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SOUTHERN BANNER: AUGUST 6, 1878. niter. II. II. CARLTON, Proprietor. W. F. COMBS, Editor. Terms ot Subscription. ONE COPY, One Year $2 OO ONE COPY, Six Months 1 OO ONE COPY, Three Months....™.... 80 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. 'lution for Letters orOusrdUnship $5 00 Citation for Letters of Administration 4 00 Application lor Letters of Dismission Admin* 1st rater.™™™. «™ — 5 00' AppU’tion for Letters ol Dismission Guardian 5 25 Application for Lease to Sell Lands 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors —™™ 5 00 Sales of Land, Ac., per square..'. 6 50 3sles Perishable Property, 10 days, per sq... 1 SO Gstray Notices, SO days t.™ 8 00 Sheriff Sales, per square ..... Sheriff Mortgage fi. fa sales per square. Tax Collector’s Sales, per square 6 00 Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each time. 1 00 Exemption Notices (inadrance) - 2 25 Rule Nlsl’s, per square, oach time « - 1 50 -W The shore legal rates corrected by Urdinary if Clarke county. Ratos ot' AdvortlslnB. Advertisements will he Inserted at ONE DOL 3t A K per square tor the first insertion, and FIFTY vENTS |*T square for each continuance, for any time under one month. For longger periods a lib eral deduction will bo made. A square oqual to ton lines, solid. Notices in local column, less than a square, 20 ;anta a Hoe. For Congress 9th District From the foregoing announcement it will be seen that Dr. Carlton has re tired from the editorial management of the Banner, and that the same in future will devolve upon the under- signed. The Press oMJeorgia could not have lost a more ardent or able supporter and defender of questions which affect the public interest than Dr. Carlton. By his retirement to private life the public know and feel that they are bereft of the services of one whose ability, patriotism and untiring devotion to the interests of his State lias brought order out of chaos,- advanced civilization, and ? “ quickened the progress of scientific development, which public service entitles him to the gratitude of. his im mediate constituency and the State at large. In the future management of the paper it shall be my highest aim to make it acceptable to the public and remunerative to Dr. H. H. Carlton, the proprietor. W. F. Combs. Hon. Joel Abbott Billups. OF MORGAN. To the Public. As is well known to the people of the .Ninth Congressional District, the Democratic nominating Convention which assembled in Gainesville on the 1st iust., after a rather protract' •ed contest over the candidacy of Col. -H. P. Bell and myself, finally - har moniously concluded the duties ot that convention by presenting to the voters ol the 9ih District, the name of Col. Jo-1 A. Billups, of Morgan co.uily, as the regular nominee ot t he Democratic Party. My name having been twice presumed by my friends before tin nominating conventions of I lie district, of course I was desirous of success, hut having submitted my interest, my acceptability and my availability to the chosen delegates of the people in convention assembled, whose highest consideration I be lieved would he the interest and suc cess of the Democratic Party, I have naught to complain of, and being satisfied that they have acted from this high sense of duty, I fully and most cheerfully endorse their action. To those friends who so nobly and so firmly stood liy me iu this contest, I hereby tender my highest apprecia tion, accompanied with an assurance, that I shall ever remember with pro found and lasting gratitude their <levotion ami their efforts in behalf of mi political advancement. To the organized Democracy of the Ninth District, lor the supremacy of which I have so earnestly devoted my time, my energies, and whatever of talent I may have had, for the past four or five years, I wish abundant and glorious success under the lead <>i' its newly chosen standard hearer. To my immediate constituency who have so repeatedly honored me with |iolitieal preferment, I now oiler my most appreciative acknowledge ments begging only to say, that where trust and honor have been he- tstowed I have earnestly endeavored to faithfully discharge the duties, and to advance your true interest to the tic-st of my humble abilities, likewise liave I sought to wear the hon ors in a degree commensurate with tny abilities, and as much a reward to my people and my section as to my- self. It having been my desire and in tention for sometime to retire from journalism, and it now being to my interest to retire from public life, (re serving the right to give a review and account of my stewardship, which I will do at an early day, through the columnsof the Banner,) I hereby announce my retirement both from politics and the editorship of the Southern Banner. For the present, and from this date Mr. W. F. Combs, will assume the edito rial duties of the Southern Banner. Respectfully, II. II. Carlton. The United Ninth. HON. JOEL ABBOT BILLUPS,of MORGAN, UNANIMOUSLY NOMINATED YES TERDAY MORNING—THE CON VENTION HARMONIZED AND THE DISTRICT SAFE. [Special to the Chronicle and Con*thn*ionalii>t.] Gainesville, August 2.—The Congressional Convention in* t this morning at eight o'clock, pursuant to adjournment from last evening. From the first of to-day’s session, it became evident that the incorrigible Bell and gallant Carlton, who shared the strength of the District, could neither one be nominated, and the Convention began to cast about for a compromise man. It was hoped by some, that Bell, who was last year nominated and elected largely by the magnanimity of Carlton and his friends, would coine down when 1 he found that his race was in vain, and pay oft’ the generous debt; but it was <h child that a dark horse could more easily pace the course. Accordingly at half past eleven o’clock in the morning, the name of Col. Joel Abbot Billups, of Morgan, was presented and his nomination was made unanimously. A Startling Scheme A Mexican War of Annexation Contemplated—A Cabinet Con spiracy to Lift a Broken Down Administrvtion Out of the Mud—A War of Policy and Plunder to be Inaugurated on the Rio Grande. Special Dispatch to the Philadelphia Record. Washington, July 18. -It can be stated positively to-night that a defi nite plan has been determined upon for the acquirement of the Northern States of Mexico hy conquest. As has been already stated in these dispatches the administration refused to rescind its instructious to General Ord, in command of the troops on the border, to pursue marauders, if need be, across the border, although it had been rep-* resented to the President and Cabinet that such action on the'jtttt of Gener al Ord would almost certainly bring on a conflict with Mexieah-troops. It now transpires that there is a war par ty in the Cabinet whichisplanning to make the ostensible punishment of cat tle thieves merely a pretext for plung ing the country into a war of annexa tion. The President does not belong to the war party, at least he professes to desire peace, although he did not oppose the instructions which were given to Gen. Ord. To-day the Pres ident had a long interview with a pro minent Texas gentleman, who is here in the interest of tha^air party in Texas. He represents that 'I'oxas is solid for war, and asserts positively that a majority of the administration is for war. He laid befbre the Presi dent to-day the views of the people of Texas u|»on the border (roubles and the necessity of aggressive measures. He reports that the President was non-committal, but assert* positively that it makes no difference whether the President is for or agaiust war The plau of the war paily is to have Gen. Ord seize a favorable opportunity to cross the border aud make an attack on the Mexican troops, which of Grant on a Third Term. A large laidy will he in Senator Beck on the Presi dential Prospects. If the convention of the two great parties were to meet to-morrow, the Democrats would nominate Thur man and the Republicans Grant. Speaking of Grant, the Senator said: •* If any man takes him for a fool he is mistaken. He knows what he is about. His tarry in Europe, where his expenses are, I have no doubt, been paid by the bondholders and capitalists of the country, and, where he is being lionized ami feted by the royalty and nobility, keeps him out of political complications at home, and still fresh in the minds of the people as a great man.’’ Next, year, said lie, when lie returns home by way of San Francisco, he will have such a reception through tho country from California to Philadelphia ns never man ever got before him. Why, George Pullman is building now, I’m told, twelve of the finest coaches ever placed on wheels, espe cially to convey him and his friends on this trip. A tremendous fictitious enthusiasm will be worked up for him at every station, and then the cry will be raised that lie must accept the nomination in deference to the will of the people thus expressed, and nominated he will be.”—Interview in Cincinnati Enquirer. ’ course, will b repelled, of Texan troops, wfriub • readiness, are then* to be thrown across. The whole territory known as Zona Libre comprising the North ern States, is to be seized, and the revenues collected by force. It is of course expected that this course will precipitate a general Mexican war, and prominent movers ’?in it now in this city, admit that it will take 100,- 000 men and two yeaivto bring the war to a close. The prime movers in this war movement appear to lie certain railroad interests, which are anxious to run lines into Mexico and quite willing to do a little military trans portation business for the government. These agitations w’ould not be serious if it was not known tha% the most in fluential half of the Cabinet sympa thizes with them and that General Ord himself is jvarmly in.favor of war. Maps showing the portion of Mexico which it is proposed to annex are being prepared and will shortly be published in several leading papers which favor war and annexation. In Summit, Pa., there is a cavern 300 feet below the surface of the ground where ice forum summer and winter. At the bottom is a spring of clear cold water entirely surrounded by ice. The ceiling afld sides of the cave are solid ice, and by the contin ual dropping of water au ice monu ment from floor to roof has formed. Mr. Piiinizee, the proprietor of the Wliile Sulphur Springs, in Hall county, has built a handsome church edifice. It was recently dedicated by Bishop Pierce. The intensity of the laic drought in Australia may be judged by the simple calculation made by the in spector of stock that in Jjfew' Sourh Wales aloua 4,000,000 sheep wer«- lost last year from the effects of the dry weather At least another mil lion must be added to account for the losses of this year and for the loss suffered by small holders aud others who were tor various reasons omitted from the returns. Thus we have 5,000,000 sheep, valued at $12,500,. 000 at least, destroyed, directly or indirectly, through the' lack of pas turage consequent on the drought. In 1876 the Australian colonies pos sessed between them over 45,000,000 sheep, ef which 20,000,000 belonged 1 to New South Wales. There is re a son to believe that in Victoria and South Australia the effects of the drought were quite as disastrous as in New South Wales, while iu Queens land they were doubly severe. It is not, therefore, too much to estimate that at least the same proportion of the flocks elsewhere were destroyed as in New South Wales, and that in Australia alone, omitting Tasmania and New Zealnrd, 9,000,000 sheep perished in a a single summer. The third term begins to be an in teresting 3 u bj,ect. Gen. Grant touched upon it freely in a recent talk with John Russell Young ot the New York Herald. Gen. Grant said : ‘*1 was never more delighted at anything than the close of the war. I never liked service in the army— not as a young officer. I did not want to go to West Point. My ap pointment was an accident, and my father had to use his authority to make me go. I never went into a battle willingly or with enthusiasm. 1 was always glad when a battle was over. I never want to command another army. I take no interest in armies. When the Duke of Cam bridge asked me to review his troops at Aldershot I told his royal highness that tlie one thing I never wanted to -see again was a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm, I was happy. When the rebellion came I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank: all I did was to try and make myself useful. “ My first commission as Brigadier came in the unanimous indorsement of the delegation from Illinois. I do not think I knew any of the members but Washburtie, and I did not know him very well. It was only after Donelson that I began to see how important was the work that Provi dence devolved upon me. And yet af or Donelson I was in disgrace and under arrest, and practically without a command because of some misun derstanding on the part ot Halleck. I do not know what w Mild have come of that had not the country inter fered. You see Donelson was our first clear victory, and you will re member the enthusiasm that came with it. The country saved me from Halleck’s displeasure. When other commands' came I always regretted them. “ When the bill creat ing ike grade of lieutenant-general was pro posed, with my i/ume as the lieuten ant-general, I wrote Mr. Washburn opposing it. I did not want it. I found that the bill was right and I was wrong, when I came to com mand the army of the Potomac—that a head was needed to tho army. I did not want the Presidency, and liave never quit forgiving myself for resigning the command of the army to accept it; but it could not be helped. I owed my honors and op portunities to the Republican party, and, if my name could aid it, I was bound to accept. The second nomi nation was almost due to me—if I may use the phrase—because of the bitterness of political and personal opponents. “ My re-election was a great grat ification because it showed me how the country felt. Then came all the discussions about the third term. I gave my views on that in my letter to Senator White, of Pennsylvania. It is not known, however, how strongly I was pres ed to enter the canvass as a candidate. I was waited upon- formally bv a distinguished man, representing the influences that would have controlled the Republi cans in the South, and asked to al low my name to 1>8 used. This re quest was supported by men in the Northern States whose position and character are unquestioned. I said then that under no circumstances would I become a candidate. Even if a nomination and an election were assured, I would not run. The nomination if I ran would be after a struggle, and btfore it had been unanimous. The election, if I should win, would be after a strug- j gle, and the. result would be far dif ferent from what it was before. If I succeeded, and tried to do my best, my very best, I should still have a crippled administration. This was the public view. Personally I was weary of office. I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out oft* e Presidency. For six teen years, from the opening of the war, it had been a constant strain upon me. So, when the third term was seriously presented to me, I per emptorily declined it.” WALTON, EDITOR Valedictory. We come now to the most painful duty that has yet devolved upon us to perform since our name has been con nected with the University. Hitherto when it became necessary to leave, we could rest with the assurance that though we should leave, yet, iu a few months were we to return to the clas sic city;*but' now, no longer can we take shelter beneath the consideration of such hopes, for now wo must sepa rate and the places aud friends may “know us no more forever.’’ With this issue, we bid all adieu. Many pleasant memories shall be stored away carefully, that in after-life tfce reminiscences may be pleasant, tha - . shall be connected with Athens and my short stay here. To the young la dies, we would say that we are at a loss tor expressions suitable to commu nicate the emotions that are enkindled when we think of the pleasures that you have added to our college life. And in conclusion will say, rest as sured that you have not bestowed them upon an unappreciative person. To those of ray college mates who in-* tend remaining in the instruction of our noble institution, we have but lit tle to say. Let your course be char acterized hy such action as will reflect honor upon yourselves and do credit to the institution which you patronize. To ihose who intend striking with us the tide of real life, we would say strike down obstacles and surmount opposition; persevere and be self- reliant, and nothing short «f success will attend you. And as we turn to leave, we return our thanks to each Phi-Kappa for the honor of our pres ent position, aud however inefficiently our duty has been performed as editor of yoqr columns, your kindness will ever be remembered with pleasure and has met with a hearty appreciation. It is quite amusing to study the dif. ferent styles of conversation introduced by different persons ; and being very quiet ourself, we are we!!-adapttd to this purpose. The most attractive with some, is the punster with hi* play upon words; never introducing a single play upon ideas. It is haid to realize how any one cun enjoy this style, for after an entire evening’s talk and a final separation takes place, there is not a single addition made to the stock of knowledge, no impression made for depth of mind or ran<*e of understanding. We are glad to see the Hon. A H. Stephens in Athens, and trust that this great commoner may live to do his State great service in the coming convention of Congress, and besides that ho may assist to resuscitate the drooping couditioli of our truly be loved institution. Secret Societies. We do humbly hope that the Trus tees will do something to ameliorate the wretched condition to which their previous action have reduced Secret Societies. We have listened long to the denunciations of these sacred or ders, and not in a single instance have we seen argument presented against them that reflects either discredit upon them nor honor upon the originator. We have been told that they cherish party spirit. This cannot be shown to reside exclusively with the societies ; we nre told that merit is overlooked in awarding honors by society men, not necessarily, because one roan is influenced by a brotherly feeling is no reason why the entire body should be so influenced. We did not intend writing an arti cle on this subject, 'but think that if the Trustees consider this matter with reference to the interest of the young men here in attendance and for the good of the college, they cannot help razing that oppressive law that restricts and binds us down like ignoble slaves unworthy to select our associates. Our Board of Trustees is as able a body of men as can be found anywhere. We sincerely trust that they will in vestigate the condition of affairs, and introduce reform wherever it is needed. We are glad to see our friend AI Lawton upon the streets; he looks natural, and we hope that A1 will have no occasion to regret his visit to Athens. To-morrow is the time for the Se nior to make his display. This is his last occasion as a member of the col lege crowd to show his oratorical pow ers. The Sophs, are contending as to who shall have the medals. We would say to them their chances are over, and it rests with some one else to de cide the matter. The Pop-and-Goes came up last week to play a game of boll, but the showery weather prevented them frsni engaging in the sport. This is Commencement week, and the usual interest is manifested by the attendance of a large crowd. CLASS HISTORY. A Pamphlet History of the University Boys—Class of 1876. The present Senior Class had a meeting on last Friday morning, to de termine where they should have a re union. Mr. Mell was elected Presi dent, and Mr. Huguley as Secretary. It was resolved that the class meet at Atheus during the Commencement of 1882. Mr. Sale was elected as Histo rian of the class to write up the lives of each individual. Mr. Palmer was elected to deliver an address, and Mr Walton to read an essay on that occa sion. The subject ot prizes enlisted a good deal of interest, but finally it was determined that a silver goblet and waiter be presented to the member of the class who has the largest family. Second, that a goblet be presented to the first member that marries. We will state for the benefit of all that Daddy Brown was excluded from all contest for prizes. We trust that great interest will be taken iu this subject of reunion, and that no delinquent be found in 1882. Plug Ilouser thinks his chances for one of the medals rather slim, for he offers to bet five dollars against nickle that he “ won’t” get a medal. There is now in press at the Chron icle and Constitutionalist job office a full pamphlet history of the Class of 1875, which meet in their first trien nial reunion at the approaching Uni versity Commencement The book has been prepared with great care, ami contains a detailed record of each graduate since he packed his valise and kissed the professors good-by on the college campus steps at Athens, three years ago. The sketches show a pros perous condition of each one of the “sweet boy graduates,’’ and though young in years, many of them seem to be making fine headway in securing spons and experience, and have been blessed with a modicum of lucre and luck. The class history outlines the progress of the boys in college from their first ear-cropping under Sopho more skull caps to their final bows beneath their white silk beavers. The work is prefaced by a sprightly and well written poem from the pen of Mr. Hugh N. Starnes, of Savannah, one of the class. Upon the class roster, we note the name of Mr. William H. Fleming, Superintendent of Education of Richmond county; Mr. Frank R. Clark, of Dunbar, Clark & Co.; Dr. Wm. H. Doughty, Jr., and Pleasant A. Stovall, of Augusta; Hugh Starnes, of Savannah; 'George D. Case, of Milledgeville; Hugh H. Gordon, eld est son of Senator Gordou, of Atlanta, Prof. John T. Graves, principal of LaGrange High Sehool; JohD I. t". ghram, Esq . editor and proprietoi of .the Washington Gazette, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Assistant Supreme Court Reporter, Atlanta ; G. F. Gol- ber, one of the leading young lawyers of Marietta, and one of the County Auditors of Cobh ; Wm. T. Huguley, Secretary of the Georgia and Alabama Manufacturing Company of Columbus; Thos. P. Vincent aud Joseph M. Hodgson, of Atheus; Lott Warren, of Americas; Judge G. II. Tanner, ot Fuiton, Prof. Marion Erwin of Atlan ta, and many others. The pamphlet will be a happy and valuable addition to the class reuuion, and is gotten up in the best style by Mr. M. M. II>H< the well known foreman of the Chron icle job office.