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Pennsylvania Correspondence
Ligonieu Valley, Pa., )
Deo. 22,1879. I
Editor Courier:—That celebrated
political tramp and intellectual fraud,
U. S. Grant, paid the city of Pittsburg
a flying visit oa Saturday, the 13th
inst. In the evening "a grand ovation ,
was given, at which time the ex-Prosi?
dent, as usual, made a grand display of
his pedantry in the shape of a speech,
which, according to the most approved
Radical authority, lasted about a min
ute and a half, We have had the dis
tinguished honor of reading that effort,
and to say that it was eloqueDt, master-
ly and statesmanlike is but a feeble ex
pression of the facts in the case. He
gushingly refers to hits exploits during
the war, and tells how he saved the
conntry since its close ; all of which
will, of course, be endorsed by every
body. The machine, on the evening of
the 13th, was run by one Moore, a po
litical renegade whom the people of
Mississippi know something about. He
has been on every side of every question
known to American politics, always
choosing the side he imagines to be the
strongest. The question of right or
wrong never troubles him. The same
remark will apply to all men who have
no conscience. When the war broke
out he was at Port Gibson, in the State
of Mississippi, and was at the time a
fust-class “Rebel,” but when the con
quering “hero” who heads the article
under the cognomen of “the great
tramp,” invested Vicksburg, Moore con
cluded that the time for another “vibra
tion” had arrived. Accordingly he fouud
way into the Federal lines where ho
had
an interview with Grant, who final
ly gave him a pass to come north with
his Umily, which he promptly did. It
*111 not bo difficult, therefore, to see
the point in selecting Moore to “run the
Machine ’ at the Grant reception at the
city of Pittsburg. A mau more thor
oughly qualified for the placo could not
ave been found. The demonstration
etween him and the boorish monkey
“o introduced was truly affecting.
‘ (rare praised Grant, and Grant praised
• core, and a more fulsome demonstra-
ll °nwas never made in Pittsburg or
anywhere else. Many tears were shed
“ b °thors us to know what the
P E0 pie wore bawling about. They
,T P robab ly thinking of the thous-
18 of brave men who had fallen by
e ss-ofd conquering heiQ „ then
last m lr ( “‘ ds L t and whora the y bad at
di ffl ? ln tbe flesb - It is much more
i«uh °. C r je0 !l lr0VVhat wiU b0 the
object T1 h T • °! atlon8 ” tb an their
the n be datra has been setup by
MS 1 ^ authorities that these demon
of the
great soldier and statesman.” If
of the ^iatinguisbed services 1
ROME, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING* DECEMBER 30, 1879.
wo events wh ok cinot take place
next year. Gra tcan either be elected
’Hint 1 in.” The dem
onstrations madoy t a Radical leaders
during the laBt ytr, < pccially, and the
efforts Of all paloti men, including
the Democratic adc s, to counteract
them, reminds i ft rcibly of a fable
we once read whjin i lion and a jack
ass made a contrt to go out on a hunt
ing expedition, 'he contract was as
follows: The jaass was to scare up
100 the game and, iposfeible, bring it to
bay, when the lie wis to slay it and
to divide equally ih the jackass. With
this understanding two started out
together. Pretty (on they came to a
coal bank. The jka s entered, kicked
uphisheelB and bredjvigorously. Some
two or three goatwliich were inside
shading at the tim rto out, frightened
half to death. T1 4>n had taken a
position at the entmd, and no sooner
had the goats come it an he promptly
settled the hash { e h one of them
with a blow of his iw. About this time
the jaokass camejul and coolly re
marked, “Didn’t I o ii That’s the way
I always do. It’s y t Tible voice, you
know.” The lioner gravely replied
as follows: “Yes, mi i so; and had it
not been for the fa: t it it occurred to
me that it was onl. a ackass, I would
have been frightetd s badly os the
goats.”
The above is the ill. Your readers
can make the appjiiatn. It contains
a fine moral. By ^atf assisting your
readers in the solution! this problem,
we will just remant U the lion is the
Democratic party | anfce jackass the
Radical.
In conclusion, a woconoerning the
African impor'ation dje. The work
of importing the neginto the close
States of the North is r going brave
ly on. At the earn'ate that this
enterprise has beep gq forward for
the last few months, th will be Afri
cans enough in all the so States here
to carry them for theadical party,
uoless steps are taken: expose and
prevent the fraud. Thioor ignorant
daTkies are promised a ft thing” of it
if they will only comfiorth. Very
tempting inducements - held out to
them. They aro promii homes, mon
ey and other means of aking a good
living. It is hardly neciry to remark
that all this is but one the many low
tricks of the Radical lews. The- col
ored people are wanted 'o to vote ipr
Grant—nothing more, ning less; and
just as soon as the eleoti is over they
can go to the devil, forv.tthe Repub
lican party cares. If thilored people
will take the advice o friend, they
will stay where they a The worst
form of slavery that evetisted at the
South, or anywhere elds mild and
preferable to the abject jequiousness
the Radical leaders requat the hands
of the colored people the South.
Everybody knows that theople of this
section—especially thoseio constitute
at present a majority of tRepublican
party—were always grong and show
ing their teeth, before t war, about
“human slavery.” Let u:k this ques
tion : Which is the mi honorable,
to buy and sell the coloreace for the
promotion of honest labior for the
promotion of political end-“Wo pause
for a reply.” Every Africaf sufficient
age who at present finds-lway north
of Mason & Dixon’s line,, in every
sense of the word, as roughly a
slave as any representative his race
ever was. Let the coloredeoplo take
warning, be duped by le hollow
promises of designing men more, and
remain where they are. t Radical
leaders have nothing foriern to do
here but vote the Radicaljcket, after
which they can go and stu».
We now close with a huih for Bay
ard and Hendricks, which i»ur ticket.
Riston e.
The Radicals’ Winter of Dis
content.
Hie Excltcmcut in Maine,
The Radicals Prefer War to
Count.”
Bangor, Me., December 25.—Much
excitement was created here to-day by
reports of the intended removal of arms
and ammunition from the State arsenal
to the depot for transportation to Augus
ta. About 5 o’clock, p. m., two truck
teams loaded with arms and ammuni
tion were stopped on the Kenduskeog
bridge by a crowd which rapidly in
creased to a throng that filled the streets,
declaring that the arms should never
be carried out of the city. Mayor
Brown demanded of the teamster or
ders under which he was acting. No
satisfactory answer was given at first.
A young man named French, appeared
who said he was a clerk in the adjutant-
general’s office and was moving tbe arms
to Augusta under order from the Gov
ernor. The excitement of the populace
was greatly increased by this statement
and the crowd attempted to unharness
the horses. The mayor told French he
had not force enough to guarantee the
safety of the munitions. If an attempt
to remove them was persisted in while
the people wore excited, he would take
no responsibility for the trouble that
might ensue. Mr. French decided it
was best to return the arraB to the ar
senal rather than to incur the hazard of
a riot, and the mayor furnished police
to protect them on their return. The
public excitement was increased by a
report that J.-L. Smith, the Greenback
candidate lor Governor, S. W. Haskins,
the fusion Indian agent and Major M.
M. Folsom, of Oldtown, were closeted
at the Penobscott exchange during the
day, the Major Folsom appeared on the
ground after the team had turned back,
and told Clerk French that he made a
mistake in not pushing through to the
depot, and urged him to change his or
der for their return to the arsenal. Mr.
French, however, was unwilling to as
sume the responsibility of a collision
with the populace. The excitement is
at fever heat throughout the city.
A special dispatch from Bangor to
the Boston Herald says: The escape
from bloodshed was very narrow. Ad
jutant-General Leavitt will arrive here
to-mofrow. What action will be taken
is not known. It is well known that
the Republicans are forming a secret
military association, and threats have
been made that they would seize the arms
in the arsenal.
A Boston dispatch gives particulars
of the meeting held in Augusta, Tues
day evening, to express confidence in
Governor Garcelon and council. It was
an orderly and large and enthusiatic
audience. The first speaker was Gen
eral Sewell Lancaster, a venerable law
yer of that city, but full of the legal
knowledge requisite for a correct pre
sentation of the case. He cited prece
dents which went back fifty years, and
showed how, on the most trivial techni
cality, Democratic candidates can be
counted out and their opponents seated.
Mr. E. R. Pierce, a slight, nervous man,
was next called upon. He was a Repub
lican twenty years, he said, and only
left them on account of the financial
question. He discussed the prospects
of a new rebellion, and remarked that
the men who started the rebellion in
the South in I860 began just as the Re
publican agitators of Maine have begun
—by indignation meetings, “First came
th6 whisperings of treason, next it was
boldly spoken or written, and finally
Sumter was fired upon. The leaders
who encouraged tbe indignation meet
ings in South Carolina, like their breth
ren in Maine, stayed in the background,
and when they only wanted to produce
a nolitical effect drew a revolution
down on their heads. We responded
in 1860 to the call to support the const!
tution not to decide which one was
right. We will do the same now. We
will sustain our State government
against all treasonable assaults, and
shed our blood ns we did twenty years
ago.” This was the first sound of a no
tice that resistance would bo met by re
sistance, and it was loudly cheered.
Next came E. F. Pillsbury, a leading
U>mocrat, Mr. Pillsbury was warmly
greyed, and he made a very strong and
a ver>,ig D ificant speech. He defended
the Gov^ nor an d council, and declared
for them na t everything they did w..s
constitution j aQ( j sustained by the
ablest legal ta-„ t 0 f t h e State, including
decisions by tn- supreme court. “Do
thivff exDect that G—_ rnor Garcelon will
intend to fight; they are only howling
to divert attention from the facts of the
ca it? - They are afraid tho opposition
will got control of all the State machin
ery and report their iniquities to the
P e ?P e- .That’s the real purpose of the
indignation meetings. They aiso want
to assist in the election of a son of
Maine to the Presidency. And above
all, they want to cover up their damna
ble rascalities, of which every man and
woman in the State is fully aware."
Governor Garcelon then appeared in
the hall. The whole audience arose as
if by machinery, and long cheers from
about seven hundred throats rang around
the walls. Order could not be restored
for fully five minutes. When the gover
nor was introduced he received a per
fect ovation. Ho said: “Fellow-citizens,
I came not here to make a speech. I
came to thank you for the evidence you
have given that you will sustain law
and order I came also to nsk your
support as law-abiding, liberty-loving
citizens. In my effort to perform my
constitutional duties I think I may ex
pect it. [Cries of ‘You may.’] I am
confident that if any traitorous had be
raised against the constitution of this
State I shall have tho hearty support of
every loyal man, not only here, but
throughout the length an t breadth of
of this commonwealth. I ask you to
be prudent in act and speech, but if the
time comes when the laws have to be
maintained agaiDst the attacks of a mob,
I want you to be ready to take up arms
in their defense. The constitution and
laws Of Maine must and shall bo pre
served."
Resolutions were then unanimously
adopted approving of the course of the
governor and council. Among the res
olutions was one vigorously denouncing
one-sided and partisan character of the
dispatohea which had been sent off to the
press In reference to tbe action of the gov
ernor and council, and charging that the
agencies employed had been in the hands
of violent republican party managers
who had endeavored to prejudice the
whole oase before the country at large.
Several letters and telegrams from
'leading men it) Bangor, Portland and
elsewhere, promising aid and support to
tho governor, were read and heartily ap
plauded. A series of simular meetings
will be organized throughout the State,
foPowT- g close on the track of the re
publican gathering,‘and between now
and the first Wednesday of January the
State will be in a violent State of excite
ment.
It is a striking fuct that the telegraph
agencies complained of have never sent
forward a word of Governor Garcelon’s
statement in defense of the action of
himself and council, citing the law of
the case and tbe prior decision of the
courts of Maine governing their action.
R. T, HOYT.
II. D. COTHRAN
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,
ROME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF
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INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND.ORCHARD
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jul 10 tw wtf
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A Large and Beautiful As
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INCLUDING THE
LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE STYiES.
Prices Ranging from $1 to $15.
CONSTANTLY RECEIVING ALL THE LATEST
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Silverware, &c.
ALL GOODS SOLD ENGRAVED FREE BY US
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Mill Castings, Fencing, Ac.
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Building Castings
A SPECIALITY.
Office — Railroad Avenue, between
7th and 8th Streets,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
jnn28 tw6m
The Midnight St,
correot - ^ would fur-
how er fiat >sfactory evidence of
people y n; tM U “ t0 humbng tbo
Amsrin. U ls not correct. The
I a »(l DmM P i 80ple have been humbugged
ifiTTh/Y! 11 bea «aln. but nofby
Stratinnc'- ° ' |e , C ! tbeBe Grant dera-
for the eai 181 ° tbe Radical party
,J °notmp Pa ' gn " ext year ‘ I f ‘hoy
i will k lcre ^ r °i he seen what
rltliem ,p, pr ° ( | uoe(1 on the masses
I thing ns® i .l ^ orm *^ ea ' B sorae-
a larr, 6 „ the P eQ P* e > and will require
i t ' U0 . UlU of demonstration to
6idetl >0 IiW Ur i 0r 6van tolerable, out-
Party. r n ?e ri e 6ment ‘ n th ® Radico1
• in our opinion, there ate
Dr. Wendell Prime told tan audi
ence in Association Hall, It night,
some things that he had see. beyond
the Artie Circle off the Coasof Nor
way. He dwelt especially son the
subject of the midnight suna thing
that seems astonishing to theruiud ot
one who has not seen it; but vaith, on
close approach, seemed, the lectito said,
only a trifle eccentric—like otjelsons
who are out at that hour. He ap his
fellow passengers saw the blazing lumi
nary between two firmaments c sky
and water, and as they looked to Leo it
fall, it rose and lost itself bebiii the
olouds. A glance at their watoha told
the travelers then that it was fflittlo
after midnight.
they expect ui>”-^yernor Garcelon will Coffins/Buriai'Robo. and Coffin Trimmings, al-
back down from t^ position he baa way. on hand. Neatest Hearses furnished for
Do they expect if they sh.,jj carr y ou t
their incendiary threats am. j j tate
a civil war that he will no! found
rome steam laundry
James G. Dailey,
WARE-BOOMS,
(On second story)
96 Broad Street.
A FINE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK
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ALSO. DEALER IN
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jul 6 twtrnarlO
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witbperfeC 'adviced you,” continued FL clag8 Work Q uara nteed!
Mr ^PiUaburv, “is to bo very moderate Pncoi . For tormi( npply ttt office,.
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The French chambers are aslid
vote 8,000,000 francs for subterr.nean
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if the danger comes he V-
T - MADD0X ’
attorn. at Law
centres,
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WE CARRY IN STOCK
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8*.e onr New Stylo
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