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THE EAGLE.
Friday Morning, July 20, 1877.
CAHEY W. STYLES Editor.
Telegrams from Washington City
indicate the return of Mr. Hayes to the
first principles of his Southern policy,
and a square fight with Blaine, Cham
berlain & Cos.
It really begins to look as if the
Con. Con. fails to appreciate the per
Bistent suggestions of the country ed
itors. This is cruel on the rural solons,
but there’s no help for it.
Augusta now claims a population of
33,768 —whites, 15,136; colored, 8,632.
This estimate is based upon a census
recently taken by the publisher of a
Directory of the city, and the Chronicle
and Constitutionalist has no doubt of
its correctness.
The Atlanta Constitution is publish
ing the daily proceedings of the Con
vention in full. Mr. 8. W. Small, the
best stenographer in the South, reports
every utterance by the members, and
the whole appears the next morning.
This is praiseworthy enterprise, and it
ware a shame if the people do not ap
preciate it.
Colonel J. D. Mathews is one of the
ablest and most reliable delegates in
the Convention. Col. Mathews is the
author of the resolutions that consti
tute the machinery for manufacturing
the Constitution, and yet Col. Mathews
was not named as chairman of a soli
tary committee. Of course the omis
sion was an oversight on the part of
the President.
Mr. Toombs’ Revisory Committee
will smooth the jagged angles and
rough edges of the Convention, and
harmonize conflicting views on his own
line. If it be true that he favors a
liberal and guaranteed homestead; a
generous educational provision, and
the permanency of the capital at At
lanta, as stated to us by persons who
ought to know, we shall take great
pleasure in endorsing whatever else
he may do.
A Washington doctor, who knows
the President well, says he will not be
bulldozed, and will let his party break
if that will pacify the country. Only
a little while ago he said to a gentle
man who was intimating that he was
too friendly toward the Democrats:
‘Don’t you know that if it had not
been for the action of thirty or forty
conservative Democrats the country
might now be in the midst of revolu
tion, and I certainly should not be
here. Do you suppose I can forget
that fact ?’
The Seventh Congressional District
is highly honored in the Convention.
The President, Mr. Jenkins, lavishes
his official smilco upon her great men,
and gives them distinguished promi
nence in the High Commission. Seven
of the twenty-six members of the Re
visory Committee reside in the 7th,
and yet it would seem that the spirit
of the resolutions contemplated a
more liberal distribution of the mate
rial. It is unfortunate that such acci
dents occur.
If G ov. Nicholls, as is rumored,
should pardon Wells and Anderson, if
convicted, he would simply damn him
self and not save them from public
obloquy. It is high time that ‘dicker
and bargain’ should get a black eye.
Wo want a clear deck for 1880.—
Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
Ay, if Gov. Nicholls or President
Hayes should even express sympathy
for the infamous wretches, the country
will brand them. Hands off, a fair
trial and a just verdict, should be the
stern demand of every honest man in
America. None but participants in
the crime will dare interfere.
“Gold mining is rapidly becoming
the leading interest in North Georgia,
and we earnestly hope that our people
will do all in their power to encourage
it.”
We find the above in a “gold” com
munication in the Dahlonega Signal,
and print it for the purpose of pro
pounding the question, Is it true ?
During our recent visit to Dahlone
ga we heard this question discussed by
a number of intelligent citizens of
Lumpkin and neighboring counties,
and were no less startled at the facts
evolved than the general conclusions
reached. We had supposed, with
‘Sylex’ in the above paragraph, that
gold mining was really a good thing
for the country, and that it was our
duty to encourage it; but when we
heard the astounding proposition from
many mouths that it was a curse in
stead of a blessing to the people, we
began to examine the subject more
philosophically, and now, by the aid
of observation, enquiry and thoughtful
investigation, wo stand in the attitude
of a doubting Thomas. That it is a
good thiug for capitalists, who have
means, and tho enterprise to work the
best mines on a large scale and with
modern appliances, there can be no
question; but that it is profitable to an
agricultural population, with meagre
resources and limited facilities, admits
of the gravest doubt; and it were well
that each planter calculate closely for
himself the chances of success with the
pick and pan before he abandons tho
plow and hoe.
This is an important subject and
demands more time for consideration
than we can just now devote to it; but
it is our intention to probe it to the
bottom and give the result to our
readers. Meantime, we invite the
views of those interested, from the
gold-bearing region of Northeast
Georgia.
Arc >Ve a Borough \
The character and drift of the matter
introduced into the Convention, up to
this time, suggests the thought that
Georgia may not be, after all, the
‘Empire State of the South,’ but sim
ply a small borough, without preten
sions or any of the elements of a great
commonwealth. Every tyro has his
demagogical hobby, and every old fogy
his superannuated mustard seed chuck
full of retrogression.
If the numerous and conflicting pro
position-! submitted and referred to the
various committees, were indices of re
sults, Georgia would indeed, at this
moment, stand upon the brink of an
abyss, from which she could be rescued
only by the people in the final act cf
resuming their sovereignty; but they
are as insubstantial as the gas bubbles
that rise from the depths of New Hol-
land Spring, and like the bubbles burst
into nothing and disappear the instant
they reach the surface. They are for
home consumption, and the newspaper
reporters make them do all the work
they are expected to accomplished—
they are copied and published, and the
bunkum delegate is happy. The ori
ginals go into the committee rooms,
and there put carefully away to sleep
in the waste basket. Let us hope that
there is safety in the committee ma
chinery. We have faith that they will
strike the happy middle ground, and
evolve a Constitution that the people
can afford to ratify, and that will bear
the grand old ship of State proudly
and prosperously over the billows of
the second century.
It is with profound sorrow that we
fail to discover, in the proceedings,
thus far, any higher order of law-mak
ing qualifications or grander develop
ments of statesmanship and patriot
ism, than have characterized the Legis
latures of the last decade. The pro
ceedings certainly fall below the just
expections of the people, and indicate
controlling views that Georgia cannot
accept.
If we were a community of a few
thousand paupers, without resources,
pride, ambition or hope, some of the
contracted ideas and refluent proposi
tions injected into the Convention,
might command very great respect;
but we are a great people—a great
State—with boundless resources, lofty
pride, noble ambition and bright hope,
and we cannot afford to be choked to
death, dried on a grid-iron, smothered,
shorn of our locks, nor retired as de
crepit. The crab motion is not reform;
degrading public offices is not econo
my; prohibition is not progress; par
simony is not prosperity. Georgia
cries for relief from strangulation;
freedom from the bandages that clog
and coagulate her life-blood, and a rid
dance of the dead things that restrain
her development, canker her social
organism and poison the sources of
her civilization.
Cooking l!p Trouble for Hayes.
The squelched rogues of South Car
olina and Louisiana find willing ac
complices in the Blaines, the Came
rons, the Mortons, the Garfields, and
other leaders of the ‘bloody shirt’
brigade, in their effort to be revenged
upon Mr. Hayes, and their ravings
take the shape of war on the South.
They antagonize the Southern policy
of the President, and advocate a policy
that will lead, and is intended to lead,
if successful, the whole country back
into the morasses and quagmires of
centralism, and restore carpet baggers
and scalawags to power in the South.
The following Washington di-patch is
full of meaning and pregnant with
mischief:
Special Dispatch to the Enquirer.
Washington, D. C., July 12, 1877.
A letter received here from a promi
nent Pennsylvania politician says it is
the common understanding among lie
publicans that Don Cameron is at
work to engineer a resolution through
the approaching Convention denounc
ing the Southern policy of the Presi
dent, which he thinks will be con
strued by Hayes as a rebuke to his
Administration. About two-thirds of
the counties in the State have elected
Delegates to the Pepublican State
Convention. Of these only four have
passed resolutions indorsing the Ad
ministration, and of the four there is
only one that can be considered a full
and unequivocal indorsement. Many of
the counties have voted down resolu
tions of indorsement, but most of them
have utterly ignored the existence of
Hayes. An invitation has been sent
to Governor Packard to visit Harris
burg at the time of the Convention,
and as he will attend the Ohio Con
vention four weeks previously he will
doubtless be on hand.
Hoi:. L. N. Trammell.
It will be gratifying to the numerous
friends of this gentleman, among his
native hills of Northeast Georgia, to
know that he occupies a position in
the fore-front of the Constitutional
Convention, and is regarded as one of
the most practical and efficient law
makers in that august body. He
ranks with the leading spirits in Geor
gia politics, and for solid sense, good
judgment and clear headedness he is
the peer of his proudest cotemporary.
Quiet, unobtrusive and modest in his
demeanor, he impresses his convictions
with winning courtesy, and achieves
success by the wisdom of his sugges
tions. He is emphatically a ‘self-made
man,’ as the world terms it, and de
serves well of his countrymen. True
to his friends, unswerving in his prin
ciples and patriotic in his impulses
and practices, he has climbed high
upon the ladder of popular favor and
public usefulness, and Georgia may
well be proud of such a citizen.
THE MACHINERY.
An Ingenious Invention for Makilig &
Constitution.
On the first day of the session of the
Convention, Col. Mathews submitted
the following resolutions, as a substi
tute for others on the same subject,
and they were adopted. It is an in
genious piece of machinery, and may
be worth more to Georgia than the
steam engine. It is a mill that elimi
nates the trash and troublesome ma
terial of the Convention, and remits to
a majority, to be selected by the Pres
ident, the power to frame and adopt
a Constitution. Thirteen committees
of nine each make 117 members; but
the shrewdness of the measure lies in
the last resolution, which provides for
a ‘committee on the order, consistency
and harmony of the whole Constitu
tion’ when they come to put
together. Of course
will harmonize conflicting
and solidify the whole
seventeen. There is no reason
the other members of thesd. tidß
should not have h ave of
Resolved, That in order to conveniently
and eiliiciently transact the business of this
convention, the president be authorized to
appoint thirteen standing comittees of nine
members each, each congressional distric to
have one respresentative on each of said com
mittees, to consider the existing constitution
of this state, and to report upon the same
with such recommendations for revision and
amendment as may be deemed necessary and
proper, to-wit:
I. A committee on the bill of rights.
2 A committee on the legislative depart
ment.
3. A committee on the executive depart
ment.
4. A committee on the judicial department
5. A committee on elective franchise.
C. A committee on education.
7. A committee on public institutions
8. A committee on finance, taxation and
public debt.
9. A committee ou militia.
10. A committee ou counties and county
officers.
11. A committee on homestead and exemp
tions.
12. A committee on laws of general opera
tion in force in this state.
13. A committee on amendments to the
constitution and miscellaneous provisions.
Resolved, That a committee on the order,
consistency and harmony of the whole consti
tution be appointed by the president to con
sist of two members selected from each of the
said thirteen standing committees, to which
final committee of revision the said thirteen
committees shall make their reports.
The following are the Committees,
appointed by the President, under the
first resolution:
Committee on the Executive Department—
L J Gartrell, W R Gignilliat, T L Guerry, K
\V Anderson, Porter Ingraham, James M
Pace, W T Wofford, J D Mathews, C J Well
born.
Committee on Elective Franchise—A R
Wright, Neil|McLeod, J B Twitty, J R Res
pass, W 1 Judson, F D Dismuke, J C Key, P
C Hudson, R D Winn.
Committee ou Bill of Rights—James L
Seward, John Screven, James L Wimberly, W
A Little, Eli Warren, F C Furman, James R
Brown, H R Casey, S G Howell.
Committee on the Judiciary—A R Lawton,
John A Davis W S Wallace, L H Featherstoue,
N- J Hammond, T G Lawson, W K Moore,
William M Reese, Augustus Reese.
Committee ou Legislative Department—
Robert Toombs H H Perry, J D Knight, T M
Furlow, Hugh Buchanan, William L Foftin, L
N Trammell, Joshua Hill, John Culler.
Committee on Militia—R B Nisbit, A G
Smith, B F Burnett, J C Ellington, J A Hunt,
Thomas G McFarland, W H Mattox, Oliver
Clark, R D Render.
Committee on Finance, Taxation and Pub
lic Debt—T J Simmons, J L Warren, Nelson
Tift, D B Harrell, J T Willis, A D Hammond,
J W Robertson, Miles W Lewis Weir Boyd.
Committee on Public Institutions.—S W
Harris Stephen F Keller, J B Creech, David
Sapp, L M Tye, E E Rosser, D M Hamilton,
Adam Johnson, A F LTnderwood.
Committee ou Counties and County Officers.
—James M Mobley, Waring Russell, B L
Stephens, M N Mcßae, J T Spence, T A
Gibbs, Samuel Hawkins, W G Johnson, An
drew Jackson.
Oominiitee on Homestead and Exemptions.
—P L Mynatt, John M Guerard, S L Wil
liams, William Wells, John T Lougiuo, E C
Grier, N J Tumlin, G F Pierce, Pope Barrow.
Committee on Laws ol General Operation in
this State. —Abda Johnson, J E Donalsou, T
M Awbrey T F Newell, L J Winn, It L
Warthen, J W Stokes W T Day, J C Dell.
Committee on Amendments of Constitution
and Miscellaneous Provisions.—W T Thomp
son, David Golf, O P Swearingen, John P
Glover, A C Mcintosh J C Coney, J C Fain,
Geo F Bristow, D A Camp.
Committee on Education—[This is the best
constructed of all the committees.— Editor
Eagle ] —A H Hansell, John Screven, Geo F
Cooper, W O Tuggle, N J Hammond, O S
Porter, John O Fitten, J G Cain, C J Well
born.
Committee of Final Revision—Messrs R
Toombs and L N Trammell, J L Seward and
J R Brown, L J Gartrell and J D Matthews, A
R Lawton and W M Reese, A R Wright aud
J R Respass, A H Hansell and N J Hammond,
S W Harris and A F Underwood, T J Sim
mons aud J W Robertson, R B Nisbet and T
G McFarland, J M Mobley and W G Johnson,
P L Mynatt aud J M Guerard, Abda Johnson
and T F Newell, W T Thompson aud J C
Fain.
It will be seen that the Seventh Congres
sional District furnished seven of this com
mittee—Atlanta three, Augusta three, Savan
nah three, Thomasville two. Western Georgia
one, Mr. Respass, and the whole of Eastern
Georgia, north of Wilkes county aud east of
the Georgia Railroad and Atlanta one, Dr. A.
F. Underwood. We congratulate the Seventh
on having so many distinguished and useful
citizens.
Committee on Capital.—W. M. Lewis, S.
Hall, J. G. Stevens, W. S. Wallace, -F. Fon
taine, Johu Collier, F. C. Furman, S. Haw
kins and Pope Barrow.
(heap Living.
The action of the Brown House,
Macon, in reducing board to $2 per
day had a good effect. Several prom
inent hotels in the South promptly
followed suit, and now the great
ball House adopts the down
The advertisement, elsewhere, an
nounces the gratifying fact that Col.
McGiuley yields to the pressure for
cheap living, and has placed his rates
at $2.
These prices are lower than before
the war, and yet they are above the
finances of the country people and
will probably not increase the number
of guests. Relief will only come when
contraction and the burning of green
backs at Washington ceases. We want
more of the ‘rag baby’ and the ‘dollars
of the daddies ’
The New York Tribune appeals to
the ‘Solid South’ by telling ns that, if
Mr. Hayes is ‘broken down, the soldier
and the carpet-bagger will march into
the Southern State houses, perhaps be
fore the end of the present presidential
term.” If they do it will be the dead
march or the rogue’s retreat. The
South is not likely to assume the re
sponsibility of ‘breaking down’ the
Fraud, and she is much less likely to
accept the punishment.
OHIO.
1 he Seat lit Power in Politics.
How to Use It.
The Enquirer is rather boastful, but
none the less truthful in claiming for
the great State of Ohio, a controlling
power in the present polities of
the country. We have great rdspect
for the Democratic party of the
Hoosier State, and abiding confidence
in the ultimate triumph of its policy.
The next President will come from the
West, and he will be the exponent of
the principles maintained by thiOhio
Democrats. The Enquirer say®
“The power of Ohio in the politics
of the country is acknowledged* The
Democrats of this State haveAmade
themselves the pivot of the poliLps of
of the nation. The war being over,
questions next inevitably arising,
of getting together again,
questions of
1 '* f | 'Vo- '< ” a ' * •* ,t Vrß : t jf&t ts of
JR Wat fiut;
of
was the problem for tbe statesmanship
of the hour, and to this end they Ohio
Democracy devoted themselves with
an ardor of which they need sot be
ashamed. The Democracy Ohio
became, after the war and still iernain,
the defenders of the people iff mat
ters most closely pertaining flf their
welfare. For almost ten years the
Ohio Democrats have been t^js focus
of the observation and the criticism of
the country. They endeavored to
save for the tax-payers of the Country,
nearly ten years ago, about $300,000,-
000, by clinging to the of the
Government. The country pounced
upon the Democratic party <ff Ohio,
which proved the power of tl|e Ohio
Democracy. This power, indeed, is
uniniversally confessed. If a 'flhancial
measure is discussed in the National
talks the foremost question i&j not how
a certain doctrine will please Georgia,
or Pennsylvania, or but
how will Ohio receive it ? If a Nation
al Convention meets to adopt a plat
form of principles, to announce a dec
laration of faith, there is no (question
more prominent than—wl at will
please Ohio ? Three days ag> three
of the great New York dailies, with a
simultaneous impulse, admitted that
Ohio was the Empress of our national
politics. The whole policy of the Ad
ministration is framed with a view to
its effect upon Ohio. If the Secretary
of the Treasury makes a movement or
gives a hint as to a fragmeai" of a
policy, the people of all the country,
by common consent, look on ihf same
with reference to its effect cn Ohio.
If silver, if contraction, if resimption,
even if the date of the beginning of an
extra session of Congress is unukr con
sideration, the one elementtlfat loolcs
the deliberators squarely in the face is
the State of Ohio. The New York
Times of Wednesday plaintively pleads:
“What is the financial policy of his
(Hayes’) Administration? L it dis
posed to yield to Western clamor at
the expense of principle, or is it re
solved to carry out the Resumption
Law and to uphold the nation’s faith
without looking to Cincinnati for in
structions ?”
Oho has not only given to the poli
tics of the country the ideas about
which her political discussions have
clung for a decade, but her political
geography is added to the talents of
her public men and the valor of her
Democracy. She speaks, in the very
center of the country, in October.
The power of Ohio being confessed,
the question arises, how shall it be
used ? Ohio’s consequence, politically,
has been gathered from the conduct of
her Democracy. For three years,
specially, we have been lifted up from
the earth, and drawn many men unto
us. The methods by which we gained
our power have taught us how to use
it. We have been called “repudia
tors ’ when we only asked the perfor
mance of what was nominated in the
bond. We have been called “unlimi
ted inflationists,” when we dared sim
ply to ask that the unwritten laws of
commerce, of trade, be permitted to
determine the volume of the machine
ry necessary to their proper conduct.
The attention of the country has been
fixed upon the Democracy of Ohio
because they have been brave, and
nobly devoted to the cause of the peo
ple. The Ohio Democrats have be
come a power in the land because,
with unexampled valor and devotion,
the cause of the
PPwHißßHjMMtuiied that power in
it be used ?
Against the interest of the people?
Should the Democracy of this State,
the commanding eleement in the poli
tics of the country, forget the road
over which they traveled to eminence?
Should they spurn the bridge which
bore them safely over? Should they
not use the power which they have
earned, as nobly as they have earned
it—to advance the measures in whose
advocacy they acquired it ?”
A Card.
Editors Constitution:—Your paper
of this morning contains the following
statement: ‘The northern part of the
state will oppose the present home
stead and want it left out of the con
stitution entirely.’ We know of no
part of the section spoken of opposed
to a homestead. A few ‘money
changers’ and their political satelites,
in frequent conversations among
themselves, mistake themselves for the
people. The men who make bread by
the ‘sweat of their faces’ will have a
home and resting place for their wives
and children if they have to fight for
it. This last defense against the ag
gressions of capital will not be yielded.
William T. woefobd,
Augustus R. Weight.
COJiSTITtITIOXAL CONVENTION.
Tlie Work of Drafting a Constitution Pro*
gressiug Hai moniou >ly—Earnestness
and Patriotism or the Delegates—
An Acceptable Instrument
Predicted.
SIXTH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Atlanta, July 17, 1877.
Editor Gainesville Eagle : The
work of the Convention moves along
smoothly—the members generally are
earnest, and seem to appreciate the
importance of the occasion. A large
number of important ordinances have
been introduced, among them several
on educational matters—one or two in
regard to the State University. It is
hoped that in the future more may be
done for this time-honored institution.
There should be no ill-feeling toward
the University—no rivalry—but all, of
every section of the State, should use
every exertion to make it a University
in reality, as well as in name.
Mr. Wellborn has introduced a res
olution in regard to the working of
persons guilty of misdemeanors on the
chain gang with persons convicted of
felonies. It insists that the quali'y
and degree of punishment should be
different. There is a general demand
over the State that there should be
some change in the laws—rather, some
discrimination of the law in its pun
ishments.
An important resolution before the
body is one providing for the payment
of the public debt. A committee of
nine is to be appointed, whose duty is
to examine into, and see what proper
ty of the State may be advantageously
sold for the purpose of liquidating the
debt. The committee are to report
back to the Convention. Will it be
State road, the M. & B. R. It, the
North and South R. R, or the public
buildings here or in Milledgeville ?
Gen. W. T. Wofford has an impor
tant and popular resolution before the
Convention. The matter refers to
taxes, and proposes that the failure to
pay taxes shall never disfranchise any
citizen of the State.
The homestead and State aid is en
grossing the attention of the body,
various resolutions having been intro
duced on these subjects. When they
properly come up, much and lively
discussion will be elicited.
Resolutions, relative to the term of
offiee of the Governor, have been in
troduced. Some are for continuing
the term of the Governor to four years;
others are for a shorter time. What
ever action is taken, will not apply to
the present Governor.
There is a strong desire to rob the
Executive of much of its appointing
power. This is right and just. The
Secretary of State, Comptroller and
Treasurer, as well as the judges, jus-'
tices and notaries should be selected
by the people.
A reduction of Che number of mem
bers of the General Assembly, and
perhaps biennial sessions, will be
agreed upon.
In looking over the Convention, and
hearing roll call, one acquainted in the
State is impressed with the fact that
in the selection of their delegates, the
various counties have exercised sound
judgment. An earnest, intelligent,
painstaking, patriotic body of men,
who seem animated by but one motive,
and that to draft a Constitution that
will best advance the peace, prosperity
and happiness of all the people. The
body, thus far, have been systematic
in their work; have an eye to economy
and a proper regard to the varied in
terests of the State.
President Jenkins proves a highly
satisfactory presiding officer, a cour
teous, genial gentleman, fully compe
tent for the discharge of the mighty
duties resting upon him. Vice-Pres
ident Lawton requires no word from
your correspondent. The day is not
far distant when the people of the en
tire State will urge that he ‘come up
higher.’
The clerical force are competent,
courteous, painstaking gentlemen, and
will have made a large number of
friends when the sessions of the Con
vention will have terminated. It is
rarely the case that ai’ound one desk,
in a body such as the Constitutional
Convention of Georgia, can be gath
ered such men as J C Nesbit, Secre
tary; C H Williams, Assistant Secre
tary; M D Ha”din, Reading Clerk;
J H Christy, Journalizing Clork, and
A S Burton, in charge of the Enrolling
Room.
Tuesday’s proceedings.
Among the various ordinances in
one providing for the
organization of a criminal court.
Resolutions and ordinances were in
troduced, providing against imprison
ment for debt, or the establishment of
a whipping post. For the creating of
the office of Lieutenant Governor.
Against the reduction of the size of the
General Assembly. Resolutions were
introduced relative to the ratification,
by the people, of the Constitution when
completed.
Among other resolutions and ordi
nances introduced, were the following:
By Mr. Tweedy—An ordinance to
fix the per diem of members of the
Convention at $5 per day, and ten
cents for milage; also an ordinance to
regulate the taxation on wild land.
By Mr. Willis—A resolution to fix
the legal per centage in the State at 7
per cent.
By Mr. Anderson—A resolution to
provide a homestead and exemption.
By Mr. Grace—A resolution to abol
ish a criminal court.
By Mr. Sapp—An ordinance to pro
hibit imprisonment for debt.
By Mr. Sell—A resolution to amend
certaiu sections of the Constitution.
By Mr. Sibley—An ordinance to
create the office of Lieutenant Gover
nor of the State; also a resolution to
fix the homestead; also a resolution to
fix the number of members of the Leg
islature.
By Mr. Edge—A resolution to regu
late the judicial districts of the Stale,
and to fix the salaries of the judges
thereof.
By Mr. Coates—An ordinance to
prohibit the issue of taxable bonds.
By Mr Chambers—An ordinance to
authorize an election to be held for tl e
ratification of the Constitution.
By Mr. Barrett—A resolution to
regulate the justices Courts of the
State.
By Mr. Ross—A resolution to allow
the counties of the State to fix the pay
of their Representatives.
By Mr. Wallace—A resolution to
authorize the printing of each proposed
change in the Constitution.
By Mr. Stroud—A resolution to fx
the per diem of members of the Con
vention at fifty cents each per day, and
no mileage to be allowed.
By Mr. Ingram—A resolution to fix
the salary of the Governor, and to sell
the Executive mansion.
By Mr. Spence—A resolution to re
duce the number of grand jurors 24 to
12.
By Mr. Fontaine—A resolution to
prohibit the giving of State aid in any
way.
By Mr. Moseley—A resolution to
reduce the number of State House of
ficials, and to appoint a committee of
nine to look to this reduction in num
ber. Adopted.
By Mr. Osborn—A resolution to
make the Homestead liable to suits for
slander and libel.
By Mr. Camp A resolution to
abolish the office of State School Com
missioner.
By Mr. Shepherd—A resolution to
establish a Department of Agriculture,
that this Convention do not follow the
example of the man who killed the
goose that laid the golden egg.
By Mr. Spence—A resolution to
abolish the office of Attorney General
of the State.
By Mr. Glover—A reso'ution to re
duce the number of members of the
State Legislature. Lost.
By Mr. Denton—A resolution to
make the Governor's term of office two
years, instead of four, and to fix his
salary at $3,000 per year.
By Mr. Brown—A resolution to pay
off the State debt.
By Mr. Stephens—A resolution to
fix the per diem of members of the
legislature at $4 per day.
By Mr. Wofford—A resolution to
annuli all convict contracts.
By Mr. Fitten—An ordinance to
protect the culture of fish in the State.
This last ordinance having finished
the new business of the day, the fol
lowing report was read:
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE,
through its chairman, Mr. T. J. Sim
mons, reported on the subject of the
per diem of the members. The com
mittee state that $25,000 is sufficient
to cover the expenses of the Conven
tion. They recommend that the pay
of the President be fixed at $7 per day
and 10 cents mileage; that the pay of
the members be $4 per day, and 10c.
mileage, and that the doorkeeper re
ceive the same pay as the members.
The report was adopted.
Mr. Gartrell introduced a resolution
that the members be allowed to draw
on the Treasury for $25 each, and that
the Secretary be allowed to receive
from the same source the sum of SIOO,
which was adopted.
The Clerk then announced that the
reception which was to have been
given by the Governor, at liis, mansion
to-night, had been postponed until
Thursday night next.
The Convention then adjourned to
meet to-morrow at 9 a. ni.
S. W. P.
Tlie Secretary of the Convention.
Colonel James Cooper Nisbet, who
was on Wednesday elected secretary of
the convention, was born in Macon on
the 20th of Septembr, 1839. His
father, the late James A. Nisbet, was
one of the most distinguished citizens
of the state. After receiving a liberal
education, Colonel Nisbet embarked in
the business of stock-raising on his
farm in Lookout Valley, Dade county.
At the breaking out of the war he
was elected captain of a company from
his county, and served in Virginia in
the twenty first Georgia regiment, and
after the first battle of Manassas,
joined General Jackson with Ewell’s
division. He was recommended by
General Jackson for promotion. After
the battle of Fredericksburg he came
to Georgia, organized the sixty-sixth
Georgia regiment, and the twenty
sixth Georgia battalion, the latter
commanded by his brother. After a
short serv : oe in Florida he was ordered
to join the army of the Tennessee, and
was placed in command of his brigade,
when only twenty-three years of age.
He has represented his county in the
legislature four years since the war,
and, with Dunlap Scott and others, in
the days of reconstruction, was a mem
b< rof that small but invincible band
of democrats, who stood as a bulwark
against the invasions of radicalism and
the plunderers and corruptionists who
made up a majority of the Bullock leg
islature.
lute nal Revenue items.
Colonel Jesse W. Jackson, the In
ternal Revenue Agent for Georgia and
Alabama, has been very active in bis
duties since his appointment, and in a
quiet way has suppressed much illicit
distilling, and reformed other abuses
of the revenue service. Hejhas discov
ered that a very important item of
revenue to the government has been,
for years, entirely overlooked. That
is special tax on the manufacture and
selling of copper stills. There is a tax
of fifty dollars on each still manufac
tured, and of forty dollars ou each still
soul. For eight years the collection
of this tax has been neglected in Geor
gia. In Atlanta there are four parties
making and dealing in stills; in
Athens, one; in Canton, one; in Gil
mer county, one; and one in Augusta
Colonel Jackson estimates that five
hundred stills have been sold in
Athens, in the past eight years, which
would make $51,000 the government
has been defrauded out of in that
place alone. Colonel Jackson esti
mates 2,500 regular and illicit distille
ries in Georgia, and that 250 stills are
sold annually with tax not paid. This
would make SIBO,OOO out of which the
government has been defrauded, in
eight years, on stills illegally made and
sold in Georgia. — At. Independent.
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TpARMERS can make irom $lO to sl2 a day by using this Dryer. Farmers, manufacturers,
and the public are invited to call and see this wonderful invention. Having control of a
number of counties, we are now prepared to sell County Rights or furnish tho Dryer to
individuals.
The season is rapidly advancing, and farmers should send in their orders immediately, as
we have already twenty to thirty orders to fill, aud first in first served.
Price of House for three bushels of fruit S2O; five bushels S3O; ten bushels $lO.
All orders for Houses should be addressed to
Oliver & McDonald.
july2o-2m Gainesville., Ga.
F. W. REDWINE. W. M. REDWIN E.
REDWINE BROTHERS,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE FANOY
GROCERIES, Et<v Etc.
GAINESVILLE, GA.
July6-tf
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
W ANTE I),
TV) LEASE A FARM, with the privilege of
purchasing. Must bo improved, near
running water and railroad town. Address
GEO. JONES, Room 15,
july2o-tf Case Block, Cleveland, Ohio.
Gainesville Lodge No. 219
IF- &c, ivr:_
A FULL ATTENDANCE of the members is
earnestly requested on Tuesday, the 7th
of August, at 8 o’clock p. m., as business of
importance will be before the Lodge.
july2o—lt R. PALMOUR, Sec.
LOST OR MISLAID.
TWO BOOKS—“BENJAMIN’S TREATISE
ON ARCHITECTURE,” published iu N.
Y. in 1837 or 8. and “PERRY ON STAIR
BUILDING." The finder will please leave
them at the Eagle Office, and receive a re
ward therefor,
july3o-lt M. W. RIDEN.
KIMBALL HOUSE,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Largest and most commodious House South !
On and after July 25th, the rates of this
elegant house will be
#3 Per Day!
july2o-lt G. McGIN GY & CO.
Estiay Notice.
TATE OF GEORGIA, Dawson County.—
John D. Palmour, of the 931st district G.
M., in said county, has filed in this office, in
terms of law, tlie following description and
appraisement as made by Wm. W. Odom and
H. D. Martin, of an estray, taken up by him:
“An iron-grey mare horse, supposed to be
four years old—marked with collar—and a
small lump on the back and a scar on the
withers, made with a saddle—a small white
spot on each foreleg on the outside; shoes on
the fore feet; a small bell, marked ‘J. H. J.’
Said mare horse is five feet aud two and a half
inches high, and is worth sixty dollars.”
The owner will come and prove property,
and pay expenses, or said estray will be sold
as the law directs. Given under my hand
and official signature, this 9th day of July,
1877. H. B. SMITH,
july2o-60ds Ordinary.
i\ O T ICE.
Ordinary's Office, |
Hall county, Ga., July 18, 1877. j
attention of Hoad Commissioners is
respectfully called to the very bad condi
tion of the public roads of the county; and
now that the crops are laid by, it is expected
that the public roads will be put in good
order—mile posts erected and linger boards
at forks; and if this matter is not attended to
within thirty days, at the proper time the
matter will bo laid before a body ol gentle
men—a part ol whose duty it will be to apply
a remedy. A word to the wise, etc.
J. B. M. WINBURN,
july2o-2t Ordinary.
BROWN HOUSE.
#2.00 JPei- Day.
RATES REDUCED!
and after this date our rales will be
* 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 visiting Macon.
Meals 50c.
Lodging 50c.
E. E. BROWN & SON.
References: Our patrons throughout every
State in the Union. junelStf
PIANO PLAYING
LEARNED IN A DAY !
MASON’S CHARTS, which recently created such a
sensation in Boston and elsewhere, will enable
any person, of any age, t >
Master the Piano or Organ
in a day, even though they have no knowledge of
notes, etc. The Boston Globe saya:
“You can learn to play on the piano or organ in a
day, even if you never played before, and have not
the s ightest knowledge of notes, by the use of
Mason’s Chart'. A child ten years old can learn
easily, they are endorsed by the best musical peo
ple in Boston, and are the grand culmination cf the
inventive genius of the nineteenth century.”
Circulars giving lull particulars and many testimo
nials will be sent fiee on application, one set of
Mason’s Charts mail'd, post-paid, to any Bd<lress for
only $2.00. Worth more than SIOO spent on music
lessons. Address A. V. MORTON,
General Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
Agents wauled at once everywhere. Beßt chance
ever offered. Secure territory before too iate. Terms
free. julyl3-lm
JOHN FLANNERY, JOHN 1,. JOHNSON
Managing partner late firm
L. .7, Gniimartiu & Cos.,
1805 to 1877.
JOHN FLAW Kit V & (JO.,
COTTON FACTORS
l AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 3 Kelly’h Block, Bay Street,
-* ava aa a li, G e ox-jj^ia.
Agents for Jewell’s Mills Yarns and Domestics,
etc., etc.
Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at lowest market
rates. Prompt attention given to all bnsin-ss en
trusted to us. Liberal cash advances made on
consignments.
f Our Mb. FLANNERY bavins purchased
the entire assets and ssaumed the liabilities oi tin
late firm of L. J. GUILMARTIN & CO., we will at
tend to ail outstanding business of that firm.
jnnelS-Gm
QEOHGIa, WHITE COUNTY.—Benjamin
Nix having applied to me in proper form,
praying for Letters of Administration, with
the will annexed of Jonas Nix, deceased:
This is to cite all legally concerned to be
and appear at the August term of the Court
of Ordinary ol' said county, to show cause, if
any they can, why letters of 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,
july!3-4t Ordinary.
G. 11. MILLER *V CO.,
l’ryor Street, Under the Kimball House,
A T E A N T A, G A .
SOUTHERN SALESROOM
FOB THE CELEBRATED
IVI E R I I > E N
BRITANNIA COMPANY’S
FINE
Silver Plated Ware, Bronzes, &c.
At Wholesale aud Retail.
Prices the same ns at the Company’s Ware
rooms in New York.
The largest, mo.st complete, and elegant
assortment to bo fouud in the South.
A L 8 O.
Gold Jewelry, Celluloid, Coral
Jewelry, Etc., Etc.
New Goodß constantly being received from
the Factory and shipped to all parts of tho
country.. julyl3-tf
.A. O^IELID.
The Finest Property in Gainesville
FOR SALE.
TO MEN WITH MONEY.
T'HE ENTIRE VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
x owned by the Findley’s, in the city of
Gainesville aud vicinity, are now offered for
sale, consisting of tho magnificent residence
where Col. J. J. Findley now lives, which is
one of the most desirable places iu Northeast
Georgia. The house is a two-story wood
building—built by the finest carpenters in tho
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 remfunder smaller, but
handsomely finished and well ventilated, with
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, and one ot
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, about 250 yards from the
Court House. Lpon the lot is the finest well
of water—pure freestone and never failing
and one ot the best springs, together with
rock spring house, complete, and fish ooml
near by. Upon this lot is also situated the
dwelling house now occupied by W. F. Find
ley, Fsq., together with good law office ami
blacksmith shop.
Also, the house and lot on Lawrenceville
street, known as the Dr. Hauie’s residence.
On this lot are three acres of land, u 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, the balance good upland; about
80 of which is now in a high state of cultiva
tion. Grows corn, wheat, oats, rye, cotton
aud grapes finely—good tenement houses aud
fine water thereon. A portion of this place is
within the corporation of the city.
Also, the farm lying east of the Atlanta and
Richmond Air Line Railroad, and bounded
on the west by said railroad, situated on Flat
creek. The farm contains 170 acres of land,
75 of which is bottom, and as good as the
county affords—about 125 acres now In cul
tivation. The balance in the original forest
good fence all around, mostly of chestnut
rails. Upon the place is good tenement 1
buildings, and the finest mineral springs in ,
this county, consisting of freestone, chaly
beate, limestone and sulphur springs, all
within the space of an j of an acre of land,’ and
within 250 yards of the Piedmont hotel, the
Richmond house and the depot.
Also, about 100 acres of land, lying between
Lawrenceville and Shallowford streets- all 1
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 be done in a few days, con
taining six rooms, with all necessary pantries
and closets; good well of water, and 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 in original
forest, and well timbered. The house lot
contains about six acres. The yard in front
of the new dwelling is handsomely laid oft
aucl well set out with all necessary shrubbery y
and is a most magnificent residence.
All the above property can bo bought now
for cash. The property is not offered for salo
tor any fault we have to it, nor the climate
where it is situated, for neither can be ex
celled; but having made up our minds to go
West, the property is placed upon the market.
The titles are perfect, they having beeu so
declared by the Supreme Court of Georgia.
All or any part ot the above can be bought
Also, the growing crop, together with the
household and kitchen furniture, stock, etc.
For any further information, call ou any of
the Findley’s, on the place, or addrees
Con. J. J. FINDLEY,
J. A. FINDLAY,
W. F. FINDLEY or
ELIZABETH FINDLEY.
Gainesville, Ga., July 13, 1877—2 m
(TJ.EORGIA, HALL COUNTY. Delus E:
Evans 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. m., on Saturday, the 28th day ot
July A. D., 1877, at my office,
J. B. M. WINBURN, Ordinary.
Ordinary office, July G, 1877. julyl3-2t
MRS. J. W. WHITE. '
FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKER,
MAIN STREET,
KING HOUSE, NEAR THE COLLEGE,
TJ A.S recovered from her recent illness, and
is prepared to Cut, Fit and Make
all kinds of Clothing by Gurley’s chait and
from the latest fashion plates.
Making *‘auld claes a’maist” as good as new
asp ecialty. juue29-tf