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A THE ATHENS GEORGIAN : AUGUST 14, 1877. Terras ot .subscription. T at least interest , ol the State Legislature to one copy, ono Year ss> oo protect this educational ONE COPY, Six Months ! OO ; 1 . , , , one copy. Three Months so i against bad government, for the ben efit of the youth of our own Slate. I.EUAI. ADVmriSEMENTS. 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A square equal to ten lines, solid. Notices In local column, less than a square, 20 cents a line. 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. HEADQUARTERS FOR ATHENS FACTORY GOODS, Jeans, Yarns, Linseys, Kerseys. Shirting, Sheet ing, Checks, and Stripes at Factory Prices. We Can't Be Undersold. BRING IS YOUR COTTON AND GET THE HIGHESTMARKET PRICE IN CASH. WE HAVE JUST BUILT & MEW €QTTQM WMBEMQVME, And have the Finest Facilities for handling Cotton with Speed and Accuracy. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Orange HifiLe Powder, The most satisfactory TOWDER ever sold in Athens—Try it once and you’ll not use any other. PROCTOR & GAMBLE’S CELEBRATED SOAPS SOLD AT' FACTORY TRICES. J ' ROCK B0TT031 PRICES OX EVERYTHING. 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. Atlanta and Augusta Undersold. THE TREMENDOUS STOCK OF S, , AND WAGONS, OF THE |OLI) RELIABLE FIRM OF ) HODGSON BROS MARKED DOWN. PRICES GEEATLT HSDXJOED. old wRhoat e detay. an Oood igSfSSUSP&Sl f* 1 '™ 0 **’ U ' < ME ieiftlEB S©tiAJt§ s The Celebrated Hodgson Wagon, KnownWl over the Stote for their durability and strength, and are beyond question tho b«t \V AGOr»S c\er *jo!d in this section of the Country. Parties wishing any *ort of V eludes are respectfully invited to look through our stock. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. 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