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r F H E EAGLE.
Friday Moraine:, Align 4.10, 1877.
CAHKV W. STVGKS Editor.
The Capitol question will be sub
mitted to a vote of the people. Then
look out for strange bed fellows.
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard has been
appointed Minister to Brazil. All
right, but we don’t want him credited
to the Democratic party.
The Constitutional Convention ol
< )hio took six months to make a Con
stitution, and it was rejected by 80,-
000 majority. History is about to re
peat itsc-lf—in Georgia.
An intelligent, well-informed gentle
man from Rome, who has been in the
city this week, expresses the opinion
that the people in that section will
vote against the new Constitution.
All classes are disappointed and dis
gusted.
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The Savannah News, of Friday,
nays Central Rail rod stock has been
active since last Wednesday, and about
one thousand five hundred shares have
changed hands at full prices. It was
quoted yesterday at 49a51.
Hon. A. H. Stephens will have an
article on the “Letters of Juuious” in
the next International Review. He
claims the credit for Lord Lyttleton,
we believe. The Indianapolis Senti
nel thinks Gail Hampton wrote them
when she was a girl.
Gen. Toombs has this to his credit :
“I could take Foster Blodgett and five
niggers and make a better Constitution
than this Convention will make.’’ Thai
is true, for the General would control
the party and his great brain would
produce a model for all States and Na
tions in after times.
Hon. A. H. Stephens is at Catoosa
Springs. Wo met him at the Kimball
House, Friday evening last, and wer<
delighted to find him in better health
than for years, and as sprightly as c
boy. We never saw him more cheer
ful, more charmingly social or morn
vigorously vivacious. Who knows bul
Ho will yet occupy a seat iu the Sen
ate ?
The recent newspaper attacks upon
the management of the State Univer
sity, proceeded, so far as we know and
believo, from graduates of the institu
tion. Not a man outside of the guilt!
had a word to say against Dr.
Tucker, the faculty or the trustees.
It, therefore,the popularity of the great
school has been shaken, or its useful
fulness impaired, its alumni are respon
sible for the unnatural bullet.
We have a startling statement from
esteem and responsible for his utter
ances, says that Gen. Toombs, or
Monday last, denounced the cabal ol
the Convention, and declared his pur
pose to stump the State against tin
ratification of the spawn of the faction.
Oh, ain’t wo on sweet times ! When
such men as Toombs, and Lawton, and
Norwood, and Mathews, and Reese,
and Fain, and Trammell, and Davis,
and Hammond, and Pierce, anil Sim
mons, and Hausell, and sixty-five or
seventy others of liko high character
and patriotic purposes, begin to talk
plain English to Brown, and Holcomb,
and Boyd, and Collier, and Wright,
and Wofford, and tlieir mystic krew,
it is time for the masses to put
themselves iu motion, and through
primary meetings, stop the supplies
and dethrone the sovereign.
A distinguished citizen, who wrote
a strong letter in favor of calling the
Convention, and whose view's and in
llnouce probably changed a larger
number than the majority over ‘No
Convention,’ said in our presence, in
Atlanta, on Saturday last: “I regret
my agency in bringing this body into
existence. I wroto and spoke in favor
of the call, because I thought the pres
ent Constitution could be improved. I
felt assured we could elect t nough wise
and true men to strike the objectiona
ble features from our present organic
law, and insert salutary and desirable
changes; but I was mistaken, and from
present appearances, I shall have to
accept the humiliation of voting for the
work of the Radicals, by voting against
ratification. I cannot approve the
niggardly policy of dwarfing the
State.”
When will the Convention Adjourn 't
—This is a periinent question—one
that ought to be asked, and one that,
is asked by nearly every man we meet.
It is more difficult to answer than to
ask. We don’t know, and from the
best information wo get from the capi
tal, wo are just as wise, in this regard,
as any man in or out of the Conven
tion. The appropriation was exhausted
on the 2d, and at that time tho Con
vention was just entering upon the
heavy work. They yet have the Legis
lative Article to tussel with; and then
comos the homestead, tho convict
question, the railroads, tho removal
proposition, and several other subjects
of grave import to be considered. It
is possible that the organized trained
majority may have all these matters
‘cut and dried’ in cancus, and can force
them through in a fortnight; but to an
outside lookeron, the middle of Sep
tember looms up as the time for possi
ble adjournment.
i If Holcombe and Harrell could only
yi'et leave of absence on account of sick
* ness, the session of the convention
would be materially shortened. There
are several others who might get sick
with advantage to the State.—La-
Grange Reporter.
The Convention.
We looked in upon the solons on
Friday last, and again on Saturday.
Found them engaged on the Judiciary
Article of the Constitution —wrangling
and wriggling over propositions to
shorten terms, cut off heads and reduce
all salaries from Superior Judges down.
The “clean sweepers” had a majority,
and were the victors in every contest.
The guillotine was at work, and judi
cial heads fell into the basket at every
turn of the wheel. The term of Su
preme Judges was reduced from twelve
to six years, and the salary reduced
from $3,500, gold, to $3,000 in curren
cy. They are to be elected by the leg
islature—one iu 1880, one in 1882 and
one in 1884. And here the heads of
Chief Justice Warner and his Associ
ates, Jackson and Blecklv, rolled into
the basket.
The next turn of the wheel decapi.
tated twenty Superior Court Judges,
and as many Solicitors General. One
half of these gentlemen are to step
down and out in 1878, and the other
half iu 1880. Their successors are to
be elected by the legislature, and they
are to serve four years, at $2,000 a
year, iu currency.
The term and salary of the Governor
had previously been reduced to two
years and $3,000 ; but this change is
not to apply to the term or salary of
the present Governor. The Attorney
General’s office is to be retained. He
is to be elected by the people, serve
two years, and get $250 a year and
fees.
The work of reducing salaries has
been going on steadily all the week,
and the departments of the Treasurer,
Comptroller General and Secretary of
State have all been shorn down under
the picayune theory of the ‘cheap men,’
and at last accounts they were regulat
ing the pay of jurors, constables’ fees,
and price of marriage licenses.
When the organized cabal gets
through with the reduction of salaries
in the Executive and Judicial depart
ments, they will have aggregated a
saving of thirteen thousand dollars
per annum. And this is to be offered
to the people as a great work of reform
and retrenchment! It is simply an
illustration of the old proverb, ‘in at
the spiggot. and out at the bung.’ Was
it for this that 47,000 voters transferred
the sovereignty of the whole people to
one hundred and ninety-five delegates?
Never before were salaries fixed by an
organic law, and never before was
there such a shameful and niggardly
abuse made of power. It might have
been well to fix the pay of members of
the Legislature, for no man ought to
have the power to name his own sala
ry, when it is to be paid by the public;
liUt. il* WHM .nnsß.isiA-A*±*l- 1 —
tue salaries of the other public func
tionaries—that is a matter for legisla
tive regulation and adjustment, as
times change and money fluctuates.
The right—the abstract sovereign
right to lix salaries by a Constitutional
provision, of course cannot be denied,
but the propriety and expediency oi
doing so may well be questioned.
We were informed that the ‘cheap
men’ in the Convention have a close,
compact' organization, and that the.}
meet nightly iu caucus to lix their pro
gram e for the following day, to form
plans, and to select end men, amend
ment movers, speakers and previous
question callers. It seems their cau
cusses are held with closed doors, and
tlieir plans formed in secrecy. So
were the councils of the Jacobins that
produced a Dauton, developed a Marat
and made an ocean of blood foi
Robespierre to wallow in. Let these
gentlemen profit by their example.
Nothing, positively nothing has yet
been done towards substantial reform
and retrenchment. This reduction ol
salaries is too small to strike the pub
lic expectation and too contemptible
to escape public condemnation. It
dwarfs honorable distinction, lowers
the dignity of office, shrivels high am
bition and degrades the government.
It will deter young men of limited
means and drive them trom the State.
It will confine brains to business and
professional pursuits, and lure purse
proud fools and knaves to the arena ol
politics, where they will achieve by
bribery and debauch by intrigue.—
Such was not, and is not the retrench
ment for which the people clamor.
They want the Legislature estopped
from making extravagant and useless
appropriations ; they want all proper
ty returned or assessed at its value,
and uniform taxation ; they want
counties and municipalities prohibited
from supplementing the State taxation,
and they want all financial agents held
to a strict rccountability for tho mon
ies they receive.
All these matters will doubtless be
considered when the Legislative Arti
cle comes up ; but however much good
may he accomplished in the right di
rection, the evil already done will be
none the less an evil, and will remain
an evil all the aims.
A leading member of the Conven
tion, and one of the ablest men in the
State, said on Saturday last: “I will
be responsible for nothing fhe Contention
mag do hereafter .” He was simply dis
gusted at the policy of catting down
the terms of incumbents, and the
sweeping reduction of salaries in the
Executive and Judiciary departments,
and clearly intimated his determina
tion to vote ngainst ratification if the
niggardly policy finally prevails.
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Died : —ln Atlanta, August 4, 1877,
after a brief illness of typhoid fever,
Nellie C., wife of J. C. Kimball, Esqr.,
aged 43 years. The poor will miss her.
Hon. John A. Davis.
It is not our purpose to get up a
book of puffs, to be called “Biographi
cal Sketches of the Delegates.” There
are two insurmountable barriers in the
way of such an enterprise. First, The
absence of inclination ; Second, The
paucity of our facilities for whitewash
ing knaves and praising fools. Not
that we are wicked enough to intimate
that there is either a knave or a fool in
the Convention—it i3 generally known
there is not such an one there, and
what everybody knows must be taken
for granted.
Oar object now is to speak of one
whom we know to be a gentleman of
culture, character and good sense—a
conservative legislator and a wise law
maker. Dougherty county may well
be proud of such a representative as
Hon. John A. Davis. This, we believe,
is his first term in a deliberative body;
and as we have known and esteemed
him for years, it has been a matter of
pride with us to watch his conduct
with more thau ordinary interest.
Mr. Davis’ views on all subjects are
broad, liberal and intelligent, but
neither extravagant nor recklessly ven
turesome As an economist he never
descends to niggardly meanness ; as a
progressist he keeps within the bounds
of his resources, and is utterly incapa
pable of being led astray by the dazzle
of theories. His soul is too big for
parsimony, and his brain too clear for
foolish and unnecessary extravagance.
He is admirably and evenly balanced
in this regard, and his native common
sense, sound judgment and unswerving
integrity, secure for him the respect oi
his fellows and the confidence of his
colleagues. Quiet in his manners, un
assuming in his deportment, respectful
in social and business relations, and
modest in tbe presentation of his views
when duty requires him to speak, he
has established characteristics of prob
ity, solidity of thought and perspicuity
of illustration, that command attention
and inspire conviction. In the Con
ventiou he bears himself as one whose
sense of duty solemnizes obligation and
whose purpose to -do right sanctifies
effort. He is singularly free from
bunkum speech-making, and is utterly
destitute of demagogueism. Earnest
in desire and effort to present a Con
stitution to the people that will com
mand their approval, and prove a bles
sing to them and their posterity, he is
ever ready with a wise suggestion,
when it is needed, and solid argument
to impress it. Always in his seat and
always attentive to what is going on,
he is always up with the business, and
never loses the by kiting
upon subjects foreign to the one under
consideration, or idiotic inquiries as to
short, Mr. Davis is one of the most
useful and influential delegates in thi
Convention, and when that body ad
journs, there will be nothing in his
record detrimental to his cwn good
name, or of which his constituency will
complain.
There are one hundred and ninety
four leaders in the Conventian. Moses
Bryau is not there, or there would be
one hundred and ninety-five. Moses
undertook to eat cooked food aud wdar
clothes, so his friends say, and it come
mighty nigh killing him. Moses went
to the Convention, pregnant with a
Constitution, and expected to put it
through in three days, but he found
one hundred and ninety-four others
exactly in his condition, and nary two
agreeing. Moses tried to harmonize
the incongruous elements on his own
line, and was so astonished at the
stubborness of the darned fools that
he incontinently threw up the sponge
and came home.
Now, Mr. Bryan is a long-headed
old gentleman, and if he could have
been locked up with Bob Toombs, Nat
Hammond, Gus Reese, Newt Tram
mell, Tom Simmons, Aleck Lawton,
George Pierce, John A. Davis, aud a
dozen others we might mention, there
isn’t a doubt that he could have har
monized and escaped the mammoth
disgust that now sits so heavily upon
him.
It is not strange that Mr. Bryan
found things a little different from
what he expected. For two hundred
years he haß been locked in a Rip Van
Winkle sleep, and to wake up here in
the noon-tide blaze of the Nineteenth
Century, and to take his first ride
upon a railroad, made it quite natural
for him to experience difficulty in see
ing things as others see them, and not
at all wonderful that he was shocked
at the new-fangled ideas of the hun
dred and ninety-four dummies among
whom he had been so suddenly and
preternaturally precipitated. Howev
er, to his praise be it said, he took in
the situation as soon as his eyes were
fairly opened —a great deal more than
can be said of those he left behind.
By the votes this week we see that
Moses has resumed his seat, and is
tackling the elephant with might and
main.
Col. Henry W. Grady’s long con
tinued efforts to bulldoze tho Trustees
of the University, and force the re
calling of Prof. Leroy Broune, togeth
er with all his predictions on the sub
ject, failed to get his uarne before the
Board. The Professor’s young friends
were more zealous than wise, and
probably had no authority for stirring
np a sensation in his behalf.
The Democrats carried Kentucky
and Alabama, on Monday, and the
Ciucicnati Enquirer will bet five dol
lars they can do it every time.
Visitors arriving by every train, and tLe cry
is “let ’em come.”
GOOD JfEWS FOR TUf >. G. A. COL
leg!
The Trustees of the /Aversity Increase
the Eiuiowiueuvffteeu Hun
dred aJear.
Good Oid Gov. Supple
ments the Truste ’ Liberality.
At their annual mu ing at the Kim
ball House, Friday ening last, the
Board of Trustees of je State Univer
sity transacted som: very important
business, .all of whiebibat has trans
pired, meets our ene approbation
and will doubtless ji*,se everybody
except the distinguis’iid advocates of
Prof. Leroy Brounettc&ncellor Tuck
er was retained, andjfjol. C. C. Jones,
of Chatham, was eleiftnl to the chair
of Physics—occupiec jfpr the last year
aud a half by Prof. UH’jpntgomery Cum
miug. Prof. Broune’iname was not
mentioned at the and it seems
no reasons were assigjUl for declining
to affirm Prof. Cuming iu the chair
to which he was electee at a called
meeting of the Board,® 1875, after
the withdrawal of Profllroune.
This was the only made iu
the faculty, and there vcjao important
legislation on the government of the
University. Its maniaement, under
the Chancellorship of Dk Tucker, had
been highly satisfactory and the Board
honored itself and gratjped the State
in re-electing him. __ j
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It was graajhec
spi-it of amity ,
our mountain institutid’^ i g t ß^“ dGj|'ous
and absolutely, and five. Woodwsd con
ditionally that it can be tun ared from
the financial sustenance ejf the Univer
sity. While wo say this was manifest
ly just, it i3 within us, aiso, to say that
it was an act of noble generosity, and
we return to the Board the heartfelt
thanks of all Northeast Georgia.
Iu this connection we are further en
abled to congratulate our College and
its friends on the wise and magnani
mous disposition of the
GILMEU BEQUEST.
It will be remembered that good old
Governor Gilmer one-half
of his estate to the education and prep
aration of young men for teaching. In
his will he named Horn R. Toombs,
Hon. A. H. Stephens, Hon. Charles J.
Jenkins, Hon. Augustusßeese and Dr.
nt A llmno 1
(id’Ud. At the close of the war the
estate was in great danger of being
lost, but Mr. Toombs was charged with
the duty of collecting it, and by his
superior tact and great ability, it was
fiually rescued and placed iu a shape
for being utilized. At a meeting oi
those Trustees, held also on Friday
evening, this Bequest was assigned to
the North Georgia Agricultural Col
lege —the interest to be used in the
preparation of teachers.
This gives the College an annual en
dowment of about $5,000, besides a
few hundred derived from other
sources—an amount quite sufficient to
relieve the Institution from all em
barrassment and vastly increaso iis
facilities and its usefulness. It was
run last year on $3,500, and accom
plished more than any school in the
State. The Profess* l - -1 for
meagre pay, bi
the less faith!
they can not ft
pensation, biff r
can be employ,,
apparent. >lfi
mud di
Wefrom
ide lifted De
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witii cro . a
his Boar [
had been granted, and fye was the
happiest man at the Capital. To the
energy, perseverance and strong will
of Coi. W. P. Price, President of the
Board of Trustees, the friends of the
College are mainly indebted for this
achievement; and to Gen. Toombs, for
saving the bequest of the revered ben
efactor, they are also under a lasting
debt of gratitude.
The Turks are chastising the in
vaders severely. In the great battle
at Plevna the Russian army was terri
bly thrashed and disastrously routed.
Their disorganized and precipitate re
treat to the Danube has but one par
allel, and the Grand Duke Nicholas
goes back to St. Petersburg under a
cloud as black as that that palled Na
poleon on his return from Moscow.
The Turk seems to have gathered all
his strength and all the zeal of Islam
for the mighty issue, and to have ‘set
life at a pin’s fee’ for his religion and
his empire. Many thousands were
slain on both sides, but the Russians
were tremendously beaten and driven
back from the Balkans, crushed, bleed
ing and demoralized.
The Russians were evidently over
confident, and this dis ster may be the
signal for the rapid concentration of
all available forces, and a more vigor
ous campaign against the jubilant vic
tors, Already we have a dispatch of
the 7th, announcing a decisive victory
over the combined commands of Me
lieniit Ali and Osman Pasha, at Tir
nova, and the killing and wounding of
15,000 ; but this lacks confirmation.
Only about one month of campaigning
weather is now left for Russian opera
tions in Bulgaria, an l within that pe
riod we may expect to hear tho con
tinuous thunder of great battles.
The Tress on the Con. Con.
LaGrange Reporter.—ln the reduc
tion of the Governor’s salary to
three thousand dollars and in the
discussion incident thereto, the Con
vention gave an exhibition of niggard
liness of which the State may well be
ashamed. A man worthy to be elected
Governor of Georgia, ought to be sup
ported in handsome style. He ought
to have not only the necessities of life,
but many of its luxuries and elegancies.
He ought not to be compelled to live
as a poor man lives in a small village.
The effect of the reduction will tend to
keep all but rich men out of the guber
natorial chair. The Governor can not
possibly live on $3,000; therefore,
henceforth, no man can be Governor
unless he has means to live on outside
of his salary. Is it wise for the State
to put such a restriction upon its high
est office ? We think not.
Ibid:—One of the bobtail economists
of the Convention sneered at the idea
of any dignity attaching to the govern
ment of Georgia. Said he, here we
are, an impoverished people talking
about the “dignity” of the Governor.
This gentleman ■would doubtless like
to have the Governor go in his shirt
sleeves and do without cravat or collar
in summer.
Franklin Register:—There are mul
tituds of disappointed hangers-on, who
want office, and want it quick—who
are left out in the “wet”—who are as
keen for office as a pointer dog is for
mutton.
Griffin News:—The eyes of the peo
ple are on the Convention, and they
want them to make a Constitution and
adjourn, and not stay thus spending
tp money of the State speech-making.
—There are three
tion, to-wit: one
lution that will
nesty among the
is a class that
and to suit their
'ilffftr' profession, so that no one can
understand how it is but those who
advocate the complexity.
Forest News:—As we thought, when
jthe Constitutional Convention was
'called, we know now, or fully believe,
that Georgia will reap little or no ben
efit from this expenditure of thirty or
forty thousand dollars. As we feared
also, these gray haired solons are de
veloping a good deal of demagogue
ism. When old politicians propose to
let citizens vote without paying tax —
as was done, and urged, in this body—
they are either too ignorant to do any
public work, or so permeated with sel
fishness and ambition as to trade the
most sacred rights of our people for
popularity and position. We may be
sure that such fellows mean to run
for some office under the new Consti
tution.
The proposed short terms of office
and frequent elections, have about the
same look to us. How any wise, pa
triotic citizen can propose to re f er the
most profound questions to electors as
igrorant as nearly one-half of ours
are—and call for elections every yen
or two, thereby disturbing our labor
system and appointing seasons for
drinking and riot only—passes our
comprehension.
... mi--,/'-* ■ ... ■ II ■ . ■ ■■-
on the “Elective Franchise” have fur
nished some decided improvements.
T.ie Committee that passed upon Art.
IY. Sec. 111. on The Seal, had best
employ a grammarian, or, at lead, get
a clerk to write for them decent En
glish; and the section enumerating the
disfranchised is still worse rhetoric.
There is little hope now, of a reduc
tion of the Legislature, and hence of
any real economy. Redu. ing the Gov
ernor’s salary to $3,000, is very unwise
—pitiful economy. True statesman
ship would say, reduce your heavy and
useless expense, by leaving at home,
two-thirds of the present legislature.
What good have they ever done? But,
that would not suit demagogues and
politicians; the more offices, the more
chances for the little fellows.
LaGrange Reporter:—“What is the
Convention doing?” we are asked
every day. It is. spending its time in
almost endless discussions of the dif
ferent parts of the proposed constitu
tion, as they are introduced by the
Committee of Twenty-six. There are
some men in the convention who can
scarcely let a paragraph pass without
making one or two speeches on it and
offering an amendment. It is worthy
of notice, too, that those speeches and
nendments do not come from the
■’l iu the convention—tho men
'8 ef L a State reputation. They
-it* 16 fr' om Toombs, and Law-
Nat Hammond, and Tom
•a and that class of meu. They
Aie outgusbinga of the small fry—
the county polit : cians who do not rea
son and who know but little. The
men who make the most noise in the
convention are those in whom the peo
ple of the State have least confidence.
Those who know least about making a
constitution, are the ones who bring
forward the most things to incorporate
in it. A large portion of the speeches
made in the convention are made on
subjects of which the speakers are very
ignorant.
These remarks do not apply to all
the members. While the prominent
men, of the class we have mentioned
above, are generally quiet and do not
occupy much time, there are many
others, among those not well known,
who act with proper prudence, and do
not hinder the proceedings of the con
vention. They realize a fact of which
others are ignorant—that they are not
sent there to show off.
The proceedings of the Convention
are such as we cannot well publish.
They consist almost entirely of de
bates, which would not be intelligible
or interesting to our readers unless
published in full, and that is impossi
ble, as stated last week. The progress
is slow—much slower than it ought to
be—for the reason mentioned above,
that men will speak at lenght on mat
ters of which they know very little,and
will propose and insist on matters of
the most fanciful character, to be in
serted in the constitution. No one
can form any idea when the conven
tion will end. If those who really do
not know what they are about, would
keep quiet, the convention would not
be in session much longer, and the
new constitution would be much bet
ter than it will be under present cir
cumstances.
Toccoa Herald:- We can not disguise
the fact that the Convention is behind
time in its work. Whether or not this
is the fault of its engine and tender, or
whether its truck-wheels are too small,
we have been unable to learn. One
thing is certain the Convention has
not, so far, come up to the expecta
tions of its warmest supporters and
most sanguine friends. The Conven
tion was not called to Legislate for
Georgia, but simply to make a Consti
tution, that is to lay down and fix or
ganic and fundamental principles by
which the State in all its work, wheth
er through the law-making power, the
Judiciary and every other power
should be governed. The Convention
is not expected to build the house, but
only to lay and arrange the foundation
that’s all.
We were an advocate of the Con
vention and therefore, take the more
ready liberty to criticize its errors,
hence would say como to the point and
that at once.
Chronicle and Constitutionalist: Th e
action of the Convention in reducing
the salaries of Judges of the Supren -e
and Superior Courts, and in refusing
to give the General Assembly power
to increase them except by a two
thirds votis as unwise as it is unjust.
The Judges of the supreme Court have
to live in Atlanta, and a man with a
family cannot live in that city on the
sum fixed by the Convention. Unless
the Circuit Judges are dead-headed by
the railway corporations, cases against
which they have to try in nearly every
county, their traveling expenses will
reach three or four hundred dollars
per annum each, leaving only sixteen
or seventeen hundred dollars for the
support of themselves and their fami
lies. This reduction is not economy;
it is a piece of absurd niggardliness,
which will be productive of much in
jury to the most important department
of the State government. We are
glad to see that a large majority of the
ablest and best meu in the Convention
voted against the senseless and mis
chievous proposition misnamed econo
my. Among these were Buchanan,
Guerrard, Hammond, Hil , Lawton,
Lawson, Lofton, William M. Reese,
Augustus Reese, Simmons, Screven,
Toombs, Thompson and Tuggle.
Though the same men who injected
this economy into rlie Constitution re
jected the motion of Mr. Hill to allow
a majority of the General Assembly to
increase the compensation of J ldges,
there is yet a hope, though a faint one,
we confess, that two-thirds of the next
Legislature will see the folly of fixing
the salaries of the Judiciary at starva
tion figures, and will give the Judges
sufficient compensation for their servi
ces to raise them above the reach of
temptation, and prevent ignorance and
venality from obtaining a lodgment on
the Bench.
[Constitution.]
How tlic Great Body Draws its Slow
Length Along.
THE CHEAP MEN ON TOP.
It is now a patent fact that what are
known as ‘the cheap men’ are in pow
er in the convention. It is settled that
the lowest salary named for any office
is always adopted. On yesterday an
attempt was made to appropriate $4,-
000 for the treasurer’s office. This
was voted down by those who favored
$3,600. When the vote came to $3,-
600, some of those who favored $4,000
were about to vote against this. Mr.
George Pierce called them to order:
‘lf you do not vote for this,’ he said,
‘they’ll cut. it down to $2,500.’ ‘But I
’aniil £l*“*—-“-
‘ihey ve got a full hand, said Pierce,
rising to vote, ‘and I don’t want to call
them !’
The fixing of all salaries, and, in
fact, the whole work of the convention
is in the hands of these men, of whom
ex senators Holcombe and Brown ap
pear to bo the leaders. They carry
every motion that is put, and vote to
gether with strange unanimity. In
deed, it is positively ascertained now
that there is a con. con organization
which controls aud arranges many im
portant matters before they come in
to the convention. One of the primary
points of this organization was em
braced under the head of ‘a c'eau
sweep of the decks in 1878.’ They
failed partly in this plan, but are said
to he still wor king at it.
One thing may be assured, and that
is that retrenchment is going to be
carried to the very last point, that, the
cheapest proposition before the con
vention will always carry.
THE PENITENTIARY QUESTION GEN. WOF
FORD WILL TAKE A DILIGENT ROW
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
General Wofford is terribly in ear
nest in all the measurers that he
introduces before the convention. In
none so much so as in the proposition
to wipe out the lease of the penitenti
ary convicts aud establish a penitenti
ary. He will make a stubborn and
lasting fight on this point, and is
hopeful of success. While the elements
against which he contends are so di
verse and so powerful that an alliance
between them very nearly covers the
state, he hopes to push or pull his
measure through. He is in receipt of
hundreds of letters, messages, by which
he is offered information and assis
tance, and in which arguments are
suggested to him.
He will use the Maryland penitenti
ary as his model in this institution.
The prisoners are graded according to
their crime, are tauglit useful trades,
and are given an education and religious
instruction. He will renew the fight
at the earliest opportunity, aud keep it
up until he sees daylight or is licked.
THE STATE ROAD —A RECOMMENDATION THAT
AMOUNTS TO NOTHING.
The committee appointed to report
upon the policy of selling the state
road will report in favor of selling the
road provided the sum of eight mil
lions of dollars can be obtained for it.
This report, of course, amounts to
nothing, as that amount cannot be
reached. The road is rented for nearly
twenty years at $300,000 per annum,
which is five per cent, only on six mil
lions. A bid of eight millions of dol
lars is, then, out of the question, and
the road will not bo sold under the re
port of the committee.
The present Legislature is functus
officio. The Convention has provided
that the next sessiou shall he held in
November, 1878. We sy mpathise with
the headless senators, representatives,
secretaries and clerks, hut can offer
them no crumbs of comfort. Guess
they might as well ‘accept the situa
tion.’
Crammed and Jammed Every hotel, board
ing house and private residence in and around
Gainesville. Ims been crowded this week with
visitors, aud the city has been unusually gay
and lively. Tbe meetings of the Grand
Encampment aud Grand Lodge of Odd Fel
lows, brought about two hundred, in addition
to the regular summer visitors, and we may
safely estimate that Gainesville, New Holland
aud Gowees’ are now accommodating one
thousand parsons.
CLOSING OUT TO MOVE.
TJaving Contracted for tle building of a Large and Commodious
Brick. Store House, on the Cochran corner, at Grcyham & Hawkins’ old stand, on
the Public Square, wc now offer our entire stock of
NOTIONS. HATS, BOOTS, SHOES,
Tobacco, Groceries, Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Nails,
Iron, Crockery, Glassware, Bridles, Saddles, Etc.,
POSITIVELY AT AND BELOW NEW YORK COST!!!
We move on the loth of September, and our stock must be closed out by that time.
We desire to appear at our new stand with anew stock, which Mr. Smith will purchase in
New York and Boston.
WE 3VE33A.3NT WHAT WE SAY.
Come everybody and take advantage of the most wonderful bargains ever offered to the
people of Northeast Georgia.
Thanking the people for their liberal patronage, and hoping our friends will find it to their
advantage to deal with us at our new stand, and by fair, honest and liberal dealing, wo trust
to merit a share of the patronage of all the people of Northeast Georgia.
Call early and got first choice, aud bo convinced by our unequalled bargains.
We sell the best Sorgtium Cane Mill and Evaporator iu the United States.
Special arrangements for buying cotton at all times.
SMITH & JENKINS.
A FRESH STOCK
OF
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES !
We have just opened a complete line of STAPLE and FANCY UKOCEKI ES
for family use, direct from the best Northern markets, which wo offer at
LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH,
We guarantee our goods as represented, and ask a share of patronage.
We specially call attention this week to our
Fine Goshen Butter, Lemons, Boasted & Ground Coffee,
Raw Coffees and Superior Teas, of all grades.
We invite all to examine our stock and compare goods aud prices.
A. M. fc C. W. WEST,
aug3-3m Public Square.
, MILLINERY!
>—♦
LADIES' EMPORIUM OF FASHION !
jWOS*f. 11, IV. WA.HK respectfully informs tho ladies of Gainesville and vis
iting ladies that she has a full lino of MILLINERY GOODS,
New, Elegant and Fashionable-
She is prepared to furnish
Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Feathers, Flowers, Ruches,
SILKS, LACES, and such Fancy Furnishing Goods as are usually kept iu well-appointed
Millinery Establishments.
Trimming promptly dono and satisfaction guaranteed.
All goods at bottom prices for Cash or Country Produce.
The ladies are invited to call and examine goods and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
Next door to tlie Post Office, Gainesville, Ga. aug 3 2m
E lOt lt FRUIT!
Lnp t .lit> Gri’ent Ainerit‘an
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE DRYER ! I
Drii's Fruit of any Kind in from (wo to six Komis!
FARMERS can make from $lO to sl2 a day by using this Dryer. Farmers, manufacturers
and the public aro invited to call aud see Ibis wonderful invention. Having control ~i a
individual^ C ° m,l * eS ’ lU ° ” 0W l ,re l mreil *° sell County Rights or furnish the Dryer (o
The season is rapidly advancing, and farmers should send in their orders immediately as
we have already twenty to thirty orders to ill!, and first iu first served
r j™ 6 °u Ho " se ,m ' thref knshels of fruit, 820; live bushels S3O; ten bushels 810
All orders for Houses should be addressed (o
.. on . Oliver & McDonald.
. Jaly2 ° 2m Gainesville, Ga.
F. W. RED WINE. W. M. RED WINE
REDWINE BROTHERS,
DEALERS ITV
STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES, Etc., Etc.
GA.
July6-tf
Administrators Kale.
XT7'ILL BE SOLD, before the Court House
vv door, in the town of Homer, Banks
county, Ga., within the lawful hours of sale,
on the first Tuesday in September next, pur
suant to an order from the Court of Ordinary
of Banks county, all that tract or parcel of
land belonging to the estate of William
Savall, deceased, adjoining lands of James If
David, William Lyle, Cicero If Rucker and
others, containing two hundred and seventy
acres, more or less. Said, land will he sold
subject to the incumbrance of the widow's
dower, and sold lor the purpose of distribu
tion among the heirs and creditors. Terms
cash. GEO. W. SAVALL
auglO-td Administrator.
Notice in Bankruptcy.
TAISTRICT COURT of the United States
Northern District of Georgia—ln the mat
ter of Andrew B. C. Dorsey, Bankrupt—
No. 1235.
All persons interested are notified to show
cause, if any they have, before Register Albert
G. Foster, at, his office in Madison, Georgia,
on the 20th day of August, 1877, at 1 o’clock,
p. m., why the above named Bankrupt should
uot be discharged from all his debts.
The second and third meetings of creditors
will be held at the same time ami place.
A. E. BUCK, Clerk.
Aug. 10, 1877-lt.
/'GEORGIA, BANKS COUNTY. James A.
" Dailey, Administrator of the Estate of
William Dailey, late of said county, deceased,
applies to rne in due form for leave to sell all
the Real Estate of said deceased. Therefore,
all persons are notified to file their objections,
if any they have, in nay office, bit or before
tho regular term of my court, to be belli on
the first Monday in September next. This
Angust Cth, 1877. T. F. HILL,
, auglO td Ordinary.
/'J.EORGIA, BANKS COUNTY. —To all
whom it may concern. William Acre
and James Acre, having in proper form ap
plied to me for permanent letters of adminis
tration on tbe estate of Allan Acre, deceased,
late of said county:
This is, therefore, to cite all and singular
the creditors and next of kin of Allan Acre,
to be and appear at my office, within the time
prescribed by law, and show cause, if any they
can, W'hy permanent letters should not be
granted to William Acre and James Acre on
Allan Acre’s estate.
Witness my hand aud official signature.
auglo-30d T. F. HILL, Ordinary.
Banks County. Janies Greer
lias applied for exemption of personalty,
not being the owner of any real estate, and I
will pass upon tbe same, at my office, on
Wednesday, the 22d day of Angust, 1877, at 10
o’clock a. m. Given under my band officially,
August 2d, 1877. T. F. HILL,
auglO 2t Ordinary.
A BOOK FOR AT.T.
No Library Should be Without It.
XXISTORY, Proceedings, Debates, Sketches,
1 1 Diagram &0., of the Constitutional Con
vention of 1877.
The New Constitution in Full.
The names of every post-office, county,
city and village in Georgia.
Other useful and varied information pr<
sented to all subscribers of tho Georgia
Grange.
In order to increase the circulation of their
journal, the Georgia Grange Publishing Com
pany are preparing the book indicated above,
as a present to their subscribers. See par
ticulars elsewhere. Specimen copy and cir
cular sent free on application.
Georgia Grange Publishing Cos.,
Postoffice Drawer 31,
auglo-5t Atlanta, Ga.
FOR SALE Oil EXCH ANGE.
DR. LYTLE offers his Homo I'laec, near the Pub
lie Square, for sale on reasonable terms, or will
exchange the same for property in Middle or Lower-
Georgia.
For particulars, enquire of or address himself or
M. W. R.DKN, Attorney at Law, GaiDesville, Hall
county, Ga. july27-2t
W. S. WILLIAMS &
Auction and Commission Merc- -p
Grainosvillo, C3rt}
Consignments of Merclianlj vil] „
Country Produce Solic :
PROMPT RETURNS Gl
VV E ARE AGENTS for
’’ Companies, and will insure K ' 5
other property at reasonable rat.
Refer to Geo. W. Williams & Cos. jr
Torino Brown, Cashier Citizens 1
Banks k Brother, Bankers, GaiuesviT T
may!B-3m * 1 a
.duce.