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Skt flami @0uvitv< 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. AMERICAN & FOREIGN PATENTS. G ILMOitP. & CO., SUCCESSORS TO CHIPMAN, HOSMER A CO., Solicitors Patents procured in ell countrios. NO FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge unless tho patent is granted. No fees for making preliminary ex aminations. No additional focB for obtaining and conducting a rehearing. By a recent de cision of the Commissioner ALL rejeotod appli cations may bo revived. Special altentioe given to Interference Cases boforo the Patent Office, Extension! boforo Congress, Infringement Baits In different States, and all litigation appertain ing to Inventions or Patents. Bend stamp to Gilmore A Co. lor pamphlot ol sixty pages. LAND OASES, LAND WARRANTS, AND SCRIP. Contested Land Casos prosecuted before the U. S. General Land Offlco and Department of the Interior. Private Land Claims, MIN1NQ and PRE-EMPTION Claims, and HOMESTEAD Cases uttended to. Laud Scrip in 40, 80 and 160 aore pieces for sale. Thi s Scrip is assignable, and can bo located in the natno of the poroh&ser upon any Government land subject to private entry, at $1.26 per aero. Is is of equal vaiuo with Bounty Land Warrants. Bend stamp to Giliuoro & Co, for pamphlet of Instruction. ARREARS OF PAY AND BOUNTY, OFFICERS, SOLDIERS and SAILORS of ths lato war. or their heirs, are in many cases en titled to i.'oney from the Government of which they have no knowledge. Write full history ol service, and state amount of pay and bounty received. Enclose stamp to GILMORE A CO , and a lull reply, alter examination, will be gives you (roe. PENSIONS. All OFFICERS, SOLPIER8 and 8AILOR8 wounded, ruptured, or injured iu tho late war, however slightly, can obtain a pension by ad dressing GILMORE & CO. Casos prosecutod by GILMORE A CO. before tho Buprome Oourt of the Unitod States, the Court of Claims, and the Southoro Claimi Com* mission. Each department of our business is conducted in a separate bureau, under charge of the eaine experienced parties employed by the old firm. Prompt attention to all business entrusted to GILMORE & CO. is thus securod. We desire to win succcbb by deserving it GILMORE & CO M 629 F. Street, Washington, D. C. janl8,tw.f .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. (ang24.tw2t»w3m) 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. „ fc T .“ M8i ..*3» Primary, per month 4 id Intermediate, per month r 5 oO Collegiate, per month Bills collected monthly. E.J. MAGRUDER, Prmcipu- augl0,tw-w4w — - 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. aug22,tw3t