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Dispen sary and consultation rooms, Xo. 1 M hite hall street, in Centennial buil ding, Atlanta, Ga., where patients can get reliable treatment for all diseases of the Throat, Lungs and Catarrh. The above diseases treated by inhalation. The Doctor treats all diseases of long standing, such as Eruptions, Gravel, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Go itry, Dropsy, Biliousness Diseases of the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Nervous Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com plaint, all Diseases peculiar to Wo men, all Private Diseases, Heart Dis ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout, White swelling, St, Yitus Dance, etc. Elect in cases where it is required. The Doctor is per manently located, and persons who ha>e been under the treatment of oth er physicians and have not been cur ed, are invited to call, as lietreats all curable diseases, and cures guarnteed or no pay Call and see the Doctor without delay. His charges are mo derate, and consultation free. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. feb22-ly A STAR BEHIND TIIE CLO UD. No matter how dark the night, No matter how black the clouds maybe, Up in the shrouded sky, Hidden from watching eye, Glitters a star for me. Silvery bright and clear, Out in tiie fields of fadeless blue, Heedless of cloud and rain. Fearless of death and pain, Golden stars in their silent sphere, Twinkle and burn for you. Summer and Winter the same : No matter if storm-clouds surge and roll Like waves on the frenzied sea; In Heaven’s bright gallery Twinkle and glow, with a quenchless flame These types of the soul. No matter how dark they fly; No matter how gloomy thy watch may be; ’Mid sorrow and pain and care. Still watching thee everywhere— Back of the curtain of earthly strife Twinkles a star for thee. lOWEXTIOX. Mr. Editor : As I will not under any state of cir cumstances be a candidate for the convention, I hope that it will not bo considered an act of presumption on my part to call the attention of the people of Pike county to the great importance of the approaching election. For several years a majority of the people—l me m a majority of those people who read and think, have been sensible of the glaring de fects of our present constitution, and have been clamorous for a conven tion to reform them. .Since tire war several of the Southern States, and among them Arkansas, Texas, Ten nessee and Alabama have held con ventions and made many salutary reforms in their fraudulent laws. Our Legislatm-e for many years act ing under the influence of an insid ious opposition to the call of a con vention, have at last vouchsafed to the people an opportunity of amend ing their constitution, and I hope that they will not be slow to avail themselves of it. If there is nothing else to stimu late the people in promoting the ob ject of a convention, the profligacy and extravagance of the late Legis lature, should have that effect. Let us glarce for one moment at tiie business transactions of that session, and make a brief summary of results. It is a well understood action of do mestic economy, that when a man has been reduced by some ipi fortu nate time in the affairs of life from wealth to poverty, common sense dictates the prosperity of bringing his expenses within the limits of iiis reduced means, Onr Legislature lias acted exactly on a reverse principle, and as our taxable resources have been diminished, our expenses have been increased in an inverse ratio. A Legislature composed of more than two hundred members, with a per diem of seven dollars and mil eage—the multitude of clerks for the two houses, the committee and the executive department —the retinue of pages and door keepers, and a contingent fund o L twel\c thousand dollars aggregate a fear ful amount of public expenditure. Heavy as our taxes are, they must be increased to meet the increased lia* bilities of the State, and unless a convention is called, and some re striction placed in the Constitution upon the money borrowing power of the Legislature, they will continue to increase until every interest in I the state will suffer under the blight | ing influence of the taxing power. The gigantic evil of the day is ‘‘State aid,” and there is no way of crudiea tin' r this vicious principle from the Legislation of the State, except by following the example of Texas, Tennessee and Alabama, and placing an absolute prohibition in Hie Con stitution, at the session of the Legis lature, before the last new bonds amounting to several hundred dol- THOMASTOX. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 7, 1877. lars were issued to pay the deferred interest on State aid bonds, and at the last session another batch of more than two millions of one per cent bonds was authorized to be is sued in exchange for the endorsed 7 per cent bonds of the Macon and Brunswick, the North and South and the Chattanooga rail roads, the interest on which must be paid by increased taxation. Gen. Colquitt tells us that “m analyzing the pres ent State liabilities, which amount to the sum of 8L0,745,847, I find that two thirds of the amount, or $10,708,397 was incurred by reason of state u’d leaving only as the amount of debt growing out of other sources,” and he goes on to tell us further that not a single road “that the State has encouraged by her endorsement, has been success ful as an investment.” And yet in the very face of this unfortunate experience we find that the late Leg islature recognized the same prinei* pie.of State aid to railroads, by ap propriating out of the proceeds of the convict labor of the State, some indefinite amount ranging probably from sixty to eighty thousand dol lars, in aid of another rail road cor poration. This abuse of the credit of the State—this waste of public money must be stopped by a ’prohibitory clause in the Constitution, or our taxes will become unindurable, and finally result in hopeless bank ruptcy. We must piace in the Con stitution safe guards to protect us from that great engine of fraud and corruption—the Lobby—a modern exeressenee which has insidiously fastened itself on the bo ly politic and whose baleful influence com mencing in the national metropolis, is felt in everv State of the Union, 1 desire with as much brevity as possible, and without elaboration to advert to some of tlie defects of the constitution, and to point out what l conceive to be appropriate reme dies. We need a convention in the first place, to place a limit in the Consti tution on the expenses of the gov ernment. We need a convention to restrict the money borrowing power of the Legislature, and of the municipal government of every town and city, in the State, and to prohibit State, county or city aul to any rail road, or any other corporation. We need a convention to reduce the homestead to one thousand dol lars in real estate, and five hundred in personal property. This is a fair compromise between external opin ions, and in my opinion just, both the debtor and creditor. Xo woman and children should be turned out of house and home, without a shel ter at the will of an inexorable cred itor, and no bankrupt of large prop erty should be permitted to retain his broad acres, and his boarded wealth at the expense of his credit ors, but should be made to accommo date himself to his reduced condi tion in life. Wo need a convention to divert the Governor of the immense patro nage which the appointing power gives to him. We need a convention to reduce the members of the Legislature, and to base representation on taxation in the Senate, and on population m the House of Representatives. One hundred members in the House, and thirty in the Senate, are sufficient for all useful purposes of Legislation. The Senate was designed to be the conservative branch ot the Legisla ture. As it is, it is of very little more service than a fifth wheel to a wagon. Reorganize it, and take from it its originating powers of Legislation, and make it what it .was intended to be, the conservative b tlLnee wheel of the law making p-owr. We need a convc nimi to reorga nize the Judiciary. Lie adminis tration of the laws avc become a grievous burden t > ■ people. Or ganize the Inferior Lent upon the place of the old In: -or Court which was in vogue so he g ...m tug us. Let the Courc be coni; ••! f one jus tice from each mill i < .gstrict, who shall serve witho.: c mipensation, and the Court of v. lick three should make a quorum, should nave a limi ted jurisdiction in the administra tion of the civil and criminal laws of the country, and exclusive jurisdic tion of the financial, school and lo cal interest of the c unity. Much of the local matter which involves so much of the expeus . and so much of the time of the Legislature, should be placed under the control of this tribunal. A similar court composed of intelligent farmers was the pride of Virginia for more than a century, ' and her ere at lawyer \\ at kins Seigh,* pronounced it the safest judicial tri bunal in the Slat. 1 , and although it was not familiar with the abstruse principles or tecnical rules of law, its decisions were generali\ in accoi dance with law because they we res based on reason and justice, thus verifying the aphorism of the on! black letter Judge, that law is the perfect ion of reastm. . - Wo need an amendment to the constitution, which will secure more permanency to our statutes, ihe j code is so often changed that it is not an easy matter for the people to learn what the law is. Require a majority of two thirds to alter the code, or to pass any law of general interest or to reconsider any bill, and require the yeas and navs to be takmi oir every general law, and published as a chock on improvident Legisla tion. I now come to the leading motive which prompted this communica tion. I received a letter from a very intelligent gentlemen i.f Nashville Tenn,, who had been a member of the Legislature of that State, and for several years clerk of the house of Representatives, in relation to the financial policy of that State, i append an extract from that letter, as well as extracts from the new con stitution of Tennessee, Alabama and j Texas, to which I wish to call the | attention of your readers. We have as much intelligence and as much capacity for good government as the people of either of those States, and yet we have lagged behind them in those constitutional reforms, which our changed and impoverished con dition so imperitively demand. State aid brought the two former States to bankruptcy, but taught them a lesson which we can read in their amended constitution, but which our own State is very slow to learn. To save ourselves, we must tie the hands of the Legislature, so that it cannot upon the pretext of aiding a rail road corporation, inflict a great injury on the people. We ate poor, as a people, very poor, and we should adopt the most stringent sys tem of economy in the administra tion of our State and county finan ces. What are the objections urged against a convention Y The expense of holding a convention would be less than has been wasted by the Leg islature in one session. In the con vention of 1845 of twen ty one, composed of the ablest and best men of the State, with Gov. Jenkins at its head, reported a con stitution which was adopted by the convention with but little change, and very little discussion, and my recollection is that the session of the convention did not exceed ten days. If there is any apprehension that a new constitution will make any change affecting the vested riglrs or interest of any portion or class of our people of which there is not the most remote probability, that appre hension may be dismissed,, because even it it is well founded, the constitu tion adopted bv the convention must be submitted to thepeojfle, and rati fied by them before it can have any (finding force. In conclusion per mit me to say that with anew consti tution, and renewed energies on onr part, we will outlive the dark and dreary prospect,which now surrounds us, and realize that improvement in our agricultural pursuits, and busi ness relations, which are the unerr ing harbingers of increased comfort and prosperity. \Ym D. ALEXANDER. TENNESSEE. Extract from a letter dated at Nashville March 9th 1877, to Wm. D. Alexander: “Under the present constitution which was adopted in 1810, the General assembly meets every two years. The pay of the members is limited to 72 days, though they can remain in session as long as they see proper, but draw no pay after the seventy-fifth day. The House of Representatives has 75 members at four dollars per day and the Senate has 22 members at the same price. In each hou.e there is one reading clerk, one journal clerk, one engrossing clerk, a door keeper and porter. The clerks re ceive 80 —the others 84 per day. These are all the officers allowed and are ample and sufficient to do all the business. Tho committees have no clerks unless they employ them at their own expense.,, The Governor receives >j4,OUO with a clerk at $1,500 also discharges the duties of assist taut adjutant General of the State. There is now a bill before the Leg islature which will pass beyond doubt, repealing the law, allowing these clerks to the Goyernor Comptroller, Secretary of State and Treasury. They were never allowed until 1872, and previous to that time, all the assistance of anv of the executive officers was furnished at their own expense.” By this bill no officer in the State can receive over $2,500 ex cept the Governor whose salary by the bill is forced at $3,000.” The constitution provides that the credit of no city or town shall be given of loaned to, or in aid of anv person, company association or corporation, except upon an election to be first held, and the assent of three fourths of the votes cast at such election, and the 3,128 Sec. of the Constitution provides that the credit of the State shall noi be hereafter loaned, given to, or in aid of anv person, association, compa nv, corporation or municipality ; nor shall the State become the owner in whole or in part of any bank or a stockholder with others in any asso ciation, company, corporation or mu nicipality. You will see from this last mentioned section that alter we rr e t over present indebtedness it will be impossible for us to go in debt again, except for the current expen* Sts of the State government.” TEXAS. Extract from the new coustitu* tion adopted in 1875 : Article 3, Section 2. “The Senate ; shall consist of thirty-one members, j and shall never be increased above j their number. Tiie House of Rep ■ resentativcs shall consist of ninety three members until the first appor tionment, after the adoption of their constitution, when the number may be increased by the Legislature up on the ratio of not more than one Representative for every fifteen thou sand inhabitants, provided the number of representatives ffiuli “nev er exceed one hundred and fifty.” Sections. “The Leg.s', it arc shall meet every two years. Section 24. “The members of the Legislature shall receive from the public treasury, such compensation for their service as may from time to time be provided by law, not ex ceeding five dollars per day for the first sixty days of each session, and after that, not exceeding two dollars per day for the remainder of the ses sion.” Section 49, “No debt shall lie cre ated by or on behalf of the State, except to supply casual deficiencies of revenue, repel invasion, defend the State in war, or pay existing debt. ” Section 50. “The Legislature shall have no power to give or to lend the credit of the State, in aid of, or to any person association, or corporation, whether municipal or other or to pledge the credit of the State for the payment of the liabili ties of any individual association or any other corporation.” Section 24. ~The Legislature shall have no power to authorize any coun ty, city, town or other political cor poration to lend its credit, or to grant public money or thing of val ue to any individual association or corporation whatever.” ALABAMA. Extract from the new constitu tion adopted in 1872. “The General assembly shall meet biennially, the pay of the members shall be four dollars per day. L'tie General assembly shall con sist of not more than thirty-three Senators, and not more than one h mid red members of the House of representatives. The State shall not engage in works of internal improvement nor lend monev, or its credit in aid of such The General assembly snail have no power to authorize any county, city, or town to lend bs credit or to grant public money or thing of value m aid of any individual, association or corporation whatsoever.’’ Look Onl for Charybtlis. Mr. Editor: It is not tho case when any vital or important interest engrosses the mind, that other inter ests of equal if not greater niagni t ude are overlooked. 1 have seen with great concern the indications of the future crop.— Thousands of thousands of pounds of guano have passed into the country, the most of which will lie used on cotton to increase the yield. The area that will be planted in cotton, judging from the amount of guano carried into the country, will lie un usually large, and consequently the area m cereals proportionately di minished. f armers, is this true ? If so, let us look at inevitable results. Already the increased supply of cotton is re ducing the price, even at a season when ordinarily the price is advanc ing. Suppose you realize your fond hope in producing another large crop of cotton, the price will be so reduc ed as not to pay for production. Your great crop involves loss. When the production of any arti cle entails loss, the greater the pro duction the more ruinous does it be come to produce it. Now sir, l assume the position, that any person who will neglect the production of articles of prime ne cessity, even of life-sustaining prop erties* whilst they can be more cheaply raised than bought, and in crease the production of any arti cle that costs more to produce it than it commands in market, justly forfeits the credit that is due eco uomical management, and docs not deserve credit for such articles as would have been to his interest to produce. He who credits such men does the double crime of risking loss himself and abetting his neighbors in self-destruction —for it is only a matter of time to bring utter ruin. You need not expect a change of laws to bring relief to such manage ment. If 1 could to-day control the actions of all my countrymen on on ly one of the two interests, viz: the convention question or the proper system of home industries in a wise and safe dhision of his lands in grain sufficient to meet the home demands and forage crops to keep well the stock of the farm, I would control them in the latter. For whenever the production of any article exceeds to any considera ble degree the consumption, at once the producer is injured, even if he has produced his supplies at home. But those who have neglected to pro duce their own supplies are seriously injured, as well as their fa;tors. Let me state facts. Many who had sown full oats had them killed out by the severity of the winter. They have not sown spring oats to make up this deficit, nor have they increased their corn crop correspondingly, but have bought guano to put on cotton,where the oat crop was killed out. W hilst cotton must decline to ruinous pric es, if a fair price is realized, wheat, corn aud meat will command increas i cd and increasing prices from the in - 1 creasing demand abroad, as well as I at home. Farmers, let me entreat you, for yours as well as all fanners interest ami universal prosperin' and inde pendence, make what you consume ar home, as far as you can—raise your graiu, hogs, horses, mules ami cattle at home—let your cotton crop be a surplus crop. Then will the tale set in that brings on its bosom plenty, j>eaec, credit, honor—aid then once more man will regard his obligations to his fellow man ; aud then may he ex}>eet God to answer his petitions for success in all his ef forts. Planter. llicli I*er (’em. Failure. It was announced through the press last week that George W. Adair of Atlanta had failed, lie gives as the cause of his failure, high interest on borrowed money, and shrinkage in the value of property. He sa\> that 12 per cent, interest will kill any business on earth. Will the planting men of our readers deeply impress this statement on their minds and endeavor to make their farms self-sustaining. The heaviest inter est you pay is the per cent, on pro visions, purchased on time, and fer tilizers obtained in the same way. The difference you pay for fertilizers for cash, and on eight or nine months time is generally from '25 to 30 dol lars on the ton. Taking the Geor gia Grange fertilizer, which doubt less is the best standard for cheap ness, you pay S4O cash, or $75 on eight months time. Here there is •530 interest for eight months, on *4O. Xow make the calculation for your self, and see what interest you are paying. On S4O yon pay *29 for eight months. What is the rate of interest? Is it 12 per cent., which Mr. Adair tells you “will kill any business on earth ? Is it more or less ? Farmers make the calculai tion and see for yourself. The in terest you pay in purchasing a ton of the Georgia Grange Fertilizers, is simply 84-23 per cent. The same, greater or less percent, is paid on every other fertilizer yon purchase. Now gentlemen this transaction is the same in results to you, as if you were to borrow *IOO at the Barnesville Savings Bank Ist. Jan., and give your note f0r5184.23 payable next Christmas. Now we put the question fairly to you. can you get enough from the soil by your labor to pay back the *IOO, and the additional sum of *84.23 as interest. We do not think you can. Mr. Adair says 12 per cent, will kill any business, and bis experience and Ins occupation, will much better able him to pay 12 per cent, than yours. This is the interest you pay on your fertilizers. We are .old that the average business man of America clears but3 per cent, per annum. Now how about the meat that you should have raised on your planta tion ? Meat was selling a short time since at 9£ cash, and 14 on eight months time. If you will fig ure in this a little you wll find those farmers who bought meat at the above figures, paid at the rate of 51 per cent per annum. In some in stances a greater per cent is paid, and in others a less rate is charged. Xow can you make other tilings and pur chase your meat at such prices, and realize more, or could you raise your meat at a less cost to you ? The whole catalogue might be gone through with in this manner. We would appeal to the planting interest to consider these figures and these questions, and study to make their farms self sustaining. Since writing the above we learn that $75 is the cotton option price of the Grange Fertilizer, and that the time money price is $57. One Reason for a Xew Constitu tion. Under this head, the Madison Journal discourses as follows : “In the new constitution which Georgia should not fail to make this year, it should be provided that the great mass of strictly local and private leg islation, which consumes two-thirds of the time and labor of the Legisla ture, be transferred either to the Su perior Courts in their ministerial ca pacity, or to a board of county com missioners, with authority and pow er sufficient to dispose of these minor local affairs The advantage to be derived by this change alone, would fully compensate for all the expense of holding the convention. The Legislature annually passes several hundred acts under the head of “Lo cal Laws,” which ought never to be considered or known of by that body. In the volume of “Georgia Laws, 1870,” we find only 130 pages of pub lic laws (tir nuke which is the true province of a Legislature), while there are very nearly three hundred pages of local and private laws. Fully twelve pages of the last class of laws are devoted to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors m the neighborhood of churches in various counties from the chinquapin region to the piney woods. Twenty or more churches are thus provided for. We have no objection to these prohi bitions. On the contrary we think them salutary to a community. But let every county protect its own churches and academies without en cumbering the Legislature. What interest does a Representative from Chatham county feel fn the passage or non-pas-age of an act to protect a given church, or relieve an unfor tunate bondsman in Dade county ? We repeat, that quite two-thirds ! of the work of the Legislature, under the present constitution, is to pass these petty local and private laws. i-et all this mass of work be kept at home aud disposed of as liefore inti- r FHE ORKAT HARD TIMES PAPKf* A The Best, the Cbtspnt and the moat ll Ur. \<m can't afford to be aithoat it. CRICKET fffi, HEARTH. 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Lot a provision of this s*>rt be incorporated in the now constitu tion. and so little Work will remanf fir the Ix'gihlatur. l limt a body, tail of its present size, holding only half as many sessions, could dispose of it with economy and ample satisfaction to the people. ’ Wentlnil Phillips* Circular A;’:i|iot the South. We have read severe and unjust ar ticles from tiie pen cf F.ngene Law rence, and other rabid fanatics in the Radical ranks North, against tho 8 >uth, but we have never read such a fool tirade us Wondall Phillips made Monday night in Boston, under the pretense of a lecture. If all the malice, hatred, revenge aud blind fanaticism that has accumu lated in the bottomest pit of hell could be gathered and consolidated, it would not stand comparison with the bitterness and prejudice of Wen dull Phillips* heart. lie is either a supreme fool as to the real status of the South, and the footings, knowledge and condition of the South, or he has more tendency to lie and misrepresent it; than Judies Iscariot was treacherous. The ven om of his nature, had God seen fit to have embodied it into serpents, would have set to crawling in the dust a million adders. Just such men have fired the Northern heart against tho S<mt Ii for the last forty years. * u or der that our readers may know tho cnaiaeter of the.-e misrepresentations of the South, we extract some para graphs from what he said. After referring to the result of the late war, he says : The South went home, an Kile mass, to plot for gc-ttiug by the ballot what the bul let had h*st. Our soldiers melt* and into law - vers, mechanics, merchants, and every profession and tradeoff busy men. The South had no such resource. She was never trained to earn a living. She must steal it from somebody. Her burglars tools are the revolver, domineering over the ballot box, and cabal blinding polities and Congress. If the democratic party bad succeeded, it would have owed its sue' cess to a “solid South, ” the old slave i*o\v er with anew name. Iler ally was, as of old, the rotten mass of the great cities. Under our present working of universal suffrage the magistracy of cities repre sents and is chosen by their criminal and dangerous classes. The journals proclaim ed last winter that Tilden could have New York City if Morrissey, Kelly andO Brien chose, llow’ could they give it to him l by their control of its slums. If Tilden had entered the White House, it would have been the revolvers of Carolina ami the grog shops of New York that lifted him there. The white South believes to day that she is contending for good gov ernment aud the highest interests of civil ization. In political matters th<- two sec tions do not speak the same language. — Right and justice at the North and at the South mean diffeient things. The South clings to her ideas w ith all the energy ot angry defeat. The North lias abolished slavery, hut it lasted long enough to make almost every Northerner a flunky, hem e the danger that the South will be finally victorious. The South needs tamino. Oh! that ltarey were living and Presi dent of these States! His is the Land to save us. The South needs the Rarey trea*- ment—first show that we can crush it, aid are determined, at any cost, to be obeyed; then you may “gentle*’ the brute and^ con ciliate all you please. Until then tin South sees that all this conciliation is only cow ardice trying to pass for magnanimity. What Grant gained at Appomattox b surrendered by Hayes at Washington— History repeats itself. "What the South needs to-day i split- element which Char la in agne, William the Conqueror, and Crom well contributed to their times—the heavy hand aud fearless grasp which holds disn orderly and struggling forces quiet, until peace tempts and wins to action the ele ments which mould our modern civiliza tion—capital, labor, commerce, education, hope and equality before the Iw. This grasp Grant would have fain used, but the senseless clamor of timid Congressmen and silly journalists prevented. Ilaycs proclaims his purpose to forego and sur render it. When lie took office Appomat tox faded out of sight, and the South was victorious in spite of it. Half of what Grant gained for us at Appomattox Ilaycs surrendered in Washington on the sth of March. The South has no purpose to use such forces as I just named. Peace and hones ty on her part, in Johnson’s day, would have won ample capital to her use. She defied law, encouraged Ku-kluxand laugh ed at good faith—the cement of States— and hence she starves and rots to-day. She has no business training, no part nor plot in the spirit of the century. Her only trade is politics: that is her only tooL — Bullets failed. .She has neither finance nor trade, mechanics nor educated class to work with. Plot aud cable are her only tools. With these she plans to force from the North the wealth she cannot earn, lost the opportunity to attract, and must with er and rot without. Tlio legislature of Virginia lias passed an act for the preservation of fish abo’C the tide water, and a bill is pending regulating fish below that point. The bill already passed pro hibits the use of nets, seines and traps for the capture of fish for the period of six years. From much ob servation the Richmond Whig ispur suaded that it would be wise to limit fishing in the tide water to four days in the week—say from Saturday, Sun rise, to Tuesday Sunrise. * This would give the fish three days to ass cend and spawn in quiet • and the seines and nets would catch more in the four days than they now do in the seven. This it thinks would be better than to interdict fishing for five or ten years, or to be without fish at all for an indefinite period. Geo. W. Adair owed 11. B. Plant, of the Southern Express Company, j $25,050. the Inmans $30,u0, and j outside of these from $2,000 $lO,‘1)00. Ilis creditors are to meet on the 9th of April, when he will make some kind of a proposition. The banks and capitalists are the only sufferers bv liis failure.