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SUN-STROKES..
“A young girl who roasted a roan
in S& n Antonio” is added to the list of
female tfemon-strations.
v<r ; „ An Iowa college hasJD D the
gev. Mr. Cheney, of Chicago. — The
Bishop of his diocese d—d him some
time since. *
Pogue wants to know if the resig
nation of the late Trench Minister of
Foreign Affairs is un-Favre-able to the
French Republic.
Jesse R. Grant is going to resign
the Post-office at Covington, Kentucky.
Ho is the first of the family that ever re-
gigned‘anything he had this hands on.
The Courier-Journal despises the
W>rd “Bourbon.” The only way in
which it can stomach it is, with a little
sngar, flavored with mint and “long
drawn out” through a straw.
The President’s trip to California
has been indefinitely postponed. The Cal
ifomians, in the mean time, can forward
their presents by Adams’ express to Long
Branch, for the next sixty days, and after
that to Washington.
Thiers, it is said, has one principle
ambition, and that is to be known as “the
Washington of Prance.” Thiers’isSin tears
every day, because, when a boy, he did
not hack hvs pere's best cherry tree with
his “little hatchet.”
Bgk-“Sailor’s hats are voted absurd for
maidens of forty.” Pogue says he knows
a maiden of forty who would risk the
absurdity of the thing, if she only had a
good looking sailor—or any other man-
to wear the hat for her.
A North Carolina man has patent
ed an improvement in umbrellas. If he
could only give the world a patent um
brella-keeper, he would at once be set
down upon the list of public benefac
tors.
Bggu The Richmond Enquirer has a
column article on “The Desirableness of
being Hanged.” Perhaps the writer
flunks he is likely to know how it is him
self, and wants to put a favorable phase
upon it before the {time comes “to feel
the halter draws.”
COMMENCEMENT OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA-
The Alumni Victorious-—Ad
dress of Col. B. A. Thornton—
Celebration of tlie Phi-Kappa
Society Degrees Conferred,
&c.
Bgk=If Congress, hereafter, proceeds
to legislate for the suspension of polyga
my, Brigham Young expects to plead
Grant’s proclamation pardoning Bowen,
in justification. Brigham claims that his
is a better Union record than Bowen’s ;
■since he has sixteen wives, while Bowen
has but three.
BS^Susan Anthony says, “if all men
protected all women, there would not be
any Mrs. Pairs.” That is precisely what
is the matter with Mrs. Laura D., she
was “protected” by too many men at
different times, and she killed “poor,
■dear Crittenden” simply because his wife
■claimed his protection for a time.
1&3&, There are many defected Repub
licans in Louisiana. The same may he
said of most of the other States. If the
thing goes on, it will give Democrats
chance to show the truth of the old ad
age, “When rogues fall out, honest men
get their own.”
THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN
7.
University of Georgia, )
Athens, Georgia, l
August 1, 1871. )
Editors Sun : During the sitting of
the Alumni Society this morning, a com
munication was received from the Board
of Trustees, stating that they had re
solved to have the charter of the Univer
sity so altered and amended as to permit
them to elect four more Trustees, and
that these Trustees should he selected from
the Society of the Alumni. This is of vast
importance, and is considered quite an
acquisition, almost a triumph on the part
of the Alumni. It simply presages that
the University and its interest in the fu
ture will be zealously guarded bv the
Alumni Trustees.
At II o’clock to-day Col. B. A. Thorn
ton, of Columbus, Ga., was introduced to
the audience as the Literary orator of
the Demosthenian and Phi-Kappa Socie
ties. He immediately announced as his
theme “The Duties of the Hour,” and
instantly won the attention of the audi
ence by a finely modulated-tenor voice,
that, despite the confusion, penetrated to
the most remote parts of the hall.
He said it was useless to recriminate
each other on the issues of the war. We
had the respect of the world, as many
battle-fields could testify. After enumer
ating the many triumphs of science,
such as the Mount Cinis Tunnel
and Suez Canal, &c., he insisted
on the maxim, Labor omnia vincil, and
asked that in all emergencies we should
bo ready and undaunted to do our duty
with a willing heart.
“Here’s a sigh for those who love as,
A smile for those who hate,
Bat whatever skies above as,
Here’s a heart for any fate.”
It was our duty to eradicate a taste for
sensational reading. It was a practical
inquiry, suggestive of prosperity to indi
vidual and country, and to ask who shall
levee our rivers, build our ships and rail
roads, and excavate our mountains.
He condemned unequivocally and un
conditionally, social equality as an ordi
nance forbidden of God in His holy
Book, exhorted the student to become an
educated farmer, chemist, geologist or
mechanic, thus keeping high the stand
ard of those who labor with their own
hands.
THE ORATION
^Special Washington Correspondence of the San.]
Further Extracts from the
Sworn Testimony of {Treasn-
rer Ansier, Presented to the
Kn-Klux Investigating Com
mittee at Washington, D. C.,
July I4th, 1871.
Washington, D. C., July 31,1871.
Question—Give us all the information
you have relative to
TEE GRANTING OF PARDONS
by the Governor, the general issuing
of proclamations, offering revrards, and
the cost of these various things.
Answer—I have here a statement of
the pardons granted by the Governor.—
It is taken directly from the Pardon
Book, by Mr. Hemphill, who is the agent
of the Associated Press, at Atlanta, and
the Proprietor of the Constitution, anews-
paper published there.
It appears by this statement that since
August 2d, 1868, the Governor has acted
on
VOXJR HUNDRED And <?»ENTY-SIX APPT.T-
CATIONS
for pardon. Of these three hundred
and twenty-one cases, involving three
hundred and forty-six offenses, were
pardoned, as follows:
Stabbing 3
Horsestealing 7
Bigamy. 6
Forgery 4
Pergery..... 3
Robbery 8
Fornication & adultery, 7
Seduction.-
Incestuous adultery.... 1
Arson
Misdemeanor
Bastardy
Rape
Compound felony.....
Murders pardoned.... .48
Murders committed....18
Simple larcenies par’d, 76
Other larcenies 14
Assault with intent to
murder. 20
Burglaries in the night.18
Burglaries in the day. .18
Manslaughter 18
Assaults.....* 20
Assaults with intent to
commit rape 6
Homicide 1
Cheating & Swindling.. 3
As regards
THE FINANCES OF THE STATE,
it is impossibie to give testimony pre
cisely without putting it in figures on
paper. I have prepared a statement in
that form, complying, 101 understand,
with the instructions which I received
from the circular of the Chairman of the
committee, Mr. Scott. In this statement
I have tried to present as clearly as pos
sible the details in regard to the manage
ment of the State finances, and the con
trast between different periods. This
statement I certify to be correct.
The statement is as follows:
1857. Ordinary expenses of Georgia......$275,632 43
1858. “ “ •• 304,637 59
1859. •« . “ “ “ 369,653 53
1860. “ *« “ “ 325,600 00
Referring to Mr. Stephens, the
Louisville Courier-Journal says: “We
thought it was his custom to crush his
foes to a jelly with a club aslarge as a tel
egraph pole.” Not at all. Large clubs
for powerful foes; but for the Courier-
Journal a very small twig.
H. W. Guion, of North Carolina,
rather got the grin on Senator Pool, of
the same State, when, while giving in
his testimony, he-said: “But you and I
had better not talk about polities, as
both of us were electors for Jefferson
Davis in the canvass of 1862.”
Victor Hugo writes from Luxem
bourg to a friend in Paris, “oublicmt,
■oblie. ” If he had had occasion to write the
same forty years ago, and had his subse
quent life proven the truth of it, the
world would have had less to lament, and
mankind would have had a better opinion
of itself.
The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
State Journal says: “It is very evident
that Ben. Butler is preparing to make
trouble in Massachusetts, by which the
Republican party will suffer.” Well, if
the Republican party suffers through
Butler's stealing propensities, it has this
consolation—what Butler steals from it,
it stole before.
By Mr. Armstead, final Orator of the
Phi-Kappa Society, took place at 8J f.
m. At the conclusion of his introduc
tion, he announced as liis theme, “ Mys
tery of Mind and Matter.” He spoke of
science as the light of the world, en
croaching upon the darkness of igno
rance, lifting the veil from a thousand
forms of matter—the pebble on the
shore and the stars of the heavens—to
discover the beauty, grandeur and utility
of God’s designs.
The address was beantifnl, couched in
language of imagery, metaphor and fan
cy that awakened the highest pleasures
in the minds of those who heard it.
After the address, Mr. J. J. Swan, of
Greene county, delivered the Society
medals to the following gentlemen:
G. A. Niles, Griffin, Ga.—Medal for
best debater in the Sophomore class.
S. B. Adams, Savannah; H. C. Glenn,
Atlanta—Medal for best debaters of the
Junior class.
G. G. Randell, Ackworth, Ga.—Medal
for best debater in the Society.
After the evening’s exercises were over,
and the crowd were dispersing, Dr. Mil
ler and Mr. Howard Van Epps, of At
lanta, and Mr. P. W. Meldrim, of Sa
vannah, being called on, responded in
tbeir usually eloquent style.
The hospitality of- Dr.- Moore of this
city, was extended this evening to the
whole Board of Trustees, who assembled
at his house to partake of a sumptuous
repast, and indulge in the pleasures of a
social reunion., _
The Commencement social party given
by Col. Stevens Thomas this evening was
a brilliant affair, and afforded to the
many guests and students a glorious and
rare opportunity for celebrating a thou
sand reminiscences of the social part of
tbeir college days.
To-morrow, regular Commencement
day, we will have addresses from several
members of the Senior Class. Among
them some of the Honor men.
The Sophomore medal, for declama
tion, awarded, by the Faculty, will be de
livered by Dr. H. V. M. Miller, of At
lanta, to J. S. Davis, of Albany.
Degrees will be conferred; and, we un
derstand, among them there are three
degrees of A. M. to be conferred
upon Messrs. Dessaw and Hill, of Ma
con, and Smith, of Atlanta—all
Honor men of the class of 1870, who re
turned here, and as applicant for the de
gree, mastered the prescribed course re
quired by the proceedings of the last
Board of Trustrees. These are the first
degrees of A. M. ever conferred by the
institution in reward of a special course
of study at the University.
More Anon,
Total ordinary expenses of Georgia for four
?fyears, immediately preceeding the
war, ; $1,275,523 55
1868. Less than six months ordinary ex
penses of Georgia $ 401,865 08
1869. One year ordinary expenses of Ga.. 848,298 23
1870. “ " “ “ 924,413 27
Total ordinary expenses of Georgia for
less than two and a half years by Gov.
Bullock. $2,174,676 58
Subtract total ordinary expenses for four
years under Gov’s Johnson and Brown,1,275,523 55
4i5Y*The telegraph announces the death
•of Miss Phebe Carey, one of the very
sweetest of American poets. About a
year ago ber sister Alice died. These
two ladies were remarkable for their va
ried and sprightly talents. Both wrote
vivacious and frequently sparkling prose;
but as poets they chiefly excelled. They
seem to have been twinned in genius.—
Tho bent of tlieir minds was not dissim
ilar. Either wrote what might have been
attributed to the other. Phebe perhaps
evinced a little more playfulness; though
both inclined somewhat in that direction.
Both were very popular and esteemed no
less in the social walks of life than upon
the highway of literature. Those who
lamented the death of Alice, one year
ago, will now as earnestly lament the
death of Phebe. Both appear to have
died too young, os neither lived to the
uge of fifty. Alice was born in 1822, and
Phebe a few years later.
NE W _Y°RK.
Further from the Westfield Trmgidif, tfc., tec.
New York, August 2.—The number of
deaths from Westfield disaster, up to
date, is eighty-foar.
Two men were thrown from the Second
Avenue cars, of Sunday, by two roughs,
Ono of them is dead and the' other will
die. The murderers are at large.
David W. Keelcher, associate editor of
the * ‘Irish World,” has been missing
since Sunday. It is feared be was lost on
the Westfield.
The steamer Ashland, from Femandi-
na, passed last evening, off Abscom, two
sunken schooners, apparently the result
of a collision. ~
Paymaster Benjamins J. Cahoon.
against whom a suit is pending for the re
covery of a 02,300 defalcation, has been
decided to be insane.
The Central Committee of the Order
of the Sons of America has rejected
proposition to change the ritual so as to
admit all persons opposed to Roman Ca
tholicism.
rants on the Treasury for services [or la
bor, authorized by the General Assembly)
for which no provision is made for com
pensation, has never been used by any
Governor except Gov. Brown, and then in
amount about seven thousand dollars,
while Governor Bullock has used it to
the amount of four hundred and sixteen
thouscnid six hundred and ticenty dollars
and ninety cents.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL TAX
since Gov. Bullock’s administration has
been about $300,000 annually more than
it was before_the war.g,Still|he has had
engraved six million]l(Mars new State
bonds, while the rate of State taxation
now is over six times as high as it’was in
1860.
TARING LAST TEAR AS AN AVERAGE,
the tax for this year, independent of the
rental of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road, will be $1,280,756 57; rental of
Western & Atlantic Railroad $300,000—
$1,580,756 57. Ordinary expenses for
1871, $500,000 (which is considerably
over the average before the war, and more
than in 1860); one half rental of Western
& Atlantic Railroad for school purposes,
$150,000—$650,000. (This last amount,
however, together with all the other
funds set apart by the new Constitution
specially for common school purposes,
and to be used for no other, the Govern
or has, and is using for ordinary expen
ses,) leaves a surplus to meet the public
debt of 1871, $930,756 57 ; matured
State bonds for 1870, $173,000, which
should and would have been hypotheca
ted with the seven per cent, mortgage
bonds, issued specially for that purpose,
had not Gov. Bullock,
IN VIOLATION OF EXPRESS STATUTE,
sold $265,000, and used a portion of the
proceeds on the Kimball Opera House.
State bonds due in 1871.. $154,250 00
Interest due in 1871 427,375 00 — $754,625 00
Leaves a surplus for 1871.. 176,131 57
after paying all past due bonds and cou
pons.
Where the necessity for these $6,000,-
000 new State bonds Gov. Bollock has
had engraved, or any portion of them?—
With any regard for economy there should
be a large surplus in the State Treasury.
At the close of 1869,1 honestly estimated
THE SURPLUS FOR 1870,
after paying all liabilities, including the
C03IMENCEMENT OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
Commencement Day.
Addresses by tlie Seniors--Ad-
dress by Dr. Miller—‘Alumni
Hop.
Leaves against Gov. Bollock's adminis
tration for less than two and a half
years, more than Johnson and Brown
forfourfnUyears....: 899,053 03
In the above estimates the payments
ON ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC DEBT ‘
are taken out of both accounts, also all
appropriations to or for repairs of buil
dings. The payments on account ’ of
school funds do not enter into the ac
count of either; as, under Governor Bul
lock’s recommendation, the school fund
has been taken and used for general pur
poses. The payments on account of ar
tificial limbs and schooling maimed sol
diers, burial of Confederate dead, remov
ing furniture, library, office fixtures,
books and papers from Milledgeville to
Atlanta, are all taken out. Also payment
on account of convention scrip, so each
period stands fairly alike on ordinary ex
penses, which shows Governor Bullock’s
administration for less than two years and
a half to have cost eight hundred and nine
ty-nine thousand fifty-three dollars and three
cents—more than Governor Johnson’s and
Governor Brown’s for four years.
With no deductions from the accounts
as officially reported they stand thus:
1857. Total ami. paid out of State Treas. $ 511,789 90
1853. «•- " “ •• “ 745,470 64
1839. •• *• " ** *• 874,465 92
I860. “ « “ “ . “ 662,600 00
University of Georgia, )
Athens, Ga., Aug. 2,1871. )
Editors Sun: We suppose Aurora
mashed her fingers last night, for in
stead of their usual crimson, rosy hue
they were black as ebony. With the
tremblipg dawn arose a lowering cloud
(of African negroes) that for a while
threatened entirely to obscure or ah
sorb the light of the “glorious orb of
day.” The aspect became more
threatening, and although it did not
rain, it reigned throughout the live
long day, sweeping as a torrent
through the'populous streets.
Commencement Day seems to he
the signal for a convocation of negroes
for many miles around Athens. And
they come with no other ostensible
purpose than to pave the streets with
ebon and illumine the dark corners
of Atheus with the light—of their
countenances.
THE SENIOR EXERCISES
were ushered in with prayer by the
Rev. Div Palmer, of New Orleans.
The following is the programme of
the day:
P. K. Yonge (2d honor), Pensacola,
Fla.—Salutatory (Latin).
L. L. Brookes (D. S. orator), South Car
olina—The Greatest Art.
R. L. Gamble (P. K. S. orator), Au
gusta—The Political and Legal Coxcomb.
G. R. Glenn (2d honor), Dawson—
Five Minutes.
J. L. Hand, Americus—Anthropos.
R. W. H. Neal, B. L., (excused), Thom
son—The Talisman of Success.
E. Newton (3d honoi^ Union Point—
The World’s Drama,
H. E. Ware (D. S. orator), Athens—
Tt Moves for all that.”
G. W. Warren (P. K. S. orator), Au
gusta—Now and Then
P. K. Yonge (2d honor), Pensacola,
maturing interest, at over four hundred'! Fla.—The Real and Ideal.
thousand dollars, to he used as a sinking
fund.
These six millions of new State bonds
are exclusive of the State aid to railroads;
for, independent of this amount, the
Governor has had engraved and sent to
him
STATE'GOLD BONDS.
E.- H. Briggs (1st honor), Columbus
Valedictory to Tmstees and and Faculty.
G. A. Howell (1st honor), Valdosta—
Valedictory to Audience.
A A. Murphey (1st honor) Monroe
county—Valedictory to Class.
Distribution of medals and address, by
Hon. H. V. M. Miller.
Conferring of degrees.
Honorable Mention—H. O. Ansley,
earth before a Roman inquisition, was
an exhortation for all to abide by
principle, and embrace the right
though the heavens fall. #
NOW AND THEN
was an antithesis between the present
and past. These two words, Mr.
Warren said, were suggestive of vol
umes of thought couched in a nut*
shell.
THE REAL AND THE IDEAL.
Was a pretty address, abounding in
many artistic beauties suggested by a
comparison of the ideal and real.
THE VALEDICTORY TO THE TRUSTEES
AND FACULTY,
By Mr. Briggs (shares the 1st honor),
was a brief farewell to the guardians
and instructors of his Alma Mater.
Having no other audience than that,
of the grandees of the University,
It was not an address of public inter
est.
THE VALEDICTORY TO THE AUDIENCE,
By Mr. G. A. Howell, of Valdosta,
was a most touching farewell. Its
elegant simplicity, earnest manner,
and spirit of gratitude, instantly won
the attention of the audience, hun
dreds of whom were the personal
friends of this n^ost exemplary and
promising graduate. Mr. Howell
shares the First Honor, and, we
understand, deserves this distinction,
not only in his studies, hut in
everything that has ever engaged his
attention.
THE VALEDICTORY TO THE CLASS
ivas a farewell in which was infused
some sound philosophy, such only as
could emanate from Mr. Murphey,unij
versally admitted to he the first in his
class, not only in attainments) but in
natural ability as a student, writer
and orator. Mr. Murphey, we under
stand, goes to the University of Vir
ginia next term to study law and
modem languages.
After this, address
. • DR. MILLER,
of Atlanta, was introduced to the au
dience. As a preliminary to deliver
ing the medals, he addressed the au
dience and candidates for the prizes
on the nature and merits of elo
quence. Its purpose was to influence
the opinions of men. The shorter
the orator’s attempt, the greater the
success, if the elucidation is perfectly
purporting to be for additional State aid | Augttsta; B. A. Denmark, Quitman; R.
H. Goetchius, Columbus; J. L. Harde
man, Macon.
to tbe Brunswick and Albany Railroad |
Company -.$2,760,000 00.
Add to this tho amount the Governor j
reported to Henry Clews k Go., the
middle of March, as haring received
the endorsement of the State (how
many more since I do not know; as the
Governor refuses to answer, 5,923,000 00.
The previous bonded indebtedness,
including aU bonds issued before 1869,. 6,554,450 00.
$20,637,500 00 |
Deduct new currency bonds returned
to State Treasurer’s Office 500,000 00.
The Latin Salutatory by Mr.
Yonge, was delivered with great pro
priety to the Faculty, Trustees and
audience. The public, we hope, will
excuse us from criticising the senti
ment—we have forgotten how to speak
Latin. '
, I _ _ . ; THE GREATEST ART,
And we have present liabilities 20,137,500 00 ,
r, ,- , ' ,. .. by Mr. Brookes, was decidedly an art
Counting all the bonds engraved legit- . J J
imate and in use, tbe amount of interest
on which will be twice the amount of the
annual general State tax.
BUT THE EVIL AND DANGER DO NOT STOP
TTV.TtT-
The Governor approved bills granting
further State aid, or indorsement, to rail
roads, to the amount of about thirty mil
lions ($30,000,000 more. And if I have
been correctly informed, - State-indorsed
bonds have been issued by Governor
Bullock
BEFORE A MILE OF RAILROAD WAS COM
PLETED,
or the first cent of subscription paid.—
istic speech, replete with many art
ful expressions on many different
arts. From art in Eden he enumerat
ed many others, the mariners art, art
of printing, sculptors, &c., hut award
ed the palm to the art of printing—
the press. He compared a picture
with a page from the press and dis
covered a thousand beauties in the
latter unknown to the former.
THE POLITICAL AMD LEGAL COX
COMB,
by Mr. Gamble, was a happy ming
ling of ridicule and eulogy on those of
If this recklessness and waste are not the legal profession. It was the very
$2,794,336 46
1863. Les3 than air months. $ 430,957 77
1869. Twelvemonths.. 1,857,825 98
1870. Twelve months 1,470,021 02
$3,758,804 77
Deduct four years before the war 2,704,336 46
The Coopers of Vincennes, Ind.,
are about to form a co-operative union.—
A cooper-alive union would be better.
Leaves an excess of Gov. Bullock for less
than two and a half years, over four
years 904.463 31
Total for extra legal services
for1355,1856,1857,1858.1859
and I860 (six years) $17,000 00
Gov. Bullock for extra legal
services, for less than half the
time has paid 36,600 00
Rewards for fugitives, 1855, ’56,
’57, ’53, ’oOand’GO, (six years,)
all charged to contingent fond, 1,400 00
Gov. Bullock has paid by war
rants on the Treasury (not
charged to the contingent fund,). 51,100 00
Less than half the time though (thirty times as
much.
Advertising proclamations, 1S53,
1856, ’57, ’53, ’59 and ’60,
(six years,)....... 5,000 00
Gov. Bullock has paid for less
than half the time by war
rant* on the Treasury '98,300 00
Incidental expenses of Executive De
partment 1856, 57, 58, 59, 60, 66 and 67,
(seven years) under this head, only twenty
dollars is charged; but I have included
“SMALL ARTICLES FURNISHED EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT,”
and “articles furnished executive man
sion,” making in all, $2,186 76.
Governor Bullock’s “incidental expen
ses for less than three years”—$23,-
800 00.
The section of the appropriation bill,
authorizing the Governor to draw war-
speedily stopped, but ‘are followed up
with new issues of bonds, the result is
inevitable. The State will soon be ab
sorbed; and the toiling farmery, with
what little they can gather up, will be
forced to flee their homes for safely from
the tax-gatherers,’.’ *. ‘
(Signed) N. L. Angiee,
Treasurer of Georgia.
The testimony of Mr. Angier should
be read by every inhabitant of the State
of Georgia, and it is to be hoped that it
will arouse and unite all classes in
ONE GRAND EFFORT TO RESCUE
the State from the hands of the merci
less robbers who have ruled her destinies
too long.
Mr. Angier’s testimony furnishes a
complete explanation of Gov. Bullock’s
recent letter in answer to Senator Scott’s
speech for the occasion, since the
thoughts of all young men seem to
drift to the Law as the ultima slmle of
worldly luxury and fame.
FIVE MINUTES,
by Mr. Glenn, was a very popular ef
fort at humorous ihvective against
the limit of five minutes prescribed
by the Faculty in which to deliver
the speeches. Mr. G. commenced by
saying that he did not have time to
say, Ladies and gentlemen. He in
voked the spirits of all orators, living
and dead, to rally to his support in
the trying hour. The expectations
of the Seniors were raised to the
highest degree, fully assured that
they might have an hour in which to
circular, and fully explains why he (Bui-1 make an exhibit of the accumulated
lock) planted himself on
THE OLD JEFFERSONIAN DOCTRINE
lore of ages; but hark! there comes a
voice crying like one in the wilder-
of States Rights, and refused to give the ness, “Five minutes! Five minutes!”
Ku-KIux Committee the information 1 (Laughter.) And here, after four
sought for. He did not dare to furnish years of industrious study, they, with-
the information asked for, for the same
reason that influenced him to refuse to
furnish it to the State Treasurer of Geor
gia who was legally entitled to it by virtue
of his office and by the law of the State,
Governor Bullock knows full well that a
fair investigation
Of his financial operations would disclose
the most stupendous frauds ever perpe
trated by any government officer (State or
Federal) in this country.
Mr. Angier’s testimony naturally sug
gests that Mr. Henry Clews is a proper wit
ness for examination,by the Ku-Clux Com
mittee, so far as Georgia affairs are con
eerned ; there is no doubt but that he
would prove an invaluable witness before
an impeachment committee of the Geor
gia Legislature. Argus.
out ceremony, were to be hurled out
of College in five minutes. It was
a bappy effort, and won the attention
of the audience.
ANTHROPOS,
by Mr. Hand, was simply an elegant
recital of the triumphs of great men
in science, law, literature, art, &c.—
It was a finished essay.
THE WORLD’S DRAMA,
by Mr. Newton, traced tbe world’s
history from the fall of man, in a
manner that secured the attention of
the audience. The address was well
written and as well delivered.
IT MOVES FOR ALL THAT,
a quotation from Gallileo, when com
pelled to deny the rotation of the
made. He instanced Mirabeau’s one
minute speech in the General’ Assem
bly of France, wnicb changed the fate
of an Empire and shook the thrones
of the world. The “five minutes”
law was, in his extimation, an admi
rable regulation for the relief of
juries, arid Sabbath congregations;
and he hoped for the sake of every
pretty lady’s comfort and peace of
mind, that every moon-stricken lover
would abide the dictates of so whole
some a regulation.
During -the address considerable
confusion was produced by the fall
ing of some plastering on the heads
of a few unfortunate individuals. The
Doctor stated that he wished it dis
tinctly understood, that the falling
walls was not the result of his over
powering eloquence, but really it re
mains a mooted point yet.
He then delivered to Mr. J. S.
Davis, of Albany, a medal as the best
Sophomore declaimer; a medal for
the best essay, to Mr. W. A. Blount,
of Florida; and to Mr. J. E. Hart-
ridge, of Florida, a medal for the
best essay from the Sophomore class,
awarded by a committee of the facul
ty on the merits of the essays irrespec
tive of their authors.
THE DISTINCTIONS
Of the Freshman and Sophomore
classes were then read out by Prof.
Waddell. Certificates of merit were
awarded to those who had completed
satisfactorily the course of Junior
studies; certificates of proficiency
were delivered to graduates in"'
German and French; the degree of
A. B. was conferred on the members
of the graduating class; the degree
of Bachelor of Law on the graduates
of the Law Department, ana the de- -
gree of C. E. on the graduates of the
Civil Engineering school.
On Messrs. W. B. Hill, of Macon,
W. Dessau, of Macon, and J. B. B.
Smith, of Atlanta, were conferred the
degree of Master of Arts, in consider
ration of their proficiency in a pre
scribed course m French and Ger
man, and other departments of the
University. These gentlemen were
the first applicants for the degree of
A. M., under the regulations which,
requires students to comply with a
prescribed curriculum of study at the
University. It is remarkable that
they were all “Honor men” of the
class of 1870.
THE ALUMNI HOF.
is another and more significant title
for a Commencement Ball. A very
select company assembled at Deu-
pree’s Hall, in response to invitations
by the managers.
Having danced until the“wee hours
of mom” the night previous, the de
votees of Terpsichore with much
moderation, retired about 2 o’clock in
the morning.
During the evening the Demosthe-
nean anef Phi Kappa societies had
SOCIAL REUNIONS
in their respective halls.
The commencement was one of the
most brilliant on record, and we
think will give the University an ad
ditional impetus to the career so long
sustained by some of the most illus
trious men of this continent. Bat ot
this we will say More Anon»