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Newspaper Page Text5 V ^irttrier ami ffommemal nSSOLlPA^ 0 APRIL IQ, 1376. rates of subscriptions. for Till: WEEKLY. year.-. ltli ,onths Tim-^ FOR THE TRI-WEEKLY. ..$4 00 .. 2 00 ... 1 00 id strictly in advance, the price of Weekly Courier will be $2 50 a year, and the ftVkfy « ore, one copy will be fur clul'S ^[ r gtephens ia chairman of the com- oiitt'e on light weights and measures Mr. Hayes has nominated Mr. John UV.-h, of Philadelphia, as Minister to I'p.-luml. "" suppose he was govern- ;] l,v the "illness of things 1 ’ in this thought he would send a Wel-liman to England. Who is John Welsh. at.. vl ' ,g _i _ . ‘senator Merrimon’s bill to repeal the - " inVmcr away pen-ions from revol- ‘. ' mi.Uers and sailors of 1812 mionary sohuers «.u ‘ - --din" and ubeltin-'be late rebellion 1 ‘ " , af5( vl. There are but few ,j pensioners in the South, f ouis Republican and if some ofVl:em aided and abetted the rebellion could hardly liave avoided it. What thev did in 18C1 may well be what thev did in 177G lght to tx f tl)fS pan id 1812. Ti The from 1S76, bursed ire 90,000 unsettled pension file in the pension-office at .... and the number is still in ! ,'nougli the department has ,. engaged upon the claims, her of pensioners increased 103 in 1S71, to 240,000, in :i about 830,000,000 were dis claims. It is somewhat sin gular that ten or twelve years alter the war the number of pensioners should be increasing constantly. We have talked with some of the i jeM parliamentarians and lawyers in nur community, and all we have talked with a*ree that the convention last Saturday hut followed the precedent of all deliberative and legislative bodies in adjourning to a further day, in order to have a quorum. Let the convention to-day nominate two good men, by bal lot, and the party will endorse their course and their action. Secretary Evarts remarked Friday night to a friend : -I have been compelled to change ray opinion of the Pennsylvania Re publican delegation in Congress. I was very much mistaken in them when l asked them to select a man from their State for the English mission. I had an idea they would go into the grave yard and resurrect, a man who was not n«!v dead, Lut who had been dead so long that his heir was actually 7 in pos session and enjoyment of the estate.” itoush on Simon. M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. n. ‘WISDOM, JUSTICE > ■ ' ' VOLUME XXXII. All ]> M MODI IRATION.” TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 10 The declination of Mr. Potter leaves Mr.Thn.ckmorton, of Texas, at the head off!.; Texas I’acific Railroad Committee. The md rity of the Committee are ibnji.i tn ha favorable to Government ail. T:v strength of the measure in ;] ■ I! is reported as very doubtful. :T. , i- members are said to be divid ed and quite a member of Southern members arc reported as distrustful of the schfn'.n. The New York Tribune rstiiiuv- that it will lose more mem- h-:-T-.m the South than it will gain fr :n X ,rtli. Unless the Southern are substantially united on t:.i : r-■; -I'.ion it need not lie expected Kx-Sa-n tary Fish, says the Savan nah X, vq came to Grant’s aid against the <]•■ id Sumr.fr. but some of his state- Kvr.!-- appear to be as erroneous as 'cur niory is treacherous. Fish -a'.I t Mr.Sumner favored the Santo l 1 a.h ; until lie found that Mr. ' ■ y w j;iM not he made a commis- r. Tins is an error clearly, for, tcvirding to the Congressional Globe, Mr. huirmer said, speaking upon tlie resolution providing for a commission : I protest against this resolution as another stage in a drama of blood. _ 1 protest against it in the name of justice outraged by violence, in the name of humanity insulted, in the name of the veak, trodden down, in the name of peace imperiled, and in tire name of die African race, whose first etlort at independence it would assaii.” He hope there will be a full conven tion of the Democratic party of Floyd county next Saturday, and two of our best men nominated for the IIou e. Hoyd county is clearly entitled to Cue Senator, and, so fares this county 7 :s concerned, it seems to us desirable, tins convention should make the nomination „f Senator, or, at least, ex i '■ -s its preference for some suitable I; ui for that position. '1 e would advise that all the nornl ■nations he made by ballot, thus giving ' very ielegate a full voice in making the r - ii.ii.ations. bo i very tiling be done with the ut- "cet tairr.ess and honesty, without tin- '-m selfishness or prejudice on the part f,: any. in the spirit of harmony and '“■'•'•promise, and then the good men ‘bus nominated can be easily elected. brominent Cubans in New York are I'ported by the Tribune to have un joined 11.emselves to a representative ' paper on the subject of the cap ut; bv the Spanish forces of Den To- "■ ' i.-trada, President of the Cuban ‘‘‘public, One of these considers that 1 capture of Estrada, is a severe lo'3 ’ ‘be Cuban army and people, buttnat Will not affect greatly the prospects °‘ the revolution.” Another doubts the both o! the report, as he had iuforma- ‘• lj n that a Lieutenant Colonel of the 1 ,J ban army, of the same name as the ' r( -idtnt, had been captured in the ne ighborhood where the capture of the President is reported to have been ef fected. Spain is evidently about to try a conciliatory policy for the reduction °ftl. :ig-continued rebellion of her f-uban subjects, and proposes to return Property confiscated on account of the owner’s treason, if the recusants submit "'thin four months. DEATH OP' OESERil. FOUREST. General Nathan Bedford Forrest died at the residence of his brother, Jesse Forrest, in Memphis, Tenn., on the evening of the 29th ult. He has been an invalid for some length of time, and his many friends and admirers throughout the country, as they bad been advised of his condition, were somewhat prepared to hear of his death The Atlanta Constitution says: “Gen- Foriest was born on the 13th ^ay of July, 1821, in Bedford county, Tennes see. at Chapel Hill, on Duck river. Hi3 father in a few y 7 ears after removed to Mississippi, and settled near Hernando. When Nathan B. was about sixteen his father died, and the care of a family, comprising his mother aud nine broth ers and sisters, was thrown upon him. He struggled manfully and discharged to them every obligation of affection. In the Texan war of independence he enlisted, but did not reach there in time to serve. In 1S52 he removed to Memphis, and became a real estate agent and slave dealer. He was pros perous and built up quite a handsome fortune prior to the war. He entered the Confederate army, and was appointed Brigadier General July 21, 1862, and ordered to report to Gen. E. Kirby Smith. He was pro moted to be Major General December 4, 18G3, and assigned by Gen. Bragg to command of cavalry. Late in the war he attained the rank of Lieutenant General. His cavalry campaign in Tennessee, Georgia, North Alabama and Mississippi form some of the most dar ing and brilliant chapters of Confed erate war history. Since ’lie war he has been engaged mainly in railroad enterprises until disease prostrated him. LATER LIES. Tiie latest dodge of the Radicals, says the Charleston News, is to egg on the Senate to reject the .best of the South ern appointments on the ground that undue influence was exercised upon the President. Governor Hampton is their bctc noir. They give him credit for the appointment of Col. Fitzsimmons as Marshal of Georgia, with which he had little to do, and in the case of ex-Dis trict Attorney Stone charge him with slaying the slain. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times tells the story of Judge Nosthrop^rappointment in this fashion: During the Southern trip Gov. Hampton called the attention of the President to District Attorney Stone a3 being obstructive to “reconciliation,’’ and said that “affairs would get on bet ter if a change were made. The Presi dent was willing to change for a good Republican. Hampton selected Nor throp as a Republican who would be acceptable to all parties, and a tele gram was sent from Chattanooga to At torney-General Devc-ns to dismiss Stone and make out the appointment of Nor throp.” The simple fact is, that Stone resigned some time before the Southern trip” and the office of District Attorney was vacant when Judge Northrop was appointed. FROM THE MEXICAN BORDER. Our Washington correspondent, Knox, under date of the 29th ult„ says another predatory band of Greasers are reported north of the Rio Grande, hast ily gathering up such swag as comes ost readily to hand and is most port able. Tlie same dispatch intimates that a force of independent soldiery Texan Rangers—are preparing to move tlie raiders with a view to their cap ture, or their—well, we are tolerably familiar with tlie practice of Texan Rangers under similar circumstances, and we can guess the result if they overtake the thieves. A review of af fairs on our Southern border during the past few years only increases the feeling of astonishment that we did not long ago drift into actual war; and the pres ent situation is not at all reassuring. THE senatorial race. The convention to nominate a Sena tor from the 42d Senatorial District was called to meet to-day. Whether the other two counties are represented or not, we think Floyd county ought to make a nomination, because we believe Floyd is entitled to name the candi date. From information we have re ceived from prominent Democrats in Bartow and Chattooga we are of opin ion that that the nomination of a good man by the Democrats of this county would meet the approval and receive the support of a majority of the party in those counties. Let Floyd county nominate a man who is acceptable, and he can he elected without much trouble, simply resting his claims upon the right of tlie county to name the Senator. When people ask Gordon H. Gid- diugs. a one-legged and very popular commercial traveler of Syracuse, how he lost his leg, he generally replies, “Lost it on election,” and that satisfies the most curious.— Utica Herald. Gli ding seems to have got on a new tack, as he used to take pride in informing his friends that it was “bitten off by a CO w.”—Rochester Union. The last time he was in Rome he said he lost his leg through a hole in his pantaloons pock et.—Rome Sentinel. On the contrary he has frequently said that when he lost it he was going on the stump.—A. Y. Herald. This is all (k)needless and wrong. He never lost it; it was amputated and given as a legacy to impertinence. The double postal cards are authorized by the German Government. Tne two parts are each stamped and are to be used when a return answer is requested GEORGIA GLIMPSES. V Cotton was brisk in Griffin on Monday at 95. t Flowers, door-mats, &c., are being stolen inTjolumbus. The Gwinnett cotton crop is turning out remarkably well. . A firm in Dalton, the Citizen says, sold S95 worth’, of good3 before noon one day last week. Georgia papers generally reoort trade active. Perhaps the trade dollar is getting in circulation. W. P. Chester, jr., of Whitfield coun ty, made seventy-five bushels of com on three-fourths of an acre. Judge W. S. Webster, an old citizen of Harris county, died suddenly at his home on last Monday morning of apo plexy. AVashington county caaried off the premium at the Georgia State Fair for the best acre of corn. The yield was fourteen barrels. A man in Columbus took a glass of lager beer and ate a piece of Russian herring. The herriDg went to his head and made him drunk. The Citizen says all the Legislative racers are in position in AVhitfield coun ty. AA r e doubt it. Has tlie poor man’s friend been heard from ? Mr. Si Bennett, an old citizen of Mil- ton county, was killed last week by fall ing from a wagon loaded with cotton. The wagon ran over him, crushing his skull. A young lady in Columbus was will ing to forego the pleasure of attending the theater with her sweetheart and give the money to Fernandina. There’s charity. Miss Julia B. Johnson, of Macon, re ceived over fifty dollars at the State Fair for best soda biscuit, crackers, sponge, pound and fruit cakes, and be3t general p ; splay of cakes and bread. Hon. Madison Bell, who is well known as the Comptroller General of Georgia during Bullock’s administration, has made an argument against the new Con' stitution, in a letter to the Atlanta Con- sttiution. Col. H. Bussey, Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee, Circuit, preached a very interesting sermon in the Baptist Church in Lumpkin. He is the orly Solicitor General in the State who is a preacher. In the Superior Court of Bibb, Wed nesday 7 last, AVm. L. King, colored, and Walter Glover, were sentenced to im prisonment for life, for arson. AVm. Maynard, colored, was acquitted of the charge of murder. Col. J. II. Huggins, of Clarke, is dis pleased with the report that he is not a candidate for the Legislature, and, in a card in the Georgian, says he is at the com mand of his friends however inconven ient it may he him to be a candidate. Tlie Elijay Courier has the following in reference to a double homicide in Pickens county, nearLudville, on Tues day last: “At the last term of Pickens Superior Court the Grand Jury found a true bill against a man by the name of Kinney, and the sheriff, assisted by a posse, proceeded to arrest him. Mr Kinney refused to be arrested, when he was fired upon, but before being killed he shot Mr. T. G. Healy, one of the posse, in the mouth and under the left ear. The wounds were considered very 7 dangerous, and it was thought that he would not live until night.” The Legislature—Its Duties—Its Men—Its Consequences to the People. For the Rome Courier. Among other things in this great Con federation of States there is one of paramount importance, and that is State legislation. Oppressive as the action of the Federal Government may be, yet if we have wUe home laws the common people will live, at least, if nothing more. That is something, in these days of bread riots. The duties of the State Legislature are various and important, too much so to be enumerated. Shall the com mon people, the producing classes, be till compelled to pay 12 to 20 per cent, for money ? If so, there ought to be another law; that is, at least, to skin them and sell their hides and tallow for the money classes. There is great waste in this particular. AVhat legislation on railroad monop olies? Shall the railroads be permit ted still to discriminate in favor of capital against industrious and ener getic poverty—in favor of large dealers against small ones ? AVhat about the whole doctrine of laws ? What about the capitol building ? AVhat about the costly bureaus—primitive, secondary and tertiary formations? Shall fossils cease to be investigated ? AA’hat about common schools ? And time fails me in the enumeration of great subjects for legislation. And now wbat about the men that want to go, and what they want to go for? A statesman would tremble at his action and the consequences. If a de vout man, and a believer in God inhu man action, he would pray for Divine guidance. Little men sport themselves where angels dare not tread. Ob, for a deeper, broader, better class of poli ticians. If we do have a nomination let us pray for a wise and judicious action, or none at all. Emmet. .; : Floyd County Politics. AVe take the liberty of publis! following extract from a prival of one of Floyd county’s stadl Democrats: October 30th, 1877. Captain M. DtcineU: Dear Sir—I have not seen the Cour- 1 ier, as yet, giving an account of the mart ing held on Saturday last. This inde pendent movement seems to be creat ing quite a fuss, and I am opposed to the Democrats succumbing to it. I am for fighting it out, and keeping up an organization of the party, even if but few in numbers. This independent movement cannot la°t long, even if it sweeps all before it cow, for it is a movement based on no principles, merely one of these sudden outbursts of popular pass-ions gotten up by dem agogues and selfish aspirants, and it pains me to see some Democrats going into it, and some standing aloof, I ap prehend, only through fear. AVe must meet it and stand up to it, even if de feat is our fate, and keep up an organ ization. The larger this Independent party gets the sooner will be its dis memberment, having no fixed prin ciples, but merely a policy. The peo ple will soon discover it is but a sham and a fraud imposed on them. But if even one-half the true Democrats of the county will be active, fairly nominated candidates can be elected. AVho does not know that a candidate on whom 75 or 100 good Democrats from different parts of the county can agree is more likely to be a true representative man than one who merely nominates him self, or who is proposed by one of his friends who signs himself “many voters,” or some similar catch-word. - COfiTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square otie mohlli $ 4 CO One square three months . .. 8 O •One square six months...^.12 00 One square twelve months.. 20 CO One-fonrth column one month — 10 00 One-fourth column three months..— 2D 00 One-fonrth column «It months -85 00 One-fonrth column twelve months 50 00 One-half column one month — 20 00 One-half column three months 82 00 One-half column six months.. 00 GO One-half column twelve months- 101 00 -One column-one month - 30 00 One column three months. 00 00 One column six months 104 00 One column twelve months-.....~~ 160 C 3 The foregoing rates are for either Weekly or TrI-Weekly. When published In both papers. 50 per cent, additional upon-table rates. ft Mr. Tilden Speaks. What Rolling-Chair Thinks of Rome- For the Rome Ccurier. Mr. Editor: Having spent several months in Northern Georgia during the past summer, I was impressed with Rome as being one of the localities which would, in the future, make for itself a name and become famous,-not only as regards its commercial advant ages, but a3 being a place of rare beauty, having some of the most enchanting landscape views anywhere *“ ■“• From the hill upon which the Baptist College is located one has a most charming scope of vision, taking in the rivers, the hills and the city all at one view; while from Reservoir Hill, Ceme tery Hill, and several other points, the scenery is no less magnificent. The day may not be very distant when steamers will have free way from Car ter’s Landing on the Coosawattee river, in Murray county, to Mobile Bay, and by a contemplated canal from the Ten nessee river, near Chattanooga, to the Oostanaula, thus giving the young and rising city of Rome a grand outlet for her commerce; while the completion of several railroads already coma enced will open up to her new sources of wealth and prosperity in forests, coal fields, furnaces, mills and other mate rial resources, all going to build up the beautifully located city upon the Coosa, irresistibly- drawing to her borders pop ulation, capital and many new enter prises horn of prosperity and her healthful, romantic and advantageous surroundings. Rome and her out-lying towns of Forestville, DeSoto, Hillsboro and South Rome need only to be bet ter known to attract men of energy and enterprise to so important and so love ly a region of the great South. AVith a healthy, genial climate, fer tile lands, fine forests, unlimited iron deposits, splendid water-power, coal all around, and many other very attrac tive and inviting features, none can be disapointed who may pitch his lent in this delightful portion of Georgia. Rome has already a population of about five thousand, and with all the drawbacks attendant upon a desolating war and its results, she is even now progressing, and feels that she is des tined to he at no distant day one of the busy marts and commercial centers of the fast recuperating State of which she is one of the jewels. Rome is already blessed with some large-hearted, liberal men, one of whom, Col. Shorter, is building a Baptist col lege of the first order, donating several thousand dollars for this especial pur pose. The Nobles are identified with Rome’s great iron interest; while her busy and hopeful merchants and manufacturers are all alive to the interest of their pet City of the Hills. I was not a little surprised while stop ping in Rome to find a photographer, Mr. Y'oung, located there who, as an artist, is not excelled in the larger cities of the Union; and to learn that a very worthy and enterprising young man, Mr. Swatz, from the Shenandoah A r al- ley, A’a., had come and caught the ris ing tide, and is lustily hammering away upon barrels, and that he is prov ing, by the success with which he is meeting, that a real live cooper was one of the new needs of Rome upon the Coosa. Rolling-Chair. Smyrna, Cobb co., Ga., Oct. 27th. Benton's thirty years continued ser vices as United States Senator has never been surpassed. The nearest approach to it was that of William R. King, of Alabama, who served twenty-nine years. Both men were bom in North Caro- ina. Tlje Young Men’s Democratic Club of S&w York serenaded Samuel J. Til- iturday night, and he responded ongand carefully prepared speech. © were about4,000 persons present, ake som® extracts from the syn- of his speech, as reported by tel- i* >. Tilden was speaking of making the Voice of the State heard, and of the rights of the State, when “a voice” shouted out: •jWe know- you got robbed!” .j£r. Tilden—I did not get robbed; thfppeople got robbed. [Great cheer ing.] The Declaration of Independence, the'Rill of Rights, the State Constitu- tiofc3, all contain assertions of the right of t£e people to govern themselves, and to qhange their rulers at will. These declarations have ceased to have any meaning to the American mind. They seemed a truism which there was no body‘to dispute. The contests known to Us were contests between different portions of our people. To comprehend the-significance of these declarations it is necessary to carry ourselves back to the example of human experience, in view of which cur ancestors acted. They had seen the governmental ma chine and a small governmental class, so metimes with the aid of the army, ablB to rule arbitrarily over millions of Unorganized, isolated atoms of human sodety. In forming the Government of the United States they endeavored to take e verv precaution against the recurrence of such events in this country. They kept down the standing army to a nominal amount. They intended to limit the functions of the Federal Gov ernment so as to prevent the growth to dangerous dimensions of an office-hold ing class and of corrupt influences. Tijey preserved the State Governments as a counterpoise, to act as centres of opinion, and as organized meanB of re sistance to revolutionary usurpation by the Federal Government Jef ferson, the leader of liberal opin ion, in his first inaugural recognized this theory. Hamilton, the representa tive of the extreme conservative senti- mt’nt, in the Federalist expounded with elaborate arguments ; the father of Con stitution enforced conclusions. j[A voice— “There were no Returning Boards then.] Mr. Tilden (excitedly) no; there were no Returning Boards in those days. The peopleelected theirown opioers,'and-there were no Returning Boards of Florida and Louisiana. [Cheering; and a cry: “Go for ’em again!”] '"■Speaking of the decision of the elec toral Commission, and the wresting of the Government from the hands of the Dem- Ha dpmanded to know nf hi. mi. dilors if they would ever condone it.” A voice: “Never! Never!” Mr. Tilden: “Tlie American people will not condone it under any pretext; or for any purpose. Yfmng men, in the or der of'nature, who have guarded the sa cred traditions of free Government, will soon leave that work to you within the life of most who hear me. Our Re public will embrace a hundred millious of people. AVhether its institutions shall be preserved in substance and in spirit as well as in barren forms, and will contin ue to bo a blessing to the. toiling mdiions and a good example to mankind, now everywhere seeking a larger share in the management of their own affairs, will de pend on you. At this point Mr. Tilden interjected some remarkable utterances. He said that whatever happened I swear, ye3, I swear, that I will maintain tlie in stitutions of the country as they liave been hauded down from our fathers. AVill you not maintain them, say, will you net maintain them, too? [A voice, “You bet we will, Mr. Til- den.”] I avail myself of the occasion to thank all our people, in Slate and coun try, who have accorded to me their sup port—not personal to myself, hut for the cause I have represented, and which has embraced the largest and holiest interests of humanity. A Reminiscence of Jackson. Wash. Cor. of Bjston Journal. Speaking of Gen. Jackson, I heard the other day an anecdote of him at the time when, ps military commander in Florida, during the administration of President Monroe, he had tried at a drum-head court martial, sentenced and hung two Englismen, who had in cited, it is said, an insurrection among the Indians. President Monroe feared that Great Britain would make trouble about this, and summoned his hold Brigadier to this city, where he was ar raigned at a meeting of the Cabinet. John Quihcy Adams, then Secretary of State, who had instructed Jackson to govern with a firm hand in Florida, defended him, and read a long argu ment in which he quoted international law as expounded by Grotins, A'attel and Puffendorff. Jackson listened in sullen silence, but that evening, when asked at a dinnerparty whether he was not comforted by Mr. Adams’ citation of authorities, he exclaimed: “What do I care about those old musty chaps? Blast Grotins, blast A r at- tel, and blast the Puffen-chap. This is a fight between Jim Monroe and me, and I propose to fight it out.” All About the Blames. Senator Blaine has left AVashington City in a special car for his home in Maine. Senator Blaine’s daughter, who was shot in the forehead by a toy revolver, is out of danger. There are all sorts of rumors flying about Augusta, Me., one being that Miss Blaine tried to kill herself because of some love disap pointment A lady who is pa,enthusiastic Re- Dnblican named her Canary bird Jim Blaine. He did not sing much, but she loved him tenderly, until last Sat urday she discovered that Jim Blaine bad laid an egg. Now she declares that “no dependence can be placed on a politician.” Miss AVilson, neice of Major Trainor, keeper of the Newark Bay lighthouse, saw three men capsiz9 in the bay on Monday. She ran down the stair-case and quickly unfastened a small boat and put out to the men. S^e backed the little craft toward the nearest man, and calling on him to climb into the stern made for the others' and rescued hem. ‘The First Apostle to the Corinthians.” 1 The opening chapters of Dr. Edward Eggleston’s new story, “Roxy,” in the November number of Scribner’s Month ly, deal with the political excitement of 1840. A glimpse of the electioneering methods of the time is given in the fol lowing extract: “It was some weeks after the barhecae that Mark Bonamy, now Whig candidate for Representative in the Indiana Legis lature, set out to electioneer. He was accompanied on this expedition by Major Tom Lather, who was running for sher iff. Both the young politician and the old one had taken the precaution to dress themselves in country jeans of undyed brown wool, commonly known os butter nut. Lathers was a tall, slim, fibrous lean,whose very face was stringy. He sat straight up on his rawboned, bobtailed horse and seemed forever looking off into vacancy, like a wistful greyhound. Mark had not succeeded in toning him self quite down to the country standard. He did his best to look the sloven, but there was that in his handsome face, well-nourished and graceful carriage that belied his butternut clothes. He'was but masqueradiug after all. But Lathers was too homespun born; hi3 gaunt, an- ■i!ar, teadonous figure, stepping as he walked as an automation might when worked by cords and pulleys, was not un becomingly clad in brown jeans and ‘stogy’ boots. “The two were riding now toward Tanner Township, the wildest corner of the county. Here on the head-waters of Rocky Fork there was a dance appointed for this very evening, and the experienced Lathers bad scented game. “‘I tell you what, Bonamy, there’s nothing like hoe downs and the like. Everybody is good-natured at a dance. I went to church last Sunday—I always go to church when there is an election coming on. People think I am in a hope ful state and the like, you know, when they see that, and they vote for me to en courage me.’ “Here Lathers gave his companion a significant look from his small twinkling gray eyes, and then diving into his pock et he drew forth a plug of tobacco aud bit off a large corner of it, which he mas ticated for a while with all the energy of a man of serious purpose. “ ‘Yau see,’ he proceeded, ‘a man’s mind is always oo his business even in meeting and the like, at least mine i9 when I’m running for anything. AVell, [ heerd AVhitaker read something from the Apto.-:le -Saul, I believe. No, I ain’t list rig'it .-Imre, now. Now I come to think, 1 b- lieve he said it was from the first apostle to the Corinthians, an’ I swear I ain’t well ’uough up in the Bible to know who was the first and who was the second apostle to the Corinthians.” -—•TrsiaTjftliiiv~5wfwiBSW-.il'—lyTiixni Mark turned Ids head away. “ ‘Well, never mind. It was either Saul or Paul I think. Hesaidsomething about a feast, or big goin’sonandthelike, at Jerusalem, that was to come off some time shortly, and he said that a great and effsetooal door was opened to him. Well, Isays to myself, that old Saul— Saulomon his full name was, I reckon— understood his business mighty well. He took folks when they was a-havin’ a a good time and the like. Them was my meditations, Mark, in the house of the Lord.’ “Acd Major Lathers stopped to laugh and wink his gray eyes at Mark. “‘An’ when I heerd they was a good, ole f-ishioned hoedown over onto Rocky Fork, I says a great and effectooal door —a big, barn-door, it peered like—i3 opened to me and Mark Bonamy. Tan ner Township is rightly Locofoco, but if vou show your puity face among the women folk-, and I give the men a lit tle saxder and the like, ycu know.we’ll use them up like the pilgrim fathers did the British on Bunker Hill that fourth of July.” The Washington correspondent of the Courier-Journal says: The steady opposition of the Repub lican leaders to the orders regulating the conduct of officeholders in regard to elections has had the effect of lead ing the President to think that he may not he able to carry out thi3 policy as fully as he at one time intended. I think much of the original civil service policy will be abandoned. At present it constitutes a wall of separation be tween the President and his party friends in Congress. On the subject of his Southern policy the President is emphatic in declaring his purpose to adhere to it, regardless of opposition. He says it is too important to the peace and future of the country to be given “P- The Administration lias been exceed ingly anxious for an adjournment next week; hut the opinion of well-informed and judicious members is that nothing of this kind is practicable. The ap propriation bills will be carefully scru tinized, and the House of Representa tives will want to know all about them before passing the measure. In the Senate there are a number of nomina tions likely to lead to protracted de bate. L. Q. W. Where the Greatest of the John Smitha is Buried. Opposite Newgate is St. Sepulchre’s Church, of which John Rogers, the Smithfield martyr, was vicar, chiefly modern, but with a remarkable porch which has a beautiful fan-truce-y roof. Many are the Americans who visit the interior to see a gray gravestone “in the church choir, on the south side there of,” with an almost obliterated epitaph which began: “Here lies one conquer'd that hath cosqner'd kings/' For it covers the remains of Capt. John Smith (1579-1031), some'ime Governor of A’irginia and Admiral of New Eng land, aud author of many works upon the history of ATrginia. The three Turks’ heads which are still visible on his shield of arms were granted bySig- ismund, Duke of Transylvania, in hon or of Smith’s having, in three single combats, overcome three Turks and ent off their heads in the wars of Hungary in 1C02. Indianapolis, October 30.—Senator Morton’s vitality is ebbing, with no hope of a return tide. The doctor states that while no radical improvement had taken place the Senator was better than he had been at any time daring the past three days. Equestrian Statue of R. E- Lee. The Springfiield (Mass.) Republican of Tuesday says; “M.H, Moemon, of the Ames Company, Chicopee, has just finished a study model about three feet high 6f ihe 840,000 equestrian statue of Gen. R. E. Lee, which is to be erected at Richmond, Va., and will be exhibit ed there by the artist the first ten days in November. The statne itself is of bronze, and the pedesal and steps of granite-colored wood to represent stone, instead of the usual wax or plaster model. From a series of steps, whoge grand size is 25 by 18 feet rises a plat-' form holding the pedestal proper, an oblong square with semi-circnlar projec tions on the shorter rides. The base rise in this form without other ornaments than molding cat in the granite to the bottom of the die. The straight part of the die’s sides are a 9-feet square granite block paneled for bronze reliefs. The circular part3 are fluted column sections cat longitudinally. A band around the columnar parts between base and cor nice, is covered with armor and insigna of the Middle Ages. Above this die is cornice with a running Grecian orna ment in bronze, besides granite mold ings, and the whole pedestal is secured by a 15 by 51-feet stone about which and just beneath the statue is an honor chapletin acontinuous garland of laurel leaves. One of the panels of the die shows a mausoleum with a medallion portrait on its face of Lee, which a woman figure representing the country embraces in expressing grief at the Toss of her son, while ‘Virginia’ brings wreath of immarteUesin deference to his virtnes. The State coat-of-arms, with a shield embellished with Lee’s titles, is in relief on the back of the die. Above the 22-feet high pedestal is the 16-feet equestrian statue of General Lee. The horse is of high blood and spirit, and, while showing considerable action, has none of the strained, theatrical effec sometimes seen in such works. The rider represents General Lee in his military uniform, fied-glass in hand, and the expression of both horse and rider is of expectation as though anxi ously awaiting the result of some order upon which the fate of a battle might depend.” Cavalry Boots. The other day when the mist and gloom hung over the city like a pall, a man entered a shoe store in this city presided over by a German gentleman and stated briefly; “I want to see a pair of bools.” He was shown a number of pairs, the virtnes of which were dilated upon largely by the proprietor, and after the customer had overhauled a considera ble amount of stock he selected a cer tain pair, paid for them, and, with his purchase under his arm, plunged, into tLo olnnm n- It. rmfpr wnrliT On Saturday evening he returned to the shoe emporinm, slammed a pack age down on the counter and directing the German gentleman’s attention to it howled : “Lcokee there!’’ The proprietor quietly untied the bundle, displayed a pair of boots with the soles entirely worn off. There,” exclaimed the irritated cus tomer, “is the pair of boots I bought from you day before yesterday. AVhat kind of work do you call this? They are the same boots, ain’t they ?” “Dot ish de same boots,” said the proprietor. “Well, what have you go! to say about it ?” “Mine Got!’’ observed the proprie tor, “you must have walked in dose boots 1” “Walked iu ’em?” shrieked the cus tomer; “d n your eyes! of course I walked in ’em; what do I want a pair of boots for ?” “Ha, mine frient,” remarked the pro- jrietor, patting the customer soothing- y on the back, “you haf made a big mistake; dose was cavalry boots!”—El Osman Pasha- Osman Pasha is described by a cor respondent of the London Telegraph, who was present at the battle before Plevna, September Stb, as a middle aged looking man, having the appear ance somewhat of an English fanner. He speaks a little French, understands a little more, but prefers to talk Turkish when he can. He looks after every thing himself—after the supplies of ammunition, the commissariat stores, and the medicines. On the battlefield he received telegrams and messages from every part of the field continally; “and while engaged in trying to out maneuver a numerous and wily enemy, he sat on a little stool with a lead pencil behind his ear sometimes, and some times stuck under the edge of his fez, with his fieldglass iu his hand and a cirgarette in his mouth, and as cool and collected as though he had been listening to a lecture on the Arctic re gions. He never for an instant spoke or acted hastily, throughout the thir teen hours of the battle. Wanted a Second-Hand Marri age License* Columbia Enquirer. Esekiel Persons, colored, called at the Probate’s office of Russell county, A hi , and wanted “some marrying paptrs.” _ Mr. Bnrch the clerk filled up a blank license and handed it to Esekiel. Ze“What am de price boss?” asked ke. . Two dollars,” replied Mr. B. “Ain’t you got nothin’ cheaper, some thing abont a dollar?” asked Zeke. Being informed that two dollars was the cheapest kind on hand, Zeke gave his noddle a thoughtful scratch, and looking appealingly at Mr. B., said: “Boss, ain’t you got some second hand papers? them kind will do me jutaswell as any. I don’t want-no fine papers. Now, Borne paper as has been fotched back, or de folkB didn’t marry on, is jist good enough. Hain’t yon got none of dem what I kin bay for a dollar?” Mr. B. pleasantly informed him that all the second-hand papers had been sold, and the two dollar ones were all he had left, at the same time asking if the girl he was going to marry wasn’t worth a two dollar license,'and if. he wasn’t ashamed to marry her with a dollar one ? _ Zeke “couidn’t stand” to have bis in tended thought little of, so he pulled out his two dollars and paid up, saying that his gal was a mighty nice one, and was worth the money; but he was told that a second-hand paper would marry them just as good as a bran new one. Parson Adam Gachet, Thursday night, perfoimed the ceremony at Black man’s crossing, and made Ezekiel Per sons and Ellen Biggers man and wife, and we trust they are happy. . Subterranean telegraphs have proved in Germany better than aeriaL The conductibility of buried wire which has been in use between Berlin and Halle for a year has. increased, in stead of decreasing, as is usually the case in aerial wires. The line is com posed of seven thin copper wires twist ed so as to form a single conductor, and encased in india-rnbber. Similar lines have been begun or are projected be tween Berlin and Cologne, Frankfort, Strasbnrg, Hamburg, Kiel, Breslau and Konigsburg. The trenches in which the wires are buried are excavated by a steam machine,which, after placing the wire in position, fills np the trench. A Boston woman is reported to have had her dead black-and-tan dog laid out in a fine rosewood coffin, covered with flowers and ornamented with a silver plate bearing name and age. Then she tried to get it buried in Monnt Auburn Cemetery, bm. being refused, eot a physician to make out a burial rrrijflrmta fT>at “Leo ,fiil/qAn. died of spinal meningetis,' and, with the assis tance of a fashionable undertaker, had the dog buried in Cambridge Cemetery, the officers thinking the body to be that of a child. Claiborne F. Jackson, once Governor of Missouri, married five sisters in one of the most respectable and wealthy families of the State. As soon as one wife would die he would go and marry ber sister in reasonable time. Of course, some of them were widows when he mamed them. They say that when he asked the old gentleman’s consent to take the tost one the humorous reply was: “Yes, Claib,you can have her. You have got them all. For goodness sake don’t ask me for the old woman.” A So It Place. London Comipondeneo Chicago Times.) The London news papers who keep correspondents in the field deal muni ficently with them. The offices furnish them with everything. Each of them has least two horses which the office pays for; and one or more servants. Forbes the correspondent of the News receives a clear salary of 85,000 a year, and ali his expenses paid. This 85,000 is in the shape of a retainer. He is paid that amount by the News to retain his services, so as to prevent his writing for any other journal. AVhen he is ac tually at work, then he is paid an addi tional amount, bnt he would receive the 85,000 were he not to do a stroke of work within the twelve months. AVaming to tea drinkers.—“Haven’t been well; what’s been the matter then, Betty ?” Betty—“Well, I dunno whether it’s ’cos I’m fond of my tay, bnt the doctor he do say I’m a suffering from a bronze kettle affection.”—Fun. An Irishman, on seeing a. vessel very heavily laden, arid scarcely above the water’s edge, exclaimed: . “Upon my sowl, if the river was a little higher, the ship would go to the bottom.” ‘ .- Spriggins says that he once prevent ed a severe case of hydrophobia by getting on a high fence and waiting til! i the dog had gone sway. So disgusted are the Pennsylvania politicians with the indifference which Mr. Hayes displays in his treatment of their request for alm3 that they threaten to withdraw their state ticket, and let the election go democratic by default. As the republicans are sure to lose the" stato anyway perhaps tlie best thing they could do would lie to unload it on Hayes.—Baltimore Gazette, dem. New York, Oct. 29.—Mayor Ely to day received an appeal for aid from the mayor of Fernandina, Fla. The appeal says eight hundred families have to be supported before busir.es can be resumed. They bad on hand three hundred dollars and required seven thousand dollars to keep the well from starving and supply the sick with nec essaries. Fred Douglass, after having asked nearly everything for his race at the hands of the Government, has at last discovered the great truth that the black man is entitled to what he can get by his own efforts and nothing more. He says: “The very best thing the white people can do for us ia to stop doing for us and leave us to do for ourselves.” Mighty, indeed, is the peanut crop. In the years 1876—77 the State of North Carolina produced 125,000 bushels of neanuts: Alrginia, 780,0110 bushels, and Tennessee 500,000 labels. T9. U ’*ed States can “point with pride” to ttu :act that in the lust four year , within th. ir borders, 3,320,000 busli Is of peanuts were harvested. Beecher got only ten vo'.fs for Chilb lain of the House, but he has ex- rted bis influence with better effect on the Senate side. On Tuesday the proprie tor of the Twin Mountain House, N. H., where Beecher spends his summers, was appointed keeper of the Senate restaurant The architect who discovers a plan where6y a double house may he built so that you can hear all that is said next door, without the people in the adjoin ing house being able to hear a word uttered in your side, will have no rea son tc complain of a stagnation in bus- ness. The Philadelphia Times ruminates thus: “An ex-Confederate soldier sits in the Hayes Cabinet, and the Vice-President of the ex-Confederacy nominated Mr. Randall for Speaker in the Democratic caucus. Let us have peace.” The National Republican winds np a jeiemiad thus: “One thing, however, is made very clear—while the Presi dent is now a unit, the party that elect ed him is not-” Senator Morton last winter called Pinchback’s second attempt to get into the Senate “damned nonsense ” Per haps he ha3 changed his mind. He of ten does.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, November 07, 1877, Image 1