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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old “Southern Recorder" and “Federal Union’
consolidated.]
MXLLSP OEVILIiIl. OA:
Wednesday, August 6, 1873.
Remit.—Our subscribers whose sub
scriptions have expired, or are about
to expire, should send the money by
mail, and not wait to be called on by
traveling agents. If they will seal
their letters and deposit them in the
post office in the presence of a witness
we will take the risk. Remit! Re
mit ! ! Remit! !!
Central Railroad.
We find in the Advertiser Republi
can of Savannah, ol Friday last, a
“spunky” card from “Captain Wm
Henry Woods”, one of the Directors
of the Central R. R. deicing emphat
ically a rumor that had got into print
to the effect that he, the said “Captain
Wm. Henry Woods” had “lately lost
one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars on the fall of Central Railroad
stock in the last few months.” Since
“Captain Wm. Henry Woods” has
been connected with the “ manage
ment of the road” he has “never, eith
er directly or indirectly, purchased or
sold a single share of stock.”
“Captain Wm. Henry Woods” stands
therefore exonerated. But—inasmuch
as some of our people are pecuniarily
interested in the Central Railroad—
will not “Captain Wm. Henry Woods”
—or, better, Wm. M. Wadley, Presi
dent of the company—explain fully to
the public who has made (not lost)
money by the recent amazing decline
in the value of stock in the Central
Railroad. Why this decline? There
is searc-ely, in the hisfory of “stock
tumbling, an instance of a greater
‘ tumble” in prices than has been ex
hibited by the Central R. R. of late.
Wherefore? Who is making the pro
fits? Purely it cannot be the laborers
on the road whose wages have been cut
down of late. Most certainly the
stockholders are not profited, their divi
dends, and the value of their stock be
ing alike in a “decline” as fatal as that
of “galloping consumption” among
physical diseases. One thing we ven
ture to say : the pampered President
of the company, with his salary of
$15,000 per annum, is no loser?
H. X. Kimball’s Creditors and Geor
gia Bonds.
The Atlanta Constitution, taking an
article from the N. Y. Tribune as a
text, shows how the creditors of Hi.
Kimball attempt to hold the State
of Georgia responsible for his debts.
It is a most “interesting and instruc
tive tale,” and developes facts which
the people all along suspicioned. We
copy the article elsewhere and invite
special attention to it.
A few yeais ago when II. I. Kim
ball was borrowing money, with Geor
gia Bonds as collaterals, to build up
Atlanta, he was a most wonderful man
in the eyes of the Atlantese. Indeed,
the love of the fair Atlanta for the fa
mous Kimball, was no secret, and she
wore the name of “Kiinballville” with
out a blush of shame. If Kimball
robbed tbe State, Atlanta revelled in
wenlth, and as long as he could raise
money on Georgia securities and build
fine bouses he was a prince of the first
water. What cared Atlanta if the
money was wrung from the pockets ol
an impoverished people? But a change
has come over the spirit of her dream.
Kimball is a bankrupt and an outcast!
Oh! the fickleness and unfaithfulness of
the fair! While Atlanta still enjoys
the fine houses, etc., built by Kimball,
she repels with virtuous indignation
any allusion to the enticements she used
to get them. Atlanta is the Capital
and although the means used to make
and keep her such, are not the “most
houorable,” yet so will she remain
Thus declare her sons, when the peo
ple of Georgia complain of the Opera
House transaction.
But that rascal and swindler Kim
ball, left a mortgage on the Opera
House—he ought to have secured that
mortgage by depositing more Bonds
—then his mission in Georgia would
have been ended and he could have re
turned to his northern home unregret-
ted.
Death of Col. W. K. DeGraffen-
ried.—We are pained to learn from
the Telegraph & Messenger of the 2d
inst., that Col. W. K. deGraffenreid
expired at his residence in Macon
about midday Friday last, after a long
struggle with a complication of dis
orders which have more or less crip
pled his energies for several years.—
Deceas, d was perhaps as extensively
known ,ig any man in the State—hav
ing loug occupied a distinguished po
sition at the bar—actively interested
in leading public and political move
ments for many years, and always re
markable for his social qualifications,
and his urbane and popular manners.
The Rural Carolinian.—The
August number of this valuable pub
lication has been received. The table
of contents piesents a varied selection
°f matter, both instructive and inter-
esting to the agriculturist and the
“Rural” now es-
a is e on a firm basis, having near-
ly completed u, fourth volume.
The term, are *2 ye, M with
club rates as follows: 6 copies for $10-
10 copies for $16 ; 20 copies f or $30’
Address Walker, Evans & Cogswell
Charleston, S- C, *
■SiwrUI t'orrrapraileace the Cuieu mi
BtctrSer,
Sea Bathing and Bathing Places
Around New York.
Newark, New Jerset,
July 25, 1S73.
There are many places on the sea
coast near New York to which the in
habitants off that city and Brooklyn,
Newark, and the adjacent cities resori
in warm weather for sea bathing and
to eat fish and breathe the pure air of
the ocean. Among these there are
three prominent and favorite places
frequented by different classes, but all
of them easy of access, and combining
all of the desirable requisites of sea
bathing. These three favorite places
of summer resort are Coney Island,
Rockaway Beach, and Long Branch.
Coney Island is the favorite resort of
the lower classes who have not much
time or money to spare. It is easy of
access by lrind or water—the price of
conveyances for the trip from New
York and back varying from twenty-
five to fifty cents. It is an island of
sand heaped up by the waves of the
Atlantic ocean on the east side of Long
Island, has a pretty fair Hotel, where
fish cooked in every form can always
be had at very reasonable prices. It
has also a very fine beach for sea bath
ing. On Sundays, when the weather
is fine, a very large crowd collects
here from New York and all of the
surrounding cities. This crowd is not
very select or aristocratic, but is com
posed of a few respectable people who
go there from curiosity and to enjoy
the fine sea bathing, mixed up with a
a promiscuouscrowd of rowdies thieves
and pick-pockets, nymphs, depraved
dames of the demi monde ; in short, of
the rag tag and bobtail of several
large cities. To all of these Coney
Island on Sunday is a terrestial para
dise.
Rockaway Beach is a long Peninsu
la of sand nine or ten miles long by
half a mile to a mile wide, situated on
the east side of Long Island, several
miles east of Coney Island. A Rail
road connects New York and Brooklyn
with this place. Steamboats also run
every day from New York, and from
Newark in New Jersey to Rockaway.
There are several good Hotels and
several excellent places for sea bath
ing at Rockaway. This has long been
a favorite resort in summer for citizens
of the middle and highly respectable
classes, who wish to enjoy for a day or
for a few days the luxuries of sea air
and sea batliipg.
Learning that the Magenta, a large
and elegant steamboat, left the docks
of Newark every morning at nine
o’clock for Rockaway beach we joined
a party of friends for the excursion.
The programme was to go down in
the morning, see the crowd go in bath
ing, eat a clam chowder for dinner,
and return in the evening. We em
barked a little before nine, and found
a large crowd of well dressed and very
orderly people already there, which
with those who afterwards joined us,
made a company of some five or six
hundred. There appeared to he many
whole families, consisting ot father,
mother and children. If any of the
children were left at home some of the
families must have been very numer
ous, for they brought enough with
them for either pleasure or profit.
Many of the matrons were ot very
large size, weighing, we should judge,
over two hundred pounds each.
Our course was down tiie Passaic
river into Newark bay, across that bay
through the draw bridge of the Jersey
Central Railroad, around Staten Island,
across New York, Hamburg, and up
the east side of Long Island into Rock
away bay, which lies between Rocka
way beach and Long Island. The
whole distance, some fifty or sixty
miles, we were passing through fleets
ot vessels of various sorts and sizes,
and in sight of the most beautiful
scenery 011 shore Landing in front
of one of the Central Hotels the crowd
immediately ciossed over to the ocean
front of the Peninsula, where was a
fine beach for sea bathing, and a large
number of small buildings, where
those who wished to bathe could
change their clothes. Many were in
the surf bathing when we arrived
They were soon joined by large num
bers more, so that the waves were
alive with joyous human beings all the
time we remained there, for as soon as
one party came on shore their places
were supplied by others—many of the
children participating in the sport
with great glee. From the shore
where the others were sporting on the
waves, the ocean presented one of the
most sublime spectacles imaginable.
As the long waves came rolling in,
when they struck the foot of the beach,
some three hundred yards from shore,
they seemed to mount up into a wall
of water and then break into foam and
roll to the shore. It was into this
foam and these breakers that the most
venturesome of the bathers delighted
to sport By reason of the reflection
or refrattion ol the light from the
water the ocean at about a mile from
shore seemed to rise up into a blue
mountain, and two schooners sailing
past seemed to be raised several hun
dred feet higher than the land, and to
be sailing among the clouds. Alter
partaking of a good dinner, of which
an excellent clam chowder formed a
prominent part, we, at about half
past three o’clock started for home,
and arrived in Newark at half p.ist
six. On our way b*ck the band play
ed, and a portion of the young lolks
amused themselves with dancing. In
this excursion we had a most delight
ful sail, going and returning, of more
than a hundred miles, amidst delight
ful scenery-—all for seventy-five cents.
Long Branch, the other favorite
place for sea bathing, has frequently
been described, and is familiar to the
country. It is the place where, in
summer, Republican royalty holds its
court, and where on that account all
of the shoddy aristocracy resort. It
is a place famous for fast horses, fast
men and fast women, for flashy sports
men and swells, for puppy dogs, and
dogs of more experience. In short, it
is the place where Gen. Grant holds
his summer court, and from which he
issues his proclamations, decrees and
tobacco smoke. Long Branch is a
place famous for horse jockeys, Radi
cal politicians, and thieves of more ex
alted position and greater success
than those who on Sundays congre
gate at Coney Island.
I have been invited to join an ex
cursion to Cape Cod, and perhaps in
<ny next I may give you some ac
count of that ancient seat of the Puri
tans. B.
For the Uuioa Sc Recorder-
Prince Bismarck, or Fallen Great
ness !
A strange and painful account of
this distinguished individual’s private
and anomalous “creed”—or more ap
propriately, his unfortunate belief—
has recently been ‘Heralded’ to the
world, through one of the New York
dailies. We are forbid by common
sense to attach to it any religious cast;
for it discredits and disowns faith in
everything sacred und divine, Christian
or heathen—civilized or savage!
The Prince is represented to have
ignored not only all Revelation as
contained in the New Testament, but
as having derided and spurned the ex
istence of God and every vestige of
moral accountability, with the possi
bility even, of a future state. His infi
delity is the most sweeping and horri
ble denunciation of all religions that
ever was decried or hurled in the face
of creation ! Its simple perusal was
enough to curdle our blood and cause
us to wish that some speedy vengeance
might attest the Almighty’s indigna
tion at such blasphemy. Satan, por
trayed by Milton, is Bismarck’s only
equal—if indeed, that ‘lower deep’
which “ still threatened to devour” the
miserable and rebellious outcast, be
not now the utmost bound and hapless
reach of his mortal peer !
But is it not another of the mon
strous, Munchausen and sensational
canards which have so frequently dis
graced the columns of the New York
Herald? Even to imagine so mild and
comparatively innocent a phase affords
no small relief; yet the shamelul and
impious license of the writer with the
Prince’s character (allowing such to
be the case) would be an egregious
and unpardonable liberty, while his
greater and more unholy presumptu
ousness in sporting with the Divine
power, and taunting the Creator and
I Ruler of the Universe with inertness
j and vanity, or as a mere group of im-
\ becile figures—calls for little less than
. the most exemplary fine and imprison
ment. It is an all-8 fficient conces
sion for society to yield when the In-
. fidel is permitted tc entertain and even
I make known in a quiet maimer, his
disbelief of the Bible; but when he
insists bpon the right or exercises its
semblance to sow, broad cast, his
poisonous and destructive notions—it
becomes the duty ot all civil govern
ments to arrest their noxious influ
ence Such is 6elf-preservatiou—the
highest and most estimable privilege
known to men. We are aware' that
the Almighty is able to maintain Ilis
.authority, and has never failed in his
own good time, to recompense the ar
rogant, blasphemous daring of the
| wicked—yet these may not excuse in-
; difference or silence on our part, when
the acts of irreverence and spurning
contemptuousness, are thrust before
our eyes, designed to unhinge and up
root the foundations of our social in
stitutions. As well might we permit
every species of immorality and sen
sualne88 to be practiced ad libitum, as
to suffer our Faith and Religion to he
scouted and scoffed by the foul breath
of the selfish levelers of all distinc
tions, or the accursed disbeliever in a
future life, in man’s accountability to
to the God of the Bible, and in the im
mortality of his soul!
We trust to its falseness—to its
baseless, forged and execrable fabrica
tion ! We believe that if Prince Bis
marck holds the ideas ascribed to him,
he has never allowed them to escape
his bosom without an imposition of
the sternest secrecy; and this we the
more confidently think, because of his
high respect if not awe, to offend his
royal master. If, however, it shall
turn out to be true in its spirit and let
ter, Ihen would we admonish Kaiser
William, to apply to him the words
addressed to Satan—
* * “Baektotliy punishment
False fugitive, and t<- tliy speed add wings;
Lest, with a whip ot scorpions, I pursue
Thy lingering ”—
Never more be officer of mine.”
The Latest New Fork Trick.
An importing house in New York,
Rorke & Co., have lately been vie
timized in a singular manner. One
Clarke was in charge of the Company’s
books during the absence of his prin
cipals in Europe. He made altera
tions, or fraudulent entries in the
books showing violations of the Reve
nue laws; then made an arrangement
with New York Custom House of
ficers to seize the books, expose these
fictitious frauds, and of course involve
Messrs. Rorke & Co. in large penalties
and forfeitures. Clarke then retired
from the service of Roike and Co., and
the seizures were made by the Cus
tom House officers; with a further un
derstanding between Clarke and the
Custom House officers that Clarke
should rec ive from these officers one-
fourth of the sums which might be re
covered from Rorke & Co., by com
promise or conviction. This is the ex
planation that Rorke & Co. make. Pro
bably the explanation is true. A
plain violation of the law is less likely
in New York city than a complex
piece of villainy which should put hon
est men in the bands of rogues, and
rob somebody under the semblance of
law and justice. The New York ap
petite for crime does not relish plain
dishes : It must have species of ro
mance, and uncommou condiments of
complexity which shall make the
grossest injustice taste like justice in
the mouth of the public.
The Southern Cultiator for Aug
ust is received. This is probably the
best agricultural magazine published
in the limits of this State. Every
number contains many interesting and
instructive articles on the Plantation,
the Garden and Household Economy.
Published at Athena, Ga„ by W.L.
Jones, price $2.
The Georgia Bonds.
Considerable indignation exists
among those persons who have been
published as creditors for heavy
amounts of the defaulting Georgia
swindler, H. I. Kimball, whose failure
occurred two years ago. Application
to several of those mentioned elicit
the information that they were either
not interested or their interest was for
lesser amounts. A member of a lead
ing banking house, who ure said to
have been creditors for a large sum,
stated that I e supposed the figures
very exaggerated in many of the cases.
With respect 10 his own house, the
transaction was one of some years past,
and had been liquidated by the sale of
securities left as collateral against the
loan. Henry Clews & Co., who are
mentioned as having lost $1,000,000
by the failure, report that they were
only interested to the extent of $100,-
000, which they claim was amply se
cured by collaterals.
A. G Johns, President of the Ful
ton Bank, Brooklyn, when questioned
by a reporter of the Tribune, indig
nantly denied the statement alleging
that they had loaned money to Kim
ball. It was subsequently learned
that through Kimball the Fulton
Bank had loaned the State of Georgia
$35,000 in bonds issued by the State
to pay the Legislature of 1871 ’72 and
which are held to be valid by the
State authorities. The report relative
to the connection of the Brooklyn Sav
ings Bank and Kimball is also denied.
The Bank has never loaned Kimball
anything, and it has never held a Geor
gia bond. It i3 understood that the
collaterals in nearly every instance
were the Georgia bonds with which
the market was flooded at one time.—
New York Tribune.
It is right comical to read of Henry
Clews and the Fulton Bank of Brook
lyn and those other New York inno
cents who hold Georgia bonds of tbe
Bullock issue, dubbing H. I. Kimball
as a swindler. The Jury with which
these mild and virtuous gentlemen
have turned upon Kimbali for his pub
lication of their names as his creditors
is very suggestive.
Thereby hangs a most interesting
and instructive tale. The milk in this
cocoanut is ot an exceedingly con
tible nature.
One might very naturally wonder
why such excessive indignation should
should he shown over an acknowl
edgment of indebtedness. Men are
not usually displeased that their debt
ors own up the debts due them.
So unnatural and uncalled-for a fu
ry puts one to thinking as to its mo
tive. In the present instance the mat
ter is not altogether obscure.
By a remurkable coincidence the
amounts acknowledged by Mr. Kim
ball to be due to certain creditors are
identical in amount with certain
claims of the same creditors against
the State of Georgia, based upon Bul
lock bonds. This looks as if Mr. Kim
ball was assuming these debts as per
sonal to himself. And if so it may
help to throw light upon the perplexi
ties of some of these vexed claims, as
well as show up Mr. Kimball in a fair
er view.
But why, we repeat, are these
creditors so furious at Mr. Kimball’s
assumption of these debts? They let
him have the money in person. Some
were connected with him in his pro
jects.
Can it be that they fear that their
claims against the State will be dam
aged by the establishment of the truth
of the revelations of Mr. Kimball’s
bankrupt petition ? It is extraordinari
ly suggestive that of all the creditors
the most blatantly furious and resent
fully incensed against Mr. Kimball
should be the virtuous Clews, and that
innocent Johns of the Brooklyn Fulton
Bank. The one has been proven to
have been in knowing complicity
with the frauds on the State. The
other, by his testimony, loaned his
money on a paper that absolutely fore-
bade the loan as a State matter, but
which he weakly and negligently fail
ed to read.
That the two men above ail others
who have less legality in their claims
than any other claimants should make
such a fuss against Mr. Kimball look*
tremendously suggestive and makes
one very anxious to get Mr. Kimball’s
legal information for the benefit of the
State.
These irate and abusive creditors
are undoubtedly alarmed. Their hot
haste to repudiate Kimball ><s a debtor
is ominous to a very large degree.
The circumstances add another novel
and interesting chapter to the compli
cated tale of the Georgia-Builock
bonds, and suggest still more interest
ing mysteries as lying dormant for the
public gratification in the luture.
If Mr. Kimball pays off these large
claims against the State with his bank
rupt assets, the State cannot complain.
And it looks very unkind in the credi
tors to resist his doing so, and to be
unwilling to let Kimball substitute
the State as a creditor.
[Atlanta Constitution.
Monroe Female College.—We
are indebted to Rev. Dr. Hillyer for a
Catalogue of this old and popular in
stitution fur the education of females.
Total number of scholars at the ses
sion just closed 154; graduates 16.—
Forsyth is noted for intelligence and
refinement, and the ability of the teach
ers and healthful location of thi« col
lege are matters worthy of consider
ation by parents who have to send
th sir girls away from home to be ed
(icated. The Fall session begins Aug
ust 3d. The President, R. T. Asbury,
will give any information desired.
Fnblio Schools.
A correspondent o r the Savannah
Advertiser and Republican, writing
from Atlanta on tbe 25th, gives some
interesting matters respecting public
schools. We copy most of the letter:
The State School Commissioner has
completed the apportionment of the
State School Fund for the several
counties in the State, and will, in a
short time, be ready to distribute the
money to the Commissioner of Educa
tion in each county. He is now pre
paring a circular which will be sent to
each county, giving full instructions
how to draw the money and what re
quirements must be complied with be
fore the money can be sent them, and
how it is to be paid out by them. The
organization of a free school system,
and the accumulation of a sufficient
fund to put the schools in operation
all over the State, have been a work
of much labor and thought, as well as
time, and it is a matter of congratula
tion that the State School Commis
sioner is now able to support three
months of free schools in every coun
ty in the State. * * *
The Legislature provides that all
children between the ages of six and
and eighteen years, and all Confeder
ate soldiers under thirty years of age,
shall be entitled to attend the free
schools. The State Commissioner,
Prof. G. J. Orr, has had an enumera
tion of these made in each county this
year, upon which he has based the
pro rata of the fund for each county,
which the following table will show
in full for every county in the State
Terrell.'
2,813
1,913 01
Thomas
4,542
3,0S8 84
Towns
927
630 42
Troup
5.492
3,734 90
Twiggs
2.334
1,587 26
Union
2,033
1,382 56
Upson
2,616
1,779 04
Walker
2,353
1,600 18
Walton
3,551
2,414 90
Ware
843
573 29
Warren
2,608
1,773 60
Washington
4,630
3,14S 68
Wayne
1,366
928 96
Webster
1,853
1,263 55
White
1,410
958 89
Whitfield
3,010
2,046 98
Wilcox
853
580 09
Wilkes
3,710
2,523 03
Wilkinson
2,42S
1,651 19
Worth
1,017
691 62
Total 367,614
$250,000 00
Novel Correspondence.—We pub
lish on the first page of our papet to
day a correspondence between bis Ex
cellency Gov. Smith, of Georgia, and
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, which im
presses us as decidedly singular. We
publish it mainly for future reference,
as an item in the history of the times.
Mr. Johnson holds a position on tbe
Superior Court Bench under appoint
ment of Gov. Smith.
A dispatch dated Jackson, Miss.,
July 31, says the caterpillar has made
its appearance in the cotton. Crops
are several weeks later than usual and
tbe presence of worms earlier.
CoUKTIK.f.
No. cbi'dren
school aga Amount to
including be distribn
Coufed. sol- ted lo each
diers under county.
DO year*.
Appling
975
$ 663 06
Baker
2,466
1,677 03
Baldwin
2,567
1,745 72
Banks
1,633
1,110 54
Bartow
5,331
3,625 41
Berrien
1,676
1,139 78
Bibb
6,798
4,623 06
Brooks
2,458
1,691 99
Bryan
*1,612
1.096 26
Bulloch
1,872
1,273 07
Burke
2,750
3,910 3-7
Butts
1,841
1,252 00
Calhoun
2,170
1.475 73
Camden
1,217
827 63
Campbell
3,017
2,051 75
Carroll
3,938
2,£78 OS
Catoosa
1,677
1,140 46
i liarlton
677
460 40
Chatham
10,411
7,080 12
Chattahoochee. ..
1,S40
1,251 31
Chattooga
2,257
1,534 90
Cherokee
3,732
2,537 99
Clarke
2,716
1,847 05
Clay
1,802
1.225 47
Clayton
1,787
1,215 27
Clinch
1,181
803 15
Cobb
4.972
3,381 26
Coffee
1,216
826 95
Columbia
2,163
1,470 97
Colquitt
611
415 52
Coweta
4,514
3,069 SO
Crawford
2,045
1,390 73
Dade
915
622 26
Dawson
1,375
935 08
Decatur
2,845
1,934 77
DeKalb
3,012
2,048 34
Dodge
1,140
775 27
Doolv
2,834
1,927 30
Dougherty
2,497
1,698 11
Douglass
1,527
1,038 45
Early
2,437
1,657 31
Echols
920
625 66
Effingham
1,247
848 04
Elbert
13,216
2,187 08
Emanuel
2,067
1,405 69
Fannin
1,982
1,347 88
Fayette
2,713
1,845 01
Floyd
5,802
3,945 71
Forsyth
2,524
1,716 47
Franklin
2,524
1,716 47
Fulton (co.)
3,535
2,404 02
“ City of Atlanta.
9,604
6,531 30
Gilmer
2,379
1,617 87
Glasscock
638
433 88
Glynn
1,512
1,028 25
Gordon
3,110
2,114 99
Greene
3,“20
2,529 88
Gwinnett........
3,629
2,467 95
Habersham
1,622
1,103 06
Hall
2,959
2,012 30
Ha ncock
3,432
2,333 97
Haralson...
1,149
781 29
Harris
5,238
3,562 16
Hart
1 816
1,235 00
Heard
2,373
1,613 79
Henry
3.593
2,443 46
Houston
5,957
4,051 12
Irwin ..
658
447 48
Jackson
2,904
1,974 90
Jasper
2,665
1,812 36
Jefferson
3,1.69
2,155 11
Johnson
947
644 02
Jor.es
2,178
1,481 17
Laurens
2,329
1,583 86
Lee
2,305
1,567 55
Liberty
2.8S8
1,964 02
Liucoln
1,394
984 01
Lowndes ........
2,334
1,587 26
Lumpkin
1,694
1,152 02
Macon
3,591
2,442 10
Madison
*1,517
1,031 *5
Marion
4,027
2,738 61
McDuffie
1,968
1,338 36
Mi lutosh .......
1,393
947 33
Meriwether
2 774
1,8-6 49
Miller
1,045
710 66
Milton
•1,625
1,105 10
Mitchell
2,875
1,955 IS
Monroe
5,752
3,911 71
Montgomery
1,339
910 60
Morgan
3,630
2,468 62
Muiray
1,871
1,272 39
Muscogee (co.)
1,965
1,336 32
City of Colu’bus
2,610
1,774 96
Newton
3,440
2,339 41
Oglethorpe
3,446
2 343 49
Paulding
2,300
1,564 14
Pickens.
•1.911
1,299 60
Pierce
1,109
754 19
Pike
3,163
2 151 03
Polk
2,411
1,639 63
Pulaski
3,975
2,703 24
Putnam
3,008
2,045 62
Quitman
1,366
928 96
Rabun
1,263
858 92
Randolph
3,429
2,331 93
Richmond
8,104
5,511 22
Rockdale
2,514
1,709 67
Schley
1,249
849 40
Screven
2,226
1,513 82
Spalding...
3,337
2,269 36
Stewart
4,099
2,787 57
Sumter (co.)
•4,127
2,806 61
“ City ofAmericua
7S8
535 89
Talbot
3,618
2,460 46
Taliaferro
1,607
1,024 85
Tatnall
1,809
1,230 23
Taylor
2,120
1,441 73
Telfair.
669
448 16 it
Estimated.
Counties marked thus t return of
1871.
Some counties have taken hold of
the work vigorously and zealously,
while considerable reluctance, and op
position even, is manifested in others;
but we have no doubt time and a fair
trial will remove nearly all the preju
dice. The Commissioner has visited
sjme half dozen counties lately and
delivered lectures or addresses to the
people, and it is remarked that wher
ever he has gone the people have
caught his zeal and are pressing the
work with all their might, and now he
has pressing invitations to visit and
address the people in a dozen or more
counties. It is his purpose to comply
with these requests as far as his official
duties will allow him. In Houston
county, notwithstanding a good deal
of opposition has been made to putting
the law and the free schools into oper
ation, there are now schools organiz
ed, with one thousand pupils for three
months of the present year.
Georgia News#
U^The State of Georgia is now
paying through Fourth National Bank
New York, the past due interest on its
seven per cent gold quarterly bonds
which was in default
Thomas E Lloyd, a leading lawyer
of Savannah, died in that city last
Thursday.
But one train a day will run ovei
the Macon and Western railroad, and
the Atlanta Herald has hired a special
train at $2000 per month to carry its
mails during the continuance of that
schedule.
The Constitution also engages m
the same extravagance.
Hon. W. A. Huff has gone to New
York. He carries with him the invi
tation extended by the Macon Volun
teers to any company of the famous
New York 7th Regiment, to be their
guests should they come South at the
State Fair to compete for the $750
premium
Joseph P. Police, a machinist in the
State Road shops in Atlanta, has fallen
heir to $52,000 left him by a rich old
uncle who died recently in Charleston.
Father O’Hara, a well known and
highly esteemed Catholic Priest, died
in Augusta on Thursday morning last.
A mineral well has been discovered
in Griffin.
George Henson, a negro convict
with Grant, Alexander & Co., was
whipped to death, last Sunday morn
ing, by the guard. Upon informa
tion the Coroner swore out a warrant
for the arrest of W. F. Ivey, who was
in charge of the deceased.
It is reported that three deaths from
cholera have occurred in Ringgold,
Ga., and that there are now five or
six cases in that town.
Dr. H. B. Lipsey, representative in
the Legislature from Lee county, died
at Wooten, of cholera morbus, on
Tuesday night.
Rain falls almost every day in Wash
ington county and there are no pros
pects of dry weather.
The old Suffold Guards of Washing
ton county have been reorganized,
with D. II. Tucker as captain.
Caterpillars have appeared in vari
ous sections all over the State—in
Muscogee, Jefletson, Houston, and
other counties.
The Columbus Sun advises planters
to handle Parisgreen carefully.
Atlanta has a gold milling estab
lishment.
Macon City Council has voted $5,-
000 to the Wesleyan Female College.
A Greensboro man sold the Bermu-
grass from one acre for fifty dollars.
Planters in Clay, Calhoun and Ba
ker counties speak favorably of their
>p8.
The Atlanta Herald has decided to
require prepayment for transient ad
vertisements, which is far more sensi
ble than running a special train.
The Albany News says of the crops:
rom reliable information received
TAB CAPITAL QUESTION,
Opinions of tbe Press.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger soy* ;
‘ Tbe removal of the Capital from Atlanta to •»
ancient site, the geographical centre of the S'ate » n
continue to be agitated until the question is final'vS?
poaedof nt the ballot box. The change was m h
not at the instance of the people, but as one 0 f a *
riea of wrongs and usurpations inflicted jointly h*
Federal satraps and a fraudulently chosen carnet
Legislature. Georgia never wilfbe herself a^abin
til sue repudiates and spits upou every such act of n
authorized sovereignty and domination. an ‘
The present Radical Constitution cunningly
vides that the seat of government cannot be aSTT
removed save by a change in the fundamental law
This can only be effected by a Convention of the ne~~
pie. There are several features in the C.institnti
repugnant to justice and equity, which need mndifi L °» D
tion. Let us have a Convention, therefore, aud car
fully go over the work again, making .-u c h ctianvT
as experience would indicate, among them the snh!
mission of the Capital question to the people,
That the calling of this convention is desired by q
masses is beyond question. Bnt here is where the sho«
pinches. The members of tbe General A-sembly a°*
chosen for two years. Now, it a convention i 3
they may change the Constitution and order a new
election within thirty days. This would leave th*
present Legislature out in the cold, anl they don’t
like it. One very prominent member who tavora th 1
removal of the Capital back to Milledgeville, frankl
said, “I can’t vote for the measure, however hi
cause my seat cost me six hundred dollars, and so f,.
I have received not half of that amount." it
therefore a question of dollars and cents with the W
who don't like to he ‘out.’ Yet we are assured that
*4 .500 will cover the per diem, mileage, clerk hire
and all other expenses of a convention during a fifteen
day 1 session.
Our readers may not be aware the OLDOPFRa
HOUSE DON’T BELONG TO THE STATE-
Four hundred and fitly thousand dollars have been
paid for it, shaky aud hermaphroditic as it is, but >
mortgage lor frit),000 still hangs over it, which with
accruing interest will amount to near $100,000. X 0 „
when the question comes up, which must be at the
next session of the Legislature, whether this mort
gage should be paid off. then will be a filling time to
press the claims of Milledgeville. The Kunball con
cern—holf hotel, half theatre—is known to be unsafe
and must eventually be torn down to make room tor
a more suitable edifice. Why then subject our people
to the enormous expense and increased taxation which
will be needful in the premises, w'ien the State now
owns a commodious State house, executive mansion
etc-, situated almost at its geographical cen're. We
repeat, the Capital question never can be settled until
the verdict of the people is known at tire ballot-box."
The Macon Enterprise says:
‘As we ga/.ed upou the massive
structure [old Stats
House.] we wondered what caused the removal of the
Capital from this beautiful and retired place, where
everything is quiet, aud thinking time is allowed to
men who have the law making of our gl rious old
State, and we ltope ere long to see Milledgeville the
Capital of our State again."
The Athens Watchman says:
“Without the least feeling against Atlanta, but on
the oontrary, with the kindest regard for her citiiens
and an honest pride in her most remarkable caieer,
we bel eve that the question of the location of tne cap!
ital-should be submitted to the people fairly and
squarely, as a naked issue. It cannot be pretended
rhat this was done under the Constitution of 1SG8. Let
t be fairly submitted now, and if a majority of the
people are in favor of Atlanta, let it be permanently
ocated there; but if in view o.f oui impoverished coa
lition and other considerations, they prefer Milledge-
ville, let it be restored by all means
All the talk about the old capitol building, Exeec-
ive mansion, Sic. being inadequate to the wants of
rhe State, is the sheerest humbug. Very lew of tbe
States have buildings equal to that old Capitol. It was
admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was
ntended. Ii may need some repairs Tics may also
be true with regurd to other public buildings. With
these repairs, they would answer all practical purpo
ses for a quarter ot a century to come—by which time
nur people would be able to incur the expense of
-reeling new ones, if deemed desirable. We are cer
tainly in no condition now to undertake a task requi
ring such heavy expenditures
North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, it is true,
have finer capitols than our time-honored edifice at
Milledgeville, but they cost from one and a half to
hree million dollars each, and we believe those at
Nashville aud Columbia ure still unfinished. Are our
people ready now to commence such an undertaking?
The Rome Courier says :
“Now and then we scent upon the newspaper breeze
a whiff of excitement and discontent among the peo
ple relative to the location of the State Capitol. Tbs
people of Georgia have so long and so lovingly re
garded Milledgevide as the true heart of the State
that the violence which tore it away and fixed it in
a puddle of fraud in Atlanta, can never be thought
kindly of and acquiesced in by them.
Though not c aiming to be part of the ‘’balance of
the press of Atlauta and her suburbs,’' wedo not hes
itate to give oar voice for the restoration of the Cap
ital to Milledgeville, its proper and only legitimate
site. The Capital buildings are already there well the
b-.ildings in Atlanta, and apply the money to the ex
pense of the restoration.”
The Temperance Watchman, of Griffin, says:
“We say let the Capital go back to Milledgeville by
all means. It will complete our political regeneration.
Let us wipe out ail vestage of Bullock’s frauds upon
our people."
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says there are
but two ways by which the Capitol can be removed
from Atlauta back to Milledgeville. Oneisbyatwo-
thirds vote of two successive cgislatures, the other by
a Constitutional Convention It says that if the ques
tion is ever submitted to square vote of the people the
removal will be carried.
The Savannah Republican says:
“The Milledgeville Union and Recorder has opened
its columns for a full and tree discu-sion (as to the re
moval) of the Capital question. The people, it says,
demand the return of tne Capital back to Milledge-
vilie, as the best and certainly the most proper place
for legislation. Put us down as in tavor of Milledge-
ville.
The Savannah Morning News say.-:
“The Milledgevil e Union has a well-considered ar
ticle on the Capital qu-slion. We should like to see
this matter settled. Xf the able legislators who are
sent to Atlanta would eat fewer goobers and attend to
their business, we would soon see whether Milledge
ville or Atlanta is the Capital.”
last week. The few live, energetic,
enterprising men who have resorted
to the “Destroyer,” report that it is
no longer an experiment, but a com
plete success. It kills tbe worm, and
tains its preventive elements for
trtainly twelve days.
Mrs Clara C Dickson, wife of David
Hon. Mathew Gaines, a colored
snator of Texas, will be absent from
his seat at the next session of the
Mature, unless pardoned out of
the penitentiary, where he pines at
Revival of the Constitutional-
We received the first number
tew series on Monday. Tbe
The Albany Central City says :
“We have no sort of doubt that, let the question of
removal of tfie Capitol back to Milledgeville, come be
fore the people in whatever shape it may, anil what
ever be the probably cost involved, their voice will
be ‘for Removal' by a large u ajoiity. It is true, At
lanta is riuli, and mouey will be made to do all it can,
in these corrupt times to prevent removal; while Mil-
.edgeville is poor, and the people also poor, and not
one doilar will be spent in promoting removal; not
withstanding, the fact is so glaring that the interest of
the State demand it, we cannot but believe that patri
otism will triumph and the removal of the Capital back
to its rightful seat authorized by a decided voie. Mo
are for Milledgeville
If any portion of the people favor Atlanta as the
seat of government, we might reasonably look for
them in the counties north of Atlanta, but a prominent
and reliable gentleman living in that section writes tu
as follows:
“If the question of removal was submitted to the
voters of north Georgia I know two-thirds, at least,
would vo'e tor it to go back to Milledgeville. I know
what I say to be so, for I have talked with them upon
the subject It the vote is ever taken you will unit
what I say to be so-”
(’•mparisea between the Cast of the Stale
Government nl Milledgeville and Atlanta-
1867 AT MILLEDGEVILLE. I 1869 AT ATLANTA.
For lights, - $50'0iFor lights
For fuel, - • 360 DO For fuel.
For stationery, 28d 511 For stationery,
Incidental expenses jlneidental expen's
Executive Dep’t, 248 80 Ex. Dep’t.. H,W
Advertising in l ews- iAdv'tisiug in pa-
papers by Gov., 2,339 84; pers by Gov.,
$3,28115 . $46,76810
*1.157 C2
1,5*6 40
5 382 49
27,191 59
Reasons why the Capital should be
Restored to Milledgeville.
l»t Because Milledgeville is in the center of tl«
d.Tlie fail A of the State was pledged that Mil-
ledgeville should be tbe permanent Seat of uove
3d. The Convention to iorm a new Constitution
was called by the Military to meet at Atlanta tut
of the Capital of the State—the proper place.
4th. The people did not expect or desire that “
question of removal should enter into the new Com
tution. It was sprung by the people of Atlanta a‘
the meeting of^he convention, and delegate- ia
midst who didn’t have money to pay their board co
pelled to pass upou it. , , 0
5th A large proportion of the tax payers lal . g
participate iu the election tor delegates—followi g
non-action policy ol Mr. Hill. , j~ r
6th. The Constitution was adopted as a lehoie'no
Military duress—when tbe part lemoviug the Lsp
would have been rejected conld it have been >
upou separately. ......
7th. The expense of legislation in Atlanta has
enormous—largely exceeding the expenditures in
ledgeville. In fact legislation in Atlanta has w<. o
ruined the State n ers
8th Tbe location and construction
House is unsuitable tor a Capitol—located in t i
ter ot the most noisy of cities and so construct
members cannot hear what is going on. BeG 0 f
rounded by business houses there is great an= j<j e g
destruction by fire of the public records. M
this building is thought to be insecure anJ .
fall and crush the assembled wisdom of the “ f or
9th The buildings at Milledgeville were now.
State purposes, ana are suitable and ample.
IlHh. If the Capital remains in Atlanta a ne r ^
Houne will be necessary; and legislation wea ,th
be controlled in the interest of Atlanta by 1
and i> tiuence of powerful local ring*
Capital shall be located and desire to
a sepaiate question.
where their
fite upon I
“There’s a beautiful isle in the Long Ago,
All flooded with golden light; .
And a river that glides by the magic shore
Whose waters are wondrous bright.
And a bark that moves with snowy satis,
And tbe music of silver oar.
That carries ns back to the shining gatss
Of that beautiful past once more 1
And every heart bolds some sweet dream
Of • beantifol Long A go."