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HARTWCI.I., HART < \TV. UA.i
WrdutMlu)' Morning;. Mnrvli 21. 1H77.
Constitutional Convention.
The question us to whether we shall
vote for or against a Convention to frame
a Constitution for the State is now agi
tating the public miml.
Although the Legislature passed the
hill calling the Convention, provided the
]>eoplc shall vote for it, it is by no means
settled that the people will ratify this
net of their representatives at the ballot
box.
The press is almost a nnit in its favor,
the only exception being a few County
papers.
The reasons fora Convention are nu
merous, and if all the proposed changes
in the law are grafted in the Organic;
Law, the Constitution will be as bulky
a volume as the Code of Georgia.
A few of the reasons given by the
warmest advocates of the measure are:
Ist. To incorporate in the Constitu
tion an article forever prohibiting the
payment of the fraudulent bonds.
2d. To revise the jury system, and
improve upon the grand juries as now
selected.
3d. To place in the Constitution some
provision to limit local legislation.
4th. To place a restriction upon cities,
tow us ami couuties which will limit their
power of taxation.
sth. To reduce the homestead and
make it a fixed and absolute estate.
6th. To curtail the term of office of
mauy appointed officers.
And we might enumerate mauy other
important changes.
To these innovations the opponents
of the measure reply, that many of them
are not needed, and others are not wise ;
but that if any changes are necessary,
they can be effected by the Legislature,
and that the cost of a Convention will
exceed the benefit.
The, arguments for and against the
Convention are both well founded, and
we doubt not the people will reach a
correct conclusion upon so grave a mat
ter.
Wc invite correspondents to present
their views, and candidates their claims
—the last named at the rate of S').oo
per announcement.
fifeT Hon. H. P. Bull has been
elected to Congress from the 9th Dis
trict, to succeed Mr. Hill. We admire
Mr. Bell’s course, both in private and
public life. While his clarion voice
will cease tor a time, among his native
mountains, yet his Bell will chime
with the Hill’s in high places.
Str£r Haves cabinet nominations have
been confirmed by the Senate.
Tin* White Policy.
New York Sun.
Wc do not look upon the reestablishment
of slavery, in name, at the South, as prob
able, or even possible. But we believe the \
absolute amalgamation of the two races. I
the blacks and the whites, also impossible.
During the greater part of the last ten
years the colored people have enjoyed the
advantage of keen sympathy for them on
the part of the national Administration.
They or their professed friends have held
the Federal offices.
All this is essentially changed now. A
white man’s party is to be built up in the i
South, composed largely of rebel element.
Uready a man has been appointed Post
master-General of the United States be
cause he had been roi offender in the rebel
army—for we do not suppose that Mr Key
would ever have been thought of for the
place except for this reason. It was be
lieved that through the instrumentality of
this appointment former rebels could be
drawn to the Hayes standard. Already a
lea ling Hayes journal demands the remov
al f colored persons holding office under
the guuuiU (juvciiiu**iul. m -tb Smithy
whom ignT>rftfW‘ ami incapacity Tmvc been
suddenly discovered.
Thus far the signs of remonstrance with
in the rnnks of the |*rty ugainst this I'inw
dnmental change of policy are lew. Mr.
Blaine made a declamatory remonstrance
in the Senate; but the latest advices repre
sent him as on tho best possible footing
with the ncwi’resident ami the new Cabi
net. The venerable \\ nliam Lloyd Gar
rison. who hast unselfish!V devoted a long
1 life to advocating the cause of the colored
rare, has written a burning letter of dis
approval. Even the eloquent Wendell
Phillips is dumb ; while the Republican
press generally applauds the policy as
promising the acquisition of needed strength
to the Republican party.
It will be interesting to see bow this
new policy will be received by the colored
people themselves. Under it they will re
tain nominal equality, out their old mas
ters will direct things pretty much in their
own way. The negroes may continue to
vote, but they will not lie expected to con
tinue to think. The whites will do the
thinking for both races.
111*111** or Interest.
Kerosene oil in Savannah 17 cents a
gallon.
There is a goose in Greene county, the
property of Mr. Win. Curry, of said
county, that is forty-five years old.
Governor Smith lias decided to remain a
resident of the city of Atlanta. It. is prob
able he will at once engage in the practice
of the law.
Two tcaspoonfuls of mustard will cure
cholera in hogs. So says a brooks county
fanner, who has had practical experience
in tlit* matter
We have heard that cx-Govcrnor brown
and Senator Hill decline to endorse Hem
ocralie applicants for ofiico under Hayes.—
ContttifulionaU.il.
The next meeting of the Georgia Press
Association will hi held in Thonriasville in
May. The Georgia editors will certainly
have an excellent time at Thomasville in
May.
The papers throughout the State are
urging the selection of the very best men
for the Constitutional Convention. Good
men are the kind that are needed and no
mistake.
It is now ascertained that the expendi
tures of the forty-fourth Congress were, in
round numbers, $50,000,000 less than those
of the forty-third Congress. One was
Democratic,and the other Republican.
Yesterday fifteen men charged with illicit
distilling were allowed to plead guilty and
he discharged under suspension of sentence
by the United States district court. This
makes the total number thus dismissed
three hundred and forty-one. But still they
come. Constitution loth.
Burton, of the Eastman Times, has a
very poor opinion of the great city of At
lanta. Hear him: “Sodom itself could
scarcely boast of more corruption. At
lanta is nothing more nor less than a gen
oral auction room, in which are offered
annually to the highest bidder the rights
and interests of the people of the State.”
The floating statement that Carl Sehurz
is the first foreigner who has held a place
in the cabinet, is erroneous. Alexander
Hamilton, who was Washington’s secretary
of the treasury, was horn on one of the
West India islands ; while Albert Gallatin,
Jefferson’s secretary of the treasury, was
a native of Switzerland.
It is now said that General Joe John
ston will he United States marshal for Vir
ginia. When politically disabled he dccli
-1 ned the tempting offer of the command
of the Khedive's army, with a salary of
$50,000 a year, because he preferred, as he
said, to live and die an American citizen,
lie now ekes out a support lv a life insu
rance agency.
Miller county is probably ahead on the
question of bacon supply, as will be seen
bv the following description of an entirely
new variety : “ A double pig, except the
head, it having only one head, the mother
of which is propel iv of Mr. William Yftm
key, of Miller county. The nig had eight
legs, with a well developed head, foot to
each leg, two tails, and in fact every part
well developed.”
Tn Chattooga. Walker, Dade, and the
upper counties generally of this State, the
peach trees are reported to have been kill
oil during the cold spell in January. In
Flovd they are not generally killed, though
probably some are. In the counties of
I’olk, Paulding, Floyd, Chattooga. V\ alker,
Catoosa and \Y bitfield the stand of wheat
is generally good ; but the growth is very
small for tins season. The fanners gener
ally consider the prospect good for at least
an average crop.
The parties who have been recently turn
ed loose after pleading guilty to illicit dis
tilling arc distributed among the counties
as follows : Banks furnishes 3 ; Butts, 2 ;
Bartow. 5; Cherokee, 25; Campbell. 1 ;
Clayton, 1; DcKalb, 2: Dawson. Ift; Fan
nin. 11 ; Forsyth. 15; Elbert, 1 : Floyd, 2;
Gilmer, 20; Gwinnett, 13; Gordon, 8 ;
Hall, 17, Habersham, 3: Haralson, 23;
Henry, 5; Jackson. 2 ; Jasper, 1 ; Lump
kin. 2*; Murray, 2 ; Madison. 5; Milton. 1 ;
Oglethorpe, 1 ; Polk, 2 ; Pickens. 3: Paul
ding. 13; Rabun, 2 ; Union, 9; Walton, 3;
White, 0 ; total, 225.
The Savannah News savs that the Cen
tral railroad company have transported
during the past thirty days, from Savannah
alone, over 270,000 bags of commercial fer
tilizers. In the trasportation of this stuff,
2,7(H) cars have been required, and allow
ing twenty cars to the train, at least one
I hundred and thirty-five trains, or five trains
per day were necessary for this work.
These fertilizers are landed from the ves
sels (which bring them from northern
ports) at the Central railroad company's
wharf, and are hardly cold before they are
moving rapidly to the interior, to either
make or break some farmer,
-Hearing Upon tv probable convention,
which will, if it meets, revise the laws of
the Suite of Georgia.the Macon Telegraph
say a tine provision of the new consti
tution of Nortn Carolina for
ever, and renders ineligible to ollioc or jury
duty every thief. The law has worKe'l like
a clinnn. and now* chickens roost low, ami
and locks and bursjuijdbt almost
cd with. Of course, the penalty is visited
upon all offenders of whatever nice, color,
or previous condition. This is the most
rational, efficient and constitutional method
of practically doing away with the devilish
results of universal suffrage that has ever
been devised. Will notour proposed Con
stitutional Convention make a nolo of it.
Mini liodily incorporate that section of the
North Cnrolina constitution into their own
fundamental law?”
President Haves said a good tiling, the
other day. to Miss Phoebe Co/.zens, of St.
Louis, who went up to t lie White House
to [iay her respects to him. Miss ( ozzens
is a lady who has studied law. and who
differs from nearly all the ladies who have
invaded the professions usually practiced
by inen, in being decidedly attractive in
personal appearance. In the course of her
conversation Miss Cozzens playfully re
ferred to (Jen. Grant’s having tallied of
appointing her Chief Justice, and said tl a
had he done so, it would have been her
duty to have administered the oath of office
to him on Monday. “My dear Miss Coz
zens, in that case I should have kissed
■ unething besides the book.”
The curse, says the boston Cost, has
come home to roost at the White House
earlier than we expected. Not a dnv lias
passed since the inauguration but Hayes
lias been reminded; in the most offensive
and blatant manner, by members of his
own political party, that his claim to the
office of President rests only upon fraud and
villainy. ” You discredit' Packard.” said
blaine, “ and you discredit Hayes; you
hold that Packard is not the legal Governor
of Louisiana, and Ilayes has no title to the
office of President.” Ugly and malicious
as these taunts may seem, blame is right
as to the fact; and it begins to seem as if
the crime against the people would bring
its own punishment speedily.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
FOB STATE CONVENTION.
ft? The many friends of Dk. I). O. OSBORNE
announce trim as a suitable man to represent them in
the Constitutional Convention.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF
J. 0. Bobo, Treasurer for Hart County,
Georgia, for the Year 1876.
To the Honorable Ordinary of Hart
County. Ga., I r&ajicctfully submit the fol
lowing report, showing the amount of
money received and paid out in the year
1870 :
Ain’t on h’d Jan. 1. 1870
for jury fund $ 28.07
Am't rec’d from T. C.,
bal. of taxes of 1875.. 538.53
Ain’t rec'd from T. C.
in part of taxes 1870. 170.00
$737,20
Am't paid out in 1870 to
jurors $ 094.72
Ain't paid commissions 35.07-729.79
Bal. on h'd Jan. 1.1877. 7.41
Ain’t on hand Jan. 1.
1870 for indigent poor $ 22.32
Am't rec'il from T. C.
bal tax 1875.. 260.09
Ain’t rec'd from Ordn’y
for sale 1 yoke oxen
at poor house 38.00
Ain’t rec’d from T. C.
in part of tax of 1870 360.00
SOBI.OI
Ain’t paid out in 1870,
on orders.... $ 638.54
Ain’t paid commissions 32.17-670.71
Bal. on h'd Jan. 1. 1877 $ 10.30
Ain’t on h'd Jan 1,1870,
for Cos. purposes. &c. $ 34.09
Ain’t rec’d from T. C.
Bal. of tax of 1875 174.23
Ain’t rec’d from Ordn’y
for rent rooms in C 11. , 50.00
Am't rec’d from Ordn’y
for retail licenses 175.00
Ain’t rec’d from Ordny
for sale of town lots.. 119.50
Ain’t rec'd from Ordny
for sale of lime 4.20
Ain’t rec'd road fine 1.00
“ T. C. wild land
tax of 1876 6.00
Ain’t rec'd from T. C.
in part of tax of 1870
for county purposes
and repair C. 11. and
jail, &c 800.00
$1,370.02
Ain’t paid out in 1870.. $1,002.98
“ “ commissions 58.46-1,001.44
Bal. on h’d Jan 1, 1877 $ 308.58
Am't rec’d of Sol. Gen.
fines and forfeitures.. $ 40.00
Am't rec’d of Sheriff’,
tines and forfeitures 500.00
Am’t paid out to Sol.
Gen. and Sheriff. $540.00.
Respectfully submitted.
JOHN O. 8080. C. T.
Y B- HODGES,
A TTORNEY-A T-LA W,
HARTTVELL, HART COUNTY, GA.,
Will promptly attend to all bnainess intrusted to his
care ami collecting made a specialty. JC
W; JENNINGS & CO,
t Jennings & Ashley,)
:1H llvtatiirKl., tlfniils. ... Georglii.
NtniTK PINE
Doors,.Sash,
Blinds, Mantels, Etc,
also
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE PAINTS,
Mixed him! Heads fur t'ac, and
AVI]VI>OW I,ANN. _ 30-31
HIDES. HIDES.
lirE * ill from lliia date tmrter. Hoot*, Shoe*.
Leather. \i-„ for Hides, and allow a very
reasonable ju ice for the aanie.
30-41 J. W. AYERS* SOX.
JOHN P. SHANNON,
A TTOJtXEV-J T-LA W,
KLBERTON, GEORGIA,
I’ruetire* in the Oountiiw of Elbert. Hart. Mad I won
and Franklin, and in the Supreme Court; elsewhere
win'll employed. 30
15. E. SEABORN,
WITH
HART & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, IRON,
ISlcel anil Agrieullnrl Implements,
CHARLESTON, S. C. 29-82
MAKE (lit BREAK.
We expect anew stock of DRY
GOODS, SHOES, HATS, CROCK
ERY and HARDWARE soon. In
fact, will keep as before a little of every
thing except Liquors, Playing Cards and
Tombstones.
For cash—well the bottom is knocked
out, and you will be surprised to see at
what astonishingly low prixes everything
is sold.
To those who have paid us up, we will
sell agaiu on time. Those who know
themselves to he slow and bad pay will
please not ask credit, as they cannot ex
pect anything buta refusal. We know
them as well as they know themselves.
For our knowledge we have paid dearly,
and we have an abiding something, or
things (notes or accounts) that continu
ally remind us of fair promises not ful
filled. Ro they will not he forgotten,
even if their names should not appear
on our new Ledger. Besides, we have
not the money, if we had the inclina
tion, to supply the whole country with
goods on time. Hence, will accommo
date those only who rare for us and show
; their appreciation by paying up at least
once a year.
E. B. BENSON & CO.
WE HAVE
A large lot of FLOUII , which we offer
low.
A good assortment of TOBACCO.
GARDEN SEEDS, and the earliest as
well as the most prolific CORN
on the market.
Several varieties IRISH POTATOES.
Cheap MOLASSES- —Three Grades of
NEW ORLEANS SYRUP.
Bark and shuck COLLARS.
PLOWS , NAMES, TRACES, and
BA CKBANDS.
Also, a very large lot of HOLS, at very
low prices.
For a 5 mile smoke, try one of our
long CIGARS.
E. B. Benson & Cos.
E£ AD Till
SAW MILL NOTICE,
I HATE determined upon the following term* for
this year, so that there can be no misunderstand
ing:
For sawing lumber, 40 cents per 100 feet if paid bv
Fall.
For sawing lumber, 50 cents per 100 feet if not
paid by January Ist, 1878.
Lumber for sale at SO cents per 100 feet, to be paid
in the Fail.
Lumber for sale at SI.OO per 100 feet, if not paid bv
January Ist, 1878.
These terns will be strictly adhered to.
H. N. AYERS,
26-30 Reed Creek, Ga. *
A CARD.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, *
CtivKiv or, Tata. •)
We. the iimierHiinied. alUeua of Tate County,
Mississippi, have been aeijimiuted with Dr. W. A.
Skelton ever ainee (or nearly so) he mine to the State,
and never knew anythin:; Hindu*! him as gentle,
malt of business-man —always a man o! energy, ami
followed iiii: iiUMue** lie ui*i,‘lLw'k with uti In*
might. Worked hard and paid his debts—uever
bankrupted, nor tri<d in any way to get ont of a just
debt. Left bore in theillterest of his Patent Tomb
stone business, and we would like to have him among
n* again : feeling flint we had a valuable addition to
*urietj\ All tilings to ihe centiary of this we think
t’alho.
The patentee of the toiohatouo lives in this County,
and freijuvntly visited our town w here Skelton then
Jived, and Skelton was and had been in the Tomb
stone business for some time and we never heard Of
him being charged of selling w ithout legal authority
nor of any suits being brought against him tor dam
age*.
at COLttWATKIf.
J. J. THORNTON. W. H. ANDERSON,
C. <L OALLICOTT, W. F. BAKER,
WC ('A I,Lift ITT, WM DUNCAN,
liC RUTLEDGE, A .1 SCOTT,
I R TURLEY, W W POWELL
W K SLOAN, F M PERRYMAN,
W C LYONS, A W DARBY,
I K.JACKSON, -J W SAN DIDOE,
LC UNDERWOOD, W II WYNNE.
.roSTAH DAILY, HENRY F DOWDY,
J F I“A< E, JOHN It AGKK,
JNO A SEtINER, J T M< KINKY,
.1 W LIPHEY, E LUCE.
O L SCOTT, D W ALLEN, M D,
A B SLOAN, W POWELL.
IXnSPKXDEXCE.
J A HARRIS, JAS A HARRISON,
J F E A YA NSON, J L GR A HAM,
T .1 THORNTON. J R SAN DUX JK,
II W McKINNON, B A EAVANSON,
J E KERSEY, G M KAVANSON,
L J PARKS, J G EVANSON,
G R SANRIDGE, J C GRAIIAM,
TG WALLACE, W W GRAItY.
A J WALLACE, I). M MORGAN.
TYltO.
II L ROBERTS. R A DEAN.
R G LANGSTON. E F JOHNSON,
J A JOHNSON.
SENATOHIA.
J P Mt'CRACKIN, Chancorv Clerk,
W L HAWKINS, JAS 1* Met RAC KIN,
R B McCKACKIN. S M COCKE,
II H CtK'KE.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, )
Tate Coukty. >
r ROBERT F WARD. Clerk of the Circuit Court
• of said County, do hereby certify that J. J.
Thornton. Williamson Powell, \Y. 11. Anderson, A.
W. Darby, Josialt Daily and J. F. Pace, whose sig
natures appear to the above, are merchants of Cold
water. Mississipjti, and that G. R. Saudidge and J A
Harris are merchants of independence. Mississippi,
and of Tate County; C G Callicott is a member of
tlie State Senate front this District ; that J P Mc-
Crackin is Chancery Clerk, and W L Hawkins is
Treasurer of Tato County, and that they are all citi
zens of good repute and standing, and entitled to full
confidence, and that many others in the alsivc list < f
names are known to me personally, all of whom are
amongst our best citizens.
Witness the signature of the, Circuit Clerk and the
Seal of said Court, at Sonatobia, Mississippi; this
17th dnv of F’ebniarv. 1577.
*27 l-SVai. ] ROBERT F. WARD, Clerk.
[/w Pric s. Quick S als !
G. O. HOUiXSOK. I.VDPEN * BATES.
6, 0. ROBINSON & CO.
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