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of Major General Meade.
aBBET 11. C. Drum, A. A. G.
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■’’WwUfr'jin, Florirht. ami Alvin nm), >
SmSSßaj Atlanta, Ga., -latt. IT, ltd I-. J
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T. liiini.'-, Comptroller of tie
;M|Be<.lvi:i, liavin.’ d-nlinmi 1-1 i-mpn-cl
■ ; ml:*^Hl cl -i <,n ' i of, and fain i to c. opm-iite
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S. Army, is her nv iaiim! nr
di >'rit ! ol Geurqii ;.s l.'oinp'.i ol
State ..I Georgia. IT- will ivpair
the disc harge -if dnti"s dm
upon hint, iilijeet to in tnn-lions
'iaHHn Hcadcjoartcrs.
of Maj. Gen. Minm:.
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9HH Atlanta, <ia., -lantmrv 11, I •'"is. )
' rilcrK < No. 7.
SHHH a view to prevent interference,
< olor of State autl.oritv, with llm
of Military authority in tin- .Slat'
com posing this District, the following order
of the War Department, and that from
these Headquarters providing for its enforce
ment, are republished for the information
and guidance of all concerned.
Any civil officer of the existing State
Governments disregarding or violating the
provisions of theso orders, will, on a proper
representation of the facts of the case to
to these Headquarters, be removed from his
position :
War Department, 1
Adjutant General's Oppice, >
Washington, Jan. 12, 1806.}
General Orders, No. 3.
Military Division and Department Com
manders, whoso command embrace or are
composed of any of the late rebellious States,
and who have not already done so, will at
once issue and enforce orders protecting
from persecution or suits in the State or
Municipal Courts of such States, all officers
and soldiers of the Armies of the United
States, and all persons thereto attached, or
in any wise thereto belonging,' subject to
military authority, charged with offences for
acts done in their military capacity, or
pursuant to orders from proper military
authority; and to protect from suit or persecu
tion all loyal citizens or persons charged
with offences done against tho rebel forces,
directly or indirectly, during the existence of
the rebellion, and all persons, their agents or
employees, charged with the occupancy of
abandoned lands or plantations, or tW
possession or custody of any kind of property
whatever, who occupied, used, possessed, or
controlled the same, pursuant to the order of
the President, or any of the Civil or Military
Departments of the Government, and to
protect them from any penalties or damages
that may have been, or may be pronounced
or adjudged in said Courts in any of such
cases; and also protecting colored persons
from persecutions in any of said States
charged with offences for which white persons
are not persecuted or punished in the same
manner hud degree.
By command of Lieut. General Grant:
E. D. Townsend, A. A. G.
Hkadq’rs Third Military District,!
( Georgia, Alabama and Florida.) >■
Atlanta, Ga., August 2, 1867.)
General Orders, No. 45.
No civil courts of any of the States
within this Military District, will hereafter
entertain any action whatever against offi
cers or soldiers, or any other persons, for
nets performed in accordance with orders
from the Military Authorities, or by their
sanction; and all such suits now pending,
or in which costs have not been collected,
will be at once dismissed.
This order will be strictly enforced by Post
and Detachment Commanders in this Mili
tary District, and such officers will make
immediate report to these Headquarters of
any Judge or other civil authority who
attempts to disobey this order.
By command of Brevat Maj. Gen. Pope.
G. K. Sanderson,
Capt. 33d U. S. Inf., A. A. A. G.
By order of Major General Meade :
B. C. Drum,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Headers Third Military District, 1
(Dev't Georgia, Florida, and Alabama), V
Allanta, Ga., January 13, 1868. )
Circular.
To facilitate the transaction ol business at
District Headquarters, the Major General
Commanding finds it necessary to fix the
hours for the discharge of his duties as fol
lows :
From 9 a. in. to 12 in., he will receive and
transact business with the heads of bureaus
in the following order:
1. —Chief of Civil Affairs.
2. —Judge Department.
3. —Quartermaster’s Department.
4. —Subsistence Department.
s—Medical Department.
6. —Pay Department.
From 12 m. to 1 p. m., such citizens as
have no special business other than mere
personal visits.
From 1 p. m. to 4J p. m., such citizens as
have special business requiring action on
tho part of the Genera! Commanding.
By order of Major General Meade.
&. C. Drum, A. A. G.
Headq’rs Third Military District,!
( Georgia, Florida and Alabama,) >
Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 6, 1867. )
General Grders, No. 3.
I. —ln compliance with AVar Department,
General Orders, No. 104, Major General
Meade hereby assumes command of the
Third Military District.
11. —All existing orders will remain in
force until revoked or modified by orders
from these headquarters.
111. —The following officers are an
nounced as on the staff of Major General
Meade, and will be obeyed and respected
accordingly:
Brevet Brigadier General R. C. Drum,
Lieutenant Colonel U. S. Army, Assistant
Adjutant General,
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Campbell D.
Emory, Captain 9th Infantry, Aid-de-Camp.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel George Meade,
Captain 31 si Infantry, Aid-de-Camp.
By order ol Major General Meade.
R. C. Drum,
Assistant Adjutant General.
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I X IS AN UNFAILING REMEDY IN ALL
JL cases of Neuralgia Facialis, often affecting a
perfoct euro in loss than twenty-four hours from
the use of no moro than two or throo Pills.
No other form of Neuralgia or Norvous Disease
has failed to yield to this wonderful remedial
agent.
Even in the severest cases of Chronic Neuralgia
and general nervous derangements—of many
years standing—affecting the entire system, its
use for a sow days, or a few weeks at the utmost,
always affords the most astonishing relief, and
very rarely fails to produce a complete and
permanent cure.
It contains no drugs or other materials in the
slightest degree injurious, even to tho most
delicate systom, and can always be tisod with
perfect safety.
It has long been in constant use by many of
our most eminent Physicians, who give it thoir
unanimous and unqualified approval.
Rent by mail on receipt of price, und postage.
One packuge, sl,oo', Postage 6 cents.
Six packages, 5.00, “ 21 “
Twelve packages, *9.00, Postage 48 cents.
It is sold by all wholesale androtall dealers in
drugs and mudicinos throughout the United
States, and by
TURNER & CO., Sole Proprietors,
120 Tromont Street, Boston, Mass.
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AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1868.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO STATE AND
COUNTY TAX PAYBHB-—By imtructions
from the Comptroller General of Georgia, I am
required to collect at once the unpaid Taxes of
this county. As the law holds me to a strict ao
countability, I shall surely issue executions
against all who fail to pay by tho 20th of Feb
ruary, after which time settlement will hare to
bo i. ado with the Sheriff.
JOUN A. BOIILKR,
Tax Collector Richmond County.
ja2s—t2othFob
REPUBLIC AN " STATE CONVEN
TION. —The Union Republican voters of Geor
gia are requested to send Delegates to a Conven
tion to bo held at the City Hall, Atlanta, on
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY lath, at 10 o’clock
a. m., for tho purpose of transacting any busi
ness that may properly come before the Conven
tion.
The basis of representation Will be as follows;
Each county will bo entitled to the same num
ber of Delegates to which thoy are entitled iii
tho Constitutional Couvontion now in session in
too City of Atlanta :
Foster Blodgett, Chairman,
\yn.nAM Mahkham, W. 13.Higginbotham
P. M. Shxiblkt, C. C. Richarbson,
J. Bowles, Wm. J. White,
J. E. Bryant, Wm.ll. Noble,
Robert Alexander, 11. M. Turner,
Oeoroe Wali.au*:, S. W. Braird,
B. Smith, Benj. Dunnigan,
T. G. Campbell. E. B. Rucker,
REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE.
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AG ENO Y OF NORWICH »Hail
INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORWICH,
CONN.—Notice is hereby given that all parties
holding Policies of tho Norwich Fire Insurance
Company which have not yet expired, and were
.ssued by B. 11. Brodnax, as Agent, are required
to present the same immediately to the under
signed, in order that they may be duly rogis
tored. A. G. HALL, Agent,
ja24—lw 221 Broad street.
tfOTIOB.
Augusta,
7o the Stockholders of the Jlilledyeville, or
Macon and Augusta Railroad po :
Calls for payment on Subscriptions to the
Capital Stock of this Company have been made
up to fifty-five percent. Stock upon which this
amount has not been paid will be forfeited to the
Company.
A further call is now mado for twenty-five
per cent., payable on or before February 20t.h,
1868, at which date eighty por cent, will bo due,
aud Stock forfeited, if n«tpaid.
All Stockholders in arrears will at once cor*
respond with the Treasurer.
Tho Road is now in operation to Miiledge
ville, and is doing a large business. It is
believed that arrangements will be made by
which further calls will be avoided, if prompt pay
ment is now made.
By order of the Board of Directors.
R. B. BULLOCK, President.
J. A. 8. Milligan,
Secretary and Treasurer.
de2i—COt
Savannah Republican, New* aud Herald;
Macon Telegraph, Journal and Messenger ; Mil
ledgevillc Recorder , Federal Union ; Atlanta
Intelligencer and New Era, will please copy
above for sixty days, and send bill to the
Treasurer of Macon and Augusta Railroad, at
Augusta.
SEXTON.—THE SEXTON
will be found at kis office, at the Cemetery, from
8 a. m. to 1 p. in., and-from 2 to 5 p. m., every
day.
Ail order, left at any time will be promptly
attended to.
Residence—No. 6 Fenwick street.
P. If. IIALL,
ja 21 —1 in City Sexton.
AGENCY OF JAMES RIVER IN
SURANCE COMPANY.—Notice is hereby given
tdiat. all parties holding Policies of tho James
River Insurance Company which have not yet
expired and were issued by 13. H. Brodnax, as
.Agent, are required to present the samo imme
diately to the undersigned, in order that they
may be duly registered.
A. G. HALL, Agent,
jail)—lw 221 Broad street.
TAX NOTICE.
j$g5“CijERK OF COUNCIL'S OFFICE,
Augusta, Ga., .January 14, iSGS. —AII jicreons
liable for Cily Taxes (except those who arc re
quired to make quarterly returns), are hereby
notified that the CITY TAX DIGEST for 1868
id now open at my office (City Hall), and will
remain open until the first day of March next,
by which time all returns mu-t be made.
All those who fail to return by that time will
be returned for double taxation, and a fine of
not less than ten dollars per day will bo imposed
for each day of such failuro to return.
ySS* Office hours: From 0 o'clock a.m. to 1
o’clock p.m., and from 8 o’clock p.ra. to 5 o’clock
p.m., daily (Sundays excepted).
JAMES N. ELLS,
janls—td Clerk of Council.
U. S. INTERNAL REVENUE, }
Collector’s Office, 3d District Oeorcia, >
Augusta, January 11, 1858. J
jgig- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN
aceordanco with Section 63 (Department compi
lation), Internal Rovenue Laws of the United
States, Act of July 13th, 1866, that claimants to
tho following described property may appear
and file such claim with tho Collcotor, within
thirty days from the dato of this notice, as pre
scribed in tho provisions of said section and
law :
2 COPPER STILLS and Fixtures, found and
seized on tho promises of Paul Brontwcll,
Richmond county,
I COPPER STILI, and Fixtures, found and
seized on the premises of Washington Brid
woll, Richmond oounty.
COPPER STILL and Fixtnros, found and solzed
on tho premises of Alphonza Burroughs,
Richmond county.
lICOTPER STILL AND FIXTURES, found
and seized on the premisos of —■ —Simon
Riohmond county.
Tl\o above described property seized on or
about tho 28th day of December, 1867, for viola
tion of all laws relating to the distillation of
spirits. WILL D. BARD,
jai2--law-lw CoUecbw.
Piano Fortes Tuned.
rpo MEET THE TIMES, I HAVE RE
JL DEICED the charge for TUNING to
THREE DOLLARS.
Orders left at Alb. GEO. A. OATES’ 240
Broad Street, or at my Shop, opposite tho Post
Ofßoo, promptly attended to.
•I—ly* ROBERT A. HARPER.
FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR.
THE PETITION.
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Charges Against tlie Mayor
and Council.
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REPLY OF MAYOR US COUNCIL
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AFFIDAVITS.
Statement of Mayor Blodgett.
REPLY OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
Gentlemen of the Commission:
Before proceoJin.u' to reply specifically to
the charges >vhich General Wright and Mr.
Ganahl have submitted in support of wliat
thoy call the Petition o( the Citizens of
Augusta, lor the removal o£ the present
Mayor and Council if the City of Augusta,
we call your attention to the number, charac
ter and variety of the charge*, as well as the
manner and spirit in which they are pre
sented, in order that you may determine
whether this movement is made by good and
disinterested citizens for the welfare of the
community, or by selfish and designing per
sons for the gratification of feelings of per
sonal malignity, and hopes of future personal
benefit. If the movement is animated by
good motives, on the part of those who are
active in it, it'will doubtless, as it should do,
command your respect and your active
sympathy. But if animated by bad passions,
and worse motives, you will doubtless view
the wholo movement as a miserable political
manoeuvre iu keeping with mayjj others of
the so-called Conservative parly,fo bring the
Reconstruction measures of Congress into
contempt. We well knew when we consented
to take the position assigned us by the District
Commander,that those officers, whose term of
officehad expired, and all their friends, would,
iu the present sensitive state of public senti
ment, be enabled, with very little effort on
their part,' to enlist the sympathies of this
community, and that we would have every
difficulty thrown in our way which political
ingenuity and malevolence could devise;
still, we were not prepared to expect such
means as some that have beeu employed in
support of this most unjust and ili-founded
assault upon the present City Government.
We concede the right of ail good cilizens
of our beautiful and much loved city, to call
on us for an account of our stewardship at
any and all times ; but we submit that all
who may, at any time, desire to make the
call, will consult their self-respect and the
dignity of the city by doing so in a style
and spirit indicative of a simple desire to
know the truth and defend the right. In
this connection, we respectfully call the
attention of the Conrinission to the style in
which tho charges are made, (be proof upon
which they are sough! to be sustained, end
the further anil never-to-be-forgotten fact,
that this proof is assumed to be true iu all
particulars, and conclusive of the case,
without ever pausing to hear our defence
And the more effectually to forestall public
opinion, the editor of the Chronicle and
Sentinel, in his issue of the 22d instant,
modestly insinuates that you (the Commis
sion) are seeking to “prevent the public
from knowing wliat the evidence is, which
the Committee have submitted;" and boldly
declares that lie will lay it before the public
in a few days; and then concludes by as
suring tho people that the charges pre
ferred “have beeu fully sustained" against
“Biodgcit and his Council,” and that “their
acts of maladministration will he thoroughly
ventilated and exposed.” And again : “In
to morrow’s issue of this piper, we will
endeavor to lay before the public the paper
drawn up by Messrs. Ganahl and Wright, and
which accompanies the evidence to bo sent
up to General Meade.” We ask if this
looks, to the good people of Augusta, like
an honest and Dispassionate effort on the
part of the movants in this assiult upon the
Council to have a fair and impartial investi
gation of the charges made ?
While we know that many good and true
men in Augusta disapprove ol the course
we pursued in accepting and holding the
position we now occupy under military ap
pointment (and we do not question Jhat
thoir political views and prejudices are
honestly entertained), ypt they argtoo honor
able to consent to see ns drawn before the
public on specific charges made, and then
denied a fair and impartial hearing. AVe
have asked no mercy at the hands of out
accusers, but. on the contrary, thrown the
door wide Open and asked them to present
every charge they could ; but what we do ask
is,todo us justice. If the facts and testimony
sustain the charges, that as a Council we
have held secret sessions for corrupt ends—if
we have improperly and wickedly squandered
the money of the city, in regard to the public
printing; if the Mayor lias stolen a portion
of the wood bought for City use, and the
Council have known the crime, and winked
at it (for, gross as this charge is, it is one
among the many made); if we have re
moved good officers and put inefficient ones
in their place, simply upon the score of party
favoritism ; if prisoners convicted of crime
have been released from the jail for improper
purposes, and in obedience to bad motives ;
it the. credit and securities of the city have
been injured by the corrupt legislation and
policy of the Mayor and Council; or if, in fine,
they have shown themselves in any particular
corrupt anil unworthy the official position
they hold, let the just penalty fall upon the
guilty! We ask no exemption from a just
and legal prosecution ; all we ask is to be
sheltered from a mean and partisan persecu
-lion.
And now, having said thus much, we
proceed to reply to the charges made and
submitted by General Wright and Mr.
Ganahl, on behalf of the citizens. It will
be seen that there are two classes of
charges. First, those which assail the
Mayor individually; and, second, those
which assail the whole Council. First
charge against the Mayor is, that he is now
indicted for perjury in the District Court of
the United States, and a true hill found by
the Grand Jury ; and evidence is offered to
substantiate the truth ol this statement.
This was a fact so universally known that
we can scarcely see tho motive for pro
ducing certificates of Assistant Agent of
Post Office in tfcis city, and Clerk of tho
District Court of the United States, to
prove it, unless to gratify a spirit which
seems to characterize this whole prosecution
as one ol personal malignity and bitterness
toward the Mayor. But, we ask, admitting
this to be true—and, of courso, nobody
denies it—what then 7 Is Fdster Blodgett
guilty because a true bill has been found
against him 7 Is this tho logic "Messrs.
Ganahl and Wright," two members of tho
honored legal profession, would employ 7
Do they not at every Court defend men
against whom true bills have been found,
and acquit them ? If these gentlemen were
asked as lawyers, hy you, to state the pre
sumption of the law, in all Bueh cases, they
would (rankly tell you that every man is
presumed to be innocent until the contrary
is made to appear legally. Is there any
reason, then, outside of political prejudice,
why Alayor Blodgett should not have the
benefit of this wise and just presumption of
the law ? Suppose you should ask General
AVright or Mr. Ganahl if they believe
Jefferson Davis, late President of the Con
federate States, is a traitor, and unworthy
of the confidence and esteem of all good
and true men, what think you would be
their response'/ Certainly, an indignant
“no.” And yet he stands charged to-day,
before the District Court ol Virginia, by a
finding ot a Grand Jnry, with this highest
crime known to the laws of civilization-
If it is legitimate to say that the Mayor is
guilty because a true . bill has been found
against him, is it not equally legitimate in
the case of Jefferson Davis ? For our part,
we think it nest not to prejudge, but abide
the final decision of the Court,in both cases.
If Mr. Davis is found technically guilty, we
shall ever believe that his motives were
honest, and his action the result of his
political faith and doctrines. If it should
turn out, as wo think it will, that Mayor
Blodgett felt constrained to go into the
Confederate service, and did not do so of
his own free volition, we apprehend that no
one will longer believe him guilty ot per
jury. Thus much the Members of Council
have thought proper to say on this point,
and now refer to the statements and proofs
submitted herewith by the Mayor himself.
That tliis is a prosecution against the
Mayor, founded, perhaps, in bad motives,
we have the evidence of General Wright
himself, in an editorial, only as far back as
September last, and which we copy here in
full :
(.From the Chronicle A Sentinel, Sept. 22, 1867.]
NOT TRUE.
Wo loam that a report is in circulation in the
city to the effect that the writer had been sub
poenaed to attend the United States Circuit
Court at Savannah in October next, as a witness
against tho Mayor of * his city and Federal Post
master here, on a oharge of perjury. Tho re
port, as far as General Wright is concerned, is
not true. After his return from Baldwin Supe
rior Court, yesterday morning, a summons was
handed to General Wright, requiring him, under
penalty of five hundred dollars, to appear before
the United States Circuit Court at Savannah, in
October next, to give evidence in a certain
cause, thou and there, wherein the United States
of America is a party, on the part of the said
United States.”
Wc have nothing to do with this matter, and
don’t intend so be made a party to it in any
manner, shape, or form. We believe it is an
attempt to levy black mail on the part of some
persons, and wo can’t aid in such a disre/iulnlle
purpose. Wo oppose Mr. Blodgett, and hove
opposed him on purely political grounds. The
question of perjury is one which affects him as a
man, and in his individual capacity. Asa con
ductor of a public journal we cannot- afford to
prostitute its columns for the purpose of grati
fying personal spite or spleen, nor for the more
corrupt purposo of extorting hush money.
The next charge against the Mayor is,that
he gave free passes to certain parties on the
Railroads, for political purposes, to wit,
Bryant and Beard. AVe deem it only neces
sary to refer in this connection to the sworn
statement of the Mayor on this point, and
the affidavits of Bryant and Beard, which
are before you, showing that these parties
were engaged upon city business.
Again, it is charged that the Mayor gave
free tickets to bad characters to pass over
the Railroads. It is an old custom of the
city, where paupers and helpless people want
to get on to their homes and friends, to give
them tickets over the roads, ft is quite likely
that some of these may be bad characters, but
we have never understood that the Mayors
ol the city ever stopped to inquire into their
characters, or would have hesitated to send
one because his or her character was bad. In
deed, this would seem to furnish an additional
reason why the City should not be anxious to
detain them. VY hile certificates were being
obtained from the Ex-Mayors, why was their
testimony not collected on this verij stnetll
point also ? But a clamor was gotten up,
and we suppose this little Tempest in a Tea
Pot had to be thrown in to fill the sails of
the rickety little craft so fiercely launched on
the waves of popular passion and-political
malignity!
And, lastly, as to the charges made against
the Mayor, personally, we notice the shame
less one that he had used a portion of the
wood nought for City use. This, stript of all
guise, means simply that the Mayor stole so
much wood from the City. We have alwavs
known that political feeling would some
times carry men of the highest respectability
to very great lengths of impropriety, but we
were not prepared for such a charge as this !
llow easy it would have for those
gentl(Mne:i to h;ive gone to the Treasurers
office ami ascertained if those charges were
tiue l And how much better this would
have looked. We refer you to the Treasurer’s
certificate to show you how far this charge is
sustained. After reading it, we think you
will agree with us that comment is unneces
sary. But before disposing of this subject
finally, we refer you to the affidavits of
Shackelford and Pardue, distributors of wood
for the City, for the months of January,
February and March, 1867. for the custom of
furnishing wood to officers of the City at the
same price paid by the City, and the sanction
of this practice by the previous Mayor,
Another charge against the Mayor is, that
lie released a prisoner from jail, etc., etc.
J Ins charge is fully met by the Mayor’s state
ment and the oath of George M, Hood, also
before you. It will be seen that for a special
purpose, looking to the proper administration
of his police duties, the Mayor had this man
sometimes released for a short while at a
time, but always under the surveillance of
the officer. This matter has been referred
to the Grand Jury, and as we learn no word
of disapproval whatever has been uttered by
them—feeling, and seeing, and knowing, as
doubtless do, that this is a matter
touching the police regulations of the City,
about which no one can be so good a judge
as the Mayor, and for which he is specially
and peculiarly responsible, The affidavit of
Hood shows that the man in question, Ilafe
Knight, was sometimes employed as a detec
tive, by order of the Mayor,
It is further alleged, that he discharged
and threatened to discharge officers unless
they voted for him. This gross statement
ts mot, and fully met, by tne statement of
tho Mayor and the many affidavits of offi
cers and others on this subject, which have
been submitted to you. Wo call your at
tention to tho affidavit of ono of the wit
nesses sworn for tho petitioners on this
point: Ho says that C. Smalley told him
that the Mayor said if ho “did not vote for
him-he would bo dismissed.” By looking
to Smalley’s affidavit, it will be seen that no
such statement was made by him.
It is said that Ilowarton & Conway re
ceived a ohook on tho Treasury for the
amount of tho wood furnished, ana that tho
chock has not been paid! Wo regret to
Georgia Printing Company, Publishers.
nf n< X th u„ th L y “I - not the creditors
of the criy whose claims have not yet been
paid. Poverty is not confined to individuals
-corporations, public and private, feel
alike the same pressure of these extra
ordinary times. We would most gladly
have it otherwise, but, like everybody else
must bow to the necessities of the hour.
The Treasurer’s report will show that there
has been hut indifferent collection of taxes,
owing to the distress of the people. And
it is further true, and should be stated in
this connection, that a bill praying injunc
tion against the Council seeking to restrain
it from collecting a tax levied on “ gross
amount of sales,” etc., at the instance of
Pierce. Wheless & Cos., is now pending
before the Supreme Court. This of itself
retards the collection of some thirty or forty
thousand dollars taxes due the City. The
decision of Judge Gibson sustained the
right of the Council to levy and enforce
the tax, and we dare say the Supreme Court
will do likewise. If so, this large amount
will be brown into the Treasury, and, with
incomes from other sources, greatly relieve
the City finances.
We notice now the charges against the
Council. And first, the charge that in
secret session they raised the salary of the
Mayor from $2,000 to $5,000. This we did
for the reasons following: We were satisfied
"that the Mayor ought to give -his whole
time and attention to the duties of his
office, and not, as heretofore, only such time
as he could spare from his private business.
Wc thought we had seen the injury result
ing to the City from an unwise parsimony
in this particular; and that we were not
alone in this opinion, we here refer to the
letter of ex-Mayor Gardiner, assigning his
reasons for resigning the office! We do
not deny that we did in executive session
raise the salary as stated. And we did it
for the reasons stated. If our judgment
was bad, the results ought to show it. We
require constant and arduous duties of the
Mayor, and well and efficiently has he
performed them. AVhcn we come to con
sider the charge about the ruin of the City
finances, we shall point with pride and
pleasure to the results of our policy, in this
and other particulars, to show how far the
charges are sustained, and we shall confi
dently rely upon them for our complete
vindication against all the reckless charges
of wasteful extravagance made against us.
If it shall appear that many subordinate
offices, attended with inconvenience and
expense, have been dispensed with, and the
Mayor’s duties have been lately increased,
and it shall further appear, what we now
state to be true, that it was the purpose,
and so understood and agreed at the time,
to merge the Recorder’s office, at such time
as it might bo deemed best for the interests
of the City to do so, with that of the Mayor
alty, and that the Mayor should perform
the duties of both offices, his salary
will hardly be considered as too. large.
The office of Recorder has since been so
merged. It is stated, however, that this
resolution increasing the salary was never
spread on the minutes. This is not true.
It appears on tho minutes of that date, in
the handwriting of the Clerk, L. T. Blome,
and was read and confirmed in open session
at the next regular meeting of Council. So
much for this charge!
It is charged further that we made reduc
tion of the toll rates. This we did under
the impression that if the cotton wagons
were thus induced to come over the bridge
with their cotton, it would materially benefit
our city interests. We can add that this
policy was pursued at the request of cotton
factors in this city, they thinking, as we did,
it would work well in bringing cotton
through Hamburg to our city. Finding
that we were mistaken in our expectations of
benefit from this source, the policy was
abandoned some time since, and this fact,
we suppose, must have been known to our
accusers before they got up their petition
for our removal. \\ r e do not deny that the
receipts for tolls are less by 50 per cent,
than formerly, but, this is owing to the
condition of the country mainly, aul, per
haps, in no small degree, to the fact that
when farmers send over their loaded wagons,
they are not unfrequently seized under
attachments, so that they can not even
return with their teams without giving the
necessary bond, etc. The decrease in toll j
commenced before we took the toils off
cotton wagons, and we hoped, as this de
crease had air. My begun, to benefit our
city hy inducing the farmers to come among
us with their productions. The special
exemption of the Kaolin Company’s wagons
from toll was made on the ground that the
ware manufactured at that Factory waSMill
sold in this city, and a tax on its sale paid
to the city, and that supplies for the Factory
and hands were purchased in the city, upon
which sales taxes were also paid, and that
all these passing over the Bridge, and
being subjected to toll also, would he to
double tax them. Council, it is true, re
fused to relieve the Bath Paper Mills from
toll, because their Factory, though, as
stated by our accusers, only a short distance
from the Kaolin Works, was directly -on the
Railroad, and the bulk of their paper and
supplies passed to and from the city on the
ears, and thus paid no toll; while the
Kaolin Works were off the railroad, and,
of course, did not enjoy the same facility of
railroad transportation. As will appear, by
reference to statement of all the Council,
except Mr. Bullock, herewith presented, Mr.
Bollock moved to exempt the Bath Paper
or, in other words, to grant their
jgElon ; but it was refused for the reasons
sSuid. Whereupon, Mr. Bullock moved to
repeal tho exemption In favor of the Kaolin
’Works, but was overruled —the rest of the
Council thinking, for the reasc* stated, that
the discrimination in lavor of Kaolin Works
was a just and proper otie. So much for
the charge ol partisan favoritism I
In reply to the charge touching the Small
Pox Hospital, we refer you to the affidavit of
Dr. Swinney, whose evidence we ask you to
consider along with Dr. Jones’s affidavit.
Dr. Swinney is a geutleman and physioian
of high character in this city, and endeared
to these people by his high sense of duty as
a man, and his promptness as a citizen, and
professionally, in the discharge of all his
duties. For these reasons, and his services
rendered in the late “Lost Cause," we call
attention to tho fact that his name has been
frequently mentioned in connection with tho
Mayoralty of this City. No one will question
the truth of his statements; aud how clearly
they disprove tho allegations made against
us on this point? It appears that he docs
ail the work done under the old rtgime by
some four or live officers, and has the jail
patients (lo less than 2AO, since his installa
tion) to attend to beside, and his pay has
been increase I only $33.33 per mouth. This
charge,then, like all its kindred charges, dis
appears tinder tho weight of facts and the
stubborn truth!
It is further alleged, in the Bill of Indict
ment of ouv magnanimous accusers, that
the City printing was contracted for by the
present Council at a rate more than three
times as large as that given by the Council
lor the previous year. This has the appear-
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anee of being true ; but when you refer to
the sworn statement of Mr. Pughe, it will
be seen, that while he took the City printing
the previous year at 12£ cents a square,
it is also true that he was induced to do to
by two considerations: first, that be was
also to have the job work; and secondly,
M his paper was intended purely as an
advertising medium, and was published and
istributed at that time as a free paper, he
esired to make it an object of interest to
a l me citizens, and believed that doing the
i y advertising would materially tend to
!'ff° mp L ll *a. J lhU object. But it
Kp 6 no J the job work, for
he states that during that time the ether
P „ w f. n doing work for the
what Lp fin f ettln .® th re e and four times
what he did for similar work. We direct
your attent,on specially to the charge made
that the contract was made on the 2d dav
of August, with Mr. Pughe, forthe public
printing. Now, why this statement, unless it
was made to bolster up their groundless
charge that three of the Council were in
terested in the paper at the time of the con.
tract, and therefore made the contract with
themselves and for their own benefit?
Mr. Pughe’s affidavit shows that the con
tract was made on the 6th of July,
and it appears that the report of it was made
to the Council at specified in the
charge! This convenient arrangement of
dates to sustain a pointy was very probably
purely accid- n/al on the part of our generous
accusers 1 The facts show that this contract
was made prior to any arrangement for the
Georgia Printing Company to purchase the
“Daily Press,” with the proprietor of which
the contract was made, as appears from Mr.
Pughe’s affidavit; and that at the time of this
contract lie had no idea whatsoever of the
subsequent business arrangement with that
Company. This dissipates all the argument
founded upon the statute of 1840.
One other remark on the subject of the
public printing, and we have done with it.
By reference to the sworn statement of L.
T. Blome, Clerk of Council, it will be seen
that all the newspapers in the city were duly
notified of the time when bids would be
received, and ihe terms. Yet the proprie
tors ut the other papers stayed away and
made no bid whatever—leaving the field to
Mr. Pughe, of the “ Daily Press,” who bid
silty cents a square, but contracted finally to
take it at twenty per cent- less than the bid.
If Gen. AVright wished to do the City print
ing, and especially if he was willing that
the Chronicle and Sentinel office should do
it cheaper than Mr. Pughe agreed to do it,
why did not he send in his proposal ? As
he did not think proper to do so then, he
has no one to blame but himself, and ought
t« cease his complainings. Anil it further
appears that at the time that Mr. Pughe
got the City printing at 124 cent3,the lowest
bid made by the Chronicle and Sentinel and
Constitutionalist, conjointly, was 66f cents
per square.
The facts show that no Member of the
Council, as such, took a contract under the
Council. The joint stock company owns
two or more papers, aud this contract with
one of them was existing at the time it was
purchased by the Company. A\ r e have
always understood that when the reason bf
the law ceases, the law itseif has no appli
cation. The design of the law was to
prevent Councilmen using their influence
to get contracts in their own favor. In this
case the contract was made with a party no
way connected at the time with either
Member of the Council, and, of oourse, tho
contract was made legally and without tho
taint of suspicion.
A member of Council becoming a stock
holder in a company which afterwards
purchased the paper with which the con
tract had been made previous to that time,
does not violate the act in question. AYe
are in favor of great particularity in the
performance of official obligations and
duties; but we submit if an arrangement of
this kind is to be held up as evidence of a
■want of official integrity,whethor it will
not be pushing the doctrine to its extreme
verge. Even the late Mayor, Hon. John
Foster, whose character is fully endorsed
by our assailants, and most freely by our
selves, might have his official integrity im
punged if, at any time, lie had so far for
got himself as to sell meat from his stall in
the market to Jail, Hospital, and other
places kept up at tho expense of the city,
AVe now proceed to show you that,insteadof
money being squandered in the contract for
City printing, there has been a * clear
saving over the expenses authorized by the
former Council, of fourteen dollars
under the present arrangement. It will be
seen, by the statement furnished from the
Collector and Treasurer, that the amount ex
pended in the public printing of the City
was $3,422.82
AVhile the amount expended by
the present Council is 1.380.84
Bal. in favor present Council is... $1,441.98
Facts and figures don’t deceive—words
may, sometimes.
But it is also alleged, that the Council has
turned out good officers and put others in,
without just cause. We presume the officers
referred to under this head are those whose
terra of office had expired, and who failed to
be reflected at the late regular session of
the Council. Their failure, we suppose, was
owing to the fact that a majority of the
Council thought others quite as capable, and
quite as much, or more, entitled to the posi
tion 1 This certainly gave them no right to
complain. If the Council had had no other
motive for failing to reflect these officers
than simply to place worthy men of their
own political views in their places, this, ac
cording to the political ethics ot the day,
would have been perfectly legitimate. It we
aro not mistaken, General Wright has
peatedly held of late, as editor of the
Chronicle <f Sentinel, that the President of
the United States ought to have no man in
his Cabinet, or elsewhere in official position,
by his appointment, who was antagonistic
to him in his political views and senti
ments. "Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel!’’
And now we come, lastly, to notice the
charge ol general mal administration of the
finances, wasteful extravagance, etc., re
sulting, it is alleged, in the serious impair
ment of the City credit, and depreciation of
its securities. Before proceeding to call
your attention to tho statement of the Collec
tor Bttd Treasurer, which effectually answers
all this gt’and flourish of trumpets, we think
it due to truth to say, what our assailants
must know, that one of the principal reasons
{or the non demand for our City securities is
that which, to a greater or less extent, de
presses all Southern securities, to-wit: the
agitation kept up against the reconstruction
measures ol Cotigress. Capital is ever timid,
and will surely not seek investment where
society is kept forever on the verge of revo
lution hy the inflamatory appeals and denun
ciations of disfranchised politicians.
It will be seen from tho statement of the
Collector aud Treasurer, before you, that
from May Ist, 1800, to January Ist, 1867
the same number of mouths us thoso for
which the present Board administered the
finances of the city during the year
