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TILDEN and REFORM
vs.
Hayes and Plunder
THE REFORMER ELECTED,
t —
THE CRITICAL SITUATION.
GRANT’S BAYONETS GLEAMING,
Tilden’s Friends Appealing
for Peace and Honesty.
Florida and South Carolina
Democratic.
Louisiana Will Come to the Front All 0. K.
Noon Dispatches.
The New York l*re<
Washington, Nov. 10.—'The New
York Tribuneand {Times claim Hayes’
election. The Herald is in doubt.
The World and Sun claim Tilden’s
election positively.
FLORIDA.
New Yolk. —Nov. 10. —A Western
Union bulletin, dated Lake City,
Nov. -9th midnight, says : “The
Jacksonville Press will issue a leader
to-morrow giving Florida a Demo
cratic majority of 1638, prepared by
experienced men, and based on relia
ble returns and carefully computed
estimates.”
Washington, D. C. Nov JO.—Wes
tern Uhion bulletin:
Lake City, Nov. 9 11:30 p, m.—
The steamboat referred to reached
Palatka at 11 p. m., with returns from
St. John’s river, showing increased
Democratic majorities. It is conce
ded by the best informed that the
State will give at least 1,700 majority
for Tilden.
New Yobk, Nov. 10.—The follow
ing bulletin is posted at the Herald
office:
Private despatches just received at
Democratic head quarters say that
Florida has gone Democratic.
The Evening Post bulletins the fol
lowing: “The Revenue Collector at
Jacksonville telegraphs that ho is
sure the State Is Republican.”
New York, Nov. 10.—The Herald
bulletin says: “Full returns from 23
counties give Florida to Hayes by
nearly 500 majority. The Republi
cans claim that Hayes will carry the
State by over 1,200. ”
New York, Nov. 10.—Secretary
Chandler received the following dis
patch :
Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 10,1876.
Returns from twenty-three coun
ties give the Republicans 4,500 ma
jority. Thirteen counties to hear
from cannot reduce this majority
below 100.
[Signed] M. Martin,
Chairman Republican Committe.
The following dispatch was also
received:
Tallahassee, Nov. 10.— All quiet in
the State as near as we know. Since
last night the county canvass was
completed in two or three counties.
Jefferson, Madison, Leon, Gadsden
and Duval give §,OOO Republican ma
jority ; a large gain.
[Signed] M. Martin, Ch’n.
The members of the National Com
mittee expressed entire confidence
that Hayes had been elected.
At the Democratic Headquarters in
the Everett House, the Secretary of
the National Committee said that the
dispatches received to-day confirmed
the claims of victory for Tilden.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
New York, Nov. 10.— The Associa
ted Press has received the following
from a source other than its regular
agent:
Charleston, Nov. 10.— This county
gives the Republicans 6,214 majority.
Nearly all the counties heard from
officially or unofficialy give Hamp
ton,Democrat,for Governor 1,213 ma
jority. The Democratic Presidential
ticket is not cut as much as was at
flrst]Bupposed, and it is not believed
that Tilden will fall more than 400 or
or 500 behind Hampton. It does ”ot
appear possible for the Republicans
to overcome the figures above given
from the counties not officially heard
from.
Charleston, Nov. 10.—The latest
revision of returns by News <£• Cour
ier gives South Carolina beyond all
doubt to Tilden and Hampton, by
1,9.00 majority
Barnwell Rhett, of South Carolina,
telegraphed to the Committee this
morning that over and above a liber
al estimate for Republican frauds,
the Democratic Electoral ticket and
Hampton were elected by some 1,200
to 2,000 majority. Ho also said that
a] dispatch from W. Stokes Boyd,
a prominent politician in Florida,
decided that State had gone for Til
den by a majority of 12.
D. Magone, Jr., chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, de
clared his confidence that Louisiana
and Florida had given Democratic
majorities, but was not positive,
though hopeful, in regard to South
Carolina.
Troops Sent to Help the Counting.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 10.— U. S.
troops have been ordered from South
Carolina to Florida. Two companies
stationed at Aiken leave this evening
for Tallahassee.
Wilmington, Nov. 10.—Gen. Sher
man last night received telegrams
from the Secretary of War, who is in
Philadelphia, to order Gen. Ruger to
send as many companies of troops to
Tallahassee, Florida, as could be
spared, and to go himself in person.
Gen. Ruger answered that he had
ordered nine companies, would or
der five more, and would go himself
as ordered.
Gen. Sherman to-day received the
following dispatch from the Presi
dent :
Philadelphia, Nov. 10,1876.
Gen. Sherman, Washington, D. C.:
Send all the troops to Gen. Ruger
that he may deem necessary to in
sure entire quiet and a peaceable
count of the ballots actually cast
—they to be taken from South Car
olina, unless there is reason to sus
pect an outbreak there. The pres
ence of citizens from other States,
understand, is requested in Louisi
ana, to see that the Board of Can
vassers make a fair count of the vote
actually cast. It is to be hoped that
representative and fair men of both
parties will go.
(Signed) U. S. Grant.
Philadelphia, Nov. 10 .—Gen. IT. T.
Sherman, Washington, D. C.— Instruct
General Auger in Louisiana, and General
Ruger in Florida, to be vigilant with the
forces at their command to preserve
peace and good order, and to sec tliat_tke
proper and legal boards of canvassers are
unmolested in the performance of their
duties. Should there be any grounds of
suspicion of fraudulent count on either
side, it should be reported and denounced
at once. No man worthy of the office of
President should be willing to hold it if
counted in or placed there by fraud.
Either party can afford to be disappoint
ed in the result; the country cannot afford
to have the result tainted by the suspicion
of illegal or false returns.
[Signed] U. S. Grant.
Centennial Closed.
Philadelphia, Nov. 10.—The Cen
tennial closed in accordance with the
programme.
COLUMBUS, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1876.
Night Dispatches.
OREGON.
San Francisco, Nov. 10.—Full re
turns from 20 counties in Oregon
show a Republican majority of 1,202.
There remain but three more coun
ties to be heard from,’ two of which
will offset each other, and the third
will give fifty Republican majority.
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Nov. 10. —Election of
Congressmen in this (3d District,) is still
in doubt between Cravens and McClure,
Republican. Only the official count can
decide. Company C, 14th U. S. Infantry
stationed here, was to-day ordered to
New Orleans.
OREGON.
Washington, Nov. 10.—Senator
Kelly telegraphs to-day to his wife in
this city, denying that ho has conce
ded the State td the Republicans. He
says tho result in Oregon is douDtrui,
with chances in favor of a small
Democratic majority.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, Nov. 10.— Returns
from the southern districts do not yet
certainly show whether Pacheco, Re
publican, orWigginton, Democrat, is
elected; the chances favor tho for
mer. Luttrell, Democrat, is proba
bly elected in the Third District.
Nothing additional received from
Oregon or Nevada.
OHIO.
Columbus, 0., Nov. 10.—Gen. Wik
off, Chairman of the Republican
State Committee, furnishes the fol
lowing information: The sixty-nine
counties of Ohio heard from up to
noon to-day show a Republican loss
of 162 oh Barnes’ majority at tho Oc
tober election. The indications are
that Hayes’ majority will bo about
6,000.
Columbus, Nov. 10.—Tho Republi
can State Committee now have semi
official returns from 80 out of 88 coun
ties of Ohio, which show a net Re
publican gain of 623 over Barnes’
majority in October, which was 6,636.
If the two counties still out should
cast exactly the same vote they did
in October, Hayes’ majority will be
7,259.
NORTH CAROLINA.
RALEiGn, Nov. 10.—A negro named
Rufus Ferrell, who has invariably
voted the Democratic ticket, disap
peared from his home in this county
on Monday before the election, and
on Wednesday was found hanging
dead in the neighborhood. The gen
eral impression is that he was killed
for opinion’s sake.
Additional returns continue to in
crease the Democratic majority in
this State. It may reach 17,000.
A painful anxiety in regard to
Presidential election is manifest in
this city to-night among those of
both parties.
SOI'TII CAROLINA.
Charleston, Nov. Id.— Leading Re
publicans concede the State to the
Democrats by the returns, but say
they will throw out enough Demo
cratic counties to reverse the result.
Charleston, Nov. 10 .—News and
Courier has just received official ad
vice from the last of the counties
hitherto reported unofficially,making
Hampton’s majority for Governor
1,434. Tilden’s majority may fall 200
or 300 behind Hampton’s but it is
certainly over 1,000. The Republi
cans here do not dispute the correct
ness of these returns, but say the
State canvassers will throw out sev
eral of the counties giving large
Democratic majorities, and that this
will give the State to Hayes and
Chamberlain. Democrats do not
seem to heed this threat, but are
firing salutes and otherwise celebra
ting their victory.
INDIANA..
Indianapolis, Nov. 10.— Counties in
full show a Democratic gain of 293
over the October election. The
counties to be heard from gave a net
Democratic majority of 5,349, to
which is to bo added 114, tho number
of votes Tllden is now ahead, mak
ing his firobablo majority 5,463.
Indianapolis, Nov. 10.-Returns
from all but threo counties give Til
den 3,887 majority, a Democratic gain
of 251. Three counties to hour from,
Adams, Crawford and Pike, which
guvo 1,563 Democratic majority Inst
month, Indicating majority for Til
deii 5,46i in tho whole State..
FLORIDA,
Auot nr\. Nov. 10. - A dispatch from
! Dike't’ltv ll :30 p. m.. sajs corrected
i returns > f 28 it u-oics place the Dem
oorulid m:.j ri y a seven hundred,
i Hiilsl) ,iu couoiv, according to in
-1 forma 'on from reliable source, gives
! 014 L> -unwitt ic in ijo: by, which gives
j the State to rhe DoTfco •raU by over
15C0 majority.
Savannah, N >v 10—Advicui to-night
j from nli-ihicmintr.es suy Tilden, Drew,
j CongressuKU aud tlie Legislature arc clec-
I ted in Florida. The eight comities of
Duval, Alachua, Gadsden, Jefferson, Le
on, Madison and Nasliau give an aggre
gate Republican maj. of 6,534. Tho oilier
counties irt die State certainly give Demo
cratic majority. Returns Irom 13 coun
ties—Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia,
Hamilton, Jackson, Levy, Monroe, Or
ange, Elk, Putnam, St. Johns and Hnwa
nee—give aggregate Democratic ma
jority of 3,020. flic remaining eighteen
counties in 1874 gave Democratic ma
jorities aggregating 3,200; this,
without any increase, would give to
tal aggregate of 6,534, and elected the
Democratic ticket by a majority of
272. The 18 counties to hear from,
however, will certainly increase the
majority of 1874, from 1,200 to 1,500,
and the entire ticket will be elected
by a majority ranging from* 1,200 to
1,500. The State has certainly gone
for Tilden and Hendricks. Tho
Radicals will endeavor to change the
result by State canvass of the
returns. Prominent officials have de
clared that the State shall go Radi
cal, if it is necessary to count a 1,000
majority at every polls in Jef
ferson county, but the outrages con
templated will hot be submitted to.
The people arc aroused and the in
dignation is difficult to control. The
Democratic State Executive Commit
tee are vigilant to prevent fraud.
Another dispatch says both parties
still claim the State. Great excite
ment still prevails. Democrats are
certainly elected by at least 1,200
majority, but with Onandler’a mil
lion ( dollurs and the army to back
them it is feared the Radicals will
cuujt him out. The honest people of
the State may not submit to it, and
trouble is expected.
LOUISIANA.
Philadelphia, Nov. 10.—In accord
ance with tho request of Governor
Kellogg, of Louisiana, that promi
nent men should go from the North
to inspect the counting of tho votes
in that State, the President has invi
ted the following gentlemen to pro
ceed to New Orleans for such pur
pose: Hon. W. D. Kelley, of Penn.;
Gen. J. A. Garfield, of Ohio; Hon. J.
A. Kassoo, of Iowa; John 8. Chen
berg, of Penn.; Gen. J. A. Logan, of
Illinois. It is understood that most
of these gentlemen have accepted,
and will reach New Orleans within a
few days.
New Yotk. Nov. 10.—A dispatch
from New Orleans received at Dem
ocratic headquarters here says Lou
isiana has gone for Tilden by 5000
to 10,000 majority.
New Ooiileans, Nov 10, midnight,
—Official and unofficial and reported
returns from 51 parishes, including
New Orleans, gives a Democratic
majority of 9,471, a Democratic gain
of 6,505. The six parishes to be heard
from gave in 1874 a Democratic
majority of 2,094. The Democrats
claim the State as absolutely certain
by not less than 6,000 after making
liberal allowances for contingencies.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 10.— The streets
have been filled all day with excited
crowds, much more turbulent and
less generous than heretofore. Several
fights. Democrats still assert their
perfect confidence in Tilden’s elec
tion.
The Republican Committee, a ma
jority of whom have heretofore had
doubts as to the result, are now per
fectly confident of Hayes’ election,
and have so notified their correspon
dents. I understand Gov. Hayes
himself no longer doubts hi3 elec
tion.
Washington, D. C.—Republican
headquarters closed with a speech from
Simon Wolff, in which he told the audi
ence to go home and return in three
days.
MASSACH iisett*.
Boston, Nov. 10.—Dean, Democrat,
is elected to Congress by the official
count.
Cheering News—Wliat Is Said.
Washington, Nov. 10.—The New
York Tribune and Herald, to-day
have strong articles demanding that
there be an honest count of the vote
in Louisiana.
The Herald says there must be no
fraud in making ;the returns, but it
must satisfy the honest, fair minded
men of both parties.
Latest from Louisiana.
Washington, November 10.— The
Western Union bulletins the follow
ing from New Orleans: “With re
turns from all but six parishes, the
Democrats claim 4,000 majority. The
Bix parishes not heard from, in 1874
a Democratic majority of over 4,000.”
THE GREAT EMERGENCY.
An Appeal to Patriotism.
“IN THE INTEREST 0E PEACE AND
TO SECURE AN HONEST
COUNT.”
- 1.—.-———.
LEADING MEN SUMMONED TO
MEET AT NEW ORLEANS.
Louisville, Nov. 10.—Tho report
that Senator Beck, Henry Watter?on
and others have gone to New Or
leans, is premature. Mr. Wutterson
has not left tho city, and in reply to
( inquiries, said that it the parties
mentioned should go to New Orleans
they would go in tho inierestof peace
and order, proposing to exert their
influence as fur us possible over the
extilied musses now collected in that
city. They could do no more in
any event than to personally
inform themselves. Mr. Watter
son expressed the opiuion that
it would be eminently proper
lor Gov. Hayes and Gov. Til
den jolntlly and by agreement to send
parties or to Now Orleans,
headed respectively byCbas. Francis
Adams and Win. Evarts, aud compos
ed of conservative men who have the
confidence of the country. He thought
such an arrangement would be able
a fair count of the votes and
satisfy the whole people, averting a
most dangerous issue and perhaps
prevent an outburst of passion.
New York, Nov. 10.—The following
dispatch has been sent to Governors
Ingersoll, Hubbards, Robinson, Be
dle, Curtin, Palmer, MeCreering,
Carroll and others, also to Senators
Thurman, Bayard, Randolph, Mc-
Donald, Kerman and other Senators,
and to leading public men in the
Northern States, Republican and
Democratic. Their acceptance war
rants a full representation at New
Orleans:
Citizens at New Orleans urgently
request that a delegation of prom
inent geDtlemen comr there at once
to counsel peace and a fair and honest
return. You are earnestly requested
to be one of ten or fifteen gentlemen,-
all widely known, to meet at Louis
ville Galt House Saturday evening,
peoceeding directly South, or if
more convenient, meeting at the St-
Cbarles Hotel, New Orleans Monday
morning. Your prompt acceptance
by telegraph is requested. This
emergency apeals to your patriotism.
[Signed] Abram S. Hewitt,
Chairman’
The Public Feeling:.
Washington, Fov. 10.—Ail demon
strations in the streets have ceased.
A feeling of sullen dissatisfaction
seems to prevail among all parties.
Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 10.— The
excitement here to-rlay over the pres
ent aspect of the Presidential elec
tion is intense. No time since elec
tion day has there been anything to
approximate the deep feeling mani
fested this evening. The Democrats
claim that Tilden is honestly elected,
and if there is to be any trouble over
the matter the people of the North
must decide the question. The Re
publicans generally sustain the ac
tion of the President.
More Troops.
Atlanta, Nov. 10.—One Company
of Infantrv has been ordered from
this place to Tallahassee; several
from South Carolina.
Savannah, Nov. 11.—Transporta
tion has been ordered for troops to
pass through this city to-night for
Florida.
Advices from Florida say that
State has undoubtedly gone Demo
cratic by 2,000 majority. There has
been no disturbances as far as heard
from.
All Quiet ill New Orleans.
New York, Nov. 10.—The Western
Union bulletin from New Orleans,
3,45 p. m., says: “Reports circulated
North of rioting here are untrue; the
city and State are perfectly quiet,
and business is proceeding as usual.
The European Conference.
Paris, Nov. 10.—The Count of Chando
ry has been appointed French delegate to
the Conference of Powers on the Eastern
Question. It is expected that the Con
ference will begin its session in about a
fortnight.
Constantinople, Nov. 10. —The Porte
has not yet replied to Englaud’s confer
ence proposal.
McKees Pardon Mlincd.
New York, Nov. 10.—The Herald’s
special from St. Louis says the U. S.
Marshal has been notified that Pres
ident Grant has signed McKee’s par
don.
Chaffee lor (Senator.
Denver, Col., Nov. 10.—In the cau
cus of the Republican members of
the Legislature, Hon. J. B. Chaffee
was unanimously nominated U. S.
Senator.
Indiansurrender Confirmed.
Washington, Nov. 10-The surren
der of four hundred lodges of hostile
Indians belonging to Missouri River
agencies to Gen. Miles, confirmed.
Sitting Bull with 30 lodges, escaped.
Counting Paruesln Congress.
New York Nov. 10.—The Times fig
ures Congress: Republicans 143,
Democrats 147; to be elected 3. The
Herald figures a Democratic majority
of 25.
FLOYD COUNTY, GA.
THK CITY OF ROHE,
And It* Magnificent Surrounding*.
Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, I
November 5, 1876. j
Editor of Times: Our Sabbath is
spent to-day among a people that
are “wise unto that which is good,
and simple concerning evil”—people
after St. Paul’s pliolosophy. Their
practical wisdom consists in a volun
tary ignorance of evil. They never
appeal to the bad part of human
nature; they never exasperate, in
flame nor awaken prejudice, but
stifle and drive out ail such feelings.
The peoide are a friendly, courteous
people. You feel in their warm clasp
of the hands as if you had felt the
pressure of tho hand shake with your
first lovc\ ,
FLOYD COUNTY
wus named after Major General
Floyd, who die,d in June 1829, at his
residence in Camden couty. He was
a sou of that noblo old Rebel of
South Carolina, who wore a silver
cressent on the lappel of hiseoat-col
lar, “Liberty or Death." The General
wus it South Carolinian by birth,
born in 1774. In 1803 he was a mem
ber of tiie Georgia Legislature. In
1806 ho was appointed Brigadier-Gen
eral of the Georgia Militia. In 1813
he received the appointment of
Major-General aud moved against
the Creek Indians. His command
were at Antassee and Camp Defiance.
He commanded at Savannah in the
war of 1812. In 1826-7 he served in
Congress. He was a man of high
sense of honor; he never forsook the
correct principles of a State’s Rights
Patriot; yet he loved the union of
the States, their constitution and
their flag which at that time floated
over the home of the free and the
brave.
THE LANDS
of this county along the bottoms arc
exceedingly productive; they are of
a dark loose loam, The lands along
the valleys and hill-sides are of a
mulatto cast; fertile, and well adap
ted to corn, wheat, oats barley, rye,
clover and cotton. The mountain
lands are also productive.
minerals.
Iron in great abundance, galena,
plumbago, slate, pyrites, spar, agate,
ostieas, amouites, coal, encrenites,
coprolites and other minerals.
BTTLE GROUNDS.
An old Indiian battle was fought
in the forks of the Etowah and the
Oostanaula rivers, near the county
site. Fratenal fights of ’6l-5 are fresh
in tho minds of our people, and
many bones are decaying to-day of
those who wore the blue and grey,
each dying in defence of their sec
tion. Together they sleep beneath
Georgia’s soil. Together the old war
scarred veterans of the grey and blue
march in solid.'column day after to
morrow and vote for Tilden and
Hendricks. May victory perch on
their banner, when each will rejoice
together over that peace so many of
their dead comrades laid down their
lives to bring to the people of this
country.
rivers'and creeks
Chief among the streams that flow
through the county, are the Etowah
and Oostanaula, forming the beauti
ful Coosa. The creeks are the Spring
creeks, Armicho, Cedar, Rocky,
Heott’s and Ball Play. These streams
are as full in summer as winter, be
ing fed by many little springlets
that flow into them on either side.
BOUNDARIES.
Floyd is bounded, North by Chat
tooga and Gordon; East by Bartow;
South by Polk; West by the land of
“Here we Rest.”
OTHER FACTS.
“Rome is in latitude 34 deg. 17
min., longitude 8 deg. 17 min. 30 see.
West from Washington, thus making
this part of the South the most fa
vored section of the Union. Its hap
py location places it above the mala
rial influences of the cotton belt, en
abling the white man to work in the
field at all seasons of the year, or at
all times of the day, and being below
the frost belt is free from those sud
den changes and severe cold of the
more northern sections of the Union.
It also occupies a happy medium be
tween the extremes of heat and cdld,
and is from its geographical position
one of the most even and temperate
climates in the United States. Being
a country of mountains, valleys, riv
ers, creeks and immense forests, the
extremes of drought and wet weather,
so common to the great prairies of
the West and Southwest, is most
happily escaped. This section is also
free from those terrible winds which
carry death and destruction in their
track across the prairies of the West
ern and Southwestern States, as well
as from those terrible ‘northers’ that
are so dreaded by both man and beast
on the plains of Texas.
“Our rainfall is distributed equally
through the year by gentle showers,
making this one of the pleasantest
and most desirable countries for ag
ricultural purposes in the American
Union. Our great forests which ex
tend over this entire section of the
State, embracing every variety of
trees, not only add great beauty to
our country and furnish timber in
abundance, but doubtless contribute
In a great degree to the unparalleled
salubrity of our climate, besides in
fluencing greatly the rainfall during
the year.
THE CITY OF HOME,
to the stranger is a beautiful place;
its location, its surroundings all
stamp it as one of picturesque beau
ty. Perhaps the grandest view to be
witnessed here at this season of the
year is from the eminence in Ceme
tery Hill about sunset, as the God of
day sinks to rest beyond Mount Al
to’s towering peak; or at a little
later vesper hour, when the moon
struggles through the golden friuged
clouds with their milky linings in
the endless chain of hills and valleys
rising and falling like the wind
waves of a wheat field as far as the
sight pierces the horizon or the va
rigated woods; or let us come here at
sunrise, when the orb of day leaps up
behind the near high hills, scatter
ing the fantastic vapors as he mounts
higher and higher in the heavens.
Better at no other place can so grand
a sunrise be witnessed us here.unless
it be on “Mount Blanc.” Here too
is secured a splendid view of Rome,
as she lies nestled between two beau
tiful rivers, showing their blue line
of a meandering course as they hug
the city in lovely embrace in their
onward course, forming a beautiful
union of their cooling waters, losing
like the maiden in marriage, their
identity aud name, ceasing to be tho
Etowah and Oostauaula, becoming
tho living, rising Coosa. Back again
to this spot at lonely eve, we are
taught by these mountain shadows a
lesson of instruction.
“For in union there is strength as
well as beauty, and behold this ma
jestic stream, floating upon its bosom
the staunch built steamers, leaviDg
behind in their.traek clouds of murky
smoke which floats fairy like over
the silvery waves; behold the trains
of arriving and departing ears, after
a long day’s journey, engines puffing
and blowing as if tired of their load;
see the busy crowds as they sway up
and down the broad and shady
streets; gather at the wharves and
depots, listen to the hum of voices,
the shrill whistle of the locomotives;
tho last chirp of many songsters;
harken to the echoes and re-echoes
as thesound seems transported dowD,
down, down the sparkling waters of
these two wedded Indian streams as
they silently move toward old ocean,
until thesound seems to strike the
distant hills and then return again
from whence it started, and die away
just as twilight gives place to dark
ness.
Tlie Whippoorwill begins her lay,
And rosy twilight paints the sky,
While creeping on with mantle gray
A noiseless, steplike dims the eye.
Now dimly through the misty blue,
The stars are peeping one by one,
. Illuming every drop of dew
That just has trembled in the sun.
The night-bird spreads her heavy wings.
And hovers ’round the silent dell,
The Nightingale her vespers sings,
And nature bids the day farewell,
and ,all nature seems fond of tran
quility, aud then realize that the
dead are resting in peace near by,
and nothing to disturb the solitude
of the hour, save now and then a
sweet song from the Souths’ sweet
est and inimitable] songster, and the
soul reaches upward in its commun
ings and seems satisfied.
Twilight has given away to dark
ness, and now Heaven’s diamonds,
far above, reflect themselves in the
deep, dark looking waters below,
looking like the Dolphin’s scales,
and amidst the awful stillness we
wind our way down the serpentine
walks around the rocky cliffs back
to the bosom of charming Rome, car
rying with us emotions and impres
sions that will be remembered in the
long, long years hereafter. A stran
ger should never visit the ’’Seven
Hill City” without getting a pano
ramic view from some if these tow
ering heights, which
yond description.”
TnE LOCATION AND ADVANTAGES.
It has been demonstrated by many
practical farmers, since tlie war, that clo
ver grows more luxuriantly in North
Georgia than in Kentucky, Virginia or
Tennessee. The lands in this county
have a high reputation for fertility, and
vary in price from two to tiiirty dollars
per acre, owing to improvements and
proximity to the city of Rome. Tlie early
settlers of this county came from the older
part of tins State, and from South Caroli
na and Tennessee. Since tlie war we
have received families from New York,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Missouri, Indiana, Virginia and other
Slates, and from Germany, England, Swe
den and Mier foreign countries. A large
majority of the inhabitants are moral and
intelligent.
Freedom of speech and of the press are
preserved as sacred rights, and no onei j
molested on account of either his religion
or politics.
Though \he whites largely outnumber
the colored race there has never been any
disturbance between the two races since
the war. The entire population of the
county, both white and colored, are law
abiding, intelligent, respectful of each
others rights, and human life and proper
ty is as safe as anywhere on the civilized
portion of this globe.
The asperities engendered by the war
have been buried, and our people have
turned their attention to hard work, and
they invite the Eastern. Western and
Northern man to come and settle in our
midst, help us to develope a section of our
great and common country, for which
nature has done so much and man so lit
tle.”
AN EX-COLUMBUS SAWBONES.
Dr. T. Jeff. Word, formerly of Colum
bus, is now administering to the sick and
complaining of Rome. He is gradually
falling into the routine practice of an ac
tive physician engaged in a laborious
practice of medicine. He has gained
much in flesh, and begins to wear the
peach-blossom hue of health on his
cheeks, looking ten years younger than
when he left Colmnbus some months
ago. ”B.’ ”
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