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W. T. THOMPSON, Editor.
THTRSDAY. AUGUST 20. 1880.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET
FOR PRESIDENT:
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK.
FOE VICE PRESIDENT:
HON. WILLIAM H. ENGLISH.
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR governor:
ALFRED H. COLQUITT.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE:
N. C. BARNETT, of Baldwin.
FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL:
WM. A. WRIGHT, of Richmond.
for treasurer:
D. N. SPEER, of Troup.
for attorney general:
CLIFFORD ANDERSON, of Bibb.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
FOR THE STATE-AT-LAROE:
J. C. C. BLACK, U E. KENNON.
Alternates—Luther J. Glenn, A. P. Adams.
DIHTB1CT ELECTORS:
First District—Samuel D. Bradwell, of Liber
ty Alternate—Josephus Camp, of Emanuel.
Second District-Win. II. Hammond, of
Thomas. Alternate—Win. Harrison, of Quit-
^Third District—Christopher C. Smith, of Tel
fair. Alternate—James Bishop. Jr., of Dodge.
Fourth District—Leander R. Ray. of Coweta.
Alternate—Henry C. Cameron, of Harris.
Fifth District—Jno L Hail, of Spalding.
Alternate—Daniel P. Hill, of Fulton.
Sixth District—Reuben B. Nisbet, of Putnam.
Alternate—Fleming D. Dubi?non, of Baldwin.
Seventh District—Thoa. W. Akin, of Bartow.
Alternate—Peter W. Alexander, of Cobb.
Eighth District—Seaborn Reese, of Han
cock. Alternate—James K. Hines, of Wash
ington. _ _ „ ,
Ninth District—Wm. E. Simmons, of Gwin
nett. Alternate—Marion G. Boyd, of White.
TAPFlNii r**K W*Uej>.
The city of Philadelphia was visited by a
destructive fire, which started at an early
hour yesterday morning in W. B. Thomas dc
Co.’s flour mill, which was completely de
stroyed, together with the hardware and
stone factory adjoining, and to the cigar
manufactory of Gumport & Bros. The loss
by the fire is about $200,000.
The first bale of new crop of Alabama
cotton received in Cincinnati was sold there
yesterday at the Cotton Exchange for 18)£
cents per pound.
Conley, the Portland oarsman, is willing
to accept the challenge of Nagle, of St.
John, N. B., for a three mile race, if rowed
on the Bedford basin.
A proposition has been made from Eng
land to the Halifax Rowing Association, for
a race in England, on the Thames, in De
cember next, for prizes aggregating five
thousand dollars, to be divided among the
first four boats. The following oarsmen are
suggested as participants: Trickett, Boyd,
Elliott, Courtney, Riley, Hanlan, Ross and
Smith.
Sheriff Butner, from Tucson, Arizona, on
an expedition to arrest Reyes, the Mexican
brigand, came up with him Tuesday about
eight miles from that place. A fight en-
Bued, when the Mexicans fled, leaving sev
eral dead and wounded, with animals and
weapons, on the field. A company of United
States troops are in pursuit.
The French press criticise strongly the ai"
tide in the North German Gazette on Gam-
betta’s recent speech at Cherbourg. They
disclaim any intention on the part of France
to disturb the peace, and say that provoca
tions have come from Germany, and not
from France, during the past two years, and
attribute the article to the wish to justify
the enormous German armaments.
Severe fighting has occurred in the Do-
brudja between the Roumanians and the
Bulgarian insurgents, many of the latter
being killed or captured. There seems to
be proof of the support of the insurgents by
the Bulgarian government from the fact
that many of the rifles captured are those
used by the Bulgarian army.
The new route via the Morgan, Louisiana
and Texas Railroad, between New Orleans
and Houston, Texas, will be opened for
daily freight and passenger trains on the
28th and 30th inst. The running time be
tween the points named will be eighteen
hours.
Large numbers of Ghazis are flocking
down from the Khelat i-Ghilzai road and
other directions to join Ayoob Khan, who
cannot now retreat if he would, as the
Ghazis are determined to fight to the last.
The railroad war of cutting rates between
the Louisville and Nashville and the
Chicago, St. Lou’s and New Orleans Rail
roads have been terminated by a treaty of
peace, and the companies resume tho rates
in operation previous to the contest.
The convalescing Premier, Mr. Gladstone,
embarks at Gravesend, on the Thames, to
day, for a cruise round the British coast, on
the steamship Grantully Castle.
Hon. N. J. Hammond was renominated
for Congress yesterday by the Democrats of
the Fifth Georgia district.
The celebrated suit of Whalen vs. Gen.
P. H. Sheridan for the recovery of damages
growing out of the confiscation by the lat
ter of the plantation of the former during
the war, has been finally determined iu
favor of the defendant, Judge Choate de
nying the motion of the plaintiff to serve a
bill of exceptions.
Gen. Brocks, who was killed in the recent
sortie from Candahar, was shot while at
tempting to bring in Capt. Cruikshank,
who was wounded. The enemy at Candahar
is making no attempt at a regular siege.
Horace Maynard yesterday took the oath
of office as Postmaster General, and as
sumed charge of that department.
The President yesterday signed the com
mission of D. M. Key, ex-Postmaster Gen
eral, as Judge for the Eastern district of
Tennessee, and of General Longstreet as
Minister to Turkey.
Six men occupying a small yacht were
drowned yesterday off the point of Rocka-
way beach by the upsetting of the boat. The
seventh escaped by swimming to the shore.
The case of Dr. George Ben. Johnston,
charged with being about to engage in a
duel with Capt. John S. Wise, was up in
the Police Court at Richmond yesterday,
but was continued until Saturday on ac
count of the absense of a witness. Captain
Wise has not yet been arrested.
Three million, one hundred and ninety-
six thousand, seven hudred dollars in gold
specie and gold bullion was received at
New York yesterday by European steamers.
|Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt, the artist
actress, has returned to Paris, and proposes
to pay to the director of the Theatre Fran-
caise, in four annual installments of twenty-
five thousand francs each, the one hundred
thousand francs damage awarded for breach
of contract with that theatre.
Tho6. Hughes,member of Parliament, and
party arrived at Newport, L. I., yesterday.
They will start for the West, in a few days.
The Captain and two seamen of the bark
Constadt (Norwegian) were drowned off
Fontera yesterday while attempting to cress
the bar in a boat.
Boyd, the oarsman, has accepted the
challenge of Wm. Elliott to row a match
over the Tyne course, in February next
for one hundred or two hundred pounds/
sterling.
Robert L. Barth, a retired clothing dealer,
committed suicide in New York yesterday.
He had been for a long time a great sufferer
from neuralgia.
The dead body of a young woman was
found in the hallway of a house in Chicago,
supposed to have been the victim of crimi
nal malpractice.
A convention of deaf mutes is in session
at Cincinnati, it is unnecessary to remark
that it is a very harmonious and quiet as
sembly.
Judge Page, a noted Minnesota politi
cian and agitator, was assassinated at his
home yesterday by some unknown person.
The Santo Domingo Government has
presented to the town of Pavia a hand
ful of the alleged remains cf Columbus,
consisting of small fragments of bones
and dust, inclosed in a glass ball, and
sealed by th$ Archbishop, whose Secre
tary was the bearer of the relic. It has
J^een deposited in the university library.
Governor Colquitt’s Reply to Mr.
Norwood.
We publish elsewhere, this morning,
the reply of Gov. Colquitt to the charges
made against his administration by Mr.
Norwood in his recent Atlanta speech.
These charges are about the same as those
made by that gentleman in this city,at the
late meeting in the Theatre, and em
brace criticisms on the conduct of the
Governor for endorsing the bonds of the
Northeastern Railroad; for paying tba'r
fees to the lawyers in the Western
and Atlantic Railroad case; for his alleged
abuse of the convict system, and the
failure to properly enforce the penalties
for escaped convicts; for his appoint
ment of ex-Governor Smith a3 Railroad
Commissioner, and ex-Governor Brown
as United States Senator, “to secure
their personal influence;” for compro
mising with Mr. Grant, one cf ex Treas
urer Jones’ bondsmen, for $35,000, and
for levying taxes claimed to be extort on-
ate to meet the public debt. These
charges, as will be remembered, Mr.
Norwood did not undertake to declare
to be true; still be repeated them, and
gave them as the reason for the opposi
tion of the minority in the late conven
tion to the Governor’s renomination.
In his letter, as will be seen, the
Governor takes up and replies to these
charges, one by one, in a clear, incisive
and convincing manner. He thoroughly
vindicates his course in every instance,
and shows, to the satisfaction of
every fair minded man, that
every' act in which he is charged with
wrong doing was entirely justifiable.
On this point his letter speaks for itself
better than can any comments which
can be made on it, and we commend it
to our readers for their careful perusal.
At the outset of the document the
; Governor defines the positions of him
self and Mr. Norwood as Gubernatorial
candidates in a most admirable manner.
He, very truthfully and undeniably, says
that he appears before the people of
Georgia recommended to them for re-
election by a large majority of the con
vention, after he had received 224£ votes
out of a total of 350 in that body.
His opponent, however, never re
ceived the endorsement of aDV
portion of the convention, nor was his
name ever at aDy time before it. The
minority recognized the right of the
convention to make the recoinmtnda
tion by voting on the resolution of re-
commendation, and subsequently par
ticipating in the proceedings of the
body. Only after the convention had
adjourned, and when its members were
no longer invented with the dignity of
accredited Democratic delegates, but
were simply citizens of Georgia, a com
mittee of nine private individuals, ap
pointed by Mr. Norwood himself—to
which two more were afterwards added—
selected that gentleman as a candidate
of their own. In other words, he, the
Governor, was recommended to the vo
ters of the State for their suffrages by a
duly authorized and, for the most part,
duly instructed convention of the Demo
cratic party; while Mr. Norwood was
only put forward by* eleven private citi
zens of the State possessing no powers or
authority whatever. This is a strong
point, and one which cannot fail to make
itself duly felt upon the mind of every
man in Georgia who proudly boasts that
he is a Democrat.
It is also worthy of special note that,
as the Governor says, if those nine gentle
men, w r ho were first appointed by Mr.
Norwood to get up an opposition move
ment in the State, had cast their votes
for him in the convention he would have
received the full two thirds vote of that
body r , and the harmony, unity and peace
in the party for which they expressed
such strong desire, would have been pre
served.
The entire letter is unanswerable, and
will doubtless add thousands to the ma
jority already assured for Governor Col
quitt in October. It should be read by
every voter in the State, for not only is
it a complete and thorough vindication
of the administration from the irresponsi
ble charges so freely uttered against it, but
it conveys a great deal of information
on various subjects which are of exceed
ing interest to the people. The docu
mentary evidence with which the Gov
ernor fortifies himself in this letter, also
fully sustains us in saying that Mr. Nor
wood’s charges against him were “ruth
less if not reckless.”
Mil English Defended by Repub
licans —The publication by the Cincin
nati Commercial of a statement reflecting
severely on the Hon. Wm. II. English,
the Democratic nominee for Vice Presi
dent, in connection with his purchases
of property at tax sales in Marion county,
Indiana, has elicited a card from Walter
Rivers and D. M. Greene, Republicans,
in which they say: “in reference to the
publication recently made in the Cincin
nati Commercial in relation to purchases
of property at tax sales in Marion county,
Indiana, in name of Wm. H. English,
we kcow' that said publication is unjust
to Mr. English. We were the agents
that made all these purchases, and they
are all cases where Mr. English owned
or had an interest in the property, and
bought solely for the purpose of saving
himself from penalty, and not for pur
poses of .“peculation. We had express
instructions from Mr. English not to
bid oil any property on speculation. We
are both Republicans, and make this
statement purely as a matter of justice.”
Recently Beast Butler had a private
consultation with Senator Conkling in
New York, and the Republican organs
hastened to predict that the. former
would soon lead the “Independent But
ler Republicans” of Massachusetts into
the Garfield camp. The prediction
proves to be an error. Butler will soon
publicly declare for Hancock, and while
we are not inclined to rejoice very loudly
over recruits of his type, we shall not
protest against their votes being counted
upon the right side. Butler has occupied
considerable time in determining which
ticket he would support Possibly his
interview with Conkling was the turning
point of his deliberations.
It will be remembered that Mr. Nor
wood, in bis speech in the Theatre last
Thursday night, asserted that Governor
Colquitt authorized the false statement
that Mr. Lester was among those who
recommended the signing of the North
eastern Railroad bonds, knowing it to
be false and that he afterwards neglected
to correct the statement This gross and
unfounded charge is fairly met and con
vincingly refuted by General Gordon,
whose letter we give in another column.
Thus another count in Mr. Norwood’s
ruthless, if not reckless, indictment of
Governor Colquitt is quashed.
Fourteen Years for Perjury.—In
San Francisco, August 14, John H.
Clemetshaw, who was convicted of per
jury for having sworn that Charles De
Young fired first at young Kalloch, was
sentenced to fourteen years’ imprison
ment in the State prison. Clemetshaw’s
counsel asked for a delay of a week in
order to prepare a bill of exceptions, but
Judge Freelon denied this request for
w'ant of probable cause.
Brigadier General Albert J. Myer,
U. S. Army Chief Signal Officer.
The telegram announced to us yester
day the death, at Buffalo, N. Y., of the
distinguished General Albert J. Myer,
Chief Signal Officer of the United States
Army, better known to the American
people, and to the world, as “Old Proba
bilities. ” The wires had warned us pre
viously of his extreme illness, but we
had hoped that “death would spare so
shining a mark” for many more years,
that he might confer new benefits upon
mankind, and enjoy the deserved pro
motion to the rank of “Brigadier Gen
eral,” conferred upon him at the last
session of Congress.
Few men have deserved more the
gratitude of the world than Albert J.
Myer, and none to whom the people of
the United States are more indebted for
practical, scientific and national reputa
tion. He has by his untiring industry,
clear perceptions, comprehensive mind,
and just appreciation of the progress of
the world and the developments of civili
zation, with its new and increasing de
mands, built for himself a monument to
his own greatness, and to the apprecia
tive generosity of his own country—a
monument more enduring than bronze
and more lasting than the blood-baptized
memorials of the battlefield.
But Myer was no laggard when the
trumpet of war sounded to arms. Gen
tle, kind, courteous, considerate—almost
womanly in the retirement of his man
ner—no man's jiulse responded more
strongly or with greater alacrity to his
country’s invitations to the field of bat
tle, and none did better service in them.
Having passed his examination well,
A'bert J. Myer was appointed an As
sistant Surgeon in the United States
army, from the State of New York (in
which he was born), on the 18th of Sep
tember, 1854. Soon after accepting his
commission his mind became alive to the
want of a more perfect system of signals
for military communication than the
crude and scanty vocabulary by flags or
wooden arms, then in use. He applied
himself with his usual ardor to the study
of this military necessity, and with such
success that he perfected a new and more
capable system of signalling between
the separated corps, divisions, or other
bodies of our army. So excellent and
so promising wa3 this new invention of
Dr. Myer that the War Department de
termined to relieve him from duty in
the Medical Department, and give him
the opportunity of prosecuting, more
closely, his chosen branch of military
study. He was therefore appointed
“Major and Chief SigQal Officer” of
the United Slates Army on the 27th of
June, 1800. It is due to the reputation
of Mr. Jeffers in Davis to say that all
of this was accomplished by his influence
as Secretary of War, and subsequently
as Chairman of the Military Committee
of the United States Senate. How
little did Mr. Davis think at the time of
creating a power that would soon be ef
fectively turned against himself for his
own overthrow. Dr. Myer accepted the
new appointment, aud on the 1st of
July, 1800, vacated his commission of
Assistant Surgeon. The civil war soon
thereafter tested the value of the new
“Myer system of signalling.”
On the 27th of May, 1862, Major
Myer was breveted Lieutenant Colonel
“for gallant and meritorious service in
the battle of Hanover Court House, Ya.”
On the 2d of July, 1862, Lieutenant
Colonel Myer was breveted Colonel “for
gallant and meritorious service in the
battle of Malveru Hill, Ya.” On the 3d
of March, 1863, Major and Brevet
Colonel Myer was appointed Chief
Signal Officer, with the full rank of
Colonel. On the 13th of March, 1865,
Colonel Myer was breveted Brigadier
General “for distinguished services in or
ganizing, instructing and commanding
the signal corps of the army, and for its
special service on October 5, 1864, the
day on which the post and garrison at
Allatoona, Georgia, and a most valuable
depositary of provisions there, attacked
by the rebel army, were saved by troops
brought up by signals just in time to
defend it, the messages being sent over
the heads of the enemy, and when com
munication in any other way w’a9 im
possible.” At the close of the war, on
the reduction of the army, the rank of
Bievet Brigadier General, Colonel Myer
was graded full Colonel, and so re
mained until the last session of Congress,
when it was raised to full Brigadier Gen
eral.
Since the war the talents and studies
of General Myer have been devoted,
happily for his country and for man
kind generally, to developments in the
peaceful enterprises of agriculture and
c >mmerce, by meteorological observa
tions and calculations, of an intricate,
laborious character.
Here we must pause and leave
to able scientists the narration
of his remarkable researches and
successes in the domain of theoretical
and practical, general and special prin
ciples of knowledge, to which he devoted
his life. We are not competent to per
form that task with justice to General
Myer’s reputation, or to the world of
science, to which it belongs.
Comparatively young (he wai about
fifty years of age) General Myer has
passed, like Maury, from the scenes of
his usefulness here, leaving to his family
the heritage of a well spent, useful and
distinguished life, honorably won,
“achieving his own greatness.” May he
rest in peace.
“ Greatness and goodness are not means, but
ends!
Hath he not always treasures, always friends,
The good, great man? Three treasure*,
love, and light,
And calm thoughts, regular as infant’s
breath;
And three firm friends, more sure than day
and night.
Himself, his Maker and the angel Death."
While the Radicals are howling over
the late election in Alabama, they would
do well to study the recent history of
that State a little. In 1874 the debt and
liabilities of Alabama amounted to up
wards of $30,000,000. Under Demo
cratic rule this debt has been reduced by
a fair and just settlement with the State’s
creditors to less than $10,000,000. The
amount required under Republican rule
in 1873 to conduct the State Government
was $1,100,000. In 1879 the amount re
quired for the same purposes was less
than $600,000. Public schools have been
opened in every township, apd tjip iponey
appropriated to them has been honestly
and faithfully applied. Crime has been
constantly on the decrease. The number
of prosecutions for larceny in‘1879 was
fifty per cent, less than in 1873.
Tile draining has recently been taken’
up with great industry by the Western
Slates, its benefits to agriculture having
been established. The drains are laid at
an average depth of 33 inches, and the
cost of digging is about 15 to 20 cents
per yard, equal to $25 to $80 per acre,
according to width of drains apart, but
the increased yield of crops sometimes
reaches 100 per cent In Ohio, Indiana.
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa
there are now 1,140 tile factories, in
stead of 400 in 1870, and last year these
turned out 175,000,000 tiles, equal to
65,000 miles of drain, at a cost of $2,-
812,500.
Letter from General Gordon.
Atlanta, August 23, 1880.
Editor Morning News, Savannah, Ga.:
Dear Sir—Mr. Norwood’s assertion
that Gov. Colquitt acquiesced in the
statement made by me at Sandersville
in reference to Col. Lester, does Gov.
Colquitt great injustice. The Governor
said to me, after I sat down, that he
thought I was mistaken as to Col. Les
ter’s action in reference to the North
eastern Railroad bonds, and he would
have had my mistake corrected at the
time, but for my assurance that I could
not be mistaken. I relied upon the list
Col. Avery had furnished me, and the
Governor was not certain whether he or
I was correct.
The doubt upon his mind, as he told
me, was caused by his want of a distinct
recollection as to what Dr. Carlton had
said to him about the letter from Col.
Lester. Col. Avery, in justification of
his misapprehension, ca'ls my attention
to the testimony of Dr. Carlton, on page
58 of the published evidence taken by
the committee. Dr. Carlton, after de
scribing the nature of the paper signed
by Major A. O. Bacon, Judge Simmons
and others, says: “We saw Col. Lester
and Mr. Mercer, two gentlemen we were
in search of, etc. * * We got their
signatures to this instrument.” Mean
ing the paper which the other gentlemen
had signed. This statement of Dr. Carl
ton, arcl Col. Lester’s speech in the
Senate, misled Col. Avery.
Dr. Carlton states in'the same testi
mony that he had a letter from Colonel
Lester, in which he expressed doubt
whether, under the new constitution, the
bonds could be signed; and Dr. Carlton
further says that as Col. Lester’s letter
was not strong it was not used. He fur
ther says, “ I believe I have got that let
ter. ”
As soon as Gov. Colquitt ascertained
that Col. Avery had been mistaken as to
Col. Lester's action, he was as anxious as
I was that the correction and amende by
me should be prompt and full.
In justice to Gov. Colquitt I must beg
you to make this note public.
Respectfully yours, J. B Gordon.
Tlie Garlield-DeGoljer Scandal.
Not all of the facts connected with the
Garfield DeGolyer scandal seem to have
yet been published. A9 is natural m
such cases, they come straggling along
singly or in groups. It is very unfortu
nate for Mr. Gat field that they all tend
to strengthen the charge that he sold his
influence as Chairman of the House Ap
propriations Committee for five thousand
dollars. A Washington dispatch to the
Chicago Times (Independent) furnishes
the latest confirmation of the charge.
Therein a former member of the Wash
ington Board of Public Works is report
ed as saying that not only was the De
Golyer contract awarded upon the
request of General Garfield, but that
this request was preferred before Boss
Shepherd only. General Garfield
never appeared before the board at all.
No brief in the case was ever filed.
After the contract had been made, this
member of the board insisted that it
should be annulled. He said: “This
pavement is a swindle from beginning to
end. It is absolutely worthless. It is
downright robbery to allow this rotten
contract to go any further.” Boss Shep
herd’s reply was intended to be, and was,
conclusive. He said: “Gentlemen, it is
idle to discuss the merits of that contract
or pavement. It was given absolutely
as a personal favor to General Garfield.
He is Chairman of the House Committee
on Appropriations. If that contract i9
annulled we will have endless trouble in
getting new appropriations. Some will
fail utterly. We cannot afford to raise
our hands in this matter.” This state
ment is confirmed, in one important par
ticular, by Mr. Garfield’s own testimony
before the House Investigating Com
mittee:
Question by Mr. Nickerson: General
Garfield, did you file with the Board of
Public Works of the District a brief or
opinion, written, printed or otherwise,
upon the subject of the DeGolyer patent
pavement?
Answer: I could not say I did.
Q. Did you, at any time, appear be
fore the board and make any argument
whatever?
A. I do not remember that I did, but
I did speak to Governor Shepherd on the
subject, giving my opinion in its favor.
GOV. COLQUITT'S REPLY.
i MASTEKLY LETTER TO THE
PEOPLE
In Answer Co ll»e Late Speech of Jlr.
Norwood In Atlanta—Norwood Dis
sected and Pat In a Bad Pllghi—A
Bold, Incisive and roaiuwerable
Document.
Forthcoming at Last.
A Washington special to the Balti
more Sun says: “The demand which
has been made upon General Sherman
from all quarters for the production of
his letters to General Hancock, written
in December, 1876, during the Presi
dential crisis of that year, has at last had
the desired effect, and the letters are to
be given to the public in an authoritative
way. General Sherman said that the
le:ters had been sent by him to the
publishers of a forthcoming life of Gen
eral Hancock, with the concurrence of
the latter officer, and that they would
appear in this volume in connection with
the letter written by General Han
cock, already made public. General
Sherman declined, however, to
furnish a copy of his letters to
the press in advance of the appear
ance of this life of General Hancock, but
said he thought public CUriositv could [ briefly discuss them, giving the facts.
, , , , , " * There has not been in the wide range of public
wait a few days longer for the letters to -—i—i
Atlanta, Ga.. August 21, 1880.
To the People of Georgia :
I reply through this letter to the speech of
the Hon. Thomas Norwood, made in the Repre
sentative Chamber of Atlanta, criticising my
administration. I adopt this medium because
it will be impossible, on account of official du
ties, for me to accompany him over the entire
State and thus meet these charges face to face,
as well as the anonymous charges circuited
over the country. I requested the privilege of
dividing time with hin. The city was filled
with posters that were inviting the people to
come out and hear him *'expose Colquittism,’'
and I had therefore a direct per.-onal interest
in that Issue. He declined to allow me a hear
ing on the ground that the meeting was one of
ratification. A ratification meeting to "exposfe
Colquittism" seemed an incongruity. It would
have been my pleasure to have corrected some
of the grave misstatements of air. Norwood in
reference to myself, as well as to have discuss
ed some matters connected with his own offi
cial record, in which the people of Georgia
have an interest in view of his present candi
dacy.
MY POSITION AND HIS.
Mr. Norwood se°ms to consider our positions
as precisely analogous, the only difference be
ing that I represent an unorganized majority
and he an unorganized minority. I oe : to call
the attention of the people to the fact .hat my
own candidacy was recommended by the peo
ple in primary assemblies in a large majorily
of the counties of Georgia and by almost two
thirds of the convention, while Mr. Norwood’s
candidacy was not recommended in a primary
assembly in a single county of Georgia, but by
the eleven citizen* who a;sembled with him iu
a room in the Kimball House, iu Atlanta. The
minority opposed to m-i participated in the ac
tion of the convention. remained in
it to the close, and acquiesced as fully
as any minority could. They did not
even enter a protest. They remained,
taking part in its deliberations until it a ad
jourumeat. Of the 350 votes in the convention
214?* votee. within 9 votes of a two-thirds ma
jority of the convention, and representing, ac
cording to actual e.-timate under the census of
1370, a popular aggregate of 750,000 people,
against 4X\0 o represented by the
minority, constituted my support. That large
mijority recommended me as the Democratic
candidate for Governor. In the vote upon this
recommendation the minority participated by
voting against it and continued taking part in
other important deliberations of the body, and
thus to the last recognized the authority of the
convention and are bound by its action.
MR. NORWOOD’S POSITION.
What is Mr. Norwood’s position as a candi
date ? After the adjournment of the conven
tion a meeting of citizens was called and he
was placed in the chair. He stated in explain
ing the object of the meeting that they were a
short time ago official delegates or a party
convention. but they had ceased to be so aud
were resolved back into citizens. These citi
zens. no longer a minority of the convention,
for as a minority they ceased to exist with the
end of the convention, then appointed a com
mittee of nine, with Mr Norwood himself as
Chairman,to report action.and then adjourned
The nine gentlemen appointed by Mr. Nor
wood as Chairman, with two others who seem
to have joined them during their two or three
days' session, nominated Mr. Norwood as their
candidate for Governor.
It is a striking coincidence that nine votes
were lacking to give me a nomination by a
two-thirds majority, and that these nine gen
tlemen, as delegates to the convention, could
have secured that party har«*eav, they so pro
fess to seek, by uniting with tha majority in
making a nomination. And these nine gentle
men, after thwarting a nomination,
have nominated their own Chairman
as their candidate for Governor. The coinci
dence. I say, or nine delegates defeating a two-
thirils majority nomination, and the same
nine delegates, as citizens, presenting a
candidate to the party in opposition to the
a?tion of the convention, in which they
took part and had their voice and vote, pre
sents such a picture of premeditated party
disorganization as must strike every reason
able man with amazement. And not only this,
but the small number necessary to make a
two-thirds majority on the one hand, and on
the other inaugurating revolt against the party
recommendation, presents an impressive con-
t rast to true Democ rats every w here. If a great
majority, representing nearly two thirds of
the people and convention, are eqmlled in au
thority by a stray committee of nine citizen s,
then party obligation is at an end in Georgia.
Mr. Norwood gravely argues the remarkable
proposition that the minority was as much a
majority to nominate as the majority was.
The absurdity of such a proposition needs no
demonstration. The gentleman, however, iu
his address, precisely state* his own position,
and I accept his own words in designating his
candidacy. He says that Gov. Colquitt is "a
self-ai.pointed candidate," and then adds: "I
stand in the same position that he does." I
cheerfully and fully accord to him the absolute
accuracy in his statement of his own attitude,
and compliment him upon the frank and un
mistakable manner hi which he acknowledges
that he is "a self-appointed candidate.’’
A DISORGANIZER IN HIS OWN INTEREST.
There is no stronger and more crushing ob
jection to his claim for vote* than the simple
and damaging fact that he was the leader of
all the di-mrganizi.jg action in the convention.
«ud is to-day its beneficiary. Ho engineered
the mischief and reaps its benefits. He is the
author and leader of the successful effort to
defeat a two-thirds nomination at all haz*rcs,
and is running for Governor on the disruption
mad«. He ouinot evade tlie irresistible
conclusion from his own course that he was a
designing disorganizes in his own interest and
for the gratification of liis own ambition. Iu
his speech he announces that he ''came into
this convention for the purpose of discharging
a duty," and he adds: "From now until the
going down of the sun on the first Wednes lay
m October I expect to raise my voice in vindi
cation of your rights, that were trampled
underfoot." This is Mr. Norwood’s figurative
and fanciful method of putting his determined
purpose to run for Governor upon some sort of
nomination, although it might be made by a
committee appointed by himself.
MR. NORWOOD PREVKNTS A NOMINATION.
But there was a scene in the convention that
may be properly mentioned in this connection.
In the closing hour of the convention a delegate
from Harris county arose and de-ired to change
the four votes of his county to me and, as was
sub3' quently ascertained, there were others
ready to change It was at this moment, whf-n
the minority was disintegrating and the con
vention had the prospect of a nom nation by a
two-thirds majority, ihat Mr. Jsorwood arose
and opposed any change of votes whatever,
and directly sought to prevent, and in all prob
ability did prevent, a nomination when it seem
ed certain. The significance of this attempt
cannot be misunderstood. It shows clearly and
indisputably that he opposed a technical ob
jection to the privilege or delegates voting for
Colquitt who were patriotic enough to yield at
the last moment to the wishes of the majority,
and thu* thjs "self appointed candidate" for
Governor stands responsible for the failure of a
nomination. Does not his opposition to the
change of votes at the close ot the convention
form a striking proof that he was a disorgan-
izer iu his own interest?
RETAILING SLANDERS.
In nothing has the speech of Mr. Norwood
afforded room for severer criticism than in his
comments upon my administration. In com
mencing his assaults he declares that he does
not say whether ihe charges he makes are
false or true. And yet scandals and slanders
that he will not state to be true, he retails at
length as a justification of his own candidacy
and against my fair name and the integrity of
my administration.
THE NORTHEASTERN BONDS.
I propose to take up some of these matters
appear. There, is very great interest
felt in these letters not only by the politi
cians of both parties, but by army offi
cers, who somehow have got the im
pression that General Sherman was very
free in expressing his views about the
Presidential election of 1877, and that
the publication of his letters will create
some ill feeling towarde him at the
White House. These letters and General
Hancock’s answer will constitute an in
teresting chapter in the history of the
settlement of the Presidential contest
four years ago.”
The Philadelphia Times says the Re
publican managers will spend three hun
dred thousand dollars in Pennsylvania
during the Presidential campaign. In
1860, when the yarty achieved its great
est victory in the history of the State,
the expense of the campaign was only
$17,000. With each succeeding canvass
the corruption fund has increased in size.
The money is used in all sorts of dis
reputable ways, and much of it for the
absolute purchase of votes. The demands
of the present exigency are greater than
ever before felt by the Republican man
agers, who know that money will have
to be poured out like water to secure the
defeat of Gen. Hancock in his own State.
It is very doubtful, too, if the expendi
ture of three hundred thousand dollars
and a resort to all the chicanery known
to machine politics will accomplish the
result aimed fit.
Increase of Immigration.—During
the year ended June 30th, 457,243 immi
grants arrived in the United States, an
increase of ?10,117 over the number ar
rived during the preceding fiscal year.
The year of greatest immigration was
the fiscal year 1873, when 459,803 immi
grants arrived, exceeding the immigra
tion of the last fiscal year only 2,500.
Tiiat Marriage.—The New York
Times of Monday published a letter from
its London correspondent, dated August
12, in which he says that Lady Burdett
poutts never contemplated marrying
young Mr. Bartlett, and the reports have
not been denied because the Baroness
considered such a Btep beneath her dig
nity.
discussion a measure that has received more
unfair criticism than the indorsement of the
Northeastern Railroad bonds. It was a proper
measure, a politic measure, a legal measure
and an imperative duty, inasmuch;as it involved
the State’s sacred honor in relation to her own
citizens. Mr. Norwood himself distinctly states
that he has no charge of wrong to make
against me in connection with that act, but
that it has caused unkind comment. If the act
is wrong it should be condemned. If it is right
it should be sustained. Unkind cmiment upon
it does not make it wrong, lc is right or wrong
from its facts Ignorance or ma'ice or self in
terest can make unfavorable comment about
the best and noblest actions: but actions must
be judged at last by their merits and not by
personal views of them, as Mr. Norwood seems
to argue.
What are the facts of this matter:- The (Jen
eral Assembly of the State granted the North
eastern Railroad Company the right to an in
dorsement of its bonds upon certain condi
tions. Other roads received the same grant.
A subsequent Legislature repealed the act,
giving to these roads State aid, except where
the right had vested. But the same General
Assemnly that repealed the acts authorizing
State aid made by resolution a special excep-
tiQn in the case of the Northeastern Rad road.
The oflteen* of tho road went forward and in
curred debts upon the plighted faith of the
State. Ihe decision in the matter of indorse
ment devolved upon me after I came into office.
I rent- re to say that never, upon any publ c
measure, has an Executive del berated more
carefully, and I am frank to nay, reviewing
my official oareeF, that no act of my adminis
tration has been a wiser or a better one. The
matter having been brought before the Su
preme Court that tribunal held that the duty
of deciding the question rested with the Execu
t|ye. J then sought the opinions of the ablest
lawyers and public men of the State. sueh
gentlemen os Gen. Tumbs. Governor Brown,
Gen. Lawton, Hon. A O Bacon, Judge T. J.
Simmon*, President of the Senate, Hou. Henry
McDaniel, Hon. L. N. Trammell and others.
While these opinions in which I concurred
satisfied me that it was proper to indorse, yet
I preferred in abundant caution to delay act
ing, so as to remit the matter to the
General Assembly. But the debts incurred
upon the fath of the State were pressed
to the point where the road must have been
sacrificed and great damage and loss be in
flicted upon the citizens of Cl rke county, who
had invested their money. It was In this emer
gency, to redeem the State’s faith, to save the
loss of valuable property, to protect a noble
section of our State from injury, and to en
force a legal and undoubted right, that I gaye
the indorsement. The Qen p ral Assembly.after
a full investigation of the whole matter, de
clared my motives pure and the act a proper
one. The validity and legality of the indorse
ment has never been questioned by court or
legislation.
THE WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD FEE.
Norwood makes allusion to the fee that
Messrs. Baugh, CJariington. Alston, Fain. Jack-
son. Lawton aud Basinger earned for the col
lection of certain money from the United
States Government on a claim connected with
the Western and Atlantic Railroad. The whole
fee is improperly dabbed "the Alston fee,"
Wll en U*1 of the above gentlemen and others
were interested in it. Mr. IjorwpoJ; who is q
lawyer, should be the last to pronounce this
simple matter a wrong. His very statement of
the case shows that in this, as in other things,
he has spoken without a full examination of
the matter. What are the facts of this also re-
markabiy misconceived transaction? In 1868,
Colonel Baugh, who. at the close of the war,
was Superintendent of the State Road, and his
partner. General GArlington, were employed by
the then Governor to prosecute a claim of sever
al hundred thousand dollars against the United
States Government for the use of the State Road
during and after the close of the war. The con
tract was that these gentlemen should have a
retainer of $3,000 and a contingent fee of
per cent, commissions. The claim was prose
cuted. Col. Fain, CoL Alston and others were
engaged in the prosecution. During Governor
Smith’s ad ministration Messrs. Jackson, Law-
ton and Basrager came into the cas*» as addi
tional counsel, aud Governor Smith placed
upon the executive minutes an order recogniz
ing the employment of the gentlemen, and in
creasing the compensation to be allowed to a
sum not to exceed 25 per cent, of the amount
collected, this not to interfere with the rights
of gentlemen already employed. I found this
state of thiigs when I came into office—a long
standing contract of the highest official au-
thor.ty. The meney was collected, the agents
doing the w„rk were allowed thetcontracted
fee, and tne State s part of the money was
paid into the Treasury.
The only question in the case at all was
whether tbs agents were entitled to the full 25
percent commission. Whatever amount they
were entitled to was theirs immediately, and
could not go into the Treasury. They bad a
legal lien upon it It was theirs, earned under
a legal contract, and the withholding of one
dollar from them would have been a virlation
of the faith of the btate. It is the law, well
recognize i in this country, that lawyers who
collect moneys for others are first entitled to
tbeir fees. The very act of collection makes
their fee their pr perty. All of these gentle
men concurred that the contract was that they
should have the full -..5 per cent., and they all
shared in the distribution of that per cent.
They had been working on the case ten years.
Several had spent session after session in
Washington under heavy expense. They had.
therefore, earned their fee and were entitled to
the fruits of their contract.
The position of Mr Norwood that by law the
whole amount should have gone into the
Treasury is untenable There is no such law.
T he law requires nothing to go into the Treasu
ry but the money belonging to the Mate. No
law requires that the 25 per cent, belonging to
the attorneys should be paid into the Treasury.
On the contrary, the law give* attorneys a lien
upon the money collected until their fetsare
paid. The Governor receiv. d a check payable
to his order, with the consent of the attorneys,
which inc;ud-d the 25 percent, belonging to
them and the 75 per cent, belonging to the
State, and in the discharge of a plain legal
duty he paid to the attorneys the amount which
belonged to them and paid into the Treasury
the amount which belonged to the State
The case was one of contract, not made by
me, for service to be rendered to the State for
a compensation agreed upon. The contract
was positive, the service undeniable. The con
tract was for twenty five per cent. The service
was the collection of the money. The money
was collected, and I had to carry out the con
tract in good faith. I did this. To do other
wise would have been a violation of law and
a stigma on the State.
THE CONVICTS.
Mr. Norwood has much to say about my ad
ministration of the law regulating the convicts.
In this, as in almost every other matter to
which he makes reference, he shows a lamenta
ble ignorance of both the law and the facts, or
else he wilfully ignores both. His method of
treating this subject leaves the impression on
the public mino that my administration is re
sponsible for the present convict system and
its past abuses. Whereas the present lease
law was passed before I became Governor,
passed without any agency whatever on ray
part, approved by Governor Smith; and every
contract under it was entered into between
Governor Smith and the lessees before
I came into office. In di-cussing a report
made to the Legislature, but which was never
adopted by the negis'ature, Mr. Norwood is
rash enough to declare in the plainest words
that "the iacts narrated in this report^refer to
his imy) administration." He makes no excep
tions, but proceeds to particularize some of
these "fact-*," as he terms them, with which
he seeks to justify his assault upon myself and
my administration. He leaves the impression
on (he public mind that during my administra
tion 523 convicts have escaped, and are now
running at large, and that for eveiy one of
th^se escapes a penalty of $210 is due the
State, and not a dollar of which, he says, has
been collected.
such a misrepresentation of the facts is sim
ply monstrous. Mr. Norwood will scarcely be
excused by the public, when the real facts as
g vtn in the official records are brought to
light as I shall bring them. I say the misrep
resentation is monstrous; for so far from these
5.*3 escapes having occurred during my ad-
ministraiion. that number include* every con
vict that has escaped prior to that report for
the last fourteen years. The official records
show that one hundred and twenty-six have
escaped during my administration and one
hundred and eighty-seven during Governor
Smith's administration, and the balance of the
523 escaped during former administrations So
that Mr. Norwood places himself before the
country in the unfortunate attitude of having,
for political effect, crowded the escapes for
fourteen years in the space of three and one-
lialf (3V4) years. To state the case arithme
tically, as years are to fourteen years, so
are Mr. Norwood's statements to the facta of
the official records.
But his misrepresentations in reference to
the two hundred dollar penalty are still more
glaring and. gross. The law imposing two
hundred dol'ars fine for every convict that
escapes went into effect by its provisions on
the first of April, 1879. Prior to April of last
year no such penalty was imposed by the law.
Since the law was of force, only nineteen have
escaped. The penalty due has been paid by
one company without suit, and in every case
is under investigation. The discrepancy, there
fore, between Mr. Norwood's statement and
the truth of the case is the difference between
523 and 10. It will not do for Mr. Nor
wood to now say that he was read
ing from the Alston report, for he dis-
tinc'lv asserted that the facts narrated in that
report referred to my administration,
whereas four-fifths of these escapes occurred
in former administrations, and only 19 out of
the 523 were liable to the penally of $200. The
only comment I make upon such wholesale
misrepresentations is that they place his entire
speech under the Dan of a fair, popular judg-
n ent, as having been made under the impulse
of unjustifiable prejudice and not with a view
of bringing the facts before the country.
But Mr. Norwood seems to com-ider it consis
tent with his candidacy for the high office of
Governor, to assume the utterly indefensible
position that I am responsible for all the evils
of the convict system, with the inauguration
of which I had no agency whatever. He seems
to have entirely forgotten the important fact
that another Executive and a former Legisla
ture are wholly responsible for the lease act.
When 1 came into office the lease law had
already been pessed by the Legislature, and
approved by Governor Smith. The contract
under it were made by Gov. Smith The system I
found loosely managed, l>ecause of the charac
ter of the system itself and the deficiencies of
the law. The convicts had been farmed out in
small squads owr the State, and the statutes
were saaiy imperfect. I gave the matter close
attention, and entered zealously upon the work
of correcting abuses. Every step in the direc
tion of reform met my hearty approval and
encouragement. There has been a most gratify
itg and marked improvement in the health and
comfort of this unfortunate class of our fellow
men, as is shown by the folJowingofflcial tables.
Tt»e report upon which Mr. Norwood based
his assault upon myself and my administration
was never agreed to bj r the committee of the
Legislature and myself. The statomenta it
contained ai e denied by sub-committees who
examiueu the camps. The report itself was
recommitted to the committee, and was never
ag>in reported. In answer, however, to Mr.
Norwoo i’s unsupported charge that during my
administration an unusual death rtte has oc
curred in the camps, I am content to produce
the official reports, and their undisputed and
indisputable records. I take Governor 3mith's
aDd my adminiitration.
The official records show the death rate from
1871 to 1879, inclusive to be as follows :
SMITH'S ADMINISTRATION.
Year. No. Convicts. No. Deaths. Death Rate.
1874
1875
1876
81*9
926
1,316
1877
1S78
1879
COLQUITT’S ADMINISTRATION.
No. Convicts. No. Deaths Death Rate.
|3V6percent.
1,448
1,417
1,400
32
11 'Ax percent.
Uli percent.
These tables include the whole nnmber
whose names were on the books durmg the
year and not the number on hand at any one
time.
1 have taken the last three years of Governor
Smith’s administration and the three com
pleted years of mine, in the above statement.
These official reporis show that the highest
death rate was about per cent,, and this
occurred in 1875 during Governor Smith's ad
ministration. The lowest death rate was about
1% per cent., and this occurred in 1878, during
my administration. These records show that
the highest death rate during my administra
tion was in the year 1877. immediately after
I came into office, and before any great re
forms could be carried into practical operation,
but they also show the fact, most dqmaRirg to
Mr. Norwood’s reputatiun for fair dealing,
that the highebt death rate during my admin
istration is lower than the lowest death rate of
the former administration. further show
that the death rate lias decreased almost one
half during my administration as compared
with the administration which preceded it. A
like investigation will show that the escapes
have decreased in almost the same ratio.
I make public these facts from the official
records not for the purpose of criticising any
former adminis ration, but in order to show to
every man in Georg a the gross wrong which
my opponent seeks to do mine.
I had no power to annul the luase law, nor to
break the contracts whi^h my predecessor
had made and which are binding for twenty
(20) yeari The people, however, will judge
from the above official facts where nsponsi-
bility lies, and whether Mr. Norwood's assault
upon my charae’er and administration is right
eous or ruthless. Where errors so astounding
and misrepresentations so flagrant are made
by one who could have examined the records,
and whose character and the office he seeks
ought to forbid the idea of malice, it i$ easy to
imagine the reckl ss and audacious manner in
which irresponsible persons have calumniated
both my administration and myseif before the
people of Ge sreia. And Mr. Norwood m ed not
be surprised if a just-minded public recoil
from such methods to injure an opponent.
SKNAi-OB BROWN AND GOVERN 3R Sit ITH.
Mr. Norwood descends to make anhinworthy
attack upon the motive which actuated me in
the appointment of Governor Brown as Sena
tor. and Governor Smith a* Railroad Commis
sioner. He does not question the propriety of
either appointment. He considers both gen
tlemen able and proper representatives of the
people io the positions to which they are ap
pointed: but the motive which actuated me he
e rofesses to read and proceeds to condemn.
:e can see in my appointment of the fittest
men to office nothing higher, nor more com:
mendable than self-seeking. FJe charges di
rectly that my mGtiv« was to perpetuate my
self in office. A friend or a fair-minded foe
might have been able to find in the selection
for office of the ablest men. who were not
special, personal or political friend*,
something of a disregard of selfish consid
erations fnr tU,e public good. Mr. Norwood,
however, arrogating to himself a power to
search hearts and read motives, which hitherto
has been supposed to belong to Deity alone,
does not hesitate to aeclare that my actions
were prompted by the most selfish considera
tions. He then proceeds to lecture me before
the country for my lack of patriotism and offi
cial integrity. If I were permitted to judge of
my own motives I might flatly deny the truth
of Mr. Norwood’s statemoo*. I might, witn
pqme propriety, a*>k uitn Randolph, ‘‘Who
maau you a judge • t motives and a searcher of
hearts?" I might ask in what way he has ac
quired the right to become the censor over my
actions, and the power to judge over my mo
tives. when he cannot condemn my acts. Has
he this right and power because of anything
remarkable In his past career? What is there in
his record that so exalts and dignifies? Is it
his unparallelled patriotism exhibited in the
past? Did he demonstrate his self-sacrificing
devotion to his country in battle from 1881 to
1865* Did he refuse to vote himself $5,000 pf
back salary after he had given his receipt to
the government for payment in full, and did he
unselfishly refuse;to accept that $5,000 of back
pay? Did be unselfflahly give bis time and
talents to save the people of Georgia from the
payment of the fraudulent bonds, or did he
take a fee to induce the Legislature to impose
the fraudulent bonds upon the people? Are
these the acts of self-abnegation and of pat riot-
ism which have given to Mr. Norwood the right
to call in question my patriotism or to sit in
judgment upon my motives? I leave it to the
voters of Georgia to judge between us.
THE JONES SETTLEMENT.
Mr. Norwood thinks that in allowing one of
the securities of ex-Treasurer John Jones. Mr.
John T. Grant, to compromise his liability by a
cash payment of $35.U00 into the btate Treas
ury, I committed a grave violation of official
duty. 1 hese suits were instituted in Governor
Smith's time by Hon. N. J. Hammond, then
Attorney General of the State, and Governor
Smith employed to assist him Gen R. Toombs.
Messrs. McCay <£ Trippe, Col. Willis A. Haw
kins and Mr. Wm. T. Newman. All of these
distinguished and experienced lawyers repre
senting the State, joined in advising me to ac
cept the $35,020. They constituted an unusually
strong array of,counsel for the State, and as
they were thoroughly acquainted with the case,
and gentlemen whose high character gave ab
solute guarantee that they would omy advise
for the best interest of the State, I unhesitat
ingly acted upon their unanimous recom
mendation t? release Mr. Grant upon his pay
ment of the $35,000. I may state that the fact
that Mr. Grant was able to prove that the
bond he signed was intended to be only tem-
C irary, but under the technical rules of the
w was not allowed to make the proof, consti
tutes this a case of such doubtful equity th-it
this compromise has been deemed a fair one
by all right-minded men acquainted with the
facts.
I append the letter of Mr Grant and the in
dorsements of the attorneys, for the informa
tion of the people, as to the basis of my action.
THE STATE FINANCES AND TAXATION.
Mr. Norwood makes the point that I have vio
lated the law by levying excessive taxes. He
says, "there was an act passed in lbr3 which
required the raising of $100,000 per annum to
pay the interest upon certain bonds called the
Nutting bonds," and that I levied one-tenth of
one per cent, for that purpose. Mr. Norwood,
either ignorantly or willfully, misstates the
law. There is no such statute. There is a stat
ute of 1873 which required the raising of $100,-
000 in excess of the amount otherwise author
ized to be collected, for the payment, not of
the interest on the Nutting bonds, but for the
payment annually of the sum of $100,000 of the
E rincipal of said bonds. The interest on these
onds is part of the interest on the public debt,
and is embraced in the general provision made
for the payment of interest on the public debt
Under this statute my predec ssor for the
three years prior to the commencement of my
administration, embracing every year since the
bonds were issued, ra sed one-tenth of one per
cent, in addition to the general levy to meet the
annual payment of the principal of the Nut
ting bonds required by the statute. I continued
this same assessment during the years 1877 and
1878, but finding that it raised more money
than was necessary for the purpose
above mentioned I reduced it aDd or
dered an assessment of one-half of one-tenth
of one per cent, for the years 1879 and I860. No
portion of the money collected as aforesaid
was ini-applied, but it went to the payment of
the public expenses and the reduction of the
public debt.
Aud in th's connection Mr. Norwood makes
another statement which shows his reckless
disregard of facts, or his reluctance to con
duct such investigations as are necessary to
arrive at a knowledge of the truth. He says:
"But for th© NuttiDg bonds, four-tenths would
have been ample to have raised all the money
needed by the State, and in fixing this rate one
half of one mill would have been ample to
have raised the money to pay the interest on
those bonds. Therefore, instead of fixing the
rate at one halt ot one per cent., he should
have fixed it at four aud one-half tenths per
cent."
Here again Mr. Norwood falls into the error
of confounding the principal with the interest,
when he speaks of the amount to be raised on
the Nutting bonds. Now, if Mr. Norwood had
given himself the troi ble to have a-certained
the facts, and hid been willing to do me and
my admini>tration justice, he would have in
formed his audience that instead of collecting
four and one h tlf tenths of one pr r cent., I am
only collecting threj and one half tenths of
one per cent, to m^et all the current expenses
of the government, pay the intere>t on the
whole public debt, r.nd topaj $10 ‘.000annually
of the principal ou the Nutting bonds. But it
seems this was a fact th it did not suit his pur
pose. ar.d he was careful to withhold it from
the public.
Mr. Norwood's purpose seems to have been
to create the impression upon the public mind
that my administration lias been an oppressive
one, and that I have collected from the people
unnecessary taxes. What are the facts? I
compare the year 1876. the last year of my
predecessor’s administration, and 1879, the last
completed year of my own. In 1876, as shown
by the Comptroller's report of that year, the
value of the taxable property of the State was
$245,813,750. On this a tax 5-10 of one per cent,
was levied, which raised $1,229,268. In 1879,
under my administration, the whole value of
the taxable property was $225,093,419. On this a
tax of 35 100 of one per cent was levied, which
raised $783,826. making $440,412 less raised in
1879 by general taxation by my administration
than in 1878. under my predecessor's adminis
tration. The public debt in 1876 was $11,095,879.
In 1880 it has been reducei to $9.871.5<^. the
reduction being the large sum of $1,224,397.
There has been paid into the State Treasury
money from outside sources to the amount of
nearly half a million of dollars, thus relieving
tha burdens of taxation Of this amount a
large sum was collected from the United States
Government. There has been very much said
about the fees paid, but very little about the
public benefit in securing such large and unex
pected sums for the State, easing the financial
burdens of the people.
In conclusion, fellow citizens,I call your atten
tion to the facts sustained by the puDlic records,
and other undoubted evidences, that during my
administration the taxes have been lessened,
the public debt has been reduced, the evils of
the convict system have been ameliorated, the
moral condition of our people has improved,
and crime has diminished, the credit and
standing of the State abroad has been ele
vated. and in every department of the State
Government over which the Executive has any
control there has been a marked improvement.
I am, very respectfully, your fellow citizen,
Alfred H. Colquitt.
Peace Peofle in Convention.—
The twelfth annual convention of the
Connecticut branch of the Universal
Peace Union was held at Mystic, Conn,
the past few days, Alfred H. Love, of
Philadelphia, presiding. Resolutions
were passed denouncing capital punish
ment, military education and the whole
military system, and demanding inter
national arbitration, the expunging of
war clauses from the constitution, the
granting of equal opportunities to wo
men, and calling upon the various for
eign nations at war or in hostile rela
tions toward each other to submit to
arbitration by neutral powers. Five
thousand persons attended the conven
tion.
The movement of grain down the river
from St. Louis is larger than that by rail
During the week ending August 14,
222,500 bushels of wheat went by rail
406,900 by river, and 23,700 bushels of
corn by the former and 115,900 by the
latter. One St. Louis broker had an or
der from New York parties to ship 500,
000 bushels of wheat to New Orleans by
river for Europe, but he had to decline
the order, as he could not secure the
barges in time to make the shipment to
meet the sea-going vessels. The river
lines have contracts for all the grain that
can be taken to New Orleans by the river
for the next five months. This business
takes off freight from the railroad lines
leading eastward.
Twin Children Murdered by TnEiR
Parents.—A special from Marietta,
lOhio. says: “The people of the town of
Lowell, ten miles distant on the Mu9
kingum river, were horrified to find yes
teiday morning that the twin children of
John Farley had been drowned in a tub
of water during the night. The father
and mother were arrested. The cbil
dren were only one month old. The
Iparents are very poor, and Farley
given to drink. They both deny the
crime, but Farley says he believes his
wife drowned the babies. They have
three other children.”
Amusrarnts.
LETTERS IN THE GRANT COMPROMISE.
Atlanta, Ga., April 14, 1890.
General Robert Toombs:
Dear Sir—The proposition to compromise
the case of the State against John Jones, late
State Treasurer, and C. A. Nutting and myself,
about which I have conversed with you before,
I now make in writing. I now say that I will
pay the State $35,000 in settlement of the case
so far as I am concerned. I make this propo
sition on mvown responsibility, having no con
nection with Mr. Jones’ regular bondsmen, ail
of whom signed a separate instrument, some
knowing that my obligation was only ternpe-
rarj-, to stand until theirs was executed, and
the others not knowing that there was another
bond in existence. They are not co-obligors
or oo-securities of mine in any sense of those
terms, as I am advised, so as to be affected by
any settlement with me. My counsel advise me
that the case can be won in their opinion in the
Supreme Court, but I am getting old and tired
of litigation, and wish to pass the balance of
my days in peace. Legal technicalities mav
carry the case against ine, though I thiuk you
will agree that justice and equity are with me.
I make the proposition to you in good faith,
and hope that it will be accepted by you and
the counsel associated, with you. When you
consider that the bond I signed was reallv be
lieved and intended by me to be only tempora
ry—to last only tenor twelve days, oDly until
the regular bond could be executed by Mr.
Jones' kinsmen and sureties on his bond when
Treasurer before, and that the case is still in
litigation—1 believe you will consider my pro
position fair, not to say liberal, and that you
and your associates will accept it. Calling your
attention to the documents 1 handed you two
days ago, as showing the equities of my posi
tion in tips whole unfortunate business for me.
I am. very respectfully ycure,
John T. Grant,
Atlanta, April 14,1880.
To His Excellency, A. H. Colquitt, Governor of
Georgia;
I received this evening a letter from Mr.
John T. Grant, of this city, who, together with
Mr. NuttiDg, of Macon, are the securit es of
Mr. Jones, late Treasurer of the 8tate, and
against whom a verdict and judgment for
above ninety-six thousand dollars, against
them and in favor of the State, was rendered
in June last, and which case is now pending
before the Supreme Court of Georgia. As one
of the counsels of the State. I advise your Ex
cellency to accept Mr. Grant's offer of settle
ment for himself. The whole of the facts, the
whole case being on the record of the Supreme
Court, which you will doubtless review for
yourself, I will not repeat here. I am fully
satisfied from that record that Mr. Grant gave
the bond to serve a temporary purpose,
deemed important to the public service by
Gov. Smith, and within the term prescribed by
law. Mr. Jones, the Treasurer and defaulter,
gave another and permanent bond, and Mr.
Grant honestly thought that the new bond
was legally a substitute for the temporary
bond. Under our statute he could have been
relieved from all liability if he had been aware
that proceedings to that end were necessary.
The last bond was within the time prescribed
by law, and no default appears ia the evidence
to have occurred pending nis liability, and it
seems clear that neither Mr. Jones nor his se
curities on the permanent bond considered the
last bond as a cumulative security, and did not
contract upon that basis. Therefore, honesty
and good faith, in my opinion, requires that
the State should not enforce this judgment
against the securities on this first bond. There
being no practical tribunal to which the sov-
erign is rightfully amenable, she should be ex
emplary in her justice, and, therefore, as une of
her counsel, I recommend thqt your Excellency
accept Mr. Grant’s proposition for a settlement
of the case. Iam respectfully, your Excellen
cy’s obedient servant, R. Toombs.
In yiew of the uncertainty a* to what may
be the decision of tho Supreme Court on the
legal question made by sureties on the exclu
sion by {he court on the trial of the evidence
offered, as well as matters of equity and jus
tice, suggested by General Toombs, I concur in
his option that Mr. Grant’s offer ought to be
accepted. H. K. McCay.
For McCay &. Trippe.
In consideration of the reasons assigned by
Generals Toombs and McCay. as well as the
great uncertainty of realizing more than the
sum offered in case of a successful termina
tion of the issue in favor of the 8tftt«. i ooncur
in recommending the Govern or to accept the
offer of Colonel Grant. W. A. Hawkins.
April 20, ISoO.
I concur in the above recommendation of
settlement, for the reason assigned by General
Toombe, Judge McCay and Colonel Hawkins.
, .. Wm. T. Newman.
April 21, 1S8Q.
Considering the uncertainty of the final re
sult in this case. I believe thiky-flve thousand
dollars a fair offer by Colonel Grant, and join
in the recommendation of accepting that sum
from him and releasing him.
N. J. Hammond.
Wicked for Clerjymen.
*‘I believe it to be all wrong and even
wicked for clergymen or other public men
to be led Into giving testimonials to quack
doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but
when a really meritorious article, made of
valuable remedies known to all, that all
physicians use and trust in dally, we should
freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully
and heartily commend Hop Bitters for the
good they have done me and my friends,
firmly believing they have no equal for
family use. I will not be without them.
“Rkv. , Washington, D. C
Shaving becomes a luxury when indulged
In dally with Cuticura Shaylng Soap.
GRAND BATEAU^ REGATTA
CHARLESTON VS. SAVANNAH I
UNDER THE AUSPICES OP
ATLANTIC SAILING CLUB.
THUNDERBOLT
THURSDAY, 26th INST.
P URSE $40 and Champion Game Cock Flag.
Entrance fee $2. Entries can be made at
Roseally's Cigar Store, Bull street, and at
Thunderbolt on day ot race. Brass band in at
tendance. &ug24-3t
^ie«? aitlwtisfinfnts.
JACOB COHEN
-AND HIS-
BIG BOW!
Price List for this Week Only.
3 . 4 BROWN DOMESTIC 5c. a yard.
T 4-4 RROWN DOMESTIC 6U<*. a yard.
3-4 BLEACHED DOMESTIC 5c. a yard.
7-8 BLEACHED DOMESTIC 6*4c. a yard.
4-8 BLEACHED DOMESTIC 8c. and 10c. a
yard.
1.000 pieces PRINTS 5c. to 6J4c. a v*ard.
TOWELS, extra bargains. 5c. to 25c.
BLACK ALPACAS, bonanzas, 15c. to 50c. a
yard.
CANTON FLANNEL 8c. to 25c. a yard.
A GREAT REDUCTION in HAMBURG
EDGING and LACES of all kinds.
Also, one thousand other articles for 50c. on
the dollar.
JACOB COHEN,
152 BROUGHTON STREET.
aug26-tf SAVANNAH. GA.
SHOW CASES.
I HAVE a full assortment of CASES in store,
and will sell at MANUFACTURERS' PRI
CES, with freight added.
C. H. DORSETT.
aug26-lt 156 Bay street.
COOKED FEED.
A Nr »THER lot of CORN, BARLEY and OATS,
mixed, cooked and crashed, for MULES
and HORSES. Also, a quantity of COOKED
FEED for COWS. For sale by
GAl'DRY & WALKER,
aug2»>-lt 8S Bay street.
BAGGING AND TIES
For sale by
aug26-lt DANIEL R. KENNEDY.
Srg ©oods, &c.
AT M'S
FOPUTLAH.
BARGAIN STORE.
Ty ANTED. * ina^^up™"j
'. class restaurant; best of
S » 6 tW'on
■P r
TXT ANTED,
VV ted
Morning News
W ANTED, a first rate butl*--
W -A roun ? man who
TI t ANTED TO REST, asuitaol,. h
. small fimily. Ad4r«sj
Morning News. - *'• >
-OOOKKEFPER WANTED. i n
B?x21?“£' Sh,nent - MMSSfJf
W A -’ TED two feeders on jobTndTT^ ~
J OD
TTTE wanr wr, laoip who ne,-!T7Ir~
“ v Machine to visit our office ar<*
one of our $25 machines, v.v warra' Q . rc! *
new and equal to any macl
B. OLIVEROS. 113 Broughton J
aug23-lmATel3t
\\ ANTED, by two gentlemen r
T V with board. Please
, W. 4 E. ?
aug24-Tu.TEfrttb
WANTED by a competent man a ,
v ▼ of an invalid or an imbeoile ^enr
at home or abroad. Good ref.*
Address SUN AND PRESS. Jack
auglS-MAThlm
H eirs wanted -texas lands.-*,
person? who lost relatives in the
revolution of 1836 will hear of something •., o** 1
advantage by communicating wuUT-VvtT •
RODREUUEB. care of this office. Savannah of
octlO-tf
.for Brat.
I OTS TO LEASE.—The land known a-
.a win's Stable Lots, West Br,>ad an
streets, divided to suit demand
aug25-iut x (’ MI
I IX)R RENT, desirable brick house Mere 1
range. Gaston street, tetwe-n Barns
and Whitaker: possession given Septemberl
Apply to C. G. FALLlUANT. General W
ance and Real Estate Agent. 101 Bay street
aug24-6t
I X)R RENT, store No. 1ST
Yard attached.
aug21-6t
X. C. MTU
JjX)R RENT, the Fair Grounds, now under
lea«e to Messrs. Drayton A Thomas. Pas-
session given January 1st, 1381. Conditions
made known on application to
J. H. ESTILL
Secretary Agricultural and Mechanical Assoc*-
tion of Georgia, angJO-rf
F OR RENT, the store corner of Bay and
Lincoln streets, lately occupied by C. W
Anderson & Co. Also, a good counting room
in ?ame building. Apply at office of J c
RIPLEY.aug24-Tu.ThjLS.it
TX) RENT, Stores at REWE'S BAKERY. *ith
A steam power, 73, 73>4 and 75 Pay sTc-t
ang!4-tf
O FFICE FOR RENT, No. 2 KeUy Block (]»
Bay street), with stores telo'w. from !<
September. Apply to JOHN FLANNERY x
CO., Agents. jy’2T tf
£ale.
OT No. 25 White ward, on Lincoln and
J ^ Waldburg streets, corner lot. for sai-
For terms, apply to R. B. REPPaRD, No ..
Bay street. augju n
yHE largest stock SEASONED FLOORING
ia the city. Call and examine our stock,
augas-tf BACON A BBoOKS.
A BARROOM, with the latest improved fa-
XA tures, can be bought cheap. Address, f r
further particulars.
_ . C. O. D..
aug36 It Care of Morning Newa.
Ol BULL STREET, opposite Screvt-n Houre.
Ai L is the place to get your Photographs and
Ferrotypes made. J. N. WILSON.
aug24-4t
'OR SALE CHEAP, one of Bramhail
Dean’s Portable Bake Ovens, never use
Capacity for one hundred people. Apply i
the Pulaski House. jy’A 1 tf
3ARTIES desiring driven wells complete rr
materials for same will find it to tl .-irad
vantage to call on the undersigned. Pump-
and wells of all kinds repaired. W. A. KENT,
13 West Broad street, Savannah. my2l-tm
yELLOW PINE, CYPRESS, OAK, ASH and
HICKORY, LUMBER, SHINGLES, SLABS,
LATHS, etc., at
D. C. BACON A CO’S.
Lumber Yard adjoining Upper Rice 3fm.
jyUMf
2>st and .fottud.
08T, either in the city or on Thun-
i derbolt turnpike. Red Morocco Pocket
Book, containing $25 in money, one note mao-
Dy A. J. Alford to W. C. Jackson A
$800. dated December 3 ), 1879, one ahou-and
mile) ticket S.. F. and W. Ry. one annual p&».'
B. and A. R. R., and other valuable paper-.
Will pay $25 for return of above.
W. C JACKSON,
Room 8, Kelly 's Block.
Rava.vxah, Ga., August 23. 1880. aug24-3t
i’olitifsl.
ANCCKK FLAGS, U. S. FLAGS. HAS
COCK CAMPAIGN PINS, CHINESE LAN
TERNS, for sale at New York manufacturers
prices by LUDDEN A BATES. Savannah. Ga.
aug2-Im
30LIT1CAL Banners. Flags and Portraits, at
. . HOJER A GRAHAM S, 97 Duane st.. New
York. jel9-S,Tu£Tb3m
Stmt Satlroads.
SCHEDULE S.,S. & S. R. ii.
Superintendent's Office S., S &. S. R. R < • *
August 12, 1880. v
O N and after SATURDAY, August 14, the
following schedule will te observed:
OUTW’D.
INWARD.
LEAVE ARRIVE
LEAVE
LEAVE
8AYANNAH. 8AVANNAH
ISLE OF HOPE
HOST®M BT
10:25 a. m. 8:38 a. m
8:10 A. M.
7:35 A. E.
3:25 p. M. 1:20 p. m.
12:5C p. u.
12:15 P. ■-
•7:10 p. m. 6:38 p. M.
6:’.0 P. *.
5:35 P. *.
\ O INCH LONG TOWELS at 10c.
31-inch long DAMASK TOWELS at 12tfc.
40-inch wide VICTORIA LAWN at 10c.
LONSDALE SHIRTING bv the piece at 8«c.
LONSDALE CAMBRIC by the yard at l2Uc.
25c and 40c. RIBBONS, a job, at 12^c.
PILLOW CASINGS much under value.
SHEETINGS lower than the lowest.
Special inducements in TABLE LINENS.
DOYLIES as low as 30c. per dozen.
A new line of 5c. and 10c. LACES.
Beautiful line of TORCHON INSERTIONS.
Bargains in remnants of WHITE GOODS
Nice BLACK CACHEMIRE at 40c.
Beautiful CACHEMIRES at tOc. and upward
Closing out sale of balance of PARASOLS.
BED SPREADS at 50c. and upwards.
■Sglendid bargains in remnants of DRES
Our Stock is Moving.
We add daily something new, at
Prices that Defy Competition.
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25 Mi Soli 1 First Dai
In our previous advertisement we ctiled
attention to the above named UNLAUNDRIED
SHIRT. It is made of the genuine Warnsutta
Shirting a d the best Ricnardson s Linen. The
front is extra long and lined with pure linen
and reinforced. Even the wrist and collar
bands are of the best linen, and the fit and
make up is superior to anything ever gotten
up. In fact, no better Shirt can be made either
at home or by a shirt manufacturer, if you are
willing to pay ten times as much. The price
is ONE DOLLAR. No reduction will be made,
if you buy any quantity. As a proof of the
success we met, we will state that we sold 25
dozen the first day we introduced this Shirt,
and we calculate on selling the first year not
less than
2,500 Doz. of Owl Shirts.
Come and see them at
DAVID IIISBEIN'S
aug23-tf
LEAVE
8AVANNAH
ARRIVE
SAVANNAH
5:30 a. X.
6:30 a. x.
6:30 A. m.
8:00 a. x.
10:35 a. m.
1:30 p. x.
3:35 p. *.
5:00 p. x.
5.-00 p. u.
7:00 p. x.
7:00 p. M.
9:0Ip. x
7:10.
Monday morning an early train for Mont
gomery only at 6:25.
FAMILY EXCURSION
EVERY WEDNESDAY.
ROUND TRIP ONLY 25 CENTS.
EDW. J. THOMAS.
aug24-tf Superintendent
COAST LINE RAILROAD OFFICE, \
Savannah, July 24,1880. f
O N and after MONDAY. July the 26*htj
the following Suburban schedule win w
observed: -
WEEK DAYS.
LEAVE | LEA . V *.,
THUND'b’LT I BOjaVNt*
6:00 A. M. ;
7:30 v. |
12:50 p. M.
4:30 p. if. |
6:30 p. m. j
8:30 p. M. I
6:10 A. *•
7:401. *•
LOOP. *
4:40 P. *•
6:40 P. *•
8:40 P. *•
irs for Schuetzen Park take 10:35 a
m. or 3:35 p. m. ears. .
Sunday schedule as usual in the
and in the evening every half hour from
until 6 p. x.
Last car leaves Thunderbolt at S:30 f- *-
FRANK LAMAS,
4-tf gop«rintendenl_
CITY MARKET TO BROWNSVILLE
-VIA-
Laurel Grove Cemetery.
Barnard and Anderson St. R-|
Savannah. Ga.. July 6, l” u - ’
Cars leave Market Square
minutes until 8 p. if., when they lea e
half hour, stopping at 10 p. excep
days, when cars leave every Jive minutes,
leaving Market at 10:30.
Sundays first car leaves Market _
During the afternoon there will be a car t
five minutes, and extra-cars at Bi - ^ «
Music at the Park TUESDAY'S and FRU>aj
Fare 5 cents; 6 tickets for 25 cept^^-v
F. VAN WAGEXE>:
jy7-N£Teltf 8up*r,nteDd*g^
Sybrc ^cbfdulf.
■Co.
The New Iron Saloon Steamer,
B. PLAN 1
W ILL run the following schedule, lea™ 1 *
wharf foot of Abercorn street: *
8UND AYS-From Tybee 7 a.*., 12n.,
FP1DAYS and SATURDAYS— From Tybee
From citv 6:00 o’clock p. M. A ?
"THURSDAY'S—From Tybee 7 , *r *- ^ '
From city 10 a. m. and 6:00 o’clock p. *-
Family eieursions ever? Thursday. ^
Tramway tickets must be bought at w
0< 2m freight must be prepaid on wharf-
N. B. No freight received after 15 minutes
time of
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