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Give us the Homestead we had before the war, with honest collecting debts, so that poor people can again have credit as they did in former days. We have no descendants of Pocahontas, or first families, or broken down aristocracy to protect with three thousand dollar home steads. A majority of our inhabitants are honest, industrious farmers, hut we have a few long-faced hypocrites, and we want them to pay their debts and not filch a living by moving from one neighborhood to another, lying and swindling honest farmers, merchants, and others. A majority of our people wore opposed to secession, but if the Convention fixes up a Constitution so as to favor rascals more than the present one, Hart will secede from from Georgia and annex to Hampton’s Republic, which we suppose would not injure Georgia much.— A Novel But Good Idea. W. 11. Ross, of the Twenty-second District, proposes that each County should pay its own member or mem bers to the Legislature. It would be a capital idea, for some of our best men would go as members for nothing, just for the honor —and there would be honor in going then. The biggest item in the State expenses is the pay of the Legis lature, and this plan of letting out or drafting members from each County would reduce taxes so much that every body could afford to chew good tobacco. Hon. S. H. Mosely. Your head is level “ Sank,” and we love you now if we never did before. Do away with the roekology, doekrol gy and hogocornology bureaus, and all other useless bureaus. We never liked the name since the Freedmen’s Bureau was in operation. We will vote for you for the next Convention, we don’t care what County you hail from. The Convention wasted about a thousand dollars in time determining as to whether or not they would pay a chaplain to pray once a day for them. Of course there is not a member who does not need prayer ; but they have preachers in the body who could offer up one prayer daily for their State. We don’t mind seeing blind men and crippled boys peddling goobers around the State House, but for ministers of the Gospel to be peddling out prayer at two or three dollars for 10 minutes a morn ing don’t look well to outside barbarians. I®- The Russian campaign in Asia has come to grief, the Turks defeating them most signally. The army has apparently been more success ful, and 10,000 Russians have succeeded in penetrating the Balkan mountains, but we opine they will catch several tar tars before they capture Constantinople. It is rumored that Austria is about to interfere, then the fur will fly all over Europe. The Convention passed a reso lution making the daily sessions begin at 8:30 a. m. and close at 1 p. m. —four hours and a half. It is said every mem ber has a constitution in his pocket, the sort that his folks want; that being the case, the Convention will hardly get through this year. Stonewall Jackson used to say that he believed he was fonder of liquor than any man in his force, but he never tasted it. lie was profoundly ignorant of music, and cared nothing for it, but the u rebel yell ” of his troops always interested him and de lighted him, and whenever he was greeted with it he would wave his old gray cap, and his war-horse knowing his habit, would break into a gallop, nor halt till the shout iiad ceased. “ That was the sweetest mu sic I ever heard,” was his remark on one SUCh OCCftqirm Cunvnllu Dotw. The all-important nucstion of per diem has been settled by adopting $4.00 per day and 10 cents mileage each way. It is thought there will boa reconsidera tion, and that $5 per day will be the figure, and that the pay of all succeeding legisla tures will he based on the pay adopted by this Convention. As it now stunds the Convention costs about S9OO a day. Col. Hass, of Home, favors the plan of reducing the Legislature thus : Two Sena tors from each Congressional District, one for two and one for four years ; then di vide the State into 75 Representative Dis tricts based upon population. This would give one Representative to every 15,000 peo ple. Under this, there are fourteen coun ties in the State that would have a Repre sentative each. The other counties would bo thrown into districts, the size depend ing unon population. In some cases it would take four or five counties to make a district. It is quite certain that biennial sessions will be adopted. It is thought the Convention will ad journ in about 25 days. Shepperd, of Hanks, is in favor of re ducing the homestead to S7OO. One county in N. E. Georgia has only one man who could properly be taken on a bond, as he is the only one worth over the homestead. .Judge Rice complains that he had to ac cept worthless bonds in that County fre quently, just because the homestead was so large that a good bond could not be made. Geo. Toombs is in favor of a liberal homestead, and he says that it is impossi ble to amend the present homestead, ex cept by making it larger ; and for the rea son that the bankrupt law in the Constitu tion of the United States (a higher authority than the Constitution of Georgia can be) provides that a bankrupt shall have as ex emption whatever homestead was set apart by the State law when the bankrupt act was passed. Ross, of the Twenty-second District wanted an ordinance to allow each county to fix the pay of its members of the Gen eral Assembly. Cotlon Crop. Marietta Journal. July returns of the condition of cotton as received by the Department of Agricul ture cover the entire area of 3GI counties froducing six-tenths of the cotton of the Jnitcd States. The average condition of the whole area is 93 4-10 per cent., 4 per cent loss than the July average of last year. It is less by seven percent than the average for 1875, but better than the condition for 1874 or 1873. Only Louisiana gives a high er average than in July last year. The State averages arc as follows : North Caro lina. 88; South Carolina, 87 ; Georgia. 90 ; Florida, 95; Alabama, 94; Mississippi, 93; Louisiana, 102 ; Texas, 91 ; Arkansas, 94 ; Tennessee, 90. The crop is from one to two weeks late. News Items. (Hood judges put the wheat crop of Ohio this year at thirty million bushels. An lowa man put #16,000 in the rag hag for safe keeping. A peddler came along and his wife sold the rags. Atlanta City Council proposes to erect a new capital building ana donate it to the State, if the Convention will locate the capitol permanently in Atlanta. The Savannah News says that there are in the convention : Lawyers 51, farmers 44, doctors 15, manufacturers 5, railroad managers 4, teachers 2, editors 2, preachers 5, professional office holders 4. A colored girl was blown off the railroad bridge near Milledgeville the other day, and fell a distance of sixty feet, but having a small umbrella over her head at the time she was not materially injured by the fall. Another Post Master succumbs to the detective scheme in operation in connection with the Postoffice department at Wash ington. This time it is the postmaster at Athens. The crime is hypothecating postage stamps. In Rockdalo county, Mr. Elias Wootley was excommunicated from the Primitive Baptist Church last Saturday for plead ing usury. Mr. Alfred Smith was like wise excommunicated for taking the home stead. The New York Herald declares that the Republican party died for the want of some thing to do. It is incredible that it should have died for the want of something to do as long as there was any stealing to be done. —Louisville Courier Journal. Honor to whom honor is due. Therefore be it written of that celebrated soldier, Freedman’s Bureau Howard, that with four hundred soldiers he encountered three hundred Indians, and after seven hours fighting, captured one squaw. “ The Republican party,” says the Shreveport Times , “ will have to go the way of the Whig party.” Why, good heavens ! you don’t mean to say that the Whig party actually went wards, do you ?—Louisville Courier Journal , A lot of land, about five or six miles from this place, within a mile and a half of the Rail Road, containing 150 acres, well timbered and situated, sold at Sheriff’s sale for ninety-three dollars. R. R. did not raise price much. — Gainesville South ron. Every newspaper correspondent in the the Eastern war is compelled to wear a numbered medal, on the reverse of which is a photograph of the wearer, in order to put the question of identity beyond dispute. The Russians and Turks have each their corps of photographers. A Mississippi paper tells of a lady in that State who has had eleven children in twelve years. She would no doubt have made it twelve children in eleven years if it would have been the least accommoda tion to anybody. —Louisville Courier Journal. A negro man recently went bear hunting in Chowan county, N. C., and was soon after found in the embraces of a bear, both dead. And now the people around there want to know what in the world the negro could have been thinking about to let a bear he had killed hug him to death. It hasn't occurred to them that the bear may have killed the negro first—however, that wouldn’t do either. —Louisville Courivt' Journal. Saturday’s session of the Con. Con. Was short, sharp and wonderfully prolific. It was the natal day of more new ideas and novel amendments than have yet appeared, and the records of the brief two hours bear the impress of some fearfully wonderful notions. There were resolutions to table, resolutions to refer, resolutions to act upon, resolutions to muddle the clerks, disgruntle reporters, and, as Mark Twain has it, resolutions “to give to the poor.” For about ninety minutes they were stack ed upon the clerical desks as thick as cows on an Augusta sidewalk, and related to every conceivable subject save the enlarge ment of Nocoochee Valley and the sup pression of the canal barbecues. They are now all stuffed inti the wallets of the com mittees, where many will doubtlessly re main slirouded in the swaddles of their own originality.— Chronicle Of Constitu tionaluit. Captain Thomas W. Gantt, formerly editor and proprietor of the Athens Geor gian, died at his son's residence in Missis sippi, on the 13th of this month. Capt. G., for a number of years, has been connected with journalism in Georgia and South Car olina. The deceased was 59 y r enrs of age, a native of South Carolina, has for the past twelve months been alHictcd with pa ralysis. was on a visit to his son and died suddenly. He was highly respected by all who knew him, and his loss will be deeply felt. We trust he is in a better world. lie was the father of T. L. Gantt, editor of the Oglethorpe Echo.—Chronicle Sf Constitutionalist. The Franklin county jail has been again emptied of prisoners, the third time in the past nine months. It seems almost impos sible to keep prisoners secure in some of the jails of the State, and it would be well to hold the jailer responsible for these con tinued escapes, which often occur through a want of due diligence on the part of the officers whose duty it is to see to the secu rity of prisoners. Rev. David Nolan, preacher in charge of the Whitesburg circuit, LaGrange district of the North Georgia Conference, has been suspended from the office of the ministry for the crime of adultry, a committee of investigation having decided to his guilt. His case will come before the next annual conference, who, when guilt is established, will adjudge such punishment as the gravi ty of the crime is thought to demand. A large number of Governors have re sponded favorably to the invitation from some prominent Philadelphians to attend a convention of the Governors of all the States in the Union, to be held at Philadel phia in August. An excursion has been arranged for the Governors to Cape May, New York, Boston, Lowell and other points. E. P. Wall, a prominent colored Repub lican of Charleston, S. C., who has been Alderman and County Commissioner, an nounces his allegiance to the Democratic party, because of the character of the local Republican leaders and the tone of Gov. Hampton’s administration. The Atlanta correspondent Macon Tele graph says, in speaking of the convention : We counted but six' shaven faces in the whole body. And such a collection of gray beards and hoary heads. was probably nev er seen before in any deliberative assem bly. fr/iA BUSHELS 1 AADRnNheli OUU WHEAT. IUUU OATS, AY ANTED. The highest prices will lie paid for either or Ix*th. Those who know themselves indebted to me. in any w av, had best bring on some wheat or oats, or come and settle otherwise. This is my iirst and last no tice. 1 want something to eat. 48 55 C. A. WEBB. LAND FOR SALE. milK undersigned proposes to sell his TRACT of I. LAND. 2*124 acres, lying on the headwaters of Beaverdatn Creek. 200 acres under good fence; 100 cleared ; 15 acres of Bottom Land, well ditched ; 35 acres of fresh upland, and all the cleared land in a lllull atale of cultivation : Good Dwelling- House, and all necessary out-buildings; Good Or chard, Good Vineyard, Good Well and Good Garden. Come and examine the crops and taste the fruit and grapes, and give me a bio, as I am determined to sell at a bargain. |3P Terms Mode Easy. M. M. JOHNSON, 48-54 Bowersville, Hart Cos., Ga. BBs derangements gf liver, KIDNEYS, SKIN, STOMACH AMn RflU/FI ft. oUISiIUp^ EVERY FAMILY SHOULD USE AND KEEP it ou band, because of its superiority over all other Liver Medicines or Liver Regulators. Operates without Nausea or Griping. Not unpleasant to take. It Cures Diseases of the Liver and Spleen. It Removes Mercury from the System. It is the only Medicine known that Cures Constipa tion. It Cures Neuralgia, Sick Headache and Rheuma tism. It is an excellent Laxative for Delicate Females. The oftoner you take it, the smaller the dose—the very opposite to all other Purgatives. It is always ready for use, and never contradicted in any case. It is the best of all Purgatives for Children. All persons should use it who are afflicted with Piles or Constipation. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers. DOWIE <fc MOISE, 45-48 Druggists, Charleston, S. C. easily earned in these times, 111 rau l”' ,na, l° in three months 111 l>y any one of either sex, in any part 111 of the country who is willing to work If* steadily at the employment that we fnmish. per week in your town. You need not be away from home over night. You can give your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. We have agents who are making over |9O per day. All who engage at once can make money fast. At the present tune money cannot be made so easily and rapidly at auy other business. It costs nothing to try the business. Terms and |5 Outfit free. Address at once, H. F ULETT & Cos., Portland. Maine, 47-98 SYRUP MACHINE!! Y. MviMK We, JOBXSQN & €Qo * ATLANTA, GA., Manufacturers of Clegg’s Patent Portable COPPER EVAPORATORS and Galvan ized Iron Evaporators. Agents for CASE MILLS. FRVIT DRYERS , GINS COTTON PRESSES , Portable and Stationary STEAM ENGINES. THRESHERS , HORSE POW ERS. FAN MILLS. HORSE HAY RAKES . GRIST MILLS, SMUT MA CHINES, BOLTING CLOTHS , MOWING MACHINES, SfC. BfcSUOur Evaporators are the cheapest on the market, and none better Send for circulars and prices. TURNIP SEERS. 1,500 lt>s. Fresh TURNIP SEF.DS. All sorts Umlrcth's licst GRASS SEEDS, SEED OATS, RYE, HARLEY, WHEAT, 40. FERTILIZERS FOR WHEAT !!! AG liICULTUItAL IM CLEMENTS, &G Mark W. Johnson & Cos., Atlanta, Ga,, July 9, 1877. 47-72 ROBERT S. FINDLAY. JOHN B. ROBERTS. FINDLAY, ROBERTS k CO, [SUCCESSORS TO WARD BROTHERS, ESTABLISHED 1816.) IMPORTERS OF HARDWARE, CUTLERY", GUNS, &C„ 40 9 SOUTH CALVERT STREET BALTIMORE, MI). L. PASSANO & SONS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN WHITE GOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY, Gloves, Trimmings and Small Wares, 268 WEST BALTIMORE STREET, MILLS, GINS, ENGINES, MACHINERY, of any kind can be procured through us CHEAPER and on more accommodating TERMS than elsewhere. Try us. E. B. BENSON & CO. ED. EMERICK SELL. CHAS. FOSTER. SELL & FOSTER, JOBBERS OF WHITE GOODS, MILLINERY , FANCY and FURNISHING GOODS, GLOVES, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, AND STATIONERY, Goods sold on the most liberal terms, at the lowest prices to responsible houses. SELL & FOSTER, No. 27 Hayne Street, Charleston, S. C. 47 70 TAR. W. H. McCURRY, Dentist, U HARTWELL , GA. Will do all work in the Dental line. He nses the very best material and guarantees Satisfaction. He can be found at the Drug Store of A. G, McCurry &. Cos., when not professionally abscut. 28 [ESTABLISHED 1848.] J. J. & S, P. RICHARDS, WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOKS, STATIONERY AND MUSIC, ATLANTA, GA. MERCHANTS and TEACHERS supplied on the most advantageous terms with all articles kept in a FIRST-CLASS BOOKSTORE. CHURCHES & SUNDAY SCHOOLS supplied with all kinds of suitable books at publishers’ prices. Prices low for Cash. Give us a trial. J. J. &. S. T. RICHARDS, 46-57 Atlanta, Ga. W. H. BROWN & BRO, Wholesale Druggist, BALTIMORE, MD.. J)ROPRIETORS and Manufacturers of Brown’s Monumental Bitters, Vegetable Worm Candy, Horse and Cattle Powders, Seidlitz and Soda Powders, “ Sewing Machine Oil, “ Essence Jamaica Ginger, Nerve and Bone Liniment, Cathartic and Tonic Liver Pills, “ Cough Syrup, “ Cod Liver Oil, King of All Pain—“ Kierstead’s,” “ Blood Searcher—“ Lindsay’s,” “ Sarsaparilla—“ Schwartz’s,” “ Fever and Ague Powders— “ Coulson’s,” “ Flavoring Extracts— Full strength, “ Monumental Boquet Cologne, “ Monumental Boquet Soap, “ Lily White and Rouge. All of the above reliable preparations can be had of E. B. BENSON & CO., 38-63 Hartwell, Ga. TO PAVE QOCD HEALTH THE LIVER -MUST BE KEPT ITT OP.FEE p&wqmm / | S*/>„ LIVEFto-5 & /'VWGORtfOft J ” U, G^ NER/ /'CpfSfIPAUONS S § 1 FOR DISEASESOF<&g " | LIVER STOMACH ° r BILIOUSNESS /V TOR 'PAMPHLETS ADDERS DE. SANFORD. SEW '.’3RK (GEORGIA— HART COUNTY. VJ Notice is hereby given that I have filed in the Clerk's Office of the Superior Court of Hart County, my petition praying to be relieved from the disability of contracting marriage, and that the same will stand for trial at the next term of said Court in Sep tember next. June 17th, 1877. 45-53 JOSEPH S. CHAMBERS. ivtotice. li After the publication of this notice once a week for four weeks, application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Hart County, for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate of Lodwiek Alford, deceased, late of said County. This July 4th. 1877. 45-48 D. C. ALFORD, Administrator.