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governor Smith has pardoned Dr. Har-
i , ;. .. \V -tniordand, who was sent to the
I ry some time ago for an at-
jit to murder.
Alfred Grant, an old citizen of
is dead.
Col. h. V. Clarke, of the Atlanta Con-
... n ow a polioe commissioner.
The Jt snp Georgian comes to us ma-
[ terally enlarged.
The turpentine works of Messrs. Pen-
,: mau A K.urges, at No. 3, Macon and
Brunswick Kailroad, were destroyed by
ore last Thursday night.
\ Columbus policeman shot himself in
t ] ie foot the other day, inflicting a very
serious wound.
Col. K. A. Alston, of the Atlanta Her-
,• / is in Washington. It is thought that
be i> endeavoring to take advantage of
the extra session of the Senate to lobby a
usury bill through.
It is said that -Jack Brown will succeed
jlajor Smythe as United States Marshal,
gmvtlie is to be made paymaster in the
irmy.
Col. J. L. Sweat, Clerk of the House of
Representative ■?, requests us to say that
be was not robbed in the cars, as stated
in the Macon Telegraph.
La Grange Reporter: “The county
lines have all been changed, the Code is
exhausted, every man in the State not
otherwise employed, has been authorized
to pe Idle without license or practice on
cane -r>. and so the Legislature adjourned
last Monday. The State Treasury' may
go to thunder; it is of no consequence
anyhow.'"
The Gainesville Democrat remarks:
••The Morning News is certainly the
best paper in Georgia.”
The wife of Professor Towns, of Greene
county, is dead.
Tin- Governor has commissioned E. F.
llest as Judge of the County Court of
Bibb, in place of Judge Weems, re
signed.
A dead biby has been found in La-
Grange. The epidemic seems to be
spreading.
Two negroes were drowned in the
Oconee river, in Greene county, re
cently.
A small alligator was captured in the
suburbs of Atlanta, and now the editors
f that burg announce that the climate is
semi-tropical.
All prominent citizens in Augusta carry
‘•buck-eyes” in their pockets to keep off
scarlet fever.
Burglars are still operating successfully
in Augusta.
We will never get even with the La-
Gran L'd Reporter. The last number con
tains the following: “The Savannah
Mor.NiN-r News is one of the institutions
<f Savannah. It is the best managed
paper in Georgia—editorially and finan
cially, and we doubt not is the most
valuable and profitable. The proprietor
Mr. J. H. Estill, who has served in
every capacity in a printing office, from
that of devil up to his present position.
He gi ves his personal supervison to
every department of the News busi
ness, works as arduously and as
steadily as his employes, is always in his
place, knows exactly what a daily paper
" uould bo, and thus has brought the News
up to its present position of prosperity
and influence. He lias by hard work and
knowledge of the business, obtained a
x’ery large circulation for the News, and
can thus command the best prices for
advertising. The News is unquestionably
the most desirable newspaper property in
the State. But Mr. Estill has had able
assistance in bringing his paper to its
present commanding position. There is
Col W. T. Thompson, editor-in-chief, who
has been in journalism over a third of a
century, and has been on the same
hue of politics all the time. His record
as a journalist shows a remarkable con
sistency in this respect, and there is now'
ao safer political writer in all the broad
1 uiou. With him principles are every
thing. and men must be subordinate. He
ls xvithal a most genial companion—can
entertain you by the hour with his remi
niscences, and has a full stock of humor
on hand as when, in early life, he wrote
aud published “Major Jones’s Courtship”
—a book without a peer of its kind. And
there is his associate, Mr. J. C. Harris,
a young man, but with a talent for
journalism so decided as to amount
to genius. He is a first-class wit,
^rves up the news of the Stato
in unparalleled stjle—when occasion re-
quires. writes masterly editorials on poli
tics, commerce, finance and morals,
reviews books, and occasionally pens a
lyric which would not suffer by a com
parison with the choicest of Tennyson’s.
^ r - 1>. H. Kichardson has charge of the
local department, and is the best local
editor in the State. He writes more and
does it more rapidly than any man that
over came under our observation. His
Pen moves over the paper with marvelous
■'p'-’-d, and his department is always well
Idled. In *he editorial room of the News
We s pent an evening which will not be
forgotten.
Card of a colored barber in Atlanta:
My son, William Webster, called on Mr.
bhelbert on yesterday for a shave, under
the civil rights bill, and he got refused.
1 hank God for it. I am still true to my
country. I keep a barber shop for white
men—have shaved no negroes, and even
■mdtrr the civil rights bill no negro can
haw. his face scraped or his wool oiled in
juy shop. I am a colored man, but still
t am a white man in principle, and I want
*7 colored friends to know that, in their
places, I am their friend, and that out of
their places I am not their friend. I
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SjntMmf.
IMPORTANT
—TO-
GRANGERS.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Madison Home Journal: It is with
deep regret we are called upon to chron
icle one of the saddest occurrences that
has happened in our midst in many years.
Miss Allie Lou, daughter of Mr. S. A.
Atkinson, of New York city, has been on
a visit to her relative, Mr. A. Atkinson,
of this city, for the last four months.
Her visit South was for the purpose of
restoring her health, having dyspepsia and
predisposition to consumption. No sooner
had she arrived here than she became
very despondent, expressing a desire to
return home. Her relatives using every
means to make her visit pleasant and
agreeable, the despondency of Miss Lou
gradually gave way to more buoyant
hopes. But on Thursday morning, the
4th inst., she awoke at an early hour,
seeming very much depressed. She arose!
and without dressing went into an adjoin
ing room occupied by a young lady
cousin, and lying down beside her asked
the question, “if you were going to com
mit suicide, how would you accomplish
the deed, by cutting your throat or shoot
ing yourself?” Her cousin's reply was
that she would prefer the latter. The
conversation turned upon other matters,
and nothing more was said upon the sub
ject, Miss Lou getting up and going
into another room. In a few seconds the
report of a pistol was distinctly heard
proceeding from the room which she had
sought the moment before. At this the
family hastened into the room, and to
their horror found that the young lady
had shot herself, inflicting a serious if
not a fatal wound. Strange to say the
force of the shot had not been sufficient
to fell her. Necessary assistance was in
stantly tendered by her relatives and
stimulants offered her, but she refused
them, saying she desired to die. Medi
cal aid was summoned and everything
was done to alleviate her sufferings.
Upon examination the wound presented
the following character: The ball enter
ing tbe lower portion of tbe breast,
ranged downward and inward, lodging
it is supposed, near the spine. The
weapon is thought from the appearance
of the wound to have been in immediate
contact with the body. At this writing
tbe unfortunate young lady is in a very
critical condition, and no hopes are en
tertained of her recovery. In truth, she
is expected momentarily to die. These
are the facts of this sad affair as far as we
have been able to gather them from those
who are acquainted with the particulars,
aud we have given them thus minutely to
put to rest the many idle rumors that are
afloat. Since writing the above, this un
fortunate young lady died last night
at half-past eleven o’clock. Miss At
kinson, was a member of the Episcopal
Church, and attended the services of
that church on last Sunday morning in
Madison, attracting the notice and com
mendation of the Hector by the hearti
ness of her responses in this last partici
pation in the services of her church. We
trust God will comfort the bereaved
parents, kindred and friends in this un
expected and sad affliction. Miss Atkin
son was about eighteen years of age.
Her father, Mr. S. A. Atkinson, was
editor and proprietor of the Evening
Dispatch, once published in Augusta. A
few years ago he owned and edited the
Southern Banner, of Athens, Ga.
BY TELEGMPB
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE LOUISIANA QUESTION IX THE
SENATE.
The Pope am! the Austrian Bishop,
DEATH OF
GEN. SIR JOHN HOPE
GRANT.
Five Hundred Shots a Minutes.—A
New Cannon.—A machine gun was ex
hibited and tested yesterday in the
Twenty-second Regiment Armory, in
New York. Mr. Willard B. Farwell, the
inventor, operated and explained his in-
volition. Among those who saw the ex
periment were Col. John E. Gowan aud
CM. Knox, of the Ordnance Bureau, Col.
Porter, and many other officers of the
National Guard. Mr. Farwell’s invention
consists of ten steel barrels, of twenty-
five calibre, arranged exactly parallel to
euch other, in a metallic frame. From
centre to centre of the outer barrels is
three feet. Each barrel is charged sepa
rately from a magazine containing fifty
rounds of ammunition.
The charging, firing, and extraction of
exploded shells are all accomplished by
the turning of one crank, at each revolu •
tion of which the whole ten barrels are
discharged, emptied aud reloaded. With
ri lays of magazines five hundred shots
can be fired a minute. A system of cog
wheels connects the firing crank with a
traverse, and each turn of the crank
traverses the exact width of the target.
Thus the gun is automatic in this partic
ular, designed to pick off a line of battle
in regular detail. Its points of difference
from the Gatling gun are in the simulta
neous loading and firing of ten barrels,
the latter loading each barrel through the
same magazine aperture and firing but
oue shot at a time.
Mr. Farwell had only one magazine at
the trial yesterday, so the actual rapidity
of fire attained was not demonstrated.
The fifty shots contained by that one
magazine, however, were several times
fired in six seconds. The appearance of
the target after the firing, all the shots
having struck at about the height of a
man’s breast, showed how irresistibly
destructive such a weapon would be in a
street fight or in resisting a charging
army.
GORDON AND LAMAR TO BE FEAST
ED AT THE HUB.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH GLUTTED.
CAPITOL NOTES.
Washington, March 8.—The Senate, on
motion of Mr. Morton, took up the resolu
tion for the admission of Pinchback.
Mr. Morton then spoke in favor of seating
him.
Two paymasters have been retired.
The President’s list, which goes to the
Senate to-day, consists of A. E. Bates, J. P
Willard aud F. M. Cox, from the regular
army; Wm. Marauder, J. R. Roach, W
Kckles, J. E. Bi&in, C. J. Wilson, C. K.
Brennemann, A. S. Tower and R. H. Fow
ler, from the volunteers.
CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS FROM THE ENG
LISH CLERGY.
London, March 8.—The Archbishons of
Canterbury aud York and all the Bishopi
with the exception of two, have issued
charge congratulating the clergy aud laity
on the prosperity and progress of the
church, and strongly admonishing the
former against the illegal ritualistic prac
tices, which teud to isolate the clergy from
the people.
Arthur Helpi, the author, is dead.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH GLUTTED.
New Yoke, March 8.—The snow aud sleet
continued throughout the night. It is now
suuny. A heavy body of snow has fallen.
Gerritt SmitlFs widow is dead.
Beecher’s church has been glutted. The
doors were locked at half past ten. A clamor
ous crowd continued knocking.
SENATOR GORDON AND CONGRESSMAN LAMAR
AT THE HCli. |
Boston, March 8.—The Marshfield Club
(disciples of Daniel Webster)' of Boston
have tendered a dinner to Senator Gordon,
of Georgia, and Congressman Lamar, oI
Mississippi, on Tuesday.
THE POPE AND THE AUSTRIAN IilSHOPS.
London, March H.—A special to tbe Times
says the Pope has permitted an Austrian
Bishop to comply with a law of Austria
which he forbids thv'm from noticing
Prussia. This is considered in Berlin as
actuated by political motives.
HEAVY SNOW STORM AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, March 8.—The snow storm
yesterday was the heaviest that has prevail
ed f »r years. Nine inches of snow fell,
extends south as lar as Jackson, Tennessee.
DEATH OF SIR OEORGE HOPE GRANT.
London, March 8.—General Sir George
Hope Grant is dead; aged 07.
The following is a summer episode, as
evolved by little Johnny : “ Last sum
mer our dog Towser was a lyin in the
sun a trine to sleep, but the flies was
that bad he cuddent, cos he bed to cetch
em. and bime by a bee lit on his bed,and
was a woking about like the dog was hisn
Towser he hel his hed still, and when the
bee was close to his nose, Towser winked
at me. like he sed you see what this duf
fer is a doin; he thinks I’m a lilly of the
valley which isn’t open yet, but you just
wait till I blossom aud you will see some
fun, and sure enuf Towser opened his
mouth very slo so as not to fritten the
bee, and the bee went inside Towser’s
mouth. Then Towser he shet his eyes
dreamy', and his mouth too, and had be
gun to make a peacefle smile, wen the
bee stung him, and you never see a lilly
of the valley ack so in all your life. ”
General Fitz John Porter, the new
Commissioner of Public Works in New
York city, has entered upon the duties
of his position, and on Wednesday was
presented to the chiefs of the different
bureaus of the department. The new
commissioner questioned each relative to
the business of his bureau, and expressed
his intention of acquainting himself with
all the details of the business of the de
partment as rapidly as possible. General
Porter’s appointment seems to have
given general satisfaction, and it is pre
dicted he will make an excellent officer.
The New Process op Sugar Making.—
We are in receipt of the report of the
superintendent of the Robert diffusion
piocess for treating sugar-cane, which is
sfiid to have been successfully introduced
in Louisiana the past year. From the
statements therein it appears an entire
change is soon to occur in the process of
sugar making, and it is conclusively
proved by the detailed results of the
actual working of the process at two
Louisiana plantations during the receDt
season, that when by the old process the
business becomes absolutely unprofitable,
entailing a direct loss on the planter, this
new method leaves a fair margin of about
forty per cent, in money on the outlay.
The report substantiates this statement.
Our space forbids a description of the
prooess, which certainly appears simple,
and if successful must revolutionize cane
growing.—New York Bulletin.
-A iail
Miss., has been burned, the single pris
oner confined in it perishing in the
flames. The structure was built of logs,
with but one door and oue window. Sev-
eral men were first attracted by the
shouts of the prisoner, and then the fire
burst out around the door, preventing
escape by that exit. He ran to the win
dow, which was heavily barred, and gave
directions how to rescue him. The men
were unable to break the bars, although
they tried every practicable expedient,
and the blaze—steadily nearing the
doomed prisoner—incited them to stren
uous exertions. He clung to the window
after the heat had become so intense that
that those on the outside had been driven
away, pressing his face between the bars
for air while the fire was catching his
clothing. At last, with a touching cry of
despair, his hold loosened, and he fell
br.ck into the flames.
keep
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a wLite man’s barber shop, and, so
P God, will accommodate none but
wen.
As a gentleman was about leaving the
Boston Museum at the close of the per
formance one evening recently, he
stopped to put on his overcoat, and, while
bending over, felt a sudden pull at his
coat. Thinking nothing of it, he passed
out, putting on his overcoat at the door.
The next morning on dressing he found a
gold watch hanging to the button of his
frock-coat. The watch had evidently
been caught by the chain when he was
putting on his overshoes, and had been
carried home in that way.—[iV. Y. Times.
The Ifew York Express shows that
Tracy, Beechers lawyer, was either ig
norant of facts or deliberately lied when
he made the assertion that negotiations
were once pending to purchase the Ex
press for “poor Theodore.” Says the
Express:
“If either Mr. Beecher or Mr. Tilton
ever heard of any such venture, scheme
or plan, they possess knowledge which
could only come from clairvoyance, or in
what was never revealed to us ; and so
know a great deal more about us and our
business than we know ourselves.”
Judged by the statements of its news
papers, Kentucky is in an almost incredi
bly backward condition, educationally.
The State has 43,826 white voters who
can neither read nor write! The number
of totally illiterate persoos over ten years,
in 1870, was 332,176. In 1874, the school
rolls bore the names of 437,100 white
children, of whom less than one in eight
attend regularly.
He Didn’t Cars.—A newly married
couple from somewhere down the Lansing
road, says the Detroit Free Press, were
riding in a Grand River car yesterday,
and the groom insisted on holding the
bride’s hand in his big red paw.
“Oh! no, don’t!” she said, as she jerked
her hand away.
“Oh! luv, let me hold yer hand, jest for
ten minutes!” he pleaded.
“Shoo! Don’t you see they are looking
at us ?” she whispered.
“They are, eh!” he replied, looking up
and down the car. “Wall, now, I’m go
ing to put my arm right around ye, and if
any fellow in this car dares to spit
crooked, 1*11 git up and niop the floor with
him until I wear him up to his shoulder
blades!”
His arm encircled her, and the other
passengers looked as solemn as if they
were on their way home from a funeral.
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A breach of promise case for $50,000
was begun in the Marine Court, in New
York, on Wednesday, on the part of Miss
May Chamberlayne, sixteen years old,
against Mr. John Bute Holmes, a well-
known civil engineer, sixty years of age,
the father of several grown-up children,
and possessing property variously estima
ted at from $100;000 to $500,000.
A Danbury 7 girl received a porous plas
ter in a gorgeous envelope bearing a
monogram. At ten o’clock that night the
owner of the monogram, standing dis
robed before his fire, preparatory to ap
plying a remedy to his chest, fainted dead
away on drawing from a paper a mass of
paper flowers and mottoes. There was
no fire in the parlor Sunday evening.
Ex-Judge William Fullerton, of Mr.
Tilton’s counsel, has bought a farm of
six hundred acres near Fairfax Court
House, Virginia, and the old plantation
is being reconstructed into a fine stock
farm. Mr. Fullerton has bought a bull,
for which it is said he paid $5,000, to
keep on his farm.
An Ohio clergyman was addressing a
teachers’ meeting the other day, and said
that, owing to the defective manner of
selecting school teachers, some of them
were “no more able to develop the hu
man mind than a Modoc to draw a pic
ture of the Heavenlj’ Jerusalem in char
coal.”
A dispatch from New York states that
fifty forged bonds of the Wabash and
Western railroad, of $1,000 each, are
afloat on tlie market there. Thirty-five
ooupons of $50 each of bond number two
were paid by the Metropolitan Bank.
Joshua Bailey, of Cohoes Falls, N. Y.,
promised the bulk of his fortune to
whichever of his nephews raised the larg
est family of boys. W. W. Bailey, of
Waverly, Iowa, raised five boys and got
$2,000,000 at the death of his Uncle.
A Danbury woman married for a second
husband a man who has the same initials
as the first, thus saving the trouble and
expense of re-marking the linen.
CoL Jose Navarro, the only surviving
signer of the declaration of Texan inde
pendence, lives at San Antonio.
THE STATE TREASURY.
Statement of Captain John Jones.
J |
which statements and explanations they ! the eud of every month, and compared
have, through misapprehension or de- ! carefully with my letter book aud check
j sign, misinterpreted, rather to sustain j book. I have had no trouble in keeping
' their own positions than to do justioe to ; my cash straight, and until now have
Fellow- Citizens:
Within the last three weeks the air has
been loaded with numerous assertions
that there had been discovered by the
Finance Committee a terrible deficit in
your State Treasury. It was wafted rap
idly as on the wings of the wind that your
Treasurer had squandered an immense
amount of your money for which he could
give no account. One million of dollars
—seven hundred thousand—three hun
dred thousand—ninety-eight thousand—
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 centure over me, order the
Governor to proceed against me and my
bondsmen for the deficit.
It is well known to you that before and
during the war, and until Governor Jen
kins was forced to leave the State and
the Union (?) to avoid arrest, imprison
ment and perhaps the sweat-box. for nine
years I served the State faithfully, aud.
as judged by each succeeding Legislature,
successfully and well. Au evidence of
this is the fact that at each election I was
retained in office by a larger majority
over my opponents than at the one im
mediately preceding it. In January,
1873, after an interval of just five years
from the day I was driven from my office
by General Meade for refusing to send
forty thousand dollars of the funds of
the State to Atlanta to pay the piebald
Convention of 1867, and placed in arrest
because I had sent theue 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
again, 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 the State’s service, thwartiug
the machinations of the harpies that
would tear her vitals, restoring her
waning credit and re-establishing her
tarnished honor.
How I succeeded during the last two
years is seen in the financial records of
stocks aud bouds 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, aDd our
eight per cent., authorized by the Legisla
ture of 1873, for which I was offered
eighty-five cents in April of that year,
were all sold before January, 1874, at par,
aud now held at 3 per cent, premium.
Yet it is being said that my loose manage
ment of the Treasury has endangered the
credit of the State, and I have been de
clared incompetent and deserving of a
vote of censure by the General Assembly
ou recommendations of the Joint Finance
Committee!
On the publication of their first re
port, 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
ead in both houses. So soon as I saw it
I requested a few friends in the House of
Representatives to demand for me an im
peachment. If I was guilty, fellow-citi
zens, of the charges against me in that
report. I ought not to have been allowed
to remain in the Treasury a moment
longer than it would require to impeach
aud convict me. If I was not guilty, it
was my right, after such au assault on
m3' character, to be declared so by the
verdict of the High Court of Impeach
ment, by whose action alone could
be decided the question of my
guilt os innocence; and whose sworu
duty it would be to take time, pa
tiently hear the evidence, and a verdict
give in accordance therewith. This I was
entitled to: this 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 de
nial. When w*e consider that, if the
Legislature had preferred articles against
me on Tuesday and adjourned they
would have saved four day’s expense, at
two thousand dollars ($2,000) a day—
eight thousand dollars—and the Senate,
with the Judg6 of the Supreme Court as
presiding officer of the Court, could have
flnished the trial in four days at the
farthest, at three hundred and fifty dol
lars 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 aud oust me, or
vindicate me from the detraction thei'
had put upon me.
I do not think it at all necessarj'. fel
low-citizens, to say more to you than
just to submit for your consideration a
statement which I prepared to la}' before
the General Assembly, but was unable
from want of time to do so, and which
embodies the statements and explanations
which I made to the committee when
questioned for the first time at their
second session, when the House ignored
their first report and ordered them to try
again.
I crave a patient hearing. I have made
this appeal to you, and m3’ statement for
the Legislature r. 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 iu
duty to mygelf 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 me before
trial, and the chairman of the House
Committee solemnl3’ announced in open
session his determination not to leave
that House or return to his constituents
until he had driven me from the Treasury;
yet they have gone aud I am here
mention these facts simpl3’ to show
the disposition towards me of the two
chairmen. The rest of the committee,
except a few. never entered the room
where my accounts and vouchers were
being examined, but took the exparte ev
idence of the sub committee, lead by tbe
hairman of the joint committee, upon
which they made their report and stood
b}' it to the bitter end, because their
chairman and had so decided. An honest
man’s character to be endangered,
stained and destroyed to vindicate the
virulent action 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 prolongation
of fhe session, concluded that the short
est way out of it was to humor the com
mittee, sustain its action aud censure me
Fellow-citizens, I beseech you to read
this statement patiently: thrnk of it care
fully, seriously. The reports of the
committee show their side—this state
ment shows mine, I have so far only
my naked word and heretofore unslan-
lered reputation against the majority of
the committee from different parts of the
State; jet I have reliance on your justice
as I have on the mercy of Providence,
und to your judgment I must submit the
question : Have I performed the duties
of my office as the law requires ? Have
been careful of the credit and honor of
the State, or have I deserved the censure
and the odium that is sought to be heaped
upon me by a committee (except a few
who know me well), who, with profes
sions individually of friendship, rever-
ence and unwavering belief in my integ
rity, would put this foul blemish on my
reputation and blast me forever ? I here
with submit my statements.
To the General Assembly of the 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 respect
fully ask leave of this body to make a
few statements and explanations, which
' 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 explanations
they have not thought necessary to give
in pither of their reports lately submitted,
nur, I think, even Imparted to the Joint
Committee on Finance, when it met to
make up those reports, and others of
the State or to me.
First, it is sought to condemn me, for
that I have beeu negligent, aud careless
of the duties of m\' office, and not suffi
ciently mindful of the interest and credit
of tbe State. Iu answer to this, I beg to
refer you to those sections of the Code
which specially define the duties of the
Treasurer. Section 92 of the Code of
1873 lay down as the duties of the Treas
urer:
1. To receive and keep safely all the
money which shall be paid to him in behalf
of the State, giving certificates therefor,
which shall specially set forth the amount,
on what account, aud by whom paid, and
shall be lodged as vouchers in the Comp
troller General’s office: aud to pay out
the same only upon the warrant of the
Governor, when countersigned by the
Comptroller General, accept the drafts of
the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives
for the sums due to the members and
officers of their respective bodies. This
clause I have followed strictly, except
that as authorized by another section. I
have advanced to officers of the State
seventy-five per cent, of the amount for
which service has beeu actuall}’ rendered.
— To keep in his office a book, in
which shall be entered all warrants drawn
on him by the Executive, stating in
whose favor drawn, the date and amount
thereof, to what fund charged, and to re
tain and file away all such warrants.
This I have done.
3. To keep auuually an account of all
taxes that may be due and unpaid by the
several chartered banks, and to enforce
the collection thereof agreeably to the
laws in force; also, to keep account of all
taxes paid into the Treasur3' aunuall3’ by
the tax collectors of the several counties,
and an abstract of these accounts must
be laid before the Governor. The first
requirement of this paragraph has been
superseded b>’ a latter law, which makes
it the duty of the Comptroller to collect
the taxes from banks aud pay them over
to the Treasurer. The second clause is
strictly complied with, and whenever the j
Governor has called for such abstracts
they have beeu furnished him. no particu
lar day being fixed for laying them before j
him.
4. Preceding each annual session he
, satisfied every finance committee for ten
i years under whose examination I have
1 passed, that I have done m3' duty, aud
that the State has heretofore not lost a
dollar by mismanagement.
Passing 1)3' the various tables or sched
ules of bonds by which the committee
profess to show the condition of the
bonded debt of the State in the series of
3’ears 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 where they take up my
report of January, 1875, with m3'state
ment of the bonded debt of $8,105,500
running to maturity, to which they add
$325,000—which, b3' the wa3*, should be
$269,500, if the3’ propose to quote from
my report—to which being added the
interest to the 1st of April, 1874, we have
$323,400. instead of $325,000, as the3’
have it, showing plainly that these fig
ures 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 sake of round
numbers, I will adopt as mine.
The committee then make au estimate
of their own, which the3’ put down at
$8,730,000, which, if they will take the
trouble to cast up their own figures, will
be bound to produce $8,780,500, 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 seem to have lost sight of me, and
to have been engaged intently in ascer
taining the true debt of the State. But
they have discovered a serious mistake —
a difference of three hundred thousaud
dollars deficit in m3’ report; aud here
come in a few words which show the
show that I had notice of their pa3*ment
If the venerable Chairman of the Joint
Finance Committee will refer to the table
I gave him a day or two after the investi
gation began, he will find exactly the
same note made in my report of 1866,
except the mention of the disagreement
between the Treasurer and the Governor.
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 injuo', and publishing the foul
aspersion to the people of Georgia under
legislative sanction.
The committee lay great stress on my
allowing the bonds of the State, deposited
with the Fourth National Bank of New
\ ork by Russell Sage, on payment of his
claim, for which he held them as collat
eral, to be considered collaterals to secure
payment of the overdrafts for which I
made arrangement with the bank last
summer, when we were much troubled
about negotiating loans to meet our lia
bilities until the taxes should come in.
The arrangement about overdrafts was
made several weeks before the 1st of July,
when there would Jail due at the Fourth
National Bank $178,000 of interest on our
bonds; aud fearing that the back interest
of quarterly gold bonds, which had beeu
suspended, and lately on j roper proof, re
stored to credit, would swell that amount
to near $200,000,1 wrote to know if they
would permit me to overdraw. They con
sented on condition that I would allow
them to hold the bonds iu their bank as
collateral. Being iu daily correspondence
about a loan to meet the Jul^nterest, I
consented, with the confident feeling that
I would get a loan therein, on or very
shortly after the 1st of July. The bank
paid our interest due that day, and the
overdraft of about $200,000, or over, if
the committee prefer, was settled, or
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Por partioul&m, addrtse
W. M. MOSES,
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CHAS. C. HARDWICK,
Local Agent, No. S3 Bay street.
members thereof. Up to the evening
that they left my office to make up their
report, as it happened, though the3' said
the3’ would return next morning at nine
o’clock, there had passed no words of
impatience at the frequent lectures and
insinuations of negligence and incompe-
teucy thrown out l>y certain members of
the committee. The next morning, with
out notice to me, instead of coming to m3'
office, where I waited until 11 o’clock,
from my regular duties, for them, the3’
went up to their room and prepared their
report; in which, after putting down what
must submit to the Governor detailed esti- I they considered m3’ guess-work aud their
mates of the probable receipts and ex
penditures for the next fiscal year, stating
the sources of income aud tbe probable | 000,
amounts to be received therefrom: also,
the objects of appropriations, and the
probable necessities of the Treasury. This
I have done.
5. To pay all funds pledged to the pay
ment of the public debt or interest there
on, or to any object of education, aud
to these objects only, and in nowise to
an3’ other purpose. All payments from
the Treasury shall be paid from the fund
appropriated for such purpose, and not
from au3 r other. This I have complied
with strictly, except on occasions when
there was no other funds on hand except
the School Fund, which, not being likely
own figures, they say: “The discrepancy
of $299,.500 (the correct figure is $300,-
if they will add it up again)
between the Treasurer’s report and
the known summary of maturing obliga
tions must find its explanation in that
unknown realm of past due obligations. ’
Theirs is a known summary, is it? If the
committee will go over it again, they will
find that the3’ have put $300,000 exactly
1 o the State debt that does not belong
there! The3’ have stated the Western
and Atlantic mortgage bouds, signed by
Gov. Jenkins and myself, and issued in
1866, at $3,900,000; whereas it was onl3’
$3,600,000. And yet theirs is the known
summary! Now, there were $3,900,000
State bonds issued that year, signed by
to be required for several months, I have i Jenkins and Jones, but $300,000 were
paid out to other objects, rather than pn3’
interest for loaus 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.
6. 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 the three months pre
ceding sivh report. This I have not
done, nor has it been done within my
recollection of the office, because at au3’
moment, when required by the Governor,
a report of the condition of the Treasury
could be made within an hour, by running
over the book of balances, which is and
has always been promptly kept aud
balanced at the end of each and every
month.
7. To keep safely the scrip for bank
stock, the State bonds and others of the
Educational Fund, and manage and con
trol the same for the purposes for which
they are pledged. He may, nder direc
tion of the Governor, deposit all funds set
apart for tne purpose of education or au3’
other purpose, not required for immediate
use in any chartered bank of this State,
subject to his drafts as Treasurer, aud,
with the Governor, make such contract
with said banks for the use of such fund
as may be beneficial to the State. An oc
casion for compl3*ing with the paragraph
has not presented itself since my last
election as Treasurer.
8. He shall not, under any circum
stances, use himself, or to allow others to
use the funds of tbe State in his hands,
and for every violation of this section he
is liable to the State for the sum of five
hundred dollars as a penalty, or a for
feiture of salary if said forfeiture will
pa3' the penalty incurred. This I have
not done.
9. This paragraph, authorizing the ad
vances, is mentioned in my notice of the
first, and I have complied with it liber
ally and without hesitation, as all officers,
members, etc., who are entitled to ad
vance know, and I believe remember
pleasantly.
10. Refers to the annual report of the
State debt, which, to the best of m3'hum
ble ability, I have always made.
11. When he pays the interest or prin
cipal of the State debt upon a warrant
issued in his favor, he shall deposit in
the Executive office coupons or bonds on
which payments are mad* 1 , there to be
marked paid and filed away subject to
the order of the General Assembl3'. This
I have onl3* failed in doing because such
coupons as have been paid by our finan
cial agents in New York are cancelled be
fore they leave New York, to avoid large
express fees, which would have to be
paid if they were not; and being can
celled by punching, it has been thought
not necessary to mark them paid.
12. He shall not pa3’ &uy appropria
tion due and not called for within six
months after the expiration of the polit
ical }*ear for which it is appropriated, but
it reverts to the general fund in the
Treasury.
Sec. 96. The Treasurer shall keep a
book in which he shall record a de
scription of all the bonds heretofore or
hereafter 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 thsir payment.
I have complied with this section accord
ing to the interpretation of every Gov
ernor and Treasurer and Finance Com
mittee since it was enacted. When the
bond is paid at maturity the date of pay
ment is written ou the lein of coupons
opposite its number aud beginning at the
column of the 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 cou
pons, wherein he may note all bonds and
coupons, with their date of payment.
This is what the law requires of the
Treasurer, but the 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
tne 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 bonajide, certificate
from the cashier or bank officer of the
amount to my debt or credit, which
should be better testimony than the
balance exhibited on the books of the
Treasurer, 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 verify by my letter book, where
all remittances are recorded, and the stub
leaves of my check book, where all my
drafts are shown, with their data, fize,
drawee, and bank on whloh they are
drawn. With these bank accounts, made
out by the banks and forwarded to me at
animus of the committee, or certain J nearly so, not very long after This iu
.... the history of that matter if my memory
is correct, and although I had no warrant
of law for it, I felt that rather than allow
the Stale’s credit to suffer or fall back
from the high position to which I 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 m3’
oilice to hold it up aud maintain it when
the object was so important and the dan
ger so little. If I deserve your censure
for this, I can cousole myself with the
reflection that better men have suffered
far more for much lighter offenses.
One more paragraph of the supplemen
tal report and I will cease to vex your
ears. The committee kindly “attribute \
these iuacuracies largely, if not wholly,
to the recent illness and physical disa
bility of the Treasurer. But the business
of the office should be so conducted as to
leave nothing to memory. Detail and
accuracy is demanded for the public in
terest. Every banking institution, rail
road office and mercantile house of high
standing in Georgia exacts from the cus
todian of its money not only an accurate
statement of their business, but require
ihem 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 busi
ness affairs of the State accurately and
properly kept, and with like dis
patch.” In connection with this—not
in retort—I beg to remind the committeo
that the Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company pay their Treasurer four thous
and dollars, and his clerk two thousand
dollars a year. The Central Railroad and
the Georgia Railroad Companies are not
behind those figures in the salaries of
their cashiers and other officers, of which
it is their policy to have enough to do
their work promptly and accurately.
Every bank iu the State of Georgia of
one hundred thousand dollars 1 capital pay
their cashiers $2,500 at least, and give
them clerks enough; while the State of
Georgia, with two millions of dollars j
passing through his hands backward and !
forwards during the year, gives her
Treasurer $2,000, and a clerk at $1,600 a !
year aud requires of them the labor, j
promptness and accuracy for which !
smaller institutions, who know their own
interest and are not amenable to or afraid I
of the clamor of tho dear people, give
their officers at least twice as much.
I would not have it understood that, !
by this contrast, I am asking or suggest
ing an increase of my salai3'. I have
tAken the office at the present rate, and
the General Assembly *ould not alter it
during my term if it desired to do so. I
mention it merely to show that if the
Treasurer and his one clerk can have
their health guaranteed, answer all the
letters of business, to say nothing of the
hundreds of inquiry, accommodation aud
mere courtesy, and keep the books re
quired of them by the code, they cannot
reasonably be censured; aud I think that
if I so manage as to make the monthly
aecounts-current from the banks, veri
fied by my letter and check-stubs,
keep my business straight with
them, 1 ought not to be so se
verely blamed because I do not
keep my accounts with them in a big
book—especially as m3’ connection with
them is extra work altogether, for whiob
I do not receive a cent, though the State
is saved the express fee.® cm every pack
age of currency I may have to send to
New Yojk, instead of drafts, to pay six
or eight hundred thousand dollari; ft year
for principal and interest on the public
debt, payable there. I will say nothing
of tbe express fees saved to the tax col
lectors, by allowing them to deposit their
collections in convenient, safe banks and
send certificates and drafts to the Treas
ury at postage rates, particularly os with
this the State has nothing to do; they
will appreciate it, however, if the com
mittee cannot. John Jones, Jr.
Atlanta, Ga., March 4th, 1875.
Atlantic and Gulf Kailroad bonds, which
the committee did not think to take off
! of the $900,000 of Atlantic and Gulf
; Railroad bonds, which is the next item in
| their known summary, which they exult-
I iugly roll as a sweet morsel under their
j tongues.
As to the deficit of nearl3’ $69,000 they
thoaght they had caught against me, aud
1 had reverberated through the town, and
! deelt out to the press reporters aud news
j mongers, corresponding everywhere, they
| enumerate a long list of credits, some of
1 which they allow and others which they
j propose to allow, though the3’ have not
1am 1 time to count them. The committee
| then Fay : “The Treasurer produces Ex-
; eoutive warrants dated back to 1871,
! signed by Governor Bullock and Comp
troller M. 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 these warrants
had Bullock’s name to it. They were all
signed I03’ Conley except two, which were
signed by Gov. Smith and countersigned
by Madison Bell, Comptroller. I explained
to the committee, that wheu these war
rants were drawn, the3' were presented to
m3’ predecessor, who refused to pa3’ them.
Shortly after I came into office one was
presented to me, and on ex aim nation, see
ing its date, I asked the presenter why he
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, aud what should
he done about it. Two or three days after
wards, ho came again with Mr. Camp
bell. the Financial Secretar3’ of the Gov
ernor, who handed me the warrant, with
the words “Approved, James M* Smith,
Governor, written across the faoe, aud
said the Governor had decided to examine
the claims on which these warrants were
drawn, and when satisfied of their virtue,
would approve them in a similar manner,
aud I must pa3’ them, which I did ; and
the warrant paid amounted to $10,954 09.
I stated these facts to the committee, and
showed them the approval and signature
of the Governor, which thc3’ ignored, and
refused to credit me with the amount;
and failed to state in their report— an
important fart for me—that those war
r.mts were approved and countersigned
l>3’ Governor Smith. As to the John King
matter and counterfeit mone3’, I offered
them to show as so much cosh, though
worthless in my transactions, without ex
pecting the committee to allow them, as
I told them, but intending to make them
good to tne State if the Legislature did
not think proper to relieve me.
The committee complains of the dis
tribution of the funds of the Treasury,
iu so many banks throughout the State.
I 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
sending money to those points by ex
press.
banks by the tax collectors, who sent me
the certificate of deposit by letter, which
cost them only the postage stamp, when
the currency oy express would have cost
them from two to five dollars a package—
sometimes more. Furthermore, I 'had
the officers of the banks to detect coun
terfeits 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 b3’ a check on
Savannah sent me b3’ him to buy some
bonds for a customer, John H. Walton,
of Talbot county, which being retained a
little too long, was returned when I sent
it to the bank, with the answer “no
funds.” This explanation I made to the
committee, though the3’ still speak of it
as “a deposit.” So that lias nothing to
do with the deposit in so large a number
of banks throughout the State.
“Your committee do not desire to be
understood as attributing all the defects
and omission-s in the Treasury to the
present incumbent. Some of them are
of long standing.” Such is the language
of the committee, and yet I am to be the
scapegoat to save this little Isaac—this
very accurate, laborious report—this
known summary of the actings and doings
of the Treasury for years before I came
into office ! It looks hard to me, but the
committee do not think it unjust, aud
they know best.
The committee charge me with paying
$152,250 of the bon^s maturing before
the 1st of January, 1872, which had been
paid before. They assume that all the
bonds of the State that fell due prior to
the 1st of January, 1872, have been paid,
and this assumption is based upon a letter
of Bullock, a fugitive from justice, whose
oath in a court of justice would not be
credited by a single member of that com
mittee; and upon this assumption, in the
face of my solemn asseveration that I
had no knowledge that these bonds had
been paid, they declare that the payment
of these old bonds by the present
Traasnrar is unauthorized and illegal!
The committee also refer to a
note beneath the appendix to table F.
in my reports of the last two years to
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aqo mention was made of the remarkable
mortality among the colored people of
Charleston, South Carolina, as compared
with mortality among the whites—th«
basis used for the comparison being
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white population is 24.000. That of the
colored is 26,000. Thus the ratio of
deaths is one for every 2:t whites, and
one for every 21 colored. The health of-
lieer says in hia report that “previous to
the war, consumption among the blacks
was of rare occurrence, and then only
among the well-marked scrofula diathesis
of the African descendant.
The increase of tho disease is ascribed
to exposure, dissipation, want of proper
nutrition, clothing and bedding, and the
health officer soys that the only hope of
saving the race from the fate of the
American Indians is in securing to them
moral, religious and industrial education.
That this fear of their dying out in that
locality is not an idle one is shown not
oDly by the general death-rate of the
race, but particularly by the death-rate
among children under flve years of age.
The proportion of colored still-born to
whites was last year as t! to 1; the pro
portion of deaths under five years was as
2 to 1 —and this in a community almost
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this State. The proprietor 1 * long practical ex
perience anti uiisurpoaaed facilities in procuring
stock from first ban da, in large lota at low rate*,
enables him to furnish a better article from purer
materials > han can be done bj smaller dealers,
whose sales are limited and stock stole. If you
use SODA WATER get Ryan's, In blue bottles.
It has never been equalled. Hia Ginger Ale and
other beverages are equal to the best Imported.
PatronUs merit. Imported and ^omsstlcPorter.
A Is, Lager Beer, Cldsr, Lemon and
Cordlrtla. Bsssnoes,
1 ihl-u
etc., in wood
JOHN RYAN.
Paper Hanging.
We are prepared to offer estimates for every de
scription of Painting in any part of Qeorg.a,
South Carolina and Florida, ana guarantee
faction in the execution of oar work.
We keep always in store a select stock of ths
following articles:
PURE KaVGLISH B. B. LEAD.
ATLANTIC and ali other brands of LEADS.
OILS, VARNISHES, PUTTY, BRUSHES.
Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES pot
up In quart, pint and half pint bottles, ready for
use.
GROUND and ENAMELED GLASS.
STAINED and PLAIN of various colovn
Double and single thick French, tMl
American GLASS.
Gold LEAF, BRONZE, Glaziers’ DIAMOND*.
Machinery OILS, and Axle GREASE.
A select stock of GOLD and PLAIN PAPER
HANGINGS.
Persons desiring work and material in our lino
would do welit o giv
where.
pve os a call before going t
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
SIGN WORK
Executed with neatness and
PATENT STEP LADDERS.
As the season has set in when boose cleaning Is
tho *ader of the day, It cant be done without a
STEP LADDER I
The place to get them L
Paint and
MURPHY
PRICE $2 00 TO $6, ALL SIZES.
Stained to imitate Black Walnut and Lettered
with tbe porchaser's name, if desired. oct22-tf
it apd Durable is at tbe
I Store of
& CLARK.
Wrapping gaprr.
Wrapping Paper.
TT'OK BALK, OLD NSWBFAP5R8, •U1TABU