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Newspaper Page Textand $0WWMriat. APRIL IO, 1876. , aT£ S of subscriptions. for the weekly. for the tbi-v strictly In advance, tne price of will be $2 50 a year, and the more, one copy will be fur- The editor of the Baltimore American , off !s nt Hon. George H. Pendleton’s The mortali’? from the famine in the , Jietrict in Iiolia front December, ;.! 6i w Srftton.h. r. 1877. was 1,111,980, i 414.170 deaths for the preceding aomhs. Senator Ewing’s order looking to 0P»lliug private bankers to nublish ■irteriy statements of their assets and unties wil 1 attract the attention of : an cial men. Mavor Ely, of New York, thinks the .,y| c schools of tliat city may possi- r be ran through the present year, if , ne vr buildings are erected, at an ex- VOLUME XXX1L ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY 'RNING, JANUARY 23, 1878. NEW SERIES-NO. 2 SCARCITY OP CAVALRY HOhSES IN ENGLAND. GEORGIA GLIMPSES. A two hundred acre farm was sold The possibility, says the New York | by the sheriff in Early county for sixty of $3,400,000. m x I Veit to committing matrimony, the rid thinks committing perjury in , (ea ring to a savings bank return is the ;ing most likely to withdraw a prom- -eatcitir.cn from general circulation. O il. John T. Pettus died at his plan kton in Bee county, Texas, in the sev- gty-seventh year at bis age. The de- •?i«il was one of the original 300 colo n’s who went to Texas with Stephen 'Austin in 1822. S! Queen Victoria’s Court will mourn :« weeks for Victor Emmanuel, but us; will not interrupt BeaconfieldV lirkisli programme. The sad event hi! cot interfere with King Alfonso’s yrriage, which occurs Wednesday, ■gturv 231. The Xew York Sun figures up the bjaey stolen in the United States du- •the past four years, by defalca- :.ns, embezzlements, and breaches of ori the part of city and county of- :3als, bank officers, executors of es ga” etc., at over $30,000,000. A firm recently sent a lot o f bills West gcnUeciio”. The list came back with ;e result noted against each name. ; b-iug “Dead.” Three month.- ;; r r ti e aatue bill got into a uew lot that as forwarded, and the list came back i:;h the iiante marked “Still dead.” The Turki-h government is not prompt : its retni atn-es for American cart- ijjes. Abi i 300 workmen employed a New . iven factory, were die- argeii on Saturday, on account of a irtisl suspension of operations, caused line Kick marines- of the Porto iu set? the accounts rm sire. it if stated by prominent Republi cs that William E. Chandler’s letter i-eting upon the President was pre- nd with the approval of a large m her of Republican members of both Mrs of Congress, and it is claimed T. they are in possession oi proof to ■ :iu their allegations. I 7:e Seminole and Creek Indians it-uttered a firm protest against the ame to make American citizens of They would rather bear the ills -y have than plunge into the dubious it:i-cef of the voting class. The ^.rr-Jnurnal says let the women suf- irists note the action of the Seminoles :i Creeks. Herald, that England may be involved in an Eastern or even general European war growing out of the present threat ening phase of the Eastern question brings into prominence the grave ques tion of her want of horses for military purposes. Mr. Edmund Tattersall, of London, a well known authority on matters relating to the English turf, ad dresses a letter to the London Daily Telegraph, in which he calls attention to a danger which threatens to paralyze the cavalry and transport arms of the military power of Great Britain in the fane of the better equipped armies of Continental Europe. He very aptly remarks that a good cavalry horse, like a good trooper, cannot he improvised as both are the results of careful train ing. The value of cavalry in modem warfare has been illustrated in the Franco-German campaign by the uhlan and in the present Russo-Tuikish war by the Cossack. Cavalrymen, as com petent cclaircurs, are indispensable to an army in the field opposed to a well handled hostile force. Unless the horses are sound and uumerous enough to fill all the requirements of the ser vice, an army depending on the cover vigilance and support of cavalry is weakened to a degree that cannot be compensated for by any relative supe riority in other arms. Hence, in the face of the probabilities of wat, Eng land may well regard her present want of cavalry horses as a grave misfortune, Tne suggestions of Mr. Tattersall merit attention even in this country. The bill introduced in the House by Mr. Sapp, of Iowa, to define the re sumption act is intended to clear up the doubt about the authority of the Secre tary of the Treasury to reissue redeem ed greenbacks. It provides not only that he may reissue them, but that he shall reissue them so that there Bhall uot be any contraction of the legal tender circulation as a result of resumption The bill aims at maintaining the whole greenback volume of $350,00(1,000 in circulation as a permanent Govern ment currency. In this event, if there should,after resumption, be a redun dancy of currency at any time, the na tional banks would have to withdraw a portion of their noteB to effect the de ired contraction. The greenbacks would be a fixed and permanent circu lation, and the amount of paper money in use at any time would be $350,000, 000 greenbacks plus as many national bank notes as the business of the coun try might demand and no mere. Frtuspeecher” is what the telephone sstni-d when it reaches Germany "sis very appropriate as it 9ignifii-> it-ipeaker.” This reminds the Detiuii s Pre.s that the Indian name, i- ■sni-lvaf-uwn,” meaning “man-who •i-tiaa-string,” the ignorant Indians ,- r ’tgtio knowledge of wire-pulliug and ’f-THntiy nu word for wire. TS finishing touches have just been '-’"the II losac tunnel, although - ) had previously been running ■ r --h it regularly. The passage of u 5: ‘“ occupies ten minutes, excep' ! u.iii which take a lin ger tune ’'l'kdistiint lights enable the en- "■•t-t" regulate the speed. Other ’■e 'uiicel is dark, and general!? ’•'* nf smoke. Uv.-.ituiioi] among the Turkish -“teen new fi-eing by thousands to E- -e'ai.t’n fro.n northern Rouoielis ' '• g appalling. Mr. Layard. V U, | i ‘i..'iaissaiior, giving an account t.ilpioa ot these unfortunates r.nki.-b .''ivernment is doing to relieve menu, hut ‘‘its action ■"‘"‘■’t paralvz-d hi the overwhelm- f'•® a -"it,t 1 le of ih- misery it has to -vnator Davis, of Illinois, yesterday ■"^ent-.i petition* f,, r n,.d against the f /'4 He- re?uoiptioo act and the r !ir ><=tZ.ition of of silver, expressing P'-'t opinion that the petition of limiker for the Shermanic pio- l, ^ ftpre hut a very tmiaU per- ul |>ut>li3 fWli? g ou the suVject L. 11,11 city. Mr. D*vis inspired a eil- i . at Blouuiiiigton, Up, not his sympathies are not interpretation. L a ° n - Geo. H. Pendleton, who will | Stanley Mathews in the United 'I'uute, was born in Cincinnati, •X1825. His entrance into polit- 1 e "' ita as a member of the Ohio ' cn ' Ue in 1844-5. He has served : ®ber of the House in four Con- ■tiirt, lhe Thirt y fifth, Tbiity-Bixth, !! 8eVell th, and Thirty-eighth. In ' Vas the candidate for the Vice- °R the ticket with General ■4^ l4 f n • waa the foremostcan- ' 0 8is party in the earliest bal- ,n the National Democratic hoa of 1878. Mr. Hayes ought to take courage. He has more friends and supporters than he imagines, says the Missouri Repub lican. He has not made any effort to rally the country to his support, while his opponents have done a great deal to organize the Republican party against him. And yet in their first attack on him they were signally beaten. The New Hampshire fight was a square issue. Chandler did not act for him self alone; he represented the discon tented Republican leaders in Congress and elsewhere. His arraignment of the Admiuistration was addressed to the Republicans of New Hampshire, and was an appeal to them to repudiate Mr. Hayes as he had done. Instead of ihis, the New Hampshire Republicans repudiated Chandler. Tnis ought to inspirit Mr. Hayes. If he were to make a brave fight he might overthrow Ctmkling in New York, Cameron in Pennsylvania, Edmunds in Vermont, and Howe in Wisconsin. Hon. A. H. Stephens has pretty strong views with respect to the passage nf the Bland silver bill. Here is what he said to a correspondent the other da?’: “Do you suppose we will be drowned Jin a sea of silver? Let it come—I say, in the words of Patrick Henry, lei it come ! It will be a glori ous death. We will have to buy their cheap silver with our exports. Let it be so. I can think of no better fate for our cotton and corn. We cannot have too much silver. If I had my way, I would make silver an unlimited legal •ender, but I would charge a seignior age for coining. I would issue tn at y owner of bullion, say in Atlanta or Charleston, a certificate for the amount, and this certificate might be divided into a number of others, each repre senting a small sum. These certificates I would make legal tender at once, in advance of the actual coinage, so as to give the people needed relief as quickly as possible.” The French Cabinet recently made up contains five Protestants to four Catholics. Some of the most impor tant portfolios are in the hands ot the former, viz : That of Foreign Affairs. Waddington; Finance, Leon Say; Ma rine, Admiral Potbuan ; War, General Borel; and Public Works, DeFrey- cinet. This leaves to the Catholic mem bers the Interior, Juatice, Public In struction and Fine Arts, and Commerce and Agriculture. The Rev. Dr. Seymour, if his election to the diocese of Springfield is rejected now by the various standing commit tees, will very probably be discoursed from further aspirations of the kind. In 1874 he was elected Bishop of the diocese of Illinois, to succeed Bishop Whitehouse, but he was rejected by a majority of the dioceses for the same Kb is now objected to—his al- reason he is now objected leged ritualistic tendencies. dollars. Prof. W. Little killed two deer in less than one mile of Lafayette, Walker county, last week. Sixty-five shares of the Langley Man facturing Company, of Augusta, were sold Friday at $1.10. Gen. Pierce Young was Rex at At lanta, and the Queen of the Carnival Mis3 Norma Clayton. Rev. A. J. Beck, of Atlanta, has been called to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Milledgeville. Mr. John Silcox, one of the oldest citizens of Augusta, died at his resi dence in that city last Friday. Mr. Eugene P. Speer has sold his in terest in the Milledgeville Old Capital to hi3 late partner, Mr. H. W. J. Ham. The City Council of Macon put $25,- 000 city bonds on the market last week and they were all taken by citizens of Macon. The Rev. J. Knowles, editor of the Georgia Home Journal, received very serious injury from a fall, on Wednes day last. The spring meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural Society will he held in Americans, beginning on the 12th of February, Two Spalding county children, aged seventeen and sixteen, recently married with lull consent, apparently, of all parties concerned. Married, in Polk county, on Thurs day evening, Jan. 3d, by Rev. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Robert R. Shoemaker and Miss Lou McKibben. Col. O. P. Fitzsimmons, United States Marshal for Georgia, has appointed W L. Cash, of Columbus, Deputy Marshal for the Southern District of Georgia. The Southern Watchman says that the Northeastern railroad is sued for thesum of $250,000, and that judg ment will be obtained at the February term of the Superior Court. Humphrey Reid was elected Mayor of Marietta last Monday. The Aider- men elected are T. L. Hunt, H. S. An derson, H. C. White, L. Black, T. J. Atkinson, and J. M. Wilson. Pleasure excursions on the Chatta hoochee use the steamer “Big Foot” tor dancing.' Columbus girls want plenty of room when they shuffle, says the Chronicle and Constitutionalist. Washington Corresnondence. 1 THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. On last Sunday evening little Char lie, youngest son of Mr. Morrow Wood, of Franklin county, got his head fast ened in a swing used by the older chil- dred, and was chocked to death. The Standing Committee of the Dio cese of Georgia unanimously consent to the consecration of both Drs. Eccleston and Seymour as Bishops of West Vir ginia and Spririgfield, Ill., respectively. The paper of Judge Daniel Pitman, of Atlanta, on the financial question, published in the Atlanta Constitution a few days ago, is receiving general commendation from the press of the State. The work of clearing out the Ocmul- gee progresses satisfactorily, and the Timber Gazette thinks that it will not be a great while before Darien and Macon are connected b? r steam nav igation. The Washington correspondent of the Macon Telegraph says that notwith standing the ugly weather Mr. Steph ens attends the sessions of the House regularly, scarcely ever being out of his seat. The coming crop of county fairs next fall promises large results, as there will he more than ever before in the history if Georgia. It is a good sign, and we hope that they will all he abundantly successful. Julius Weimer shot John Farley in Atlanta last Monday, inflicting a flesh wound. It occurred in a fracas at the W. & A. R. R. round-house. They were both employee of the W. & A. R. R. company. Marcus A. Ellison, who was sent to the penitentiary from Walker county for fifteen years for manslaughter, cut his throat at Grant’s camp, in Old Town, Jefferson county, on the 4th, killing himself. Georgia has 1,204.440 hogs and 1,- 254,240 inhabitants, one hog for each man, woman and child, and 200 over. If equally divided, and the hogs were fat, it would about furnish the entire population with bacon and lard. Mr. Columbus Crawford’s residence and all within was consumed by fire one night last week at Thomaston. Mr. J. W. Pilkington happened to the same misfortune on Monday night last. It is in each case supposed to be the work of an incendiary. a Washington, Jna. 14,1S77- j The lady advocates of a 16tb’ameni ment conferring the right of ferda suffrage were grafted a bearing oft eral hours’-duration Friday and -Sati day. Delegates to the convention at their sympathizers filled every avail) ble sitting or ’standing place in thi room, and the argumedts were listen to with great interest The argnmen avanced were generally relevant and the point, those of Mrs. Stanton, Hoo er, Bleaker, Lockwood and some ot' being especially noted for their li style and very pointed, cogent ing. Opponents of the movement gradually abandoning every posil other than that of the inexi widening the circle of suffrage as manded by these persistent agital Mr. Hoar offered a resolution to the ef fect that the advocates had preset their side with great propriety, dig£? and ability, and that the commit proceed on Tuesday (to-morrow), 10:30 a. m.’, to give the snbjecf tbe.di liberate and careful consideration th its importance demands, whichroin unanimously adopted. Severar’JV®^) most prominent of the.leaders cal let at the White House and left their catia on being informed that Mrs. Hayes was engaged. She subsequently sent a note requesting them to renew their call at a stated hour, received and entertained by both Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, the several rooms be? ing opened for their inspection; and they retired after an hour’s conversar tion, pleasantly impressed with the courtesy shown them and with the ina vitption to repeat their visit The Union reports that among the subjects for investigation nnder to? Wood resolution, passed Friday, are the following: The letting of mail contracts in the latter part of Grant’s administration. Robeson’s naval construction con* -N> tracts. The jobs of the District Ring. The market house swindle. The circumstances attending the de feat of the fillibush-rs against the elec toral.conn;. . j£j n .tK .7 SPEECH OF i. D. W. V oorheas,- oflndiaoa. : The following w a telegraphic sum- lofithe speech of Senator Voor- hees, delivered, in the-Senate on the mm- instant: —^ : - Mr- Voorhee8 called Up the resolu tion submitted by him on the 13th ot ecembes last declaring that it is of A highest importance that the finan cial credit of the Government should be maifitained, and in order to do so the Governm nc itself In all its departments -hould in good faith keep all its con tracts and_ obligations entered into with its own citizens-’ He referred to the .Continued agitation of the financial - J^pl'&eisaid it would never cease It in people arc satisfied that our overtast is in profrses of extinction ,-mcntaI, fiples of justice to tax-paying W ir fame o tl *’ 011 llle ot ^ er hand, they . t ..“ed into silent submission, ingress tiustyeroment itielf becomes changed in spirit and form into a mon eyed aristocracy. It may be that this ’ itter alternative is to overtake us. 'here are dark and plentiful omens in our recent history indicating snch a conclusion. There is a numerous and powerful class in our midst who be lieve, as Alexander Hamilton declared, that the British Government on this, as on other points, is the best ever de vised by the wisdom of man. Those entertaining this opinion have thus far triumphed in tne financial legislation °f l he United States, and the time has now arrived when their victories must They were cordial y reverse( j ) 0 r soon this Government vill cease to be a republican, and the people no longer be free. He argued that to a great extent our whole finan cial system is an organized crime against the laboring, tax-paying men and women of the United States, and those wno thought as he did, that a great work of financial reform is de manded in order to secare the people from slavery in fact, if not in name, were denounced. He spoke of unholy avarice, having its strongholds and privileged classes, having entrenched themselves, and said this plea oi good faith now so loud in onr ears, has been invoked in behalf of every wickedness that ever cursed the world. He then spoke of the act of February 25,1862, as the beginning of our bond ed debt. The precious metals wen found to be uuequtl to the emergeuc? ot war. Specie payments were aban doned as soon as the hour of trial cam. and gold and silver cowered in the re The decision of the Presidential; while the legal-tend. r dollar went > votes of • South Carolina, Florida ant the front with the .flag and stay? Louisiana ■ ■ *4 there.: He was amongst those wt- The restoration to rank of Rankle doubted our right to issue it, but ex,, x c mu " ” J?. rience had shown it, all things const-• and Draper. - . lersd, to be the b«-st money that eve The construction of public building- circulated on American soil. H ihfoWphJjit iha» snnatry.f r i 'iiy aEjjiiyd jhatjiyrtbi^-act and by ^similar The means by which the desert land steal was passed through the last Con gress, and the subsequent transactions in that connection. The whole business of the Indian Bureau. Our diplomatic relations with Mex ico, and the non-recognition of Diaz. Tne management of the finances of the Territories. The naval administration with view to frauds in general. The expenditures of the House of Representatives since the Fortieth Con gress, covering all tho investigations, together with .a .reopening of the inves tigations of the Fortj’-seeond Congress. It comments thusly: “Here is, certainly, a broad field for labor. Let us hope the laborers are in earnest, moved simply by a desire to purify the public service, with no thought of partisan advantage or elec tioneering effect. Even though the business of legislation should be de layed—with the woman question un answered, and with silver hanging, helpless, between de- and re-monetiza- tion—still the gain is ours if the result is an exposure of official dishonesty, and if the people’s money—single standard or double standard—is there by saved.” The several lobbies are here in force, particularly those advocating the vari ous schemes for securing Government aid for a Southern Pacific railroad and subsidies for otuer enterprises of more or less doubtful utility. It is claimed that the strength of tne silver remone- tizers has perceptibly waned during the recess, but a renewal of the contest within a few days is one of the events counted on with most certainty. Murphy is coming jjometime this month, and the advance skirmishers are already showing unwonted activity in their preliminary movements. Cer tainly no enemy to the deadly reign of King Alcohol can be so partisan in their hostility to Murphy as to wish him anything other than success if his motives are disinterested. But there’s the pinch, the enormous rate of com pensation he is alleged to have de manded being urged against him with considerable effect. Knox. TheAthen3 Banner announces the death, on Friday last, of Mr. R. S. Shemwell, one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens of Athens. He was ninety-three yeara of age at the time of his death,, and was buried by the Ma sons, of which Order he was a bright and exemplaty member. The agitation for a change in the whisky and tobacco taxes produces redaction. A member of the Senate of Virginia said io a.speech on..Friday: “William L. Y’aueey told Dr- Curry, of this city, that one of the greatest diffiiculties in the way toward a recognition of ;the Con federacy was the fact that Jefferson Da vis, of Mississippi, a repudiating State, was at the bead of the Government. Mr. Lamar, Senator from Mississippi, is reported to have recently said the same thing. The repndilion of Mississippi has, therefore, cost us in Virginia the in dependence of the Sonth.” The legislature of Utah met and or ganized last Monday. Lorenzo Snow, dneof ’’the twelve apostles,” was elected president ’ of the council,’and Orison -T^apMUe^.sjjeakflSJjLlii. stagnation-in the wholesale Xnanufajj-? eAB talk tiuBC.Qf the members ture, which is generally suspended for are practical polygamists, and most of legislation at BObe&jtient periods ever? boud issued by the Government wbici did not on its face stipulate for pav ment in coin, whs made payable by the express words of law in legal-tender notes. He quoted from the language of the late Tbad Stevens to the effect that even payment of the interest on the boads in coia was an odious and unjust discrimination in favor of the bondholders. He also quoted from speeches of Senator Sherman to show that he expressed the opinion that the bonds were payable in legal-tenders. Mr. Voorbees characterized the acts of Congress proposing to pay the bonds in coin as the beginning of the repudia tion. The present Secretary of the Treasu ry was the chief of the repudiators, foremost among the violators of the contract, and a leader among those who have in no iqstance kept the good faith of the Government with its own peo ple a moment after they found that bad faith wonld bring them richer gains. He commented at some length on the act of 1869, to pay the bonds in coin, and said in some countries the habit prevailed of bnilding a cairn, a pile of stones, to mark the spot where a tragic event bad happened. So let American tax-payers, whenever the act of 1869 is cited, each cast a stone upon it to mark the place in American his tory where repudiation began and where the rights of tne people were mercilessly and treacherouily slaught ered. He next commented on the re funding act of July 14th, 1S70, and said it w -s brought in to aid the false assertion of the act of 1869, that our whole bonded debt was payable iu coin. He argued that Doth of these acts Were framed in the interests of the bond holders, and under their dictation, bui eve i under these acts the bonds Were payable with either gold or silver coin, aud not payable with gold alone. Mr. Voorhees then spoke at some length in regard to the advantage of silver coin, aud said the silver dollar came to u? wilh the faith of our Government. It was devised u as a unit of value b?) Thom as J-tIVl-mi and adopted by Congress iu the days of Washington, Hamilton and Morris. It stood as houored as gold through every Ftorm that beat upon this Government. It is associ ated wi.h all our development, our strength, our growth and our glory. He then spoke of the act of 1873, de monetizing it, aud said it was passed without a note of warning to the Amer ican people that their favorite coin was about to be destroyed as money. Its enactment was completely unknown to the people, and indeed to four fifths of Congress itself as ibe presence of a bur glar us a bouse at night to its sleeping in mates. He argued that the silver dollar was eliminated from our money system, uuder cover of false pretences, and that silver had uni tailed in its functions as a specie basis any more than gold. Of the entire trading and c mmercial popu lation of the whole earth 696,250,000 more people have Silver alone as their standard of value, and transact all their business upon it _a3 a specie basis, that those who have gold alone for similar purposes. There are 754,500,000 more people use silver alone, than use gold and silver both, as their'metallic currency. Referring to the spebie resumption act of January 4,1875, hfRiaaid an attempt to force the resumption: of epede payments with gold and silver hoth as our metal lic basis would baVcruel failure at this time. He spokeof tbs great shrinkage in values rising ’ from .the shrinkage of money in circulation, and said it was the immediate cause of that general bank ruptcy and ruin which now fills the land. Tf the policy of this government has been to inflict the greatest misery on complete. He was not an inflationist in any sense that would disturb the true Interests of the trade and commerce. During the whole four years of 1863, ’64, ’65 and ’66, when the volume of our cur rency averaged over a thousand million, the business failures of the entire coun try reached only 2,167; less in number than occurred in any three months of threeyear justclosed. During the period which is now stigmatized as one of infla tion the windows of business houses were not darkened, anu business men did not go as mourners about the streets. The laborer did not go home without bread to his wife and children. Helpless mil lions did not cower and tremblo at the approaching of winter for the lack of food and shelter. The public peace was not by riots in resistance to starvation wages The courts were not principally occupied in enforcing collections, fore closing of mortgages, ordering sheriff gales, or in punishing the destitute and the outcast. These are some things that did not take place. Others that did are equally striking. Good wages and good prices stimulated every laboring man’s muscle, every business man’s brain and every power of machinery into the high est and most productive activity. Hope and encouragement were in heart. New farms were bought and cultivated, new workshops opened, new mines of iitm, coal and silver sunk into the earth, whose contents in return assisted in the glad work of an universal, individual ami national prosperity. He argued that there is not a dollar in the hands of the people on which they had not paid a tax for the privilege of haviog it put in cir culation by the government. The national bank is the middle-man between the government and the people, and is enormously paid for doing what the government ought directly to do it self. He spoke of evils of the national bankiog system aod said if the national banks were a blessing, then our public debt was a blessing, fur the debt sup ported the banks. In conclusion, he said those for whom he spoke demanded the restoration of the silver dollar, and its unlimited coinage, not tearing. that it would become too plentiful, and that it be a foil legal tender. Second. They demanded the repeal unconditionally, of the specie resumption act of January 14th, 1873. Third. They demand that that the national banking system be re moved and a circulating medium pro vided by the government for the people, without taxing them for the privilege of •btainiug it, aod they asked the amount Has placrd iu circulation should bear a - easonble a d judicious proportion to the -usim-es transactions and the population f the Uuiteil States. Fourth. They de iia.iiit me currency authorized and circu atinn ou the autnority of the govern- .••nt shall he made legal tender in pay ment of all debts, public and private, io- -!ii-iing alt ilues to the government tf’ifth. The? demand that hereafter the ti mncial policy uf the country be framed erm.inentlv in their interest, that they -hall not be discriminated against in fu ture legislation as in past, and that their prosperity ami not the mere growth of iucome to retired capitalists, shall be the orimary duty of the government. In conclusion, Mr. Voorhees quoted from articles be had noticed in certain news papers in regard to the rights of the bondholders, the duty of the laboring classes and the policy that should he pur sued by capitalists to counteract the ef fects of anticipated legislation on the silver question, and said: S’r, I have no word of menace to utter on this floor, but iu behalf of every laborerand every owner of the soil whom I represent, I warn all such as value their investments that when these doctrines of despotism are sought to be enforced, this fair land will again be convulsed in agony, and the fires of liberty will blaze forth again as they did one hundred years ago in de fence of the natural rights of man. [Applause in the gal’eries.] May the wisdom of our fathers and the benignity of onr God avert such an issue, but if it shall come, if infatuation has seized our councils, the result will only add one more instance to the long catalogue of human crime and folly where avarice, like ambition, overleaps itself and in its unhol?’ attempt to rob others of their possessions loses its own. [Great applause iu the galleries.] Gen. Johb B. .Gordin. Mr. Matthew.’ Resolution. them are bishops of the Morinon church, the greatest number its SoeeSH has been IN THE SENATE. Washington, January 16.—The Sen ate met at 12:15 and proceeded to vote ■n the peuHiug question to refer the reso lution of Mr. Matthews, in regard to pay ing bonds in silver to the committee od ihe judiciary, aud it was rejected—yeas, 19, nays, 31. This vote on referring Matthews’ bill to the judiciary committee, where it woold he pipigeon-holed, is considered import ant. The vote in detail was as follows : Yeas.--Messrs. Anthony, Barmim. Bayard, Blaine, Butler, Cuukliog. Dawes, Eaton, Edmunds, Mitchell, Mur ill Paddock, Rollins, Sargent uod Wad- leigh—19. Nays. — Messrs. Armstrong, Beck Booth, Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Cam eron, of Wisconsin, Cockrill, Coke. Con over, Davis, of Illinois, Dorsey, Ferry, Grover, Harris, Hereford, Howe, JohD- ston Kiikwood, McCreary, McMillan. Matthew, Maxey, Merrimon, Morgan. Plump, Ransom, Saulob try, Saunders. Spencer, Teller, Voorhees and Withers— 31. The rest of the day was consumed in eulogies on Morton and Bogy. London, Jan. 16.—A special die patch to the Morning Poet from Ber lin says, the government has finally de termined to submit to the Imperial parliament a motion for the increase ol taxes and duty on tobacco. The first step in a general reform of the Imperial taxation. London, Jan. 15.—The Wigan cotton spinners have resolved in consequence of the depression in trade to give the operatives notice of five percent reduc tion in wages. Frankfobt. January 15.—The ballot this morning resulted: Williams 52, Lindsay 50, McCreary 18 and Boyd 11. The legislature adjourned to caacus to night. - . Telephonic communication has Keen successfully established between Nash ville and Louisville, a distance of near ly two hundred miles. When a man is “rooted to the spot” by fear, does he branch ont before he leaves? Extracts from an article initiate number of the Detroit Free Pressl>y Col. L W. Avery, of Atlanta, Ga.: A^fidendly critic, speaking of Gor- don’s career as a soldier, claimed. that it was no exaggeration to term it a mil itary miracle. In the latter part of the war his fame reached tne old world, and the en thused representative of one of the great English journals, describing some important action, in a burst ot admira tion over Gordon’s movements, desig nated him as the “rising yonng milita ry genius of the Sontbern army.” This was high praise, but not undeserved. The place of Stonewall Jackson re mained unfilled until Gordon undoubt edly succeeded that marvelous warrior in the estimation of armies and pedple, as the right arm of Lee. It must in deed have been a brilliant spirit that could havjsawakened the popular hope of matching Jackson. But Gordon did inspire this splendid • expectation, and the last twelvemonths of the war shed a resplendent lustre upon his name and made him the second figure to Lee in the dismal glory that marked the tragic failure of the revolution. In the terrible last days of the struggle it was the ringing name of Gordon that most frequently thrilled the public ear. In the mighty throes of an expiring and gigantic war, it was the knightly figure of Gordon that lead the desper ate hopes of a falling cause. Wherever the brunt of battle fell there was placed Gordon. He was the thunderbolt of Lee’s army, leaping into dazzling re nown that will last with the history of the ill fated movement. The splendor of Gordon’s career du ring this last dramatic year of the war gains coloring from the obsenrity of his early service and his long and humble, but valuable duty, as an unknown sub ordinate. It was a long and large step from Captain Gordon of the Raccoon Roughs at the beginning, to the famed Lieu tenant-General who was resplendent in the last movements of Lee’s grand army. It was nearly a year befoie he became a Colonel. It was April, 1863, another year, before he became a Brig adier. It was not until May, 1864, that he began to become famous. But when he did have an opportunity be showed what was in .him, and his rise was as swift as it was solid and merito rious. He became one of the brilliant figures of the army, growing constantly tn fame, his heroism and generalship shining with increased lustre in the ac cumulating adversities ot the cause; and when the end was . coming and finally came, it was Gordon with his unconqnered bayonets that last left the futile fortifications of Petersburg; it was Gordon, undaunted and undismayed, that in the calamitous retreat lead and fongnt in front of the enemy with his shattered band of heroes; and it was this same Gordon that was chosen to cut bis way through the encompassing legions with bis fragment of 2,000 in trepid men in the forlonest hope that was ever contemplated by soldierly desperation. And when the historic scene of Appomattox Conrt House came with its memorable surrender of the Army of Virginia and its conse quent collapse of the Southern cause, it was the gaUant Gordon who divided with his great chieftain, Lee, the sad celebrity of that heroic but irreparable conclusion of a grand drama. And when we consider that Gordon was but 33 years of age when he had thus fongbt his way to dazzling distinction, and thus conspicuously and brilliantly con nected himself with historic events, so grand and momentous, it constitutes a proud heritage of fame for his children. It must not be supposed, however, that because his early military record, was not much known that it was □ot characteristically meritorious. At “Seven Pines” he led a charge that made his regiment, the sixth Alabama, a record of glory, losing 396 out of 600 men. At Malvern Hill ih the desperate charge upoD that impregnable position he led and left the dead of bis brigade nearer the enemy’s guns than any other command. At SbarpsburgJhe won from Gen. D. H. Hill in the official re port of that officer the characterization of “the Chevalier Bayard of the army,” and here obtained his brigadier commis sion. It was at the battle of Gettysburg, however, that turning point in the for tunes of the Southern cause, that Gen. Gordon gave evidence of that military perception that showed him to possess genuine military genius. Sent to sup- (>ort the left ring of Lee’s army that was being turned, Gordon conceived the idea • it reversing the movement and by a dar lag charge he sweut back the enemy’s right flank like a whirlwind, und poshing his advantage he with his 1,200 muskets killed, wounded and captured 4.600 of the enemy and started the whole Federal line iu reireat. On the 5th of May, 1864, be saved he army by a charge he made at Fred- rickshurg. And in the next day’s light he conceived and executed a brill iant dash upon the enemy’s right flank that disorganized a corps. At Spott- sylvania Court House he made himself Historic by retrieving the day by a counter charge with a division. This was the memorable occasion when Lee, in an agony of despair at the danger to his army, pushed forward to head the charge himself, and Gordon seized the bridle of Lee’s horse and leading him hack, with passsionate protestations against the beloved commander imper illing his life, conducted the successful inset himself. In the celebrated Valley c .mpaign ■f 1864, in the battle of Cedar Creek, Gordon made one of the most brilliant movements of the war, breaking two- tbirds of Sheridan’s infantry with his corps, and arranging with consummate skill to make the victory decisive. But unfortunately, General Early counter manded his orders, the chance was lost, and later in the dajr the recovered ene my defeated our own army. Gordon’s strategy in this action was masterly, and blended a soldierly acumen and invincible audacity and a military precision and skill that stamped the superlative order of his generalship. Nearly all men are brave enough to fight Human nature in the average ia courageous enough and combative etioMh Personal bravery is not a rare quality bj toy means. Bat there is a degree of courage, W. common, that is very rare and very attractive, has in it a sort of heroic exaltation tn^ carries its possessor in a sublimated at mosphere of chivalric feeling and I CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING: On© square one month.. One square three months- -5 4 Ot 800 On© square six months...— On© square twelve months- One-fourth eolnnyn one month— One-fonrth column t One-fourth column twelve mont One-half column one month - 'One-hair column three months One-half column, slat One-half column OneCdlumn one month One column three months'....—...... One doIUihneix months- r COCO 101 00 100 to The foregoing rates' are for either Weekly or Trf-Weekly. When published in both papers, 50 per cent, additional upon table rates. knightly deed. Its inspiration makes men do heroic things, Those animated by it show the God-like spirit of an in vincible intrepidity. Tneir great souls rise above danger and pain and exhibit the swelling incentive of noble aspira tion and the imperious stimulation of high thought aod lofty purpose. Far- ragut, the great naval leader on the Northern side, was such a man. Gor don posst-ssed this exalted personal courage in its fullest degree, and he made as sublime a demonstration of it at the battle of Sharpsbtugas the histo ry of ancient or modem warfare can furnish. He was a Colonel there, and hie regiment held a salient position important to maintain. The fire u]>on it was frightful. Gordon was wounded twice in the right leg, then painfully in the left arm, and then in the sbonld- . er. ’He refused to leave the field, bat bloody and staggering with pain and weakness, he remained at his post commanding his men, who adjured him to retire. . Since peace came. Gordon has been dently devoted to rehabilitating Geor gia and the Sontb, and restoring a true national union. He has been liberal and progressive. Hie State has delight ed to honor hiut. Made Governor in 1868 he was cheated ont of the office by a false count and a man thimble-rigged in who robbed the State and then fled its borders in the middle of his term. Gordon was then elected United States Senator over the most popular and powerful public men in the State. As a Senator he has sustained himself nobly. He has become a salient figure in the national councils. He has been wise and prudent, and yet active, use ful and brilliant. He has been a champion of the true spirit of national fraternization, and yet the eloquent and typical representative of bis sec tion, her needs and dignity. His pub lic coarse has been admirably directed —it has been forcible, practical and statesmanlike. He has steadily made national character as a Senator. He has home- himself well in the exalted role, handling public questions ably and vigorously, and illustrating- his State. With the lustre of his military fame, the shining excellence of his character and his overwhelming popu larity, it is difficult to measure the brilliant poseibilities of his future. :i - Hubbard’s Ultimatum. Texas States Her’Case, and Calls for the Punishment of the Greasers. °f ;;! Washington, Jan, 14.—A dispatch from Houston, Texas, says Gov. Hub bard has written a three-column letter to President Hayes on border affairs. He goes into the details of the causes of the Mexican raide, and gives a his tory of the same tram the last twenty years, including Cortina’s capture of Brownsville in 1859. The Governor’ specific charges are: 1. It has been a depredatory war. r 2. That enstom-honse officers have 1 been murdered,, custom-houses taken and robbed, post-offices robbed and burned, hundreds of citizens killed, and some tortured. Wm. McMahon, for instance, bad his legs cut off and was forced to walk on the stamp; Mur dock was chained, a harrow placed on him, and he was burned while in his own honse, within five miles of Corpus Christi; women have been made pris oners and subjected to treatment too horrible to mention. 3. Millions of dollars worth of prop erty have been taken from Texas own ers and carried into Mexico and sold in public markets. 4. Mexico has furnished an asylum for the robbers, and a place of deposit for their stolen goods. 5. The Mexican Government has been notified many times by ours of the ex istence of the evils, but she bas not re trained her citizens, and she refuses to oermit the United States to break up i • the hostile hands which commit the ■ • 1 Ul ')• i I'd r 1 the hostile hands which commit the atrocities, and has declared an attempt to do so a cause for war. 6. She has refused to execute the ex- ■ i tradition treaty by not surrendering ] raiders who were themselves enemies -! of mankind by breaking jail of Star , “ county, releasinz prisoners therefrom, 1 ‘ und mortally wonnding our peace offi- ” cers, and turning loose fugitives under ' *? iudic'.ment for murder in Texas, and d regularly demanded by our commie- «• J sioner of extradition. . ' * 7. She has afforded an asylum to In- • 1 1 dians, and permitted them to use her S f ™ territory to set on foot expeditions to " invade the territory of the United States, and to wage savage warfare upon the people of Texas, including within ita scope every age and ’sex. Children have been captured in Texas and car ried into Mexico and held as slaves. Gov, Hubbard asserts that Texas ' ”• does not want war. but simply protec- ,;!r tion from Mexican violence. He . f 19 charges that the San Etizario mob who IrF* shot Howard, McBride and Atkinson 5 | *« •o death was composed largely of Mexi- , r 01 can citizens. He says Mexico should - make amends for the crimes commit- '. ted by her citizens. he i u '|gi to No Place Like Home- im j} » . ai He had stayed till the chick hands hung together at eleven, and that < •: fev valuable recorder of time w s me - - (ei acing a strike. She had yawn<_d till jt j her mouth felt large e ough for a j : di horse collar, and yet the yonng man i . evinced no symptom of speedy de- J i •_• parture. “I’ve been working on a [ |- motto to-day,” she finally said, as she -gkl held her eyes open with her fingers ; j 1 ® “don’t you want to see it?” He said he 1 lip did. She brought out the article and tjg passed it to him for inspection. He held nn it up to the light and read the cheer- ,'i£' fal sentence: “There’s no place like home.” The young man guessed he’d be going. Savannah, January 15.—Delegations | { from St. Louis, Cairo, Iil., Memphis, Nashville, Hopkinsville, Ky„ Chatta- i ha nooga, Augusta and other places have g arrived. The excursionists leave for | Havana on the steamship. San Jacinto, ; this evening. ■! Columbus, O, January 15.-hu the [ Senate,George H. Pendleton was declare'1 • »vi the choice for United States Senator ke by, a vote of 25 Democrats to 8 Republi-! th cans for Blank. In the honse Pendleton ft ■ received 66, Johnston 3, Blank 36. ~ ——— f.x The editor who Saw a lady making mal i only empty seat in a car found l 3ed out to make room for I

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, January 23, 1878, Image 1