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Mt lUme CIII'.AI* » OA1.. K8TABIJ9HKD IN' 1843. M. DWINGU, Proprtoier. J}. F. SAW YEIt, Editor. Saturday Morning, April 22,1876 The Chief Justice of Utah has re signed. The argument of Kilbourne will run into next week. C. K. Osgood, late postmaster at. Ka- vauuah is dead. Lewis David is rccoguized as the vice consul of England at Pensacola. Queen Victoria has gone home from Coburg. She found a hair in her hash and got mad about it. A telegram from Princeton, N. J., says Rev. James M. McDonald, D. D., died there last evening. Somebody said they had received at four different times specie (silver) for debt. That $20,000,000 comes along slowly in this section. Professor Watson reports the discov ery, on the night of the 10th instant, in the constellation of Virgo, of a planet hitherto unknown. The NextU. S Senate. Washington News. The greatest need of the city is cheap ,\s at present constructed this body Washington, April 20.—The resolu- coal. Its manufacturing interests are is composed of seventy-four members, tion introduced in the House this languishing for the want of it just as at which number it will stand at the morning to investigate tlio matter of the Ih.indmlri.a of the connlrym.yUn. “L 11 "."!? guish for the want of cheap food. Coal Columbus has a nasty clerical sensa tion, implicating the honor of C. A. Kendricks, a young Baptist preacher. The details are too shocking to pub lish. A special from Washington to the New York Evening rout says if Wins low is released by the British authori ties he will return to Boston voluntari ly and stand his trial. The last number of the Albany A’ctw contains the valedictory of Cary W. Styles; who has sold out his interest in the concern to Capt. S. R. Western, who will conduct the paper in future. The Neu'8 is a capitol paper. The New York daily Star was sold to a uew company, known as the Star printing association. It is understood that there will be an entire change in the manage ment. The paper is to be enlarged and will be in the hands of Philadelphia capitalists. The Purman investigation had the postmaster at Pensacola before them, who had a list of five registered letters, sent to Purman, but ignorant of contents ex- except one which he sent himself, con taining no money. The witness never told any one that he had paid Purman any money for his office. A private dispatch received from Fort Laramie says that parties arriving there from Custar City report the arrival of a stage party at Custar from Yankton who were thirty-eight days making the trip. They left the coach in a snow bank sixty miles from Custar, and walked and packed with the stage horses to Cu tar City. Mr. Caulfield, the chairman, writes to Mr, Bristow in relation to his demand for investigation, concluding : As to a in. vestigation which you demand, the com. mittee will willingly accord to you if you still desire it, but we consider it wholly unnecessary, as thero are no charges made or proven against you and your stand before us with the fullest exonera tion of even suspicion. Ex-Attorney Gen. William was ex amined by tlioHouse Committee on fi nances in the department of justice. He testified to the payment to John J. Deavenport, formerly United States commissioner in New York, out of the secret service fund $30,000 dollars for election purposes. Upon being pressed Judge Williams acknowledged that the money was paid by direct order of the president. The game law of Georgia provides that from the 1st of February to the 1st of September in each year, it shall be a misdemeanor to kill any deer, buck doe or fawn; and from the lstof March to the lfith of October it shall be misdemeanor to shoot, snare, trap kill in any way, any wild turkey partridge. Penalty in all cases is fine of five dollars for the first offense and ten dollars for the second—one is to the manufacturer what bread is to the family—its stall' of life. Without it, one solitary wheel cannot run. And when the cost of coal is extravagant, it becomes prohibitory, and a stop is put to its industries. The Rolling Mill paid for freight alone on its coal during the past season nearly forty thousand dollars. This enor mous tax was more than it could stand, and as a sequence the mills stopped and hundreds of workmen have been thrown out of work and became as so much dead weight upon our pros perity. To remedy this should be the wish and the effort of every good citizen. But how cjn it be remedied ? By seeking other and cheaper sources of supplies. But have we other sources? We have. Where? In the Coosa coal fields, to reach which we must build the Memphis Brancli road. The coal fields of Coosa are rich both in quantity and in the quality of the coal. They can be reached by the Memphis Branch, and the interests of Rome demand that they should be. But how can the Memphis Branch be built? By an earnest,honest effort of the peo ple—not by the city ; we want no more of that; but by the people themselves in their individual capacity. Privi’to enterprise is the only legitimate basis of public prosperity, and it is private en terprise which we would invoke in aid of the languishing industries of our city. We are glad to know that the Chamber of Commctce is about to take the matter in hand and will devise some measure to redeem the road from its present embarrassment and to push it through to successful completion. We attended a meeting of a cemmittee of that body yesterday, when the status of the road was discussed and a most hopeful view of its future was present ed. Even in its present condition the road is paying running expenses, and if pushed on to Coosaville would pay handsomely in the fall and winter. The committee will report upon the matter at the next meeting of the Board of Trade, when we shall revert to the subject again. The Allentown (Penn.; Register says : “A man residing at Rattlesnake Hill a few miles from Pottstown, owns a horse that acts in an unaccountable manner, and a noted witch doctor has prescribed the following remedy : The horse must he taken for three successive Fridays beyond the jurisdiction of the person who has bewitched it, and pow wowed in a certain manner. The whole proceeding must be gone through with before daylight, and not a word must bo spoken by its owner during tho pro cess, or in going from the place where the pow-wowing is done. The deluded man actually put faith in the remedy is striving to cure his animal by follow ing the directions given him.” unless a new state is admitted, which seems unlikely. Of _ these, twenty nine are Democrats, reckoning one to come in from Connecticut, and forty-five are Republicans, counting the Louisiana vacancy which, however, is doubtful, tho new Senator from New Hampshire, and the four Independ ents—Booth, Cameron of Wisconsin, Cbristlancy anil Hamilton. Booth, however, may be set down as doubt ful. With the close of Grant’s adminis tration, end the terms oi seventeen Re pul icun and nine Democratic Senators. The former will be tolerable certain to retain their hold in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, Minnesso- to, Wisconsin, Louisiana and South Carolina, with a doubt as to the last three. The other five of the seventeen States wqich will elect new Senators are Illinois, Mississippi, Texas, Arkan sas and Few Jersey, all of which are tolerably safe, if we except Illinois, to claim for the Democrats. Tho State of Kentucky, Delaware, Oregon, Tennes see, Virgina, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina, in which the terms of Democratic Senators ex pire, will in all probability control their successors. Assuming that members will remain in the next Senate as they are now, thirty-eight will constitute a majority. Conceding the estimate of forty-six Re publicans and twenty-eight Democrats to be correct, the roll-call would exhi bit forty-one Republicans and thirty- three Democrats. There are those who claim Louisiana and South Carolina as likely to send—the first named a Demo crat and the latter an Independent; this would make a transfer of one—show ing thirty-eight Democrats to thirty- six Republicans, and one doubtful. \gain, the status of Senator Booth of California is doubtful, unless claimed for the Republicans, and his position as an Indepondment may resulf in a Democratic alliance. Lhis is bringing the relative strength down to a fine point. Donn Platt charges that President Grant is drinking very hard. In the last issue of the Capitol he Bays: “It is well known about Washington that Gen. Grant, vexed and worried over the lato developments, has resorted *o his old remedy for relief. In other words, he has been so under the influence of intoxicating liquors as to bo at times incapable of seeing visitors or transact ing business. Upon last Sunday we drove by the Asylum for Lunatics the moment when Gen. Grant came out at the gate nnd started to walk to the city. There was no mistaking the flushed and bloated face and unsteady gait.” _ The Grillin News says “there seems to be a general impression that there are parties in high places who are afraid that Blodgett may make damaging dis closures. Let us have light.” We fear the News will not he gratified. So long as the slaves of the Box hasten to do his bidding, Mr. Blodgett will not relinquish his power over them by dis closing his secrets. The Griffin News half to the informer and the other to inft .Y rest satisfied that Blodgett will the county. Every bird or deer killed in the time specified will constitute a seperato offense and be punished accor dingly. The Athens 1 Vatchman is also opposed to'.sending Congressmen as delegates to the St. Louis Convention. It says: “ This seems to be the voice of the State, as far as it has given utterance to an opion on the subject. We will go go a step further, and say let neither member of Congress nor any man sent |to become one, be sent as a delegate to St. Louis. In view of this, let us have r no such delegates from Georgia in the coming Convention; but let the people send men of known integrity, in whose iudgment and patriotism they can con fide, and who are in no way connected with office, rings or cliques.” never be tried or punished' He is as safe behind his Box as a Christian guarded by four aces.— Chronicle ntul Sentinel. “ Tom” Beecher, in the latest number of the Elmira (N.Y.) Gazette, advances the original and startling proposition that the election bribeiy laws be re pealed, and that votes be sold in an open market. He asserts that “ while the world stands votes will be bought and sold in a democracy;” that “ vast numbers of voters cannot possibly use their vote wisely;” that “ it is better for capital to get out the vote by cash than for party men to get it out by bribes and lies ;” that “ to vote a proxy is no innovation, no disgrace to stockholders,” nor in itself immoral, and that “ bri bery laws onc6 repealed, honest, wealthy and patriotic men could bid in open market for the yotes which are now , a __ sold to the knavish and corrupt only.”' is muter arrest, The Pursuit of Knowledge Un der Difficulties. Nothing better evidences the frightened condition of nearly all the Republican officials nnd officers under investigation than tho wny in which they are replying to the requests of the committees for in formation. It is almost impossible for the committees to get the exact informa tion which they want. They can always get a valuable man sent down to the com mittee room with a carpet-sack full of pa pers with everything in it except the pa pers they want. This is usually wanting. The committee most lately troubled in this way is that on Expenditures in the Department of Justice. The have received a good deal of information in relation to the bogus claim passed and paid by the Treasury Department underRichnrasou’s regime, and the parties to which arc now under indictment here. They heurd that the claim was passed upon a written rec ommendation of the President. So they summoned the counsel, jurors and Treas ury clerks, who ought to have known all about it, and they found that each and all remember to have heard in some way about such a paper, but no one remembers to having seen it, nnd tho paper cannot be found. The same < ommittce are hard at work trying to find out why all the claim cases which were appealed dur ing William's administration of justice were dismissed by him.— Washington Special to the New York World. Of Ulattp’s Government printing abuse the Washington Capital says: “ Our trouble is that, in the removal and pun ishment of this corrupt official, we leave ourselves burdened with the real abuse. This the printing-house itself. It seems impossible for our Government to engage in any work other than that planned by the fathers, without opening great sluice ways to extravagance and fraud. This printing house is an illustration. Talk of abuse; the use at best is an infamous burden. The printers, binders and other people employed are not skilled work men—they are office-holders; and the whole place is but a hospital hacks these Congressmen fetch to Washington as a reward for sei vices about corner groceries. The result is that the Government has to pay from twenty to fifty p.r cenl. more for its work than private individuals. We want the entire concern put under the hammer and sold out. Until this is done we shall have a succession of Clapps and an army of thieving contractors. A special from Brownsville, Texas, says General Lnbnira has received the following: Rio Giianoe City, April IS, 1S70 The success of the government in suppressing the revolutionists isassured. General Guiroga, with fifteen hundred soldiers, are in pursuit of Frevino. General Pedro Martinese is expected in the morning with 500 cavulry. Gen erals Itemittas and Pclacio are cn route for the frotier with their brigades. Gen eral Conda arrived at Monkery Satur day with 400 infantry and four pieces of artifery. It is reported that Naran- go and Frcvvino are making for the frontier. It is their last resort. New York, April 20.—Tho exchang ing of silver for fractional currency, under the act of Congress, was com menced at the sub-Treasury this morn ing. A crowd of about three hundred persons are assembled at the sub- Trcasury, most of the applicants for coin being the keepers of liquor saloons and restaurants. Thus far, the silver paymens amount to about seven thous and dollars. Augusta, Ga., April 20.—Captain Jones J. Gregg, a prominent citizen and capitalist, was shot to-day »f Granitville, South Carolina, by a man named Mc- Evoy. He was hit three times, and the wounds are considered mortal. He was brought to this city to-night. McEvoy Mary Meritt, is another attempt to smyrch Secretary Bristow—it being al leged that he acted as counsel, and was pecuniarily interested in the release of the vessel, which was detained at Mil waukee, Wis., for alleged violation of tho internal revenue law. The Senate confirmed *he following nomination: Henry 1‘. Farrow, United Stales Attorney for the Northern and Southern Districts of Georgia. Nettleship, one of the parties aecent- ly indicted for tho safe burglary con spiracy, lms given bnil, nnd was to-day before the grand jury as a witness. The Committee of Ways and Means this morning considered Mr. Hewit’s resolution referred to them. A sub committee, consisting of Messrs. Kelly, Hill and Hancock, were appointed to wait on the Secretary of the Treasury, and suggest that he either withdraw or amend his eirculur relative to the sale of bonds to meet the awards of tho Ala bama Claims Commission in accordance with the provisions of Mr. Hewit’s res olution. The Committee waited on the Seen* tary ai the Treasury Department to-day, and after expressing the purpose of their visit there, he informed them that the circular had been issued after ma ture deliberation, and he did not pro pose either to withdraw or modify it in any manner whatever, consequently there will bo no change in the proposed sale of bonds. A Texas Incident The Waco (Texas) Examiner, of the 4th inst, has a paragraph headed “ Neatly Done,” which reads: “ A young man living some ten or fifteen miles above the city was awakened recenty by the suspicious barking of a dog in the yard. Rising lightly from his bed, he peeped through a window pane, and there sure enough, he discov ered the cause of the disturbance. Dimly outlined in the moonlight stood the form of a man. With one hand he was evidently untying tho gentleman’s lino horse, which stood haltered for the night, while with the other he held a six-shooter pointing directly at the frontdoor. Taking in the situation at a glance, our young friend gently reached for his shot-gun, and, passing out at the back door and round the corner, opened the attack from an unexpected and wholly unguarded quarter. Under this skillful generalship the enemy came down while just in the act of mount ing, and without even so much as re sponding to the first fire. The deceased was buried without the honors of either peace or war.” PRINTUP BROS. & CO., Bankers and General Collecting Agents, DEALERS IN BONDS, STOCKS, EXCHAGE AND SPECIES. Special Attention to Collections Throughout Georgia and Alabama. 5 PAST DUE COMMERCIAL PAPER COLLECTED AT LOW RATES. •ul24.twly — i ■■1111111 - mi——n——TTT———————■— J. B. 8. HOLMES, M. D. WM. L. GORDON HOLMES & GORDON, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS NEXT DOOR TO M. F. GOVAN’S SHOE STORE, NO. 19 SHORTER BLOCK, ROME, GEORGIA DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE-STUPPS, TOILET AM) FANCY ARTICLES, PAINTS, VARNISHES, PUTTY, PAINT & VARNISH BRUSHES GLASS, OILS, LAMPS, LAMP-FIXTURES, &c. nov0,tw-wly Cincinnati, April 20.—State School Commissioner Smith lias called a meet ing for to-morrow of the general and Bub-coni mittees of teachers engaged in preparing matter in relation to the ■schools of Ohio for exhibition at Phil adelphia. All the manuscript except tho general historical volutnn is in such a state of preparation that Mr. Smith expects to forward the last box on Monday. The historical work is in the hands of some twelve or more leading educators, and will be ready for the press as fust aa it can be printed, each writer having assigned to him a special department of the history of public instruction in the State. Several children, while playing on a pile of locust logs last evening, knocked over a prop and the logs rolled down, crushing to deatli John Kelloyne nnd badly injuring another child. We hope now that the papers have quite douo with Air. Geo. II. Pendleton and his railway fees. The seusatiou has been so effectually spoiled that even Beast Butler and the Chicago Inter-Ocean no longer consider it available political capital. Mr. Elliott II. Pendleton, a brother of the Ohio Statesman, gave the corpse of the scaudalous story a Inst kick in his testimony Tuesday. He exhibited all the checks and drafts connected with the fee. and proved that not a dollar of the money had been applied to improper uses. Mr. Pendletons vindication has been full and complete, nnd the authors of the story are the only sufferers by the sensation.—Augusta Chronicle awl Sen tinel. J udge Poland was tho chairman of the Credit Mobilier Committee. That accounts for the failure to give atten tion to the letter of Mr. Harrison. The judge is not remarkable quick in bis perceptions, and possibly did not care to look in the direction to which bis attention was called.—Cincinnati Com mercial. Hudson, N. Y., April 20.—The fast mail train is about three hours behind time this morning. The cause of the de lay is stated to be the binning of the de- f ot at the New York Central road at 'ishkill, and a bridge of the Dutchess and Columbia Road, crossing the track of the New York Central. SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO I ri'HIS OLD HBI.IAHLK I'KKTIU/.EIl IS AGAIN PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC F0K JL the anason of 13711, improved luily 10 pe, cent, from what it has ever been herMotore, ant warranted to bo fully up to tha Analysis, as shown in our ciroulaia and advertiiemeets for 1M. Every salt's of it has been prepared under the supervision ot a skillful chemist and Warranted to be as Repre sented. Wo claim the following points for PACIFIC over other Guano Companies : 1. Thut it is one uf tho oldest Companies no it in existence. ‘J- That it makes and sells more than twice as much Guano as any othor Company in tho United States. ;j. That it give* more universal satisfaction than any other Fertilizer sold in the United Sister, 4. That Cotton fertilized with Pacific Guano stands a drouth better than any other. 5 That it matures Cotton two weeks earlier than any other Commercial Fertilizer sold in tbii market. C. That it ib the only Company that did not refute to give the Cotton Planter the option to p»j in cotton at 15 cents per pound at tho bogimiing of 1870, and that all other Companioa no« oflVrioj a cotton option of 15 ceuPs have been driven to it by the action of the SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO, Wh i never did, like her neighbors, demand a cash note. TERMS: per ton. delivered at Rome, Ga., with the option to pav in Middling Cotton at 15 cenU perpouod, lstof November, or #52.50 Cash. Pacific Compound Acid Phosphate of Lime for Composting Per ton, $47.50, payable in Middling Cotton at 15 cents per po ind 1st of Novomber, or #37.50 Cash. For further particulars apply to A. J. LITTLE, Agent, At HORN & McGHEES, No. 23 Shorter Block, ROME, GA. jan2U,tw wdui Belgrade, April 20.—A quantity of ammunition was sent to the frontier yes terday. Priuco Milan with the national cavalry, will shortly proceed to headquar ters at Paracsin. Ballou manufacturing company, a large corporation whose mills are at Woon socket, made an assignment. Rochester, April 20.—A man was arrested for firing the evening cxptpss and other building. J. HENLY H0SKINS0N, Attorney at Law & Collector of Claims ROME, CEORCIA. (With Albxandur A Wright, Empir i Uloox.) M. W ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS ot tha State aud in the 0. S. District and Cir cuit Courts at Atlanta, Georgia. Frompt atten tion given to all business entrusted to bis care. References—Win. L. Mitchell, Professor Law School, University of Georgia; Hon. Robt. Toombs, Washington, Ga.; Hon. Bon. H. Hill, Atlanti,Ga.; Alexander A Wright, Rome, Ga. jul3l,tw-wly COURIER, FOR 1876! EXTRAORDINARY FEATURES! Letters from England, France, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, &c. T I I h) S Jj U T T IU/US A. L O N F WILL 11K WORTH TO A. N V INTELLIGENT FAMILY AT LEAST DOUBLE THE COST OT THE PAPER FOR A YEAR. I N PRESENTING T1IE PROSPECTUS OF THE COURIER for the ensuing year, we are happy to announce, as a pleasing feature of the programme, that the Proprietor of this paper contem plates making a tour tlnough Hie Principal Countries and Citium Southern Europe, the Ilcly Land and Egypt during the .V« ttr ' While en route, he will give our readers the benefit of his nervations in a series of Letters, pleasantly written, detuning incidents of travel, descriptive of the countries and scenes visits- the manners, customs nnd habits of the people, dwelling p« rtlC1 larly on those places made sacred to the Christian world by the personal presence of the Savior of Mankinp, . These Letters will be written in a plain, direct style, with 11 hope of interesting all the ambitious young people, and espeeift ) the Sunday School children of the South. ... THE COURIER, now Edited by Cot.. B. F. Sawyek, w'll continue to he a first-class Democratic Family Newspaper, and 1 exciting political events of 187G—including election of ■Presided and Vice-President, and, in Georgia, of Governor, members Congress, Legislature nnd county,officers—will make the paper > its ordinary features highly interesting to the people i £3T Weekly Courier, including postage, Two Dollars a ) en J Tri-Weekly, including postage, Four Dollars a year. Remittee** 1 ' by Postnflice Order or in Registered Letters at our risk. Address COURIER OFFICE, ROME, GA. M. DWINELL, Proprietor. De.cemler 20, 1875,