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S%£ toeeklg - & Ccmstitatianaligt OLO SEMES-VOl. ICII HEW SERIES-VOL LI. Cijtomclc awb Sentinel WEDNESDAY, - AUGUST l f 1877. •■Rnuui of the war,” you know. Mr. Hates' orgsn oslls it “the Ameri can Commune.” Each soldier costs the United States SBOO per annum. Suppose the Mollie, Maguires should get on a rampage ? Hamburg and DeKalb county are no where alongside of Pittsburg. Did the white laboring men of the North free negroes to become slaves ? It is high time for the “stalwart" Re publicans to “dry up” about "Southern atrooities." The Sultau will not unfurl the stand ard of the Prophet until the Russians arrive at Adrianople. And now it has been found out that the battle of the Boyne was not fought on the Pith of Jaly ! What does the Chicago Inter-Ocean think of the “ grander and better life ” of the East and West now ? We had a little strike on the Georgia Road; but the strikers behaved in a dif ferent manner from those of the North. Ban Dominoo is on a strike. They call it a “political revolution,” but it is really a strike among two sets of ne groes. _ '* l * •• Life insurance to succeed in future must economise—that is, get rid of the fat rats who are eating the heart of the oheese. The bank examiner of Maine is named Bolster. His report is an encouraging one; but reports are not what they used to be, alas I The death of Yakoob Khan, of Tur kestan, a famous potentate, is announc ed. He oould neither read nor write, but ruled wisely and well. The real name of the new Turkish Gommander-in-Ohief is Schultz. He is. a Prussian, but, in Montenegro, they kuow him as Mxhbmet Ali. —i a i Anointing the breast with croton oil and moderate inhalations of nitrous oxide gas will, it is said, arrest and cure consumption in its early stages. Why do the honest poor of the North prefer to starve in the great cities rather than come South and get a living at least off an aore of ground, which costs very little ? The Burlington Hawkeye thinks Mr. Tilden would have had a walk over for the Presidency, if offioe holding Repub licans bad knowu what was in store for them from Mr. Hayes. Hitherto the " God and Morality folks,” East and West, have sneered at the South as a region unattractive to Northern white men. How about Pitts burg for a healthy locality ? Mb. Murphy is said to have converted thousands of men from liquor drinking in Philadelphia; but statistics show that the consumption of malt drinks is unpreoedently large, since his visit. ■i a >am Bob Inoebholl delivered a lecture for the benefit of three San Fraueiaco chari ties. It netted $450, but the charitable societies will not take the money. They have probably taken funds that oame in just as questionable a shape. It is ascertained that all literary men in the United States who have grown rioh owe their prosperity, not to their pens, but to their wives and fathers. Home are poets, but they had an eye to “his." The New York Sun sarcastically ob serves that Mr. Tilden's departure for Europe leaves the United States without man who was ever eleoted to the Pres idency. This is the Shm’s way of making faoes at Mr. Hayes. Some of the Britishers want to know if Garrison, now amongst them, is the original of Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom.” These are the fellows who have always believed that Phillips, Sumner and Greeley were runaway negroes. For many years the South has been reviled by the Radical press as a “ semi barbarous land, where law and order did not prevail, and property was un safe.” What do these papers think of the East and West ? Gen. Forrest had a reunion of the men who formed his escort during the war. He was physically prostrated, said be did uot expect to live long, and hoped to meet them in Heaven. These reunions are growing rather funereal. I* it oonoeded that the syndicate will make more money than auybody else out of tfco 4 per oent. loan. It is also manifest that the Secretary of the Treasury oould have saved the Govern ment the syndicate commissions. Home of the sober-sided papers be lieve that the biggeat mistake made, dnring the first day’s strike, was oalling out the bayonet. They think there would have been little or uo destruction of property if holiday soldiers had been kept in the back ground. Tsui Nashville American, anent the confessed failure of the Governor of West Virginia to proteot the property of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from rioters, and his subsequent call upon the President for troops, thinks legal self-government has had an ugly <wosmdu According to the Rich mood IMspateh there were bnt two militia companies in iiot whole State. Bora Packard predicts that the De mocracy will carry, this Fall, Wiscon sin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. He aaya the Republican party ia going to everlasting smash, ami the only way to possibly save the oonmra is for the President to pnt ont Schurz, Evabtb, Dryers and Key, and' put iu their places good Republicans of the old sort —Zack Cwasdlkb for one—and tbe party will get right on its feet sgain. The President seems inclined to let the old thing break in pieces. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, having bees telegraphed that the employes of the Mew York Central Road were likely to remain at their posts, sent the following N. Y., July 22, 1877. “I am proad to receive such a dis patch. I do cot for a moment donbt the loyalty of oer men frogs New York to Buffalo. I am confident they will Mfftain the reputation they have before: fifae world, and every one be foremost in maintaining the road throngh these de pressing times. I am sure they reoog cize the faet that they are part and par cel of os, and that their wages depend entirely upon the business we are able to do. Increased basiaesa with fair prices will sorely bring additional com pensation. W. H. Vanderbilt.” A little flattery sometimes does waif. THE RAILROAD WAR. We surrender a large part of our space to telegraphic aooounta of the rail way war which has assumed gigantic and moet deplorable proportions. The railroads have pasaed and are pasaing through serious ersies, brought about principally by their own acts of indiscretion. The cut-throat war of great corporations led to the purchase of properties which have now declined nearly, if not quite, 50 per oent. The result of this has been enormons debts and nnprofitable leases, aggravated by depression of business, low rates of freight and attempts to declare hand some dividends without corresponding profits. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail road has never, we believe, lowered its ten per oent. dividends; bnt it has twice within a year squeezed the wages of its workingmen. The last turn of the screw seems to have been the feather weight that broke the camel’s back. The best presentation of the ease, from a workman’s point of view, embodying the gist of the com plaint of labor against capital, is the following communication in the Balti more American : In your editorial in yesterday’s paper you say you see do reason for charging the com pany with a disposition to oppress its employes. 1 Please allow me to point out a few. You say it has tried to do something in the way of pbilanthropby by catting down wages and dividing up the work of moving its trains among a great many people. I agree with you; they do employ a great many people, hat it seems to ms you should have left the philanthrophy out. But, before I proceed to tell you why, I will tell you something per haps you do not know. They saw it would not do to cut and slash at the wages in a whole sale manner again, so they devised a plan that they thought would work—cutting the differ ent positions up into classes—engineers four classes, conductors three, firemen and brake men two eac-b. The classes were all made, but there were no men to go into them, nearly all conductors and engineers being first-class men. Now, if there is any philanthrophy about their mode of working, it may come in here. When a man’s engine would go into the shop for repairs he would not be allowed to get on another one and run extra, if there was a chance, but anew man would be hired, of course into the lowest class, while the first-class man would often have to remain idle three and four weeks at a time, still always folding himself iu readiness in case of emergency. When the new fireman gets ont en the road, the engineer, as a gener al thing, either has to get down off his engine and fire it himself (and in doing so be is vio lating one of Ihe company’s orders by leaving his throttle-valve) or get stalled on all the grades, throwing himself behind time, to be made up at double the speed required by book or else back off for noise other train, while if he meets with the slightest accident he is held personally responsible, taken before a Court composed of five officers, given a poor man's trial (all law and no Justice). The sentence of this Court is never less than ten days’ ban ishment, and sometimes thirty, or final dis charge, with the privilege of coming back on fourth-class pay. Was it philanthropy and a desire to do what was Just and fair, when they, without any public notioe, cut all train man in their service fifty cents per day regardless of rates received, and in a few weeks publicly an nounced in the papers that Mr. T. R. Shako and J. A. Davis would be raised a couple of thousand per annum? Or, perhaps, it is upon those broad principles of justice they keep men lying iu Martinsburg, Virginia, all night in hot and cold weather watching their en gines, and tell them in the morning they are not wanted, and give them no pay for it ? Bnt they must be ready to take the first train down in the morning. I could cite you many in stances of socb philanthropy, but the reckon ing would disgust you. But allow me to say, iu conclusion, if the directors are in earnest about retrenchment, I think I can suggest to them a plan which would harmonize their men and save many dollars to the company— let the company look about them, and see the many little bosses and supervisors, who get large pay for little work, and discharge every man whose service could be done without. Enoineeb, Ist Dnr. B. A O. B. B. This is a sad oondition of affairs, and it is to be regretted that some compro mise could uot have been effected be fore death-dealing arguments had been employed. The railroad oompanies had the right to reduce the wages of their employes, and the employes had the inalienable right of striking. Bnt when men who were willing to work at the lowest rednotion were foroibly prevent ed from doing so, the workmen made a grievous mistake, and at last evoked a demon which it will be bard to quell, but which must be quelled at all hazards. There has hardly ever been a snooessfnl strike. The poor man always goes to the wall, in the long run. It is ter rible that this should be so, and in a land of boasted freedom, superior Christianity and unlimited resources; bnt the truth must be told for ali that. It is questionable whether bloodshed, arson and pillage could have been pre vented or not at Baltimore or Pittsburg. The Fifth Maryland Regiment seemed to have been better handled than the Sixth, which spilled the first blood in Baltimore. And yet Napoleon’s maxim was never to fire a blank oartridge at a mob. Still there may be differences be tween a French mob and an American one. The employment of the military arm appears to have aggravated rather than bettered the situation, and to have caused more calamities than were originally intended by the strikers. One of our contemporaries refers to the draft riots of New York in )863, and shows that a kind word from GoverooiJSßYMouß and Archbishop Hughes led captive the rioters. That kind word apparently was not spoken promptly at Baltimore and Pittsburg. That the rioters should be put down summarily all lovera of law and order must agree. But it ean not be denied that the railway companies have a lesson to learn, in the management of their workingmen, and that lessen ean be taught, both in Europe and in America, by great corporations which never suffer from strikes, because they are always just, and because they treat their em ployes as human beings and not as mere dntnb, driven cattle, only fit to minister to the laxnries and follies of the rieb. In this connection we perceive that Americans will leave in Enrope SIOO,- QQQjOQO this Summer and Fall. Of course a mm frfis a right to do with his money what he pleases ■ bat at this time the rich man in the United SkfJtej who desires to keep rich would do well per i haps to spend his money at home and thereby help to make strikes impossible. GREAT expectation#. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: “The people at the East and North and West nave in all tfre yrejr? of the nation’s ex istence looked forward to a grander and better life within the nation, and have contemplated no triumph of sectional spirit. The people of the South have been, in the same years, looking ahead to tbe accomplishment of certain re ft alts, and their thoughts on the triumph of the Southern system.” The record wiH prove that the people of the East, North red West fraye been looking to the exploitation of Matfriyv wealth tor their own profit Their whole struggle was to build themselves Dp at tbe expense of this section. The war was waged, with all of its fearful risks, rather the# let the South go into business or her own froojp, and with a chance of seeoring her oyn promts, goth sides were fatsliy derailed. The South lost nearly everything, and the North. Eaat and West are on the high road to commercial disaster. The North tri umphed, bnt where is that “better and grander life?” Commerce and society are rotten to the core. A contemporary, in holy horror of the results of the war, and aghast at the low depth of moral ity says: “The poisoning’of wives by husbands; the divorce suits; the cruel beating of children; the disputes over the estates of dead men; aednetions of women; the laaoiviona actions of Chris tian ministers and the rascalities of graceless yonth in circnmventing infirm rioh relatives, make np the staple of every enterprising Northern jonrnal which reaches ns. One edition of the New York papers contains each an array of these various immoralities as, if spread throngh the history of the crimes of a whole year, ought to exclude the eommnnity in which they oocnr from recognition as a civilized and Christian one.” No; the “reanlts of the war” have been calamitous everywhere, and in many places aoenrsed. The worst crip ples are not those who have lost legß and arms in battle. The “grander and better life” alluded to by the Chicago paper is the reign of Shy look and War moth, the corporal of the guard and Madison Wells. We have the author ity of more than one man that sinoe the elimination of the old South, from the system of the Republio, every braneh of the public service and every artery of social life baa been poisoned. A man who lives in Chicago and consecrates the reign of the carpet-bagger is a nice evangelist to teaoh “a grander and bet ter life.” - - GENERAL WOFFORD’* DEFEAT. Gen. W. T. Wofford stood to his guns last Friday and made a gallant fight against that section of the article on elective franchise which makes the payment of taxes a condition precedent to voting. Gen. Wofford took the po sition that the measure was the entering wedge to a property qualification for voters, and was intended to disfranchise the poor man, however virtuous or in telligent he might be. Geu. Lawton and others combated this position, and combated it successfully, Gen. Wof ford's motion to strike ont being laid on the table by a large majority. Of course, it is understood that this debate referred principally to what is known as the poll tax. A large proportion of the voting population of Georgia is liable to no other tax. Especially is this the ease with colored eitizens. The imposition of this tax was intended as a benefit to public instruction—the money arising from it being applied exclusively to the support of the free schools. It was kept in the Constitution by the Repub lican Convention of 1867-8, as furnish ing the best means of securing the edu cation of the colored race* We think the Convention aoted wisely in retaining a similar provision in the new Constitu tion. Gen. Wofford spoke eloquently of the wrong done in making poverty a orime and disfranchising a freeman be oauae he is poor. The sophistry is ap parent. Every citizen who owns any property at all is able to pay his taxes, because the amount of the tax is pro portioned to the value of the property. Those who own no property whatever, who are unable to pay even a poll tax (and there are not twenty soeh in any eounty of the State), who are technically paupers supported by the community, should not be allowed to vote. Gen. Wofford alluded to the men who were maimed in the service of the Confede racy as being, many of them, unable to earn a living, and, therefore, unable to pay a tax. The maimed soldiers of the Confederacy would scorn to be exempt ed from paying their portion of the ex penses of government. These mutilated heroes are objects of sympathy but they are not objects of charity. We challenge Gen. Wofford or any one else to find a half dozen of them in all the alms houses of Georgia. They are among the best and most industrious of onr citi zens. They are found in all the walks of life, bearing their oross with patienoe and striving to make an honorable live lihood. These men ask no exemption from the burthens of government. Gen. Wofford does not know the soldiers whom he led so gallantly to battle if he thinks they sympathize with such a movement. The law is a good one, and we are glad it has not been disturbed. THE REBOUND. The grand old South, with her “plan tation manners ” was, after all, the great conservator of civilization in the United States, She “kept the lamp of ohivalry alight in hearts of gold.” She preserved the mnniments of eivie liber ty. She adjusted the true relations be tween eapital and labor. She produced wealth, like the overflowing Nile, which enriobed herself and ponred its treasures into every vein and artery of the com mercial North, building up splendid cities, making opulent corporations and individuals, and creating the possibility for every industrious jnan to earn a gen erous living. She kept society pure and the Government unsullied. Alas ! how have crazy fanatios and fools ohanged all this ! The war made upon the Sonth and her institutions has brought forth dreadful fruit. The revelations of the past few days demonstrate that the fabric of society, East aod West, has dwelt upon sjuipfreping volcano. Wealth has been eonceutrated in phe hands of the few; poverty is the burden of the many. A privileged class has been established whose chief duty seems to be the grinding of the faces of the poor. “Hard times” have followed the big drank of war and speculation. Con fidence between man and man has been well nigh destroyed. The granaries of the Union are bursting with plenty, and yet myriads of God’s creatures are hungry fof ppead. We do not eare to taunt our bretfrrep qf the North in the hour of calamity; but they should know at last that the day of re tribution haa arrived. It is high time that the workers of iniquity, iu and ont of Congress, should go to the rear and patriots corns to the front. The South, if permitted, will, as far as possible, re establish the old landmarks of Consti tutional liberty and commercial pros perity. She alone ere i the bulwark of soeiety and the salvation of the, Union. • _ T mSfif ia • woman in Hazardville, Connecticut, who frears off the palm for strong-mindedness, five of, her husbands were killed in powder mill explosions and she is engaged to a sixth powder miller. She says she oan stand the "racket'’ if they cap It may be that these five men would retbsr b blqwn up by a powder mill than by sash a wo man. They oould not stand the “rack et.” A whiter in the Detroit Free Press very forcibly shows that there oan be no prosperity in thia country so long as the bankrupt lav /-etpjins unamended or an repealed. As it stands) it sjipply, ac cording to this writer, a protection, in many cases, of dishonesty and an incen tive to perpetual swindling. You cannot get into the German army if yon are not five feet one and a half inches in freight A D< ? 7 e * there are rams reliant little fellows upder that measurement. Tbe best soldiers in the native contingent of British India are the Ghoorkas, who are among tbe smallest and moet intrepid of mortality AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1577. THE SITUATION IN EUROPE. Oar latest advioea would imply that the Eastern question is gradually get ting morC and more complicated.— England, by the disposition of her army, fleet and engineers, evidently for bids the march of the Mnsoovite legions beyond Adrisnople. Anstria is mani festly in sympathy with Great Britain and preparing, in certain contingencies, to ooenpy Bosnia and Herzegovina, thns flunking Rnssia and rendering her position critical in the extreme. Italy, as if in ooncert with Rnssia, and possi bly at the dictation of Germany, menaces with her fleet the presumptive partieipa lion of Anstro-Hnngary in the eonfiiet. Meanwhile the Chancellor of Germany, the Prince of Blood and Iron, is silent and inscrutable. It is generally believed that he will move, if at all, in accord ance with Russia, keeping all the while an eye upon France. It will take a good deal of nioe diplomacy to pre vent a general European embroilment, and the more so as England has found a sentiment to season her regard for business interests. That sentiment ia horror of Cossack atrooities in Bulgaria, surpassing the infamy of Bashi-Ba zonks. It is notioeable too that Mr. Gladstone has become silent and that Mr. Oabltlb growls no more in a literary way. The Old Land is apparently getting ready to fight, in case of need, and there is never child’s play when her battle standard is unfarled. It is er roneously thought in some quarters that the Englishman has no sentiment; that be loves the sensual things of this world ; that he is a bull-beaded, prac tical fellow, scooting romance; and yet, as the New York Times shows, he has waged more wars for “sentiment” than any other of the race of men. To use the words of our brilliant contempo rary, the abstract names whieh move Continental nations, “glory,” "nationali ty,’’“federation,” “territorial extension,” pass by him like the wind ; but he springs up at the first glimpse of a sin gle embodied wrong. The picture of a harmless German bookseller shot at his own door, of an English sea captain murdered in a Frenoh prison, strength ened his arm against Napoleon. The vision of helpless Turks mown down by red-hot shot at Sinope hurled him head long at the throat of Nicholas. The thought of two inoffensive travelers pi ning in a filthy dungeon, sent him to hew his way through the mountains of Abys sinia ; and a few vivid sketches of Cos sack marauders burning and slaying among the peaceful Roumelian Villages will do more to spar him on than any flourishes abont “Russian aggrandize ment” and the “disturbance of the bal anoe of power." In our own oountry it was English policy or sentiment that grafted Exeter Hall on Sumner’s hobby, and caused the slavery agitation whieh has ruined this land. It is true that, after the senti ment had been started, and the States began cutting each other’s throats, the commercial spirit intervened and much money was made by British traders out of both sides. So it may be in the Eastern question. John Bull will al ways combine poetry with pelf. RUSMIA’H FIGHTING MATERIAL. The New York Times presents certain foots and figures demonstrating that though Russia has a vast population, her supply of fighting material is com paratively scant, and therefore the dis parity between her and the Ottoman is not so overwhelming as is popularly supposed. We learn from this authority that of 40,000 men recently sent up to Warsaw for inspection 10,000 were re jected as unfit to serve from various causes, not inclusive of short stature. It has been established by sanitary com missions that Russia possesses fewer able-bodied men in proportion than either France or Germany. The average duration of life, which in Britain is 40 years, in Germany 38, and in France 36, does not exceed 22 in the healthiest parts of Russia, while along the Volga and Caspian it falls as low us 15; The annual increase of population in Euro pean Russia is only 1 in 21, a fact not difficult to credit, when we remember that the cholera sweeps the country every five years or so, and that in sev eral of the northern provinces—Novgorod for instance—B3 per cent, of the children born die in their infancy from exposure, accident or unavoidable neglect. It is added that many distriots are unavoid ably exempted from the conscription on account of the extreme aoantiness of their population, whjcfr in some eases averages only three to the square mile. Besides these there are large bodies of men in the empire whom it would be unsafe to enroll, such as the disaffected Poles, Ihe Mohammedan Circassians and the Mennonitee, who, like the Quaker?, j have conscientious scruples against fighting, f'or generations the bad air of oyerheated oabiijs, pnd the extreme cold outside, together Fitfr insufficient food, have combined to render the Rus sians inferior in muscular power to Eng lishmen and Germans. Of late years, however, cooking and ventilation have not been neglected by the Russians; their armies are better fed, and the un limited flogging which once prevailed is virtually abolished. Their devotion to the |2mpetor is unlimited, and has as much fterpe enthusiasm of the fanatic in it as the demotion of the Turks to the Prophet. No one can claim, however, that Russia is equal as a military power to Germany. If Germany had declared war against Turkey when the Czar did her legions Would be now in Constanti nople. A Kentucky man, to avoid all risks, has joined eight different ohnrchea. Boston Corbbtj:, iyho shot Wilkes Bpouj, is i|| u 4 4epf jtqtp at Oafnden, N.J. The six per oent. bonds of the city of Albany, N. Y., sell at auction from 117 to 119. Saratoga bootblacks think “the coun try ia going to the devil” beoanae fel lows now-a-days carry their own shoe brushes. The beat European observers predict that either peace will be signed or all Europe will be in arms before the Ist of September. _ - >mS * Germany has a four per oent. loan and a syndicate of bankers. It is taken by the ayndioate at 94 and placed in the market at -10. Does Mr. Hay re still weep for the poor oolored nan of the Sonth ? Let him shed tears for the poor white nan of the Eaat and West. According to the Boston Traveller, a fragment of the Republican party is abont to advooate a wholesale endorse ment of States Rights. Some say the laid freight lines stqrad the present workingmen’s strike; others blame the trades-unions; and others again curse Shkkmax and his contraction policy. Something ia radically wrong in the system when the gantry tfrat boasts of its ability to supply the world with food contains hundreds of thousands of men and women who beg their bread. GEORGIA’S tONYENim WHAT WAB HONK IN THE UON YENTION YESTERDAY. Varian. Kelatioa. Offered—The Bill, a! Klhta Dlacaaaed sad Attended. f Special to the Chroniok and Constitutionalist ] Atlanta, J uly 23.—The Gonstitntional Convention met this morning in the Oapitol, at half-past eight o’clock, the President, Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, in the Chair. After prayer the jonrnal of Saturday’s session was read. There were three notices to reconsider the Franchise report, but whan the time came they were all lost. The Executive Department. Mr. Toombs submitted the Final Com mittee’s action upon the report of the Executive Department Committee. Jndlolal Ctrcalls. Mr. Gignilliat submitted a resolution making twenty Jadioial Circuits and prescribing the time for holding Court. Public Institutions. Mr. Keller presented a minority re port upon publie institutions. Issuable Fleas. Mr. Perry submitted a resolution to validate issuable pteas where awards in stead of verdicts were taken. The Bill al Rights Was taken np. In the preamble Mr. Nat Hammond moved to snbstitate “relying upon” instead of “through the protection and guidance of” Almighty God : trans posing the clause so as to read} “We, the peopleof Georgia, relying upon, etc.” Adopted. Mr. Wright offered a resolution strik ing out the word "that” in the first liue of the first section. Mr. Lewis propos ed that the same word be stricken out in the second line of the same section. Adopted. The resolution of Mr. Abda Johnson to strike ont the word “magistrate” and the words “all public officers” substitut ed by Messrs. Harvill and Hill were adopted, also the words “of the people” inserted after the word “servants.” Section 2 was adapted unamended. In section 3, all words from “all” to “resident” were rejected and the words “oitizens of the United States” substi tuted in 9 resolution of Mr. Mathews. Mr. Bass substituted the word “them” for “legislation” in line 3. Carried. Mr. Tuggle substituted the word “General Assembly” for “Legislature.” Carried. Mr. Wright moved to add a clause de claring lobbyism a orime. This was withdrawn to be introduced to-morrow. Sections three and four were agreed to. Messrs. Matthews and Hill intro duced amendments to section five to prevent the proscription of atheists and infidels. The former gentleman said that as the paragraph now stood this olaSs would be excluded for non-be lief under the laws of Georgia. Any one has the right to say : “ I will not worship.” The fool had said in his heart: “There is no Godbut the fool haa rights to be respeoted and protect ed. We should guarantee absolute freedom of religions thought add senti ment. Where beats the heart of man, thought reigns and freedom is the quint essence of thought. Mr. Hill introduced nearly the same olsnse as in the Constitution of 1865. Mr. Nat. Hammond thought neither was full enough, as it imposed no reser vation against licentiousness. He intro duced the two following paragraphs, numbers 6 and 7, which were adopted : Section 6. No inhabitant of this State shall be molested in person and proper ty, or prohibited from holding public offioe, on account of religious belief; bat liberty of conscience will not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentious ness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State. Seotion 7. No money shall ever l>e taken from the public treasury, directly or indireotly, in aid of any ohuroh, sect, denomination of religionists, or any sec tarian institutions. A Wnll From the Bondholder** A letter to President Jenkins from John G. Crane, President of the New York Security Company, was read. It was a wail from the bankers and bond holders North, burnt by repudiated Georgia bonds. As the Finance Com mittee had already submitted a report to the Final Committee the letter was consigned to the same committee. Further Adoptions and Amendments. Sections 6,7, 8,9, 10, 11, 12, 13 num bers in tbe printed copy were adopted unamended. Mr. Key proposed an additional seo tion here that civil authority be higher than military, and that even in war no soldier shall be quartered in spy hoqse without the gopslpt of p civil magistrate. Adopted. Sections 14 and 15 agreed to unamend ed. Mr. Winn, of DeKalb, amended sec tion 16, by adding “but the Legislature may provide for imprisonment of per sons failing to discover or surrender property not exempt from levy or sale in his control or possession.” He said that a man after accumulating money and taking advantage of exemp tions pockets much money, and it is im possible to recover. He proposed now to protect the jntpraof; pf lepljafs After the issue has joined in Qonu and the jury passed upon it. He must be made to deliver up property in his possession. Guerard said that the Constitution of 1865 altogether favored the debtor, al lowed him a liberal homestead, but did not protect the creditor. It had been said that the borrower was a slave to the lender. It was now reversed. The bor rower may now accumulate money while lenders starve. people don’t refleot that creditor* tpo nayjj wiypsand pnil dren, This clause proposes no gr§at hardship in imprisoning debtors, and bodes no barbarous relapse. But if a man in such cases has property he should be made to surrender it. The amendment, on motion of Mr. Nisbet, was tabled. Mr. Augnstns Reese amended by add ing to section sixteen, “Except in fraud ulent concealment of property over and above legal exemptions. W Mr. Hunt gaiq tfre law now secures the creditor, ft issue be joined and judg ment obtained, and if property is 1 not surrendered the GWBPF jailed ff)F pon tempt in opposing the process of the Court, Hence additional legislation was unnecessary. Bnt all this does the creditor nogood, for if the debtor don’t choose to.take the homestead he pockets the money and there is no way to get it out. Mr. Toomba said : This is entirely unnecessary. All the Convention is sup posed to do ia to lay down the organic law, leaving technicalities and partioular cases to tfie Legislature. He moved to" table the which Was car ried. ‘ ' E. A. 8. ——3 ft T - ■lWf* ■* MIP CbUU OuetJ<p—The Bill of Right* piacuaMd. 4mea4*4 and Adopted. {Special to the Chronicle qrut Cqnstifnfignqtisf.J Atlanta, July 24.—The Constitution al Convention met in the Capitol this morning, at half-past eight o’clock, the President, Hon. Chas. J. Jenkins, in the Chair. Motions td reconsider sections agreed to yesterday were tabled. The Capital. T'U . I Mr. Lewis submitted the majority and minority reports of Capital Commit tee. The majority make no reoommen dation as to &a location, bnt after raf ting forth the ampjjnt jara done for fjie pagitafr ffyf>rs a clause embodied in the Constitution fifing a location. The minority fayors atfbnqitf jng tq the people u s separate measure, Both re ports will be printed. The Bill af Right. Was resumed. Section 16 was agreed to. Mr. Wright submitted a clause on lob bying. Mr. Hassell agreed as to the impor tance of declaring it orime, but thought definition of tbe term should be left' to the Legislature. Thus amended it pre vailed and follows section two. Mr. Gartrell farther amended the new section, adding: “ And the Assembly enforces this provision with suitable penalties.” Canned, iST ftr !r JwMrpjsi3t/-3e.taa from the creditor.-’ qotyefbiug similar was introduced yesterday, but he was glad it did not pass. The section pro hibiting imprisonment for debt should stand unamended, bnt it is evident that farmers and mechanics, whose property is easily seized and levied on, would not be on an equal footing with bondhold ers, who locked up property in vaults. Some men even boast that they have money bat don’t intend to pay their debts. He wished to provide means to affect this class by process of law. Adopted, and the aeotion thus amended read. Section eighteen was amended by Mr. Wilson. The word “neither” before the word “ banishment ” and after the word “ State ” the words “or whip ping,” and the word “ not ” were erased. The motion to forbid capital punish ment as one of the usages of barbarism was overwhelmingly lost, amid laugh ter. Section eighteen was agreed to as amended. Section nineteen was amended by Mr. Ellington, striking out in line oue all. the words save the last four. General Toombs moved to strike out all from the word “but," line 2, this be ing calculated to encourage carrying concealed weapons. Mr. Warren, of Chatham, opposed it, and the amendment was lost. Section 19, as amended, was agreed to. Mr. Mynatt moved to amend section 20, striking out “entirely” after the word “evidence.” This judging of the law and facts, he said, created much oonfusion. The Judge was required to know the law, yet how inconsistent to make juries ignorant of law judges thereof. So great will be the confusion that the guilty will escape and the inno cent be punished. No such a law should prevail. The jury is the great palladium, but the finding of facts is all that is necessary. If made judges of law they should study and learn law. The Court should perform its func tions and the jury theirs. In cases of appeal to the Supreme Court he didn’t know whether the jury acted on law or facts. Mr. Little said if the jury were right fully judges of law so that a man could be entirely tried by his peers; otherwise Judges so interpret law that the peers cannot gainsay it. But now a criminal’s fellow-citizens may judge whether or not the law is right and fully expounded. This is a great right from our fathers. If we preserve it our liberties remain intact; if strioken out trial is by the Court and not by the jury. Mr. Mynatt’s amendment was finally tabled. Mr. Gartrell added after the word “facts,” the words, “ the power of J udges to grant new trials in cases of oonviction is reserved.” Accepted. Mr. Augustus Reese, after the word “oases,” substitute, “have right to find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty.” Mr. Toombs said • The gentleman is trying to make the Convention do what it just now refused to do. The opposi tion seems willing for the jury to judge of the law in cases of slander, but not to protect the life and liberties of the peo ple. All jurors knew the criminal law. At the expense of their lives you punish them, under supposition that knowing laws they violate them. Mr. Reese did not agree with General Toombs as to the precedent. Juries do find speoial verdicts and Judges deter mine offenses under them. He knew that since the penal code of 1833 such had prevailed and many times in Oc mulgee Cirouit there would be no use of having Judges if juries have the ex clusive privilege to determine laws. The motion to table Reese’s resolu tion was oarried. Mr. Hammond moved to strike out the whipping olause, Oarried, • Section twenty was adopted. Mr. Guerard proposed a seotion to follow this numbering in the printed re port twenty-one, but in the revised and amended report twenty-six : “No per son shall be compelled to give testimo ny tending in any manner to criminate himself.” Received. Mr. Tift offered the following, to fol low section foqr apd flmnbgred‘a eeo tion five : “Any person may prosecute or defend a cause with or without an attorney.” Carried. Mr. Matthews moved to strike out in seotion twenty-one, line two, all words between “contracts” and “shall.’'’ Mr. Screven supported this. If irre vocable grants were entirely prohibited and charters of corporations revocable, capital would be intimidated and enter prise baffled. Mr. Warren opposed these gentlemen. There are oases where the State granted privileges and when found naoessary to revoke eould not do it. One enterprise particularly being protected thus could not bo desturbed when it ought to be, because it bore none of the expenses of the government. When privileges are granted the State should retain authori ty over them and reserve the right to re peal. Corporations are growing too immense ip power. The people should retain this po>ver tor own preser vation. \pe must Stand up to privileges already granted, but hurpafter grant none bnt what we 0n revoke when the public demands it. If corporations fear ed to trust the Legislature we had better not trust corporations, Mr. Toombs said: In 1833 the Georgia and Central Roads were granted per petual exemption from taxation, save one-half per oent. on property. What they have gotten, let them keep, be cause we can’t help But grant no qiqrp. Massachusetts first cried halt ip [rrey'ocaple'grante. Nearly every Slate in' the Union followed, New York E}n<| ftennsylyanju notably go, Shall corporation! of the people govern ? With the people revenues are the life of the State. Kill revenues and it paralyzes the State. He wanted to shackle any such measures which favored corporations. As Jere Black said, these corporators were “stick ing long bony fingers in the pockets of ohildren whose fatherg are yet unborn.*: wah'.t quit the State; why dPU’t it quiet Jjew. York apd other’ States 2 Mr- Screven said i Only one State, Illinois, has any sueh law. Mr. Toombs: Yon are mistaken, nearly all have it. Many have no re gular constitutions, bnt have incorporat ed it in revised codes. In New York it stands there. Look at he* counts and mannfaetqries. {n Pennsylvania it exists the strongest of all, founded after fifty years experience. ‘Society oan’t exist with irrevocable privileges, hfr. Matthews ; Tips [s a great ques tion; aneetjug fu'tqre interests and the good of posterity. .What weans this clause, if it signifies that Georgia shall never grant oharters to railoads ex cept irrevocable ? It is not for the good of the State. Unquestionably the State has the power to revoke immuni ties; bnt it is not wise to do so. There is no question of vested right. The Legislature may subject the property of corporations (q taxation, the same as the individual. Let them do it. But is it wise to say that in future no enter prise shall be encouraged by irrevocable grants’ fftg popular chord. Mr. Toombs; But I am impressed with tfie idea that lam legislating fnn da?ptally tor w W.V particular interest. Lets make the laws auoh that the ship of State shall oalmly sail for ages before it is again necessary to lift her from the water for inspection or repairs. Who would in vest money under irrevocable oharters ? I am not afraid to trust the Legislature with my money, bat would trust no man with the property of posterity. Mr. Matthews;’ motion was finaly tabled. Seotion $i was finally agreed to un amended. Mr. Wofford introduced a clause for bidding leasing oonvieth tfl bidders ana providing foYyheir confinement id peni tentiaries. He made a’long speech teeming with blood, thunder and barn comb and finally withdrew toe jewipfi. Mr. Key'amended” section % insert ing the word , am? between file words and fine as All the following sections to the last were adopted Unamended. Mr. Featherstone amended section 30 by inserting the words “after thereof,” line 2, “when it may be necessary to their safety and happiness, bat every such right be exercised in nuraucnca pf the law and of Bjdynited On a motion to table, Mr. Hill called the yeas and nays. The call wu sus tained-yeas, 134; nay*, 48. Mr. Reeee moved to strike oat the words “and form of government,” lines i and 3. He was opposed to infusing political principles in toe Coustitqtipn. This involved toe of dividing the Government from its fonndatton to the present amu He'believed the States to have the right to oontrol the Govern ment, bnt was opposed to patting this in the Constitution. This change was received, and seotion 30 agreed to. Mr. Matthews introdnoed the follow ing as an additional seotion, which was adopted : “ The enumeration of the rights herein contained is part of the Constitution, but shall not be construed to deny to the people any inherent rights which may have hitherto inured.” The Bill of Rights was adopted as amended unanimously. Motions Made to Reconsider—The I.obbrlsts (Section—. The Bill of Rights—Corporations and Their Chartera—Views of Prominent Men on the Question—Report ot the Cera uiittee on the Executive Department. [Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, July 25.—The Convention met this morning at half-past eight o’eloek, pursuant to adjournment, the President, Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, in the Chair. After prayer and the reading of the journal of the previous day, the proceedings were as follows : The Bill of Rights. Mr. Guerry moved to reoousider the Bill of Rights. He regarded this as a sort of preamble which should be defer red until the Constitution is adopted, else the Convention would be embar rassed. He wished, after reconsideration, to table tbe subject. Mr. Davis said all the reports had beeu revised by the Harmony Commit tee, hence he saw no necessity for recon sidering the bill. The motion was lost. The Lobby Section. Mr. Mershon moved to reconsider the lobbying section. Much information is now imparted to tbe Legislature by per sons calculated to judge and who would then be determined lobbyiats. The counties have a right to send persons to look after particular interests during the session, and this resolution, however plain the motives in adopting it, militat ed against these. What man with sense enough to lobby offers a bribe before a representative has shown the white feath er ? Should it go to the world that the Convention was compelled to prohib it lobbyism, fearing the members of the Legislature would be bribed V There had never been a time when the Georgia Legislature could be corrupted by lob byists. The State oontrols its own oounoils and eleots inoorrupt men to the Legislature. The representatives carry in their right arms protection against bribery. Mr. Wofford was surprised to hear this motion. We are assembled here not ao much to make q new Consti tution qs to throw checks and guards around the other. How much of the eleven millions of Georgia’s debt is iu the pockets of lobbyists ? When Bullock was routed and the Democratic power enthroned we believed corruption was crushed and bribery driven from the legislative halls, but what are the faots ? I say with regret and shame, as much corruption is practiced as ever. Money oontrols the Legislature now, aud unless we put a stop to tbjs OUr State is on the high read to rnin. Let us flot like men and not be gronnd to dust by taxation when the lobbyists grow rich. How much money appro priated by the House have, lobbyists got, leaving a Capitol building unfit even for felons 2 lp tfie name of hon esty and purity of tlie State, let us de mand a safeguard to this. It is a stig ma, a reproach and a high crime. The motion to reconsider was tabled. The Whipping Prohibition. Mr. Brown believed the action pro hibiting whipping unwise. Crime is in creasing, and oonviets become too nu merous to be kept. He thought whip ping might become necessary, and moved to reconsider. Mr. Gartrell didn’t believe that exi gencies ever require the whipping post, and moved to table the mhtitid to recon sider. gafrjed, Corporations and Their Charters. General Lawton moved to reoonaider the seotion for the substitution of ex emption from taxation in lien of speoial privileges not being irrevocable. The 1 mere granting of oharters to corpora tions is itself a privilege, and suoh en terprises, growing by public patronage, should he taxed. Borne powers should be irrevocably granted, but exemption from taxation never, I am unfamiliar with the Constitutions of other States, but venture to say nothing is so broad as this, without qualifications, exists there, if this is adopted we never will have another enterprise in the State, for no hard working man wishing to invest money, would trust the Legislature or Convention, either, withoat.safeguards. The State wjth her civilization is as much indebted to corporations as to anything else, and while preventing them from encroaching on others wo must protect therq against people aud rivaUcorpovafiQng. Suppose at anytime the Legislature should attempt to modify the charters, Money unprotected will he forced to protect itself, and capital will flow to the legislative halls and try to control the Legislature itself. While, however, many grants should be irrevocable, taxation exemption should not be. Mr. Hammond was [pare con cerned about this elapse, just now, than anything pise. The gentleman from Wilkes "said this was in many constitu tions. Mr. Toombs, “Not always in constitutions, but often in revised i codes.” Mr. Hamipoud. '‘l understood him tft argue that as it exists in many constitutions so should it exist in our organic law. Thirteen years has it existed in the Code of Geor gia that all charters are subject to dissolution and never been te pealed. I do not feel at liberty fa dis trust the Legislature. TbOJ are the repregmitetj?s p,f the people of Geor gia, and paye a right fa da WtOilg if they wish. • Mr. Taovuhs then said the great principle ia never to incorporate irre vocable privileges in organio law. Great corporations meet periodically to see how much farther they can ruin pro ducers. He stood by the people to pre vent corporations ’Bluring them. He would n' r ye put a doUaifin a joint stock company, and would trust nothing to the Legislature which he could fix by law. Not a single road has been LqiH in the State with its qftoital put what made bqf tpe trouble fa they go aprogd to their power, thus abusing their privileges, When the bonds of any road are due and they don't choose to pay the interest, they turn the road over to a receiver, who finally turns it over to the bondholders after repudiating everything. If you don’t rule corporations they vU rule you. Tbe law shoqld be king. The life of corporations seems to be held sacred, no matter what wrong they do. The President and managers get rich, while outrages are committed on all around. Under this regime trouble will con tinue till right is fy,V 'iaborer and .asfiiw from corpora tions. 1 General Lawton having taken Chair, Gov. Jenkins said the power at any time to revoke all privileges and immunities granted teft toroafl and the prohibition tqa sweeping.' It strikes at corporations and at individuals com posing corporations, who, being oitizens of Georgia, are entitled to protection. Mach prejudice exists against corpora tions. It is a hobby which persons in fluencing pablio minds frequently mount. What are which obtain in governments, and updn* what ideas are they founded ? Their great objects are to promote the welfare of the State, not to be accompUshed by single individu als. Are we t<f day to strikg a at in ternal at yailyoads' gt oa -Bie*t enterpri ses which individual capital and indi vidnal management cannot asscKuoiishf The State, in her ***'#,?*; Ppreoiffi having a vast enterprise it yiew Ind form* them into corporations, or, oqt of * number °f fiWMW, forms an ar tifMfil. PW vested with rights and privileges commensurate with the object to be attained. The Coarts with out exception hold that a charter grant ed by the State to a corporation is a con tract between the corporation end the State. Considering \\ as siioh, then, what in the position here f Two persons ate eontraeUhg ana only one has the privilege 'of annulling any and every provision of the contract, After the other, perhaps true to the contract, ex pends thousands to accomplish the great object, tha other rises in its sovereignty and says “I reserve the omilege of mo difying and'abrogating this contract and Ido it” Routes of railroad's, say, are grided, long lines of' iron laid and roll ing stock purchased, tip, tqp, with manufactories. After the Company ag gregates capitol and gets machinery,' the State says : “We have changed our ideas $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID | and abrogate your charter,” withdraws its privileges at a single sweep, and forces the company to remove snoh prop erty as it oan to another State. It will pat an end to industries and enterprises. No prudent man will invest capital un der a charter which may prove valueless. Mr. Toombs—“But how does it work in Massachusetts ?” Mr. Jenkins—“l don’t kuow how it works there. When such declarations are made let proof be brought forward. Men’s minds are sometimes treacherous. I wish evidence to prove that ’tis so in other States.” Mr. Toombs reads an ext.raot*from the Constitution of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jenkins—“ That is anew Consti tution adopted in 1873. I know that railroad abuses in that State grew to a large extent, probably for want of wholesome limitations. However the same Constitution provides that uo in justice shall be done to corporations. Pennsylvania was covered by a net work of roads long before this was adopted, they being constructed under a different polioy. Pennsylvania is yet to learn how a refusal to grant irrevocable char ters will work. To refute my proposi tion that this will paralyze industry, let the gentleman go back twenty years aud prove that burdened with this prohibi tion they prospered. Tell me not of those passed during the last few days. I tell you the Convention is striking a deadly blow to enterprise if it inserts such a clause. Do yen think corpora tions will invest money where the Con stitution says the Legislature may an nul the charters aud leave them ont in the cold ? I don’t believe roads ought be exempted from taxation. Then put this in the Constitution. If there be any other abuse bring it forward, but do not say oue Assembly shall have the power to annul a charter another granted. Limit them in time, for per petual eharters should nover be granted, but do not say that irrevocable grauts can never be passed. I could Say more, but strength prevents my continuing the argument, Little’s motion to reconsider was adopted—yeas, 94; nays, 90. He moved, however, to table till the reports of the Legislative Committee be brought in. Judicial Circuit** Mr. Harrell submitted reports re ducing Judicial Circuits, whieh was or dered priuted. Executive Department. General Toombs moved to take up the report of the Committee on the Execu tive Department, The report was read, Mr. Hill moved to add two Counsel lors of State, to be entitled '’Executive Counsel,” who, with the Governor, shall form a hoard of pardons. Tabled. Mr. Dismuke moved to create a Lieu tenant-Governor. Tabled. Mr. Holcomb said the people did not want new offices, but desired to take away some already existing. Mr. Haas moved an amendment fixing the Governor’s salary at three thousand dollars, changeable by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of the Legislature. By Mr. Harrell: To limit the salary to $3,000 specie basis. He thought the question of salary may as well come up uow. One of the main points in oalling the Convention was the question of. economy. It is time to go back to the first principles ot the good old times of oiir fathers. Then it was #3,000, aud was increased when eurrenoy was at a low rate, * Mr. Barrow: The gentleman says his views are modified since ourrency oame near a specie value. This shows that no such provision should ooour here. The same thing may again aoenr, as ourrency is constantly fluctuating. His tory repeats itself, and thd changes wrought during the last twelve years should warn us against fixing such an inflexible rule. This Constitution may stand a hundred years, and frqw many changes may occur ? The present clause of section 2 ia a yerlrjavim, copy of th' a Constitution Of '4798. We will 4:o w see hoy; much sincerity there * in the gen tleman's wishes to *i> back to the good old times of tLe fathers. Mr. Hass: Tbe people demand a re duction in the government’s expenses. They have increased lately in inverse ratio to the amount of wealth. Mr. Wright was totally opposed to leaving it to t’ie Legislature to fix the Governor’s salary. Though there were some good men in that body, aa an ag gregate he had no reaped either for their oapaoity or integrity. Mr. Col lier remembered when the annual ex penses of the government were less than four hundred thousand dollars, and now it was a million and a half. He would commence at the head and reduce down to the last man. If extravagance is not checked the State will continue to get poorer. Adjourned to be resumed to morrow. Tlie Home stead Exemption—How the Com mittee Htnnds On tlie Question. The following is the true status of the Homestead Committee: Mynatt, Guo rard, Longiuo,Tomlin and Barrow agree to fifteen hundred aggregate in -specie, all available except three hundred per sonalty. Williams agrees, bnt thinks the whole should be waived. Pieree thinks the right to waive ahonld be re stricted to some extent. Wells submits substantially as by mail. Grier submits a separate report. P. A. S. AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE. aut t C'ausht in Putnam County mid Broiitflit Hack to Aunuata. On the 7th of last October an old negro named Jupiter Grant was killed nearly opposite the Augusta Orphan Asylum by a young man named Edward H. Murph, Jupiter was on his way home, in his little cart, when he was at tacked by Mnrpli, who charged him with stealing a chair while moving some fur niture for him. Jupiter denied having stolen the chair,)and Mnrpli commenced to beat him. Jupiter retreated behind the cart and pulled out one of the wooden standards, whereupon Mnrph shot him with q pinto), killing him almost instant ly. Murph immediately fled. An in quest was held over the body of Jupiter, and the jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death ftom a pistol shot wound inflicted by Edward H. Muujdb hilling being, in their opin ion, murtter, The grand jury subsequent ly found a true bill against Murpli for murder. Governor Smith offered a re ward of one hundred and fifty dollars for the capture of Murph, and offer of this reward was renewed by Governor Colquitt in June laat- Learning that Murph was patuaw county, Lieut. A. M. Ykather determined to effect his capture. Leaving Augusta last Tuesday morning, he proceeded to Putnam oounty and placed the warrant for Murph’sarrest, which had been Judge Snead, of Richmond Connty Court, in the ox Rneriff Lawrence. The (jWfo with another party, then pro ceeded to’the farm of Mr. Latham, aig ' teen miles from Eatonton, wl\ero Murph and his father were & ft, sharpening gin saws, aqd effected the arrest. Murph offered W resistance, He denied stren uously having hilled old Jupiter. Lieut. Prather brought him on to Augusta, reaching the city yesterday afternoon, and plaoed his prisoner in jail (p await trial by the Superior Coqrt, Lient. Prather disjjdflj ea much ability and judgment in detecting Murph’s , apd effecting his arrest. SAD ACCIDENT. A Youth Drowqtd n*val>o Mill. Last Monday Frank Barney, aged fourteen, was drowned in llnval’a mill i pond, five miles from this city. Mrs. Barney, Frank’s mother, has charge of the girl’s department at the Orphan Asy- I Into- ’ L.a*! Friday Frank left the Asy lum, for the purpose of spending a short time with £Mr. Rureb, one of nis rela tions who lives near Duval’s. Monday he was about the mill during the morn ing. In the afternoon, about six o’clock, two boys who went to the pond to t%fce a bath, noticed Frank’s shoes cloth ing on the bank, and as they conld see nothing of him, concluded at once that he was drowned, They raised the alarm and- a prompt search was instituted. The body of the unfortunate youth was soon found and an inquest held by Jus tice Mims. It is supposed that Frank, who conkt not swim, went into, tffa pond ito |take a bath, got beyund. his. depth and was drowned, being near to render aflsiwyiae. X-** tunerai pi the deceased V**k place Tuesday afternoon. Tffq Orphan Asy lum ohildren in a body and sang several bJMUft iq a moat affecting of the grave. Babies cry because they suffer;-and the most reliable remedy for the relief of their discomfort is Dr. Ball’s Baby Syrup. Only 25 cents per bottle. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. TRAIN WRECKED ON THE GEOR GIA RAILROAD. The Engineer Killed and (he Body Burned— The Fla men l>efro3 the Train—Several : Persons Injured. , Yesterday afternoon intelligence was reoeived in this city that a fearful ao cident had befallen the up day pas senger train whioh left here in the morn iug. The train was composed of the three regular coaches, viz ; the baggage oar, the second-class car and the ladies ooach, and three extra cars oontainiug two companies of the Eighteenth United States Infantry from Oolnmbia, S. 0., and their baggage, en route to Louis ville, Ky. The whole was drawn by the coal burner 0. T. Pollard, in charge of engineer Each. Armistead and fireman A. W. Streeter. Hon. John P. King, President, and Col. S. K. Johnson, Sup erintendent of the road, Were on Board Of the train. There were alun several other passengers from Augusta. The train left Union Point all right, but three miles above that place, at a point called Oak Grove, it met with a fearful accident. Tlio train was running at its usual rate of speed when it rau into a drove of cattle and was instantly wreoked. The engine was thrown from the traok, and the haggage car, second class oar and ladies’ coach piled upon it. The engineer, Mr. Zaoh. Armistead, was killed and his body consumed, for the oars Cn light Fire From the engine almost immediately and were soon wrapped in flames. All •the baggage and express matter was en tirely destroyed by fire. The Express Company had very little in their *av and their loss was consequently vory light. A portion of the baggage in the bag gage car, however, was very valuable. Mrs. Eugene Ft Verdery, who was on the train, lost her trunk, containing clothing and jewelry. A gentleman lost his trunk in whioh were a number of bonds. We understand that he offered Five Thoutmml Dollar* To any one who would recover the trunk from the flames, but the task proved an impossible one. The entire regular traiu was oonsumed and the body of the unfertnnate engineer liter erally roasted with it. The cars con taining the soldiers and their baggage were not injured. The firemaD, Mr. A. W. Streeter, was painfully hurt. The express messenger, Mr. Vincent Thorn ton, and the news agent, Mr. John Quinn, were also injured. Several of the passengers were bruised, but none were seriously hurt. They were trans ferred to the down passenger train, which returned to Atlanta. Passengers coming this way were placed on one of the oars which oarried the soldiers up and an Athens Branch car and oarried to a station dowu the road by a freight engine. The oars were then attached to the Maoon and Augusta train and brought to the oity. AH Till' Mall Matter On the wrecked train was destroyed. The loss to the Georgia Railroad will probably amount to ten thousand dol lars. Mr. Armistead, the engineer who met suoh a terrible death, was a young man twenty-five years of age. He was a first-class engineer. • FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE TERRIBLE OCCURRENCE. The Body of the Engineer Found—Tlie (lend and Legs Mlaaing—Who Were Hurt—Tlie Road AH Right Now and Trains Running on Schedule Time. The Obboniole and Constitutional ist, of yesterday Morning, contained the main particulars of the terrible accident on the Georgia Railroad last Tuesday. The following are farther points of in terest : i The accident occurred in a deep cut, which is also a curve. As the locomo tive rounded the curve three cows were seen on the track, but too late to stop the train. The engine struck the animals, and was turned completely across the track. The baggage oar followed pell mell, and was literally piled upon the engine. The second and first class coaches, were crushed into the wreck, and the whole formed a mass of broken timbers aud iron. The engineer, Mr. Zach Armistead, was probably killed by the baggage car. His body was nearly roasted in the wreck. The train oanght fire and the baggage car, the second class car and two first class coaches were oonsumed. The fireman, Mr. A. W, Streeter, sus tained severe injuries, his legs and arms having been Fearfully Scalded By the escaping steam. The baggage master, Mr. Callahan, was slightly in jured. Mr. Vincent Thornton, the ex press messenger, received some aevero bruises about the bead. Mr. John Quinn, the news agent, was also bruised on the faoe and head. Among the pas sengers, Dr. J. A. A. West and Mr. Gouley, of Augusta; Dr, O. 0. Crawford, of Atlanta, and an infant child of a lady who got on the train at Crawfordviile. were bruised, but- none were seriously hurt. All of the passeDgers were badly shaken aud tumbled about by the ter rific shock Of the collision of the cars against the locomotive. When the crash was heard Colonel S. K. Johnson, Su perintendent of the road, seized Judge-, King, the President. In 111 m Arm* And rushed out of the car with him. Mr. Streeter, the fireman, apparently oblivious of his twn serious hurts, rushed about among the passengers calling out in tones of agony,“For God’s sake aave my engineer.” Nothing could be, done, however. The gallant en gineer was beyond human aid. Dr. C. C. Crawford, of Atlanta, of fered five thousand dollars to any one who would save hiatrnnk, which he said contained valuable papers and twenty thousand dollars in bonds. Finding that the offer produced no effect he of fered a United States soldier seven thousand dollars if he would rescue the trunk from the fire. The devouring flames, however, had completely en wrapped the baggage ear and nothing whatever ouuld be done. A lieutenant of one of .the United States companies was badly bruised. He waa in the second class ooach at tbe time tbe aoeident occurred, conversing with Major West. The latter gentle man was painfully bruised on one of his feet. The United States soldiers rendered EAcienl fterrlee ! After the accident, in aiding in the transfer between the up and down trains. None of the men were hurt, ex cept the lientenant mentioned above, and all of their baggage was saved. Superintendent Johnson, who reach ed Atlanta Tuesday night, says it was one of the most terrible railroad acci dents that has oecurred in Georgia, ac cording to tbe Atlanta Constitution , and considers it straDge that half the people au the train were not killed or terribly | wounded. The body of Mr. Armistead was taken from the wreck about five o’clock Tues day afternoon. The head and the legs, from the kite* down, could not be found. Tha made up train, which brought the Augusta bound passengers from the scene of the wreck met with an acci dent at the fifteen mile post. The flange on one of the wheels of the engine broke, and tbe locomotive ran off tbe traek. The ears were carried bak to No. 16 by the engine of the construction train, and the other engine was jacked up and moved slowly to the ar.me point. The train was then coupled on to the Macon and Augusta fast train aud brought to the city. The passenger*: on the up and down night trains Tuesday night were trans ferred at the scene of the accident. The i down train, in consequence of the de tention wbieh this necessarily involved, did not reach Augusta until -10 o’clock yesterday morning. The track was cleared yesterday, and trains went through on schedule train. No possible blame can attach to the railroad authorities for the accident. It was just one of those things which could not have been prevented. OUu Ueawrallc Convention. Columbus, Ohio, July 25.— The Dem ocratic State Convention met to-day. Tbe attendance ia very large. A tempo rary organization was effected, the usual committees were announced and the Convention adjourned to 1:30, p. m. Coitmwts, Ohio, July 25>.—The De mocrats! nominated R. M. Bishop, of Hamilton county, for Governor, on tbe 6i.b ballot. Joley W. Fitch was nomi nated for Lieutenant Governor,