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Home M< dwinell, proprietor. “WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION." $0 SERIES. ROME, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1879. FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL. 18, NO. 125 jfoutta ana Commercial. "consolidated APRIL 10, 1870. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. foh the weekly. 12 00 On® year i qq glx months 60 Three months *"* FOH THE TRI-WEEKLY. $4 00 One yen** 2 00 Six months 1 M Three months yearly. 8trlotl y 1,1 a,lvance ' the P rloe the Weekly Courier 'will ball SO, CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square ono r i month * 4 00 Onesqunro three months 8 00 One square six months.-... ^ one square twelve months...... 20 00 one-fourth column one month... 7 50 One-fourth column throe months 15 00 one-fourth column six mouths 27 00 one-fourth column twelve months 50 00 one-half column ono month... 15 00 one-half column throo months 27 00 One-half column six months..... 60 00 Onchalf column twelve months 80 00 One column ono month ... One column three months 50 00 one column six months.... 80 00 Onecolumn twelve months 120 00 The foregoing rntes are for either Weekly or Triweekly. Wien published In both papers, 50 Jlr cent, additional upon table rates. Georgia News from Washing ton. S»7»nnab News. Under the caption, “The Independent Movement in Georgia,” the Washington Star (Ind, Rep.) furnishes the following interesting, if not entirely reliable, po litical news from our State. Says the Star: “Although the election for Governor and other State officers in Georgia will not take place until next year, the In dependents are actively oiganizing, with a number of prominent men in the lead. As in Mitsissippi, they pro claim that the contest will be upon States issues only—that on all national questions they will maintain their alle giance to the Democracy. Last year the Independents carried three Congres sional districts in Georgia, and the same causes which led to the movement in localities havo operated to make it gen eral throughout the State. The Demo crats in their plentitude of power be came arbitrary, and the machine ruled everything. In every county and dis trict there were small cliques who con trolled the party nominations absolute ly. No matter how worthy a man might be, he stood no chance whatever of a nomination unless the rings order ed it. This caused revolt against the party, first in localities where the ma chine was most despotic, and latterly all | over the State. The present State ad ministration has materially weakened ; 'he Democratic party bv its bad man agement of publio affairs. The Inde pendents are at work in almost every county preparing for the canvass next fear, and with a good set of candidates their prospects of success are pronounc ed first-rate. General Toombs is men tioned as their probable candidate for Governor, and, though his political disa bilities, incurred by participation in the I rebellion, have never been removed, I would not debar him from holding | a State office.” it must bo admitted that there has Wn some just complaints of ring dic tation and convention packing in the I past, and efforts are being made by dis- I contented aspirants to make political I capital in their own interest out of the Ijtregnlarities that have been brought to 111 if 1Dsomo °f bh® State departments. I ut for all these reasons, the true De- I nf ac y °f the State are not ready or ■wimng a.t a time like the present—on l».« , a f ?reat and perhaps decisive I tional conflict between the friends of I COD stilutional government |nj.? ne hand and the advocates of IJicul centralization and military des- |f? ' sra on . the other—to break up the Ifj ®°? ratl ° organization by which Li'? 4 was rescued from carpet-bag lernm P* uu fl er i and give the gov- lof n! tDt °v . 8 State over to the chances lth« n W ,P 0 l| tlc al combinations, in which Itrollin 1lca e ' ement would be the con- VrtP°J ver - Corruption in office the 6 are not to be tolerated by lie ue Democracy, but it is folly to is v ?, rt ’ m ?fly worse than the dis- • .vuher is there any need to burn " to get rid of the rats. Mal ms pti\,° corruption in office must La A'!, and punished and ringsters (hedutvnfi - mu . 9t be P ut down - In Vshincr Jo: ■ “ringing to light and pun- '«re is n!? Cm delinquents, the Legisla- 'he neonuV 1 *™ 8811 ? en 8 a 8 ad - 11 is for 'bled t,,, 6 ? aee t0 that they are not ®5kinr, y m ring9 nnd cliques; but in loamA tT ar °? tbe Individuals who between ‘ b ?y should distinguish party wk P°htical tricksters and the .The'Bpnr,i 08e r confidence they abuse. feroutt of Georgia, with the dan- afford Ui imi?'. ln their m'flst, oannot fforlt an,i™ l a , e the example of New r n di'o» fw 30 ve themeolves into con- i pnity 5 n i .'° n8 \ Cm 1 safety is in the tarty. r,! n o R r 'ty of the Democratic Pictation domination and clique {biwe ra 8 u°fi d l .. n0t be Bubmitted to, tarty an ,i 8t fight these wrongs in the n0Hn ‘^Sw^^Csept. 9 -The -•75; The^m va “ oed bero to-day to ho mffla are full of orders. ' Our Home Defamers. Hayneiville, Ala., Examiner. The press have had two tragedies late ly, within a day or two of each other, whioh have given them something to talk about. One occurred at San Fran- oisco, the other at Yazoo City; one in the “loil” State of Californio, the other in the “rebel" State of Mississippi. Each of these crimes was caused by a quarrel growing out of politicos, and there was no essential difference in any respect as to the origin of these twin tragedies. One difference of faot is that the “loil” man shot his foe in the baok, whereas the “rebel” met face to face one who had threatened his life. Another marked difference is that the “loil” tragedy came near drenching the streets oi a large city with blood, and destroying whole acres of its buildings; the entire police and militia of the State being called on to protect the guilty man from mob violence, and even the Federal Government comply ing with a requisition for arms to main tain the peace; whereas in Mississippi no violence or disorder came in the train of the murder in that State, whioh is a fact showing the superior degree of law and tranquility which prevails at the South. Whatever difference there is in the two cases is wholly in favor of the killing at Yazoo. The provocation whioh caused DeYoung to shoot Kal- looh was words abusive of his mother by the latter; and the provocation of Barksdale was the threat of Dixon to kill Barksdale. Kalloch was a preach er, whose offenses never went farther than words; Dixon was a fierce man who had killed more than one man be fore. Kalloch was attacked when he was without weapons; Dixon was known to bo a desperado who always went armed. These faots; so parallel in all their main outlines, are before the public. The blood which was spilt at San Fran cisco, and which raised a storm in that State that may yet lead to the direst results, was treated as a mere item of news by all parties—North and South, Radioal and Democrat—and unless there is another outbreak will soon be forgotten. Not so with the Yazoo af fair. That dood chanced to be done in the South, and by a “rebel," as the pa triots of a Lost Cause ore falsely called by the gushing camp followers and dead beats of the brave Union armies. And because Dixon chanced to be killed in the South there is not only a howl from the Radioal Stalwarts, who take every occasion to slander and villify the Southern people, but the cry is taken up by the thoughtless and weak in the South, who hope by fouling their own nest to avert the wrath of their loil masters of the North. It is a shame that should mantle the cheeks of these home defamers with the stain of re proach forever that they should so for truckle to base and mean “loil” arro gance and taunts as to denounce their own people for an incident which, how ever lamentable, ie likely to happen in any part of this country under the in fluence of partisan feeling. Southerners who thus turn on their people are not traitors, they are not recreant, they are not even timid; but they are thoughtless and foolish and time-serving without perhaps being aware of their unfortun ate attitude. If the Northern people were our masters they could not expect us to be more humble and suppliant than these Southerners who are always apologizing to them make us appear to be. Somo of the Northern press have even had the audacity to ask Mr. La mar, of Mississippi, to come out and ex plain the Yazoo tragedy, and if Mr. L. wishes to prove himself of the noble people he assumes to represent he will give them a crack on the knuckles for their insolence which they will never forget. Even Judge Harris, of Missis sippi, in an article we print this week, speaks of “the misapprehension of this whole affair which exists in the minds of the Northern people,” as if the North ern people had anything to do with it. It is this sort of sentiment that forges fet ters forfree men! If Mr. Barksdale is guil ty of murder, without, provocation, he should be hung for killing Dixon just as he should be hung for killing any human being; but the question of his violent conduot is one that the grand S of hie county should deal with, which the local sentiment of the region adjacent to Yazoo, and familiar with all the facts, should investigate. But for Southern men and papers to be denouncing the deed, in answer to loil impertinence and arrogance, is an ex hibition of weakness and folly that we are shocked and pained to witness. Locomotive Longevity. The iron horse does not last much longer than the horse of flesh and bones. The ordinary life of a locomotive ie thirty years. Some of the smaller Darts require renewal every six months, the boiler tubes last five years and the crank axles six years; tires, boilers and fire-boxes from six to seven years;the side frames, axles and other parts thir ty. An important advantage is that a broken part can be, repaired and does not condemn the whole locomotive to the junk-shop, while, when a horse breaks a leg, the whole animal is only SShitote, “5 «&. Amount to a very email sum m this country, where horse flesh does not fin its way to the butchers’shamblea. • The peanut business is at a stand The OauBos of Agricultural De pression in England. It is stated by competent authorities that the avorage cost of growing wheat in England is 47s 6d to 48s per quarter, and that American wheat can be deliv ered at Liverpool with a margin of 6s for profit for 35s per quarter. Also, that the American farmer can supply the Liverpool meat market without lose at something under 5 Id a pound, while the English farmer cannot do as muoh at less than 71d a pound. Against such competition the English farmers are fighting with the pluok which charac terizes the race, out the edds are so great that orushing defeat seems inev itable., It is for this reason that repre sentatives of the Parliamentary Com mission appointed to consider the ag ricultural depression in England have come to this country to learn its agri cultural resources and methods. On Saturday Clare Sewel Read and Albert Pell, members of the House of Com mons, the commissioners who are to study American farming, landed at New York. Both of these gentlemen are tenant farmers, and thus belong to the class in England from whioh the burden of thejcomplaints come. They are to glean facts in this country and report them to the Royal Commission, in order to aid that body in reaching an intellgent and comprehensive con clusion. Their purpose is to study ag riculture on the farm, or, in the words of one of the commissioners as reported by a New York journal, “to trace a bush el of seed corn from the farmer’s hands to the time it reaches the English mouths.” The commission comprises a number of large landowners, at least eight hun dred thousand acres being represented by owners. Among its numbers are the Duke of Bocoleugh, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Earl Spencer, Mr. Gosrhen and Bonamy Price. It is hardly thought the commission will be ready to report until two years have gone by. One of the commissioners is reported as saying that Amerioan fruit and fresh vegetables are beginning to find their way to the English markets, and that a very large trade is to spring up in this direction. The report of these gentlemen, as well as that of the main commission, cannot fail to be of exceeding interest to the United States, If, says the Philadelphia Record, the continuance of American competition means the overthrow of the British landed gentry, the outlook oannot but be regarded with trepidation by the. en tire English speaking race. It will be a social revolution, from which a class that have done so much for civil liber ty as the English landowners Bhould be spared. It is earnestly hoped that measures may be found for averting such a catastrophe. The Way Vanderbilt Succeeded When Commodore Vanderbilt was running steamboats he beat all rivalry by crowding on steam to the utmost, and even running down his enemy if necessary to accomplish a triumph. When he went to railroading he adopt ed a much uhrewder and more success ful way, by uniting vast lines and their tributaries under his own management, thus capturing all rivals by sharing with them the immense pool of profits that were made-by his skillful manipu lation. Messrs. Lawrence & Co., bank ers, N. Y., accomplish a much greater success in stock operations by their new combination method of dealing. By this system the orders of thousands of customers are pooled into one vast sum and co-operated under the most, expe rienced management, thup giving to each shareholder all the benefits of large capital and best skill. Profits di vided monthly. Any amount from 85 to $25,000 can be used with great suc cess. $15 will make $75 profit; $80 would return $720 or 9 per cent on the stock during the month, according to the market. The new oircular, mailed free, has two unerring rules for success and full explanations, so that any one can operate profitably. Stocks and bonds wanted. Government bonds sup plied. Apply to Lawrence & Co., bank ers, 57 Exchange Place, New York City. ^ ^ A flourishing Parisian art threatens to take root in London. It is an old, trick in Paris for extravagant ycung women to take their lovers into jewelers’ shops, and to induce these lovers to purchase for them, at an immense price articles of jewelry made of paste, the ladies and jewelers sharing the profits between them. I now hear of a dressmaker having in her pay certaio elegant females, who get men to order handsome dresses from her which are' never sent home. This will probably be accepted as the newest development of the co-operating system. Russia is moving forward rapidly. It has now the largest national debt— if we include therein the paper money in circulation—of any country in the world, owing no Jess an amount than $4,383,572,562, almost all of whioh sum bears interest. Five sixths of this debt is held abroad, the greater portion of it, strange to say, in France, ana the re mainder in England and Holland. (uticura REMEDIES Infallibly Cure all Skin ami Scalp Dis eases, Scaly Eruptions, Itchlugs, and Irritations. The testimonials of permanent ouree of Skin and Scalp Dlaoasea, which hare been tho torture of a lifetime, by tho Cutleura Itemedtee, ero more wonderful than any evor before performed by any methode or remodiei known to the med ical profesaion. Cutleura Resolvont, a powerful Blood Purifier, ie the only purifying agent whioh finds Us way into the circulating fluid and thence through tho oil and sweat glands to the surfaoo of tho akin, thus destroying the poisonous elements with which these vessels have been dally ohsrged. Cutleura, Tho Great Skin Cure, applied exter nally, arrests all unnatural or morbid growths which cover the surface of tho diseased glands and tubes with Scaly, Itohing and Irritating Humors, speedily It removes them, leaving the S ores opsn, healthy and free from diseased par oles of matter. Thus Internally and externally do these great remedies aot In conjunction, performing oures that have astonished the most noted phyeiciani of the day. SALT RHEUmToR 30 YEARS On the Head, Face and Greater Part of tho Body, Cured. Meiers. Weeks & Potter: Gontlomon—I have boon a great eufferor with Salt Rheum for 80 years, commencing In my head and faoe and extending over the greater part of my body. I have taken gallons of medioines for the blood of different kindi and tried good phyelelans, all ef which did me no good, and I eame to the eonclu- aton that I could not be enrod. Bnt a friend oalled my attention to an article in the Union on skin diseaees, and I got a box of Cutioura. The first application was a great relief, and tho third took the aoales all off, and I felt like a new man. I have used three 60-cent boxes and my skin Is smooth, and I ooniider myself en tirely ourod. Hoping that this may be seen by some one ifflieted as I have been (If there is any) Is my earnest wish. And I cheerfully reo- ' it to all persons afflicted with like dis- ommend eases. II P Y< ours trulyi B. WILSON LORD. Agawam, Mail., Sept. 9,1878. The Outioura Soap ahculd be uaad for oleans- ing all diseased surfaces, aa most aoaps aro in jurious to the skin. . LEPROSY. A Modern Miracle. Astonishing Results from the Use of CUT1CURA. Messrs. Weeks A Potter t Gentlemen —We have a ease of Leprosy in our poorhouio whioh Is being oured by your Cutioura remedies. The county had employed all of our doctors and had sent to Hew York for ad vice, but to no avail. The patient commenced using the Cutioura and Immediately began getting better. He had been confined to his bed for two and one-half years. Had not had hta olothos on doting this timo. Last week he dressed for the firet time. Whon he walked there would at least ono quart of soales como off of him. This happened every day. We think it la a wonderful euro. We do not say he Is oured, but ho is In a fair way to be oured, to say the least. Yours truly, DUNHING BROTHERS, Druggists and Bookiellers. Allegan, Mich., Feb. 11, 1870. Hon.—Messrs. Dunning Brothers are thor oughly reliable gentlemen, and were unknown to ua prior to the receipt of this letter. We firmly believe this Cutioura will permanently cure this very severe ease of Leprosy, as it hss dono many others. Propared by Weeks A Potter, Chemists and Druggista, 360 Washington Street, Boston, Maes., and for aale by all Druggists and Dealers. Price of Coiionni, small boxes, 60 cents; Urge boxes containing two and one-half times the quantity of small, $1. RasoLvxiiT, $1 per bottle. Coti- cura Soap, 26 cants per eake; by mail, 80 eents; 3 c&kss, 76 eenta. f'OLUNei Rheumatism, Heuralgia, Wo » k “ d Bor# Lun « , > VOLTAIC Boom Coughs and Colds, Weak Baok. Stomach aud Bowels, **nSTEVva Dyspasia, Shooting Pains through the Loins and Back, Spasma or Pita, and Nervous, Muscular and Spinal Affections, rollovcd and cured when evory other plaster, liniment, lotion and eleotrleal appliance rails. ■epOtwwlm “P. O. P.” “Fill of PerfectionIt in a hard “Pill” for the Old-Time Setvlng Machine Companies to take, bnt When the WHITE MACHINE comes in direct Com petition with them they are obliged to haul in their old Machines. They don’t find any second hand, made over White Machines, neither can you buy a White on two or three years time. They are sold for Cash, or on short time, at lowest possible jirlce. They are so constructed that Ihc Lost Motion in all the wearing parts caused from long and constant use can be taken up by the single turning of. a screw, there fore they are obliged to outlast any olliet' Machine not provided with this necessary device, Statements of Agents of other Maohines to the Contrary Notwithstanding. Tlioy have more space under the arm, and aro tho lightest running Machine made. Therefore pay no attention to what others say hut try them yourself aud huy the White if you want the best. For sale by jui2i twwti E. C. HOUGH, Borne, 6a. 1879. SPRING & SUMMER TRADE. 1879. New Goods. Fine Goods. MRS. T. 13 WILLIAMS, M ILLUVER, No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. T HAHKIHG MY MAHY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATROHAGE GIVEN ME in the past, I am proud to say that I am hotter prepared to attend to their wants than evsr before. I have now ln store and to arrive Bonnets, Hats, Flowers, Plumes, Silkr, Velvots, Plushes, Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Goods, ” ‘ ‘ “ * S arson in the northern markets. dono with good material by oxporlencod mllllnors before purchasing elaewhoro. Zephyrs, Combs, Notions, etc'., etc., which 1 hare selected iti My Goods are in tho Latest Stylos, and I havo my Trimming Call and examine my goods and gel my prices (ootl7 tw wtf HARDY, BOWIE & CO., VHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS, BROAD STREET, ROME, GA. WE CARRY IH STOCK RUBBER BELTING, 3 ply, 2, 2 1-2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7 and 8 inches; “ “ 4 ply, 8, 10, 12 and 14 inches. RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches. *©“StrictIy Best Goods Made. HEMP PACKING—MANILLA ROPE—LACE LEATHER—CUT LACINGS— VPRIGHT NHL SAWS—CROSS CUT SAWS— ONE MAN CROSS CUT SAWS—SAW SWAGES—FILES—BELT RIVETS—FINE HAMMERS— WRENCHES, cte., making Complete Line of Mill Furnishings, OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT. COMMON SENSE VIEWS FOREIGN LANDS. BY M. DWINELL. T .. „ ... . Pages, now ready for sals, if well printed on good paper and noatty bound In muslin. It embraces a series of Letters writlon from the moat Interesting oltlea of Southern Europe; from Alexandria, Cairo and the Pyramids, In Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beth any, Mount of Olivos, Jericho, River Jordan, Dead Baa, Ae, In Palestine; Smyrna and An- oient Ephesus, In Syria; from Constantinople, Vienna, Switsorland, Ae., in Europe. Also, a series from the Western part of America, from Omaha to San Franeiaeo and including a vl.it to the famous Yosemite Falls. This Volume vrill bo sent by mall, (roe of postage, on receipt of $1 50. Address CouRisa OfSco, Rome, Ga., or it nan bo brught at tho Book Stores. OLDEST AND BEST DR. J. BRADFORD’S Liver & Dyspeptic Medicine This is a Prompt and Certain Cure for all Diseases of the Liver Such as Dyspepsia, Headache, Chills and Fever, &c. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY CASE, OR MONEY RETURNED. FOR SALE BY DRUCCISTS GENERALLY. J. a. YEISER, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Garden Seeds, &c., Sole Proprietor, Home, Ga. R. T. Hoyt, Wholesale and Retail Agent for Rome, Go. febttwwly It. T. HOYT. II. D, COTflRAN New York, Sept. 12.-Ex-Gov. John T. Hoffman has resigned the office of Sachem of the Tammany Society an' says he will support the Robinson Stai ticket. ROBERTSON, TAYLOR k CO., SUCCESSORS TO QE0. W. WILLIAMS & CO., COTTON FACTORS WHOLESALE GROCERS, — AND - GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 1 & 3 HavneSt., Charleston, S. 0., WILL GIVE ALL BtfBINESB TIlElB MO$T CAREFUL ATTENTIOH. onuints or Cotton Solicited. jullAtw.tm HOYT & COTHRAN, Wholesale Druggists, ROME, GEORGIA, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS, INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats to arrive.) Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures. jullOtwwtf ALBIN OMBERG, Bookseller, Stationer&Printer TVo. 33 Broad Street* Has just received a Large Stock CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC. 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