Newspaper Page Text
V
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
ATHENS, CLARK COUNTY, GEO. APRIL 10, m
THE SOUTHERN BANDER
lTM.lSHEI) WEEKLY,
SI.ErxIE .& REESE,
J"’ 1 ' A | AM»EIlSON W. KKK?t.
Editors ami Proprietors.
OFPIC'S l i’-STALUS, No. 7 Granitk How
TERMS t
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE
T.» (T.iIm remitting §IO in advance, .ij
cn^im will l.c *ont.
Au\ MiWriWr failing to **iv© notice of ldn de
«ir<Mo discontinue Uitf subscription at the expira
tion »f the time for wVich it ha* been paid, will be
cniiddered ns wishing to continue it, and held
liable o eordinirly.
paper will be discontinued, (except at
the option of the editors, until all •rrcarnjjea are
paid.
RATES OF ADVFKTISIA'Ci.
r one topiarc ron*i*un£ of twelve lines umall
•»r *pnce e»juivalent. One Hollar or the first
ion, and tihy Cents for each wee*ly continu-
« .«1 contract* can be made for yearly adver
: al adyeriiseinenisir sorted nt the usual rates,
loum imj candiilates loi ofTiee. Five Dollars,
al»ly advance, in »• I msc.
cern«n*uu*i»ts .-lionlil nlw«y> have the desired
• r i»f bi-crtinn* nu.rked upon them when
• I in, < » other'wine tl cv will be published till
• charged aeeor ] nitflv.
Fo
type.
SINESS DIRECTORY.
Professional and Buslnens »«cn can have
.r cards inser t i d under this head, for one year,
the rale of Five Dollar** for a card of not ir.nre
m >ix l ines, and seventy tivccente for each addi-
H. A. LOWRANCE,
Resident DENTIST,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
OFFICE—College Avenue, Athens, Ga.
Oct 18.
~ UR. WH. KING.
Homeopathic. Physician,
O FFERM his professional soivieea to the cit
izens of A1 hens and vicinity.
Residence, at Mrs. Claylou's. Ofliee, corner of
C lay ton and Thomas streets. M ay 3.—1 y.
G. L. JMcULESKEY, XI. 1)7,
H A VI.permanently located
continue th ^practice ofMedicin
POETRY.
Albon Chase,
found.
Athens,wil
Ucinennd Surgery.
* at home, where he innv he
March 8ih, I06O.
\ A. FRWKLIX IIILL,
A TTOK.M:v .« r I,.IW-Atliciw, Geer
via. Other over tin- Ilookstovc of Win >
\V. I i»r. A .v. I — !y.
LA.MAH CO Hit
aTTOBMEY AT UW t
MACON. GEO.
O FFM F on .Hull
of A. M. Fin ish
rry Street, over the store
mi ,V I in Foardinnn'n
Will practice in Bibb,
Hou.ton, .11 ;.ron, Twiggs,
• *J1I
roi’K BARItOH
4 TTORMit AT I.AIV.-Atlxiie, tiu.
. * Mili. »• over Muss «\ Xt'.vlonb. Store.
_ N..\ ! Iv.
1H 1.1 JAM G. IIELONY,
Attorney ni l.nir,
on;, ,Ulottri Siren, . c r ll.c More of I. M.
vein,ej,,Ail.r,March 1.1-if.
THOMAS IV. WALKER,
4 1 I’ORNKY AT I.AW, Athens. Geor-
Utli.-u over A K. A M. II. Mun.loville i.
» » March I—If
I)R. CYPHERS,
V.ale of IVli||«>«|gcTillr,
H ASuoavlocated in Athens and has taken n
suite of rooms nt the Franklin House. Dr
1. > pliers h a s been in the practice of Dentistry from
earliest youth. He is also a graduate of oneof
our oldesi DentnI Colleges. All ihc improvement*■,
as endorsed by the profession, will be introduced in
hi* practice. To ladies and geutl# men who mav
fnvtr me with a mil, I will say I am authorized to
refer to several persons for whom I have pot up
plate work in this place. I am now fully prepared
to tier form all operations both in the mechanical
and operative department that maybe required.
. .ion my family shall art ivc, further notice will be
given.
hut ranee to my private door West end of Frank
g_ Ho _y«- Aug.‘jr*._
Dk. r. m. smith,
Wholesale and Relail Dealer in
drugs, medicines, perfumery,
PAINTS, OILS, DYE UTL EES,
MEDICINAL B tANOV AND WINE, A’C., &C,, &C.
J S NOW receiving and opening a large stock of
|*oods, selected iti the Xortl.cin Markets by him
self with great cate,and which litre-outidently recoin-
i.euds to the public ns being pure.
Athens, June i».
DR. 11. GILLELAXU, DENTIST,
WAI K1NS\ ILLKGa,respectfullysolieitsthe
patronage ot the surioiinding country.—
Full 8’itisfnciion willbcc
April 2*4.
their profession.
IK ti. t’AXDLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
n \ % I > L located permanently at Homer.
lbinkseouniy, Ga., wi l |»rn«-tic«'| in the conn
•*'** ol Fanks, Jackson, Franklin, Habersham and
cntral posit
sled to hist
in ihc said counties,
will receive prompt
.11 coininunicati'ins
, Banks county, Ga.
T. 31. DAVILI
itv
,1 TTOItM.Y AT
** " ill pract'ne in the
./a kson, Madison, Hart,
Wildes, Warn n. and llanc
; & <Hli, eone door nb-j
]'
Athens, Georgia,
c> of Clarke, Walton,
Elbert, Oglethorpe.
l* Longs’ Drug-store
Nm
I*.
ANDREW J. HARDY,
\ TTOir\-KV AT l,.vn r , Jefferson, Jftok-
s*m etiun.y, Ga., will practice in the counties
tothe 11 y>tern Circuit. Particular Attention paid
ol collecting. Office, with U. J. 3/illican, Esq.
Nov. 10-10 n.
R, .1 A ll T MIMJC AX.
A T l OR N K \ S AT LAW—Will practice in the
countic* of the W * • • -*
North#
U
of M idison,
Circuit, and the
Klbert. and llaii, of the
MILI.lt AN,
.l. ib iM ii, Ga
Sept. Il*i 1 y
Ill'Ll. & 111 ELY Ell.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
f II UK undersigned havingassociatcd themselves
1. together in the practice of law, will attend
[ he several Courts in the Western Circuit, and
give their join personal aiieution to all husiucss
i utilised to tin m.
GKO. JIILLYKR. I WM. II. HULL,
Monroe, Ga. | Athens, Ga.
July l.b—1 v.
M. HI. PIT IMAX.
\ TTOR.VKY *»t Law, Jeirerson, Jn<*ksoncoun
ty, Ga.,wi!l g.kC prompt attention to any bu.
siness entrusted to his care January 21-lS!m
joii.x ii. hull,
A TTOUXEYAT I.AW, Au-wtn, Ga„ will
attend promptly to all businei s entrusted to
his caro [Jan. 8.
IV. W. LUMPKIN,
V TTORNBY AT I.A IV, Athenn. Oorrgi*.
\V ill prnet coin alt tho counties of the Wes
tern Circuit. Particular attention given to collect
ing. Office over Win N White's Hook store, «»n
the corner of Br nil street and College Avenue.
Jan 31—tl
Lie still, li« deep and still,
O my dead hope ? my withered flower !
Bright nursling o r a short spring houi !
Thus thine untimely grave 1 till,
And treading in thcsulkn clay.
Prison thee down with a roof of stone,
And leave thee in thy shroud alone.
Turning, with foot resolved,away,
To the sound of thy funeral knell—
•‘Farewell! utterly fart well!”
^ Now sleep forever sleep ;
For should thy ghost arise, and glide
With its smile undi:* whispers to my
My rebel soul must fail to keep.
Against thy uiagic of thy beauty,
Its liiiih with self, its league with duly ;
Hut, in thy burial garments* clad,
Would force thee back to life and me;
Or, if too strong a fate lorhud,
Would choose, a living death with thee ;
AN ouId madly follow to t-hnre thy doom
In the dust and the shntuc of the hopeless I
bnild’ng with North of theJPost Office.Cob : Therefore 1 ring sc. stern a knell—
egc Avon tc. Feb 'y. 1 ‘*1. tteriy, utterly farewell.
MT m mm 9%. • , I Lie Still till I Sin Still,
vi It* & II* R* tl* LOAG) i When to thine image I nm cold,
W HOLESALE and rcUil Druggists, Athens j JR;*" tho fostered thee is old.
(•.. i i. m •» i " *»eu my heart bus foigotten its restless thrill,
t lfihi* wLul, mf>*tnm strange, may be—
V. CUYLEE,
RESIDENT DENTIST,
ATHENS, GA. .
r^OOJlKon ltroad Street. Entrance next door
LV to the Insurance ofliee.
January F*.
DR. €. R* LOMBARD.
JJEXTIsnr, ATI 1 EXS,GEORGIA; Rooms in
OVER THE WAY.
Ooue in her childish purity "
Out from her golden dav;
Fading away iu Hie light so sweet.
Where the silter stars anil the suubcauis meat,
Paving a path for her silent feet,
Over the silent way.
Over her bosom tenderly
The pearl white bauds are prest;
The lashes lie on her check so thin—
Where the softest blush of.the rose hath been
Shutting the blue of In r eyes within
The pure lids closed in rest.
Over the sweet brow lovingly
Twinetli her sunny hair;
She was so tr igile that lore sent down
From his heavenly gems that soft, bright crown,
To shade her brow with its waves so brown,
Light as the dimpling air.
Gone to sleep, with the tender smile
Froze cn her silent lips
By the farewell kiss of her dewy brer th
Gold in the clasp of her angel Death—
Like the last fair hud of a fading wreath
NVIose bloom the white frost nips.
Robin—hushed in your downy bed
Over the swinging bough—
Do you iniss her vaiee from your glad duet,
NVhen the dew in the heart of the rose is set,
Till its vrlvet lips w ith tho essence wet
In orient crimson glow ?
Rose bud —under your shady leaf,
Hid from the sunny day—
Do you miss the glance of tho eye so bright.
Whoso blue was llcnren in your timui sight ?
It is beaming now in the world of light.
Over the starry way.
Hearts —where the dirling’s head hath lain.
Held by love's shilling rny—
Do you know that the touch of her gentle hand
Doth brighten the bmp in the unknown land !
U, she waits lor us with the angel baud
Over tho starry way.
VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 5.
- --
TO A DEAD HOPE.
r.l K. ItlVYSIAX.
r.l>;
F. H. LUCAS,
YYT HOLES ALE and retail dealer in Drv Goods,
v v Grocieries, Hardware,&c.,No.ft, Frond st.
At lion , Ga. [Jan It).
R. L. BLOOMFIELD,
W HOLESALE and n^tnil Clothing Store.
Broad Strrcct, Athens, Gn. [May 10.
T. D1SH0P & SOX,
W HOLESALE and Retail dealers in Grocer-
ies. Hardware nml Staple Dry Goods No.
1 Broad St. Athens Ga. Mav 1
CRAW FORD & STAPLER,
SUCCESSORS TO T. CRAWFORD,
IV O 7|, Ilro id street, under the Banner Ofli
11 have on hand a nice stock of Fancy nm] t>t
pie Dry Goods, firm cries, Hardware,*Bo.us ai
shoes. Huts and Caps, a id man
ier*
low
• tilings too
esold very
July 21.
A. M. 1YYXG,
W HOLESALE nnu Retail Dealer in Hard
ware, Crocker, and House Furnishing
Goods,one door below ft.L. Bloomfield’s Clothing
Store. Athens, Ga. Jan.7, ISoH
T. II. WILSON & BROS,,
W HOLESALE A retail dealers in Dry Goods
Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Ac.,Nos. 3
ami 4, College Avenue, Athens, Ga
If this, wtdeb serins .<
Then will dare, in leisureTiours,^
Beside this grave to muse on thee;
And I will strew it with late flowers ;
Ami thy dim spirit shall bo free
From its long prison to arise
And flit before my tearless eyes.
But until then obey tliy knell—
“Buried hope, farewell, farewell."
In thy young tenuty sleep!
What Time the proven, might have shown
I cannot tell. Thou inighsi li&ve sown
What it were bitterness to reap.
Tiiiue i lfant smiles might have growu
Into a cunning, baleful guest —
Into a giant tierce nad strong,
A power of tyranny and wrong
To crush the life trern its nurse's breast.
But now in love ami honor rest,
Only, while 1 ring thy knell-
I will believe *tis wise, tis well
To say thus utterly—Farewell!
G. W. MOTES’
Fxcelsior Gallery of Ait!
O VER the store of I. M. Kenney, where lie is
prepared to practice Pi otogrnphy in n.l of
it a varied branches, iu the latest and most np
proved style of the art. Cabinet and Life-size
Pho'ogranhs. in oil, taken from life or Daguereo-
typcs,and of absent oi deceased persons.
BTHURMOND & NORTH,
-Attorneys at Law,
lirihh practice in co-partnership in the coiiq-
v v ii;sof Clark, IFaitun, Jackson,Gwinnett,
tinh. Rabun, White, Frr.nklin, Banks, Haber-
dmin of the Western Circuit; and Hart and M:
isoni of ihe AYrtlicrn Circuit ; and will give their
ndixidunl and joint attention to all business en-
.i u.-ted to them. The eidleotion of debts will re-
■« i\«* prompt nr.d rarofni Attention.
SAM L P.THURMOND, I JOHN R. NORTH,
Over Longa* Drug Store, | Jefferson,Jackson co
A*bens, Ga. Oci 18 tf
JACKSON & HUTCHINS,
V TTORN KVS ATL.WV.—Will practice
in the * ouiities of Ghrinnctt, Walton,* Jack*
md Hull, of the Western, ami the couuty of
h<>r Ytu of tin- Flue Ridge Circuit.
AMES J.4CK?K)N, I N. L. HUTCHINS, Jr-.
,> , .♦thei.s, Ga. | Lnwri nceville, <>a
1 - N. — During Mi. JAckson'sabsence I'ro.T#Geor
gia, business letters should he addressed to tl c
arm at Lawreneeville Sept 30-tf
ms»as©ii3 iiilili
ATTORNE-V- J±rr T.A^xp
II0MER, BANKS CO., GA.
AATU.I. prart.ro in ‘he Court, of tl,c Wmtern
Circuit. IliiHinrm ciilrustcd to lii, enrf
n ill mi-! wiili ] rompt attention.
til l khi.Ni k.,. —Il..n, loso il, tl. Lamlikin.Thou.
K I, ( l-M . AtbdLM.G i.i JoTcuti H. Hank,
Cjiiif.ville, On, (Jan. 1G—tf.
J. M. HANCOCK,
4 TTOIIMtY AT li.IV, D.nicl.villo,
. "V 1 .r r “*- »,«;♦’ 111 l1 '' ‘"''“tills of Jaikson
C iladisoii, Hart, Ogiethorpe and Elbert.
Oct. *J8 ly.
Mil. 8TJJLNERT,
PROFESSOR OflP JS^TTSIC
\\J OULD ret peel fully return his thanks to the
vv citizens in Athens for the kind patronage
1 *#-sj i»wt*» j upon him last vear, ami iu forms them tha
n- l.u> irMtiiH il the duties of his nrofi saiou.
FA1MIKC! FAINTING
T"“,
• ' VM-m-.l wonlil itnuonnro to tho< it
tu nic i„ ,i„. Ii ™', n '! d virinil >i Him bo will c »
n,. r „|i \v„ik in 1 ‘," 1 " " >0, t workmanlike man
j'ln.i! ionic "mr f , bu,i,,w "«
mi,I marfi “'» r< -|'<"n"n g , firniulrg
Athens, Aug. *2 ISwV P^PtljF ntwa&dto.^
express OFFICE,
H House 0 aSSSS.^'^t.it?
w,th aanl Company - will toko due
mid govern themselves tccordinidy " ' C tl,cre ‘ ,f .
Athens. „ rm, m l” I-AMPK1X, Agl.
J P O’KELLY
PHOTOGRAPH AM) A MB R0 TYPE
ARTIST.
R OO-1I8 on Broad ai.d Spring streets, over the
store of Jobe R. IVKaitfieAVN, ^11 liens, Ga.
inarch 20 GO
NOTICE TO PLANTERS!
'l'hrtt Thousand Pairs of the Tiul
NEGRO shoes in THE IVORlD !:
Made ly McClcskey 1} Day It.
W K will keep a good assortment of
these at the store of Messrs. Pit-
Iter, Kngland &. Freeman,in Athens, where
Mr. AfcCleskej will be found at all limes,
ready to wait upon customers. Wo will
sell these shoes in lots, Irom 10 pair up, at
$1.50 per pair.
Uash will bo paid for Hides.
Oetio MeCLESKEY & DOYLE.
NBAREIt IlOTIl:.
SV Utd CMltr.
One sweetly solemn thought
Come* to mr o'er nnd o’er—
1 nm neartr home to day
Thau 1 have ever been before.
Ncar-r my Father* bonne
Wbcr« the many mansions be;
Nearer *.h© great white throne,
Nearer the jasper .<*«a ,
Nearer the l>ouud of life,
Where wo lay our btmleim down ;
Nearei leaving the cross.
Neater gaining the crown.
But lying darkly between,
Winding down through the night.
Is the dim nnd unknown stream
That leads nt last to the light.
Closer aud closer my steps
Come to the dark abysm ;
Closer death to iny lip*
Presses the awful cmysm.
Father, perfect my trust;
Strengthen the might of my faifli;
Let me feel ns I would when 1 stand
On th© rock of the shore ol death—
Feel as I would when my feet
Are sliiping over the brink ;
For it may be I’m nearer home,
Nearer now, thau 1 think.
Importer of
RHINE AVINE,
AY«C«TA,GA.
Imported by himself and warranted
Pure, and sold as low as any Northern
House.
reorders promptly attended to.
Oct 25 if
ISAAC M. KFNNEY,
AY W0 8 ©ILESTTAMB.
R ETURNS thanks to his friends and a gen
erous public for past patronage, respectfully
asks a continunnreof their favors.
l^Goods cheap, acconMnodating terms.
Jn
ATHENS STEAM COMPANY
R. NICKERSON, Agent a Sup’t.
M anufacturers of circainr daw
*? lrn,M KoRinve,, forcing and lift
ing 1 UMPS.Sii4Fti.no and Machinkkt; Mili.
Gin, and all other kind of GEARING. Ikon and
tvri S! n ST - ,! ?° ?0 ^ cvo ry d«»cription. SMITH-
* Repairing aud Finishing pw ptly cxccu
toil. Select patterns of Iron Fencing, Acc. Tcmiti
CASH - May 14 ly
FAIRBANKS
SCALES.
^ anu *“ c,urere i ,r * ce ’
. T. BISHOP & SON.
Atben», October C 1853.
GOODS!
ORB & YOttNGKtrS t
T HEY are now recoivisjr. their Sprine Stock
o' Hatn. CanK. Hoots and Sboca. Call noon.
A then 9, April Jd, IHC].
IWOTT
I /(IT srJli . nK m y Wock of Bool*, Shoca,
will mil.* f*’ ic ’ st COBt for “avh ouly, aud
™n,hlt k . D0W " <h any one for tbo
DS &«««P l V er y ,cwb y con
, e(i lo , ,,, . e ' w ‘>* Wake imme-
lurnini.. nt “ 1 I® deairoue of closing my
j.u •> " l,0 " n ** pow'ble. P. BAHKY.
MISCELLANY.
From the Aucuata Constitutionalial.
Ttc New Coustitiitlon or tbc State of
Georgia.
“ratification” ok “no ratification.”
Upon the first Tuesday in July, the
people of Georgia will be called upon
to decide, by their votes, between the
existing and the proposed Constitution
The choice lies between these two
instruments, each considered as a
whole; for, although individual prefer
ence might require omissions or inser
tions in either, the choice is, of neces
sity, limited to them as they stand.
The Convention acted wisely, we
think, in submitting the question to the
people ; for, although technically pos
sessed of the power to decide the
question finally, the exercise of this
power would have been outside of the
object for which they were called to
gether. But there can be no just com
plaint at the proposition of change by
the Convention.
The new Constitution we do not
wholly approve. There are objection
able features we should desire to re
move.
On the other hand, there are, in the
old Constitution, objections still more
numerous and grave.
Which instrument contains the most
that is valuable—the least that is ob
jectionable ? This is the question.—
Neither may be all we want, hut which
is the best ?
Ordinarily the onus is against change
—in favor of the existing order of
things. Yet, when a body cf u.en,
feeling their responsibility, and directly
interested in results, deliberately pro
pose a change, the enus is thereby
shifted to the other side. Nor are we
likely to assemble again a convention
comprising more ability, or more pa
triotism.
Some of the proposed changes have
been frequently attempted in the Gen
eral Assembly of the State. But the re
strictions around Constitutional changes
are difficult to overcome. Some abuses
tend, moreover, to perpetuate them
selves. The excessive sice of the
Senate admitted into that 'oody many
persons, insignificant in character and
intelligence. Aware of the effect of
reduction upon their own future posi
tion, these were generally opposed to
reduction. They desired to perpetu
ate the “teign of mice.”
The most impoitant changes pro
posed are :
1. The reduction of the Senate from
one hundred and thirty-two to forty-
four members.
2. The appointment of Judges of
the Supreme and Superior Courts by
the Governor, with the consent of two-
thirds of the Senate. The former are
now elected by the Legislature, and
the latter by the people of their respec
tive circuits.
3. The provisions, as to the new
counties, require a vote of two-thirds of
both houses to make new counties, or
alter boundaries. The old simply re
quired a majority vote.
4. The Constitute n is made amend
able only by a convention. The old
Constitution was amendable only by a
two-thirds vote of both houses in two
consecutive assemblies.
5. The tight of taxation is limited to
certain purposes, viz : The support of
Government, payment of public deb',
the common defence, and other objects
expressly granted in the Constitution.
The Legislature then has no interna
improvement power; Slate aid to rail
roads anti canals (that fruitful source
of corruption) is thus denied.
Among the objects of express grant
is the right of appropriating money for
the education of the people.
There is much ditference of opinion
as to the propriety of this exception.
At all events, the two Constitutions,
in this particular, are equivalents.
No law can compel person, involun
tarily, to aid any railroad or any oilier
internal improvement (save in cities.)
The compensation of members of
the Genctal Assembly is fixed by law,
and noAssen bly can raise its oivn
compensation.
Any donation or gratuity requires a
two-third vote.
*The grant of bank charters, and of
the right of suspending specie payment
requires a two-third vote.
As to the appropriations, the Gov
ernor may sever his veto—approving
some, and disapproving other appro
priations in the same hill.
6 The bill of rights is in some re
spects enlarged, and its principles de
clared to have the fotce of Constitu
tional promises.
One of these provisions is as fol
lows :
“Laws should have a general oper
ation ; nnd no general law shall be
varied in a particular case by special
legislation, except with consent of all
persons to be affected thereby.’’
How far this would affect local legis
lation—say as to special road laws,
county rights to control licenses, &.C.,
<kc.,—we do not fully understand.
*7. Every bill is to be restricted to
one subjec matter. Legislative disa
bilities for incorporating small compa
nies are enlarged, the power being
turned over to the courts.
Elections in the General Assembly
are to be viva voce. Pardons require a
two-thirds vote. All acts requiring a
two-thirds vote must be passed by the
yeas and nays.
In other cases the yeas anti nays are
taken only on a call of one fifth of the
members present. As each call costs
time and expense, this is an improve
ment. It would be a captious call
which was not desired by one-fiftb of
the body.
S. The census is decennial, instead
of septennial.
It would be well either to have the
State and general census at the same
time, to avoid expense, or else to let
the one period exactly divide the other,
so that every five years, the one or the
other should occur.
9. The Supreme Court may sit iu
one or more places, as by law deter
mined.
The old Constitution required not
less than live places for its session.
10. There is a provision fot a change
of venue—that is, for the trial of of
fences in a different county where a
jury cannot be had.
\Ve shall briefly consider the effect
of these changes.
The mode of reduction of the Senate
is not satisfactory in all its details.—
Yet, it was probably the best that could
be effected. In one respect it may be
no better than the old method, viz :
In giving permanence and stability to
the body. Yet, so far as it goes, it is
a decided improvement. It reduces
an unwieldly and expensive body with
in reasonable bounds.
The General Assembly of Georgia,
upon joint ballot, was as numerous
(wanting two votes,) as the Congress
of the late United States—more nu
merous than that of the present United
States.
In the failure to reduce the House,
also, there is an omission of what ma
ny regard an improvement. Yet, this
was surrounded with great difficulties,
and would much have hazarded the
whole Constitution.
An ingenious, and, in many res
pixts, meritorious plan, was suggested
by Dr. Garvin, of Augusta—that there
should be a representative for each coun
ty, and two lor each containing one of
the ten principal cities. One eflect of
the passage of this, would probably
have been the opposition of the re
maining twenty-seven largest coun
ties, now entitled to two representa
tives each, which would probably have
defeated the instrument.
Upon the whole, the new Constitu
tion is very decidedly preferable to the
old. Its principal want is negative—
that it does not incorporate all the
changes desirable. Yet, so delicate,
is the task, and so numerous the con
flicts of opinion, that perhaps there is
room rather for gratification at the
number ol improvements, than censure
at defects still remaining.
The change of mode of appointing
(Judges of the Supreme Court Irom the
Legislature :o the Governor, with con
sent of the Senate, is an'improvement.
For such a choice the Legislature is
perhaps piecisely the worst body pos
sible. The removal of the election of
Judges of the Superior Court from the
people, and the power of appointment
in the Governor, is more questionable.
The election by the people has worked
well. Still, it is not a serious objec
tion. The change, though perhaps
unnecessary, jet will work no harm.
1 he limitation of taxing power is an
important improvement. It should be
an inducement for the vote of every
man who desires government restrict
ed to its proper functions, and does
hot wish unequal advantage of sections
or clauses.
The Treasury is better guarded than
formerly, in sundrj- respects. The
right to make appropriations for edu
cation is not altogether to be approved,
but the principal objection is removed
by the express restrictions in other res
pects, preventing this from being a pre
cedent for other expenditures.
It may be fuither remarked that,
under the old Constitution, appropria
tions have been made at sundry times
—so that the new and old in this res
pect are the same.
We will close with a brief recapitu
lation, and classify the points as tol-
lows: |
DOUBTFUL.
The provision as to the general op-1
eration of laws.
The mode of amendment only by a
convention.
neutral.
The failure to reduce the House.
The right of appropriating money
for education.
These points are unaffected by the
new Constitution.
▼ALU ABLE.
The Senate redaction.
New county restrictions.
Appointment Supreme Court Judges.
No State aid to internal improve
ments.
No county aid to the same.
Bills refer to one subject only.
Veto power upon part of appropria
tion bills.
Right to change venue.
Restriction ot power o\ er minor in
corporations, &c.
Compensation of members fixed bv
law.
Decennial census.
Donations and pardons by two-
thirds vote.
Viva voce voting in elections in the
General Assemblj - .
Provisions as to yeas anc nays.
Of these changes, many are promc-
tive of economy and purity.
It will be observed that the favora
ble changes decidedly outnumber llte
objectionable.
1 he formation of the Constitution
was in no partisan spirit. We have
discussed it fairly and honestly. Upon
shall cheerful y
tians or gentlemen ? Either people
who will not insult us with gross
words, or people who wnll admit their
personal responsibility for their lan
guage Chandler had said that hi
wanted to see whether we had a gov
ernment : that if we had none he would
leave the country ; he would go to
some country where they had one; he
would go and live among the Caman-
ches. XVigfall replied: “The Senator
says that under certain conditions he
will go and live atr.ongthe.Camanches.
God forbid! The Camanches have
already suffered much—loo much—
from contact with the white man !’’—
His wit and repartee overwhelmed his
Northern opponents, even in the opin
ions of Northern hearers; though, on
the main questions that issue between
them, he was obviously wrong and
they were right. So much for a good
delivery and well-chosen language.
the whole case, we
cast our vote for ratification.
Ratification.
H'igfall as viewed Through Northern
Specs.
The editor of Harpei'n Weekly hav
ing spent “Two nights in the Senate”
at Washington, thus alludes, in his cor
respondence to his paper, to the witty
and chivalrous XVigfall, of Texas, who
has become such a festering 'thorn in
the sides of the Abolition dotards anil
whining sycophants that infest the
Federal metropolis:
Senator XVigfall, ot Texas is the ex
act opposite of these speakers, lie is
a finished orator—probably the most
charming in the Senate. IIis voice is
clear, melodious, and sufficiently pow
erful to be heard everywhere. He
speaks grammatically, elegantly, and
without effort. He' never bawls.—
He never screams. His delivery is
perfect, and his action suitable. When
to these merits I add that he is witty
and smart, 1 have said everything that
can be said in his favor. For he has
the misfortune of being almost always
illogical, incorrect, and often absurd.
He is a duelist, and carries his life m
his hand. When a young man he
went to practice law in Ashmore’s
District, in his native State-South
Carolina. He wrote articles for the
country paper, aijd made enemies.—
One of them challenged him. They
fought, and V\ iglall winged his man.
Another took up the cudgels, and was
winged likewise. The leading men of
the county notified the young stranger
that he did not suit their temper aud
must go. XVigfall replied that he pre
ferred to stay. “I will shoot a regi
ment of you,” said he, “but I won’t
go.” He shot eight altogether, I be
lieve, including the brother of the late
Preston S. Brooks, who shot him too ;
the two belligerents lay, side by side,
on their beds, in a tavern on an island
in the Savannah river. The end of
the war was, that Brooks died, and
Wigfall, notwithstanding his bravado,
left the State, and emigrated to Tex
as.
His reply to Wilkinson and Chan
dler was extremely smart. Mr. Chan
dler had abused Gov. Floyd as a com
mon thief and a scoundrel. Wigfall
twittcil him with offering insults for
which he would not respond in the
field. “I will make a batgain with the
Senator,’’he said. If he will write a
letter to Gov. Floyd saying, “Gov.
Floyd, you are a scoundrel, and I am
a gentleman. ‘Hezekiah’—no I mean
‘Jeremiah’—no, 1 beg pardon, ‘Zecha-
riah Chandler.’ 1 will covenant that
Governor Floyds friends shall make up
the whole amount which he is accused
of-stealing from the Lnited States
rreasury.” The Northern trains had
just arrived, and the gallery was full
of Northern spectators. Waving Ins
hand gracefully at them, Wigfall con
tinued: “The difficulty between you
and us, gentlfiman, is that you will not
send the right sort of people here.—
Why will you not send either Chris
Vice-President Stephens.
The Montgomery correspondent of
the Missouri (St. Louis) Republican
gives the “Personel of Vice-President
Stephens’’ as follows:
Imagine the reanimated form of re
markable, eccentric John Randolph,
habited in a swallow-tail coat of black,
badly cut pants, black vest, flowing
silk neckerchief of the same sombre
hue, flashy pendant watch chain, heavy
seals, golden rimmed eye-glasses, and
a beaver cocked on the side of the
head, and you have a faint idea of
Stephens, of Georgia. Until you look
at the face a long time, however, you
have no conception of the man. To
picture the countenance with pen and
ink is difficult. In its ordinary aspect
of repose it is very common, j - et even
in its commonness it is unusual. At
a first glance the impression it makes
is hut of pity for the “sufferer” to whom
it belongs. The occasion when it was
first iny chance to sec this remarkable
man, 1 would have declared he was a
Floridian. Mosquitoes, ague and fe
ver, swamp and malarious exhalations
of the lowlands of the South recurred
to me instantaneously.
“What in the name of wonder do
they send such a man here fbr ?”—
“Where did lie come from ?” and “Who
is he, pray ?” were questions that 1
promptly asked. “That’s Stephens,
of Georgia,’’ was the answer that as
tonished me. I need not say that my
curiosity was fully aroused, anti that I
examined the face fully. Minutely,
thm, I should say, it is excessively
pale and almost corpse-like. The lips
are thin, determined, of nearly an ashen
hue. Heavy lines indent every part of
it. Around the eyes are wrinkles run
with the same regularity that spokes
branch out from the hub of a wheel.—
The forehead is high, wide and full—
yet the larger part of it is hidden by
harsh, grayish hair, allowed to strag
gle about loosely.
The whole countenance is small,
and emphatically effeminate. In youth
it might have been prepossessing;
though decidedly never good looking.
Now it might readily be taken for an
old lady’s wrinkled face. The eve is
the only redeeming feature ; even in
repose it sparkles, fascinates and com
mands—in excitement it flashes. When
conversing in an ordinary manner the
voice, too, is boyish—womanish—but
is, ntvettheless, melodious and well
modulated. As conversation merges
into debate, and debate grows into an
etlort at oratory, excitement seems to
change the entire man. IIis gestures
become gracelul, and the voice gains
strength but not harshness. It has the
clear ring of silver, and is so distinct
that it can be heard by every man in
the largest assembly.
Scene in the United States Senate.
On Friday, while Senator Douglas
was advocating his resolutions, offered
the day belore, he was replied to by
Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, the Repub
lican leader in the Senate.
Mr. Douglas complained that the
Senator had answered his argument
only by personalities. He knew the
Senator from Massachusetts was one
ot the war party. He continued, at
length, and in the course of his e-
marks alluded to the Senator on the
Republican side of the chamber.
Mr. Fessenden said that the Senator
was mistaken if he alluded to him.
Mr. Douglas—I did not mention the
Senator from Maine.
Mr. Fessenden—You said “the
Senator from Maine.’
Mr. Douglas—I said “from wherev
er they came.” [Laughter.]
Mr Fessenden—Then I did not un
derstand the Senator.
Mr Douglas—I know—but you can
not understand the truth when it .s
told.
Mr Fessenden said that several gen
tlemen around him heard Mr Douglas
say the “Senator from Maine.” °
Mr Douglas was surprised that the
Senator from Maine seemed to think
every.attack was meant for him ; that
he was the only man in the chamber.
He was a Senator of respectable abili
ty, but there were other Senators be
side him. lie commented upon the
attempts which had been made to gag
eat b) and six of 12,000 pounds each,
the tormer of which are capable of Car
rying a nine inch, and a ten inch shell
a distance of two or three miles; and
there is one gun of this pattern which
weighs 14,916 pounds, and is warran
ted to send a 11 inch shell four miles.
A casemate is a stone roof to a fort
made sufficiently thick to resist the
force of cannon balls, and a casemate
gun is one which is placed under a
casemate. -
A barbette gun is one which is plac
ed on the top of the fortification.
An embrasure is the hole or open
ing through which guns are fired from
foitifications.
Loop holes are openings in walls to
fire musketry ihtough.
How O’Connell Sold Mr. Russell, the
“Times” Man.
The Mi. llusscll, who now repre
sents the London Times here, is the
same gentleman who was sent by that
journal to Ireland to report O’Connell’s
speeches, during the Repeal agitation.
One of the first meetings the newspa
per man attended was in Kerry.—
Having, heard of O’Connell’s polite
(qualities, he thought he would ask that
gentleman's permission to take a ver
batim account of the oration. The
Liberator” not only consented, but,
in his oiliest manner, infoimed the as-
sctnbled audience that ‘until that gin-
telman was provided with all writin’
conveniences, he wouldn’t spake a
word,’ assuming an extra brogue,
which was altogether unnecessary.—
Russell was delighted. • The prepara
tions began, and were completed—
Russell was ready.
‘Are you quite ready ?’ asked Dan.
‘Quite ready.’
‘Now, arc you sure you’re entirely
ready ?’
‘I’m certain, sir. Yes.’
The crowd becoming excited and
impatient. Daa said: ‘Now, ’pon my
conscience, I won’t begin the speech
till the London gintleman is intirely
ready.’
Alter waiting another moment or so,
O'Connell advanced: eyes glistened ;
ears were all attention ; and the repor-
torial pencil arose. Dan gave one
more benignant smile on the corres
pondent, winked at the auditors, and
commenced his speech in the Irish lan
guage, to the irrepressible horror of
the presont editor of the Army anti
Navy Gazette, and to the infinite de
light ol all Ketry.
Juleps are iu season, nnd so is the
story of tho broad backed Kentuckian
who went down to New Orleans for the
first time. Whisky, brandy and plain
drinks, he knows, but as to the coni
pound and favored liquors, he was a
know nothing. Reposing on the seats
of the bar-room of the St. Charles, lie
observed a crowd of fashionablas drink
ing mint juleps. ‘ Boy,” said ho,
‘‘bring mo a glass of that beverage.”—
Wheu he had consumed the cooling
draught, ho called the boy again :—
“Boy, what was my last remark ?”
*• Why you ordered a julep.” “That’s
right—don’t forget it—keep on bring-
him.
Mr. F cssenden said there had been
no attempt made to gag the Senator.
—-verybody understood the Senator to
have used the words “Senator from
Maine.”
Mr. Douglas wished to know if it
was not the most ordinary courtesy
when a gentleman misunderstood an
other, to accept his correct on.
Mr Fessenden—If the Senator says
he did not mean it.
Mr. Douglas (excitedly)—I say it is
false. (X 7 ice President—“order, or
der.”) The Senator knows it to be
false. (X’ice President—The Senator
is out of order.)
Mr. Fessenden said that if the Sen
ator from Illinois wished to make a
personal difficulty with him, he would
not succeed.
He had spoken of h:in as very res
pectable. Why, ordinarily the Sena
tor looked up to him. [Laughter.] He
would grant that Mr. D's. talants were ,
more than rt spectable—nay, he would |
admit that Mr. D. was a great man as j
he (Mr. D.) believed himself to be;
but he could not admit him to ue a j
gentleman, because he did not act like
one. [Applause.] As to an attempt to
gag, every Senator knew that Divine
jwwer had given to Mr. D. the greatest
evj.arity to tallt of any man iri die
world, and he doutbed if anythin less
than Divine power could" keep him
from speaking.
Mr Douglas said, that a- the Sena
tor had intimated his purpose to settle
the difficulty outside the Senate, he
should not further allude to it.
Mr. Fessenden declared he had said
no such thing—he desired to know if
Mr. Douglas recognised the code.
Mr. Douiilas—I assure the Senator
he will be responded to when he
makes the inquiry in proper to-in.
Mr. Fessenden said that Mr. Doug
las need not apprehend a hostile mes
sage from him.
lie defined his position on the sub
ject of the code.
Mr. Douglas responded, reviewing
all the proceedings which had led to
the difficulty, and contending that it
begun by Mr. Fessenden doubting bis
(Mr. D’s.) word.
Mr. Hale said he had something to
say in response to Mr Douglas’ on
slaught on the Republicans. lie read
amid roars of laughter, the 4th verse
of the 15th chapter of II. Samuel.
Mr. Douglas said that it might be
funny, but it was not statesmanlike to
answer arguments by personal at
tacks, as had been done by the Sena
tors from Massachusetts, Maine, and
New Hampshire.
“BJynnks” in Washington.
“Blynnks,” who is an applicant for
the Nashville Postoffice, in a letter to
the Nashville, Patriot,thus shows up the
economy of the Federal Government :
Tite way Government gets its work
done is curious. As an illustration,
you and your family meet in conven
tion of the whole, and adopt a resolu
tion authorizing the construction of a
hen-coop in your backyard. You at
once appoint me superintendent of the
work, putting a thousand or two dol
lars in the bank for me to check on. I
get you to appoint my brother-in-law
chief engineer.
I appoint two ot my brothers assis
tant superintendents, and my brother-
in-law appoints two ot his brothers
assistant engineers—all at your ex
pense. XX’e buy us each a fast horse
and buggy, and ride round town, t ri ik
cocktails an-J play billiards till the bank
deposit gives out, when we make out
a printed report of seventy-three pa
ges, furnishing you a complete topo
graphical survey of your back yard,
and a vast amount of statistical infor
mation with regard to the number of
hens you are likely to have for the
next four years. VYe wind up the re
port with the announcement that the
site of the hen coop has been selected,
and a ca 1 for another appropriation to
prosecute the work, which we assure
you will be done with “vigor.” You
place anodier thousand or two in the
bank, and we employ two hundred
hands at three dollars per day to trans
port seventy five cents worth of lum
ber (which costs you under our man-
ag meat about ten times that many
■ ! firs) tc the place of operation,which
r ures about three me- .ths.
i i the meantime, \v drive around
a . go on vigorously t liquor and
t) lliards. YVe then come up with an
other report and demand for another
appropriation. With this we get the
w“11s of the structure up, and with one
or two more appropriations, and a
t;rcM mniijr more cocktails and bit-
liarJs, we get the thing covered in ;
and at the end of twelve mon hs,which
we very appropriately style our “fiscal
year,” we put you in formal possession
of a ten thousand do lar hen-coop, that
any negro carpenter would have been
glad to knock up some Saturday after
noon for a suit of your old clothes.
He thus modestly excuses himself
for epistolary brevity:
I meant to write you a long letter to
night, but unhappily I find myself
’ p aced in a singularly unfavorable posi
tion for writing with my accustomed
force and perspicuity. My room is
situated in a wing of the building.—
Just opposite is another wing, with a
narrow court yard between. There
must be a concert or a circus, or some
sort of show in town to night for at a
window immediately opposite mine a
couple of very pretty, what I would
suppose to lie chambermaids, have
been putting on their clothes for the
last hour, as if they were fixing to go
somewhere. This is very annoying to
a man of family, and if it were not >o
far dawn stairs, I wotdd go anti com
plain to the landlord. It would require
an individual of tremendous power of
concentrating his thoughts to write an
able letter under such circumstances.
I would close the blinds and get fur
ther from the window, but I expect to
pay tor staying in this house, and Lam
not to*be driven from pillar to post by
such a speeta^p as is now before me.
The President has a Cbanee to Trade.
Yesterday President Davis went over
to the West Point railroad depot, prob
ably to see President Pollard, who be
ing out, one of the young men invited
the General to a seat. Now,our young
friend who did the honors on the oc
casion, supposed (drawing inferences
from the President’s grey Mississippi
suit) that the visitor was a backwoods
farmer—and espying the President’s
watch chain, drew the watch by it out
of the fob, remarking naively, “fine
watch—how’ll you trade?” Before
Gen. Davis could make up his mind
on the proposition, Col. Pollard came
in and saluted “President Davis.”
l’he clerk dropped the watch in the
President’s lap; fe'l backwards over
his cwn desk; and commenced
writing nt all the books, promiscuously.
So they tell the tale. For ourselves,
we believe it and are inclined to think
tir.t if Col. Pollard had remained out
a iutle longer, “there u ould have been a
d«•” X\ r e take it t! at the General
War Terms.
The Columbiad or Paixham—pro
nounced payzan, is a large gun, de
signed principally for firing shells—it
being far more accurate thau the ordi
nary short mortar.
A mortar is a very short cannon,
with a large bore, some of them thir
teen inches in diameter, for firing
shells. Those in use in our army are
set at tin angle of 45 degrees, and the
range of the shell is varied by altering
the charge of powder.
The shell is caused to. explode at
just about the time that it strikes, by
means of a fuse, the lergth of which
is adjusted to the time of flight to be
occupied by the ball, which, of course
corresponds with the range. The ac
curacy with which the time of tire
burning of a fuse can be adjusted, by
varying its length, is surprising; good
artillerists generally succeed in having
their shells to explode almost at the
exact instant of striking. In load ng
a mortar, the shell is carefully placed
with the fuse directly forward anti
when the piece is discharged, the sheii
is so completely enveloped with flame i' „ i c ■ i
that the fuse is neerly always fired*.- i “ W ’ eiWd a fair b? * ,ter in P eace or
The fuse is made by filling a wooden
cylinder with fuse powder, the cylin
der being of sufficient length for the
longest range, to be cut down shorter
for shorter ranges as required.
A Dahlgreeri gun is an ordinary-
cannon, except thatit is made very-
thick at the breech for some three or
four feet, when it tapers down sharp-
h to less than the usual size. .This
form was adopted in consequence of
the experiment of Captain Dabigren,
of the United Ststes Navy, having
shown that when a gun bursts, it usu
ally gives way at the breech. The
Niagara is armed with these guns aftd
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard there are
sixty, weighing about 6,000 pounds
A fellow out West being asked whe
ther the tumor he was drinking was a
good article, replied: “Wal, I don’t
know, i cuess so. There is only ono
qneer thing about it. Whenever I
wip i my mouth, I burir a hole in my
shirt s ene.”
Several disconsolate gentlemen
of Stockton, who consider their cases
hopeles t, have forme 1 an association
under the style of the “Bachelors’
Cjublor mutual consolation. No
widowers or scoffers at roatr mooy are
permit t-d to become members. Good
moral charactet is indispensable. To
bacco and spirits r emitted in modera
tion. ’ • -rials—
