Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-01

Last Work of the Governor and His AS
sistants-The Strong Men in Both
| Houses and the Unparalleled Amount
of Work AccOmpIished-Ot Notes
ofa Cosby Nature.
| Correspondence ofthe Morning Ksirs.
| ATLANTA, Sept. 29.-The General As
| sembly's work may he said to have closed
last night at midnight, when Governor
Mcdaniel and his Secretaries examined
and signed the last of the bills, except a
few doubtful and imperfect ones that will
require long and close scrutiny.
President Boynton and Speaker Gar
| rard, with Secretary Harris and Clerk
Harden, although they had large amount
of work to bring up, pushed ahead and
finished 1t yesterday noon.
This threw a large number of bills into
the Governors hands in the afternoon, but
he rallied his Secretaries and met the
emergency with his sleeves rolled up.
Despite this push and vim, as can per-
sQnAllY testify. avery bin was critically
examined, and several put aside ON ac-
count of errors or defects. The work was
done in quicker time than ever before
known in the history of Georgia: but il
was well done. If there is one feature of
Governor McDaniel's administration more
marked than another it is his fixed pur-
pose to have every duty faithfully and
properly performed. On this account he
is constantly calling upon the Attorney
General Tor consultation i'm matters in
yOlving legal points in any way doubtful.
The late General Assembly will live in
history as 4 remarkable body, as Ben
Russell says, "the long Parliament" Yet.
with all its faults, its absenteeiSm ana
whisky drinking, it had not few good
L., IA
write hereafter No General Assembly
with BOynton, a POlhill, Il DuBignOu, a
Meldrim, and Il Parks in its Senate, and q
Garrard, a Rankin, a Little. HOge. and
a Humber in its House, not to speak of a
score of other able members, can he
called a weak or ordinary body. No
Legislature of late years has accom-
plished as much work, and for the charac-
ter of a large part of this work the people
alone are responsible They sent too
many useless and unwise bills to their
Representatives, and called for too much
needless legislation.
Atlanta, while mourning the loss of the
''assembled wisdom of the State" which
rObs her of a large retail trade daily, nndS
some comfort in the thought that the next
biennial { p session commences the COM
ing year, and will probably divide up, as
the recent one did, into two annual ses-
siOns, thus giving our city her usual
yearly influx Of visitors.
Then we expect to see the work ON the
Kimball House, the Capitol and the
Chamber Of Commerce building started
Immediately, and this will make business
in some circles quite lively. As to the
Kimball House, / am not enthusiastic.
Only about $4,000 in real cash is in hand
to start $500, 900 hotel.
In the death of Major w. b. Cox, last
night. Atlanta loses one of her best and
most public spirited citizens and business
men. Although quiet in manners and
unambitious. yet he did very much to
promote the growth Of the city, and the
agricultural and mechanical interests Of
the State, especially in the direction OF
improving the live stock of this section.
His Jersey herd was one of the finest in
Georgia. Generous, modest and unselh9h,
he has left behind only friends to mourn
his departure in the prime OF life.
st. Luke's Cathedral, under the Jealous
labors of Bishop Beckwith, the Rev. DR..
Williams and Rev. {. NJ. BeckWith, has
been eminentv successful in its spiritual
labOrs, while the practical business tact
and faithful efforts of Messrs. b. w.
Wrenn and T.. ID. Harrison have secured
to it abundant financial prosperity. Be
sides the new mission church, lately
opened for services, the elegant cathedral
itself is being enlarged to meet the de-
mands of the constantly growing congre-
cation. year ago st. Luke's Church,
then on Walton street, was poor, strug-
Cling, debt-crushed band of humble wor-
shippers, but to-day st. Luke's Cathedral
is one Of our most efficient and foremost
churches. Bishop Beckwith and Messrs.
Harrison and Wrenn made this wonder
full transformation possible.
Senator +. G.. DuBignOn did not 90 to
the Louisville Exposition, butreturned to
Milledgeville TO pack up his personal eff
fects and get ready to remove to Savannah,
where he will eschew politics and practice
law. Like Senator T. W. Grimes, OF
Columbus, and several other gifted young
Georgians who have proved most excel
lent legislators, Judge DuBignOn re-
tires from public life to give his entire
talents to the law. His last public ser
vice. as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, will make him the better fitted
for the duties Of his profession.
The Southern CUiticdt0r of this city for
October has a fine picture Of the steam
ship Savannah" the first to cross the
ocean, and added to the sketch of her
career is the report of the foreign ship
ments from Savannah during the past
year, showing what has been done during
the siXty-four years gone by 10 develop
that one solitary steamship into fleet of
splendid modern steamers. As the Cutti-
6dtOr goes to subscribers all over the
United States. and to all foreign countries,
Savannah's growing importance as a
port will be widely advertised through
this medium. The old steamship "Sayan
NAH would look rather shabby along
side the new and elegant modern steam
ship 'City of savannah
CHATHAM