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jticago limes' Indiana corres-
it; who has been giving the facta
in regard to the campaign there with
reckless impartiality, says that the Re
publican poll of Illinois shows a Dem
ocratic majority of over 12,000, and
that the Republicans will endeavor to
overcome this by frauds. He thinks,
however, that the Republican treasury
has been depleted:
The entire State has been given an
outfit in torches, brass bands, uniforms
and the like. Many of the highest
S riced speakers in America have been
ere stumping the State in the interests
and at the expenses of Republicanism.
Royal in their notions, it has not been
unfrequently the caBe that these aristo
cratic representatives of the party in
power are moved in special railway
trains at a cost of much money. The
entertainment of the Boys in Blue
drew upon the Republican barrel of
money for not less than $25,000. One
single Republican newspaper in the
State drew from the same barrel to the
generous amount of $20,000 before it
would consent to see that interests of
free Government demand the retention
of Radicalism in power.
A newspaper of Terre Haute had to
have $3,000 in order to become satis
fied that Republicanism and free gov
ernment aro synonymous terms. Not
less than ten thousand dollars have
been paid out to other newspapers in
order to assure their loyalty, and to
convince thoir proprietors that Demo
cratic ascendency means the placing
of rebels in control of this blood-bought
republic. The canvass, or poll, ot the
State has had to be provided for, and
this is a job which cannot be done un
der much less than $10,000. And
then documents had to be printed by
the ton ; and printing, in campaign
seasons, has to be done by partisan job
presses, and to be paid for. Finally,
the importation and support of a
thousand or fifteen hundred Africans
till after election cannot be set down,
inclusive of railroad fares both ways,
board, wages, etc., ot less than $25 per
head, which figures up the very pretty
sum of from $25,000 to $40,000, in ad
dition to what has otherwise been ex
pended. Now, when in addition to
this enormous outly, there comes the
necessity of going into the market and
buying up enough votes to overcome a
majority of 6;000 to 8,000, tho question
is, “Can any barrel of money, unless
as inexhaustible as the widow’s barrel
of meal, stand the drain without run
ning dry ?”
If there is one thing wholly opposed
to the spirit of our institutions and the
earlier and better usages of the coun
try, it is the political trick of nomina
ting unknown and untried men, on the
ground that, being unknown and un
tried, they have no “record” to defend.
Every VQter is thus left free to imagine
what he pleases, and, of course, omne
ignotum, etc., in such a matter as this it
is best perhaps to try to see ourselves
as we would see others, and as others
must see us. As practical men, priding
ourselves on our capacity for self-gov
ernment, what would we Americans
say if we saw, for instance, the Liberal
party of England, on a defeat of the
Disraeli ministry and a dissolution of
Parliament, select as their candidate for
premier, not Gladstone, not Foster, not
any well-known or experienced leader,
but some unknown, untried lord lieu-
tenant oi Canada, who had been a
colonel in the Sepoy insurrection, and
a silent member during one short Par
liament? In the days of Washington
and Jefferson and Madison wo should
smile, not without just pride, and re
mark that, Republicans though we
were, we at least did not make a farco
of our Government.—North American
Review.
National Democratic Platform.
In Charles F. Adams and James G.
Blaine, between whom some rhetorical
blows have just been delivered, we
have types of two classes of public
men. Mr. Adams is broad and histori
cal, rather than partisan. He takes
the philosophical view of all questions
that may be presented to him. He
judges the issues of the day from the
standpoint of the past. As a conse
quence, he makes no account of the
passions or prejudices of tho hour. A
man of Mr. Adams’ bent of mind
clearly belongs to no party. To bear
allegiance to any would be to sacrefiee
his independence. In addition, he is
personally pure and free from all taint
or suspicion. The moral phaso of his
character is the complement of his po
litical theories. To this Mr. Blaine
presents a complete contrast. He
nothing if not partisan. In him the
whims and caprices of the epoch are
constantly reflected. He makes an aff
miral leader, but he is no statesman
He takes a broad, political view of
nothing. All he looks for is the popu
lar current. Upon that he floats, care
less where it may land him.—San Lrati
cisco Bulletin, Rep.
The New York Herald says : Proscrip
tion in South Carolina is taking shape,
Governor Chamberlain has issued ai
order disbanding rifle clubs in two coun
ties of the State, presumably because the
members are Democratic. If ho goes on
he may provoke another Hamburg out
rage which would be a godsend to the
bloody-shirt patriots just now. We do
not see that rifle clubs are necessarry to
an election, but if the order to disband
them is to be an excuse for biinging
the soldiers, bad work is beginning.
Radical newspapers arc saying that
Hayes knew nothing about tha principles
of the Know-Nothing organization that
nominated him for the Presidency.
Everybody else understood them. If the
Radicals desire to place their candidate
before the country as an idiot, they are
welcome to lay hold of that horn of the
dilemma—,Si. Louis Times.
The vote in 1872, for Governor was
377,700, with a Democratic majority of
1,1-18. The vote of 1871 was 347,056,
with a majority for Secretary of State
of 17,252. In 1874 the Farmers’ can
didate for Secretary of 3tate received
16,233, and scattering 2,297.
Wo, tho delegates of the Domocratio party
of tho United States, in National Convontion
assembled, do horeby declare the ndminislra
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, n
realous effort and co-operation to this ond,
and do hereby appeal to our fellow-citizens of
every former political connection to under
take with us this first and most pressing
patriotic duty.
For tho Democracy of the whole country
wo do hereby rc-affirm our faith in the per
manency of tho Federal Union, and our dovo-
tion to tho Constitution of tho United States,
with its amendments universally accepted ns
a final settlement of the controversies that
engendered the civil war, and do hero record
our steadfast confidence in the perpotuitv of
Republican self-government; in n resolute
acquiesconco in tno will of the majority, tho
vital principle of republics; in tho supremacy
of tho civil over tho military authority; in
the total separation of the church and State
for the snko aliko of civil and religiouB free
dom ; in the equality of all citizens before
tho just laws of their own onactment; in the
liberty of individual conduct, unvexed by
sumptuary laws; in tho faithful education of
tho rising generation, that they may preserve,
enjoy and transmit these best conditions of
humun happiness and hope, wo behold the
noblest products of a hundred years of
changeful history. But while upholding tho
bond of our Union and tho great charter of
these, our rights, it behooves a free people to
practico also that etornal vigilanco which is
tho price of liberty.
Reform is nocossaiy to rebuild and estab
lish in tho hearts of tho wholo people the
Union, eleven yoars ago happily rescued from
tho danger of a secession of States, but now
to be saved from a corrupt centralism which,
after inflicting upon ten States tho rapacity
of carpet-bag tyrannies, has honey-combeu
the officers o! the Federal Government itself
with incapacity, wasto and fraud; infected
States and municipalities with the contagion
of misrule, and locked fast tho prosperity of
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 these eleven years to make
good the promise of the legal-tender notes,
which are a changing standard of value in
the hands of tho peoplo, and the non-payment
of which is a disregard of the plighted faith
ot the nation. Wo denounce tho improvi
dence which in clevon years of peace has
taken from tho people in Federal taxes
thirteen times tho whole amountol the legal-
tender notes, and squandered four times tbiB
sum in useless expenso, without accumulating
any reserve for their redemption. We de
nounce the financial imbecility and immoral
ity of that party whioh, during eleven years
of peace, lias inado no advance towards re
sumption, and no preparation for resumption,
but instead has obstructed resumption by
wasting our resources and oxhausting all our
surplus incomo, and while annually profess
ing to intend a speedy return to specie pay
ments, has annually enacted fresh hindrances
thereto. As such a hindrance wo denounce
the resumption clause of tho act of 1875, and
wo here demand its repeal. We demand a
judioiouH system of preparation by public
economies, by official retrenchments, and by
wiso financial management, which shall en
able the nation soon to assure tho whole
world of its perfect ability and its porfeot
readiness to meet any of its promises at the
call of the creditor entitled to payment. We
believo Buch a system, woll devised, and
above all entrusted to competent hands for
execution, creating at no time an artificial
scarcity of currency, and at no time alarming
the public mind into a withdrawal of that
vastor machinery of credit by which 95 per
cent, of all business transactions are per
formed, a Bystem open, public, and inspiring
general confidence, would, from the day of
its adoption, bring healing on its wings to
all our harassed industries and set in motion
the whdfils of commerce, manufactures and
tho mechanical arts, rcstoro employment to
labor and renew in all its national sources
the prosperity of tho people,
Reform is necessary in the sum and mode
of B’ederal taxation, to the end that capital
may be set freo from distrust and labor light
ly burdened. Wo denounce tho present
tariff, levied upon nearly four thousand arti
cles, as a masterpiece oi 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 purchaso the
products of American labor; it nas degraded
American commerce from the first to an infe
pretoronce for any class, soot or oroed, and
without contributing from the Treasury to
any, and tho false issue by which tboy seek
to light anow tho dying embers of sectional
linto between kindred peoples, once unnat
urally estranged, but now re united in one
indivisible republic and a common destiny.
Koform is necessary in tho civil Bervice.
Experience proves that the efficient econom
ical conduct ot the Governmental businesa is
not possible if its civil sorvico bo subject to
change at evory election; be a prize fought
for at tho ballot-box; be a brief rewara of
larty zeal, instead of posts of honor assigned
• proved competency, and held for fidolity
tho public employ; that the dispensing of
patronngo should neither be a tax upon tho
timo of all our public men, nor the instru
ment ot thoir ambition. Here again tho
professions falsified in tho porformnneo attest
that tho pnrty in power can work out no
practical or salutary reform.
Rclorm is necessary even more in the
higher grades of public sorvico. The Pres
ident, Vice- President, Judgos, Sonators, Rep
resentatives, Cabinet officers—these and all
others in authority are the people’s servants;
their offices are not a private perquisite, they
are a publio trust, when tho annals of this
Republic show the disgraco and censure of a
Vice President, a lato Speaker of the House
of Representatives marketing his rulings an
presiding officer, threo Sonators profiting
secretly by thoir votes as law-makors, five
chairmen of tho leading committees of the
Into House of Representatives exposed in
jobbery, a late Secretary of the Treasury
forcing bniances in the public accounts, a late
Attorney-General misappropriating publio
funds, a Secretary of tho Navy onriched or
enriching friends by per centnge levied off
the profits of contractors with his depart
ment, an Ambassador to England censured
in a dishonorable speculation, tho President’s
private secretary barely escaping conviction
upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the revenue, a Secretary ot War im
peached for high crimes and confessed mis
demeanors, the demonstration is complete
that tho first step in reform must bo the
people’s choice of honest men from another
party, lest the disease of ono political organ-
zntion infost tho body politic, and lest by
making no change of men or pnrty we can
:et no change of measures and no reform.
Ill these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
iroduct of sixteen years’ ascendancy of the
Republican party, create a necessity for
retorm admitted by the Republicans them
Administrator’s Sale.
selves; but their reformers are voted down 6E0BGIA F , d Cmint
in convention and displaced from the Cabinet 1 - —
Tho party’s muss of honest voter’s is power
less to resist eighty thousand office-holders,
its leaders and guidon. Reform can only be -rv
had by a peaceful civil revolution. Wd First TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1876,
demand a changeot pvstcra, a change of Lot of land number 8, in. the 4th district and 4th
mivWeaehanae^riZur^^do^lr
may have a chango of measures and of men. $ erms cajA- October 2, 1876.
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TRATES, Ordinaries and Officers of Court,
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Affidavits to Foreclose Factors’ Liens,
Deeds in Fee Simple,
Bonds for Titles,
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Affidavits and Wan ants,
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Commitments,
Bonds to Prosecute,
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Distress Warrants,
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Declarations on Notes and Accounts,
Assumpsit (common law form)
Babposnas,
Commissions for Interrogatories
Jury Summons,
Claim Bonds,
Replovv Bonds,
Marriage Licenses
Letters Testamentary,
Temporary Letters ol Administration
and Bond,
Letters of Administration De Bonis Non
and Bond.
Warrants of Appraisement
Letters of Dismission,
Lettors of Guardianship and Bond
All orders will receivs prompt altentton.
M. DWINELL. Proprietor.
LEGAL BLANKS! TURNER & BRAUMULLER,
“Old” Southern Music House:
Sole Agents for the World Renowned
STEINWAY AND OTHER PIANOS,
AND
TAYLOR & FARLEY ORCANS.
Y VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF THE
AJ Court of Ordinary of Floyd county, I will
sell, to the highest bidder, at public sale, on the
Postponed Executor’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
N ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDER FROM
tho honorable Ordinary of Floyd county,
will be sold, within the legal hours of sale, before
tho Court House door in Rome, on tho
First Tuesday in November, 1876,
the following described property, vis.:
One lot of land, number 103, in the 13th dis
trict and 4th section, being 160 acres, more or
less. Also, 40 acros, more or loss, beiog pari, of
lots numbers 130 and 164, lying on tho Coosa
river on north side. Those lots all lie adjoining
and contain 200 acres, more or less, and are
known as the Shadrick Green place.
Also, et the same tlma and place, one yoke of
oxen and a surveyor's compass end chain.
All sold as the property belonging to the estate
of Shadrick Green, late ol said county, deceased.
Sold for tho benefit of the heirs and creditors.
Term. cash.
JOHN P. GOULD, Executor.
sop28,wlm
oct3,1m
ELI HARDIN, Administrator.
Reliable Agents Wanted in Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, North and South
Carolina and East Tennessee.
ALSO PUBLISHERS OF AND DEALERS IN
Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise.
30 WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
nov27,tw1y
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
A LL PERSONS HAVING DEMANDS against
George W. Hanson, deceased, late of said
county, are hereby notified and required to
pre.ent them, properly attested, to the under
signed within the time prescribed by law, and
all persons indebted to said deceased are hereby
required to make immediate paynsont to the
undersigned. This Sept. 26,1876.
iep28,lm JESSE C. HANSON, Adm’r.
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
T his is to notify all persons con
CERNED that I shall apply to the Ordinary
of said county, on the first Mondey in Novomber
next (1878), for leave to sell e portion of tbs
reel estate of J. F. Mason, deceased.
September 28, 1878.
JOHN MASON, Administrator.
cct3,lm
THE G-R-AlSrGEES’
Life and Health Insurance Co.
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Authorized Capital, - - - $4,500,000.
EACH STATE IS A HOME COMPANY, AND RETAINS NINETY PER CENT. OF ITS
CAPITAL STOCK AND ITS ENTIRE RESERVE FOR LOAN AND INVESTMENT.
PARENT OFFICE,
- - $200,000.
noiUIiE, A I/A
Gash and Bonds, -
McWilliams & co.
EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE.
rior rank upon tho high seas; it has out down
tho sales of American manufactures at home
and abroad, and dopleted the returns ol
American agriculture, an industry followed
by half of our people; it costs the people
five times more 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 dishon
est officials and bankrupts honest merchants.
We demand that all custom-house taxation
shall bo only for revenue,
Reform is nocossary in the scale of public
expense, Federal, State and municipal. Our
Federal taxation has swollen from $60,000,000
gold in 1860 to $450,000,000 currency i
1870, and our aggregate taxation from $154,
000,000 gold in I860 to $730,000,000 currcnoy
in 1870, or in ono decado from less than fivo
dollars per head to mure than eighteen dollars
per head. Since tho restoration of peace, the
people have paid in taxes moro than thrice
the sum of the national debt, and more thaD
twice that sum for the Federal Government
alone. Wo dornand a rigorous frugality in
every department, and from evory officer of
the Government.
Reform is necessary to put a stop to the
profligate waste of publio lands and their
diversion from aotual settlers by the party in
power, which haB squondered 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 the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omissions
of a Republican Congress and tho errors of
our treaties and our diplomacy which ltavo
stripped our follow-citizens of foreign birth
and kindred race, recrossing tho Atlantic, of
the shield of American citizenship, nnp have
exposed our brethren of the Pacific coast to
the incursions of a race not sprung from the
Bame great parent stock, and, in fact, now by
law denied citizenship, though naturalization
is being neither accommodated to the tradi
tions of a progressive civilization nor exer
cised in liberty under equal laws. We de
nounce tho policy which thus disenrds the
liberty-loving Germnn and tolerates the
revival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian
women, imported for immoral purposes, and
Mongolian men, held to perform servile labor
contracts, and demand such modification oi
tho treaty with the Chinese empire, or such
legislation within constitutional limitation, as
shall prevent the further importation or im
migration of the Mongolian race.
Reform is necessary and can never be
effected but by making it tho controlling issue
of tho elections and lifting it above tho two
false issues with which tho office holding
class and the party in power seek to smother
it—tho false issuo with whioh they would
enkindle sectarian strife in respect to tho
publio schools, of which the establishment
and support belong exclusively to tho several
States, ond which the Democratic pnrty has
cherished from their foundation, and is re
solved to maintain, without partiality or
To the Trade of North Georgia and Alabama.
Haying closed out our Retail 8tock to tho young aad enterprising firm of Knox k Parks, in or
der to devote ourselves exclusively to ihe
JOBBING BUSINESS,
We tako pleasure in announcing the (act, and oordially invite the trade to aminatioa or
our
Immense Fall and Winter Stock
Before makiug purchases for tho season. Our facilities are ample for supplying the merchants
of this district on as favorable terms as any Jobbing House in the United States, and it is our de
termination to make
PRICES AS LOW AS NEW YORK
Or an, other Market. It has been with some reluotanca that out ot deferonce to those who have
patronized us liberallv in our jobbing department, we gave up a large and profitable retail busi
noes, and we hopo to enjoy tho samo liberal patronage from old customers, as well as to make
many now ones by the change.
Tho above, together with the rapid increase of business in our wholesale department furnish
ourroasons for this change, and we earnestly solicit of ever, dealer in thia section a fair testae
to what we claim.
DEPARTMENT TsTO. 1.
PRINTS, BLEACHED AND BROWN COTTONS, SHEETING, SHIRTINGS, OSNABEItGB,
PLAIDS, STRIPES, TICKS, DRILLS, YARNS, ETC.
DEPARTMENT NO- 2.
JEANS, 0AS3IMER8, REPELLENTS, WOSTED3, LINSEYS, FLANNELS, DRESS GOODS,
SHAWLS, FELT SKIRTS,TWEED3, UNDER WEAR, BLANKETS, ETC.
DEPARTMENT 3-
WHITE GOODS, LINENS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, TOWELS AND NO-
TIONSOF EVERY KIND.
DEPARTMENT NO- 4.
CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, CAP8.TRUNK8, VALIOES, SATCHELS, ETC.
DEPARTMENT TSTO- 5-
CARPETS, MATTINGS, RUGS, OIL CLOTHS, DAMASKS, MIRRORS, ETC.
Wo offer a good stock to select from In a home market, obviating tho neceuity ol buying largely
at a time and having tho goods decline on thoir hands, as has too ofton boon tho experience of most
dealers. Moore protected by the manufacturers and can atalltimss supply the trade with goods
at lowoit pricer. *
Gratefully appreciating the liberal patronage whioh has been accorded to us In Ihe Dost we
hereby extend a cordial invitation to all dealers to call and see for themselve. r
Very truly, etc.
W. T. MoWTLLIAMS & CO.
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT,
home:, c.a.
Loans and Cash, - - - - 100,000.
Hoard of Directors Georgia Dcpt.—K. P.
Aligned, C. Rowell, Alfred Shorter, A. R.
Joucb, Hon. D F. Hammond, D. B. Ham
ilton, Cain Glover, T. MoGuire, F. Woudruff,
J. L. Camp, C. G. Samuel, M. H. Bunn,
Hoe. W. M. Hutchings. *- -
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT,
MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Loans and Cash, - - - - 100,000.
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT,
OKALONA, MINS.
Loans and Cash. 100,000.
F. E. Davidson, Prosidsnt.
M. G. Hudson, Vice-President.
R. W. Fort, Secretory.
C. O. Samuel, President.
Alfred Shorter, Vice-Preilcsnt,
fi. J. Gwaltney, Seo. and Treat:
G. W. nolmos, Med. Ex.
C. Rowell, Attorney.
J. R. McIntosh, President
J. W. Book, General Agent.
W. C. Dunoan, Secretary.
Hon. N. N. Clement., President.
Hon. David A.Oiopton.Vice-Pm
W. L. Chambers, fisc, and Tress.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT,
COLUMRIA. S. C. ,
Loans and Cash, 100,000. Hi8O0d * Trenttsn, g.o. ai»u.
Thot. B. Jeter, President.
Thomas A. MoCreery, Vice.Prei.
H. P. Green, Secretary.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT,
AUSTIN, TEX.
Loans and Cash,
100,000.
Geo. B. Zimpleman, President.
Hon. N. G. Shelley, Vice-Prei.
A. J. Jernlgan, Secretary.
R. A. Blandfurd, General Ajenl-
Total Assets, $700,000.
Tho great popular feature of this growing Company is that each State Dop*xtnient la in truth
and fact a Homo Company, and loanB it* entire reserve at home, at a low rate oi *y
undoubted real estate Becurity. The Parent Office receives the death Ion and pays the a®
ALL FORMS OF ENDOWMENT AND ACCIDENT POLICIES ISSUED.
Guod Agents wanted to canvass during the aoxt six months:
Address C. G. SAMUEL, President,
R. J. GWALTNEY. Secretary^
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ROME, GA.
J. & S. BONES & CO.,
I N WITHDRAWING THEIR ANNOUNCEMENT OF SORGHUM MACHINERY, BEQ W
thank the public lor a large patronage in theao articles, and now call attention w
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We punch plow iron and cut to any length without charge. T gteel 0 ** 1
Avery’s Plows, Iron-beam Plows and Bradley’a Plows at makers prices, iro ,
kinds and shapes, and everything else in tho Hardware line.’ Prices are Downi
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