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®{;e Sslcclib^attncr. 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. 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