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ri-wekit) Conner DWtNELL, PROPRIETOR. "WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION.” FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. P SERIES. ROME, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1879. .VOL. 18, NO. 68 Liet anil g'ommrcrial. 3N SOUDATED APRO. 10.1878. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS for the weekly. j month* a months 92 00 1 00 FOR THE Till-WEEKLY. 94 00 , 2 00 . 1 00 |x month* yearly, strictly In advance, the price IfhetVreklyCourier will be 1150. [contract ratbof advertising. one month. * * 9JJ [d. square twelve months...... MOO Ce-fourth column one month .. J “ [ne-fourth column three months to 00 Lfourlh column six months.... ® °° Lfourth column twelve months 50 00 thalf column one mouth . 15 00 e-taalf column three months 27 OC Ine-halt column six months.... 50 00 lehalf column twelve months 80 00 1( column one month « °° |nccolumn threo months oO oo Inecolumnalxmonths '■ Inccolumn twelve months 120 00 1 Th , forccolnc rates are for either Weekly or Li Weekly when published In both paper., 60 Cr cent, additional upon table rates. Reminiscences of Columbia County. L „ Old Citizen in MoDufflo Journal Hon. Nathan Crawford Barne’t, the Lreeent Secretary of State, is a native If Columbia county. His father was EVin. Barnett, and hid mother’s maiden Line was Anna Crawford, a sister of Hon. Wm. H. Crawford. His parents were of English and Scotch extraction, fend emigrated from Virginia to Geor gia and settled in Columbia. Losing his father when quite young the widow and children moved to Oglethorpe and fettled in Lexington. Here young Barnett grew up to manhood, surround- i by aocne of the best of Georgia’s cit- :ens—ffm. H. Crawford, Thomas W. (Cobb, (of both of whom I have already fcpoken), Stephen Upson and that prince of good fellows, George R. Gilmer. On reaching his majority, Nathan C. Barnett moved to Monroe, Walton coun ty. Soon afterwards he moved to Clarke county, married Mise Margaret Morton, and settled in Watkinsville. [While bere he was first elected Survey or, and assisted in surveying the Chero kee nurenase. In 1836 he was elected to the Legislature, and was one of the warm and zealous supporters of the act to build the Western and Atlantic railroad. Having lost his wife several years previous, he married, in 1841, Mary Ann Cooper, of Harris county. In 1842 he was elected Secretary of ■ State, and was re-elected under Geo. W. Crawford. Again, in 1850, he became Secretary of State under Gov. Howell Cobb. In 1861 when the offices of Surveyor General and Secretary of ■ tate were combined, he was elected and continued in office during the eight years of Gov.,I. 15, Brown’s adminis tration. When the iron rale of military power waa proclaimed in Georgia territory, t i,, neU quietly, yet patriotically, tolued the drapery of his honest office around him and boldly taking with him the Great Seal of State, followed He lead of that ncble old Roman, Chas. th n D8 ' then Governor. When ne Democracy again came into power nd elected Gov. James M. Smith, he ta!i' n S®*etMy of State, and •cay holds the same office under Gov. 0 quitt. For many years he has been church men * raeraber oP the Methodist Else. u , "« d ^k'uuon, thu Boston man- one Uf Rr .i an< \ political economist, is the , keenest observers in the the impressions he has re- the r,, r 0m U tr 'P through Virginia, e o. H • a . 3 J a ‘? d Geor Bia are, there- re 1' deoided interest. Mr. Atkinson b'jsincco g8 . n , eral improvement in the and °°k throughout the section ,1 'HWw among both races, [» conhn 01 ^ ^ tbo Macks, who are year- and in ? t0 0wn and cultivate their ; 0na b n o la fi rg S numbers. Mr. Atkin- '•he relitirf lnd u great improvement in "rowinn - n8 b ?tweej tii® two races—a «hUesi d ‘• PU8l [ ion on the Part of the and an in glV6 ne g ro a fair chance, part oftho°w a8l 2 8 I )erc0 P ti(m on the thew'ls Wac P 8 that their place in In short h'l U f 1 ” hat they make it. rest of ti' dnda tLo South, like the ‘ ,t, much as U to'l! ry i'r e l ,ing nothin S else ticiansL i to „ b0 let alone by the poll- ti°n to hu M- owed to dev °t° its atten tion b„". ln 8 U P the future rather phia TimJ' ng m thG Past—Philadel- ca PtaiiiL> 8 ®itting with a gallant ccss. On , at i har mingly decorated re- niec e, placed m 60 Was a dira inutive ances. in*u t l ?r e . P our lea conven- do °r onnn n. 6 ad J, 0ln * n g room, with the ny. g aVfl ’ ( . ® r ,® t 5’ a rest of the compa- and very audit!} K 6 - niece ’ in a ' ealous “An-.' a ,'hie voice: ileave 6 ’ iS8moto °- ba Ppenedf ° U t0 ' ma B‘ ne what had just tff e«°So 8 t h »r U n ld Say ,^ wioe > Et 'hel, dear; atet *johd« m “ r ’ was the i “ wedi ’ 0, * VPr girl that. Indian and African* Nashvillo American. The white people of Oregon and Washington, and indeed of all the In dian country, regard the Indian as fair game. If greenbacks are wanted, we have it upon official authority that the Indians are provoked. War brings purchases and disbursements. A few people are scalped, but it is livelier for those who are left. Land is wanted for settlement and the Indian is driven back, war results, and the wicked In dian is sent somewhere to starve, or sent to the happy hunting grounds to seek redress from Gitche Manitou. All is done by emigrants from the civilized North, and yet no outcry is made by the politicians. There is no great pop ular movement led by Conkling and Blaine—no effort to arouse the people to put down these barbarities. All that is alleged to have occurred in the South pales before the facts which are known to exist in the West. The oppression of the Indian by the settler is a chapter of unexplained blackness when we con sider the vaunted civilization of those who engaged in it and those who look in silent approval and applaud the growth of States and watch with com placency the new political power im plied in new States. The political rea sons are against the Indian. He has no friends except amongst the Quakers who are out of tune with the times. The Indian has no votes and he would be of no political account if he had. New Republican States in the West are far more desirable. The negro is of more account. The political motive leads to his exaltation. We confess to a preference for the ne gro over the Indian. He has more orthodox notions concerning scalps. If he were not a political football he would be a useful citizen. The contrast of these two races shows the hypoorisy of the entire outcry about the negro and his rights and his persecution and his exodus from the so called land of bond age. So long as he is a football in pol itics no doubt his condition is unenvia- ole So long as he permits one party to hoist him in the air as a means of winning the game, the other will be very likely to kick him back. If the negro will perceive the hypoc risy of this pretended friendship, the absurdity of hiB position, and under take, without tying himself to any par ty, to seek his own advancement wherever he can find it, he will become vastly more important, and his situa tion more pleasent. He is deprivirg himself of the advantages of aotive com petition. If the Northern people will look at these two cases and perceive the hol low hypocrisy of the politicians who are allowing the destruction of the In dian for political ends on one side and professing a sympathy which is not felt, for political ends on the other, and rebuke the hypocrisy, they _ will the more speedily restore prosperity, good government, law and order. The rolling of the waves of progress Westward will never stop, superior in telligence and power will rule over the poor devil of a savage, sentimentalize as we will. Equally superior intelligence, property and moral superiority will rule in the South soon or late. A Huge Alligator in Jackson ville. The steamer Carrie arrived yester day from up the St. John’s river with an alligator captured last week in In dian river by Mr. J. J. Seymour, with the assistance of two colored men. When they first saw him he was on the bank sunning himself. When they ap proached ho made for the water, and before they could secure him he had got about two hundred yards from the shore. The water was quite shallow, and he could not sink out of sight. The monster fought his captors to the last, but he was brought ashore by means of a rope lashed about his body, attached to a row-boat. It took the strength of three men to pull him ashore. His weight is eight hundred pounds, and he measures fourteen feet in length. His mouth is two feet long. The nails on his feet are about an inch in length. His angry hissing noise is similar to that of escaping steam from a locomotive. , , . , This is beyond doubt the largest al ligator ever brought to this city since the war. Mr. Seymour, the gentleman in charge of this old citizen of Florida, will take him to New York, to r. T. Barnum noxt Thursday. He is ted on house cats, and swallows them with a rapidity and relish that is most won derful. Mr. Seymour wants to pur chase five hundred oats for a week s feed of "Sweet Bye and Bye,” (the ga tor’s name.) Jacksonville can furnish several thousand worthless dogs and oats at a minute’s notice, and this ani mal should be well fed. “Sweet Bye and Bye,” is at present on P. McQuaid’s wharf, boxed up for shipment. If you wish to see hnn put a half dozen oats in your pooket and come along and see what a fine appe tite he has.—Florida Union. The American Bible Society of New York are now offering neatly printed Bibles for twenty-five cents and Terta- ments for five cents. To the trade these books are sold at a reduction of *n per cent, on the catalogue price. The books are well printed and are a wonder ot Financial Condition of Turkey. Baltimore Sun.] The Turkish gold lira, or pound, the nominal value of which is 100 pisastres, has risen to 1,100 piastres in paper mon ey. In other words, the piastre, the nominal valuo of which is 41 cents, has fallen to 39-lOOths of a cent, and the distrees that ensues in the Turkish cap ital and provinces in consequence is said to be terrible to witness. The Porte has made a great many efforts to renegate its finances, and the Sultan has sent hie gold and silver plate, valued at $500,000, to the mint to be coined into money. But the Greek, French, Italian and Armenian bankers of Galata and Pera, and the great Banking houses of London and Paris (the same which are seeking to involve England and France in a war about Egypt to cover the secu rities for thoir bonds,) will not permit the Porte to restore the currency, they finding it more profitable to lend money to the Turkish Government at usurious rates on short loans, secured by some special tax or monopoly, than to pro mote currency reforms. The uncertain money, the wild fluctuation of prices, and the general publio distress combine to keep Constantinople in constant dan ger of bread riots, in which, if they should break out, the soldiery, who are starving equally with the oivil popula tion, would be almost sure to take part. In case of any such riots the Sultan, who has just congratulated the Emperor Alexander upon his escape from assassina tion, would probably be the first victim, and he is so much alive to the dangers to which be iB exposed that his yacht, with steam up, lies always ready for em barkation at the foot of the gardens of Gildiz Kiosh, the Circassian body guard, with a battery of artillery, being station ed there to cover the approaches to the point of debarkation. Any outbreak of the Stamboul populace would be l.kely to be attended by a massacre of the Christians, against whom the mollahs and dervishes have worked up a great deal of popular ill-feeling, as being the causes of all the troubles from which Mohamedan Turkey is now suffering. Cardinals in Society. Philadelphia Telegraph, Rome Letter These Princes of the Church go now to grand receptions in thesaloonB of the princely families devoted to the Vatican cause, and make a splendid hour of presence before dancing begins. When they take their leave with their stately figures, the brilliant scarlet robes, red caps, sparkling chains and crosses and long sweeping trains move grandly out of the halls between torch-bearing ser vitors—then the ball can open, but not before: dancing is never performed in the presence of prelates. The hour pre ceding the ball, when the elegant saloon is peopled with the Princes of the Church, is the finest part of the whole evening from a picturesque point of view. Am bassadors in elegant court costume; of ficers in brilliant uniforms, all blazing with orders; women covered with hered itary jewels and laces, sparkling and ra diant, and prominent as well as pre-em inent the great ecclesiastical princes in scarlet caps could be seen dotted about in parts of the distinguished crowd, and each red cap was the sun of Its circle. In the deep embrasure of a window you could have seen a cardinal talking in a low voice to an ambassador; in another place there would be a circle of handsome women, smiling and gay over the oomplimenta of an emlnentis- simo; a little procession would pass by you of a cardinal and some grand per sonage, with their friends following like a court, and the long train of the scar let gowns swept along the soft carpets noiselessly. A Mystery. Two darkies had bought a piece of pork, and Sam having no place to put h’s in, trusted the whole to Julius’ keeping. Next morning they met, when Julius said: “A most strange thing happened at my house last night, Sam. All mystery to me.” “Ah, Julius, what was dat?” “Well, Sam this mornin’ I went down into the cellar to get a pieoe of pork for breakfas’ and I put my hand down into the brine and felt all ’round, but no pork dere—all gone—couldn’t toll what went with it, so I turned up de barrel, and, Sam, as sure as preachin,’ de rats eat a hole clear fru de bottom of de barrel and dragged de pork nil out.” “Why didn’t the brine run out of de hole ?” “Ah, Sam, dat is de mystery.” A British cavalryman suggests that the art of swimming on horseback be regularly practiced, whenever possible, by the British cavalry, and urges as a reason the recent loss of an entire squad ron of the Tenth Hussars while attempt ing to ford the river Cabul. He men tions that last summer he saw a French calvary regiment practice “mounted swimming” in the Seine. If either men or horses exhibited signs of nerv ousness, the practice was repeated until confidence had been obtained. In the middle of fly time, when both hands were engaged, we have some times thought as a persistent fly play fully fondled our nose, that it was a great, mistake when our primeval an cestor discarded his caudal append age, duide. Spring and Summer Sohedule of the Steamer Sidney F. Smith. (T AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 21st, 1879, the steamer Sidnoy P. Smith will run es follows: Leave Rome Monday at 11 a.M Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday at 8 a. m Arrive at Greonsport Tuesday at 12 m. Leave Greensport Tuesday at lr.s Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday at Sr. s Arrive at Romo Thursday at. Sp.s S. P SMITH, President. Borne Railroad—Change of Sohedule V AND AFTER TUESDAY, OOTOBER 1st, 1878, the trains on the Rome Railroad will run as follows: MORNINO TRAIN. Leaves Rome dally at 7.00 A. M Return to Rome et 11 00 A. M SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION. Leaves Rome (Saiurday only) at 6.00 P. M Return to Rome at 8.00 P. M Morning trvln makes oonnootion with trail on W. A A. Railroad at Kingston, for the West and South. O M. PENNINGTON, Gen’l Supt. JNO. E. STILLWELL. Ticket Agent. OLDEST ^YNTI) BEST DR. J. BRADFORD’S Liver & Dyspeptic Medicine This is a Prompt and Certain Care for all Diseases of the Liver, Such as Dyspepsia, Headache, Chills and Fever, &c. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY CASE, OR MONEY RETURNED. I FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY. J. Or. YEISER, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Garden Seeds, &c., Sole Proprietor, Rome, Ga. R. T. Hoyt, Wholesale and Retail Agent for Rome, Ga. febl wwly United States Mail Line—The OooBa Fiver Steamers I O N AND AFTER NOVEMBER 6TB, 1878, Steamers on the Coosa Rlvar will run as per sohedule as follows, supplying all the Post Offioes on Mall Route No. 6180 s Leave Rome every Tuesday and Friday at 7 A. M. Arrive at Gadsden every Wednesday and Saturday at 7 A. M. Leave Gadeden every Wednesday and Saturday at 8 A. M. Arrive et Rome every Thursday and Sunday at .. 7 P. M. J. M. ELLIOTT, (Isn't Supt Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad— Change of Sohedule. BLUE MOUNTAIN ROUTE. O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17m, 1878, trains will run ss follows: OOINO NORTH. No. 3. No. 1. Daily. Dally. (Sunday oxoepted.) Loaves Selma . 4 00 P M 5.00 A M Leaves Randolph 7.30 P M 7.20 A M Leavos Oalera 10.00 P M 0.00 A M Leavos Talladega 2.80 A M 10.67 A M Leaves Oxford . 4.10 AM 17.40 A M Leaves Anniston 4 40 AM 11.67 AM Lesves Jacksonville 6.50 A M 12.20 P M Leaves Patona... 0.45 A M 1.00 P M Leaves Teeamsoh 8.06 A M 1.40 P M Leaves Prior’s 8 86 A M 2.08 P M Leaves Gave Spring 9.10 A M 2.27 P M Leaves Rome..... 11.06 AM 8.16 PM Leaves Plainville 12.10 P M 4.00 P M Arrives Dalton 2.00 P M 5.30 P M OOINO SOUTH. No. 4. No. 2. Daily. Daily. (Sunday excepted.) Leaves Dalton 3.26 P M 0.08 A M Leaves Plainville 6 20 P M It 24 A M Leaves Rome 6.50 P M 11.10 A M Leaves Cava Spring..... 8 00 P M 11 65 A M Leaves Prior’s 8.40 P M 1211 P M Leaves Teeamsoh......... 9.10 F M 12.10 P M Leaves Patona 10 40 P M 1.03 P M Leaves Jacksonville-... 11.28 P M 1.31 P M Leaves Anniston 12.40 A M 2.01 P M Leaves Oxford 1.06 A M 2.08 P M Leaves Talladega 2.30 A M 3.06 P M Leaves Oslera 7.40 A M 6.10 P M Loaves Randolph 9.46 AM 7.30 PM Arrives Selma 1.45 A M 9.50 P M No. 1 connocts closely with L. A N. A Gt. So R. R. at Calera for all points West, with E. T. V. A Ga. R. R. at Dalton for all Eastern cities, Tennessee and Virginia Springs, and with W. A A. R. R. for Chattanooga and all points in tha Northwest. No 3 connects olosely at Dalton with E. T. V. A Ga. R. R. for all Eastern oitlos, Tennessee s-d Virginia Springs, and with W. A A. R. R, for Chattanooga and all polnta in Northwest. No. 2 connects closely at Calera with trains of L. A N A Gt. So. R. R. for Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans, and all points in Louisiana and Texas. No. 4 makes olose connections at Selma with Ala. Central R. R. for Meridian, Jackson, Vicki, burg, Mobile and New Orleans, and all points in Mississippi and Louisiana. M. STANTON, Gen. Supt. RAY KNIGHT. G. T. A. W. S. CRANE, Agent, Roms, Gs. SEASON OF 1879! THE CHARLESTON AMMONIATED AND ACID PHOSPHATES! Currency Prices Reduced. Cotton Option Given. A COMPLETE MANURE FOR COTTON, CORN WHEAT AND 0AT8. \' They Took the Diploma—the Highest Award—at the State Fair Held at Maoon. Also, Three Silver Medals at the North Georgia Fair. FOR 8ALE BY AVriglit O’Bryan, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Country Produoe, Tinware and Hardware, ROME, GA. febll tw w3m VY. & A. E. B. and its OonneotionB. KENNE9AW ROUTE 1” The following schodnlo takes offset May 21,18fi NORTHWARD. No. 1 No. 3 No. 11 Leave Atlanta... 2 00 pm... 620 am... 665 pm Arr Cartarsville- 0 60 pm... 8 42 am... 8 60 pm Arr Kingston 704 pm... 911am... 0 24 pm Arr Dalton 841 pm...l0 64 am...11 46 pm ArrChattanooga.10 16 pm...1242 pm. ROU'iHWARD. No. 2 No. 4 No. 12 Lve Chattanooga 4 00 p m... 616 am.. Arrive Dalton 641pm... 701am... 100 am Arr Kingaton 7 88 pm... 0 07 am... 410 am Arr Oartofsvillo.. 812 pm... 042 am... 618 am Arr Altanta 1010 pm...1166 am,.. 930 am Pullman Palaoe Oars ran on Nos. 1 and 2 between New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palaoe Oars run on Nos. 1 ana 4 between Atlanta and Nashville. Pullman Palaoe Cara run on Nos. 3 and I between Louieville and Atlanta. 0EV No ohange of eare between New Orleans Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, ana only one change to New York. Passengere leaving Atlanta at 4.20 P. M. ar rive in New York the seoond afternoon thereaf ter at 4.00 P. M. Exoursion Tlckott to the Virginia Springs and various Summer Resorts will be on sale i New Orleans. Mobile, Montgomery, Columbus, Maoon, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta, at greatly reduced ratee let of Juno. Portico desiring » whole ear through to the /irgtnta Springs or te Baltimore, should ad- Ireaa the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should send for a copy of Kennetau Route Qaetlie, oot tabl ing sehoaules, etc. 7«-A.k or tickets via ’• Kannesaw Routs. B. W. WRENN, Gen'l Passenger and Tloket A gt. Atlanta Ga. HARDY, BOWIE & CO., WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS, BROAD STREET, ROME, GA. WE CARRY IN STOCK RUBBER BELTING, 3 ply, 2, 21-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 inches; “ “ 4 ply, 8,10, 12 and 14 inches. RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches. <&*Strictly Best Goods Made. HEMP PACKING—MANILLA ROPE—LACE LEATHER—CUT LACINGS— UPRIGHT MILL SAWS-CROSS CUT SAWS— ONE MAN CROSS CUT SAWS-SAW SWAGES-FILES-BELT RIVETS—FINE HAMMERS— WRENCHES, d-c., making Complete Line of Mill Fumiehinga, .. , OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT. mavB tw wti THE White Sewing Machine! The IAglitest and Easiest-Running Machine in the Market. The Beauty and Accuracy of its Movements Attest its Superior Workmanship. Every Wearing Pari is Case Hardened, and Ad justable. Capable of Sewing from the Finest Nainsook to the Heaviest of Cloth. Simplicity, Durability and Certainty Combined. Be Sure and Try Them before Buying Any Other. For Sale by E. C. HOUGH, Rome, Ga. aug20.tw-wtf 1879. SPRING & SUMMER TRADE. 1879. New Goods! Fine Goods! MRS. T. bTwILLIAMS, M I Xj Ij IKTER, No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. rpHANKfNG MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME k in the past,. 1 am proud to say that I am bettor prepared to attend to their wente than ever before. I havo now in store and te arrivo Bonnots, Huts. Flowers, Plumes, Silks, Velvets, Plushes, Ribbuns, Ornaments, Heir Goods, Zephyrs, Combs, Notions, ete., etc., which I hsve selected In person in the Northore markets. My Goods are in the Latest Styles, and I have my Trimming done with good material by experienced millinere. Call and examine my goods and get my prices before purchasing elsewhere. (octl7 tw »tf Georeia B. B., Augusta to Atlanta. D‘ AY PASSENGER TRAINS ON GEORGIA Railroad. Atlanta to Augusta, ran as bslovr: ueaves Augusta at...:... .....8.00 a.M Leaves Atlanta at.—...'. -7.0C a.M Arrives Augusta at— 8.80 r. m Arrives at Atlanta at. 4.00 r. M Night Passenger Trains as follows! Leaves Augusts at-. 8.11». M Leaves Atlanta st .10.40 r. M Arrives at Augusta .0.00 a. M Arrives at Atlanta at— 6.20 a. m Acoommodatlon Train as follows t Loaves Atlanta ...I *0 F. M Leaves Covington..... ..A 60 A. M Arrives Atlanta 8 IIA.M Arrival Covington 7 86 P. V ALBIN OMBERG, Bookseller, Stationer^ Printer No. 33 Broad Street, Has just received a Large Stock CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC. A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER. aprO,tw-wly -WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.-©#