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M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. :
M.rth.,
»dT>nce, the j-rlce oi
h " !ub« fi VP or moT ®* 011 ® * ur
i.h’eJ ?*"•
j(r A1 l>ert Joy is on trial at Salem,
He would, if he could, “let Joy
he unconfiued.”
According to
“Chatham,” whose in-
creating letter may be found on the out-
j,Ie of "tl'ie issue, but one member of the
('Invention was lion, in Floyd county.
There is nothing more cruel in the his-
t„ry of poli'ics than the way Grant has
,, e hack on his sore-head friends at
h,i,ne. Just as they were organizing a
Fraud anf.-Uayes and ],ro-Grant party
ho 1880, he writes home from England
that he is a first- la^ Hayes man, be
lieves in his polin' end applauds his un
dertakings.
An English gentleman is authority
fur the statement that the little, cub,
jeye (iriint made himself extreiriely
uppish in England and even said to
the Queen: “Well, Madam, your Maj
esty, I hope the newspapers don’t write
al,out you as they do in my country
ihout I’a.” Somebody removed him
just at that point.
Co!. Nutting, of Macon, writing from
lake City, Colorado,to the Telegraph &
Jfistcngrr says “within two miles of-tlie
city are two lodes, running obliquely
into each other, respectively named and
recorded “Hen Hill and Jim Blaine.”
In value the Hen Hill mine has much
the advantage, for its assay is very high,
and the vein promises to be of liberal
width ; while the Jim Hlaire lode, so
far, shows but little mineral, and fore
bodes an early abandonment.”
And thus is exploded the saying that
‘ there’s nothing in a name.”
RUrilESENTATlVE MEN.
Henry Ward Iieccher returned a
short time since from a lecturing tour
in the West, with, as his friends say,
forty thousand dollars as the result of
his labors. Theodore Tilton has Also
recently returned from a lecturing tour
with funds sufficient to take himself
mid daughter on a visit to Europe, and
jnrhaps plenty beside. Now, neither
of these men lias made a specialty of
anything, nor is it reasonable to Sup
pose they have any knowledge or learn
ing whatever beyond the general aver
age of educated men, or that could ben
efit an audience of ordinary people.
Theodore Tilton has a small vein of gen
ius, butso slight that .it could hardly
‘“•press or excite the ordinary listener,
ana needier is an eloquent pitnurinu,
but certainly no theologian, or with suf
ficient knowledge of ethics to interest
anybody. What,then, is it that enables
these men to “coin money” so abund
antly? First, because they are pre-emi
nently representative men
of the great “God-and-morality” party
—that party which claims to have; in
corporated “morality” in American par
ty politics, ar.d when the flag was to be
raised over the sand heaps of Sumter
were selected by the party leaders to
perform that “imposing ceremony.”
t'econd, because of their own notoriety
and immortal infamy. Beecher, as the
adulterer and dr secrator of his friend’s
hearth and home and Tilton, as the
most unmanly and utterly inconceiva
ble coward and beast thatoutraged mor
ality and decency ever had to deal with,
b hat,must he the moral condition of a
generation that breeds such men that
makes them the types and very flower
of its civilization, or rather, what is it
that lias so debauched and degraded
this generation, that a Beecher and a
niton are made its representative men?
h is ‘anti slaveryism,” abolitionism,
■n a word, inaiigrelism.tliiit olisetnede-
vilism, that tries to equalize beings
hod has made unequal in fact, apd in
stead of the Websters and Taneys, pre
sents such moral monstes as Beecher
and Tilt on as its representatives.
VOLUME XXXI.
.! art)
uaoae o
-idt al :d u>m ra... : i^.-1 A i* . air-urqaq
s.thy te-nirr-u r i lllv m lUaumtli HtU
If’Atf -. ale-) eiil -I.-Iie.7flt atiaAten .gaMjtfai. — ■■aololiu*!
one year thereof citizen of the district
from which elected.
The Senators shall be elected for four:
years, and, at the first session of the
General Assembly, under this Constitu
tion, the Senators from each district,
shall be divided into two classes, And
numbered first and second classes! to
be detei mined by -lot. The terms ot
the first class shall expire at the expira
tion of two years, and of the second
class at the expiration of four yeArsf
so that one Senator from each district
shall he elected every two-years, i (
The House of Representatives shall
consist of seventy-five members.
There shall be seventy-five Represent
ative districts in this State: each dis
trict to be formed of contiguous coun
ties, whose "aggregate population shall
amount to, 'at least, fifteen Thousand
seven hundred and eighty-eight,'ac
cording to the United States census of
1870; each district to elect one Repre-
sentive. The said districts shall he con
stituted of counties as follows :
* * * In the formation of
said districts no county shall be divid
ed. Should a new county be establish
ed it shall be added to the district
which it joins and from which the
largest portion of its territory is taken,
The Representative districts may be
changed by the General Assembly at
its first sessicn after the publication of
each new census of the United States
Government, but llmir number nor
number of Representatives shall not'
increased.
All laws passed by the General Ab-
embly shall be general in their charac
ter, and shall operate alike upon all
the citizens of this State. All matters
affecting individuals alone, or private
corporations, communities or counties
shall be referred to local tribunals ; and
it shall be the duty of the General As
sembly to create, by law, such local
tribunals, which shall be invested with
as full legislative powers as to ail such
matters as would be otherwise invested
in the General Assembly; provided that
such tribunals shall do no act which
would conflict with, or in any manner
oTmE
aunt
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY? *“*•*»’«
•too U nanr -5 i7aiT u!-- ;7lTjw gaol Mgtm »TT. 11.3 ^ikot'vffjiT .nnoT MvuUd »jf InaJioqmi oe OMd evert
[jfrwl rtiSffc.
Stats Convention.
CALLED l <) DEVISE TfleCONSTllD
TION.
FiTih Day—Monday, July 10th.
impair any law of this" State of a gen
eral character.
I.ET1EH FROM « OL. HAS*.
"i-'llnaiu-t* in li,-!;111un to Organization of
the Legislature.
To the Editor of the Courier:
”n lire second day of the session of
hie Constitutional Convention, I iutro-
iici-d an ordinance in relation to the
organization of the Senate and House of
Heprpsentatives, leaving the counties to
compose each Representative district
blank to he filled out by the commit
tee on the Legislative Department, to
wliieli it was referred. In order to 1 re-
®oyo ti ie pi ea 0 f the necessity of a
Uepresetative from each county, to Hep-
resent local interests, I propose to take
all local legislation from the General
Ass-mbly, and refer all such matters to
local tribunals. I also provide in. an-
°fiier section for biennial elections and
biennial sessions.
I am happy to know that I have an
ticipated the wishes of the people of
Floyd
, as expressed in their mass meet
ing on the 17th inst. As Iargued these,
positions before the peole daring the
canvass, I thought they endorsed them
by uiy election and that I was repre
senting their views.
}. Bond you a copy of so much of tho
ordinance as refers to the particular
f 3att ? 1 ' 3 * or publication^ and respectful
ly ask all papers in the 42nd Senatorial
district to copy them.
Respectfully yours, *
N.Rass.
’ j I U
ORDINANCE. **>.4
Each Congressional district' ill thin
* kte, for the time being, shall consti-
7 a Senatorial district, antfthe Sen-
4 consist of two Senators from
Bieh district, who shall be citizens of
6 nited StateB, and thirty years of
or wko ska W h a ve been citizens
ta State for three years, immediate-
' deeding their election and for
General News Items.
Over fear million sewing machines
have been, sold since they were first in
troduced in 1853.
The Black Creek Coal Company has
sunk a shaft, four miles from Spring-
ville, Ala., and the enterprise promises
to Ve a grand success.
«!U3I1 XMmiltlgB Ill XIII r
Cards: says:. Enny man who kan swop
horses, or ketch fish, and not lie about
it, iz just about as pious as men ever get
to be in this world,
Love’s Young Dream” realized:
Mr. Thomas A. Brown, aged eighty-
two, and Sarah Carrol, aged sevei ‘
two, married in Green county
State, a few days since.
Rev. Dr. Kennedy, editor Southern.
Christian Advocate, and Mis. Louise
Clisby Wise, daughter of Col. dishy,
were joined together in holy wedlock
in Macon on the 17th inst.
’In my country,’ said Julia Ward
Howe, in Europe, ‘when a woman com
mences to speak you may hear a pin
drop.’ It is frequent a rolling-pin. And
the next drop is the man under it.-
Doston Pest.
It is said that there is a hen in Cher
okee county, in this State that is the
mother of sixty chickens, ten guineas
and fourteen turkeys. Of course she
is merely thestepmothrr ot the guineas
and turkeys, having hired somebody
else to lay the eggs.
A young woman from the rural dis
tricts entered a dry-goods store the oth
er dav and asked for a pair of stock
ings. ’ The elerk politely asked her
what number she wore. ‘Why v two,
you fool. Do you think I am a centi
pede, or that I have a wooden leg?”
The late Charles F. - Briggs loved an
argument and would concede nothing.
A friend of his mice touched up this
peculiarity with, ‘Charley, I want to
bet witli you that two and two make
four.’ ‘Nothing of the sort,’ promptly
rejoined Mr. Briggs, ‘2 and 2 make 22.’
In Mcrriwether county in this State
the old song is changed into
“Will you walk into uy psrior,
S* J d the npider to tho chicken/'
as in that county a huge ground spider
was caught in the act of dragging a
live young chicken into his hole on tho
farm of Mr. Seaborn Thornton.
A Newton county Ga.. doctor reports
the following strange cast of monoma
nia of a young lady in that county,who
believes she is a baby, and who lias
not spoken a word in three years, al
though she was a good conversational
ist before she took up the foolisf idea
of being an infant. She reads the Bi
ble and writes letters, yet will not utter
a word.
A man demanded a free glass of rum
in a Nevada saloon, and did not get it.
Then he said he had never tiied it,but
it had been the ambition of his life to-
kill a barkeeper; but .whep, jhe bar
keeper took out two sixshooters arid a
polite, gentlemanly barkeeper, but one
of those who wore paste diamonds aiid
parted their hair in the middle.
The “first bale” is in. market this year
earlier than we-remember it to have
ever been before. The following dispatch
from Galvcston 1 "Texas, is dated July
13: The first bale of new cotton
received to-day at Brownsiville.
weight is 442 pounds, classific
fully strict low middling. It
grown on a'plantation near Browns-
and sold at auction at the Cotton
change for twenty cents pfcr pound.
A circuit rider one Apj met' •/
praying in the middle of-the
Tils ebtftibition of-iSety wlwni
inquiry- 'wnat are you don}g?’
asked the preaeher. *ftiyiog tor
enemy,’ said the man. Traying jqr
your enemy!, the astonished divine re
plied ; ‘what are yon doing that for? 1
:Don’t the Bible say if you pray'fqr
your enemy yon heap coals of'fire on
his head ?’ ‘Yes’ ‘Then,’ said the man
‘I want to bum this d—n rascal np.’>
The Convention called to order by
President Jenkins at 9 o’clock.
Praytr by Rev. E. J. Coats, delegate
from Twiggs.
--Committee - on Education, A. HI
Mansell chairman, and committee (in
Filial Revision, R. Toombs chairman,
were announced. Of delegates from
this district, J. H. Fitten is on the for
mer committee, and A. R. Wright and
Abda Johnson on the latter.
The districts being next called in ol
der, a huge number of resolutions &c,
were introduced and all referred to ap
propriate committees. The following
are of most general interest:
Mr. Guerrard offered a resolution'
that the person of a debtor, where there
is Dot a strong presumption of ftand,
shall not be continued in prison after
the delivery of his estate, except so far
as exempts from leyy and sale, for the
benefit of his creditors in such manner
as shall be prescribed by law.
Mr. Gignilliatt offered an ordinance
in favor of the location of the capital
being voted upon as a separate ques
tion from the adoption of the Constitu
tion at the election held for ratification
of the Constitution, by each voter en
dorsing on his ticket the name of the
place he prefers for the capital.
Mr. Grace offered a resolution that
the retaining or abolition of the home
stead be disposed of the same way; the
people voting upon it os a matter sepa
rate from the Constitution.
Mr. Mershon introduced an ordi
nance dividing the state into twenty
judicial circuits, and that every four
years the Judges—one for every circuit—
be elected by the people—tha salary to
be $2,500.
Mr. Donaldson offered a resolution
that the house of representatives shall
consist of one member from each coun
ty; and that
The State shall be divided into 50
senatorial districts, each of which shall
be equal in population os nearly as
ble, and consist of one or more ad
joining counties and the senate shall
consist of one member from each of
said districts. ■ ‘
Mr. Perry offered a resolution that
all property of the wife in her jiosses-
sion at the time of marriage, and all
inherited or acquired by her in any
manner, whether by gift, her own la
bor or otherwise, shall be and remain
ahle for "nor'te‘'ma7fl 'itflqect io the
debts and contracts of her husband,
'Mr. Hill offered the following:
That each] tax-payer in this State
shaU be allowed to own personal oror
erty to the value of one hundred do!
lars, exempt from taxation.
Mr.v Mathews offered a resolution
against reducing the reptesentatioa in
either branch of the General Assembly,
Mr. Johnson, of Oglethorpe offered a
resolution that the Supreme Court
Judges shall report the defects in the
Constitution once every year to the
Governor with amendments; who shall
submit the same to the Legislature.
Mr.-Mosely,a resolution that the three
Supreme Court Judges be elected every
four years by the Legislature—their
salary to be $2,500 per annum.
Mr. Stevens of the 40th offered the
following:
To abolisli the offices of Notary Pub
lies and provide for the election of Jus
tices o r the Peace.
All the above resolutions Ac were, as
stated, refeired to appropriate commit
tees.
Mr. Wofford, a resolution that a com
mitti e be appointed to report an ordi
nance making lire property of the
State pay the public debt, if it be avail
able.
On motion of Mr. Wright the resolu
tion was adopted.
Mr. Wofford, also a resolution that
to pay it ?
mi?w* rr _.
• -.TP—5 —rToriilT^SHMB.wiFinwifta
the Governor were to dra-v his-wai irtftt t (i |. Wbe^hyr
vention, without j grj. ^app^-.jirjiition
the! Legislature^ he Wouldi he liab
and should be-impeached. 1
The question beipg put, to-ffie E qpfte
upon the aiueiidmenl of Mr. J^isk niht:
it was hW iirgtled lR. «o owofe ird
By a vtrfe of 75 to 74 the/ realtor was’
referred to the Committee oh Fim nee.
The' Convention ; adjourned'Tjn.il
o’clock A- ii. next day'- '
Sixth Day —Tuesday, July’Vt/
The Convention was called to ord ir bj
Mr. President Jenkins, pursuit 11
juuiuuiuuiu • _ __ _ r > * « '
Prayer was dffei^d [fun-
ilton, of’Floyd/'“ ", r f
WMWMtoftiffjg
State, Iff
4 JieoptejbaKabtfsf^gH, “
lose md,;if. 4VB
W'DUif
a class, togwij.,taj
rtk §t-
,^iug classes uo nc
. re.cy.VquihLvfi^
at a lower ra.te or
S rosj-erity auil a pr-
ie country, anff whfi
the bondholder is iiii
% rl) y4 I ?iav“g^p'
J*. Whether; the ptonakaffiMhh
ii'^dholders ; to.iqjitkfi the goverii dM
furnish the galdJo takathelegaLtS deih
oat of drcalation, and^hiMmgMI g®.
istrt.theirivaults to lodean themoil] bilto
disfranchisement shall insult only from
conviction for crime arid not for ina
bility to pay taxes.
Referred to committee.
The regular order of the day—per
diem—was taken up.
The order of the day was stated to be
the resolution of Mr. McIntosh to fix
the per diem pay of members at four
dollars a day, with five cents per mile
;oing; with the substitute of Mr. Wil
liams that the pay of members shall
not exceed three dollars per day, and
of Mr. Tift that the expenses of the con
vention shall not exceed the $25,000
appropriated therefor; and thp amend
ment by Mr. Guerrard.
Mx.D^muke- offered the following
amendment to the substitute of iMr.
Tiftr
That the per diem of members he
five dollars per day and mileage ten
cents per mile/
Mr.- Toombs was opposed to;Mr.
Tift’a-substitute. He had nothing to
do with what fhc Legislature saysinor
club the mau said he did not means <did be- care what it had said oiiyill
sp.y on the subject Mr. Tift said they
were there to protect the interests and
set an example of economy to the
plej. Several states pay but two
half or three dollars to legislators,
knew fhat the. Convention was suj
.... iuu— ■ - ■ -,KK
to the Legislature and was not tied rip;
I* 8 ” by it hut he was not influenced by’that.
a *'* uHe hoped they would come within
-five thousand dollars.
Seward. We can’t do it unless
[Laughter.]
Reese, of Morgan did not
toe, Convention omnipotent and
' the $25,000.
omnipgqtent for a certain
make a Constitution—but it i
in the matter of expense,
ceed this $25,000 was an implied
tract between the people and mem
of the Convention. If they should
stay there forty days where would be
their five dollars per day ?
Mr, Seward. We’d borrow money.
RESOLUTIONS, ORDINANCES, ETC.
Mr. Wells offered the following:
That the rate of 7 per cent. .per;az num
be the legal rate of taxation in this
State. - . ; !
Mr. Williams offered the followin
That there shall not be more ;
twelve judicial circuits; the judges to
have $1,G00 per annum. • h»»
Mr. Sapp offered the folloriiugi j
That there shall bo > no imprison nent
for debt, whipping as punishment for
crime, or sale of liquors on election days.
Mr. Sibley oflpred Ahe tfollowing: °®**
To create the office ot Lieutenant Gov
ernor in the State of .‘Georgia. li«Y
Mr. Stroud offered-tbe following
That the per diem pay Of members
shall not exceed fifty cents. [Laugl
Mr. Shepjard offered the followin
That in the prdunble of the Con
tion it shall ihe recognized that we
upon God for all good blessings,-etc.
Mr. Featherstone offered the fo
ing: .dean l • n-ji-.'i -.t]
To reduce the Legislature to twi
two Senators and sixty members of h
etc. ,*-i -. :vj V. - : I
Mr. Fitten offered the following:
Upon the subject of fish cull
ordaining that the Legislature,
grant any authority to obstruct
sage of fish in the rivers-of this
~tfET8&I#=PER DIEM.
Tho-rep<riDof&etGbinmitteo
diem was submitted that the Con
has full and enfirif control over its own
iujiiewaaImAwBiIk°Snames■■ i■
'rit::in making the government bin rithe el SBLlitSllectotHritiaJlin all casa ,
'P*
htion
by Legislktive
they hopej that
' the amount
lore. They
ig the pay of
membeis of the'Convention at 84 per
day; arid, all to have mileage at the rate
of ten cents per mile going and coming,
by .the. nearest and most practicable
“'•RgftSKPfoanrf adopted.
Mr. Gartrell offered a resolution that
the" treasurer advance to delegates the
Bum ‘of$25 each, and to the Secretary
$100, to b« accounted for upon final set
tlements.
Tie question was put and unanimously
agreed to.. *
The Convention adjourned until
next morning, 9 o’clock 1 .
i convention wps/called ‘ to order
\ President Jenkins, pursuant to
mmpnt . * 1.1
Sevntli Dar—tVeudne»4av, July 18th.
The coriveriiio
by Mr,
adjournment
Prayer * was offered Vj‘ ^oy.'. 1 LG.
Phillips, a member of the qbiihly.of
JefEefeon.',' , 1 , . 0 ; *
Mr, Disnlrike moved to recori (der
action of previous day in /efezen »M
per diem. Instead of, its being four 1 dol
lars a day nnd-teircents mileage, he fa
vored its U- irig five dollars a day and
five cents mileage,
Mr. Bass was in favor of the five
cents mileage but also favored the pay
being four dollars a day.
Mr. Twitty ’thought it wrong for
those, who had plenty and to spare and
pay, to force tiiis pay on.others. He
hoped the per diem, would he five dol
lars and the toilenge ten'rientsl
Mr. Hamjltdh/Sf Floyfl/hioved, in
asmuch as it wash^tended in tl|is mat
ter to set, an cxapiple of, economy, to
lay the matter on the table. Agreed
to. *!• ' : 5 Ip j fca ,
Several commiliers were announced,
N. J. Tumlin beiDg on Committee on
Judicial Circuits. W. T. Wofford "ripj
Committee on Payment’ of Public Debt
and N. Bass on Committee on Clerical
Force, j ’
The special order„.being the resolu
tion of Mr. Hamilton, ‘ that the state
' ii T .7/ .noli; basis
1 classes US'cgutnwhrt.iagqisti ‘
acmt-.ns.m’)-! • ,aosir-vxl J
irwofi Joe vstli «A .ilaacrioiO moil
rill In iiioxt—at tlnnq
yrtl hsa .qo soaoaysJS .iW lalort niarn
•m hart id larft gorcM td aoiitvi rraos
rM uiitmit i-iuriiu nn-ii„o mmiu«a
iSsides ckn.proas#/ “«Roj»biW PN^> JrtW ahkti faDnligiblctlPriny riffinerii
_,ns Ofiour J*dient,‘|y«tqrii e^Jjpi king; aWeaJtoriilhriBameeia accdmrt*
^♦eihaqdi#i ,»tfti»Bte»jaafcoa [aift I—k midlMtt thwmw^l t tma
’ jnfiW-a&tJ No person.:Who'tftei
adflpttmOitiiiri-.vqftrtftmiwu
4m «dsidmt<Aumt4walv(llilihi
l uri iatu)tkt6dI«f£thuo£sduel inti.
to* rtfli rttwanwptedofc septUmfdr atceu
ctt> fMloqfftr OKrieWvietedi of aktir,
bfiik «HfeMipgBuqbdnei<8h»ll .votet or
Wirii MfSoditidU* aate,:Un)esahe shall
Iju.l t |
• <4*- e
SWrl Jui
iml i aSHM-l
own provideAnOtetimelttllujbArlbaisgia-
gold at a heavy loss with which to Ai dblrt
idi«t the-same tube,
felony larceny, and breach
tkem to pay coin, amLat the-some time I of thtopeacehe privilege
reducing the .circulatioiu.by’ tke • dthLl during itheir attendance
drawalof .the legal tender,lhuaart libgl fleibittgoinssto, Arid .returning froni
to tho scarcity and priie.of-money. ">dj ithesrttria?- caw - ,i )jJ Qiloq 1 ”
' irlM*to<ri«a>
5; -Whether- tlie C-oiice
CoBstitotioft to he ’adopted '(^n • -fii ttafctoqjng of retari
'iise^il, anddffeo how? andtorer >ftk [«StpWi8hmenlB,ahd.fhrbid the l
laute hrtfclauses-’for that -purpose,- and if iWflXMBfareftdTinkSTTrihin. lwo
eC6n«eutitoi MtffMefeariptefiriibhgib dapabf- 1
etc”
Jli'jl
feriDgs of -the
classes in all tL J _
yond anythib'g ever before knowmh
' 0)untry; di> not require the'Bupji
of this terribltf neadpolyT fiaoi\
o I All the preceding.: resolutions,
were referred to iheir approfriata: Join 1 - :
tuitkeeait iu siinl vTiiTihro ui baa ■f 0 *
.Convention, adjourned .until Tbn sday
o%3nck A; , x’-jJ »—, 1
Eighth D.y—TliBrsdnj-, JUyJDUi
•w "-ri? ..it- bfl* load xUtafoioa
Convention called to order hyl rtsi-
dent JenkinS.' .:*<eil«BiB It'Ir-jwoq
. Prayer by Rev, Wm. A. McDb laid,
debate from 'Ware county! 1 1
The Committee: .:on Sale of Stale
Railroads was announced, B. F.T1 arpo
being chairma^ of^ajH ‘crimeniltee I
Mk Wright-r-Mr- RreehJeilL .1 < *
to introduce and send <to !the Grin
tee on Legislative!)CpiiRm^nt tin jg-p-, J
ceedings of a m ass-in eeting ’ o f t h c peo
ple of Fiord count j y., ^rhey- h'alv : : di-
ected to have them Ee.ntto tilft»r ij“lf>
sentati ves in this convention an.l
pro-,
th the “art
immmee on legislative, upparti ibntf ^peeiilly d
Mr. Tooughs—The , rihgibdit^AidtWMof-Marylritid,
hive
isnek (person
u tux , v m6. -DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
^oollterA (‘3a2 no. • * ,
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•«W SERIES-NO. ; 47
Constitutional Convention,
Ep«eixl correrpobdoneo Morning Nem ] .
Atlanta, July 11.—Of the Constitu
tional _C°n vention which js to meet in the
your
have
r.jr ,VQ^ Convention which is to meet in
the Capitol"at noon today, and in which yi
8 * readers feel so. deep an interest, I hi
h'mtoty" classification.
ral be fqnnd imjierfect, as I have
Ju^able toobtain the necessary data
irdjto some of the members. All
hefts, however, will be supplied
i 'time in subsequent letterr, and
complete record."
b%ftftgMfc.V>*(Mdtopri li^f ’ t'Tli oWest member in yean, although
; Wipnetive and cheerful,is Gen. Eli War-
mdy^ren; of Houston, who was bom in 1801.
The next in age is ex-Governor Charles
J. Jenkins-who was bom in 1805. There
tie several who are seventy or over. The
5fb«ngeM member is Hon. D. L. 8troud,
of CjaFford, who is twenty-five. Hon.
.Paul O. Hudson,.of Richmond, is next
rirbrler, "being' but twenty-seven. Only
three others are still m the shadow of
thirty.
But two members are foreigners, and
are of good old sturdy Scotch par
entage. Judge Hugh Buchanan, of the
rircuit, ana Hon. Adam John
son, of Richmond, were bom in Scotland,
but early came to this country.
There is one Northern and one Western
tnan in the Convention—Hon. Porter
Ingram, of Muscogee, who was bom in
. Vermont, and Colonel Wm. T. Thomp-
°f sou^of Chatham, who was bom in Ohio.
•uUufatatenb baa eualq sill iadi
■nariri ft iTtrtntoto' btaMot^nfisrwt, ««-
ilit>ffi(hlBiofcari)to.it>ylthn i iphhple, who
fMctabeioimiriisBiasiadby the go
and also fitfxtisairieiribeid of
jiaiWRSBinbly^hiUHwiiwadeYotHtr
ry of atatauinileas otherwise
bylaw.; bui'.ji I "
‘bn%dtirili teb repift 'Was made
.'Secratoiry reaAa memorial froi
lanta stating that^said city would,
ave resided in Georgia for more
an inirty years.
The foUowing table will show how
many members were bom the same year,
and the ages of all, so far as known up
to this time:
'llSOl. ————-—-l
rum'.
mitteeon Capital. •
Rasdlntions- etc-
-dMbr^’fithterbPf
Referred to
-life
.insurance- cwupapies deposit JJOD.OOO
rid-' idiBit hidliHitae* Jf^aintBitbeilsJ -
b m. SttS\‘d l oRrtifflu' ihhi ri<
ii
'tale without first having toade
withillreStotaof: ‘
^ 1806
1
1808
2
c- 1809
i
1810
1811
—3
9.
V 1812
2
it 1813
1
v, 1814 .
3
ie 1815—
1
1
1817
3
a 1818
1
to I81&L-™.I.
5
gu (1820- i
3
1821
1822
4
.—.5
r > 1828J™-
5
r > 1824 —
—.1
•«3IjS
fire
tin? privilege fc^n -g
the clerk’s desk,- that they may lx het-
tjt heard than if I read them myselfi
■xrr cVni-1 H, ( i enneisf. anilT: ^iffL^QsdroMlWri.® rafciipdn** Itheir
thousand and has one of ithejnottd»J ^ Hsfisfertk-i in
telligent people in the UbitaiS al^ff 8 -**b
The chairman of this rif(-feting i the' ° j/ : The Silent Captdhl-
vention will like ' '
of any respectaldi
pie of this State]
The Secretar/ read Ihri copy iqf
ceedings and (hey weyt?. "ridh
Committee on lyjgis’
MR ill Jaek«rit
u»l i-.l %p RHicenei.
PhrixiilpUlA WeAlyTimes.]- )
General Jackson’e troopa and hjs
emies UfUedcii 1 hentAreS«ept; ’thei
s, : he slept a great deal. Whenever he
iSce
who could afford, to serve for even no Sec. 2. Tl.eTleflefal Assembly limit
have poweVttfhflmorize the forming of
the fol d* ^lep^J ftBieh gMk U*»
bere^qftteaMejWsWMJWW sSjm VMMWbSb
tCj. 4-ridiT, ,rft ntmiT Tsrf m ““
Mr. Toombs, chairniari Commit eeof ’Uritil'hroii&ed by the organ and
Final IteTisioa v liegs leave to mak the could-sleep anywhere and- 'inj any
f.iio.-,„ g „ P o«: .: ftSB»T^S!SKSMS
Sect.'on 1. A well regulated m litia ward Richmond,’after the battles with
being essential to the.peace and^ec reity McClellan, he was riding along With
of the State, the General AsMJmby Jia.ll his drowsy staff, nodding and sleeping
have atrtnonty to provide, by ia\y, how as he went? 'We^passed by groups .bf
• °/^ !S shall he oifean- mea setting along the roadside, and enr
ized officered, trained, armed and. g a *ed ndwkWlmdiyHiwWihade
equipped—and of wboni it shall con- - - ~ "
clat. ,flliili I
divisions and fprps, with such feitrip-
tions as may be iirescribycniy ja.w, and
?|aP brie ?- ut V ori 1^ ; 'fe
Sec. 3".'The oners'anS' meu 'ql
militia, arid volunteer forcesj shall
be entitled *~ -—
vice
mendmenf otjfirr., Uuetmr
was ib‘n motion relerred to Commitii
, thesamfe flic next daj.^ ]«
Resolutions &c being m order thd fol-
lowing areqtlie^ mpst ini portant iiitro-
duced: ’
»i Mr. Bxcbloiki'lhai'- tbo Senate be
composed of S6 members—4 iron) each
Congressional District—the House, one
member from each county.’ '■ !
Mr.- Hand, that -the homestead be
subnd i t ted" to ‘ptWrtifit. rai i fi cation 1 : sbpa-
rate frdiri tfee^ComB^t'utSon. 1 ,!
; Miiijqyis,; ilpV^iertyj tiiatl tit
pluhlic: (fciiti ql| - ne*»r ; -exceed 3- per
cent of the Taxable wealth'-of - the State.
Mr. "McRae; that Superior 'Court
i -• i .tt,ova*'•
i rtmipwpmpJrfWSl
■wiftqpBOMd Jirids pajnUme thoeori by,
ftJtto#eafch-Aogusi tj at esaiq' - *
' Aft^rallibe,tliibnp " futrire'-Le
tore shill recoguixe anil'band ” r,!
fraudulent ^question the \
any oritstdnding bond.
Mi. WitiiB,-tkafeeffiee of-State At
■ridges far efatederery
years by the people. 1 »< J.iiiu.uj-
Mr. Day, that crippled or mai
soldiers be exempt from poU tax.
■Mr. Wright-efitod
Jfesrfred, That the Committee on Fi-
nance be
1. Whether the producing and -icdos-
Mr. Toorijis, chairman Cpmmitti d of-
Final Rev&ian,!liegs-lutve to uiak( the
following repott:
Sec.’I. in airelfctions, by thq'pei pje, :
the clcclohi feh'all vote hy bajhit. ’
' male perro.:. boni -m
i,; and „every Qta[e |tefc
sonriho.luxsah4ri»i»atu»iiaedi fa vho*
has legallyi dedajedj hriiintriitioi *tof
become a citizen; .of the UnitediStitty,
twenty-oiiftyears old. or npward, {vKo
shaU have, '-raided im.Vhis staid six- him, and they! weqeHneady aU
diec ioW i tybufcfe.tnen. UitorerfaUypoliteiAi
' months cexti.preceqdiogL tbo Cleei loW,
and shall have resided three mo ith'd
in the county do- which he bl
fers to vote and shall, hereafter, [Mp
all.togeain^jyp paly hffttawiRi in
quired of hj^pnHfphich he may 1 ave
an opportunnyofpaying, agreeabl r to
tow, except for theyejwqf.tfa.qlfic on,
shall bq deemed an Rectos;,uid e erw
malefdtizenl?L ft ‘el®5^! f the
age aforesaid,, Cexw-pl ,as j^rewi fter our
provided,) who may be a reside] t- '
the state at,th^iifpepf.'**"-
this constitution,
ijf
ifet
. feaili
manna tn.thft militaxy.J5r naval sedvii
of thBcUnried,: St»tesehiji;fipqnijte
ri^te rifab, stock*' by* fmptt
ed stationed duty to thi*atoto
of IWOOiftotfioVltejWhot *
^ril-«ifrjeatq:t|*»th«
. “I do sweat that I am
T old, haYe,i
moatteti*
ttferidgeWP.
of fenc rails,-(One groups'took ui for
cavalry men,-w'rtli an inebriated captain,
and one of tho party delighted at the
sight of a man who had found whisky
ieneugti to be-drunk, sprang rip from
the fiaamndi hnmdishing.a'reaBting-ear
viri.his hand, leaped down into the road,
nntoheizing the. general’s ho*se,- c
oiit.'.itl say old feiroiv, where the e
.did jouiget.your-liquor? .-In an 1 in
stant, tos -thegeneral awoke,: the fellow'
■mai his toistake; and then bounding
riflk from the raid he -took the fence atari
sirfglaJcBp, exclaiming;“Good God, it,b
old .Jack!” and disappeared in the dai'
mvsaz ’Yes, General Jackson slept
greats dfal -but lid w«a;.never c«p£ht
napping. i -» ,u ii -a. iu.il
Ho gave.-to Isleep many momjeiits
which otheri,mon. would haxe.lMvecr’
,to conversation, l He wdB etsentiajy 'll
14-sitontvnair, niit jnorose,, but quiet. He
sfcikurifteze^r»rt4jt(I«aghed; Hepev-
iertoldia-jeke, hut filitki uht d
thenvin othera; and ifi -dne struck j his
rpecullharfantobfame^i saoale in n
apriduv^atooe-dwhdarifae -apart';
but liked to have them
state hnunujuirii rigqnircd of me
which I have had an opportunit ’!$»•; r
pay except foriheipitfBBtaeax” .;;4,
{iweiricrinrifcfedhrft: efa
ny or larceny beforhnny rtourt of fat
state, or of orin the Ui “
boWCj^Me: tuhnytoCogrifn:
of honor or bust within ibis state, um the treacherous .nniltyw-theank m-
less he shrill have been.pardoned. dorses Hayes. rt.-maowfitWiL lc I 1
let/he ^
cm, altlidugh hd:
little part htiA uHe was iot a qntf’ ol
i ririduifa4rifarifamifakfaBHnrind|mfi
When he had iieylrii jhitzihenii
action, and jio^tot^mage. Ilis.mili
dispatches were ashritf as if they
nt afteri
■**«i,
ru idi <**a-
enl ’Saha uTSost-it not to
1827
6 c
1828
—5 a
1829
a s <
1830
.. .5 y
1831
2 lT
1832
2 n
1833
1 *
1834
1835
—7 k .
1836
3 6
1837
1 °
1838
9 si
1839 —
::„5 w
1840 _
1 *?
1841..
9 st
1842
“
1845-
9 j 1
1846
---.3
1850
1 w
1852
1
1825™. 4
Tracing back to their birthplaces, I
find that Scotland furnishes 2
Ohio 1, Vermont 1, North Carolina 6,
Florida I, Maryland I, South Carolina 9,
Virginia 1, Tennessee 4, Alabama 1.
- Of native Georgians, Appling county
ihrniahei 1, Burke 5, Baldwin 3, Bibb 2,
Clarke 1, Crawford 2, Chatham 4, Clay
ton 1, -Decatur 1, Elbert 3, Floyd 1,
anklln 2, Fayette 1,Gwinnett 3,Greene
», Harris!,Hail 2.Hennr 1
Jackson 2, Jasper 1, Jones 3, Laurens 1,
Lincoln : 1, Morgan 3, Meriwether 2,
Muscogee 1, Monroe 6, Madison 3, Ogle-
thorae 2, Putnam 1, Pike 1, Richmond 6,
Spalding 1, Sumter 1, Taliaferro 1, Tal-
t, Telfair 1, Troup 2, Tatnall 2,
_jp 2, Upson 1, Walton 2, Warren 2,
Washington 2, Wilkes 6, Wilkinson 1.
It will be; seen from the above that
Jie new constitution will be the work
of 'GeOrgia’8 honored sons. The few
’delegate dot born on her soil have, in
moat cases, lived within her borders for
at quarter of a century or more, and are
in every sense identified with her in-
te
CONTRACT RATES OF AdvertI'iSiNti
One square one month_..„.
One iqture three months....
One sqnmre lir months™.
Ono square tveWe months.
...» 4 00
... 8 Oh
... » 00
... 10 00
.. lh 00
Z0 01
_ St 00
_ 00 00
-. JO 00
.. 02 CO
„ 00 00
. 104 00
. . so CO
J-10-fourth column one month
eolnmn three months
“'nein six month!.... „
7° lttma tonlTO months.™
Sg;™ one month
three month.
Oao-Liif colnma six
On»-hall eolnmn twelve men thill]
One noinmn one month... Ml
One oinmn three months.™ . ri , ,.
Ons column sin months. *'
-ns c:!umn twelve months. ' jjo qq
- 'tar Tho Mrefoina »»«*• sro for either Wsckij
or TrI-"WeekIy. When pabUshed in bath peoeri,
04 per cent, sdditionsl upon table rater.
resentstives of the medical men that
tcnt f? ere from different parw
of the State. It is a striking fact that
most of the professional men have hart a
varied experience in life, aDd will there
fore bo able to act advisably in regard to
Chatham.
all questions.
Keeping at Secret.
From “Anecdotes of Gilb- rl Slosrt," in Scribe- r
for July.}——
Haggles, an old cabinet-maker, of
Boston, told me that he u&ed to make
Stuart’s panels for him. They were
made of mahogany, and as Stuart com
plained that he missed the rough sur
face of canvas that was favorable to tho
sparkle of his color, Ruggles invented
the way producing that sort of surface
by cutting teeth in the plane-iron and
dragging it backward, that proving the
best way of indenting without tearing
the wood. Ruggles said that at the
time he used to work for Stuait, his
shop was in Winter street, on tho
pround floor, and, one day, sitting at
jis shop door, h6 saw Stuart coming
down the street, in earnest conversation
with a gentleman. Stuart came Into
the shop followed by his friend, and,
said Ruggles, “I saw that the gentleman
was urging him to tell him something
that he was unwilling to trust him
with.” Stuart said: “Mr. Ruggles,
have you got a piece of chalk ?” I gave
him a piece: he then turned to the
other and said: “I know a secret;
that stands for me,” and he made a
mark thus, 1. “Now, you are my good
friend and you would like to know my
secret; you are a man of honor, and if
T tell you it will do no harm,at any rate
But
secrets between you, some day
She will be indig-
• her;” he made another
“Now, how many people
“Three,” said his friend.
terest.
I have been able to make the follow
ing classification, although it does not
include all the members: Lawyers 51,
fiunpers 44, doctors 15, merchants 13,
manufacturers 5, railroad managers 4,
teachers 1, editors 2, preachers 5, pro
fessional office holders 5. Some, of
course, fill more than one profession
and are so reported in the above.
Of these, 66 have a Confederate war
record. There are 17 war Colonels. 5
war General and 6 militta Colonels, 22
have Men in previous conventions, 17
have been State Senators, 35 members
of the Legislature, 4 Confederate Cong
ressmen arid 5 in the United States
Congress, 1- in Confederate and 5
United States Senate, 1 ex-Governor
and Judge of Supreme Court, 24 have
been or are Judges of Inferior or County
Courts- several are now or have been
Superior Court Judges, as many more
:have been or are Solicitor Generals, 2
■ brine been Attorney Generals, and re
visers and codifiers of the laws. Some
twenty have been delegates to national
conventions and Presidential electors.
■All this shows that the convention is
Composed of men of ripe experience.
In msea bly of over fifty lawyers, in-
duding many Judges, it will be easy to
fipd.men capable of giving tone and
solidity to the fundamental law of the
State. Jenkins, Toombs Lawton War
ren, Buchanan, Gartrell, Hansell, Ham
mond, and their associates are men to
be fully trusted in this matter.
Nearly tbs same number of farmers
are present'to protect their important
interest With such famed agricultur
ists os Colonel Fitten, Judge Harrell,
dge McIntosh and Colonel Bass to
;e the lead it is safe to predict that
.eywillbe'no insignificant part of the
,V cbnveiftion, either in ability, influence
0 f hr riise enactments,
jg Manufacturing interests cannot suf-
oBd fer With such experienced men as Col-
qnd Robertson and Hon. Adam John
son io look after them; and Col. Ross,
Cob Warren, Major Crane and Dr. Wm.
B! Jones, are fully competent to pro-
the mercantile interests of the State.
VtW railroads will find able advocates
in Gen. Lawton, CoL Screver., Dr. Flew-
eflen, Col. Lofton and Judge Reese.
The church will be represented by
ministers of more than ordinary stabil
ity df character and intellectual culti-
ration. The Rev. B. F. Tharpe, D. D.,
gM.[|wt} Bax. 3D1 CL Phillips, D. D., the for-
£•1 .P?qr a Baptist and the latter a Presbyte-
- Han, are among the solid men of the
'ention. Rev. G. F. Cooper, M. D.,
crastroDg man in the Baptist de-
gfrfriknftMIhtt, rind Rev. P. W. Edge,
~ a young man, wiilprove a good
qtgpbar. Elder John R. Res-
be Primative Baptist denomi-
i a graduate of‘the University
apd ti gentleman of thorough
The medical fraternity is handsomely
led in some of thejmoet able and
men in the body. Not a few of
feme and high
osltidti in other and more lucrative pnr-
•viiatqTrinr \laO rtas ot I-otc:fc j a)*! ifadlB."I ! rided.trat mention snch names as
Dr. H. N. Hollifield, Dr. E. A. Flewel-
Dr. Wm. B. Jones, Dr. J. B. Twitty,
Dr. R. E. Nisbet, who are bnt rep-
Twelve Tears Isolated in a
Rocky Mountain Cave.
A sensational story of old border vio
lence and of the life of a white family
in a Rock Mountain cave, twelve years
shut out from all communication with
civilization, is told by the Topeka
Commonwealth. Henry R. Benge, a man
of 44, his wife, a healthy, sun-browned
WQjn* n Qn/8 (Iwt^titvssr AUJslullto
lation. Mr. Benge was a newly mar
ried and prosperous young Philadel
phia merchant, whom the panic of
1857 made suddenly bankrupt. Gath
ering the little they possessed, the cou
ple started for the newly-discovered
elorado of Pike’s Peak. At Leavens-
worth,Kan., a party was formed for the
joumej to the mountains, -but hardly
bad it made its first one hundred miles
before a band of white desperadoes at
tacked it, killed all the men, as they
supposed, and carried the women into
captivity worse than death. Benge,
however, was only stnnned, and on
coming to his senses followed the trail
of the freebooters, coming upon them
while sleeping heavily after a night’3
debauch in the early dawn. The res
urrected man’s wife screamed with ter
rified surprise on seeing him, and the
couple narrowly escaped the pursuit of
the aroused robbers. They fled, they
hardly knew how, and certainly knew
not whither, and, after much toil] and
suffering, reached the mountains, where
they took up their abode in a cave.
Mr. Benge improvised traps for game,
which furnished them with food and
clothing, and so they contrived to exist
for twelve years without seeing another
humanface save that of their daughter,
Milly, who was born ta them in 1859.
In July, 1871, a party of miners pros
pecting for gold discovered them and
took them to their camp, some ten miles
distant. Mr. Benge and his family re
mained with these men some time.
He then made his way to Denver,
where he has remained until he recent
ly made up his mind to again visit the
East, having accumulated a handsome
little sum in the mines.
A Fight for Millions Ended.
His Myra Clark Gaines at Rest From a Lit
igation ot Forty Years.
From tho S«w Orleans Picayune.]
On yesterday expired the time for
the defendants in the Gaines suit to file
their bonds of appeal from the judg
ments rendered against them by Judge
Billings, and as no bonds have been
filed, The struggle of over forty years
so heroically made t»v this remark:- 1 le
woman may be said to have * nde-J. In
truth, the abandonment o f ii.e appeal ■
by her opponent is an adin rsionof the
hopelessues of reversing Hie d»cisi<n
recognizing the execution and validity
of the will of Daniel Clark in 1813, de
claring Myra to be his legitimate <"hil*t
and sole heiress, and, as such, entiled
to the large amount of property held
by the defendants. Believing that, m
the happiness of her final victory, the
generous elements of her characterwiil
lessen the misfortunes of those who
suffer by her success, we congratulate
Mib. Gaines on at last reaching the goal
of her life’s struggle. Wonderful, in
deed, must be her feelings this Sablmth
morning, as she enjoys, for the first time
since she learned of her parentage, a
day free of anxiety.
A Fire Extinguished With Milk.
Barren village inWashington county,
on the bank of the Winooski, or Onion
river, has several manufacturing com
panies, but farming, wool, sugar and
stock raising constitute the principal _
busines of the place, not mentioning
the large quantities of the celebrated
Vermont butter and chese. Tie barns
here are in almost every case attached
to the dwelling. One of them was in
flames; the inhabitants turned out en
matte, and were fighting the fire success
fully, with fair prospects of saving the
house, and it was announced that the
supply of water was exhausted. The
milk of 100 cows was substituted for
water; carnets were saturated with this
precious but cheap commodity, and
the homestead was saved.