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Wednesday Morning, Nov. 7,1877
Democratic Nominations, fioyd
County.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
S. C. TROUT,
JOEL BRANHAM.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
We .11 e authorized to announce Col. A. J.
Kino as a candidate for Representative from
Floyd c nnty.
We publish an article from the M11-
leilgville Recorder on the capitol question.
Read what “Common Sense” has to say.
Dr. Paul F. Eve, formerly Professor
in the Medical College at Augusta, Ga,
and for many years connected with the
Medical College at Nashville, Tenn., is
dead.
Charles Conca'nnon,]of St. Louis, who
was conspicuous in the Whiskey Ring
troubles there, walked in the streets
with a pretty schoolmistress, and was
cowhided by his jealous wife.
A. Oakey Hall, ex-Mayor cf New
York, some mouths ago mysteriously
disappeared from the city and was seen
in England. Pie has returned, and
came' back unheralded and unan
nounced.
The Postmaster General has issue
an order requiring all railroad post-
office clerks, route agents, mail route
messengers and local clerks to uniform
themselves according to a certain spec;'
fieation.
Nashvii.i.e is attempt ingdirect trade
with Liverpool, and apparently with
some success. The merchants of that
city made a shipment of flour direct to
Liverpool by way of Savannah some
time ago, and the results were so satis
factory that they are going to try it
again.
The Grand Duke Paul, the youngest
son of the Russian Emperor, has lately
joined the army at the scene of action.
With the exception of the Grand Duke
Constantine, all the male members of
the imperial family who have attained
manhood are now in actiye military
adjournment last Saturday was proper.
The convention was called into exist
ence by the proper authority, the
County Executive Committee, there
was no quorum, and the minority pres
ent adjourned over to give the people a
chance to be fully represented. This
is in accordance with the law govern
ing legislative bodies everywhere. And
so it is with our Superior Courts. If
the Judge is not present on the first
day, it is adjourned over to give him
time to be present.
If there is a quorum present to-day—
and we believe there will be—we hope
the delegates will give every man a
chance to submit his claims to the con
vention; and that nominations will be
made by ballot, so that the vote of
every member of the convention may
have its full weight.
Senator Beck is being severely hand
led by some of the Kentucky Democratic
paper because of his half-way measure
in regard to greenbacks. His bill pro
vides that only half the custom dues
shall be payble in legal tenders. It is
ccmplained that he is pledged to go the
whole figure.
•TutlU 11 CISTI, ttlvz »,cn UlIUlSICl tv
England, is 7j years old, a native and
life-long resident of Philadelphia, and
one of its wealthiest merchants, having
made a fortune in the sugar-impoiting
business. This is the first office of any
consequence he has ever held. He has
always been a Republican, but never
labelled a Cameron man.
The dissatisfied Republican senator?;
whom a Tribune correspondent names
as “Blaine, Conkling, Howe, Edmunds,
Cameron and Anthony,” are very mod
est in their demands on the President.
They want him to dismiss Schurz,Evarts
and Key, and perhaps Devens and
Thompson, who are not very active
political workers, to “antagonize the
South,” and withdraw the obnoxious
features of his civil service order.”
That is all.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
Delegates from nine of the e'even dis
tricts of the county were present last Sat
urday, hut owing to some informality in
the manner of appointment of the dele
gates from one district they thought it
prudent to refrain from taking any part
in the proceedings of the convention,
which left eight districts represented in
the meeting, this being largely over a
quorum.
The general action of the covention
evinced harmony and s desire to
give every one a fair chance. The selec
tion of candidates for Representatives
from the county was made by ballot, every
district being allowed to cast ten votes,
On the first ballot Capt. S. C. Trout re
ceived the unanimous vote of the conven
tion, and on the fifth Col. Joel Branham
was selected, heating William Watters,
Esq., six votes—they having tied on the
fourth ballot. As will be seen by the
proceedings of the convention, to he found
in another column, Col. Branham ac
cepted the nomination; and Capt. Trout
was in the city yesterday and yields to the
wishes of his frieutls and accepts the
proffered honor.
We think thecouvention has done well,
and in presenting to the people of Floyd
county the names of the t.wo gentlemen
nominated, they have hut expressed the
will of the party, which in December
will, inmore emphatic form,be expressed
at the ballot-box.
THE COIJSTT CONVENTION.
The Democrats of Floyd county are
looking to the convention that meets
ta-day for wise and prudent action.
The propriety of the convention mak
ing nominations Beems to us too plain
to be seriously denied. Perhaps some
who are honest in their opinions may
doubt the right of an adjourned meet
ing of a convention to make nomina
tion?. As to the question of right, it is
impossible to argue it. If good nomi
nations are made, the right will be con
ceded and recognized, and the nomi
nees elected by the people. But there
is no law by which we can be. govern
ed in arriving at on opinion as to the
right of a political body to do this or
that. Such a body is amenable to the
people only, and the only way of de
ciding whether it did right or wrong is
\?t i' le ve * <llctof the people at the bal-
“-' J °*’ “-rationing from analogy, we
W y the conclusion that the
GEORGIA ONTHECOMMirTEE*.
The Macon Telegraph says that from
the partial list of the House committees,
it will be seen that Mr. Randall has, on
the whole, substantially recognized
the Georgia delegation. He might
have done better and still not given
them undue prominence, but on the
whole Georgia stands well on that list.
Only two chairmanships are accorded
us, ttatof public buildings and grounds
to General Cook, and of coins, weights
and measures to Mr Stephens, but Mr.
Blount is advanced to the second place
on the Appropriations, where he has
served for two years and made much
reputation, and Mr. Hartridge gets a
good place on the Judiciary, where he
ought to have been in the Forty-Fourth
Congress. The promotion of Mr Candler
to the Elections Committee, and of Mr.
Harris to the Ways and Means,are both
gratifying and well deserved. Dr. Fel
ton retains his old place on the Commit
tee on Commerce, and will serve his
constituents there zealously and with
good effect. Captain Smith, of the Al
bany District, also gets a well deserved
step. We do not know whether Gen
eral Cook retains hi? old place on the
Committee on Military Affairs, but i f
he doesn’t, Mr. Randall made a mistake
in our humble judgment, at least.
SENATOR MORTON.
Senator Morton died Thursday at his
home in Indianapolis, at .5:30 in the
evening. He was in the 55th year of
his age, having been born August 4,
1823, in Wayne county, Indiana. His
first office was Circuit Judge of the
Fifth Indiana Circuit, to which he was
chosen in 1S52; was elected Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana in I860, and be
came Governor when Gov. Lane was
sent to the United States Senate in
1SG1; elected Governor in 1864 ; and
has twice been chosen Senator from
Indiana, 1S67 and 1S72. His term
would have expired March 4, 1879.
The Republican party, in the death
of Senator Morton, loses its real leader,
iFio man who has held the barty togeth
er in toe Nortnwe3t, and who lias done
more than any one else to keep alive
the sectional issues upon which his
party existed.
There is do disputing the fact that
he was almost without a peer in ability
to organize and carry forward political
movements, and the Republican party
will find it difficult to fill the vacancy
occasioned by his death.
With the death of the man dies also
all our feeling of opposition to him-
We acknowledge his greatness; we ad
mire his zeal; we are thrilled by the
exhibition of his energj-, and uncover
our head in the presence of death, but
candor compels us to say we believe
his life, as a politician, was full of
error.
KELI.OGCi’S CAS!’.
The Chicago Iuter-Ocean says :
“If Mr. Kellogg was legally elected
Senator, he ought to be in his seat, and
we have confidence enough in the Sen
ate to believe that he soon will be.”
If Mr. Kellogg was legally elected
Senator, says the St. Louis Republican?
he ceitainly ought to be in his seat;
but if the Legislature which elected
him had no legal existence, how could
he be legally elected ? That Legisla
ture, as the Inter-Ocean may remember,
had precisely the same status as Pack
ard, and Mr. Hayes declared that Pack
ard had no right to be Governor of
Louisiana, and so let him fade out. if
Kellogg is entitled to the Louisiana
Senatorship Packard i3 entitled to the
Louisiana Governorship, and any rule
which applies to the former should ap
ply to the latter as well. Now, the
question is whether the Senate will
place itself in a ridiculous position by
giving Kellogg his seat, and yet do
nothing toward re-establishing Pack
ard, who is in the same boat; the iden
tical boat which floated so successfully
through the returning hoard rapids and
the election commission whirlpool.
Verily the dilemma is an exceedingly
awkward one, and we cannot blame
the Republican Senators for postponing
a final decision as long as possible; for
decide as they may they are sure to
raise a storm about their ears.
A Letter from “Pilgrim.”
LaFayette, Ga., Oct 31, IS77.
Editor Courier: I propose to give
your readers a few impressions of a re
cent visit to the “Eternal City.” I have
not, like yourself, had the privilege of
gazing on the Seven Hilled City on the
Tiber, but I have, after an absence of
eighteen years, luoked again upon the
Seventeen Hilled City on the Coosa, and
have been more than pleased with my
visit.
I have met with warm-hearted and
clever gentlemen, and looked, from
afar, on beautiful and lovely ladies, and
the smiling, happy faces of innocent
children; I have looked upon your
busy mart of commerce, your humming
nail factory, and ye ox-wagon that
roam ye streets, hauling in the fleecy
staple to ye guano mills. All these are
pleasant sights and sounds to the Pil
grim, but one of the sweetest sounds to
a practical man’s ear is to hear a sable
“artist” sing out “More mort,” as he
lays brick on Shorter College and the
Masonic Temple.
I passed away two hours very pleas
santly in Mr. Moon’s apiary, listening
to the hum of the busy little bee, and
watching my friend manipulate his
honey frames and Italian queens.
It was pleasant once more to stand
on ‘.he shore and watch the steamer
“walk the water like a thing of life,” as
she puffed her cigar on the beautiful
Coosa. Rome has much to be proud
of. When Mr. Hill’s four millions of
people live in Georgia, Rome will have
a large number within her walls, and,
with her start in manufacturing, may
safely count on power ar.d wealth. Oh,
if her young men would only bend their
energies to manufacturing everything
the people need, instead of trying to be
doctors and lawyers ! It would be bet
ter to make matches and sell them,
than to defend negroes for hog steal
ing.
I met a goodly number of men in
Rome and up here in Walker lately
who have many, many friends. It
makes me feel sad to think I have none,
but it is a painful fact. Nobody has
asked me to run for the Legislature yet,
and I see notices in the papers every
day signed by “Many Friends,” “Many
Voters,” “One of the People,” etc., all
asking their dear friends to consent to
let their names be used, and asking
them to sacrifice their private interests
for the public good. Oh, if some kind
friends would only ask me to make this
sacrifice for the sake of our poor old
State. I think for the sake of the State
I could make this sacrifice, and for 84
a day and 10 cents a mile I would be
willing to go to Atlanta, or to the Halls
of our Fathers if necessary, and stay all
the year, as at the present time I am
not clearing four dollars per month.
But, alas, I have no friends, and can’t
go worth a cent. We are all Indepen
dent Hayes Democrats up this way.
We are opposed to nominations, rings,
elioues. liner and'chicken cholera. u~>
sacks and Bashi Bazoaks, and any man
who has no friends.
We are in favor of Hayes and Tilden,
hard money and soft money, gold and
greenbacks, bluebacks and greybacks,
or any other backs that will nass. We
would, also, some of us, be glad to get
some back pay. We are in favor of re
trenchment and all that the name im
plies; also reform. We sympathise
with that Christian statesman and saint
ed soldier, Gen. O. O. Howard, and are
ready to weep with Joseph and his
brethren. Ami some of us want one of
Rome's most honored citizens for our
next Governor, and we think he is en
titled to it, and that Northwest Geor
gia is entitled to it.
And now a word to the farmers, and
we are done. Gentlemen, buy largely
of guano next year, plant lots of cotton
buy your meat in the West, pay the
banka a reasonable interest on what
money they let you have, for they must
live you know, and all of you run for
office who have any friends. Rut please
recollect that you don’t go to the Legis
lature to make a crop; and if you see
any one there who has a spite at the
poor old Code of Georgia, for our coun
try’s sake sit down on him.
the Record as author of a bill the op
portunity. The House exhausted itself
by its unwanted activity and adjourned
over Tuesday.
Hardly sufficient time has yet elapsed
to enable Republicans to ascertain their
own sentiments relative to the appoint
ment of Mr. Welsh as Minister tb Eng
land ; but it is entirely safe to predict
that there are many other names -that
would have elicited a greater show of
cordiality among those devoted b the
party.
The President, family and Cabimt are
at Richmond where they appear to'Lave
received an almost extravagant welcome.
Pilgrim,
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 3.—The testi
mony in Cardoza’s trial was finished
late this afternoon. The defendant was
rigidly cross-examined this morning,
and among other things testified that
Hardy Solomon had offered him a bribe
of 85,000 when visiting his private of
fice, to pay certain fraudulent claims
amounting to 820,000. Solomon con
tradicted this statement, and alleged
that he had given Cardoza three or
four thousand dollars of the fraudu
lent claims substituted in this transac
tion. Solomon’s cashier, Seealy. testi
fied that when he presented the claims
Cardoza’s clerk demurred to the pay
ment when Cardoza told him to pay
the demand, it was none of his busi
ness. Seealy is a respectable ‘Demo
crat, and his evidence on this point
is damaging to the defendant. Coun
sel for defendant subsequently admit
ted the substitution of the fraudulent
claims. The argument of counsel will
begin Monday. The juiy is kept to
gether and guarded every night.
Washineton Correspondence.
Washington, Oct. 31,1877.
The Committees, with two or three ex
ceptions, and their respective chairmen
as announced by Speaker Randall in
Monday are as follows: Elections,
Harris, Va; Way3 and Means, Wood,
N Y; Appropriations, Atkins, Tcnn
Pacific Railroad, Potter, N Y; Banking
and Currency, Buckner, Mo; Claims
Bright, Tenn; Commerce, Reagan, Tex
as ; Public Lands, Morrison, Ill; Post-
offices and Roads, Waddell, N C; Dis
trict of Columbia, Williams, Mich ; Ju
diciary, Knott, Ky ; War Claims, EdeD,
Ill; Private Land Claims, Gunter, Ark;
Manufactures, Wright, Pa; Agriculture,
Cutter, N J ; Indian Affairs, Scales, N
C; Military Affairs, Banning, Ohio ;
Militia, Ross, N J; Naval Affairs, Whit-
thorne, Tenn ; Foreign Affairs, Swann,
Md ; Territories, Franklin, Mo; Revolu
tionary Pensions, Mackey, Pa; Invalid
Pensions, Rice, Ohio; Railway and Can
als, Scleicher, Texas ; Mines and Mining,
Beebe. N Y; Education and Labor,
Goode, Va; Revision of Laws, Walsh,
Md ; Coinage, Weights and Measures,
Stephens, Ga ; Patents, Vance, N C.
Public Buildings and Grounds, Cookj
Ga ; Expenditures War, State, Treasu
ry, Navy, Postoffice and Interior Depart
ments, Blackburn, Ky; Springer, Ill;
Glover, Mo; Willis, N Y; Williams,
Ala; Sparks, Ill, respectivly; Accounts
Roberts, Md; Mileage, Cobb, Ind; Ex
penditures on Public Buildings and De
partment of Justice, Lynde, Wis, and
Bragg, Wis, respectively ; Civil Service
Reform, Harrison, Ill; Mississippi
Levees, Robertson, La; Printing, Sin
gleton, Miss; Enrolled Bills, Hamilton,
Ind; Library, Cox, N Y.
Monday was one of the most busy days
ever known in the House. Under the
call of States, which began at 12 and
closed a little past 5, nearly 900 bills
were introduced. To be sure many of
them were of no public importance, but
it gave members ambitious to appear in
Washington, D. C., Nov. 2.
A rumor gained currency yestetday
about 11 o’clock that Senator Merton
died at 9. It occasioned the adjourn
ment of several committees, and the
prevalent disposition among the better
class of people to cease all warfare
against an opponent who had fallen at
last before the blows of the “last ene
my,” and to remember only their sterl
ing qualities of head and .heart, was
never more clearly demonstrated than
about the capital; and many generous
and touching tributes to the illustrious
dead (as supposed) were paid by those
most uncompromising in their opposi
tion when he was alive and able to re
turn blow for blow. Subsequently it
was learned to have been a mistake
but the consciousness that it was *>nly
a question of a few hours at most., ap
peared to impress every Senator daring
the brief session held of about twenty
minutes. His desk had been decorated
by some friendly hand with a profu
sion of flowers, and there was apparent
an unusual feeling of solemnity with
every Senator.
In the House the features of the day
were the passage of Ewing’s resolntion
to reconsider the vote by which hisTull
repealing portions of the resumption
act, was ordered recommitted, and the
attempt of Goode to cast a fire-brand
into their midst by the introduction of
a resolution commending the President
and his ‘•Southern policy.” Mr. EwTng,
it is presumed, must have become con
fused by the labyrinihian windings of
parliamentary tactics to which his more
experienced opponents successfully re
sorted; and it is predicted that unless
his ingenuity suggests some way to get
his bill out of the morning hour, it may
share the fate of Bland’s silver bill du
ring the last session. The test vote did
not show a very large majority in favor
of repeal, and when the uncertainty
awaiting Mr. Ewing’s proposition in the
Senate is considered, with the probabil
ity that the President would interpose
his veto should the bill-reach him, the-
repeal party havn’t a very broad mar
gin for felicitations. Gen. Butler rather
turned the laugh against Goode by
moving the reference of his incendiary
resolution to the Committee on Educa
tion and Labor, of which the Norfolk
gentleman is chairman. Unanimous
consent being necessary to the consid
eration of the resolution, and objection
being made to its consideration, it was
withdrawn, to the evident satisfaction
of the Republicans.
The Massachusetts friends of Mr.
Sumner who were disposed to take up
the club in his defense, and to vindi
cate him from the charges of fickleness
and neglect of duty when at the head
of the Committee on Foreign Relatiors,
as intimated by Gen. Grant, appear to
have suffered a defeat. It appears
pretty well established that Mr. Sum
ner promised his support to the San
Domingo scheme, and gave the Presi
dent no intimation of his change of
views relative to it until he (Grant) was
so far committed that a retrograde
movement appeared impossible with
out seeming to have been hull doz-d
from his purpose by the Senator; and
Mr. Fish ha3 promptly accepted the
challenge to specify the treaties Mr
Sumner pigeon-holed, naming nine,
one of which was in his hands fully
eighteen months without action.
The races at Benning’s were well at
tended yesterday, notwithstanding rath
er unfavorble weather. The favorites,
as at the Pimlico races, seem to have
been eclipsed by comparatively un
known horses; and considerable money
is presumed to have changed hands.
The President and party returned
last evening from Richmond, thorough
ly well pleased, it is supposedly the
cordiality of their reception.
It is the Impression that no more leg
islation will be attempted till after the
elections which occur next week.
Knox.
The Kimball Opera-House
Swindle.
GEORGIA C LIMPSES.
It is Slid that General Toombs will
speak in Cartersville this week.
Mr. John M. King and Miss W’illie
Janes, of Polk county, were married on
the 1st inst.
Judge Herschel V. Johnson was in
Augusta on Friday, and we regret to
learn from the Chronicle that he has
been unwell for some time past.
W. M. Moore, until recently Deputy
Revenue Collector for the Third Dis
trict of Georgia, was arrested in Au
gusta last Thursday night on a charge
of embezzlement.
Dr. W. H. Dulany, a physician at
Millen, committed suicide one day last
week by taking a dose of strychnine.
He was originally from Baltimore, and
had resided at Millen since the spring
of 1876.
Nobody but Cameron.
New York Herald.
Now they ask the Pennsylvania mag
nates what man shall be constable and
they say Simon Cameron; what man
shall be coroner? Simon Cameron;
what man collector, surveyor, inspec
tor, messenger, doorkeeper?—it is al
ways Simon Cameron. In time that
becomes monotonous. There is the ap-
learance that Pennsylvania has lost the
ittlewit she once had; that she has
gone absolutely crazy, and that her last
idea before this calamity was Simon
Cameron, which idea, not displaced by
any new one, she mutters and mpm-
bles forever.
Lying in wait—false scales.
Milledgeville Becordor.
Under a pledge from Atlanta to fur
nish the State of Georgia with ample
quarters for the accommodation of the
Governor, Legislature and State House
officers for ten gears free of eost to the
State, the capital was removed to At
lanta.
The first session met in the City
Hall, 4ih of July, 186S, and remained
in session, if I mistake not, 95 days.
Much dissatisfaction was expressed on
account of the size and inconvenience
of the halls, etc., eta, and Atlanta be
gan to cast about for more commodious
quarters, for a return to Milledgeville
was threatened.
Mr. H. I. Kimball appeared on the
scene. He was in Atlanta, an officer
of the Pullman Sleeping Car Company.
The Morpheus, a new car of the line,
arrived in Atlanta, and the Legislature,
en masse, was invited to visit it. At
the entrance toit, was a magnificently
fitted up bar, from which was dealt out
to the assembled wisdom, wine, bran
dy, whisky, gin, cigars, etc., all of the
1 costliest varieties, and without money
and without price, for there was a bill
pending to change the Constitution and
return the capital to Milledgeville, and
Mr. Kimball was the business manager
of a company who had purchased the
inchoate opera-house, which he and
hi3 co-conspirators intended to make
the future capitol of Georgia. The bill
to return the capital to Milledgeville
passed the House of Representatives
September 24th, 1S6S, by a vote of aye?
82, nays 37. On the succeeding day
the House refused to reconsider its ac
tion, by a vote of ayes 50, nays 67.
This same bill passed the Senate by a
majority, but not being a two thirds
majority, it was lost. So it will be
seen that a majority of the legal Repre
sentatives of the people in 186S voted
to remove back to Milledgeville. Again
on the 9th of March, 1S69, the House
of Representatives voted aye3 7S, nays
51, on the bill to amend the Constitu
tion and return the capital to Milledge
ville. The Legislature was then sitting
in the opera house—and H. I. Kimball
sat in state in his small ante-room,
within 20 feet of the Speaker’s desk ; in
which ante-room was an elegant side
board, furnished with cut-glass decant
ers, kept constantly filled with the
choicest liqnois, free to all members,
while the luxurious chairs and otto
mans furnished the weary legislator
with cosy seats, while enjoying the
genuine Havana which the Royal Kim
ball dealt out with no unsparing hand
to every member who called. This
would all have been very well had H.
I. K. been satisfied with the vote of
thanks for the promptness with which
he had finished up his old rickety ope
ra-house—but he had a deeper laid
scheme—he wished to sell this out
rageous piece of patchwork, putty, and
paint to Georgia for a capitol—to re
lieve Atlanta from a bargain with
which she could not comply, and for
ever to seal Atlanta as the capital of
the State. Soon the insidious aid of a
committee is invoked. The majority
of the committee reported in favor of
releasing Atlanta from her contract,
and of buying the opera-house for
8700,000. There was a minority re
port, of which we will speak hereafter
Upon the adoption of the majority re-
poit every ruse known to parliamenta
ry law was exhausted; when the chiv
alrous, high-toned and honorable Fli ur-
OOJ-, of W.oklngtnn r/in/ily rising in.
his place, gave notice thi-t “he would
not be present when such a foul wrong
was being perpetrated upon the people
o: Georgia," and called upon those who
agreed with him to follow him—and
they did follow, and left the House
without a quorum. At night the House
jreassamhled, and the vote on the mi-
ority report was ayes 51, nays 10, lack
ing 28 of a quorum Speaker McWhor
ter reserved the announcement of the
result till morning—this was March
17th, 1869. During that night “there
was hurrying to and fro,” and Speaker
McWhorter's room in the National Ho
tel was visited by the astute and learn
ed expounders of parliamentary law;
by the lobbyists, whose bread and but
ter were staked on the issue—well, ev
erybody’s influence was invoked in At
lanta’s interest, and against the empty
Georgia treasury and the poor, tax-rid
den aud oppressed peopile; and the ac
coucheur in the morning declared there
had been a happy delivery, and the
people have found our, to their cost,
that no ‘ insignificant mouse was horn.”
Though a “ridiculu3 runs” has b?en
raised throughout the State out it.
The Speaker, when the House assem
bled on the ISth, announced that, not
withstanding a quorum did not vote,
the resolution was adopted. Thus did
Georgia become the happy possessor of
the H. I. K. Opera-house; but “the best
laid schemes of men and mice,” etc., are
often doomed to disappointment, for by
a vote of ayes 55, nays 65, the decision
was overruled, and II. I. K., or some
body else than the State of Georgia, as
is the case now, still owned the opera-
house, monograms, paint, putlv, and
all.
The next time we hear of this mon
strous proposition, it is carried through
the military Senate of 1870, and came to
the House as organized by the military
appointed clerk, pro tem., A. L. liar
ris, of Ohio. Now, there was not a re
spectable newspaper or honorable Geor
gian who did not brand ? majority of
the Legislature of 1870 as a fraud at
the time; and even to this day all right
thinking men characterize the scenes
enacted in its organization as a base
wrong and barefaced usurpation. One
member was unseated because he
had once been a road overseer
and many, very many were exclud
ed from the seats to which they
were legally elected for reasons, if possi
ble, more trivial. And yeta Legislature
thus villainously palmed off on Georgians
as their legitimate Representatives, pur
chased the Opera House. On the 5th of
August 1870 the resolution to purchase
the Opera House for 8380,000 passed the
Senate by a vote of ayes 20, nays 9, and
on August 19,1870, the House concurred
in the same by a vote of ayes 78 nays 48.
Now, such was the action of a. fraudu
lent legislature, in the face of the follow
ing facts:
Atlanta pledged itself “to furnish suit
able and sufficient accommodations for
all the purposes of State Government at
th s place (Atlanta) for ten years, fiee of
any expense to the State.”
On March 16th, 1869, W. H. Hulsey,
Esq , Mayor of Atlanta, says in a com
munication to the General Assembly,
that “the propositions of the City Coun
cil of Atlanta, (relative to ihe State pur
chasing the Opera House) are not in
tended to relieve the oity from furnishing
a mansion for the Executive &c.”
After the resolution was finally adopt
ed in the House to purchase the Opera
House, Fitzpatrick of Bibb offered the
following: “Whereas it is currently re
ported that certain members of the Leg
islature, and others in authority, have
used undue influence for the purpose of
controlling votes in favor of the purchase
of the Kimball Opera House for a State
Capitol, Therefore be it resolved, that a
committee of five from this House be ap
pointed for the purpose of investigating
what influence, if any, was brought to
bear upon members of this House in fa-'
vor of the purchase’” This resolution
teas lost.
This history, necessarily short; is
on facts, and suggest the query.
Atlanta complied with her contract with
the Constitutional Convention of 1868?”
We think not, as the following state
ment will show:
Am’t. paid for the Kimball
Opera House $380,000
Am’t. paid tor furnishing Kim-
ball Opera House 54,000
Am’t paid for James’ House
for Executive Mansion 100,000
Am’t paid for Repairs, Ac 1.02,000
5636,500
Or.
By Opera House less mortgage,
$80,000 - 8000,000
By James’ Mansion (perhaps) 10,000
Cash to balance 626,500
5636,500
The ten years have not yet expired
and more tlian half a million dollars
will be required 'of the State to pay for
that which was to cost nothing. Where
are the $100,000 of Atlanta bonds which
were donated to the State to aid in pur
chasing the Opera House, and which
were part of the consideration, for re
leasing Atlanta from her first contract ?
And in the words of Atlanta’s proposi
tion of March Sth, 1869, has the Opera
House “become the property of the
State ?” Did not Atlanta know of the
existence of the mortgage on the Opera
House, when she made title to the State?
Instead of the State proposing to relieve
Atlanta from her contract, did she not
bring all her influence to bear to lobby
through the Legislature the resolntion to
buy this House and relieve her from all
furtherobligations? Did not oneof Atlan
ta’s most influential citizens, and one of
her largest tax-payers, say in a speech
before her City Council when it was
discussing the proposition which was
made to the Constitutional Convention in
1868, “Promise liberally, gentlemen, it
will never cost us a cent” ? Will Atlanta
pledge herself, in the event she is called
on to fulfill her present promise, (to
build as good a capital as the one in
Milledgeville) not to ask the Leg'.=lature
to relieve her? Will she proveto the
satisfaction of the citizens of Georgia,
that there are no mortgages on the City
Hall square, and that there shall be no
unsatisfied mechanic’s liens on the State
House, when built? “I know of no way
of judging the future, hut by ihe past,"
and I should like to know what there
has been in the conduct of “Atlanta” to
justify those hopes, with which “those
would solace themselves,” who vote for
Atlanta under the impression that her
proposition to build a new capitol is bind
ine in law. and can and will be enforced?
The citizens of Atlanta, among whom are
as high toned and honorable gentlemen,
as can be found in Georgia or anywhere
else, have not ratified the action of the
City Council —and who knows that they
will i Georgia, poor as she is, and even
now taxed almost beyond the endurance
of her citizens, can, when she needs it,
build her own capitol. She has now, in
Milledgeville, a capitol amply large for
all her wan!3 for the next fifty years. It
don’t leak very much, since the miserable
roof of Long [sland pebbles, put on it
by Mr. Architect Fay, has been replaced
by a good tin roof. There are elegant
halls for the two Houses of the Legisla
ture ; a magnificent Supreme Court
Room, and Committee and Clerks rooms,
and ample offices for all the bureaus.
Tax payers of Georgia, look well to 3-our
interest, and vote with
Common Sense.
P. S. For our remarks on Legislative
actions in this transaction, we refer the
reader to the Home Journals of 186S, ’69
and 70. C. S.
A Day of Thanksgiving and
Prayer.
Pjcriauiatiou b3* the Pie?* dent.
Washington, Oct. 29. — President
Hayes to day issued the following proc
lamation :
“The completed circle of summer, and
wiuter,seed time and harvest, has brought
us to the accustomed season at which a
religious people celebrates with praise
and thauksgiving the enduring mercy of
Almighty God. This devout and public
confession of the constant dependence of
man upon the Diviue favor for all the
;ood gifts of life aud health,and peace and
happiness, so early iu our history made
the habit of our people, finds iu the sur
vey of the past year new grounds for its
joyful and grateful manifestation.
“In all the blessings which depend
upon benignant seasons this has indeed
been a memorable year: Over the wide
territory of our country, with all its di
versity of soil and climate aud products,
the earth has a yielded a bountiful re
turn to the labor of the husbandman.
The health of the people has been blight
ed by no prevalent or widespread dis
eases. No great disasters of shipwreck
upon our coasts or to our commerce on
the seas have brought l-.ss aud hardship
to merchants or mariners, and clouded
the happiness of the community with
ympathetic sorrow. In all thatconcerns
our strength and peace and greatness as
nation, in all that touches the perma
nence and security of our government
and the beneficent institutions on which
it rests ; in all that affects the character
and dispositions of our people ; and tests
our capacity to enjoy and uphold the
equal aud free condition of society now
permanent and universal throughout the
land; the experience of the last year is
conspicuously marked by the protecting
Providence of God, and is full of promise
and hope for the coming generations.
“Under a sense of the infinite obliga
tions to the Great Ruler of times and
seasons and events, let us humbly ascribe
it to our own faults and frailties if, in any
degree, that perfect concord and happi
ness, peace and justice, which such great
mercies, should diffuse through the
hearts and lives of our people, do not
altogether and always and everywhere
prevail. Let us with one spirit and with
one voice lift up praise and thanksgiving
to God for His manifold goodness to our
land, His manifest care for our nation.
“Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B.
Hayes, President of the United States,
do appoint Thursday, the 29th day of
November next, as a day of National
Thanksgiving and Prayer, and I earnestly
recommend that, withdrawing themselves
from secular cares and labors, the peo
ple of the United States do meet togeth
er on that day in their respective places
of worship, there to give thanks and
praise to Almighty God for His mercies,
and to devoutly beseech their continu
ance.”
Hon. Milton Sayler.
At a mass meeting held by the Demo
cracy of Baltimore on the night preced
ing the day of the municipal election in
that city, Hon. Milton Sayler, of Ohio,
was among the speakers. In the course
of his speech he said:
The country, he . said, had tested a
pretty good dose of Republican rule,
for one-half a generation they had held
absolute control of the Federal Govern
ment and of the Legislatures of every
State in the North. They are responsi
ble for the bad legislation during that
period. By their system of legislation
thievingand robbery|they have produced
condition? of anarchy, tne laboreris not
secure in getting his wage?, and the
rich man in in keeping bis wealth; and
the Republic-ins crowned their infamy
by putting into the Presidential chair
a man who had iirithoe a majority of
the popu lar vote or a majority of the
electoral vote. 11- placed there
—[Voice, “hv lraud.'J [Applause.]
Grand Lodge of Masons.
The Grand Lodge of Masons at Ma
con, Ga., elected the following officers
for the ensuing year:
James M Mobley, Grand Master.
Josiah 1 Wright, D G M.
Jas W Taylor, S G Warden.
James M Rushin, J G Warden.
Joseph E Wells, G Treasurer.
Caleb W Key, G Chaplain.
W W Goodman, S G Deputy,
J E McIntosh, J G"Deputy.
R W Gam mage, Grand Marshal.
W F Parkhurst, 1st G Steward.
R T Kendrick, 2d G Steward.
A H Sneed, 3d G Steward.
C H Freeman, G Tyler.
New Advertisement^
Applies'ion for G^dia^C^
GEORGIA, FJojd County. 01a fl*hlp.
R obert h. jones havuo
to bo appointed
property of Molli. A. ic<t flV,',
anew 14 years or sge, resident." 0 f .3
this is to rite all persons concern.,! ? “"'T
appeu- at the December lerm. l”?* £ ‘•wl
el Ordinary for said cconiy, Md
any they can, why said Robert H J»T
net ba intraetej .nth the gosrduLd? ,hc »U
peraone and property cf Mollie A. Ind
'yfitofita my official signature w
2d ’% 7 ' H ’^ORN a soH , . h 0 ^ ; -
tegrity of President Hayes nor do I im
peach his legal title to the pcssion, for
he was placed there by the form cf law li . i
but Hwowes that seat at bottom to the
damnable fraud of returning boards.
The truth is, we organized what we
thought was an honest commission,
and we believed we wouli have an hon
est and fair settlement of the Louisiana
and Florida election troubles. [Voice:
“We’ll have it yet] Mr. Sayler said:
“Yes, we’ll have it in 1880, but in order
to bring it about the city of Baltimore
must go Democratic on next Wednes
day, and men who have stood in the
ranks in the past must not be led away
by specious words into the “Working-
tr>en’s party.” Returning to the subject
of the Electoral Commission,Mr. Sayler
said that the commission cheated them
and while he had voice the people of
this land should hear of it. I am, he
said, in favor of Mr. Hayes' Southern
policy, but am dispose to gush toward
Mr. Hayes or towards tho e Sothern
Democrats who have gushed so much
toward him. Two years ago we elec
ted a Democratic Congress who refused
ta vote a dollar of money for the army
unless the troop3 were withdrawn from
the Southern States. [Applnse.] It
was because of this and because the
Republican Senate wouldn’t agree that
the Democratic House took the respon
sibility upon itself and adjourned with
out voting a cent to the army. The re
sult was we are back at Washington
again, .’and I suppose we will have to
give it to them, but no Federal bayonet
is now doing police duty in the South.
[Applause.]
Hindoo Justice.
Four men, partners in business,
bought some cotton bales. That the
rats might not destroy the cotton, they
purchased a cat. They agreed that each
of the four should own a particular leg
of the cat, and each adorned with beads
and other ornaments the leg thus ap
portioned to him. The cat, by an ac
cident, injured one of its legs. The
owner of that member wound around it
a rag soaked in oil. The cat going too
near the hearth set this rag on fire, and
being in great pain, rushed in among
the cotton bales where she was accus
tomed to hunt rats. The cotton there
by took fire and was burned up. It
was a total loss. The three other part
ners brought a Buit to recover the value
of the cotton against the fourth partner,
who owned this particular leg of the
oat. The Judge examined the case, and
decided it thus:
“The leg that had the oiled rag on it
was hurt. The cat could not use that
leg; in fact, it held up that leg, and ran
with the other three legs. "The three
unhurt, therefore, carried the fire to the
cotton, and are alone culpable. The
three partners who owned the three
legs with which the cat ran to the cot
ton will pay the whole value of the
bales to the partner who was the pro
prietor of the injured leg.”
Russia and Turkey.
The following extracts from the “Table
Talk of Napoleon I.” are extremely in
teresting at the present moment: “ One
day,” Napoleon said, “I could have
shared the Turkish Empire with Russia;
we have discussed the question more than
once. Constantinople always saved it.
This capital wasthegreatembarrassment,
the true stumbling block. Russia want
ed it, and I could uot grant it. It is too
precious a key ; it alone is worth an em
pire. Whoever possesses it can govern
the world.” “AH the Emperor Alexan
der’s thoughts,” said Napoleon at St.
Helena, “are directed to conquest of Tur
key. We have had many discussions
about it. At first his proposal pleased
me, because I thought it would enliuhten
the world and drive those brutes, the
Turks, out of Europe. But when 1 je-
flected upon its consequences, and saw
what a tremendous weight of power it
would give to Russia, on account of the
number of Greeks in the Turkish do
minions who would naturally join the
Russians, I refused to consent to it, espe
cially as Alexander wanted Constantino
ple, which I could not consent to, as it
would destroy the equilibrium of |>ower
in Europe.”
First Tuesday in December, ist?
the following Iota of what it known u th. r\
property, in Cave Spring, to-wit: M ^
Lota numbered from 8 to 22, include,
weet aide 01 Lake street, ea.-h coauinfo.t",
txon over one arre. excent 19 »•„; i
about two and on-.four.'h acres’- NoV 0111 *™
bama street, batw. en Dickers,,,/,
road, and bo. 24, on arms itreet. oppc.i ,
arsoneach con-aining about t.if ,' , tk '
2S 20, 32 31 end 3t, on Le j i ”
the depot, 27 and 2»eontaini^
thirls ot an acre, 2S, 32 and 33 each l bo- 1 ? 0 "
t^fou“.«r«f 1 ““ 31
Also, the lot whereon Judge Thomas
’ ““‘*’"“8 between eighteen atd t .„ '
1, weal of the depot end south o!
lire:
aerss, w«, u , uio oepo; end south o* A , .h~ v
atroet. well improved, .riih dwelling, cut-W*
two good c 1 sterns, all new, a vonog orcha-s^ 1 ’
laid fir.te.ia Van’s Valley soU,i n fi’ d 'J. 1 ’
of cultiva'i.n, and with running water (the uv*
spxjng branch; on the same. A ytry £■ ^
and valuable small farm. * ri ^
months, with :nt«re3iat 10 i
October 25, 1877.
27,tw-wti
FALL GOODS.
VV E v,?v-m E A ow A beautiful assort.
V V MENT cf Bools, shoes and Leather ot tt,
handsomest and best makes.
W e call special attention to Soots and Shoti
of oar own make. Oor fine b'.ots cannot b
excelled. **
Our heavy goods for farm use? are all maW
the most durable leather, well made ard aremli
at prices of Noithern goods.
All kinds Shoe Tools and Shoe Ma:hiaer
furnished on erder. * \
M. F. fSOVANi CO,
2 w6m jnelt wtf; 21 Broad St, RomaGa
H. HARPOLD
No. 13 Shorter Block,
Rome, Georgia.
I TAKE PLEASURE IS ANN0CSCIX6
TO THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE
GEORGIA and ALABAMA that
I AM SOW RECEIVISG tub
Largest, Best ami Cheapest M
— OF —
FALL & WINTER GOODS
I have ever brought to Rom*,
Consisting of
FRENCH & ENGLISH DRESS GOODS
BLACK AND COLORED SILKS,
with Trimmings and Hattons to match. J
SILK & LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS
SILK AND LACE TIES.
HOSIEP.Y AND SOTIOSSTOO XUMEE-
OUS TO MESTIOS.
AN IMMENSE STOCK OF CASSI1JE2H,
JEANS. FLANNEfcS. LINSEY. TICK-
INGS. BLANKETS, BLEACHtD
AND BROWN DOMESTIC.
Gkeat Bargains in Hats, Boots and Shois.
pST' My entire S'ock is New, and has bees
bought as low as Cash could buy them.
I invite all to call and see my goods. I inst
by fair dealing and good goods at low pricesH
merit your patronage.
Ct6,tw trim H. HARPOLD.
BININGER’S
"OLD LONDON
DOCK GIN.”
of the MedicxI Profession and the Fimi-Ji
and po5?eraing those intrinsic medical propertied
which belong to an Old and Purr Gio. Icdis-
pensable t> Females. Good for Nervcuioesi,
Liver and Kidney Complaints. A delicicw
tonic. Put up ia cases containing one dozen bot
tles each, and sold by all Druggists, Grocers, Ac.
A. H. BININGER & CO.,
No. 15 Beaver Street, N. Y.
(Established 1778.)
IMPORTERS OF WINES, BRANDIES, ETC.
The hocso of A. M. Bininger Jt Co., No*
Eeaver St, N. Y., has Eustained for a period »
ninety years a reparation that may well be en
vied.—-V. 7. Evening Pont.
The name of A. M. Bininger !l Co., So. »
Beaver St., N. Y., is a guarantee of the exacitaa
literal truth of whatever tLey represent—.V *•
Commercial Advert ncr.
This snporb Gin (Btninger’e Old London R**
Gin) has attained a popularity without precede*
in the history of the trade.—X. Y- Herald.
oct4.tw-w2i
BUIST’S
New \ork, Oct* 31. Rev. tsnmucl »....
Isaac Joseph Scherchousky, D. D„ was FEiESH TUItNIP SEEP • |
this evening consecrated as Missionary
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of Shanghai, with jurisdiction All V”’,'c-il'S ar.d Warranted,
over the entire Chinese Empire. The
ceremony took place at Crace Church,
and was participated in by seventeen
Bishops. The venerable Bishop Smith,
of Kentucky, officiated, as.-isttd by-
Bishops Whitingnam, of Maryland, Lee,
of Delaware, Potter, of New York,
Bidell, of Ohio, Whipple, cf Minnesota,
Lay, of Eastern Pennsylvania, Stevens,
Pennsylvania, Vail, o
Kansas, Kerfout, of Pittsburg, Young
of Florida, Spaulding, of Colorado, Gar
rett, of Southern Texas, Scarborough,
of New Jersey, Perry, of Iowa and as
sistant Bishop Lyman, of South Car
olina.
Oil a.r.id“'V' in’
glow Glaus,
Tog« therewith
DRUGS,
Eta, Etc., Etc,
Just Human.
XI. T. Hoyt,
Wholesale Druggist.
43 Rroad Street. R«n>*. Cu
janlfitw-wl,
“Save me, Doctor, and I’ll give you a
check’for a $1,000!”
The doctor gave him a remedy that
soon eased him, and be called out:
“Keep at it, Doctor, and I’ll give you
check for five hundred dollars!’’
In half an hour more be was able to
sit up, and he calmly remarked:
“Doctor, I feel like giving you a fifty
dollar bilL”
When six months had been gathered
to Time’s bosom the doctor sent in a
bill amounting to five dollars. He was
pressed to cut it down to three, and af
ter so doing he sued it, gut judgment,
and the patient pnt in a stay of execu
tion. The poet was pretty correct when
he wrote:
‘1 know no mzn whoa I would trast;
I bay and cell for cub ;
Each day I know what I am worth,
And that avoid a poach/*
^Philadelphia, Oct. 30.—John Welsh
stated this evening that after mature
deliberation and with great deference
he had reluctantly yielded tG the wishes
of the President, and had concladed to
accept the position of Minister to En-
land, if he should be confirmed by the-
Senate.
Simplest & Best.
—Agmts Wanted— .
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