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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: JULtf 24, 1877., Terms ot Sul»fsorli*tlon. ONE COPY, One Year S2 OO ONE COPY, Six Month* —— 1 °° ONE COPY, Three Months 30 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Citation for Letter* or Guardianship »5 W Ciution for Letter* of Admlniuratlon --r-r ••• 4 00 Application tor Letter* of Dismission Admin- ^ Appl™^on for"Let'tcr* of Dl*mli*lon Guardian 5 86 Application for Leave t»*8eH Land* — ® 5® Notice to Debtors and t roditon — — * Sale* of Land, Ac., per square.... * Sale* PerDbakle property, 10 day*, per *q— 1 60 Estray Notlco*, 50 day*.. — “ ^ Sheriff Sales, per square a Sheriff Mortgage fi. fa sale* per square 6 00 Tax Collector'* Sale*, per square-. »• •••••• "••• ° Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each time. 1 00 Exemption Notice* (In advance) 8 Rule Nlsl’a, per square, each time.-........-.-. * «» Tho above legal rote* corrected by Ordinary of Clarke county. Rates of Advertlelnu. Advertisements will be inserted at ONE DOL- LA R per square lor the first insertion, and J IFl * CENTS per square for each continuance, for any time under one month. For longger periods a lib eral deduction will be made. A square equal to ^Notices"in local column, less than a square, 20 cents a line. ^%ns (itrapn. H. H. CARLTON, - Editor. The result of the Hill-Wright chaplaincy tussle, clearly demonstrates that the constitutional convention is against associating Church and State. An account of the Commencement and Examination Exeicises ot Har mony Grove High School will appear in our next issue. General Grant continues to con sume the best and most prized “ vin tage” of Europe in behalf of the welfare and prosperity of that con- t ueut. The remains., of ^General Custer have been removed from the battle ficl l of Little Big Horn Creek and restored to his Iriends lor interment at West Point, which he often de sired should be chosen as his last- resting place. Gen. Freedmens Bureau Howard says he will give the Indians no quar ter. Well, if he can only succeed in establishing an “ Indian Bureau ’’and take the Redskins in on a Savings Bank” sjheme, then its never a quar ter will they get. Notwithstanding the constitutional convention refused to allow paid for prayers in behalf ot its members, yet the people of Georgia are re-- joked to know that the clergy, at least, feel sufficient interest in the welfare of our commonwealth to provide means for invokmg divine guidance upon that irreverent body, without money and without price. There seems to be some alarm at the White House in regard to the legal proceedings against the Louisiana Returning Board at NewOrleans. Can it be that Messrs. Hayes, Matthews, Foster and the Electoral Commission imagine that momentous consequences may be the result of these proceedings? Well, as regards Mr. Hayes, he can sustain his religious convictions by just abdicating. As for the rest, it makes no matter. Their religion won’t trouble them half so much as the hot seatber or a failure in the mint julep crop. We have always held that the edu cational interest of Georgia would con stitute the grave and all important question for the consideration of the Constitutional Convention. Hon. Charles J. Jenkins in his address to the Convention as President of that body, dwells more at large upon this point than any other which he essays to mention in his elegant, eloquent, well- timed and patriotic address. Let the Convention but heed the wise admoni tion of their presiding officer upon this question so deeply involving the vital interest of our Commonwealth, and it will have laid a sure, safe and solid foundation for the future happiness nod prosperity of our people, for the future good government, wise progress and true sovereignty of Georgia. The Constitutional Convene tion is jnst one week old to-day, and if the innumerable resolutions already offered are to be taken up, consider ed and acted npon separately, then we predict that it has passed only about one seventh of what must be its necessary existence. The pro ceedings are altogether too volnmni- ous to be given in the small space which we would be able. to allow. Therefore we will uot attempt it, but when the body, gets down to regular work, we will try and keep our readers advised as to all important adoptiens of the convention. It shall not be our purpose to unjustly criticise the action of this body upon which the hopes and expectations of our people are now centered and in which consists the true welfare of our commonwealth, but from the charac ter ot many of the resolutions now being introduced we incline to the f opinion that the convention is laying a foundation for the just and severe criticisms of the public, if not endan gering the acceptance of its work. From many of these resolutions, we would say—not censoriously or from the slightest degree of captiousness, but solely from a desire which we feel in common with the whole people to sec the work of the convention result in its glory and honor through a wise, judicious, wholesome and much needed change in our organic law, that it would do well to heed the wise ad monition of their presiding officer, where in his able, patriotic and statesmanlike address, he couuselsthe convention to keep steadily in view the essential difference between constitutional and statutory law. it would seem from the proceedings so tar, that the body is likely to dis regard that -principle, which, under our republican form of government, distinguishes government from sover eignty. Let it be borne in tnind, that its duties are those of a constitutional convention, called together tor the purpose of framing the fundamental or organic law, and let it not fall into the error of so far assuming legislative powers as to engraft upon the consti tution such statutory provisions as will defeat the purpose of its coming together, and cause its labors to bu contemptuously rejected. Let patri otism over-ride prejudice; let wisdom supplant enthusiasm; let sound judge ment and experience take the place of experim ntal theories, theu will tho convention have subjected itself to those influences, which will make it true and wise to the trust confided, and through which happiness and prosperity will again smile upon our laud—the result of the well-directed labors of Georgia’s own patriotic sou’s. But let us be of good cheer, the convention, doubtless apprehensive of the evil consequences which might result from the prejudicial tendencies of the times as well as the too un wieldy size of its own body, has taken a wise precautionary step against such contingencies and ap pointed a large and able committee on final revision. This augurs well for the convention and should not leave the people without hope that a new and more prosperous era for Georgia will be their much needed and most, welcomed heritage from the constitutional convention of 1877. The history of every nation and of every people who, as the consequence of revolution, have suffered from an overthrow of governmental prosperi ty, embracing their social, moral, re ligious and material well-being, goes to prove, that chiefly through a ro- vtvaland renewed interest given to the cause of oducation have they been fully redeemed, truly regenerated and wholly disenthralled. General Howard has had a seven hours tilt with the 'Looking Glass band and through his howitzers and gatling guns the Redskins were driven out of their rifle pits into the prairie, their camps and squaws cap tured, and w Chief Joseph” allowed no quarters. We are indebted to a friend in Atlanta for an advance proof sheet of the report of the Committee on Home steads and Exemptions, which' .will be found in another column of our paper this morning. Thu report was made to the committee on final revision yesterday, and will .be presented by that comnutiee for the consideration and adoption of the Convention. There seems to be quite a lull in the war operations of tho two con tending armies of Europe. Tbe Ger man government has made serious —r 7—•—r 7 r T~£—TTJl complaint to both'Russia and Turkey as to' fheir ill treatment' by the sol diers of? both countries and entered her solemn protest there against. The State University. We are in .reeQpt of au interesting communication .from “ Pulilicus ” a graduate of the State University in the class of ’76 giving many impor tant facts in regard to the present and .past administration of- ; the' col lege, which for prudential reasons we decline to publish. In. this con nection, we would say, that we have greatly regretted the too personal character.of the recent publications in ragard to the State University, its administrations, and the officials con nected therewith. No good can possibly come of all of this, .butjnucli harm may be done. We do not wish to bo understood that the college and its admimstratoiu arc not subjects for the critical consideration of every Georgian who feels an interest in the State University. But thfen there is a right way and a wrong way of ex ercising this privelige. Certainly the right way is not in that style of criti cism, which makes either intention ally or unintentionally personal an tagonisms, or conflict between the friends of individual officers of the college. The faculty of the institu tion is only responsible to the Board of Trustees, the Board ofTrus- tees to the General Assembly and the people of Georgia. Then let each of these respective departments of the government ot the University beheld to an account in a proper and regular way, and hy the authorities to which they are respectively re- spous blc. This it seems to us would be better, being less likely^of dam age and certainly tho surest means of good at this time. If the college is on ^ie decline, and that seems not to be dented by any one, then let the foundation evil be hunted out l»y those whose duty it is to guard well the more direct government of the institution, seeking always and at all times its welfare, progress and pros perity, and should they fail of this high trust, then let them he held responsible to that authority whose duty it should be as the tytle "and higher guardian of the University to hold reorganize, regulate or reform the trusteeship. In taking this position or throwing out these precautionary hints, we trust that we shall not be understood as relinquishing any position which we may have formerly occupied, or in the slightest disagreeing with any thing which we may have siid previ ously in regard to the University and its management. Not so by any means. We simply speak of what is best at the present time in order to pilot our much loved old University safely through the crisis which she i now passing. In justice to ourselves as well as the many true friends and lovers of our, formerly, grand old in stitution, who have during the past few years, essayed to call attention to her languishing condition and sought to bring her back to her for mer glory, we must join issue stoutly with the recent Board of Visitors, where they in their report to the Gov ernor state. The most intelligent judges and the observation of the board ascribe this falling off to the persistent. twaddle about denominational influences^ out side, divisions in the board of ’trustees, personal partisanship, *the withdrawal of Col. Broun, the ill-natured assaults upon the chancellor, opposition . to. the iucumbeat of the chair ot natural phi losophy, newspaper animadversions, the false impressions regarding the' ex pensiveness of a college course here, and the general disgust and disaffec tion which such a state affairs has engendered. How unjust for this Board to have thus asserted that the real cause pf the present decline in tho University, are those things which have followed as uatural aud inevitable .resalts of that portending decline, toywhioh the newspapers of the State have in the past few years been calling attention with the hope that through such in strumentality the evil might bo aver ted. And then still more j unjust is the statement,, that “ newspaper animadversions ” have contributed to bring about this much to be i egret- ted condition of affairs. ^Do the Board ! of J Visit6rfl really think that newspapers are able to produce taioh important effects ? Per haps, had. this board, given more calm and considerate reflection upoii this point it would have arrived at the more natural and logical, certain ly the more just couclnsion, that University calamities-vdp, npt arise from i Newspaper criticisms, descrip- tions.or animadversions, but from the real character and conduct of their governments. To have established the correctness of this assertion the Board s’ ould have proven-that the present govern ment of the College is unquestionably the bes’, ablest and most efficient that could possibly be secured ; and that, if the" University is on the de cline, it has all been owing to “news paper animadversions,” and other mentioned causes, which would not allow the best, ablest and most effi cient government that ever adorned an institution of learning to take a single right step for the interest and advancement of the State University or the honor and glory of the com monwealth. But it seems they were so abundantly and pariiou larly cautions in * coming to the real, and particular cause of this unfortunate condition of affairs, that, they committed the blunder of pre senting the evil effects rather than tho true cause of the falling oft* in the State University. Far be it from our purpose to un justly criticise this Board, or in the slightest degree offend the nicer sen sibilities of those whom we regard so highly for their learning and intel-. lectual abilities, and whose friendship we so much value, but permit us to say that Visiting Boards arc not always the surest or best authority. Circumstances are generally such that their information is wholly or chiefly obtained from the members of the Faculty of the institution which they are called npon to visit. And not to reflect upon the last mentioned honorable bodies, still, it is not ex pected of them to give such informa tion as is sometimes desirable or for the best, interest of the institution, and which, no doubt, many of them would like known to the proper authorities. Then, it must be ad mitted that, at last, the reports of Visiting Boards are mainly a presen tation of the statements of t!:e mem bers of the Faculty, and must be taken with that degree of allowance which is due the courtesies as well as the embarrassments of their positions. But to conclude this already too lengthy article. The Board of Trus tees are now soon to meet. The decline in the University over which they have the honor to preside, is a painful recognition with all of its friends throughout the State. It is recollected that the General Assembly of 1876 passed a measure looking to such reformation in the College as would likely secure its popularity and prosperity, and that influences and circumstances were such as to prevent it becoming law. This, of course, makes the responsibility upon the Trustees doubly great. Then, the eyes of all the people are upon you. To you they are looking, and of you they expect the safe amt sure deliverance of the University through the crisis which now so seriously threatens its future progress and prosperity, if not its very existence. Then most honorable Board of Trustees, in behalf of the cause of ed ucation ; in behalf of our whole people and the honor and glory of our com monwealth; in behalf of the many friends of onr much loved old institu tion and in behalf of your own honor and reputation aa true and patriotic sons of Georgia, we appeal to you, to away with all dissensions and disa greements; let all personal prefer ences and prej tidices be surmounted; let. individual ambitions and official pride give way to self-sacrificing in terest in and true love for the cause of University education, and let your approaching annual meeting begin a new, a brighter, a more prosperous} a more progressive, a more satisfac tory and a more popularizing era in our State University The cheapest Croekeryj^trlassware and Lamps, at J. H. Huggins. A SPtEEBlfi ’ ■bun) sVioitdrr) .If/.Til.IK/ iron I I >Vq bit:-, ,ir •<»♦: ?*.►»!•> '<(;•' bliil Atlanta and Augusta Undersold. THE TREMENDOUS STOCK OF AND WAGONS, r, ^ -——OF THE JOLD RELIABLE FIRM OF HODGSON BROS MARKED DOWN. PRICES CEEATLY REDUCES. We have on lmnd the Largest STOCK SOUTH OF BALTIMORE, and it must and will tv sold withmt delay. Good Buggies, HODGSON MAKE for ME §W»ftE®. B@EI.A1S. The Celebrated Hodgson Wagon, Known all over the State for their durability and strength, and are beyond question the b?.-' WAGONS ever sold in this section of the Country. Parties wishing any sort of Vehicles are respectfully invited to look through our stock. ALL WORK GUARANTEED* Mbp&i&ijvg J&b Worm A SPECIALTY. Skilled and Finished Workmen in Every Department. Special attention will be given to REPAIR WORK, and the ‘scale of prices in this branch have been reduced fully one-fourth. No BOTCH work allowed in our shop—all First-class WORK AND AT BOTTOM PRICES. julyS-tlm G eorgia, clarkecounty—whereas, Stepney Jones, (colored,) administrator of John Jones, (colored,) deceased, petitions, in terms of the law, to be discharged from said administration— These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all persons concerned, to show cause at my office, on or before the first Monday in Novem ber next, against the granting of said discharge. Given under mv hand, at office, this 19th day of July, 1877. * ASA M. JACKSON, jiilvsj4-Sm. Ordinary. Important to Cotton Planters, We hove on hand a large lot of first-class Cotton Gins, made up in the best style and of good material, which we will sell at the lowest market prices. All planters wishing to buy a cheap and good Gin, will find it to their interest to correspond with us, as we mean business to suit tiie times. We have over twenty years’ experience in the Manufactory of Gins. Write for prices, terms, etc., and we feel cer tain we can satisfy you. By ordering direct from ns nnd giving satis factory reference, you can thereby save your selves Agent** Commission. J. D. * H. T. HAMMAVK, julyg4-lrn. CrawfordTille, (la. Auction! I have associated W. A. England with me in the Auction business, who will give prompt attention to the Bale of property and goods of all kinds. VERONEK & ENGLAND. july!7-lm. ITotLce. The undersigned having rented the Hemphill shop, is prepared to do all kind of blacksmith- ing, making and repairing wagous and buggies. Having procured the best of white mechanics, he hopes to secure the public patronage. J. S. ROBISON, Jr. G EORGIA, CLARKE COUNTY.—Whereas. Richard D. Winn and Young K. Mitchell applies to me for Letters of Administration, de bonis non, with the will annexed, on the estate pf Thomas Mitchell, (late of said county,) de ceased— These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all concerned, to show cause, at my office, on or before the first Monday in September next, why said Letters should uot be granted. Given under mi hand, at office, this 11th day of July, 1877. ASA M. JACKSON, july!7-80d. Ordinary. fYCONEE SHERIFF’S SALE.—Will be Bold U before the Court-House door in the town of Watkinsville, on the firat Tuesday in August next, between the legal hours of sale, the fol lowing property, to-wit: One hundred acres of land, aituate, lying and being in Oconee county, adjoining lands of Durham, Poullain and others. Levied bn aa the property of Joel J. Morton to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from ClArke Superior Court, returnable to August term 1867, of said Court, in favor of Wm. H. Fury ear vs. said Joel J. Morton. Property pointed out by attorney for plaintiff in fi. fa. julylO-SOd. W. W. PRICE, Sheriff. I $50 Reward.' Will be paid lor the apprchonsion and deliv ery to the Sheriff of Madison county of Jim Long, colored, who knecked down the jail-r and escaped from jail bn tho night of the 4th instant. Said Long is about 30 or 86 years of age, six feet one or two inches high, weighs about 200 pounds, complexion black, walks rather stooped shouldered, very large white eyes, and full front teeth. Is charged with assault ‘with intent to murder; is a notorious bad character. Look out for him, and Btop the scoundrel. JAMES W, KIRK, inlvio-lm. Sheriff. " Uaway, Spioy, Reliable." The Atlanta Constitution. Under its new management, Tan Atlanta Constitution lias won tor itsm/ tha title of the leading journal of the south. Its enterprise, during the recent election excitement, in send ing correspondents to different portions of the country, and its scries of special telegrams from Washington while the electoral commission was engaged .in consumnting the fraud that placed radicalism once_ more in power in onr national j councils, are evidences conspicuous enough t< prove that no expense will bo spared to make i Thk Constitution not only a lender iu the dis- | cussion of matters of public concern, but a j lender in the dissemination of the latest and I most reliable news. There is no better time j than now to subscribe for A Fresh amt Vigorous Xenspaper. • Allieit, there has been a q asi settlement ol one of the most difficult uud dangerous pro blems of modern federal politics, the discussions spring therefrom and tho results likelyto ensue have lost nothing of their absorbing interest. In addition to this, the people of Georgia are now called upon to settle The Contention question. and in the disenssiou of this important subject (in which The Constitution will take a leading part) every Georgian is interested. If a conven tion is called its proceedings wilt find their earliest and fullest embodiment in the columns of The Constitution, and this fact alone will make the paper indispensable to everv citizen oi the Btate. To be brief, The Atlanta Dally Constitution will endeavor, by all the means that the pro gress of modem journalism has made possible and necessary to hold its place us a leader of southern opinion and as a purveyor of the latest news. Its editorials will be thoughtful, timely and vigorous—calm and argumentative iu their methods and thoroughly southern and demo cratic in their sentiments. Its news will be fresh, reliable and carefully digested. It will bn allert mid enterprising, nnd no expense will ! be spared to make it the medium of the latest ‘ and most important intelligence. The Weekly Constitution.. Besides embodying everything of interest in the daily, The We belt Constitution will con tain a Department of Agriculture, which will be in chaige of Mr. Malcolm Johnson, the well, known Secretary of Georgia State Agricultural Society. This department will be made a spe cialty, and will be thorough and complete. Tbe fiutner will find in it hot only oil the currant in- formation on the subject of agriculture, but timely suggestions and well-digested advice. Subscriptions should be sent in at once. Tama (hr the Dally: 1 month... fl 06 8 months.. 3 00 A months...., 6 30 12 months 10 06 l • Tertaa (hr the Weekly s ,( months fil 1 IS months 2 90 ' Money, ipky be sent by postofnee money order at onr expense. . - . Addre&a: THE fcONSTITOTIOh^ ’ notiosto Clarke County Bondholders. Tuo interest due July jat, 1877, wM be nromntlv raid in coin, at tiie National Hank. I ami afao prepared to tako up bonds to the amount of one thousand dollars. amount ox om- g Q REESE, County Treas. 1one86-lm. '' ‘ . *. LEGAL'BLANKS, veatiy printed and for sa'e at thi9 office^