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THE GAZETTE
SI'MMEUVII.I E, (IA.
•I. A. HJSMENT,
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The fall campaign in Ohio has opened,
it is said, under flattering circumstances.
The democrats liavo nominated Mr. R.
M. Bishop n merchant of Cincinnati, for
Governor. He is commended, not fur
his former activity in polities, hut
for his unquestioned capacity, and for
bearing a record of business and personal
integrity on which there is no blot.
Tho republicans have nominated fin-
Governor Judge West, who is said to ho
near-sighted, which, if ho is not naturally
and literally, we would siy 110 is pollti
cully. For lie said in his speech of ao
ccptanoe on the Currency question, “No
contraction, no expansion, no deprecia
tion. is my motto.” Upon which, tho
New York Herald -ays:
“When a patient is very ill, suffering
severely and continuously, wcian imagine
two doctors coming in and each prererib
ing a difterent treatment, and we could
see that though one might be right and
the other wrong, each, at least, had some
desire to relieve the man. But if a third
doctor should appear, and, after attent
ively regarding the sufferer, should say
to his friends, ‘You had better leave him
alor.e; be very careful to do nothing for
him; be is doing very well,’ it is probable
that tho sick man would want to order
him out of tho house as a first-class
quack. But that is what this republican
candidate proposes. ‘No contraction, no
expansion.’ Oh, no! Just let tho coun
try go on tuttering. Has Mr. West heard
anything about tho hard times? And can
he not soe that his silly talk plays directly
into the hands of tlie inflationists? They
ut least recognize tho most prominent
facts of the day, the gener.J prostration
and poverty; they offer what the call a
remedy. We do not believe in it at all;
hut we do not believe that the country
will meekly agree to remain as it is to
please Judge West. Somebody in Ohio
ought to explain to him that In who is
not for contraction and resumption is
against them; and that such nonsense as
he uttered belongs on the other side. He
ought to he on tho inflation democratic
ticket,”
A Doubtful Policy.
We are fearful that tho Convention in
endeavoring to steer clear uf Soylin on the
one hand, may meet with a fearful ship
wreck upon Charybdis on tlie other. Fe
in their efforts at retrenchment and re
form, they may so cripple an efficient
government by throwing it into the hands
of men very illy calculated to understand
the governmental machinery, by placing
the salaries gf the most important offices
at such luff figures as to cause them to !"•
ignored hy men capacitated to lill them,
and thus {throw them entirely into the
hands of second and third rate men. In
such eases the people, who arc so clamor
ous for retrenchment and reform, would
be the greatest suffer era. The govern
ment would then be like a farm attempted
to lie run hy a man who knew nothing ol
farming; a college by an ignoramus; a lo
ooinotive ly a fool; the practice of modi
cine hy a neophyte or the legal profession
hy a man ignorant of the first principles
of law.
Our i-wm/i-i re of the (.’a: ter.-\ file ,
expresses this matter in iii- usual torse
and emphatic stylo, which we heartily en
dorse, when lie says:
“We arc for retrenchment and reform
and have clamored for it, hut when it
comes to making the highest am most
responsible positions of trust in the Sfuto
places of small importance for the; re ison
that men (li ability an 1 experience cannot
afford to till them for the salatiei affixed,
t.h- policy of the convention becomes a
matter of disgust.
“Ourido.. ol retrenchment, a-id reform
does not consist in starving out faithful
public servants nor in reducing them to
pauperism; but, in to affairs, to seeing
that w • have good men in offi ;a on reason
able salaries. The great leaks that in ,stly
need stopping are those rai ls upon the
public treasure for measures ami enter
prises that result in loss to the State
such as issuing bonds for railroads,
etc. We should like to see official salaries
limited on a gold basis and reasonable
compensation, beyou I which legislative
enactment should not g"; hut we are ut
terly opposed to placing the safari •
affixed to the most re ponsihle position
at a figure so low that none hut the rich
can fiil thorn. These higher offices tarry
pith them a dignity that sm til and insig
nificant salary cannot maintain, lienee,
none hut rich men can lid them.
“The best and most suoee < l a! corpora
tions give their leading officers at mi"-
agors good salaries because it require,
talent, ability and experience to lill (hem.
If so of more corporations how is*it with
a great Stato
hmentand reform, therefore, and ics not eon.
sist in dwarling officials into mere pigiuic
and staiving ilium by lit s 14 e e 1 npe.isi
tion for their services.
“In conclusion, wc have to that in
the matter of retrenchment .inf is form
the convention iidwin iTu r it, tin • 1 ly
in futile attepipts to retroneh at the
spi ;tu Ito reform at tile buiigholc.”
What a Chat ge!
Timo works ehang an 1G 1 1 de' end ■
Ihg fight- though in that defense he may
cause in His wisdom, tli ■ oppressed to
puss through a fiery .n-il' ul.
There was a day, and that, too within
tli ■ memory and experiene i of tin- present
gen- ration, when tlie- .smith, the gloriou
sunny South, was under tlm heel of a
despicable de-poti-m, an 1 un lor tin
sovere-t surveillance, when not v-n the
smallest difference of opinion, or a lit: 1c
fracas c mill take place within her borders,
hut was magnified into a great bugaboo,
and the grand army of the republic in
ordered to sq leleh tho terrible little
monster.
But hy long-suffering an 1 patient on
durance, she saw -‘light in tin and ukn ,”
and by eo .tinu. and watting. 1" 1 well doing,
that light has increa-el and radiated un
ti! a free and full liber y now she I- it
genial and fructifying rays over all its
borders.
But how now with our oppres.- r.j?
Some of our northern exchanges are
daily, well laden with crimes of deepest
dye, having boon committed upon tho in
nocent and unsuspecting; suicide's, mur
dors, fightings, robberies, cheatings, do
(Van lings, and last, though not least, a
riotous strike across the entire domains
from tlie Atlantic to the Pacific, causing
(bar and trembling all along its destine
live march; laying waste towns, cities and
railroads, stopping business, increasing
taxes, demoralizing tho country, staying
the hand of industry and enterprise, and
bringing thousands to penury and want.
Why don’t “tho powers that he’’put
that section of the Union under guard as
it did the South? Why don’t they call
out the grand army to stop it? Echo says
j why? Well, tiny are the suffering, op
i pressed ones now, but wo rejoice not at
the sad calamities tli it have befallen
them, and the sad infliction of suffering
through which they are called to pass;
but for the life of us, wo cannot help en
tertaining some opinion that the Judge
of all the earth, is putting the chalice of
suffering to their lips, that that people
placed to our. For there is such a tiling
as retributive justice with the Almighty,
as well to nations as to individuals.
Jury Pay.
The convention lias put it into the
constitution that a juryman shall be cn
ti tied to one dollar per day. Well, that's
magnanimous! lie shall quit his work:
in the spring and lull season, when his
labor is mostly needed .it home, pay
board at the county site, (rout one to two
dollars per day. work for nothing, support
himself, go through all sorts of weather
for the pr vilegc and honor of deciding
other people’s differences. It occurs to
us the convention when it put that plank
into the constitution, must have been un
| dor the influence of lager beer or mean
| whiskey. For it appears to us that no
body of men unless under some ballueina
i tion of mind, could or would have enacted
such a monstrous outrage, as to insult a
I gentleman by offering him only one dollar
per day for sueh services.
1 Maybe these delegates thought it w.is
j ibe last time the people would ever elect
i them to any ether office, and that this
1 was their only opportunity over to dis
! ting tish or else extinguish themselves
I forever, and that they would avail them
; selves of it.
“The Convention a Failure.”
The severest criticism, an'l yet no
severer than true, that we have seen upon
the acts of the Convention, we find in the
('nil. isvillc by its correspondent
"Hasp,” hailing from Cherokee Georgia.
It i indeed multurn in /airea, and will no
doubt find a response io the minds of
many, wh 1 have attempted to read the
reports as given in the ('onctttutiou- He
say.-.:
“,So far, the l onsliiutioiial Canventii 11
is a failure. The giants have proven
themselves Weaklings. Thu organic aw
is, so far, unprecedented in its length,
unrivalled in its ambiguity, uncqualed in
its impotency, narrow in its objects and
futile in its effects—a renownablo mis
carriage.
‘'There is yet no reform, no retrench
ment when the people expected and de
manded it. The proposed reform is
puerile—pseudo-economic, unworthy of
legislators of advanced intelligence. The
sharp shooting In prolonged debate over
trivialities would liardlv befit a school
debating society, and the servile submis
siveness in ‘courting the powers that he’
is unworthy of m 11 wlm may hope to win
or to deserve praise for having wisely
framed a Constitution for this great com
monwealth.
“The Convention lias failed in its mis'
sion, tile people are disappointed, busiuc
languishes, capital deeps in its Guerdon
coffers, labor begs, taxes grow and the
commonwealth bleeds.
“Would the convention net patriotical
ly and redeem themselves politically, let
them refund their per diem, adjourn nine
me and return whence they came.'
Homesteading Religion.
The responsibility for the following
item, i-- as.-timed hy the Fort Valley
Min or :
“A Hardshell Bapli-t min: -IP r remark
ed while preaching at Union church last
Holiday that he hoped when the Metho
dists got religion again they would lu inn
stead on it.”
We presume I lie preacher alluded to
tho periodical demonstrations made by
Methodists in many | rts of the country
—and which will apply to 1 thers as well
as Methodists - in contrast with an every
day life in conformity to the Christian
prnfossit n. which should he an every day
business.
But, wc lliink, this Hardshell Baptist
minister hud in view the point -is illu
trated in the following deliverance hy one
of hi-brethren sometime ago in Alabama.
He was descanting upon one of the
I've points, denominated “the tin al per
severance of the saints.’! Hart he:
“Brethren ah! the Methodists are like
squirrel an. You see him my bretliren
aheurl his tail over his haek-aii, and run
with all his might awa y up a tree ah, and
set upon a limb ah, and then' lie chatters
and ehatters-an; and then he tuns aad
jumps fro 11 limb to limb ah, and -cems to
he proud of his high position and enjoy
ments-ah, when hretl.ren-ah tho first
thing you know, kerfltuuieks to tins
ground he comes ah. But my brethreu
ah the Baptist is like the gofid old
’possum ah. lie climbs away up the
simmon tree my hrethren-ah, and there
lie sits and eats of tlie ’simmnns ah; you
may shake and shake one foot loose ah;
and shake and shake until you shako all
his feet loose-uh, and he will catch and
held by his tail all and then my hrethren
ah, you may shake and shake, and keep
a si :iking, and all In-ll Couldn’t shake
hin off ah."
Hsmestcad your religion brethren, and
don't reserve “the right of waiver ”
Sowing and Harvesting.
“Harvest never comes to suehassow
not,” is a saying worthy to lie remem
bered. This is true alike in the intel
lectual, moral and religious world, as well j
as in tho natural. Hhnuld the farmer nut j
sow his seeds in tlie spring-tiuic, when ,
tlie fall season arrives, he would have
nothing to gather, and ho would he re- |
garded as a lazy, good-for-nothing man, j
and himself and family would como to
want. And so in all departments of
human labor and sustenance.
The principle holds good in the intel- !
lochia! world. Whore there are no efforts
at the acquisition of knowledge, ieu ranee
prevails. It is only hy continued etf-Mt--.
and redemption of time that learning is
acquired. It was tiius Elihu Bin:itt, who
was born ISU, acquired the sobriquet oi
“The learned blacksmith.” \\ irking at
his forge, being illiterate, yet having a
desire for knowledge, lie requested tlie
school children, daily passing his shop,
to chalk down the A, B, (”s upon his
door, and thus little by little he became
one of the master linguists of his day.
He sowed and a rich harvest of intellectual
wealth was the result. Had he sown not,
ho would have remained in ignorance all
; his days. This •< a severe reproof to
| laboring men, who say they Lave no time,
:no opportunity to read and study. Many
j a man has risen toouiinence and useful
-1 ness to ills country, and become an orna
ment to society, from tlie forge, the worx
, bench, mine- ami plow handle, by sowing
beside all waters, and redeeming the
moments of rest from his daily labm .’
j Look at the vast multitudes of hoys,
Lyoung men, girls and young women, and
1 old men bad old women all over the
country, aid in towns and cities, squan
dering away their precious moments, by
gadding about, backbiting their neigh
bors, creatingdisturbrnecs among people,
lounging around the streets, whittling
good's boxes that don’t belong to them,
playing billiards or marbles, drinking
I whiskey or otherwise footing away the
tune which nuiht *0 ho employed in some
. thing useful. And yet these people say
1 thej have tie time to read and study.
Hu ffi ate -owing the seels of idleness, and
j the harvest will he poverty and want.
Equally true are all tlc-e thin.'- when
applied morally and relic' ai-ly. lie that
sows not the seed- of morality and virtue,
which are calc .latch o root < ut, subdu, ,
aid overcome the dispositions and habits
of vice and wickedness, during the liar
vest time of life, will tie sure to h ive only
a harvest of the whirlwind of ruin to reap
in t e end.
What kind of n harvest can those
parents expect, who sow not the seeds of
; truth and virtue in the hearts of their
children? Is ihete tint too little interest
manifested in the early training of chil
dren? I- there any hope of that child or
young man. w' o spends Ids moments
luzying around town, or lounging about a
I grocery? Is there any hope of that young
woman, who lias Icon taught by her
mother, or who chose to squander her
time in useless preparations for the re
ception of some brainless coxcomb?
What harve-t ran pos-thly ensue upon
a sowing in life's great drama, when the
great end of man, is entirely ignored?
For what piippo eis life given? The wise
man tells us -‘the conclusion of the wholo
matter” is. to “fear God rim I kftp his
commandments.” Hut this is generally
the least and last thing thought of in all
our sowing. We will “sow to our fle-h,”
to our own lu-ts, to 011 present enjoy
ments, and never pcnil a thought upon
the final results. lb-member tlia-just ns
you sow, so shall you reap. If you sow
not the good seed now, in this thy life
time, you will r-ap a harve-t ol ruin in
the end.
The Death Struggle.
The death struggle of I'adicalism, is
indicated in ti e death throes of that
party in its adoption of communism, or
arraying labor against capital. In the
recent Kentucky election in Covington j
and Louisville, an alliance was formed of
radicals and commnni-ts, and eleete 1 live .
out of seven members of the legislature, j
which, -ays the ('ovriar Journal, is “a
victory of the mob over tne conservative ,
force of society.”
The fame doctrine of arraying labor j
against capital, lias been incorporated in ;
the radical platform of Ohio, ami .Judge ;
West, ti e ru iic-ul nominee fi 1 governor, !
is making speeches that are practicable i
bids for the communist vote. “And
yet.” says the Constitution, “the ropnb- i
liean party i- and always lias been the j
party of (ho millionare and the bond- 1
holder, tlm party that by reason of waste
and favoritism and sectionalism, lias made
the rich ri -her, and the poor poorer—tho
I arty that fosters and cultivates tlie rich
and affects contee pt for the poor and
unlearned. Ruined on every other issue, ,
it picks up communism. The twin frauds
should go together.”
This stt aw, taken together with Mr.
Hayes’ rotten and fraudulent Houtncrn
policy, eo called, shows the shipwreck of
the patty, and that it i- making these last
dying struggles to gather together the
fra: zied ends of human prejudices and
corruption to save itself, if possible, from
utter and irretrievable annihilation. It
does seem that there is nothing so mean,
-n low and detestable, hut there are those
that will stop to [day and revel in its
stench of corruption and putrifaetion.
Our friend of the Carters die A’.r/m
! solemnly declares himself a “clean sweep
I er” under anew constitution, and “wants ,
: to wipe out and begin de nuvo nil all State !
j matters;” and “wants to blot out forever
j everything concerned with the bastard
! Constitution of IS6S. and commence
where the true people of Georgia left off
I at the time Radicalism and the bayonet
! gagged popular sentiment and overturned
i popular government.’’
Our brother is so terribly in earnest on
1 this -ulijeet, that he lets fly at it a “cuss
; word.” Bearing this, ivo agree with him,
I and we are fully satisfied that it the Cou
• stitution now being made, is not to his
; notion as being up to the wants of tlie
] people, he will handle it without gloves.
! For of all journalists in the State, brother
Willingham stand- tho first, most faithful
| and safest sentinel upon the watehtower
of our great oouimonwealtn. Long may
■ he live to give the faithful warning, and
■ guide aright as in tlie past he has done,
| the ship of State,
Is it possible there is 110 money, no
I wheat, no meal, no meat, no flour, no
j butter, no chickens, no nothing, in ail
1 this country, that we can’t get anything
irom our sub-eti’oers? Ladies! in oui
extreme distress, we turn one long, linger
in': look of anxious solicitude to you, in
i behalf of our dues. And whoever ap
; pealed to a woman i,. time of distress,
at 1 i failed to receive it?
The Sabbath-
Walking about the streets the other
day, we came up to a party of gentlemen
discussing the question, whether the
seventh nrfir-tday of the week, was the
Sabbath ? They seemed to he unanimously
agre ;d that the seventh was the proper
‘Sabbath. Not being appeale 1 to for an
j opinion, we held our peace; hut now pro
ceed to show ur opinion, how and why
the first day of the week becomes the
Sabbath for us to observe
That the seventh day was originally set
apart and sanctified by tli • Almighty, to
he devoted as a day of rest, and observed,
as a day of religiou- devotion is not ques
tioned, and needs no argument to sustain
it. Hut because of tlie fact that on the
seventh day God finished all his works,
rested and hallowed it, the Jews observed
it in commemoration of the creation, and
as a day of religious service; and it was
so observed by all religions until the resur
rection of Christ Jesus from the dead.
Now since thut time Christians observe
the first day of the week, because they
think it lias been so changed by divine
sanction. By refun nee to the facts in the
; ea;wj f it w ill bo seen that Christ was cruci
fied on the day previous to the Passover
which was their Sabi ath. He lay in the
tomb the balance of that day, all the next
which was the Jewish Sabbath, until the
morning of the next day when tic arose
from tlie head.
Now mark! Matthew xxviii; 1, says:
j “In the end of the Sabbath, as it began
; to dawn toward the first day of the We ok,”
etc. Mark xvi; 1, 2, ss: “And when
the Sabbath was past, M iry Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of J unes, and
; Salome, had bought sweet spices, that
: they might come and anoint him. And
I very early in the mur ing, the fir-t day of
j the week, they came unto tho sepulchre
at the ri-ing *.f the -un.” “In the end
j of the Sabbath,” “when the Sabbath was
prist.’’ That is, at the end of the seventh
day, the Ji wish Sabbath, when it was
passed, and another day dawned upon
our world produc’ng another era, the fact,
1 anticipations and ultimate results pred
-1 icated upon the r isurreetinn of ur Lord.
Here it will he observed that a change is
wrought in the count of the day- of the
week. Our Sabbath is the Jewish Mon
day. and i- called the first day of the
week, and -in -e then all our count of time
•s reckoned by commencing with our Sab
hath asthe first day. it being the day in
which the Lord of Life and Glory con
quered death in hi- own dark dominions,
and in full glory and triumph nsc. Pence
tiie apostles, the immediate disciples and
and all Christians to the 1 rest lit keep the
first day of the week a the Sabbath of
the Lord.
Centralism.
If it he true, ar is charged in the papers,
that the Cabin't has under under consid
oration a recommendation to Congress to
compromise sti ikes, an ! to mod die gener
ally between employers and the employed;
and that the administrati m is laboring
heart and sou! with the radical party in
its centralization schemes, it would tin well
for the democratic party, as well all others
opposed to .1 centralized government, to
ho wide awake to all the strategic points
of that party now being taken to perpetu
ate its power.
To every observing min i there can he
no dou’ir. hut that the Southern policy of
the President, is only a feint sot forth,
whereby to capture the South and thereby
inveigle it within it- folds of centraliza
tion. Let all interested, beware of its
wiley attempts.
This word of caution may lie more ap
parent, when we are assured that, the
republican party of Ohio, have incorpo
rated in their platform, advocating the
establishment by Congress a grand national
bureau of industry, by means of which
the General Government can take the
unemployed millions of the land under its
protecting wing, and fin 1 them food an !
work: and also advocating the complete
regulation of the affairs of ti e different
trunk lines of railway by the national
Congress. Hence, lion. S. A. Hurlbut,
ex-member of Congress from Illinois, on
the subject of “The G-cnt Strike and its
Results ” says: “The Federal Govern
ment -hould take the immediate super
vision of our railways, o far as t' protect
them, promptly and i fleetually from vio
'■ knee, and ftnm coi.dieting legislation in
the several State-.
If this is nut tending to a centralized
government, then what is? No man can
misinterpret th-sc utterances, hut may
clearly read tjje future course the radical
party proposes to pursue. “It. intends,
in a word,” says the Savannah Aeitas,
i “to work to bring about the al olition of
; the republic and the establishment in its
stead, of.in itnj onal envernmm:*.” i’.e
--| n-.eu.ber tile dee VS ■ :’th i* p irly !
—; < ♦ •*— ——
It is -:ii i : Ji.it the United Suite- have
’ about seven hundred millions oi dollars
afloat. Weil, where it has flouted to we
| can’t toll; but there is one thing we can
j tell, and that i-, only a stray nickel, or a
: ragged shinpla-ter around this printing
! office. Gentle reader, if you owe us any
thing on subscription, and see anything
; in tlie shape of m nicy floating around
! where you circulate, lilea.se float it around
| this way.
“Both Eyes Shot Out.”
To the tot itor of the Gazette :
I .eo in your is-ue of the 9th that your
Walker county editor, Mr. Ilovis, states
that there is a rotten plank in Denmark
somewhere; that a Mr. Hutchinson of
Chattooga county, had botn eyes shot out
in the late war, and says it is a shame
that lie should be allowed to starve under
the circumstances that surround him.
He further states that the law provides
for such men, and that ho is making it
his business to inquire into the matter.
1 will just say, as one of the County
Board, for Mr. Ilovis’ benefit, that the
Board has had Mr. Hutchinson’s case
before them, a:.d have levied a tax for
his benefit, and as soon as the money can
he collected, he will receive what the law
allows him; also, we assured a good man
of his neighborhood that the money
would come as soon as the taxes were
collected, and I don’t believe that man
will allow him to starve; neither do I
tlii. k tiiut neighborhood would hliow any
such a thing.
So Mr. Ilovis tnay he relieved of any
further trouble in the matter; [and of
which he could have been relieved entire
ly, had lie applied at first, as a lawyer
should always do, to tlie proper source
for information, without parading such a
thing in the pu! lie prints, to tho detri
ment of tin: county.]
Aug. 11 tli. J. T. llknduix.
Wed!, Mr. Editor, whatsirt 0 a Con
stitution are they going to give us?”
Really we don’t know that we can describe
it better than by giving you old Ben
I’liiliips’ recipe for hi- pot of soup, as
taken fmu tlie Macon 7 degraph and
. Mensrnger, as follow-:
“\VI on old Ben Phillips made his fu
: mous pot of soup for this here settlement
at the grand picnic on tlie -Itli of July,
j lie said:
“The beauty of soup, boys, is that you
| can put everything into the pot, and it is
I bound to harmonize and conglomerate in
I one gland general effort: and ef it don’t,
i there is such a mix’er ef Havers, you
! can’t toil tlie difference.
“You .-eo here now, I begin with them
| twenty pound catfish, uni i piio in oil
them inguns, tutors, simlins, butter,
i snaps, milk, kercuuibcrs, coiiarJs, and
everything I knows to be good. A gal
jest brought a ba.ket of figs; and figs is
good, aim they? so I sru. cd them in.
Another brings a lot of hi led syrup candy,
and in that went. And alter that I sent
in a paper uf sugar, an ounce of cloves,
cinnamon, ai-piee, a box of mustard, ajar
ofpi.-klcs. a rof raisins, a . t. a
him! quarter of a lamb, a snappiu’ turtle
—anything 1 know to be good, l puts into
this yere soup. And here comes a gal
with a bucket of dried apples, and they ’ H
fi. How, for whatsoever l knows by experi
ence to be good, l combines in this yere
soup.
The Columbus /inquirer speaking of
the location of the Capitol, puts forth this
-care-crow:
“The people, tho tax payers, never
chose Atlanta for the capital. They havo
tlie light to say whether it shall re
main there. Certainly if it does, tho
State must ho prepared to spend millions
| of dollars in a very few years for public
! building.”
\V hy try to frighten the people with
this boogaboo*of “millions of dollars,”
against Alanta, more than against any
i other place? If tlie cipitol was carried
back to Milk-dg. vile, iu.w many tli msaud
dollars wonid have to ho expended to
have a decent liou.-e there? lias not
Atlanta guaranteed a large bonus should
she be selected as the permanent site for
the cap tul of the State? It makes no
difference where it is located, money will
' have to he expended to a gi eater or less
amount. Conveniences and everything
; else should ho ’akcli into the account in
| location; and 0 fur as we heard an ex
j pres ion of opinion of the people through -
j out this sect’on of country, the preference
! >o far is for Atlanta.
ibe 1 > eg) ap \ it <1 McwHrje.r says:
"i he struggle in the Virginia Demo
cratic convention ended naturally in tho
select ion of a compromise candidate.
Col. F. M. \\. Holliday, of Winches
ter, a gallant Colonel in the Confederate
service, in which he lost an arm; a lawyer
in excellent standing, a man ol Sue talents
and pure character, in the prime of vigor
ous manhood. We judge the convention
has been Crtunate in this conclusion, and
that it will harmonize the discords pro
voked in the fierce personal struggle be
tween Mabone and Daniels, and reconcile
a!i parties.”
Gen. James A. Walker, of Pulaski
county, a distinguished Confederate
officer, was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor.
Ihe most valuable train that cv.r
passed over the Pacific railroad, went
over it the other day, consisting of twenty
seven cars loaded with silks and teas from
China.
T lie late .'trike was no small affair. Be
sides the number cf human lives sacri
ficed, the loss of property of various kinds
| is said to amount to twenty-six millions,
; two hundred and fifty thousand dolLrs.