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WEDNESDAY, - AUQOBT 1, 1877.
CHOP THEWS.
The friend* of the Chronicle and
CoNSirnmoNALisT in Georgia and
South Carolina will greatly oblige n* bj
sending, from time to time, brief let
ters showing the condition of the crops.
We would like to have a letter once a
week from every locality where the
Chronicle and CoHSTiTtrnoNAuar cir
anlatea. , .
What a harvest is coming for the law
yers. |
The Cincinnati papers pray for 48
hours’ rain.
Gaid Hamilton's latest name is “• ,1 *
Plaixz’s Cossack.”
The Northern papers think the fore’f
war is not half as interesting as it whv
Gabibaldi came near dying the ti x
day. He threatens to “ survive 11
Nono.”
Habtkantt calls upon Tom Scott to
resign. And yet Tom is “ a biger man”
than old Habtbanft^
Foreign and domestic capital had bet
ter invest in the South. There is no se
curity where Communism exists.
Gamblers, like Jat Gocld, have de
moralized trade and corrupted society.
We don’t want any of his empire.
The Radical presses want a big stand
ing army— to garrison Northern cities.
The tables are turned with a vengeance.
The New Orleans Democrat thinks
Pennsylvania would be better off with
either Wabmoth, Kellogg or Packard
for Governor.
We do not want a large standing army.
We want the old Democratic form of gov
ernment that made a large standing
army unnecessary. •
(leeohkb gets $25,000 per annum. If
be had stuck to bread and water, poor
Elizabeth would not be where she is,
and Beecher himself would be less dis
reputable. m *
The “gallant boys” of Philadelphia
thought it was only a frolic on the road
to Pittsburg. They found that it was
no joke to meet desperate men with
hnngry families.
Had the institutions of the South re
mained intact there would have been no
Commune at the North. The Abolition
ists sowed the wind; the Radioals are
reaping the whirlwind.
In making lobbying a orime the Geor
gia Constitutional Convention has taken
another step forward. Georgia may
teaoh the rest of the States something in
law-making yet.— Philadelphia Times.
Even the New York World informs
the workingmen that they need not ex
pect henoeforth to be any better off
than their foreign forefathers were.
“Results of the war" against the South.
Pittsburg has a population of 140,000
and an assessed valuation of $172,000,-
000. To pay for recent damages a tax of
$2 81 on every SIOO of property must be
raised. This will about swamp Pitts
burg.
The people of the East aifc West have
hitherto been in dread of “ tramps.”
They now know that their whole social
and industrial fabric is rotten, and that
• worse volcano than Vesuvius is beneath
their feet.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean, for diver
sion, has turned from the South to pelt
the Pittsburg regiments that fell flat on
their stomaoha so that the mob might
Lave a good whack at the “gallant boys”
from Philadelphia.
For many years the New York Day
Rook has predicted the very state of
things now rampant at the North. V rv
few people at the North read the Day
Book. They did not like to hear un
pleasant truths.
The Springfield Republican sug -ests
that eaeh State and municipality have
an armed ooustabulary like that of Eng
laud, instead of militia regiments whieh
are “citizens 360 days in the year, and
soldiers the other five.”
The World advises Pittsburg to forth
with raise the money and, without law
suit, indemnify Col. Tom Scott’s road.
Perhaps the editor of the World will
lend Pittsburg the needful cash at 4 per
cent, interest per annum.
We have received an article signed
“Justice,” on the sale of the watermelon
orop, which we cannot publish because
it violates a rule to whioh we have re
peatedly called attention. It is written
on both sides of the paper.
Referring to the deplorable mistakes
made at the beginning of the strike,
Mr. Dana says : “ Nothing in this world
can serve as a substitute for brains.”
True, but what substitute have you got
for skilled labor, whioh is an alliance of
brains and muscle ?
The Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio is described as “an excel
lent oitizen with plenty of money, but a
practical nobody.” The “milk in the
coooanut” of his nomination is that he
can carry Hamilton oounty, whioh will
oontrol the Legislature that is expected
to deoapitate Stanley Matthews.
George H. Pendleton ia reported to
have changed wonderfully within a year,
*nd now looks twenty years older than he
did a twelvemonth ago. He is gray,and
not so careful in his dress. Come to
Augusta, George, and renew your youth.
We fondly remember you, and the canal
still flows beyond the city walla.
Only a atroug Government can grapple
promptly with the varied forme of danger that
am now atrewn thickly over one-third of the
(Tnion.— N. Y. Times.
No; only a wise, just, benefioent and
Democratic Government can avert the
danger. The North will yet weep tears
of blood for the Union as it was and
the Constitution as it was.
Mr Qboboi William Curtis has presented
a bright new weather-vane to the people of
Ashfield. Maes., to be placed on the town-hall.
It cost $45 to enable the denisene of that town
to see which way the wind is blowing —A T . T.
Tribune.
If the people of Ashfleld take the daily
papers they will know how the wind is
blowing. It is blowing a strong gale
against George William Curtis and his
philosophy as expounded in Harper’s
Weekly.
The Nashville American has got up a
"Shorter Cateohwm” of the pendiug
unpleasantness, thus :
Why dtd they strike ?
Because of a reduction of wages
Why the reduction?
Because of the falling off of freight business
and the reduction of revenues.
Whv the falling off of business and diminu
tion of reveuues ?
dosing of factories and cessation of pro
ductive industries.
Why the cessation of productive indus
tries ? '
Withdrawal of mgatal from industrial enter
prises.
Wbv the withdrawal of capital ?
The tinudrtyof capitalists; the general doubt
and anecrtMßty about the tloTemmnn-V
poliey with regard to the resumption it always
threatens and always prevents.
Why this governmental vacillation ?
To permit the ' r ngs" that reeuUte the gov
emmental policy to make 60 per cent, out of
the fluctuations and cor traction.
Back of ail ia the war of 1860-61
against the Sooth. Abolition begat Ra
dicalism ; Radicalism begat war; wet
begat Grant ; Grant begat Tub Sr
tens ; Thad Stevens begat aa “organiz
ed hell” in the South ; the “ organized
bell” begat the carpet-bagger; the ear
pet-bagger begat the Commune; the
Comanßoe begat “organized hell” at the
north.
THE CAPITAL. QUESTION.
A few days since we published an ar
ticle recitiDg tbe pledges made by the
city of Atlanta to the Conatitntional
C-invention of 1867 8 for the purpose of
being made the seat of government, aud
showing that every promise made bam
been shamefully and shamelessly vio
lated. We print this morning a letter
on the same subject written by Hod. R.
J. Moses to the Columbus limes. Mr.
Moses is well known as an able lawyer
and prominent citizen. He is a member
of the present Legislature, and during
tbe session of last Winter waoneof
the Finance Committee, and investi
gated the Opera Honse transaction,
whioh is one branch of the pledges
made by tbe city of Atlanta to tbe State
>f Georgia. The Constitution, without
attempting to answer the statements
taken from the record, endeavored to
>vade the issue by asserting that it was
well known that tbe greater portion of
the bonds given by the State for prop
erty which Atlanta had agreed to far
nish free for ten years was repudiated
iSf. Moses’ letter effectually disposes of
this defense, and shows that the State
has paid four hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars for buildings which,
under Atlanta’s contract,should not have
oost one cent. In the face of facts like
these, how can the Convention pay any
attention to fresh promises by a city
which has acted in such bad faith ?
There is but one wise and just thing to
be done in this matter. Let the Con
vention allow the people to decide by a
separate vote at the same time that they
pass upon the Constitution* whether
Milledgeville or Atlanta shall be the
seat of government. If the popular
verdict shall be in favor of Milledgeville,
there will be no Capitol to build; if it
be in favor of Atlanta, let tbe Legisla
ture have a safe and convenient build
ing erected, and not trust to promises
which will prove as worthless in the
future as they have proven worthless in
the past.
THE BACK-HONE BROKEN.
There is every reason to believe that
the back bone of the great railroad
strike, with accounts of which the news
papers of tbe country have been filled
during the past ten days, is broken.
Through the main arteries of commerce
at the North and West trade has again
begun to circulate, and in a few days
will flow as freely as ever. In some lo
calities the railroads are yet at the mercy
of the mob, and in some places there is
still disorder and bloodshed. But it is
evident that these are but the last ex
piring flickers of the torch which blazed
so brightly a few days ago, and gleamed
over red ruin and aptual battle. The
strike is over, aud what .have the
strikers gained ? Pretermitting auy
discussion of the causes which brought
it about—of tbe rapacity of the rail
roads and the sufferings of the strikers
the question is, What have the strik
ers gained by the strike? How have
they been benefited by what they have
done and what they have forced others
to do? We know well enough what
they have accomplished. The history of
the past ten days is fresh in the minds
of the public. Railroads have been
torn up, trains stopped, passengers in
commoded, trade injured, property
destroyed, men, women nd children
slain by the score. Large cities bev.e
been dominated by mobs, who defied
the laws of their country and the per
sons charged with their execution, and
who were guilty of the most heinous
crimes— destruction of property, arson,
murder. But these acts of lawless vio
lence have not availed their perpetrators
anything. The crimes committed have
been as barren of results as they have
been atrooious in their character. The
strike is virtually over ; the strikers are
praotically where they were before it
commenced. In a few, a very few, in
stances they t2.\V obtain a slight in-1
crease of their wages. In a majority of
cases they will go to work at the old
figures. Many of them will bp tried
and severely punished, for the rail
ways cannot compound felonies even
tnongh they may agree to do so. Most
of the remainder will be marked men.
Slowly, but none the less surely, the
companies whioh they have so severely
injured will dispense with their services
and employ new men. These will be
the only results of the “ great railroad
strike.” In a few mouths tho strikers
will be in worse case than they were be
fore they attempted to inoreaso their
wages by the strong [hand. In this
oountry there can be no communism.
Capital and Labor can not fight their
battles with rifles aud pikes. Their
differences must be adjusted amicably
or Capital will always win the day.—
Whatever may be the wrongs of Labor,
the masses of the people will never tol
erate redress by incendiarism and as
sassination.
FALSE ECONOMY.
As Mr. MYnatt remarked in his ex
cellent speech before the Convention
Thursday, economy is a very good thing,
but there is a false as well as a true
economy. It is false economy to reduce
the salaries of publio officers foeiow a
reasonable sum. The experience of the
world has shown the truth of this asser
tion, and especially has strong evidence
in its favor been afforded by the history
of the United States. In this aountry
there is no law that enables a family to
to retain its wealth generation after
generation, except the law of sobriety,
honesty and indnstry. Asa general rule
the men who enter political life here are
either poor men or men in moderate cir
onmstancea. These can not bold office
unless there be an adequate salary at
tached to the position. The compensa
tion whieh they receive furnishes them
with d** means of support. If their ne
cessities are great, their salaries small
and their capacity to resist temptation
not of the first order, they become
corrupt. Thus we hear every day
of men who commenced public life a
few years ago without a dollar and who
are known to have grown rich on a
salary too small to have afforded them
anything beyond the meanest support.
These men have either stolen from the
Government directly, or eiac misused
their positions in such a way as to moke
money indirectly. On the other hand, if
the pablie servant bo strung enough to
resist the commission of either species
of theft be is either forced to retire
from a place which he has become fitted
to ooenpy with benefit to die ritate, or,
eke, he serves until political defeat or
old age overtakes him, Slid is then
turned out to pass the remainder of his
davs in penury. U to not right that
either of these altoroOisee should be
presented. One works a wropgj to the
State; the other does an injustice to the
official. The part of wisdom shonld be
to pay a public servant a salary commen
surate with the dnties and responsibili
biUhee of his offiae, and sufficient to pnt
him beyond the reach of temptation.
The Convention should not fix the
aalary of any State o#cer, but if they
insist upon -teblidhtog a Rto of com
pensation they should make it htghUF
instead of tower than and. is at present
The salary of Governor, of the
Treasurer, of ttw Ca*pfeaHer-Genend,
of the Secretary of State, of tWndges
of tbe Supreme .and Circa it Goarta, fit
Attorney General, should he ih--
creaeefl fl£t diminished. A gianoe at the
Ba >ari paid show how inadequate
they are. A Convention
sava there ard plenty of wm who win
&A thmM offices on small aalaru*, We
do not doubt it. There are plenty of,
men who will act s Governor or Chief
Justiee of the Supreme Ctonrt for one
AaU per diem. But these are pot the
men we wi*. We should strive to jpt
good men, and era should pay them s
fair compensation for services.
Tx Maw York Freeman's Jaturttf
fears that the neat labor strike will he a
drilled one, with arms. The next “re
bellion” will not be in the South • ,
GEORGIAS CONVENTION.
WHAT THIS SOVKBKIGNB DID YKB
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Tfce flerir-n 1 E.re#-The GnrrrmhV Salary
—A Sensible Npeecb;
Heats* Defcaie—Mora Krenemy TwMHS-
A Kurins Fire ot WrrA—Tbe SrMrr B
"■atlr Redhead—fiPUe Geweraerhl Teoare of
Olflrr I’ndisturbed.
f Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, July 26.— The Constitutional
Convention met this moraiDg in the
Capitol, at half-past eight o’clock, the
President, Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, in
tbe Chair.
A resolution was adopted instructing
the State Treasurer to advance the dele
gates twenty-eight dollars each, on ac
count of per diem, and to the Secretary
of the Convention two hundred dollars.
The Clerical Force Nat Too Lire.
Mr. Mesely, of the Thirty-first Dis
trict, from the committee appointed to
examine into the clerical force employed
by the Governor and State Honse offi
cers, reported that in the Executive De
partment there were six Secretaries and
Clerks, with an aggregate salary of ten
thousand six hnDdred dollars ; in the
Insnrance Department and Wild Land
Office, three clerks; in the Treasurer’s
office, one, and in the Secretary of
State's one, each with an annual salary
of sixteen hundred dollars. The com
mittee stated that these clerks were all
allowed by law, and, therefore, they
made no recommendation.
More Northern Creditor..
The President submitted to the Con
vention a memorial from certain North
ern parties, through Hon. J. 8. Black,
their attorney, claiming to be bona fide
creditors of the State, and asking that
their claims be not ontlawed. Referred.
The Governor’. .Salary.
The Convention then resumed the con
sideration of the report of the Commit
tee of Revision on the Executive De
partment, the question being on the
amendment fixing the Governor’s salary
at three thousand dollars per annum in
gold, and upon the amendment allowing
the Legislature to fix the compensation
of the Executive.
Mr. Mynatt’. Speech.
Mr. Mynatt, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, said that in this State the salaries
paid government officers had never been
too high. The large indebtedness of
Georgia did not result from that cause.
Suppose tbe Convention should diminish
the salaries of all the officers, the high
est saving possible would be about fif
teen thousand dollars. How was such a
sum as this to affect the State’s indebt
edness which amounted to eleven mil
lions of dollars ? He had never heard
any complaint of the size of the present
salaries. It was said that the debt of
the State was large. He had always
understood that the State became in
volved through issuing gold bonds, en
dorsing railroad bonds and allowing
perquisites to public officers. Can we
not trust the Legislature with some
power? Is there any man, whom the
people would eleot Governor of Georgia,
who would be guilty of collusion with
the Legislature to raise his own salary ?
Be as much in favor of rfltreuoh
ment as any one. Eoonomy was the
great mission of the Convention; but
there was a true and false economy. He
did not believe in fixing the salaries of
Executive officers in the Constitution—
the fundamental law. The Legislature
oonld be trusted in such a measure. He
rose to thp defense of that body, and
asserted that Georgia never had Legis
latures whioh did her name more credit
than those which had assembled since
I§7l. When the Geueral Assembly
then pouvened ( the State had no G6v
ernor and an investigation chqwfld that
she had been saddled with a large
fraudulent debt. These bonds were
exposed and declared null and void.
State bonds whioh were then quoted at
nominal figures are now above par and
the State can easily borrow money at a
low rate of Interest, furthermore, the
Legislature had never increased the
public debt a single dollar. Do yon
tell me then that you can not trust a
Legislature to fix the salaries of the
Governor, State House officers and
Judges, and that yon hang your heads
in shame when their record is men
tioned? ffesmdhp hsd examined the
record and found out that tfie legisla
tive pay rolls were greater before the
war than they are now. Au alarming
State debt had been inourred by the
Legislature of 1865-6 issuing four
millions of bonds for the relief of
the State sufferers by the war.
Tfie same Legislature endorsed the
bonds o* tfce Maoon and Brunswick
Railroad to the extent of two millions
of dollars. Add to these sums three
millions of bonds issued by Bullock’s
• Legislator® and three millions of ante
j bellunt bonds and you about have the
! present bonded debt of the State. Dur
ing Governor Smith's administration the
only bonds issued were for the purpose
of taking up old bonds maturing. The
Legislature did not deserve the censure
of the people for this,
Mr. Russell, of theEigtb District, did
not think the Legislature ought to be
trusted to fix salaries. The Convention
should do this work.
Speech ot Mr. Guerard.
Mr, fjuerard, of the First District,
said it seemed as if the Couvention were
the people and possessed all the wis
dom. From the propositions of many
delegates it seemed that all the wisdom
in the State would die with the Conven
tion; blit the State was aliye before we
came here, and the constituents who
called together such a mass of system
and logic must themselves have been
wise. This same Wisdom wiirdoubtless
continue to manifest itself, and will
elect wise legislators. This body as
sumes wisdom in exclusion of the people
which I deny, it possesses. Ido not
propose to argue the merits of the
amendments, bt tbe people in their
popular House of fleprgseututiy.es are
not to be fettered by this body and de
prived of their rights. That the Legis
lature is unworthy of trust I deny, I
deny that the people are unworthy of
selecting men capable of representing
them. In defending the General Assem
bly I do it as one of the people, not as a
class above, sneering at the people. As
one who never before and will never
again hold office I defend tbe©. I don’t
care what the Governor’s salary is fixed
at, provided it be done by the proper
authorities. I don’t want dollars and
cents to appear iR the Constitution, and
this provides for slj Jfi,e officers. Lib
eral salaries secure honest administra
tions. For a fair day's labor giye fair
pay, and when the pay is lesa than the
servant requires the servant becomes on
faithfnl, and we fasten on the State a
hungry horde of leeches who will never
cry “Hold, enough!” Let ns deal here
onfy wifh the principle.
Mr- of fhe Thirty-Ninth,
Said there was not a delegate figrg whose
constituents did not expect him io fix
these salaries. We are paying salaries
when the people have really nothing to
pay with. When Howell Cobb re
ceived SS,OPO the people thought
that sufficient, but when post hel
ium Legislatures couyeneif fancy
prices were fixed. The people had lost
confidence in the legislators who here
tofore failed to rednee these salaries.
If they are not now rednoed you will
not find a vote in Northeast Georgia to
ratify the Constitution. There will
never be any trouble to find men to fill
the offioes at reduced figures.
31? Harrell, of the Twelfth District,
Insisted that this was one of tbe most
important mattery before the Conven
tion. If we save bnt Sib,Guy hare the
Convention will not fail in its object.
This is a small sum, but it is a con
tinuous leak. Th.® gentleman of Bibb,
was himself legislator Hence his
defense. The Legislature continually
! failed to reduce the expenses of the
j Legislative (Department and ii this mat
j ter be now referred to the Legislature
■ tbe will ot the people will be dis
i regarded.
(Mr. of <£\e First District,
Said, hat the Qwfiyw’P salary was
fixed before the wftr.
Mr. Harrell—“l care not jthen ft was
fixed, it was too large."
Mr. Grier, of the Twenty-first Dis
trict, moved that as the same fight
would be made on all officers, the Con-
had better see whether it will
undertake tp fix salaries at all. He
therefore moved by the amend
ments. Lost, ,65 to 121.
> Jlr. Hamilton, of the Forty-second
Distant, said it was vain for the people
of Georfiii* t 0 relief from the Leg
. islature. There were good men
Who fr\rove for the relief qf the Doodle,
hut they ifclwed in vain, for the,general
. affdea heavily to the'public
nXfam?n areP - and porr ibp people ap
peal to (Convention fey relief. Tbe
qmsAuw is iteir mef- The taps
now fifty emte op tbfi Op, when they
were formerly six flftd l^tois
pcly is there no provisto# tor a
storing :•<*. !? nt the hih nation is
upt sufficient to ? interest on tbe
pubiy: debt. Hence wfl kaep wan
ing bonds. Something and! I ** P?
done. We, the are here to give
relief. Let us come to a j&te on the
p nestion and set an example whieh will
govern other departments and form a
plan to gis£ the people the relief so
niuoh needed.
Mr. Matthews, ot the pfatrict,
Said after years of qniei the .people as
semble ip Convention to revise the Con
stitntion and their government, and for
this I thank God. l*t the disenaaion
go on until we examine the ship of State
to mid air, hull and mast. He wished
to submit a few propositions. When
expenditures were greater than produc
tion fioaaciai perdition follows. Heavy
taxationria the end impoverishes pfiople,
and I am not surprised to bear fKjto the
hills of Geoqpia, and from her valleys,
and mountains, and sea coasts thejSrv
for relief.'Tam not surprised to bear from
delegates the threat that if yon grant no
relief we will not ratify the Constitution.
Georgia’s prosperity is in our hands,
and with us there shonld be no sncli
word as “fail.” Bnt no law ever passed
withont mntnal concession and compro
mise. Henc9 he would present this, to
the warring factions. I voted in com
mittee to trust the Legislature with this
as the personal feeling of my heart.
This, then, I propose, if you wish to
pnt three thousand as tbe amoant of
salary for the Governor in the Constitu
tion, do so, bnt leave it with a majority
instead of two-thirds of the Legislature.
On this ground we can meet.
Mr. Hunt, of the Twenty-second Dis
trict, said: I will show that the Govern
or’s salary may not only be rednoed
SI,OOO but $5,000. Interest on the money
that the Governor’s mansion is worth,
together with the furniture, $3,500,
which, added to the insnrance and
other expenses and placed with the
salary, aggregate $12,000. The exact
fignres required to ran it could not be
gotten, as no accounts were kept; bnt
the sum was not less in all than $15,000.
Now, suppose we sell this honse and fix
the salary in the Constitution, say at
$6,000, and what is the saving. Let
Governor Colquitt go to a smaller
honse and live unostentatiously. You
say this is below our dignity. Though
the State is poor and absolutely beg
ging, yet we have got to be dignified.
That is the proposition the Convention
makes to the people of Georgia, and I do
not want to be niggardly in salaries, but
economical in public expenditures, I do
not intend that the people’s money shall
be spent in Executive frolicking.
Mr. Davis, of the Twenty-third Dis
trict, thought alt the reductions had
better be uniform, and thought it better
to refer this to the Finance Committee.
He knew that the present Executive
would not oppose economy, and he
would move to refer this back at the
proper time.
Mr. Bass, of the Forty-second Dis
trict, offered an amendment A section
two to strike out “Competent salary es
tablished by law, and insert “a salary
of three thousand dollars, until otter
wise provided by law, passed by a two
thirds vote on a call of the yeas and
nays of both Houses of the General As
sembly.”
Mr. Warren, of the Twenty-third Dis
trict, offered an amendment which was
accepted, providing that the reduction
does not apply to the present term of
the present Governor.
Mr. Bass’ substitute and this amend
ment were put to the House on a divis
ion and carried —yeas, 115; nays, 65.
Paragraph second of J;he executive re
port as amended was now agreed to.
"Mr. Underwood, of the Twenty
second District, offered an amendment
to paragraph seven providing for a Gu
bernatoral election this Fall. Tabled.
Mr. Mercer, of the Twenty-ninth Dis
trict, moved to amend by bolding the
first election for Governor under the
new Constitution in 1878 instead of
1880.
Mr. Holcomb, of the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict, seconded this. He wanted the
Constitution to go into immediate ef
fect.
Mr. Barrow, of the Twenty-ninth Dis
trict, asked would not this be a reflec
tion on Gov. Colquitt ?
Mr. Holcomb said he might easily be
re-elected.
Mr. Barrow : But he desires no re
election aud I hope the Convention will
consider carefully before it out him
down thus in mid air,
Mr, Qartrell, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, moved to table the amendment.
Carried—ayes, 109; nays, 53.
Mr. Hudson, of the Twenty ninth Dis
trict, called attention to the fact that
the Legislature would be empowered to
change the time of election in case they
wished to do so.
Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth
District, therefore had inserted, after
1860, in line ten, the words : “Until
such day of eleotion be altered by law.”
Adjourned.
Tlie Governoi*-’* Term—An Election Next
Year Fought For—Governor Colquitt in llie
Fight—Lively Debnte—Holcombe, Harrell,
Parrott, Collier, pierce, Toamb*, Ham
mond In |l|e Frqy—.Sale of tho Railroads—
Important Reports,
\Special io the Chronicle and Constitutionalist .l
Atlanta, July 27. —The Convention
met this morning at half-past eight
o’clock, the President, Hon. Ohas. J.
Jenkins, in the Chair.
Mr. Casey, of the Twenty-ninth Dis
trict, was granted leave of absence.
A New ltei(l For Upvernor.
Mr- Holcombe, of the Thirty-ninth
Pistrict, moved a reconsideration of the
actiqu of the Convention yesterday, fix
ing the time of the next Gubernatorial
election. He favored an election in
1878. If we sot a precedent here to let
the Governor’s full term expire before
an election, we will have to wait till all
the State and Judicial officers’ terms ex
pire before the new Constitution can go
into effect. Governor Colquett has no
warmer friend in the State than I, and I
shall vote for him again, unless he does
something which ffe js not yet guilty of.
It is the principle, and not the administra
tion, I attack- Will not pien appointed
by the Governor want to serve out their
time, too ? Let us inaugurate the whole
thing now. Let the Governor be elected
when the question of ratification is sub
mitted, so as to bring out a full vote of
the people. Give the people reform,
and no power which can be brought to
bear can defeat the Constitution. Re
consideration was carried by a vote of
9§ to 90.
Tfie State’s Roads.
The Committee flp th@ Sale of the
State’s floads recommended in their re
port submitted to the Convention this
morning that the Legislature create a
Commission of three members, serving
two, four and six years, and styled The
Commission of Public Property and
Debt, and that said Commission, with
the Governor, try to sell the State rail
roads as follows : The Macon and
Brunswick for cjje million two hundred
thousand dollars; tlie Menjpis Branch
and the North and South Railroads for
what they will bring, and the Western
and Atlantio for eight millions, all the
proceeds to be qsed to redeem State
bonds. The report' was prjntpd and
made the special order for Wednesday.
More of the Governor’s Term.
Mr. Harrell, of the Twelfth District,
said it is urged that as the present ad
ministration was elected by an immense
majority of the people, the Convention
shonld not reduce its salary or its term
of office, blip since that time the people
have also 'called a ppnventipn to regu
late these very matters. We mpst forth
with reduce, or else the Convention will
present a strange anomaly, and half the
State officers will be under one Consti
tution and half under another. The
Governor wap sworn to gnpport the Con
stitution of I8$8; henpe can’t support
this on,e. What is fhe qsp pf building
anew bouse if we leave ljalf the family
in the old one.
Mr. Barrow, of the Twenty-seventh
District, said he thought the case was
different with the Governor than with
other officers. Under the new Consti
tution, as under the old, a large portion
of the State officers would probably be
appointed by the Governor. Every
office now being declared vacant* the
Gubernatorial candidate would be con
fronted to the canvass on all sides by
candidates, and exposed to harrassments,
sednotions and temptations. Suppose,
then, we maintain the present Governor
in office, sevens and undisturbed, and
his appointments to ail other offices
which should be declared vacant in
1878 being untrameled, he will have no
debts to pay, no enemies to punish, ns
friends to reward. He did not want to
subject the Governor to tests, trials and
temptations and did no! believe the
people wanted it so. He thought all
other offices should b® vkoated; bnt not
the Governor’s. There were some dele
gates to whom threats that their constit
uents would repudiate their work had no
terror. Let the Convention do what was
right and the people would sustain
them.
Elections by tbe People.-
Mr. eoßiar, of tho Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, said Constitution did not go
into effect now if Would‘not do so till
1889.* To the preceding gentleman he
would flay that the Appointing power
was hot yef given back to the Governor.
That was one question with which the
Convention proposed to ’deal. The peo
ple shonld elect all theit officers anew
! next year. Id Texas when the Conven
i tion demdedtopostpone action on the
Constitution tiO toe Governor’s term
should expire tfje Goyernqr said “Nq,
when you make tbe sweep pnt all out.
If I can’t make this aaengee f ought pot
! to be Governor." Have bo fear for reti
-1 flfifttjon.forthe people appreciated efforts
saving * houßands of l? 1 . J
hlV*™ feeling **tost an 7 State offi -
but think the goTerment Li ßhonld
be sa soon as posstu*c.
The In. ud th. gi;r
Mr. Tuggle, of the Thirty-seventh
District, said the Convention had been
in session seventeen days and its motto
seems still to be festina lente. The
proposition for the first time had to-day
been t ade for anew deal. Politics to
its last analysis was simply a contest be
tween the ins and the outs. He was not
sure but thaLA these retrenchment
speeches were mfle bv those who, for
tnnatelv^^mnj Jjunffilftly, outs.
of *O,OOO votes pUming the a dmiiustra
tion in powdt, ana now
clothed in the sovereignty of nine thous
and majority stand np and declaring we
are the people want to put out the
present Executive. Who are the peo
ple ? Now, instead of making an or
ganic law, as it was sent to do, the Con
vention is fritting away its time to.stnff
ing the Oonstitntion ad nauseam with
the details of legislation. The Conven
tion truly is omfiifKttent, But he hoped
not omnipotent to do wrong. The econ
omists in'the body who have been thus
gallantly ranting are only former pap
suckers. We have been here seventeen
days, spent seventeen thousand dollars
and determined bnt three depart
ments, leaving ten more undone.—
AU reduction was the cause of agitation,
then why not content ourselves with
making an organic law. You cbnfront a
factions opposition no matter what you
do. Personal issues in fixing techni
calities are bound to arise, and even now
we find ourselves fighting the Governor.
If we want a reduction in salaries and
offices, and we certainly do, let the Fi
nal Committee pass a sweeping, but
uniform, reduction. If we continue as
we have done there will be no use in
having any Legislature. Let us, then,
confine ourselves to the organic law.
The Convention Shonld Stick to Its Business.
Mr. Pierce, of the Twentieth District,
said there was a great deal of wisdom
in what had been so well said by the last
gentleman. It is hoped of all that
the Convention will confine itself ex
clusively to the purposes for which it
has been called, and, instead of going
into infinite and endless details, settle
the fundamental principles of govern
ment. It was neither well nor wise to
say no apprehension is felt over the
ratification of the Constitution. Dele
gates say they are sent to do certain
work, and unless it be done their sec
tions will not be friendly to the Consti
tution . Hence the importance of con
fining ourselves Vo our legitimate sphere
—to the smallest circumference —so
that it may go before the people
with the fewest possible assailable
points. It is impossible to make
a homestead to suit every one. All
reductions will cause strife and dissen
sions and form hslf way enemies in the
camps of its friends. If we disturb the
present Executive, who himself is as
pure as snow, we everywhere arouse his
friends. This Constitution, forced upon
us by aliens and bayonets, should be
wiped out, but in the hands of Demo
cratic administrations, such as the pres
ent, it has been powerless to do much
harm. Then why not trust the new one
to him ? If we came here to apply the
knife to the root of the tree and estab
lish revolutions iu every department,
then I analogue the Constitution
not to anew house, but to anew
vessel; and I ask, gentlemen of the
Convention, when anew vessel is about
to be launched on a stormy sea, if it is
better to appoint anew or an old and
experienced pilot ? And now, when we
wish to preserve our party from dissen
sions upon ratification, you wish to add
another spark to tbe magazine. The
Governor is elected for a four years’
term, and it is a eontraot we are bound
to keep ; and the Governor should
remain as a pure nucleus, around which,
in the pending revolution and dissolu
tion, atoms can cling.
Gen. Toointu On tlie Situation.
Mr. Toombs, ot the Twenty-ninth Dis
trict, said the people certainly have a
right toohange these things. The ques
tion was purely one of expediency. It
was true all of the present State officers
have sworn to support the present Con
stitution, bnt they can easily be re-sworn
if necessary. This change, if made im
mediately, will be a disturbing element
in the people’s minds. They would be
diverted from the great principles of
the fundamental law, and the ratifica
tion eleotion would degenerate into a
scramb'e for office—nothing else on
God’s green earth—and he advised the
friends of real reform to make no such
issue. Who wants anew deal? We
must simply here carry out our honest
convictions for the publio security, and
not disturb the publio mind with
minor matters.
The Debnte a Personal Issue.
Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth
Distriot, said the debate had assumed a
personal issue and he did not agree with
some friends as to what we are here for.
He thought onr object is to make a Con
stitution which the people will ratify
and not to effeot anew deal in offices.
We had taken the Legialatnre to task
about lobbying and bribery, and yet we
cannot carry out our Constitution with
out a pitiful bribe of a few thousand
dollars cut from officers’ salaries and
must offer to the people offices vacated
by the present officials. Yon talk about
aristocracy among office-holders; will
not small salaries keep out men from of
fice who make more elsewhere ?
Good offloers must be secured by libe
ral pay, and I would rather
risk my purse and honor with a
satisfied than a dissatisfied official. I
do not know whether in this I represent
the voice of the people,and what is more
Ido not care. When the people speak
through organized channels I venerate
and respect their voice, but when you
speak of opinions here and there I have
no proof of its import. There may be
just as many on the other aide. I must
satisfy my conscience before God when
lam filling sacred duties. What is the
nse of haying a new election, posting to
the State one hundred thousand dollars?
I am not among the ins and would not
like to be, but this principle of turning
out all the present officials is wrong.
Tlie New Deal Unsuccessful.
Mr. Gartrell, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, moved to table Mr. Holcomb’s
amendment,fixing the eleotion for Gov
ernor next year. The amendment was
carried by a vote <Jf yeas 100, nays fis.
Fi(rther Prgi^esg.
AIJ the paragraphs in tfie Jbfewtive
Section down to the 13th were agreed to
unamended.
Mr. Hill, of the Twenty-eighth Dis
trict, endeavored to transfer the com
mutation of the death sentences, to the
Legislature as in the case of treason or
impeachment, but the motion was lost.
In paragraph (thirteen, Mr. Ma
thews, of the Thirtieth District,
moved to change the word “Legis
lature” to “Gfenera} Assembly” and thus
amended tfie suction tyn ß adpptpd.
The !sth and sections were agreed
to. •
Tfie lfith wS tabled for tfie present,
The jfitfi wpis agreed to,
The last line in seotion seventeen was
stricken out on motion of Mr. W. M.
Reese,; of the Twenty-ninth District,
commencing at the word “house.”
The 18th was amended so as to make
the Governor examine of the Treasurer’s
and Comptroller’s offices quarterly, in
stead of semi-annually. In line 84 the
Convention struck opt the words “if ex
isting proVisjons are not sufficient.”
An effort was ma'de'by Mr. Hudson, of
the Tweuty-fifth District’to mafie the
Legislature elect tfie pqjpptrollpr, Trea
surer aud Secretary of S|atp ifistpad
of the people, ijs {he e'ppimittep re
commended; bfit it rfaslost. Afljoqrned.
. ’ T.~ - tt---
Still Harping ou Epopopr-An Attempt to
Ka.ee the State House Ofßeeio—Crude No
tion. of Saving Money—An Animated De
bate—A Good Speech by Judge W. M.
Beene—The Raid Postponed for the Present
—County Organisation—Uniform Fees or
Costs.
[Special to the. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.l
Atlanta, July 28.—The Goaatitatiunal
Convention met tfiis morning, at half
past eight o’clock, in the Capitol, the
President, Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, in
the Chair.
After the reading of {he journal of
proceedings the report of
the Committee of Final Revision on tbe
report of^the Committee on the Execu
tive Department was resumed.
Election of State, House Officers.
Mr. GartreUj of tfie Thirty-jifth Dis
trict, moved tb amend section second,
paragraph first, lay inserting the follow
ing clause at the end of the section :
“ The provisions of this Constitution
as to the transmission of the returns of
election for Governor, counting the
votes, and declaring the resnlt, and de
claring when there is no election, or
when there is a sen tested election, shall
apply also to elections for Secretory of
State, Comptrofier-General and State
Treasurer.” Amendment adopted.
More Economy in Salaries.
Section two, paragraph one, was now
adopted as a whole, and paragrapfi two
ot the same seotidn wasrfeaq.
Mr, tfatorn, of the Thipy-first gm
triet, moved to amend by inserting as
the Salary of Stafe House ofitoers six
teen hundred dollars, {Wb
thousand dollars. .. .. . . ~
Mr. Wynn, ot the Tfiirif -lonrth Dig
trict, moved to amend by inserting
eighteen hundred dollars, instead of two
thousand dollars. This amendment was
laid on the tsSe. „ . JTV
M-. Bass, of the Forty-second Dis
trict" moved in stpend by giving the
Secretary Of Btote tmmptroller-
General sixteen hundred dollars and the
State Treasurer two thousand dollars.
Mr. Holcomb, of the Thirty-ninth
District, moved to amend by allowing
the State Treasurer two thousand dol
lars and a clerk with a salary, of sixteen
hundrrd dollars ; giving the Comptroller
General three thousand dollars, and re
quiring him to pay his own clerical as
sistance ; giving the Secretary of State
tab thousand dollars, and requiring him
to employ his owd clerk, and prohibit
ing each of these dljicials from receiving
any perquisites. In supporting his mo
tion, Mr. Holcomb said there were now
three clerks employed in the office of the
Comptroller-General. Before the war
Mr. Peterson Thweatt did all the work
of the office without the assistance of a
single clerk.
Judge Reese Makes a Statement.
Mr. Reese (W. M.), of the Twenty
ninth District, opposed the amendments.
He said it was impossible to get along
without the Wild Land and Insurance
Offices connected with the Comptroller-
General’s department, and it takes the
clerks in those offices their whole time
to attend to their duties. It requires
great information and skill to attend to
these things.
Mr. Holcomb, of the Thirty-ninth
District, asked if the whole wild land
business was not as mysterious to-day
as it ever was ?
Mr. Reese (W. M.), of the Twenty
ninth District, replied that he did not I
own any wild land himself, but he un
derstood that the system of the office
was perfect. Its duties required the
whole time of a skilled clerk to dis
charge them properly. If a man owns
wild lends iu any section of the State
he can, by going to this office, find out
exactly where they are situated and to
whom the taxes on the same are re
turnable. He knew that the offioe of
the Wild Land Clerk was constantly
filled with people, inquiring after tlieir
lands. The proper management of the
Insurance Office of the Comptroller
General’s department requires the clerk
to be in constant communication with
the insurance departments of other
States, in order to see how insurance
companies stand, and prevent the people
of this State from being swindled. Gen
tlemen seemed to ignore these things. If
they wish to economize let them econo
mize wisely. This would be a short
lived economy, and would bring no
money into the pockets of the people.
The Comptroller-General, moreover,
has to study the tax laws, and examine
the tax returns from every county in
the State. Such eoonomy as that con
templated would result in ruin to the
Commonwealth.
Mr. Brown, of the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict, said he did not object to paying
the salaries attached to the offices, but
he thought the perquisites reoeived by
State House officers were unnecessary,
and should be taken away. That many
fresh duties had been imposed on the
Comptroller-General he well knew, but
he thought that many of these duties
were unnecessary,and should be abolish
ed. The collection of agricultural sta
tistics and the insurance department did
not, in his opinion, work much good to
the people.
Mr. Reese (W. M.), of the Twenty
ninth District, here rose and stated that
before the establishment of the Wild
Land office the taxes on wild lands re
ceived by the State amounted to only
four thousand dollars; the taxes reoeived
on wild lands now amount to twenty
two thousand dollars.
More Tiiglit Wanted. ,
Mr. Hooper said he wished to vote in
telligently on the subjeot, and moved to
refer the matter to a committee to ex
amine into it and report back.
Mr. Pieroe, of the Twentieth District,
moved that the matter be recommitted
to the Committee on Clerical Examina
tion. This committee had reported facts
once without recommendation. Let it
.now be instructed to report what cleri
cal force is needed in the Executive
Departments, and what salaries are
necessary for the heads of the and apart
ments.
Mr. Johnson (W. G.), of the Thirtieth
District, cordially approved the idea
that the committee should investigate
the subject. He did not believe there
was any sensible man iu the Convention
who would not agree to pay State offi
cers such salaries as they deserved.
Mr. Holcomb.of the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict, said the committee would either
have to take the word of the State House
officers as to what force and salary they
needed, or, else, go into an endless work
of examination. Hence he thought the
Convention should act on ihe matter
now.
Mr. Pieroe, of the Twentieth Dis
trict, said he thought if it would take
the committee such a long time to ex
amine into the expense of the different
departments, certainly the Convention
ought not to vote immediately on a
question of such importance, having no
information regarding it.
Mr. Pierce’s motion of reference was
adopted and Messrs. Reese (W. M.),
Holcomb, Brown and Tift were added to
the committee.
Paragraphs two and three were agreed
to.
Mr. Scott, of the Thirteenth District,
moved to amend paragraph four, line
fourteen, by changing the word “may”
to “shall" and the word “any” to “all.”
The amendment was adopted and the
paragraph as amended agreed to.
Paragraph five was agreed to.
Mr. Gartrell, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, moved to amend the third section
by striking out all after the word “law”
in line three. The amendment was
adopted, and the section as amended
agreed to.
Section four was postponed and the
entire report of the Committee on the
Jjxeputiye Department tabled until the
examining committee, tq which a por
tion of it had been referred, reported.
Mr. Lewis, of the Nineteenth District,
Chairman of the Committee on the Capi
tal, moved to take up the report of that
eommittee. Lost.
Countieg aud County Officers.
The report of the Committee of Re
vision on Counties and County Officers
[previously published in the Chronicle
and Constiiutionalist] was taken up
and the first sections agreed to with
out debate.
In sectiq'n si*, line fqr, the word
"onp’ ! was changed tq '‘two,'
Mr. Tift, of the Tenth Distriot, offered
the following amendment to paragraph
sixth :
“The General Assembly shall provide
competent and uniform fees, commis
sions and costs, for all county officers,
and they shall receive no other compen
sation for their services. Each county
officer shall keep a record of all com
missions, fees and costg received by him,
to be stybDftitfecf to" the examination of
the grand jury af each term of
the Buperj'or Cou#, ai}4 into
the Qoqnty Treasury, at the cud fif each
year, all the sums collected by him for
fees, commissions and ooats over and
above the sum of two thousand dollars. ”
The amendment was adopted, and,
pending further action on the report of
the committee, the Convention ad
journed until Monday morning at half
past eight o’clock.
A number of the delegates went on an
excursion to Chattanooga this evening,
on a train tendered them by ex Gov.
Joseph ’U. Brown, President of the
tVestern and Atlantic Railroad.
Tjie Excursion in Chattanooga.
ip Ctyromcle andf Consfilutwnalist.]
Chattanooga, July 28.—One
hundred aqd sdfty dalegatas ftqq their
fri§uds, accompanied by the belles and
beaux of Atlanta, have just arrived. The
train is in charge of B. W. Wrenn and
J. Cooper Nisbet. The excursion will
go down the river to-night, and to-mor
row will go to Lookout Mountain. The
city received the delegation with liberal
hospitality, .fudge Hansford D. D.
Twiggs, of Augusta, accompanies the
crowd, P, A. 8,
THS OHIO DEMOCRATS.
The Columbus Convention—'The Platform
Adopted—Thanking: Hayes for His De
mocracy.
July 20.—The platform
opposes subsides, favors the preserva
tion of the pnblic lands for actual
settlers and school purposes; declares
the destruction of industry and the
pauperisation of labor the result of
fraudulent and vicious legislation by
the Republican party, demands the
immediate repeal of the Resumption
Act and the remonetization of silver;
asserts that greenbacks are the best
paper currency we ever had; and de
clares against farther contraction. The
sixth resolution was as follows: We
congratulate the country upon the ac
ceptances by the th'e present Adminis
tration of the constitutional and the
pacific policy of local self-government
in the States of the' South so long ad
vocated by the DOipacratic party, which
has brought peace and harmony to' that,
section of the Union. 1
The New Factories.
The Enterprise Factory is under roof,
the tovter is up and the bell in position.
The factory wiii be in / Operation ere
long. - - ' ! ’
The waste factory of Simmons & Cos.,
on the river bank, at the foot of'
lock street, is rapidly approaching com
plefiqn. ft is a Jijrgp and handsome
building. •'
The fashion illustrations of
drews’ Bazar” are of a high style of art,
and extend throngh all departments of
dress; while the literature of its pages
is admirable in style and variety, show
ing thorough editorial management.
Send ten ggnts fpf apepupen copy fg
W. B, Andrews, Cincinnati.
THE BACK-BONE BROKEN.
THE GREAT STRIKE COMING TO
Art END. *
Hartranft to the Fora—A Trivia Stopped and
Broken Dp—The Baltimore and Ohio Band
—A t'ovhiu Mela ware—The Texan Strike a
Mule latte—. Live Stork l*jrtn—\Thnt the
KloteradUot In St. I.oaln— Dispersed With
Fold steel—Chicago and the Men
doing to Work.
Altoona, Pa,, July 27. —Gov. Har
trauft, with two large soldier trains, has
passed west.
Harrisburg, July 27. —The fast trains
are moving east and west, and a num
ber of hands have resumed work in the
railroad shops.
Bazelton, Pa., July 27.—The strike
on the main line of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad yesterday has resulted in a
stoppage of nearly-all trains on the Ha
zelton Branch.
Washington, Warren County, July
27. —The morning mail train on the Mor
ris and Essex Road was boarded by the
strikers here. The passenger cars were
out loose, and the engine and mail car
ordered on. The railroad company tele
graphed to take all the oars or none.
New York, July 27. —Superintendent
Toncey said to-day that all trains on the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroads were running on time, aud
; there was no trouble at any point. The
trains on the Canada Southern Railroad
were to have commenced running this
morning. Freight is taken to all points
and passenger tickets are likewise issued.
Baltimore, July 27. —Vice-President
King, of the Baltimore and Ohio Road,
wrote a long letter to the committee of
strikers to-day declining their proposi
tions, but explaining fully the reasons.
The letter concludes, “You will thus
see that the resumption of the running
c-f freight trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is a matter in which all
our oitizens of every calling are vitally
interested.”
New York, July 27.—The Superin
tendent of the Delaware, Lackawana
and Western Railroad telegraphed from
Hoboken to-day to President Sloan that
a committee of engineers had waited on
him to-day. They would go to work at
once at the terms provided
the firemen could be allowed to do the
same, as soon as they confer with the
General Committee, with the proviso
that the company give their old wages
as soon as the times get better, to which
President Sloan agreed.
Galveston, Texas, July 27. —The em
ployees of the Texas Central Railroad,
at Corsioana, struck at noon yesterday,
and no freight trains were allowed to
pass that point. The strikers are or
derly but determined. Many of them
have gone on the special police for the
express determination to protect life
and property. At a conference of the
train hands at Hearne last night an
agreement was made to prevent the pass
age of freight trains, and that no one
should be permitted to interfere with
railroad property.
East Buffalo, July 27. —Nothing de
finite as to the shipments of freight via
the Lake Shore Railroad can be gleaned.
The live stock is reported to be suffering
at Collingwood, many of them dying
from exposure to a hot sun. No stock
have been received since Monday over
the Grand Trunk, the Great Western
and Canada and Southern Railroads,
and nothing is reported as coming for
ward. All the live stock was shipped
away from here to-day. All quiet in
this section.
Buffalo, July 27, 2, p. m.—The pas
senger traffio on ull roads except the
Canada Southern has been resumed.—
Freight trains on the New York Central,
Erie aud on some minor lines are run
ning on time. There is a complete
blockade of freight traffic on the Lake
Shore Road. The engineers refuse to
run with green hands.
St. Louis, July 27.— The citizens be
ing finally armed, equipped and organ
ized, commenced work to-day. Twelve
companies, with breech-loading guns,
took various positions. General Noble,
with 400 men under Capt. Silas Bent,
marched to the Union depot, which the
rioters have virtually held since Tues
day. The battalion dissolved in compa
nies with loaded guns, and charged the
crowd with fixed bayonets, driving them
out of the depot and yards. The appa
rent. leaders were arrested. The author
ities announce that the depot will be
held and interference with trains there
prevented. Guards will be furnished for
all factories, the proprietors of which
wish to resume work. The Executive
Committee of the Workingmen’s party
is in session at Fifth and Biddle
streets and a large orowd surrounds the
hall, but no orders have been issued.
The committee have been telegraphing
to the leaders of the organization iu
other cities asking for advice. Many of
the large business houses remain closed
to-day but will open to-morrow. The
President of the Merchants’ Exchange
has issued a notice that the Exchange
will resume business to-morrow. The
streets are less orowded, and there is a
general impression that the worst is
over. The Missouri Pacific Road has
eommenoed running freight trains both
ways and announce-! that the road is open
for business. The St. Louis, Kansas
City and Northern Road has not yet de
cided whether it will follow suit. A
heavyrain during the early part of the
day haß had considerable to do in dis
persing the crowds and dampening the
ardor of the mob element.
Chicago, July 27. —There were no ri
otous demonstration here this morning
up to 11 o’clock.
Later. —The seat of the local war has
been moved even farther away from news
centres thaH yesterday. It is now in the
vicinity of Archer ayenno aud Halstead
street, some four miles away, the mob
gathering there at an early hour this
morning, but not in great force, and no
contest has taken place as yet. At noon
it was reported that crowds were gath
ering far out on the prairie aud were
contemplating a descent with tha stock
yards’ gang as allies. No oars are al
lowed to run on Halstead street north
of the viaduct; none are running on
Clinton and Jefferson streets, and the ri
oters tried to stop some other lines with
out success. S.onjie at the West
ern ayppfle afftWea struck this morning
and formed in line, intending to force
other stables into a strike, but they were
dispersed by the police. A meeting of
sailors and stevedores on the corner
of Lake and Water streets was broken
up by the police. The guardians of the
South Side Gas Works became alarmed
At the flying rumors prevalent a short
time previous, an/I called for reinforce
ments, Were sent. The railroads
are resuming business, both freight and
passenger. They have had, no tremble
with theiy sqn at any except in re
lation tq wagqs, qaq it is believed they
haye generally either compromised that
question or left it to arbitration. The
officials and men are equally reticent on
the subject. The Illinois Central took
thirty-one cars of grain this morning,
and is running all trains as usual. Their
men, with few exceptions, appealed t
the car shops this morale* ready for
duty. Their behavior is highly com
mended by the’officials. The Michigan
Central is running all passenger trains
on time east and west, and on all their l
branches.
NEWS.
Healing of Trade. Union. Ifl,
muuUt.’ Threats—Tbe to’Awk VWMrS*—
Key
fa (lilcugu Merchant übo
Ml(ln af Adair, in C'fateaso—Bad Con
dition ef Atl'nlr. in tlie I.eliish Valley.
Toledo, Ohio, July 27.—The estab
lishments closed by the mob Wednesday
are quietly resuming operations. All
quiet to-day.
' Washington, N. .1, ,*uly 2f.—The
situation is qncb*nged. The mail train
is still ataading, awaitiug advices from
the strikers’ committee at Scranton
whether it will be allowed to proceed.
Chicago, July 27. —The orders to the
policemen have been modified so that
to-day they have authority to shoot
down any man vyjjq interferes with them
in thfi discharge of their duty or who is
1 belligerent as a rioter.
Altoona,Pa., July 27.—The train car
rying the military passed here without
trouble, the soldiers driving away e very
striker who opposed thegv The rail
road company has po* commenced mov
ing frejght eastward from here.
Washington, July 27.- There was an
hour and a half Cabinet meeting to-day.
The advisability of organizing the Gov
ernment clerks into companies p; a Bat
talion for the protection of, public prop
erty waa discussed. Advices from the
sirike in various sections continue en
couraging, as read in the Cabinet.
Washington, New Jersey, July 27.
The fresh outbreak to-day among the em
ployes of the Delaware and
Railroad the Strikers sqy vcas oaused by
a trick. Wblfcll wU played upon them
yesterday by the company. Bogus
messages were sent to the engine des
patchers, a't Hoboken, that all was set
-1 tied and the men should renew wo.rfc
and others ordering that t;in should
be allowed, td The signatures
of the committee men to these dis
patches were forged.
Springfield, I UU., Jnly 27.—The
fears of an outbeak general yesterday
have united States Marshal
Ron i,no noticed the public that the
Ohio and Mississippi and the St. Ronis
and Southeastern Railroads ai;e the
hands of receivers of a United States
Court aoyj tps* ha will exert all his
power to protect them. According to
Cabinet instructions, and the order of
the United States Court, the Marshal
has appointed three special deputies to
prevent unlawful interference with the
St. Louis and Southeastern Railroad.
Scranton, Pa., July 27. —Idleness
now reigns spireme along the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western main line
and at all of the company’s mines. The
latter are flooding rapidly. An effort
han beenjaadtihv the company’s officials
to havathe pumps worked, but those
whom they waited upon for that pur.
pbee were immediately called upon by
delegations of strikers, and informed
that if they attempted to touch the
pump it would be at the pert! of their
lives.
Peoria, 111,, July 27. —A number of
the leaders of the mob were arrested by
the police last night and lodged in jail.
Their followers were deterred from at
tempting to rescue them by a few blank
shots. This morning the leaderless’
mob is demoralized. Every passenger
train went out on time, escorted by a
squad of troops. It is believed the
trouble is over here, though all troopß
will remain for the present. Additional
arrests were made to-day.
Des Moines, lowa, July 27. —The
freight trains resumed running on
the Rook Island Road to day, and there
is no trouble here on any road.
CAioago, July 27.—the railroad em
ployes propose to organise a grand
army to pnt down the Communists,
whose riotons conduct they disavow and
denounce. The Board of Trade re
sumed business this evening.
Bethlehem, July 27.—Superintend
ent Polehemus, with his gang of repair
men and their escort of coal and iron
police, arrived at Odenwelders to-day,
whither they had gone to repair a turn
table. They were met by a large and
excited crowd, who drove off the repair
men. Polehemus addressed a conciliatory
speech to the mob. They replied by in
forming him he was at liberty to walk
back to Mauch Chunk with his force,
after which they run his engine on a
side track and drew the fire. Mr. Pole
hemus and his escort arrived at Bethle
hem by stage this evening. He says he
has no hope of running a train to mor
row. A reoruiting office for the Fourth
Regiment has been established in Beth
lehem. A drum corps is parading the
streets for recruiting purposes, and
speeial police are beiDg sworn in.
Mauoh Chunk, July 27.—The men of
the Lehigh Valley and Lehigh and Sus
quehanna Roads are all out and all
trains have stopped running. The Le
high Valley officials have discharged all
their men who are connected with the
present strike and will pay them off at
onoe. The miners at Mumford Hill
have struck, demanding an advance of
20 per cent., and marching from mine to
mine with loaves of bread on polls.
Columbus, July 27.— General Mana
ger Caldwell, of the Pittsburg, Cincin
nati and St. Louis Railroad, has issued
au order to the employes here, promis
ing to pay for the time lost on account
of the strike to all who would report for
duty, and all the employes on the Little
Miami and 25 breakmen and firemen on
the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana
Central divisions responded this morn
ing, aud announced themselves ready to
go to work. Manager Caldwell says he
will not attempt to resume freight traffic
until the citizens show a disposition to
take hold of matters in their own inter
est.
Joliet, Ills,, July 27.—The strike on
the MioLiigau Central is ended. Mr.
Ackeman, Vice-President of the Illinois
Central, has telegraphed to the Gover
nor that the strikers are holding the
road at M:ttoon, Decatur, Effingham
and Carbondale. The Governor in re
ply issued an ord'er that the sheriffs
along that road mnst protect it in run
ning its trains at all hazards.
Washington, N. J., July 27.— The
strikers received a dispatch from the
Postmaster-General that the Govern
ment’s contract with the railroad com
pany is to carry the mails on passenger
trains only. This takes away the atrik
ers’ excuse that they are not interfering
with the mails, aud they are disturbed
thereat. The mails have gone West
from this train in a wagon train, and
the mail agents are still here,
Cincinnati, July 27.—A delegation of
the various Trades Unions are in ses
sion in Schuyler Hall, the headquarters
of the Workingmen’s party. The ob
ject of the meeting is unknown, and
there are some apprehensions that tne
men present meau mischief.
Washington, July 27.— Batteries D,
E and I, of the Filth Artillery, have ar
rived at Baltimore from various points
South. Other comnanies are en route to
this city and Baltimore. One dispatch
from Chicago to-day announced that the
Communists threatened to burn that
city. The Government has a large body
of troops there aud in the vicinity, and
others can be sent if necessary.
Chicago, July 27.—Jas. S. White, a
respeoted member of the Merchants 1
Exchange, was killed to-day by a person
he had arrested while on patrol. The
murderer esoaped. The freight depart
ment will be ready to go to work with
the old force soon. It is certain that
the company’s property will be protect
ed from the mob. The Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy passenger trains are
running along the Quincy line without
trouble. Freight trains are not yet run
ning, and nothiug definite regarding the
time of running them is known, but the
officers expect no further trouble. The
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern is
sending passengers through as usual,
but freights are small on that
lino. On the Chicago, Rock Is
land and Pacific business, has been
resumed in every branch and every de
partment. All trains are on time. The
Chicago and Northwestern, although all
disturbances have subsided, is only
running on some branches, Tho Chica
go, Alton and St, Louis still remains
quiet and will not move any rolling
stock until it is absolutely safe to do so.
The Fort Wayne Road will start out a
passenger train some time to-day, but
freighting is stagnant with U, The
Baltimore and Ohio Road is sending out
no freight, yet the mails have gone out
on all the roads, exoept on the Ohioago
and Alton and the Fort Wayne. The
latter refuses to carry the mails without
troops.
Chicago, July 27.— The last proclama
tion by the Mayor aayas "Citizen organ
izations must continue in force, and on
no aoqoqnfc relax their vigilance, as the
cause of the trouble is not local and is
not yet reoa’oved. All suoh organizations
should form themselves into permanent
bodies, continue on duty and report reg- 1
ularly as heretofore.”
St. Louis, July 27.— The police,
backed by the military, broke up a Com
munist meeting, eapturing seventy.
July 27.—The strike
seems over in New York and elsewhere,
except in the coal regions {4 Pennsyl
vania. It shows signs oi weakness there.
The
sign k Alknwy—Men at Work Rent Off
tfcc ttipter*—A Tartly Governor— Pronin
wutiea Irani a Federal Jutliie.
Albany, N. Y., July 28.—After the
military evacuated West Albany the
strikers attempted to make the men stop
work. They proceeded to the shops for
this purpose, but were driven off by the
workmen. All quiet.
S* Louis, July 28. Gov. Cullom ar
rived at East St. Louis this looming,
and has been looking ovqt the situation.
He says tbe blockade must be raised if
it takes IQ,QO&> soldiers to accomplish it.
A frai*h,t train has left for the East, on
[ the Toledo and Wabash Railroad, under
the guard of United States troops.
Philadelphia, July 28-—The follow
ing waa issued by Judge MoKennon, at
I Pittsburg, to-day;
Of#, Girvu&t Court of the United
States, tor the Western District of
Pennsylvania :
It having been brought to the atten
tion of this Court that the property of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and
also of the fmhigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Compjyoy, now iu the possession of
, this vxxurt by its Receivers, duly ap
pointed for that purpose, is threatened
with destruction by rioters and evil dis
posed persons, notice is hereby
that the property of said opWAtoes, be
ing in the custody of thb Court, is un
der its care and that its
sugary power to punish contempt of
; its authority and order, will be exerted
to its fullest extent against any person
molesting or interfering with said prop
erty, and the Marsha’ i# directed
to give orders ty Inn deputies to
co operate with the Receivers in
protecting the property in their
hands against all manner of interference
therewith. All persons are, therefore,
cautioned against doing any injury to
the property of said coqipnuy, or in any
wise disturbing thp custody and posses
sion thereof hy the Receivers appointed
by the Court, under penalty of fine and
imprisonment, which the Court yr au
thorized to summarily inflict-
Wilkesbarre, Pa., July The sit
uation is unchanged, The miners have
stopped the pumps and the mines are
being minted- The strikers allowed an
, engine to run over the Lehigh and Sus
quehanna Road to-day to carry Judge
Paxon to Philadelphia to hold the Su
preme Court on Monday, Np mails were
here since Thuraday uhtil this evening,
, when two bag* from New York, which had
reached Scranton over the Delaware and
Hudson Road, were brought here by
the pony express,
St, Thomas, July $8, —Train service
has been resumed on all the Southern
Canada lines.
Baltimore, July 28, 10:30, p. m,—
Twelve freight trains left Cumberland
to-day, coming east, and nine left Balti
more going weal. All arrived safely at
iHai-tjuqbiMfi. will remain during
the night andi proceed in the morning.
No difficulty. m „
Philadelphia. July 28.—Tbe Penn
sylvania Railroad has started the stock
trains from Pittsburg eastward, and
have their entire line open for freight
trains,
A negro woman iu the Maoon chain
gang attempted to commit suioide last
Thursday.;
• THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
The Federal troops at Savannah have
gene to Baltimore.
A Columbus bunting party killed over
one hundred doves near that eity.
A Savannah policeman was shot at by
a burglar, who succeeded iu making his
escape.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks the
session of the Convention will last
thirty days.
The First Regiment of Georgia Vol
unteers will have a pie-nio at the Her
mitage on August Bth.
The following unmailable letters are
in the Savannah Post Offioe : Wm. Arm
strong and Austin Smith, Augusta, Ga.
A negro woman was found dead in her
room in Atlanta, last Tuesday. This
makes the sixth during the present
year.
The Atlanta letter carriers are about
to petitiou the Post Offioe Department
to raise their salary from $750 to $1,200
per annum.
It is currently reported that Colonel
B. F. Sawyer is about to leave Rome for
Atlanta and oonneot himself with anew
paper to be started there.
Mr. Thad. A. Wright was arrested
near Coosaville, in Floyd county, last
Monday morning, charged with bur
glary. He is charged with breaking into
the smoke house of W. A. Long and
taking some seventy pounds of meat.
Ham, of the Warreuton Clipper, says :
It is singular how olimate affects a man.
In Savannah, Harris was a violent Cap
itol mover. In Atlanta, he makes it his
business to sit on it for fear someone
will steal it away when he is not'looking.
The Hon. Abner Darden, who recent
ly died in Talladega, Ala., was formerly
a resident of Georgia, and was the
school mate, college mate and life long
friend of Alex. H. Stephens. They
served together as members of the Leg
islature for many years.
Theives are on the rampage in Daw
son.
Dawson is making improvements on its
streets.
Crawfordville has caught an eel weigh
ing six pounds.
White Plains is patting on airs over a
14 ounoe tomato.
Greene county will have a short crop
of ootton and oorn.
Hartwell camp meeting will commenoe
on the Bth of August.
Crawfordville abounds in spiders, with
faces like those of human beings.
Mr. W. F. Moor, a prominent citizen
of Gainesville, died last Wednesday.
Bishop Gross will preach in the Court
House in Newnau next Monday night.
Crops in Walton county are looking
well, and planters are in the beat of
spirits.
Edward Dillard, a poor man who lives
iu Newtou county, has fallen heir to
$30,000.
Next Wednesday the State Pomologi
oal Society will meet in Macon and have
a sessiou of two days.
Newnau is making extensive prepara
tions to entertain the State Agricultural
Convention on August 14th.
It takes more than a thousand
chickens a year to make Atlanta sneak
theives happy. So say the police.
Fifteen Atlanta boys are studyiug to
go off to oollege next Fall. Most of
them will patrouize Georgia institutions,
with characteristic good sense.
The Marshal of Covington is suffering
with a bone felon. When he gives vent
to his pain the neighbors become
alarmed and mistake his groaua for a
ooming storm.
Bishop Pierce will not be in atten
dance on the Griffin Distriot Conference,
as he is to preach the commencement
sermon at the University of Georgia next
Sunday,
The gross earnings of the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad during tho past
year amounted to $311,158 82, and the
expenses to $182,208 98, leaving the net
earnings $128,919 84.
The citizens of the upper portion of
Walton county are making preparations
to have a grand barbecue at Mountain
Academy soon. Gen. Robert Toombs
will make a speeoh on the occasion,
Wm. Hackett, who lives five miles
from Covington, has 35 aores of the
best corn in the county. Ha has 40
acres planted iu cotton, and expects to
get 30 bales from it, Who can beat
this ?
A Newton county man is cultivating
160 acres. He has forty aores in oorn,
forty in ootton, forty in turnips and
forty in oollards. Himself, a little boy
and a crippled horse do the tending of
the land.
The following is the full name of a
little girl living near Union Point.
Poor little creature, we fear she never
can carry all this burden of name'
through life: “Margaret-anu Oassy
ann Eliza-ann Lucinda Gordon Sceny
ann Serockingbam Jenuy-ann Perkins
Ruff Hancock Saggers.” There it is.
Sheriff English captured an escaped
convict between Greenesboro and Pen
field Wednesday aud carried him to
Greenesboro to place him in jail, but as
soon as they gat in sight of the prison
the negro couldn’t stand it any longer.
He leaped over the feuoe, made his es
oape, but not without a pistol wound in
the shoulder.
The Hartwell Sun has this to say of
the CnRONictLE and Constitutionalist r
“This is one of the very best papers
published in Georgia or any other State,
and we have but one objection to it, that
is a man who takes it really needs no
other. But we don’t want everybody to
find that out, for fear when we backed a
fellow in a fence corner to make him
take 'ours lie might throw it up to us.
The shadow of its name even would
serve as a good shade these hot day to
read it under.”
THE FALSE PROMISES OF ATLANTA.
Milledgkville, Ga., July 20.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The Atlanta City Council, iu despair,
again seeks to cajole the publie by offers
to devote certain real estate of the oity
to the State of Georgia, and to build
thereon “State Houses equal to those at
Milledgeville” already built and belong
ing to the State.
! Saying not a word to express doubt of
the honor and good faith of the City-
Council of Atlanta, I write merely to
caution the public against a great mis
take. Let no one be deceived by this
big sounding offer. The corporation of
Atlanta has no power to do what she
offers. She has no more legal power to
give away her town hall and lot to the
State than she has to donate the private
houses of her people, or the City Hall of
Athens or Augusta. It is a question of
legal pc.-wvr, and that is measured by the
charter of Atlanta, which gives no snob
, power (see charter in acts 1874, page
116). So, too, of her building State
Houses for the State of Georgia. She
oannot do It: she has no lawful power to
tax her people for such a purpose, nor to
apply the people’s money to that pur
pose. No, not enough of it to treat tbe
Convention or Legislature to an oyster
supper, and any citizen of Atlanta can
scotch the movement by obtaining an in
junction from the Judge of the Superior
j Court of Fulton county against tbe City
Council. Judge Hillyer could not refuse
such an injunction, for the ease is too
well settled. AH kinds of high Courts—
both State aDd United States Courts—
have settled it. In one ease it was held
that the Qity Council of St. Louis could
net even dismiss a law suit that was filed
tox a right ef the people of the city
(see city of St. Louis vs. the St. Louie
and Laclede Gas Light Company, 3:
Curt, page 72); and that any citizen bad
a right to interfere. Also, see Barren vs.
District of Columbia, decided by Su
preme Court of United States, per Jus
tice Hunt. The principle is that oity
ooumjila are merely trustees with limited
power tor the use of all tbe inhabitants of
a city and cannot go out of tbe charter.
Ohtside the charter their acts are void.
Wj*. MoKinley.
VHK INDIAN WAR.
A Kewurd for Ncnlpa—Joseph Sat* He Will
Whip Howard.
DBADwood, July 2T,— There was a mass
meeting of oitinsaß to organize for self
defense, The County Commissioners
offer two hundred and fifty dollars
reward for every Indian killed in the
county.
San Francisco, Jnly 27. The latest
advioes from Chief Joseph represent
him as entrenched on Solo trail, above
Orafeuo and Camas Prairie Crossing.
He was not gomg to leave the oowntry,
and he was increasing bis forces every
day. He has between four hundred and
five hundred warriors, and saidhewonld
soon have as many as Gen. Howard, and
that be intended to whip Howard, and
then go to Lewiston and back to Walla
[ Walla.
Confederal* I*outage Mtainpo Valuable SUIT.
Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs, t
July 20, 1877. $
Editors Dispatch : A letter came to
these Springs last evening with a ten
cent Confederate poetage stamp on it.
The letter was directed to Mr. Thomas
Stover, Roanoke Red Salphnr Springs,
Roanoke eonnty, Ya., and postmarked
! in writing, “Red Plains, Va., July 17th.”
' The postmark was written directly under
the stamp, and in writing and cancelling
it the likeness of Jeff. Davis must have
stared the postmaster fall in tbe face.
But not only did it pass undiscovered
by the postmaster at the mailing office,
but the postmaster at Salem, from
whieh office the mail is delivered to this
place, also failed to detect it. A large
number of the visitors here have Been
the letter. Richmond.
There are only 1,292 bales of cotton in
Augusta,