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Something from nothing you _ can’t,
but refrom from Tilden is possible.—
Hayes is an unsubstantial vapor, but
Tilden is the embodiment of reform.
New York Tribune: None of the
congratulations upon our hundredth
birthday will be received, it is safe to say,
with more warmth of welcome than those
which Mr. O’Connor Power brings us
from the Irish people. The address,
which is to be presented to President
Grant in a day or two, gives an interest
ing review of the relations of the two
counties.
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, said truly, to a
reporter who interviewed him the other
day : “ If there is another attempt to se
cession in this country, it will be on the
North, and it will be made by a lot of
Republican mischief-makers, who, for the
party’s interest, will seek to keep alive
all the bitter prejudices of the war, and
steadfastly labor to estrange us from the
people of the South.”
Gov. Hendricks has taken the trouble
to deny the silly slander about his rela
tions with President Lincoln. So far from
being on bad terms, their final parting,
about a month previous to the assassina
tion of Lincoln, was most cordial, and
tho President indicated pretty plainly the
policy which he intended to pursue after
the war, by the remark that he “ hoped
soon to have a general jubilee.”
In a village not a hundred miles
from Cork a medical gentleman was
disturbed by repeated tappings at his
door, and, on getting up, found a la
boring man siolisting his immediate at
tendance for his wife. “Have you
been long here ?” asked the doctor. In-
dade I have,” answered Pat. “But why
diden’tyou ring the nigh bell ?” “Och,
because I was afraid of disturbing your
honor.”
Col. Jussen, brother-in-law of Mr.
Schurz, who has been canvassing Ohio
and Indiana for three weeks, returned to
his home, in Chicago, a couple of days
since, and was complimented with a sere
nade by his friends. In his speech he
declared that Indiana “ would give a
Democratic majority of 15,(XX) over and
above the 8,000 negro voteB which the Re
publicans had colonized in that State.
He was also sure that Ohio would give a
substantial majority to tho Democratic
ticket.
The new Sultan is thus described by a
correspondent of tho London Times:
“ A long, narrow heud, a stern, resolute
expression, indicative of energy, of intel
ligence, an earnest and not very placable
disposition. It seemed to me the coun
tenance of a ruler capable of much good
or evil, knowing hi3 own mind and de
termined to have his own will. Then
thete was an air befitting a high-bred
man conscious of himself Dent on exact
ing his due.
Tho three captors of Maj Andre have
now been honored with monuments. A
marble cenotaph covers John Paulding’s
grave in a church-yard at Peekskill, a
plain monument of marble Isaac Van
Wert’s grave at Greenburgh. and a costly
monument above the grave of David
Williams at Schohaire was unveiled, as
already stated in the IVibune, at that
place on Saturday last. Near the grave
of Williams, is the old fort, still perfect,
constructed in 1762 and taken by the In
dians during the Revolution.
The lead product and consumption of
this country are both rapidly increasing,
while imports are decreasing. In 1866 the
product was 14,342 tons; in 1875, 63,-
000; with imports in 1866 of 27,200 tons;
in 1875,11,000. The annual consump
tion of the United States is about 60,000
tons, from which it appears that a slight
increase of production would give a surplus
for exportation. Spain and Great Brit-
are the only countries which yield more
lead than the United States, their product
being G7,0Q0aud 68,000 tons' respectively
The New York Express says: If we
recall Massachusetts in the embargo of
1807, and Massachusetts in communi
cation with Canada to dissolve the
Union, and Massachusetts, led by John
Quincy, in Congress, declaring that his
State would go out of the Union “peace
ably if she could, and forcibly if she
must,” or Massachusetts at the Hartford
convention in the war of 1812, or the
later cry all over New England of “ no
Union with slaveholders, we shall see
just where secession commenced, and
who led the way.
The estimates made by the Repub
lican heads of departments for the cur
rent year amount to 8203,099,025. The
Democratic House allowed them only
8138,752,340, but the Senate increased
it to 8158,260,598. This sum was re
duced by the House to 8147,719,074,
which was the amount of the a]
priations actually made. The House
thus reduced the appropriations 829,
994,253 below those of last year, and
855,379,951 below the estimates for
this year. The reduction would have
been 810,000,000 greater if it had not
been for the obstancy of a factios Sen
ate.
Talking of millionaires, another New
York celebrity in that way. A. T. Stew
art, made a very lucky haul shortly be
fore his death. Ho was, in fact, on his
death-bed and was consnsulted by the
Mr. Dale, of the Dale Silk Manufactur
ing Company, about the purchase of raw
silk, which was then at a low price, but
which there was reason to think would
shortly rise. Stewart and his firm in
vested 81,000,000 at 83.25 per pound.
In the course of a few weeks the price of
silk exactly doubled. In this matter they
had a competitor in London who was
equally fortunate. The house in question
sent out orders to its agents in China to
buy aud buy, until they become astonish
ed and alarmed, and wired back to know
if the instructions were to be carried out.
They were confirmed ; and the result was
that the firm had netted £200,000 before
they had paid a penny. A London
financier is said to have made 8140,000
by taking advantage of an early intima
tion that the United States Secretary of
tho Treasury would issue 41 per cent
bonds.
National Democratic Platform.
We, the delegates of the Democratic party
of the United States, in National Convention
assembled, do hereby declare the admiuistra
tion of tho Federal (Government in urgent
need of immediate reform, and do hereby
enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention,
and of the Democratic party in each State, a
lentous effort and co-operation to this end,
and do hereby appenl to our fellow-citizens of
every former political connection to under
take with us this first and most pressing
patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of tho whole country
we do hereby ro-nffirm our faith in tho per
manency of the Federal Union, and our devo
tion to the Constitution of the United States,
with its amendments universally accepted as
a final settlement of the controversies that
ongendored the civil war, and do here record
our steadfast confidence in tho perpetuity of
Uopublican self-government; in a resolute
acquiescence in tho will of tho majority, the
vital principle of republics; in tho supremacy
of the civil over the military authority; in
tho total separation of the church and State
for the sake alike of civil and religious free
dom ; in the equality of all citizens before
the just laws of their own enactment; in the
liberty of individual conduct, unvexed by
sumptuary laws; in tho faithful education o’f
the rising generation, that they may preserve,
enjoy and transmit theso best conditions of
human happiness and hope, wo behold the
noblest products of a hundred years of
changeful history. But while upholding the
bond of our Union and tho great charter of
these, our rights, it bohooves a free pooplo to
practice also that eternal vigilance which is
the price of liborty.
Reform is necessary to rebuild and estab
lish in the hoarts of tho whole pooplo tho
Union, eleven years ago happily rescued lrom
the danger of a secession of States, but now
to bo saved from a corrupt centralism which,
after inflicting upon ten States tho rapacity
of carpot-bag tyrannies, has lioney-cumbed
tho officers o! tho Federal Government itself
with incapacity, wasto and fraud; infected
States and municipalities with the contagion
of misrule, and locked fast tho prosperity of
an industrious peoplo in the paralysis of
hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish a sound
currency, restore the public credit, and main
tain tho national honor. Wo denounce the
failure for all theso eleven years to make
good tho promise of the legal-tender notes,
which arc a changing standard of value in
the hands of the people, and the non-payment
of which is a disregard of the plighted faith
of the nation. We denounce the improvi
dence which in eleven years of peaco has
taken from the people in Federal taxes
thirteen times the whole amount ot the legal-
tendor notes, and squandered four times tiis
sum in useless expense, without accnmulating
any resorve for their redemption. Wo de
nounce tho financial imbecility and immoral
ity of that party which, during eleven years
of ponce, has made no advance towards re
sumption, and no preparation for resumption,
but instead has obstructed resumption by
wasting our resources and exhausting all our
surplus income, and while nnnunlly profess
ing to intend a speedy return to specie pay
ments, has annually enacted fresh hiudrances
thereto. As such a hindrance wo denounce
the resumption clausoof the act. of 1875, and
we here demand its repeal. Wo demand a
judicious syBtem of preparation by public
economics, by official retrenchments, and by
wiso financial management, which shall en
able tho nation soon to assuro the whole
world of its perfect ability and its perfect
readincBB to meet any of its promises at the
oall of tho creditor entitled to payment. We
believo such a svstem, well devised, und
above all entrusted to competent hands for
execution, creating at no time an artificial
scarcity of currency, and at no time ala-ming
tho public mind into a withdrawal of that
vastor machinery of credit by which i5 per
cent, of all business transactions are per
formed, a system open, public, and inspiring
;eneral confidence, would, from the day of
ts adoption, bring healing on its wings to
all our harassed industries and set in motion
the wheels of commerce, manufactures and
the mechanical arts, restore employment to
labor and renew in nil its national sources
the prosperity of the peoplo
Reform is necessary in tho sum and mode
of Federal tuxation, to the end that capital
may be set freo from distrust and labor light
ly burdened. We denounce tho present
larifl, levied upon nearly four thousand arti
cles, as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality
and false protenso. It yields a dwindling,
not a yearly-rising, revenue; it has impover
ished many industries to subsidize a few; it
prohibits imports that might purchase the
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
the sales of American manufactures at home
and abroad, and depleted the returns ot
American agriculture, an industry followed
by half of our people; it costs the people
five times moro than it produces to the Trctis
ury, obstructs the processes of production
and wastes the fruits of labor ; it promotes
fraud and fosters smuggling, enriches dishon
est officials and bankrupts honest merchants.
Wo demand that all custom-house taxation
shall be on’y for revenue,
Reform is necessary in tho soalo of public
expense, Foderal, State and municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swollen from 860,000,600
gold in 1860 to 8450,000,000 currency in
1870, nnd our aggregate taxation from $154,-
000,000 gold in 1860 to 8730,000,000 currency
in 1870, or in one decade from less than five
dollars per head to more than oighteen dollars
per head. Since the restoration of peace, the
people have paid in taxes more than thrice
the sum of tho national debt, and moro than
twice that sum for the Federal Government
alone. Wo demand a rigorous frugality in
every department, nnd from every officer of
the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to the
preference for any class, sect ot erced, and
without contributing from the Treasury to
any, and the false issue by which they seek
to Tight anew the dying embers of seotionnl
hate between kindred peoples, once unnat
urally estranged, but now re united in one
indivisible republic and a common destiny.
Reform is necessary in the civil servico.
Experience proves that the efficient econom
ical conduct ot the Governmental business is
not possible if its civil service be subject to
change at evory election; be a prize fought
for at the ballot-box; be a brief reward of
>arty zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned
or proved competency, and held for fidelity
in the public employ; that the dispensing of
patronage should neither be a tax upon the
time of all our public men, nor the instru
ment ot their ambition. Here again the
professions falsified in the performance attest
that tho party in power can work out no
practical or Bufutary reform.
Relorm is necessary even moro in the
higher grades of publio servico. Tho Pres
ident, Vice-President, Judges, Senators, Rep
resentatives, Cabinet officers—these nod all
others in authority are the people’s servants;
their offices are not a privato perquisite, they
are a public trust. When the annals of this
Republic show the disgrace and censure of a
Vico President, a late Speakor of the Uouso
of Representatives marketing his rulings as
a presiding officer, tbreo Senators profiting
secretly by their votes as law-makors, five
chairmen of tho leading committees of the
late House of Representatives exposed in
jobbery, a late 8eorotnry of the Treasury
forcing balances in the public accounts, a late
Attornoy-Goneral misappropriating publio
funds, a Secretary of the Navy enriched or
enriching friends by per centago levied off
the profits of contractors with his depart
ment, an Ambassador to England censured
in a dishonorable speculation, the President’s
private secretary barely escaping conviction
upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the rovenue, a Secretary ot War im-
S cached for high crimes and confessed mis-
cmeanors, the demonstration is complete
that the first step in reform must be the
poople’s choice of honest men from another
party, lest the disease of one political organ-
zation infest tho body politic, and lest by
ranking no change of men or party we can
get no change of measures and no roform.
All theso abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
product of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the
Republican party, create a necessity for
reform admitted by the Republicans them
selves; but their reformers are voted down
in convention and displaced from the Cabinet.
The party’s mass of honest voter’s is power
less to resist eighty thousand office-holders,
its leaders and guides. Reform can only be
had by a peaceful civil revolution. ..We
demnnd a change ot system, a change of
administration, a change of parties, that we
may have a change of measures and of men.
LEGAL BLANKS! TURNER & BRAUMULLER,
“Old” Southern Music House:
EVERY DESCRIPTION
For Salo
AT THE OFFICE OF
The Rome Courier.
T O THE LEGAL PROFESSION, MAG IB-
TRATE8, Ordinarios end Officers of Court,
Ta« Rous Cooann offers a full line of Legs!
Blinks, consisting of—
Affidavits to Foreclose Factors’ Lions,
Dseds in Foe Simple,
Bonds for Titles,
Mortgage,,
Affidavits and Wan ants,
Poses Warrants,
Commitments,
Bonds to Prosecute,
Scaroh Warrants,
indictments,
Bench Warrants,
Magistrates’ Summons, Fi Fas,
Appeal Bonds,
Garnishment Affidavits and Bonds,
Summons of Garnishment,
Attachments
Attachments under the Law of 1871,
Possessory Warrsni
Distress Warrants,
Affidavits to Foreclose Mechanics'
nnd Laborers' Lien,
Declarations on Notes and Acoounts,
Assumpsit (common law form)
Subpanas,
Commissions for Interrogatories
Jury Summons,
Claim Bonds,.
Roplevv Bonds,
Marriage Licenses
Letters Testamentary,
Temporary Letters ol Administration
and Bond,
Letters of Administration Do Bonis Non
and Bond.
Warrants of Appraisement
Letters of Dismission,
Letters of Guardianship and Bond
All orders will neeivs prompt attention.
M. DWINELL, Proprietor.
Postponed Executor’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
I N ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDER FROM
tho honorable Ordinary of Floyd county,
will bo cold, within the logoi hours of sale, before
tho Court House door in Rome, on tho
First Tuesday in November, 1876,
the following described property, viz.:
One lot of land, number 188, in tho 18th dis
trict and 4th section, being 160 acres, more or
less. Also, 40 acres, more or less, being parti ot
lots numbers 180 and 164, lying on the Coosa
river on north side. Those lots all lie adjoining
and oontaln 200 acres, moro or lees, and are
known as the Shadrick Green plaoo.
Also, it the came time and plsce, one yoke of
oxen and a surveyor's compass rnd chain.
All sold as the property belonging to tho estate
of Shadrick Green, late ol said county, deceased.
Sold for tho benefit of tho boirs and creditors.
Terms cash.
JOHN P. GOULD, Executor
sop28,wlm
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
B y virtue of an order *of the
Court ol Ordinary of Floyd county, I will
sell, to the highest bidder, at publio sale, on tho
First Tuesday in November, 1876,
Lot of land number 8, in tho 4th distriotand 4th
•eclion of laid county, nil tho real estate belong
ing to tho estate of Henry Hicks, decened.
Terms cash. October 2,1870.
ELI HARDIN, Administrator.
ocl3,lm
• Sole Agents for the World Renowned
STEINWAY AND OTHER PIANOS,
AND
TAYLOR & FARLEY ORGANS.
Reliable Agents Wanted in Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, North and South
Carolina and East Tennessee.
ALSO PUBLISHERS OP AND DEALERS IN
Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise.
30 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
novlT.twly
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
A LL PER80NS HATING DEMANDS against
George W. Hanson, deceased, late of said
county, are hereby notified and required to
present them, properly attested, to tho under
signed within the time prescribed by law, and
all parsons indebted to slid deceased are hereby
required to make immediate payment to the
undersigned. This Sept. 26,1876.
aep28,lm JESSE O. HANSON. Adm’r.
Leave to Soli.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
T his ib to notify all persons con
CERNED that I shall apply to the Ordinary
of said oounty, on tho first Monday in November
next (1876), for leave to sell a portion of the
real citato of J. F. Muon, deeeued.
September 28, 1876.
JOHN MASON, Administrator.
colS.lm
profligate wasto of public lands aud thoir
diversion from actual settlers by the party in
power, which hns squandered two hundred
millions of acres upon railroads alone, and
out of more than thrico that aggregate has
disposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers
of tho soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress and tho errors of
our treaties and our diplomacy which have
stripped our follow-citizens of foreign birth
and kindred race, recrossing the Atlantic, of
the shield of American citizenship, anp have
exposed our brethren of the Pacific coast to
the incursions of a race not sprung from the
Ramo great pnront stock, and, in fact, now by
law denied citizenship, though naturalization
is being neither accommodated to the tradi
tions of a progressive civilization nor cxer
oised in liberty under equal laws. Wo de
nounce the policy which thus discards the
liberty-loving German and tolerates tbe
revival of llie Coolie trade in Mongolian
women, imported for immoral purposes, and
Mongolian men, held to perform servile labor
contracls, and demand such modification of
the treaty with the Chinese empire, cr such
legislation within constitutional limitation, as
shall prevent the further importation or im
migration of the Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary and can nevor bo
effected but by making it tlie controlling issue
of tho elections and lifting it above tbo two
false issues with which tbe office-holding
class nnd the party in power seek to smother
it—tho false issuo with which they would
enkindle sectarian strife in respeot to the
publio schools, of which the establishment
and support belong exclusively to tbo several
States, and which the Democratic party has
cherished from their foundation, and is re
solved to maintain, without partiality or
THE) GKR A.1STGKEHS*
Life and Health Insurance Co.
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Authorized Capital, - - ■ $4,500,000.
BACH STATE IS A HOME COMPANY, AND RETAINS NINET ( PER CENT. OF ITS
CAPITA!. STOCK AND ITS ENTIRE RESERVE FOR LOAN AND INVESTMENT.
PARENT OFFICE,
MOBILE, ALA.
Cash and Bonds, -
McWilliams & co.
EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE.
To the Trade of North Georgia and Alabama.
Having closed out oar Retail Stock to tho young and enterprising firm of Knox A Parks, in or
der to devote ourselves exclusively to the
JOBBING BUSINESS,
We take pleasure in announcing the loot, and cordially invito tho Itrado to amtnatio!
our
Immense Fall and Winter Stock
Before making purckaiea for the season. Our faoilitiei ere ample for aapplring the merchant*
of this district on ai favorable terms au any Jobbing Home in the United States, and it is our do
termination to make
PRICES AS LOW A.S NEW YORK
Or any other Market. It has been with some roluctanco that out of deference to those who have
patronised us liberally in our jobbing department, we gave up a Urge nnd profitable rtUll busi
ness, and we hope to enjoy the same liberal patronage from old customers, as well as to make
many new ones by the change.
The above, together with the rapid increase of business in our wholesale department tarnish
our reasons for this change, and w# earnestly solicit of every dealer in this section a fair test as
to what we claim.
DEPARTMENT NTO. 1.
PRINTS, BLEACHED AND BROWN COTTONS, SHEETING, SHIRTINGS, OSNABERGS,
PLAIDS, STRIPES, TICKS, DRILLS, YARNS, ETC.
DEPARTMENT NO- 2.
JEANS, CAS3IMER8, REPELLENTS, WOSTED3, LINSEYS, FLANNELS, DRESS GOODS,
SHAWLS, FELT SKIRTS,TWEEDS, UNDER WEAR, BLANKETS, ETC.
DEPARTMENT ISTO- 3-
WHITE GOODS, LINENS, H03IERY, GLOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, TOWELS AND NO
TIONS OF EVERY KIND.
DEPARTMENT NO 4.
CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HAT3, CAPB.TRUNK8, VALICES, SATCHELS, ETC.
DEPARTMENT NO- 5-
CARPETS, MATTINGS, RUGS, OIL CLOTHS, DAMASKS, MIRRORS, ETC.
We offer o good stock to .elect from in a home market, obviating the necsisity of bnying largely
at a time and having the goods decline an their bands, as ha. too often been tbe experience of most
at lowest pricer* P rote<!to<1 b T lh# manufacturers and oan at all times supply the trade with good.
Gratefully appreciating the.Iiberal patronage which has been accorded to us in the poat. we
hereby extend a cordial inviUtlon to all dealer, to call and see for themselve. V
Very truly, etc. )
sep-tw-wim. w. T. McWTLUAMS & CO.
- - $200,000.
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT,
1108112, GA.
Loans and Cash, - '• - - 100,000.
Board of Directors Georgia Dept.—A. P.
Mil pood, C. Howell, Alfred Shorter, A. B.
Jones, Hon. D F. Hammond, D. B. Ham
ilton, Cain Glover, T. McGuire, F. 'Woodruff,
J. L. Camp, G. G. Samuel, M. II. Bunn,
Hon. 7f, M. Hutchiuge.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT,
MONTGOMERY. ALA,
Loans and Cash,
F. E. Davidson, President.
M. G. Hudson, Vice President.
R. W. Fort, Secretary.
C. G. Samuel, President.
Alfred Shorter, Viee Preilusnt,
R. J. Gwaltnay, Sec, and Tress:
G. W. Holmes, Msd. Ex
O,-Rowell, Attorney.
J. R. McIntosh, President.
J W. Beck, General Agent.
W. C. DUNCAN, Secretary.
- - - 100,000.
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
OKALONA, MISS.
Loans and Cash, 100,000.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBIA. 8. C.
Loans and Cash, 100,000.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT,
AUSTIN, TEX.
Loans and Cash, 100,000.
Total Assets, $700,000.
The great popular feature of this growing Company in that each State Department is In Itvtb
and fact a Heme Company, and loans its entire reserve at home, at a low rate ol interer*.
undoubted real estate security. The Pareut Office receives tha death loss and pays the deatn w* •
ALL FORMS OF ENDOWMENT AND ACCIDENT POLICIES ISSUED.
Good Agents wanted to canvass daring the noxt six months.
Address C. G. SAMUEL. President,
R. Ji. GWALTNKY, SecreUnr,
cngl2,odougl9,tw-wly ROME, 0.4.
Hon. N. N. Clement,, President.
Hon. David A.C opton, Vico-Prei
W. L. Chambers, Bee. and Trail.
Thos. B. JJor, President.
Thomas A. MoCreery, Vies-Pres-
H P. Green, Secretary.
Hagood A Treutlen, Gan. Ajselt-
Geo. B. Zlmpleman, President
Hon. N. G. fhelley, Vice-Prei-
A. J. Jaralgan, Secretary.
R. A. Blandfurd, General Agent-
J. & S. BONES & CO.,
I N WITHDRAWING THEIR ANNOUNCEMENT OF SORGHUM MACHINERY, BEG TO
thank tbe public for a largo patronage in these articles, and now call attention to
TOWERS’ PATENT CHANGEABLE PLOW,
Which we place before our Farmer friends with great confidence. It ha* been thor f. J 0 f »n
and i* groatly admired by a’l. As the name indicates, it i* arranged to carry wjufoot
ordinary Plow ihare on the same foot, The share can be drawn down until worn out*
it wrought, and will not break.
Ready-]VIa,cLe Flows)
gif ftd ft
Scooters, Turn Shovols. f Iralght Shovels, 8olid Bwsops, aod Wing Swoops, of common irom yd 0 I
iron and steel, bettor and cheaper than you oan have thorn made. Call or write ter a
Towers’ Changeable and theso Plows. It will pay you io buy thorn. ..
We pun-i plow iron and cut to any length without charge. . j gtael °* **
Avery'* Plows, Iron-beam Plows and Bradley’s Plows at makers’ prices, iron »“ ,
hinds and shapes, and everything else in the Hardware line* Prices are Down I u
juu2#,tw-wCm
J. & S. BONES & COs. CA .
90 aud 33 BROAD STREET, R OM ’