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Savannah, Ga.
Georgia Affairs.
or Colquitt lias endorsed the bonds of
■rtli
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Mr.
•astern Railroad, and that company
the people of Athens are as happv
at high tide. After thorough
on of the subject, the Governor
iiis scruples as to the legality of
n removed, and we congratulate the
action through which this road
favorable results of their zeal
■iTorts in that direction. Savan-
benefited by the construction
imjx.rtant road.
1* Sh»*pard and Gus Johnson, colored,
ed Is-fore Justice Blalock, at Americus.
si lay, for carrying on the business of
it agents without license. After hear-
case they were bound over in a bond of
dred dollars each, but while the officer
1 them in charge was temporarily ab-
y managed to make their escape.
,tton receipts at Columbus since Sept-
fimit up 58,357 boles, 5,436 less than last
'he mill eonsumption for the same time
-13,148 bales, being 2,110 less than for
e time last year.
id M rs. C. C. Stuart, of Valdosta, cele-
i*ir silver wedding on next Monday eve-
»• 28th inst., at Stuart’s Hotel in that
lart is the jMipular proprietor and
Stuart’s Hotel, and we wish the
ife and continued prosperity.
>its a day is considered not an ex
bag in Harris county, as Mr. Pat
irks, lie having bagged that many
We have only space to say—
nla
* <’rawford says tliat the preachers are
up- a doubt al>out hell, and it's all
for tiie law gives the accused the benefit
doubt, and every unregenerate rascal
mi the benefit of itjuid it's sound law to
t. That's so in Georgia, but iu that
court we are not so certain tliat the
lie of law applies.
lit! B. Grimes has been elected Chief of
limbus Fire Department, which for or-
i« ui. < ITectiveness and discipline is second
i* in the South, as the Are record of
»us will prove.
iti-<n is being circulated in Columbus by
i*adley. wife of Mr. J. D. Headley, to
tie* sentence of the latter, twelve months
c penitentiary (for assault with intent to
Mr J. T. Ragsdale), commuted. He has
idy served about eight months,
n. A. C. Garlington is shortly to remove
, Atlanta to Greenville. S. C.
i* repairs on the capitol will soon be com-
•ed. and the building made safe for the as-
iled wisdom of Georgia to meet in next
Meat
Augusta Ch
• II. X. Starrn
niclc and Constitutionalist
Esq., a graduate of the Uni-
ieorgia. class of 1875, who has been
onths in the Receiver’s office of the
1 (iulf Railroad, has been appointed
• Assistant Sui>erintendent of the
thr
disjM
sh McDaniel, a eonvicted murderer, ar
il in Seriven county a short time since, has
lodged in the jail of Augusta for safe
ng. lie had been convicted of a murder
lined alioiit ten years ago in Wilkinson
y. but escaped from prison after sentence
atli had been passed upon him. and lias
at large ever since, until his capture some
ego. It is supposed he was concerned
ipally in the burning of a store at No. 11,
entrnl Railroad, a short time ago.
• recent fair in Atlanta for the benefit of
Cling Men's Library Association, cleared
1 in cash—$150 in books, and several taun-
dollars’ worth in property that will be
-sed of at once. The total profit to the
ry will 1m* considerably over $3,500.
• naval store men of Southern Georgia
-eting at Brunswick on the 16tli, and
nized the Georgia Naval Store Association,
mmittee consisting of W. F. Penniman,
Tison. and W. E. Burbage, was appointed
aft a constitution and suitable by-laws for
issociation, which will meet in Brunswick
20th of February for the purpose of
l»*rfecting their organization by the elec
tion of officers, the adoption of the consti
tution. etc. The following representatives of
the naval store trade were present at the meet
ing: Powell & Co., McKinnon Bros., A. Rinaldi,
Beach & Co.. W. E. Burbage, Aycoclc «£ Barnes,
Wilbatuson & Bro., Norfleet & Jordon, E. A.
Buck, J. I>. Spnmt, W. F. Penniman, and Little
field a: Tison.
Tin* Brunswick Seaport Appeal emphatically
remarks that •‘the Savannah Weekly News Ls
tin* largest and best weekly In the South, and
.*1.1 c
flit
*legraph4ine will be built between Darien
'ol*oy in a few weeks. Besides being a great
nienee to the merchants and shippers at
points, it will pay handsomely, and can be
and worked at t riding expense.
■ing the year 1877 there was shipped from
ort of Darien for coastwise and foreign
39.!tK3,979 feet of hewn timber; 19,302,109
f sawn timber; 14,820,864 feet of lumber;
timber sent to Brunswick 1,250,000; mill
■r sent to St. Simon's 9,000,000; mill timber
t" St. Mary's2,250,000; total 86,006,952 feet.
Dave Baker, the champion deer hunter of
county, killed a few days ago a monster
It weighed two hundred and sixty-four
Is gross, and was probably the largest
in the State.
election for Sheriff, to fill the vacancy
-1 by the resignation of Mr. P. D. Davis.was
in the count}* of Baker on Tuesday last,
ing in the election of Mr. Jas. H. Rowell,
i few days fifty thousand bales of cotton
ave been received at Macon. The receipts
every day now exceed those of last year,
rge W. Adair, the great Atlanta real es-
n-ker, advertises “for rent” eleven stores
• business part of the city, twenty-one
nets, and “sundry small houses and
« up s'fcirs.” As then* are some twenty
real estate agents in Atlanta, it is reason-
• • suppose that they have on hand “a few
ef the same sort." as the celebrated razor-
man used to say. And yet we copied
m from the Constitution a few days since
here was hardly a first-class house to rent
»♦* propt
* all the
of the p
sition Is discussed in Atlanta to
•ity officials, excepting the mem-
dice force, elected directly by the
Atlanta military did not celebrate the
iy of General Robert E. Lee, at least no
Lion of u purpose to do so appears in the
a pajM*rs.
•on county has seventeen men over
years of age. three of whom were in the
little daughter of E. C. Hickson, Esq., of
etLsboro, fell into a well fifty feet deep a
, 'imp since, and strange to say was taken
with. ^ ut having sustained material injuries.
; I'niteu' Stat ** J * Marshal Smyth has l>een
“d States Commissioner at At-
lan
ed Utt
Tin
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
perior. to any Tennessee or Kentucky cattle
which he has ever butchered."
The Augusta Evening Xetes says: “Several
' F. Bi
BY TELEGRAPH.
days ago a young man named L. F. Baxley, of I
of
Camden, S. C.. was in Augusta in search
employment, and after vainly trying in the city
for work, returned to his home, and last Satur-
THE ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS
day attempted to commit suicide by shooting ; THE STLYFR TSSI'F SOUTH A\n
Hmself with a Smith A Wesson pLstoL He 1 llfj ____ ^ JLAAA A>AA
aimed at the heart, but the hall penetrated the
WEST.
region ol
the shoulder blade. The wound is very danger
ous, but not necessarily fatal.”
The following are the salaries of the munici
pal officers of Brunswick, from which it will be
seen that the policy of retrenchment has been
adopted: “Mayor, $4(1); Clerk and Treasurer.
£1.000 and fees; Chief Marshal. $720 and fees;
Assistant Marshal. $660: Policeman. $600;
Keeper of Guard House and Clerk of Market,
fees: Harlxir Master, fees: Sexton White Ceme
tery. $100 and fees: Sexton Colored Cemetery,
$60 and fees; Port Wardens, fees. Making'a
sum total of $3,540 as the amount necessary to
keep up th** city government for one year.”
Tlit* Albany Adi'ertiser says: “Work on the
fair grounds of the Southwest Georgia Indus
trial Association in this city is being pushed
forward with commendable energy. The fence
Snuff and Tobacco Before (he Ways
and Yeans Committee.
THE MINCING LANE MARKETS.
CHALMERS’ TEXAS PACIFIC
RAILROAD RILL.
More Failure*.
THE ARMISTICE.
London, January 19.—A special to the
... — Times from *St. Petersburg: says : “A
is nearly completed, the op**n ground has been r^r^n who helned draw un the armistice
plowed preparatory to leveling, the riverside I*' 1 ™. " 1,0 Ilu i X(1 1 (ira ” up till amiblict
or park is being drained and cleared, shade conditions states that they are such as arc*
trees are being planted where they are needed, not likely to be accepted bv the Turks.”
pne alma/lt* I............ n.iit.. „ ......
and the place lias already become^uite a poje
ular retreat and strolling ground. The splendid
drive along the river bank and around that por
tion of the grounds set aside for the jiark was
alive with dashing horses, glistening buggies
and lively people last Sunday afternoon."
The Crawfordville Democrat says: “The Sa
vannah Morning News comes tons in a bright
new dress, and enlarge*! to a nine column
paper. We have often taken occasion to speak
favorably of the News, and again say it is one
of the l»est papers published in the South. The
Weekly News is also on new type under a
lieautiful new head, and altogether has a fine
appearance, but iLs excellency consists in the
matter which fills its columns, and not the type
uj>on which it is printe»,. As a family and fire
side paper it combines every .•ssential to make
it accept able. We would like to see the News
more extensively patronized in our section."
The Chattanooga IDispatch says : “There
were two failures in Atlanta last week, with lia
bilities amounting to $52,000, and several since
the first iiLStant. which makes the aggregate
amount of liabilities of the failing firms in At
lanta up to this time something over S100.U00.”
The Tax Collector of Stewart county makes a
good showing to the public. The amount of
county tax on the digest was $7,863 91. Of this
amount he collected $7,750 82; $18 01 were
allowed him as an insolvent list, and $95 08 were
credited to him as errors in digest.
The Thomasville Times says: “We are glad
to learn that the relations lietween land owners
and field laborers in Thomas county are of a
pleasant character. The farmers are paying fair
prices for lal»or. and. as a rule, hands are doing
good and faithful work.”
Tin* Brunswick Appeal says: “The whole of
our water front, from one end of the city to the
other, Ls filled with lumber, which gives an air
of business to that locality.”
Thomas Cou.^T Agricultural Society
1^1 a very flattering re*Mutiou at iLs meet-
in - last Saturday. endoi. >lift * * Ma j° r . Br 5’ an '*
,i *‘ w magazine, the South Geu^^* 1 Agriculturist.
It was both timely and deserved.
At lll, ‘ annual meeting of the *^> unt y
-U’rirultural Society held recently at
'll!'- Dr. s. j Jones was elected Preside**'** <A
■' T. McLean Secretary and Treasurer. ^ a»ai*«nt homes in Alachua.
' vas fleeted as the delegate from th
s ‘* , 'i--ty t<> tlie next meeting of the State Agri
cultural Society.
Th.- \egetable and Fruit Growers’ Associa
tion <.f Thomas county liave elected Major
- an - alitor of the South Georgia Aqricultu-
T ‘*t. and also editor of the Agricultural De
hart me nt of the Savannah Weekly News, as
lht,r ‘lelegate to the next meeting of the State
society.
Tn*- Lyceum Club of Brunswick has been
Lumbered among the things tliat were, much
*i** regret of the people who while it was
llvincr t--i_ ...
ni *ig didn't help sustain it.
wav of k/JlJi 41 T^ ornas county can do in the
i. Cattle raiKimr far », nrlxA - * * M — D XX
Mr ’mtchered a steer the other day. raised by
weufiu,! il,. Ta y lor Thomas county, which
}h^?Bone ITv 1 fifty pounds neL
■i sa}s the steer was equal, R not jsu-
Florida Affairs.
Mr. Mazingo, a farmer in the neighborhood
of Mosely Hail, Madison county, made from a
patch of cane seventy yards long and twenty
yards wide, less than one-third of an acre, after
pulling aside one thousand stocks for seed,
seven and a half barrels (about two hundred
and forty gallons) of good thick syrup. Let us
hear from Georgia now.
Anthony Bellamy, colored, one of the Board
of Commissioners of Jefferson county, has sent
in his resignation to Gov. Drew. He was an in
telligent officer and an excellent citizen.
The trialof Charles W. Blew is set for to
morrow morning in the Circuit Court at Jack
sonville.
Dr. A. S. Baldwin is President and Col. J. J.
Daniel Secretary of the new board of sanitary
trustees of Jacksonville. This board has the
exjienditure of fifty thousand dollars of the
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars voted
for sanitary improvement and beautifying the
city.
The convention of Mayors of the Southern
sealioard cities, called to meet in Jacksonville
February 6, has been postponed until Februa
ry 14.
The grand jury of Duval county find that not
more than one-tenth of the jioll tax assessed
for several years has been collected, and there
is no law by which the same can be collected
from persons having no property.
The Volusia County Herald comes to hand
with a supplement containing six columns of
delinquent tax payers whose property is adver
tised for sale. It, however, accounts for the
length of the list by the fact that the sales
have been restrained and injunctioned for sev
eral years past, and many of the citizens have
taken advantage of these injunctions to let
their taxes run on, until now, before they know
it almost, their names are published as delin
quents.
In the Spear orange grove, back of Mellon-
ville. Orange county, there are estimated to be
three hundred thousand oranges. It contains
six hundred trees between twenty-five and
thirty years old, and is considered the finest old
grove in that section of Florida
The semi-weekly Pensacola Gazette will be
issued on Tuesday next. We will welcome it to
our table and see no reason why* the venture
should not be a complete success. With its
commerce and trade, its large export business
and its enterprising merchants, Pensacola
ought to support handsomely a good semi
weekly, as the Gazette is bound to be.
The Tampa Tribune says that about half the
orange crop has been shipped in that section.
The average weekly shipments from Tampa
have been about three hundred crates, and at
present the shipments are about five hnndred
crates weekly*.
Eighteen wagons and carts, loaded with
movers, passed through Quincy last week
bound for East Florida.
Considerable cotton has been hauled from
Gadsden county to stations on the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad.
A letter received by the editor of the Quincy
Herald from the Hon. R. H. M. Davidson con
tains a copy* of a note from Thos. J. Brady,
Assistant Postmaster General, informing him
that in accordance with his recommendation
Steamboat mail service will be increased to
twice a week between Chattahoochee and
Apalachicola after the first of February,
The inmates of the Quincy jail slip out so
easily that the Herald advises the building of a
rail pen by the authorities, where they may be
kept more securely. Surely this is irony.
The Rev. J. L. Lyons, of Jacksonville, has re
ceived a letter from parties in the Turkish Em
pire. who, weary of Turkish tyranny and op
pression, desire to emigrate to the United
States. They are from the ancient city of Da
mascus. They represent that they have a
few thousand dollars in gold, and several
thousands in Turkish consols, which, however,
they consider worthless. They want to come
to Florida, as the climate is similar to that of
their own native land. They inquire about the
cost of land, expense of the voyage, the proba
bility of securing a home, etc. They had bet
ter come quick before they are gobbled up by
the Russian bear.
Quite a number of negroes in Jackson
county are preparing for an exodus Liberia-
wards. They have sent two of their number on
to Washington to see which way the land lies,
and upon their report will depend their future
movements.
The tram railway from Salt Lake, on the SL
John’s, to Titusville on the Indian river, has
l>een compteted. and operations were com
menced on Monday last. This road is about
eight miles in length, and Ls owned by a com
pany. Mr. S. J. Fox is the builder, and the
present manager. The cars are comfortable,
and are hauled by horses. The trip has been
made in fiftv-tw'o minutes, the former time
being from three to four hours. A branch road
is to be commenced from a point two miles
east of Sait Lake to Lake Harney, a distance of
eleven miles, which will probably be com
pleted by July next.
The steamer “Wekiwa" brought down to San
ford twenty-eight sea turtles from Indian river,
on her last trip, that weighed from thirty-five
to one hundred and thirty pounds each. They
were destined for Savannah.
The Pensacola Gazette says: “The ship Lady
Lisgar. loading at the Pensacola Railroad
wharf for Liverpool, is receiving 1,500 barrels
of flour as part of her cargo. This, we believe,
is the first freight shipment of flour from Pen
sacola to Europe in quantity worth reporting.”
In Levy countv on last Sunday week,a colored
man approached another colored man sitting
on a log conversing with No. one's wife, and
raising a double barrel shot gun. fired both bar
rels at him. killing No. two instantly. He then
returned to Bronson and delivered himself to
the authorities, where he is now confined in the
county jail. Cause, jealousy.
The Gainesville Times savs: “New settlers
arc constantly coming in. Mr. Furman, a re
cent settler himself, has just sold land to seven
■ gentlemen from Illinois, who will locate per-
1 B aiM’nt homes in Alachua."
The/jafnosville Times utters this truth in
referent* <o the Savannah News (daily and
■sekJv): "Th*. ijav**jnah Morning News has an
'' tl -e'new dress for and the Weekly has
en nlarged to twice its farmer size. The
been e. journal, and is as enterprising
ipi.,1 Marianna Courier mays: “On Saturday
Jjwt aiHHit C9?ht o'd&k, at the plauta.-
T V (, -xhvin. in tbls county, a
c.7,4 boy named Ma™? K '. J .£^ty*K'£
teen vears, was stabbed in i.* e breast D}
Bellamy, a young colored
resulted in the (l-alTi of the former
dav morning. The tartlculars of the anTV. “
„ e learn, are: That the hov had said m .he
presence of the weman that Ju, Intended going
mto a certain potato bank: the »oman threat
ening to reiK.rt him. whereupon the boy utruck
the vroinau. and she in defense of henedt
knife in his breast, severing ah
-
Lrtery and causing the death of the boy.
woman at this writing ls at large, but it is
thought is still iu the neighborhood. ”
The same dispatch states that the Minis
ter of the Interior has Instructed tlie press
to be moderate in its remarks about Aus
tria and England.
The Times Peru dispatch has the fol
lowing: “It is said that the Grand Duke
Nicholas, accompanied by his staff and
Gen. Ignatieff, met the Turkish dele
gates on Friday morning at a station on
the Jamboli Railway. The Grand Duke
had advanced to meet the delegates be
cause of the difficulty on the road, and
courteously invited them to return by
carriage with him.”
The Constantinople correspondent of
the Standard telegraphs on Thursday
evening as follows T Tam assured that
the Council of Ministers to-day decided
to order the Turkish Ambassadors at
Vienna and London to request an ex
planation of protests against a separa te
peace, recently lodged by Austria and
England, and to ask how far Turkey
may count upon the support of those
countries.”
A correspondent of the Time*, at Vi
enna, declares positively that Austria has
made no communication to the Porte
concerning the terms of peace since her
answer to the Porte's note ot December
12th, asking mediation. The present re
port seems to be founded upon reserva
tions which Austria then made.
The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at
Pera states that the Turkish delegates
met the Grand Duke Nicholas at Tirnova
Semncli, and preliminary notes, were ex
changed. The Grand Duke, then an
nounced that he had decided to treat
only at Adrianople, which should
be immediately evacuated. The dele
gates having assented orders, were tele
graphed to Djemil Pasha to evacuate
Adrianople. Upon this decision being
communicated to the foreign Consuls at
Adrianople, they telegraphed to their
Ambassadors for instruction's, and were
ordered to remain and protect their
countrymen. Djemil Pasha then pre
pared to retire upon the fortified
lines before Adrianople, where re
inforcements are now concentra
ting. The Russians will, probably ar
rive at Adrianople in two days, Tirnova
Semueli being thirty-five kilometres dis
tant there from. Negotiations will then
begin. It is generally thought here that
the wisest policy is for Turkey to make
peace at once.
The Times Pera correspondent says:
“Queen Victoria telegraphed the Sultan
that she was already acquainted w ith the
action of the British Government, and
that the had herself urged the Czar to
make a prompt and honorable peace.”
HONORS TO KING VICTOR EMANUEL.
W ash ington , January 19. — U nder
directions from the Italian Government
the Italian legation will on Tuesday cele
brate an official commemorative service
in honor of the dead King Victor
Emanuel at St. Aloysius Church. A
grand requiem mass will be sung. The
pews of tin? Italian delegation will be
draped with Italian and American
flags. The President’s pew will be draped
with American flags and the pews
of the foreign legations and Calrinet
Ministers will be draped in black. A
catafalque, covered with black cloth and
white satin, surrounded by burning can
dles, will rest within the chancel, and in
the second raise of the catafalque will
he placed the coat of arms of Italy en
vironed with an appropriate motto. On
the head of the coffin will
lie pla<n*d the royal crown and
the sides of the catafalque draped
with the colors of Italy. The celebration
will be one of the most solemn affairs
ever took place here, having all the
essential elements of an international
affair.
TOE CHARTER OAK AGAIN.
New' York, January 19.—A Hartford,
Conn., special says a new effort is mak
ing to save the remaining* assets of the
Charter Oak Life Insurance Company by
keeping it out of the hands of the re
ceiver and reorganizing it as a purely
mutual company, the stock to be merged
and wiped out and policies scaled. Legis
lative intervention will lie necessary in
order to effect this, and therefore a new
charter will be asked for. It is thought
that most of the policy holders will co
operate with the managers in their
efforts.
Hartford, Conn., January 19.—
There Inis been a further postponement
of one week granted by the court for the
hearing of the (question of receivership
for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Com
pany.
a batch of failures.
New York, January 20,—Powers,
Gaston & Co.. dealers in boots and shoes,
have suspended. Tlieir liabilities are
two hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
nominal assets, two hundred and sixty-
five thousand dollars; real assets, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
George L. Wutrons & Co., dealers in
hats, furs and straw goods, have made an
sisugnmeut. Their liabilities are one
hundred thousand dollars; assets un
known.
John Thomas, mining stock broker and
late President of the Queen of the West
Silver Mining Company, has made an as
signment. His liabilities are $88,000 ;
his assets nominal.
THE MARITIME EXCHANGE AND THE SIL
VER BILL.
New York, January 19.—At the Mari
time Exchange yesterday, the follow ing
memorial to Congress was signed by
merchants, hankers, representatives of
leading inarjjie underwriters, steamship
companies and shipping houses of the
city : “We the undersigned, mem
bers of the Maritime Association
of the port of New York, feel it to be our
duty to remonstrate against any legisla
tion that shall make silver an unlimited
legal tender, as in our opinion such legis
lation would unsettle values, disturb
confidence, retard resumption in gold and
impair the national credit.”
ARRAIGNMENT OF THE LOUISIANA RE
TURNING BOARD.
New Orleans, January 18.—The
members of the returning board were
arraigned in the Superior Criminal Court
to-day. The indictment charges them
with forgery, and with altering the re
turns of Vernon parish. Their counsel
made a motion to quash the indictment
on the ground that the proceedings were
irregular. The motion was overruled
without argument. The members of the
board then^pleaded not guilty, and were
admitted to bail on their old bonds. The
day of trial has not been fixed.
CONVICTION AND SENTENCE FOR TREASON.
London, January 19.—A great sensa
tion was caused at Pesth by the convic
tion for high treason and sentence to five
years’ imprisonment of Dr. Svetoza Mili-
tics, a member of the Hungarian Parlia
ment. of the Servian nationality, head of
the Omladina or young Serv ian party,
and leader of the Panslavist agitations.
Dr. Mi litres appealed against his convic
tion. The Daily X*ics lias a special from
Pesth saying his /conviction is likely to
be quaobed-
TOE DREDGE BOAT M ALI*Tkl*.
Galveston, July 19.—The revenue
cutter McLeon has returned from a sec
ond cruise in search of the dredge boat
McAlister, and reports finding a portion
of the dredge, establishing almost beyond
doubt her loss.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, Januair 19.—The Com
mittee on Banking and Currency have
directed their Chairman, General Ewing,
to report a resolution asking for power
to send for persons and papers and oth
erwise investigate the amount of coin in
the country available for resumption.
General Sheridan will shortly make a
tour of inspection of his department.
General Whipple, of Sherman’s staff,will
accompany Sheridan.
Mr. Sefdler appeared before the sub
committee of Ways and Means tc-dav, in
the interest of Lorillard & Co., of Kew
York, protesting against the proposed re
duction of the tax on tobacco, claiming
that, whereas he had orders for 1,200,000
pounds in November, in December, after
the agitation set in, he had only 300,000;
that " his establishment worked 2,o0Q
men; that it had a capacity of 60,000
pounds per day, and that his orders would
average 50.000; that he was surprised
that the Virginia manufacturers were
agitating this subject; that the price of
leaf tobacco depended upon the supply
and demand; that consumption was en
tirely irrespective of price; that there were
only 8,000,000 of consumers, consuming
on an average of 15 pounds; that the
price had nothing to do with the
number of consumers or amount con
sumed ; that the tax of 4cents was low as
compared with that of England, France,
Germany, Spain and Austria. The tax
in England was 3 shillings on manufac
tured tobacco. If the tax was reduced
the tariff would have to be increased and
an income tax w ould have to be imposed.
That if the tax was reduced to 12 cents,
the revenue from it w*ould be re
duced one-half. Consequently the
cost of collection, which was now 4
per cent., w ould be 8 per cent. The
business was now in a very unprofitable
condition, but he attributed it to other
causes than the tax; that one of the rea
sons why it was so unprofitable to Vir
ginia manufacturers was because it was
shipped to commission merchants, and
was therefore sold with heavy charge?
against them. Another reason was that
they did not have the advantages of the
chemical processes which were had in
New York, and that they are making
inferior goods for the purpose of
underselling. That these were the rea
sons why Virginia manufacturers were
so depressed, and not because of the
tax. The fine-cut men of the West and
Northwest came in for their share of the
criticisms. Kentucky was not alluded to.
He afterw'ards said, if the tax was re
duced now', it would have to be restored
very soon. lie was further questioned
by some gentlemen present that if the
present tax was the building up of such
grand establishments as he claimed,
would it not be better to double
the present rate. He said that
smaller and poorer manufacturers w’ere
more liable to defraud the government
than were the larger ones, because from
the latter larger bonds were required and
more people w'ere watching, the argu
ment being that it would be beneficial to
(he government to concentrate the manu
facture in the larger establishments. He
admitted that tobacco wjls very low now;
lugs in the New York and Western mar
kets bring two or two and a half cents, and
in Virginia three cents. In order to save
their Western trade Lorillard & Co. gave
guarantees to their customers, and that in
event of a reduction of tax it w’ould in
volve them in a loss of over $300,000.
In regard to the rebate on the tax, Mr.
Seidler argued that the stock on hand
would be nearly one-half of the year’s
supply, some 600,000 pounds, at 12
cents, and would cause a loss to the
government of $7,200,000. He said that
Mr. Kimball, Clerk of the Tobacco
Bureau in this city, had stilted to him
that it would open a vast area of perjury
and fraud.
Col. Burwell was present, and pre
pared to present arguments in tiehalf of
the Virginia manufacturers, but, owing
to the prolonged session, he refused to fur
nish his views in writing, wdiich he will
do early next week.
THE MASSACHUSETTS WORKING PEOPLE.
Boston, January 19.—There w'as a
demonstration of unemployed working
men on the Common to-day. Some four
thousand afterwards marched to the City
Hall and presented a series of resolutions
to Mayor Pierce, who replied that he had
no authority to offer them employment,
but the City Council w*ould do w hat it
could for them.
At Lynn to-day May Burbier, who
furnishes steam pow'er to forty or fifty
shoe factories, stopped his engines, and
the factories had to suspend operations,
Burbier claiming that the engines re
quired repairs. Most of these factories
refrained from joining in Ihe crusade
against the Crispins, and Mr. Burbiers
action in stopping their motive power is
regarded as a strategic movement to com
pel them to suspend. lie was hooted by
a large crowd in the streets to-dav, and
the latest accounts state that he had start
ed the engines again.
THE TAX SUITS AGAINST GOVERNOR TIL-
DEN.
New York, January 19.—The often
adjourned case of Gov. Tilden’s alleged
unpaid income tax came up before Judge
Blatchford in the United States District
Court to-day; on argument on demurrer
to complaint. Mr. Aaron J. Vanderpoel
appeared for Gov. Tilden and District
Attorney Woodford for the United States.
There are nine counts in the complaint,
to all of which demurrer is made
on technical grounds, the merits of the
case not being gone into. It was
decided to take up each count separately.
The first count charges three thousand
dollars back tax for the fiscal years of
1861 and 1802. Mr. Vanderpoel claimed
that the law's passed about that time
were recognized as necessary war
measures, and annulled the law requir
ing payment of income tax in that year,
Judge Blatchford sustained the demurrer,
giving Gov. Tilden the first victory.
SUFFERINGS OF TURKISH PRISONERS.
London, January 19.—The Times'
Bucharest correspondent, who has gone
to Giurgevo to try and cross the Danube
at that place into Bulgaria, telegraphs
from Giurgevo that the mortality among
the Turkish prisoners at Frateshesti is
fearful. The station of Frateshesti is
l>ecoming a terror to travelers between
Bucharest and the Danube. Even if
there is nothing worse there than
ordinary typhus fever, the mortal
ity evidenced by the numerous
graves in the plain surrounding the pris
oners’ camp justifies the apprehensions
of travelers. I saw Russian soldiers dig
ging huge graves, and near them fifty
I’urkisli "corpses were lying in eonfusecl
heaps. As they were emptied from the
dead carts, the nigged, half chid forms
and frost bites visible on their naked
limbs, gave evidence of the hardships
they li:ul suffered on their dreadful
march fromNikopolis.
FRENCH POLITICS.
Versailles, January 19.—It is under
stood that the members of the Right w’ere
deliberating at the commencement of to
day’s session of the Chamber of Heputies
w hether they would re-sign ei} masse or
simply enter a protest against the in
validation by a majority of the elections
of many of their party. The subsequent
arrival of the Conservatives caused them
to delay action, and their decision will
not be* made known till next sitting.
Elections of three Deputies were an
nulled yesterday.
OBITUARY,
Washington, January 19.—Commodore
Geo. N. Hollins died last night of par
alysis, aged 79 years. It was he who, in
command of the sloop-of-war Cyane,
bombaided Grey town, Nicaragua, in
1854. At the commencement of the late
civil war he entered the Confederate
service. For the past few years he has
l>een the crier of the City Court in this
city.
DANGEROUSLY ILL.
New York, January 19.—It is reported
that Ow’en Murphy, the fugitive Excise
Commissioner, is dangerously ill at Ot
tawa, and that his wife is insane.
attached
Montreal, January 19,—Messrs. Rev-
eredgeA Helliwell, importers of woolens,
are attached. Their liabilities are $75,-
000.
THE CHARLESTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ON TOE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Charleston, January 19.—A special
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to
day considered and acted upon the finan
cial measures now before Congress. Tbe
meeting was attended by leading liank-
ers and merchants, and the following pre
amble and resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas. Vital home issues, now
happily settled, have heretofore diverted
public attention in this community from
those questions of national policy which
underlie the measures now pending in
GEORGIA’S VOICE.
\ DEVI A N D FOK SILVER AND
GREEN BACKS, AND THE RE
PEAL OF THE RESIVIP-
TION ACT.
An Enthu*ia»tir VIcetiug at the Capi
tol- But One Sound, and That i» For
VIoney.
Condensed from the report of the Atlanta Con
stitution.
For several days past there has been a
pronounced feeling upon the streets in
Congress; and whereas, it is proper that f av o r of a public expression by mass
in all matters affecting the honor of the
government and the general welfare of
the country, the ancient city of Charles
ton should take an interest and ask a
hearing; therefore,
Resolved, That the efforts now being
made to remonetize silver and postpone
resumption appear to be reactionary in
spirit and designed to reverse the action
taken at a time when the intelligence and
wealth of the South were not represented
in Congress, but when her material in
terests were peculiarly exposed to depre
ciation.
Resolved, That without being responsi
ble for the monetary experiments and fi
nancial legislation preceding the present
financial conjuncture, the South was the
first section that felt the depression and
shrinkage produced by the laws now in
force, and, having already experienced
the full effects of resumption in accept
ing specie prices for her products with
out getting specie value in return, she
needs stability and tranquility in financial
matters in order that her industries may
revive and that her resources may be de
veloped.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
meeting the requisite stability and tran
quility are unobtainable without resump
tion, * which is inseparable from the
maintenance of national, commercial
and personal honor in the highest and
widest sense.
Resolved, That it cannot possibly be
honest for government, after what has
passed, to pay its notes or lionds in any
thing but gold, and it is shameful to* per
mit by law, and even encourage by na
tional* legislation, the payment of public,
corporate and private debts in a debased
coinage, spec ially and avowedly created
for the purpose.
Resolved, That a copy of the proceed
ings of this meeting be sent to Senator
Butler, w’ith a respectful request that this
preamble and these resolutions be pre
sented to the Senate.
THE FINANCIAL AND MINCING LANE MAR
KETS.
London, January’ 19.—The Mincing
Lane markets are still affected by the de
pression of trade, and while political feel
ing remains in its present unsettled state
there appears little prospect of improve
ment. Sugar and coffee for public sale
on Friday w'ere withdrawn, owing to the
heavy fog. Sugar did not in all cases
maintain the recent advance, but the
lower quality is now attracting more at
tention. Good to coloring "plantation
Ceylon coffee has sold at full to
rather higher rates, but all the com
mon kinds tend downwards with
large stocks here and on the continent.
Rice is steady but no further transac
tions reported. In Burmah there is no
crop. Saltpetre is dull and lower. Tea
inactive; some medium grades of Con
gou sold by auction is at a decline; com
mon unchanged. Black pepper met
with more inquiry at the low prices now-
ruling.
The Economist says: * ‘The discount of 8
per cent, .the easier tone of political feeling
and the cheapness of money here and on
the continent caused a further advance
in speculative stocks this week. There
was a temporary relapse Thursday in
consequence of unfavorable interpreta
tions of the Queen’s speech, but the de
bates in Parliament revived the feeling
of hopefulness. The average on Russian
and Hungarian securities on the
week was 2 per cent. Turkish show
little movement. French advanced mod
erately. Spanish are higher. On special
political grounds, investment purchases
are actually much restricted, at a time of
so much tension in politics, but doubt
less the great ease of money had its ef
fect iu raising prices. In this depart
ment, also, a further rise in United States
bonds has been the feature of the week.”
CHALMERS’ TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD
BILL.
Washington, January 19.—General
Chalmers’ bill for a Pacific railroad will
l»c introduced next Monday. It provides
for a trunk line to Vicksburg, with con
nections to St. Louis, Memphis and New
Orleans. The new features of it are,
that the Memphis connection is to be
made by the Memphis and Vicksburg road
down the Mississippi valley. This avoids
the objection to a Memphis connection,
raised bv the Iron Mountain road, and
passes through the richest lands of Mis
sissippi. It also provides that the gov
ernment shall issue greenbacks receiva
ble for all dues except interest on the
public debt, and allows twonty thousand
dollars per mile to the respective roads to
be built, on bonds of the roads, pay
able in United States currency in
fifty years, and leaving five per cent, in
terest, secured by a fin^ mortgage on the
roads and all their property and earn
ings, and provides for a sinking fund, to
lx* invested in United States bonds to be
held bv the Secretary of the roads.
Mr. 'Lamar’s bill w ill prolmbly lie in-
tnxluced in the Senate the same day. It
provides for a trunk line to Vicks
burg, and in all other respects is the
same as Mr. Stephens’ bill.
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE ON TIIE SILVER
QUESTION.
Columbus, Ohio, January 19.—This
afternoon the Senate passed a joint reso
lution favoring the remonetization of the
silver dollar apd favoring the passing
of the Bland silver bill without the amend
ment restricting free coinage, and censur
ing President Ilayes and Secretary Sher
man for their position on the silver ques
tion. The resolution was adopted by a
party vote, the Democrats voting in the
affirmative and the Republicans in the
negative.
CEYLON COFFEE AND TEA CROPS.
London, January 19.—A letter from
Colonel T. W. Knox, dated Colombo,
Ceylon, December22, says: “Very heavy
rains have damaged the coffee crop of
Ceylon seriously, and it is stated the pro
duction will not exceed that of a good
season. Tea products have greatly in
creased this year, and prepjirations are
making for extensive tea culture The
recent shipments of American goods to
Ceylon have been so successful that or
ders have been sent for more.”
meeting of the sentiment of this com
munity upon the financial problem now
agitating the country. The result was a
published call by hand bills and through
the press for a “Rally against the wreck
ers.”
Last night the Hall of the House of
Representatives was filled with one of
the largest and most influential assem
blages ever gathered in Atlanta upon a
public occasion of the kind. There was
a large representation of the mercantile
and lal>oring interests of the city and
county, and the colored gallery was full
of anxious looking black faces.
Hon. Daniel Pittman, Ordinary of the
county, proposed, fo the purpose of or
ganization, that Hoa. N. L. Angier,
Mayor, be elected Chuirman.
Mayor Angier then took the chair and
asked for further nominations.
Hon. G. T. Dodd and Col. G. W. Adair
were elected Vice Presidents, and Samuel
Small Secretary
Mayor Angier said he was glad to be
here, and he hoped the result would be a
good one. It was a meeting for the pur
pose of deliberating upon the currency
question. The question was, whether
we should return at once to a specie basis,
or whether that return should lie gradual.
He spoke of the “rag baby” anci said it
was only fifteen years old, but was a
giant in power. [Great applause]. Our
city twelve years ago was a heap of ashes
—now it is a magnificent emporium. Had
there been no rag baby in this country,
the city would still be a heap of ashes.
Mayor Angier then spoke of the legisla
tion of Congress upon the currency as
only cumulative of evils. He spoke of the
necessities of the laboring people of the
country. They want work and the ne
cessities of living. Confidence must be
restored, useless legislation upon the
subject must be stopped. When people
are in debt, and have been led into it by
an abundant circulation of money, you
cannot bring them back to a gold basis
by forced resumption.
Judge Pittman moved the appointment
of a committee of nine on resolutions.
The Chair appointed as such commit
tee on resolutions the following named
gentlemen: Daniel Pittman. Chairman
A. W. Mitchell, R. J. Griffin, B. F. Ben
nett. J. M. Goldsmith, W. G. Ashley, M.
Mahoney and O. H. Jones.
[When the Committee on Resolutions
had retired, Col. G. W. Adair being
called for, addressed the meeting in a
forcible speech in favor of remonetiza
tion. He was followed by Hon. John H.
James, who made a very convincing and
practical argument in favor of a repeal of
the tax upon State banks and iu favor of
a return to the State bank system. Col.
John N. Dunn addressed the meeting
briefly in opposition to the existing legis
lation in regard to finance, which he said
was “iniquitous, because it drew upon
the pockets of the people to enrich and
pamper the bondholders. While the
committee was still out the following
letters were read:]
Rome, Ga., January 16, 1878.
Ron. Daniel Pittman. John Stephens, J. IV
Stokes, J. X. Dunn. J. IV. Golasmi*h and G.
TV. Kates:
Gentlemen—^Your very flattering invitation
of the 14th instant, to attend a meeting of the
citizens of Fulton county who are in favor of
remonetizing silver and opposed to the wreck
ing policy of a forced resumption of specie
payments, and who favor a uniform national
currency adequate, etc., to be held in Atlanta.
Georgia, on the 18th instant, came to hand this
morning. I hasten to reply. It is a matter of
extreme regret that I am compelled to decline
the honor of participating in such a patriotic
assemblage of the freemen of Georgia. The
regular term of Floyd Superior Court is now in
session and will be for two more weeks. My
official duties demand my undivided personal
attention. I am with you heart and soul.
The time lias come when the people
whose hearts beat true to the interests
of those who are engaged in industrial
pursuits sho :ld sneak out, and give no
uncertain sound. The jieople of the capital of
the State should respond to the patriotic speech
of “the tall sycamore of the Wabash" delivered
in the United States Senate on the 14th. Your
patriotic action will be greeted with the same
meed of applause that resounded from the gal
leries of the Senate on that grand occasion..
iProceed without fear in the noble effort you are
making. Strike the manacles forged by the
blasted bondholder from the arms of the
laborer of the country, and if I am not mistaken
in my countrymen unknown millions will arise
and call you blessed.
You will please accept my thanks for your
notice of so humble an individual as myself. I
am with my high respect your obedient ’servant,
J. W. H. Underwood.
Atlanta, January 16th. 1878.
Messrs. Daniel Pittman, John Stephens, and
others, Committee of Citizens, etc.:
Gentlemen—Your note of this date inviting
me to attend a meeting at the capitol on Friday
evening. 18th instant, in favor or remonetizing
evening,
silver, etc., is received. Profoundly conscious
of the importance of the. meeting, and sympa
thizing with its patriotic purposes, I regret that
it will l>e out of my power to attend I ain now
in Atlanta in attendance on the Supreme Court,
and have been detained already many days
more than I expected. Before Friday night I
expect to be released, and will be called else
where by the imperative demands of profes-
~—’ : I am, very truly,
Your obedient servant,
A. R. Lawton.
[The adoption of the resolutions was
followed by able speeches from Judge
Pittman and Col. Carey W. Styles, en
dorsing the action of the meeting. W
have only room for the Constitution* re
port of the closing remarks of Col
Styles:]
CoL Style* then spoke of the “Dollar of the
Daddies' and eulogized it heartily, and then de
nounced the infamous manner in which it was
demonetized. He pursued the history of the
financial legislation of the country and declared
that resumption, in the light of the past, meant
ruin to the people. What means this meeting
What means the wail of the widow and orphan
What means the crack of the rifle and the roar
of the flames, telling of the wreck of life and
property * The lovers of gold have deified it
and the worshippers are the wreckers: [Ap
plause.] But a hungry suffering j»eople will be
heard and the oppressors of the people will
hear and quail, and tremble at their downfall.
The South is solid upon this question, and
these States will be found voting solidly for the
repeal of the resumption act, the remonetiza
tion of silver, the abolition of national (tanks,
and re-establishment of the greenback as the
money of the people. [Applause.
'the them
_j people.
Colonel Styles f*>llowed t
theme with some
—_ ■ tv - ■■■
trenchant blows at the bondholders, and ended
by heartily endorsing the resolutions adopted.
He said ninety-nine out of every hundred men
in his section would stand by them. He re
ferred to the position of Senator Hill, and de
clared he had made a mistake, and that the
people who flrat sent him to Congress would
ask nim to resign if they felt wholly responsi
ble for his misrepresentation. He thought this
meeting would be responded to all over the
South in tones that could not but be productive
of the greatest good to the people and the
country at large.
[After a vote of thanks to Hon. Daniel
Pittman for his highly interesting and
able financial articles, lately published in
the Constitution, the meeting adjourned
amid the congratulations of all who had
participated.]
WILD LANDS.
.^lr. GoIdMitiltli Replies to the
tliargew Against Him, and Ex
plains Wliy it 1m That His Course
1* no Bitterly Assailed.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In your
paper ot the 9th inst. appears a letter from
Hon. Nelson Tift, dated the 7th inst., which de
mands notice. I have refrained from replying
to the several letters recently published in your
paper, because I have a great aversion to pa
rade my name in newspapers; and again, in
order to show the “true inwardness” of the wild
land tiraue against the law and myself, I would
be compelled to use information in the Corap
troller General’s office against certain citizens
who are making the trouble, which I dislike to
do. I had rather suffer misconstruction, and
be misunderstood, than take the step. But
when gentleman not only impugn my motives,
and insinuate that I aui aiding and aliening
wild land speculators to defraud the State and
people, then "silence ceases to be a virtue
and justice demands the seeming impro
priety. I have been honestly
endeavor
ing to execute the wild land law,
construed by the Attorney General. Other
lawyers of great ability agree with the
Attorney General in his construction of section
891 of the Code, authorizing transfers of wild
land fl. fas. Messrs. Hines, Butts and Tift
argue that the wild land act of 1874 repeals the
act of 1K72. embraced in section 891 of Code.
If this he true, it is strange that the Legislature
in 1875 [page 119. acts of 1875} amended the act
of 1872 by requiring record of all transferred
fl. fas, and wild land fl. fas were not ex
cepted. Tliis was one year after the ro-enaot
ing of the wild land act in 1874. and looks very
much like vitalizing the act of 1872 so far as
wild lands are concerned, even if repealed by
the act of 1874. These gentlemen may be
right; I cannot tell. I have great respect for
the legal opinion of Mr. Hines. I was opposed
to said transfers, but my sworn duty is to
execute the laws as I find them, and as con
strued by the Attorney General I am in no
way responsible for the law.
It is true that speculators bought these fl
fas., but I have always said that of all persons
connected with this matter, they would get
“sickest" of their bargains. They will have to
do just uiiat the State would have done had the
transfer not been made, to wit: Advertise and
sell these lands in the county where located, at
public outcry, by the Sheriff, as other Sheriff’s
sales, and all persons liave the opportunity to
buy. In less than six months this entire ques
tion will l»e reversed, and the people will then
see who it is, and for what purpose this hue
and cry is made. This same cry has been
raised by wild land rings in every instance in
which the State has attempted to collect this
land tax since 1866. and now, after so patiently
waiting, the State is requiring them to pay
their tax on wild lands as on other property
They r»*double their efforts to have the
sale suspended as formerly, and adroitly
conceal from view their real motives by
calling attention to the transfer of said
fl. fas. This law was suspended time
and again during Governor Bullock's ad
ministration, and the Legislature did not repeal
the law, though greit noise was made, sim
against the sale of these lands for taxes. The
question of transfer under the law of 1872. now
used as a pretext, did not then exist. In 1875 a
list of wild lands was published. The wild
land owners raised a cry against the sale for
taxes, and the law was not enforced. Still the
Legislature of 1876 and 1877 did not rej>eal the
law, but prominent men in those bodies urged
me to collect the tax. The Legislature and
people, in the ratification of the new constitu
tion. have “decreed” like Ctesar of old, that
the “whole world should be taxed," including
the scanty property of the poor “widow'
and orphans” and maimed soldiers, and shall
these wild lands go free? As Ion
the law remains on the statute bool
»ks.
sional business.
Atlanta. Ga., January 1
tepher
■17,1878.
Messrs. Daniel Pittman, John Stephens, J. IU.
Stokes, J. A. Dunn, James M. Goldsmith and
G. IV. Kates:
Gents—Your invitation to address the pub
lic meeting of citizens of Fulton county to
morrow night upon the financial questions now-
engrossing the attention of Congress and the
country, is at hand.
I regret thAt I will be compelled to leave for
home before the meeting, and that it will not
be possible to attend.
I beg to tender you my acknowledgment fo r
your flattering invitation, and to express my
sympathy for the cause in which you are so pa
triotically engaged. Your obedient servant.
Rufus E. Lester.
Notes regretting their inability to at
tend were received front ex Governor
Brown, Col. Mynatt, Col. Vf. L. Cal
houn, C. II. C. Willingham and Hoke
Smith.
REPORT OP COMMITTEE.
SUFFOCATED BV COAL GAS.
Boston, January 19.—A young married
couple at Melros«, Massachusetts, were
found last evening by friends who had
called upon them, in their sitting room,
the wife (Mrs. Bragdon) lying dead on
the sofa, and the husir.-.nd lax- uncon
scious on the floor, but living. He seemed
in a fair way to recover. The supposed
cause was coal oil gas escaping through
a register
HEAVY CARGO OF COTTON.
Galveston, January 19.—The steamer
Australian cleared for Liverpool to-day
with 6,806 bales of cotton, the largest
cargo ever cleared frqm this port.
MOBRISSEV's CONDITION.
Jacksonville, January J9.—Mr. Mor
rissey is cheerful, and tlje prospects of
his recovery are favorable,
• specie shipments.
I.rvEnpooL, January 19.—The Abys
sinia, hence to-day, took £300,000 in
specie.
V lover of good coffee entered a
grocery, and, holding up a handful of
ground coffee from a big can, he in
quired : ‘ ‘Are there any beans in this
coffee?" “No, sir,” promptly replied the
grocer. “How do you know?" asked
the man. “Because’l was out of beans
and had to put peas in," was the answer.
Longfellow was presented to Mr. Long-
worth, of Cincinnnati. The latter re
marked to the poet, “There is nogTeat
differc-qce in pur names." “Yes, re
plied Mr- Longfellow; “hut icorthmakes
the man, the want of it the ftlimv.
Judge Pittman, Chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, made the following report :
Whereas, The wide-spread distress and bank
ruptcy throughout the Union nas reached that
point where it threatens toruin every material
interest of the whole country, anti to make the
people the slaves of Wall street and foreign
capitalists; and.
Whereas, An effort has been made bv certain
foreign capitalists, through their employes, to
falsity the voice of Georgia upon the issues on
the money question now before Congress;
therefore, be it
Resolved., 1. That we demand the uncondi
tional repeal of the forced resumption act.
2. We demand the repeal of the act demone
tizing silver, and that the silver dollar should
be made a legal tender for all purooses and to the
full extent that it was when the bonded debt
was contracted, and before the demonetization
act of 1872 was passed.
3. That the people prefer a uniform currency
for the whole country. founded qpon the credit
of the General Government, anil we declare
against any and all attempts to wipe out the
greenback currency—the people's money-
believing as we do tliat it is impolitic, unjust
and wrong to change the debt of the United
States to an interest bearing debt, when the
people are willing to carry it without interest.
4. That the government should not discredit
and cripple her own currency-, but should at
once declare it a full le£al tender, without ex
ception, and issue it in the place of interest
bearing bonds.
5. e declare in favor of the suppression and
prohibition of all bank issues, and tl^at the fur
nishing of a currency should be restored to the
government, tq widen it exclusively belongs.
6. Tliat we call upon the Georgia delegation
in Congress to use all their influence for the
success of the views above expressed, since In
a matter so affecting the personal interest of
every man. their wishes should not be misrep
resented in the Federal Legislature.
7. That we especially call upon Mr. Candler,
our immediate representative in Congress, to
represent the apnest unanimous wish of his
constituency in their demand for resumption
repeal, silver remonetization and the Issue of
a volume of greenbacks sufficient to transact
tbe business of the country.
8. That whjle we respect tpe exercise of his
own opinion m a Senator, yet where there is so
much unanimity as there is iq Georgia upon
these questions, we think it thp duty qf our
junior Senator to respect them by casting his
vote in conformity with the wishes of nine-
tenths of bis constituency.
9. That we heartily endorse the financial poli
cy of our senior Senator. General Gordon, and
of our Representatives. Messrs. Hartridge,
Smith, Cook, Harris, Blount, Felton, Stephens
and Bell.
10. Resolved further. That these resolutions
be published in our city uapers and that copies
**~ furnished ° * J ”
should be enforced. If the people wish to
exempt from taxation wild land owners,
who count their acres by the thoiis.uid.
then have the Legislature repeal the law. and I
shall bow submissively to the great injustice.
The people will l**fore a great while understand
the motives of the guardians of the "widows’
and orphans’ ” interest. I have not heard one
single won! of complaint in reference to the
sale of wild land for taxes, or transfer of such
fl. fas. from neither “widow or orphan,” nor
indeed from any one else, except from men who
speculate in wild lands and who either wish to
evade the payment of their legal taxes and bur
dens, or do not want these lands sold at public
outcry and purchased by the people, but wish
to prevent such sales in order that they may
buy and sell at private sale, and make large
profits. For example. Mr. A. G. Butts, of your
city, seems very much exercised about
this matter—has written two letters over
his own signature, and squilis over
his initials, ana asked for the legal opinion of
Mr. R. K. Hines, and I presume that of Mr.
Nelson Tift, as you say “nis letter is a reply to
a prominent citizen. ’ Now. Mr. A. G. Butts
has as agent l>een forced to pay. in the last two
or three montlis, tax on unreturned wild lands
in default, and against which I had issued
execution. He has also been recently forced to
pay as agent $118 05 tax on wild lands, which he
returned to the receiver of tax returns of Bibb
countv for 1876. Not paying the same,
the Tax Collector of Bibb county recently
sent up said amount to me, including same
in his insolvent list, which I returned, directing
the Collector to collect, which I presume has
been done, and this was just prior to the <late
of his bowels of compassion being moved, as
exhibited in his writings, about “widows' and
orphans’ ’’ Interest being sacrificed. I am in
formed that Mr. A. G. Butts, as agent, con
trolled a few years ago one hundred and forty
thousand (140.000) acres of wild lands in Geor
gia. worth one dollar per acre, and upon which
neither he nor any one else paid one cent of
tax.
I now briefly notice Hon. Nelson Tirt's letter,
which is roeklng with false and unjust insinua
tions. Mr. Tift refers to recent sales of wild
lands by the United States Marshal at Savan
nah, and the doings of speculators, as if I had
some connection with them. While relying
upon the good name which I have always
striven to make and maintain to repel this in
justice, still I desire to assert—and the public
will please pardon personal reference—that I
have nothing to do with United States Marshals
or their sales. I know nothing of the transac
tion referred to, or any other similar one. I
have never been engaged in anything of the
a foot of wild land, directly
kind—never owned a
or indirectly, or any interest, directly or in<
rectly, in fl. fa. for wild land, nor have I ever
*ctly
intu-
1 our Senators and Representatives
any speculator to defraud the
“State or people;” and if any one
thinks there Is anything wrong in this
matter—that I could give aid and comfort
to speculators or enemies of the people,
or that I am interested in wild land specula
tion, as has been intimated, then let such in
voke section 112 of Code, which provides that
“he (Comptroller General) shall not. directly or
indirectly, be interested or engaged in the pur
chase and sale of wild lands, on speculation on
pain of removal by the Governor or tjie Geuerai
Assembly." I respectfully protest against be
ing made responsible for all the rascality
imagined or done Iw “wild land speculators,
or "United States Marshals,” or any one else.
After alluding to said United States Marshals
sales as the “first step in the speculation,” Mr.
Tift proceeds to say: “The next olvJ> in the
speculation was to ^ tqo Comptroller
t*eneral'« pansier’ of the tt fas. for taxes
again.-»f the unreturned wild lands, accompanied
by instructions to the effect that the sur
plus that the land might bring above taxes and
cost, etc., should go to the original owner of tha
land, if he could be found, and to th-i puolic
treasury in case no owpar appeared.’ This
perfected tfce s*j»eme. They were the ’owners’
uuaer thd bogus deeds from the United States
Marsha], they being constituted the judges
and they would pay all ‘surplus* them
selves. But the Comptroller General, some
time after the flrit circular, sent these specula
tors a ttuprHementary circular, in which, after
warning them that ‘many false and fraudulon*
owners will perhaps try to impqrra un you,* in
order to get the surnjus sales over and above
the tares, eta, he says; T think it would be best
to take a good and legal bond from all arsons
to whom you pay such moneys, conditioned to
repay the same within twelve months, if
proper authorities decide that another is the
true owner.' " This statement is entirely untrue
and I fear intentionally so. No instnicVuv** or
circulars were ever “sent to *d\tnc sp**culators,”
but tfie very opposite was done. The circular
to which reference is made was sent to the
Sheriffs for their guidance, and only contained
the law (see Code, section £& aud section 7. act
of 1874, page i06j and were intended to. and no
Uuubt wifi, protect the owners against specu
lators gobbling up the excess of money over tax
and costs.
I give you these circulars in full, that you
may see what efforts Mr. Tift resorts to—of
misconstruction and flagrant perversion.
under fl. fas. issued from this office against wild
land in your county, which has been reported
to me by your Tax Receiver as unreturned wild
land. 1 will send you ft. fas. direct from this
office, and transferees of such fl. faa. under sec
tion 891 of the Code; will also place such fl. fas.
in your hands for levy and sale.
In the above and all ca«*es, you will not sell
any lands to be found on the large digest for
such years, deposited in the Ordinary's office:
for we don't wish to sell improved land, but
only wild land.
Mistakes of all other kinds will be promptly
corrected here iif substantiated by tne books)
on written application or letter, approved by
the Ordinary.
In all wild land sales the excess of money
over and above tax and all costs must be paid
to the owner of the land, if to be found at time
of sale, or if the owner is not to be found, then
said sum of money in excess of tax and costs
must to be sent to me. »o be deposited in the
treasury to the credit of the owner as a trust
fund. This applies to all parties who have had
such fl. fas. transferred to them by myself.
I will send other instructions with the fl. fas.
This circular Ls sent because some transferees
of such fl. fas. will soon have their fl. fas. iu
your hands for levy ami saIc.
Please keep this circular for reference.
Very respectfully.
W. L. Goldsmith.
Comptroller General.
COMPTROIXER GENERAL'S Omi'E, )
Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 14, 1877. )
To the Sheriffs of Georgia: In paragraph
fourth of my circular of 1st instant to you. I
used this language. “In all wild land sales, the
excess of money over and above tax ami all
costa must be paid to the owner of the land, if
to be fount! at the time of sale, or if the owner
is not to be found, then said sum of money in
excess of tax and cost must be sent to me, to
be disposited in the treasury to the credit of
the owner, as a trust fund. "
As it will be Very difficult, perhaps, in many
cases for you to determine who is the true
owner of wild lands sold for taxes, and as many
false and fraudulent owners will, perhaps, try
to imp* ise on you in order to get such moneys,
an<l as the law gives the true owners twelve
months after sales to come forward and re
deem their lauds thus sold by paying purchase
money, all cost and interest at t wenty per cent,
per anuum. I think it would lie best to take a
good and legal bond from all persons to whom
you pay such moneys, conditioned to repay the
same within twelve months, if proper authori
ties decide that another is the true owner.
In all cases of doubt as to ownership of such
lands, or where no owner applies, you will, as
formerly instructed, send the money to tliis
office.
Transferees of wild landfl fas. will be entitled
to the amount of tax and cost, as aiqtears on
face of fl. fa. All surplus will go to the owner
iu the manner as above direct*m.
These additional instructions are issued in
answer to letters from Sheriffs, and to save
writing numerous replies. If any other ques
tions trouble you write to me, and you shall
have prompt answers.
Very respectfully,
W. L Goldsmith,
Comptroller General.
shows the Comptroller's care » n d cau-
.on ; the transfer of these executions wm
the Comptroller s binding duty.
And he did transfer numbers of them
But mark it, and here comes in most
powerfully the saving equities of the law
There has [.revailed, and docs orevail a
gross and very widespread mw-onstnic-
tion of the law of transfer, so far as the
rights of the transferees are concerned
These gentlemen thus investing evidently
labored under the idea that tiiey bought
tiie ownership of the 1 “- 1 T •
land. In
they bought only and no more than the
right the State hail in the lands that is
m the language of seetion 891, author
""— tl»e transfer
l/.imr t
the same rights as
this excess of money—over tax and cost, unless
he is the true owner—and that Ls the reason of
the order to Sheriffs, to “take Ixmd and security
unless he was satisfied of the true owner. ’
Mr. Tift again saj’s: "In these circumstances
the Comptroller General does not speak to
these speculators by the authority of the State.
He lias divested himst lt of that'right—so far
as he could do so— by his illegal action and in
the absence of authority to prescribe law for
their guidance. Citizen*Goldsmith tenders to
the wolves his circular and supplemental cir-
cular-advice as to how in his opiuion they
should take care and protect tne lambs.
The unjustifiable insinuation in tiie picture
of my putting the “wolves" in ]M>sition
to take care of the “lambs," like the other
citation, is who'ly unwarranted bjj the
facts. These circulars were issued and sent to
Sheriffs alone, and not to speulatora, and have
had their intended effect: for I have had, in the
last few days, transferees of wild land fl. fas.
to beg me to allow them to return the 11, fas.
and refund to them the amount they paid, stat
ing that at some of their sales in the upper
counties they did not buy a single lot: but citi
zens who lived in the vicinity of the lands
liought them, and they only got the amount
they paid for the fl. fas. anti lost their time and
trouble. To the public 1 offer my humhle
apology for the |**rsonul character of this let
ter, for the}* will bear me witness that I rarely
obtrude myself upon them not even to repel
falsehood and gross injustice.
Very respectfully,
W. L. Goldsmith.
The
Comptroller General s Office, 1
Atlanta, Ga., Noreinlier 1, JSfiir. i
To the Sheriffs c/ Geor&<o: You win soon bo
Wild Land Matter and Comp
troller Goldsmith.
From the Atlan f a Constitution, 13th inst.
We gave on Friday morning a synop
sis of Colonel Tift’s letter, "criticising
severely the transfer of wild land fl. fas.
by the Comptroller General. We have
taken the trouble to look into the matter,
and propose to discuss it with that de
gree of dispassionate impartiality due
the subject. In our judgment, there is
an unnecessary feeling being exhibited
in connection with the subject. Our
sole object is to present the true state of
facts. We enter into none of the sus
picions and criminations that have been
so freely used, and have no sympathy
with them. We profoundly deprecate
the use of any crimination. The matter
is one of construction of law by higli and
responsible officials who have every in
centive in the retention of a good public
opinion, and their own character, to do
their duty and subserve the public in-
terssts.
We publish this morning a letter from
Colonel Goldsmith to the Comptroller
General, directed to the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger, in reply to Messrs. Tift
and Hines and Butts* who liave so se
verely reflected* Upon him, which gives
the law and the facts in explanation of
his case.
We must very candidly confess that,
under the application of a cool, just
judgment upon the matter, that in the
heat of the agitation there has l>een a
very large amount of misconstruction
anJ injustice.
There has been an accumulating wrong
upon the people in the failure of the State
to realize taxes upon its wild lands. This
has increased the burdens of other pro
perty in furnishing revenue for the State
government. For years thousands of
acres of land have paid no income to the
State. And the evil tiecame so palpable
and so large that the necessity of remedy
ing it has been imperative. Repeated ef
forts have been made to enforce the col
lections of the long delayed taxes, but
under the plea that the enforcement of
law would work much individual injus
tice and loss, the matter has been repeat
edly postponed.
It was believed that further delay was
improper and a wrong to the whole State,
and the result lias Sefli that an lionot,
conscientious effort has been made to
execute a pressing public duty. As far
as we have been able to learn there lias
been a careful and deliberate attempt to
rigidly track tbe law We frankly own
that we cannot find the shadow of a
ground for suspecting that any public
officer in the whole matter has been gov
erned by any other motive thana sense of
duty. We say this broadly and unquali-,
fiedly.
If tberf. have been mistakes, they liave
lieen honest ones. The Comptroller
General has been governed by the opinion
of the Attorney General, whose con
struction of the law hinds him until the
courts give their decision upon doubtful
points. If the Attorney General should
give a wrong interpretation of the law,
parties who may suffer can easily have
recourse to the courts to remedy their
wrongs. We know that the opinion of
the Attorney General is concurred in by
eminent lawyers.
The salient point of complaint Seems
to be that the Comptroilo* General b^
transferred thg tax tf. fas. ags-^st wild
lands in defauty to partes who paid the
taxes and costs under section 891 of the
Code, ^which was enacted in 1872, This
section reads follows;
“Whenever any person other than the
person against whom the same has issued
shall pay any execution issued for State,
county or municipal taxes or any other
execution Issued without the judgment
of a court, under any law, the officer
whose duty jt L, to enforce said execu
tion shall, upon the request of the party
so paying the same, transfer said execu
tion to said party; and said trans
feree shall have the same rights to enforc
ing said execution and priority of nay
ment as might have been exercised or
claimed before said transfer.”
The act of 1874 made some changes in
the law ol collecting taxes on wild lands,
but it contained nothing in regard to
transfers of wild land tax executions.
The act of 1875 -amending section 891
of the Code above quoted so as to require
the record ci such transferred executions,
dues not exempt or except wild land tax
executions from its operations, and is a
clear recognition of the fact that such ex
ecutions are embraced in the pjpvisions
of section 891.
The Comptroller General, however,
submitted this question directly to the
Attorney General, who officially advises
him that “no reason occurs why this sec
tion should not embrace tax fl. fas. on wild
land as well as other tax fl. fasu”
With this opinion to back him, and the
submission of the matter to the advisory
law officer o£ the Executive Department
to enforcing said execution and priority
of payment as might have been exercised
or claimed lx-forc said transfer."
They could enforce the tax 6 fas. be-
fore all other lieas just as the State could
ami they could make the owner who re’-
deemed his land pay twenty per cent
per annum interest on such tux. Under
the law this twenty per cent istiiespecu-
lation profit.
But this transfer does not authorize the
sale of advertised lands iu large lx dies
under transferred fi. fas., as has been at
tempted by some. This is an un
authorized exercise of power and abuse
of authority, for which the Comptroller
is not responsible, and for which much
unmerited censure has been heaped upon
him.
Nor does the transfer of the fi. fa. make
the transferee the owner of the land to
the extent that the surplus of purchase
money bid for the lot at its sale goes to
him. This surplus belongs to the owner
of the lot, against whom the tax execu
tion applies, and if no such owner applies
for the money such surplus must go to
the State.
Nor does the transfer of the tax fi. fa.
hold good against improved land that has
been given in by bona fide owners. If
any lands an* improperly advertised as
wild lands, the Sheriffs are not to sell
them.
In every solitary case where the execu
tion of the law’ works injustice or loss,
there is a provision for its remedy. Wo
do not understand how the owners of
the wild lands will be relieved if the
State and not the transferee tries to en
force these executions. If. as is suggest
ed, the transferee might pocket these fi.
fas. and withhold their enforcement, w’e
do not see how it would damage the real
owner, who has that much more time iu
which to raise and pay the tax.
It would lx* strange if in so large a
transaction as this w ild land default is,
that there should not arise some com
plications growing out of mistakes in
figures, and negligence of parties. But
they are all remediable under the law.
And the necessity of bringing so large
an amount of property under contribu
tion to help run the’State Government
is simply overwhelming. The law has
been several years in existence. The
same pleas for delay in its enforcement
have been used successfully for years.
The legislatures have successively re
fused to interfere with it. Under these
circumstances it is simply a public neces
sity that a determined effort should
be made by the State Government to en
force the law and increase the revenue
from this large source. In our judgment
the least that could lie done was to make
an honest endeavor to execute the law*.
It has to lx doue sooner or later. Delays
heretofore have not remedied any evils,
real or imaginary. There is no ground
for believing that there would be less
objection or difficulties the next year or
each year for a dozen years. The mat
ter ought to be attended to now. The
extended and heated discussion that has
attended the subject for the last three or
four months will have the good effect to
direct a universal and searching atten
tion to the matter, parties in interest
will be stimulated to look after their pro
perty, and the great bulk of any possible
mischief to individuals growing out of it
will lx remedied. It is really the most
opportune time, in view of the general
attention called to it, that could lx* chosen
for the execution of the law', and a post
ponement of it now* would, we think, bo
unwise.
The discussion has had the good result,
too, of evolving the true meaning and
effect of the law. When that law is
enforced as it will lx*, any temporary
personal troubles growing out of it will
be so easily and readily cured, and the
State will lx so great a gainer, that what
is now' in some quarters condemned will
lx unversally approved.
Americans are exporting coffins to
London and putting them in the market
at prices little more than half of those
charged by Her Majesty’s native under
takers. The Y'ankecs began with send
ing w'ashing machines, apple parers, and
egglxaters; then they shipped w indow
sashes, doors, panels and wainscots;
within a year they have been exporting
ready made furniture of aM kinds, from
the commonest kitchen chair to the most
elegant drawing room table; and now
they are follow ing the h-less Briton even
to his grave, and packing him under
ground in brand new American coffins
w ith patented handles and reversible lids,
vastly superior to the English made ar
ticle, and with prices to suit the times.
An Affuctkd Family.—The family
of Mr. Charles Dockety, residing at Oak
Hill, near Wood»boro\ Frederick county,
Md., has been sorely afflicted. During
the past ten d^|*s out of a family of six
three have already died of diphtheria,
and the remaining three are lying seri
ously ill of the same disease. Dr. Wagner,
the attending physician, has Ixen pros
trated by the diseuse, and also Dr.
Legett, who was called in after Dr.
Wagner became unable to attend to his
professional duties.—Frederick (Md.)
Times.
The woman-suffrage women thund e r
in their names, and are more terrible th
the college graduate. There is Matil a n
Jocelyn Gage, Elizalxth Boynton Har-
•xrt, Lillie Devereaux Blake, the Rev.
Olympia Brown. Theresa Juan Lewis,
and, lastly, Mrs. Dundore, who wsinted
to lx a constable. Susan B. Anthony, it
is true, does not display her middle name,
but Susan is passing away.
“I say, Jim,” said one friend to another
on meeting, “I hear our friend A has
been in speculation heavily; has he made
anything?’’ “Yes,” said Jim, “he made
an assignment.”
The statue of “Liberty lighting tho
world” is approaching completion. M.
Bartholdi expects to show it at the exhi
bition in Paris this year. The London
Academy calls it a magnificent colossus.
Most persons who pass a blind beggar
in the street cannot see any better than
he can. It is catching.
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