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- AUGUST 8, 1877.
Th war is costing Russia more than I
$1,000,000 a day. u * g W I
The Springfield Republican thinks
Alrok Stephens “ talks good sense.
We hope there are not too many cooks
in the Convention to spoil the broth.
The phrase-makers at the North call
the strike “ a servile war." Sweet land
of liberty ! > K
If the Convention men do not make
haste, it will be too late for some of
them to go to the Springs.
Xhe Washington National Republi
can still harps npon the duty of Con
gress “to give work to onr unemployed
laborers.” [
A man named Swrrr, who lives in
Rochester, has happily oboseu the
present season for gathering record cl
his family.
As Albany gunsmith sells pistols to b'>>
“on the inst Ulment plan ".Sea York Sun.
After the pistol is fired, the bo) i>
often delivered on the same plan.
The monitor Wyandotte, after hav g
been at great expense manned, eqa ,
ped and ordered on a cruise, was, at ‘k:
last moment, condemned as unseawor
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Commodore Vandebbidt attributed
his long life to the fact that though be
lived well he never Muffed, He referred
to his digestive apparatus and not his
pockets. t m
The Georgia Constitutional Conven
tion seems disposed to preserve the
honor of America in one respect. It
bids fair to lie the longest thing of the
kind on record.
The lour per cent, bonds are adver
tised in London as “payable in coin
(gold coin).” The parenthesis is sup
posed to signify “a punctuation mark
enclosing good intentions.
Aooobdino to Secretary Sherman,
$00,000,000 in greenbacks have been de
posited in the United States Treasury
for safe keeping. Hoarding idle cur
rency makos tight times all the tighter.
The Tribune states that Rev. Joseph
Cook has postponed his lecture on “Ul
timate America” until the strike is com
pletely crushed. The last ten days of
confusion mado ultimate America doubt
ful
Exeter Hall emissaries worked up
the Abolition frenzy in this oountrv,
which has caused such desolation and
embarrassment. Arthur, the founder
of the Locomotive Brotherhood, Is an
Englishman. _
New York meu, matrimonially inclined,
are advertising for wives. Most of
them want money and beauty. One
wants “adipose tissue.” For the latter
attraction the Sun refers to the Bowery
beer saloons.
A. T. Htrwabt’h memorial cathedral is
in the heart of his great real estate spec
ulation. Some irreverent wag describes
l as “glorifying Mr. Stewart and Gar
deu Oity first and God Almiohty and
Judge Hilton afterwards."
Grant’s abseuoe from Long Branch
has ruiued that place, in connection
with the “Bouthem policy” of Presi
dent Hayeh. Auy Presidential regard
for decency is called a “Southern poli
cy.” Grand compliment!
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Mb. E. V. Smalley, a noted corres
pondent of the New York Tribune, finds
out all he wants to know by interview
ing the editors of Cincinnati instead of
the politicians. Ho says the editors
know all that the politicians do and
wore, too.
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There is a negro in Ilierville parish,
La., Ilf! years old, who attends to a
corn crop, catches drift wood, patches
his clothes, abuses “ lazy niggers,” has
•fUHO cash, and yet never pretended to
have seen or waited upon General Wash
ington.
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Ben Wade was not only put aside in
Ashtabula county, but the Republicans
there sent a delegate to the Slate Con
vention who was prepared to endorse
Mr. Hayes and his policy. Instead of
kindling u blaze, Wade and Blaine cre
ated a dumper.
.Baltimore is largely interested 'n
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad stock. She
owns :12,500 shares. At 10 per cent, the
oity receives a dividend of $325,000.
Wherefore tax payers are considerably
interested in the prosperity of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad.
The oldest coal dealer died in New
York the other day. His name was
Lowtheh, and ho oame from England.
He had a hard time at first to persuade
his customers to buy what they consid
ered nothing but “block stones.” That
was 53 years ago. What changes since
then !
In “ Ttu Life of Linton Stephens" a
letter is published from the “Sage of
Liberty Hall,” dated about 1850, which
classes politicians with enemies of man
kind. Hon. A. H. Stephens no doubt
draws the line between politics and
statesmanship. Where would he draw
that liue ia the Constitutional Conven
tion ?
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We publish this morning two accounts
of the recent homicide at Green's Out—
one from the pen of a correspondent,
the other obtained by our reporter from
• gentleman who was present at the
time of the killing. The tragedy is to
be deplored in any view of the case, but
comment would be improper in advanoe
of a judicial investigation.
A New York correspondent says Mr.
Retd's religious principles prevent him
from publishing a Sunday edition of the
Tribune. This is a sort of “dollar store
religion.” A Sunday paper is worked
on or Saturday; a Monday paper the
pcor printers work on on Sunday. Mr,
Reid should ponder the following lay
sermon : “John, have you watered the
molasses?” “Yes, sir." “Have you
sanded the sugar !” "Yes, sir.” “Well,
then, come into prayers.”
Frank Walworth, whom Governor
Robinson, of New York, pardoned a few
days since, killed lib father, Mansfield
Tracy Walworth, fur or five years
apo. The father, a son of Chancellor
Walworth, was a writer of trashy ro
mances and a man of very bad habits. j
His wife lived apart from him, and kept j
a boarding school in tiaratoga, but was
often persecuted by his visits and threat®.
The sou, we believe, visited ttie father j
in New York to make him let bis mother,
alone, aud killed him in the attereation
which ensued. There was much sym
pathy expressed for the son during the
trial, and moat people will approve the
clemency shown by Governor Robinson.
A writer iu the Cincinnati Gazette
sboWt' that but three per cent, is realm-,
ed oh all the capital iuveateJ in rail
roads iu Ohio, There are 56 roais in
the State. Asa rule shareholders get',
nothing at all. Eigi't roads last year ;
did not pay running expenses and thir-1
teea paid no interest on th**," bonded i
indebtedness. The gross receipt* for
these fifty roads for W 6 amounted to
$34,119,049, and the operating expenses |
amounted to $24,404,565, leaving $9,- j
714,484, The total eost of the Ohio
roads, including all debts, was $817,333,- j
232; the net earnings last year were,
therefore, a trifle over three per cent of
the capital invested. Bnt the to r al
bonded indebtedness of the roads is
$160,000,000, represented by hoods none
of which bear lese than six per eeet in- j
tereet. A continuance of this for a few
more years means that the bondholders
will own the roads and the stockholders i
will be thrown overboard. j
A PE tCEFTL REVOLUTION.
Very suddenly, very silently and very
comprehensively the Hampton govern
ment in Sonth Carolina bdi laid its
jfcanda upon many of the ringleaders of
the Radical psrty. wfib for a number at
yean disgraced nd attempted to IhԤ-
garths Commonwealth. Of *ll the con
spirators and rognes, the Columbia
Register considers D. H. Chamberlain
the head centre. His capacity for en
larging the area of plunder and sharing
its profits was, according to the Regis-'
ter , only equalled by his audacity and
talent. It is confidently expected that
the fugitive ex Governor will .be com
pletely unmasked by investigations now
in progress, the moie so as mauy of the
chief thieves have consented to make a
dean breast of the whole matter, in the
hope of mitigating the sentences which
should be pronounced against them. It
will be difficult no doubt to uncover the
tracks of this arch conspirator, but
enough will lie made plain to gibbet
him in tha estimation of honest men
everywhere, and, when this shall have
■ >een done, his Woodstock speech will
e--eive annotations little dreamed of by
'LAISB & Cos. __
HfiHtK ANOTHER POK THE PRESIDENT.
Homo time since the Direct Cable
Company laid their lines from Eurr p
to America, and were granted certain
concessions, upon certain conditions, by
Congress. The old company, finding
their profits reduced by competition, re
cently (fleeted an arrangement with the
new corporation by which the two were
to be consolidated, leaving, vistually,
but one line across the Atlantio. But
the negotiation being made public, the
Administration has given notice to the
Direct Cable Company that the proposed
amalgamation with the old company
will result in a forfeiture of its franchises
and privileges, which were granted on
the express condition that no partner
ship should he formed with any other
lines. This action is a gratifying proof
that President Hayes meant business
when he promised reform. So far the
President has adhered faithfully to the
letter and the spirit of his inaugural
address, and by his wise, just and
statesmanlike oourse has won the respect
of all good citizens, irrespective of po
litical affiliations. He speaks well aid
acts well, and so long as he does should
receive a oordial support from the
South.
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THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIU-
The most important election of the
year will take place in Ohio next Octo
ber. Each political party has adopted a
platform of principles and placed its
candidate in the field. So far as tha nom
inees are concerned neither one of them
seems to boa man of much prominence
and both are ecaroely known outside of
the State in which they reside. It may
be taken for granted that they are
men of fair abilities and good character,
neither of whom has a record to be used
against him iu the contest. The plat
forms of the two parties may be briefly
summarized. The Democrats renew
1 hair pledges of devotion to the Union and
the Constitution with its amendments,
They declare in favor of home rule,
separation of church and State, the com
mon school system, and oppose all sub
sidies. They demand the repeal of the
resumption act, the remonetization of
silver, the retention of greenback cur
rency, the stoppage of ftll further con
traction, a national currency aud a tariff
for revenue only. They say that the ac
ceptance by the Administration of the
constitutional policy of local self-govern
ment so long advocated by the Demo
cracy has brought peace and
harmony to the Southern section
of the Union. The Republicans re
affirm the National platform of JBY6,
endorse the Administration of President
Haves and insist upon the enforcement
of the Constitutional Amendments.
They favor the remonetization of silver,
oppose railroad subsidies and the re
newal by Congress of burtliensome and
oppressive patents. Taking advantage
of the strike, they make a bid for labor
ers’ votes by sympathizing with the la
borers who cannot obtain employment,
or who arc employed at inadequate
wages, and demanding that Congress
j ball establish a National Bureau of In
dustry, exert its authority over all na
tional highways of trade to secure fail
wages for employes, and nuke provision
for statutory arbitration between em
1 ployers and ewpl°yes to adjust contro
! veraies, etc. It there was any difference
of opinion among the Republicans of
i Ohio concerning the Southern policy of
the President they havo been*reconciled,
and both Republicans and Democrats
give us a foretaste of the political mil
i lenniam by uniting in approval of that
policy. Ohio bus for several years been
classified as a close &tstc, but thongh
close the Republicans nearly always
manage to carry it. This year the
Democrats seem sanguine of victory.
The eloction of a United States Senator
{ hingec upon the contest, and both par
ties will make desperate fight, as they
1 always do for the epoijf. To those re
mote from the scene of action tjje issue
seems involved in great doubt .
,4 TEST OF SINCERITY'. .
Any one would suppose, from the
events of the past seventeen years, not
to speak of the years before the war,
that the people of the North were de
voted to the colored persons in their
midst, and practiced what they preach
ed in their regard. At the North there
is a literature devoted to tins wrongs of
the poor slave of the South, and the sac
rifice of blood and treasure, for the at
tainment of negro brotherhood, has
been tha most stupendous in the annals
of mankind. A* a matter of course, one
wonld expect that at the East and West
colored men were heii id yepnte and
advanced socially and politisaiiy. J3ut
•och is not the case. The whole ftecon
struiufjon theory is based upon a wicked
and bypu*yitical pretense. Even the
colored peopve il*smselves are beginning
to perceive ft. W* m'V that a large
and enthusiastic indignation
was held by Cincinnati negroes and ain
lattoes, the other day, and resolutions
were adopted declaring that “the o<s!or
ed voters of Cincinnati have been for a
long time rallying to the support of the
white Republican office seekers, depend
ing on their fair promises of political re
cognition aud proportionate representa
tion, which promisee have been totally
ignored;" that they “have not a colored
representative in any municipal office of
trust or honor save cleaning of sewers
and the carrying of offal from the police
stations;" and they resolved to form a
nmou of the colored voters of Cincinnati
for pushing competent colored men to
the front. They pledgetf themselves to
vote unitedly for iepesentative colored
men. If this thing should become in
fections, as is likely, it will be a fit se
quel to Radical misrule aud labor
strikes. 9 m\ -
The Caitersvilie Express e*presses
the belief that the Convention should
submit the location of the capital to a
separate vote, so as not to endanger
rA tvacation. The Express is right. Thia
is the only isst Ull wise w *y of
the capital question. Let the people
decide Sox themselves, and as a distinct
issue, the location of of govern
ment. We believa that with suou a sub
mission a large vote in North Geaigte
will be polled in favor of MilledgeviHe.
It is heMk-rending to read the record
of barbarities practiced in some of the
English schools. A boy twelve years
hanged himself in London rather than
submit a second time to personal chas
tisement. A clergyman, before a Par
liamentary committee, details horrors of
Christ Church Hospital School which
wonld disgnst a Circassian or Oosaat*.
And yet how tjieae “philanthropist*”
used to weep at the imaginary woes of
the poor negro in the Southern States of
America f
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
The Crepe Aheel .Midway, Month Carolina—
Dawn ea Corporal lean.
[ CorreSforuttMe thronicie andConxtitutionaii.it ]
JrfnjjsfAYjg. G, August I.—Since my
last letter much improvement is report
ed in Ibis section. About ten days ago
El* w*e favored with rain that lusted
several days, sad at the time it appear
ed it seemed that it was suffi
cient to last for two or three weeks.
Wince then, however, the weath
er has been so terribly hot that
ootton wilted at seven o’clock in
the morning, and the planters expressed
great fears that if we did not get rain
iu a few days the crops would suffer on
account of the intensity of the heat, of
which I have no doubt you experienced
a fair share. Yesterday we were blessed
with a fine shower of over an hour’s du
ration. Thongh it did not extend to all
sections, the prospect, however, is that
we will get another shower to-day. The
report of crops does not appear so ex
tensive in yonr valuable journal re
cently as the interest that is felt in it,
but,more eonld not be expected from
yon, yon having the great Georgia Con
vention, the Eastern war, and the recent
strike and riots at the North. The peo
pie here read the accounts of it without
mnch concern, although they evinced
much interest in it. The corporations
can get little sympathy from the people.
It would appear strange, yet it would
appear thrir custom to impose on indi
viduals. Even the South Carolina Rail
road Company here has taken the pat
tern. Recently they killed five head of
c ttle by one of their trains, amongst
which was the finest milch cow in this
sect’oD. The company appointed one
appraiser on their part and the owners
of the cattle one. This fine cow was ap
praised at a hundred dollars. When pay
day came around they paid for the four
poor ones, and wrote to the owner of the
fine cow that they were not liable for the
accident, but would pay fifty dollars for
this cow to exhibit a spirit of liberality.
This is done to annoy and harrass the
owner by the expense and delays of the
law in order to induce him to accept
half of the value, although they know
that when it goes through the mills
of the law it will cost them three times
the amount. They can hope for no re
lease from liability by law, they having
taken the beef, hide and everything
else from the dead cattle.
We are all hopeful that the South
will now be in the ascendant, as the
great economy practiced must tend to
improve the condition of the country.
Within five miles of here a lady seventy
seven years of age took the plow-haDdle
and finished the crop upon the dis
charge of an indolent and worthless
negro boy, L. A. B.
The Crops In Franklin County, Georuia— Tin-
Seat of Government.
[Cortspowlence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Bold Spring, Franklin County, Ga.,
July 25 —The wheat crop of this county
is splendid. I have raised fifty crops on
the farm where I now reside, and I have
never seen a larger yield and but few to
equal it. The oat crop haa been almost
a failure, owing to the cold Winter kill
ing the Fall sowing and the drouth the
SpriDg seeding. Our corn crops at this
time are promising, saving where elbow
grease has been lacking, We have had
some heavy rains during the last ten
days, whioh has done some damage on
our bottom lands. The ootton crop is
growing fast at this time. The weed is
nearly as large as usual, but the bloom
ing is ten to fifteen days behind time.
The acreage on the west of Carnesville
is as large, or larger, I think, than it
eyer has been. I am informed that in
the eastern half of the county the acre
age has been reduced. The amount of
commercial fertilizers used I indge to
be as large or larger than has been ap
plied any previous year. The peach
crop is so large that our trees are break
ing to pieees, Sorghum is looking well
and promises to BWepteg our fruit tarts
next Winter. The potato crop will not
be large, owing to the scarcity of seed
last Spring.
I feel encouraged to hope from what
I have seen of the proceedings of the
Convention that we will get a Constitu
tion under which patriots can live and
enjoy the just fruits of their labor, and
demagogue* can no longer filch from
them their just rights- 1 desire the fix
ing of the seat of government to be left
to the people, and I hope they will re
turn it to Milledgevillp, where peace
agd quiet reign and give a chance for
uninterrupted reflection.
One of the People.
From McDuffie Iff die JfniHlnl|is-The Crops
Along Hip HffHlPf
Gainßville, July 81.—On Monday,
the 23d instant, I left my home, in Mc-
Duffie county, for a tour through North
east Georgia, and passing through War
ren and Taliaferro counties I found the
crops very poor; in the the last mention
ed especially. In conversation with a
gentleman living in Orßwfordyille I
learned that in that section of cquntry
they were poorer than at any time since
the war, with the exception of one year,
and he was hardly willing to except
that. In Oglethorpe county there is a
much better prospect for an abundant
harvest. The corn is the best I ever
saw. And let me say that instead of
cotton fields and pop* patches, I found
corn fields and cotton patches, or, in
other words, the farmers spem tp have
planted corn this year in the same pro
portion that they planted cotton several
years ago. I saw hundreds of acres of
corn that I doubt not will make from
twelve to twenty-five bushels per acre.
Iu Clarke, Jackson and Hall counties
the crops are very good, except the corn
that was planted on 3tubble land, This,
having been planted too late, is not do
ing well. J>
11 loomy Reports From Wnrreu ami Illas
cork Counties.
[Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Qa,, August I.—Crops
in this section improve very slowly. I
oaa safely say poorer props in this
county have never been seen up to the
first of August. Rain will benefit cot
ton some. As for corn, it will be of lit
tle benefit. People are very anxious
about their crops, and I am informed
that in Glascock, our sister county, the
prospects bad for making scarcely
anything. A farmer IP that county told
me that if rains were to comgieppe now
it wouldn’t benefit them any. He also
stated to me that with four horses he in
tended, or planted, to make one thou
sand bushels of corn, and he says he
will gjve the whole crop for two hundred
bus hols. ********
Cheering Acettuai* f.anrens County,
Month Caroliltu.
Laurens C. H., S. C., July 31.—The
erops in Laurens county are exceedingly
fine—better than for some years past.
CotteP and corn both are unusually
good, am}, j? better, there has been
much mare aofu &n4 ,Qtb, er amall grain
planted than for many years past, per
haps more than at any time since the
war. The wheat and oat crop was very
fine, and having been threshed out the
farmers’ garners are well filled. The
low prioe of the fancy staple ; perhaps,
suggested {■? tbe farmers the advantage
of sowing tififfi sfijall grain and planting
less cotton. The jfart&ejfy £8 well as
every other Glass of laboring wen, are
busily discussing the “No-Fence'’ ques
tion which has been agitating the peo
ple of this county ever since the passage
of the act. At first some, in fact a great
many, were in favor of the change, but
since'they find time to fully consid
er the question,' * ffoat many of them
have changed their opih&PJ :s to the
change, and now it is fully well Retried
that the proposed change will be voted
down in every township in the county.
The election comes off on Tnesday, I4th
of August. As to how it terminates I
will inform you i* 3£other letter.
Maginnis.
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JUTgUENTING INFORMATION.
AgrU-altwral Sl*SnlUf ColnmSla County.
We are indebted to Mr. George D.
Darsey for the following interesting
statistics of Columbia county ;
Acres planted Produced Acres Planted
1876. 1878. W 77-
Corn . 15,404 103,644 bnsh. 1b, 815
Wheat. 641 3,579 bash. 843
Oats. 3,140 23,230 bush. 3 591
Cotton 17,875 7,021 bsles. 17,329
Potatoes 521 20,267 bnsh. 4b3
Sorghum in 1877, 109 acres;
gronud peas planted, acres; colts
foaled, in 1876, 31; calves droned. 654;
lambs, 431; pigs littered, 2,730; pounds
wool clipped, 1,388.
E*F#Tf N/tji S£.lf I.ED I.ABOK.
The Orwwt M *
New Vark lev NwM*>
New York, July 30.—The steamship
Montana, which sails to-morrow for
Liverpool, will take fifty carpenters of
this city and Brooklyn, who have been
engaged by the firm of Neil A Son, con
jtrsoiu£{! fpd builders, of Manchester,
England. The men have paid their fare
over, and a res allowance is
promised do assist such as *is.r 1° t** e
heir families. The terms are tbtU they
shall be engaged for one year eertjun,
and re eive six shillings a day. The
hosn pf labor for five days in the week
are from S, a. m., to 6, p. m., with one
hoar for dinner, npd on Saturdays a
half holiday. The majority of th men
were originally from the old country,
bnt although skilled artisans, can not
find employment here at living wages.
One 9f them said: “It ia not so much
the fow wages which drives us away, bnt
the perpetual strife and trouble between
ourselves and employers.”
THE CONVENTION.
PROCEEDINGS OF YESTEKDAY’B
SESSION.
once of Attorney-General—Alternation or
Judges— l The Appointing Poorer Attacked—
The Selection of Judges—The Geoernl
Tieket Myetem—Jenkins Oppose* Election
by (be People—He Makes a Speech Which
In l,oadly Applauded— Adjournment AAitli
oat Action.
[Special to Chronicle and Constitutionalist l
Atlanta, August 2.—The Convention
met this morning, iu the Capitol, at
half-past eight o’clock, the President,
Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, in the Cliiir.
IMor M Bwloeoo.
When the Convention adjourned yes
terday it had under consideration sec
tion ten of the article on Judieiary re
ported by the Committee on Final Re
vision, creating the office of Attorney-
General, and the consideration of the
section h and been postponed until the
twelfth section should be reached.
Office of Attorney-General.
Mr. Ingram, of the Twenty-fourth
District, moved to reconsider the action
of the Convention, and proceeded to
discuss the necessity for having an At
torney-General, but subsequently with
drew his motion to reconsider.
Appeals From One Jury to Another.
Mr. Harrell, of the Twelfth District,
moved to reconsider the section adopted
yesterday, allowing appeals from one
jury to another. He took the ground
that appeals from like tribunals to like
should not be allowed. He said, for
instance, A loses a case, and though
having no legal ground for anew trial
can, nevertheless, appeal to another
jury. Now B loses the case on the ap
peal trial, and though he lias legal
grounds for anew trial cannot obtain
one. Such a system often doubles liti
gation without correspondingly increas
ing the administration of justice.
The motion to reconsider was laid on
the table.
Alternation of Judaea.
Mr. Wright, of the Forty-second Dis
trict, moved to reconsider the action of
the Convention yesterday in defeating
the amendment offered by Mr. Fontaine,
of the Twenty-fourth District, making
Judges of the Superior Court alternate
in the Circuits of the State.
Mr. Wofford, of the Forty-second Dis
trict, supported the motion to reconsid
er. Mr. Wofford said that all the offi
cers in the State should be elected on
the general ticket system. This system
would secure the services of some of the
best and purest men and finest lawyers
in the State as Judges. Judges living
and presiding continuously in one cir
cuit become influenced by friendship,
partiality and prejudice, which grow up
around them; hence they had better
change their districts term by term.
This change will be a radical one, but it
will redound to the welfare of the State.
We come here to purify the govern
ment and lift men above self
and above influences causing them
to deviate from the lines of
truth and justice. This general ticket
system would inconvenience the Judges,
it was true, but this should not be con
sidered where the public welfare is at
stake. For the additional expense he
would advocate an increased salary, ne
would do injustice to no one. The
charge that the Convention is dealing iu
little things arises from popular appre
hension of the minds of delegates. We
can have but one motive, which is to
benefit the whole State. Newspapers
may scoff; men living ou the public
purse may declaim against them, but
these things have no terror for us.
Mr. Gartrell, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, called attention to the fact that the
present laws do not copline a Judge to
the limit of his own circuit, but lie
should certainly not bo compelled to al
ternate. This would unsettle business
and confuse circuits, besides the people
wish their own Judges.
The motion to reconsider was laid on
the table.
Tlie Ordinary’* Term.
Mr. Boyd, of the Thirty second Dis
trict, said that under the Constitution
the Ordinaries of the State were vested
with the duties of the old Inferior
Courts. Having such increased power,
they should not have such a long lease
of office. He moved to reconsider the
adoption of the paragraph, so as to
make the term of office two years instead
of four.
The motion to reconsider was laid on
the table.
Jlllistlit'Hpu ftf jßstipps tlf Hie peace-
Mr. Hudson, of the Twenty-fifth Dis
trict, moved to reconsider paragraph
two of section seven, adopted yesterday,
as follows:
Par. ir. The Justices of the Peace shall have
jurisdiction in all civil eases arising ex con
traptxt whop the principal sum does not exceed
one hundred dollars,' apd shall sit monthly at
fixed times and lilapos : but in all easos there
may bp an appeal to a jury in said Court, under
such legulations as shall bo prescribed by law.
Mr. Hudson said he thought Justices
of the Peace should have jurisdiction in
cases of misdemeanor, and that their
civil jurisdiction should not bo more
than fifty dollars.
The motion to reconsider was carried.
Mr. jqawton, of the First District,
spill il spemed tjiat the Justice! of the
Peace had not sufficient power, and that
sufficient provision was not made f° r H lO
correction of errors iii their Courts, as
heretofore. On the committee’s report,
however, abundant provision had been
made for checking mischiefs, and every
contingency had beep allowed for.
fhe ipain question being put and the
amendments lost, the paragraph, as
adopted yesterday, was disagreed to.
Mr. Gartrell, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, offered the following in lieu of the
paragraph which had been rejected:
The Justices of the Peace shall have juris
diction in all civil cases arising ex contractu or
in injury to person and property, where the
damages claimed do not exceed one hundred
dollars. Their Courts shall sit monthly at fixed
times and places, but in all cases there shall
be an appeal to jurfes in said Court and to the
Superior Gonrt ifndpr such regulations as may
be prescribed by law-
The paragraph was agreed to,
Solicitor-General.
Section eleven was read, as follows;
Section Xl.—Paragraph I. There shall be a
Solicitor-General for each judicial circuit,
whose official term, except when appointed to
fill an expired term, shall be four years.
Par. 11. It shall be the duty of tfie Solicitor-
General to represent the State in all eases in
the Superior CourtH in his circuit, and in all
cases taken from his circuit to the Supreme
Court, and to perform such other services as
shall be required of him by law.
Paragraph one was postponed; para
graph two was agreed to.
The Selection of Judges.
Section twelve was read, as follows:
Section XII —Paragraph I. The J udges of
tee Supreme and Superior Courts, and Attor
ney-General and Solicitors-General shall be
appointed in tlafis wise : Ou a day the
session of tfie Genepal Assembly, to be fixed
by law, the Senate shall begin to nominate,
aiid continue, if nepessaiy, irqm day tp day,
two qualified persons for e&ch of 9sid offices,
to be filled before the next session of the
General Assembly, and report the same to the
Governor, one of’whom shall be commissioned
by him to fill the position.
Mr. Hammond, of the Twenty-second
moved to amend by provid
ing Hml the' (reneral Assembly shall
elect ail the officers mentioned in the
paragraph. , . . ,
Mr. Warren, of the First District,
moved to amend by making the General
Assembly elect all the officers named ex
oept the Attorney-General, and provid
ing for the election of the latter officer
by the people at the same time as the
election tor Governor.
jjr. Hammond said that under the
present Constitution one man held in
the hollow of his hand the whole judi
cial power of the State. Such a power
must be checked; it was immaterial
how It was the one man power that
had put in office the present President
of the United States—President against
the wishes of a majority of tfie people.
The most important offioer of the law m
the State was the Judge of the Superior
Courts, and he should be elected by tne
people afid pot appointed by the Gov
ei"xjr' Warren supported iris amendment
in a leDgthy and able speech. His
amendment was put and lost.
Mr. Hammond’s amendment was pnt
and lost. , , , ,
Mr Hammond then moved to go back
and take np the sections which had been
postponed. After fixing *kem icy
would £ave no trouble about the twelfth
section! '£be action was earned.
Paragraph three of two, pre
viously postponed, was now tapen
follows: ,
Par 111 The Chief Justice and Associate
! Justffipt shall hold their offices for ax years,
arid Until successors are qualified. A
summSt tS tjie incumbent whose term of
XetriU soonest expire .stall be appomted in
IWO a sn<esaor to the mctunfcenl
a^omted
in 1882. But Appomtoaepis *° v^ anciea
ahtll only be for the unexpired t§m-
Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth
District, moved to amend by striking
ont the word “appointed” bne five,
and inserting “elected by General
4.sEemblv;” and striking ont the word
“aniikhaLvl? in line seven, and ap
pointments” in line eight, and inserting
the words “elected” ana “eiecLons.
Mr. Collier, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, moved, as an amendment, that the
Judges of the Supreme Court be elected
by the entire people in 1878. He did
not wish to toko from the people the
right to select their own Judges. He
believed they had the ability th ®
right to choose them; but he did not
wish each circuit to choose its own
Judges solely, but that all should be
elected by the people at large.
Mr. Toombs, of the Twenty-ninth
District, said our population now was
not fit to elect Judges.
Mr. Collier: Are they fit toj.ellgt a
Governor ? Wonld you have the Legis
lature' do that ?
Mr. Toombs: Under the present sys
tem I would a thousand times.
Mr. Collier continued, claiming that
he would not deny to the people the
right to elect their own judiotary.
Mr. Simmons, of the Twenty second
District, being in the Chair, Mr. Jen
kins (C. J.) said : This was one of the
most important questions the Conven
tion will be called ou to decide, and
among all others nearest my heart and
conscience of any yet acted upon. lam
opposed to the proposition to refer the
election of the jadiciary to the people,
and ask the attention of gentlemen
while I briefly submit my views regard
ing it. Concerning the eleotion of a
Legislature, it is absolutely necessary
that it be by the people. There is no
body else to elect them. In regard to
the Governor, this, too, seems to be the
only recourse, for in all the States of the
Union, so far as I know, the Executive
is chosen by the people. I maintain,
however, that the election of the judi
ciary stands upon entirely different
ground. Sir, the Executive when he is
elected takes his position in his office
here in the Capitol. His business is to
see that the laws are faithfully executed
and administered. Representatives be
ing elected come up from their several
homes and organize as a Senate and
House of Representatives, constituting
the General Assembly, and do their
business here in the Capitol. Now the
judicial system brings the laws, civil
and criminal, to the people; it goes to the
people ; shares company witn them; car
ries charges against them; it goes to all the
counties; is immediately among the
people. It is not a mere figure of speech
to say that the heads of each servant of
the State is in the Judge’s hands. When
he holds Court his intellect and his
h eart are to give direction to trials taki og
place. He decides upon evidence; de
termines pure law; charges the jury,
and is the head and front in every
Court in every county. It is no figure
of speech to say that he is the bead of
the judiciarv of each county. When in
his Court a judgment is referred to his
ministerial officers, he puts his hands in
the pocket of one man and takes money
and puts it in the pocket of another.
His officers go and take the bridle of a
horseman and orders him to dismount,
and carry him away. He goes to a man’s
residence—to the abode of his family,
and by process of the Judge walks him
out. Am I not right, then, in saying
that the judicial department is that de
partment which don’t stay at one spot;
doesn’t remain quietly at home, but is
going to every county. It directs civil
and criminal cases, and therefore visits
every part of the State, and deals per
sonally with the people. Now I will not
share in unlimited eulogy of the people
as some gontlemen do. I believe
the people of Georgia are as pure
and upright as the people of any other
State. But they are at last but human,
and our government Bhould be so con
structed as to guard the interests of the
State in the administration of justice
against human weakness. I have lived
some time in this world, and have reach
ed the limit of that span of man beyond
which all is said to be weariness and
vexation of spirit. 1 found this argu
ment, then, upon knowledge of human
wisdom in past years, in intercourse
with people, Judges and lawyers, with
whom I mingled muoli, and I tell you it
is a dangerous experiment to allow the
judiciary to mingle freely among the
people whose interests, property, liberty
and life be controls, and with the knowl
edge that soon he must come before
them for approbation and re-election.
Take a man forty years of age, of irre
proachable character, and put him ou
the benoli to deoido a case between a
man of power and influence and a man
of little influence, and you put him un
der the strongest sort of temptation.
He may not know he is influenced. He
may be determined to do right, if you
please, but there’s the old Adam in him,
and lie will reluctantly decide agaiust
the individual controlling hundreds of
votes at elections. This thing will be
repeated in every county. In the Lord’s
Prayer there is a petition which inde
scribably impresses itself upon me, and
before which I pause whenever I put it
np to the Father : “Lead us not into
temptation.” Gentlemen, if you want a
pure judiciary, upon which you
can lean in confidence, “ lead them
not into temptation.” [Great ap
plause.] But how is it between this
plan and an election by the General As
sembly 1 The latter are men chosen by
the people. It is a smaller and select
body. The same temptations and influ
ences cannot act on the mind of a Judge
when oliosen by the General Assembly
as when elected by the people upon
whom ho has to execute the law. Con
ceding, therefore, as a general proposi
tion, honesty and integrity to the peo
ple and the iike to the Judges, you ex
pose them to a fearful temptation when
elected by the people. The gentleman
from Fulton referred to this practice of
election, which lie said in times past se
cured as good a judiciary as we have
now. lam empowered to say my obser
vation is not in accord with the gentle
man’s. I have always felt in my life
very much interest in the Judicial De
portment, feeling our dependence upon
tliia, and I don’t believe it was ever so
good when chosen by the people as
when elected by the General Assembly
or appointed by the Governor. But
there is another view. Talking of pop
ular integrity, will not gentlemen pause
‘when thinking of the great change
wrought—withont our consent, it is
true, but still effectually wrought -in
the voting population of the State, This
is a very serious consideration. You
understand what J mean—the large body
of incompetent voters added to our
voting population. Is not this a dan
gerous element in our elections ? We
have to stand it; but, above all others,
it is an element a Judge elected can
turn to account. Let the Judge be
called to try cases, he will have many
of these people before him, and he who
lays hand lightest upon them will be
the Judge preferred by them. “Be
touches us lightly,” they will say, and,
f‘he is the Judge for us. !!
Mr. Collier: “Will tfie geptleman
permit me to ask him a question ?”
Mr. Jenkins : “You can ask me one
question, and but one. I have no ob
jection to answering that, but I will
not submit to be catechised in a run
ning manner.” [Laughter.]
Mr. Collier : “Would you not allow
them to vote for Governor and the leg
islature ?”
Mr. Jenkins: “I have already ex
plained this, and thought I had set
myself sufficiently right on the point
not ti necessitate such a question.—
Legislators, of course, must be elected
by the whole people. There is no one
else to elect them, and it is the same
way with the Gpyernor. I don’t inter
pose my voice there, bpt I distin
guished between the relation of Judges
and legislators to the people. Then,
gentlemen of thp Convention, don't let
us run wild oyer the idpa of trusting
everything to popular election. There
is another ifiea to induce us to with
hold it. The Supreme Judge® a l e sup
posed to be men who, from natural
endowments and legal acquirements,
ought to stand head and shoulders
above all. Now, J hope I don’t insult
the people of Qeorgia when I say
legislators are better qualified to judge
of the relative merits of Hupreipe Court
candidates than the people are. Will
any man dispute that? Will any man
say that the man selected for merit by
the General Assembly will not be bet
ter qualified to sit at. the head of the
judiciary? Oh, no, gentlemen; lot us
be conservative ; let us put this election
i away from the popular voting qualiflca
j tion ; let us choose Judges either by
appointment of the Governor or by elec
tion of the General Assembly and secure
the best officers, Judges most likely to
protect to the end of time all the in
terests of all the people.” [Great ap
plause.]
The Convention then adjourned.
The Selection of Judges— Hon. James R.
Rrown’s Speech—He Furors Flection liV
the People—Hen. Toomho Speaks in Opposi
tion-lie (lives the Reasons (or His Course
—Ceneral Xl otlord on trie Qther Side—His
of the people The Jadges
fo Re Elected jjy th® A(r
IffMeF-Henpryl Wffl Bp Rpttrfned -Report
of the l leriual ( omiffiHep'
[Special to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.[
Atlanta, August 3.— The Convention
met this morning, at half-past eight
o’clock, in the Capitol, the President,
Hon. Chiles J. Jenkins, in the Chair.
Mr. Matthews’ Amendment.
Paragraph three of section two was
read as follows :
Par. HI. The Chief Jns rice and Associate
Just ides shall hold their offices for six years,
and until Jleir enicessors are qualified. A suc
cessor to the iftciimheni: whose tertU of office
will soopeat eypirg shall be appomtM in IJSBO,
a successor to the incnfljbent shosc term of of
fice is next in duration shall be appomted in
1834. But appointments to fill vacancies shall
only be for the unexpired term.
Mr. Mathews, of the Thirtieth Dis
trict, moved to amend by adding to the
paragraph, “or until such vacancies are
filled according to the mode provided
by this constitution.” The amendment
was agreed to.
Mr. Brown on the Election ol Judges.
The Convention resumed the consid
eration of Mr. Collier’s substitute for
the paragraph on the selection of Judges
of the Superior Courts, which was as
follows;
The Judges of the Superior Court shall
be elected ty the qualified voters of this State
on the first Wedneidiv in October. 1878. for
such term as mav be fixed in this Constitution,
and shall hold their their succes
sors are e'ected andtjjaaliflea.,,
Mr. Brown,., of the Ttaforty mutli Dis
trict, SUf (ported tho substitute. He
said that gentlemfcn in tfie Gdcveution
take thepositibn that the people are uot
fit to elect Ju%es; and yet they say that
the agents appointed by the people are.
My opinion is that if the fountain be
be” pure the stream will be pure, other
wise it will not. The nearer wo bring
the officers of the State to the people,
and the more directlv responsible to the
people we make them, the better it will
be. This is no experiment, but a time
honored method, whioh experience shows
to have Worked wet! ‘in the past history
of Georgia. The new element in our
voting population makes no difference
in a State like this, for we all know that
no one outside of the Democratic party
can be elected to these offices in Geor
gia. This Dew element has bnt little
influence in political matters, as witness
the fact that it has not a single repre
sentative on the floor of this Conven
tion. The people of Georgia are an
intelligent and virtuous people, and can
safely be entrusted with the election of
their own Judges,
Mr. Toombs Agaiost Popular Elections.
Mr. Toombs, of the Twenty-ninth
District, opposed the substitute. He
said that one of the foundation stones
of a republican form of government is
that the people are sovereign ; another
is, that in a republio the-officers shonld
be elected by the people. Bat who are
the people ? Assuredly not the women
and children. The people are the voters
of the land, and you know well who
many of our voters are. ‘Now every
rran in this social compact which wo
call government has a right to the rules
of government, bnt no wise people will
iusist upon performing all the functions
of government themselves. I have a
right to shoe my own horse if I choose,
but had I not better leave the job to
someone who can do it better than I
can ? Had I not better give it to some
workman in that line -of business ?
There’s no principle in any government
which lets the people perform all the
functions of government. To adopt
such a principle would be the first step
downwards, and there would be no re
turn. If the officers of the State of
Georgia could be elected by fair and in
telligeut people the measure propi sed
would be all right. Bnt there
is amoDg us a class of people
who have power which we can
not take away. The Federal Govern
ment, an enemy to my State, has forced
upon her half (t million of voters (citi
zens ?) agaiDst her will. No stronger
argument need be made against submit
ting the election of Judges to the peo
ple than that made by the gentlemen on
the other side of the question them
selves. They yield the point by their
own admission. They stated that not a
single colored man in a race half a mil
lion strong in Georgia had a seat upon
the floor of this Convention. They said
this, it is true, to show that the new
element in politics was not a source of
much danger in this State, but does not
this conclusively prove their inability to
vote intelligently for officers. The gen
tlemen are not willing to submit the
election of Judges to the people of each
judicial circuit, for fear that the colored
people may have a majority iu some and
may elect their own candidates. This
shows that they are uot considered
fit to elect their own offioers. This race
must be, then, governed as any other
inferior race, with regard to race, eolor
and previous condition. They must be
governed by the men who have the
brains, the wealth and the land, In be
half of the poor African I would save
him from himself. I would not let him
be controlled by bad men and used to
bad purposes. There are some things,
then, that the people of Georgia ac
knowledge they can have done as well
by agents as by themselves. If all the
people of Georgia aro lit to elect Judges
let them do it. If they aro not let them
trust it to these'gentlemen. There are
many people wishing a “new deal,” per
haps, and perhaps there are some of the
“outs” now talking. Mr. James Buch
anan thought that the people were
sovereign, but ho insisted that the right
of suffrage was delegated and that the
government had a right to place restric
tions upon suffrage, to say who should
vote and who should not, what officers
should be elected by the people aud what
officers should uot. He asserted that the
people of the State did not demand tho
election of Judges as a right. For
himself, he preferred that the Judges
shonld be appointed by the Governor
rather even than that they should
ho eleoted by the Geuerul Assembly.
The fewer the persons charged with the
execution of a power the better the work
would be done. In large bodies the re
sponsibility is very small, very circum
scribed, very limited, but where one
person has to bear the entire burden aud
shoulder all tho responsibility he makes
his best efforts to perform the duty well.
But if the Judges are to be elected by
either the General Assembly or the peo
ple ho perlerred their election by tho
General Assembly as the lesser of two
evils.
General Wolford’s Defense of the Colored
Citizens.
Mr. Woffard, of the Forty-second
District, said he arose to raise his voice
in behalf of the people of Georgia
against the charge that they were savages.
Have we, indeed, made no progress in
two hundred years. It was true as had
been said that tho slaves came to us as
savages from Africa, bnt we are educat
ing, refining and improving them and
placing them on the high road to be
oome Christians and good and valuable
citizens. Why are there no nogroes in
the Convention ? It is because the col
ored citizens rely on the honesty, good
sense and justice of the white people of
Georgia to represent them and their in
terest hero, We are their friends. Our
Legislature endowed their oollago and
gave them equal advantages with the
whites in the pnblic schools. I am no
representative of the negro. On the
contrary, I live in that section of the
State where the prejudice against them
is very strong. I have never asked one
to vote for me in my life and never ex
pect to. I simply ask justice for them
here—nothing more and nothing less,
flection By the People Defeated.
Mr. Collier’s amendment that Judges
of the Supreme Court be elected by the
people next October was laid on the
table by a vote of 130 yeas to 50 nays.
Mr. Tift, of the Tenth District, mov
ed that the Judge of the Supreme Court
be appointed by the Governor with the
advioe and eonsent of the Setfate, The
amendment was laid on the table.
Section second, paragraph third, with
the words “appointed” changed to
“elected by the General Assembly” and
with Mr. Mathews’ amendment added
was agreed to.
To section third paragraph third,
which read us follows :
Pab. 111. The seccessors to the present in
cumbents shall be appointed as their commis
sions expire: Provpied, That none of them
shall hold lopger than the close Of the jear
1880-
Mr. Hammond, °f the Thirty-fifth
District, offered the • following substi
tute ;
The successors to flie present incumbents
shall bp elected by tbp Gpiipral Assembly, one
half, as near aB may be, whose commissions
soonest expire in t[;e year 1880, and the others
in the year 1882. All subsequent elections
shall be at the expiration or the terms of
the inpuipheuts save to fill vacancies. Tee
day of election to be fixed by the General
Assembly.
Mr. Brown, of the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict, moved to substitute the years
18f3 and 1880 and Mr. Hammond’s
amendment, thus amended, was adopted
as section third of paragraph three,
thns finishing all the postponed sections.
Mr. Tift, of the Tenth District, of
fered the following which was received
for section ten : The Attorney-General
shall be elected by the qualified voters
of the State at the same tinge and for
the same term as the Qoyernor.
Mr. Underwood, of the Thirty-first
District, now moved to strike emt sec
tion ten. Pending this Mr. Hammond,
of the Thirty-fifth District, was called
on for information and gave some val
uable hints regarding the office of At
torney-General. He stated that only
four times dnfing his term of nearly fiye
years did the Governor call in other
counsel for the State. He clearly
proved the importance of such an officer,
which nof only eyery State in the
Union had, but also eyery corporation
and business firm possessed. His ex
planation was clear, fpanly au4 able and
had a markpd effect.
Mr. Willis, of the Twenty-flfth Dis
trict, moved to fix the salary of the At
torney-General at $2,000 per annum, for
bidding fees and perquisites and forbid
ding legal compensation being paid him
by other persons save by special pro
vision of the General Assembly. This
was followed up by an explanation from
Mr. Lawton, of the First District, and
Mr! Toombs, of the Twenty-ninth' Dis
trict, in regard to the legal business of
the state, after which the PonventioD
adjourned without, action.
There is a marked improvement and
change of feejing rpgajrdtng the Attorney-
General, and the office will be retained.
The committee examining thp clerical de
partment of the Rjecntiye ogeeteeom
mend that the Treasurer have a salary
of four thousand dollars per annum and
employ his own clerk. They also recom
mend that the salary of the Secretary of
State be twenty-eight hundred dollars
per annnm, and that he employ his own
clerk; that the Comptroller-General have
six thousand dollars and employ his own
clerks, so long as the land office remains;
that the Executive Department, with
the Superintendent of Public Works,
have eight thousand dollars per auntftn,
all to take effect July Ist, 1878.
A Ten Minutes’ Rnle Adopted—’The Attorney- I
(General—Tlte Office Contiuued, and the I
Officer to be Elected by the People—Mr. I
Hniniiiond (Irolls Personal—Salaries of L
■he Judges— 'lA*® Bogu§Bcouoiny—'Three I
Thousand UollJp for tlt#kuprt-ine Court— |
Two |PAhI Sr t wS-ait jde* I
Ati.anta, August 4. -The Convention
met this morning hi the
President, Hou. Charles J. Jenkins, in
the Chair.
Culling Off Twaddle.
After the reading of the journal of
yesterday’s proceedings was finished,
Mr. Hudson, of the Twenty-ninth Dis
trict, offered a resolution that hereafter
no member of the Convention‘shall be
allowed to speak longer than ten minutes
on any subject. The resolution was
adopted by a vote of 99 yeas to 35 nays.
Office of Attorney-General.*
Paragraph one of section ten was taken
up, as follows:
Paragraph 1. There shall be an Attorney-
General of the State, whose official term, ex
cept when appointed to fill an unexpired term,
shall be two years, but the present incumbent
shall hold till the close of 1888.
Mr. Wright, of the Ftrty-second Dis
trict, moved as an amendment that the
Solicitor-General ot the Circuit in
the capital is located shall be ex-offiJlU
Attorney-General of the State and shun
receive "five hundred dollars additional
salary.
Ihe amendment was laid on the table.
Mr. Ingram, of the Twenty-Fourth
District, offered the following as a sub
stitute for the paragraph :
“ There shall be an Attorney-General
of the State, elected at the same time,
for the same term aud in the same man
ner as the Governor.”
The substitute was adopted.
Paragraph two of section ten was
read, as follows :
11. It shall be tho doty of the Attorney-
General to act as the legal adviser of the Ex
ecutive Department, to represent the State in
the Supreme Court in all capital felonies: and
in all civil and criminal cases in any Court,
when required by the Governor, and to per
form such other services as shall be required
of him by law.
Mr. Brown, of the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict, moved to insert “ criminal cases”
in lieu of “capital lelonies ” iu line
four.
The amendment was lost, and the
paragraph agreed to unamended.
Solicltorg-General.
Paragraph one section eleven was read,
as follows;
Section Xl—Paragraph I. There shall be a
Solicitor-General for each Judicial Circuit,
wlio.-c official term, except win n appoiutod to
fill an expired term, shall he four years.
Mr. Merslion, of the Fourth District,
moved to amend by inserting the word
“commissioned,” in line three, in lieu
of the word “ uppointed.”
The amendment was adopted, and the
entire section as amended agreed to.
Section twelve was read, as follows :
Section Xll—Paragraph I. The Judges of
the .Supreme and Superior Courts, and Attor
l c-v-Geueral and Solicitors-General shall be
appointed in this wise: On a day during the
session of tho General Assembly, to be fixed
by law, the Senate Bliall begin to nominate,
aiid continue, if necessary, from day to day,
two qualified persons for each of said offices,
to bo filled before , the next session of the
General Assembly, and report llie same to tho
Governor, one of whom bliall be commissioned
by him to fill t li'-' position.
Mr. Warren, of the First District, of
fered tho following, which was adopted,
as a substitute for tho entire section :
“The Judges of the Supreme and the
Superior Courts and the Solicitors-Gen
eral shall he elected by tho General As
sembly in joint sessiou on such day or
days as may be fixed by joint resolution
of both Houses. At the session of the
General Assembly held next before the
expiration of llie terms of the present
incumbents, as provided in this Consti
tution, their successors shall be cho
sen and the same rule will apply to
those who shall succeed them. Vacan
cies occasioned by death, resignation or
other cause shall be filled by the ap
pointment of the Governor until the
General Assembly shall convene wlieu
an eleclion shall bo held to fill the un
expired portion of the vacant term.”
Tlie Compeiisatiou of Judge*.
Section thirteen was read, as follows:
Pabagraphl. The Judges of the Supreme Court
shall have, out of the Tieasury of tho State,
salaries not to exceed ihirty-llve hundred dol
lars per annum; the Judges of the Superior
Courts shall have salaries uot to exceed twen
ly-two hundred and fifty dollars per annum;
the Attorney-General Hhall have a salary not to
exceed two thousand dollars per annum; aud
the Solicitors-General shall have salaries not
to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per
annum—hut the Attorney-Genoral shall not
have any fee or perquisite in any cases arising
after tho adoption of this Constitution; and
the provisions of this section shall not affect
the salaries of those now iu office.
Par. 11. i ho General Assembly may. at any
time, by a two-thirds vote of each branch,
prescribe other and different salaries for any
or ail of tho above offices, but no such change
shall affect the officers then in commission.
Mr. Mosely, of the Thirty-first. Dis
trict, moved to amend paragraph first by
making the salaries of Judges of the
Supreme Court twenty-five hundred dol
lars per annum.
On motion of Mr. Matthew, of tho
Thirtieth District, tho amendment was
laid on the table.
Mr. Holcombe, of the Thirty-ninth
District, said lie thought twenty six hun
dred dollars per annum was sufficient.
The Convention had to reduce the Gov
ernor’s salary; why shonld it not make
a uniform redaction. It wan true that
it was necessary to have men of ability
on the Supreme Bunch, bnt twenty-six
hundred dollars per annum was ample
to procure them.
Mr. Hammond, of tho Thirty-fifth Dis
trict,’thought it would be unwise to put
a limit to the salary attached to those
offices, particularly when the expense of
the Judges cannot be limited. Times
may change, yet the Convention seem
ed to wish to fix salaries by
a proorustean rule, although any
day money may rise and provisions
fall. He would vote iu favor 6f striking
out thirty-five hundred dollars or any
other sum, as he believed the salaries of
State officials should he fixed by the
State Legislature and not by the Con
vention. He was aware that the Con
vention was against him on this point,
but he should express his views all the
same. He then prooeefied to notice a
speech made a few days since by Mr.
Wright, which lie said insinuated that
he favored larg.i salaries and the crea
tion of new offices in order to get a
place for himself. Ho made a per
sonal explanation which became so
personal in its character to Mr. Wright
that the President had to call the speak
er to order.
Mr. Pierce, of the Twentieth District,
called for a division of the question be
fore the Convention.
The question then occurred upon the
motion to strike out thirty-five hundred
dollars and this motion was carried.
Mr. Pierce said he favored the
amount which had been stricken out,
and he now moved to make the salares
of the Judges of the Supreme Court
thirty-four hundred dollars per annum.
Mr. Respass, of the Thirteenth Dis
trict, moved to make the amount three
thousand dollars in gold.
Mr. Willis, of the Twenty-fifth Dis
trict, said he favored retrenchment aa
much as any one, and believed that the
pruning knife of economy should be ap
plied to the very roots of the govern
ment, but he did not think it was eco
nomy to reduce salaries below the ne
cessities of officials. He did not think
that four thousand dollars per annum
was too large a salary for the Governor
of tho State, hut with the Executive
Mansion thrown in he had voted
to reduce it to three thousand.—
He did not believe each salary should
be reduced uniformly, but would com
pare the services with the compensa
tion. He opposed increasing the num
ber of the Supreme Court Justices, but
believed that the present Justices were
well worked and shonld l e well paid for
it. He therefore favored the motion
that the salary of each of the Justices
be fixed at $3,400 per annum.
Mr. Mynatt, of the Thirty-fifth Dis
trict, said the Convention was under a
misapprehension in thinking that the
present salaries of the Supreme Court
Justices were too great. The taxable
property of Georgia amounts to two
hundred aud fifty millions of dollars,
and the Tax Collectors gather up annu
ally one aod a half million dollar*. Of
this only a half cent of every hundred
dollars is given as salaries to officers.
Ought we not to turn our attention to
the true waste places ? Legislative ap
propriations and the interest op the
public debt spring the leaks.
Mr. Holepmhe.of the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict, said it was trne that the amonuts
were small, hut when wo aggregate the
savings we will have done the people a
favor that they will never forget.
The motions to make the salaries
$3,000 and $3,400 in g Id were lost, and
one fixiDg them at $3,000 in currency
was adopted. After some parley, $2,000
was adopted as thp salary of Circuit
Judges. l
A Palpable Hit.
Mr. Hudson, of tfoe Twenty-nipth
District, now offer* c| a resolution that
the Judges of the Superior Cm rt be al
lowed, while on the bench, to peddle
without license, and. after keeping item
ized accounts of tho earnings, turn half
over to ’he State Treasury, nq future
Legislature to have the power to with
draw this privilege. [Great laughter.]
The entire section thirteen was agreed
to as amended.
Mr. Hill, of the Twenty-eighth Dis
trict, moved to amend paragraph second
by striking oat the words “two-thirds.”
He conld not see whence came the cry
about State salaries. He left the entire
matter with the majority of the Legisla
ture, which body he was willing to tipss,
They are made the custodians of the
lives and liberties of the people, but you
decline to tont them with dollars amU
j|ats., You make them elect all our
■ pd£M bufijecliDe to sllowJffiem to fix
Ifhe salaries." Would any one vote lot a
[foaan fok tbe ijiiegislature
Williitkto tMRt with a Judge 5 * salary 7
Ho hoped thit Georgia had tap*. (Turing
thblast. fiWyears, so terribly detenora
ted that her Legislature is unfit to he
trusted with these matters.
Mr. Hill’s amendment was lost. Pend
ing the consideration of redactions iu
the salaries of the Clerk aod Reporter
of the Supreme Court, the Convention
adjourned.
Mr. Russell, of Decatur, introduced a
resolution that the Convention adjourn
next Saftirfiay at noon, Tint the motion
was not anted upon.
WASHINGTON NRiVS.
Marshal Douglas—Key ami His Subordi
nates—No More Getters of Keroinmeaila
tioo to be Coaled—The Detective Scandal—
Sam Bard Unanimous for Ilnyes aud a Post
Office.
Washington, August 4. —The Com
mittee of Safety of Pittsburg address
letters of thanks to the Secretary of
War, and suggest aud request that a
good garrison he maintained at the Al
leghauey Arsenal. The Department of
Justice has decided to retain Marshal
Douglas, of North Carolina, in office at
least until the expiration of his commis
siou in June, 1878. The charge against
him involved no question of integrity,
bnt was one of au executive character,
effecting the management of his subor
dinates- Postmaster-General Key, in a
circular letter, compliments his postal
clerks wand messengers on their good
behavior during the strike. The Presi
dent has appointed David Porter Sur
veyor of Customs for the District of
Savannah, Ga.
There is great scandal over the affairs
of Detectives Cunningham and Beil, It
appears that Cunningham was sentenc
ed to the Mississippi penitentiary for a
long term upon evidence given by Bell.
Cunuingham had Bell arrested on some
papers from Texas. Judge Wylie issued
the papers for Bell’s arrest. Bell was
before Judge Humphries on a writ of
habeas corpus, and was discharged on
suspicion that the requisition was bogus.
The Republican captious its city item
on the subject: “Disgracing the Er
mine,” “Justice Humphries Making an
Ass of Himself,” “His Remarkable Con
duct at a Hearing,” Laughing Liwyers,
Surprised Prisoner and Astonished Offi
cers witness his shameful Conduct.” The
Attorney-General decides that no copies
of recommendations for office shall be
given from the Departments. The ques
tion arose from an application by the
San Francisoo Chronicle for documents
of this character by which it hoped to
justify au article which Senator Sargent,
of California, claimed to be libellous.
The Treasury has twenty millions of
coin over aud above all coin liabilities.
The iS 'tar says “Sam Bard has written a
letter to President Hayes unanimously
commending the Southern policy. Ho
has not yet selected his post office.”
A GAMBLER’* SUItMDN.
Good Advice to Young illen Who Fool Willi
Ulmnce.
L Cincinnati Enquirer.]
His clothes wore good, of tho latest
pattern and most fashionable cut. His
watch chain was the heaviest of the
heavy, and as line as the gold of Ophir.
It surpassed in richness the gold chain
that the King hung about the neck of
the young prophet Daniel. His boots
were highly polished, and shone like the
exterior of fine black walnut coffins. Ilis
diamond pin twinkled liko the evening
star in a Summer sky. His shirt bosom
was as white as an infant’s soul, but his
eyes were sad aud his voice was as sor
rowful aud sorrowing as the wailrng
of tho winds in the drooping
branches of the weeping willow. He
tapped his boot with his natty ivory
headed cane, slipped down in his chair,
to give the base of his spinal column a
rest, pulled his hat over his eyes, and
languidly said—which painfully indicat
ed that the gambler had struck a loser,
had coppered iu the wrong plaoe :
“Faro is a h—l of a fascinating game I
In all tho games for gambling it has no
equal. A man’s a d—n fool to play it,
but it catches tho oldest of ’em. The
chances, on the closest calculations, are
three to one on each play at tho outset
against tho player; occasionally wo strike
a winner, but we only win to lose. The
most prosperous of ns die in the gutter
—unknown, forgotten aud deserted.—
Luck only smiles on us for a brief sea
son, and when fickle fortune deserts us,
she never roosts above our doors agnin !
Few of us are wise enough to save iu
luck, in order to live in a rainy day. But
while wo live, we live, and after all, that
is all there is of life ! Tho hereaftpr is
a chance, and the old man has put up
the cards so well that nobody has ever
call the turn. It’s a ‘cat hop’ at the
best. We aro not utterly heartless. It
makes my heart ache to see how many
young men Jro drawn into tho vortex
and down to ruin. They begin on a
game of base ball. They lose on a horse
race, get caught at a friendly game of
draw, and in an evil hour try to get
even on faro. They often win on
the first venture, but it is a terrible suc
cess. They always pay 1,000 per cent,
on tho first winning, aud often they
play life and blood on tho first invest
ment. The first winning opens tho fas
cinating road to hell; builds up a barrier
behind them which few ever climb over
to reformation. A littlo sentimental,
ain’t I ? Have something ? You don’t
drink ? Good. Bar-keeper, give me a
whisky punch light! I’m blue to-day.
Gambling aud its attending excitement
burn all the stamina out of a man, but,
thank God, it cannot, does not, blot out
bis sympathies. I wish I had never
touched a card, but I am a born gam
bler. Its in me; it always was; aud I’m
in for it until the deal is out. I hate to
seo young men of promise at a gaming
table. They have mothers and sisters
who love them; they have good situa
tions and employers who trust them;
but the day they set foot inside a
gambling room their fate is sealed. The
Recording Angel enters up the books
ahead, ninety-nine times out of a hun
dred and loafs around the gate of St.
Peter to notice the arrivals and say tah !
tah ! to the boys who are assigned rooms
lower down. I have a case in mind
now. A fine fellow, who a short time
since was agent for a New York varnish
house and commanded a salary of $5,000
a year, in traveling got lonely. He
gambled for amusement when his busi
ness was over. He fooled with the
tiger, put his hands through the bars*
petted the beast, and suddenly found
himself torn to pieces. To-day he is an
outcast—drunkeD, broken, deserted. I
would advise every young man who has
a business never to cross the threshold
of a gambling house. I have made big
winnings and I h ive made big losings,
i lost 8G..00Q in Chicago trying to make
ten. I was broke and down and staid
down for a long while. I’m up again.
If I had a business you would never
catch me gambling again. Guess I’ll
go and buy a oonple of stacks of reds
and see how luck runs to-day. Good
afternoon.”
THE CENTRAL ROAD’S EMPLOYES,
Conference Between President Wndley nnd
llie Workingmen-.VVitaen to He Reduced.
[Savannah News of Yester<lay ]
A meeting between the President and
Directors of the Central Railroad Com
pany, on the one side, and the joint
committee of the employes on tho other,
was held yesterday as per announce
ment. As will be seen, it resulted in a
perfectly amicable adjustment of the
threatened difficulties. The offioers of
the road received the deputation of
workingmen nnd courteously listened to
the statement of their case. Then the
President, Colonel Wadley, replied in a
short address. He informed the men
that, much to his regret, circumstances
forced tho reduction in wages; that the
road is now, and has been for some time,
running at a loss; that those of onr cit
izens—many of them widows and or
phans—who have noprly their all invest
ed in the road, are receiving no dividends
therefrom; that did bnsiness justi
fy'it, the Directors would not on
ly continue the present, but would
gladly pay them even increased
wages; bnt that such was not now, nor,
from present indications, likely, in fu
ture, to be the case. The reduction,
therefore, he considered inevitable, and
it would apply to all employes or the
road, from the President down, and the
best that conld he done was to defer
enforcing such reduction until the first,
of November next, so as to give the
workmen ample time to make other ar
rangements, if they can do so to tlnjir
advantage. This address perfectly satis
fied the committee, who adopted a reso
lution thanking the President and Di
rectors for their conduct toward them,
and withdrew. Subsequently a mass
meeting of workingmen was held, and
the action of the committee was ap
proved in a series of resolutions, which
they transmitted to the officers of the
road. The result of the meeting, as
well as the spirit displayed on both
sides during its continuance, is worthy
of special commendation, and we hearti
ly congratulate all parties interested
thereon.
Women dispute about other matters,
but all agree upon the merits of Doo
ley’s Yeast Powdeb as par excellence
the best of all. Grocers throughout the
country keep it, and find it gives su
preme satisfaction. By using it the
housewife is sure of delicious bread,
rusk, rolls, bisect, buckwheat cakes
and all the delicacies made from flour.
THE RUSSOTUREISH WAR.
mj&||pai<SUCCESBES STOPPED BY
BATTLE OP PLEVNA.
The D©fentr#f Ihe Rummlrrm Confirmed—Prob
able Eft Vets of the UivnNter—The Tihdn-
Ilatkaui \ jQjfkny Will Have to Retire—Berlla
Paper* Think the War Will I.n*t a Year—
The ProMpeet of Intervention More Remote
—The RuMMinu l.nndweher Not to Be Mo
bilized.
London, August 3. — The News in its
detailed narrative of the battle of Plev
ua gives the Russian forces as 32,000 in
fantry, IGO field gmm and brigades of
cavalry, and says this defeat makes the
Russian hold iu Bulgaria extremely pre-
must cotapel the withdraw
al of troops from some other point,
whore they aro nearly sis b4£RY'’needed,
to beat the Turks at Plevna. Beaten
they must be, and that speedily, if the
Russian army is not forthwith to retire
iuglorionslv into the principalities.—
The News' Bucharest correspondent,
telegraphing on Thursday, says: “Troops
recently engaged at Plevna havo retired
behind the Osma river. The Sixteenth
division of the Fourth corps is crossing
atSimnitza, and will probably reinforce
4hem. All the scattered Russian troops
now iu the principalities have been sum
moned into Bulgaria. I understand the
Turks are not advancing eastward
from their Plevna position, but
are passing strong forces from Plevna
northward towards Looca.” The Berlin
papers consider that the battle puts an
end to all hope of tormiuatiug the war
this year, and lessens the chance of in
tervention by Austria or England. The
Times' Belgrade correspondent states
that there are strong signs of the ap
proaching mobilization of the Servian
army. Several telegrams confirm the
Turkish occupation of Eski Saebra.
The lelegraph’s special from Kara
bunar says the Russians lost five guns
at Eski Snghra. A Berlin dispatch to
the Pall Mall Ornette says the Russiau
Minister of War has issued orders di
recting the army oorps not yet mobil
ized to furnish a division each to the
fighting army to be at once dispatched
to the Danube. Russian journals deny
that the Czar has sanctioned a decree
calling the Landweher to their oolors,be
cause there is a law providing that the
Landweher is not to he called out until
the entire army is mobilized. All hith
erto doue consists iu preparations for
the mobilization of the Landweher
whenever called out. The Daily Tele
graph has a speoial dispatch purporting
to eive an account of another defeat of
the Russians before Plevna, on Wednes
day.
Tlie Rattle of Plevim—Tlie RiiNMinn* Fear
fully lluntiled—The .statement of an Fye-
WilneMH—The Slaughter (.renter Tina 11 at
Klynu or Frledlnnd llutehery of tlie
Wounded—l’reeurioii* Nuture of Ihe Kum
sinu Position.
London, August s. — TVe Daily News'
correspondent sends from Poreden, near
Plevna, a graphic aooount of Tuesday’s
battle, the substantial facts of whioh are
as telegraphed to the United States yes
terday. The following dosing scenes
give a vivid idea of the extont of the
Russian disaster. [lt will be noticed
that tho correspondent is with Prince
Schackoskoj’s eotnmand and does not
purport to give any account of the con
dition or the losses of Gen. Krudener’s. ]
“And now all hope of success anywhere
was dead. Nor did a chance offer to
make the best of defeat. Prince Schaek
oskoy had not a man lett to cover the
retreat. The Turks struck without
stint. They had the upper hand for
once, and were determined to show that
they knew how to make the most of it.
They advanoed in swarms through the
dusk on their original first position aud
captured the Russian cannon before
the batteries could be withdrawn. Turk
ish shells began once more to whistle
over the ridge above Kadisbova and fall
into the village beyond, now crammod
with wounded. The streams of wound
ed whioh wended their painful way over
tho ridge were incessant. The badly
wounded mostly lay where they fell.
Later in the darkness a baleful sort of
Krankentrasgor swarmed ovor the battle
field iu the shape of Bashi-Bazouks,
who spared not. Lingering there on
tho ridge till the moon rose, tho staff
oould hear from below oil tho still night
air cries of pain and entreaties for
mercy and the yells of blood-thirsty fa
natical triumph. It was indeed an hour
to wring the sternest heart. We stayed
there to learn if it might be what troops
were coming out of the valley of the
shadow of death below, were there in
deed any at all to come. It did not
aefem to me the case. The Turks had
our range before dark, and we could
watch tho flash of flames over aguiust
ns and then listen to tho scream of tho
shell as it tore by us. The sound
of riflo bullets was incessant, aud
the escort aud retreating wonuded were
struck. A detachment at length began
to come straggling up but it will give
au idea of the disorganization to say
that when a company was told off to
cover Romewhat the wounded in Kadis
hova it had to be made up of the men
of several regiments. About nine
o’clock the staff quitted the ridge, leaving
it littered with groaning men and
moving gently lest we should tread on
the prostrate wounded. We lost our
way as we had lost our army. Wo could
find no rest for the soles of our feet by
reason of alarms of Bashi-Bazouks
swarming in among the scattered and
retiring Russians. At length at one
o’clock in the morniug. having been iu
the saddle since six o’clock on the pre
vious morning, we turned into a stubble
field, aud making beds of the reaped
grain, correspondent and Cossack alike
rested under the stars, hut we wore not
oven then allowed to rest. Before four
o’clock an alarm came that the
Bashi-Bazouks were upon us aud we
had to arouse and tramp away. Tho only
protection of the chief of what in the
morning was a fine army was now a
handful of wearied Cossacks. General
Krudener sent word in the morning
that he had lost severely, and conld
make no headway, and had resolved to
fall baok’ou the line of the river Osma.
There had been talk of his troops being
fresh, and of renewing the attack to
day with his co-operation, but it is a
plain statement of faot that we havo no
troops to attack with. The most mod
erate estimate is that we have lost two
regiments, say 6,000 men, out of our
three brigades, a ghastly number, beat
ing Eylau or Freidland. This takes no
aceouut of General Krndener’s losses.
We, too, retire on the Osma river about
Bnlgareni, and, to the best of our
weak strength, cover the bridge at Bis
tova. One cannot in this moment of
hurried confusion realize all the possible
results of the stroke so rashly courted.
Not a Russian soldier stands between
Turnova and the victorious Turk
ish army in Lovioa and Plevna,
and only a weak division of
the Eleventh Corps stands between
Tirnova and the Bliumla army. I look
on Prince Schackoskoy’s force as wreck
ed, as no longer for the campaign to be
counted as a fighting integer. It is not
ten days since the Fifth,Diviaion crossed
the Danube in the pride of superb con
dition. Now what of it is left is demor
alized and Bettered. So on this side
of the Balkans there remains bnt the
Ninth Corps, already roughly handled,
once at Nikopolis and onoe at Plevna,
one division of the Eleventh Corps and
the Rustchuk army. Now if the Rust
chuk army is marched to the west against
Plevna then the Turkish army of Rnst
chuk is let loose on the Russian com
munication to Tirnova. One cannot
avoid the conclusion that the advance
over the Balkans is seriously compro
mised. The Russian strait is so
bad that scattered detachments have
been called up from ont of Ronmania;
and the Roumanian division, command
ed by Gen. Mann, which crossed a day
or two ago at Nikopolis, has been called
np to the line of the Osma river. An
aid de-camp of the Grand Dnko Nicho
las was present at the battle, and at
once started lor Tirnova with the evil
tidings. We are just quitting this
bivouac and falling back on Bulgaria
with all speed, leaving the Bulgarian
villages to the tender mercies of the
Turks. As I close I learn that on onr
left Gen, Skobeloff was very severely
haudled, having lost 300 men out of his
sfhgle infantry battalion.”
Tfae Greek A rax—The War In Aaia Minor
London, August 3.— An Athena dis
patch says : A royal order has been is
sued nominating the staff of the Greek
army and oommanders of tho various
brigades, regiments and battalions.
Ebzeboum, August 3. —The Russian
centre, whioh has been reinforced by
fourteen battalions of infantry and three
field batteries, has resumed the offen
sive. There has been continuous fight
ing on tho advanced lines before Kars.
Gen. Teryonkassoff has also been re
inforced by five battalions of infantry,
one battery and a regiment of dragoons.
The Russian right is marching on
Perek.
THE MISSiSSim PLATFORM.
Tlie Old Flag and an Appropriation.
Jackson, Miss., August 3.—The Dem
ocratic platform favors granting such
aid as may be extended withont viola
tion of the Constitution of the United
States, or departing from the established
usages of the Government, to the Texas
Pacific Railroad, and for rebuilding and
keeping in repair the levees of the Mis
sissippi river.
The First Bales at Georgia Cetten.
Maoon, Ga., August 3. —The first bale
of Georgia cotton was received here to
day from Baker county.
Atlanta, Ga., August 3.- The first
hale of new cotton was sold in Albany,
Ga., to-day, at 17ic.