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ESTABLISHED IN' 184,3.
!»I. DWIWEtfc, Proprtoler.
tt. F. SAWYER, Editor.
Thursday Morning August 24,1876
National Democratic Ticket,
FOR PRESIDENT:
SAMUEL J. TILDKN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
THOMAS A, HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
STATE ELECTORS.
FOR THE STATE AT LARdE:
A. R. LAWTON, JNO. W. WOFFORD
alternates:
L. J. GARTRELL, W. D. D. TWIGGS.
district electors :
First District—A. M. Rodgers, of Burke.
Alternate—T. E. Davenport, ot Glynn.
Second District—R. E. Cannon, of Clay.
Alternate—Janies M. Soward, of Thomas.
Third District—,T. M. DuProe, of Macon.
Alternate—W. II. Harrison, of Stewart.
Fourth District—W. 0. Tuggle, of Troup.
Alternate—E. M. Butt, of Marion.
Fifth bistrict—F. D. Dismukc, of Spald
ing.
Alternate—W. A. Shorter, of Fulton.'
Sixth District—Frank Chambers, of Wil
kinson.
Alternate—M. V. MoICibbeo, of Butts.
Seventh District—L. N. Trammell, of Whit
field.
Alternate—Hamilton Yancey, of Floyd.
Eighth District—D. M. DuBose, of Wilk os.
Alternate—T. E. Eve, of Columbia.
Ninth District—J. N. Dorsey, jof Hall.
Alternate—F. L. Haralson, of White.
It is ono of tho political on dila of tho
district that Maj. Z. B. Hargrove is to
be the Republican candidate for Con
gress in this district. Maj. Hargrove
would make a lively canvas—and we
would like to see him run—we like a
fair, square and manly fight. It is so
much more like a white man than the
sneaking Judas policy of tho Indepen
dent. His candidacy would knock
the filling out of Dr. Felton’s Indepen
dent dodge. Come out, Major, and if
wo are to be beaten again, let it be an
open foe, and not a political hypocrite.
Address by (lie Directors of (lie Soldiers’
Monumental Fair Assor'atlons.
State Democratic Ticket,
FOR GOVERNOR:
Alfred H. Colquitt.
FOR CONGRESS, 7thDISTRICT:
WILLIAM H. DABNEY.
The Death Scene.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
Cartersville, Ga., August 5, 1876.
It is, by direction of the Executive Com
mittee of the 7th Congressional District,
ordered that a Convention of the Democratic
party of said District convene at 11 o’clock
A, M., on the 7th day of September, 187G,
at tho Court House in the city of Dalton, for
the purpose of nominating a candidate for
Congress. John W. Wofford,
Chairman.
SENATORIAL CONVENTION.
Cartersville, Ga., August 5,1876.
Wiiereas, A Senator to represent the 42nd
Senatorial Dislriot in tho General Assembly
is to he elected by law in Oetobor next; and,
Whereas, Thorc is no Executive Commit
tee of said Senatorial District to provide for
the convening of a convention of tho Demoo-
raoy of said District, to the end, therefore,
that a convention of tho people may bo had,
Wo, the members of tho Congressional
District Committee for the counties of Floyd,
Barlow and Chattooga, do recommend that a
Convention be held on Saturday, the 9th day
of September, 1876, at 10 o’clock A. M., in
Kingston, for tho purpose of nominating a
candidate for Senator.
We hope each county will bo represented
by full and able delegations, as questions of
importanoo will como botoro the Convention.
John W. Wofford,
Nathan Bass,
C. C. CLEOnORN.
Galls and communications in the inter
est of individual candidates will becharged
as regular advertising matter. Wo are wil
ling to serve our party with any amount
of gratuitous advertising but when it
comes to advancing individual interests
we shall expect payment.
President Grant did a graceful thing
in a graceful manner when he penned
his tribute to the worth and probity of
character of the late Speaker Kerr.
Dr. Felton visited our city Thursday.
He was pleasantly received by hiB
friends. He has not yet decided the
question of his candidacy for a re-elec
tion to Congress—but it is understood
that ho will do so by next Wednesday,
at which time he expects to again be in
Rome. For the sake of his amiable
wife we hope tho Dr. will curb his am
bition and not lay himself out for the
mortifying defeat which will most cer
tainly await him if he runs.
We present the speech of Hon. Jno.
W. Wofford, delivered at Cedartown last
Tuesday. It is a capital effort, appeal
ing dispassionately to the Bober judg
ment and honeBt consciousness of the
people. The facts he presents are im
portant as evincing the true relations
existing between the white and black
people of the South. He shows too in
a Btrong light the true feelings of the
poople of the South towards the North.
We wish that every man at the North
could read this speech and appreciate
its sentiment. It would remove a
mountain of prejudice from between the
two soctions.
Patriots and Friends:
The county of Floyd sent to the bat
tle field about 1,200 soldiers. Of these
some 700 were sacrificed upon tho altar
of liberty. They have gone where noth
ing that wo can do will avail or comfort
them so far as we know. While they
were defending us there nothing too dear
or too sacred to be withheld from them.
There is no price upon life or limb.
There is no compensation for pain or
wounds or health destroyed.
The dead who died in the lost cause are
now all of one family and we are their
heirs. Heirs to their valor, their suffer
ings, their example. In all ages such
heroism and such example has received
and deserved the love, honor and admira
tion of our race. When a people cease
to remember their patriots their self re
spect has departed and their liberty is
doomed.
Fellow-citizens, the sacrifice and ser
vice of our soldiers demands recognition.
Tears and sympathy and remembrance
will depart with this generation, but a
monument of- marble and granite will
perpetuate the memory of them as long
as marble and granite will endure. It
will teach our children and our children’s
children what patriotism is and what it is
worth. Then let us build high the pol
ished shaft and let us have chiseled on
its surface the name of every hero whose
life hlood represented the county of Floyd
in the late unhappy struggle.
For this cause and this purpose, it is
proposed to have a Fair on the 23d day
of October next. And whether it be a
success or not, the intention and the
desire is pure and praiseworthy, and of
thiB no one will be ashamed.
If the patriots of the country will
como up and help us, we know it will
not fail, and we are not of those who
believe that our people have already
forgotten their heroic dead. We believe
they have long been waiting for a
movement in this direction, and they
will como up with their substance and
their contributions as a free will offer
ing upon Memory’s altar.
Then let all come—fathers and sons,
mothors and daughters, widows and
orphans of the illustrous dead, and let
us one and all lay down our gifts, great
and small, in proportion as God has
blessed us, and swell up a sum that
will speedily raise a monument on
Myrtle Hill Cemetery that can be seen
from every point of approach to our
city, and always remind us of the loved
and the lost.
But it is not proposed to ask for gifts
without conditions. The managers se
lected for this occasion confidently ex
pect to have a Fair worthy of your visi
tation. Mr. Cohen has donated the
free use of the grounds and buildings.
There will bo no salaried officers, no
promiscuous expenses, no tolls,
waste, no charges, but all services will
be rendered free by those in charge, and
all the receipts will be nett and every
dollar sacredly devoted to the memory
of the dead.
Arrangements have already been
made to secure an exhibition which we
believe will surpass in interest, induc
tion and amusement any fair that has
heretofore been given. It will therefore
be worth the full price of the admission
fee to any and to nil who choose to help
and honor it with their presence,
Then come one, como all. Bring
something of your substance, your
handiwork, counterpanes, quilts, jeans,
loom-work, lace-work, potatlfes, corn
wheat, chickens, ducks, cows, calves,
hogs, horses, sheep, goats, preserves,
jellies, fruit—anything and everything
that the eye loves to look upon—espe
daily your handsome daughters. If
you don’t get a premium it will contrib
ute something to the interest and pleas
ure of the occasion. Remember all the
time that it is memory’s offering to our
loved and honored dead. Remember
always that this lair is no speculation
no scheme to make money for selfish
purposes, but is the outgushir.g of the
hearts of our people in honor of those
who fought for us in the hour of peril
The premium-list is now in the hands
of the printers, and will soon be ready
for delivery. It is comprehensive, em
bracing a wide range in every depart
ment of industry and art, with liberal
premiums. Thoso wishing to secure a
copy as soon as out, will please address
the undersigned, giving postofflce ad
dress. Taos. J. Pehry, Sec’y.
Kpjcial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer J
Rockridge Alum Springs, Va., Aug.
19.—Speaker Kerr died at 7:20 this
evening, calmly and without pain._ At
the setting of the sun he went quietly
to rest, so quietly indeed that Dr. Pope,
who was noting every change, had
hardly time to summon his anxious
watchers in the room to his bedside.
Though it had long been evident that
the only relief from his sufferings
would be death, his noble wife who,
through that long illness had tended
him with untiring love and devotion,
could not realize that the awful mo
ment of pnrting had inevitably come,
but, with steaming eyes and breaking
heart, besought him not to leave her.
The Speaker’s son, a young man of
some 21 years, whose affection for his
father has always been maiked with
the most touching devotion, clung to
the cold hand of the (tying man with
silent anguish of despair
The death scene was one of peculiar
pathos and solemnity. The eyes of
the speaker rested with a loek of yearn
ing tenderness, infinitely soft and inex
pressibly sweet upon his stricken
family, and then wandered slowly
around ihe room as if with a last fare
well to those present. Hon. S. S. Cox
stood near the head of tho bead, and
was deeply affected. The speeker’s
secretary, Mr. White, and Mr. Scudder,
his clerk, were also with him. At an
early hour this morning it was thought
by the physician in attendance that
death was near, but the tenacity of life
in the emaciated body of the sufferer
excited the wonder of all, and set at
defiance the experience of the medical
world. Before 10 a. m. there was no
preceptible pulse in the wrists or ar
teries of the arm, and yet the limbs
seemed under perfect control.
DETAILS OP HIS ILLNESS.
The condition of emaciation to
which the speaker was reduced by the
ravages of his disease, can only be ex
pressed by saying that his body pre
sents of a skeleton. Every bone is dis
tinctly perceptible under the thin,
tightly-drawn skin, while even the line
of the spinal column is visible through
the collapsed walls of the abdomen.
For more than sixty hours before death
he took no nourishment. The disease
that baffled the medical skill of the
country was consumption of the
bowels.
DURING THE DAY
the speaker lay in a semi-letharigic
tondition, with eyes somewhat intro-
certed, and half covered by the lids,
vccasionally varied by a sudden start,
os if from sleep, at which time the in-
aellect would bo again thoroughly
aroused. He suffered paroxysms of
intense pain, which were rendered
visible by the knotted cords of the
muscles of the neck and limbs and con
traction oi the nerves of the face and
eyes, though there was but little audi
ble indication of his Buffering save an
occasional hollow groan. He seemed
at times to make painful attempts to
express himself audibly without sue
cess, and could only indicate by ges
tures or an occasional spasmodic whis
per his wishes. His mind was clear
to the lust. He recognized tho Hon
Montgomery Blair and others, who
spoke to him, and shortly before death
indicated to Dr. Harris, of the Metho
dist Church, his readiness to die and
hopes of a future life of happiness.
About noon his son read a telegram
from a friend in Indiana. He listened
intently, and his mind evidently wan
dered for a time to the past. He made
a faint gesture of pleasure when allu
sion was made to his vindications from
the cruel charge recently made against
his honor and tho handsom tribute
paid to his sterling integrity in Mr,
Carpenter’s late speech before tho Sen
ate.
come listless in politics or wandered off
to the Democracy, and by torrifying the
“fiendish” white liners into subjection.
By keeping the outrage mill slowly
grinding, and sending platoons of cavalry
hither and thither, it is evidently hoped
to revive the bitterness which has been
rapidly disappearing between the races in
most parts of the South. We wish to see
all citizens pootected iu their rights, but
this turning of tho array of tho United
States into band of drummers for the ne
gro veto is pushing partisanship so far
that it would bo grotesque if it were not
infamous. This is doubtlcs the work to
which General Sherman referred when
he said the “ highest authority’’ must nn-
swer wliy tho trroops could not bo spared
to fight tho Sioux. The desperation of a
move which dares to saddle tho country
with the expense of extra soldiers while
keeping nearly four thousand idle lor po
litical purposes is apparent, and adds an
other stigma to the rule of tho party iu
whose name and for whoso aid it is un-
blushingly done.
A Southern Railroad League.
. Jennie Juno says Tweed always paid
two dollars per pound for his beefisteak,
never purchasing anything but solid ten
derloin, three inches thick.
What the Troops will do in the
South.
Now York Herald ]
Many members of Congress made
strenuous opposition to the bill autho:
izing the enlistment of tweiity-fivo hun
dred additional cavalrymen to serve
against the Indians. The ground of op-
positon was that the are abundant troops
in tho South that might bo employed
against the Indians. Even without any
miuuto investigation this allegation would
seem to be well founded. It is preprosler-
ous and incredible that with an army of
twenty-five thousand men the government
cannot muster a force of more three or
four thousand for active service in an
emergency Acting on this presumption
we have caused careful inquries to be
made, and the result is stated in detail
our correspondence elsewhere. The
reader will find a full and authentic state-
mens of the number of federal troops
tho Southern States, with the name of
each company and the place where it
stationed. The conclusion from tho de
tailed statements is that five regiments
might bo spared from tho military poste
in South to reinforce Crook and Terry
in their campaign against the Sioux.
There is, of course, no reason why these
troops should not be kept in the South
for precautionary purposes so long
there is no employment for them else-
wlier; but it is a wasteful absurdity to
maintain idle soldiers in the South while
we are prosecuting an active campaign
against the Indians with an insufficient
force. The State militia should be
adequate for every emergency in the
South, or if the militia of any particular
State cannot be relied on to put down
a riot, and federal assistance should be
needed, it is lawful for the President to
call out the militia of the States whose
ask attention^to the striking^ exhibit
presented by our Washington corres
pendent.
The order from Secretary Cameron to
General Sherman, which we also print,
sliows that the administration has had a
very definite use to make of these troops
all the time, and wo at once see why
Crook and Terry have been deliberately
left without adequate support. It is ex
pected that the five regiments will carry
four of the Southern States, by whipping
the negroes into lice who have either be-
From tho New York Journal of Commerce.]
The Southern railroad companies
now propose to try an experiment
which has, fortunately, always failed
when made at the North. The mana
gers of the principal Southern lines
rave met at Saratoga and taken steps
towards forming a combination of the
pattern with which we are so familiar
this part of the country. It has
been notified that when railroad men
consult with a view to harmony among
themselves they leave this public good
quite out of mind. The Saratoga con
ference was no exception to the rule.
The object of tho organization is to
screw higher rates out of the Southern
through travel and traffic, and by some
equitable partiton of business and
profits to make all the companies wil
ing to abide by the agreement. The
committee who have the scheme in
hand suggest division of territory be
tween competing lines, and if that is
not practicable, then a division of the
business at competing points. Could
this be carried out, the companies
would have the public at their mercy.
At this meeting, as at every one of the
kind ever held, there was no attempt
at the reform of abuse of which the
people are victims. Nothing was said
about the evil of discriminations in
freights, of which so many serious
complaints have been made, and which
promises yet to provoke the interfer
ence of Congress if the companies them
selves do not break it up. A spirit of
reform worthy the name would abol
ish this injustice. Had the Southern
managers declared for the abandoment
of the practice, we should have be
lieved that they were not wholly sel
fish in the purposes of their organiza
tion. By neglecting to remedy this
grievance, they only add to that fast
growing public opinion which demands
the interposing hand of the States or
the General Government against the
grasping policy of railroad monopolies.
The representatives at Saratoga fond
ly hope that their organization will be
permanent, and resolved to hold an
anual meeting at that place, which
has been singularly chosen as their
summer headquarters. In this expec
tation they will probly bo disappoin
ted. The present is their first effort to
create a grand Southen league of rail
road interests. They will soon find
treachery at work among those who
most solemnly pledge themselves to
stand by the new arrangements. Com
pacts as strong as any they can make
lave been broken by the bad faith of
the signers. No ring can be made
stronger than that of which the gieat
Northern through lines were members.
We now see what mutual jealousy and
and duplicity have dono to that. It is
ruptured—we do not say past mending
—but the causes which broke it up
will always operate to prevent a union
of tho piecies into a really solid ring
again. And so we may reasonably ex
pect thas the Southern Railroad Asso
ciation will fall apart at no distant day.
Nothing of the kind can last very long
while human nature remains un
changed. In this lies the best security
of the public (in the absence of legisla
tion) against the sordid designs of these
corporations.
National Democratic Platform.
We, tho delegates of the Demoeralic party
of the Uuitcd States, in National Convention
assembled, do horchy declare tho adniinistra,
tion of tho Federal Government in urgent
need of immediate reform, and do hereby
enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention,
and of tho Democratic party in each State, a
7caloi-s effort and eo operation to this end,
and do heroby appeal to our lollow citizens of
every former political connection to under
take with us this first ana most pressing
patriotic duty.
For tho ltomierncy of th 1 whole country
we do hereby re-aifirm our faith in tho per
manency of the Federal Union, and our dovo-
ion to l ho Constitution of the United States,
vith its amendments universally accepted as
a final settlement of the controversies that
engendered - ho civil war, and do hero record
our steadfast confidence in tho perpetuity of
Republican m- I' g verr.ment; in a resolute
acquies -cueo in the will of the mojoiity, the
vital principle of republics; iu tho supremacy
of tho civil over tho military authority; in
tho total separation of the church nnd State
for the suko alike of oivil and religious free
dom; in tho equality of all citizens botoro
tho just laws of their own enactment; in tho
liberty of individual conduct, unvexed by
sumptuary laws; in tho faithful education uf
tho rising generation, that thny may preserve,
enjoy nnd transm-t them best condi
human happiness and hope, wo bohold the
noblest products of a hundred years ol
changeful history. But while upholding tho
bond of our Union and tho great charter of
these, our rights, it behooves, a freo people to
praetico also that etercnl vigilance which is
tho prico of liberty.
Reform is nocessaty to robui'.d and estab
lish in the hearts of"tho wholo pooplo the
Union, eleven yoarsago happily rescued from
the dnngcr of a corrupt centralism which,
after inflicting upon ten States the rapacity
of oarpot-bag tyrannies, has honoy-combed
tho officers oi tho Federal Government itself
with incapacity, waste and fraud; infected
States and municipalities with tho contagion
of misrulo, and locked fast the prosperity of
an industrious people in the paralysis of
hard times.
without contributing from the T...
any, and tho false issue by which &
to light auew the dying embers of ■<X- 8ce '‘
bate botweon kindred peoples oncn CCU ° na '
urnlly estranged, but iow iB uS.?"”"'
indivisible republic and a common destlSv 0 "*
Reform is necessary in the civil „ ,
Expcrionco proves that tho efficientSi’
teal conduct ot tho Governmental buS ™'
not possible if its civil service to
chango at every election; bo a nrize f°
lor at tho ballot box; bo a brief re J U f^ t
party real, instead of posts of honor
lor proved competency, and held for fiS
in the public employ; that the disnensini tj r
patronage should neither be a tax uSi° f
timo of all our public men, nor thorn!*?'
tnent ol their ambition. Hero
professions falsified in the performance attes!
that the party in power can Work out
practical or salutary reform. ul no
CVCI ? ,n oro in th 0
higher grades of publto service. The V,
tdent, \ tee-Prcsidont, Judges, Senators III!
reset,tat,ves. Cabinet officfrs-the!e a !l d R %
other! in authority are the people’s servant
their offices are not a private perquisite T'
ara a public trust. When the annals o’/ilV
Republic show the disgrace an"d cen u °r f'!
Vico President a late Speaker of tl.e Hb Us !
of Representatives marketing his ruling,!!
a presiding officer, three Senators proK
secretly by their votes as law-malW « *
8 o' chairmen cf the lending committee, of Z
Into llouso of Representatives exposed
jobbery a lato Secretary of tho TretunJ!
forcing balances in the public accounts »l tt 7„
pent an Ambassador to England censured
in a dishonorable speculation, the Prosiden'.
private secretary barely escaping conviction
upon trial for guilty complicity in fraud!
upon the revenue, a Secretary St War in£
peached for high crimes and confessed mis.
demeanors, tho demonstration is comnloto
that tho hrst Btep in reform must be the
people s choice of honest men from another
parly, lest tho disease of ono political organ-
ization infest tho body politic, and lest bv
„ , . j making no chnugo of men or party wo can
Reform is necessary to establish a sound , get no change of measures and no reform
irrency, restore tho public credit, and main- All thoso abuses, wrongs and ermes the
un the national honor. We denounco the I product of sixteen years’ asccndanov il!
Death of a Distinguished Divine.
—Tho Rev. Wm. Hooper, D. D., L. L.
D., died on Sunday at Chapel Hill,
N. C., after an illness of several weeks,
at the advanced age of eighty years.
Dr. Hooper entered the pulpit and tho
professor’s chair, at an early age, filled
professorships in the North Carolina
University, and other institutions, and
for years was connected with the South
Carolina College. He was a ripe schol
ar and able divine and accomplished
much good during liislong life.
Twenty delegates from tho trades un
ions of Paris arrived at New York on
Wednesday, having been sent by the In
ternational Society. They will proceed
Philadelphhia without any delay, so as to
begin a3 soon as possible their investiga
tions at the Exposition.
Edwin Booth claims that retaining his
name to designate tho theatre in New
York once owned by him is detrimental
to his professional interests, and is about
resorting to legal means to compel the
present owner or owners to cnll it some
thing else.
Onwers of lemonade stands in St.
Louis are trying to settle with their
creditors for thirty cents on the dollar.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
U NDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER
ot the Honorable tho Ordinary of laid
county, will be sold befero the Oourt House door
la said oounty, on tho
First Tuesday in September, 1876,
botween the legal hours of sale, the following
property, vis :
An undivided half intorcst in lot of land
number 314, and that part of lot 315 lying on
north side ot a dry branch running from a gap
ot thn mountain loading from tho lato residence
of H. Cartier, thence through aaid lot weatwardly
to tho line of lot 316. All m 23rd district end
3rd aection of now Floyd county, and the whole
tract containing 270} acres, more or Ion. To be
•old as tho properly ot J. R. titevons, late of
said oounty, deceased. Terms cub.
aug8 WM. Q. GAMMON, Adm’r.
currency
tain the national honor, vvo denounco the In
failure for till tlicso cloven years to make ii
good tho promise of tho legal tender notes,
which are a changing standard of value in
the bands ot tho people, nnd tho non-payment
of which is a disregard of the plighted faith
ot tho nation. Wo denounco tho improvi
dence which in olovon years of penco has
taken from the peoplo in Fedoral taxes
thirteen times tho wholo amount ot the legal-
tender notes, and squandered four times this
sum in useless expense, without accumulating
any reserve for thoir rodoinption. We de
nounce the finanoial imbecility nnd immoral
ity of that party which, during eleven years
of peace, has made no advance towards re
sumption, and no preparation for resumption,
but instead has obstructed resumption by
wasting our resources nnd exhausting all our
surplus income, and while annually profess
ing to intend a speedy return to specio pay
ments, has annually enacted tresh hindrances
thereto. As such a hindrance we denounce
tho resumption clause of tho not of 1875, and
we hore demand its repeal. Wo demand a
judicious system of preparation by public
economies, by offioial retrenchments, nnd by
wiso financial management, which shall cn-
ablo tho nation soon to assuro tho wholo
world of its perfect ability and its perfect
readiness to moct any of its promises at tho
call of the creditor entitled to payment. We
believe such a system, well devised, and
above all entrusted to competent bands for
execution, creating at no timo an artificial
scarcity of currency, and at no timo ala- ming
the public mind into a withdrawal of that
vaster machinery of credit by which 95 per
cont. of all business transactions are per
formed, a system open, public, and inspiring
general confidence, would, from the day ot
its udoption, bring healing on its wings to
all our harassed industries nnd set in motion
the wheels of commerce, manufactures and
the mechanical arts, restore employment to
labor and renow in all its national sources
the prosperity of tho people
Reform is necessary in tho sum and mode
of Federal taxation, to the end that capital
may be set freo from distrust aud labor light
ly burdened. We denounco the pro.cnt
tarifl, levied upon nearly four thousand arti
cles, as n masterpiece of injustice, inequality
and false pretenso. It yields a dwindling,
not a yearly-rising, revenue; it has impover
ished many industries to subsidize a few; it
prohibits imports that might purchnsc tho
products of American lnbor; it has degraded
American oommeroe from tho first to an infe
rior rank upon the high seas; it lias cut down
tho sales of American manufactures at homo
and abroad, and depleted the returns ol
American agriculture, an industry followed
by half of our people; it costs tho peoplo
five times more tliun it produces to tho Treas
ury, obstructs tho processes of production
and wastes the fruits of lnbor ; it promotes
fraud and fosters smuggling, enriches dishon
est officials and bankrupts honest merchants.
Wo demand that all custom-house taxation
shall be only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in tho scale of public
oxponse, Federal, State and municipal. Our
Federal taxation hasswollon from ¥00,000,000
gold in I860 to $450,000,000 currency in
1870, nnd our aggregate taxation from $154,
000,030 gold in 1HG0 to $730,000,000 currency
in 1870, or in ono deeado from loss than five
dollars per head to more than eighteen dollars
per head. Sinoo the restoration of penco, the
people have paid in taxes more tliun thrice
the sum of the national debt, and more than
twico that sum for tho Federal Government
alone. We demand a rigorous frugality in
every department, nnd from every officer of
the Government.
Roform is necessary to put a stop to the
profligate waste of public lands nnd their
diversion from actual settlers by the party ‘
power, which lins squandered two huudrod
millions of acres upon railroads alono, nnd
out of more than thrice that aggregate has
disposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers
of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican CongVess and the errors of
our treaties and our diplomaoy which have
stripped our fellow-citizens of foreign birth
and kindred rnco, rccrossing the Atlantic, of
tho shield of American citizenship, nnp have
exposed our brethren or tho Pacific oonst to
the incursions of a race not sprung from the
same great parent stock, nnd, in fact, now by
law denied citizenship, though naturalization
is being noithor accommodated to tho tradi
tions of a progressive civilization nor cxer
cised in liberty under equal laws. Wo de
nounce tho policy which thus discards the
liborty-Ioving German and tolerates tho
revival of tho Coolio trade in Mongolian
women, imported for immoral purposes, and
Mongolian men, held to pcriorin servilo laboi
contracts, and demand such modification ol
tho trenty with tho Chinoso empire, or such
legislation witliiu constitutional limitation, as
shall prevent tho furthor importation or im
migration of tho Mongolian rnco.
Reform is necessary and can never be
effeoted but by making it the controlling issue
of tho. elections and lifting it nbovo tho two
false issues with which tho office-holding
class nnd tho party in power seek to smothor
it—the falso issuo with which iboy would
enkindlo sectarian strifo in respect to tho
public schools, of which tho establishment
and support belong exclusively to tho sevoral
States, and which the Democratic party has
cherished from their foundation, and is re
solved to maintain, without partiality or
preleronce for any class, soot or oreed, and
years’ ascendancy tf tho
.republican pnrty, create a necessity (or
reform admitted by tho Republicans them
selves ; but thoir reformers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the Cabinet.
Tho paity’s mass of honest voter’s is power
less to resist eighty thousand offico-holders
its loaders nnd guides. Roform can only be
had by a poaceful oivil revolution. We
demand n change ot system, a chango ot
administration, n chango of parties, that we
may have a change of measures and of men.
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tho Buprome Oourt of the Unitod States, the
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experienced parties employed by the old firm.
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629 F. Street, Washington, D. C.
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.T. 13. WINSLOW,
Grocer Merchant,
SOUTH HOME, GEORGIA,
TNVITES THE ATTENTION or ms
A to his welUselectod Stock of Family
consisting of overy variety of Meats, riin. i
Butter, Chickens, Eggs, Flour. Meal,
Corn, Bran, Sugar, Colfeo, Teas. Syrupa» d-> •
Spices, Pickles, Conlectioncrics, etc.
For medicinal purposes, he keeps the very
bestof Liquors, Whisky, Brandy, Wine, etc.
Everything is New and Fresh, and bii P r,ce *
are surprisingly low.
Ho will buj^Country Produce, paying for
samo the highest cash prices.
Connected with his establishment is
dious stock lot and elegant wagon yw a i> ...
hia country friends can find roady accotn
lions for themselves and stock.
Smith’s old stand.
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ROME MILITARY INSTITUTE,
rpUE FALL TERM OF THISl I L 1 J I 8 - T ™ T « T ! < iid
1 will begin MONDAY. AUGUaT ?«. *“
closo Docembor 16.
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Primary, per month 4 id
Intermediate, per month r 5 oO
Collegiate, per month
Bills collected monthly.
E.J. MAGRUDER, Prmcipu-
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EDUCATIONAL.
MRS. E. U. BEEVES WHjt",
God permit, resume the h * x .$’|n„,
her Sobool on Monday, tbe p ( .
nnd close it on Friday, l 2n “
_ comber. _„ (h .
Tuition' per Scholar, $2.25 P er
P. 8.—A limited number of PUP* '7' ec hocl
be received for tbreo months aa P
B °A < il"a>ronago will bo highly appreciated-
July 25. 187fi.-27.tw2m
Farm for Sale.
T AM OFFERING FOR SALE OT
L 26 acre Farm, 3 miles Lj tr good
shod, Atlanta, Georgia; ^ ,°fralt W
fence: Hiaoroawoodland. 80 ,°% 9 teron
small vineyard, and plonty ol S . 0 f dire •
place. Buildings ordinary, con»i«‘“J, ffe |l.
ing, alables, barn, Ac. Xrt !»*»*;
Place desirable overy way. 508 hcM 101
ation call on or address at No. „.pjjOT.
street, Atlanta.
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