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Home M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. Courier. “ WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION.’ py SERIES- R0ME » GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 187.9. and Comnmral. ^CONSOLIDATED APRIL 10, 1876. bates of subscriptions. t OH THE WEEKLY. 12 oo due y (,ir , ^ month*. flirt 1 #, month* FOR THE TRI-WEEKLY. One year JJJ Six man Hi* Three month* ,f pa ,j yourly, etrlolly tu advance, llte price „ ( ,|,r Weekly Courier will bo »1 50. CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. OMUMroonomoiitli « 1 00 one square tlirco months 8 00 One square nix month* 12 00 one square twolve months 20 00 Onc-tourth column ouo month T 50 Onc-feurth column three months 15 00 One-fourth column six mouths 27 00 One-fourth column twelve months 50 00 One-half column ouo month 15 00 One-half column tlireo months 27 00 One-half column six months 50 00 One-half column twolve months 80 00 Onecoluran one montl 27 00 One column three months 50 00 one column six months 80 00 Ouecolunm twelve months 120 00 The foregoing rates are for either Weekly or Tri-Wcokly. When published 111 both papers,50 percent, additional upon table rates. Senator Hill’s Views. On the 23d ultimo the editor of tho Rock Islander addressed to sevoral pro minent men in the south the following letter: Rock Island, III., October 23, 1879. -Dear Sir: I will mail to you a copy of my paper of this week, and I respect fully ask that you will read the re marks of mine in an article on the pro posed Yorktowu centennial. Something should be done at once by southern leaders of public opinion to counteract the efforts of republicans who ate endeavoring to make a solid north on the idea that state rights means seces sion ; that there is no freedom of speech or of the press in the south; and that the south has been solid by means of iho shot-gun. Will you briefly give me your views as to the southern sentiment on these points for publication? South ern men should take every occasion to enlighten public opinion in the north on these points. Very respectfully yours, J. D. Danfortii. ANSWER FROM U. S. SENATOR BEN HILL. Atlanta, Ga,, November 12, 1879.— Mr. J, B. Danforth, editor of the Rock Islander, Rock Island, Illinois—Dear Sir: Your very kind letter of October 23d was received some time since, but absence has delayed an answer. ( I also received the number of 11 Tho Hook Islander,” and read your article on the proposed Yerktown centennial with interest. I read with still greater interest your article on state rights in the same paper. The view you there present of state tights is so clear and correct though in so tew words—that I do not see that Anything can bo added. Ido not KM la ye thcro is a man of in telligence in all the South who now ad heres to the doctrine of secession. It is utterly abandoned. Before the war so- ccs-ion was an open question. Being s°, its allirmanco or denial then could hot be treason. But by the war seces sion has become a closed question. This wall admit. It follows that any at- tempt to re-assert secession would nec essarily be treasonable. The attempt by Republican speakers "'I papers during the late campaign to ntound secession with state rights was e moat witnuml exhibition of ignor- . or deceit or both ever seen in any nJ r ? Tersy- No man con keep his n tosupport the constitution and de- J to the states the right to exorcise the P era not delegated to tho general but which were expressly rved. in that constitution itself. ... 18 jSbt to oxoroise these expressly fi ed poiTer8 h 811 wo racan h y state cession h8 lT f °Ution whatever to se- di, t j„ n : Lb 0 powers reserved are as , lW . , a .’ u I as constitutional as the able f 1 °' e 3 ate d. It is just as treason- mum ° r 110 K enera l government to it a ? 8 P°"' 0 r reserved to tho states as of' '“’estates t0 resist tho exercise governmmlt ted P ° Wet hy the generftl tnil h ;t S / CC 7? ioni ' ts committed the latter gri nl m 5 ut lhe y bad tho teachings of gensrntu 1 ln . ever y se °l' on and in every constitn?/ 1 ’ BU ’ C0 t’ 1 ” adoption of the Tho T) lon \ l ,? P'cad as their authority. , aistake~H U H IO r a " 3 are making the first the Mn 1 of usurping supervision of ej nnw a government over tho reserv- NOW nrT 8 0f th ® StateB - Indeed they they o., P r° 80 1° destroy those powers, or lay onn d them with secession and Now y ,L real . read y destroyed, urns in 'V. 8 n °I single respectable El ructinn° Ur ,‘? tor y 10 sustain this con It i a a 1,,,,, 0 'aim of the Republicans. Apr] ” attempt to destroy the States u j urdtm - It is Bought to be -, u ,,“P“ 8he d tinder cover of the pas- ^ s Pbhlir? endered b y the war. If the team, a , a 8 succeed in this new at- destrov dl8gu ' 8 °d revolution, they will more ofr 8 y a tem of government far could -5 y than the secessionists bad si,„„ 6 ,'VlA e - If the secessionists ’"’alcls.iif^ the Northern States Cf, verii,„„ ‘ lS ”t.had free constitutional m - But if (he Republicans succeed neither North or South will have such government. All will pass under the yoke of that despotism which is so significantly heralded under the demand for ‘‘a strong government.” • I trust that the discussions now to be had will show the Northern people the immeasurable difference between State rights and secession, and thereby save our constitutional system of limited otate and Federal government from nnal and disastrous overthrow. Equally wicked, though not so dan gerous, is the Republican charge that the South has been made solid by the shot-gun. This is simply a disgrace- fill untruth. The South has been made solid by the polioy of the Republican party, and the ’'shot-gun” slang is re sorted to for no purpose but to hide the truth from the masses of the Northern people. The Republicans have made the South solid by unmitigated wrong upon the Southern people, and are now seek- ing to make the North solid by unmiti gated slanders of their victims. Wo havo bad men in the South. You have bad men in the North. But tho greatest criminals iu either section are those men who teach the people of one section to hate and distrust the people of another section of our common country. If the Republican party will let alone the issues settled hy the war and treat them as settled, and will cease to mal treat, slander aud raalign the Southern peoplfl, and will thus allow parties to form on economic and proper political questions, the people of the South, like all other people, will divide. This whole matter must be decided by the intelligence ot the Northern peo ple. If they are unable to see the very plain motives of the Republican lead ers and papers in keeping alive the sec tional passions and issues, or if they are unwilling to rebuke those motives, we shall have a solid North against a solid South, and very soon a solid depotism for all. We, of the South, sincerely abandon secession and slavery, aud are doing all in our power to improve the freedmau into an intelligent, good citizen. While the Republicans had control in Georgia neither white nor black could accumu late property. But since the Republi cans were expelled from control, the blacks of Georgia have accumulated nix millions of property, and under their own oaths return over five millions for taxation, including over five hun dred thousand acres of land! When the Republicans had control in Georgia neither whites nor blacks could obtain free education, for all the school fund was diverted—in plain words, stolen. As soon as the Republicans were ex pelled from control in Georgia, whites and blacks alike and in equal propor tions began to be educated at the pub lic expense. In 1878 over seventy-two tnousand colored children wero in school at the public expense in Georgia, and the sohool-commiasiouer thinks that the number in 1879 will reach over ninety thousand 1 You may search the whole earth and all tho ages in vain for benefits to the colored race equal to those I give you from the offioial records in Georgia. In the face of such facts is it necessary to use the shot-gun to induce the colored people to veto tho Democratic ticket? In -the face of such official facts will the Northern people still believe the reckless demagogues who slander and abuse the Southern people ? I repeat, we of the South accept, the results of the war in good faith. We will soon recover from all the losses of the war if Republican rogues and slan derers will permit us to do so. We are strongly in favor of preserving and per petuating to our children our constitu tional system of Federal and. State governments. We do not believe a better system can ever be devised for this country. But sectional despotism accomplished by sectional slanders and administered in sectional hate is the very worst form of all possible despot ism. We are opposed to any more civ il wars for any purpose, oven to main tain liberty. If sectional despotism maintained through sectional malignity cannot be otherwise avoided, we will respond to an honest proposal to change our system fiorn a free to a strong government, peaceably aud regu larly. It will better-inexpressibly better for the Southern peoplo to be governed by a wise, able and just man as empe ror and king, than by an infuriated mob under the lead of a narrow, sensational, sectional demagogue as President. Will intelligence save or will monop oly destroy our constitutional system of government. Tins is the question. Tho North must answer, ana the South abide the answer, be it what it may, insisting only that tho peace be preserved. You can do as you please with this letter as I am a public man full of earn est desires for the public good, en tirely without secrete in my public opinions, and without shackles in utl ing them. Yours very trul^ ^ Rights in the Road, If a farm is bound by, on or upon a road it usually extends to the middle ofthe roadway. The farmer ownB the soil of half the road, and may use the grass, trees, stones, gravel, sand or any thing of value to him, either on the land or beneath the surface, subject only to the superior rights of the public to travel over the road, and that of the highway surveyor to use such materials for,the repair of the road; and these ma terials he may cart away and use else where on the road. No other man has a right to feed his cattle there, or cut the grass or trees, much less deposit his wood, old carts, wagonB or other things thereon.—8 Met. 576, 8 Allen, 473, 1 Pa. St., 336. The owner of a drove of cattle which stops to feed in front of your land, or of a drove of pigs which root up the soil, is responsible to you at law. as the ho fl V mu »* hav ? i 1 tc ^ aand i " it » tod . h >“ .L J . “ a groat deal, ae bo f cratebod Iho surface *11 Iho McMinnville, Teun., is making a good start as a manufacturing town. It has now a large spoke and handle ‘“ tor / a cotton mill, two woolen nulla, an iron foundry, two fermture factorms, marble works, wagon shops and lum her and flouring mills- (Ijticura REMEDIES Haro speedily and permanently cured Ilumora of tho Bkin and Scalp of Children and Iolanta aflliotodolnceblrth. Tho treatment proscribed In such casoa is mild doses ol the CuriccR* Resolvkkt, a perfectly s&fo yet powerful blood purifier, and the external uso of Cuticura, the great Bkin oure. Tho Cu- ticura Soap should bo tho only soap appllod to the disoaaed skin for cleansing purposes. HUMOR oFa CHILD. Since Itirth Cured, tiller faithful Medical Treatment bad I'title' 1 Messrs. Weeks A Bolter: dontlomon—My little ion, two yoars of ago, has had a humor on one aide of his face sines he was born, which during the last tour months has spread over the entire aide of the face, tho ohin, oar and aids of much as if they did the same things within the fence. No children have a right to pick up the apples under your trees, although the same stand wholly outside your fence. No private person has a right to cut or lop off the limbs of your trees in order to move his old barn or other buildings along the high way, (4 Cush., 437), and no traveler can hitch his horse to your trees in the Bide walk being liable, if he gnaws the bark or otherwise injures them.—54 M., 460. If your well stands partly on your laud and partly outside the fence, no neighbor can use it except by your per mission. Nay more, no man has a right to stand in front of your land and in sult you with abusive language without being liable to you for tresspassing on your land (2 Barb., 330). He has a light to pass and repass in an orderly aud becoming manner; a right to use the road, but not to abuse it. But notwith standing the farmer ownB the soil of the road, even he cannot use it for any pur pose whioh interferes with the use of it by the public for travel. He cannot put his pig-pen, wagons, wood or other things there, if the Highway Surveyor orders them away os obstructing public travel. If ho leaves such things out side his fence, and within the limits of the highway as actually laid out, though some distance from the traveled path, and a traveler runs into them in the night and is injured, the owner is not only liable to him for private dam ages (15 CoDn., 225), but may also bo indicted and fined for obstructing a public way. And if he has a fence or wall along the highway be must place it all on hiu own land, and not half on the road, as in cose of division fences between neighbors (4 Gray, 225). But as he owns the soil, if the road is discon tiaued, or located elsewhere, the land reverts to him, and he may enclose it to the centre and use it ns a part of his farm.—Judge Bennett. Tilden’s Joke on Dorsheimer. When Mr. Tilden, in 1874, was nom inated for Governor of New York, Mr, Dorsheimer received the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor. The ticket thus headed was elected generally by about 50,000 majority. A little knot of Germans in New York city, who usual ly voted the Republican ticket, took Mr. Dorsheimer, from his name, to bo a German, and scratched their State ticket in his favor, so that he had a ma jority of nearly 53,000. One day, after Mr. Tilden and Mr. Dorsheimer had been inaugurated, they met at a politic al breakfast at the former’s house in Gramaoy park. Mr. Tilden had always felt a little sore at Mr, Dorshoimer’s extra majority, and so when in the.cur- rent of conversation Mr. Dorsheimer itingly said: “Well, Governor, you must remem ber that I had 3,000 moro majority than you—” As quick as a flash Mr. Tilden re- torted: “Yes, you supplied the 3,000 and I lent you the50,000.”—Scribner’s Month ly- • ^ He Lived on $1,500. A great deal has been written about the possibility of living on $800 a year aud upward. There is a young man in Ingersoll, Outario, who has been de monstrating what can be done on n, limited salary. He was a teller in Mol. son’s bank. He received something like $1,500 a year. Yet ho kept up a great deal of stylo on this sum. He lived in a fine house, kept a fast team, had a coachman and two servants, en tertained his friends sumptuously, and lived in a manner that quite extin guished all the complaints made about the impossibility of living luxuriously on a small salary. It is impossible to continue his interesting experiments m the matter, but the fact is that he is that he is now under arrest for embez- zliog sums from the bank during the last few years, that aggregate $20,000 — Detroit Free Press. Philadelphia Ledger: “In Louisiana, yes. In Maine, no. It seems to be conceded unanimously in this part ot ♦ho country that, while stealing the vote of a State by counting in the defeated parly may be tolerated in Louisiana and such far-off places, it will not do at all for the State of Maine. We o.on’t be- liove any such thing can be done in Maine, but all the same it is a good op portunity for excursions to ‘visiting statesmen.’ ” time, no matter what was applied. I used many romedies by advise of friends and my physician without benefit until I found Cuticuha. which immodiatoly allayed the itching and infl tarna tion, and entirely cured him. Ronpootfully, JOHN L. SURRY, With Walworth Manufacturing Co. Bjston, April 15, 1878. Noth—Once cured, tho zkin may be rendored soft and fair by uulng Cuticura Poap for toilet or nursery purposes. CHILDREN AND INFANTS. More Cures of Skin and Scalp Affections by the Cuticura Remedies, Fred. Fohrer, Esq., Cashier Stock Growora* Na tional Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes: “I am so well pleased with its effects on my baby that I cannot afford to be without it in my houie. It is a wonderful euro, and !o bound to booome very popular as soon as its virtues are known to the maizes.” J. B. Weeks, Esq, Town Treasurer, St. Alban«| Vt., says in a letter dated May 28s “Jt works to a charm on my baby'* face and head. Cured tho head entirely, and has nearly cleaned the face of sores. I b&vo rooommonded it to several, and Dr. Plant has ordered it for them.” M. M. Chick, Esq., 41 Franklin Bt., Boston, says: “My little daughter, nighteen months old, has what the doctors cull Eczema. We have tried 'most everything an i at last havo used Cu- ricuRA, and she is almost a rew child and we feel very happy.” pricklFhbat. Incidental to the Texan Climate. Messrs Weeks Sc Potter.* Gentlemen—En closed please find ono dollar for a large box of Cuticura. The small ono that I resolved some time ago has been very efficacious, especially in Prickl) Heat or Rash, as somo people call it. I am noising it about- Yours truly, THOMAS W. BUCKLEY. Macon, Texas, Sept. 22, 1878. Cuticura is a most valuable external applies tion. It hon's all cuts, bruises and abrasions of tho skin, restores the hair when destroyed by Bcalp diseases, removes dandruff and keeps the scalp clean and tho hair soft and pliable. It is as tgreeable as it is effective, and is ably assisted in overy case by the Cuticura 8oap, which is par ticularly rocommondod to mothers for cleansing the skin and scalp of infants and children. It is Toilet ee well as Meiicinal. and is tho most fra grant and refreshing Soap f ir tho nursery and bath of any yot prepared. Paronts havo our assurance that those retuo dies contain nothing injurious to tl o youngest Infant, evidences ot which may bo found in tho certificates of Dr. Hayes and Prof. Merrick nc companying ouch remedy. Tho CuTicnaA Remedies aro prepared by Weeks A Potter, Chemists and Druggists, 3fi0 Washington Btroot, Boston, and aro for s lo by all Druggiets. Pri w of Cuticura, small boxes 50 cents; large boxo?, con’oiniDg two aud one- half times tho quantity of small, .>i. Kbsoi.vsnt $1 por b>ttle. Cuticura Soap, 25 cents; by mail, 30 cents; 3 c.ak«s, 76 conts They destroy nil tendency to inflammation by drawing VOLTAIC BajEilCTBlOlrom the p.vBtoin morbid or Pi AcstunwhoicBtitn matter, thus preventing or enring Rheu matism, Neuralgia, and Sciatica. Worn over the •it of the Stomach, they prevent Ague and l.ivtr ’ains, rnfiimimatiou of the Liver and Ki tnoys, Bilious Colic, Dyspepsia, Indigtuiion. Cramps, aud Pains. nov7twwlm R. T. HOYT. FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL 19, NO. 1 II. D. COTHRAN HOYT & COTHRAN, Wholesale Druggists, ROME, GEORGIA, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD 0? 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 No. 33 Broad Street, Has just received a Large Stock CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER. WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.n®! In cunnoctinn with our Immense stock, we have added a Milline ry Depart monk, where will always bo found a full line ot F&l) and Winter Stylci, em bracing Trimmed and Untrirntnod Shapes in Biraw and Foil Hots. 8 e our New Stylo Pattern Hats. Tbia department will be under the control of Mish ABB1B WEBB, assisted by Mua. E. BURNETT, who will bo pleaaed to see all of their frfonds Will con- Rtantly receive nil of the Latest .Novelties as they appear. GREAT OPENING — OF THE — CRYSTAL PALACE, 13 Shorter Block. U STORE! NEW GOODS! NEW STYLES IN DRESS GOOD*, CASH MERES, ALPACAS, LARGE VARIETY CHEAP DRESS GOODS, IMMENSE ASSORTMENT SHAWLS, CLOAKS REPELLANTS, LADIES’ UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS, CANTONS AND DO MESTICS, JEANS, CASSIMKHES, BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES Separata departments for Clothing, Boots, Shoos and Hats. Complote stoolc Gent’s Fur nishing Goods. DAVIS & CO. ootU tw wtt Call & nil ass our line of Glove* tefore buying. The cheap- c,t lino of Thtoe- Button Kid Gloves in the city, that wo war- rent. Ladles’ Neek Wear, Tlei, Bows, Bilk and Lace Fia- ohua, Collar* and Cuff*, Linen and Bilk Uandkercbi.f*, Hatnbuigi, Ribbon*, Hosiery anti Ltdio*’ Linen. Laec* ol all kind*, Corieta, lire** Trimming*, and ev erything usually kept in a first el*** Dry Good* House. Clocks! Tick! Tick! Tick! ALLEN & McOSKER.. COLLIN S * J. T. CAIIILL, MANUFACTURER OF IR0l\ and brass castings, HOLLOWWABE, GRATES, Hill Castings, Fencing, &c. Architectural Work . -AND- Building Castings A SPECIALITY. Office — Railroad Avenue, between 7th and 8th Streets, Chattanooga, Tenn. jun28 twfira James G. Dailey, UNDERTAKER’S WARE-ROOMS, (On sec >ml story) 96 Broad Street. JUST RECEIVED A Large and Beautiful As sortment of Clo: s, INCLUDINCI THE LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE STYLES. Prices Banging from $1 to $16. CONSTANTLY RECEIVING ALL THE LATEST AND MOST NOBBY STYLES OF BRIDAL PRESENTS, FINE JEWELRY, Silverware, &c. ALL Q00DS SOLD ENGRAVED FREE BY US. 8fp9 twwtf 1879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879. ———O' ■ --- New Goods. Fine Goods. MRS. T. B. WILLIAM S, IVK ILLiHVEIR, No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. 'PHANItlNG MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME 1 in th. past, I am proud to aar that I am hotter prepared to attend to their want* than ever before. I have new in (tore and to arrlvo Doiinote, Hat*, Flower*, Flame*, Bilk*, Velvet*, Pluahc*, Ribbons, Ornament*, Hair Good*, Ztphyrs, Comb*, Notion*, etc., etc., which I havo (elected in person in tho Northore market*. My Good* are in the Lateit Stylo., end I hove my Trimming douo with good material by experienced milliner*. Call end examine my good* and get my price* before purchasing elaowhore. (-totlT tw wtf A FINE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK of Metallic, Walnut. Grained and Stained Coffin*, Burial Robee and Coffin Trimmings, ai- wav* on hand. Neatcet Hoaraes furniahod for funeral* All order* filled with dispatch, day or night. Residonco, corner Court und King street*. ALSO. DEALER IN Flattery is a sort of bad money to I FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS. whioh nnr vanity gives currency. | jui5 twtmarif. HARDY, BOWIE & CO., WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS BBOAI) STREET, HOME, GA. WE CARRY IN STOCK RTTBBEB BELTING. 3 ply, 2, 2 1-2. 3, 4, 6, 6, 7 and 8 inches “ “ 4 ply, 8, 10, 12 and 14 incheB. RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches. iSyStrictly Best Goods Made. HEMP PACKING—MANILLA ROPE—LACE LEATHER—CUT LACINGS— UrRIGIIT MILL SAWS—CROSS CUT SAWS—ONE MAN CROSS CUT SA WS-SAW SWAGES-FILES-BELT RIVETS—FINE HAMMERS- . \ WRENCHES, tf-c., making Complete Line of Mill Furnishing OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RICHT. mnrd tw *vl