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Tlifi MEW COMSTITUTIOM.
It Marks a New Departure ix
Georgia and the South-Tiie
People of G eorgta-Rerresexta
tive Mex-To What Itk Energy
is Due-Kixd Words From
Abroad.
[New York World—E(l.]
To people outside of Georgia the
new Constitution of that Slate is an
interesting study, in so far as it
shows the drift of public sentiment
in matters which affect all parts of
the country, and the growth of cer
tain prejudices and convictions which
all prudent men should take note of.
These aie of two kinds : First, those
which are common to all the States
more or less, and next, those which
are peculiar to Georgia and other
Southern States, and more particu
larly to the Cotton States ; for it is
a fact which ought not to be forgot
ten that the civilization of the Cot
ton Stales differs almost as much
from that of Virginia, Kintuckyand
Missouri as it does from that of Ohio
or Illinois. There is one circumstan
ce which gives peculiar significance
to tire Constitution which has just
been made by tlie Georgia Conven
tion ; the fact that Georgia is the
leading and most influential Cotton
State—or as its people, and most peo
pie at the North too, very mistaken
ly put it, ‘‘the Empire State of the
South.” Georgia cannot properly be
called the Empire State of the South
id any such sense as that in which
New York is called the Empire State
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of the Union, but it is the most in
fluential of the Cotton States, and
leads the march of progress in the
Southern Atlantic section of the Un
ion Georgia owes this position to sev
end causes which lie upon the sur
face, and principally to the fact that
its northern half is the home of a
stalwart, liberty-loving race of moun
taincers, quite different in character
and tendencies from the more opu
lent and refined population of the
Southern and Atlantic regions. The
action and reaction of these two pop
ulations upon each other in State af
fairs have made Georgia a battle
field of contending ideas, and given
the whole commonwealth a vigorous
and varied intellectual and political
life of its own.
Northern people, almost without
exception, attribute the energy and
activity of the Georgia people to the
presence in that State of a large
Northern-born poj illation. Noth
ing could be more wide of the mark.
The Northern element is no stronger
in Georgia than in Alabama ; it
not so strong as it is in Alabamma.
is. It is, as wo have intimated, to
the vigorous race of early settlers,
chiefly Scotch and Scotch-Irish,
which made the mountain valleys ot
Pennsylvania, Virginia and East
Tennessee the homes of a rich, reso
lute and prosperous people, that
Georgia mainly owes its peculiar
characteristics and the prominent
place which it holds among the
Southern State. Northern men
have never controlled nor greatly in
fluenced the thought or policy of
the State. Its statesmen are and
have always been Southern men and
for the most part Georgians, To-day
the men who represent the spirit of
its population, and who are most in
fluential among its peculiarly inde
pendent people—who swear in the
words of no master —are Toombs,
Jenkins, Gordon, Hill, Stephens,
Brown, Lawton, Smith, Hammond
and Simmons —men who are pecul
iarly and to the very marrow of their
bones Georgians, and nothing but
Georgians. Ex-Governor Brown was
and possibly one other of these may
have been, born among the moun
tains of South Carolina, but of that
same Scotch-Irish race which has sub
dued the bill country of Georgia,
and blending its hardy virtues with
the luxury, letters and graces of the
coast, has made Georgia what jt is
the most powerful and the most in
fluential of the Cotton States. This
fact gives peculiar significance and
importance, as we have said, to the
action of the Convention which has
just framed anew Constitution for
the people of that State. Their
work marks the progress of ideas and
events in all the Cotton and
to some extent in all the States of the
Union, and particularly in the other
Southern States. One other fact de
11I('MASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 22, 1877.
serves mention. This new Consti
tution has been made freely by Gcor
gians, uninfluenced by any external
consideration. Neither the fear of
Federal interference nor Northern
sentiment, neither the fear of offend
ing and bringing down upon diem
the wrath of the General Government
nor the still stronger dread of hurt
ing the Democratic party of the
North, has controlled their action.
They have made a Constitution
which, in their opinion, expresses
the unbiased will of the people of
Georgia on all subjects of public con
cern, and defines the position of that
State on many matters of grave im
port to the people of the whole coun
try 7 , and to the people of this city
above all. It is the very lirst Con
stitution which has been so framed
in any Southern State since 18G1.
This fact and the one to which we
have so often adverted, and to which
the reader’s attention connot be too
often called that the lead of Georgia
will be followed by all the Cotton
States—give to the study of its new
Constitution an exceptional impor
tance and interest.
GEORGIA MEWS.
The Augusta Chron. & Con. after
an interview with prominent mer
chants announces that trade in all its
branches will be more satisfactory
than it has been any season since
the war.
A man by the name of Thomas
Skates who had been arrested charg
ed with various misdemeanors, com
mitted suicide by taking twelve grains
of morphine Saturday night, leaving
behind some letters and several vers
es of poetry.
A valuable marc belonging to Mr.
W. B. Hudson of Griffin died on
Friday from a fall into an old well
thirty feet deep.
Last week a train on the Wilming
ton &AuguSta Railroad while passing
a point between Belton and Green
Swamp, was fired into by some un
known party and the mail agent nar
rowly escaped a buckshot that whiz
zed hear dis head, A short time
ago a freight train was fired into near
the same locality.
Several cases of yellow fever are re
ported in Brunswick.
The News says new buildings arc
to be seen in every direction in Sa
vannah.
Last week the laborers of Gordon
county in the vicinity of Beeves Sta
tion met and organized a Laborers
Union, numbering about seventy,
and claiming that they are unjustly
treated by the owners of lands in that
county, that they exact an unreasona
ble amount of work for an unremuner
ative price. In their declaration of
principles they assert that the land
holders have united m an agreement
to demand of the tenants higher rents
than have been customary in the
past, and of laberors more work and
less per diem, and they therefore
pledge themselves to stand by the dec
laration of rights and manciples which
they have laid down and in which they
warn employers that the result of
their present course will he to drive
the laborers and poor of the coun
ty to other and more remunerative
fields.
The Board of trade lias invited
Hayes to visit Koine.
Dr. James F. Boseman Assistant
Georgia State Treasurer died in
Atlanta on the 10th inst.
Quarantines have been established
against Fernandina in Savannah, St
Mary’s Brunswick and Darien
Quitman county had a stabbing
affray in which Zack Millirons was
stabbed in fourteen places by John
Tolson
Kev. Henry Bunn of Twiggs county
has been a subscriber of the Macon
Telegraph and Messenger and its
antecedents since 1817.
Kev. George Bull colored of
Lumpkin county, who has been a
Baptist preacher over forty years
immersed forty candidates last
week in twenty-seven minutes.
Governors Colquitt and Drew will
review the Georgia and Florida
troops expected at the fair at Thom
asville on the 23rd of October.
Mr Lawry of Walton county is
the possessor of three new gill babies
—tripletts.
The Eaton ton Messenger has no
ticed farmers over that way meas
uring turnip patches with guano
sacks.
Gainsville wants anew hotel and
a dramatic club.
Miss Ellen Pinckney of Atlanta cU e d
last Wednesday.
On Sunday of last week Willie
Dearing son of one of Covingtons
oldest citizens, while playing with
some companions on a turn table,
fell underneath it, and was instantly
crushed to death.
Langford who attempted a fiend
crime in Walker county and stole a
horse to make Ins escape, was tried
last week at the regular term of the
superior court, found guilty and
sentenced to four years in the peni
tentiary
Thomas Johnson of Macon coun
tv was recently thrawn from a wag
on and received injuries from which
lie died in a few days
For the self congratulation of those
who have their hog-killing and smoke
houses it is stated that about eigh
teen million dollars worth of
meat is annually brought to the State
of Georgia.
Mrs Daniel Hutcherson of Glas
cock county celebrated her centenni-
ill on the Ist September. On the
day she was fifty years old, she had
a grandchild born, and a great-grand
child on the amversary of her hun
dredth year.
London Fraser a notorious negro
thief entered the house of Dr. Mid
dleton at Josuj) last week and car
ried off a trunk containing two hun
dred aud twenty dollars in money and
valuable notes and papers. Disperse
ers came upon him but he eluded'
them and made his escape leaving the
trunk behind, unopened. lie is a
fugitive from justice in Liberty coun
ty having committed a murder there
and is now at large.
Up to September sth Columbus
has received fifty-three bales of the
new crop of cotton.
Talbot county has 2,008 polls, 9
lawyers 1-1 physicians, and broperty
to the amount of 81,420,740 of
of which the blacks own 840,120.
"Whitfield county wants a poor
house.
Two rich black lead mines have
been discovered in Barton coun
ty-
Mr. W. T. Christopher, formcly
editor of the Fort Valley Mirror will
commence the publication of a com
mercial journal in Atlanta on the fif
teenth inst.
Mr. Thomas lielton and Rebecca,
his wife living on the line between
Gwinnett and Jackson counties are
aged respectively 92 and 914 years.
They have lived together seventy
years and have twelve children.
Irwin ton has a criminal who was
sentenced to he hung, and the time
expired, hut for some unknown cause
he was not hung, and it becomes now
necessary for him to be resentcnccd
which will shortly be done.
The Constitution says alreaby
the people are securing rooms for the
fair.
Americns ha3 shipped one hundred
and sixty-five thousand pounds of
dried fruit, realizing the handsome
sum of thirteen thousand two hun
dred and forty dollars for the same.
A little girl daughter of a Mrs
Cole of Chattanooga was drowned in
a cistern Saturday.
A young girl about 15 years of age
Salliellines of Cobb county last week
swore out a warrant against Joseph
Glossier charging him with a mock
marriage and seduction. He was
arrested and carried to Marietta for
trial.
Ilawkinsville is to have anew de
pot
lion Reason Paulk ol Irwin conn
died yery sudu mly of heart disease
on Thursday last.
Mr. Jesse Morris of -Montgomery
county was shot and killed by Mr.
McAllister of the same county.
Rust is doing much damage to
the cotton in Houston county.
The editor of the Home Journal
claims co have recently seen and
measured a rattletsnake in Houston
county that was 04 feet long, and 9
inches in circumference and had 13
rattles and a button. It was one of
sixteen killed from a bed of seven
teen.
A little child of Mr. C. R. Meyers
of Agusta was seriously burned by
kerosine oil last week.
It is said that among the stock
burned at McPherson’s Barracks in
Atlanta were two little gray nuilcs
that were once owned by President
Jefferson Davis.
The lightning rods have been tak
en down from the court-house in
Meriwether county by the County
Commissioners and the grand jury
recommend that they be disposed
of to the best interest of the coun
ty-
Mr. Robert Langford of Madison
county was killed last week by a
kick in the abdomen from a mule.
LaGrange is exercised over the
sale of the North and South Narrow
Gauge Railroad, fearing that its ex
tension will not now lie made in her
direction. It is the impression that if
it he continued it will he in the direc
tion of Atlanta through Meriwether,
by Greenville.
The Old Capital says that the
changes in the moon have a notable
effect on the inmates of tne lunatic
asylum.
An officer ot Bibb county carried
three lunatics to Milledgeville last
week. Two were colored women,
and one* white man \V. B. Lew
is.
Jonesboro has anew enterprise in
the Toombs Light Guards. They
have ordered a handsome uniform of
navy blue and huff from New York.
The first prize for the l*?st story,
founded on incidents of the late war,
contributed to the Savannah News,
was awarded to S. G. Hillyer Jr. of
Cuthbeit. The second prize was
awarded P. A. Bryan of Screven
county. The names of the stories are
respectively “The Marable Family”
and “Henry Sinclair or The Doctors
Revenge.” The Weekly News will
commence the publication of the
first in the issue of the 19th inst
Mr. J. M. Grey of Houston says
he lias a place on which he will make
fifty bales of cotton at a cost of only
S7OO.
The North and South Narrow
Gauge Railroad was sold at auction
on Tuesday at Columbus for forty
thousand five hundred dollars. It
was purchased by the Columbus and
Atlantic Air Line Railroad Com
pany, who wili extend it for ten
miles.
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Regulation Tariff'Rule**.
Washington, September o.—The
following circular to collectors other
officers of the customs ha* been ‘is
sued from the treasury depart
ment.
The following rates of drawback
on refined sugars and syrups, wholly
manufactured from impoited raw
sugar, are hereby established, to
take effect on and after October Ist,
1877: On loaf, tut loaf crushed,
granulated and powdered refined su
gar stove dried or dr.ed by other
equally effeettve process, entirely llie
product of foreign duty paid sugar,
three and cigdtecn-one hundaedths
cents per pound. On refined white
sugar, undried and above No. 20,
Dutch standard in color, entirely the
product of foreign duty paid sugar,
two and fifty-eight one hundredths
cents i>er pound. On all grades of
refined coffee sugar, No, 20 Dutch
standard, and below in color, entire
ly the product of foreign duty paid
sugar, two and eighty one hun
dredths cents per pound. On symj h
resulting entirely from the refining
of foreign duty paid sugar, six aud
one quarter cents per gallon. The al
lowances on sugars will be subject
to the reduction of one percent,
and the allowances on syrup to the
deduction of teu per cent, as pre
scribed by law.
The Age ofTrecs.
The longevity of various trees has
been stated to be in round numbers
as follows: Deciduous Cypress. 0,-
000 years; boahab tree of Senegal,
5,000; dragon’s blood tree 4.000
years; yew, 3,000; cedar of Lcbanou
3,000; olive, 2,500: oak 1.G00; or
ange, 1,50; Oriental palm, 1,300;
cabbage palm, 300; larce, 300; pear,
300; lime, GOO; ivy, GOO; ash, 400;
coeoanut palm, 300; date palm, 300;
apple, 200 years. The Brazil vine
palm, arrives at the age of 150 years;
the Scotch fir gets its growth in
about 100, years, and balm of Gilead
in about 50 years.
Detroit has the largest buffalo
hide dressing factory in America.
Ocean freights are almost 40 per
cent higher than a year ago.— Ex.
The Inter Ocean’s cashier loses
85,000 by Chicago’s last bank crash.
If there’s anything I hate it is to
break m anew tooth brush.— Twain'.
Some of Be ston’d biggest wharves
don’t earn enough to pay their tax
es.
A reaction towards ur.ornamented
parasols, of rich plain silk is no
ted.
A lady’s shoe that resembles a
foot, if worn with dark stockings,
is out.
Lafayette, Ind., is shipping horses
to Europe.