I worked- in -the day.time.
They had me shut up in the cell id
close confinement, and L had plenty of
time and chances to saw on it. ,!
“How long did'you have it sawed
before you escaped ?" •
“Abont two weeks” : '
“Then how long did lt take to tunnel
out?” o* L
“Abont five nights. I worked two
whole nights and Shaw worked three.
Yon see, when I got down far enough
I did not know how to make the turn
under the wall, and he did. So he
took that part of the job. If he had
started it by himself he could have got
ten out in four nights. But we made
that part of it all-right, anyhow;”
“Didn’t the dogs attack yoiL?”
“No. I never saw a dog that would
bite me, anyhow.” liim-. m' : j ...
“What did you do when -you,got
OUt?” it, ;.w., . ‘
“We went over the stockade and out
into the road, and left town.”
“Didn’t you meet any of the police
men ?”
“No. I looked for one on the way,
because I wanted his pistol, and if I
had found one, I would have taken it
from him.”
Johnson then detailed the facts, as
above stated, concerning their direc
tions and doings. '
HOW THEY WERE TAKEN. 6 j
As they neared Powder Spring^ 1
Shaw said they had better not go into
the tittle town. Johnson says he want
ed to go throughjthe town, hut heyield-
ed, and they started to skirt the town,
when their captors appeared. Johnson
say 8:
“One of them halloed to us to halt
I told him to ‘go to hell!’ He shot at
us, and we ran for the little swamp and
got into it, but there were too many of
them for us, and we had to give in. I
told Shaw that I would go out first.
There was one fellow who had a big pis
tol,and I thought may be I could get up
to him and take his pistol away from
him. He wouldn’t let me get to him,
though, and I had to give in. .They
then ordered Shaw out, and he started
to run. They fired two or three shots
at hifn, and outrun him and caught
him.”
Johnson detailed other things which
would be of no public interest, and
which we omit In response to a ques
tion as to where he was going, he re
plied that he was going home to jChak
tooga county. He said if he had L "
ten his gun they would have Lad
catching him again. , 4 ,
He pronounced the report that be’
was going back to kill Judge Under
wood as false, fie said he liked Jfpdgp
Underwood, but that he . did threaten
hifo;”
In purauing these men the officers
got ahead : of them and spread the news
of their escape, so that the Whole (coun
try was on the lookout for them. Un
der no circumstances, hardly, could
they have made good their escape.
They take their return to jail as coolly
A woman is far more sensitive than a
maD. She has finer feelings and a more
delicate mind. There are very few men
who realize this, and in consequence wo
man is made to endure much unnecessary
suffering. One of our merchants was
going to church with his wife on Sunday
morning, when she suddenly stopped and
put her band to her head. ,J
iU j lcifiWhat’si the. matter?” ha asked,
;r, started, by. the- look on her face.
- “Oh] I have .got on my brown hat,”
:n Eh?” ejaculated the astonished hus
band; i ' : ' •’ ‘•hr-
7 She-'burst Into tears. - s "
‘fljVhy, Martha, what is .the matte*
with you?”;he demanded. . , ,
“Don’t you sce qdiat is the; matter?”,
she returned ip a sobbing v6lce. ' “Eve
got ou iny-brown hat 'with nty striped
sllki Oh ! what wlll people say ?“ .
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
The Enterprise Factory, of Augusta,
will Boon be-ready-to begin operations.
It has seven thousand three hundred
Spindles and one hundred andtwehty-
three loomiT > *
)oori2 o! IsoibsH s to^IuLw^J 'C
Gov.pgWt.Medtiic seat of the:
late Barnard Hill by the appointment
of CoL W. L. Grice, of coun
ty. The. appointee is a son-in-law;,-and
partner-of that venerable lawyer, Gen
Eli•WarietL V •' ’ .viiA'il ■ %
The Farmers’ Club of Polk .county
invite the'pnlillc ’generitiy to attend .a
meeting of the. club at the ‘court-house
at Cedartown to-day. . Gov, GoLjuitt,
will deliver an address on the subject
of agriculture. -- -n
>ii r. Ii-uiio'!-
a Major West; of Polk;; JUggflSjs,;that
the-Grttud Jury of Polk county imitate
firs one in J?apIdiPg by apjffiiniing three
men in eyejryj dwtrjet^6 .d&jertalri gyeijC
man in. their, district - that hiis p,Q - ~' J '
patron, try.tbem,forrvagrancy *n$ fcflt: dw Lea - ■ ia£a>c8rfriiaimf bn
them to work; ;
hue L-iv-ido oig-ji: adT unerf j -si
The Grawfordvrlle 'Democrat says
that oh Friday morning about 9-ot
Caster’s funeral.
For nearly, a year the body of Gener
al Coster rated*near the spot where he
fell npon that fatal field where he and
his menfought with unavailing courage
till not one.was left to tell the story of
the day. The valley of thelattlellorn
is made sacred by their blood, and the
soldier could have nograve more fitting
than the field on which he perished.
But with regard to the remains,of Gen
eral Custer the case is different. He
had frequenly expressed the wish to
his friends that if he should fall in bat
tle Ms'tomb should be at West Point
There he was educated as a soldier and
taughtrtbnthis first-duty -was -to give
his life, if necessary, to the service of
his country. This he did fearlessly and
nobly and now all that the country can
do is to give him a grave. In accordan -
ce with his known wishes, therefore,the
body oj General Custer will he buried
at Wist Point; on the 10th of this
month, with th-> apporpriate and im
posing ceremonies due to the rank he
held in the army, bar, more than all,
the still higher position he occupied in
the estimation of his country as one
of the bravest and most chivalrous of
the fighting soldiers of the army. His
funeral should be honored not by the
goveament alone, but by the people, for
whose benefit his life was heroically
surrendered. It is not altogether in
the spirit of mourning that these obse
quies should be celebrated, for time,
which softens the grief of a nation for a
head hero, also brightens his fame.
The occasion should be made of nation
al significance, and West Point on the
day of Custer’s funeral should be the
Mecca to which every patriotic Ameri
can should turn in reverence and pride.
—A". Y Herald
An Astounding Revelation.
Gov. Hampton got no arms at Wash
ington. Why he did not is thus explain
ed by a telegram to the Chicago Times:
On examination at the War Depart
ment the astounding discovery was made
that South Carolina has already received
an advance of all the arms to which she
is entitled for forty years to come. It
was also discovered that this extraordina
ry issue of arms came through Don Cam-,
ran, who" at the instance of “Honest
John” Patterson, ran this load of arms
into South Carolina for the use of ne
groes only. This was done last fall,
when the Camerons and Chandlers were
crying out so loudly at the daugers aris
ing from the presence of white-leaguers
in South Carolina this when the negroes,
had twenty stand of-arms to one of the
whites. Besides this -great issueof.arms.-
it will-be .remembered that a large, b.ody
of troops .was ordered'into South Caro
lina Everything that could be was done
here to precipitate a color-line fight.; but
the uuusual cooldesa and patience of
Gov. Hamptou aud liis people frustrated
this well-laid.plan. Gov. Hampton goes
back without any arms for his State, but
he is satisfied with the reason, as it will
help explain to the public the extreme
.measure adqpted last fall by the admin-;
istratiou people toward the South.
autoTn Tlwtiiilf Stream.' ”
. The great “riverln the ocean,” known
as the Gulf Stream, from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Azores,, is 3,000 miles in
length, and its greatest breadth 120. At
the first its speed is four miles an hour,
bfft this gradually declines as it be
comes more diffused. OIF the State of
Florida its temperature is eighty-three
tio 6 »oo = . nr nine degrees above the sur
rounding waters; and ofr Newsound-
land, in winter, it is twenty-five or thir
ty degrees warmer than the surround
ing sea, thus causing the dense fog of
that region. It is a great dispenser of
heiit And moisture in its course. To its
influence are owing the verdure of the
Emerald Isle, and the mildness of the
climate of Western Europe compared
with countries elsewhere of correspond
ing latitudes. It arrests the chilling.
Arctic icebergs, which melt away in its
terpid waters.
It is of a deep indigo blue as long a3
its current is deep and narrow; and the
line of demarcation between it and the
adjacent waters is so marked that a ves
sel may be seen floating half in the
Gulf Stream and half in the common
waters of the sea: and two buckets let
down, one atthe bow, the other at the
stern,will draw up waterdifferiiigin tem-
psrature by no les3 than thirty degrees.
The'Secretary- qf-war.itis'understood,
will, in his forthcoming message, re
commend the enlargement of the army,
-force’ with discretionary power in the'
Presidenl to4ncrease.it. to 40,000. It is
probable there will be a sharp division
on this subject between Democrats and
'Republicans in .‘the approaching Con-
gnss. Democrats generally are opposed
to an increase, and if Grant were still
President,they would not permit it;
they would resist it to tbs last It rpust
be admitted, however, that the admira
ble policy of Mr.,'Hayes has, disarmed
them of much of their hostility to the
army, and it is prohable many will be
found ready, to yote fot a moderate In
crease.
An Important Decision.
In the case of Burts vs. Robinson. &
Co., from Mitchell, the Supreme Court
of Georgia decided on Tuesday:
“Land set apart by the assignee to the
bankrupt as exempt does not vest in
the wife and family of the'bankrupt,
but the title remains in him until the
State law fs complied with, and the
property is set apart as a homestead
under that law.”
The import of this decision is that
the bankrupt acquires no homestead
fight by the exemption made for him
lu bankruptcy. ■ Tbie property thus ex
empted from liability for his old debts
is alienable by bis own act and liable
for future debts. To vest it in his fam
ily as a homestead, he must have it set
apart under the homestead law, just as
if he had obtained no exemption by a
decree in bankruptcy.—Col. Times.
Our Uncle Sam, who should be presi
dent, is said to be undoubtebly a can
didate for the .United States’ Senate
There would be poetec Justice indeed
in his succeeding Cockling, for it will
be remembered that Conkling could
have drawn enough votes to the right
side when the decision of the electoral
commission on the Florida cease was be
fore the senate, if he had been manly
enough to make the effort to have se
cured the presidency for Tilden. He
made a point of speaking of JIr. Hayes
at the Albany convention, but there
would have been no need of that mild
sarcasm if he had done his own duty
in Febuary.—Missouri Republican.
A correspondent recently wrote to
the Brandon, Miss., Bepublican to know
the difference between a Radical and
an Independent. Here is the answer :
“A radical is a Republican politician
who is not ashamed of the name; and
an Independent is a Republican who is
ashamed of the name, and who denies
being a Radical when talking to Dem
ocrats, but admits it when talking to
Republicans. In otLer words, an In
dependent is a cross between a mean
Democrat and a mangy Republican,
who cannot he trusted “by "either.”
: His a notable fact that, notwithstand
ing the reports of improving business,
.the failures for the month of September
were larger in New York than for any.
month since March. But the papers
say that’this is due to the fact that
shaky parties are hurrying to get into
bankruptcj-, fearing that Congress will
repeal the Bankrupt law at the comm-
ingession. • <
Secretary of the Navy Thompson, in
speaking of the many jokes at his ex;
penso said: “That of the hatchway
was the best. In one of my-visits,, of
inspection it yeas said that I was asked
to define the proper dimensions of a
hatchway, and that I replied, ‘That de
pends upon the size of the hen and the
number of eggs she is to sit on.’” ..
• It wilt surprise no one to learn that
the Republican members of the Senate
mean to delay action of the Louisiana
and South Carolina contests as long as
possible. They know very well that,
when the cases are acted on the Dem-
ocrati6 applicants will have to’ be ad
mitted. ’ •»* so •- :. .. . .
H. HARPOLD.
No. 13 Shorter Block,
vRoiiife, Georgia.
GEORGIA and ALABAMA tuat
I AM NOW RECEIVING the
Mtieaj
_.-. ;.a; *r~
— OF-
I TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING
TO THE' PEOPLE OFXTlEffOKEE
i
su
FALL & WINTER GOODS
I have evtr brought to Rome,
'.Consisting of
FRENCH & ENGLISH DRESS GOODS
BLACK AND COLORED SILKS,
with Trimmings nnd Buttons match.
SILK & LINiiN HANDltiERC HIEFS
;" silk an;d. 4 £ace ties.
HOSIERY. AND NOTIONS TOO NUMER
OUS TO MENTION. :
AN IMMENSE STOCK. OF CASSIMERES,
JEANS, FlANNEfcS; UNSET. TICK
INGS. BLANKETS. BLEACHED
AND BF,OWN DOMESTIC.
Great Bargains in Hats, Boots and Shoes.
entire Stock in Now, and ius been
bought ns low as Caah could buj them. I
I invite nil to call and see mj goods' I trust
bj fair dealing and good goods at Tow prices to
merit your patronage.
octG.tw wlm H. HARPOLD.
HOME FEMALE COLLEGE-
T he scholastic year will beqih
Grst Monday in September, with an ade
qua to corps of experienced teachers.
An Academy of Music will be opened
at that time. It will be designed*far
the benefit of lediai who desire; prfp-
arations for teaching or’ Instructions,
superior to those they can secure in the ordn&iy
schools of the country. They canobtain beard
ing in the college or with Prof. Hints, who will
be its director# Under his instruction the 'pu
pils in the college classes will enjoy musical
advantages which cannot be surpassed at any
place in this country. North, or South. • ■.i
The Art Deportment, withjfctys Fairchild at
its head, will continue to merlt^eatteiitioii and
commendation it has received. Free band dMw-
ing, recently introduced »nd taught to the whole,
school with wonderful enecess, will be continued
as a regular exercise for our pupils.
Mach earnest attention is given to writing
and compositions. " 1 j;..’ !• • ' t yy.. j
The institution, though. founded by, the synod’
of Georgia, has not beerf under eccleaiastfeaL
coutrol for fourteen year*. At all times and un-
det all rircumstuices its managament has-been
indicated and directed by Christian principles;
and yet it never was.it ia not now, and itcanpot
be sectarian. ~ ~ /
The pnrpoie of those who'are identified with
jt« life and usefulness is to maintain ita.Jdtth
character as an’ educational home, whereby the
wisest methods of instrnction , and discipline,
the most healthful and -permanently aivanU*
geour results, may be produced. : • : .
While inferior.,to no eitailar institution, it
is cheaper than siny of the Wet' rchools in the
daontry. -- .'v:A l-.*t vT«»Y u.* C-u J 31)
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juneli.wfim. ■>, Rome, Ga,
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BEALS A FOSTER, Al Park Row (Timea Bcijj|
foffir P«W.VV** .
Tweed’s gunning beats the exploits
at Creedmour. He pierces the bull’s
eye and brings down his game every
snot. Diogenes should be resurrected
and started on his travels to find an
honest man who was in New York pol-
itioe whon Ttvped illustrated political
morality in Tamruany Hall.
“Did you say you considered Mr.
Smith insane ?” asked a lawyer ot a
Witness in a criminal case. “Yes, sir,
I did.” “Upon what ground did ydu
base that information ?” “Why, I lent
him a silk umbrella and five dollars in
money, and he returned them both.”
Gen. Hancock writes to the War De
partment that affairs in the mining dis
tricts,of Pennsylvania have, not yet as
sumed such a shape as would justify
the withdrawal of .'he United States
troops and their concentration at Car
lisle barracksand the Allegheny arsenal.
A philosophic Benedict says : “To
be nagged at and blown up by a beau
tiful being of your own, who loves you
all the while like apple pie, and whom
you love like plum pudding, is, to my
idea, the happiest privilege of matri
mony.”
It is dangerous to jest with God, death
or the devil; for the first neither can
nor will be mocked; the second mocks
all men at one time or another; and the
third puts an enternal sarcasm on all
.that are too jamiltiar with him-,; r; .
“What would yon -do if yournfamma
were to die ?” .she pathetically diked of
her little. three-y@W>ld daughter, .. : . tl
don't know,”'remarked the ipfant,
with .downcast eyes and a melancholy
voice, “I thpos'e I should have to thpank :
mythief.”"' h; ju. jar. -.'.l vj-.l-ji:
Itis on tH,e cards that Russia'jpll ; . be-
cb'm'phR'ed to sUspend ipayiheqt' of the:
dividends- bir her debt, which L will' be
one more blow to the nmoh-beatricken
British investor,' who! doesaV.knbw
where on earth to get a safe four per.
cent.’
Ilolly {springs! Reporter: Miraiffiippi
Coosa Eiver Farm for Sale.
I OFFER FOR SA0E MY ENTIRE MY EN
tire Plantationj consisOKg of 2S0 acre, ot land
together with dll 'the stock, males; 1 plantation
supplies, farming tools, machinery, etc.
The place is located at Coosaville, on the Cocaa
river, 10 miles Betow* Rome There is a store
house and blacksmith shop on tho place, axxd it
is an excellent stohd for a country merchant.
There is a church ‘and : a ^rcll establlhed school
near the premises. - * :
There is 130 acros of ihe land under a high-
state of cultivation, and tlx* romaindor
timbered.
The dwelling hareix rooms And five 6re plaoea,
good kitchen.and smoke hocse, also a fino bars
and stables, all in good condition. There are two
good wells on the place, and the Coosa river
forma the boundary of the land for a fuff’hali
mile. The orchards of apples and- peaches are
among the vary best in North Georgia, contain
ing many of the best' varieties'bf these IruRa.
I have determined to more to -TSn>, and am
willing to sel t:thia property's! a prise, to suit the
present hard times .and circumstance*. Will
sell for half cash an<f the balance in twelve
months; or will make* A liberal 1 discount for all
cash. Anyone wanting.abargain in.a nlmea cf
this kind, will do well to make early ap>hcatio~
1 ' . ' ffoovavjlfo; PJoyd^Co:, GA.,
Or, FORD * DWINEtlv v i u..
i .»]; *$•* <**• 'J fti h:-.i
ian9tw-wil , : .
Best Farm in North Georgia at
a Sacrifice. L ‘ '
The Burns Place for Sale—92S Acres
Valley, Chattooga county, seventeen mile*
from Rome and ten from BnmmervDIe. Nearly*
300 acres of tins land, lies in a beautiful little
basin, nearly level with, a beautiful Nt»lp,creek
running through it. It ts well adapted to clover
and the grasses,if* one of the. best stock
farms in tke State. Thera'arc about' 450 acres of
open land, under good .fence* and in a high state'
of cultiyaU^h. .Pl*?®„W originally tutor
settlements, ana will ufakfe twMnvenient and'
well arranged farmrnf about 450 each. There,
are two.dwelling!jUfo .'plaFftLttKPiffi)
nine rooms, an e^cceLentlargdnow bapn anqLalh
Dece#SAry‘oatAeiilliOifi' 1 -' Near the' principal-
' ailing i, one of, the .fca-MMa* UMtW
springs the country affords- Also two good ten--
Itis an f3CcUiq.t»iv‘fcbtothoo<l,Tith fburcbes.
This plaeecan be bought for about, sw*.-third
its value for cash er its equivalent. Enquire o
-ijitw.'wit. L$nl> lo
The Mobile Register -says the nav^l
stores trade of that port supports fully
twenty thousand people. The count#
which produces these naval, stores is
•confined to that belt of piney woods that
lies in tlje Immehiato Vfriffity of the
city. The opening'oT’tuapehtine 'orch-
artlS has demonstrated the fact that no
•better wtiifoEijjtresaKar fruits be
tire year^and with moderate fertilizing
theaeffs&flg^sifliyiekUabtirfilant crops
of grain, cotton and rice, so tha by the
tiwi the trees inihfe neighborhood have
exhausted tRenfeawSJfli§criavMi tftof6',
man fihds'Mmi
Lm; I asi socTldt Nfctr ThrK unheard
t...
E ndina'h'dialf houF-rp' '{irSy 1 ^ bterj-'.
iningj exPftse*4K» fiojfo : 4hW hue i
as Mr: F. M. BoBn; a citizen ehppiieatiovel
place? was' returning home ffbm.Vpkif-'
burg, Wjlk^ county, where tie had
been atjwprk, tig sprang from,the train
on the Washington, branch of the Geor
gia Railroad, when near Fieldin' depot,
to secure his hat, which had tilown off
while he was passing from one car to
another, .and' was instantly killed by
foiling across the timbers of tfieroad. to the Femandina. sufferers. v.-rai-.. • . I day.
Secor Rohfesbn, the'Cabinet johb#j'hof.
Boss Shepherd; Ihe 1 Rin& magnate, nor
Measurer Bahcdck, the whiskey thief;
fior Uncle'-Simpn'Cameron, the Winne
bago Chiefi nor any of the old gang of
Grantismjand that all ofthese hard cases
will be benefited by his prayeiPL
Wm Aster, of Nefr.York, sends $500
to ttie Femandina sufferers, wore
present constitution smacks of Radical
ism CdL through. It should be barged
of that and made as near like the. one
our fathers left us as possible.
8rtme idea of the popularity-'of the
trip abroad can be got ffomlhe contem
plation of this statement l that 81,000..
pasengers sailed from New York alone
anting the past’year, and this." in .'spite,
of the “hard times.” ° ' 1 ‘
A:Southern bookkeeper visiting the
North on hjs vacation walked tp the top
of Bunker Hill Monument. He said
that it jvas the hardest column to foot up
fie had sneftiifnee b e left home;
The Raleigh Observer claims to have
information that there are now in.'opera
tion eighty'-one gold mines'in North.
Carolina, Borne of 'which are operated
on a very-extensive scale. !
—lA.mt !—— ■;• i 3
The Lonisaua lady who puton.her
hat and walked. over to a neighbor’s
whefi sbejla^ a rattfonake curled , up'
beside lie sleeping husband is the hers.
biDeief^hoig*,’ 1 '
"md fotirrer
iiS o fi.r"
W DENCE .preseSbtd ilai(h» tiaifoSWadlJ ii
men .remark;' '“Well, ,winter' isn’t so
bad, aftera8.' n Ti febt, I'like winter.”
Nbtfiibgiikb when-naail 7 iflB , t; fo
he had;. !: l. oJ jnomjt.iio’ni;—liiiul
mdictmentih Virginia 1 ifor!
tetthVeto ttrrnthecrahk'b'f. the Moffett.
3 riUk register waafound against a'Rkh-
haoddjbiir-keepeiitoSothtultu ad II:
A witnessed was askei if the defend
ant stood on .the defensive. “No,” was
the feply, “he stood on the bench and
fitlike ths devil.”i' l: : owl '•
TOlAAugusta Ctironicte. says a stalk
of cotton with fourhundred bolls oti it
was on extiibition in that city last Fri-
tuf!
In:: Riu,,lia j
T3 IVOTiq^
' -Y-hii fuaininfiirtoicsit^
Urriczor C-jjirtepiJ.yioi' TUBqiiiute.-jtit, ]
•prcsesLu itoitha iiad
has bocu ruario to appear that ** The fitit K
liana! JBaxk. of: Rome?. in, lh.4?lly.’t»('Xbtn*■, l_
Ihe county of Fl«*y4 unji Statnol Geor/ia,
compHifi* with all’t^e prOVfetyrf^bf'the^^lvfioti.
Sututes of lh« • UniteJ. ?
complied jritb before ap Ms-ifutloa *h*Jl
authorized tuccsmaMsnba'tfae huavneerbfTBibShi
Now, therefore, I,Jo^n 8, l.apgw rtn^, Actii
ComptrolforAf .the Ctuudgv, torri
Statutes of the United S^a»p* { lcai-3 1 i i
r, wltnesa my hand and”
- ... ,
In te|tiiaony wuereor. wltnesi my hand
jp*}.of oQa*, thiafJtod
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LOW PRICES! ! s
I thaJolIowin* if, rerj.kV’
Mbaey n^ved by. buy in r of ua: i 1
ikhWiL" «w> ^‘ 1
>- fa: sesvqz.’
u/.EorrERj
“V prices.
i Genrt Bumraes Shsis.i. vr fovivtrt -ilij it:
P4 n i-MM*P»*14lt|a;i btil Li -iii
Infants’ Ankle Ties, 50cU; j _ '
Miles' Cloth Shoas, $2 25. '
»:jwr5ho«s «n4 fiaets azdB.tQiSreiu.oJT
am-jnsl
i'Mjirj-
r..:il i-jiitot mime rJanllL tuoii ban
(i.-.-t: i |
•too lo
isbiere AnverbslDk :«* eon j ,
tul .-{u-’iTiu lo filing DRDot saw | •
it gtT-’iTZr -Tf .r'bntl I.,
.'ioic tUN X>ER. a
STATE MANAGEMENTl
And in daily operation over 37 year*.
$1.0,000$ I
THES., OCT. 16 and 27, 1871,|
ESNTUCE7
STATE ALLOTMENT!
j
$67,925 IN PRIZES!
1 PriaapC ,_..^....s .$15,0001
• r Prize of... ... s,m
i Prize of..»a.4. ... 5.»P| [J* 51
.1 Prize of 2,5001?
1837 Other Prize* amounting to-... 44,925 J £s|
Wliola Tickets, 81.00; 50 Whole Tidal
i for 845; lOO Tickets, $90.
Chirtered for Educational Institutions. Ftl
der Charter co postponement can ever octcl
All prizes paid in full. Official list of •inul
numbers published fn N. Y. Hera.'d, N. T.Sa|
and LouisvilleCeorier-Ioarnal.
Cireulare containing fuli particulars free.
Addre** SIMMONS* DICK1XS05. L
Manager'* Office, 72 3d St., LouiBville,It|
^a^Simiiar AHotnenrs on tho 15ib aaiial
day* of erery month daring the year.
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and possessing those intrinsic medical pi
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pen*able to Female*. Good for SerTouatttl
Liver and Kidney Complaints. A delirioa■
tonic. Pufup in oases oontaining one dozen b-
tie* each, ajxd ( sold by all Druggists, Grocers,i-l
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(Established 1778.)
IMPORTERS OF WINES, BRANDIES, ETUI
The bouse of A. M. Bininger 4 Co.,
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ninety years, a yeputation that may weli f -|
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