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She Milk in the Cocoa nut.
A correspondent of tlie Augusta Con
stitutionalist writing from Atlanta, says,
the bond ring in Atlanta have a deep
plot laid, in getting up this petition in
favor of Kimball. They wish to give him
a character, so as to enable him to manip
ulate the Legislature in favor of paying
all the fraudulent and bogus bonds
amounting to somo'seven or eight mil-
From the Atlanta News.
Bow the Bond Thief .Confronts the
Law.
The Herald has assumed the role of
champion of Mr. H. I. Kimball, and in
its issue of yesterday we find the follow
ing paragraph:
“There is nothing new to be told
against Mr. Kimball. The worst of his
actions has been voluminous and re
peatedly publicly against bim. The
prosecution has bad the whole held. Af-
Bimball Bas Left Atlanta.
-Abut, excessit, ev.vsit, erupit.
^ is gone, he has departed, he has
lions. How do you like that tax payers ter patiently waiting under a terrific
of Georgia? Th'e plan of helping Kim
ball to buy the Kimball House, where he
can feed and liquor the members at will,
is excellent. It will throw Pease and liis
wife in the shade. It behooves the people
of Georgia to be careful who they send
to the next Legislature. A seat there
may be worth more to a man who is for
sale than a seat in Congress. Below we
give an extract from this communication
signed “One of the People
“what next ?”
•‘Kimball, it is said, has now gone to
fc
e -Aped, ho lias torn himself away! But. New York, and it is significantly hinted
why did he leave in such a hurry ? There
are various reasons given for his sudden
departure. Some saj- he became alarmed
at the disclosures of St. Clair Abrams,
and left to escape the penalty of his
crimes. Others say lie has gone to report
to Henry Clews & Co., and to get more
money, and will soon return more confi-
lent than ever.
__ We too will give our version of the
story, but can’t at present give our author-
"ty. It is said that Kimball, the day be
fore he left appeared very pensive and
melancholy and in the evening, leanin;
on the arm of one of the Editors of the
Atlanta Constitution, visited many of the
1 ^ mi
ed
1 :
■IK f
m ho
"scenes of his former exploits. When in
front of the old Opera House he said to
his companion : “My friend, I shall not
wholly Abe. This building is a monu
ment of my genius which will carry my
fime down to posterity. As Jacob cheat
ed his bull-headed brother out of his
birthright, 'so did I cheat brother Rufus
out of his part of this building, and my
friend, I made a good spec out of this
house. I think I spoiled the Eyptians.
“Let fate <lo her worst
There are relics of joy —
Sweet dreams of the i>a«t
Which sha can not Gentroy.”
And as often as I look at this house I
think how I come it over the Bcetian Ru
fus and smile. And as often as the wisdom
of the State conies up to this house to
legislate they will think of mo and
curse."
Returning to the Kimball House in the
twilight when he saw the light shining
from his window ho became sentimental
and quoting Shakspeare exclaimed,
• flow fur Hint little candle thrown it'? rnys !
tffckir.en a good deed in au evil world,"
building of this Hotel u
ride myself moth
built it without
it is in truth a
and the stones
A|b^fch"this build-
Atrc^fsed with raon-
Uodgv't, he can tell
jc money came from.
Eft'v from the earnings
rfrtd paid into the Treasury
Yes, my friend, this
tent to my genius and I
said his friend.
, deep sigh, imo
tell you, but it is
?ndly cars that I could
I'Ll Last night as I lay
bed my curtains were eud-
asunder and there stood
„ od bystand before me, the image
of unfus Dsillock. It was he, but oh !
how chtfmgf•>’ from that Bullock who once
rode fi state through the streets of At-
lanbnr ‘Even such a man, so faint, so
sprnKcss, so dull, so dead in look, so woe
begone, drew Priam’s curtain in the dead
of j«ight and told him half his Troy was
burned', and as his lips seemed to move
I heard a deep sepulchral voice saying,
‘Hannibal, leave tliis place.’ I tried to
ask the ghost, if ghost it i ras. ‘why’? He
caught my meaning and said, ‘Because
tho Devil has set a trap for you in the
shape of a custom house, and if he catches
you again he will sift yon like wheat.—
If you tarry in this place, some morning
when your room is opened and examined
there will be nothing found but a strong
smell of sulphur. Enough lias been
done for fame and for Atlanta. If Atlan
ta could have been saved, this light hand
had done it. Atlanta inis ! Go ! leave
this cursed place and save thy genius for
a better hour. ’ And. now, my friend, I
dare not disobey the dreadful message,
but must go. Here take tliis lock of my
Lair and wear it next your heart, and
take this bottle to Grady, it contains the
pairings of my toe nails preserved in the
water of Ponce dc Leon spring; toil him
to keep them as a relick. The followers
of Saint Peter have kept his toe nails for
more than eighteen hundred years, and
the time may come when mine will be
precious."
By this time his friend’s feelings had
become so intense that lie turned away to
bide Iris emotion, and when he turned
back, Kimball was gone. In Jthe next
minute the whistle blew and the train
started, and a long streak of black smoke
was all that was to be seen of Hannibal
Kimball.
Atlanta is Joined to Her Idols, Let
Her Alone.
Often and again have the people of At
lanta, through their newspapers, denied
Laving any sympathy or admiration for
that trio of plunderers and robbers, Bul
lock, Blodgett and Kimball. They know
that Kimball was the prime minister, the
contriver and the executor of noarly all
of Bullock’s schemes of plunder. They
know that for him Bullock stole thirty
fivo thousand dollars at one time and
twenty at another, from the State
Treasury. They know that for his use
and benefit, Bullock contrary to law, is
sued fraudulent bonds to the amount of
many millions, and Kimball put them in
circulation. They know that Kimball
cheated the State and defrauded Atlanta
in the sale of the Opera House. They
know he built the Kimball House with
money that did not belong to bim, and
yet knowing all of these and hundreds of
other things like them, the leading citi
zens of Atlanta with the Mayor and Al
dermen at their head, have signed a mon-
sterous petition to the Secretary of the
U S. Treasury endorsing Mr. Kimball,
and begging bim to make Kimball his
agent in building the Custom House in
Atlanta and asking liirn to put all of the
money appropriated for the Custom
House into Kimball's hands, to be used
by him; and when questioned why they
signed such a petition they say that
Kimball would not only use the appropri
ation but would get a great deal more
and spend it all for the benefit of Atlan
ta. They believe if they can get Kim
ball back to Atlanta again, that some
how, by hook or by crook, he would get
hold of largo sums of money and spend
it for the benefit of Atlanta. This is the
very sentiment advanced by some of the
leading men of Atlanta, when questioned,
why they signed a netition endorsing
Kimball- The very raison they give for
wanting him would in almost any other
place put him beyond the pale of respec
tability. But we will do Atlanta the jus
tice to say that all of her citizens have not
signed that petition, but the Herald says
eighteen hundred of them have.
that ho will come back loaded down
with—
1st. Evidence to disprove the serious
charges made against him by the Bond
Committee.
2d. An abundance of substantial back
ing in the way of cash to build up the
biggest manufacturing enterprises in At
lanta.
Now, the bond ring are able to spend
A MILLION OR TWO OF DOLLARS
to secure the payment of the repudiated
bonds, and they can well afford to stake
Kimball—the most successful manipula
tor of Legislatures, and who understands
the work of corruption hotter than any
one else—to any extent. They can furn
ish him with money enough to build s
factory or two (supplemented by what
his aiders and dupes in this city will con-
tribute.) After a while a cotton mill will
be finished and work commenced, and
six hundred of the idle vagabond chih
dren of Atlanta will be claimed to have
been put to work. The “institution" will
be opened with shouts, a'grand banquet,
and music from tho post band; and Kim
ball, liaving gone up successively from
one step of popularity to another, will be
toasted and feted by many of our best
men; and he’ll make a speech of swelling
triumph, claiming to be our great benefac
tor, and be greeted with applause by the
thoughtless everywhere.
When he reaches tliis liigh pinnacle of
triumphant fame, the bond ring can well
afford to stake him with money enough
to buy the Kimball House a month or
two before the Legislature assembles.
Here he can gather the members and feed
them and liquor them free, or entertain
and caress them in his own way, till they
are thoroughly cormpieiTand will "pass
an act t-—Day the repudiated bonds.
ide ^his is the picture. How do
j ou like its looks ? I tell you, Kimball is
after putting his hand into your pockets
and robbing you of your money. The
payment of the repudiated bonds is the
ultimate prize upon which liis eye is fixed,
and he is the tool, the instrument in the
hands of the bond ring
Pay for Begroes.
We publish an article written for the
Advertiser and Republican, Savannah,
upon this subject of “pay for negroes."
The writer, R. M O. seems to think that
the sons will at no great future day de
mand payment for the property their
fathers lost in slaves, and advises that a
sworn record be made and filed away in
the office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court, of the different counties. Our
readers can see the grounds upon which
tho writer bases his arguments.
Kentucky and North Carolina hold their
election this week. Of course we look
for good Democratic new s from old Ken
tucky. And we have great hopes that
the tar heel boys will stick to their
integrity and wax the Radicals handsome
ly. We have hopes that North Carolina
will elect seven Democrats out of her
eight Congressmen. In one District
there is no hope, tho negroes have such a
large majority they can elect who they
please and they seem disposed to elect one
Hyman, said to be the most rascally ne
gro in the State.
Communication from Bewton County
Editor 17nio/i til Recorder :
Dear Sir : Several of my neighbors
and myself are pleased with your posi
tion on the Congressional question. We
don’t believe the lawyers have a patent
right to all the offices, and we believe
there are other men just as wise and as
honest as they are. We in this county
know something about Mr. Nutting—he
has been a good friend to our College ;
he made an excellent member of tlio
Legislature, and we don’t see why he
would not make a good Congressman.
He may uot get the vote of this county
on the first ballot, but if his friends stand
firm he will get it at last. Go ahead.
Newton
cloud for three long years, he at length
comes back to present liis vindication and
enter upon his defense. He came when
the Legislature was iu session and could
investigate him. He invites, not defi
antly, but resolutely, the avenging di
vinity of law.’’
What the Herald means by -repeated
ly publicly,’ we do not know, although
that may be fine writing. We, however,
do know what it tries to make people be
lieve when it says that “he invites, not de
fiantly, but resolutely the avenging di
vinity of law.”
This is refreshing. Here we have Kims
ball painted as an innocent man, suffer
ing under the weight of a most unjust
public odium; but calmly confronting bis
accusers and defying investigation.
It is a pretty picture, but it is not the
true one. We see in H. I. Kimball a
skillful, daring and most consummate
malefactor, whose plans of plunder were
so executed as to place him beyond tho
reach of the law for the present In
every act of rascality he is seen to be the
head, manipulating the wires and receiv
ing the plunder. In the fraud concern
ing the endorsement of the Brunswick
and Albany bonds,and which Kimball ad
mits to have been fraudulent we see Bul
lock placed between him and the peniten
tiary. In the case of the Tennessee Car Com
pany swindle he places E. N Kimball
before bim to bear the brunt of his ras
cality.—In fine, in almost every case of
fraud Kimball, while the real mover, ap
pears before the law in the character of
accessory only, aud until the principals
are secured he cannot be molested.
So, then, the return of this man to
Georgia amounts to this: his plas and
partners in his rascality have fled. Until
they come within the grasp of the law he
is safe from arrest and trial. He knows
that neither Bullock, nor E. N. Kimball,
nor Blodgett, nor the other instruments
he used in swindling the State, will come
back here and “peach” on him. Hence
his confidence; hence his “resolute" con
futation of “tho avenging divinity of
law.”
It is the cool impudenco of tho thief
who has placed a chasm between himself
and the chain gang; not the heroism of
conscious innocence. There are hun
dreds of men in the penitentiaries of this
country who arc 1 better and more honest,
men than H. bail. His orTv ad
vantage over them has been his superior
intelligence and his artfulness; and be
cause of this superior intelligence he is a
worse theif than any of them.
“Those Currency Bonds.”
TAB rOB. BSMOXI.
Zs it Probable?
We copy from the Atlanta Xeies the
report of the committee of the Legisla
ture appointed to investigate the claim
of Boorman Johnson k Co. The Xetcs
says, editorially:
Nothing can be more conclusive than
the proof they adduce that these bonds
were hypothecated by Kimball for his
own personal use, before the gold quar
terly bonds were issued. We think that
this report settles the question of Kim
ball’s criminality touching these bonds.
That ho perpetrated a fraud upon the
State in failing to redeem them when
the gold quarterly bonds wero paid to
him every honest man will admit.
The State never obtained the money
advanced on these bonds. Whether
Kimball used the entire sum for his own
purposes, or divided with Bullock, is a
question he alone can decide. But the
fact standsjout plainly and incontro vertibly
that he got the money on liis personal
account, and that after ho was paid the
quarterly gold bonds for the State Capi
tol he neglected to redeem the currency
bonds. This neglect could not have been
due to over sight, because he repledged
the currency bonds to J. Boorman John
son & Co., within two weeks after he had
written Bullock that they had been redeem
ed and turned over to Henry Clews & Co.,
for cancellation and return to the State
Treasury. The omission to redeem them
was an act of delibrate fraud. We care
nothing about what Mr. Kimball s “in
tentions" wero when he perpetrated the
swindle. Hell is said to be paved with
good intentions, and we have no doubt
it can be proven that the devil himself is
a well meaning person. All we know is
that the fraud was perpetrated, and that
the State will probably have to pay the
money.
HEAVY STORYI.
(.«■» •( I,ifp anil Pra|sprlf.
H. I. Kimball the “Boss Shepherd”
of the Atlanta King.
Tho article from the Atlanta Ears,
which we publish in another column, fully
confirms our suspicion that H. I. Kimball
in bis recent defense, grossly misrepre
sented Governor Smith when ho repre
sented that gentleman as being amongst
the endorsers of his honesty. The au
thorized statement of the Xeies not only
contradicts the assertions of the ‘ great
developer” in regard to his interview with
the Governor, but intimates very clearly
that Gov. Smith shares the opinion enter
tained by nearly every honest white man
in Georgia, outside of Atlanta, that H. I.
Kimball is equally responsible with Buis
lock, Blodgett and their confederates for
tho stupendous frauds brought to light
by the investigations of tho bond corns
mittee. His return to the State is no
doubt in the interest of the holders of
the bogus bonds which be manipulated
in the interest of the ring, and the dis
graceful efforts now making to bolster
up his reputation by interested parties in
Atlanta is preliminary to a demonstration
on the next Legislature to procure the
recognition of the these fraudulent bonds.
Let the tax-payers look to it that the men
who they send to represent them in the
next General Assembly are such as may
be implicitly trusted.—San Xeies.
We venture that few honest Georgians
could get two thousand signatures in At
1 mta to a petition recommending them
fjra responsible position. We are not
present prepared to account for this.
Z~-#av. Notts.
The crops throughout the State were
never more promising.
Baker county cultivates 7,769 acres of
com against 3,986 of cotton, which is
worthy of imitation.
A large number gathered at Monticello
last Tuesday to hear General Colquit
orate on the subject of direct trade
Houston county will gather cotton
from 37,564 acres, and com from 34,841.
Wheat, oats, potatoes, etc., are in abun
danco.
—Husband and wife who have fought
the world side by side; who have made
common stock with joy or sorrow, and
grow aged together, are not nnfreqnently
found curionsly alike in personal appear
ance, and in pitch and tone of voice. He
has gained something feminine which
brings his manhood into full relief; she
has gained something masculine which
acts as a foil to her womanhood.
A father in Wisconsin offered his son
five dollars to take a dose of castor oil,
and then got a counterfeit bill off on the
boy.
Colorado is a fine place for specula
tions. A pauper recently escaped from
the poor-house there and made $1,300 in
hud sm ‘
Pittsburgh, July 27.—Heavy showers
all day yesterday, but at night rain fell
in a deluge. Fearful loss of life is re
ported in Alleghany. The tunnel of the
Pan Handle Railroad is flooded with
four feet of water, and is impassable for
trains. A torrent from the hills swept
houses frGm their foundations,tearing them
to pieces. The loss of life is estimated
at fifty. The new iron bridge at Carson
street was swept away and a large num
ber of coal barges Thus far sixteen
bodies have been recovered.
For more than a mile out on Spring
Garden avenue, in Alleghany City, the
marks of destruction are everywhere seen.
Houses are thrown together in heaps.
Some twenty-five or thirty slaughter
houses on tho avenue arc washed away.
Many buildings not totally destroyed are
seriously damaged—the water rising to
the height of fifteen feet, flooding the
first floors of houses and in many places
the second stories. Several houses were
swept into the middle of tlie street and
others carried off hundreds of yards and
shattered to pieces. Some of the houses
containing two or three families at the
rear of Centre street were destroyed and
it is supposed all their inmates were
drowned. In Temperanceville and Saw
mill Run the elements mado sad havoc.
Fierce torrents swelled every little tribu
tary of Sawmill Run into a boiling
stream. and the accumulating waters
rushed with mad and irresistible fury
down the valley swooping everything in
their course. The track of the devasta
tion is marked by wrecks of dwellings,
bridges, immense heaps of stones, large
piles of drift wood and the tom and
ragged sides of the hills. Seven lifeless
bodies have already been found, and from
25 to 30 persons are missing. The iron
bridge crossing Sawmill Run at Main
street and five other bridges above were
swept away. At McLaughlin’s about 11
miles west on the Pan Handle Railroad.
11 persons are reported drowned, also a
hundred cattle, horses, sheep, kc.
A Coener in Corn.—Chicago, July 30.
—Great excitement was occasioned on
’change here yesterday, by the corner
ing of the com market. A strong ring
has had control of the market for some
time, and yesterday a comer was devel
oped and prices went np eleven cents at
a jump, leaving the shorts at the mercy
of the ring. Oats are also excited and
under the pressure. Prices advanced
foui - cents. The sales were purely for
speculative purposes.
Editors Advertiser*Republican :
From a local in your paper of the 24th,
I see that Captain I. M. Marsh has had
recorded with the Clerk of the Superior
Court the number of slaves he owned and
that were manumitted at the close of the
war: with the expectation, yon seem to
think, of being paid for them by the Fed
eral government at some future day. Cap
tain Marsh has done a very sensible thing,
and it behooves every man who has lost
property, either in negroes, stock, or
burning of houses, or any other losses,
to make record of them, every loss being
specifically stated, and the whole sworn
to and filed away. The tax books of 1860
will aid many, for they will see the mint
ber of negroes returned, ami the value
they put upon them, or the last tax re
turn in 1864 will show the number of
slaves; but values then were more or less
fictitious, as the currency of the Confed
eracy had but little value. Immediately
after the war in 1865, the writer of this,
as an editor, suggested to his readers to
make a sworn record of their losses. Many
laughed at the idea, and may do it still,
but I am firmly persuaded in my own
mind that if the present United States
government holds together for the next
fifteen years, the Southern slave owners
will be paid in full, or at least in part,
for the freeing of their negroes and the
burning of houses in cities and on the
line of march of tho Federal army through
out the Southern Confederacy.
THE LATF. WAR SETTLED NO PRINCIPLE,
Because the North fought ns without
any settled principle, or acted upon no
principle, declaring ns simply rebellious,
recognizing us as States in the Union
with rights under the constitution, and
treating us after the war as if we were a
conquered nation. Had the Federal
government declared in the outset that
tho Southern Confederacy was an inde
pendent nation, then the whole aspect
of affairs would have been changed. But
the North, with a punic faith more treach
erous, and a hate more malignant than
any that every disgraced a nation pre
tending to honor, justice or truth, rob
bed and oppressed, insulted and malign
ed a helpless foe, who was induced to lay
down arms under the solemn pledge that
the war was not waged for conquest or
confiscation of property. How well the
North has kept that promise, history and
the infamous unconstitutional legisla
tion of past Congresses too plainly de
clare. Denied our rights under the con
stitution, we have been treated as a con
quered and an abject people; jet, when
ever it pleased radical legislation for par
ty purposes, we were suddenly converted
into States with th« rights cf States, j
Thus to day the South is in a state of an
archy in some of the States, and daily the
past unconstitutional legislation of Con
gress is becoming more and more mani
fest in its workings and results, and
speaking in trumpet tongue of the iniqui
ty and wrong done.
CLAIMS THAT HAVE PASSED.
At first, Congress in its delirium of de
light at having “conquered the rebellion,”
was anxious to bang Mr. Davis and num
bers of others as an example: but the con
stitution happened at that time to be in
the way. As to allowing any claims,
that was laughed at as absurd. We at
the South were even denied seats in Con
gress; but in time even bate and preju
dice had to give way. As soon as the
South had a few true sons to represent
her, claims began to be presented, and
their justice argued; a step had been
made, time grew on apace, and the stolen
cotton claims began to be paid, and other
claims have had, and are having a hear
ing. The South is beginning to send
true representatives to Congress, men of
ability and character, who know how to
talk, and dare to talk. Their voice are
being hoard, their influence felt, and in a
few more years when the South shall hold
again aloft tho constitution, represented
as she will be by true and tried men from
every Southern State, past legislation
will be reviewed, and tho South will
speak with no bated breath, no cower
ing eye or faltering tongue, but speak as
she did before the war; speak to be heard
and speak to be respected; pointing to
the war record, wherein 600,000 men held
in check 2,000,000 for four years, fighting
for their rights, will openly and boldly
declare that the war upon the South set
tied no principle recognized under the
constitution, but simply proved the fact
that 600,000 men could not whip 2.000,-
000. Principles may sleep; may be held
in abeyance; may be rendered abortive or
of no effect, but they nevertheless live and
are cherished in the minds of the brave
and just
PAY FOR NEOROES.
The South will, at the proper time,
present her great claim—pay for her ne
gro property—a property guaranteed her
under the United States constitution and
the constitutions of her own States.
“Crushing out rebellion ” cannot be con
strued into the right of robbery or burn
ing houses. Tho old men and fathers of
the war time will have to suffer their
losses; but their sons, men in the mom
ing and meridian of life, will not submit
to wrong. Ten or fifteen or even twenty-
years is but a short time in the life of
From tba Atlanta Newi.
A Monstrous Petition in Favor of
Kimball
If there was any tiling more calculated
to injure Atlanta, and to give people be
yond her limits a false impression of the
character of her citizens, than the peti
tion circulating in our midst in favor of
the appointment of H. I. Kimball as su
perintendent of construction of the pro
posed Custom House, we do not know
what it can be.
What is most astonishing in this whole
transaction is the fact that a few good
men have been {[persuaded into signing
the petition. Are thase gentlemen aware
tliat they have placed themselves in the
position of endorsers of a man publicly
accused of deliberate dishonesty, and ol
the fact of whose dishonesty the authori
ties of this State hold incontrovertible
evidence? Upon what ground do such
men as Col. George W. Adair, Messrs. M.
C. & J. F. Kiser, Mr. W. C. Hunnicutt.
Col. S. B. Spencer, M. A. Candler, E. P.
Chamberlin, D. Pittman, and others, base
their action in endorsing such a man at
H. I. Kimball* Is the explanation giver
by at least one of them, that H. I. Kim
ball has a greater capacity for building
up things out of other people’s money, a
satisfactory one?
We ask these gentlemen, in all serious
ness, how dare they to compromise the
citizens of Atlanta before the people of
Georgia, and before the entire country,
by so ill-considered an act of weakness
as this? It is their right to imperil their
own reputations, if they will; but they
are derelict in their duty as citizens when
they recommend to the government the
entrusting of money into the hands of a
man whose character for dishonesty is
notorious, and who is only free from the
chain-gang because of the inefficiency of
our laws.
What has II. I. Kimball done for At
lanta that respectable men should be
found endorsing him? Is it l>ecause he
plundered the State and city of thousands
of dollars, and built the Capitol and the
Kimball House with the proceeds of his
plunder? If this is the real reason, then
the signers of this petition seek deliberate
ly to place the people of Atlanta in the
attitude of accessories to Kimball’s dis
honesty, for, if we are to endorse bim be
cause he has invested the proceeds of his
robberies here, then we are as corrupt as
he is. and as guilty of liis thefts as he is.
It is an old saying: “The receiver is as
bad as the thief.”
We say it deliberately and unhesita
tingly that the Kimball House and the
State Capitol, and all the money spent
to build them, are so many evidences of
our shame. They are monuments coni'
memorative of the day when Georgia lay
bound and at the mercy of thieves and
fjeoundreis. But ior ihe robberies per
petrated by Bullock, Kimball, and the rest
of the Radical thieves, they never could
have been built. Is the heritage of shame
which they embody the reason why we
must indorse H. I Kimball for a position
under the government?
Shame, shame! This petition is a
damning shame and disgrace to Atlanta.
In the name of the great majority of our
citizens we utterly repudiate it. The
persons who have signed it do not repre
sent the views and sentiments of four-
fifths of the wealth, the intelligence, and
the honesty of this city. Their signa
tures represent their individual act, and
that act is in defiance of the will of the
people.
Why was it necessary to bring Mr.
Kimball from liis needle factory in Massa
chusetts to superintend the building of a
customhouse here ? Are there not dozens
of honest men in our midst quite as capa
ble of superintending it ? If a gentleman
affiliating with the Republican party is
necessary for the work, is there not more
than one upright, honest Republican in
Atlanta, quite as capable of doing the
work ? Why not petition for the appoint
ment of a man like Mr. Markham, or
Major George Chamberlin, Mr. J. C.
Peck, or any other Republican in good
standing ?
We warn the gentlemen who have
signed this petition that neither their
wealth nor their social standing will pro
tect them from the responsibility of their
act. They cannot put in a plea of ignor
ance, because they are well aware that the
charges brought against Kimball are
founded on evidence now an file in the
Executive department of the State. It is
fortunate for this city that an overwhel
ming majority of our best citizens posi
tively refused to sign the petition, not a
few of them accompanying the declina
tion with tolerably emphatic expressions
of opinion concerning Mr. Kimball’s
character. The handful of well know
and prominent citizens who have been
persuaded into sinigng it will deeply
regret their weakness before loDg. They
will find that it is easier to make a false
step than to repair a blunder.
Bow They Look.
Mrs. Stanton is a handsome woman
Miss Anthony and Mrs Livemore are
both plain. Marie and Jane Porter wore
women of high brows and irregular fea
tures, as was also Miss Sedgewick. An
na Dickinson has a strong, masculine
face; Kate Field has a good-looking,
though by no means a pretty one, and
Mrs. Stowe is thought to be positively
homely. Alice and Phebe Cary were both
plain in features, though their sweetness
of disposition added greatly to their per
sonal appe;trance. Margaret Fuller had
a splendid head, but her features were
irregular, and she was anything but hand
some, though sometimes in a glow of
conversation she appeared almost radiant
Charlotte Bronte had wondrously beauti
ful dark brown ej es and perfectly shaped
head. She was small to diminutiveness,
ind was as simple in her manner as a
child. Juliar Ward Howe is a fine look
ing woman, wearing an aspect of grace
and refinement, and great force of charac
ter in her face and carriage. Laura Hol
loway resembles Charlotte Bronte both
in personal appearance and in the sad
experience of her young life. Neither
Mary Booth nor Marian Harlan can lay
claim to handsome faces, though they are
splendid specimens of cultured women,
while Mary Clemmer Ames is just as
pleasing in features as her writings are
graceful and popular.
Cleopatra To-Bay.
A correspondent who has been to the
British museum writes: “Full of strange
speculations and sober thoughts I paused
at last before the case containing the
mummy of Egypt s royal flirt, Cleopatra.
The soft light of the English twilight was
falling through tho dingy windows and
chasing long shadows around the cases
and into the dark comers. The sight
seers had exhausted themselves and with
drawn and the apartment was deserted
and silent as the tombs, and I was all
alone with my reveries and the dead. Be
fore me was the short, dumpy figure of
the queen, the flash of whose eye and the
witchery of whose smile had intoxicated
the mighty Ciesar and unnerved the
brawny ami of Marc Antony. She was
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full and rosy, the hair dark as the raven’s
wing and there was a look of ineffable
grace in tho face, blushing with an cz
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lovers, and the lips that it was a delirium j,’ yj Q JJ y
to kiss. I stood there, and thought
aud thought until thinking became a
burden and the gloom of my feelings
warned me from the spot. But a
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hold communion with this awful thing."
An Unwholesome Season.
Mr. and Mrs. Algernon F. C. Sartoris
will arrive in this country in October, to
attend Miss Sherman’s wedding, and a
fine suite of rooms are being prepared for
them in the White House.
Griffith Gaunt is the book of the times.
It ia an ill wind that blows nobody good,
nation—as but yesterday—and wrong in
stead of being forgotten gathers strength
and decision by time. Alsace and Lor
raine to-day as a part of Germany means
a fierce and bloody war between France
and Germany some few years hence. The
demand for those provinces will be made
when France is ready to back that de
mand by war. She is daily preparing
for it, and ton years hence she will be
fully ready and armed at every point.
Ten years from to-day the South will
be herself again, and the galvanized state
of affairs, as now manipulated by carpet
baggers, low politicians and negro votes,
will be a tiling of the past. The negro as
a voter, if he votes at all, will vote for
the interests of his section influenced by
true Southern men.
HORACE GREELEY
Had tho forsight to advocate part pay
ment for the freeing of the negroes. He
recognized tho right, and arguing from
innate feelings and principle, a self con
sciousness of true manhood, felt that the
South would never rest quiet under so
rout a wrong. He argued that if Yan
kee greed would fight for its rights and
interests, so would Southern chivalry de
mand at the proper time restitution for
wrong done. This government cannot
last so long as the South has claims she
presents as but just. They must be paid,
or the government is but a rope of sand.
There is no use to talk patriotism; pa«
triotisin means interest, and the present
Federal government is held together by
the strong arm of power, and not that of
mutual love, interest or respect, as in
days past.
THE NEGROES HAVE GOT TO BE PAID FOR,
whether it be next year or ten years
hence. No people worthy the mim of a
brave people would submit to such
wrong. It is against nature itself. There
are some sores that never heal; some
wrongs so- great that they are never for
given; some claims so just that they dare
not be ignored. R. M. O.
Commenting on the petition endorsing
Kimball, signed by “prominent citizens,’
the Atlanta Herald remarks: “It would
be difficult to evoke a more overwhelm'
ing demonstration of popular sentiment.”
The Herald is correct. It would be a
difficult thing to do in any other commu
nity. No other “prominent citizens” that
we know of would endorse a man whose
notoriety is due to the fact that he aided
to rob Georgia.—>Savannah Xeies.
The jury in the case of George Abel,
of Macon, charged with the murder of
John Cherry, could not agree on a ver
dict
Henry Ferguson, who was seriously
Brock- stabbed in Atlanta, a few days rince, is
jdead
The closing days of winter and the
early days of spring are very trying to
the feeble and sensitive and are apt to affect
unpleasantly even the more robust and
vigorous. Nothing can be more uncon
genial to the nerves or more depressing
to the spirits than damp, chilling winds,
fogs and cold rains, and of such unwel
come visitors we have a superabundance
at this season. Common prudence sug
gests, therefore, the propriety of fortify
ing the system against these insidious
enemies of health and comfort, and the
experience of more titan a quarter of a
century points to Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters as, the all sufficient safeguard un
der such untoward circumstances. An
accession of vital strength aud energy is
what is required to meet and overcome
the unhealthy elements now present in
the atmosphere. This increase of vital
power, so necessary to meet the extra
ordinary drafts which an inclement sea
son makes upon the system and tho con
stitution, can be readily acquired by tak
ing from two to three doses of Hostet
ter’s Bitters daily during the winter and
spring months. The nature of this cele
brated restorative is well known to the
public. It is composed of an absolutely
pure diffusive stimulant, medicated with
the extracts and juices of the most effec
tive tonic, alterative, antibillious and
laxative roots and herbs known to medi
cal science. To tho combination of these
excellent ingredients, in proportions
suitable to the exigencies of an feebled,
languid and diseased systems, the great
tonic-alterative owes its efficiency as a
preventive and curative. A course of it,
commenced now, will prevent all danger
of fever and ague, rheumatism or other
ailments arising from cold and damp
peculiar to the spring months, and also
prove a safeguard against the attack of
dyspepsia and liver complaint which so
frequently occur at this period of the
year. 2 lm.
Quitman Independent: Whether or
not the charges made against Mr. K. is
thought now by him to be vague and in
definite, it is very certain that when the
Legislature began to investigate his con-»
duct in reference to the bond question,
they were to him then of sufficient im
portance to excite his fears and preeipi*
tate his flight from the State. Bat now
the bondholders’ need his assistance to
manipulate soft shell Georgians and feel
the warm throbbing pulse of tfle beat cib*
izens of the State, colored, we presume,
for they gave him a warm reception in
February last. The spurious bondhold
ers, it will be remembered, made an effort
through Col. Sneed to have the State to
agree to pay these bonds or a part of
them and failed signally, and now in con
junction with Kimball they propose to
establish his innocence by laying the
blame somewhere else and make it appear
that they were innocent purchasers and
got Kimball to manipulate the new Leg
islature into a payment of the bonds, but
they will fail in that. The people of
Georgia are going to elect a Legislature
that won’t manipulate worth a coni
An Ashantee Boll.
The most curious relick of the Ashan
tee campaign brought home by the newly
returned troops is said to be a Cape
Coast bull, a perfect kitten of the species.
He is described as not so tall as an
umbrella, and, judging from his build
and activity, might be as safely trusted
to perambulate the fragile groves of a
crokery warehouse as the most docile
dog. He was allowed to be loose on the
deck, and is the pet and plaything of the
crew, who tease him until he runs and
butts them as the goat does. Twelve of
these animals were shipped as fresh food
on the voyage, and some idea may be
formed of this representative of Liliputian
“live beef,” when it is stated that of the
eleven that were killed not one exceeded
forty seven pounds in weight as a dres
sed carcass.
The Peach Trade
The First Experiment «t Sactm.
A letter was received yesterday, by Mr.
H. Dempsey, announcing that the Alle-
gretti refrigerators which left here in the
early part of last week under charge of
Mr. Foritana arrived in New 1'ork last
Friday with the peaches and canteloupes
in splendid condition. Notwithstanding
the delay and the consequent inability
to procure as many peaches as expected,
the shipment, the writer of the letter
stated, would pay all the expenses of the
trip. The prime result desired was most
satisfactorily demonstrated.—The fruif
was as firm and sound as when it left
Augusta. YVhen it is taken into consid
eration that a portion of the shipment
consisted of cauteloupes. a fruit which
decays very rapidly, the entire suc
cess of the experiment becomes appar
ent So satisfied was Mr. Allegratti with
it that he telegraphed yesterday that he
would send on another ear immediately.
He desired a full shipment of free stone
peaches. The car left New York last
evening for Augusta. It is hoped that
the full quantity of peaches to fill both
refrigerators can be obtained from Major
Mold trie Moses, Tennille, on the Central
Railroad.* If not, however, it is thought
that the full supply can be purchased
here. The Southern Express Company
is lending its valuable aid in furthering
the enterprise which is bound to be a
great success. As we stated in our first
article in regard to the matter, tliis new
method of transportation must complete
ly revolutionize peach culture in this
section and cause more attention to be
paid to it than ever before. The soil is
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paid to it than ever before. Ihe soil is orii rtnriir j i
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This institution staud* upon an eminence, north of
the city cf Nashville; overlooking the valley of the
Cumberland river. For beauty of scenery and health-
fulness it is uncqualed by any institution in tho South.
Sickness is almost unknown. Chalybeate water, ia
constant supply, is withiu the enclosure, and the pur-
pur-
We learn that it is in contemplation ! est White >uipher just outside the grounds. The
to make this the grand central depot tor j
the peach trade with New York. It is . country Retired, yet witUiu ea.-y reach cf the
also proposed to establish, in connection ! cit -' r - I /,. h ' l j for 3'“ u, =‘f udvsntagea, and
. , q, , | none of the drawbacks of city school, Ihe Academy
With this, a poach canning factory, ail the : refers with confidence for verification of its past effi-
peaches considered too small to ship— ; ciecc Y 10 i,s ma "y graduates, ami iu pupils
the “callings,” technically called—to be j'* ,he South ’
canned and either sold to the trade here
and in neighboring cities or shipped j
North.
In order to ship large quantities of
peaches at a time, whole box cars will be
converted into refrigerators, and one
forwarded to New York daily during the
peach season. Of course this will
not be commenced until next Sum
mer.— Chronicle cfc Sentinel 30?A ult.
Alabama Politics.
Mother Superior.
AT. CECILIA Ai tuetir,
ftaahvillr, T«nu.
Montgomery, July 29.—The Demo
cratic State Convention assembled. Ev
ery county represented. Over four hun
dred delegates present James L. Pugh,
formerly member of Congress, President
of the convention.
Washington, July 29.—A dispatch from
Uniontown, Ala., received here, says the
Republican Convention of the Fourth
District of that State nominated Hays
for Congress by acclamation.
Montgomery, July 29.—The Democrat
ic and Conservative State Convention
will assemble this afternoon. Almost ev-
ery delegate in the State is present in
person or by alternate.
It is conceded that Hon. Geo. S. Hous
ton will be nominated for Governor on
the first ballot. Nothing known of the
rest of the ticket.
After organization the chairman an
nounced that nominations for Supreme
Court Judges W6re in order and eight
candidates were put in nomination.
On second ballot Manning and Bryck-
ell were nominated.
Geo. S. Houston was nominated for
Governor by acclamation. After one bal
lot for Lieutenant Governor the conven
tion adjourned till nine a. m.
David Clopton of Montgomery will
probably be nominated on first ballot in
the morning. Utmost harmony prevail-
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