government, and to a faithful and economical administration of public affairs." An attempt to secure the coöperation of the "Liberal Republicans" was not successful, the committee of the latter, with whom negotiations were carried on, sending the following communication to the convention:

The committee of Liberal Republicans, whose communication is before the Democratic Convention, have conferred with the committee appointed by the convention who have expressed themselves as individually favorable to a union of the two elements, upon the just basis of giving to the Liberal Republicans a fair representation upon the electoral ticket according to their numbers, and they regret to learn from the Democratic committee that in their judgment it is impossible to carry such a measure through the convention without a serious rupture. The Democratic committee have suggested that we harmonize with the Democracy of the State, without representation upon the ticket. We are enabled to appreciate the liberality of the invitation to unite with the Democracy, without such recognition. We are determined, however, that we will do no act which can in any way imperil the success of Greeley and Brown in this State, and while we protest against the spirit of illiberality which denies us representation upon the electoral ticket which is to be put before the people by those who have adopted our candidates for President and Vice-President, we will place no electoral ticket in the field, but will cast our votes for the Greeley and Brown electoral ticket without regard to the former political opinions of the individual electors, or the manner in which they have been brought before the people. But as to all matters connected with State elections we hold ourselves at liberty to cast our suffrage in such manner as our self-respect and our sense of duty to the country may dictate.

The Republicans of the State held their convention at Atlanta on the 21st of August, and nominated Dawson A. Walker for Governor.

Presidential electors were also nominated, and the following resolutions adopted:

Resolved, That this convention, in the name of the Republicans of Georgia, hereby declares its devotion to the principles of the Republican party of the Union as declared by the National Convention at Philadelphia in May last, and proudly ratifies the nominations of Ulysses S. Grant for President, and Henry Wilson for Vice-President; commend those candidates to the people of Georgia as statesmen whose capacity, wisdom, and integrity have been proven by the severest tests, as worthy guardians of the public honor, and inflexible friends of Union, liberty, and equal rights.

Resolved, That the present General Assembly of Georgia, by enacting penal laws calculated to ensnare the innocent by its contrivances practically to wrest the ballot from the poorer citizens; by its faithlessness to the cause of popular education; by denying local government to citizens of certain municipalities, and by its general unfriendliness to the classes whose toil has largely built up the prosperity of the State, has demonstrated its unfitness for its high trust, and should be superseded by a body of more wisdom, justice, and moderation, and of more devotion to the welfare of the masses of the people.

On the following day, August 22d, the Democrats who did not favor the candidates nominated at Cincinnati and Baltimore, for President and Vice-President, held a convention at Atlanta, and appointed delegates to the National Democratic Convention to be held at Louisville, Ky., at the same time recommend

ing the names of Charles O'Conor, of New York, and J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, as suitable candidates for President and VicePresident. The following platform, drawn up by Alexander H. Stephens, was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That the Government of the United States is one formed by separate States; that it is one of limited powers, delegated by the States for specific purposes and objects set forth in the Constitution, and that it possesses of itself no original or inherent power whatever.

Resolved, That the Union established by the Constitution is a Union of the States, federal in its character, composed of States and thereby united, and is incapable of existence without the States as bility of the States, of their rights and of their its constituent integral parts; that the indestructiequality with each other, is an indispensable part of this political system, and therefore the perpetuation of the Union in its integrity depends upon the preservation of the States in their political integrity; the Government of the United States being a Federal Republic, and not a consolidation of the whole people into one homogeneous nation. with the subjection of the military to the civil auResolved, That the right of local State government, thority, and the security of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in time of peace, with the power to enforce the rights and promote the well-being of its inhabitants, by such means as the judgment of its own people may prescribe, and secured and guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States to the several States of the Union; and that, too, not "subject to any solemn constitutional obligation upon the part of the Federal Government of any kind whatever; but on the contrary, the Federal tion not to interfere in these matters in any way, Government is under a solemn constitutional obligaand, when it does so, it becomes a usurper of power, an oppressive tyrant, and an enemy to the liberties of the country."

Resolved, That the perpetuation of the Union, and the maintenance of the Government as both were established by the Constitution, and as both under the Constitution have been expounded in the foregoing resolutions, in conformity with the teachings of Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson, have ever been held as cardinal doctrines of the Democratic party, and they are now reiterated with increased earnestness, under the solemn conviction that the only sure hope for the preservation of liberty rests in bringing back the administration of the Government to these principles, and in receiving it from the hands of those whose admitted usurpations and revolutionary measures now threaten the entire overthrow of the whole fabric of our system of free institutions, and the erection in their stead of a consolidated empire.

The election occurred on the 5th of November. The full vote cast for presidential electors was 138,906, of which 62,550 were in favor of the election of Grant and Wilson, 76,356 for Greeley and Brown, and 4,004 for O'Conor and Adams; majority for Greeley, 13,806. The total vote for Governor was 151,014, of which Smith received 104,539 and Walker 46,475; majority for Smith, 58,064.

There was comparatively little disorder in the State during the year. A riot occurred at Savannah on the 29th of July, which grew out of the persistent efforts of certain negroes to ride in street-cars, which had been previously reserved for white persons only. The negroes had been ejected from the cars by some of the passengers, and a conflict in the streets had

resulted. This, however, was speedily suppressed. There was some bloodshed, and a good deal of excitement, but no one was killed. One of the negroes, Avery Smith by name, brought a charge against three white men, concerned in ejecting him from the car, for conspiring together, and with others, "with intent to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate deponent, a colored citizen of the United States, and other colored persons, said persons also being citizens of the United States, with intent to prevent and hinder said deponent and said other colored citizens, whose names are unknown to deponent, from his and their free exercise and enjoyment of the right and privilege of riding in the cars of the streetcar company, in the city of Savannah, said street-cars being run by an incorporated company, said company being public carriers of passengers, the right, privileges, and immunity of riding in said cars being a right, privilege, and immunity granted and secured to deponent and said other persons by the Constitution and laws of the United States, they being citizens of the United States."

The parties were tried before United States Commissioner H. C. Wayne, and discharged on the ground that the charge had not been sustained. In his decision the Commissioner said:

So far, then, as the court has been able to sift the evidence and bring it to the test of the law, the complainant had no right, privilege, or immunity under the Constitution or laws of Congress to be abridged. But, on the contrary, he stands before this court a deliberate violator of a legal regulation of the streetcar company, and, pro tanto, a disturber of the public tranquillity, folding, moreover, a position of trust and emolument under the United States Government, he should have been the last to foment disturbance of the public peace; and, a comparative stranger to this community, besides, should have come among us bearing the olive-branch of peace, and not the firebrand of social discord. It was by such men as himself that the riots of the evening of the 29th of July, in this city, were originated. And justice to the truth of the inquest compels the court to add, though with regret, that the management of the road, by its timid course, must take its share of the responsibility for them."

In conclusion, it is a matter of gratification to the court to observe that none of our respectable colored citizens appear to have been mixed up in the scene that marred the fair fame of our peaceful city on the 28th and 29th of July last, but, that those disgraceful acts appear to have been conceived, promoted, and executed by bad men from other parts of the country, backed, however, it is true, unfortunately, by a few native ruffians; for there are ruffians among the colored people as well as among the whites, no race or color being exempt from the curse of ruffianism.

The official statement of the State finances on the 1st of January, 1873, places the public debt at $8,186,500. The receipts of the Treas ury, for the year, amounted to $2,101,540.84; the disbursements were $1,335,207.14; the balance on hand at the end of the year, $766,133.70. The Treasurer estimated the amount to be raised, for the year 1873, at $1,418,935. The sources of revenue will yield $2.085,939. The valuation of taxable property is placed at $234,492,468.

The State University appears to be in a flourishing condition. The number of students matriculated during the year was 317, and 46 were graduated at the last commencement. The income of the institution, for the year ending July 29th, was $29,221.25, of which $11,305 was derived from tuition fees. The Col lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts has had 127 students. In July the sum of $90,202.17 was paid into the Treasury from the sale of scrip for Government lands for the benefit of this institution.

The whole amount of school revenue prior to October 1st was $492,924.27. The number of patients in the Lunatic Asylum is 509. Of these 423 are white, and 86 colored; 379 are lunatics, 74 idiots, and 56 epileptics. The expenses for the year were $160,359.40, including $61,916.53 paid on special appropriations for completing buildings and for other improvements. The Academy for the Deaf and Dumb has had 61 pupils during the year. The Academy for the Blind had 39 pupils, and the amount disbursed for their support during the year was $10,759. The number of convicts in the penitentiary is 530; 44 have been discharged, 21 have escaped, 14 have died, one has been pardoned, one was killed by accident, and one was killed by the guard.

According to the census of 1870, there were 6.831,856 acres of improved land, 12,928,084 of woodland, and 3,888,001 of other unimproved land. The cash value of farms was $94,559,468, of farming implements and machinery, $4,614,701; total amount of wages paid during the year, including value of board, $19,787,086; total (estimated) value of farm productions, including betterments and additions to stock, $80,390,228; orchard products, $352,926; produce of market-gardens, $193,266; forest products, $1,281,623; home manufactures, $1,113,080; animals slaughtered or sold for slaughter, $6,854,382; value of all live-stock, $30,156,317. There were 81.777 horses, 87,426 mules and asses, 231,310 milchcows, 54,332 working-oxen, 412,261 other cattle, 419,465 sheep, and 988,566 swine. The chief productions were, 308,890 bushels of spring and 1,818,127 of winter wheat, 82,549 of rye, 17,646,459 of Indian-corn, 1,904,601 of oats, 5,640 of barley, 22,277,380 pounds of rice, 288,596 of tobacco, 473,984 of cotton, 846,947 of wool, 410,020 bushels of peas and beans, 197,101 of Irish and 2,621,562 of sweet potatoes, 21,927 gallons of wine, 4,499,572 pounds of butter, 10,518 tons of hay, 553,192 gallons of cane molasses, and 474,027 of sorghum, 610,877 pounds of honey, and 31,233 of wax.

The total number of manufacturing establishments was 3,836, employing 405 steamengines of 10,826 horse-power, 1,729 waterwheels of 27,417 horse-power, and 17,871 hands, of whom 15,078 were males over 16, 1,498 females over 15, and 1,295 youth. amount of capital employed was $13,930,125;

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The whole number of libraries was 1,735, with an aggregate of 467,232 volumes. Of these, 32, with 7,765 volumes, were private, and 545, with 162,851 volumes, were other than private. There were in the State 110 newspapers and periodicals, with an aggregate circulation of 150,987; 15,539,724 copies were annually issued. There were 5 tri-weekly, circulation 3,600; 9 semi-weekly, circulation 5,100; 73 weekly, circulation 88,837; 2 semimonthly, circulation 700; 6 monthly, circulation 21,950, and 1 quarterly, circulation 1,000.

GERMANY, an empire in Europe, reëstablished January 18, 1871. The Emperor William I. was born March 22, 1797. He is a son of King Frederick William III. and Queen

Louisa, and was married June 11, 1829, to Augusta, daughter of the Grand-duke Charles Frederick of Saxe-Weimar. The heir-apparent, Frederick William, born October 18, 1831, has the official title of Crown-Prince of the German Empire and Crown-Prince of Prussia. He was married, January 25, 1858, to Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, born November 21, 1840. His children are: Prince Frederick William, born January 27, 1859; Princess Charlotte, born July 23, 1860; Prince Henry, born August 14, 1862; Princess Victoria, born April 12, 1866; Prince Waldemar, born February 10, 1868; Princess Sophia Dorothea, born June 14, 1870; Princess Margaretta, born April 22, 1872. Imperial Chancellor (Reichskanzler) Otto, Prince of Bismarck-Schönhausen. President of the Imperial Chancery (Reichskanzler - Amt), Delbrück, Minister of State. The "Imperial Supreme Commercial Tribunal" (Reichs-OberHandels-Gericht) is the supreme court in commercial affairs for all the states of the German Empire, except Bavaria; and it is, at the same time, the supreme court for Alsace-Lorraine. It has its seat in Leipsic.

The following table exhibits the area and population of the states belonging to the German Empire, the number of representatives of every German government in the Federal Council, and the number of deputies who represent each state in the Reichstag:

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