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THE GAZETTE SI'MMEUVII.I E, (IA. •I. A. HJSMENT, EDITOR A SI) PROPRIETOR. I’KICK OF HI lIHnUFTION. For 0110 yonr, WJ.75; For (I oioiillih, iI.OO l’u.v iiion(*ln*iMl van *•. A<lvi<riUiiiK rMIN urn milJiikliml to vmliid of Milh'|u|mt jim ji rfrculHtJug iihmllu.ii) In Uliorokee hoctlon of Georgia. lint iinato* unit t.*rniM glvun oil application* Voluntary commit n loaf loiim from the road ofh of thin paper arc always welcomed. Nowh of all kiiidH Ih preferred, especially county newa. If you wish to Improve* youraelf In writing, prac tice can aid you. “ Practice ntaken perfect.” CommiinicatioriM miiHt bo accompanied by the writer's name, or t hey cannot, bo published. THURSDAY MOKNJItd, AUGUST 10, '77. Special Notice. Ist every reader of the Gazettk in ChoUocga county, he prepared to settlo with u on or by-Aho firt week of our Su perior court next month. Money will liuvc to como or wc suffer. In this wo * He not. i lion. A. Ii- Stephens has heou on a visit to Cartcrsvillc, and Was the guest ol l*r. VV. 11. Felton. He has nr w gone to Catoosa Springs. He is reported as being in usual health. $549.99. This amount of money is not only wanted, hut actually nceded. for the good health and free respiration ol the (1a '/.KrrK. Over 500 subscribers owe us for a year’s subscription. Reaihrl look a your receipt, and if you are in arrears, please send us money for a sub- ‘ scription immediately , then we’ll have one good night's sleep, and you’ll feel aii the hotter and happier, because you will have como to our relief. Won’t you? *" 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.