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% ‘ OtfBMteBantr. SI 0 las a ( CHAPMAN A INGHRAM, PROPRIETORS. Tuesday, September 7,1880. Tent ion. Be did not get it, and when he offered himself to the people candidate, he broke his pledged word. [Applause.] The recommendation of a majority did not nominate; nothing but two* thirds ceuld do so; and this fact was acknowledged by the convention in the nomination of Slate |oificera. By every dictate of honor, by that sen timent which fbrbids one man to look another in the face after he has brok- cn a pledge, Colquitt could not have come before the people. [Applause.] The people must see to it that the chnir which holds the governor of Georgia be not filled by a man who pledged his word and broke it. [Ap* phrase.] The campaign seems to have been conducted on the supposition that Colquitt should be governor unless we could show cause why he should not. Where did Alfred Colquitt get the right to serve upon the people a rule nisi t It is the other way. He is called upon by tho proprieties of official station to say that having served out the four years allotted him ty. Alternate—JoMptmi Cemp. ot EnuaaeL l,the Constitution and which by a B«ooe District—Wn». Jl. Huntnood, of I .(.(.iinicalitv he escssosAdie should Thome*. AUenute-Wio. Hernson, of Quit. | lecnn, 1 C 7.‘f. ff. von president op the united states, w. s. HANCOCK, OP PENNSYLVANIA. J (FOR VICK PRESIDENT, W. H. ENGLISH, OP INDIANA. YOB TUB MATS A» LASSE J. C. O. BLACK end K. K. KKNNON. LUTHER J. GLENN and A.JP. ADAMS. First Distiict—Samuel D. Bndwell, of Liber- , ot Emanuel. oomo before the people nking Third District—Christopher c. 8mith, of T»i- | bcm retire. He did not hmvo the manhood to do so. What Iras been Altemala—Heaiy C.Cmmtoii, of HmtU. the tOWCnDff success of his admmis- Fifth Dwirict—Jno. I. H*I1, of Spalding. Al- I tUt, V a are indebted to him rum iiuiikv—.w. i. iw..,of Spalding. Urnete—Daniel P. Hill, of Fulton. Sixth District—Keubro B. Niebet,of Putaem, tration that we are indebted to him for? Wo have not aeen it. It he Alternate—Fttmlnf'D. DuKsnon, of Baldwin. I j ia J been willing to go out, V« would Seventh District-Tips. W. Akin, of Bartow. . a A.u^rS^V.AMe^hr 1 '''- have thrown oyer bvUI life the Eighth District—Seaborn UeeM. or Hancock, mantle of chanty and Inca to forget. AI BUT«i “'TShTOof Gwin- I But he has determined to beard the WHAT JS A GENTLEMANT It is almost, says Cardinal New. man, a definition of a gentleman to ny he is one who never inflicts a pain. Thu description is both refined and, aa far as it goes, accurate. He is maiuly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the tree and unembarrassed action of those about bim; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the in itiative himselt. His benefits may be considered a parallel to what are called comforts or conveniences in arrangements of a personal nature; like an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue, though nature provides means of rest and animal heat with out them. Tho true gentleman in like {manner carefully avoids what, aver may erase a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast; all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, ail restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great con* oern being to nutko every one at their ease and at home. He has his eygp on all the compaby; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciiul to the ab- •nrd; he guards against unseasonable allusions or topics which may irritate; he is seldom proiuiuent in ;oonversa> tion, and uever wearisome. lie makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving while he is conferring. He never speaks T»R PC BE AND VENERABLE EX-CHIEv _*JCSTICB TELLS WHO TOM NOR WOOD IS, AND WHAT THE t LAW IS. WARNER'S WAR-CRY. FELLOW -CITIZENS, BEAD AND PONDER. nett! Aituriute—Marion c. Boyd, o’r White. I peoplo of Georgia, and we will meet of himself except when compelled * him. [Applause.] never defends himself by a mere re- for govbknob, In giving the history of the pro- . _ , , / , , HON THOS M NORWOOD P 0 ** 1 cl,usc in th# constitution tort > h ® h ** 00 *" f “ r slander or UUN. IHOo. fluttwwo, | w | )icb> it adopted, would have cut off gossip, is scrupulous m imputing mo- Golquitt two years ago. ihe speaker Uves to those who interfere with bins, produced a laugh by saying, “ I had and interprets everything for the no opinion of Colquitt one way or the I. . „ . . other; I mean I regarded him ns a ' Kja * 18 uevcr mean or bu * e ,n negative man, whose acts depended h» disputes, never lakes unfur ad. altogether upon whoso hands,he fell vantage, uever mistakes personalities into.” He said that he bad never done or *hnrp sayings for arguments, or CLIFFORD ANDERSON, of Bibb* Colquitt had at the farthest but s «"t- From a long sighted prudence, small modicum of capacity for any he observes the maxiai ot tho ancient office. He opposed the clause alluded I gage, that we should conduct ourself to because it would have cut him off our enen iy ai if ho were one in the midst of his official term after /. , . he had been elected to it. But his four t0 ** our He has too years had expired. Was there no much good sense to be affronted at delicacy in biraj to retire after wbat insults, and is too well employed to had been^ said and done. Was there remember injuries jje is patient, no pressure upon him ? Ab, had he , , , . . Eiid to the people, “I have.been hon- '^bearing and resigned on phtlosoph. ored beyond any measure, now I yield ical principles. He submits to pain, up my trust, lor though technically because it is inevitable; to bereave- This distinguished lawyer, gallant I qualified, I cannot {consents to stand menti because it is irreparable; to soldier, and incorruptible man made ^wo^ haw ‘ 1 ” th becau8c il U bU de8lin y* J fh , e a speech m Macon, Friday night the I pMged bim over .and forgotten the I engages in controversy of any kind, 3d insL, on the absorbing question of wrong. What did he say. “I must his disciplined intellect preserves him the day in Georgia. It is so emphat-1 be elected. I must'have my character f rom th e blundering discourtesy of ic and unanswerable a presentation of m^SSte™Md°th« better - P erfm P 8 ’ bat 1888 e4ucat * d the cause of the People in this great ? [Cheered and langhter.] niinds, who, like Mont weapons, tear issue that Me teel that we cannot do Colquitt has fallen into the most un- and hack instead of cutting clean,who that sacred cause better service than I fortunate hands that ever dandled a I mistake the point in argument, waste by filling our editorial apace with I political ritant Joe Browns moat I their strength on trifles, misconceive what the Macon Telegraph says is °£ their adversary, and leave the ques- *• only an imperfect synopsis ot the } „i ppt R u iioek. and < whose first tonch tion more ipvolved than they And it. OF CHATHAM .ros stcBBTaBT or statk: N. C. BARNEfT, of Baldwin. roa coanaoLUB-oiNiBaL: •WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond. TOB TBBUCBSi: D. N. SPEER, of Troup. tom attoxxit-okxibil: FOB ONGRESS—NINTH DISTRICT. HON. EMORY SPEER, 0F CLARE. FOR REPRESENTATIVE," POPE BARROW. LA WTO NS LIGHTNING. in his ided to speech, which was greeted with ap-1 upon the political pulge after Oolqnitt I He may be right or wrong ii plauae and the cannon salute at almost I brought him forward again, has caused opinion, but he is too dear hetc every sentence.” S ST&tafltt school k nnjust; he » « rimpie a. he is for. Says tho Telegraph: I has said that Brown was the greatest able, and as brief as he is decisive. Gen. Lawton was greeted with a I nran God has ever made, and that bis Nowhere shall we fiod greater candor, cannon salute, and a ringing cheer aa appointment, if nothing else, would consideration, or indulgence. He he advanced to the front. He did not |“* e made Colquitt famous. Brown ^ oma bimself into the mind of his ,. , , .1 is a man ot brains, cud a souinern i ...... delay, but to use his language plunged ^ to me t b^ other for, but the opponents, he accounts for their mra- atonce into the “basiness” of the I q Uet ti 0 n is, can you depend on bun? takes, he knows the weakness of hu meeting. I It is not now a question of aWity, I reason as well as its strength, He'eaid that a few weeks past two I but of ehsracter. [Appause.] Why, }u p rov | noe> ^ j u Umita. If he be oonvenlions had met Tho first wasl^ J'“ e ^ re ^ belUve^rat Brown onbeHevex, he will he too profound in Cincinnati in which he bad the baa ^un-d $160,000for the city of I and large-minded to ridicule religion honor in part ot representing the great I Savannah.- He has rot. The mono I or to act against it; be is too wire tw State ol Georgia. This was the con* *y the city has received wae voted it be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infi* veution which gave to the people of by™ ng7m He rtapecU piety and devo- tite United btatoe aa their etandard All Brown did was to I tion; he even supports institutions as bearers Hancock and English. [Ap* I try to have it increased, bat he failed, venerable, beautiful, or useful, te plause.] The convention, he aaid, was And ths great Mexican veteran speech which ho doMI not assent; he honors mar]ud by a self sacrifidng "P 1 " 1 ^°“taied thfbiTlf It was merely I fe* ministers of religion, and it coi never before witnessed. It was not a I ^opportunity employed to advertise | tents him to decline its mysteri struggle of men for a 'position, but himself all over the State. Mr. Gbeextole, Ga.. August 30, 1880.—Messrs. J. R, Jenkins and others, Committee, etc.— Gentlemen: l am in the receipt of your letter ins vitiog me to address the people of Baraesville on tho political issues of tho day, on Friday, the 3d ol Septem ber. My prior engagements will pre- vent a compliance with your request, but yon can say to my Baraesville frisads that I am for Tom Norwood and good government I knew him to bo both honest, and capable, and too good a lawyer, not to know that although the governor may make a contract with lawyers to represent the State, yet that officer cannot touch a dollar of tho people’s money to pay sack contrasts until, the general as- sembly 6hall have had an opportunity to judge of and pass upon the reason ableness or unreasonableness of such contracts, and to appropriate such an amount in payment therefor as iu their judgment the services are rea sonably worth, and then thecovemor can draw his watenmt for tKPamonnt ■o appropriated, and no more—for the constitution expressly declares thil V no money shall be drawn from the treasury except by appropriations made by law.’ Tom Norwood is too good a lawyer not to know that if the governor of the State can m tke cons tracts with lawyers to pay them 810,. 000 for their services, and can then thrusfr.his hands into the treasury and dutch out that amount and pay them without an appropriation having been made therefor as required by the con stitution that he could make contracts to pay lawyers 8500,000 for fees, and thus bankrupt the people’s .treasury without as much as saying by your leave or the leave of their representa tives. _ A man noting for himself in his individual capacity may make a contract with a lawyer for fees, and the lawyers wilhhave a lion upon the mosey collected, tor the simple reason that the money belongs to him who made tho oontract, he having the power and. authority to create a lien upon his own money by his own con- tract, but Tom Norwood is too good a lawyer not to know that the governor has no power or authority whatever to make a contract with a lawyer and thereby create a lien on the people’s money, and that the lawyer acquires no lien by any such contract until the general assembly shall approve and ratify it. Making contracts with law- yers by the governor, at extravagant fees, is one thing, but thrusting his hands into the people’s treasury and dutching out their money to pay such fees without an examination or appro- priation having been made therefor by the legislature is another, and very different thing which Ttin Nor wood will never do. Tom Norwood has not held the office of governor for the last four years, and did not leave his seat in that high office and travel all ever the country clothed with all the power and patronage of the State government for the purpose of stock ing a convention by the Boss Tweed process of primary elections with a majority of delegates to vote tor his nomination and for nobody dse; he did not crack bis executive whip over that convention of stocked delegates and compel them to remain stocked and vote for his nomination and no body else, on the assumed ground that his stocked delegates represent ed a majority of the people, whereas not one-tenth of the voting popula tion of the State had spoken at the Boss Tweed primary election. No, Togi Norwood lias not forced himseil on the people by any such proceed ings as that to vindicate himself from the alleged jiersecution of the legisla tive and judicial departments of the government worse than Latiimer ever endured, and it is to be hoped he never will. If his official record won’t vindicate him, no frantic ap peals to the people can. Very re spectfully your obedient servant. IIirau Warner. STATE NEWS. Hr GieenWiulc lias located in Bell* ton. Mrs T M JoU'.s died in Ncwnnn recently. The court house at Calhoun needs repairing. C VV Moore died in Dalton, Aug. 28th. No inmates in .Forsyth county poor house. Edmund Ro wscy, of Elbert county, diet recently. Elberton is to have several new firms this tall. Mr Wiley McGee died in Newton county recently. Mr Ralph Meld ri ii died in Savan nah the 2d inst. Mrs Chas Crawford died in Madi son a few days ago. Charley Butt lias gone from El'ier* ton to Rome to live. J E Loyless has moved his family from Dawson to Leary. Middleton P Gii:n died suddenly iu Elbert county recently. whJraBlehder Bond, m»ed 96, died iEfLumpkin the 1st inat.; s . James Hayes, an old citizen of Cal houn, died A ugust 31st. John Darby, aged 88, died near Lost Mountain recently. L B Crawford has moved from Morgantown to Duhlonega. Mrs Samuel F Gray, of Griffin, died suddenly the 1st inst. Three inmates of Habersham county jail—2 whites aud 1 negro. There was a severe hail at Sumach, in Gordon county, recently. John D Pilcher of Warren county, has been admitted to the bar Albert Wbelchel has moved from Dahlonega to Dawson county. Mr John Wilson died of paralysis iu Sumter county August 30th. John W Harrison, late of Franklin county, is now living in Toccoa. Frank .1 Ansley has gone from Toccoa to Lawrenceville to live. mysteries ithout assailing or denouncing them. each State delegation was anxious to I Brown’s is a friend of religious toleration fiml nni t!,n man unnn whom all fiOllld I ** ^0 glVC DUD tllOG to make campaign I . „ t* n w*.i nA •Deeches l that, not only because his philos- True Democracy is ready at | j ji, e present situation I ophy has taught him to took on all find ont the man upon whom all eonld centre. all times to (aerifico men for princi-1 due Joseph E. 6rown, and felt I f onug of faith with an impartial eye, plea. [Applause.] He hiauelf had in bound to allude to : him. Did the but ^ fr0RV thb gentleness 0 f feel- - I * u ,J “ ““ d "' grand hero Sutt-raui, WinWd Scolllone'.^TIra^cSquirt'apiiointuiHit of | - Hancock,was pronounced—he who in bim is an unenviable _ distinction. I Thb Atlanta Constitution prints an battiewas foremost, yet knew when I Brown controlled the majority of the j anti-Norwood interview with Mr. the battles were ended how to bent | «*&»TSn all ^novements! I ^ >Mcb *l I* Moran, president of the , IiTdiscussing Brown tho speaker | Catholic Library Association of At* oock 1 when that name was pronouno* further aaid: “Ability without worth lanta, but neglects to «taU that the -•H*. - •^a.wsraraft'S saswiB sjs-'sn: , beasts of the field hut do we admire the top story of tho Constitution of- Bnt lately there had met in Allan- him most jj e * !|0 drew * parallel fiee, of which he is foreman. In oth- ta a convention in whioh all men ot I between the popular clamor against I er words, Moran, under orders from Georgia were interested; a conven* I Grant’s third term and Colquitt’s k “* ”* headquarters, met himself the otiier tion for Governor. the This ’. .. - There havinu been no nomination day, asked himself certain questions nomination of L, bind ^ pe£,i e 0 f Georgia,—nay and made certain answers, which a was perhaps m - |t bav W r devolved ou the peo* questions anj.answtrs, togetlier with of more importance to us than even I pie to rxbuke the man who had brok-1 the casual mention of his meeting the election of a president, for the en his fluth, the question, was who I himself, were pruned in the organ nearer government comes, the more riionld be governor. ... ?l next ajr * • ... l There was no canuidate, bnt al 1 important it is to ira. Why I nQm ber of patriotic citizens assent] I The Governor has appointed Judge meeting? Why did not the conven- I in the capital, put forward as a j James Jackson, at piesent senior, tion result aa four yean ago? When I standard bearer Thomas M. Norwood. . - of 8uprcme to the Georgia was * nil 'j ^ N'orw^du^m^f chief-justiceship vacated by Judge alone, and defend beraelf against the batin ^ be w ;u have no explanation Warner. This leaves a vacancy in carpet-bagger, ecallawag and poverty, 1 10 when hie term is ended. He I the office of associate justice to be bnt alas we have Men upon evil will not go through Georgia shouting, fi|| d . (be Qovetnor< We ooa* times. [Applause.] Men reek the appointment of Judge not the office too man, and the traffic ^Ve people hf Georgia inul Jackson chief jistice, and hope the i.i vffif® **■» come upon us again; the never have cause to regret his else-1 Governor will do aa well in appoint* olsims of office have become pertonal. tion. His friends now will be .^f. : ui tice ' - - 1 friend* then. He is not .eeking toe “* an J 8Uce * [Applause.] W. A. Pledseb and ezsoollector Atkina spoke in Macon the 1st inat Atkina- wants a republican nominea Under the head of “Crime »nd I governor, but, if there is noife. ni ZlL .bra winvpntion I offioe. He is before you at the call of Reviewing the convention, tb » tbe peopl* of Georgia in Atlanta as* speaker said it had made no nomlna* | rembled. [Applause, lion; and,the people therefore owed allegiance to non*. That the conven- , . . tion, however, had mode its own law, Casualty,” the Atlanta Constitution ta TOI Norwsod. Pledger favored iu own oonetitntion, aa it bad the (CWquittO'gan) prints toe news of I Kupenjiog M y expression as between right and power to do. and that law d* ««enihling of the 8tate democrat- cdquita and Norwoo.1 rill after the became the imperative law of the oon- io convention »n New Jersey. The j a»ato republican convention acta, vehtion, and bound every man there* «*«> should not do tout mtj. The in npon honor to cany out its iatanv feet that the meeting of the Georgia The Constitution anaonaoaa that tion* an* 1 noma^Bnlwa democratic oonveution reiulted m 1 Judge Bleckley is for Colquitt. That’s od a»dar the laws ad«pt^, had pay such unexpected dire disaster to the M news. He has been for Colquitt hom**Me right to ai a dut is now running the oignn ia all the time. Judge B. is a brother candidate for the suffrages of too pco* aogooi reason for tho organ’s writing of General Gordon, nle rAnnlauae.1 down to# democratic oonvenlions of I -====a Alfred H. ' Colquitt «""r"«"*i other 8tataa m “crim*#’’ or “caanal- HoO. Celumbaa Henri, of Greene*, through Ms friends that be would ac* ««•.'’ ^ h “ ^ nomin8led for tb * oept the terms prescribed and would The fourth district republican oon- j 81116 e® 0 * 16 b J tb ® d S“ ocrac J r ® f not accept the nomination nalere ten* j grcesioual convention made no nomi* J Greenei Warren and 1 a!ultra? oo«t« d ted h»n» by two*thirieof the cons Baton, w • 'ties. A MATTER OF BUSINESS Atlanta Fast. Leaving all other questions out of the gubernatorial campaign, the rail road monopoly is in itself an issue im portant enough to engage every man’s attention. It is evident that the Louisville & Nashville corporation desires to con trol the railway system of Georgia. It has purchased a controliug interest in the State read lease; it has gobbled up the charter of the Georgia Wea- tern;|it has engaged popular agents in Georgia, and it is generally be* lieved that the Atlanta Constitution has been ‘sugared’ in the interest of this powerful corporation. All ot the agents, with one or twe exceptions, and the supposed organs of the Louis* ville & Nashville road in Georgia ore actively at work for Governor CoL qnitl’s re eliction. All the cin uiu- stances point to a determined effort to secure the control of our executive and legislature. Thejmoat ignorant man in the State has sense enough to know that a great railroad monopoly promises him oo guod-iniset nothing bnt evil. The snooese of a great monopoly Is attend ed by corresponding depression of the material interest of the poor people and people of moderate means who aome within the reach of this mon itor evil of modern times. Thejpeople are beginning to un- demand this, and when they consuls er how Colquitt, Brown, Gordon, Newcombe, el ml, are linked and in terlinked with each other, they can not help believing that*, the, railroad syndicate has sinister designs on the property of Georgia, and is working to secure the control ot the next State administration, Bearing there th'ngs *n mind, toe tax-payers of Georgu most see that it ia a purely business question, in volving dollars and cents, when they sustain or reject the present adminis tration. Id there practical days men’s admiration for a favorite politi* dan dees not lead them to cast a bal lot which they know will. have the effect of depredating their proptrty and injuring their business interest for the benefit of a few bloated mo nopolists who fatten on the proceeds of their toil. A man may feel a person* al liking for Colquitt, BrowH end Gordon, bnt> very few will carry their personal preferences to such an extent as to surrender themaelven and tha State to toe merdes of a grasping, soulless .railroad corpora tion. Look at the coalition bvtwtep the agents of toe LonisvBle «fc Nash ville road and Governor Colqvitt, nrd then draw your conclusion?. The demand for lumber at Waynesboro exceeds the supply. George Dover was married to Miss Lena Smith, at Homer, Aug 27th. Zelma; little daughter of D C lieu- ton, of Gordon county, died recently. Arthur Kirby, aged 15, died of brain fever in Troup county recently. J H Haralson had his thigh broken by a circular saw in Wilkes county. An iufant daughter of Mr David Long, of Lnmukin county, died Aug. 28th. At the late revival at Sumach, Gor don county, there were 18 ennver- .sions. J H Smith’s house near Tnouel Hill, with all its contents, was burned recently. Miss Lucy Carpenter, formerly of LaGrange, is now teaching in Car- tcrsville. Airs Rosalie V DeLorine. ot Dari en, died in Waterbury, S. C., recent ly. Mr Joel Dodson, one of Marion comity’s oldest citizens, died August 30th. John Newton, otherwise known as “ cheap Bob,” died near Macon tli e other day. Frank Marsh, aged about 12 years died of congestion iu Doulv county Aug. 28th. Robert W Patterson was married to Miss Sallie W Snider, in Macon, the 2d inst, Milton M Hay good was married to Miss Otelia Wilson in Lawrenceville the 30th tilt. The etore ot W T Satterfield, of Gwinnett county, was recently burglarized. H G Slappy has gone from Wash ington to Augusta to take charge of a drug store The Lax digest of Forsyth county shows an increase of about <87,000 over last year. Mrs Caroline Henderson died at White Bluff near Savannah, the 1st inst, aged 76. Hamilton is rapidly improving since the Columbus aud Home railroad has gone beyond it. Win Powers cut Joe Wilkinson in the arm in a fight between them in Coweta county. Stephen A Townlev was married to Miss Eliza Murpliey in Gwinnett county recently. Mrs. Bradwcll, mother of lion S 1> Brad well, died »in Hine ville res cently, of paralysis. A Air Murphy, an upholsterer from Macon, got a fall in Americu* that broke his right leg. tents, wns burned recently in Oxfoid. Macon has decided to have water works. _ Mr Marion Dobbs died in Caiters- ville recently. A J Walker has gone from Griffin to Atlanta to live. The Cartersville Baptist church has been renovated. Dr James Touchstone died in Ba ker county August 28th. Mrs Liunie M Wilson, of Hamp- ton, died August 31sL Mrs Sagan Hale died in Griffin August 31st, aged 83. Louis Meyerhardt has gone from Rome to Atlanta to live. Mrs Georgia Smith died iu Va! doitn the 29th of August. R P Trippe lias gone from Carlers- villc to Atlanta to practice law. Ulysses, little son of Capt. A G Grant, died in Thomasville recently. Joel Dukes, one of the oldest chi' zons of Thomas county, died the 29th ult. John W Burton was married to Mattie L Smith, in Atlanta, the 1st. inst. {Cobcrta, youngest child of Mr II W HopkiiiSj'ofThomasville, died re cently. i Dr H C Iloruady has been re-elect ed pastor of the 3d Baptist church, Atlanta. B J Hughes has resigned the cnsljiership of l he Fiist National Bank ol Rcme. Frank Maddox, of Newton county, was seriously injured by being thrown from his wagon. In compliance with a request from many citizens, Joe Moon will run for mayor of Cartersville. John A Wilcox has gone from Hartwell to Elberton to engage in the furniture business. Miss Irene Rucker fills the chair of Mathematics and English literature in the Columbus Female College. John Net el, of Kingston, w.as killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol that was in his pocket. Mrs A J Van Winkle, formerly of Augusta, died in Elizabeth, N. J., recently. She was’buried in Augus ta. Rev J [ J Morris has gone from Cumming to Hendersonville, N. C., to take charge of The Baptist Teles cope. The Clarion says there was more open cotton in Forsyth county on the first of this month than ever before known to the oldest inhabitant LETTER FROM AUGUSTA. MODEL CONVENTION— -STEPHENS FOREVER, AND HIS EXECUTOR AF TER HIM—GRAND TRIBUrE TO GEORGIA’S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS SON— GUBERNATORIAL CONTROVERSY— HOW WALSH DID (NOT) ANSWER CARLTON—NORWOOD AND RE FORM—A BETTER TIME COMING FOR TUB OLD SHIP OF STATE Mrs MilleyD Worley died in D ih- lonega Aug. 26th. She was the oldest resident ofthe place. Mr and Mrs F J Springer have donated a boll to the new Catholic church in Columbus. The corn crib of- Mr Jule Byrd, with its contents, in S.unlcr county, was burned rectntly. Mrs Conyers, who taught in the S F College at LaGrange last yetr, is aov teaching in Covington. Capt Norman Webb has resigned fit superintendency of the Selma, Rime and Dalton railroad. Mrs Martha A Nash was thrown from her horse in Elbert county and had her right arm dislocated. Mrs Elizabeth Johnson died in Ma rion county Aug. 28th. She was 37 years eld and left 10 children. Miss Jennie McMurray bas charge of the music and are departments of ths West Point public schools. Sam Hill, who killed Siinmoas in Atlanta more than a year ago, has escaped from the insane asylum. Du Wilt O Green, formerly of Ma rietta, was recently married at Spring Hill, Alabama, to Miss S E Moodie. An unsuccessful attempt was made to burgbtrire the residence of Capt L J GoUmartin in Savannah. Five shots were fired at the burglar, with what effeot ia not known. The dwelling of Col. Euinett Womack, with a portion of its cons In Rome, the 1st inst., the follow ing couples were married: N. Powers and Carrie V Lowry, Will R Hume and Hattie Perkins, A J Stokes and Sallie Wilkinson. Mary Lou Campbell, a young girl of Atlanta, committed suicide on dis covering that she was not the lawful wife of rhe man whom she thought was her hHsband. Mr SolomonjJloodworth, cfGriffin, is said to have fourteen children, sev enty-six grandchildren, and fifteen great grandchildren, and yet he can run all over Griffin and bny more cotton than any two young men in that city. Mr John Frazier, of Slimier coun ty, paid 8275 for a drink of water, lie left his horse hitched to his bug gy while he went to a well to get a drink. The horse cut out with the buggy, broke it and the harness all to pieces aud killed himself against a tree. The horse cost 8125, the buggy 8100, the harness and the goods Ac. in the buggy about 850, makiug the drink cost 8275. A negro woman and three of her children, living on the place owned by the lute Joseph Prinlup, in Gordon county, have been arrested on the charge of having murdered Mr Prins tap, whose death under suspicious circumstances some mouths ago was supposed to have been a suicide. The discovery since then that these negroes are the principal legatees named in his will led to an investigation and their arrest anil lodgment in Calhoun jail. The Herald envoy extraordinary wae apparently deeply interested in Mr. Holland’s performance. The bald-headed gentleman was as red a? a turkey cock. With some difficulty the young man attracted Mr. Levien’s attention and said, ‘You wished to speak to this gentleman ?’ ‘Not at all, not at all, mo dcah fel low,’ was the reply. ‘I simply asked you if you minded touching his ’ed, you know.’ The bearer ofthe rattan subsided, and expletives popped from the bald- headed gentleman’s throat like balls of fire from the’hroat of a Roman caudle. A score of ladies tittered, the musicians were on a grin, and an ac tor missed his cue. Thu old gentleman mopped his head, the young gentle- meii visited Perker’s bar, and the herald commissioner again fell into a a reverie. John T- Raymond, the nctor,say8 of-bra expirieuce in London: “The people I met were most delightful They received us cordially, and treat ed us splendidly—as.individuala—but they couldn’t stand our play. ‘The Gilded Age.’, The fact is they couldn’t understand it. Of course, the character of Colonel Sellers was plain enough, and they laughed at it. The Colonel's speculations took enor mously, but all tho localisms of the play fell flat When the stove tell down, in the third act, it all weut far nothing Th6 audience didn’t see anything funny in that. On tho otb er hand, t’>e 'trial scene, which we consider rather ordinary, was one of the few redeeming features of the play in the eyes of the Londoners. They were almost willing to regard that much of it as a success.’’ Augusta, September, 1st. Editor Daily Banner: The Eighth District congressional conven tion, pursuant to announcement, was held here to-day in ths Market Hall. The session wns comprised within the space of about an hour, its delibera tions were marked by a spirit of unanimity and kindly sentiment among the members, who contended with each other in the happy use of glowing terms expressive of regard and admiration for the spotless soul, noble chat acter, exalted patriotism, unerring statesmanship and distin guished services to the Democratic party of Alexander H. Stephens, who, without opposition, was unanimously nominated by a rising v.it.e for the lower house ot congress from this district. I believe it was Mr. Toombs who once said, that it was a waste of time for any man to try- to beat .“little Alec,” as he ia familiarly called, for he would be returned to congress as long as he lived, and when he died, the people would send his executor to fill his chair. The potency of Ste phens’s name and the perpetual jiopu- larity of tlnrmun bus long since made all opposition to the foremost man of his times a fruitless task and an un profitable business, even tor machine politicians, when the sage of iberty Hull announces at the end of his term that, “Providence permitting, he will stand for re-election to the House.” I am sure your writer would have no difficult thing to prove the assertion, if he would state that there are about a dozen men iu this district who might be prevailed upon, it named in the last will and testament of the apostle of the people’s liberties as his executor, to accept the trust. The calm sui face ol the waters of the convention is highly in contrast with the otherwise perturbed spirit of politics in Richmond county. The cauldron is eliulaling already under no low temperature, and although many hideous and vile toads and scor pions under the kindled fire of purifi cation arc seen creeping from the heterogeneous mass, yet, ’neath the scum of the surface, the bright silvery sheen of the pure metal is seen and, us public opinion, ns a refiner, stirs the murky pot, the visible body and exact features of Norwood is recog nized, reflected from the metalic mir ror as our next govornor. As to the gubernatorial contest, Dr. H II. Car’ton’s late letter to the Chronicle was well written, and forci bly presented the cause of right against might. Those here who are skilled critics and trenchant knights , with tho pen say that Mr. Walsh did not answer the tearless man of the Classic City. That in worthy imita tion of Gov. Colquitt’s style as an evasive pleader, the editor of the Chronicle studiously avoided the issue and, like the Pharisee mentioned in the good book in the parable of the Samaritan, “he went mound on the other side.” Mr. Walsh tailed to dis prove the allegations of Dr. Carlton, and overthrow the logic and evidence adduced by Carlton to sustain his position that Colquitt had made a contract, agreement or compact, it you please with, the convention, by ordaining the two-thirds rule as a law, under which and no other, he” should be nominated aud, in this, he fail d, thereby violating his agreement And disregarding his own chosen law, made by him and l>y him put upon the convention. Mr. Titden was once selected to clean the Augean stables of official corruption in the State of New York, and tiie people of that Empire Slate of the North sustained the man. Mr. Norwood is now chosen to sever the hydra-headed evils of official station from the body of the present admin istration It remains to l> 3 teen if the people of the Empire Stale of the South are as honest and brave ns those of the Dutch State. A Colquitt man visiting the city, and a member of the convention, told me to-day it was impossible for any man to justify Colquitt’s administra tion with the requirements of the law prescribing his duties, “but, said lie,’’ ‘‘I shall vote tor him, if I vote, he- cause his errors have been of his head and not of his hcarL” The s ; gns of the times are encour aging. There is a returning sense ol honesty and a desire tor good gov • eminent among men ; the tide is rap idly rising and by the next inoou the ship of Slate will be borne back to her moorings,from which she lately broke, with Tho -. M. Norwood as the pilot, and the colois at the masthead bear ing the word ‘Reform.’ - But enough of politics for the pres ent, as I have already trespassed too long upon your space and ttie patience of your renders. After the contest is over each •manavill go “his way and forget what manner of man he was,” especially, if his candidate is beaten, but while tho tuss continues, he it remembered that Toon hs has said that “politics in its last analysis is votes.” Victor. HANCOCK AT HOME. General Hancock is sen .at lushest at home, for there ho t> rows aside the worriment of his official cires and re sponsibilities. There’s but the twinkling ot * star Between a man of peace and war. | No one is more thoroughly domes tic in his habits. He has always pre ferred the quiet of his own home to the glittering splendors of fashionable life. Of children he is passionately fond. Rising at six o’clock, which is his uniform habit, be takes a bath first and then has a wild romp with his three grandchildren, at present, with Russell Hancock, their father, and their mother, stopping with him. When he lost his only daiisiliter a few yeare atro, a most beautiful and ac j complished young lady of eighteen, it took him a long lime to recover from the blow, and his wife lets not yet laid aside her sombre habiliments commemorative ofthe sad event. Di rectly after breakfast and glancing over the papers and his personal mail the general goes to his office, where, as already stated, he «|>ends the most of the day. Till dinner he occupies himself in talking with his family and entertaining visitors, lie eats spar ingly, to which may doubtless be mainly ascribed his perfect health. After dinner he smokes sometimes a pipe and sometimes a cigar, and this is the sum total of hisdiy’s smoking; so, as will l>e seen, he is no great slave to the seductive weed. His spare lime in the evening he usuaPy devotes to reading. He has a well furnished li brary, and shows a preference lor his torical and statistical works. He goes to bed early, at ten o’clock generally, and is a sound sleeper—that precious boon of a clear conscience ami good digestion. His residence, the largest and finest ou the island, and thus no tably distinguished from the others, is a model of cosy comfort both out side and inside. Wide porches in the front and rear, with creeping vines and beautilul flowers scattered altont, show discriminating taste, while the pictures and works of art and well lined bookcases to he seen in the inte rior eviuce the broad culture of the master occupant. As already stated, General Hancock do. s not go into society much. Of course he visits a good deal am >ng the officers of tho post, and a very pleas ant society it is, composed mainly of the members of his staff and their families. On Sundays lie generally comes to the city in the morning to attend Dr. Bellows' church, where lie and Mrs. Hancock have a pew. In the summer lie rarely frequents summer watering places, having somehow, notwithstanding his eminent sociabil ity, a dislike (or this kind of life. lie is par excellences domestic man, and his accomplished wife, although before their marriage one of tho reigning belles of St. Louis, lias the same do mestic tastes. He seldom travels ex cept on official business and since his nomination lias politely, though firm ly, declined invitations to visit our leading places of fasliionnhlo resort or to go ou trips through the country, he being strongly averse to anything which would look like making a show of himself. Once in a while he and his family take a little sail down the bay on a steam launch—the Pinafore —kept at the island exclusively for his use, and this, with the quiet re pose of his cool, doubled and vine embosomed reside ice, the society of hie family and books, his official du ties, and at the preseut time enter taining an unwonted rush of visitors —one of the pains aud penalties of being a presidential candidate— make up the sum total of his daily life. The fact lias been frequently noted that no newspaper representative lias been able to “interview” him. It is not that he does not have well sullied opinions ou all leading political ques tions of the day. Few ineu are tinn er in their convictions, few better read or belter ported, few able to give to their ideas more terse expression. lie does not paraphrase. lie calls a spade a spade. One ot his strongest char acteristics Is firmness—a bull-dog te nacity of purpose. The day he was nominated he said he would not lie “interviewed,” and he has not been and will not be. Affability.—A great man is affa ble in his conversation, generous in liis temper aud immovable in what he has naturally resolved upon. And, as prosperity does not make him haughty and imperials, so neither does adversity sink him into meanness and dejection ; tor it he ever shows more spirit than ordiimry, it is when ho is ill used and the world is frowning upon him. In short, he is equally re moved from the extremes of servility and pride, and scorns to trample on a worm or cringe to an emperor. General Gordon is arduously fill ing hia engagement as attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company. His last able effort for his employers was at Sparta, toe 3d inat, where he vociferated that '‘every charge against Colquitt is as false as hell.” We think the General's wealtliy and distinguished employers require their distinguished attorney to exert himself too violently The weather is altogether too warm to justify a demand for such tremendous exertion in their behalf as the gener al has been making ever since he re signed his seat iu the Son&te. But then *16,030 is a pntty tremendous fee. It is told of the King of Greece, who recently visited Pans, mid is now in Lofidon, that when at the Frflnch capital in -the giy days ol Loris Napoleon, he greatly shocked imperial etiquette by his reply to the empress, who, asking bim who he thought was the most beautiful woman at oue of tho Toilleries balls, was toed: “Pardon me, your majesty I am a barbarian, a Cossack. I only know one beautitul woman in the world, my wife.” Hancock’s letter of acceptance is an able document, but a Philadelphia woman ho? made the startling discov ery that it doesn’t mention whafcety’o of bonnets willjj be feelfianab]* a thi« fall, A PULL ALL TOGETHER. The latest advices from there give assurance that harmony in the demo cratic party in New \ ork may now be said to be a fixed tact. The com mittees of Tammany and Irving hall that had been working tor two days announce that they are making most satislactory progress, and that there is every indication of a union in coun ty. city, legislative and congressional candidates. Tammany has sent out her withdrawal of the call for a state convention, which for a time threat ened to disrupt the party this tall. This aolion of Tammany was in con sequence of the action of the state committee calling a regular conven tion, with Tammany accorded minori ty representation. Tammany had demanded early in the campai;ii that a state convention be called to nomi nate a successor to Chief Judge Church, of the court ol appeals. The regular democrats paid no attention to Tammany’s demands, and Tam many tliereup m called a convention of her own. This brought the regu lars to terms, and they opened nego tiations with John Kelly. The result has been a complete understanding, and a union ofthe elements that have been at war these five years or more. The entire democracy of the state now puts its shoulders to the wheel for Hancock and English. A very lively campaign will be begun imme diately, aud there is every promise of a tine democratic inajoihy m the em pire state. A Leadyillk gambler advertises iu handbills ns following : “Keuo, as played at Wyman’s i» a very hon est, upright, and religious game. It is religious, because Wyuian don’t al low any ouo to swear or to make vulgar expressions sometimes used in playing kono. It is respectable, be cause the Rev. Mr. Talma-o was in the other eveniug to s.e the game. Wyman has no no : ee or trouble, be cause he treats all his customers to the finest liquors and cigars free; also a hot tree lunch three tunes a day. Therefore there is nothing for any one to quarrel about.” It is surely scarcely uecessary to say further, what the holy teachers of all nations have invariably concurred iu showing, that iailhlul prayer irn* pl«es always oovrolativo exertion; aud that no man oau ask honestly or hope fully to ho delivered from temptation, unless ho has himself honestly and firmly determined toj| do the beat* ft) can to keep out of it,]