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■ X-A.W XTOTSCJES. J K DORTC'II, ATTORNEY AT lAW, ^rimvillt, G*. nolH-1873-tt' J .VCKSOX & 'i'UOMAH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Alliens, (In..; * Office Sotitli West Corner nt' College Av< ni;- Clayton Street, also nt tlie Court l!,v> . AU parties Jesirinj' Criminal Warrants, cun yet them at any time by npplvtnjz to the County Solictor at this office. ' deolil-l^! t1‘ The Convention. As is well known tn every render of tlie Georgian, v.e were nn earnest advocate for the call of the ilahlc and proper, hut a long session j Constitution sit a small per diem is as costly to the I pie did us State as a short session at :t high per . It is prot the State. The peo desire a netv one. Ratio oven if tlicv iiiivr., attorney I AT LAW. Minns, On. Prompt attention jriven to all bnsincs* atul tho ».une n »;i oliully solicited. janH-ty l>. C. Ha ninny, ,lM. Por* Rahhow. Jbitow Itrom., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' nm stiff L ’ .I- r*» eft * ^ Athens, Ga; Office o\ur Talmadgo, Hodgson A t.’n diem. There is no excuse for this ! desired a revision of the old one., unnecessary and exliorbitant i expend- j The incessant agitation of the capi- present Constitutional Convention, for ! itnn.- of the puhlie money. ! tal question utlcnirth forced the call reasons which we deemed good and 1 The following letter, publi bed in j ol a Convention through the Legisla- sufficient. We are still in favor j t i, c chronicle ami Constitutionalist | tore hy a feAe majority. A very ot.a Convention whose object it would 1 of t j„, 2ll j instant, presents so aptly ! small popularvbte after much person- be to make the primer and n.-cessarv | t j, w astounding course noiv living i al persuasion and the appeals of the alterations and amemlmenU to our or- J p lirstuH j by t | l0 Convention, that we I press sent yo]f to revise a good organ- ganic law. j g*, v e it the benefit of an insertion in ! it law as to tini-c portions in which But the fact cannot be disguised that j our editorial columns: 11 "' aH defective or object ionablo. g li Tit 11AH11E1U ATTORNEY AT LAW, Wstklnsvillii, (1s. Office in farmer Ordirnry’s office. janSWWC-ly A p O. TII OMSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Special ntb-ntlun For reference apply to sn>l lion.' l»a\M Ropu Office over I’b-uOmce IbhS-tSJ.Vtf ii, M !i*iis, W* ittH JOHN W. OWEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . Tocoa City, Ga. Will practice in all the ccnntk# of the Weet- ern Circuit, Hart and Madison of the Northern Circuit. - will giro special attenlon to nil elahna entrusted to hi* care. Oct-JO-lM.Vly. the Convention is treading upon dangerous ground and that the people aro becoming alarmc:! hy their revolu tionary measures and their wasteful expenditure of the public ntouev. A body which was chosen at an election ^trwltftffi lose titan gq<» half tbevoters 6f the State voted, have no authority to incorporate the entire subject matter of legislation in a pretended embodi ment ol fundamental principles. And tvhilp it is proper that guards should be thrown around the improper use of the public money and credit, the people do not intend that these wise-acres shall put them into an iron straight-jacket which wijJJcaytLthpiy nq .umvetoLsplf- vemtncid. A iCopMitAtikJ which kes awpyj fnu& the peopfc tljp |fiw<y of self government and the regulation oi their own affairs according to their wishes and the necessities of tl#|>artic- ular times, is as much an engine of tyranuy as the machinery of an abso lute despotism. It is an insult to the people, and assumes and declares that | Ami under Ijfis warrant you have To the Convention, Greeting! dipped your hands into .tho public i purse and haVoxesumed to: dig down A ItiseiSnl iwirnln VritHn Oku Letter tutlir 1 luasi Rational Convention. Lamar Cobb. Howei^Cobb. 'j tbe y have not ,he intelligence * nd virtue necessary to govern themselves, > soli AT UtfcH Y,0 Office ' iVl«i-lS7S-Jy Athens, 6a n Denpm- BnllUin^, ( For the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] Gentlemen of the. Convention : A friendly word or two with you. Yoi» do not constitute the “ ablest and most intellectual body of men ever assembled in Georgia.” The provincial press has told you this, and it is cruel to undeceive you. But it is necessary. Your autobiographies in pamphlet form have deceived no body, not even yourselves. This de vice of an Atlanta hoheiniau was a pleasant little prelude your lal*>n», and overtoppfccthe social and political fabric of&gfae. Yonr boast that- you are doing^Ayork to last,for geuqr« atious is bosh ^jnd balderdash. Con stitutions do ftot outlast the parch* ment upon which they are written. The world fffeves, society flanges and States grtjjfc/ Courts, the special guardians of e^istitutigna, do not JLeft irs would not stand Justices’,Court, iiys your, sessions are not without' matters of interest and amusement to the lookers ou. Bpt, them stand, a minute belt In these dit he averse to your assembly, though he voted an open ticket as a .•’latter of policy. He has a strong following of henchmen inside and outside the Grange. He did not mean anything by trying to preside over your or ganization. Bob Ely told him that such was, the law, and like Avery assured him it had been the etiquette of all similar occasions. Don’t imag ine that Colquitt is a fool. Some in telligent and discriminating people may have so thought after looking at liim anil listening to hint talk. Bnt I know him, and such is not a fact. Another : threat from yon in regard to tlie Agricultural Bureau, and the State administration is on your back. But I weary yonr patience, andper*. hapit intrude upon the precious time of men engaged as you are. Aly , on ly excuse is. your good and the wel fare of. t the, people.. After, a careful reading of your proceedings and speeches, my heart goes oat to the. poor victims of your economy, from old map Warner who will pot,, have, money enough to buy, a “ black veil,*' which he sq dejighta ,.fo wear, to the v page who will have to forego die In this, issuer we publish in fait the speech of lion. A. O. Bacon, Speaker of the Houss of Representatives de livered before the literary societies oi the State University at. the recent annual commencement. The subject chosen by the speaker is one of peculiar aptnc&j for the times, and while die address speaks for itself mid needs not commendation nt our hands, yet tve cannot forbear saving, that ” The Ideal Statesman” as ap essential to good government was so ably, elo quently and forcibly presented, Uiae all who were so fortunate as to near the honorable . speaker w ere deeply impressed .with the. iinpoutaitce of reform in the governing power of our land., Mr. Bacon, on this occasion fully sustained bis reputation as « sound thinker, a -true, patriot, a safe counselor and, a wise statesman, and we commend his. speech to the care ful reading of all, who feel ipi interest in good , and honest government,tyid who desire to ; sce “ Tlie Ideal States man V the boast .and honor of oar country^. / gentlemen of^jho Convention, then pleasure of peanuts. Am) M l(an- TT" every Constitutional Convention, save that of 1867, were your peers in ev erything, your Superiors in many. Even that military mulatto hybrid contained men who have proved themselves to be better Constitutional thinkers than yourselves. They have left* upon reoor&the draft 1 of an tw in office only fey suffrance, j ganic. law which you seem nnafele to j^EKX. M. KUWIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, At lien*, Ga. Office on Brand Street, between Center A Nieh- olson nn«l Orr A Co.. un-^Uirf>. feb2S-lS7S-ly COLU KAN, ATTomrrr jat law, (•ainmville, (in. j intend to oonstitute tbcm.-elvcs guar- i dians for these foolish and imbecile Georgians for all time to come. Now if there is one thing fully settled iu this country, it is the right and ability of the people to govern themselves, and to make their own laws mid to change both laws and law-givers as [often as they see fit The attempt equal or Kiirpa*». You have lifen in session eighteen days, have nearly exhausted the legislative appropria tion, and have accomplished but one certain result, viz.: the rejection of yonr work by tlie people, of whom you arc but a fraction, and a vulgar one at that. You are not ready defi cient iu intelligence or patriotism. his dogmatic a$sumacy and. bald as sertions. It is tlte first time since the war that tie has had an andienoc so respectable in numbers and iutelli-, gence, and h|j5fe<wi the most of tfeel opportunity. AitdGus Wright, as a |rd»gio-politJ^ f ^<-yost, is unequalled. Kthe -andifuHu>f impossiS tingencies, by ap enlargement of thq Stafe i^stic Asylum..,, r , - .1, . ; Good-bye, friends! Give Nat Ham mond, Gu? Reese and. Aleck Lawtop fair compensation and a competent clerk, and they wil) make a revision of the Constitution in three days that SWrfci.v lithe and tfttll jofjvwifl give ur^ivCTsal- and entire satis- liotious and idcan, which | faction. AS for the balance, come with a grace.and agt'ity ! home, and come at .once. We hove An Important Fact for the j Jr . Time*. III (i..v. H. Y. JtlhnsoiiM mertWgte td tlie-biennial stnsshwr of the General Aiisetnbly' in '1855 mid 1866, under the igeaeritl head df : treasury, page 12, of the journal of- that date; we find tlie* following i - - “Tito Committee of Finance on the State of the Treasury &a, called my attention to the'imiiicnsu item of ex-< pensc for the services' of derks in both branches df the General Assem bly. M have investigated this sub- , h^fac^ffiU exami nation-of rhr rusident'rt and Speiiker’s Warrantn Konl Kstnt<- :ui.l (ieuorul l^imt Agent forth* .inrohn-.e nml iciln of Mineral and Fanning Land* in Hall, mid tlie other counties of North- •jast tieoiyin. Minornl ore* tested and titles to property invest lasted. Special attention given totfie pu * . • - - ! under the disguise of a Constitution ' Among you are some eminent men. to fasten perpetually upon the people 1 You all had been iu the habit of going purchase and sale of city property, ys—6m J. N. DORSET. Attorn lie gets off novel and pleasing. Tlie mere polit- j not looked on a picture ao pitiable as j fmni 1883, down t*» the present time, ical student can find no better 6chool j that presented by you, save the one»including the last session. 'The ngi than that afforded by Squire Wofford, i uncovered by the strikers in the North. g ro gute expenses of tlie two Houser, who, true to tho instincts and tradi ! There States, weakened by a central- j p er sess'ioo, on this score, from 183lf, tions of tlie Cherokee, skilfully Lays ized Government,* quailed'and cowered I ^ ow „ lo t | t0 nession of 1849 50 rang- before a mob. Here, the sons of a troni $1,290 00 to )|8,833, the lat ter sum lieing the largest expendi ture <»f any one session dtiriug that the pipes for a Gubernatorial cam paign, by calling to Cuftcc to come up to tlie ballot box without money ^NBUltYG. McOUnUY. Attomoy- a-fc Zaw, IIartviill, Gxorqu, Will practice in the Superior Courts of North* «**t Gcoi^in mid Supreme Court at, Atlanta. A'i<* S. 1 **70 if .Iamk* It. Lyi.b, Watkinsville. Aux. S. Ekwiv, Athens. Commonwealth are shearing her of her strength and glory just as the Ameri and without price The political j can people are beginning to see and j, y ,- 10 d. For the session of 1849-50, economist and financier may ponder j appreciate the ttue theory of State ! t j, e ox p l?nSi . for clerks’hire of tba certain laws which are within tho legit- ; among your neigliliors without | upon and learn wisdom from the sol- j governments. | two Houses was818,280 00; for 1851- imate scojie of ordinary legislation s|M?ciul eare or espionage, and your etrn sentences of the Hon. Josiah i Cotne home! Georgia Joes not i o ; t was §17,212 00 and for 1858-4, 1 constituents and inasi.ers had come j Warren, of Chatham, as he anticipates to ljelicve that you were capable of j the thunder of Toombs’ 1 strike at attending to tlie ordinary duties of; railroad corporations. It is funny, every day life. Because you desired j but even my old friend 'Jack Guer*‘ to go to the Convention, they reluc* | rani, of Savannah, who is apt io‘jerli tantly sent you with foar and trein* j out his chunks of legal lore very much, bling as to tlie result, and tlu-ir worst ; after the fashion of chucking uice and which they ought to have the ! power of changing as they may wish, 1 is as much of a usurpation, as would : be the nttempt on the part of these delegates to perpetuate themselves in office for he next fifty years. And these gentlemen may rest assured that need politicians and Constitution-1 w{ls $33,1.06 00. The enormous patcher?. Come | The plow stands ! expenditure of the three last session* in the furrow, f.Hh|er ripens under a t j ie l^gighiture evince extravst- harvest moon, the cotton boll smiles to tlie kiss of an August sun, and the crow-feet from the crest of potato ridges', waves defiance to tho sable statesmen of the land. Will (,'uurt of lo ;;!l hasiucs* ini rusted" to their Wp. jaMt-Sui. STT3XXTE3S CAKES. tlie jieople intend In retain sonic por- j forebodings have been more than real- I from a box, lias caught the infectious * vt,k * KKWlN, tion of their freedom, and will indig- jized After a grt-al waste of wind, j afflatus, and upon so dry a point as j inviting. Your Stute calls, * J j VK’ S' i T IA IF nautlv spurn this eflort to bind and let- : you have framed a bill of rights which j imprisonment for debt, indulges in aii * practice in partncrsliip in the Su^riar | ter them. If a Constitution limited ; would have reflected credit upon the j undulating eloquence and a volnptu-; if o-.vay < »iiiit\-, .<■»,: ^ logitinr.itc J scop^ gf ,-Altp fuuda- : compoMiig powers of a hoy of tliirteeii.^ «iw rhetoric which recalls the best I mental law is presented, th4people wHUj II t. erg is.a Iniy of-rtbirttevo iir-the j efforts of Tom Hardeman and j doubtless disregard minor objections i State who-would father its gTtmmtar,! Lochrane in presenting tin tnunphets ! and ratify it overivlielminglv, but if j no argum nt is ueeded to prove our j al # fireman’s tournament. And i the present -florts in tlie Convention : common school si stem a failure, and j where, permit me to nsk, in the an- find their ic- ilts in tho leatnres ot the ! the educational bureau an expensive ! ,,a l s ot tlie world is there to he found J Constitulii r tliat instrument will ! aiul usele.-s exere.'e ic>. You have I n nobler example of misdirected com*- ' certainly be thrown hy the nonuhir tackled the Kxecutive Depart ment J a » u 5,1 the discharge of duty than verdict in the tra-!i basket where it [ article, and with pragmatical igno- j ** ,al nftbrded by Mr. Key, who rallies j J 1 lance have plastered it all over with an, l rises, and rises and ideas minds Tho field is Come A Sovereign. ganec ahd call for fefreBchirteir'atiA reform.” ’ 1 * v i' The most' reinarkablb flict <ttbout, the nitovn'iiumt disgraceful, of>rrupC~ »nd wnWefhl expenditure iif the’]**>- pies’. money in these honest, golden-* days'of tlie njiublio of which tve ^ A.AVINN. —WITH— GROOVER, STUBBS & CO- Collun I' t'-lon *!■<( (.. h.-imI 1 iMaml*»tfln JIm,-tcint«. • S.ivannali, Ga. BoMixg,Ties, «h1 xthrr nuppii,- far- \ nropCliv will lulling. utslird. Also, liberal cash advances maJ.i on , r ' . , . i , . ... , .•*insi!?nmciits for eiile or shipment to Liverpool j A proper constitution should have 1 the proto-plastic notions a.id or Nortbom port*. m»y SO-lwTft-tf franud and the conv<-!ilioti * which seem to pervade year rp a. 11,vn. I alioulj 11:1 v • ml joai iievl two reeks *; all points of Constitutional law. W-'fcsb.vaxlKar 3e JTowalor, j since. This could and would have | Indeed, you set-in to be animated. U Michnol’ntore, next door to BeaTe*& Xlch- 1 been dole if the work had been io:i* ' tint by a single purpose, viz.: to ol.’ou’*, itroaJ etreet, Athene, Geonria. All . , . , | , . „ -i. .. . 1 : 1 r irork warranted 12 month*. | fined to constitution 11 king, and • emasculate a great State WHICH lor had n* it be-11 pu-hed into tie-geiu-n! ! the tin..- being, unhappily lies pi os- field of legislation. This v us the di-! trate and powerless in your hands, red promise to the poo],1c when the Mv |h*h has done you rank injustice delegates were seeking their election. Tlie SUo.OllO appropriated by the Legislature has been nearly exhausted, and aa much more will fee consumed by these wonderful economists. The sincerity of their professions of regard wptis-ti MltAKFLK, J* amendment in hand, to be immedi ately and incontinently floored by Pagltt hniiilredf Monivuiites an iced : hear -o niuch ot late, is thnLtlw* in this country last week from Russia, j imm-iculato bi*n. W. _ o or . Tlie.v* emigrated thence to avoid eon- j wl *° the present c-nstirntt -sr.il con- and have determined t( , j vention set unco,nproniismgly abuses K-uisi^ jlhe profligiev ot tbe present tunes, * aiyl who is mm tlie modern eh-impi Peunsylvaniil. Probably they wmld i'" 1 ,,r Tetiem huient. reform, and have come to Georgia and Foliid-i it i u "> ‘ n, ’ V:VH 1,1 W ( they had been sufficiently instructed i W54 Clerk o. the house ol rep.eseo-,* I in the advantages oft’..•red to settlers | rallies,!. , , . —— = — -- j in those localities. script 1011, si-ttle at, vaiious points in ivuns s, Nebraska, Missouri and Western The Jews arc determined to sY tliose par’iamentary athletes, George \ Mr. Hill on that they can get on Pierce and Porter Ingram? Pardon this diversion, and I proceed with the matter in poiut. As I have already COTTOXT BVYCT, Toeoa City, Go. lliitbest em.li i»r WinshiF* eo iKiid for cotton. A«ent 1. oe80-l»76-tf i*rr 1—: OJ' R. X-ITTI-E, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, «pl8-1873-tl Caroeaville, Ua. "Wan-bod- in that last paragraph, and I hasten to make amend. You all seem to be candidates for something, from Guv* emor duwu to Justice of the Peace. It is safe to say that not more than half a dozen of you*- body have 1 iniiit'-diato withdrawal ot their own EMPLOYMENT oitW a* b Tanner, Engl- " , .... , nx*r, or CArpenuir. Goal ri-fcnnoee eiveu, and j hands ! the public money drawer. r«woa»h!o. Adarons, J. H. K., c*re of J ... ,i Atncn* Georgian, Athens, Ga myiMf ‘Thesu ..i-m 18 all very ciid for the pecuniary interests of the part d with political at d official aspw public can be best proven by tlie rations. And you seem altogether ohliv'ous of the crand tt|K>n wfiioh you were sent. The call under which vou have assembled was lo revise the Oli, s tints oi the departed, ketlij" days, j i>l io iliiuk of ii, that 1 tii.- pur**,'im ,1 •-■•til te-G.,:ulva J. Jen- | kins should luve read lr.itn the desk of the pi\ sidliig ofli J-*r of Georgians ciitivil'itioual coiivontioii letters from well in life without him. A commit tee of I-realites, appointed hy some of the leadi g houses of New York, observed, it is 1 unpleasant necessity have visited Staten Island to find a | iho holders of Baiiock’s bonds, wjiett to tell you the truth. But outside of suitable site upon which to build a ! oollv mfo-, XV :.s called to p.irily the fact that you ha.-o driven Her- l :l rge h. tel. They do not intimate, j t j ie l oco , j v f a „ uectiraed and politi- 1PT..1 J * _ I! .• 1 * .. 1 t- _ ' v ’ Al.-i. *1...... —*ir.. .. t.t a 3 bert Fielder to his inkstand, you have accomplished nothing so far .beyond tho certain rejection of your “ oils podridq ” by a popular vote ' The Republic :ns will rally, organ ize, and strike it solidly. They will be actively aided by all of the outs, and by all o*. those officials and th«:r friends to whom you have applied the salary guillotine. Colquitt is not partial to you. He was supposed to however, that they will follow Mr. [ (>a || v corrn pt commonwealth. And Hilton’s uncharitable example, and j t0 think, that he wcatt nefore. adoiittanco to :it, when finished, to j t], e fiaiuice cornin'ttce In advocacy of “ trade Christians.” Wonder* of tlie oge^ That Gen. W. T. Woffowl, .who recently so vigorously attacked the lobbyist in tlie Con. Coo., should have been a feed lobbyist in behalf of the “Stone chums the much abused legislature of 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876 nnd 1877 had repudiated. - u That, resolutitnt—that College- de stroying resolution—of G- >1 • . John ..lou-'tain penitentiary project” re- I Sureven’s!. Why, really, what ii to vived iu 1374. More anon. beovnie of our Stale University