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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old “Soothern Recorder” and “Federal Union’’
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MXUSDOSVX&LZI, OA:
Wednesday, August 19, 1174.
^ . Sixth Congressional District.
The delegates from the several coun
ties composing the 6th District, met in
this city on Wednesday last and nomina
ted Hon. James H. Blount as a candidate
for re-election to Congress. The pro
ceedings of the Convention will be found
on our first page. It is known to our
readers that Col. Blount was not our
choice, but having received the nomina
tion we hold that it is the duty of all
good democrats to support him. What
ever differences of opinion that may have
existed before the nomination should now
be forgotten in the desire for the success
of our party. Let not the democracy be
lulled into security by the hope of an
easy victory, but, having selected their
standard-bearer let them stand by him
until the victory is gained.
One More Chance Deft.
Many writers,'whilst urging the neces
sity of every member of the Legislature
being instructed to vote for the passage
of the constitutional amendment, seem
to think this is the only means of pre
venting the payment of the fraudulent
bonds. This is one way, but if the bond
holders can manipulate one-third of either
house so as to induce them to vote
against the amendment, it can t pass, for
an amendment of the Constitution must
be passed by two-thirds of both houses.
But if they fail in passing it by a two-
thirds majority, a bare majority can call
a Convention and a Convention can
amend the Constitution by a simple ma
jority vote.
“Pay for 2Vegroes"
, Wo have another communication from
M. O.” relative to pay for negroes.
. He thinks the Public Lands should be
[given for that purpose, and should the Uj
Government some fntmj^aybuy more
L t.hp f?o-'.th^ on ^ t
fr negroes. Far better
to .l.jjfose of the public lands, than
be giving them away to railroad corpora
tions for private speculation. Whether
“R. M. O.” is right or wrong in his hopes
and surmises, it would be well perhaps
for those who owned negroes to record
•m for the benefit of their children,
■id hi^rticle at any rate, and see what
•says.
Who Is Sc?
A correspondent of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist savs that a candidate for
Congress, and one that is likely to be
nominated, is one of the lawyers who are
in favor of paying the Kimball bonds.—
The people should know who he is, so
that they could elect him to stay at home.
Not many men would vote for a man who
is willing to saddle the country with such
a crushing debt merely for the sake of
building up Atlanta. The State has al
ready been taxed heavily to furnish build
ings for Atlanta.
Washington.
August Crop Deport of the Depart**
ment of Agriculture.
Washington, 13.—The August returns
of the Department of Agriculture show an
improvement in the prospects of the cot
ton crop in all the large cotton States
except Alabama, in which, during July,
the average declined two per cent. Vir
ginia also declined two per cent., Arkan
sas seven per cent., and Tennessee six
per cent. The two States last named
complain of extensive and severe drouths.
North Carolina maintains her July aver
age, reporting a general prevalence, of
fine condition of growth.
There are no insect depredations, ex
cept lice in a few places. In Lincoln
county the crop was twenty days in ad
vance, the first bloom being on July
31st.
South Carolina reports a considerable
improvement, while Georgia advances
her average 1 per cent., Mississippi 2 per
cent., and Florida 6 per cent. From sev
eral counties in these States come com
plaints of local drouths, impoverishing
the growth of plants. In others heavy
rains have caused an excessive of weeds,
with a tendency to long joints and a small
fruitage. Caterpillars are reported in many
localities, but they appear to be generally
even later in their develeopment than
the crops. Several correspondents think
they are too late to damage any but top
crops.
In same counties the bottom crops
are poor while the middle crops are lux
uriaufc. Where a good stand was secured
early the crop is generally reported as
better than iur years. Louisiana suffered
severely from freshets in the early part
of the season, reducing her July average
to 73. The disastrous consequences were
partly remedied by improved conditions
of growth in July, but still the crop is 17
per cent, below the average. In some
parishes, as in East Feliciana, the work
ing force of farm animals was seriously
crippled by the charbon causing the crops
to remain uuworked at critical periods.
No serious insect injuries are fore
shadowed, and the tone of the corres'
pondence is more hopeful. Texas in
creased her high average, showing a gen
oral and satisfactory improvement. In
sect were demonstrating in different quar
ters, but were successfully met by remed
ies. In Gonzales connty a large red wasp
was making war upon the farmers’ ene*
rnies, while in M ailer, flocks, of small
birds, never before seen, were very de
structive upon them.
The State averages were as follows:
Virginia, 98 per cent, of an average crop;
North Carolina 102; South Carolina, 97;
Georgia, 94; Florida, 102; Alabama, 80;
Mississippi, 89; Louisiana, 83; Texas,
105; Arkansas, 87: and Tennessee, 83.
Another Xfote of Warning.
In February or March of the present
year, Atlanta was filled with many promi
nent lawyers from all parts of tlse State,
while not a few strangers, principally
from New York, were registered at the
several hotels of the city. About the
same time H. I. Kimball returned here.
We understand that certain rooms in one
of our hotels was the place wherein many
meetings were held, and the subject of
the fraudulent bonds discussed. In these
rooms gathered the retained lawyers of
the bondholders, to consider what shonld
be done, and in these rooms, it is wins
pered, the plan concocted to control the
next Legislature of Georgia.
We are not engaged in getting up a
sensation. We merely repeat what we
have heard from various well informed
sources when we say, that in this city,
early last spring, a gigantic combination
was formed backed by the holders of eight
millions of repudiated bonds, to control
nominations for the Legislature next fall,
and to prevent the people from voting on
the constitutional amendment prohibiting
the payment of the fraudulent bonds.
If we were at liberty to publish the
names of some of the parties engaged in
this conspiracy against the tax payers of
Georgia, we would plunge the State into
a scene of excitement such as it has not
known for years. But, for reasons which
are satisfactory, their name? connot be
given at present. At the same time, we
repeat that a plan to elect a Legislature
which will not be able to pass the cons
stitutional amendment referred to was
concocted in Atlanta, and to-day the
parties directly concerned are making
efforts throughout the State to put it into
successful execution.
One million of dollars is a large sum of
money, but it would be a trifle to the hol
ders of the fraudulent bonds, if they
could prevent the people from casting
the vote which makes the bonds they
hold so much waste paper. Three mil
lions of dollars could be safely spent to
prevent this, and the men who hold the
bonds are not likely to hesitate between
loosing half and loosing the whole.
It is a curious fact that all the men
who were here last spring engaged in
mysterious consultations are now either
aspirants for legislative honors, or are
taking active part in the campaign in the
interests of certain other aspirants. All
these gentleman are retained lawyers of
the holders of the fraudulent bonds, and
they are working now to carry out the
plan agreed upon. The big ring was
formed in Atlanta; little rings have
generated from it, and are to be found
in almost every connty in the State.
We warn the people everywhere that
unless they closely catechise every aspir
ant for legislative honors, they are likely
to find, when too late, that they have
nominated and elected men who will vote
to add to the already heavy burden of
taxation. Our farmers, merchants and
business men are just getting out of debt.
They cannot afford to shoulder some eight
bullions of fraudulent debt If the pend
ing constitutional amendment is passed
by the next Legislature, before Gov.
Smith’s term of office expires the ques
tion of the bogus bonds will be forever
settled, and all possibilities of their ever
being recognized as valid removed.
Should the coming Legislature fail to
pass the amendment, the Bond Ring,
emboldened by success, will go to work
to nominate and elect a Governor and
another Legislature subservient to its
interest.
The apologists and defenders of Kim*-
ball and his gang, and the journals in
their interest, will laugh at the idea of
any ring nominating and electing a Gov
ernor and Legislature. We have, hows
ever, seen this done in Pennsylvania, New
York and elsewhere; and if it can be done
there, why not here ?
To prevent it is an easy matter, if the
masses will take the making of nomi-
tions into their own hands. We urge
our readers everywhere to put this quess
tion to every aspirant for a seat in the
State Senate and House of Representas
tives:
Will you vote for the Constitutional
amendment forever prohibiting the pay
ment of the fraudulent bonds all of which
are designated in the amendment ?
Unless the answer is a prompt, un
qualified ‘-Yes,” refuse to support him. If,
by chicanery or artifice, an aspirant who
refuses to answer in the affirmative ob
tains a nomination, put up another can
didate against him and vote him down.
He may not be in the interests of the
Bond Ring, but the chances are ten to
one that he is. At any rate, it will not do
to trust him.
The above from the Atlanta News is,
truly alarming to the tax payers of Geor
gia. The writer speaks actual knowledge.
He has seen the list of names of promi
nent lawyers who are retained by the
holders of these fraudulent bonds and
they are all combined with Kimball, clews
and company, tp debauch and corrupt the
next legislature, and prevent them from
passing the amendment of the Constitu
tion prohibiting the payment of these
fraudulent bonds. There are some re
markable coincidents connected with the
assembling of these lawyers in Atlanta.
About that time it was discovered that
several lawyers from the lower part of
the State who were members of the leg
islature and had always been considered
favorable to a convention had all of a
sudden come out against a 'convention
and some two or three Editors in the
State were suddenly converted to Kim
ballism. Taxpayers be on your guard
and mark well who you send to the leg
islature. Not only Kimball and the bond
holders, and two thousand of the citizens
of Atlanta, but many prominent lawyers
and a few Editors are combined against
BCB nill’a Chat
amine into the “actings and doings” of Proceedings
the Tax Collector of Fulton county, with-
out specifying any charge. This com
mittee, consisting of Messrs. J. M. Pat
ton, Benj. E. Crane and A. Leyden went
to work. They not only examined the
County Books, but examined the Comp
troller's Books. They also had the Comp
troller and his clerk, Mr. Renfroe, sum
moned before them and swore them, and
upon these officers being pressed to an
swer, they admitted that while the Tax
Collector, Mr. Hoyle, owed the State and
connty over $100,000, they had each bor
rowed from him $2,500—or that Mr.
Goldsmith, had borrowed $2000 or $2,-
500, and that Mr. Renfroe had borrowed
$2,500; $4,500 or $5,000. That they had
borrowed it “on call,” or for an unlimited
time, “without interest.” I understand
that the Comptroller’s Books also showed
that while Mr. Hoyle the Collector wat
due the State over $82,000 on the 20th
December last, he did not pay a cent un
til Janaary, and then only paid abou<
$29,000. That he did not pay any more
until the May following, and that on the
8th of June last he owed the State over
*$30,000. The story further goes that,
tiie Committee having reported these
facts to tho Judge, Mr. Hoyle paid up
$25,000 a or $30,000 more, when the Comp
troller certified, in a note, without any
final settlement by Hoyle, that Hoyle did
not owe the State any thing!!!
I think you and all others will agree
with me, that had this thing occurred in
Milledgeville, or Baldwin county, or else
where, and the Atlanta Editors had heard
of ii, they would have pnt it in their pa
pers in great big type, and would have
made a terrible to do over it But not
withstanding this report is talked about
all over the city none of these Editors,
or their locals, seem to have heard of it.
Are they afraid that if the people out of
Atlanta hear of these things they will
move the Capital? Or have these Editors
friends who are candidates for Tax Col
lector against Mr. Hoyle, and who, (since
Kimball has been so well endorsed,) they
are afraid will be beaten if they show
how well Mr. Hoyle can manage a Comp
troller General, and get his o wn time al
lowed to pay the State her Taxes. Some
thing must be the matter. One thing I
am certain of, Georgia will have no more
honest legislation, except by accident, so
long as the Capital is kept at Atlanta, or
any other as larg - a place as Atlanta.—
There are too many bad men and thieves
congregated in such large cities for fair
and honest legislation to be bad, or for
officers who handle he State’s money, to
be as particular as they ought to be.”
We give the above statement on the
authority and at the request of a promi
nent gentleman who recently visited At
lanta. Personally we know nothing of
the matter, and feel no interest in it, ex
cept to keep the people posted in public
matters.
of State Agricultural
Convention.—Its Officer* for next
Tear.
Stone Mountain, DeKalbCo.)
August 14, 1874. )
Editors Union <£ Recorder:
Expecting to leave this morning before
farther proceedings in the State Agricul
tural Convention are had, and as most
of the important business of the Conven
tion has been gotton through with, I
have concluded before leaving, to drop
yon a few lines from this place, relative to
what I have seen.
I came np to this place on Tuesday
morning, via Atlanta, and it being the
first day of the Convention, the crowd
was larger in proportion to the Delegates,
than I expected. All seemed in good
spirits. The reports, as to crops, in dif
ferent parts of the State, being very
good, better than usual. In some sec
tions, however, the farmers were begin
ning to want rain.
The Convention assembled at the
YIethodist Church at 9 o'clock, a. k.; and
was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr.
White.
The Hon. Milton A. Candler, then, in
a most feeling and appropriate manner,
in behalf of the town of Stone Mountain
and the people of DeKalb county, ten
dered a hearty “welcome” to the Dele
gates; which was most handsomely re
sponded to by Col. Geo. R. Black of
Screven county, one of the Delegates.
Gen Alfred Colquitt, the President of
the Convention, then, in his most happy
manner delivered a very interesting ad
dress to the Convention. Among other
things, Gen. Colquitt gave the following
“unwritten history” of the inception, and
progress of the present State Agricul
tural Convention. The General said in
substance:
“We have never had a review of the
history of this society. Let us see how
it began, what its inception, and who
brought it into being.
ITS UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
In 1846 the railroad was completed to
the Oostanaula, north of Maithasville,
now Atlanta. Mi - . Graves, a wealthy cit
izen of Newton county, purchased the
property adjacent to the depot in this
place, with a view of calling attention to
it as a summer resort. He consulted with
Hon. Mark A. Cooper as to the best plan
to bring it into notice. Major Cooper, whose
impulses have ever been for the good of
his State, spe^sted the calling of an Ag
ricultural u3fij^^*ion and the holding of
a fair. A card wT^published calling up
on the citizens of Georgia, Alabama, and
East Tennessee to come. The call was
evidently written by Mark A. Cooper. It
signed by George W. Crawford,
Strange Doings by the Tax Collector
of Fulton Connty and the Comp
troller General and one of his clerk*.
I.Mnia( aa4 Borrowing Yloaof.
—On the whole, Atlanta ean furnish
more personal difficulties with less blood
shed than any city of its size in the country.
Sam Bard owes J. G. W. Mills, of Atanta,
some money and allowed the note repre
senting it to go to protest Bard also at
tacked Mills in the papers. The latter
says: I shall therefore not only exhaust
all the remed: as available in the law, but
shall take occasion to lay the whole mat
ter between us under oath before the
President and his Cabinet at Washing
ton by the 10th day of Hus month unlest
you by that time give unmistakable as
surance that my money will be forthcom
ing in strict conformity with your sol
emn word of honor to me. And I will
further say to you that notwithstanding
you have indulged angry and laaliciovn
bloody threats against my life, that I will
•till be your friend if you will pay me my
money.
Judge Bedlo gains strength for th
Democratic nomination for Governor is,
Hew Jersey
A
We learn from a friend who has re
cently been to Atlanta, that he there met
Col. Jack Smith, formerly of Hancock
county. He was in trouble when our
friend met him. His partner in hiring
certain convicts, a Mr. Riddle, having
suffered 13 of the convicts to escape, the
Governor was about to annul the con
tract and take back all the convicts let
out to this company. But by throwing
Mr. Riddle out of the company the Gov
ernor finally consented to let Col. Smith
and a Mr. Taylor, another member of
the company, hold on to the contract.
We also learn from the same person
some strange things in regard co another
matter. Said our friend: “While in At
lanta I heard of another matter, which,
had it occurred before the war, or had it
occurred any where else but in Atlanta,
since the war, would have been published
all over Georgia and all over the United
States, and the parties concerned would
have been universally condemned, and
their chance for holding office, hereafter,
would be declared at an end. Men have
been impeached and put oat of office for
no worse thing. And yet, in Atlanta, no
body, seems to care about it. Indeed,
sinoe the endorsement of Kimball by
such a large portion of the people of At
lanta, it is thought these parties have
made themselves more popular, than be
fore, with the Atlanta peopla The story
goes thus:
The Tax Collector of Fulton county
being rather slow in his payment of the
county tax, while the county was paying
a heavy interest, and a report having got
out that while the Tax Collector was
owing both the State and county over
5100,000, he was loaning money to the
Jomptroller General, Mr. Goldsmith, and
■o his cleric, Mr. Renfroe, a committee
rMMOMoriti by Judge Hopkins to ex-
s
“Fay for Wegroes.”
Editors Union tb Recorder:
I see that a correspond
in your paper of last wi
article in regard to pay
It may be asked how
be able to pay for th
bankrupting itself,
it should be remembe
South were made utterly
the fanatical hate and bli
against slavery. Fanatics Q .u
stop to consider what they
they do it, provided they
their ends; and never until tin
wrong done, is so patent, will ^
look at his work calmly. In bankru
‘the South, the North added a
damnable insult to the already o
geous wrong, by giving the vote to
ignorant people, freed by the bayo
and not satisfied with the attempted
gradation and humiliation of the Sc
by such an act, a still greater wron
attempted and carried out for th?
being, in disfranchiisng white citize!
thus putting the ignorant negro in place
and power, with all the evils that follows
ed. Forget such wrongs and attempted
infamy! Never, until memory shall for
sake her seat and the beating hearts of
the South shall be stilled in the silence
of the grave; or until the Lethean waters
of forgetfollness shall flow over ns and
wash out the wrongs in a sweet oblivion.
HOW TO PAY FOR THE NEGROES.
We had in the South before the war,
about 4,000,000 of negroes. The census
of 1870, gives the number of negroes in
e United States at 4,886,387. Calcula
ting the slaves at an average of $600 a
piece, a low and reasonable estimate, we
have the sum of $2,400,000,000. Put it
down at $300, and then we would have
a demand of $1,200,000,000, too low how
ever. Georgia gave in 1860 the value of
her negro property at $302,694,855, or
about an average of $700. We do not
expect to get the money value of tho ne
groes out of the pockets of the North.
It could not be fair that way, without
bankrupting that section. Our idea is
more simple and practical.
THE PUBLIC LANDS,
are being given away to gigantic rail
road rings, and millions upon millions of
acres of land have thus gone to enrich
such rings. Let the South in future as
one man in Congress, vote against any
more donations. Let our Congressmen
have ever an eye to the pay of our ne
groes, and at the proper time, whether
next year or ten years hence, when in the
political revolutions of parties it will be
our time and opportunity to strike, then
E ut in our claims. Wo will hold the
alance of power in the government in
the next ten yeara, and then we can speak
to be heard and felt.
Mark A. Cooper, Asbury Hull, C. J Mo-
Dougherty. Thomas Foster,
inmpkin, Dr. A.
ty, its
e and
iffSWRPWWP
Sixth district—E. C, Grove, T. G. Wall,
Wm. McKinley.
Seventh district W. Phillips, W. H.
Bonner, Geo. S. Liack.
Eighth district—T. J. Smith, Pope
Barrow, P. J. Berksman.
Ninth district—J. S. Harrison, W. L.
Jones, J. W. Montgomery.
Malcom Johnson, Secretary.
W. J. Lawton, Treasurer.
Ben Hill's friends about Atlanta seem
to think his chance to be nominated to
Congress from the 9th District first rate.
I thmk, from what I can learn McMillan
will bent him. The race in the 7th be
tween Waddell and Trammell will be very
close. Waddell’s friends think his chance
the best, but I look for Trammell to win.
John D. Stewart of Spalding, it is be
lieved, will be nominated from the 5th or
Atlanta District, and A. B Camming of
Angusta, from the 8th District.
But my time is up and I must go.
Good-bye, you may hear from mo again
after I get home.
Yours, Ac., H.
Unification of Colleges in Georgia.
This proposition by Governor Smith,
and advocated strongly by others has
been virtually defeated already. The idea
was to have them all under one general
government to be located at the Univer
sity of Georgia, which was to be the
principal institution with the other col
leges as auxiliaries—the State to make
appropriations to each. An elaborate re
port was made on the subject by the com
mittee appointed. The trustees of Mer
cer University and Emory College have
rejected the plan proposed, preferring to
have their own denominational schools,
which are m a flourishing condition. The
operations of the Civil Rights bill, which
is certain to pass the next Congress was
also considered. The State University
will then have to admit blacks, and this
will ruin the institution as far as whites
are concerned It is supported by State
funds. The other colleges being owned
as private property will be exempt from
the operation of this iniquitons law and
can be continued without fear of black
students thrust npon them, and social
equality forced on the attendants, so those
who are informed report—Columbus En
quirer.
Bill’s
FUTURE TERRITORY.
” Should we ever get any more territo
ry frDm Mexico, or any one else, it will
then be the time for the Southern States,
to demand that land as payment for
slaves freed. It could be given to tho
South and each State could parcel it out,
and sell to immigrants, pay by degrees
the negro claims, or give to such as hold
claims, so much land as payment for said
cliiima. We could also have special legis
lation looking to the gradual liquidation
of such claims. Where there is a will,
there is a way.
PAY WX MUST HAVE
or this government is but a government
in name, with the seeds of dissolution
growing silently and quietly, that will
bear fruit at the auspicious time. No
government can last, when a strong and
influential section bears it no love, but
on the contrary, feels that it is an alien.
So long as the South feels that she has
been wronged, that wrong must be right
ed before the hands of friendship, love,
confidence and interest can be clasped.
Patriotism springs from the motive of
interest; love from that of confidence and
strength from that of mutual protection.
The Revolution of 1776, made the North
and Sonth one people from interest; the
war of 1861, made us two peoples from
interest, and not until a spirit of right,
justice, truth and honor on the part of
the North shall be made manifest, will
we ever again be one people?
R.M. O.
The Awtto Fuss.
A Memphis despatch, to the Western
Associated Press wows that the accounts
of the fuss at Austin, Mississippi, were
grossly exaggerated. During the entire
trouble one negro was killed and no white
man even wounded. Only one store was
sacked by the negroes during the time
they had possession of the. place. The
seventeen leaders are rather the more
boisterous ones, a* they seemed to have
no leaders. There were arrested and
confined in jail to await trial.
There is a split in the McDuffie county
Democracy. The convention that nomi
nated Sturgis adopted a majority rule,
upon which the friends of Mr. Scott, who
preferred the two-thirds majority rule;
withdraw, and will hold another conven-
acksmith
encour
nod a ten
pin alley. The preiRIom list for 1847 did
not exceed $108. No tanned leather be
ing on exhibition a tanner, after much
consultation and conference, entered
tanned leather for a premium of $2. He
paid an entrance fee of $1.
The secretary mounted a stump to
read out the awards and the most inter
ested was the tanner. About the last
report read ont was that on “tanned
leather,” and what was the disgust of
the tanner when he heard, “there being
no other tanned leather on exhibition,
and the one exhibited being so inferior,
we deem it unadvisable to award any pre
mium.” The president and secretary saw
no rest, however, until they refunded
that one dollar.
The fair of 1851 at Macon was gener
ally pronounced the grandest that ever
occurred in the Sonth. ] The receipts were
about $4,000, and the expenditures a
bout the same. The fair of 1874 pre
sents a premium list of nearly $20,000.”
I would be glad to allude to more that
the General said, but I must hasten on.
I have not time, Ac.
Dr. E. M. Pendleton, from Athens,
then read his semi-annual report on ex
periments on grain crops, on the experi
mental farm. Many new and interesting
facts were developed, and the Convention
being much instructed, was well pleased
with the report Numerous pertinent
questions were put to Dr. Pendleton and
readily answered by him, in relation to
his various experiments. The report
will be found not only interesting but
valuable.
Judge Hardeway of Thomas county al
so presented a most interesting paper on
“the advantage of small over large
farms.” The facts exhibited by him, as to
his success with his small farm, seems al
most beyond belief. Bat nevertheless,
what he says may be relied upon. He
shows that by good management Ac., he
not only mode as muoh as 119 bnshels
of corn to the acre, but that in cultivating
a farm of fifteen acres for 5 years, he not
only made enough corn, Ac., for his own
use, but received over $8 275 in cash for
his products.
Mr: Pope Barrow, on yesterday deliv
ered a very interesting address on the
value of Agricultural Statistics to the
farmers. He seemed to think that the
present mode of getting them was
antagonistic to the interest of the farm
ers, and suggested a different mode.
I was particularly struck and pleased
with the aptitude of these farmers, in ex
pressing themselves when addressing the
President. They not only exhibited mnch
study, learning and sound judgment, in
what they uttered, bnt they spoke with
the grace and ease and readiness of an
old and successful practitioner at the
bar. I am one of those that can bat be
lieve we would have far more safe and
good legislation, were there more of such
men in our legislature* than we usually
have there.
The Contention last evening proceed
ed to the election of officers for the en
suing year. General Colquitt was unan
imously re-elected President, by a rising
vote. The following are the officers for
the ensuing yean
More Unwritten History
portant Supplement to 1
Historical Address.
[From the Atlanta Herald.]
We have been requested to publish the
following most important correspon
dence, including letters of Gen. Jos. E.
Johnston and Gen. Wade Hampton; in
which the latter gentleman states that
Gen. R E. Lee was strongly opposed to
the removal of Gen. Johnston from the
army of Tennessee; and that Gen. Lee
had great confidence in Gen. Johnston
as an army commander.
The letters are a most valuable and im
portant contribution to the unwritten
history of the war.
Gen Colquitt’s absence from the city
has prevented attention to the mat
ter.
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON’S LETTER
Savannah, Ga., June 22,1874.
A IT. Colquitt, President Georgia
eh Southern Historical Society.
Sir.—In his oration before your
tion, the Hon. B. H. Hill intro-
the subject of my removal from
mand of the army near Atlanta,
1864. He described the Presi
strongly opposed to the measure
that he expressed a high opinion
a General. It is not for me to
attempt to reconcile his Excellency's ac-
sueh an opinion; nor to decide
the two is most probably a cor-
nent of the President’s opinions,
or the Hon. Mr. HilL Nor is
it matter of concern to me whether the
President was controlled in this measure
by his own opinions, or those of the emi
nent persons to whom the orator referred
without naming them. He gave, how
ever, a) principal place among these ad
risers, to General Lee. Being too weak
to bear snch a weight as that of General
Lee's qpndemnation, I relieve myself from
it, or liability to it by the following let
ter from one whose eminence as gentle
man, soldier and civilian, makes his testi
mony conclusive.
As Mr. Hill's allegations wore published
by you and are, I believe, a part of your
archives, I respectfully ask that this
paper may be published also, and may be
kept in juxtaposition to the oration.
Most respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. E. Johnson
oen. wade Hampton’s Larraa.
Colombia, June 6th, 1874.
My Dear General:
Your letter of the 19th of May reached
me early yesterday, haring been forward
ed from Mississippi
Col. Venable is perfectly correct in say
ing that Gen. Lee had spoken freely to
me in regard to yonr removal from com
mand of the army of Tennessee. On that
occasion he expressed great regret that
you bad been removed, and said that he
had done all in his power to prevent it.
The Secretary of War had recently been
at the General's headquarters, near Peters
burg, to consult as to this matter, and
General Lee assured me that he had urg
ed Mr. Seddon not to remove yon from
command, and had said to him that if you
could not command the army we had no
one who could.
He was earnest in expressing not only
his regret at your removal, bnt his entire
confidence in yourself.
This conversation made a strong im
pression on me, and though I have not
given all the details of it I have given the
substance.
If this statement can be of any service
to yon, you can use it in anyway you pre
fer. Wade Hampton.
Grn. J. E. Johnston.
A true copy. J. E. Johnsto*.
Alfred Colquitt.
vice presidents.
First district—G. R-,'Black.
Second district—T. W. Fleming.
Third district—J. R. Barnum.
Fourth district—James H. Fannin.
Fifth district—George W. Adams.
Sixth district—L. F. Livingston.
Seven district—G. H. Waring.
Eighth district—L. H. Clarke.
Ninth district—Gen. W. M. Browne.
EXSCUTir* COMMITTER.
First district—Geo. P. Harrison, A.
F. Kahn, P. Statesbury.
Second district—E. T. Davis, John
Colley, R. H. Hardeway.
Third district—R. J. Redding, John
McRae, J. D. Trsdwick.
Fourth district—H. H. Corey, J. M.
Mobley, C. A. Redd.
Fifth district—Dr. J. L. JUvemkr, Dr.
J, flu Lmrton, B. A. Alston,
Selma, Ala., August 13.—The Radical
Congressional Convention has been in
session here three days. One hundred
and eight ballots have been taken, with
no nomination yet Two negroes and
one white man, an ex-Federal General,
are candidates before the convention.
Bnsteed, United States District Judge,
is in the convention, and is taking a very
active part for Harah on, a genuine Congo.
One of the candidates, in a speech to-day,
favored the nomination of this negro. Bos-
teed said the time had come when a black
man, and the blacker the bettor, should
be sent to Congress from this district.
The speech was inflamatoiy, and received
with cheers from the convention. Bus-
teed is making himself very odiously con
spicuous to all classes of white peo
ple.
Indianapolis, August 13.—The Inde
pendent Mass Convention met to com
plete the ticket. Seventy-five delegates
were present A committee was appoin
ted to correspond with independent or
ganizations in other States, with • view
to forming a national organization.
ffireene County Democracy.
The following resolutions were intro
duced by the Hon. Miles W. Lewis, and
unanimously adopted by the Democrat
of Greene county:
Resolved, That the Democratic party
of Greene county, in primary meeting
assembled, recognizing the ancient land
marks established by oar fathers of the
Republic, declare the following senti
ments as cardinal doctrines of their po
litical faith:
Resolved, 1. That the thirteen political
communities, knows as States, which
framed the Constitution of the United
States, were sovereign and independent
of each other and the other nations of
the earth, prior to their union under the
Constitutional compact
Resolved, 2. That in organizing the
government tinder this Constitution the
States delegated only so mnch of their
rights of self-government as they deemed
promotive of their respective interests,
and necessary for their common de
fense.
Resolved, 3. The Constitution enu
merates the rights which they delegated,
and sets well defined limits to the powers
of the Government they formed. And
whenever this Government transcends
these limits it is a usurper and a tyrant.
Resolved, 4. That among its numer
ous usurpations, of late years, stand
prominent and without a shadow of law
ful authority the series of measures
known as the reconstruction acts, the
“so-called” 14th and 15th amendments,
and that abominable spawn of sectional
hate, rabid fanaticism and shameless de
fiance of public opinion and the laws of
n&tnre which passed the United States
Senate at its last session, called the “civil
rights bill.”
Resolved, 5. That the offices in this
country, State and Federal, were made
for the interests of the people, and not
for the benefit holders. Therefore, in
choosing these officers, the people should
look only to the honesty of the candis
dates.
Resolved, 6. That to secure concert
of action and union of strength, which
are essential to success in all public en
terprises, we favor county nominations
Nearly all di-eaaea originate from Inditre.-tioo an-1
Torpidity of the Liver, and relief is alvravs anxiously
sought after. It the l.iver is RegalniVd in its ac
tion, health is almost invariably secured. Wt nt of ac
tion in the Liver oaosee Headache, Constination.
Jaundice, Pain in the Shonld era. Cough, Chills, 'Dixii-
ness. Soar Stomach, bad taste in the mouth, bilious
attacks, palpitation of the heart, depression of spirits,
lines,and al
nr the bines, and a hundred other symptoms for which
Siasaaaas' i.iver Rrgslnlsr is the best remedy
that has ever been discovered It acts mildly, effec
tually and being a simple vegetable cotnpnuni, can
do no injury in any quantities that it may betaken. It
is harmless in every way ; it has been used tor 40
years, and hundreds of the good and great from all
part9 of the country will vouch for its being the purest
aad best.
SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, OR MEDICINE,
Is harmless,
Is no drastic violent medicine.
Is sure to cure if taken regularly,
Is no intoxicating beverage,
Is a faultless family medieioe,
Is the cheapest medicine in the world,
Is given with safety and tho happiest results to the
most delicate infant.
Does not interfere with business.
Does not disarrange the system.
Takes the place of Quinine and liilters of every
kind,
Contains the simplest and best remedies.
FOR 8ALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Dec. 17, 1873. 21 ly.
The Responsible Editor.
That very clever story, “The Tyran-
teler of Calveras,’’ just now going the
rounds, recalls an incident which took
place in the New Orleans Picayune of
fice many years ago when George Wash
ington Reeder presided over the police
colnmns. Reeder was very small; not
over four feet six inches in height; sin
gularly youthful of appearance, and given
to a pompous, overwhelming, elaborate
politeness which, in connection with his
diminutive stature and magnificent cos
tume, generally reminded one of a ben-
, evolent but highly diplomatic tomtit,
by the people m their primary assemblies, from hig j* 0Ullmlistic pursu it s ,
and Senatorial and Congressional nomi-1 Reeder had quite a aame in the theatrical
nations by convention composed of del- jj ne ^ being a dilettante comedian of con
egates selected by the free, untrammelcd 8 ij era b[ e merit. Everybody liked him,
voice of the people, uninfluenced by the laughed kindly at his little pccnlarities,
trickery and overweening anxiety of can- and respected the brave and chivalrous
didates. spirit which they had found to be among
his characteristics.
Visit by American^Dadie. to a M , - l0 see Keener m the editorial room,
We called yesterday on the daughter receiving an irate party, and particularly
. it i J j 1- - one of the rougher species, was a pnvi-
of a Mohammedan living in this city le?e to ^ eternally g^teful for. His
Though the girl had been married sev- microsopic size, his gorgeous toilet, his
eral days, she had never been seen by her profuse courtesy and Ins grandiloquent
— - ’ He only bad gone to the mos- address were simply amazing Callers
J b - - with well-defined injuries but limited
in] unes
intellect went away in the firm conviction
that Reeder thought them the purest,
loftiest and most persecuted of mortals.
Entering the Picayune office with the
hnsband.
que when the ceremony was performed,
she taking no part in it. After the cere
mony, the bride usually stays at her fath
er’s house nine days, during which time
she sits in state, deckod in her finest , , - - - -
dress and jewels/receiving calls from her roo ^ d P^ose °f mangling and disfigur-
friends. Then her joy is at an end. She mg the chronicler of their complications,
must go to her husband, take off her fine they would retire believing that Reeder
clothes, and become a perfect slave, sub- ^ f ° r thlS W °? d
ject to the will of her cruel master. The references to them were only made after
parents of this bride were very poor. Her a bitter struggle with remorseless duty
mother was dressed in little better than “^ at tbe ex P enae of a bleeding heart,
rags, and was at the tongua washing Heiwas perfectly ready to fight, howev-
clotbes. All the women of the bride’s er, whenever the case demanded it; and
company had their hair plaited full of e I c an » 8 om e ‘ , .
gold corns; these were heirlooms, and so - °™ d& ? ** f f.°« oas
greatly treasured that a woman would Poking man entered tiie office and mquir-
almost starve sooner than part with one.
The present given by the family to the
bride was an elegant paleblue brocade
silk dress and a black silk embroidered
with gold. The former cost $150. The
bridegroom’s presents were a sumptuous
lilac silk, heavily embroidered with gold
earrings of pearls and gold, bracelets as
as wide as a finger. During the call she
wore the bridegroom’s presents. The
other dresses were hnng spread ont on
the wall.
We stopped at a house below accor
ding to custom, and sent word we were
coming. The bride returned answer she
wonld be most happy to salnte us. After
waiting about twenty minutes, we went
np stairs, for she lived on the second floor.
She had not quite finished her toilet, and
sat on the floor before a large mirror, sur
rounded by her finery. As we entered
she rose and saluted us, and then return
ed composedly to her dressing. Of all
the strange and ghastly sights, her face
was the most wonderful, as may well be
imagined from the way in which it was
prepared.
First, hot wax was spread over the
whole free, which, when cool, was peeled
off. This was done to remove all the
hair from the face. Then whiting was
rubbed on till the skin looked like mar
ble. Her eyebrows were painted jet black;
her lips and a large spot on each cheek
painted brilliant red. On these red spots
on her forehead, and at the comers of her
month gilt flowers were pasted. Then
over the whole face powdered sugar had
been snapped, which made it sparkle as
with “diamond dnst.” She wore pearl
ear rings, and around her neck was a string
of large amber beads, three strings of roped
pearls, and a curious necklace, which we
were privately told was borrowed for the
occasion. It was made of gold five-ponnd
pieces, overlapping each other like scales.
The nsnal head-dress was covered with
real and artificial flowers. The finishing
touch was put on in the shape of a piece
of black wax heated over the canoon till
very hot, made round and flat, and then
stuck between the eyes—From Dr.
Jessup's •*Syrian Home-Life."
An Unwholesome Season.
Selma, Ala., August 13.—The Radical
Congressional Convention adjourned this
evening, after being in see tion four days.
Jere Haralson, a fall blooded African, was
nominated for Congressman on the 239th
ballot
Savannah AivertisorsBopnblfr
We learn that this old and well-known
Georgia journal will be re-issued on or
about tbe 25th inst, under the auspices
of a strong combination. Col. Albert
Lamar will have editorial control of the
paper, and although temporary mb
rmssments have existed, the future of the
Advertiser- Republican is now more prom
ising than ever. Persons who have paid
in advanoe win be foUj protected by the
r management wboproposs to «sny
MftaBojd subscriptions
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 robnst 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 than 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 and 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 npon the system and the 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 tins cele
brated restorative is well Known to the
public. It is composed of an absolutely
pure diffusive stimulant, medicated with
the extracts and jujees of the most effec
tive tonic, alterative, anti-billious and
laxative roots and herbs known to medi
cal science. To the 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
ed for the editor. Much to his sorrow,
Reeder had to say that the editor was
absent.
“I’m sorroy o’ that,” said the big man,
sitting down, and depositing a large,
mangy carpet bag near his chair. “I
stopped over one day just to see him.
I’m from Texas, you know, and I saw
something about Texas in this morning’s
Picayune that sorter riles me. I was
going home, but I thought I’d like to see
that editor before I went, so as I could
tell the boys what passed. I want to see
him alone for about two minutes: that’s
all.” And here the visitor’s voice grew
plaintive and his fingers played -with the
hilt of a Col^s army revolver which hung
in full view from his belt
“I regret extremely, sir, that the editor
happens to be out just now. I feel sure,
from the impression you make on me,
that he would eeteem it a privilege to
meet jou. He would like you to take
back to Texas his assurances of friend
ship and admiration. Couldn’t you, my
dear sir, couldn’t you call a little la
ter?”
“Well, I guess I will come again, long
as I’m here till to-morrow anyhow. You
see it would make things easier like if I
was to meet that editor.”
About six in the afternoon he returned.
Nobody but Reeder happened to be
in.
“So sorry, my dear sir, but the editor
has not yet appeared. Pray be seated,
sir, and permit me to enjoy the accident
which has made us acquainted."
“Now, I think this rather a hard ease,”
said the brawny Texan, who was begin
ning to be impatient. “Here’s a paper
that pitches into Texas, and, so to speak,
bnllrags the Texans, and when I call to
see about it, there’s no one in. Where I
live things are different. If a paper
makes any unpleasant remarks about a
gentleman we always know what to do.
We just walk around to the office and the
editor's there, ready to give it to us any
way we want it Bnt here you have other
fashions. You go to Texas like blazes in
the morning, and when I call—being the
only Texan in town—to chaw up the
editor a little and swap bullets with him
in a genteel way, I can't find my man.
I don’t like it. If a paper banters fellows
this sort of way it ought to have a re
sponsible man .”
“Pardon me,” says Reeder, stepping
daintily into the middle of the room, with
one hand thrust into his bosom and a
face literally beaming with good nature
“Pardon me, a thousand times. I quite
misunderstood ycu. I supposed you
wanted to see the chief editor only. I
it is a responsible man you’re seeking,
that's another thing.”
“Certainly. That’s all I want; a*re
sponsible man—somebody I can rassel
about this article. That’s what I’ve been
saying all the time.”
“Behold him! George Washington
Reeder, at yonr service, sir. Tm the
responsible man of this paper, sir.”
The astonished giant looked at Reeder,
and then at his pistol, which was nearly
as large as Reeder, and his face became a
battle-ground where surprise, disappoint
ment, disgust and amusement struggled
for predominance. Then he 6tnck the
pistol back into the case, picked np his
carpet-bag, and, eyeing Reeder all over
with disparaging regard, blurted out the
exclamation :
“Hell!”
And left, a swindled and an injured
man—.H. O. Picayune.
—A Toledo woman muzzled her hus
band to keep him from kissing the cham
bermaid. Is it really necessary this time
of the year?
year.
2 lm.
Inter Cornuty
A telegram from Americas informs ns
that the Democratic county convention
mat there yesterday, and sent Cook dele
gates to the Congressional Convention,
also nominated Messrs- T. M. Fox-
low sad W. B. Stewart, for tbs Legisla
ture.
—Mme. Lind Goldschmidt and Mr.
Suns Reeves are each said to have a
child whose promise of future renown as
a singer is very great
—Mrs. Lizzie Lloyd Phoenix, the Rus
sian diamond scandal person, is known as
the “Grande Duck esse" in Paris.
—Forty Iowa schoolma'ams conld’nt
tell what an abstract question was, bnt
every one of them understood the mean
ing of pop the question.
—Notone lady in ten bathes at New-
port because it isn’t genteel, and, fur
thermore, because they look like “hor
rid frights” in bathing costume.
—Iowa is the state to live bl. A whole
Sunday School picnic can b* thrown over
a bridge twenty-six feet high and noon*
fetisrscUMndsd girl fast
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