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CIIA PM AN «& IN GURAM,
PROPRIETOBS.
Things arc beginning to liven up
in the Seventh. It is hard lor the
boys to decide which one ot them
shall tackle the Dr., and the one
who does it will have a hard task
ahead ot him.
Tuesday, Avgust 10,1880.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
Judge Lester’s speech, on calling
the Convention to order, was a fine
orte.
Col. Trammell’s remarks on be
coming the presiding officer of the
convention were in excellent taste.
Tiij: famished Irish are in sight of
good crops, and the famine Is almost
over.
General Daniel E. Sickles is
for Hancock. General Sickles lost a
leg at Gettysburg.
They are writing to Dr. Tanner to
“hold the fort,’’ and if hie stomach is
meant, he still holds. He completes
his fortieth day on Saturday at
noon.
Senator Wado Hampton is angling
in Virginia, and is said to be the most
skillful and successful fisherman that
has appearet^on the James River
for years. ”
Mrs. Jg,t A. Broyles, of Atlanta,
read the ‘Annual poem on last com.*
mcucement day at College Temple.
Mrs. Broyles is one ot the State’s
most taleuted daughters.
However correct Mr. Walsh’s
views on the two.thirds rule msy be
he should not assumu a bull-dozing
attitude nor let his speeches take on
a hull-dozing hue.
Tiie nominati) n of Lester was
greeted with louder and longer
applause than any other made before
the Convention. He was nominated
by ex-Senator,Norwood.
The Courier Journal says the ob
elisk recently brought to New York
is nr t objectionable of itself, but it
brings so many doubtful characters
with it.
Mr. Stephens is in Atlanta, where
he will spend a few days, and, after
the adjournment of the Convention,
address the people on the political is
sues of the day.
Col. Peterson Thweatt decided
not to he a candidate before the Con
vention for the office ot Comptroller
General, and so announced in a card
to the delegates yesterday morning.
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado,
California, Georgia, Indiana, Maine,
Nebraska, Vermont and West Vir
ginia hold elections before the general
one in November. Indiana is the
central State in this group.
The census office says that the total
population of the United States will
be a little over 49,000,000. The offi
cial count will be needed to determine
whether Ohio or Illinois is the third
State of the Union in population.
According to the recent census,
Savannah has a population, including
suburban towns, of 3*2,916; Valdosta
has a population ot 1,501; Brunswick
has a population of 2*892; Darien
has a p< pulalion of 1,544.
Generals Meade, Reynolds and
Hancock, three conspicuous officers
in the battle of Gettysburg, Gen.
Reynolds falling from a death-wound
on the second day, were all Pennsyl
vanians ami members of the Demo
cratic party. , , /,
"Mr. George Bancroft began fifty-
five years ago this month hiii "Histo
ry of the United States,** and in a few.
weeks he expects to cilebrate Us
completion at his Newport summer
home. He will lie eighty years old if
he lives uotil the fid of next October.
We agree with Mr. Walsh in his
position on the two. thirds rule, and
with Messrs Young and Jemisoo, and
the majority ol the Convention, as to
the propriety of permitting future
conventions to be guided in the mat
ter w holly by their own judgment.
Tho wheat crop in Wisconsin is
estimated at 15,000,000 bushels, which
is below last year’s yield. The yield
in Iowa will b« twenty per cent higher
than last year, and that of Minnesota
is put at 44,000,000 bushels. Reports
from Dakota say there never was such
• a crop t' ere.
But if the Hon. Clifford Anderson
ami tho lion. Augustus Bacon are
both going to be candidates for the
United Blaus Senate, what will Ma
con and the Macon Telegraph do |
about it ?' Hadn’t the brethren down
there better concentrate - pool tlieir
issues, as it were?
Mrs. Woodhousb, nee King, of
- Georgia, w ho was recently married to
the Marquis of Anglesey, received, as
a bridal gift from her husband, a
necklace of diamonds containing tliir-
t y-five slones. It was originally owned
by the ex Queen Isabella, of 8pain,
and Is valued at nuout $20,000.
Hon. A. II. Cox, of La Grange, is
making a v'gorous canvass for the
nominniioti to Congress in the Fourth
district, and has a lair prospect of re
aching it. He is a man of lemarka-
bio intellect, and it la only a question
of time ns to when ha will rise to the
honors to which he aspires,- and
higher.
Returns from forty-seven connties
of Georgia show a population of 38*,-
166 as against 288,148 in 1870—an
increase of over 30 per cent I» tho
remaining connties do as well, Geor
gia will show over ten percent great
er increase than the great State ,of
Pennsylvania, and thua pqt-to rest
the statement rnnde sometime since
that immigration was buildtfg ap all
the Northern States, but that tho
South showed little or no increase.
The death of Tom Taylor vacates
the editorship of Punch, which is one
of the .greatest prizes of journalism.
Fifteen hundred pounds a year is very
good pay for editing a small weekly
paper which dejiends more upon its
artistic than its literary merits.
The name of Judge Martin J.
Crawford is thought of in some quar
ters as the possible dark horse in the
gubernatorial race. We do not think
it at all probable, though, tlrt the
judge would allow the use of his name
in that connection.
The negroes held an indignation
meeting in Atlanta over the Clayton
couuty horror. They declared that
in the counties of Elbert, Wilkes,
Oglethorpe, Madison and Washington
slavery exists at present to the same
extent that- it did before the war.
The gubernatorial nominating con
vention nieets in Atlanta this morn
ing* Delegates aud visitors have
been pouring into the city' since Mon
day, and the occasion will be alto
gether about the liveliest and most
interesting that has transpired iu the
State for sometime. We do not look
though for the prolonged or healed
contest anticipated by many. We
may miss it, but wo think Governor
Colquitt will be nominated very soon
after the convention is organized.
Mr. Walsh indulged in some pretty
rhetorie in his speech on becoming
tomporaiy chairman of ihe Conven
tion. The eagles ol Rome were flash
ed in tho dazzled sight of the multi
tude, their ears were deafened with
the drum-beat of tlie Roman legions,
and that same old Roman who was
so proud of his citizenship was press
ed iuto service once more.
Allah be praised for the gift of
Greece and Rome—especially Rome.
Politics should ne ver enter into the
administration of justice ; about that
we are all agreed, in theory at least.
But if the ruffians who murdered
the negro girl, Millie Johnson, at
Jonesboro, Ga., are arrested to the
last man by Georgia constables, con
victed by Georgia jurymen, sentenced
by a Georgia jud^e, and hanged by a
Georgia sheriff, it will go far to off-el
the scandalous miscarriage of justice
in the case of the Yazoo murderers in
Mississippi.—JVcic York Sun.
t tys the Telegraph, ‘6s the will of the
people on the senatorial succession.
11 Gov. Brown’s friends are in the
majority he should be re-elected. If
not, suite other man will be chosen.
Is is only a difference of opinion be
tween brother Democrats, which, as
suggested in a recent editorial in this
paper, can easily be settled by run
ning one ticket only for the legisla
ture and merely indorsing upon the
back of each ballot “Brown,” or
“antisBrown.” If the ex-Governor
gets a majority of the votes in any giv
en county, then let the member to the
legislature electf whatever may ba his
[lersonal proclivities, consider himself
instructed to vote for our present able
Senator and vice versa. By adopting
this plan there need be noantagonisms
in the coming elections, as there is no
other issue that can call for a divis
ion.” We join the Telegraph in
hoping that the subject will receive
the calm consideration and action of
the legislative nominating conven
tions.
WHAT IS A LIBERAL EDUCATION f
In ail address recently delivered
by President Eliot, of Harvard, be
fore SmitlfCollege at ^Northampton,
he said: "I may as well abruptly
avow as the result of my reading and
observation ta the matter of educa
tion, that I recognize but one men
tal acquisition as nu essential part of
tho education of a lady or a gentle
man, namely, an accurate and refined
use of the mother tongue. Greek,
l<ntin, Fieneli, German, matheinat
ics, natural and physical science,
metaphysics, history and aesthetics
are all profitable and delightful, both
as training and acquisitions, to him
who studies them with intelligence
and love; but not one of them has
the least claim to be called an acquisi
tion essential to a liberal education,
or an essential part of a sound train
ing. A thorough knowledge of one
or two of them obtained in college,
added to a very elementary know
ledge of several of them obtained in
i school, makes a richer, stronger and
| more fruitful mind than a superficial
acquaintance with each and all of
them. The fruit of liberal education
is not learning, but the capacity and
desire to learn—not knowledge, but
power.”
THE WAT TO SETTLE IT.
We are glad to note that Mr. Ste
phens coincides with the Banner in
the belief that a failure to nominate
a Gubernatorial candidate need by no
means cause .
“If they cannot make a nomina
tion,” he sava, “by the rule they have
adopted, let them nominate the Slate
House officers and a strong
ticket, pass a suitable resolution sub
mitting the question about who shall
be onr next Governor to the people
and let them pass on it without dis
turbing the party harmony.”
Yes, let them take that course, and
our word for it, the people will settle
the matter speedily, defini'ely and
harmoniously
In spite of sense and taste we fear
the desp'cable word “educator’’ will
largely take the place of “teacher.’’
There are already a host of pedagogic
peacocks who resent beiog called
“teachers” but who strut and preen
and plume themselves immensely as
“educators.” Pah 1
A pamphlet is tor sale written by
General Garfield for circulation in
to# circulation in
3, defending hiaw*'-
3 uIpte~of ft
his district in
self against! the moul
Ames in the Credit Mdbilier —.
It is probably the best and the ouly
defense that General Garfield cap or
will make. It stands against the
The Constitution makes Mr. Ste
phens speak of the triangular contest
in the convention ol ’57 between,
“Lumpkin, Laiuar and Gordon.”
The last name—“Gordon”—is of
TWO-THIRDS RULF.
AN HTEKVIEW WITH JTK STEPHENS.
4 disruption of the party. ™ urS<S duC , t0 . a . m5aU ^ of U ‘ e **
porter or the-printer, for it is well
known to all that it was Col.; James
Gardner who was so prominent a can-
electoral WjgM" contest.
IVe concur with Mr. Stephens’
views on the two-thi.-ds rule, but we
think he is in error as to its not hav
ing beeu adopted in the convention ot
*57, because it is distinctly within our
recollection tliat Col. Gardner him.
self, in talking once with the writer
on this rale* said that though it pre
vented him from receiving the nomi
nation for Governor, he *GU believed
in and adhered to it as Democratic
doctrine. Col. Gardner was tho lead
ing Candida' e in that convention, but
as neither he nor either of his com
petitors got two-thirds of the votes, a
dark horse was brought in in the per
son of Joseph E. Brown, who received
votes enough frcun the supporters of
each of the other candidates to give
him the requisite Dumber, and be was
la Which He Gives His Views On the Policy
M the Convention, and a History r
• of the Two-Thirds Bole. f
#-
nominated and
THE CONVENTION.
tion, who believed Mr. Ames aud re
fused to believe General Garfietd,
both gentlemen having been first
sworn to tell the truth.
toned of twenty-two
States and oneTerritory are at hand.
Some of the figures are official; others
based
finding of the committee ol investiga- are b “ ed “P° n nearl y complete
returns, and are sufficiently proximate
for purposes of calculation. They
are ns follows:
1880.
Arkansas 7So,000
A gentleman of the civil service
in British Burmah recently applied
for leave on urgent private a flails, and
the government granted the leave on
his explaining that he wi-hed to
marry. On the expiration of his
leave, he returned, still unmarried,
and the secretary wrote, asking for an
explanation of such conduct on the
part of the gentleman. The reply
was as follows: “I have the honor to
inform you, in answer to your No. B.
*23 of the 21st of April last, that on
taking leave, I fully Intended to
marry, but, on my arrival in England,
I found the lady in question enter
tained frivolous objections to my pel-
sopal appearance. I Jiave the honor
to be, sir, your obedient servant.
Every published writing from the
pen of Gcneral.ilanc<>ck.tiial we have
seen is worthy ■ of preservation for
frequent perusal by all who' would
learn to comprehend.and appreciate
the great principles of civil liberty.
His style as a writer, too, is worthy
of study and iipitaliou. It is wholly
free from the empty turgidity tliat is
too apt to captivute the youthlul or su
perficial mind, aud from that
diffuseness which is to be com
mended at no lime, and wliich
none but the most uncommon genius
can prevent from being wearisome at
all times. Iu bis recent letter to the
editor of the New York World, the
Hon. Jeremiah Black, himself a
model writer of English, says:
“I could not have written Hancock’s
No. 40— not because I pretend to lie
dumb or altogether unskilled in the
use ot English words, but because if I
had undertaken to write it the chances
are .ninety-nine in a hundred that my
argumentation would have marred its
majestic simplicity and greatly dimin
ished its power.”
A higher compliment from an abler
critic could lie paid to nu nntn.
to
HOW
TO SOLVE TIIE QUESTION
“ BROWN OR* ANTI-BROWN."
Ever since the apjiolnt menl of Ex
Governor Brown to the United
States Senate it lias liecn apparent
tliat the elcctbm of candidates tor the
next legislature would hinge upon
tlieir position on Governor Brown’s
candidacy for the Senate. The qaeS'
tion of “ Brown or nnli«Brown,’’ will
lie a controUng one in the choice of
members of the legislature before
which Governor Brown will be a can
didate. Already it ha-caused trouble
in democratic county conventions for
the nomination of candidates for tho
legislature. In Early county the con
vention mat on the 17th of July, and
after many undecisive bnllotings tin ter
the two- tnird- rule, adjourned with
out a nomination. The issue of
“Brown or anti-Brown’’ was road
and a dead-lock was the result. Com-
raeuiiug upon this tho Macon Tel«\
graph makes the following r-marks,
which we think poitit out the wav in
which the question should be decided,
and wo therefore reproduce them
At this writing—5 p. m., Saturday
evening—we have no intelligence
from Atlanta pointing to a change
from our last published report of the
status of the Convention, unless, in
deed, we are to accept the detailed
report ot Friday’s proceedings in the
Constitution as indicating a spirit of
more determined resistance on both
sides. This we think is shown by
some of the speeches ""made during
Friday’s session. They indicate the
springing np of a bitterness that we
had greatly hoped would not be en
gendered, and for which there is -no
necessity. and which cannot
but result hurlfully to the party.
We like to see gentlemen have pur
poses and adhere to them with be-
roming spirit, but there is neither
good taste- nor policy ill making such
unnecessarily and offensively emphatic
expres.«ion of them ns some of Govern
or Colquitt’s spokesmen in the Con
vention 'seem disposed io do. They
will very soon find this out, if they
have not all eady done so. The two-
thirds rule was adopted on their own
motion and it shows an exceeding-
bad tempci on their part
grow angrv, threatening and
denunciatory if they are made to
abide by it It is to this samo two-
thiids rule that Gov. Colquitt’s
special friend, Senator Brown,. i
debted for his first nomination for
the office that Gov. Colquitt is now
striving to retain, and those mem
bers of the Convention who espouse
Governor Colquitt because of his ap
pointment ofex-Govcrnor Brown to
the Senate should remember this
fact before they too strongly depre
cate the adoption of the rule.
Without it the country had
never bo-n .blessed by the
peerless (?) statesmanship of
Joseph E. Brown—a statesmanship
that plunged us into all tho dismal
horrors of the last nineteen years.
But we do not apprehend a disrup
tion of the party or inj ury to the State
by any action of this Convention,
whether it nominates or fails to nom
inate. The party and the State are
rafe in tiie hands of the intelligent and
patriotic people of Georgia, and the
leclamatory statesmen of the Conven
tion may spare themselves any super
fluous fears on that soore. -If tiie
walls of the Capitol were to fall upon
and crush out of existence all the hon
orable and able members of the
Convention, with the immortal trio,
CnlquiU, Gordon and Brown thrown
in, the State would still survive and
flourish
There is yet another Uuited
States in the Western Hemisphere.
It is the Uuited States of Peru aid
Bolivia, ami it is a brand new ar
rangement. It is number three.
Number two is the United States of
Columbia formed in 1861 out of the
territory before known as New Gre
nada, and comprising nine States.
An American citizen traveling abroad
will now have to tell wliich United
States he hails from if he desires to
designate his nationality with any cer
tainty. A lawyer once demurred to
the sufficiency of an indictment of
his client, a moonshiner hauled up for
a breach of the internal revenue laws,
on the ground that it was uncertain
in not stating which United States it
was that the offense was alleged to
have bet ii committed against.
California SOOiOOO
Delaware 145,000
Illinois 8,100,000
Kansas 928,561
Kentucky 1,784,881
Louisiana... 9S0,0f0
Michigan 1,6*0,000.
Minnesota 780,072
Missouri 2,400,000
Nebraska 484,000
New Jersey 1,100,000
New York 5,080,000
Ohio 8,200,000
Oregon 175,585
Pennsylvania 4,226,099
Rhode Island 276,710
Texas 1,600,000
Virginia . 1,600,010
Wisconsin l,8CO,OoO
Utah 1,44,000
1870.
481,471
660,247
125,015
2,539,891
364 899
1,821,011
726,9*5
1,184,059
489,706
1,721,295
122,015
906,096
4,882,759
2,665,260
90,928
8,.521.951
217,858
808,579
1,225.168
1,054,670
86.786
REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS.
We get the following figures and
estimates from the Columbus En
quirer :
There is at present a member ofthe
Lower House of Congress to every
131,425 inhabitants Uuder this ratio
there are now 293 members. Sine?
tbe formation of the government tt
number to constitute a congressiot
district has been increased every tv
years. Under tho present proper-
tiomnent and the census returns there
would be 400 Congressmen. The hall
is not sufficient for their accommoda
tion, and the body would be very
unwieldy'. With a basis of 160,090 jl
is estimated tiie membership will re
main as now, but acme of the States
will lose while others gain.. All the
States have increased in population
during the past ten years, but some
far greater than others. The South
does not exhibit the advance of the
great west, leaving out Texas. Tliat
commonwealth is report* d as having
added a million to her inhabitants in
ten year*. The eastern 3tates have
made little progress, while
New York, Missouri, Kansas and
others lisve made immense
strides forward. It is pfetty
certain nnder the new appointment
some of tho New England as well as
tbe southern States will lese delega
tions. Probably the gain , in Texas
and Missouri will counterlmlnnce the
olsses elsewhere in the ex-Confeder*
cy. We believe that Georgia will be
able to hold her own, but the squeeze
will be close it tho 160,000 basis be
established. If the 170,000 be adopt
ed our representation will be cut off
one member most probably.
The basis is ascertained by divi
ding the number of seat, in the ball
of the House into the torn! popula
tion, and making the quotient a con
gressional district which the States
respectively arrange as pleases the
legislatures. This will not be done
before 1883, ju the last proportion
was fixed a|fi874. Wo haveseen the
total population put at fiftyStDCi $»*>]!
ion, bat nothing official is lcnown.
Total.... 2.1.195,404 25,870,888
An analysis of the above figures,
says the New Orleans Democrat,
shows some interesting and surprising
facts. All the Western States but
four are included in the table, notably
those which have shown tbe largest
proportionate increase—Minnesota,
Nebraska and Kansas. A more fa
vorable basis to the North for com
parison could not, therefore, be se
lected. What do these figures show ?
That the North is doubling up in
population while the South remains
stationary ? Not at all. On tbe con
trary, it is found that the South is
gaining population even more rapidly
than the boastful West. The fourteen
Northern aud Western States from
which returns have been received,
■»w an aggregate increase of 4,510,-
or an average gain of 23.92 per
_-m: It will surprise many, to learn
that this increase of percentage is
nearly doubled in that portion of the
South from which we have Returns
The seven Southern States named
have a total population of 9,169,331,
an aggregate gain of 2,756,882, show
ing an average increase of nearly .43
per cent., or, to be more exact, 42.99.
The aggregate increase in the twenty*
two States and Utah is 7,325,021, or
an average gain of nearly 29 per cent.
If this rate is maintained in the por
tion of the country from which uo re
turns have yet been received, the full
census will show a population of 51,-
485,000, being an increase of 12,985,-
000 daring the decade.
Walsh and Livingston are the
champion bull-dozers (would-be) of
the convention up to data Walsh
tried it on the whole minority and
failed, and Livingston thought he
would try it on the Fu'ton delegation
alone. lie tried it—and th it went to
jfiin Walsh. The bulldozing plan
won’t do on Georgia Democrats, mes
sieurs.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in
its list of congressional nominations
that have been made in the Southern
Slates, puts down Win. C. Oates
.the i otiiinee in tiie third district ef
Georgia. This will lie news to ■ the
voters of that diatriet, very few of
whom know who W. (1 Oates is. He
is the nominee In the Montgomery
district in Alabama. Our big con
HR. STEPHENS ON THE TWO-THIRDS
' RULE.
GEN. HANCOCK'S MASTIFF.
By no means the least distinguish
ed resident of Governor’s Island is the
General’s big dog, “Turk,” a cross
between a Russian bloodhound and a
mastiff. He is described as having a
dark brown body with black stripes,
short hair, a black muzzle, and a sup
ercilious eye. He thinks he can whip
any! ody on the island, and passes peo
ple indifferently, without condescend
ing to took at them. He is not vici
ous, but is rarely caressed. He does
not care tor half way salutations, and
if his feeders and other intimates at
tempt familiarities they must admin
ister vigorous slaps to win his satisfac
tion. He enjoys a scratch on his
track, but finds the robbing of a rough
stick much preferable to his toil at
these personal comforts, but in no
case does he lower bis dignity by faw
ning or paralleling. He lays great
stress on deportment. Being only
three years uld, Turk has no history.
He was given to Gen. Hancock two
years ago. by Gtn. Wm, F. Smith.
) ALBERT OOX ABROAD
Hon. A. H. Cox closed his Colum
bus speech as follows:
It yoa see fit to send me to C«n-
giess, I will go to the best otmy abil
ity. [Cheers.] I believe I would like
to go. [Renewed cheers.] In fact I
know I"want to go. [Loud cheers.] I
[From tbs Constitution of Sunday.] f
Yesterday we called to see Hon.
A. H. Stephens anir talked with him
about the present dead-lock in the
convention. We were gratified that
he was willing to give his views on the
subject; but all*who know him will ad
mit that he is ever ready to give
bis opinions to the people of his State
on any question where it will be of
service to them. Mr. Stephens says
that if [his convention breaks np in a
row it will be a great calamity; that
it will not only- be- injurious to our
State politics, but that it would injure
the prospects of the democratic candi
date for President “I am hopeful,?’
says Mr. Stephens, “that we will carry
New York, Connecticut, Indiana, and
New Jersey, and have a good chance
to carry Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wis
consin and Colorado. I have re
ceived a letter since I have been in At
lanta from Judge W. M. Reese, ot
Wilkes, who is now iu Colorado, that
gives me great hope tliat the Demo
crats will carry that State. Now,
says he, “if the State ot Georgia
breaks up the convention in a row,
and We have two factions hero in (he
empire State of the South, any one
can see how it will be used against us.
The Republicans will use it with great
effect in these doubtful states, and on
t he floating vote. It will be nsed to
our disadvantage!a Virginia, where
we now have a prospect to heal the
split in the party in that State.
Mr. Stephens, without criticising
the measure, expressed the opinion
tliat a great mi-take had been made
in adopting the two-thirds rule He
held that the majority rule was the
Democratic principle, and should al
ways be adhered to. Jefferson said
‘‘the voice of the majority is the law
of every assembly, unless restrained
by constitutional provisions.’’ He
says that the two-thirds rule had
never been used in Stole conventions,
certainly not in any that had come
within his observation. His recoin
lection is that the convention
that nominated Governor J
E. Brown never had the two-thirds
rule. (We refer to the convention
of 1857.) There was a triangular
cpntest in that convention, he .says,
between Lumpkin, Lamar and Gard
ner, and neither candidate originally
before it could hnve received a ma
jority of the votes, and it resulted it
the selection of an outsider.
“I consider the two-thirds rule,’
lie remarked, “fatal to any party
that adopts and continues it. It
broke up the Democratic party at
Charleston in I860, and it will break
up any party that will continue its
use. 1
When asked whether tho conven
tion onght to rescind its present rule
and go back to the majority, he said,
“The mistake was in adopting the
rule. I do not know about the meth
od of getting rid of it. It should
never have been adopted. But,’’ he
said, “it they cannot make a nomina
tion by the rule they have adopted,
let them nominate tiie slate-house of
ficers and a strong electoral ticket,
pass a suitable resolution submitting
the question about who shall be our
next Governor to the podple, and
let them pass on the questions with
out disturbing the party harraonv.
I was not tor Governor Colquitt in
his first race. I was for Herschet V.
Johnson, and I was not for him this
time. But he has gone into the fight
and hi- opponents have gone in. The
campaign has been fought and he
comes into the convention with a de
cided majority. My rule has always
been when fairly beaten hy a ma
jority to submit gracefully and try it
again. When I was a bry and played
‘knucks’ and when the other side
won the game, I always put my
knucks down and took the wbsclc.
That’s the way to do, and trusted to
better luck next time.
A delegate from Macon county, Mr.
Ingram, then asked Mr. Stephens if he
was a member what he would do.
Mr. Stephens said he did not wish to
give any advice.
The delegate then said: “If a new
man was cffeied on win m all could
harmonize, would it not be the duty Of
all jo take him ? r
“Certainly it would,’’ Mr' Stephens
replied: ‘nartnony is essential above
all things. But as a Democrat, be
lieving in the majority rule, I should
look for harmony by,<po»operating wiih
a majority. I was an earnest sup
porter ot Mr. Douglas. When lie and
Mr Buchanan and Mr. Pierce were
before the Cincinnati convention in
1856, when it was ascertained that Mr
Buchanan had a.small majority of the
convention, I advised Mr. Douglas! at
once to telegraph Richardson to with
draw his (Douglas’s) name, and to
request his friends to all go for Buch-
This was done .and thereby
A MARRIAGE FOR MONEY.
In New York oily a princely man
sion was offered tor sale a few years
ago about which hong a sad story.
A man of enormous wealth lived to
the ago of sixty without marrying;
then lie proposed to a beatuilnl, bril
liant young girl, who belonged to a
large but poor family.
She hesitated long before' accept
ing him; his habits, morals and per
son were all obnoxious to her, for
she was a girl of pure, refined tastes.
But to be the wife of a millionaire,
to go to Europe, to reign like a
queen in the city where she had
lived on the income of a servant—
these were temptations too strong for
her, as they are for too many Ameri
can women*
. _ She married him without a parti-
Heard county has gone for Cox. c | e of love, or even respect. She
The total value of alt property in sold herself as absolutely for money
Greene county is $2,092,354. as ever slave was sold. Her husband
could not be constituted without em
bracing a majority ot thu Stntes.
“Tins complex character ot the fed
eral government docs not apply to
the Slates, to cities, counties, or mu
nicipalities. In the latter the major-
principle prevails. Cot
jl are owned by major
andrin some instances by
cities, as welPas the
iy be mistaken,” said Mr.!
ut I do 'opt thinjp that t
thirds rule “ever was adopi
Gubernatorial nomination in Georgia
before the present convention adopted
it. It was never adopted, as far as 1
know, in tbe nomination of Senators
to Congress in this nor any other
State.”
S! ATE-SEWS.
We publish elsewhere the report
of an interview with Mr. Stephens in j have heard that the salary is ample.
the Atlanta Constitution of Sunday,
on the stains of the gubernatorial con
vention, in which that eminent states
man gives his views as to the ; olicy
that should have been adopted by
that body, and the course that, should
now be taken by it. He also express
es himself fully and frankly on the
two-tbirds role, and gives the history
ofthe origiu of that rule and the rea
son of its adoption in federal conven
tions, stating at the same time
that that reason docs not apply in
State and other conventions, in wliich
Mr. Stephens does not think the role
should prevail. Indeed he does not
“What is sought to ho accomplished,” temporary should be more accurate.
conventions, the reason that caused
its adeplion no longer existing. The
interview is a very interesting and
timely one—donbly so, coming from
one so imimateiy acquainted with the
history of parties and party methods,
of such unquestioned patriotism, and
speaking from so wholly unselfish a
stand-point
and as I have but a small family, won’t
insist on its increase. [Cheers ] As I
am fond of vindication, I want to vin
dicate myself. It has been hurled at
me like a thnnderbo't that I am too
young. In answer to this I say first,
1 can’t help it, and it is not my fault.
Second, lam trying to grow old : r
every day. Third, I am succeeding.
Fourth, I am afraid I will grow much
older than I am before I get tp Con
gress. [Prolonged ahplaiue] — Col-
wmhui Timet.
Miss Maggie Dolvin died in Greene
county the 31st ult.
Col W H Wood?, died in Floyd
the 3d hist.
Mr Tiios M Campbell died in Gor
don connty recently.
Judge Nathan Land died ii. Bar
tow county recently, aged 78.
Mrs Elbe E Carver died in Dawson
the 29th ult* aged 18.
Miss Mary R Bell died in Dawson
recently, aged.21. • ...
Mr G W J DeRenne, of Savannah,
died in Philadelphia a few days ago.
Wells are going dry in the vicinity
of Washington.
Typhoid fever is reported in Talia
ferro county.
Mrs Winnie Dodd, of Forsyth coun
ty, died recently, aged about 70.
Miss Mattie Liptord, of Macon,
died the 3d inst.
Mr. John Carlisle, of LaGrange, is
going to live in Lalayette, Alabama.
O V Lamar »a< married to Miss
Sallie Walker in Ameficus recently.
Mi Solomon Page died in Le
county recently.
Mr John Almond, an old citizen of
Elbert, died recently.
The dwelling of Mr Bennett Stro-
zer, near While Plains, was burned
recently.
Mr Madison Dancer died at his
home in Wynntori, near Columbus,
the 14th inst., aged 68.
The Merriwether Chalybeate
Springs have a large number of
visitors.
The value of the taxable property
of Marion county is returned at $859-
588, against $812,869 in 1879.
In Lawrenceville recently Mr John
E Austin was married to Mrs Nancy
A Terry.
J F Nutting, of Marietta, broke his
leg by a fall from the roof of his
house.
In Savannah, the 3d inst, Jno J
Reilly was married to Miss Mary Aon
Connor.
Mr. Henry McLendon has moved
from Americus to Tallratton, where
he will do a hardware business.
The Rev Mr Corley, ot Savannah,
has recently lost two children—a son
and a daughter—by diptheria. >
In Dooly county, Dr S B Stovall
was nominated for the Senate and
Isaiah Williams for the House.
In Forsyth county recently Ervin
-Johnson was married to Miss Malta-
da Padgett-, and Marcus L Thacker to
Miss Martha Satterfield.
Parts of Wilkes county are very
dry. Some farmers have 50 acres in
corn and say they will not yield 50
peeks.
The surviving members of Cults’s
Battalion are making arrangements
for an encampment at Americus in
October.
Win J Burton, of Columbus, who
is shot a short time since, by
Charles D Willis, in self-defence, has
since died from the wound.
paid for his purchase. Before mar
riage he built a magnificent dwelling;
architecture, sculpture,painting, gave
of their best, to make it fit for the
home of a royal lady; there was a
Chinese room, a Persian room, a Hin
doo room; there were conservatories,
picture galleries and dainty boudoirs.
The plan was that the bride should
spend one winter in this regal home,
and in the spring to go to Europe for
a 'visit of two years.
Two weeks after the wedding the
bridegroom was stricken with par
alysis, and for fifteen years lay a
helpless, querulous invalid, uursed
by his wife. The mansion was closed
excepting the sick man’s apartments,
and resembled a gigantic tomb.
By the terms ot bis will his wife
would inherit nothing if she deserted
him. She remained faithful, therefore,
only to find, after his death, that his
estate was as hollow a sham as her
marriage, and that it had been swal
lowed up in his debts
Not all marriages, for money end as
dramatically as this, but they arc as
tragic in reality. The young girl who
sells her life for a price inevitably
reaps disappointment and misery.
Old Pokebnry, Blood Sucker,
Grand Turk, Scud, Old Hat, and
Squedunk are names ot mines in
Arizona.
Mr Charles C Parrott has gone
from Cartersville to Atlanta to prac
tice law.
C LARK SHERIFF SALE.—Will be aaUl
before the court house door in tbe city of
Athens. Clark countr, Ga., within the legal
hoars of sale on the first Tuesday lin Septem
ber nfrxt, the following property to-wit:
Six acres of land lying and being in the city
of Athens, Clark county, Ga., bounded as fol
lows : North 7 chains, 50 links by fence en
closing pasture on Reese's branch, propeity of
defendant; east 8 chains by Barber street in
said city of Athens, Ga., south 7 ohains, 50
links by property of defendant; and west 8
chains by property ef defendant. Said tract
of land containing siv (6) acres, more or leas;
jmd levied on as the property of 8. D. Mitchell
trustee, defendant, to satisfy two tax fi. fas.
one issued by H. H. Linten, Tax Collector,
Claik connty. and one by W A. Gilleland,
Clerk of Council city of Athens, for taxes ou
said property for 1879. J A. Browning,
AufjlO—-4t Sheriff Clark county.
C LARK SHERIFF 8ALE.—Will be sold be
fore the court house door iu tho city of Ath
ens, Clark county, Ga , wi»h»n the leiral hours
of sale on the first Tuesday in September next,
the following property to wit:
One seventh interesta’in fifty acres of land,
situate, lying and being in ('lark connty, Ga..
on thc south-west Side of middle Oconee river,
adjoiniug lands of David Gann and others.
Said land known as the old William Gann tract.
Said seventh interest sold to satisfy a fi fa.
from Oconee Coanty Court, August Term, 1876,
William Webb vs. William Murray, all to sat
isfy the above stated fi. fa.
J. A. Browning,
AuglO—4t Sheriff Clark couuty.
UNIVERSITYo GEORGIA
P. H. MELL, D. D., LL. D.. Chancellor
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
T IIE 80th session of the department at Ath
ens, via: Frankli n College; State College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and Law
School will open on Wednesday, 6th October
next. Fall courses of instruction in Literature,
Science, Agriculture, Engineering and Law.
For catalog nes and information apply to the
Chancellor, or to
L. II. CHARBONNIER,
AnglO—4t Sec. Faculty, Atheus, Ga.
DRS A.F.&W.M DURHAM
SPECIALISTS,
SCRUBBY, Cliaoxic DISEASES OF MALE AXD
Fatale, ami Veaereal. Will ritit patie.U ia mi*
part of the State.
Office: corner Clayton and Lumpkin Street*,
then*. Ga. may27.d&w3m.
INTELLIGENT PONIES.
Mr. R. H. Becker, the re-taurateur,
of New Brunswick, N. J., has two
beautiful white ponies that prefer
m _ lager bcer to water. Alter ^having
think ii should now prevail in feUcraT returned from a drive behind hi-
pets, Mi. Becker always goes into his
saloon and brings out a class of beer
lor each. When it is placed before
them they sniff it- and then throw
tlieir heads back and a-taw it to lie
poured iuto their mouths. Mr. deck
er has several^^times offered them wa
ter on returning, but they have always
tnrned their brads away and looked
toward the door of the saloon, as if
expecting to see the beer coming..
Buchanan got the twosthirds which he
was entitled to, and was nominated. I
knew that the two-thirds rule would
in effeot prevent the selection of either
of the three prominent men before
them.
* f I am in favor,” continued Mr. Ste
phens, “ of ihe Democratic
that the will ofthe majority, sfiould be
resjiected and con-turfed in. When
beloug to an organization, and go into
a convention with a view to the nom
ination of cai didates, on any line of
principles or series of measures, I look
to harmony mainly by seeliringa mat
In relation to the two-thirds rule,”
Mr. Stephens said, f* I will add this:
that the reason which caused iti adop
tion in federal conventions does not
apply in States. The federal govern
ment knot one ot majority. It is
complex in its character as well aa in
its organization. Tbe little State of
Delaware, with less than two hundred
thou-auds inhabitants, has as lunch
power in the Senate, and in the pasas
age of ail laws in that body, as the
State ot New York, with tipwaids of
five million tahaDttanla. Tbe federal
colleges are also complex in . tlieir or-
snniz-tion, and if these college* tail to
give a majority of their aggregated
votes to any candidate for President
the election, by the constitution, then
goes into the - house of represent a> ives,
when the choice is to he made'by the
States* each State having an equal
vote, and where Delaware wonld have
an equal voioe with New York. Now
the object ef the two-thirds rule wa*
in effect to provide tliat no one should
be chosen as a candidate \ J
receive a support of a majority of t
States. For at the time ofthe adop
tion of this rule, aa I understand it,
twosthirds of a full federal conventjoq
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