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grimmitle anb iSmffntt._ 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 - 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,