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speaks <»i ihe amount of saul warrant
Leing at the rate *»f $150 00 r it occurs
to me that he tnay possibly refer to an
other warrant in favor ot my brother
for services under the “Wild Land”
laws. It so, he is equally unfortunate,
for section 878 of the Code expressly
authorizes the Governor to appoint a
clerk to perform the duties upon which
my brother has tor some time been en- j
gaged, having been appointed by the :
Governor. For this service the war-!
rant was drawn at the rate of S150 00 1
per month, and as no salary was fixed |
by law tor this clerk, the Governor, in
bis discretion, fixed it as above. It is ;
the same that has been allowed other j
clerks, both in the Executive office and j
in the office of Superintendent of Public j
Works. Also, the clerks employed to I
make county maps, &c., all which the :
Treasurer has heretofore paid, without j
doubting then propriety, so far as l am j
informed. But why did the Treasurer :
pay a warrant for $500 in favor ot his \
son tor making a transfer ot certain en
tries in his office, and why did he he, i
at a subsequent period, pay another;
warrant in favor of his son for the same
service for $350, making in all $850
for these tiausfers, when there is no ex
press law authorizing it ? The resolu
tion named refers exclusively to the
Comptroller General’s office, yet I find
on my book the two warrants in favor
of the Treasurer’s son for “extra ser
vice iransferring Treasurer Rockwell’s
book?,” &e. This is not all. The
Treasurer < fleets great veneration for
“law.” and the “will of the Legisla
ture,” yet in the teeth of his preten
sions, 1 find on my book warrant No.
28 for SloO, in favor of his son approv
ed November 10, 1808, “for extra ser
vice as Treasurer's clerk.” On page
10, Laws of 1S6S section 13 of the Ap
propriation Ac), there is appropriated
S500 00 io pay the salarv of the same
clerk tor the latter half of 1S6S. This
ad became a law 10th of October,
1863, and here was the expressed will
of the Legislature that the Treasurer’s
clerk should have but $500 for half the
year, or at the rate of $1,000 per year.
Yet, on the lOih of November thereaf
ter, the Treasurer, with all his venera
tion for law and ihe expressed will of
the Legislature, paid his son $150 over
ami above his lawful salary.
Again, on the lSlh January, 1809, I
find ihai another warrant for the same
amount, No. 132, in favor of his son,
was approved and entered, for similar
services in the Treasurer’s office.—
Now, let it be remembered that about
the same liine that each of these war-
rams was approved, another warrant
for $2-50, drawn on the civil appropri
ation lor the salary of this same clerk
was approved and paid, so that he
drew the $500 appropriated, and $300
besides, for .his services during the lat
ter half of the year 1SGS.
The Treasurer comments severely
upon my assertion that i had no right
to supervise the Governor in his appli
cation of the Contingent Fund, and at
tempts to show by quotations from the
Code that it is my duty to audit all ac
counts and allow or reject them before
they are submitted to the Governor,
but this does not show that I have the
right to designate the fund out of which
they shall lie paid.
1 have audited and allowed or reject
ed every account that has ever been
presented to me, and if I have not done
this in case of all the accounts that
have been paid, it was because the
holders have not presented them. And
here the Treasurer is is again unfortu
nate. He takes me to task for not ap
proving every account or item paid for
out ot the Contingent Fund by the Gov
ernor, when he himself has neglected,
in some instances, to present his ac
counts for approval, and l*as filed his
accounts in the Executive Office in
dorsed with his own approval alone, pre
sented his warrant at this office, had it
approved and pocketed the money. I
ask again, why has he thus disregard
ed the injunctions of the law which he
has quoted ? Why does he not set a
better example, and practice what he
leaches ? 1 find on file in the Execu
tive Office accounts amounting in the
aggregate to over $700 00, approved
by tbe Treasurer embracing in part,
cash payments made by him for station
ery, exchange, express charges, tele
grams, water cooler, letter heads &e.,
and this is included in one of the same
warrants referred to before, drawn on
the 23d Section of the Appropriation
Act of 1369. Now, not one of these
accounts has my approval upon it, yet
in the eyes of the Treasurer, it is a
great dereliction of duty in me not to
audit every account lor which a war
rant is issued. So it seems when he
wants to gel money, he does not wait
for the regular routine which he now
insists that the public creditors shall
follow, at leasy lie cl id not wait in the
instance referred to.
In conclusion, I would remark t that
in all I have said during my controver
sy with the Treasurer, i have dealt
with him in his official capacity, and it
has been my purpose to avoid person
alities. Being atlacked, I considered
it a solemn fluty to defend my official
course, and the honor and dignity of.
the Comptroller General’s office. This
was due to the public, for whose bene
fit the office I hold should be adminis
tered. Further than Lhis it has not
been uiy intention to go, and with this
I bid the Treasurer adieu—at least for
the present. Respectfully,
MADISON BELL,
Comptroller General.
Another Letter from Dr. Angier.
In the Comptroller General’s com
munication of nearly two columns, in
to-day’s Intelligencer, that officer’s
main efforts are to shield himself in his
errors by a mantle he has undertaken
to manufacture for the Treasurer. The
Treasurer does not claim that perfec
tion that can transmute wrong into
right, and was not before aware that
he was regarded in the light of a men
tor to the Comptroller. If we are Lo
be his pater/) and counselor, and he is
to make us an excuse tor all his errors, for exhibition, without charge. It will
we claim that he should follow the afford me much pleasure to aid you by
good as well as the bad. There is no every means in my power, in your
sin in ignorance founded on inexperi- laudable efforts to make the Fair wor-
rence, but it is a blockhead that never thy of the Empire Stale of the South ;
learns anything and never relorms. ! and to this end, I have this day ad-
The Treasurer is ready to admit that dressed a circular letter to the Super-
when first entering upon his duties, j intendents of railways throughout the
from a lack of full knowledge, arising South, as well as those of the leading
from inexperience, and a desire for mu- or trunk lines in the Northern States,
tual harmony in the Stale Departments, asking their concurrence and active aid
he did pay some illegal warrants drawn j in carrying out your suggestion of half-
trryt
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upon the printing fund, thinking war- i fare lor visitors, and also that they
rants drawn by the Governor and ap- transport all live stock for exhibition
proved by the Comptroller, were cor- both ways at half the usual rates, and
rect ; but after his error being made all articles free of charge,
known-to him, by a report of a com.- Their replies will be transmitted to
mitlee of the Genet al Assembly, he you as received.
conformed to the provisions of law, in-j We will use all the means in our
stead of persisting in wrong-doing like power to make the Fair a success
the Comptroller. | which the planters, farmers and manu-
The Comptroller persists in his pu- facturers of Georgia will be proud of.
ny excuse that if the Treasurer, in re-; Very respectfully, your friend and
sisting these unlawful encroachments hearty well-wisher,
upon the Treasury, does happen to
pay some warrants improperly drawn
it excuses him in all his efforts in aid
ing the Governor to deplete the Treas
ury. In regard to warrant No. 149, of
January 20th, the extravagance of the
Governor had exhausted the fund on
which this warrant should have heee
E. HULBERT, Supt.
Western and Atlantic R. R., I
Superintendent’s Office, ?
Atlanta, Ga., July 24, 1869. )
Dear Sir:—The State Agricultural
Society of Georgia, having been per
manently reoreanized under the aus-
drawn; and regard to warrant No. 107, P»ccs and management of the leading
all the vouchers for said warrant were j agriculturalists and manufacturers ot
presented lo the Comptroller General’s ' State, the first Annual Fair will he
office for approval, but no one was there ! * ie * d ln Macon, Ga., in November, 1869,
authorized to credit the accounts— j commencing on Tuesday, the 16th day
When the Treasurer’s clerk took the °f l be month.
voucher lo the Executive office asking Among the very many advantages re
warrant on the Contingent Fund, suiting from such exhibitions are
which was refused by the Governor, I ^ improved quality and increased
the Contingent Fund being nearly ex- I quantity of all kinds of plantation pro-
hausled, and the Governor wishing to ducls ai)(] manufactured articles; the
retain all that fund lor his own use,the j spjnt of generous emulation and pro-
Treasurer’s clerk then accepted the | g r ess they excite and encourage ; the
warrant on the 2-3d section, finding it | general instruction they impart, and
was the only way be could get credit j lhe mtormation thereby disseminated,
on the hooks for money already ex
pended before the issuing of the war
rant. Another reason the clerk ac
cepted the warrant drawn on the 23d
section, was that much the larger por
tion of said accounts were properly
chargeable to said section. Further
more it is not the business of the Treas
urer to audit accounts. The Comp
troller’s statement conveys the impres- j m o
sion that these two warrants were ! eac " ^her
on all subjects of vital importance to
material development, by affording op
portunities for a personal interchange
of views in regard thereto by well in
formed citizens; in stimulating to a
wonderful degree the inventor’s intel
lect ; and, by bringing together the cit
izens of various parts of the Slate and
of the Union, producing a kindlier feel-
fur and a higher appreciation ot
a greater harmony and
drawn solely foTexpensbs of the Treas- I consequently a vastly greater efficiency
urv department, when the truth is, far! 0 * t * 10U g* lt and action,
the greater portion was for cash ad-1 It is the ambition of the officers of
vanced by the Treasurer on accounts the Society to make this Fair one of
for other departments of the State. | unusual interest, both as regards the
The Treasurer paid his son the same number of persons present from all sec-
amount as was paid the Comptroller’s | lions, and the extent and variety of
brother for the same services, under stock, products and manufactured ar-
the same authority by which theComp- J ticles on exhibition, especially as it is
troller’s brother was paid, to-wit: a : confidently believed that many persons
recommendation in a report adopted j from the Northern States will al the
by the General Assembly. j time be traveling through the South lo
The Comptroller Genet al having bid inform themselves on all these matters,
us “adieu,” the Treasurer does not feel The enterprise, energy and progres-
disposed to further continue a contro-; sive public spirit of Georgia has gained
j versy with a person who, without re-i tor her the foremost place among the
gard lo truth, persists m re-asserting
his own assertions, unsupported by
any legal authority, but in direct con-
llict with the law.
States of this section, and the proud
distinction of “The Empire State of the
South.” The pre-eminence thus vol
untarily accorded her, must be made
The Comntroller adheres closely lo good on all suitable occasions—for
the old maxim, that a lie well siuck to,
has all the power and force of truth.
There is another maxim, “the way
of the transgressor is hard,” and the
Executive and the Comptroller need
not think to escape the common lot of
the wilfully and persistently guilty by
doubling teams.
N. L. ANGIER,
Treasurer.
Atlanta, July 29, 1S69.
The Stale Fair—Leiter from Secretary Lewis.
Macon, Ga., July 2-3, 1S69.
Editors Telegiaph: I request the pub
lication in your paper ol the accorn- i
panying communications, containing
matters of some interest to the lriends j
of the State Agricultural Society. I
do not doubt that, with the assistance j
promised by Col. Hulbert, I shall pro-:
cure return tickets tree for visitors from 1 mental in Hoing much good and accept
all points West and Norihwest. Be- ed as a great personal favor bv
fore writing to Co
skilled and ambitious contestants have
entered the field to try and wrest it
from her.
To secure the laudable objects pro
posed by the officers of the Georgia
Stale Agricultural Society, and give to
the Fair all possible interest, I respect
fully request that you will pass visitors
to it, over your road, at one fare for
the round trip—the ticket to be good
for thirty days—full fare going and re
turning free on the certificate of the
Secretary of the Society ; that all arti
cles for exhibition be transported free,
and all stock transported both ways
for one-half the usual rale.
Yourconcurrence in the above propos
ed arrangement will be very highly ap
preciated, not only by all the officers
and members of the Society, but by
the people of Georgia, will be instru-
Hulbert, it had
been already obtained to Memphis, or
the West, and to Charleston, or the
East. I have also the aid of Mr. Peake,
ol the South Carolina Railroad, in ex
tending the scheme beyond Charleston,
through the Manchester, Wilmington
ar.d Weldon Railroads. I expect,
through letters addressed to-day to
Judge King and Superintendent ^John
son, ot the Georgia Road, lo extend the
schedule over the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Roads, on, through Dan
ville, to R ichmond. The question then
comes—with one fare on all Lhe
through lines of the Union, what will
Macon and her twelve or thirteen thou
sand inhabitants do with the twelve or
fifteen thousand visitors that will be
thrown all al once into the city ? As
the answer to this question does not
properly belong to this department, we
leave it to those who are better able lo
make it.
I take pleasure in here staling that
the exhibition ot improved stock of all
kinds—of agricultural implements of
all descriptions—of labor saving ma
chinery of all descriptions—will prob
ably surpass anything ever seen m the
Cotton States.
The Exhibition, too, promises to be
enlivened by all kinds of good music.
Manufacturers of installments of all
kinds are enquiring for places for their
exhibition.
[ feel confident that the city and its
authorities will be equal to what, looks
to me, will be a great emergency.
Respectfully, D. W. LEWIS.
Western and Atlantic R. R., 4
Superintendent’s Office, >
Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1869. )
Hi n. D. W. Lewis, Secretary Stale Ag
ricultural Fair, Macon, Ga.:
Dear Sir:—Your favor of the 19th
inst., has been received. In reply, I
beg to assure you that the Western
and Atlantic Railway will pass all per
sons attending the Georgia State Agri
cultural Fair, to be held at Macon, both
ways, tor one fare, the persons paying
full fare going, and returning free on
presentation of the certificate of the
Secretary, and all articles and live stock
ed as a great personal favor by
Yours very respectfully.
E. HULBERT,
Superintendent W. &. A. R. R.
The Port Royal Railroad to be Built.—
We are informed, upon the best author
ity, that contracts were executed yes
terday, which will ensure the comple
tion, within the next twelve months, of
the railroad between this city and Port
Royal—an enterprise which, when fin
ished .will do so much toward increas
ing the wealth and prosperily of Augus
ta. For some lim** past the President
ol this corporation has been earnestly
al work, both in the North and Sduth,
endeavoring to secure that aid for his
road which would allow him to push it
rapidly forward to completion, and we
are rejoiced to be able to announce
that at last his efforts have been crown
ed with complete success.
The wealthy and widely known firm
of New York capitalists has contracted
to build the road from this city to Port
Royal—a distance of one hundred and
ten miles— within the next twelve
months, for the sum of seven hundred
thousand dollars, to be paid lo them
in the stock of the Company. The
road, after it gets out of the city of A u-
gusia, passes over the most favorable
country for railroad purposes in the
world, and we have not doubt, that if
Taylor & Co., have really taken hold
of the work, the end of the twelve
months will finish its completion.
. [Chron. Sen.
A new horror is added to the internal
revenue tax in New York. Horace Gree-
ley publishes the names of all the men
who live handsomely and yet return no
income at all to the Commissioners.
The editor of the Reform League says;
“The value of the boots and shoes made
in MKssacbusett8, in the year 1868, was
over $95,000,000.
Henry Ward Beecher’s pulpit is deco
rated every Sunday with two choice vases
of flowers. This adornment costs S8C0 a
year, aud the pastor considers it an excel
lent investment.
Condemned murderers in Utah have the
privilege of choosing the manner of their
death. They generally prefer shooting.
MILLEDGEVILLE:
Tuesdays August 3, 1869.
POLITICAL PARTIES.
We trausfer to our columns a very sen
sible and timely article from the Journal
& Messenger relative to old political par
ties aud their influence upon the prosper!"
ty of the South. Since the war, we do not
think that the South has been very deep
ly interested in politics, save ouly as an
adjunct,looking to her political disenthral
meut from the oppressive, iniquitous aud
unconstitutional measures of CoDgress and
the Radical party. We have simply been
lookiug for relief through the influence of
the Northern Democratic party should it
obtain power, aud hence, our people beDt
their energies aud gave their votes in that
direction.
But after the defeat o*f the Democratic
party in the last Presidential election, and
the inauguration of radical principles and
ideas, the people of the South has wisely,
we believe, turned their thoughts to their
individual interests, and the interests of
their respective States. They saw uo po
litical prosperity or particluar encourage
ment from the administration of President
Graut after the first and second mouths ;
and having given up hope iu that direc
tion, their leading idea has been to rebuild
their shattered fortnues; which we are
pleased to say, and believe, they are do
ing with an energy that is attracting the
admiration of their bitterest political
enemies, and at the same time breaking
down the barriers that partisans and fanat
ics erected from which to assail us as un
reconstructed Rebels and Traitors. As
our prosperity as individuals and States
are being recognised and felt, those who
have been the bitterest in their denuncia
tions, are beginning to talk of us with hon
ied words. They see that their vile and
villainous measures will in time rebound
to their own hurt, and when brought face
to face as they must be with those they
have so outrageously insulted, some speech
will be pointed to as displaying great mag
nanimity to oar section. He who has been
insulted, slighted, neglected, and despised
i in the day of bis poverty, knows well what
value to put upon the tendered friendship,
respect and admiration of those who court
his favor or iuflueuce in the days of his
prosperity. The lesson of the past, will
never be forgotten by the South ; if it does,
then we deserve to be slaves.
As to the policy of the South aligning
itself with either of the present polit
ical parties, it is the merest folly, and
the most suicidal step that we can as a
sensible people take. Let the Northern
political parties fight out their own battles
for the spoils of office and insert into their
platforms what they please. Our day nor
hour has not yet come, and we can make
nothing by interesting ourselves in their
fights for power and plunder. Both parties
North are working for their own interests
and selfish ends,and are ready to take any
position to catch the popular breeze, no
matter how or where it blows. Success are
the principles written upon both their ban-
banners.
As an individual, we belong to no party ;
we hold allegiance to none, aud when we
co operate with auy, it will be because we
believe it to be to the interest of our State
and section so to do. There is not a par
ty at the North to day, that would not 6ell
out the rights of the South as far as it is able
if by so doing, it could command success ;
and there is not a party North, with Sum
ner and Butler at its head, that would not
eat its own words; repudiate its declared
principles, if by so doing, it could hold on
to power and plunder the public treasury.
When we hear a man uow-a-days say he
is a good party man, it may be set down
as a fixed fact, that he would make a good
public plunderer.
In ttie language of our cotemporary of
the Journal & Messenger, we are for a
Self Preservation Party ; a party that
should have uo entangling alliances with
any North just now. Our strength is in a
unity at the South ; a unity that cannot
be bribed into a surrender of its rights by
the allurements of office, or ambiguous re
solves. In days past and gone, am
biguity was the virtue of party platforms,
and we of the South for party purposes,
winked at the compromise of our dearest
rights. We hope that the sad lesson of
the past will not be lost upon ns and onr
children, for if the South is true to itself,
it can then be false lo no party or section.
We hold the balance of power in this
government, and if we act wisely, it will
be the club of Hercules in our hands with
which we can not only defend ourselves,
but be the assailer. Our strength will
continue to grow year after year, more
rapidly and more potential than ever be
fore, provided, it is not fritted away for
party purposes, and those we honor as
public servants do not betray their sec
tion for office or poitieal position. If as
was admitted, that the South controlled
the Government for the last fifty years be
fore the war, it stauds to reason with the
new order of things, now about to be inau
gurated, that we will not ouly be rich in
our peculiar productions that are the cred
it of the govemmeut, but that we 4 wff
of
There is a great destiny ahead for us,
nt it can only be woiked out and made
fectual by a homogenity of action and
eling based upon the principles of Self
reservation. The outrages we have snf-
ired ; the wrongs we have endured ; the
isults that have been heaped upon
3; the robbery we have submitted to ;
ie unconstitutional measures that have
Bfieted us ; and the perfiy that has been
ractieed upon us, all, call for redress in
ieir own proper time and manner, and
Inch we will have, if justice has not
fled the earth, aud we are true to our-
selve.
ing the wiud” prevailed considerably, if tol lifts its proud pile. Its balls are dear
all that oue bears is ouly half true—when , to the hearts of the people. They are
the Union was fought for, and “bounties” consecrated by the grand names and deeds
paid to raise men, and other large coutri- ; of the glorious past. They are associated
buttons, substituted funds, enlistment fees, in-our hearts with our proudest memories
&c., expended, some way or another ! Such and noblest men. It was at Milledgevi]| e
tricks are too fresh not to be taken good that Troup and Clark, Lumpkin and
advantage of by the “trooly loil,” who Schley, Gilmer and McDonald, Crawford
have precisely that similar lively feeling aQ d Towns, aud Cobb, and last, and per-
for Liberty iu Cuba now, as they had for haps noblest, Governor Jenkius, watched
We have given much of our space
this week to the correspondence between
Comptroller Bell and Treasurer Angier
Last week we gave a part of the corres
pondence, but had no idea at the tiTne that
it would become so voluminous. We offer
no apology, however, for the space occu
pied, but rather think good will come from
the exposure made on both sides. ’
The people have been made aware of
tbe abuses aud reckless extravagance of
the present administration. Extra pay
aud extra Clerks seem to be the order of
the day to do that which in days past, the
two Secretaries of and Messenger to tbe
Governor, could do with ease. Were we
a member of tbe Legislature, there would
be an investigation that would reach down
to the bone and marrow of tbe corruption
that is charged upon Gov. Bullock. We
would summon the old Secretaries under
Governors Cobb, Johnson, Brown and Jen
kins, and upon their oaths, say what extra
extraordinary labor has been performed
by four or five extra Clerks, that could not
aud should not have been done by them
as their legitimate duty as Secretaries;
also, the old Comptroller Generals and
Treasurers, to see if extra Clerks were
needed in their offices.
The correspondence has developed facts
that will save in the future, thousands of
dollars to the State, if the Legislature is
not as corrupt as corruption itself. If
there is any thing that we do utterly loathe
it'is official corruption, speculation anc
peculation—an abuse of position that we
will not hesitate to denounce, even if our
own brother was guilty. We have heard
grievous complaints from citizens as to the
demands upon their purse for any infor
mation that they might desire to get and
which they thought they were entitled to
get free of charge ; though we kuow noth
ing of onr own knowledge or prefer com
plaints individually.
The correspondence is a happy thing
for the State, and corruption has been ex
posed.
Cun lhe Chinese Vole?
The Milwaukee Sentinel says : “Multi
tudes of our good people are unable to
look upon John Chinaman as a voter w : *b
the least approach to equanimity. How
often are we met with such objections as
this to tbe fifteenth amendment: ‘Y^our a
mendment is all well enough so far as
Sambo is concerned. Let him vote, if you
please; but bow about pagan John?’
Well, you may possess your souls iu peace
about that, for tbe present at least. Tbe
ameudment does’nt propose to make him a
voter at all. It simply proposes to make
voters of the citizens of the United States,
and our treaty with China expressly stip
ulates that Americans shall not be natu
ralized iu Cbiua, and Chinese shall not
be naturalized in America. This fact
should quiet our fears, at least uutil John’s
boys come of age, aud then, if we think
best, we can atteud to their case.”
We do not know any thing about the
Treaty with China, when or by whom it
was concocted, or bow long it has to run ;
we are perfectly ignorant of its terms, but
take tbe Sentinel's interpretation to be as
stated—and so viewing it, cannot say
whether it is a political swindle or an unin
tended blessing to us Southerners. We
wonder, however, if all otber treaties con
tain a like stipulation forbidding the natu
ralization ot immigrants? The only for
eigners that the South has been permitted
to employ, or with whom she has had the
least chance of making impartial contracts
for labor, are tbe Chinese ; but our “kind
masters”—the omnipotent radical major
ity of Congress—have, it would seem,
negatived all political influence which
such an increase of population might give
to the South, by declaring the Chinese to
bo exceptions to the general laws and pro
cess of naturalizatiou ! As we have said,
we know not whether to brand this a po
litical fraud and wilfully disguised cheat,
or, as something that will inure more to
the benefit of our agricultural prosperity
than intended. The one is probably in
disputable, while the otber will prove a
simple fortunate result. The Chinese, as
mere laborers, will not be subjected to
demagogues and carpet bag candidates, as
negroes now are—tampered with, and con
stantly enticed from our plantations by
political gatherings—caucuses and elec
tions; so that our labor system will move
on under disfranchised Chinamen, better,
more quietly and profitably than under
Sambo with all his superadded privileges
to his freedom, of voting, holding office and
and sitting on juries !
Cuban Aid.—A mau iu New York, Geo.
Abbot by name, denounces the whole Cu
ban expedition business as a trick to ob
tain money from the wealthy Cubaus resi
dent in that city. He says that the so-
called leaders did not wish to escape, but
allowed information to be given that led
to their capture and imprisonment. Ab
bot went into tbe business himself and
professes to have become disgusted with
the insincerity of those placed over him.
f Boston Courier.
This is Cuban aid over the left shoul
der—but, in keeping with the character of
a goodly number of Northern so-called
patriots, especially of the days of the late,
so-called, rebellion, This way of “rais-
tbe “Constitution aud the Union” five or
eight years since. We would not be sur
prised if the “wealthy Cubans, residents
in New York,” found themselves without a
dollar in their pockets, when their cause,
like the South’s, has melted into thin air.
The trick which Mr. Abbot refers to, is tbe
patriotic way to fleece them ; but when
they settle up all the little “constructive”
items—the many little generous advances
made in their behalf—“unvoucher’d but
recorded in honor’s memory”—they will
have lighter purses and more friends than
they are aware of, to trouble them. But
who are the Cubans? None other than
rebels—lawful subjects for patriots to pick;
aud it is well kuown that the North, gen
erally, as a special rule, holds all such to
be within the pale of their '"black mail"
levies.
For the Southern Recorder.
Troup County, July 25, 1869.
Messrs. Editors: The crops in this sec
tion are generally good. The “commer
cial fertilizers,” where employed, are show
ing to great advantage and give to the
fields promise of a great yield. Our farm
ers therefore speak well and much of
“guano.” They are not much stirred a-
bout “immigrant labor,” however,—have
little hope from the plan adopted by tbe
State Legislature. The plan is a good
one, however. It will secure some labor
era for tbe household, and for railroad and
building enterprises, and so leave to tbe
farm more of the African element. It is
sheer nonsense to suppose that the Irish,
Dutch and English will enter the planta
tion lists. Some of them may become
“farm hirelings” a few' months, or a year
or two, at “high rates, - ” but each industri
ous one will soon own a small farm of. bis
own, and, by -“high cultivation,” which
means deep and frequent stirring of the
soil, good seed and much manure, will add
greatly to the productions of the country
and the assets of labor.
The.Chinese and tbe African are tbe
hope of the plantation system. The Chi
naman and the fertilizer aud improved in
struments of toil upon Southern planta
tions will make the land groan with fat
ness. I have seen much of the Chinaman.
He is docile, industrious, teachable, eco
nomical. He is far superior to Ham, in
tellectually, but inferior physically. He
would not answer well to hew a farm out
of a forest; but to drain one already clear
ed, to till it intelligently, just as the own
er directs, patiently, with careful industry
for the honor and interests of Georgia and
made her fame illustrious. It is Milledge-
ville whence hath issued tbe laws and
State papers that made Georgia the pride
of the South. Aud there, too, was orig.
iuated the magnificent system of internal
improvements that is achieving such won
ders in building up its waste places, de
veloping its wealth of ore and water and
forest and soil.
We demand that our legislators save us
from the comiug burthen of taxation by
returning to Milledgeville; and there, a.
mid the splendid memories of the past,
treasured by every houest Georgian, re
ceive inspiration to legislate for us with a
dignity, industry, integrity and wisdom
worthy of the State, and commensurate
with the immense events of the period.
Let not this atrocious stroke of “Carpet
Baggers” of removing “the Seat of Gov
ernment” to a new place, and thus sun
der us from the grand associations that
cluster on Capitol hill in Milledgeville, be
permitted to succeed !
To your proud old Halls again Geor
gians ! Withiu their sacred courts-rebuild
the fortunes and relume the fame of our
own—our native State.
CHATTAHOOCHEE.
Lumber City, Ga., July 20,1869.
Editors Recorder: A few miles from
this place, over iu Montgomery county,
last week, I had the pleasure of attending
an Exhibition. The first term of the Rev.
N. L. Guger’s School at Long Pond Acad
emy, expired on the 16th inst. There
were a great many persons present, which
showed that the people of that county
were deeply interested iu the advance
ment. of education, as well as to witness
the exercises of the day. At half past 9
o’clock tbe school was opened with prayer
by the principal, after which the primary
aud junior classes made their appearance
on the stage, and Mr. Guger, their instruct
or, proceeded to their examination which
was kept up till dinner being announced
ready, when they were formed into pro
cession and marched gracefully out to a
very large table crowned with delicacies
in abundance. After partaking of this
delicious repast, they marched back to
the Academy in the same order aod man
ner that they had come out, leaving the
table with all of its charming appearance
to a multitude of spectators who came for
ward immediately and began their work
of destruction among the baked pullets
and pound cakes, Ac. After they had
he would be a success. He killed himself thoroughly satisfied their appetites, they
occasionally in Cuba, wben first imported marched to their original seats aud the
there. There were two mighty reasons senior class appeared, the examination of
for this: His condition was immensely which was very satisfactory and showed
“worsted” by his settlement there, lor he very plainly that their teacher had not
was plunged into tbe savage depths of neglected them in any manner whatsoever.
Spanish slavery, and left his wife behind,
and so was without the pale of civiliza
tion. Woman is civilization. What would
the African have been in slavery without
his wife—his sister—his daughter 7 A mon
ster, ravening, slaying and being slain.
But with these about him, be was content
ed, governable, affectionate. Separate tbe
white man from woman, and life would be
intolerable to him and with him. The
transfer of the Chinaman to our shores
should have the wife accompaniment for
bis own happiness and security, and his
value as a laborer; and she, too, will be a
laborer. In her presence, if the lazy daugh
ters of Ham did not discover beauty iu
the maxim, “if auy will not work neither
shall they eat,” they would soou recog
nize its truth and rise aud shine in the
kitchen, field and laundry, as aforetime.
The Chinaman’s country, iu great part, in
climate and produce, is very like Georgia.
He is accustomed to the culture of rice
and other cereals, of sugar, aud, to some
extent, of cotton. He is not a heavy feed
er. Give him rice, a broken pot to cook
it in, a few sticks to cook it with, aud salt
fish, and the grunt of contentment follows.
Yet, like Ham, he is fond of chickens and
fat pigs. Alas, who aint ? So, if we are
ever so fortunate as to introduce him here,
likely “the poor negro” will have sharp,
shrewd opposition to tilt against in running
the hen roost and pig-pen line.
But I began this letter to call your at
tention to the “Capital.” In western Geor
gia", so far as I have heard, public opinion
condemns with emphasis its removal from
Milledgeville. A “learned Judge” said
>of the “Atlanta State House,” “It is fra
grant with the reekings of brothels and
grogeries.” The simile of “his Honor,”
is not the most elegant, yet sustains bis
acumen as a great jurist iu that he follow
ed the law applying in the case, I sup
pose, viz : the imagery descriptive of a
subject must, nearly as possible, literally
delineate it. Certainly our Judiciary
ought to “set” in a purer atmosphere. The
tax payers, white and colored, have tbe
right to be heeded by their legislators rel
ative to the Capital, and a vast majority
of them desire that Milledgeville should
be now, as in tbe days of our State’s glo
ry, the Seat of Government. It is within
a few miles of the geographical centre of
the State. It has railroad communication
with every section. On au eminence, in
the heart of tbe city, an elegant Execu
tive Mansion located in a beautiful park,
is ready for the Executive, where he cau
reside amid surroundings better comport
ing with the dignity of the Chief Magis
tracy than boarding at a fussy hotel. Up
on a picturesque central hill environed by
churches, adorned with old oaks and syms
metrical elms, a superior and costly Capi-
Tbeir examination having been gone thro’,
and the sun about to decline behind the
western bills, the veuerable instructor an
nounced to the audience au intermission
of thirty minutes to prepare for tbe per
formances of the night. The entire audi
ence were extremely eager to see the cur
tains rise, for they anticipated a grand
thing ; neither were they . disappointed,
for they did soon rise, and there stood be
fore onr vision all the girls of the school,
robed iu pure white, ornamented with ew
ergreen. Such a picture might well claim
kindred with an angel. They sang beau
tifully tbe introductory 6ong and then read
their compositions which were very com
mendable. Tbis exercise being over, the
curtain fell and our ears were greeted with
music, (which was kept up at intervals,)
on the violin and tamborine by Messrs
Peter Johnson aud Sidney Pug6ly, Jr.
The oratorical exercises being next iu or
der, Thomas Johnson came forward and
delivered tbe introductory address, fol
lowed by Oren Moses, W. McGregor, Geo.
Mazo, J. C. McAlister, John Morrison, W.
H. McArthur, J. C. Calhoun, and several
others, who all spoke in a manner very
creditable to themselves and teacher. The
dialogues were next presented, some of
which were exceedingly ludicrous and de
lighted the audience very much. In tact
the whole scene from the commencement
to the close, was intensely interesting,
and the performers, especially Misses Mol-
lie Mazo, Sallie Calhoun, Florida aud Anu
McArthur, reflected great credit on them
selves as well as on their teacher.
At the close of the dialogues, Ac., Pro
fessor G. H. Ratehford, of Mount Vernon,
being called on by the students, delivered
a happy and appropriate address, aft ex'
which the crowd dispersed.
I have occupied more time than I io''
tended with school exhibitions. Perhaps.
Messrs. Editors, you would like to know
something of the farms in this section:
Corn is generally good, cotton and pota
toes very fine, cane not so good.
Yours, Ac., H. C. RIALS, j
COLLARDS^FOR HOGS.
It-has been suggested to us by a coun
try friend that if our farmers would raise
and feed collards to their hogs, they would
fiud that it would pay well. In the first
place, it gives a healiby tone to the bog,
and will keep him fat, and if a little corn
is thrown to him, so much the better.
Secondly, as raising collards is so easy *
matter, it is worth the time and attention
of the planter to try the experiment, and
once tried, he will not give np the feed.
There is a lady in Sutton, New York»
who was married at twelve years of age.
who is tbe mother of sixteen children,
weighs two hundred and ten pounds, ami
is “fair, iat and forty.”