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THE EAGLE.
Friday Morning, July 13, 1577.
iAREI W. si YL.es Editor.
Corn continues to grow, and its
luxuriance shows that the hot dry
weather is doing it no harm.
The town of Hamburg, S. C., was
abolished by the Legislature at its
late session, and is no longer a
municipality.
It is now confidently believed that
Gen. Ed. Thomas will be appointed
Marshal for Georgia. That would sat
isfy every decent man in the State.
Mr. Henry W. Grady delivered his
splendid lecture ‘Just Human,’ to a
large and cultivated audience, at
Athens, on the evening of the sth inst.
Judge Charles E. Groover, a promi
nent commission merchant and mem
ber of the city council of Savannah,
died in that city, on the sth instant, of
heart disease.
The wheat crop of Cherokee county
is the best harvested for thirteen
years, and the farmers say-they have
the best prospect for a large corn and
cotton crop in twenty years.
The thermometer at Brunswick, one
day last, week, marked 98 degrees in
one of the coolest houses in that place,
and four negroes working upon the
wharf were prostrated by the heat.
W. J. Ford, late Ordinary of Worth
county, and at the last session of the
Legislature a constitutional clerk in
the Senate, got disgusted with the
world, or himself, and suicided with a
pistol, on the 4th.
Gov. Hampton found no difficulty in
borrowing money in New York to meet
present expenses of his administra
tion; but the people are paying their
taxes so promptly that the loan will
probably not be necessary.
The Western Republicans are de
nouncing Hayes and his Southern
policy in a way that may well cause
him to compare honorable ease at
Galena with ignoble greatness ob
tained by fraud.
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It is stated that President Davis will
complete his work on the war, early
the coming fall, and it is rumored he
will severely criticise Gen. Joseph E
Johnston—as a Confederate leader—
especially censuring him for not push
ing ‘on to Washington,’ after the first
battle of Manassas.
According to a dispatch of the 3d
inst. from Berlin to the New York
Herald, Bismarck expresses the opin
ion that it is impossible for the Turks
to make a long resistance to the Rus
sians, and ho advocates a conferance
of the powers at which can be arran
ged a scheme of mediation looking ot
- r--„
Russia and Turkey are illustrating
the value of printer’s ink, by the issue
of many millions of currency. Russia
has just ordered $120,000,000 of piorn
ises to pay; and Turkey adds $430,-
000,000 to her tons of paper already
in circulation. There they are killing
the nation by inflation—-here we kill
the nation by contraction.
By zings! We clean forgot it; and
now the world will never know how
much gush we had stored up for the
g-a-l-o-r-i-o'-u-s fourth of the centen
nial. Well, ’tis folly to pine over lost
opportunities, and our Eagle may as
well turn its eyes sun-ward and look
out for the next centennial day of
liberty.
The balance of trade is not growing
so rapidly in our favor, after all. Im
ports of merchandise and exports of
specie are both increasing. At New
York, from April Ist to June 23d, in
clusive, the imports have been $80,501,-
000 in 1877, against $05,150,000 in
1870, while the specie exports have
beeen $10,491,000, against $10,372,000
last year.
The victories of the Turks in Asia
Minor are all the more remarkable
from the fact that letters written by
correspondents in that region have
described the Turkish troops as ill-of
ticered and half starved, a heterogene
ous rabble, united only on the single
point of devotion to Mohammedanism.
Either the correspondents erred, or the
Turkish soldiers must be men of won
derful endurance and valor, lacking
only a Mohammed the Conqueror to
make them invincible.—N. Y r . Sun.
‘The Capital,’ a sort of hand-bill
newspaper, issued at Milledgeville in
the interest of the removal folly, has
been pretty widely circulated in this
section, and has convinced the people
that the capital should remain where
it is. Its reasons for returning to the
‘halls of our fathers,’ are so palpably
dollars and cents for Milledgeville, and
its arguments so manifestly warped
and dwarfed by prejudice, hate and
revenge, that good men shrug their
shoulders and throw it aside with
contempt.
The “Zealous Christian’ must par
don us for the omission in the article
of last week, headed “the Eagle and
its friends.” It was an oversight and
entirely unintentional. .We en 'eavor
to deal fairly, liberally and courteously
with our brethren of the press, and as
we are a life-time fixture with the
Eagi.e, it is our earnest desire to culti
vate intimate and fraternal relations
with all meritorious journals and mag
nanimous journalists in the State.—
Our ‘Christian’ friends will find our
head generally level and the heart al
ways in the right place, and utterly
without facilities for meanness toward
the brotherhood.
THE CONVEX! ION.
Appearance and Organization of the Body.
The Drift on Leading Issues.—New House
fortlie Children.—The “Halls” to lie
Embalmed.—Wisdom and Modera
tion Have 1 lie Majority.
The delegates began to assemble at
the capital Monday morning, and when
we arrived on Tuesday morning, tlie
city was pretty nearly crowded—the
Markham House was full and we were
compelled to find lodging at tlie Kim
ball. All day the multitude poured in,
and when the last of the evening trains
arrived the city was full and the sov
ereignty was in its glory.
THE ASSEMBLING.
In pursuance of the Act and the
Governor’s proclamation, the delegates
assembled in the Representative Hall
on Wednesday, 11th inst., and at 12 m.
were called to order by Gen. L J.
Gartroll, who moved that Hon. T. L.
Guerry, of Quitman, take the chair for
the purpose of permanent organiza
tion.
Mr. Guerry, on assuming the chair
for the temporary organization, ad
dressed the convention briefly, elo
quently and patriotically. Mark Har
den was requested to act as secretary.
The roll of delegates was called, and
the chair announced the body ready
for business.
Gen. A. It. Lawton, of Chatham,
arose, and in graceful and appropriate
terms nominated
HON. CHABLES J. JENKINS,
of the county of Richmond, as perma
nent President of the Convention, and
moved that he be chosen by acclama
tion. This motion was seconded all
over the House, and the vote was
unanimous and enthusiastic.
The President was conducted to the
chair by a committee, of which Hon.
Geo. F. Pierce was chairman. Mr.
Jenkins proceeded to address the con
vention, and to thank the delegates for
the high honor they had conferred
upon him. His remarks were directly
to the point—vigorous in utterance,
wise in suggestion and perfect in ora
to-y. He clearly indicated his views
on two vital questions—State Aid and
Education—and urged prohibition of
the one and the most liberal endow
ment and promotion of the other.—
The speech will appear in full uext
week.
Mr. J. Cooper Nisbet, of Dade, was
elected permanent secretary. Smith,
of Coffee, messenger ; and Johson, of
Heart, door-keeper.
A resolution authorizing the appoint
ment of sundry committees was adopt
ed, and the convention adjourned till
Thursday morning 10 o’clock.
CAPITAL QUESTION.
There is a small but compact and
stubborn organization for the removal
of the capital, or the submission of the
question to a vote of the people, but.
the opposition is equally determined
and has the greatest number. We
took some pains to ascertain the feel
ing of delegates, and thought we dis
covered a strong current against re
moval, and in favor of a middle ground
constitution, and its final adoption by
the convention. The capital elimina
ted, we shall favor final action, for we
are solemnly convinced that there is a
preponderance of moderation, wisdom
and patriotism in the body, and would
rather take their work as it comes
from their hands, tli. n to pass it
through the crucible of popular preju
dice, crudites and corruption.
In any event the capital will remain
where it is—the people have made up
their minds to this, and the submis
sion of the question will engender the
fiercest contest since 18G8, and it will
end in the defeat of the folly and the
disruption of the Democratic party in
the State. Our Nacoochee corres
pondent is simply mistaken in suppos
ing that any considerable portion of
the people of Northeastern Georgia
favor removal, and we shall be greatly
surprised if any delegate north of
Athens, Madison and Columbus votes
that way.
Thursday Moruing’s Proceedings.
[Special to the Eagle.]
Atlanta, Ga., July 12, 11-30 a. in.
No business of special importance
in the convention to present hour.
Hon. A. R. Lawton elected Vice-
President.
A resolution to inform the Governor
that the convention had completed its
organization and was ready to proceed
to business, was opposed on the
ground that the body is supreme and
cannot lower its dignity by making
such a communication to a subordi
nate. President Jenkins made a strong
speech against the resolution and it
was tabled.
[The Eagle will chronicle the more
important proceedings of the conven
tion, and bring up the latest, by a spe
cial over the wires, at 11-30 a. m. each
Thursday.]
Free Bridge.
Shall we have anew free bridge over
the Chattahoochee? That is the ques
tion for Gainesville.
A bridge as good as Clark’s or
Thompson’s, can now be built for about
$2,000. We learn that gentlemen re
siding in the Quiiliau and W r helchel
neighborhoods, north of the river, are
anxious for a bridge at the old Waters’
ferry crossing, and that they propose
to give the right of way for a road and
to contribute liberally to the construc
tion fund.
Every merchant and property holder
in Gainesville, must feel and appreciate
the importance of having a free bridge.
Shall wo have it ? Speak, gentlemen,
and let the work be accomplished for
the winter’s business.
LIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE
NORTH GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE.
An Intellectual Flame Mantles the Misly
Mountain T. ps, and Scholastic Fires
Dispel the Darkness from the Val
leys—The School Master (Joes
Abroad, and thousands
Stek the Empyrean
Spring-.
tiov. Colquitt and Other Distinguished
Visitors Breathe the Upper Air,
and Mingle their 4 r oices with
i he (Had Acclaim.
Dahlonega—Her People—Her Surround
ings and her Opportunities.
As promised in a brief article last week, we
essay the pleasant, albeit difficult task of
‘writing up’ the North Georgia Agricultural
College as we saw it.
THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Developed nothing new or extraordinary in
discipline, or scholarship; but the character
of the Institution, its aims, its achievements
and its prospective usefulness excited the
liveliest interest, kindled the warmest sympa
thy and inspired the profoundest admiration.
It is not necessary to criticise the exercises of
classes, or the proficiency displayed by indivi
duals in their recitations and speeches. Suffice
it that this part of the programme compared
most favorably with the scholastic examina
tions in the leadiug colleges of the country
reflecting credit alike upon the faculty and
the students. In the primary department,
and in mathematics, grammar, geography,
philosophy, bellesletters and military tactics,
so far as our untutored mind could judg , the
standard was not below that usually made
apparent at the older and more famous Col
leges on such occasions.
OVER TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY PUPILS
Were taught during this closing session—a
large number of whom were young men over
twenty-one years of age, and many young
ladies who had attained womanhood without
the blessings of even a rudimentary educa
tion. A goodly proportion of the entire num
ber commenced in the primary department of
the school, and had advanced so rapidly as to
give unmistakable proof of earnest effort and
faithful instruction.
A large majority of these grateful beneficia
ries are the sons and daughters of parents
residing in the mountain counties of North
eastern Georgia - parents whose circumstances
barred the doors of the more expesuive and
more fashionable institutions of learning to
their children, and who, but for the establish
ment of this College, would have been com
pelled to rear another generation under the
pall ot igeorance and in the deep darkness of
superstition, prejudice, bigotry and gullibility.
Poverty is not a crime—the decrees of Provi
dence that make distinctions in society do not
entail guilt and shame upon the poor. True,
the lines that divide the poor and the rich,
are sharp, cruel and inexorable; but the rich
without education and refinement occupy a
meaner status than the poor, and charity
scorns the one while it pities and aids tlie
other. The State had not been gracious in
tlie distribution of educational favors to her
mountain population, and the eternal bar
riers of nature admitted no promethean light
supernal to dispel the thick night of their
thraldom. This College came like a boon
from Heaven, to bless the poor as well as the
rich, and to make the blessing free to’all and
accessible to all. It was like the sudden
kindling of an imperishable life giving flame,
sun-like in its glory and God-like iu its
beneficence, in the very centre of the Cim
merian domain. Its rays penetrated each
cove and vale, swept aloug the craggy clifts,
gleamed iu the cavern remote, dallied with
the cataract, and rested on the myriad peaks
like sentinel beacons to point the way to the
fountain of culture, hope and redemption.
t hat the school is appreciated, and is rapid
ly disseminating good influences and cultured
knowledge throughout this whole mountain
region, the exercises of which we write amply
testified; and that it is capable of higher effort
and nobler achievements in the future than its
young life has yet been crowned with, its
organization, plans, progress and successes
afford abundant assurance.
THE SCHOOL MASTEK GOES ABROAD,
The most important feature iu the expand
ing usefulness and prospective glory of this
Institution, is its system of educating and
commissioning teachers for the common
schools of the country. The last General
Assembly passed an act authorizing the
Board of Trustees to license, at each com
mencement, all pupils who may have entered
College for preparation to teach, and who
should be certilied to them as competent l>y
the faculty. These students get their tuition
absolutely free, but agree to teach three
months during their novitiate wherever they
may bo assigned by the Board of Trustees.
They are not to teach for nothing, however.
They are allowed to charge and collect tuition
fees, and to receive their pro rata of the com
mon school fund; and if their pay for the
throe months from these sources falls short of
$75.00, the Board agrees to make up the
deficiency, in the way of board and clothing
on their return to the College to complete
their course. Under this system
FIFTY- THREE NOVITIATES
Were prepared during the last term and
licensed at this commencement. On Tuesday,
Colonel W. P. Price, President of the Board,
delivered to fifty young gentlemen and three
young ladies, commissions, bearing the cer
tificates of the President and Professors of
the College as to their cpialificatious and
moral character, authorizing them to go forth
and break the leashes that enthrall the uiind of
youth. As this is the first class sent out upon
this noble mission, under the act referred to,
we record their names—regretting that we are
unable to give their residences and the schools
to which they are assigned.
They are as follows: E. B. Earl, G. W.
Collier, M. G. Bates, A. W. White, V. A.
Higgins, S. A. Edwards, J. C. Bryan, J. W.
Ileuly, W. B. Tate, T. J, Mosley, J. E. Neal,
E. C. Neal, J. H. Alley, Asa Holcomb, J. B.
Parks, A. J. Eberhart, J. M. Eberhart, P. S.
Coffee, N. W. Swords, C. M. Swords, L. P.
Hammond, W. A. Fowler, C. V. Weathers, J.
W. Byers, L. S. Thacker, J. W. Davenport,
A. J. Caveuder, D. W. Jarrard, Thomas Mc-
Donald, B. B. Landers, F. M. Johnson, J. J.
Guillurd, Henry Barber, W. L. Coleman, F. L.
Ahbury, D. L. Martin, E. M. Osborn, C. B.
Randall, Win. Lawrence, T. V. B.vins, J. AI.
Williams, R. N. Coffee, G. A. Coffee, Wm. D.
Harris, J. H. Abernathy, J. AI. Armstrong,
W. A. Erwin, A. P. Williams, J. W. Ryan
and A. G. Strickland, and Aliases Fannie
Nash, Alelissa Williams and Aurora Strong.
The friends of these young men and young
ladies, and the whole country, will watch
their career with eager interest, and will
expect, not only good results from their
labors, but lives full of honors and characters
that thousands will bless and emulate. They
constitute the vanguard of a movement that
is to revolutionize the common school system
of the State, and make it a blessing to pos
terity and a glory to the commonwealth. The
law should be amended so as to embrace the
Mother College at Athens, and the application
of the system to the higher branches of learn
ing. ludeed the principle should be adopted
iu every College and High School in the Slate,
that the streams of education flowing down
from the fountains may be as numerous as
the rills that flow down from the spring-heads
of the highlands.
To Col. Price, the zealous and indefatigable
patron of the College, and President of*the
Board of Trustees, and Col D. W. lifr'wis,
President of the College, the people are in
debted for this wise provision. May it prove
as successful as its friends anticipate* and
work all the good predicted by the Board of
Visitors and the distinguished guests who
witnessed the pleasiug ceremony.
THE PROGRAMME.
We cannot undertake to follow the pro
gramme of exercises, in regular order, nor
have we space for the tithe of the inteiestiug
exercises, incidents, episodes and speeches
that marked the progress of this commence
ment and distinguished it above all ordinary
school exhibitions.
On Sunday tho sermon was preached by
Bishop Pierce, and it was pronounced by
those who heard it as one of the ablest efforts
of that great and good man.
On Monday morning, before our arrival,
the examination of the primary department
took place. Then followed the drill of the
Cadets by their commander, Major Garrard,
who marched them to tlie public square,
wliero they were addressed by Bishop Pierce,
General P. M. B. Young, Dr. Carlton, of the
Athens Georgian, Col. W. L. Goldsmith and
others.
At noon, Governor Colquitt, Dr. Janes, Col.
Alston anil the writer arrived, and that after
noon witnessed a very creditable parade and
drill of the Cadets. The battalion visited
Gov. Colquitt at the hotel, who acknowledged
the compliment in a brief but spirited address.
Monday night a large audience was enter
tained by recitations and tableaus,-at the
stand erected for the exercises; after which
speeches from visitors were clamored for, and
brief responses were made by Colonel R. A.
Alston, Gen. Young, Col. Goldsmith and tho
editor of the Eagle.
Tuesday was a field day. The programme
was varied to suit convenience, and we had
declamation, original speeches, meeting of
the Alumni Society, election of honorary
members, short addresses, etc., etc.
THE PRESS AN ADJUVANT.
At the conclusion of the meeting of the
Alumni Society, we had the honor to address
the Novitiates who had been licensed to teach,
in the course of which we invited each one,
after locating and opening school, to write a
communication to the Engle, and to continue
the same from time to time during their term,
offering them, in return, the Eagle free for
the three months. This proposition was made
with a view to affording the young gentlemen
n opportunity to cultivate the art of writing
correctly, and was accepted with thanks by a
rising vote. This pleasing circumstance called
Dr. Carlton to his feet, who said that lie always
made it a rule not to allow a brother journalist
to get ahead of him, and proceeded to supple
ment our proposition with a suggestion that
the students of the College organize a Jour
nalistic class to write weekly communications,
under the supervision of the President, and
send them to his paper, the Athens Georgian,
for publication, promising free copies to the
College. This proposition was also accepted
by a vote of the Alumni Society., If the
students and teachers will but use the oppor
tunities, thus generously tendered, *ith the
same zeal and alacrity that characterised their
acceptance of the propositions, we’ll* guaran
tee rapid and decided improvement iu their
orthography, rhetoric, thinking /lenities,
shaping of idea*-and- colJStmetttd4iV"sen
tences, paragraphs and articles.
governor colquitt’s address.
Tuesday night, after the conclusion of decla
maliou and original addresses by the advanced
students, Gov. Colquitt was introduced, and
for one hour held the largo audieuco spell
bound by the most eloquent, and at the same
time the most practical, philosophic and
and scholarly address it has ever been our
good tortuue to hear him pronounce. It is
impossible to do justice to the splendid effort
in the space alloted to this article; but it was
too good to be wholly lost, and we attempt a
synopsis at the risk of marring its beauties.
The early part of Wednesday forenoon was
devoted to target shooting by the Cadets, a
number of speeches by the students, and the
address of Mr. Wm. Dawson Harris, of Mur
ray county, to the Cadets. Being occupied
with the Board of Visitors, we failed to wit
ness these interesting exercises; but those
who were present gave a good accouut of the
shooting, the speeches and the address. We
arrived at the stand just in time to hear Rev.
A. G. Haygood deliver an unique, anecdotical,
highly polished, common sense and grandly
eloquent discourse on “general principles.”
The vast audience were carried along in
happy sympathy with the speaker—now en
tranced with his eloquence, now profoundly
impressed with his solid logic, anon convulsed
with laughter by some anecdote or illustra
tion, and now in silent admiration led away
to the pure fountains from whence he drew
his inspiration, and made to drink deep of the
holy thoughts that burst their channels into
language ns chaste as truth and as musical as
the harmony of the spheres.
Being compelled to return to our sanctum,
we did not hear the address of Mr. B. H.
Payne, of Canton, Ga , to the Literary Socie
ties, nor witness the closing exeroises in the
, afternoon, and had to forego the pleasure of
attending an entertainment at the Besser
House that evening, given by Maj. Garrard to
the Cadets and their friends Gentlemen who
remained report that it was a most enjoyable
occasion fully illustrating the apothegm
“the best of the wine for the last of the feast.”
A PUBLIC BENEFACTION.
The Board of Visitors guests and citizens
who were present, concurred in the opinion
that the school is a great public benefactiou,
and that it is accomplishing more practical
and solid good than any Institution of learn
ing iu the State. Many gentlemen of high
culture witnessed the exercises and heard
Col. Price’s expose of the plans, aims and prac
tical working of the system so wisely inaugu
rated, and with one accord they pronounced
their approval and sealed the verdict with un
qualified endorsement.
The location of the College was a happy
thought of Col. Price. Ii is in the midst of
an ungaruered field, and nearly a fourth of
the territory and rural white population of the
State are within the radius of its direct influ
ence, and constitute its local and uatural
support. As before stated, Northeast Geoigia
could not educate its children because of the
inaccessibility of the higLer schools and their
expensiveness. This is at the very threshold
of the youth of the wilderness, and offers the
blessings of a liberal tducation to all, literally
without money and without price. It was just
the school they needed,and now that it is firmly
established, and they begiu to see and to feel
its beuign influence, and the transcendent
good it foreshadows, they are rallying to its
support as children cleave to the mother.—
Over four thousand children have already
been taught the rudiments by its beneficia
ries, and the system just inaugurated of pre
paring and licensing novitiates to teach a
fourth of each year of their collegiate term,
will scatter the mana all over the laud and
enable every child to feed from its bounty. In
the near future, therefore, the present excuse
for the appalling ignorance that broods over
the land and blights civilization, will be an
excuse no more forever.
DAHLOXEGA
Is a lovely little village, situated in the heart
of the richest gold hills east of the Rocky
mountains, and inhabited by a kind, generous
and hospitable population. Her citizens take
a deep interest 'in the College, and to the
utmost of their ability contribute to its sup
port. They do all in their power to make the
students comfortable and eouteuted, and are
ever ready to open their hearts and their
houses to them, so eager are they that the
cost of subsistence shall debar none from the
benefits of the fountain of learning. Every
residence is the student’s home, and the price
of living is so low that every parent can afford
to send his er her children to the feast.
We shall refer to Dahlonega and her sur
roundings in a future article—this paper is
full, and we are compelled to close it.
Our effort to synopsise the Governor's
speech is a failure, and we omit it altogether.
This, we know, will disappoint many of our
readers; but it is impossible to recall the ideas
of the speaker, much less the eloquent words
iu which they were clothed, and it would be
doing the Governor gross injustice to manu
facture ’an inferior article and palm it off as
genuine. We hope to have the speech for
uext week’s issue.
Energy at Porter Springs.
We learn that since Col. Farrow has
become the owner of all the property
at Porter Springs, which is a recent
thing, he is determined to have a good
road to the place. He went down to
Atlanta this week and purchased a
large lot of picks, shovels, etc., with
which to cut a good road from the
new free bridge, over the Chestatee, at
the old Bearden ford to the springs.
He will cut three miles of road al
together new from the bridge that
way, and at all the severe hills he will
grade around them. This will shorten
the road, and make it not more than
twenty-eight miles from here to the
springs, and perhaps not more than
twenty-seven miles. lie says he will
complete it within twenty days, and
he generally accomplishes whatever he
undertakes. The completion of that
work and the proper working of the
road from the bridge to Gainesville by
the road bands, would work a revolu
tion in travel and throw it all over
that road, as it would be a splendid
ro id from here to Porter Springs, and
one over which the most improved and
delicate vehicles could pass.
A Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune states that an act
ive Republican, who has had an oppor
tunity of examining the roll of the
next House of Representatives, recent
ly completed by Clerk Adams and filed
m the office of the Treasurer of the
United States, as evidence uoon which
members are paid, says that it shows
152 Democrats to 134 Republicans,
with 7 vacancies. The seven contes
ted seats are in the first and fourth
districts of California, the single dis
trict of Colorado, second district of
Florida, the fourth and sixth district
of Louisiana, and the third districts of
Missouri. It will be accordingly seen
that should all the vacancies be awar
ded to the Republicans the Democrats
will still havo a majority of eleven in
the next House.
The Boston Advertiser gives some
interesting statistics from 4!) of the
larger cotton mills of New England.
They make about 30 per cent, of all the
cotton goods in the North, and con
sume annually 385,000 bales. In the
first six months of the present year
they worked up 89,236,942 pounds.
As the quality of the crop of 1876-7
was much better than that of the sea
son before the Advertiser thinks it safe
to assume that these figures represent
an increase (in pounds) of 5 per cent,
in the quantity of goods turned out.
These goods have found a market,
there is no large accumulation on
hand, and the demand is perceptibly
improving. If prices can be kept
down this Summer, the Advertiser
thinks Autumn will find the New En
gland mills unable to keep up with
their orders.
A painful illustration of the dire dis
tress of thousands of educated men
now out of employment is to be seen
at the navy yard in Brooklyn daily.
On an announcement that work was to
be resumed on Monday, more than
three thousand men, who knew noth
ing of the practical work to be done,
many of them graduates of colleges,
applied for positions. Among the
caulkers in the yard are two of the
best captains that ever commanded
American steamships. Although once
drawing salaries of many thousand
dollars a year, they are now glad to be
able to make three dollars and a half a
day at hard labor.—N. Y Sun.
Experts report that nearly one hun
dred and fifty six thousand dollars of
Louisiana taxes are in the hands of
the old carpetbag tax collectors, never
having been paid into the State Trea
sure. Every effort will be made to re
cover the plunder. This is a part of
the swag which Kellogg, Packard and
their gang captured from the citizens
of the State while they were in power,
and it was to prevent the detection of
this fraud that Johnson, the Radical
State Auditor, purloined the books of
his office, which he still refuses to sur
render. It is said they are secreted in
the custom house.
The Boston Congregalioualist sajs:
The Republican politicians in Penn
sylvania profess to be very dejected
over the prospects of the fall elections,
and they allege that the President is
to blame; that with his administration
of affairs success is impossible. The
real trouble seems to be that the Cam
eron wing is angry because it cannot
control the Federal officers, and it
means to punish the President by in
difference and inactivity in the fall
campaign.
The survivors of Hood’s Texas bri
gade of the Confederate army met at
Waco, Texas, on the 3d inst. Among
those present were Gen. Hood, Gen.
T. M. Logan (orator of the day), Gen.
Robertson, Senator Coke, and Repre
sentative Mills. A letter from Major
Simpson, of the Ninety-fifth New York
Regiment, was read amid cheering;
also a letter from President Hayes re
gretting that he could not attend. The
United States liag was presented and I
given three rousing cheers.
The Wheat Crop. .
From many localities we have in
formation that the wheat is not turn
ing out so well as was expected. The
meshes are not full, and a greater
number of sheaves are required to
turn out a bushel. A majority of the
threshers think the crop is 20 per cont
short of what it was reasonably sup
posed to be. Per contra, Mr. Wm. P.
Whelchel, one of the best planters in
the county, residing on the Wahoo,
informs us that the crop in his neigh
borhood is first-rate—as good as has
at any time been hoped for. His own
crop yielded bushels for each
bushel sown.
That the aggregate yield is very
large, there can be no doubt; but this
fact should not alarm growers and
cause them to rush their wheat on the
market at low figures. The crop on
the Pacific slope is short nearly 50 per
cent, and our surplus will not make up
the deficiency. Thoso who are not
pressed for a little ready cash, will
consult their own best interest by
waiting for a reaction in prices. One
dollar and a half is the lowest figure
at which a bushel should be sold, and
a little firmness on the part of plan
ters will secure that price for the
entire crop.
Ihe Northeast Georgia Fair Association.
We publish another urgent letter on
this subject to-day. Isn’t it about time
to call a meeting to give ‘form and
pressure’to the enterprise? Gentle
men of Gainesville, will you help us?
Suppose you have a preliminary meet
ing to-morrow (Saturday) at 10 o’clock
a. in., in the Ordinary’s office, to talk
the matter over. Wake up! wake up !
gentlemen, and let’s be doing some
thing to help ourselves and promote
the general weal.
Robeson, ex-Secretary of the Navy,
is, according to Washington gossip,
one of the bitterest of the opponents
of the present administration. He is
outspoken in his denunciations of the
President, declaring that, had he
known the kind of Secretary of the
Navy that would succeed him, Mr.
Hayes never would have been Presi
dent. He says Don Cameron and
himself prevailed upon General Grant
to use troops in Florida, South Caro
lina and Louisiana, which resulted in
bringing about the defeat of Mr. Til
den.
A well known Illinois Republican
who is in Washington, says that the
lowa Convention correctly represents
the sentiments of the Republicans of
his own State and he does not expecl
to see a single Republican victory in
the fall elections, outside of New En
gland. Thus far all of the county Re
publican conventions in Pennsylvania
have refused to indorse Hayes, and
their course will be confirmed in the
State Convention in August.
The Philadelphia mint resumed
work on Tuesday upon double eagles
and trade dollars, for which there is a
large demand - During the year end
ing June 14, 40,835,720 pieces were
coined of the value of $21;310,664.
The pieces figuring highest on the
statement are half dollars, 11,298,7000,
and quarter dollars, 16,068,700. Nearly
all the gold coined was double eagles,
489,700 pieces, of the value of $9,794,-
000.
A meeting of colored people under
the auspices of the Liberian Exodus
Association was held in Charleston,
S. C., on the 4th inst., the object being
the consideration of a scheme for the
wholesale emigration of colored people
to Liberia. Letters were read from
different parts of the country, and
speakers were present from diff rent
parts of the State. They represent
that the colored people are ready and
anxious to go.
Mr. G. W. Childs, of Philadelphia,
celebrated the Fourth in a very credi
table manner. He gave a dinner to
the Philadelphia newsboys. Six bun
dred and seven invitatiens were sent
out, and five hundred and sixty-eight
boys attended. The dinner was in
thirteen courses, and the boys sat at
the tablo for one hour and three-quar
ters, enjoying themselves hugely.
It is understood that President
Hayes will make no authoritative an
nouncement of his views on the silver
question until he sends in his first
message to Congress. He is under
stood to favor a conditional restora
tion of the double standard through
an international commission, so that
the interests of both the creditor and
debtor classes may be protected.
Connecticut dentist has got hold of
a composition whereby be can make
teeth at a cost of less than 50 cents a
set. This will enable the female wear
er of false teeth to have a set to match
every suit she owns, both in color and
design. With pink goods, pink teeth;
with striped goods, striped teeth; and
so on. The man who discovered Con
necticut was no slouch.
The New York Sun says it is beyond
a doubt that twenty of the best shots
in Colonel Berdan’s corps of sharp
shooters, under the leadership of Joe
Ketch, the noted Texan rifleman, have
joined the Russian army, end are now
on the Danube. Berdan’s sharpshoot
ers were organized in June, 18G1, and
disbanded after a service of four years
and six months.
Stanley Matthews is a man who nev
er despairs. He paid twenty-seven
cents the other day for an old blind
hen, and has set her on the Cardiff
giant, and swears that he will keep her
there until she hatches out the old
whig party if it takes a thousand years
and kills the hen.—Burlington Hawk-
Eye.
The Monroe Advertiser says $‘20,000
is a low estimate of the value of the
dried fruit that will be sold in Forsyth
this season.
A Cobb county farmer sold two
thousand pounds of home made bacon
last week.
The Marietta paper reports one of
the heaviest storms that ever passed
over that locality on last Sunday, with
much damage to crops, fencing, etc.
P. W. REDWINE. W. M. RED WINE.
REDWINE BROTHERS,
DEALEI?S IIV
STAPLE FAKTOY
GROC ERIES Etc., Etc.
GAINESVILLE, GA.
JulyC-tf
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
G. 11. HIILLER CO.,
ITyor Street, Under tlie Kimball House,
A T L A N T A , G A .
SOUTHERN SALESROOM
FOR THE CELEBRATED
M E H I 1 > E IV
BRITANNIA COM PA NY’S
FINE
Silver Plated Ware, Bronzes, &c.
At Wholesale ttml Retail.
Prices the same as at the Company’s Ware
rooms in New York.
The largest, most complete, and elegant
assortment to be found in the South.
ALSO.
Gold Jewelry, Celluloid, Coral
Jewelry, Etc., Etc.
New Goods constantly being received from
the Factory and shipped to all parts of the
country. julyl3-tf
A CAATPLID.
The Finest Property in Gainesville
FOR ,9 AL 13 .
TO MEN WITH MONEY.
'THE ENTIRE VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
owned by the Findley’s, in the city of
Gainesville and vicinity, are now offered tor
sale, consisting of tho magnificent residence
where Col. J. J. Findley now lives, which is
one of the most desirable places in Northeast
Georgia. The house is a two-story wood
building—-built by the finest carpenters in the
State, containing ten rooms- four rooms down
stairs being twenty-two feet in the clear—all
well ventilated. The rooms up stairs (4) are
the same size. The remainder smaller, hut
handsomely finished and well ventilated, witli
closets and pantries to suit all conveniences;
with brick fire-proof kitchen attached, all in
the finest condition. The lot upon which the
house is situated contains thirty acres of land,
with every outbuilding necessary, aud one of
the finest orchards of choice peaches, apples,
pears, figs, grapes, etc., in North Georgia, and
is situated on the corner of Grove and Law
renceville streets, abont 250 yards from the
Court House. Upon the lot is tho finest well
of water—pure freestone and never failing—
and one of the best springs, together with
rock spring house, complete, and fish pond
near by. Upon this lot is also situated the
dwelling house now occupied by W. F. Find
ley, Fsq., together with good law office aud
blacksmith shop.
Also, the house and lot on Lawrenceville
street, known as the l)r. Hattie’s residence.
On this lot are three acres of laud, a good
young peach orchard of choice fruit, and a
good well of water.
Also, the farm lying east of Lawrenceville
street, and running to the Air Line Railroad,
containing 125 acres; about 40 of which is
good bottom, tho hal'ttce good upland; about
80 of which is now iu a high state of cultiva
tion. Grows corn, wheat, oats, rye, cotton
and grapes finely—good tenement houses and
fine water thereon. A porti< nof this place is
within the corporation of the city.
Also, (lie farm lying east of the Atlanta and
Richmond Air Line Railroad, aud bounded
on the west by said railroad, situated on Flat,
creek. The limn contains 170 acres of land,
75 of which is bottom, and as good as tin
county affords about 125 acres now in cul
tivation. The balance in the otiginal forest
good fence all around, mostly of chestnut
rails. Upon the place is good tenement
buildiugs, and the finest mineral springs in
this county, consisting of freestone, chaly
beate, bluest, no and sulphur springs, all
within the space of an J of an acre of land, and
within 250 yards of tile Piedmont hotel, the
Richmond house and the depot.
Also, about lot) acres ot land, lying between
Lawrenceville and Skallowford streets—all
within the corporate limits of the city. Upon
this property is situated anew two-story wood
dwelling house, all complete except plaster
ing, which will he done in a few days, con
taining six rooms, with all necessary pantries
and closets; good weil of water, aud other
outbuildings attached. Also, upon this prop
erty is anew still house, erected for govern
ment distillery; ware-house, cistern room and
a small dwelling house for the workmen to
live in—with water power all complete.
The most of this property is iu original
forest, and well timbered. The house lot
contains about six acres. The yard in front
of the new dwelling is handsomely laid off'
and well set out with all necessary shrubbery,
and is a most magnificent residence.
All the above property can he bought low
tor cash. The property is not offered for sale
for any fault we have to it, nor the climate
where it is situated, for neither can he ex
celled; but having made up our minds to go
West, the property is placed upon the market.
The titles are perfect, they having been so
declared by the Supreme Court of Georgia.
All or any part ot the above can he bought
Also, the growing crop, together with the
household aud kitchen furniture, stock, etc.
For any further information, call ou any of
the Findley’s, on tlie place, or addrees
Col. J. J. FINDLEY,
J. A. FINDLAY,
IV. F FINDLEY or
ELIZABETH FINDLEY.
Gainesville, Ga., July 13, 1877—2 m
Union County Sheriff Sale.
AT7"ILL BE SOLD, before the Court House
vv door, in the town of Blairsville, Union
county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in August
next, within the legal hours of sale, the iol
iowiug property, to wit:
Lots of laud Nos. CO, Cl and 62, in the 10th
district and Ist section of said county. Levied
on as the property of John 8. Fain, by virtue
of a tax fi fa for taxes for 1576.
Also, at the same time and place, lot of laud
No. 139, in the 10th district and Ist section of
said county. Levied on as the property of
John S. Fain, agent for Jesse Combs, by vir
tue of a tax fi fa lor taxes for the year 1876.
Also, at the same time and place, lot of land
No. 121, iti the tenth district and first section
of said county. Levied on as I life property oi
William I). Teague, by virtue ol' two tax fi fas
lor taxes for the years 1875 and 1876.
Also, at the same time and place, lot of laud
No. 174, in the tenth district and first section
of said county. Levied on as the property of
John M. Butt, agent lor W. G. Butt, by virtue
of a tax fi fa for taxes for the year 1876.
.Said fi fas all issued by the former Tax Col
lector of said county. Levies made and re
turned to me by .J. L. Trammell, L. C
13 td N. B. HILL, Sheriff.
QEORGIA. HALL COUNTY. • Delns E.
Evaus applies for exemption of personal
ty and setting apart and valuation of home
stead, and I will pass upon the same at 10
o’clock a. no., on Saturday, the 28th day of
July A. D., 1877, at my office.
J. B. M. WINBUKN, Ordinary.
Ordinary office, July 6, 1877. julylJ 2t
NOTICE.
TTTILL BE SOLD, at my residence, on
vv Spriug street, in Gainesville, on the 21st
instant, the Personal Property belonging to
the estate of John S. Iliden, deceased, con
sisting of Mechanical and Farming Tools,
Books, etc. Terms cash.
julyl3-lt M. W. KIDEN, Adm’r.
MRS. J. W. WHITE,
FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKER,
MAIN STREET,
KING HOUSE, NEAR THE COLLEGE,
TT AS recovered from her recent illness, and
11 is prepared to Cut, Fit aud Make
all kinds of Clothing by Gurley’s chat l and
from the latest fashion plates.
Making “auld claes a’maist” as good ns new
a specialty. june29 tf
TEA AGENTS WAITED.
We wish ax Agent, Male or Female, In eaeli town
of this country, to got up Clubs among families,
hot Is, factories, etc., for tee sale of our Teas, and
will otter vory liberal commissions to such. We havo
beeu importers of Teas for over twenty years, and
can atford to send, aud will send a hotter article for
the money than any other house in New York.
Onr Teas are put up in one pound packages, with
the name aud price printed upon each. Address,
witli references, for terms aud blank form for Clubs!
or send us an order fora sample lot, which we will
forward at lowest Club price, C. O. D.
London, New York aud China Tea Cos.,
HU ChuM-h Strut,
juue22-4m Or, P. O. Box 574. N. y.
Assignee’s IVotiee.
In Bankruptcy - Northern District of Georgia.
At Gainesville, the 10th day of June, 1877.
nPHE undersigned hereby gives notice of Ins
appointment as assignee of Andrew B. C.
Dorsey, of Gainesville, iu the county of Hall
and State of Georgia, within said District,
who has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his
own petition, by the District Court of said
District. G. 11. PRIOR,
june22 3t* Assignee.
The Con volition.
"VTOWtliat It is certain a Convention will lie held,
-IN we take pleasure in announcing that the pro
ceedings of that body will bo reported for the Con
stitution by- a member of * ur editorial stall', who is
acknowledged one of the most accomplished short
hand writers iu the country. Considerable interest
will attach to these proceedings, aud those who desire
to read or preserve a verbatim history ol the labors of
tho Convention will do well to send iu their subscrip
tions at once.
03VT33 DOLLAR
will get the Weekly constitution till January 1, ]B7.
or Five Dollars the Daily Constitution the same lengt h
of time, postago free. Address
jnne22 CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga.
The Attention of Farmers is Called to Our
AMERICAN MAMMOTH RYE,
Or Diamond Wheat,
FOR FALL OR SPRING SOWING.
A New Variety, entirely distinct from
tlie Common Rye or any otlier
Graiii ever Introduced.
IT WAS FIRST FOUN GROWING WILD ON THE
Humboldt River. Nevada; since which time it has
been successfully cultivated wherever tried. It yields
from sixty to eighty bushels to the acre. Mr. A. J.
Dufur, United States’ Centennial Commissioner from
Oregon, asserts that ho has known it to yield eighty
seven and a half bushels to the aero. It was awarded
the highest aud only premium at the United States'
Centennial Exposition, and pronounced the finest an,l
only grain of the kind ou exhibition.
It has been grown as a Fall aud Spring grain with
equal success. Single grains measuring one-hall
inch iu length, aud the average close to that.
Price per package 25 cts.; Five packages $1 00; One
dozen packages $2 00. Sent post-paid by mail.
Agents wanted everywhere to introduce Ibis Wheat.
Notice.—We are iu no way connected with -any
other seed house in Cleveland or Chattanooga. All
o dei-s, letters, etc., should ho plainly addressed, thus
S. Y. lIAINES & CO.,
Cleveland, Bradley Cos., Tenu.
Branch House, Sweetwater, Monroo county, Tenu.
Mr-Sample sent free on receipt of a three cent
stamp. june22 ft
.UUIN FLANNERY, JOHN L. JOHNSON
Managing partner late firm
L. J Gnilmartiu A Cos.,
1865 to 1677.
JOHN FLANNERY & < <).,
COTTON FACTORS
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 3 Kelly’s Block, Bay Street,
' il Vsl Si 1 , G o orgia.
etc g etc ß lor Jeweli ’ 8 Mllls Varlls and Domestics,
Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at lowest market
rates. Prompt attention given to all business en
rnsted to us. Liberal cash advances made on
consignments.
UAL Our Mu. FLANNERY having purchased
he entire assets aud assumed tho liabilities ot the
ate firm of L J. GUILMA RUN \ CO., we will at
tund to ad outstanding business of that tirni n
junels-0m
BROWN HOUSE.
#B.OO Per D:i.y.
I A r is K 1> TJ C R. u I
UUIOM and after this date our rales will he
Two Dollars per day. Rooms elegant and
comfortable, table as good as the market af
fords. Every exertion will be made to keep up
the well-known reputation of the house.
Every attention given to ladies, and large
rooms always in readiness for commercial trav
elers visitiog Macon.
Meal*
Lodging 50c.
E. E. BROWN & SON.
References: Our patrons throughout every
State in the Union. juuelstf
PIANO PLAYING
LEARNED IN A BAY !
MASON’S CHARTS, which recently created such a
sensation in Boston and elsewhere, will enable
auy person, of any age, t >
Master the Piano or Organ
in a dy, even though they have no knowleilco of
notes, etc. The Boston Globe says
“You can learn to play on the piano . r organ in a
day, even if you never played before, and have not
the s lghtest knowledge of notes, by the use of
Mason's Chart". A chili* ten years old can i eabn
easily, they are endorsed by the best musical peo
ple in Boston, and are the gran.l culmination of the
inventive genius of the nineteenth century.”
Circulars giving full particulars and many testimo
nials will be sent flee on application. <'no set of
Mason s Charts mailed, post-paid, to any address lo
ouly $2.00. Worth more than SIOO spent on music
lessons. A<i<lress A. c. MORTON
. . , General Agent, Atlanta! <3a.
Age nts wanted at once everywhere. Best chance
ever offered. Secure territory before Ujg late t... u.n
,r ' u ’ july 13-liu
QKORGIa, WHITE COUNTY. Benjamm
Aix having applied to me in proper form,
praying for Letters of Administration, with
the will annexed of Jonas Nix, decease,!:
1 his is to cite all legally concerned to be
and appear at the August term of the Court
ol Ordinary ol said county, to show cause, it
any they cau, why letters ol administration,
with the will annexed of Jonas Nix, deceased*
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my hand and official signature
this July 9, 1877. ISAAC OAKES,
julyl3-4t Ordinary.
Schedule Northeastern Railroad.
Change of Hi hfdule.
On and after Monday, June 11th, 1877 the
morning train on the Northeastern Railroad
will be discontinued. The evening train will
run as follows:
evening train.
Leave Athens 4 30 p m
Arrive at Lnla V. 6 50 p m
Leave Atlanta via A. L. R. it."."".! 4.00 p.’ M
Leave Lula 7.00 pm"
Arrive at Athens .!.!.! 9/20 i-. M
Ibis train will make close connection at
Lula with passenger train on Air-Line Rail
road from Atlanta going North.
J- M. EDWARDS,
June 15-tf Superintendent.