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THE FIELD AMI FIRESIDE. Vluriclla, June 3, Ts 7. •£ I' HK Marietta Paper Manufacturing *'o. Manufacturer the best of Xews an.) Wrapping paper, at lowest prices. S. A Andkkson, Agent. Tlie Convention. It is still uncertain whether the peo ple will give a majority of votes for or against a ( .invention. The newspapers -eem satisfied that*a s„rtfoient number of statesmen iiave been nominated to secure the framing of a better Constitu t ion. We hojjie they are right, if we Hre to have a Convention. Tuesday next Is the day of election, and we will print rickets rhMjt for all who will call upon ns. lleleKatfs to flic Convention. 0 a meeting of the Convention for the thirty-fifth Senatorial District, held at Ulam:|oin the iikt idt. the following gentlemen were nominated for delegates from this district : From Cobh—A. C. Mclntosh and Gen. Roberts. From Fithou—l.. .1. Gartrell, Benj. E. Crane, X. J. Hammond, P. 1.. Mynatf, and .lolin ('oilier. From < layton—J. T. Spence. 1 >e|egate at larg<—.l. W. Robertson. oT < rthb. Crop Disaster*. li is predicted that the cotton crop of South-west Georgia will be an entire failure. The cut-worm and grasshopper have put the planters on the third plan ling this season. A Radical of lh Right Stump. V> republish Hip larger part of the admirable letter of Hon. Warren Akin, presenting, as it does, all the issues of the Convention question. If men are seleeted representing these views, great good may be accomplished in tin* econ oniy and efficiency of legislation, in re lievillg the people of oppressive bur thens, and in checkingJhe tide of jiolit ieal corruption. Col. Akin proposes, in the first place, tin* abolition of the Senate, as a wholly useless hrHneh of the Legislature. Leaving out rhis'por tion of liis letter, we give the remain der, ii. which our readers will rake a lively interest. Another New Paper. We have received from Cumining, Georgia, a copy of a large, handsomely printed, and ably conducted paper, en titled The '/(‘iiliws Chrixlfun, published by Isaac A. Clement A Cos. Tliei e seems to he a disposition on the part of established presses to prejudice the public mind against all new efl’orts in the publishing business. It seems that they would have the country divi ded into newspaper districts, and hut one paper allotted to each. This might work well for the district paper,—it might enjoy, quietly, without the spur to effort which competition brings, the monopoly of ofiiciai patronage; hut It -cenis that popular inteiligenee and the public good would suffer from the par risanidens which would naturally and constantly flow through such umedinm. It w ould lie hi*ttcr that intelligence,coni mnnieated through the Press, should he free and untrammelled, leaving the paper to rely not upon its sinecure, hut upon its merit, to sustain its success.— There is good reason why flve times as many papers as we now have north of the t 'liattahoochcc may not lie well sus tained by its population w ithout any ap preciable burthen, and greatly to the public benefit. They need not be pure ly official, local pr political in character, but may he as distinctly religious, lite rary, agricultural, or scientific in their prominent features. It is rumored that w e may statu have published in Marietta a pa|ier, purely literary, and ably conducted. I.et the ligin shine. Itisusters in California. Southern California is described as a palpitating ash heap from the drouth, and the Sonoma, Sacramento and Sono ra valleys burnt to a crisp. There is no grass, and one ranch man was compell ed to kill his 2.">,000 sheep for their pelts as they could not he fed. f‘attic and sheep are dying by the HiousuihL for want of w ater and grass; they cannot tie sold for any sum, and the vast tracts of land which have long been held in large ranches and farms will pass into other hands as the present proprietors are bankrupts. San Francisco property i- a- in itch depressed as country prop erty, and either can now he purchased tor one-tent Ii of l heir value for cash.— These calamities, added to the failures in mining, have reduced the people to great suffering, which is described as intolerable and impossible to be borne much longer, and thousands are moving out of the --fate. On to Mexico. The following is the conclusion of the order of i be Secretary of War of the Foi led States to the military on the Texa* border: •• Yon will therefore direct Gen. Ord that in case the lawless incursions conr finite, he will lie at liberty, in the use of Ids uu n discretion, when in pursuit of a band of the marauders, and when his troop- arc either in sight of them or pp on a fresh trail, to follow them across the Kio Grande, and fo overtake apd punish thppt. as well as retake “tojen property taken from our citizens and found in their hands on the Mexican side of the line.” (COMMCXICATEI).] The Clirouiele* of Coltb. The Historian of Marietta furnishes many interesting matters relating to the early settlers of the county; hut, in dwelling upon its illustrious characters, he fails to throw the shadows so neces sary to contrast and to give us a full and complete description of the men and manners of the times of which he writes. Perhaps he intends to write a hook handing Marietta down to admir ing ages. PHII.. [COMMrXICVTKI).] Marietta. It is witli pleasure, Mr. Editor, that I can in truth say that the city of Mari etta lias the right men in the right place, and it is no compliment to s|tcak well of the Mayor and Aldermen of your ci ty, for their management of its affairs is admirable. It would he gain to a larger and more populous city than Ma rietta to have such a gentleman as Mr. FI. l*enmead for Mayor, for to look at the cleanliness and ettieieip manner in whMt the streo*-tmd sidewalks are worked, and the admirable sanitary condition of Marietta, one would think that the city was under the care of some good matronly housewife whose yard w as beauty and taste, or of the wo man “who had so many children that she did’nt know what to do,” she put them ou the streets and w orked them through. You need not fear, sir, of epidemics or plagues visiting your city so long as you have a Denmead for May or and a Barrett for Murshal, for it ap pears that their watchword is vigilance. Strangers notice this, and a visit once w ill cause them to return,and enjoy the pure, bracing atmosphere of your city. A VISITOR. [KOIt THU 1-IK1.1) AND FIKESIDKj • The I‘ouveutiou. The editor of the Atlanta ConMitutton says he lias steadily opposed any dis cussion of the why* and wherefores that make a Convention necessary. I cannot see why he should prefer dark ness to light, for every important <mlt jeet should he clearly presented to the people, and let them choose for them selves. In his issue of May the 7th, he gave us his platform, partly good and purtly bad; therefore I wish to alter his plat form a little, it does not matter who made our Constitution, and it does not guarantee justice between man and man One legislative lmdy Is too large—one man front each county would la* one hundred and thirty eight,and that num ber would do as w ell as ten thousand. Then let the senate he composed by a drawing, every three counties contigu ous to be a draw ing district—the two first to be representatives and the third man a senator —that would give the se nate forty six members and the house ninety-two members. Then forbid lo cal legislation, and population will not affect the interest of any county, for a good law for Chatham would lie a good law for I)ade. And he further says “the h iinestend, the one great charity which the state vouchsafes to the women and children, ought to he made ina liemible and per petual.” Now, if he is one of our great men, he cannot call it charity to de prive one man’s family of their just rights for the sake or benefit of another family that had no claim to it, hut is willing to cheat and defraud the honest people that had been deceived, A law that will oppress the honest citizen, merely to uphold thriftless and dishon est persons, should be discarded by eve ry good citizen. The object of all laws should Ite to secure justice to all citi zens, by sustaining the honest and up right, and punishing all the transgres sors of a righteous law. Some men will steal and some will swear falsely to get property; but the homestead law says yon may renounce all your solemn and written promises with impunity—yon may swindle w homsoever you can, and I will guard your unjust savings. The ConxtitvHoß gives some good ad vice. it says send your great and wis est men, hut it did not tell us who they were, nor how we may know them. — Now, if we desire a fifty thousand dol lar homestead, and we elect our great men, say Joseph E Brown, Hiram War ner and H. V. Johnson, will they give ns that homestead; and if the people wish that homestead abolished, will they do that. We do know that great men differ as widely as the smaller men, therefore we ought to select only such men as desire to do wltar w e wish done; this would lie much safer titan to de jtend upon a man because lie is consid ered great. Look at the difference l>e tween John Adams, the elder, .Install Quincy and Alexander Hamilton on the one side, and Madison, Hancock and Jefferson on the other, and yet they were all called great and good men. — Any man that will do the work like we wish it done, is a good man; therefore, 5 we should hear and know the view- of all candidates, nominated and inde|S'ii dent, before voting, and, according to our judgment, select the best. BE FORM EK. are prepafptl, witjj new iype, new pre-aes, and good w orkrpan. to do all kinds of Job Work, at ahort notice, andal pri ces lower than the lowest. THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE. A Trilmte TO HON. JOHN C. RAGSDALE. At ii meeting of the democratic executive committee of DeKalh county, held at Decatur, the fol lowing tribute to the memory of Hon. .1. C. Ragsdale, was unani mously adopted: “Hon. John C. Ragsdale was horn in Jackson county, Georgia, March 13, 1813. Was married March 3, 183d, to Miss Nancy Lu cas, daughter of ( 'has. Lucas, of Newton county, Georgia, and re sided in that county until 1847, when he removed to DeKalh conn tv. He was a tax receiver of De Kalb county for four years, tilling that office with honor to himself and with fidelity to his constitu ents. In 1859 and 'HO he repre sented the county in the legisla ture with ability and faithfulness. At various times he was called on by his fellow-citizens, both in Newton and DeKalh counties to serve them in the office of justice of the peace, which he always did impartially and faithfully. At the time of his death he was chairman of the democratic executive com mittee of DeKalh county. He was one of the most ener getic, enterprising and successful farmers of his day. The premiums awarded him from the agricultu ral fair in the state at different times upon various productions amounted to over fifteen hundred dollars. He was more than once a member of the executive com mittee of the state agricultural society, and in 1871 he became a life member of that society. Asa husband, he was kind, faithful and considerate. Asa father, he was tender and indul gent, and was deeply solicitous for the welfare of his children, always manifesting a deep anxie ty for the mental and moral ini provement of their minds and hearts. Asa neighbor, be was kind and obliging, and ever rea dv to relieve the poor and dis tressed, and was eminently a ‘peace maker.’ Asa citizen, be was upright, intelligent, faithful, and high toned, firm and decided in his convictions of right and wrong, and conscientious in all his business transactions. He died at his residence in De- Kalb county, on the 21st day of March, 1877, after an illness of six days. He leaves to his family and friends the comforting assur ance that their loss is his eternal gain. Therefore He wived., that in the deuth of Hon. John C. Ragsdale, DeKalh county has lost one of her most eminent and worthy citizens, the community in which he lived one of their best friends. 2d, that his wife and children sustain in his death an irrepara ble loss. 9d, that we hereby tender to his bereaved family our tender.heart fell sympathy in their deep afflic tion. Georgia Mailer*. Judge Peeples died at Atlanta last week, and there are already a dozen applicants forthe vacancy occasioned by his death. Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, on the 24th ult. reviewed the volun teer soldiery of Savannah in the presence of an immense concours of citizens. The governor was to review the next day the colored military,and attend the reception at one of the colored armories. Gen. Joseph E. Johnson, who has been on a visit to Texas, was in Atlanta on the 2tith ult. The general seemed much improved by his southwestern t rip. Ex-Gov. Jos. E. Brown reached San Antonio, Texas, on the night of the 19th ult. on a special car from Atlanta, He is quietly and unostentatiously travelling thro’ the west for his health, accompa nied by his son, Julius. It is stated, on the authority of the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, that the President had determined to re appoint Major Smythe to the of fice of Marshal of Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist says a gentle mail of that city has received a letter “from a prominent Polish exile in Washington city, stating that two hundred and ninety three families in Russian Poland, with an average of one thousand dollars to the family, were de “irons of immigrating to the Uni ted States, and asking informa tion in regard to land, climate, productions, &<•., in Georgia.” Thk Franklin (Ga.j News casu ally remarks “that Joseph K, Brown is not the man to chal lenge the integrity of Senator Gordon. Brown's alliance with Bullock and his carpetbag plun derers is too fresh in our mind to allow us to pay any respect to anything he might say against the true and noble Gordon.”- And upon the same subject the Albany news is of the opinion that “itwill take years of time and muon more arduous Florida wrtrk to bring the ex-Governor squarely hack into the ranks of political respectability. His at tack upon Georgia's honored Senator is looked upon as a piece <tf grossest impudence.” The extract following from the letter of Robert Toombs, embo dies a pure and lofty sentiment, in language as forcible and elo quent as ever fell from the lips of Edmund Burke or Dan'l Webster. I trust, says an admiring friend, that it mav become the con troll ing sentiiAmt of state legislation: “I am in favor of a homestead, one which shall he unalienable— that shall last until the angel from heaven shall stand, with one foot on the sea, and the other on the land, and proclaim that‘t ime slut 11 be no longer !’ Let the mothers and children of Georgia be pro tected! Save them from the want of misery and crime! Save them from the poor house, where every breeze brings its sneers and temp tations! Save them from the frost biting charity of the world ! Save them from being outcasts by the wayside, where every sun goes down upon scenes of despairing sorrow, and every morn dawns upon new miseries ! Save them, if you can, for heaven!” God bless the old true-hearted moral hero, and help the people In listen to his eloquent counsels. On the morning of the 25th tilt, before daylight, Mrs. O.C. Cham bliss, of Stewart county, was mur dered by three negroes of the neighborhood. They tired the fences and drew iter husband from the house. The negroes t hen pro ceeded to the house to rob it, and were met bv Mrs. Chambliss, a beautiful woman, aged 18 years, armed with a gun. One of the negroes, Jerry Snead, took the gun from her and lodged its con tents in her head, causing her death instantly. The negroes burned the corn cribs and tied.— They were pursued and captured. Jerry admitted the deed, aiul iin plicated his companions,St nphen, Abram and William Booth. They went to Chambliss' house that af ternoon, and it was unanimously decided by about 300 white and blacks present that they should be hung. A gallows was erected and the murderers were hanged with trace chains. The colored participants in the lynching threw the lifeless bodies into tin old field to rot, and it was with difficulty that the whites could persuade them to permit it burial. The ml prits met their death sneeringly, gloried in the deed, and taunting their executioners. Mrs. Shaw, wife of Mr. M. Shaw, who lives in Baldwin county, near the Jones county line, was most brutally murdered in her house by tw r o fiends in human shape.— Mr. Shaw left home after an ear lv breakfast,crossed Turkey creek near by,to cut some timber blown down by the wind ; he heard a gun shot at his house and return ed home to find his wife lying at the door, with her brains beaten out with a lightwood knot; her skull was broken in several places also her arm and hand, which she doubtless used to ward off the blows. By her side sat their lit tie daughter, four years of age, who said two black men had kill ed her mother. But, since Ihe murder, and through the energy of Capt, E. ('. Murphy, the Allan ta detective, sufficient evidence has been procured to cause Mi chael Shaw, her husband, to be arrested for the murder. BRIGHTON’S tmiITED R.IW HIM Superphosphate. MADE BY George Upton, Boston, Mass. AND /. <!. RAH SHALE'S AMMOXIATED DISSOLVED DONE PHOSPHATE. THE TWO BEST FOR WHEAT. These are the Fertilizers so fa vorably kiiQwn in Georgia as the UPTON’S and RAGSDALE’S, equalling, in a!! testa made, any other manufactured Fertilizer. They can now he had at the Old Printing Office Budding, Powder Spring street, Marietta, Georgia. June. 1877. E. S. RAGSDALE. Marietta LI V II Ii V STABLE. o||o>i|l lilt* l\ M I 11‘ :!\\ House. rpfiE Ust of \ ellii'les, I lie safest of A Drivers, ami ilie fasiesi of Horses, are always roatly, nie'lii an,l i|.a\ , for hire. No man or woin.an or chiftl has given me a call in I he past u Ini has heon nor shall tiny ever in the future, lie dis satisfied with my teams or 111 on in my employ. Uveri lliing and every limli about me are a no. oni:. I have elieapened my rhar", - propor tionate in the si riugelley of I lie limes. For reference In the I rut h of \\ hal lsa\ as to the turn-ouls and charges, <ro imV friends, whieli nietins ihe pnhlie gener ally. Parties hiring are si riel l\ respou sihle for the safely of l hemsel ves, \ iddß ap:l I y .1. \. i, I>l itiici. u\N y: n V<; clc \ I ■MH tl a rict t :> , <S„ < "11 - 1 . ski.i, tiii: a i • im; t Ct A 1.1. soon or you w ill loose a liai J gain, t 111111' ami see lor yourself. A large assortment of Dry I hinds. Di e (foods, Iteady-Mtide t'lnliiing. Sheeting and Shirting's, Hoots, Shoes. Iltil--. No lions, A'e. \ Iso, CKOCKKIKS! Sill'll ils I ’olfee. Sugar, Spiee-, Soda, Slareh. Soap-, ,v,-. \I ~ iii^EsS^ gars and Toh.aeeo. ap 01 {KEN tV I>;ii•K<*r. AND lIKI’AI I! KIJS. MAUI ETTA, (iEOlff.il A, VlfK now prepared In do all kind of work in their line of Imsine a a cheap and as w ell .as il can lie done an\ w here. Itiiggics and Wagon made nr repaired in Ihe lies! style of workman ship, ot the hesl inalerial and mi Ihe most reasona hie terms. I ’lanl al ion w ork and repairing done rhea pi va nd a I hurt notice, ami in a satisfactory manner. Itlaeksmithillg exerulcil with de pa I I'll. ('all and see us at our Shops nil Atlanta street, near the t’nurt ll,ner. and gi\e us a I rial, and w c w ill gna ranter perfeel satisfaelinn. ap .’I ly MARIETTA SAVINGS RANK. .HUIN If. WINTKIfS I’reddent (i. I’. IiDIfNAI’, Vice the idem. \. VAN WY< K, < a him Null's I>isconii<ml. Lxcliangc I'nnglil and Sold. Building llsmlw ;m*! AC. AC. I II WE ON HAND A good assokt h i ;nt nr L< H K S For Dwellings, Store Door , Clo et *, 'Trunks, Smoke I louse: Ac. I* A D LOCKS. Nulls, 2d to OOd. Took:- mil Rrad Harness Ruckles, (topper Rivets, Sash I'll 11 ios, Files, Hinges, I'iot ure Niiils, Strap Hinges, /) liras Hut I . Ac. Hooks and Staples, Butts, inch to li\o, Wardrobe Hooks, Sash Coni, Wagon Nail Garden lloes, Garden Rakes, Spade Forks, M:m me Fork . < infringe 801 l . Door I Jo!t Sand I'apcr. I 1 lue, Ac. n< i:i u s, 'The largest, a .-■sort inenl in town. WILLI \ VI BOOT. Marietta, Man li Hi, 1*77. Seeds! I II AVK ON HA ND A FI LLS! I*|*LV OF I X r. AND 10 CENT I* \ PEHS, Whole- ale and Retail. SO. A FINK ANSGRTMEYI OF Mower Seeds. \ I so, German .Willel, Red and While < lover, Line Grass, Orchard Crass, Timothy, Lucerne, Rod Top, X. Cal Tail Millet. Stcii I’utaloes. Rink Eye, laol on While Goodrich, Early Rose. VV11.1.1 \ M ItniiT. .Marietta, March 13, I 77. gW~I..W\ BLANKS, neatly printed, lor “ale at thi Office.— Call and ‘/el a upply. ■ v -1, ''Wignj \ 1 < i, ... '''l 1 i" i H i , t a i-. i: ili.-\ fIHHH iii-i'.Mc'to •I " I ii. 11 SJSBH : \\. JIM | >l-i I i-:. %. 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