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PROFESSIONAL, CARDS. TIIOS. W. TEASLY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HARTWELL, 45A. Will practice in Superior Courts of Hart, El bert, Oglethorpe and Madison. Prompt atten tion to collection of claims. ly. R. 11. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly J. N. WORLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Northern Circuit and Franklin county ggpSpecial attention given to collections. J. 8. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. * JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBERTON, 6A. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention te the collection of claims. nevl7,ly QHAS. W. SEIDEL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hartwell, Hart Cos, Ga. ELBERTON BUSINESS CARDs7 LIGHT BUGGIES. J. F. ATJLD (Carriage mJamfact’R GLBERTOIV, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, lit hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. good Baggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O REPAIRING ANDBLACKSMITHING. Work done in this line in t very best style. The Best Harness -t TERMS CASH. My 22-1 y GHEA3? trlOmffil ROBERT M. HEARD Has just opened a store on College Avenue, nest door to J. H. JONES’, where he will con stantly keep a well assorted stock of -WOTI SUMS" Tobacco, Segars, &c. VERY CHEAP FOR CASH AFH3ICASH ONLY BtfjWUad to see my friends and the public generally. [mch2B,tt harness shop BEN H. SHANNON Informs the people of this community that he has fitted up a shop on the corner of Church and College streets, next door to Auld’s Carri age Manufactory, for the manufacture and re pairing of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES and anything else made of Leather. The best Harness from $lB to $25 per set, in which w ill be used the best Norther Leather, warranted 12 months. I learned my trade under my father, and I think I know’ my business. Patronage solicited. BEN. H. SHANNON. March 7 —4 m. NEW STORE NEW GOODS! I. G. SWIFT. Will keep on band FLOUR, MEAT, LARD, SUGAR, COF FEE, HAMS, CHEESE, CAN NED GOODS, &c.&c. And other articles usually kept in a first-class Provision Store, which will be sold Cheap for CASH and Cash Only. ANYTHING FRUM A CRADLE TO A COFFIN Made to order at short notice and in the best manner by WRIGHT & DEAD WYLER. Repairing neatly and promptly executed. SHOP AT FRANK SMITH’S OLD BILLIARD SALOON. Feb7—4m. SPECIAL NOTICE! The firm of J. H. JONES & CO., dissolved by mutual consent, first of January inst. JOHN H. JONES senior partner continuing the busi ness at the old stand, where he will keep a full assortment of goods at low prices. Respectfully soliciting a continuation of the liberal patron age bestowed on the old firm. All those indebted to J. H. Jones & Cos. by Note or Account are earnestly solictited to pay what they justly owe, as the business must and will be settled. JOHN H. JONES. February 28—tf. P er day at home. Samples Augusta, Maine. ly THE ,(J / ZETTE. ISTew Series. THE THREE WARNINGS. It was in the days of our grandmothers, when there were back ovens in the land, that Mr. Hubbard bought his house ; and bought it very much against his wife’s will. It was a lonely house, and reported to be haunted. It was next to a graveyard, which, though unused, was not cheerful, and which had likewise the reputation of a ghost. However Mr. Hubbard did not be lieve in ghosts, and was too cheerful to be de pressed by warnings, and never intended to be lonely. “Mrs. Hubbard,” he said, when his wife shook her head over the purchase, “I got it cheap, and it is a good one. You will like it when you get there. If you don’t then talk.” So the house was bought and into it the Hub bard family went. There was scarcely a chance for a ghost to show his face amid such a family of boys and girls. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard counted ten of them, all noisy ones. Having once expostulated and spoken out her mind as to the house, Mrs. Hubbard gave up the point. She scrubbed and scoured, tacked down carpets and put up curtains, and owned the place was pretty. As not a ghost appeared for a week, she made up her mind that the''e were no such inhabitants; she even began not to mind the tombstones. So the house got to lights at last, and baking day came about. In the press of business, they had a great deal of baker’s bread, and were tired of it. Mrs. Hubbard never enjoyed setting a batch of bread to rise as she did that which was to be eaten for the first time in the new’ house. “For I cannot get up an appetite for stuff that nobody knows who has had the making of,” said Mrs. Hubbard, “and nil puffy and alumy beside.” * So into the oven went the bread, and out it ...nine at the proper lime, even and brown and beautiful as could be. Mrs. Hubbard turned them up on their sides as she drew them forth, and they stood in tbe long bread-tray, glorious proofs of her skill and the excellence of: he oven, when Tommy Hubbard bounded in. Tommy, was four; and when at that age we are prone to believe that anything will bear our weight. Tommy, therefore, anxious to inspect the newly made bread, swung himself off his feet by clutching the edge of the bread-tray, cud over it came, loaves nnd Tommy and all. Mrs. Hubbard Hew to the rescue aud picked up the loaves. All were dusted and put in the tray again but one. That lay bottom upward under tbe table. “A bothering child, to give me so much trou ble 1” she sa’d, as she crawled under the table to get it. “0—Ah—dear, dear, deaf—O'—O my ” And there on the floor sat Mrs. Hubbard, screaming, wringing her hands and shaking her head, The children screamed in concert. Mr. Uubbard rushed in from the garden where he was at work. “What’s the matter, mother?” be gasped. Mrs. H ibbard pointed to the bottom of the )oa. lying on her lap. " “Look there and see !” she said. “It is a warning. William ; I am going to be taken from them all.” And he looked ; and he saw a death’s bead and cross bones, as plainly engraved as they possibly could be. “It is accident,” said Mr. Hubbavd. “Such queer cranks do come,you know.” But Mrs. Hubbard was in a troubled state of mind, as was but natural. “The stories about the haunted house were true,” she said ; “and the spirits have marked the loaf. I am afraid its a warning.” And the loaf was put aside, for even Mr. Hubbard did not dare to cat any of it. Mrs. Hubbard got over lier fright at iast, but the news of the awfully marked loaf spread through R , and the people came to Mr. Hubbard’s all the week to look at it. It was a death’s head and cross bones certainly ; every one saw that at a glance, but as to its meaning, people differed. Borne believed that it was a warning of approaching death ; some thought that the spirits wanted to frighten the Hubbards away, and get possession of the house again, all to themselves. This latter supposition in spired Mrs. Hubbard with courage ; finally, be ing a brave woman, she adopted the belief, and when another baking day arrived, put her loaves into the oven once more, prepared for cross bones, and not to be frightened by them. The loaves baked as before. They came out brown and crusty as Mrs. Hubbard turned each in ber hands. There were no cross bones visible, but on the last were sundry characters or letters. What, no one could tell, until there dropped in tor a chat a certain printer of the neighborhood accustomed to reading things backward. “By George,” said be, “that is curious. That is curious—r-e-s-u-r-g-a-m, resurgam ; that is what is on the loaf—resurgam.” “Well, yes,” said Mr. Hubbard, being obliged to admit it “But it is not so bad as cross bones and skull.” Mrs. Hubbard shook ner head. “It’s even selemner,” said the little woman, who was not as good a linguist as bread maker. “I feel con fident, William, that I shall soon be resurgamed, and what will these dear children do then ?” And now that the second loaf was before her eyes, marked even more awfully than the first. Mrs. Hubbard grew really pale and thin, and lost her cheerfulness. “I have a presentiment,” she went over and over again, “that the third baking will decide who the warnings belongs to. I believe it is meant for me, and time will show. Don’t you see how thin 1 am growing?” And though Mr. Hubbard laughed, he also began to be troubled. The third baking day was one of gloom. Solemnly, as a funeral, the family assembled to assist in drawing. Five loaves came out markless; but one remained. Mrs. Hubbard’s hand trembled ; but she drew it forth ; she laid it on the tray she turned it softly about. At last she exposed the lower surface. On it were letters printed backward, plain enough to read this time, and arranged thus: “Died April 2d, lamented by her large family.” “It is me,” cried Mrs. Hubbard. “I am to go to-morrow. This is the Ist. I do feel faint. Yes, I do. It is awful, and so sudden.” And Mrs. Hubbard fainted away in the arms of the most terrified of men and husbands. The children screamed, tlfe cat mewed, the dog barked. The oldest boy ran tor the doctor. People flocked to the Hubbards. The loaf was examined. Yes, there was Mrs. Hubbard’s warning—her call to quit this world. She lay in her bed, bidding good by to her family and friends, her strength going fast. She read her Bible, and tried not to grieve too much. The doctor shook his head. The clergyman prayed with her. Nobody doubted that her end was at hand, for people were very superstitious in those days. 1 They had been up all night with good-Mrs. ELBERTON GA.M 18,1377. Hubbard, and dawn was breaking, and with it she was sure she must go; when, clattering, over the road and up to the door came a horse and on the horse cam®, a man, who alighted He rattled the knocker and rushed in. There was no stopping him. Up stairs be went to Sirs. Hubbard's room and bolted into it. Every one stared at him as he took off his hat. * “Parding,” said he breathlessly, “I heard Mrs. Hubbard was a dying.—and she’d warnings, on her baking. I came over to explain. You see I was sexton of thectfhrch here a tew years ago, and I know all about it. You needn’t die ot fear just yet, Mrs HuhromL Tor If is neith'-& spirit nor d.-viis about ; nor jet warnings. What marks the loaves is old Mrs. Pinkie’s tombstone,. I took it for an oven-bottom, seeing ihei no survivors, and bricks wHMfr dear. The last folks beloie you didn’t have them pfined off on their loaves, because thujauM and we got used to the mu ks . .selves. Cross-bones and -kails we put up with, <M| never thought of taring for the resurgnm. So'you see bow it is, ai.d I'm sorry you’ve been scaffed." * No body said a word. The raiiustef shut bis-, book. The doctor walkedsߧfiK|si&dow, There was a deadly silence. WKL ffjtbbard sat up in bed. “William!” said she to hel htysband, “the first thing you do, get anew bottom to tbat oven.” And the tone assured Jtbe of anxious friends that Mrs. Bpßbard was not going to die just yet. Indeed she came down the And when the oven had been first thing she did was to give large tea drinking. On whick9H||f&tl thfc loaves came out right. TEACH TEE BOYM Teach them that a true lncfy. msjf 1)0 found in calico quite as frequent as in velvet. Teach them that a good school education, with common sense, is far better than a college education with out it. Teach them that one good honest trade, well mastered, is worth a dozen beggarly professions. Teach them that honesty is the best policy—that ’tis better to be poor than to be rich on the profits of “crooked whiskey,” etc., and point your pre cept by the example of those who are now suffering the torments of the doomed. Teach them to respect their elders and themselves. Teach them that as they expect to be men some day, that they carinofc too soon learn to protect the weak and the help less. Teach them by your own example that smoking in moderation, though the least of the vices pi which heirs, is disgusting to others and ntirc ful to themselves. Teach them that to wear patched clothes is no disgrace, but to wear a black eye is. Teach them that God is no respecter of sex, and when He gave the 7th com mandment, He meant it for them as well as for their sisters. Teach them that by indulging their depraved appetites in the worst forms of dissipation, they are unfitting them selves to become the husbands of pure girls. Teach them that it is better to be an honest man seven days in the week than to be a Christian (?) one day and a villain six days. Teach them above every thing to al ways support their county paper. WHO SHOULD BE DELEGATES IN THE CONVENTION. The following from the Savannah News exactly accords with our own views as to proper persons to go to the convention : In the ordinax-y sense of the term there should be no candidates, but com mon consent should concentrate upon the purest, the most intelligent and tried patriots, and they should place upon them the white robe of office—the can dudus—which in the pure days of the Roman republic, represented a purity that was untarnished by a speck of po litical or social polution, and which ele vated him who wore it above the greedy horde of office seekers, place hunters and corrupt lobbyists, and thus clothed, they should enter upon the important work entrusted to them with the single purpose of serving the best interests of the commonwealth uninfluenced by par tisan strife or prejudice. There are in the quiet retirement of peaceful life in our happy State the very material from which to select the men to do this work satisfactorily, and we be lieve they will call them, and they should not refuse to answer the summons. — There should enter into the composition of this convention none of the small an imosities of partisanship for the work to be done, while it must be laid securely upon the grand doctrines of democracy, is also to s be done for all time, and grow into a pure organic law for a liber ty loving people. A religious war is ragiDg in the South American Republic of Columbia. On the one side are the Roman Catholic clergy and their adherents, and on the other the so-called Liberals. Unlike some South American wars, this contest has so for been attended by much blood shed and wide devastation. Neither party is inclined to show mercy to the other, and it is not probable that strife will cease until either the clergy or their enemies shall have been crushed. His last words to her in the morning were: “Wrap up warmly, darling, if you go shopping to-day; the weather is very cold.” She said she would, and before she went out she had all her bustles weighed and pat on the heaviest one. What will not a woman do for a man she loves ? gTHE PALMETTO CHIEFTAIN. denouement of the long protracted Carolina case has been reached, it is iu tesf Aing to note how history verifies its sugges- at remote periods of time. Govei nor , Hat pton will at last reach unrelated hcreaßer, rpp|He position to which the true people of the Pal vetto State have long desired to see him ele- HKk' President Hayes has yielded to the of public opinion, shared in by the pf|tUst men of his own party, as well as those S|jp|e Democratic party, and has taken the one Mtejieeded to accomplish the peaceful triumph pJPjppular r : ghts and liberties in the long op ai&sed commonwealth of South Carolina. In dW'U this he has also exhibited his faith in forced upon him by facts of many mbs existence. HAVES ON HAMPTON. for back as 1867, when General Hayes was the Republican candidate for Goternor of Ohio, Senator Thurman, the Democratic can didne, Hayes paid his respects in compliment >arf erras to the hoDcsty and fairness of Gov. HEbufirage was the agitating issue and upo.i Sdßyyes had a hard battle to fight. In order pKpnvioce his party that it ought to adopt the Rfpafeure he quo.cd m his speeches trorn the spwches of leading “rebels” and southern journ alsfto show that they even regarded negro suf- H£e not unkindly and that they were willing iSB O right by their former slaves, few °P en i n g speech at Lebanon, Ohio, on tluioth of August, 1867, General Hayes quoted jplli approval trom Hampton’s speeches. He ipi : Ef3>jfln South Carolina Wade Hampton addressed a-nuxed assembly of \vbitc3 and blacks, at Co iuibia, in which he quoted from a former KEech to his point upon which there should be no misunder standing as to our patriotism—no loop on which f tSfhang a possible misconstruction of our views —ftt.d that is the abolition of slavery. The deed has been done and I, for one, do earnestly de clare that I never wish to see it revoked. Nor do ;I believe that the people of the South would now remand the negro to slavery if they had the power to do so unquestioned. Under our paternal care from a mere handfull he grew u> be a mighty host. He came to us a heathen— we made him a Christian. Idle, vicious, savage in bis country, iu ours he became industrious, gentle, civilized. Asa slave he was faithful to u* ; ns a freeman let 11s treat him as a friend. Deal with him justly, frankly kindly, and my word for it, he will reciprocate your kindness. If you wish to see him contented, industrious, useful, aid him in bis efforts to elevate himself in the scale of civilization and thus fit him not only to enjoy the blessings of freedom, but to appreciate his duties.’ “After stating the provisions of the ‘Military Bill’ as he (Hampton) calls tbe Reconstruction 1 r.ho .- id to the colored people: ‘Butsuppose ■ iitretea nnc'oiisiitirtii/iifc—l7ow t.bei'? 1 tell you what lam willing (o see dune. 1 am willing to give the right of suffrage to all who enn read and who pay a certain amount of taxes, and I agree that this qualification shall bear on white and black alike. You would have no right to complain of a law which would put you on a perfect political equality with the whites, and which would put within your reach and that of your children the privileges enjoyed by all class of citizens.” Hampton’s cheat consistency, In the lapse of years, and after the many changes politically of a decade, lias doubtless had much to do with leading Hayes to a right conclusion in the present manner. With Ins great solicitude for the safety and welfare of “the poor negro,” he could not, looking back with the admired position assumed by Hampton in 18C7, and com paring it with his many declarations of to-day, fail to recognize the honesty and chivalry of the man, and to find it safer to trust the colored man in the hands of Hampton than in those ot mercenary carpet-baggers and public plunderers. That Hampton will redeem every pledge he has made, and steadfastly pursue the best interests of all the people of South Carolina, white and black, no one who contemplates the character of the man can doubt. He will prove a savior to the one class and a preserver to the other. GOV. PERRY PICTURES HAMPTON. In 18G5when President Joi nson was industri ously seeking to perfect his “reconstruction” plan whereby the Southern States wcie 10 at once resume their proper constitutional relations to the Federal Government, Hon. Benjamin F. Perry, of Greenville, was made Provisional Gov ernor of South Carolina. A Constitutional Convention was held, the amendment to the Constitution abolishingslavery was adopted, the war debt was repudiated, and the election of State officers aud Legislature were ordered. The convention nominated Col. J. L. Orr for Gov ernor and the election was held. The result gave rise to the following interesting dispatch to President Johnson frefm Gov. Perry : Columbia, S. C., October 27th, 1865. Received 9:30 p. m. To President Johnson: —The Legislature con vened on Wednesday and all the members took the oath, to support the Constitution of the United States. My message will be sent you by mail. I have this morning communicated to the Legislature a most admirable code of laws tor the protection of colored persons in their rights of person and property. It was'prepared by order of the convention. I have no doubt it will be adopted. General Wade Hampton has been elected Gov ernor of the State. He was not a candidate, and so declared publicly in the newspapers, but tiie people took offense at the nomination of CoL- Orr by the conventiou and voted for Hamp-ton. There was no political question „in the election. I have just had a full conversation with General Hampton, and he will smtain your policy of re construction as fully and warmly as any man in South Carolina. He was originally opposed to secession and went for maintaining the rights of the South in the Union. He was always a moderate man. His great personal popularity will enable him to control the disaffected or tur bulent more eadlv than Col. Orr could have done. He is one of the most admirable and lovable men I ever saw, and as honorable, frank and open-hearted as 4 canjbe. I have known him for twenty years past and will vouch for his loyalty and fidelity. I trust that no difficulty will occur in jpis getting his pardon by the fouith Monday in November, when he should be inau gurated as governor. My election to the Senate is pretty certain and I hope my services as Provisional Governor will not be needed longer than the meeting of Con gress. I may say that the old Union district of Greenville voted by a large majority for Hamp ton, although Col. Orr lives in the adjoining district. B. F. Perry, Provisional Governor. The above is a correct transcript ot the origin al dispatch now among the late ex-President Johnson’s papers, at, Greeneville, Tennessee. Although a recount of the vote that year deter mined Colonel Orris election by a small majori ty yet the compliments bestowed upon Wade Hampton by Governor Perry were well deserved, Vol. V.-No. 51. and brought forward to-day are doubly appli cable to this grand man. These historial references are interesting at this juncture, and will be read with interest by all who have looked with such hope to the final triumph of Wade Hampton and his cause. MADISON WELITaN EMBEZZLER. A Washington special to the New Or leans Democrat says: Facts have recently been developed here which will probably render nugato ry any stipulations of amnesty that may have been entered into for the benefit of Madison Wells. lam not at liberty to give all tbe details of this affair, but can say that it involves Wells in frauds amounting to vast sums, prepetrxted in the New Orleans custom house when he wa3 Governor of that State in 1860. These matters have but recently come out in documentary evidence before the court here, and are not generally known. The evidence already obtained goes into the details of Wells’ share in these fraudulent transactions, showing that he was partner in these frauds and a sharer in the proceeds. It remains to be seen whether the ad ministration will permit him to bo pros ecuted in the United States courts. It has also been developed that Wells’ complicity in these frauds was confi dentially made known to Phil. Sheridan at the time, and formed part of the basis of Sheridan’s famous attack on the old reprobate. I will be able to give you these particulars in a very few days. The New York Work! says: “Con gressman Ellis, of Louisiana, has done well in advising the people of his Stato to have nothing to do with the Hayes commissioners. If the Federal Govern ment had no right to scrutinize the action of Louisiana in choosing Presi dential electors it certainly cannot dele gate authoi ity to a set of political adven turers to scrutinize the action of the State in the election of its own officers. Even on Republican theories the present commission must be a sham, or the com mission which made Mr. Hayes Presi dent must be admitted to have been a sham. The only real hope of Louisiana, as of the law everywhere, is in Congress. If the President does not withdraw tbe army from a place where it has no busi ness to be, tho Democratic maj&rity in Congress will see it that he has no army to withdraw. The time has gone by for idle gabble on this pomT The sovereignty of tbe American people will be duly vindicated and enforced by the representatives of the people in Congress assembled. This will give us peace, and this alone.” : — A Washington telegram delates that at an interview between Hayes and Hampton the former called the latter’s attention to the very large Democratic vote iu Edgefield County, as compared with former years, and said to the Gov ernor: “This is hardly to be accounted for by an increase of population,” and asked him how he could account for it. Hampton replied: “You forget, sir, that at ten polling places in this county a large number of soldiers were station ed and I understood that they all voted for mo.” This amused Mr. Hayes who laughed very heartily and said: “Weill, if the soldiers have got to going for you, it ought to settle the case.” A Sad Case of Shooting.— On Satur day night a son of Alfred Cox, of West Bowdoin Maine, fourteen years old, shot and killed his father as thejlatter was re turning from church. Father and son had both been to church, and as the son was making a slight disturbance his father told him to go forward and occupy another seat. The boy left the church, going directly home. He took a gun and, meeting his father as he was entering the yard, discharged it, killing him instantly. The lad is said to be. insane. A Washington special says General Gordon wants to name his daughter, born on Saturday last, Carolina, in hon or of the emancipation of the Palmetto State, but as he already has a daughter named “Carrie,” he says he will wait un til Gen. Nicholls is the undisputed Gov ernor of Louisiana, and then give the little lady the name of that State in hon or of the complete emancipation of the South. The following paragraphs, intended to have been printed separately, were by some blunder so aranged that they read consecutively in a Paris journal: “Dr— has been appointed head physician to the Hopital de la Chari to. Orders have been issued by the authorities for the imrae diate extension of the cemetery of Mount Parnasse ; the work is being executed with the utmost dispatch.” “Why, my dear fellow,” whispered a friend, “I did not know you were so badly matlreated in the affair.” “Nor I neither,” sobbed the victim, “till I heard my lawyer a tellin’ the jury all about it!’, “Isn’t there an awful' strong smell of pigs in the air?” asked Smith of Jones. “Yes,” replied Jones, “that’s because the wind's from the sou’-west.” A Kentucky editor remarks that ninety nine out of a hundred people make a great mistake when they cut off a dogs tail, in throwing away the wrong end ’ Covnterfeiters respret the press. In the whole history of this country we never heard of a SI,OOO counterfeit bill being passed on an editor. Mr. Editor : As you have invited dis cussion on the px-opriety or impropriety of holding a convention, I take the lib erty of sending you a short article, uot with the intention of throwing light on the subject, for I have not sufficient con fidence in my ability to think I am capa ble of this, but rather in a spirit of en quiry and hoping to draw others out on the subject. I heard none of the speeches deliv ered during March court, excepting a part of Col. Osborne’s, and have read only two articles published in your pa per(l read no other printed in Georgia) in favor of a convention: one by Mr. Hester and the other by Mr. Johnson. Mr. Hester’s has been noticed and an swered by “No Convention,” nnd Mr. Johnson’s was solely for the purpose of quieting the fears of the timid who thought that the new constitution, if made, might not be submitted to the people for their approval. We are of the opinion that l ut a small minority of the people of Georgia wore alarmed on this subject. A majority of our pebple are sufficiently acquainted with our form of government to understand that all power belongs to the people ; that they can make and unmake, create and de stroy. It would be a very anomalous state of affairs in government if the pow er that enacts laws was helpless to an nul them. But this is not the important question. Mr. Johnson says that all admit that our present Constitution needs a “wholesale revision.” lam mis taken if this is the general opinion. Since this subject has been brought be fore the people I have heard only a few objections urged against our present Constitution, and have heard the opin ion often expressed by those capable of judging, and by those,Jtoo, who were ad vocates of a convention, that, in the main, it was a good instrument. I bo lieve I have heard you express this much, Mr. Editor, and I have more con fidence in your judgment and honesty iu this matter than I feel injthat of many others who aro in a situation to be influ enced by motives of personal advantage and gain, for, “If self the wavering balance shake It is mre'right adjusted.” That it has delects none will question, nor woul dwe expect a convention to frame one free from them. The wisest body of men that the world could assemble, enlightened by the highest statesman ship and actuated by the purest and lof tiest patriotism, could never produce a faultless instrument of tho kind. Im perfection characterises everything that is the product of human hands or hu man brains. A convention might reme dy some—possibly all—of the present defects; but is it not probable that it would incorporate others equally as ob jectionable as those complained of ? It requires work and wisdom to build, but a fool can pull down. If I could be convinced that the pros perity of Georgia would be enhanced, and that its interests require the fram ing of anew constitution or materially remodeling the old one, then I would en dorse the calling of a convention and become one of its most zealous advo cates- But none of the objections, nor all of them that I have yet hoard, satis fy me of the expediency and wisdom of changing our organic law, except thro’ the agency if the General Assembly; and if any future legislature of Georgia should become so unprincipled and dis honest as to be bought and bribed, and to sell the State, then all the binding clauses of a constitution would be pow erless to save the Commonwealth. Such a degree of rottenness pervading tho body politic would destroy all healthy vitality. Such a tide of corruption would sweep away in its course consti tutional jprohibitions as well as legislat ive enactments. No virtue or power in Roman laws or Roman constitutions could have prevented the public sale of the empire in the camp of the paetcrian guards. Quite a number who aro in favor of a convention offer as a reason that wo should have anew constitution to meet the growing neeessities of the State. Exactly what idea they intend to convey by the term “growing necessities” we are left to conjecture, and perhaps some who use it Have no clear idea of what they wish to express, but, as Mark Twain said, “they find the words suit tho place ane therefore use them.” Tho State of Georgia has not undergone any great change in any of its material interests in the last ten years. Its wealth and population, its commerce and manufac turing, are nearly tho same as when the present Constitution was formed : but does tbe greatest change in these re spects authorise us to argue the neces sity of a change in our Constitution? This is anew philosophy introduced in to politics, and would involve the neces sity of a change in the organic law of a growing government every four years. We have been taught a different doctrine. We had thought that the Federal Con stitution, though formed for a govern ment then in infancy, was broad and comprehensive enough to support tho government when it was enlarged ten fold in magnitude, and its interests had become multitudinously diversified. We think so still. But, in conclusion, I would say that there appears to be an earnest desire pervading the public mind for rest from political excitement. So deep is this feeling that it will require extraordinary efforts of the press and hustings to arouse the people, and as this is not a lethargy or indifference that involves any great danger, would it not be wise to al low them to indulge it, and let all their energies be called into exercise and ex pended in to restore individual prosperity ? A. C. Langston. A little girl showing her cousin about four years old, a star, said: “That star you seo over there is biggar than this world.” “No, it isn’t,” he said. “Yes, it is.” “Then why doesn’t it keep the rain off?” Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is.