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1874.
Fab'»ut what is called "tlie Beech
er aud Tiltoy scandal.'’ because
thought the perV-le of Georgia had very
little interest in^the controversy. Both
of the men havo been our ^ftemics and
they live’in a community where one scan
dal more or less is not of much conse
quence. We believe the charges against
Mr. Beecher are fully and completely
proven. Hundreds of men have been con
victed and hanged on testimony not near
strong. Many, very' many circum
stances support Mr. Tilton’s testimony.
The pretended howl over Beecher's dull is
pure bosh. He has not falien, .hundreds
of good men in New York and Brooklyn
have for years believed what has now
been proved. Some say his usefulness to-
the world is lost. Ho never hadjany.
His genius made his half-infidel d^trines
dangerous and infectious It is the opin
| ion of many good men in Brooklyn and
Farmer Wo. 2.
In the issue of the J'elegroph <C Mes.
sengee of the 21st instant. Fanner No. I Now York, that his preaching has been
2 comes into the ring and takes up the j a blight and a mildew upon true piety
Coining South.
We see it stated in our exchanges that;
the ‘‘Southern fever is hot in Iowa. W is-
consin and Michigan, in other words,
that persons in these States are desirous
of coming South for the purpose of buys
ing land and locating permanently. Geor
gia presents an inviting field for the in
dustrious settler, whether he comes from
the West or from Europe. Lands are
cheap, the soil is productive, the climate
is salubrious the people are hospitable,
taxes are low, markets are convenient
and transportation by water and rail in
most parts of the State is easy of access.
—Persons who come to Georgia to better
their fortunes by honest labor will nnd
no prejudice against them. We have a
great State, with mighty resources, but
we need the aid of intelligent labor aud
increased capital to turn the undevelop
ed treasure of our fields and forests our
rivers and mountains, into silver and
gold.
foils that have fallen from the hands of
Farmer No. 1. We suppose No. 1 has
hauled off to repair damage. No. 2 tries
to make us believe that he is the same as
No. 1, but can’t succeed Neither the
style, the temper or arguments are alike,
and vo shall assume that he is another
person who is willing to step into the
shoes of Farmer No. 1, and try to varn
ish over the faults of No. 1, and in doiun
so he has changed the gist of the argu
ment. No. 1 assailed us and Mr. Nutting
with the ciime of being bom in New
England a No. 2 says be comes forward
to defend the lawyers against our charges.
We made no charges against them. We
merely stated a fact, that they held nearly
all of the fat offices in the State. If
what we said was true we have (lone them
HO wrong, and every intelligent man in
the State knows that it is true; and it
being true, we think, is a strong argu
ment why some men of other professions,
equally as competent, should not some
times be called to represent us and not
trust to one class alone to represent eve
ry interest in the State. This may not
appear reasonable to men who sign them-
elves “farmers" merely to deceive ; but
wo think it will be considered reasonable
by all real farmers and by the great mass
of the people. But when before, since
the world began, was it necessary for
Farmers to leave their plows and their
crops in the grass and take up their pens
t > defend lawyers. It is the business of
lawyers to defend others, both the inno
cent and the guilty, and surely they are
competent to defend themselves when
any defence is necessary.
Fanner No. 2 does not seem to under-
- T jhe meaning of Demagogue. He
out that lawyers are a very influ-
and powerful class of citizens who
d Congress and our —ito
all true,
J.ie to say
and iniluen-
would rather
of such men 1
h flattery as ‘Farmer’
’>f but they are
other men and
war, but for
:>re were fifty
laboring men
.hose widows
l has no word
to. 2 might have
most, if not ev-
5 who died were
l?ave entered the
as privates foi the name of the
but ;ill expected appointments and
iem. We Jo not remember a single
.ro a lawyer carried a musket
#>• r. They all came out of-
v whether in war or peace,
ding passion for office prevailed.
Tow, wo ask Fanner No. 2 if it was
>t a great waste of charity in him to
rave his farm and rush into the newspa
pers to defend the lawyers from a sus
picion of liking office. As well might he
defend an ox from the suspicion of liking
fresh clover or a duck from loving water.
Will not he on reflection scratch his head
in search of brains, and, if he finds any.
use them hereafter in cultivating his farm
and not in defending lawyers, a class of
citizens more capable of defending them
selves than any other in our country.
But Farmer No. 2 complains that we
did not tell where we were horn. We
-did. not consider it of any public impor
tance, and we were willing to let Farmer
No. 1, whom we consider a spiteful old
prig exercise still more his faculty of
guessing. But if Farmer No. 2, whom
we consider a rather good fellow, wishes
to make a pilgrimage to the place of our
nativity and will let us know, we will
furnish) him with directions so that he
cannot miss the way.
The Civil Rights Bill not an Issue
Among Southern Democrats.
Some of our Georgia exchanges are
advocating the claims of their favorites
for Congress, because they are opposed to
the Civil Rights Bill. Of course they
are,, and so is every other Democrat in
the State, and on that question no dis
tinction among Democratic candidates,
except, that some might have more infills
ence than others to ward off the plague.
We believe we may say with safety, there
is no issue among Democrats anywhere
on that question, for nearly, or quite,
< very Democrat in Congress, let his resi-
r nee lie where it might, who voted at all
on the question, voted against the bill.
It is not fair then, for Democrats in Geor-
giato make any distinction among our
candidates on that question.
Honest H. I.’Kimball,
We publish in our present issue, two
articles from tlie Atlanta Mews, showing
up and proving beyond a doubt, Mr.
Kimball’s agency and effective manage
ment in putting into the market a large
amount of Geoigia bonds, issued by Bul
lock. fraudulently, and against the law.
On many thousand of these bonds, lie,
)Kimball) realized the money for liimself
and not for the State. It seems, also,
that he cheated the citizens of Atlanta in
Yit little arrangement about the Opera
"House. One thing is rather mysterious :
When Kimball ran away and they thought
there was nothing more to be got out of
him. the people of Atlanta was down on
him like a thousand of brick. But since
his return and there is a chance for more
developments, they consider him a
martyr and the guardian Saint of Atlanta.
for many years.
The Boy Fiend of Boston*
That extraordinary .little devil inear
nate, Jesse H. Pomerc^, has, it seems,
He has been expef :ocl. committed another mmder, as set forth
The Talmage School.
The Trustees of tliis Institution meet to
day to arrange, if the way be clear, for
beginning the exercises this fall. It is
hoped that the Rector elect, Mr. Benj.
T. Hunter of Athens, who is now on a
visit to our city, will accept the position
to which he has been called. Such an In
stitution as it is proposed sooner or later
to establish at Midway, will aid in meet
ing a great educational want of our sec
tion. We look with interest for the do
->* TEldpmcnt and success of the plan.
The Savannah News says : “The adroit
ness of the Atlanta Constitution in de
nouncing and defending Kimball in the
same article, lias excited the astonish
ment aud applause of the country press.”
Radical Convention which met in
ly last Tuesday, for the prupose of
dominating a candidate for Congress
;>m that District, nominated R. H.
itley on the first ballot, by thirty ina-
i. Tlioa| Hardeman has been elected
Chancellor of the Knights oi
I for Georgia.
but many of his admirers will still 'aft
here to him and will believe in him as
much as ever.
JUacbcoods Magazine for July, the
first number of a new volume, is now bex
fore us. The most noticeable artieliE
among its contents are: “Family Jewels?’
“Two Cities—Two Books,” and “Bracken-
bury’s Narrative of the Ashanti War."
The first is a collection of gemsof verso>
which have a family likeness; examples of
one subject variously treated by poets of
different ages. The writer says; "We
have directed our readers’ attention
throughout to no case of spurious imita
tion by baser hands of noble jewels, nor
to instances where they have been mi/n-
ly purloined; we have aimed at exhil/iting
their descent in the right line to osfe g«m
eration after another of the roy‘Ji family
of poets.” } f
In the second we .haw a picture of
Florence, in connection with George El
iot’s “Romola;” and Venice, with which is
associated in like manner George Sand’s
“Coxisuelo.’’ /
The thii/d of these articles is a review
of an “authentic memoir of that extraordi
nary war iwhich England made on the
Gold Coast, last winter.” The book tells
of the “ancient history of the region;” “the
troubles of the governors and traders of
old;" “the Ajshanti invasion which led to
this last wav, and the stejis taken to meet
it;” its resuilts, and the prospects of the
settlements), giving altogether a very fair
idea of the Whole subject.
The serials, ^frttlice. Lorraine and “Val
entine and his Brother, -discontinued.
In “Quid sit Orandum,” «L short poem
of three oi four pages, we arle presented
in a concise form with the aanncipal argu
ments ii favor of the cfiicac% * r - wpsrr-
- The Beecher Scandal.
Tilton’s statement, which is telegraph
ed in full to the Louisville Courier-Journ
al of the 22d, makes five and one half
columns of that paper, and is indeed a
terrible document, in which the corres
pondence of Beecher and Mrs. Tilton it
so interwoven with the statement of facts
as to make it an apparently irrefragable
chain of evidence, convicting both of guilt
and falsehood. Its effect upon the Cour
ier Journal may be judged from the fol
lowing editorial:
The Screen Falls.—The dreadful,
dismal, nasty and revolting domestic rev u
elation which is laid before the readers
of the Courier-Journal this morning calls
for no particular comment. Every reader
will judge it. and the parties to it, for
himself. The mass of evidence, positive
and circumstantial, is overwhelming
against the pastor of Plymouth church.
For weeks it has been evident that exs
traordinary efforts to shield him from a
great impending shame were being made
by tlie leaders of his congregation. Had
he been innocent, there would have been
no shuffling. Had he been innocent, he
and his friends would have made no fight
for time. He and they would have been
prompt, eager, to throw open the doors
and to defy the world, the flesh and the
devil, no matter what shape they might
assume. There was no escape, and the
rash is all the worse for their tactics.
There are those who will plead for the
reat preacher by that great law of chari
ty which bids us forgive the infirmities
of human nature. These do certainly
overleap the bounds set upon rational
justice and fixed by the interests of a
sound social code. A poor young girl,
inexperienced and ignorant, obscure and
friendless, commits a single act of adult
ery and is spumed into a life of shame.
There is no pity for her. Shunned by
her own sex, outwitted by the sex on
whose manhood God taught her to rely,
she stalks through the world a - blighted
ruin. Yet the very people who would
visit her with a punishment worse than
death lift up their hands and urge mercy
in the name of the Christ whose teachings
they daily discredit, for the man of the
world, the man of genius who has used
the sacred office and ministry of heaven
to corrupt the morals of his ilock, to des
troy his own neighbor's fireside, to drag
religion into the mire, and to abuse the
trust of the closest personal friendship.
Mr. C. A. Hutting.
We are much gratified to leam from
persons who have recently visited the
coimties of Newton, Walton and Rockdale,
that our friend Mr. Nutting is extremely
popular in these counties, and that his
sterling merit, marked ability and valu
able public services are full appreciated by
the people.
They are alive to the importance of
of the crisis that is upon them, and to
the necessity of electing to office the
men who can best serve the State, ir
respective of private partiality or individ
ual preferences.
The man whose sagacity, intimate
knowledge of finance and influence among
capitalists, raised the credit of Georgia
from the deplorable condition to which it
was reduced when Henry Clews A Co.,
sought to compel the State to pay the
fraudulent bonds which he held, to the
high position it now occupies in the
money markets of the world—who, acting
in concert with the State Treasurer, not
withstanding tho tight times, and the
panic, placed the entire issue of tho “Nut
ting bonds" at par—has given a proof of
ability and of capacity for usefulness
which the people of the Sixth District
are too wise and coo patriotic not to em
ploy in their services in the representa 1 *
tive capacity where they will be most
beneficial to the State.—Morning Star.
A Card.
in tho following dispatches to the Trib
une:
" Boston, July lb-—At South Boston
yesterdav afternoon tho remains of little
Katie Mary Curran, a girl of 10 years,
who so mysteriously disappeared some
four months ago, were found in the cellar
of the building No. (527 Broadway, for
merly rccupied as a store by Mrs. R. H.
Pomeroy, mother of young Pomeroy,
who is now in jail awaiting trial on a
charge of torturing and murdering a
vouug boy by the name of Millin on April
22 last. The discovery was made by
Jjome workmen employed in an adjoining
c.'lar. A stone was loosened and fell
upon S*pile of ashes in a part formerly
occupied by the Pomeroys; and upon
going in to remove it a fragment of a
dress was seen protruding from the heap.
Upon pulling it out the child s head was
brought to light. The police were at
once summoned and the unnatural grave
was more fully examined, when the re
mainder of the body of the child was ex
burned. The remains were much decom
posed nnd utterly unrecognizable, but
the clothing was fully identified as that
of the little Curran girl. Detectives and
the parents of the unfortunate little one
were sent for. The grief of the latter
upon fully realizing the horrible facts of
the case was heartrending. The excite
ment ivas so intense that the mother and
elder brother of tho Pomeroy boy were
arrested, not from any suspicion that
they Avere accessory to the atrocious acts
of the young fiend, but as a measure of
safety, it being feared that they would
he lynched by the exeited crowd. The
theory of tiro detect toes is that the young
murderer enticed his vie*’”*, into the cel
iar aurintr toe >ocnco of his
lifter torturing her to death, disposed of
the remains in the manner above describ
ed. The officers had, as they supposed,
made a thorough search of the premises
at the time of Pomeroy’s arrest, but the
ash heap slioAved no sign of having been
disturbed, and the horrible secret it con
cealed was not even suspected.
Intense Excitement ora- tho Discov
ery—the Crime fixed njttnt Pomeroy
beyond a Doubt.
Boston, July. 19.—The excitement over
the discovery of little Katie Curran in the
cellar of the store Avhere the boy J esse H.
Pomeroy had a periodical stand continues
to be intense. To-day the bones were
given over to the surgeon and a coroner’s
jury was impaneled. The surgeon’s ex
amination fixed the crime upon Pomeroy
beyond a doubt, for the clothes were
found to be cut in such a way as to
cate that the young fiend had mutilated
and gashed the little girl just as he had
the score of boys Avho had been his vic
tims. There Avas nothing upon the hones
to indicate that they had been broken in
any Avay. Last evening the Chief of Pol
ice and the chief of the detective force
visited young Pomeroy in jail and told
him of the discovery. He did not seem
at all moved at the news, but showed
some feeling when told that his mother
and brother had been arrested. He de
nied all knowledge of the affair, however,
in spite of the fact that he has often in
quired since his incarceration Iioav much
reward was offered for the discovery of
her Avliereabouts.
Effects of the CiviT
Truman Smith, ex-Senator of the
ted States from Connecticut, an origin;
abolitionist, and a later day saint of ti
Radical persuasion, has Avritten a Ion ^
letter to Senator Brownlow on the futons
of the negro race. The communicatiqn
was Avritten a projtos of the civil rights
bill. Mr. Smith thinks the measure
uncalled for; that it is fraught Avith mis
fortune to both races, but particularly
to the nogro race. Prejudice on account
of color is the eAil it strikes at. This evil
should be extirpated by other means than
legislation. It is not in the power of
Congress to eradicate that prejudice by
any means at its command. The civil
rights bill would break up the common
school system. It would turn over all
the poor whites and blacks almost with
out exception to utter ignorance. It
Avould make a unit of the Avhite race as
against the black. In the contest which
Avonld follow, the whites would be sure
to Avin. This would be the case every
where, except, perhaps, in South Carolina.
The whites, thus united against the
blacks, Avould cast themselves into the
arms of the Northern Democracy.
The Democracy are already calculating
on taking possession of the government at
the next Presidential election by allying
themselves Avith the Southern Democra
cy. Such a coalition will be made. Wheth
er it shall succeed or not will be the great
issue of the next Presidential campaign.
The Credit Mobilier affair, the salary grab,
the Jayne and Sanborn swindles, the
vacilating policy of Congress on the
currency question, have brought discred
it on the Republican party and favor the
success of the Democracy.
These are the views of Mr. Truman
Smith, as set forth in his letter to Sena
tor BrownloAv. Commenting on this let
ter the Chicago Tribune (Independent
Repudlican) says: “We agree with them,
inasmuch as they portray the corrupt
career of the Republican party. There
is no soundness in that party. As a po
litical organization it is rotten. In their
interested and blundering advocacy of
the civil rights bill, they have aroused an
opposition which will oust them of pos
session of the government. They have
made the whites of the South a unit. In
effecting this they have been aided by
the arrogance of the negroes themselves.
And there are enough people in the North
Avho love justice and reform to unite
with the Avhites of the South to see to it
that the rights of Avhite as Avell as black
are respected.’’
H. I. KIMBALL
His Career
Coming' to
To
Terrific Water-Spout.
A Pari m( a
Tawa Swept
liirri Laal.
Away—Thirty
The Executive Committee of Bibb coun
ty appear to bo dissatisfied Avith the call
of the Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Sixth Congressional dis
trict, for the delegates to meet at Mil-
ledgcvillo the 12th of August next, to
nominate a candidate for Congress, and
that a preliminary meeting should have
been called to agree upon the time and
place. I should exceedingly regret if any
action of mine may in the remotest de
gree disturb the harmony of the party
in this district or out of it. The call was
made at the suggestion and request of
several counties in the district, ample
time was alloAA-ed, none could be taken
by surprise, no usurpation of power was
intended. The call for the convention
to meet at Milledgeville the 12th of Au
gust next is continued. The convention
then can consider it a preliminary meet
ing, or not, as it may think proper
they have the right.
B. F. Wabd.
Thomasville Times: The crops, so far
as we can ascertain, both com and cotton
are doing well. The former is secured,
whilst cotton, unless some disaster should
befall it, bids fair at this time to be fine*
>
San Francisco, July 25 —A dispatch
from Eureka, Nevada, says: A terrible
water-spout burst in the mountains yes
terday and swept throughout the towD,
killing twenty persons and causing great
destruction of property. Another dis
patch from Elko says the water-spout
crossed theJCentral Pacific Railroad track
between Humboldt 'Wells and Toano, in
juring it so that Avestem bound emigrant
trains cannot get through to-day.
San Francisco, July 25.—A dispatch
from Eureka gives the particulars of the
storm yesterday. It had been raining
with great violence from early in the
morning until noon when a cloud burst
on a lofty range of mountains to the east
ward and a vast volume of water AA-ashed
down a canon Avhere the town is located.
The eastern part of the town was flood
ed in ten minutes by a fearful rush of
water, Avhich constantly increased in vio
lence, depth and impetuosity The peo
ple were hemmed in aud every moment
houses were tom from their foundations
and swept aAvav with the occupants.
Ropes were procured and a line formed.
BraA’e men, thus protected, dashed
into the torrent, saving many lives.
Only a few Avomen and children were
lost. Roger Robnett, reporter of the
Sentinel, is among the drowned. The
Sentinel office Avas swept away. The
bodies are being brought to the Court
House as fast as recovered. Three
Chinamen were lost. Thirty houses
Avere SAvept away, and all that part of the
town in Avhich are situated dance houses
and other places of amusement gone.
The flood lasted only half an hour. It is
believed the total loss of life willl reach
twenty-five or thirty.
Recommendation to Farmers.
The County Council of the Macon, Ala-
Grangers recommends to “Patrons” es
pecially, and farmers generally, to com
mence at once the use of fires in their cot
ton fields, and to keep them up as long
as there is a caterpillar fly to be seen.
Every fly killed is equal to destruction
of thousands or more of worms. The de
struction of the first crop of flies is a sav
ing of the cotton crop.
From a private letter dated ‘ Lis
bon, Arkansas, July 16, 1874,” we learn
that “crop prospects in Arkansas are
poor from eleven weeks drought. Politi
cal prospects are better than for fifteen
years.”
Before
Georgia.
[From Hie Chronicle and Sentinel ]
he Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel :
Your valued journal seems to he one
f *i-- ‘ ..Iiicn remembers the doings of
Kimball and his crew when they had their
“carnival" at the time that the oppressor's
heel Avas upon our heath. Truly. our
people are long suffering, but quick to
forget and forgive if they can welcome
hack such adventurers to our midst. Mr.
K. makes an adroit defense of his acts
during those dark days, and claims to be
legoNy exempt from all blame. As the
Atlanta News properly says, “he may be
legally blameless, but is he so moral
ly 1”
But the question of his high handed
acts, when here some years back, I leave
to other and abler pens to discuss. His
acts and doings elsewhere may lead to a
proper judgment of his character. I
therefore desire to direct the attention of
those capable of answering to the follow
ing questions:
What were the circumstance attending
his failure in New Heaven some years
back. Did the community hold him
blameless ?
Who can give us the facts concerning
his career in Colorado ? It is true that a
gentleman Avalked into his office, and,
locking the door, made liim disgorge eight
thousand dollars, and upon K.’s begging
the documents back upon which he had
obtained the money, replied: “No, I
intend to keep them, and may yet con
elude to use them to put you in the peni
tentiary!”
What Avas Mr. K.’s connection with a
certain church fund in Chicago ? Did he
leave there forgetting to turn over about
twenty-two thousand dollars, and had to
have his memory jogged in reference
thereto after he came doAvn to develop
Georgia ? Did he change his mode of
writing his name whilst there?
Can you, or some of your exchanges,
enlighten the anxious public on these
points’
W ESTERNER.
Great Telescope.
Every one of late has been gazing at
the comet. For several weeks past it
has been the world’s great show. It is
presumable that since April last all the
great telesoopes| of the earth that were in
proper position, have found their chief
duty to he to point towards the comet.
It has divided, Avith tho anticipated
transit of Venus, the world's astronomical
attention, and this revives popular inter
est in those great instruments for the
examination of the heavens, the world’s
largest telescopes. We have in this
country alone sixty observatories,
armed with telescopes of more or less
power. The largest of these, and the
telescope with the largest object glass
in the world is the one on the National
Observatory, at Washington which
has an aperture of 26 inches, and
cost over $50,000. In Cincinnati the
observatory has a telescope of 12 inches
aperture, which cost $10,000.
In New York. Dr. Rutherford has a
telescope Of 13 inches aperture, and Mr.
Campbell, in Brooklyn, one 12 inches.
These glasses are all refractors, the larg
est reflector being Professor Drapor's, at
Hastings, which has a silver glass reflec
tor of 26 inches diameter and is of four
teen feet focal length. Harvard University
has a telescope of 15 inches aperture,
which cost $20,000. At Alleghany, Pa.,
there is a telescope of 13 inches aperture.
The McCormick Observatory, at Chi
cago, and the Lick University, at San
Francisco, are having very large instru
ments constructed.
In Europe the large and valuable teles
copes are numerous. At the Pulkowa ob
servatory, iu Russia, the telescope has 15
inches aperture,—this being the famous
instrument used by Struve. Lord Rose’s
great telescope, at Louth, Ireland is a
huge reflector, 53 feet long, with a clear
aperture of 6 feet. At Malta, Lassel’s in
strument has an aperture of 4 feet. There
is also a huge telescope in Australia, at
Melbourne, and another at Cordova, in
the Argentine Republic, the latter having
an aperture of 4£ feet. At Munich, the
telescope is of 11 inches aperture, and
at Paris 12£ inches. There are also scores
of other telescopes of less aperture, yet
of no small service in the great field of
investigation to which they are devoted.
A STATS COSVBSTlOS.
From the Atlunta Newt*. j
HONEST HANNIBAL.
w the Great Developer Develop*
ed Things.
He Coutrncte to Sell the C»pitol tor $&*0,UU0 uul De
veloper $G14,000 out of It—How Bond. Were Ob
tained from the Fourth National Bank of New
York
Mercy to Mr. H. I. Kimball might,
perhaps, have influenced us to leave him
undisturbed by further criticisms and
searching questions relating to his career
in Geoigia. But Mr. Kimball has en
deavored to create a public sentiment in
his favor by publishing, in almost every
daily paper in the State, a carefully and
most artfully written reply to the charges
which have been brought against him.
Actiiated by motives which we shall en
deavor to show hereafter, he has gone to
the enormous expanse of spreading this
defense broadcast throughout Georgia
We say enormous expense, because we
understand that the publication of hit
letter has been, or is to be paid for, to
certain papers, excepting certainly 77u
Atlanta Metes and, we presume, the Au
gusta Chronicle and Sentinel. We do
not meution this fact as a reflection upon
any of our eotemporaries who may be
paid for the publication, as the transac
tion is a strictly legitimate one.
If we sit down now
TO RIDDLE THE DEFENSE
of H. I Kimball, it is simply because we
have a duty to perform to the public, at
once so imperative and so solemn, that
we dare not display “that pity which cor
rupts justice.” Mr. Kimball has return
ed to Georgia, and has put in a plea of
innocence. We propose to show this
morning that he is an artful, dishonest
man, and to explain Avhy it is that, de
spite the fact that the evidence of his
participation in the plunder of the State
is in tlie possession of the authorities,
he is not molested by the officers of the
law.
It will be remembered that on Sunday
last we called attention to Mr. Kimball’s
singular omission of all mention of the
bonds held by J. Boorman Johnson &
Co., of New York. We now propose to
show where he got those bonds from,
and to demonstrate that he was guilty of
deliberate fraud upon the State.
THE PURCHASE OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING.
1. The first bonds given to Mr. Kim
ball, on account of the purchase of the
capitol building, were $250,000 of curren
cy bonds, issued under the act of 27th
August, 1870. These bonds were issued
for temporary purposes only, to be used
as collateral, and he teas not allowed to
sell them. He subsequently received
$250,000 regular gold quarterly bonds,
in payment for the capital building, and
agreed to return tho currency bonds, re
ceived as above stated, to the treasury,
cancelled. His written agreement to this
effect is now in the office of the Execu
tive Department. Having obtained these
bonds, Mr. Kimball, in October, 1870,
hypothecated $120,000 of them to J.
Boorman Johnson & Co., to cover a loan
of $84,000. On the 3d of April, 1871,
not having provided for the taking up of
the loan he renewed it and again hypothe
cated the bonds received by him as above
stated, to secure the firm against loss in
the transaction. On the 3d of August,
1871, he re hypothecated the same bonds
as security for an extension of the loan.
The above facts appear from records in
the Executive office, and also from testi-
tirnony published iu the report of the com
mittee on the official conduct of Govern
or Bullock.
General Hooker’s charge that General
Butler had stolen a million of dollars be
longing to colored soldiers is emphatical
ly denied by Butler, who further says
that every accusation touching his acts
during the war, in civil administration, is
equally untrue. When did Beast Butler
ever tell the truth when a lie would bet
ter serve his purpose. We could hardly
believe that Ben swindled his colored
troops out of a million of dollars, for
the very good reason that the contra
bands at that time didn't have that a
mount of money to be stolen. But now
that Ben denies the charge we are bound
to believe he stole all they had.
Rev. A. L. P. Green, of Nashville,
Tenn., one of the most distinguished di
vines of the Southern Methodist Chnrch,
died in Nashville on the 15th inst., after
a protracted illness of many month#.
Kingston, Ga., July 21.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and Sen
tinel :
There are a great many people in this
section favorable to a call for a State
Convention by the next Legislature, and
think the matter should be discussed
during the present campaign. Some very
grave and important subjects to the peo
ple would naturally come befepe a con
vention, and the eyes of the people would
be opened as to how they are governed,
bargained and sold out without consent.
A convention would post the people upon
how they are being whirled into the vor
tex of bankruptcy and ruin by bargaining,
selling and embezzling. A convention,
and only a convention, can apply the
proper remedy and stop this. Bartow.
Lightning struck a cow-pen in Pulaski
county recently and killed eight yearlings
WRITING A DELIBERATE FALSEHOOD.
Under date of March 20,1S71, Kimball
wrote to Bullock from New York, as fol
lows :
“I have the pleasure to inform you that
the lithographed bonds of the State,
given to be used temporarily as collateral
while the regular engraved gold bonds
were being prepared and issued, have now
been exchanged, and the lithographed
bonds turned over to Messrs. Henry
Clews & Co., financial agents of the
State, for cancellation and return to you.”
The lithographed bonds referred to in
this letter were the same as the currency
bonds above-mentioned; and the state
ment of Mr. Kimball that these bonds
had been exchanged and the lithograph
ed bonds turned over to Clews & Co., for
cancellation and return, was not true, as
he (Kimball) well knew. As appears from
the foregoing statement, $120,000 of
these bonds, instead of being returned
to Clews & Co. for cancellation, were, a
short while after the date of Kimball's
letter to Bullock, pledged by the former
to J, Boorman Johnston & Co., as securi
ty for the loan of $84,000. The same
bonds were re-pledged to that firm by
Kimball in August following, and are still
its hands—a claim against the State of
Georgia.
SWINDLING THE STATE.
The amount received by Kimball, on
account of the purchase of the Opera
House stands as follows:
$120,000 currency bonds of the State,
unredeemed, iu the hands of J. Boorman
Johnson & Co.
$250,000 gold quarterly bonds of the
State.
$130,000 city of Atlanta bonds.
$60,000 unredeemed morgage upon the
building, in favor of the Northwestern
Life Insurance Company.
$54,000 advances by Governor Bullock
to Kimball, to enable him to finish the
building.
These items foot up the sum of $614,-
000. The city of Atlanta has assumed
the settlement of the mortgage in favor
of the North western Life Insurance
Company. Deducting this, leaves $554,-
000 which the capitol building will cost
the State, including the bonds in the
hands of J. Boorman Johnson A Co.,
which, it is believed by many, the State
will finally be obliged to redeem. The
contract price for the capitol was $350,-
000, $250,000 of which was to be paid in
State bonds, and $100,000 in bonds of
tho city of Atlanta; hut the foregoing
statement shows that Kimball got the
neat little sum of $264,000 in excess of
the contract price of the property. $60,-
000 of this ho got from the city of Atlan
ta, which he has “done so much to build
up," $174,000 of it he “developed” from
the State of Georgia, for “whose interest
ho feels such deep concern." On the
day the capitol building was purchased,
the property would not have sold in
market for over $150,000.
So that he has made out of the State of
Georgia and the city of Atlanta, in this
one transaction, $464,000 in cash and
bonds of the State and city, $230,000 of
which was obtained by deliberate fraud.
TAKING CURRENCY BONDS FROM THE FOURTH
NATIONAL BANK.
Mr. Kimball denies that he received
from the Fourth National bank, of New
York, during the year 1871, any bonds
whatever of the State of Georgia, and in
support of this statement introduces
telegram from the cashier of that bank.
His statement is nevertheless untrue, as
is shown by the following facts :
On the 25th July, 1871, one A. S. Whi
ton, of New York, received under order
from Gov. Bullock, on the Fourth N%-
tionol bank, $100,000 in Georgia gold
bonds. In receiving these bonds from
the bank, Whiton was the agent of H. L
Kimball, I although it does not appear
that this fact was known to tire officers
of the bank when the bonds were deliver
ed to him (Whiton.) Documents in the
office of the Executive department show
that Whiton turned over these bonds to
H. I. Kimball, and that afterwards, as the
agent of H. I. Kimball, or of H. L Kim
ball & Co., he pledged the bonds, with
the New York Loan and Trust Company
as security, for a loan of $75,000. So
while Mr. Kimball did not receive these
bonds in propria maner, he did receive
them through his agent, and appropriate
them to his own use, or to the use of
H. I. Kimball & Co. From the best
information which can be obtained, this
little transaction of Mr. Kimball's cost
the State $75,000. ,
She Late Abduction Case.
TwcbIt TkM«<ad Delian K«-w«r«l OWercd
for Iki AUduclorx aud ll,r Krntai-utiau »f
Ikr Child.
Philadelphl;, July 22.—Tlie Mayor
has issued the following proclamation
offering a reward of twenty thousand
dollars for the capture of the abductors
of the child Charley Brewster Boss, and
the restoration of the child:
Mayor’s Office, )
City Philadelphia. July 22, 1874. ) I
At the instance of the citizens of Phila !
delphia, I hereby offer a reward of twenty i
thousand dollars for the arrest and con-1
viction of the abductors of Charles Brews
ter Ross, son of Cheystian Ross, of Phil
adelphia, and the restoration of that
child to his parents. The child was
stolen from Washington lane, Chew
street, Germantown, in the suburbs of
Philadelphia, on the afternoon of the
first of July last At the time when the
child was stolen ho answered the follow
ing description: Age eight years, dres->
sod in a brown linen kilt suit with short
skirt, broad brim unbleached Panama hat
with black band, laced shoes and blue
and white striped stockings. The boy
has long flaxen curly hair, hazels eyes,
clear skin, round, full face, and no marks
except those made by vaccination on the
arm. His appearance as above described
may be greatly changed by cutting of his
hair or changing his dress to that of a
girl, or in some other way.
The child was decoyed by two men
into a falling top yacht bodied buggy 1
painted dark all over, lined with dark
materia], and drawn by a dark bay or
brown horse, about fifteen and a half
hands high, driven, it is believed, without
check rein by two men, who, as nearly
as can be ascertained, answer to the
following description: One was a man
of rather large size, probably five feet
eight inches high. He was seen sitting.
Age believed to be fr om thirty five to
forty five years. Moustache and full
beard or whiskers, rather long on the
chin, of brown, or sandy color, and
brown hair. He wore a ring on the little
finger of the right hand.
The other was a man five feet eight or
ten inches high, about twenty-five or
thirty years of age, of light, or with
complexion, sandy
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as a disguise.
W. S. Stokeley,
Mayor of Philadelphia.
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Microscopic Writings
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A Cuban dollar is now worth only thir
teen cents, but they keep on calling it a
dollar just for the fun of the thing.
A Detroit female, breathing hard and
carrying a large hickory cane ran down
the street, the other morning, inquiring
if anybody had seen a “small, cross-eyed
man anywhere along here f Several
persons asked, “What’s the matter?”
But she hurried on, saying, “Haven’t
time now; I want to get my paws on the
fawning sycophant for just a minute !”
Hancock County.
Hancock has been the first county in
the District to organize for the campaign.
Friday last there was a meeting of the
citizens of the county at Sparta to select
delegator to the Congressional Conven
tion, which meets in this city on Wednes
day, the 2d of September. Messrs. Wm.
Neil, H. L. Middlebrooks, F. H. Butts,
J. R. Binion and J. J. Lawrence were ap
pointed delegates, and Messrs. Henry
Harris, M. G. Medlock, J. M. Harris, G.
P. Culver and John Turner, alternates.
Hon. George F. Pierce will not be a
candidate for Congress. He is an elo
quent speaker and a lawyer of decided
ability. As Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee of the House in the J**t Leg
islature, he discharged the duties of his
responsible position with marked success.
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