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VOL. I. Rates of Subscription: 7'mo dollars a year . to be paid in adranee . j RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square of ten lines, or less, one insertion, Si 00; and Fifty cents for each subsequent 1 one. when there is no special contract to the , contrary. Advertisements not marked for a specified time,: will be continued, at the option of the proprie tor, until ordered out, and charged accordingly. | Liberal contracts will be made with quarterly half-yearly.'or yearly advertisers; but such will ’ be limited to the space, according to contract 1 rates, Local as well as transient advertisements, re ectfully solicited. 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 - •• y—- _ 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.