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qrfltonule anfr .Smtfnfl. - 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 thy. m • m 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! ■ ■ m 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. s 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. .>. 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 ? -■ m * m 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 Ih‘§- 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. —— - —g —" - 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. W 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.