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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN : AUGUST 14, 1877.
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Believing tliat the time has come
\vh n all true friends of education
throughout our midst should speak
out, and speak plainly upon this all
important subject, we propose in the
future to devote much of onr time
and space to the discussion, of tliis
question; aird trtlSt wc shall Mve the
cooperation of all who desire to see
our grand old commonwealth
adorned with a first class institution
of 1 ’arning.
Greg Wright fires an editorial shot
into the cOn. con. which it is to be
hojied will scatter that ambush crowd,
ere they ruin the reputation of our
State, and greatly increase the taxes
of our already oppressed tax-payers
by their deceptive small per dietn and
unnecessarily long session.
Iltjmts (Ibtrgran.
If. II. CARLTON, - Editor.
The Board of Trustees and the
State University.
We have just read the proceedings
>>f the Board ol Trustees of the State
University at their recent meeting in
i lie city of Atlanta, as published in
the. Constitution of Sunday. Never
before p.-ih.:ps in the history of
the college, have the people bl'Geor
gia been so disap^Hiinted at the
doings of ihis lioi.orable body. Sat
isfied as everybody was, and with an probability force au intelligent and
admission on the part of at least a j greatly wronged people to accept the
majority of tin* Board of Trustees, ! evils with which they have become
iumiliur, rather than adopt thoso which
tliis reckless body fain would impose
The convention still holds on and
the indignation of the people still in
creases. What should have been the
work*of ten days or twenty days at the
outside lias been supplemented bv a
most shameful, .disgraceful and pro
tracted wrangle over the organic law
of our State. The chief characteristics
of the convention so far, have been au
unjustifiable expenditure of the public
money and such conduct as will in all
mat tiio UuBersity was on tin.
*. line, some action looking to the re
vival of the intrust in this institution upon them. This is indeed a lnment-
was confidently expected. But, alas, ! able state of affairs, and only endura-
how disappointed have been the j ble by reason of the fact, that it be-
hopes of the friends of our State Uni- i youd all question settles tor all lime to
versify. Where new life might have ! come, the political destiny of the dem-
been given, additiona’ harriers have j ugogues, office-seekers and political
been furnished; where wisdom should ; sore-heads of which this body is so
have lifted the cull-ge beyond the j largely composed. This certainly is
embarrassments which threaten its! “a consummation devoutly to * be
very existence, fol y has, in the opin-! wished for.” In contemplation of this
ion of most people, sung its requiem, i happy and most salutary result, we
Not fo enter into the details of this
subject, which have- been so freely
heretofore presented to the public,
let us accept the plain and unqr.es
are reminded that “every bitter has
its sweet, >f and inde d the State of
Georgia is to be congratulated.
Then accepting this result as the
tionahle liiets, that the University is ; only good now promised by the action
on the down grade to ruin, under j of the convention, it behooves the peo-
tul! headway, and with no brakes mu,
and that emergencies require prompf
and positive action, desperate eases,
heroic treatment. Tho trouble, as
we see it, in the way of the prosperity
of the University, is in a division
among the Board of Trustees them
selves, which has so long existed as
to not only become incurable, but has
moulded into a ruinous partizunsbip
pie to set themselves at once to w ork
in older to avert so tar as possible the
calamity which now so seriously threat
ens the welfare of Georgia. In view
of the fact, that the convention was
allied by an honest demand ou the
part of a majority of our people who
recognized defects in our fundamental
law which needed to be remedied, and
that this work was assigned to a con
\h, that's the term! not denoinina-1 vention chosen by the democracy of
ionalism, which is so stoutly denied, j the State, what could be more dam
mit paitizanship. Of course, the dif ! aging to our true political and govern-
ferenee between these, at any rate, J mental interest than the presentation
between their results, is the differ-■ to the people, on the part of this body,
once between Iweedle-dutn and j of a so-called organic law, so opposed
: wcedle-doc. Then, the only sal va- | to their more intelligent views of con-
* ion—indeed, we might say, the only
resurrection—of the University is in
q complete and absolute reorganiza
tion of its government through the
General Assembly.
But then the question arises,
s it wise and for the best in
terest of the cause of education
;n our State to jeopardize what
•night he made the inundation of
a well-ordered and progressive
stitutioual law, as- to force them in
defense of the public good to accept a
constitution framed and given to us by
the piebald convention of 1868?
Then let the whole people begin to
demand of this convention, that it
s«*lecl a committee of ten from the
few good and true men that are to bo
found in the assembly, whose duty
it shall lie to take the present consti
tution and altering and amending it
When will the eon vention adjourn? ! lion. N. .T. Hammond took the •
Ah, that’s the question. Well, as j following sensible position in a speech j
institution ot learning in onr midst,; j n gU ch particulars as the necesities of
■*}’ wa-tmg legislative action upon ah i jj ie times and our people demand, sub-
iustitution whose trust government I niit it ns a substitute for the whole
stands as a barrier in the way of all j doings of the convention up to the
fostering care and legislation on the ! present time, and thus having done
part of the State ? l'o cur mind, it ! adjourn nine die, that the public
v mild now st em but the heighth of j m i n d may have rest and the repu-
Georgia in her present financially
oppressed condition cannot well af
ford to support a dual legislation,
perhaps it would be but jnst to give
the present crew credit for having
provided against the assembling of
the present General Assembly next
JaaMiyj LSdftetttOTPltfi CffcLile
higher law ol nature, and then, it is
so well known that .these patriots
have the good of .their-epuntry at
heart. A. ••
On Monday last, the Democrats
carried the States of Kentucky and
Alabama. Not much new departure
in these parts.
We have a startling statement from
Atlanta. A gentleman, high in pub
lic esteem and responsibly for his
utterances, says that Gen. Toombs,
on Monday last, denounced the cabal
of the convention, and declared his
purpose to stump the Slate against
the ratification of the spawn of the
faction.
Oh, ain’t wc on sweet times! When
such men as Toombs, and Lawton,
and Norwood, and Matthews, and
Reese, and Fain, and Trammell, and
Davis, and H um'.ond, and Pierce,
and Simmons, and Hansel (.and sixty-
five or seventy otlieiS of like high
character and patriotic purposes, be
gin to talk plain English to Brown,
and Holcomb, and Boyd, and Collier,
and Wright, and Wofford, and their
mystic krew, it time f r i In- ma.-ses
to piit themselves in motion, and
through primary meetings, stop the
supplies and dethrone the sovereign.
Goihesi'ifie Engle.
ead the News!
Talmadge, H
in the Convention last Friday, when j
the subject was the reduction of the 1
Governor’s salary: j
“ Will not that keep out of office i
every inan who is unable to submit j
to the sacrifice? What man is there .
in Georgia who is able to direct the '
affairs of your government, and who j
(without misfortune) is not making !
more than three thousand dollars per ! HHl* _ ~V 7" yvr r 1 >
annum? What man, for that amount, I X 11C V Cl V i~J |
would break up his home associuti- ns j - .
and attachments and move to At- j
lanta, or wherever your capital might j
bo? I warn you that there is a limit r .
to ibis reduction, and that if you ^0X11, XlOllT, Meat'
wish your public officers to be faith- > >
ful and satisfied, your payment must
be, not lavish, but liberal.”
HA VI
LARGE ARR1
AND AU
Groceries and Provisions.
We control the product of the Finest Mills in the South.
Why don’t some member of the ;
Con. Con. introduce a resolution in- j
corporating “Tho Flat Creek Coon j
Hunting Association?” Then the'
Constitutional Legislature will be j CHOICE* KENNESAW, MARIETTA & EXTRA
getting down to it rivrht.
Every Sack Warranted to give Satisfaction.
Bagging and Ties a Specialty.
The Business Outlook in New
Yoke.—A New York letter says the
dry goods merchants of that city are
speaking \ei) hopeiullj of the pios- j Arrangements made for Supplying Grangers and Gin-
pects ior a good tall trade. 1 he riots, j 1 c A1 ° °
they say, could not have happened! tiers in Large Lots Cheaper than Anybody,
at a better time for them than thus
“ between seasons.” There were but
few goods to be forwarded to the
interior, and the interruption of trans
portation, therefore, was not seriously
felt. There are many Southern and
Western buyers in town who will
take hold in a day or two. The cer
tainly of abundant crops warrants
the belief that tlm West is going to
be a more liberal purchaser than at
any season since the panic. A note-
i worthy feature of the market mean-
The New York IForAfSays. with j while is the announcement that on
truth, that if one-twentieth part of i Thursday next, 1,800 cases of Rich*
the uproar and lawlessness which j niond prints are to be sold by a lead-
have Jately disgraced the great States
ing auction house. Other branches
of business are also hopeful, if not
bouyant.
When demagog - es, politicians,
the most ext ravagant foolishness, cer-
Uiinlv, tin* most unwise educational
policy. Wl at, the:, shall be the so
lution of the trouble? Why, sepa
rale at mice from the government of
the University, the Agricultural Cob
lege «»f the State, and as the act of
the gci'.cral government granting the
land >eiip, makes the Slate tiie guar-
lian ol the institutions founded there-
•upon, let ilie legislature foster this
ins*it lion as the true College or
University of the State, establishing
As it - trusteeship the State Agricultu
ral Society. This will remove the
Si ate A rii ultnral College from the
ru eons influences, which now seem
fo hung r mid the University, and
us it seem** to he inevitably on the de
cline it surely b« c lines the high duty
taiion of the State be preserved.
This, and this alone, to our mind, is
the only way out of the disgraceful
entanglement into which this most
unlortuuatc assemblage has brought
the people of Georgia and their best
interest.
To the Traveling Puirnc—
Greeting.—Mr. T. A. Gamer keejis
the best breakfast house at Buford
that can be found upon any railroad
anywhere in this Southern land.
After a night upon the railroad, if a
breakfast at Garner’s table don’t re
fresh ymi/and make yon feel as if
you had fallen into the hands of old
Ep'curus himself we will agree to pay
the damages, let them be what they
mav.
of New York and Pennsylvania had
occurred in Virginia and North Caro
lina, every Radical newspaper and
spotiter in the North would have uni
ted in clamoring that the “Southern canaida,cs for governorship, office-
seekers generally, and bitter, disap
pointed applicants for public favor
get done framing - a constitution,
policy” of President Ilaycs was a dis
astrous failure, a.d insisting that
those ancient Commonwealths should
be reduced to the condition again of
military provinces. While York
has reassert* <1 her nuthomy Vithin
her own border, Pennsylvania is
largely depending upon the Federal
army for the restoration of law. Yet,
the Blaines and Bmlers have raistd
no voice to ask that she should be
made a military province.
what will the,-people
about it ?
sav and do
When the Governor has to be a
target for every disappointed appli
cant at bis shrine, who would be the
ruler of the Commonwealth ?
Additional details of the late great
battle between tho Turks and .Rus
sians, near Plevna, confirm fully a
Turkish victory. The Russians met
with a Waterloo defeat. The Turkish
Basbi Bazouk played havoc with the
Russian Cossack, and, it seems, spared
neither wounded nor dying in the fierce
determination to make the victory
complete. The Russian corps which
crossed the Danube so lately in such
splendid condition, and filled with
confidence, is now reported cut up and
wholly demoralized. This defeat of
the Czar’s forces must effectually
check his advance on Adrianople ior
an indefinite time, and very conclu
sively demonstrates the fact that Con
stantinople will not be taken, nor
Russian success established without a
tremendous expense of life and treas
ure, even if it is ever finally accoin
plished.
The Nashville American rematks:
The organs of the contraction ring are
intensely exercised on the subject ot
the property destroyed in the riots.
Tho destruction of property by rioters
was most reprehensible. But. the
contraction cliques arc conveniently
oblivious to the vaster destruction of
property by the contraction process.
Where thousand of dollars were lost
by destruction in riots, millions upon
billions have been lost by the univer
sal depreciation through theoperations
of the contiaction mill.
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Wiio would now be a Supreme,
or Superior Court Judge and he sub-
j. cted to Georgia’s Constitutional
Reduction Mill ?
Mr. Asa Deadwylor, of Madison
county, has just received a fine
“buck,” weighing over one hundred
and fifty pounds, which he imported
from Tennessee. This would indi
cate a spirit of sheep-raising in this
part of the country, and supported
by a “dog law,” would unuuq^tion-
ably prove a profitable business in old
Madison.
A London Jewish paper lays
down as its editor's creed that he would
rather go to hell with Main<>nides, Ibn
Ezra, Spinoza, Deurach, Bartholdy,
Meyerbeer and other sons of Israel
than to heaven with the Popes, the
Isabellas, the Philips, Ti.rquemada,
Mr. Smith and Judge-Hilton.
Gen. Toombs has this to his credit:
“ I could take Foster Blodgett and
five niggers and make a better Consti
tution than this Convention will make.*
That is true, for the General would
control the party and his great' brain
would produce a model for all States
and Nations in after times.— Gaines
ville Eagle.
The con. con. still spends the pec •
pies’ money. The biographical sketch
es are still being sold, and yet the
capital question is unsettled.
A correspondent of the Boston
Transcript mixes art and science thus:
“ Michael Angelo used his scalpel with
wonderful assiduity, and when he
modelled, ho galvanized the dead anat
omy. It was a sublime and mighty
galvanic buttery that turned and
twisted the powerful muscles, hut nev
ertheless, it did not give to the world
the living anatomy of tho Greeks.’’
As Michael Angelo diet! just 250 years
before galvanism was discovered, the
above must be either undiluted non
sense or else an awfully muddled
metaphor.
How can I have a clear and brilliant
complexion? Simply by using Dr.
Bull’s Blood Mixture and observing
the rules of health.
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