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5C8TABLI8HKD IN' 181-3.
M. DWINELL, Proprtoler.
B. F. SAWYER, Editor.
Saturday Morning, Sept. 30, 1876
National Democratic Ticket,
FOR PRESIDENT:
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
THOMAS A, HENDRICKS,
STA TE ELECTORS.
TOR THE STATE AT LARGE t
A. R, LAWTON, JNO. W. WOFFORD.
alternates:
I,. J. GARTRELL, W. I). D. TWIGGS.
DISTRICT electors:
First District—A. M. Rodgers, of Burke.
Allornato—T. E. Davenport, of Glynn.
Second District—R. E. Cannon, of Clay.
Alternate—James M. Sevrard,'of Thomas.
Third District—J. M. DuPree, of Macon.
Alternate—W. II. Harrison, of Stewart.
Fourth District—W. 0. Tuggle, of Troup.
Alternate—E. M. Butt, of Marion.
Fifth District—F. D. Rismuke, of Spald
ing.
Alternate—W. A. Shorter, of Fulton.
Sixth District—Frank Chamberl, of Wil
kinson.
Alternate—M, V. McKibbeo, of Butts.
Seventh District—L. N. Trammell, of Whit
field.
Alternate—Hamilton Yancey of Floyd.
Eighth District—D. M. DuBose, of Willies.
Alternate—T. E. Eve, of Columbia.
Ninth District—J. N. Dorsey, of Ilall.
Alternate—F. L. Haralson, of White.
The explosion at Hell Gate, last We conclude to-day the publication
Sunday, was one of tho greatest tri-1 of Judge Black’s masterly letter to Gar
utnpbs of engineering Bkill on record, field. It is the best campaign document
Hell Gate was a dangerous reef across of the season. Everybody should pro-
the East river at the entrance of New cure a copy. What a demonstration of
York harbor from Long Island Sound. New England’s hypocracy! The old
To remove this dangerous rock, so as Puritan fathers, who introduced slavery
to admit the largest ocean draught ves- into this country, are beautifully uncov
sel, the engineers, under the supervis- ered ; and the rottenness of the Republi-
ion of Gen. Newton, sunk a tunnel can party is shown to be the out-growth
under the river, penetrating the heart of Puritan fraud and corruption. Oh,
of the rock. This tunnel, or mine, was how it skins Garfield. Poor fellow,
charged with giant powder and fired Fifty thousand copies should be distrib-
by electricity. The explosion was a u ted nmong the colored people of Geor-
complete success, and the rock was gia. The letter will appear entire in our
blown into atoms, and fell far beneath | Weekly edition,
the water in the hole dug under it.
Of this explosion, the New York Her
ald says:
It is safe to say that nothing has ever
We are not often under the disagree
able necessity pf “rising to explain,"
but the expression “damned jackass”
occurred" whioh"affords a more signal I which occured in our last issue was
proof of the mastery of man over the not our own, but was a part of the ar-
forces of nature, or of his ability to t j c i e quotod f rom the Washington Tele-
ing experiments to a popular audience extract from the Telegram. But inas-
could not describe with more accuracy much as a portion of the extract was
what is to take place when he burns a leaded, it has been supposed that the
piece of watch spring in oxygen gas, cra pt)atic language was our own.
or when he passes an electric current |
through a glass tube from which tho.i 'phe Republicans are beginning to
air has been exhausted than Gen. New- d . impending defeat in Indi
ton described the effects of the great ... , ,
explosion in advance of the experiment, ana by trying to brace the party up
There was no legerdemain in his abili- against it. Listen to the Chicago Tn-
ty to predict the outside effects of the hunc :
explosion with such remarkable pre- Since 1868, Indiana has been a Dem-
cision. It is science, not magic, that ocrat i c state, and, if that party carries
has won this great title to public conh- it on tbe 10tb 0 f October, they will. -
dence. General Newton has simply mere iy hold their own ; if they loose j measure of his duties and all the sacred
proved by this brilliant success that ho the Republicans will have gained a I trusts committed to his care; but espe-
has a perfect mastery of such branches Democratic State. ' " ‘
of science as relate to his profession,
State Democratic Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR:
Alfred H. Colquitt.
FOR CONGRESS, 7th DISTRICT:
WILLIAM H. DABNEY.
Death of Rev. E. H. Meyers.
From tho Savannah News ]
We are called upon to chronicle the
death of the Rev. E. H. Myers, Pastor
of Trinity M. E. Church, who fell a vic
tim to the prevailing epidemic yester
day morning at seven o’clock.
The blow falls with a crushing force
upon the whole community, and more
especially upon the membership of the
church whose much loved pastor he
was.
WhEnthe fever broke out Dr. Myers
was at Cape May as Chairman of tho
commission then in session with their
Northern brethren, engaged in adjust
ing the difficulties between the North
ern and Southern branches of the M. E.
Church. This labor having been suc
cessfully accomplished, he was left in
charge of the work of publication of the
minuteB of the conference. But when
notified of the ravages of tho epidemic
in our midst he at once returned to his
charge in Savannah and and nobly en
gaged in his work of love, until one
week ago, when lie became stricken
with fever, which terminated as above
stated.
Dr. Myers was one of the prominent
ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and his reputation was
national. For the past thirty years he
has faithfully served the church and
his fellow-beings, occupying high po
sitions, for which his piety and talents
fitted him. In the itineracy—as editor
of the Southern Christian Advocate, as
President of the Weslyan Female Col
lege, at Macon, and as Chairman of the
commission of the Southern ChuroKat
the recent convention—he filled all the
and that he has exercised the utmost
care in their application.
In answer to the charge made by
the Radicals fanatics against the ex-
Confederate Congress that it had dis-
The Washington Republican paliates
the flaying of Garfield by saying
that Judge Black is in his dotage. If
the old man was in his dotage, when
he skinned Garfield, what would have
been the condition of his victim had
placed disabled Union soldiers to make hebeen . nthe fu]I vlgor of hJa giant
room for stout Rebels, the Union Sol- man ^ 00( j
diere' and Sailors’ Reform Association, —
with Gen. Joe Hooker as President, The Marietta Journal give the follow-
has issued an address, from which we ing bint to Old John Robinson :
take the following: Dr- Felton, the double-back-acticn
“Nor has the action of the Demo- somersaulter, leaper and gymnast, can
cratic House been less pat.iotic and rlde tw ° horses more a S ll,t ^ aad
humane, consistent in the civil and p0 - access than any living man.nowr in, the
litical interest of the Union solcller. P, ollt !<fl arena
For it will be found that in the Forty- should secure this wonderful performer.
Third Congress out of 219^ persons oc- thcre be n0 ; tragg i ers or laggards
cupying posts of profit and emolument 06 .
under various officers elected by the nex ^ Wednesday. Georgia wants every
House, but twenty-three had rendered man to do his duty.
military service in the Union array.
Twenty-three soldiers, and no more, I Do not
cially bb a pastor in our city was he
known and loved. Wo close this nec
essarily brief notice with the following,
from one with whom he has labored in
Christian ministrations during this ter
rible visitdllion of sickness and death :
One more victory gained under the
Captain of our salvation, who for his
people hath abolished death; ono more
good and faithful servant welcomed
into the joy of his Lord ; one more of
the “adopted” gone up leaning on the
arm of the “only begotten,” to enter on
the pledged inheritance; one more voice
to sweel the redemption song, “Unto
Him that loved us and washed us from
our sins in His own blood, and hath
mude us kings and priests unto God
and his Father; to Him be glory and
dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
Translated brother, we wish the joy!
Sunday Talk.
From tho Now York Heruld ]
We are told by those who know that
there are stars eo for distant that it takes
years for their light to reach the earth:
If they should bo suddenly extin
guished, we should be unaware of the
fact for as many years us might be re-
3 uired for the lust rays before the great
estruction to reach us. We might look
up nightly and see the same old radi
ance as though nothing had happened.
Long after they have gone out ill the
darkness of death, they continue tp
xert an influence, and leave behind
them a m-auly and power which make
impos.-ililu to conceive of them as
ext'mruished.
Wo did not know before that the
custom nnywhero prevailed of making
sort of discount lor cash among those
who take up church collections. There
however, in Breton a church where
the beadle carries round the plate and
gives a pinch of snuff to every one
who drops a penny therein. When a
man sneezes, therefore, it is proof posi
tive that lie has contributed to the sup
port of public worship.
What a wonderful spectacle the ocean
iresents in some of her peculiar moods!
lluny and many a time we have sat on
the stern and watched the silver wake
of the vessel as she cut through the
dark waters of the night. But the other
evening tho view from the Highlands
must have been grand beyond expres
sion. The fierce gale lashed the wii
ters into sucli a fury that the whole At
lantic, as far as the eye could reach,
seemed like a vast plain of changing
snow drifts. The ships that scudded
before the tempest floated on liquid
silver. It wus a fairy scene which no
pen can describe.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion has begun to settle. We do not
GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
BARBECUE nr DAY AND TORCH-LIGHT
PR 0 CESSION AT NIGHT.
ROME, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4.
Distinguished speakers from Georgia,
Bahama and Mississippi will address
the people.
Barbecue free to all, and plenty for
all, both white ami black.
Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, Gen. Jno. T.
Morgan, of Alabama, Hon. B. H. Hill,
of Gcoigia, Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of
Mississippi, and other distinguished ora
tors, have been invited and will address
the people. Speaking in the day and at
night.
were appointed to employments by the Wednesday,
last House of Representatives. These s■
were principally disabled pensioners, In his speech on being nominated
employed at the lowest salaries. I Chairman of tho Democratic Electoral
“But in the present House out of New j e x-Governor
1S9 employes, lor the same service, •! , „
forty-three were honorably discharged Parker showed up the policy of the Re-
Union soldiers, making a difference of publican party in the following manner,
ninety per cent, in favor of the friend- He said :
Be sure and pay your last year’s taxes
by next Wednesday, or you cannot vote.
Next Wednesday is the day on which
tho people elect a Governor and Repre
sentatives.
Democrats, to the polls! Next Wednes
day is tho day. Let us give Colquitt a
rousing vote.
The “Old Boy in Blue” is what the
New York Sun calls Centennial Dix
“The Gentleman in Black” would be
more appropriate.
It is pretty well settled that the Rad
ical vote will concentrate on Capt,
Reece, next Wednesday. Let the Dem
ocrats look Bharp, and not spilt their
ticket. _
Old Uncle Norcross paid the city of
Rome the handsome compliment of
saying that she furnished the smallest
audience he had ever had the honor to
address.
.»
When Hill meets Hill, then comes
tho tug of war, and the tug is about to
come in the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict, where the Radicals have brought
out Josh against Ben.
There seems to be a slight abatement
in the yellow fever at Savannah. We
do hope that the pestilence has wasted
its anger, and that health may again
soon visit our affleted cities.
The attendance at the Centennial on
lost Thursday (“New York day”) was
fully 123,000, the largest ever present
e at any exhibition, notwithstanding it
forget the election next wa8 J half . dollar ’ d ay. Some how it
The Republican party came iuto pow-
| er upon the tidal wave of a great moral
ship of the Democratic party for the
soldier.
“The radical cry of ‘ Confederate I q Uea \i on which had long agitated the pub-
House!’ by the Republican party, toh- lc m ind,but which has happily been set-
influence the vote of soldiers, in view d ed. Many sincere men were enlisted
of these facts, is, therefore, both un- j n j( g rall hs, hut the men who founded
meaning and slanderous.” | t j ie par t y for the purpose of abolishing
• “ r “ slavery, now that the object has
Just at this time the Republicans are been accomplished, have ceased
chuckling over the capture of Tweed to direct its fortunes and its present lead-
and his surrender by the Spanish au- ers care nothing about the moral aspect
thoritie. to,.h. United Bt.te,
not care a button about Tweed, but the |, e ; n ' t0 hold ou t0 t b e offices,
manner in which he was returned to Hence the policy of the Republican
the United States may some day be a party toward the South since the close of
sad reproach to our government. There the war Turning a deaf ear to the ex-
j hortations of Mr. Lincoln, who in his
is no extradition treaty existing between lftgt days counge i led charity and the ex-
Spam and the United States, and the erc j 8e of a Christian spirit, they for years
surrender of Tweed was what might be held the white people of a whole section in
termed a decree of international Lynch bondage under the heel of military power,
law, for which Spain may, in return, and they are even now transferring troops
. . .. . . T j t , for that obiect—and all this without rea-
ask a similar exercise of Judge Lynch s son> but ^ for litical effect .
authority. Spain gives up Tweed The policy of tbe Republican party
without any stipulation as to his offense toward the South since the war has no
or his punishment. The United States parallel for heartlessness and cruelty,
accepts him. Now it is Spain’s turn to Posterity will regard it with horror and
, i . , ... . I disgust, and history will stigmatize it as
ask for a prisoner, and without any re- the b t po ii ti cal crime of the century,
gard for the nature of the offense, or The scheme of bayonet rule was devised
for his guilt or innocence, the United for party purposes without regard to the
States are in honor bound to give him welfare of the people, North or South—it
up. Thus, for the body of the thief, I J b a c a ^ tb 88ive t0 South and ruinoua t0
Tweed, Spain may demand the head of ^ change is now urgently demanded,
one, or a dozen, of the Cuban refugees no t only in the administration but in par-
who have sought safety in our land. | ty supremacy. The party in power under
which the abuses originated cannot re-
Wm. C. Smith, a colored Democrat,
has a published list of appointments in
the Macon Telegraph and Messenger, He
proposes showing his race what fools
the Radicals have been making of
them.
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee for the 7th Congressional District,
met at Kingston, last Monday and per
manently organized by electing Col.
Thomas R. Jones, of Whitfield, Chair
man, and W. P. McClatchy, of Cobb,
Secretary.
We heard a Feltonite say the other form thosefabuaes.
day that: “There was no difference the Democracy of New Jersey con
, . t> n- , ., r, tribute toward the change, so such needed
between the Republicans and the Dem- l nd go much desired, by electing the
ocrate. That the Republicans were ticket this day to be nominated by this
just as good friends to the South as the convention, composed of men who will
Democrats were.” To show this man cast tho vote of the State for those true
how much he is mistaken,we will quote reformers, Tilden and Hendricks,
from a recent speech of one of the Re- The prospect of tne public obtain-
publican orators, Senator John Patter- ing much advantage from the gifts of
He said • Mr James Lick are not considered very
“The Northern people are the masters encouraging at San Francisco The
of the .Southern people I thought the of that city, whichi calls Mr,
armies of the Union had taught them ^ a “pinchbeck Peabody,” says:
that once before. I thought that the I ho fact has slowly but thorughly de-
North had taught die Southern people that ve l°P ed that the Lick fund is
they were masters once before. If they but . the vehiclethrough whioh the va-
haven’t learnt it they "will know all I K aries of a childish and pentulant old
about it before this election is over.” f? an ™ e t° periodically afflict the pub-
— , .. .... I lie. Tho upshot of the whole busi-
Now we ask our friend if ho ever nega doubtless be a large crop of
heard of a Democrat making use of lawsuits after Mr. Lick’s death, and
such incendiary language. the usual division of his property
among heirs and their lawyers.
GEN. BRAXTON iiRAGG, I A New York letter of Friday says:
The announcement of the death of this
, , , . . , , I there was quite a contest between the
truly good and great man will bo read i expor t erg and the Germans, which led
with sincere regret by thousands of old the heavy business at the full prices of
soldiers whom he, under the most trying last evening. The Germans are moBtly
disadvantages lead so often to the field of ranged ou the bull side of the market,
tikes about a week to get at the actual
registration of admissions, but the at
tendance is now very heavy indeed
and will be so for some weeeks. An
attendance of 35,000 made many inter
esting exhibits almost inaccessible, and
100,000 must proportionately magnify
the difficulty of seeing with advantage
The railroad travel is grater than at
any previous period, of course, but is,
on the whole, superbly managed. On
the 5th, the Pennsylvania road carried
over 30,000 passangers to Philadelphia
and the daily travel both ways has
averaged at that figur for some time,
For thirty to forty trains of about ten
cars each are dispatch daily over the
road from Jersey City to Philadelphia.
The 7.30 A. M. train is often composed
of fifty cars, and run in five, sections,
filling up^nd starting successively anc
running at proper intervals. During
August 1,140,000 passengers were carri
ed, and not one has been injured since
May 10. On the whole, this is a very
satisfactorv exhibit to the foreign and
home public.
AdvertisinoMajok-Genekals.—The
last ridicuous pretense set up by the
Republican press to shield their party
against the wrath to come, is the asser
tion that “the leading generals of the
Union” are all on the side of Grantism,
And this while Custer still lies una
venged in tho premature grave to which
Grantism sent him ! The truth is the
gaeat majority of the fighting generals
were and are Democrats, while the
great majority of the Republican gene
rals belong to the same category with a
certain major-general who was captu
red early in tho war, together with
thirty mules. When the news was
brought to Mr. Lincoln he looked much
do pressed for a moment, and then said
to lose thirty mules just now is a very
serious matter. As for the major-gene
ral, I can make as many more of the
same some sort as I like without any
trouble. But I am distressed about
the mules.
cat officials and bankrupts honest u
Wo demand that all custom ho,i^ . chaots -1
shnll be on’y for revenue. taxation I
Reform is necessnry in the scoU r
expense, Federal. State and muniL° f | P “’ )lic l
Federal taxation has swollen from *60 orn on“ r
gold in 1860 to *460,000,000 curr^M 0 1
18|0, and onr aggregate taxation iv n . c - v >n I
000,0,0 gold in 1 >60 to $730,000 OfloT * l5 |, ‘ I
m 1870, or in ono decade from less o'"’ 1 ’ 6 !! 6 -'' I
dollars per head to more than cido!
per head. Sinoo the restoration or d ° lar9 1
people have paid in taxes more - he I
the sum of the national debt, and m!. n lce
profligata JiTrf'JJfcUoCdVa^ 1 ^ 1 !'
diversion from actual settlers by the nsr S?
power, which has squandered two ‘1
millions o( acres upon railrom ! »i„L tei A
out of more than tArice that 4“^'
our treaties and our diplomacy whlrf h °
stripped our fellow-oiti.ens of foreign Urlh
and kindred race, rccrossine the AHn!,-
tho shield of American citizenshin tn ° f
exposed our brethren of the Pacffic c L‘t t!
the incursions of a race not sprungVom the
same great parent stock, and, in fact now h, i
law domed o.tizensbip, though naturaWo!
is being neither accommodated to the tl'
lions of a progressive civilization nor ex? '
eised m liberty under equal laws, We i
nounce the policy which thus discard, tU
liberty-loving German and tolerates !!,»
revival of the Coolie trade in Mongo’ia!
women, imported for immoral purposes mi
Mongolian men held to perform BeFvfleiabor
contracts, and demand such modification ol I
tho treaty with tho Chinese empire, -r such
legislation within constitutional limitation a.
shall prevent the further importation tj
migration of tho Mongolian race. .
Reform is necessary and can never be i
effected but by making it the controlling issue
of the elections and lifting it above the two
false issues with which the office holdinz
class and the party in power seek to smother
‘t—R’-e f alse issue with whioh they would
refer to its bills, some of which may enkindle sectarian Btrifo in respect to the
‘ Public schools, of which the establishment
and support belong exclusively to the several
.States, and which tho Democratic party has
cherished from their foundation, and is re
solved to maintain, without partiality or
prcteronco for any class, scot ot creed, and
without contributing from the Treasury to
any, and the fnlso issue by which they s'tek
to light anow tho dying embers ot sectional
hate between kindred peoples, once unnat
urally estranged, but now re united in oni
indivisible republic and a oomrnon destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil service.
Experience proves that the efficient ccoaiim. I
ical conduct ot the Governmental business is I
not possible if its civil service be subject to I
change at every oleotion; be a prize fought I
for at the ballot- box j be a brief reward ol I
party feal, instead of posts of honor assigned j
for proved competency, and held for fidelity |
in tho public employ; that tho dispensing of I
pntrouago should neithor he a tax upon the |
time of all our public men, nor the instru-1
ment ot thoir ambition. Here again the I
professions falsified in the performance attest I
that tho party in power can work out no I
practical or salutary reform.
Ketorm is nenessary even moro in the [
higher grades of public service. The Pres-1
ident, Vico-President, Judgos, Senators, Hep-1
resentatives, Cabinet officers—these and all J
otheii in authority nrc the people’s servants; I
their offices are not a private perquisite, they I
are a public trust. Whon the annals of this I
Republic show tho disgrace and censure of > ]
Vice President, a Into Speaker of the House I
of Representatives marketing his rulings as I
a presiding officer, three Sonators profiting!
secretly by their votes as law-makers, five |
chairmen of the loading committees of the I
late House of Representatives exposed in |
jobbery, n lato Scoretnry of tho Treasury I
forcing balances in the public accounts, a late I
Attorney-General misappropriating public j
funds, a Secretary of tne Navy enriched or I
onriching. friends by per centago levied ol I
the profits of contractors with his depart-1
mont, an Ambassador to England censured I
in a dishonorable speculation, the President's I
privuto seeretnry barely escaping conviction
upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon tho revenue, a Secretary ol War im
peached for high orimes nnd confessed mis
demeanors. the demonstration is complete
that tho first step in reform must be the
people’s choice of honest men from another
party, lest tho disease of one political organ
ization infest tho body politic, and lest by
making no obango of men or party we: can
get no change of measures and no reform
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product of sixteen yenrs’ ascendancy of the
Republican party, create a necessity tot
reform admitted by the Republicans them
selves ; but their relormcrs nro voted down
in convention and displaced from the Cabinet.
The party’s mass of honest voter’s is po*er-
less to resist eighty thousand office-holders,
its leaders and guides. Reform can only
had by a peaceful civil revolution,
demand a change ot system, a oWP J
administration, a change of parties, that
may have a change of measures nnd ol 111
Health of Charleston,
No official report concerning the few
cases of yellow fever with which Char
leston has been plagued will be pub
lished until Wednesday, but diligent
inquiry warrants the positive statement
that there have been no new cases dur
ing the past two days, and that the
whole number ot deaths from fever is
only four or five. The fever is appar-
combat and to glorious victory. He died
very suddenly last Wednesday in the
streets of Galveston, which city he was
visiting on professional business. One
by one the South yields up her heroes,
but their names will never die in the mem
ories of a grateful people.
and they were aided to-day by a better
feeling in arrivals (say l-32d) at Liver
pool. November and December deliv
eries of uplands are now about Gd.”
That was a neat satire of Rabelais,
on ostentatious charity: “ I owe much ;
I have nothin; I give the rest to the
poor,”
remain unpaid, but to its building,
which has taken un odd notion to dig
its own foundation a little deeper.
National Democratic Platform.
We, the delegates of the Democratic party
of the United States, in National Convention
assembled, do hereby declare the ndministra
t,ion of the I-’edoral Government in urgonS
need of immediate roforin, and do hereby
enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention,
nnd of the Democratic party in each State, a
teulous effort and co-operation to this end,
and do hereby appeal to our fellow-citizens of
every former political connection to under
take with us this first and must pressing
patriotic duty.
For tho Democracy of tha whole country
we do hereby re-affirm our faith in tho per
manency of the Federal Union, nnd our dovo-
tion to tho Constitution of the United States,
with its amendments universally accepted as
a final settlement of tho controversies thnt
engendered the civil war, and do here rceoi-u
our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of
Republican self-government; in a resolute
acquiescence in the will of tho majoiity, tho
vital principle of republics; fo the supremacy
of the civil over the military authority; in
the total separation of tho church and State
for the sake alike of civil and religious free
dom ; in the equnlity of all citizens before
the just laws of their own cnuctmcnt; in the
liberty of individual conduct, unvexed by
sumptuary laws; in the faithful education of
the rising generation, that they may preserve,
enjoy and trnnsnvt thc;o best conditions oi
human happinrss and hope, wo behold the
nob est products of n hundred years of
changeful history. But while upholding tho
bend of our Union and tho great charter of
these, our rights, it behooves a freo people to
practice also that eternal vigilanoe which is
the price of liberty.
Reform is nooessaty to rebuild and estab
lish in the hearts of tho wholo pedple the
Union, eleven years ago happily rescued Irom
tho danger of a secession of States, but now
to be saved from a corrupt centralism which,
after inflicting upon tea States the rapacity
of curpot-bug tyrannies, has honey-combed
the officers ol the Federal Government itself
with incapacity, waste and fraud; Infected
States and municipalities with tho contagion
of misrule, and looked fast the prosperity of
an industrious people in the paralysis of
hard times.
Reform is nocossory to establish a sound
currency, restore the public credit, nnd main
tain tho national honor. We denounce the
failure for all theso eleven yenrs to make
good the promise of the legal tender notes,
which are n changing standard of value in
the hands of the people, nnd the non-payment
of which is a disregard of tho plighted faith
of tho nation. Wo denounce the improvi
dence which in eleven years of pence has
taken from the peoplo in Fede.al taxes
thirteen times tho whole amount of the legal-
tender notes, nnd squandered four times this
sum in useless expense, without aoenmulatiog
any reserve for their redemption. We de
nounce the financial imbecility and immoral
ity of that party which, during oleven years
of ponce, lias made no advance towards re
sumption,nnd no preparation for resumption,
hut instead has obstructed resumption by-
wasting our resources nnd exhausting all our
surplus income, and whilo annually profess
ing to intend a speedy return to spocio pay
ments, has annually enneted fresh hindrances
theretu. As such a hindrance we denounce
tho resumption claused tho act of 1875, and
yve here demand its repeal. We demand a
judicious system of preparation by public
economies, by official retrenchments, nnd by
wise financial management, which shall en-
ablo the nation soon to assure the whole
world of its perfect ability and its perfect
readiness to meet any of its promises at the
call of the creditor entitled to payment. We
beliovc Hueh a system, well devised, and
above all entrusted to competent hands for
execution, creating at no time an artificial
scarcity of currency, nnd at no time ala'ming
the public mind into a withdrawal of that
vastor machinery of credit by which 1)5 per
linnt nil l.....tnA..n .l! . -
rently. at a dead halt, and the belief cent, of all business transactions arc per
that it will not spread grows hourly formed, a system open, public, uud inspiring
stronger. It is capable of proof, we be- general confidence, would, from the day of
lieve, that the cases already reported 1
were not strictly speaking of local ori
gin, and the weather is such that we
see no present cause for anxiety.—
News and Courier.
its adoption, bring healing on its wings to
all our harassed industries nnd set in motion
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has adopted the twenty-word
rate for night messages between the
principal cities in the New England,
Middle and Western States. This
means that for tho half rate heretofore
charged for night messages of ten words
between these points, a twenty word
message may be sent.
Tho southward migration of the reed
birds and sora was observed at Rich
mond, Va., late one night last week. A
great many; unable to continue their
flight on account of being so fat, ali
ghted on houses, fenced and streets
lamps in the city, and many were cap
tured.
the wheels of commerce, manufactures and
tho mechanical arts, restore employment to
labor and renew ir; all its national sources
tho prosperity of the peoplo
Roform is necessary in tho sum and mode
of Federal taxation, to the end that capital
may bo set free from distrust and labor light
ly turdeno-1. Wo denounce tho present
tnrifl, levied upon nearly four thousand arti
cles, us a nisstcrpieco of injustice, inequality
and false pretenso. It yields a dwindling,
not a yeurly-rising, revenue; it hns impover
ished many industries to subsidize a few; it
prohibits imports that might purchase tho
products of American labor; it has degraded
American commerce from the first to an infe
rior rank upon the high seas; it has cut down
tho sales of American manufactures at home
and abroad, nnd depleted the returns ol
American agriculture, an industry followed
by half of our people; it costB the people
five timea moro than it produces to the Treas
ury, obstructs tho processes of production
and wastes the fruits of labor; it promotes
fraud and fosters smuggling, enriches dislion
New Advertisements.
.Dissolution.
T ANGLEY A HART, MANUFACTURERS
Li of Boots aud Shoes, h»v. by mutue
this <i»y dissolved tho.'r partnership- a - r .
indebted will pey to either one oH“* “ (h(
signed until further notice. Tho ' JU,II1 “ . y 0 ,
future will be oonducted at their old ,l ' j
110 Broad elreot, Rome, Goorgi*. by •
Lasoi.Xt.
Thi. Beptemb r 28, WIL^ } uNG1I y,
se P 3Q,tw2Vr EDWARD HART^-
SEED WHEAT!
SEED OATS!
WK HAVE IN STORE AND FOR SA I,E
Prime Walker Seed Wheat,
FULTZ’S TENNESSEE SEED WHEAT,
-ALSO-
Rust-Proof and Grazing oal '
In Quantities to Suit PurchasA*!-
BERRYS & CO.
■ep21,tw-wlm '
EDUCATIONAL.
MBS. R H. BEEVES W^ 1 ,,
God permit, reeume the it „,
her School on * * jj 0 d D 1 '
and olose it on Friday,
cembor. _
Tuition per Scholar, F p . (in
P. S.—A limited number of J"P*“ blie ich«l
be received for three month! a» F
“ e An‘p"-ronag. w.U be highly .prr«'* aJ _
July 25, lS78.- 27.tw2m -r~-
WILL GO o1S ‘’
TT AVING DETERMINEDI M J® to our
rl the Dry Goodn bull non, weann on tha
friends that we will «P«. d “( in 0 * f Dry
largo and well aizorted , (4 Clotted 1
Notion!, Boot, and Shoe., U»
which will be mid at bottom I 1. W|
Baviog socured the ■• p ' , l ‘'',ee°hii M* 8 * 1 ’ *'
piston, he will be plea«ed to «ce “i (h
•how them wh.tbar^ain. {> be t cen 4 g HltI)YS B.
September 4,1878.