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VOLUME XL?*]
M IL L EDGE FILLS, GEORGIA, MARCH 10, 1875.
HUMBER SI*
THE
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18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
Boughton, Barnes & Moore,*’
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year
S. N. HOUGHTON, Editor.
THE “FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOUTH
ERN RECORDER ” were consolidated Annual 1st
1872, the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and
the Reoerder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
ADVERTISING.
TEaMsient.—One Dollar per square- of ten lines fbr first inser
tion, and seventy-five cents for each subsequent ooutmuonce.
Liberal discount on these rates will be allowed oe advertise-
■wnts running throe mouths, or longer.
Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries ex
weeding six lines, Nominations for office and CommunicetiOBB
for Individual benefit, charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten lines, or loss, £2 50
“ Mortgage fi fa sale?, per square, 3 00
CftaHonsfor Letters of Administration 3 00
** “ 44 Guardianship, 3 00
Application for Dismission from Administration, 3 00
* 4 “ “ “ Guardianship......... 3 00
" " Leave to sell Land, S 00
“ for Homesteade 2 00
Ifetice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00
Sales of Land, foe., per square 5 00
** perishable property, 10 days, per square, 1 75
closure of Mortgage, per square, each time .
1 00
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land, Itc., by Administrators, Executors or Guar
dians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday In the
month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the af-
•rnoon, at the Court House in tne county in which the property
^ sitnated. Notice of these -ales must be given in a public
Rosette 30 days previous to the day of sale.
Nations for the sale of personal property must be given in
like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate most be pub
lished 40 days.
Notice that application will bo made to the Court of Ordinary
for leave to sell Land, fee., must be published for one month.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, A.C.,
■east be published 3u days— for dismission from Administration
monthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40
dlTI.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pablisued monthly
three months—for compelling titles from Executors
Istretors, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full
space of three months.
Publications will always be continued according to these
the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
Bssk and Job Work, of all kind§,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT TIIIS OFFICE.
BALDWIN COUNTY.
Baldwin Sheriff's Sale.
WILL be sold at tbe legal place for holding
Sher
iff's Sales, in Baldwin County, before the Ma-
*enio llall, in the city otMilledgeville, on the first Tues
day m APRIL next, within the legal hours of sale, th*
following property, to-wit:
One light bay horse Male named Jerry, about 6 or 7
years old, levied on as the property of Elder Rivers
to satisfy a Superior Court fi fa in favor of Perry &.
Denton vs. Levi Thomas and Elder Rivers. Proper
ty pointed out by Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
OBADIAH ARNOLD, Sheriff.
Jan. 30, 1870. 28 tds
MACON CARDS.
Tlie Isaacs House
Cherry Street, - Macon, Ga.
H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. With
meals at tbe tables D’Hote-$2 00 per day, or
50 eta. to i 5 cts. for room, and meals to order. ~
rates by the week, and every effort made to give
comfort and satisfaction to guests.
_ . . E - ISAACS, Pr.prieler.
Feb. 8, 1875. 39
NATIONAL HOTEL.
(Nearly opposite Union Depot,)
MACON, GA.
Board — — — £2 Per Bay.
T. H. HARRIS, Manager.
21 ly.
Nov. 10,1874.
LANIER HOUSE.
B. DIB,
Mulberry Street,
STATEMENT
Of Treasurer John Jones to the Peo
pie of Georgia.
Proprietor.
Macou,
Georgia
The above earned Hotel has been recently refur
nished and fitted up for the accommodation of tran
slent ns well as permanent Boarders. Persons will
find it to their interest to stop at this House, as its
oentral location makes it a very desirable place fbr
merchants and families coming to the city for business
or for a sojourn ot pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM
PLE ROOM has been tilted up for the special use of
oommercial travelers.
The table always supplied with all tbe luxuries of
the season, from first markets, and can be surpassed
by none iu the South-
Omnibus to convey passengers to and from the
Hotel and all trains, free of charge;
. ,, B. DUB, Proprietor.
Apnl 13, 1872. 6m
J. JTOHUSffOiy,
Has received for Fall and Winter Trade, 1874-5,
Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware,
FANCY GOODS, FINE CUTLERY,
Musical Instruments, Strings, &c., &c.
Sole Agent for the Celebrated
DIAMOND PEBBLE SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES, k
Particular Attention giveu to Repairs on Fine and
Difficult Watches.
JEWELRY, &c., REPAIRED, and ENGRAVING.
Heavy and Medium 14, 18 and 22 Karat Plain Gold
Rings and Badges made to order and Engraved at
Short Notice.
Corner Mulberry &. Second Streets,
MACON, GEORGIA.
(OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.)
Nov, 10, 1874. 16 ly.
Baldwin Sheriff’s Sale.
W ILL be soid at the legal place of holding public
sales, in the city of Milledgeville, county of
Baldwin, before the Masonic Hall, on the first Tues
day la APRIL next, within the usual hoars of sale, the
fallowing property, to-wit:
One-half undivided fee simple interest and one-half
undivided interest during the life of Lizzie Willis, of
Island in Oconee river formeriy owned by John Haa.
and Dan Caraker. Sold as the property of Hamilton
Brown to satisfy a mortgage fi fa, W. G. Lanterman
T*. Hamilton Brown and said property. Property
painted out by plaintiff's attorney.
March 1,1875.—32 tds] O. ARNO LD, Sh’ff.
o 1
Sheriff’s Sale.
kM THE FIRST TUESDAY IN APLIL nest, 1
will sell between legal hours, at the usual place of
sale, in the city of Milledgeville, Baldwin county, the
fallowing property of A. II. Reid, Dentist, by virtue
•f a mortgage fi fa in favor of D. II. Reid, J. S. Reid,
4. €K Davie and J. II. Ethridge vs. A. H- Reid, to-wit:
One sott of Dental instruments, one dental chair, one
•haw case, two strips carpet, one roll matting, one rue
two awnings; levied on by J. B. Wall, Sheriff, on 16tl
January last, and one denial cabinet, one rug, one
fable and one sett window shades, levied on by we, o»
JOth January, last.
JOHN M. EDWARDS, Deputy Sheriff.
February 8,1875 29 tda.
flTEveiy Saturday copy.
To all Whom it may Concern.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, February Term, 1875.
W HEREAS, W. T. Conn, Administrator de
bonis non, on the Estate of Charlotte S. Dagget,
deceased, has filed his petition to be discharged from
Mid administration.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all par-
tie* interested, to show cuuse on or by the first Mon
*•7 in May 18/5, why the said W. T. Conn, administra
tor a* aforesaid, should not be discharged as prayed
for in his petition.
Witness my official signature this February 1st, 1875,
98 3m j DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
To all Whom it may Concern.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Coart of Ordinary February Term, 1875.
W HEREAS, E. S. Brnndage, Executor on the
Estate of Jesse Brundage deceased, has filed his
petition to be discharged from said Executorship.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all par-
tla* interested, to show cunseon or by the first Mon-
toy In May 1875, why-the said E. S. Brundage, Exocn-
tar a*aforesaid, should not.be discharged as prayed
for in his petition. Witness my official signature this
February the 1st, 1875.
28 3m.] DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
DAVIS SMITH,
DEALER IX
SADDLES 3 HARNESS
CARRIAGE MATERIAL,
Shoe Findings, Leather of all kinds, Children’s
Carriages,
103 Cherry Street, 71A CON, GA.
January 26th, 1875. 27 3m
Established Over 30 Tears Ago.
Mil & KIRTLANH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Boots, /Shoes and Bats,
Morocco, French and American Calf
Skins, Leather Findings, &c., &c.
All orders promptly and carefully filled at
3 Cotton Avenue & 06 3rd Street,
GA.
MIX & KIKTLAIYD.
January 26th, 1875. 27 3m.
C. BURKE,
House and Sign Painter,
AND DEILER IN
PAINTS, OIL, GLASS, Ac.,
Colors, Dry and in Oil. Mixed Paints
of all shades.
32 Third Street,
MACON
Feb. 15, 1874.
GA.
30 3m.
sEEU VA>
fesfcs" ~ ' ‘
Sole Nisi to Foreclose Mortgage
of Land—February Term, 1875#
Perry 6l Denton vs. J. S. & Fannie Tindal.
I T APPEARING to the Court by petition of Plain
tiffs, that Defendants are indebted to them in the
■am of one handled and fifty dollars besides interest
aad that Defendants executed to them a mortgage
deed of a certain tract of one hundred and five acres
at land therein described, situated in Baldwin ooonty,
I that Defendants now reside in the State of Ala-
abama: Be it ordered that Defendant# do pay into
' 'ollar.
Coart said sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be
sides interest thereon, from October 1st, 1873, and
of this proceeding, or show cause to the contrary,
alia their equity of redemption of said land to be for-
STtr barred and foreclosed. It is further ordered that
aerrtce of this rale be made on Defendants by pnbli-
aatten in the 1 *Uuion &. Recorder” and “Every Satur
day’ 1 once a month for tour months, before the next
tana of this Canrt.
CRAWFORD & WILLIAMSON, Pl’ffs. At’ys.
A true extraot from the minutes of Baldwin Supe
rset Court. WALTER PAINE. Clerk.
March 1, 1875.
32 m4m.
B«hj. W. Barrow.
Henrt W Barrow.
BARROW & BARROW,
IjAWTEHSi
Brawn A Barrow Building, Up
blairi.
Will practice in tlie State and Federal Courts.
I hope my friends will gi ve the new firm the same
aardiafsupport and favor they have shown to me.
*JA5-1875-24-ly " r
BENJ. W. BARROW.
Land For Sales
fTIHK LOT adjoining (
■ - "aTdu
_ Oliver White, Cobb and
JL Jenkins, lying iu Baldwin county, near the lino of
Jett**, containing about 227 acres, the greater portion
In wood*. No improvements—a tine rich body of origi
nal growth, oak, hickory and dogwood—well water
ed, Two or three hundred acres adjoining, that ha*
feaaa iu cultivation, canibe purchased if desired.
SAMUEL G. WHITE.
MUtedgevUle, Ga., Dec. 22,1874. 23ftf.
WAfSZNGTON HALL
TOBACCO at WHOLESALE.
Lowest Market Rates Gnaranteed*
PPPPFPW W fFPYJPOTP
for Cash.
Cheap
J. P. SWEANY.
MWodgevnie.Ga., March 31,1874.
GEORGE PACE & CO.,
Hannfactarers of
PATENT PORTABLE CIRCULAR
SAW MILLS,
ALSO STATION AST 4PG3TAB1E
STEAM ENGINES,
Ho. 5 N. Sohroeder st.
VtLTIMORB, MD.
Ortst Mills, Leffel’s TnrbiDe Water Wheels,
Wood Working Machinery of all kinds, and Ma
chinists' Sundries.
SEND FOR CATALOGUES.
Jan. 19, 1875. 2G ly
Bxamraxm’s
OLD LONDON DOCK GIN.
Especially designed for the nee of the Medical Pro
fettion and the Family, possessing those intrinsic
medicinal properties which belong to an Old and Pure
Gin. Indispensable to Females. Good for Kidneys
Complaints. A delicions tonic. Put np in cases con
taining one dozen bottles each, and sold by all drug
gists and grocers, &c. A. M. Biuinger & Co., estab
lished 1778, No. 15 Beaver st., N. Y. ap!2 74 ly
S. s. PECK,
Machinist and Millwright,
Furnishes to Order
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,
Circular Saw, Grist and
Flour Mills,
Also, the Celebrated Leffell Double
Turbine Water Wheel, Hydraulic Rams,
Pipes, Pomps, and Genera] Machinery.
All made of best Material, at Manufactur
er’s Prices.
VOOBCSBORO, GA
If#. IS. Ceslrsl B. B.
Oot. 20, 1874. IS ly.
NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP.
BANKRUPT-RELIEF.
S CBE SAFETY for distressed Debtors, and their
exposed families is to be found nowhere bat in the
UgltM State* Bankrupt Court Why live in hopeless
vg^Wn j The law invites yon to be free, ana start
(Mb again with hope; at least to save a home forever,
Sat roar fuiiliM.
“• b “wi£L£«'«3u&t.
MDedgeyiUe, March 25,1874.
iXOJLL
IKS. Hitt t HARRIS,
Office on Wayne street,
2 toon South of Post Ofioa.
JfiUed fertile, Jane i, 1874.
4844
THE under
signed has pat
up a Black
smith Shop on
th9 corner of
Hancock and Wilkiason
streets, opposite the old
Court House. Square,
where he is prepared to
do ALL KIND OF
WORK IN IRON in
the best manner.
Special attention given to farm and plantation work
Patronage solicited.
w. in. CKontriLi.
Milledgeville, Jnne 2, 1874. 45 ft
PITTSBURG ACADEMY,
Baldwin County, Ga*
L OCATED jut 8 miles west of Milledgeville, in a
community proverbial for health and refinement
This School begins its SPRING TERM, February 3rd.
Tuition low. Board by week or month at $8 ® $10,
Church and Sunday School
4a the neighborhood. . _
t sain at For farther information apply to
JNO. W. F&AYSEft, Teacher,
er J. M. D. Win, Secretary, dte r
Milledgeville, Ga.
Jaa.a8,IW5. 28 3m.
FELLOW-CITIZENS:
Within the last three weeks the air
has been loaded with numerous asser
tions that there had been discovered by
the Finance Committee a terrible deficit
in your State Treasury. It was wafted
rapidly as on the wings of the wind, that
your Treasurer had squandered an im
mense • amount of your money which ho
could give no account. One million
dollars—seven hundred thousand—three
hundred thousand—ninety-eight thou
sand—sixty-nine thousand,—and at last
four thousand, which perhaps, if they had
taken a little more time, might have come
out at zero. The Joint Committee on
Finance, however, thought proper, from
want of time, to stop at the four thou
sand dollars balance against me, and
with a vote of censure over me, order tho
Governor to proceed against me and my
bondsmen for the deficit.
It is well known to yon that before
and during the war, and until Gov. Jenk
ins was forced to leave the State and the
Union (?) to avoid arrest, imprisonment
and perhaps the sweat-box, for nine years
I served the State faithfully, and, as judg
ed by each succeeding Legislature, suc
cessfully and well. An evidence of this
is the fact, that at each election I was re
tained in office by a larger majority over
my opponents than at the one immedi
ately preceding it. In January, 1873,
after an interval of just five years from
the day I was driven from my office by
Gen. Meade for refusing to send forty
thousand dollars of the funds of the
State to Atlanta to pay the piebald Con
vention of 1867, and placed in arrest be
cause I had sent these funds out of his
reach, yet where I could still control and
devote them to the payment of your pub
lic debt, I was elected to my position a
gain, and since that day I have devoted,
day and night, every power of my mind
and all the energy of my nature solely,
wholly to tho State’s service, thwarting
the machinations of the harpies that
would tear her vitals, restoring her wan
ing credit and re-establishing her tarnish
ed honor.
How I succeeded during the last two
years is seen in the financial records of
stocks and bonds of States and corpora
tions to be found in the daily newspapers.
Our six per cent, which had been quoted
as low as fifty cents in the dollar, are
past eighty now. Our sevens have risen
from seventy odd to above ninety, and
our eight per cent., authorized by the
Legislature of 1873, for which I was
offered eighty five cents in April of that
year, were all sold before January, 1874,
at par, and now held at 3 per cent, prem
ium. Yet it is being said that my loose
management of the Treasury has endan
gered the credit of the State, and I have
been declared incompetent and deserving
of a vote of censurethe General As
sembly on recommendations of the
Joint Finance Committee!
On the publication of their first report,
of which the Committee had not the
courtesy to serve me with a copy, and
which I saw for the first time, not until
it was printed on the day after it was
read in both houses. So soon as I saw
it I requested a few friends in the House
of Representatives to demand for mo an
impeachment. If I was guilty, fellow-
citizens, of the charges against me in
that report, I ought not to have been
allowed to remain in the Treasury a mo
ment longer than it would require to im
peach and convict me. If I was not
guilty, it was my right, after such an as
sault on my character, to be declared so
by the verdict of the High Court of
Impeachment, by whose action alone
could be decided the question of my
guilt or innocence; and whose sworn du
ty it would be to take time, patiently
hear the evidence, and a verdict give in
accordance therewith. This I was en
titled to; thin I demanded, and this was
denied me. The want of time and the
great expense of an impeachment trial
were the reasons given for the denial.
When we consider that, if the Legisla
ture had preferred articles against me
on Tuesday and adjourned, they would
have saved four days expense at two
thousand (2,000) dollars a day—eight
thousand dollars—and the Senate, with
the Judge of the Supreme Court as
presiding officer of the Court, could have
finished the trial in four days at the farth
est, at three hundred and fifty dollars
a day, or fourteen hundred dollars, it
will be seen at once that impeachment
and adjournment were the proper steps
to be taken to convict and oust me, or
vindicate mo from the detraction they
had put upon me.
I do not think it at all necessary, fel
low-citizens, to say more to you than
just to submit for your consideration a
statement which I prepared to lay before'
the General Assembly, but was unable
from want of time to do so, and which
embodies the statements and explana
tions which I made to the committee
when questioned for the first time at
their second session, when the House
gnored their first report and ordered
them to try again.
I crave a patient hearing. I have made
this appeal to you, and my statement for
tho Legislature as short as I could, and
have used the language of complaint as
little as possible, for I do not like to
whine. But this much I must state in
duty to myself and to you: The papers
were filled almost daily with interviews
of the chairman of the Joint Finance
committee by their reporters, with the
most astounding charges, developments
and expectations calculated to forestall
public opinion and condemn mo before
trial, and the Chairman of the House
Committee solemnly announced in open
session his determination not to leave
that House or return to his constituents
until he had driven me from the Treas
ury; yet they have gone and I am here!
I mention these facts simply to show the
disposition towards me of the two Chair
men. The rest" of the Committee, except
a few, never entered the room where my
accounts and vouchers were being ex
amined, but took the exparte evidence
of the sub-committee, lead by the Chair
man of the Joint Committee, upon which
they made their report and stood by it
to the bitter end, because their Chair
man had so decided. An honest man’s
character to be endangered, stained and
destroyed to vindicate the virulent ac
tion of the two Chairmen.
The General Assembly growing tired
of the matter which they had begun to
consider trivial in the extreme, (many
members characterized it as an outrage,)
and becoming uneasy at the prolonga
tion of the session, concluded that the
shortest way out of it was to humor the
Committee, sustain its action and cen
sure me.
FeUow-citizqps, I beseech you to read
this statement patiently; think of it care
fully, seriously. The reports of the Com
mittee show their side—this statement
shows mine. I hare so far only my naked
word and heretofore unslandered repu
tation against the majority of the Com
mittee from different parts of the State;
wot T h*M mHhim on vonr iustice as I
been careful of the credit and honor of
the State, or have I deserved the cen
sure and the odium that is sought to be
heaped upon me by a Committee (except
a few who kno ’ me well), who, with pro
fessions individually of friendship, re-
tion of all the Bonds heretofore or here-} val and signature of the Governor, which
after issued by this State, and in said
book shall note all Bonds paid and date
of payment, and all coupons paid on each
and the date of their payment. I have
complied with this section according to
. —o—— »
they ignored, and refused to credit me
verence and unwavering belief in my in-1 the interpretation of every Governor and
tegrity, would put this foul blemish on i Treasurer and Finance Committee since
my reputation and blast me forever? j it was enacted. When the Bond is paid
I herewith submit my statements.
To the General Assembly of tlte State of
Georgia.
In view of the vote of censure, pro
posed to be passed on me for the mal
administration of my office, I respectful
ly ask leave of this body to make a few
statements and explanations, which I
made to the sub-committee of Finance,
that within the last three weeks have ex
amined my accounts and vouchers—
many of which statements and explana
tions they have not thought necessary
to give, in either of their reports lately
submitted, nor, I think, even imparted
to the Joint Committee on Finance when
met to make up those reports, and others
of which statements and explanations
they have, through misapprehension or
design, misinterpreted, rather to sustain
their own positions than to do justice to
the State or to mo.
First, it is sought to condemn me, for
that I have been negligent, and careless
of the duties of my office, and not suffi
ciently mindful of the interest and cred
it of the State. In answer to this, I beg
to refer you to those sections of the
Code which specially define the duties
of the Treasurer. Section 02 of tho Code
of 1873 lays down as the duties of the
Treasurer,
1st To receive and keep safely all the
money which shall be paid to him in be
half of the State, giving certificates there
for, which shall especially set forth the
amount on what account, and by whom
paid, and shall be lodged as vouchers in
the Comptroller General's office; and to
pay out the same only upon the warrants
of the Governor, when countersigned
by the Comptroller General, except the
drafts of tho President of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representa
tives for the sums due to the members
and officers of their respective bodies.
This clause I have followed strictly, ex
cepts that as authorized by another sec
tion, I have advanced to officers of the
State seventy-five per cent, of the amount
for which service has been actually ren
dered.
2d. To keep in his office a book,
at maturity the date of payment is writs
ten on the lein of coupons opposite its
number and beginning at the column of
tho last coupon paid.
Looking back on this statement, or on
examination of the Code of 1873, pp. 22,
23 and 24, where the duties of the Treas
urer are defined, it will be seen that the
only books prescribed to be kept in the
Treasury is a book for receipts of taxes,
etc., another for payment of warrants,
and a third for record of Bonds and
coupons, with their date of payment.
This is what the law requires of the
Treasurer, but tho Committee condemn
him for not keeping a cash book for their
information, when he really did not know
that they desired it until called before
them out of a severe spell of illness, too
weak in mind to think, and almost too
feeble to walk. In this connection I
would call attention to the complaint of
tho Committee, that I got my balances
from the banks by telegraph. I did this
designedly; that the Committee might
have a quasi, if not a bona fide certificate
from tho cashier or bank officer of the
amount to my debt or credit, which
should be better testimony than the bal//
ance exhibited on the books of the Treas
urer, and would be so considered before
a court in case where these two showings
might differ. I have not kept a book for
bank accounts, because I have requested
the banks to send me on the last of every
month my account-current, which I veri
fy by my letter book, where all remit
tances are recorded, and the stub leaves
of my check book, where all my drafts
are shown with their date, size, drawee,
and bank on which they are drawn. With
these bank accounts, made out by the
banks and forwarded to me at the end of
every month, and compared carefully
with my letter book and check book, I
have had no trouble in keeping my cash
straight, and until now have satisfied
every Finance Committee for ten years
under whose examination I have passed
that I have done my duty, and the State
has heretofore not lost a dollar by mis
management.
Passing by the various tables or sched
ule of bonds by which the Committee
with the amount; and failed to state
their report—an important fact for me—
that those Warrants were approved and
countersigned by Governor Smith. As
to the John King matter and counterfeit
money, I offered them to show as so
much cash, though worthless, «in my
transactions, without expecting toe Com
mittee to allow them, as I told them,
but intending to make them good to the
State if the Legislature did not think
proper to relieve me.
The committee complains of the distri
bution of the funds of the Treasury, in
so many banks throughout the State. J
explained to them, when they questioned
me after being sent back to try again,
that I considered it best to do so, for the
purpose of getting exchange in Savannah,
Augusta and Macon, which would often
save me the trouble and expense of send
ing money to those points by express.
The funds accumulated in those banks by
I would not have it understood that,
by this contrast; I am asking or sugges
ting an increase of my salary. I have
taken toe office at the present rate, and
toe General Assembly could not alter it
during my term if it desired to do so. I
mention it merely to show that, ix the
Treasurer and lps one Clerk can have
their health guaranteed, answer all the
letters of business, to say nothing of the
hundreds of inquiry, accommodation and
mere courtesy, and keep toe books re
quired of them by the Code, they cannot
reasonably be censured; and I think that
if I so manage as to make toe monthly
accounts-current from toe banks, verified
by my letter and check-stubs, keep my
business straight with them, I ought not
to be so severely blamed because I do
not keep my accounts with them in a big
book especially as my connection with them
is extra work altogether, for which I do
not receive a cent, though the State is
saved the express fees on every package
of currency I may have to send to New
deposits of toe Tax Collectors, who sent York, instead of drafts, to pay six or
which shall be entered all warrants drawn j P r °f ess to show the condition of the
yet I have reliance on your justice
have on toe^mercy of Providence, and to
your judgment I must submit toe ques
tion: Have I performed the duties of
jHjoAoftW toe law requires? Bare I
on him by the Executive, stating in whose
favor drawn; toe date and amount there
of, to what fund charged, and to retain
and file away all such warrants. This I
have done.
3rd. To keep annually an account of
all taxes that may be due and unpaid by
the several chartered banks, and to en
force the collection thereof agreeably to
the laws in force; also to keep account of
all taxes paid into the Treasury annually
by the Tax Collectors of the several coun
ties, and an abstract of these accounts
must be laid before the Governor. The
first requirement of this paragraph has
been superseded by a later law, which
makes it the duty of the Comptroller to
collect the taxes from banks, and pay
them over to toe Treasurer. Tho second
clause is strictly complied with, and
whenever toe Governor has called for
such abstracts, they have been furnished
him—no particular day being fixed for
laying them before him.
4to. Preceding each annual session he
must submit to the Governor detailed es
timates of probable receipts and expen
ditures for toe next fiscal year, stating
the sources of income and the probable
amounts to bo received therefrom; also,
the objects of appropriations, and the
probable necessities of the Treasury.
This I have done.
5th. To pay all funds pledged to the
payment of the Public Debt, cr interest
thereon, or to any object of education,
and to those objects only, and in nowise
to any other purpose. All payments
from toe Treasury shall be paid from the
fund appropriated for such purpose, and
not from any other. This I have compli
ed with strictly, except onjoccasions when
there was no other funds on hand except
the School Fund, which, not being likely
to be required for several months, I have
paid out to other objects, rather than pay
interest for loans until the school funds
should be called for—thereby saving the
interest of two hundred and fifty to three
hundred thousand dollars for from four
to six months.
6th. At the end of every quarter of the
year, to make a written report, on oath,
to the Governor, of the several amounts
received during toe throe months pre
ceding such report. This I have not
done, nor has it been done within my re
collection of the office, because at any
moment, when required by the Governor,
a report of the condition of the Treasury
could bo made within an hour, by run
ning over toe book of ballances, which is
and has always been promptly kept and
balanced at too end of each and every
month. *
7th. To keep safely the scrip for bank
stock, the State Bonds and others of tho
Educational Fund, and manage and cons
trol the same for the purpose for which
they are pledged. He may, under direct
tion of too Governor, deposit all fnnds
set apart for toe purpose of education
or any other purpose, not required for
immediate use in any chartered bank of
this State, subject to his drafts as Treas
urer, and, with the Governor, make such
contract with said banks for the use of
such fund as may be beneficial to the
State. An occasion for complying with
toe paragraphhas not presented itself since
my last election as Treasur er.
8th. He shall not, under any circum
stances, use himself, or to allow others to
use the funds of toe State in hands, and
for every violation of this section he is
liable* to toe State for tho sum of five
hundred dollars as a penalty, or a for
feiture of salary if said forfeiture will pay
the penalty incurred. This I have not
done.
9to. This paragraph, authorizing the
advances, is mentioned in my notice of
the first, and I have complied with it lib
erally and without hesitation, as all offi
cers, members, etc., who are entiled to
advance know, and I believe remember
pleasantly.
10to- Refers to toe annual report of
the State debt, which, to the best of
my humble ability, I have always made.
11th. When he pays the interest or
principal of the State debt upon a war
rant issued in his favor, he shall deposit
in the Executive office coupons or bonds
on which payments are made, there to be
marked paid and filed away subject to the
order of toe General Assembly. This I
have only failed in doing because such
coupons as have been paid by our finan
cial agents in New York, are canceled be-
fore they leave New York to avoid large
express .fees, which would have to be
pud if they were not; and being cancel
ed by punching, it has been thought not
necessary to mark them paid.
12to. He shall not pay any appropria
tion due and not called for, within six
months after the expiration of toe politis
cal year for which it is appropriated, but
it reverts to the general fund in toe Treas
ury-
Sac. 96. The Treasurer shall keep a
book in which be aball record 44 dceerip
bonded debt of the State in the series of
years from 1870 to the present, in some
of which I detect mistakes of figures,
which may be the fault of the printer,
when I come to were they take up my re
port of January 1, 1875, with my state
ment of the bonded debt of §8,105,500
running to maturity, to which they add
$325,000—which, by-the-way, should be
§269,500, if they propose to quote from
my report—to which being added the
interest to 1st of April, we have $323,-
400, instead of $325,000, as they have it,
showing plainly that these figures are
not to be relied on. Giving them their
own figures, they make the public debt,
according to my showing, $8,430,500,
which, for the sake of round numbers, I
will adopt as mine.
The Committee then make an estimate
of their own, which they put down at
$8,730,000, which, if they will take the
trouble to cast up their own figures, will
be found to produce §8,730,500, from
which take my figures, and the difference
will be $300,000, instead of §299.500, as
they make it. Up to this point the Com-
mittee & t em to have lost sight of me, and
to have been intently engaged in ascer
taining the true debt of tbe State. But
they liave discovered a serious mistake—
a difference of three hundred thousand
dollars deficit in my report; and here
come in a few words which show the ani
mus of the Committee, or certain mem
bers- thereof. Up to toe evening that
they left my office to make up their re
port, as it happened, though they said
they would return next morning at 9
o’clock there had passed no words of im
patience at tho frequent lectures and in
sinuations of negligence and incompe
tency thrown out by certain members of
the Committee. The next morning, with
out notice to me, instead of coming to
my office, where I waited until 11 o’clock,
from my regular duties, for them, they
went up to their room and prepared their
report; in which, after putting down
what they considered my guess-woork
and then’ own figures, they say: “The
discrepancy of §299,500 (the correet fig
ure is §300,000, if they will add it up
again) between the Treasurer’s roport
and the known summary of maturing
obligations must find its explanation in
that unknown realm of past due obliga
tions.” Theirs is a known summary, is
it ? If the Committee will go over it
again, they will find that they have put
$300,000 exactly to the State debt toat
does not belong there! They have stated
tho Western & Atlantic Mortgage Bonds,
me the certificates of deposit by letter,
which costs them only toe postage stamp,
when the currency by express would have
cost them from two to five dollars a pack
age—sometimes mora Furthermore, 1
had the offieers of the banks to detect
counterfeits for me. All this I thought
was good, safe financiering, but the com
mittee did not. The loss by the King
draft was not by any deposit I had with
him, but by a check on Savannah sent me
by him to buy some bonds for a
customer, John H. Walton, of Talbot
county, which being retained a little toJ
long, was returned when I sent it to toe
bank, with the answer “no funds." This
explanation I made to the committee,
though they still speak of it as “a deposit.”
So that has nothing to do with toe de*>
posit, in so large a number of banks
throughout the State.
“Your committee do not desire to be
understood as attributing all toe defects
and omissions in toe Treasury to the
present incumbent. Some of them are
of long standing.” Such is toe language
of the committee, and yet I am to be the
scape goat to save this little Isaac—this
very accurate, laborious report—this
known summary of the actings and do
ings of the Treasury for years before I
came into office. It looks hard to me,
but tbe Committee do not think it unjust,
and they know best.
Tho Committee charge me with paying
$152,250, of the bonds maturing before
the 1st of January, 1872, which had been
paid before. They assume that all the
Bonds of the State toat fell dne prior to
the 1st January, 1872 have been paid,
and this assumption is based upon a lets
ter of Bullock, a fugititive from justice,
whose oath in a court of justice, would
not be credited by a single member of
that committee; and upon this assump
tion; in the face of my solemn assevera
tion that I had no knowledge that these
Bonds had been paid, they declare that
the payment of these old Bonds by the
present Treasurer is unauthorized and
illegal! The committee also refer to t
note beneath toe appendix to Table F.
in my reports of the last two years to
show that I had notice of their payment.
If the venerable Chairman of toe Joint
Finance Committee will refer to toe ta
ble I gave him a day or two after the in
vestigation began, he will find exactly the
same note made in my report of 1866,
except the mention of toe disagreement
between toe late Treasurer and toe Gov-,
emor.
This is “the most unkindest cut of all”
—the assumption that Bullock’s letter is
all true, and that I have spoken falsely—
taking advantage of their position to add
insult to injury, and publishing toe foul
aspersion to the people of Georgia under
Legislative sanction.
The Committee lay great stress on my
allowing toe bonds of the State, deposi
ted with the Fourth National Bank of New
York by Russell Sage, on payment of his
claim, for which he held them as collat
eral, to be considered collaterals to se
cure payment of toe overdrafts for which
I made arrangement with toe bank last
summer, when we were mnch troubled
about negotiating loans to meet our lia
bilities until the taxes should come in
The arrangement about overdrafts was
made several weeks before toe 1st of July,
when there would fall due at toe Fourth
National Bank $178,000 of interest on
onr bonds; and fearing that toe back in
terest of quarterly gold bonds, which
had been suspended, and lately on proper
proof, restored to credit, would swell
that amount to near $200,000,1 wrote to
know if they would permit me to over
draw. They consented on condition that
I would allow them to hold toe Bonds in
their Bank as collateral. Being in daily
correspondence abont a loan to meet toe
July interest, I consented, with the con
fident feeling that I would get loans there
by, or very shortly after, toe 1st of July.
The Bank paid onr interest due toat day,
and the overdraft of about $200,000, or
over, if toe Committee prefer, was settled,
or nearly so, not very long after. This
eight hundred thousand dollars a year for
principal and interest on toe public debt,
payable there. I will say nothing of the
express fees saved to toe Tax Collectors,
by allowing them to deposit their collec
tions in convenient, safe banks and send
certificates and drafts to toe Treasury at
postage rates, particularly as with this
the State has nothing to do; they will
appreciate it, however if the Committee
C-innot-
JOHN JONES, Jb.
Atlanta, Ga., March 4th, 1875.
She Sown
[CourierJournal.
Grade.
signed by GoV. Jenkins and mv°self, and is ^ histo3 7 ° f that matter if my memo-
issued in 1866, at §3,900,009; whereas it f Afreet, and although I had no war
rant of law for it, I felt toat rather than
allow toe State’s credit to suffer or fall
back from toe high position to which I
was only §3,600,000. And yet theirs is
the known summary! Now, thero were
§3,900, of State Bonds issued that year,
signed by Jenkins and Jones, but $300,-
000 were Atlantic & Gulf Railroad Bonds,
which the Committee did not think to
take off of tho §900,000 of Atlantic &
Gulf Railroad Bonds, which is tho next
item in their known summary, which
they exultingly roll as a sweet rdorscl un
der their tongues.
As to the deficit of nearly $69,000 they
thought they had caught against me, and
had reverberated through the town, and
dealt out to the press reporters and news
mongers, corresponding everywhere, they
enumerate a long lists of credits, somo of
which they allow and others which they
propose to allow, though they have not
had time to count them. The Commit
tee then say : “.The Treasurer produces
Executive warrants dated back to 1871,
signed by Governor Bullock and Comp
troller II. Bell, amounting to $10,954.09,
which, without further and more satis
factory information concerning them,
the Committee are not willing to accept
to his credit.” Now, not one of those
warrants had Bullock’s name to it. They
were all signed by Conley, except two,
which were signed by Governor Smith,
and countersigned by Madison Bell,
Comptroller. I explained to the Com
mittee, that when these warrants were
drawn, they were presented to my prede
cessor who refused to pay them. Short
ly after 1 came into office one was pre
sented to me, and on examination, seeing
its date, 1 asked the presenter why be
had not been paid before. He answered
that he had presented it to Dr. Angier,
who refused to pay it I then said I
must decline also until I can learn his
reasons for not paying, and what should
be done about it. Two or three days
afterwards, he came again with Mr. Camp
bell, the Financial Secretary of the Gov
ernor, who handed me the warrant' with
the words,; “Approved, James M. Smith.
Governor, ’ written across the face, and
said tho Governor had decided to exam
ine toe claims on which these warrants
were drawn, and when satisfied of theii
virtue, would approve them in a similar
manner, and I must pay them, which 3
did; and the warrants paid amounted tc
$10,954.09. I stated these facts to the
3ilU,UD4.UW. A uu»i/eu uieeu mum w vun . , , . -
Committee, and shoved them the appro I *‘ ers ^ eas * ^ W1C ^ **
am proud to know I had assisted to raise
it, I was not only willing but felt it my
duty to risk your censure and jeopard my
office to hold it up and maintain it when
toe object was so important and toe dan
ger so little. If I deserve your censure
for this, I can console myself with toe re
flection that better men have suffered far
more for mnch lighter offences.
One more paragraph of toe supple*
mental report, and I will cease to vex
your ears The committee kindly “at
tribute these inaccuracies, largely if not
wholly, to the recent illness and physical
disability of toe Treasurer. But toe
business of the office should be so con
ducted as to leave nothing to memory—
detail and accuracy is demanded for toe
public interest—every banking institu
tion, railroad office and mercantile house
of high standing in Georgia exacts from
the custodian of its money Not only an
accurate .statement of their business, but
require them to be ready to report at any
time, and in less than twenty-four hours
their real standing, and the Treasurer
should be able to supply all the needed
information in relation to the business
affairs of the State accurately and prop
eriy kept, and with like dispatch.” In
connection with this—not in retort—I
beg to remind the Committee that toe
Western & Atlantic Railroad Company
pay their Treasurer four thousand dol
lars, and his clerk two thousand dollars
a year. The Central Railroad and the
Georgia Railroad Companies are not be*
hind those figures in the salaries of their
cashiers and other officer^, of which it is
their policy to have enough to do their
work promptly and accurately. Every
bank in toe State of Georgia of one hun
dred thousand dollars’ capital pay their
cashiers $2,500 at least, and give them
clerks enough; while the State of Geor
gia, with two millions of dollars passing
through his backwards and for
wards daring toe year, giw h(»Treagur-
er $2,000, and a clerk at $1,600 a year
ind requires of toon the labor, prompt
ness and accuracy for which smaller in
stitutions, who know their own interest
And are not amenable to or afraid of the
clamor of the dear people, give their ofi-
“They’ve got us down grade, by
said old Ben.—[Washington Letter.
At twelve o’clock Thursday the Speak
er’s gavel knocked the life oat of toe
Forty-third Congress and drove toe first
nail into the coffin of toe Republican par
ty. The party itself is dead. We may
in future refer to it as “the late Repub>i
lican party.” But many days may elapse
before it is buried, and we shall doubt
less be required to join in certain cere
monies over its remains. Indeed, it is
not unfitting toat we give it decent in
terment, for, though it has done a deal
of mischief, it has played a great part
upon the stage of public affairs. To it
we are indebted for the blessing of our
public debt. But for it we should never
have had an era of Christian statesmen.
It gave us Grant and Butler and Wil
liams and Shepherd and Clayton, and
other names that were not bom to die.
Dilworthy was a member of the Republi
can party. Credit Mobilier and Pacifio
Mail are among its trophies; and but for
an accident we might thank it for toe
passage of an inestimable measure of re
lief known as the force bill. Bill King
—toe identical “missing link”—is a Re
publican. In order, however, that we
may appreciate its moral influence, we
must look South. Young man, go South
and gaze upon toe victories of toe Re
publican party. South Carolina to the
right of you, Louisiana to the left of you,
to say nothing of the tokens of its pres
ence in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.
A grateful people can never forget toe
patriotism of a Bullock and a Blodgett,
the wisdom of a Spencer, toe virtues of
a Claytoff and a McClure. The rich, red
blood of a Pinchback has been injected
into onr body politic by this, toe party of
vivisection. It gave toe Senate its Rev
els. Without it the House wonld never
have listened to toe eloquence of its Elli
ott or stood transfixed beneath the logi
cal utterances of its Rainey. The civil
rights bill is its offspring. The Wash*
ington Republican is its organ. It haa
played a very strong game. For a long
time it never made a losing. Bnt luck
took a turn. A series of misfortunes
brought on an attack of melancholy, thin
was succeeded by hysteria, and finally—
under the hallucination of a third term
—it committed suicide, taking an over
dose of Ethiopia and afterward cutting
its throat from ear to ear with toe writ
of habeas corpus. Its last words were:
‘Tm not afraid.” The noble corse is laid
out in the Senate chamber, which is hung
in black. Likewise toe White House.
The sexton stands ready with his spade.
The grave is dng. Pause we awhile in
the presence of the mighty fallen.
Who killed Cock Robin!
“I” says Ulysses,
“With kicks and kisses,
I killed Cock Robin.’’
Who saw him die!
Ben Butler says, “I,
With my old cock eye,
I saw him die.”
Who’ll catch his blood 7
“I,” says U&m Fish,
“That’s my pious wish;
his " *
I'll catch his blood.'
Who’ll toll the bell?
“I,” says Jim Blaio,
“With my might and Maine,
I'll toll tbe bell.”
Who’ll be chisf mourner 7
“We,” says Carpet-bag,
“We and Scalawag,
W*’U be chief mourner. 1 '
WhoT dig tho grave?
“I,” says DeTrobriand,
“With the help of Sheridan,
I’ll dig tho grave.”
Who'll drive the hearse 7
“I.” says District Boss.
“It’ll need bnt one hoss.
I’ll drive the hearse.”
Who’ll preach the sermon?
“I,” says Pomeroy,
“I’m a wise old boy,
I’ll preach the sermon.”
Who'll read the will 7
-I,’ - *ays Rosco C.,
“That job’ll do for me,
I’ll read the will.”
Who’ll wind up the estate 7
“Never mind,” says Oliver P.
“Let each poor devisee
Wind up his own estate."
•‘Peace be to Robin’* bones,' ’
Exclaims Bonanza Jones;
“Good bye, alas, good-bye,”
Cries Conk., with streaming eye.
Tbe saddest words were said,
However, by Ben Wade:
“They ve got us on down grade.”
Every one at the bottom of his heart
cherishes vanity; even toe toad thinks
himself good looking—“rather tawny,
perhaps, bnt look at his eye. r
Honor is but a fictions kind of honesty;
a mean but a necessary substitute for it
In societies who have none; it is a sort
of a paper credit, with which men are
obliged to trade who are deficient in the
sterling cash of true morality and relig
ion.
What a rare gift, by-the-by, is that of
manners! How difficult to define—how
mnch more difficult to impart! Better
for a man to possess them, than wealth,
beauty or talents; they will more than
supply all-
Adam was prondly conscious that ha
never made.a mistake in his beyhoo<L
The Millarites now keep the day an
which they are going np a profound m>
cret
A bride in Indiana, after toe condor
sion of the marriage ceremony stepped
gracefully forward and requested that
clergyman io> give out the hymn: “This if
the way I kmg have sought,”
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