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TO THE LADIES]
MISSES. NOBLE & STOEIIIiEL
’ JtrST UK
& Winter
Which we will sellat the lowest prices possible-
Come and judge for yourselves. oct.l-7-1.1.
Z. B. HARGROVE,
Attorney at Law,
JROUVCIE], GkA..
Sept 26. —ly—
D. M. IIOOI),
■Attorney at Law,
GkA..
sept 26. —ly—
,r. \V. H. UNDERWOOD. 0. H. reMITIt.
UNDERWOOD Si SMITH, t
Attorneys at Ltw,
ROME, <3rJ±. I
Practice in Upper Georgia ; also in the federal
T/j&ii’jcr / ri i ri > .
I>. S. PRIITUP,
Attorney at Law.
ZROIMZIE, <3-_A._
Sept 26. 7 —ly-
ATTQIEY ill WBW AT LAW,
KOIMIS, GkA_.
octl7. —ly —
DRSGREGORY & FARELL,
BROAD STREET, ROME, GEORGIA
Rome October 17th, 1860. ly
THE HORSE M ANSIONj
SALE AND LIVERY
BTABLIMHj
BROAD ST., ROME, GA.
—BY—
HUM & LOGAN.
TTORSE MANSION,” formerly owned
■*~*-by Wm. Ramey, but more recently
by John H. Walker, has been purrhag- f A ? i
ed by the present proprietors, and no exertion
will be spared to give perfect satisfaction to those
who may patronize this Stable. Mr. E. G. Lo
gan. whose long experience eminently qualifies
him for the place, will have charge of the busi
ness, and the proprietors hope, by meriting, to re
ceive a liberal share of public patronage.
The best of Horses and Vehicles will be
kept for hire.
Persons wishing to buy or sell horses may
always get a good trade at this Stable.
, OctlOly,
BLACKSMITH SHOP AND NEGROES
FOR SALE.
THE undersigned offers for sale his well-known
Blacksmith Shop, on Broad St., with his black
smith Randal, wife and two children.
octlfMt. K. S. SIMONS, Rome. Ga.
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1860.
SBMI-WEEEf tREE FLIC.
D. H, MASON, Editor ami Proprietor.
D. M. HOOD, Associate Editor.
The Ulffereitce.
We exported from the South to foreign
countries in IS.")!). $262,560,394 —to the!
North, in cotton, $50,000,000 —in grain,
$13,259,000; making a grand total of
surplus products of the South, for that
year. $325,813,391. Exported from the
‘North for the same period, $78,217,000;
deduct from that amount, $40,000,000
paid for bread studs, purchased from
Canada and the South, and you have the
nett surplus of the North for that year,
$38,217,000, making a difference in favor
of the South of $287,002,391. Notwith
standing this, we are told we cannot get
along independent of the North. Ought
we not more properly to say, the North
cannot get along without us. Wo are a
great people,—the greatest the sun ofj
Heaven ever shown upon, and fifty years |
from to-day, the Southern Confederacy i
will control the world.
UdevygdHß
< Mir neighbor. of in 1*
issm- m lhe ‘ 1 1 . iviijli :1(. and
lakes p*m •.;■ .-mind Loving— |
, v as'the conservative
parti/. Tie - what wo. kue the
time, mid iiave wake& J^'entl^l^ .some
ili.-'iu i:. show t%|dr handPlTheit
event fuss tin'ii aDoiSHKSfthce, isjlbt re
sistance io buy regimee
to secession. are to give up ne
groes to he give
up four hundred million Ij&jjHfiufy to be
conservative, we arekttflflHnPTOe rule
iof vankee imlit ionlsts eHM^^HfeEerva
j. v . •
live, we are 1o sllTen aMti||flHKftO set
lie amongst u.--, a
vile almliiimi doei|ift^&|&^^ts^rvative.
in slmri. we arein The wake*of
ymi!;e< ami übmi||
as to what are the
rights of the ijputh. vmbts of
; Georgia, are you willing to tal^Hupon:
’ yourselves at this juncture, the
| ous name of
that sustains ihe Union at, any all I
i hazzards. !
Our neighbor understands themblmig
|of plain english words and knew when
ihe dubbed liis party conservative, he
committed them to unconditional submis
sion—to plead ignorance is but to make
the matter worse, but ive hope for the
sake of the State in which he lives, he
will recall his submissive notions, and
either quit politics, or stand by the South.
Critfemlcn on .Secession.
Mr. Crittenden is at his old game of
concession and compromise, and urges
upon 1 lie Senate the great necessity of
all sections making concessions for the
sake of this great and glorious Union.
We would be glad Mr. C. would tell us
what is left the South, and what new
garrantee can she give. Our rights,
one by one have been conceeded, until
now we have but one left our honor.
Are we conceited by the grave Senator
to concede that? He says Kentucky
stands a unit for the preservation of the
Union. W'e deny it —Kentucky is made
of sterner stuff than to make concession
of her honor, —the last, the only thing
she lias left to concede. W T hy is it that
the South is always called upon to make
the concession? Why not the Nortli
concede some of her constitutional guar
antees { We would like some conser
vat’ve to point out one single constitu
tional guarantee the North has ever con
ceeded to keep this government together
--just one, and we care not how trivial.
fir. Crittenden concludes his argu
ment by concurring with the President,
that a State has not the right to secede,
but differs with him as to the power of the
general Government to coerce her back.
He holds that a State. should and must be
made to yield obedience to the mandates
of the general Government. Mr. C. is
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f( H i tth'ii joe ihe S,ni.- Weekly Fluff.]
tfillerige* file Coreitpondence.
(M.kdgkville, Ga.. Dec., Sth. 1860.
Mu. Hood.—My Dear Sir:
The Legislature lias at last settled down
into their regular business, and are. doing
good service i'or their country.
I presume you have heard of the issue
; between the Governor and the House of
Represantatives. arising out of his veto in
: winch he used some language reflecting up
on the integrity of the Legislature. This
■is i&; fortunate, and it places our Governor
Un not a very enviable light before the pub?
as ids explanations of the charges of
i <Hfription, which lie transmitted to the
j Sfu, are generally regarded here as ex
j unsatisfactory, and looked upon
members of the House as an indigni
y Ajferod to than, because the explanation
°f jjbe offensive language should have been
to them according to established
IHre, as the resolution calling for the ex
fpwfation organized with them.
Sfpe conduct of the Governor implies, as
well as liis subsequent card, which he has
lia< published, that lie would not conde
scend to make an explanation to the House,
because of their hasty action. Quere. —If
House were guilty of offering an indig
nity7i>y their hasty action in calling the UOv.
to an explanations, not the Senate doubly
so in deliberating four or five days, and pas-
Resolutions otier pledging the
material and moral -aid of Georgia, and all
per citizens, to any seceding State, provided
is made to coerce her back into
and inviting the same aid for
mmkhorn other Southern States, were
the House yesterday, by a majori
ty of .yeas 101 to nays 27—one step towards
of Georgia.
PSlucnpiscussion has already been had on
the armory bill, which proposes to establish
an armory in Georgia, and set aside $300,-
000 00 out of the million appropriated for
the defence of the State, for that purpose.
It will hardly pass, judging from the pre
liminary votes already taken on it.
A general bill, giving to all artillery com
panies not organized, or hereafter organ
ized, SSOO 00 per annum, not to exceed sev
en companies, under certain conditions, has
passed the House, and it is believed, will
pass the Senate. Our Rome Artillery Com
| pany will be among the first beneficiaries of
the bill.
The retaliatory bill, as it is generally
termed, will not pass, from present indica
tions .
The bill for the pardon of Choice, passed
the House by a vote of yeas 75 nays 44; and
passed the Senate to-day hv a vote of yeas
61 to nays 23.
The two branches of the Legislature have
accepted an invitation to visit Macon next
Tuesday, to attened the fair, kindly and
generally extended to them by the managers
of the fair, and the President of the Cen
tral Rail Road. It is understood that there
will be one of the richest and most exten
sive] exhibitions of foreign manufactued
articles ever exhibited in the Southern
States; having been shipped directly from
Europe for this purpose. Yours, TANARUS).
♦—♦—4
Come to the Meeting on Friday.
Extract from the Message of the Gov
ernor of Florida, to the Legislature, in •
relation to Federal Affairs:
Executive Department, j
Tallahassee, Fla. Nov. 26th, Is6(K|
Gentlemen of the Senate and House ot
Representatives:
The crisis, long expected by men of
j observation, and has at length come. A
j series of aggressions and insults, com
mencing forty years ago, by increas
ing in audacity as time rolled on and the
South forbore, has been pushed to a point
at which further forbearance of the South
would justify the allegation that we “arc
afraid to resist.”
The election of Lincoln and Haiplin to
the t .vo highest offices in the confederacy,
viewed in connection with the circum
j stances that led to the result, and the de
termination of Northern fanatics to urge
their mad schemes, regardless of the wel
fare and security of the Southern people
ought to extinguish any desire of the lat
-1 ter to prolong their connection with those
who show such an utter disregard of cov
enanted rights and of plighted faith.
1 will not insult your intelligence or
trespass on your patience by recounting
the aggressions already perpetrated, or
j by referring to those that must follow our
j submission. For myself, in full view of
the responsibility of my position, 1 most
decidedly declare that in my opinion, the
; only hope the Southern States have for
’ domestic peace and safety, or for future
respectability and prosperity, is depen
dent on their action now; and that the
proper action is— Secession from ourfaith
less, perjured confederates.
But some Southern men it is said, ob
ject to secession until some overt act of
unconstitutional power shall have been
j committed by the General Government;
that we ought not to secede until tin*
President and Congress unite in passing
an act unequivocally hostile to our insti
tutions and fraught with immediate dan
ger to our rights of property and to our
domestic safety. My countrymen! if we
wqu for such an overt art, our fatewdlf
be that of the white inhabitants of St.
Domingo.
Suspension of Northern Factories. —
We observe that the large print works of
Messrs. Sprague, at Providence, R. 1.,
perhaps the largest in the Union, have
stopped, on account of the stagnation in
the market. The Journal says some of
the other printers have for several weeks
reduced their production.
♦ -+
Trade of Norfolk.
The annual report of the Norfolk, Va.,
Merchants’ Exchange, shows that for the
year ending 30th of June last, the receipts
of produce at that city reached $4,174,354,
of which $1,500,000 was in cotton. A
Merchant of Memphis, Tenn., has re
cently visited Norfolk to negotiate for the
transmission of twenty five thousand
bales of cotton from Memphis to that city,
on his own account. _”
,
The position of the Lincoln party to- (
wards the South is exhibited in the fol- |
lowing paragraph from a Maine paper— (
the Eastern Argus:
“Slavery is a sin, a blot upon our coun
try the sum of all villainies, our country <
cannot endure half slave and half free;
if it is not made all free, it will inevitably
become all slave; we will therefore make
it all free.” r
What Abe Lincoln Thinks of Hon.
A. H. Stephens’ Speech. —A despatch
from Springfield, the home of Old Abe,
dated Nov. 30, says:
Mr. Stephens’ Union speech was read
by Mr. Lincoln with great satisfaction.
He is reported to have said that the best
item of news he had received since the
6th of November was that of Mr. Ste
phens’ election as delegate to the Geor
gia State convention.
Cottoning on Secession. —Colonel
Miles H. McGehee and Chas. Clark, of
Mississippi, have each proposed to be
one of a hundred to give one hundred
bales of cotton to help arm the State.
NO. 23.
