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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. -♦ • 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. ■■. . 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 The very best and ifi® i^-rorthy ~ .... „ , -'fed on and U J action of of jm di .three] -called to tijonta 1 y-five ac a prope Agncua have a laa town School the increase J A T . n the 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 jok I, paf tWjCourt.* i 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.