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W. A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. 11.
CONVENTIONAL.
Atlanta, Ga., July 20, 1877.
The Convention opened with prayer
fcy Rv. Mr. Underwood, delegate.
President Jenkins in tho chair. Jour-
Bl read and app'over!.
To submit tho Constitution to the
people lor ratifi ation by vote. Agreed
to.
To memorialize Congress on the sub
ject of repayment of cotton tax. Agres
d to.
Lexvo of absence was granted a num
ber of dolgatca.
Mr. Harris, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Institution, off red
report recommending that the Ag
ricltural, Chemical, Medical and Geo
logical Departments of this State be
abolished, and that an ordinance be
pased to that effect.
Mr. II irrold, Chairman of the Com
mittee in Printing, reported a resolu
tion that the S ate Printer do the tem
porary printing of iho Convention, at
the same terras upon which tho State
printing is done. Report received and
resolution agreed to.
To offer the printing of the Conven
tion to the lowest bidder. Lost.
Mr. Toombs chairman of the Com
mittee on Final Revision, offered the
report on the ul>-r port ol the com
mittee on tho Bill of Rights; also a re
port on the sub-report of the Eleoive
Franchise:
SkC. 1. In all electio'B by the peo
ple, ibe electors, shall voto by ballot.
Sue 2. Every male eii'zen of ibe
United Statbs, 21 years! old or up
wal'd, who shall have resided iD this
Siato one year next preceding the elec
tion, and shall have reside six months
in the county or district in which he
offers to vote, and shall have paid all
tax which rnav hereatter be required ot
hun, and which he may have an oppor
tunity of paying agreeably to law, pre
vious lo the year of the election, shall
bo deemed an elector} and every male
of the United States aforesaid, (except
as hereinafter provided,) who may be
a resident of the Slate at the time of
the adoption of his Constitution, shall
be deemed an elector, and shall have
ad the rght? of an elector as aforesaid:
Provided, That no soldier, sailor or
marine in the military or luval service
ol the United Stale?, shall acquire ihe
rights of an elector by reason of being
stationed on duty in this State; and no
person shall vote who, if challenge
shall refuse to take the following oath
or affirmation: “Ido swear or affirm
that lam 21 years old, have res. Jed
in this county six months, next piecee.d
ing this election, 1 have paid ail taxes
which since the adoption ot the pres n
Constitution of this Slate have bcca re
quired ol me, and which I have had at.
opportunity to pay previous o ih
preseut year, and that I have not vole I
before this day’s election.’'
Sec. 1, No person who is 'ho hold
ot any public tuon ys, Cunt -try to law,
ahull be eligible to uny office in tni •
State, until ihe same is accoun.ed lor
and paid into ihc treasury.
Sec. 4. No person, who after the
adoption of this constitution, being a
resident of this State, alfa l have been
convicted oi fighting a duel in this
State, or convicted of sending, or ac
cepting a challenge, or convicted of aid
ing or abetting such a duel, shall Hold
office in this State, miles he shall hive
been pardoned; and every such person
shall, also, he subject lo such pun
ishment as law rnav prescribe.
Sec. 5. The General assembly may
provide from time to time, for t o reg
istration of all electors, but the follow
ing biases of persons shall not bo per
nuited to vote, register or hold office:
Those who shall have been convicted in
any of the courts in this Stale of trea
son of oinbfczz einont of public 'unds,
malfeasance in office, crime punishable
by law with imprisonment in penitentia
ry, or bribery, or larceny, idiots or in
sane persons.
Sec. 6. Electors shall in all cases,
except treason, lebrny, larceny, and
breach of peace, be privileged from ar
rest during their attendance on elec
tions and iu going to and returning
frorr the same.
Sec. 7. The General Assembly shall
by law require the closing ol re:ail liq
uor establishments, and forbids the sa.es
of intoxicating drinks within two miles
of election pr ci ucts, on days of elec
tons in this State.
Shc. 8. Returns of election for all
civil office!s elected by the people, who
are to be commissioned by the Govern*
or, and, also, for the members of the
General Assembly, shall ba ma 'e to the
Secretary of Slate, unless otherwise
provided by law.
BUENA VISTA. MARION COUNTY. GA, AUGUST 1 1877.
Mr. Reese offered an ordinance to
provide for the punishment of criminals
of a tender, age or infirm, or aged.
Referred to the Committee on the Leg
islative Department.
SrKOIAt, ORDER OF THE DAT.
The roport-of the Committee on Fi
nal Eeviaion on the sub-report of the
Committee on the Militia.
Some amendments to-wit twenty-ono
years old for voting, six months for
slate, and three for county residence
hef.rs voting, and striking out of the
third section, and the report was adopted
to the filth section. Tne 0. 6.7. and 8.
sections were postponed until to-mor
row.
It is thought most of the other re
ports will be rat. find. The session of
to-day is reported as having been long
er, mote spirited and attractive than
any of the sessions. Man? amendments
and suggestions being offered, and there
appears to be • o ne difficulty in ag eeiog
to the multitude of charges offered.
Atlanta, Ga. July 21, 1877.
The Convention was opened with
prayer by Rot. Mr. Hamilton, Presi
dent Jenkins in the chair. The
journal read.
Two motions were introduced to
reconsider and amend the journal.
Bo h wore. lost.
Mr. Toombs, Chairman of the Com
mittee ot twen y-six, offered the fol
lowing report on the sub report of
the Committee on Counties and
County affairs.
Article. Section 1. E ich or
ganized county shall be a body cor
porate, with such powers and limita
tions, as may ba prescribed by law,
not incompatible with this Constitu
tion. All suits by or against a
county shall be in the uuno thereof;
and tho met'-s and bounds of the
several counties shall remain ns now
prescribed by law, unless changed as
hereinafter ptovided.
S.c. 2. No new county shall be
created.
Sec. 3. County lines sha'l not be
changed, unb-ss under the operation
of a general law for Mi .t purposes.
Sec. 4. No coil ty site shall be
changed or removed, except by a
two-thirds vote of the qualified voters
of the county, voting atari election
held for that purpose, and a two
thirds vote of the Genera Assembly.
Sec. 5. Old county organizations
may be dissolved and merged with
contiguous Counties by a two-thirds
vote f the qua ifl and < lectors of uch,
voting at an election held forth.it
pu pose.
Sec. 6. Tim county officers shall
be lected by the qualified voters of
hel-- reap: c ive counties or distiicts,
mi shall hold their offices for two
years They hall be removed on
conviction fin malpractice in office,
and uo person snail be eligible to
any of Mie offices above referr and to,
uiiiess ho shall h tve been a resident
of the c .untv fr one year, ami snail
be qualified to discharge the duties
oiereof
Sec. 7. Whatever tribunal or
officers may here IVer tie ere. i ted by
the Legislature, for the transact on
of county matters, -hail be uniform
throughout the State, and of the
same nam-, jurisdiction and reme
dies except tlia, the Legislature may
j>r >vi i forme appointment of coin
mis doners of roads and revenue iu
any county.
The Convention then procci ded to
take tv, 1 the unfinish and budm-ss of
lhe previous day, which was the un
finished action of the body on the re
port of the committee of twenty-six
on the sub-report of tho Committee
on Elec ive Franchise. The fifth
section, where the action was stayed
yestor my. was taken up and adopted.
The Sixth Section. —Mr. Wofford
moved to amend so as to read, “the
courts of this State or of any other
St it in the Uni-ed States.” Tabled.
Mr. Hi I—To amend to strike out
“treason," Tabled.
Mr. Hammond—To amend by ad
ding, “or any appointment ot honor
or trust,” and “involving moral tur
pitude, ’ and “unless they shall have
been pardoned.” Adopted.
Mr. Guerard—To amend by insert
ing “treason against the htato ot
Georgia.” Adopted.
,v, r . Roe—To strike out “may” and
insert “shall." Lost.
The sixth section adopted as
amended, and thus becomes section
fifth, as section third ot tho report
was stricken out yesterday.
Section Seventh.—Adopted with
out amendments.
.A. DEMOCRATIC IFACMIII/Y NEWSPAPER.
Section Eigh It—Mr. Lewis moved
to amend by inserting a'tor the word
“sale” the words, ‘-(listrib ting or
furnishing carried by a vote of 93
to 50.
Mr. Ellington—To substitute by
inserting *'within two rail sof the
election precincts.” Carried.
Mr. Hill gave notice that ho would
offer an amendment to this section.
A number of amendments and sub
stitutes were offered.
Mr. Tift moved to amend by insert
ing alter ‘ election, State, county and
municipal.”
The previous question on the sec
tion as amended was ca led. Called
sustained.
Mr. Gu rard—To add an additional
section to make women tweuty-one
y ars old or upwards eligible to any
• ifSce of management under the school
aws of this State.
Mr. We born moved to amend by
substituting the word “females” for
Worm n. Tub'ed.
Mr. Lawton moved to strike out
from the second section the word,
“and every male citizen of the
United S ates, of the age aforesaid
(except as hereinafter providi and) win
may be a resident of the S ate at
the time of me adoption of this Con
stitution, shall bed t-ined an elector,
and shall have all the rights of an
elector, as aforesaid.” Amendment
adopted.
The call of the previous question
on the adoption of tho report of the
cornmitteo, as amended, Was made.
The call was sustained, and the re
port of tin com ni'tee adopted.
The law of the elective fa chisais
now c niplete, aud will becoroa ih>-
constitutional law of the S ate if rati
li dby he people. I insert th re
port of the coimnitt o a 1 ,pted us
it is ana nded. This is the full and
correct provision as it will be sub
mitted to tLe people, and as it will
appear in the new cons irution.
The Judicial-- Committee have re
ported to the Committee of Twenty
six, butt, e last named body have
not, a? yet, prepared their revision
ary report to bo submitted to tne
Committee.
The Committee on the Executive
Department have a so prepared their
report, which is now upon thet ib'e
of the Committee of Twenty-six.
awaiting action tnereon by them.
The Committee of Twenty-six have
reported on the -nb report ot the
Committee of the B li of Rights. Said
report has not been taken fom ttm
table of the Conven ion general, \et
i is probable that, this important di
vision of tne Constitution will be dis
posed of on Monday next, Many
parts of the propose I Bill of Rights
are, in the eyes of m ny of the dele
gates, very o jecti triable, but others
will, no doubt, meet with the mil ad
hearty approbation of no only the
members of the Convention, but also
of the people when the qiie j ion oi
ra ideation is stiinn tte i to them.
The Commi tee on Jin nice, by
their chairm n r. Simmons, - a'e
presented th ir report. t-> the Com
mittee of Twenty-six, for con-udera
tion. Tnis pa > ris well drawn, and,
in almost all particulars, will b
adopted by tho Revisit) tary Com
mittee. The cha not thisivn
mittoe is reported i.u nav- sa ti
this is the best report wiici;
Committee (of Twenty six) ha
oo veil up to this and >te. Ihe rip :'t
refi cls much c edit on tho able and
accomplished chairman of the Fi
nance Committee.
Mr. T ,ombs, as chapman of the
Committee of Twenty-, ix, s doing
most important work, th ough Ip*
hands, and under tho expeinced
criticism of hi* eye, every proposed
measure must pass, and woe betide
tbe foolish mock, or dangerous prop
ositions, if once he deei es to cut
them off.
At the Governor's reception, night
before last, the members ot the U>>n
vention were out in full force. The
splendid and spacious apartments of
the Executive Mansion were crowded
to suffocation, with many of tne
noblest and faiiest of our State;
every section wa. represented.
Among the guess present were
H m. A. R. Lawton, Captain Guerard
and Colonel Fain, of Ba. tow ; Hon.
Charles J. Jenkins, Hon. R ffiert
Toombs, Attorney General Ely, Col.
Crane, of the Thirty-Fifth, and a
host of others. Among the ladies
were Miss Locket, of Mncn ; Misses
Compton and Gwin, of Milledgeville ;
ssMiss Beach and Abercrombie, of Co-
lutnbts, and Viss Mu'hews, of Lex
ing'ot. In short, Atlanta, Columbus.
Autrada and M icon, were all most
fairly represented.
For some days past the city has
he'jn without its usual simply of
wnter, owing to an accident to the
machinery of <ho wa>er works. The
leak has been since repaired, and
now all the good citizens of A'lnnta
sleep in peace without any tear of
the fire-fiends, thanks to the vigilance
and efficiency of our Fire Depart
ment.
A HEROE S DEATH.
The Peaceful Close of Stonewall Jack
sou's Great Career.
Col. Ktd Douglas, in the Philadelphia
Weekly Times.
The death of General Jacks'n was
characteristic in its singularity. At
night, yhen the battle had ended,
just as he achieved what, he believed
to be the must successful movement
of his career, lie, whom the enemy be
gan to believe both invulnerable and
invincible, fell at the hands of his
own people. It is needless to repeat
tie painful story of his wounding and
and. atb. At first it w-is not believed
his Wounds were mortal, and the
army thought, inthelangu igeot tj n.
Lee, “Jackson will not —he cannot
die.” But it was wri ten. Pneumonia
lent its fearful aid to the enemy, anu
on Sunday afternoon he closed his
eyes aud sutil- and at his own spokeu
dream—“ Let us cross over ttie river
aud rest under the shade of the
trees." The dream thus spoltsu is
yd unbroken ;ad his soul went out
A H av n. uplifted by sighs aud
prayers, r f-ing tha. hour from aftar
and cL i tor, all o er the S Utth, for
Ins recovery.
"TJri Friday, the 15th Of May, 1803,
his bo iy was taken ;or bu iai to his
homo in Lexington. He find not
beau ‘here since he iiTt it, t • o years
before, at the beginning ol the wa .
Omy tao years nd yet how like ro
mance is the sun. de story of hi.
growth m thuie. And now he lies
buri'-d as ho directed, “in toe Val.ey
ol Yhginit.’’ and among the people
he loved so well. It were better so.
He could not have s >vtd the South
and it was merciful that he should
perish first. The tender memory ii
left behind him in the army, a id tli
sten) sense of his duty he.b queathed
his soldiers will be tola by this little
incident with which 1 close this un
worthy ske ch. Toe army of Lee was
on its march to Gettysburg, aud the
commanding general had given strict
orders for its Jigciphne iu Pennsylva
nia. An officer rid ng to camp from
’h mber-b rg, a'e at night, was
halted by tho outposts. Having
m il h r pass nor countersign, in his
ilemma he be h night him of an old
pass in his poc et-book signed”by
General Jackson, whose recent d> ath
liutig like a cloud ov r the ai my. He
fund it and band and it with confi
dence to the sentinel. The trusty
Allow manages to read it by the
light of a match, and as he dul so he
seem-ii to i. ger arid ies ti.te O'er
ti e sig atur . And then, r s ihe
ugh: went out, lie handed it back,
ami looking up toward the sites be
v'nd, te said, sad.y and firmly,
•‘Cap ail,, you can g to Heaven on
shat paper, but you an’; pass this
nest.’ -
Agr CKtinrnt Lu vert,
There w re two of them hanging
over the fr m gate the o'her nig t.
She wa- standing within the font
\ard, and he wm on the sde alk
outside, both leaning on the top rail,
aid apparently as nappy as t'O pigs
in >i corn field. He was 3aying,
“Now, my own little and ,rling, sweet
idol of rn v soul, whose image is ever
on my heiut" -wneu he saw the old
man coining down the trout walk,
and con inued in a different strain :
“The potato bugs havn’t destroyed
oar crops so niucu since tve purchased
Paris gn-en, and you will find also
that cabbage c n be raised better on
a richer oil.” The old gentleman
heard it, and turned back, saying, as
he entered the house : “These young
people take more interest in agri
cultural affairs than peop e generally
suppose.—Philiidelpnia Bulietin.
The Terre Haute distilery now usee
3,000 bushels of corn per day.
lloxv A Chicago Girl Fixed
Him.
“Will vou do something fo oblige
me?” shyly asked a beautiful young
vomanof a timid gentleman whose
acquaintance she bed just made at a
social gathering on West Adams
street, the . ther evening.
“Anything that I can iu honor,
miss.” iio replied, blushing.
“Well," s.'id -he, “come into the
back parlor, where it is dark, and sit
on the sofa with me and lot me rest
my head on your shoulder, and you
pretend to whisper in my ear -only
don't b ow, because that tickles and
I can’t laugh, lor this n-w dress is
very tight—and when anybody looks
you can draw your arm away—l for
got to say I wanted you to put it
round my waist—aud I’ll pretend to
blush.”
“But, my gracious, honored miss,”
stammered the young man, after
hastily dividing 4 mto 1877 and find
ing that it wasn’t leap year ; “my
goodness, before ail these people—
and I am already encaged—and
your father must weigh "
“Hush, l know what I’m up to,”
eplitrd ihe artless girl. “I am en
gaged, too; to that young man talking
to the waxened faced tning with sotne
ody else’s hair ov r th. re. I vr mt to
stir hmi up—to bring him uown to
business—make him come up to bis
milk, that’s all.”
Toe young man said that a load
had been lifted from inis bosom, and
aided her to the best of his ability, so
well, indeed, that iu three-quarters
of an hour, the true betrothed got his
girl into the library, demanded an
explanation of her shameless conduct,
was soi.ened by her tear?,called him
self a brute, asked if she could ever
forgive him, and promised to behave
'rtter in future. And how did the
young girl reward tho young man
who had helped her to this happiness?
Why, she never said a word to him
ill the evening, in fact never men
tioned him except to say to her rec
oneded lover, “Alonzo, could you
have been so stupid as to think I
could see anything to admire in such
i mutton headed clam as that?” 0,
women, in our hours of ease, uncer
t .in, coy, a'id hard to please.—De
troit AVer Press.
1 Girls Composition vn Hoys.
Boys is strange things. Bovs is of
hree kinds : the baby boy, the little
boy and the big boy. I don’t like
the baby boy, cause he squalls and
kicks, and I have to rock him with a
cradle. But if the big or little boy
squalls or lucks I can rock him with
stones, I like the little boy best when
he’s got candy and gives me some.
A bov is a little mm—it he behoves
himself—and if he don’t he’s a lit tie
devil; that’s what m ther said
brother Bob was the other day, when
he told Mrs. Smith she was an old
bore. My papa said be was a little
boy oi ce, but mother says she wasn’t
and she wishes papa was a little boy
once m ‘re Sisier Julia says she
do ’t ike boys, and when I saw her
and f m K own setting in the same
’licking .-hair a Sunday night she
said she was Hying to squeeze the
life out of him cause she din’t like
him ; but I don’t th'nk she was
hurt ng him any, for he would not
lei, mar get up. This is ail I know
about boys, aud motbor say* Bhe
hopes I won’t never know more about
’em.
WARNING TO THIN WOMEN.
A good anecdote is r- lated of a lady
at a parly whose dress and form were
faul less. Just Indore dtnner an admir
al- off red her a flowtr from his button
hole. This diess being fastened behind
the flowers bail to be fastened with a
pin. Just then they went down to din
ner and the gentleman thought he
heard a noise as though wind was es
(taping from a bellows. The lady had
soon lost her fair proportions, aud the
dghtly fitting dress became baggy. It
appears that ibe latest fashion for thin
ladies’ dresses is an air-tight lining
blown out to the proper size. The pin
to keep the flower in had penetrated
the air-tight lining and caused a grand
cohapse.— British Court Circular.
It is rather a singular provision of
law in Florida that no man who has
lost a leg or an arm shall be taxed in
his business unless he happens to be
a manufacturer or sellei of ardent
spirits.
Annual Subscription $2,00
NO. 4:1
TO and gum#*.
A Wisconsin man 9at down on a
beehive tho other day. He regrets
thinness of his trowsers.
“John, yttu said Sally kissed you ;
did \ uu kiss her back?” “No, I kissed
her face.”
“Give me liberty or give me
breath,, wa3 what a Windsor girl
said to her lover the other evening as
she struggled to free herself from his
arms.
“Has that jury agreed?” asked
the Judge of a sheriff, whom ho mat
on the stairs wi h a bucket in his
hand. “Yes,” replied Patrick, “they
have agreed to send out for half a
gallon.”
An old lady iu Baltimore, aged 85
years, uain and Betsy Quale, recently
set fire to her clothing while lighting
her pipe, and was severely burned.
This is the oldest Quale on toast of
which we have any record.
Somebody asserts that a “blue
gla*s chimney on a parlor lamp will
bring a young man up to the point
of proposing to a cross-eyed maiden
with store teeth in three Sunday
evenings.”
A coroner’s jury lately added to a
verdict in the case of a not over
bright, individual who was lound
drowned, the cynical remark that “he
never showed any penetration tilt he
made a whole in the water.”
A man in Ya es county, N. Y.,
who has been an inveterate smoker
for fifty years, has suddenly and per
manently given it up. He knocked
the ashes off his pipe into a keg of
blasting powder.
“Sing Sing!” shouted the brake
man, as a Hudson River traiu rolled
slowly up to that station. “Five
years for refreshments!” yelled a
passenger with short hair and brace
lets, as he rose to leave the car iu
charge of a deputy sheriff.
A female writer declares that she
will remove the mystery that sur
rounds the girls ; and the Louisville
Journal coolly replies : “The rest
of you may shut your eyes, but
hanged if we will!”
“Is that a friend of yours ?” said a
gentleman to a party who was sailing
rapidly down the street. “Can’t tell
ull next Saturday,’’ returned th# in
dividual addressed ; “I’ve just lent
him a dollar."
Small boy ; on tip-toes to his com
panions ; “Stop your noise, all ot
youl” Companions: “Hollo, Tom;
what’s the matter?" Small boy
“We’ve got anew baby; it’s very
weak and tiled, walked ail tbe way
from Heaven la.it night; musn’t ba
kicking up a row round here now."
The prevailing taste in female at
tire renders the following incident
not quite impertinent; Two gemle
meu tho other night, eogageiVin earn
est conversation respecting some per
son who had just passed, said one:
“I know it was a man.” “No it
wasn’t! His pantaloons had only
one leg." That upp-aaed to settle it.
“But I pass," said a minister, one
Sunday in dismissing one theme of
his subject to take up another.
“Then I make it spades!" yelled a
man from the gallery who was dream
ing the happy hours away in an im
a inary game of euchre. It is need
less to say he went out on the “next
deal, ” being “assisted” by one of the
deacons with a full hand of- clubs.
A Chicago man’s young wife en
tertained him with selections from
Wagner, after which he expressed
himself as resigned to go to bed.
Toward mid ight cats assembled in
the back yard and yelled frightfully.
He did not get up and throw boot
jacks at, them, but turned on one el
bow and whispered in his dreams;
“Sing it once more, Elvira; sing it
once more.” She sings it no more,
neither anything else, but thinks of
beating her piano into kindling wood
and turning her music book into curl
papers.
A little girl who lias been importu
nate for a baby companion, camo
down to breakfast the other morning
with a very seif satisfied and import
ant air. “Now,” said sho to her
mother, “I guess we’ll have one
pretty soon.” “Have what ?” asked
the mother, “A baby,” promptly re
plied the young innocent. “1 prayed
to the Lord last night to send us one,
but of all tings not to send a red
headed one, tor we ail hate ref hair.’
Breakfast was resumed amid a pro
found and solemn silence. N. B.—
Hke prayer ie not yet answered,