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opera:ions ol its provision?, in t(i*■ las 1 stated ijiat Gov. Bullock was indebted
clause ->f the first proviso, says: “And to heir Bank seventeen thousand. dollars
such other property not included in lhe (17,000.) and this twenty-five thousand
foregoing exceptions as is exempted j dollars was to rover up and /nuke good to
from levy and sale upon execution or Me Bunk the Governor's individual ivdebt-
oiher process or order of any court by j edness, although said deposit was placed
the laws ot the State in which the to the credit of the State. The Stale
bankrupt has his domicile aL the time t was thus forced to pay, as per siate-
of tin- commencement of the proceed ment of Cashier, nearly eleven per cent.
bigs in bankruptcy, to an amount not on this twenty-five thousand dollars,
exceeding that allowed by such State | drawn solely as an offset for the time
exemption laws in force in the year being, against the individual deficit of
eighteen hundred and sixty-four." 1 the Governor.
In Section 111, Pi. 2, Tit. 3, Chap, i Besides the thirty-five thousand dol-
2, Art. 4 of the Code (1st Ed.,) will be lars ($35,000.) illegally drawn and dis-
lound the < x- mplion laws in force in hursed by him (Bullock) without war-
Georgia in 1864. Section 2013 states rant or .appropriation ; in open defiance
whai propei tv shall be exempt from of 'aw, after being fully put upon his I hundreds of thousands of dollars at a
Evj, and sale by virtue of any process notice by the General Assembly, in j time, for many months, under the same
whatever under the laws of this State, total disregard of their action,*lhe Gov-! laws now in force. N. L. A.
And section 2017 declares that “It the ernor went directly to New York and
debtor owns town property exceceding drew upon the Fourth National Bank
in value live hundred dollars, and it 1 for twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)
cannot be divided so as to give his fam- more, none of which has ever found its
ilv that amount, he may give no ice to way into the Stale Treasury, thus as-
ihe officer levying thereon, and when suming arbitrary dictatorial powers,
the proceeds of the sale are to bs dis- wilfully over-riding both the constitu-
iribuied, the court shall order five hun- tion and the law s.
dred dollars of the same to be invested | The Governor admitted to the j
by some proper person in a home for Treasurer, that out ol the thirty-five j
the family of the debtor, which shall be thousand dollars illegally drawn from
exempt as it laid off under this low.” j the Fourth National Bank by him .four
As already observed, when the thousand dollars he retained for his own
mortgagee look the mortgage to secure ! use, part as his salary, though he did
the payment ol the money barter!, the not fail, after the adjournment of the Gen-
exemption laws then ot lorce were an . crul Assembly, to draw his warrants for
ingredient in the contract. But ivheth- the full amount of his salary, independ
er, atler the Code went into effect, and ent of the four thousand of the Slate’s 1
the mortgagee had then foreclosed and money used by him, and still unpaid j
a saie had taken place, the mortgagor and unaccounted for.
could claim, under the new exemption The Governor has already paid as
laws ol Georgia, five hundred dollars. I retainers' fees in this prosecution, ficehun-
is a question not necessary to discuss | dred dollars each to tico legal firms, by Governor Bullock vs. !Ur. Angier.
here. It is sufficient for tire purposes j Executive warrants drawn on the Gov. Bullock through the Attorney
of ibis case, that the National Legisla- Treasury, which is three limes (he amount General, II. P. Farrow, has filed a decla-'
ture has, in pursuance of the Silt sec- \ of interest received by the Treasurer. I ration against the State Treasurer for
lion of the 1st article of the Constitution, , l he General Assembly at ils last i using the puhlic fuuds, or at least receiv
enacted a statute to establish uniform j session made an appropriation as the j. . . , „ „ i
I - r i t _ ,i mg interest upon tneui and appropriating
the same to his use. The indictineut reads
as follows : "**
# As to our State Executive, we are be-
I ginni
Nedoin L. Angier, Treasurer, Ac. Debt.
Fild iu office, August 21, 1869. W. II.
Venable, Clerk.
The amount of debt claimed by the
laws on the subject of bankruptcies | salary of the State Attorney General,
throughout the United Slates—Sturgis as follows: “Be it enacted, that the
vs. Crowniiisfield, 4 Wheat, 122, 19b, | gurn of two thousand dollars in curren- .
199—and il any ot the State exemption j cy be and is hereby appropriated as \I >1 -Fulton Superior Court Aovembei
laws are in conflict with acts of Con- j the the salary of the Attorney General \ Term, 1S69.
gre?s, they must yield; otherwise the j of the Stale, and that no other fees or Rufus B. Bullock. Governor of Georgia, vs.
National Government could not move j emoluments be allowed him from the
on, ami ils Constitution and laws could j Slate, and that among ihe other duties
not he paramount even within their of his office shall be that of Attorney
proper sphere. Martin vs Hunter, 1 for the Stale Road, &e.”
W heat , 304. Gibbins vs. Ogden, 9 j In violation of this appropriation, the ; State against the Traasurer, is $21,000 for
Wheat., It 195, 209. Common wealth { Governor has drawn warrants in favor j the several violations of the law as an offis
vs. Kimball, 24 Pick., 3-39. United <>l that officer for nearly three thousand I cer. The Code of Georgia has the fol
Stales vs Ha^t, Peters 0, C. It. 390.— ' dollars in less than nine months, and there ] lowing :
Homes vs Jemiisnii, 14 Peters, -540, | is no telling to what further extent .. 8- (He the Treasurer) shall not under
574. Indeed, this is made necessary | these warrants would have been drawn, \any circumstances, use himself or allow ! agreeably surprised to find in an adjoin
by the Constitution itself. j had the Treasurer (teen as ready to j others to use, the funds of the State in his : iug loom, an immense collection of miner-
pay as the Governor was willing to ! hands ; and for every violaiion of this sec a j specimens, gathered in a few miles of
draw. Besides the amou
officer as Atiori
ernor allows him
Executive plunder, and save the good
old “Empre State of the South” from ! ginning to think it is a blessing in dis
bankruptcy and ruin, it is gratifying to guise—a kind of an dye-opener to future
know that the great mass ot the people, Conventions and l egislatures as to what
who are beyond the corrupting influ- restrictions, pains and penalties should be
ence ot Executive patronage, and .. , ., t-, - a- -
. . * , . ! thrown around the Executive office, and
whose commendation is worth, having, j , ,
4 , i #r . i . , - I what discretionary powers to give the oth-
are with the Treasurer, and send him j . / 1 6 I
cheering greetings of approval and , er °^ icers °* tbe State. Jiiuiherwords.it
praise. ' rev, eals tho weak points of the actual :
N. L. ANGIER. Treasurer. workings of our State Government ; and
Treasurer's Office. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 27, ’69 i the abuse of power, readily suggests the
P. S.—Ohe fact is worthy of remark, ! remedy. Governor Bullock occupies as it
that no former Treasurer of Georgia were, the position of a bad or ignorant
ever credited the State with any inter- j ruler, who, in the abuse of Jiis office,
est on deposits, either temporaly or i but arouses the people to a close scrutiny
permanent, although some of them held ! into their j nter ests and rights,and demands
of the Legislature that their interests be
protected.
tsT’ In Macon last year, up to ihe night
of September 2d, 62 bales of new cotton
was on the market. This year up to same
date S49, a difference of 7S7.
dP The Democracy has carried Cali
fornia. The fiffeenth amendment will not
be ratified by the legislature.
The Press Excursion.
At Home, September 3d, 1869.
| Mr. Editor :
In accordance with your request, to act
! as reporter during the tour of inspection
j by the Press Convention looking to facts
J relative to the mineral resources of our
State, I left Atlanta on Wednesday the
25th, in company with a large number of
the fraternity. A special train had been
prepared through the courtesy of Col. E-
Hulbert, Superintendent W. & A. R. R
with all the necessaries and luxuries inci
dent to a trip of such magnitude. The
body composing the invited guests, was
certainly an appreciative one, for the
praises heaped upon the originator of the
expedition were never ceasing, and I am
sure that were you a component part, tho
pleasure experienced would have made
you a particeps crimiuis.
The dailies will have already informed
you of the reception at Cartcrsville so
handsomely tendered through the ven
erable Mark A. Cooper, and the response
on the part of the press by President Clis
by, and by Gov. Bullock in behalf of the
compliments paid to the State officials.—
After tho various addresses, interspersed
at intervals by excellent music from the
Cartersville Brass Band, the press were
reliable figures as to the capacity of the j aiding the cause ot justice, sent their liire j
works, in order that your renders might i ling hordes to swell the ranks of tyr anny. i
find what a source of wealth lies near our and crush a noble people fighting for their j
borders. It is stated on good authority, rights, it is right and politic that we should :
that the investment pays on an average i retain the advantage which we now have
50 per cent. ' j by virtue of the increased price of our sta- j
We took occasion to visit the rolling ; pl e product, and seize upon the only hope i
mill one mile from the car shed, and im- of building up our shattered fortunes by
strengthening the already mighty sceptre
of "King Cotton” and making the world
do homage to his sway. We can do this,
and do it, too, without tire assistance of
John Chinaman. For, supposing the de
mand for, and the supply of cotton to lie
power, assisted by three donkey engines e q Ua J t this result can be accomplished as
constitutes the motive power of this inil^ well by producing the requisite amount of
and the metal in its heated state, goes cotton at present prices, with^/etc laborers,
mediately on the line of the N. & C. R. R.,
being shown through the establishment by
one of the firm,receiving from him valuable
information concerning this great South
ern enterprise. An engine of 250 horse
disputed returns from one county.
The State officers will be installed
the assembly ot the Legislature.
Atlanta, September 4, 1S69
members of the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic party of Georgia
are requested to meet iu the office of £) r
J. F. Alexander, in Atlanta, on Wednes
day the 15th instant, at 9 o’clock. A. JJ
on business of importance.
E. G. CABANISS. Ch’m’n.
crashing through the liugb rollers, drawn
! out into bars of all sizes^with as much
| ease as a hammer can mould the horses
: shoe nail. The company, (S. B. Lowe
& Co.) have already expended upon im
provements $140,0C0 and are still contem
platiug more, among which will embrace
j machinery for rolling the T and the U
; rail. Attached to the main building is a
I forge of 16 furnaces. The proprietors oils
: ly manufaefnte merchantable iron, aud I ( 0 raise the price of the necessaries of life
their sales compare favorably with any by increasing the number of consumers,,
in the Southern States. The ore from aD< I thus, by making it difficult for labor
which this metal used here is extracted, j ers ^ Hve * ° tfer temptations to them to
. i steal tor a support. It would not only af-
i comes from Georgia mostly, one mine he- fect laborers, hut all classes of persons, for.
; ing in Dade county near Trenton, some as we have said, it would be the necessaries
! portion is transported from the vicinity of °f life that would thereby be rendered
i Greenville, Tennessee, and the Shelby
as it could by producing the same quanti
ty of cotton at the same prices with many
laborers. The only difference being, that
the price of labor would be reduced. This
is on the supposition that the capital, i. e.
the land cultivated, remains the same, for
without this, as we have before said, A3
terisk's principle of competition will not
apply. When it does apply, it is produc
tive of bad results, for without increased
productiveness, (and this is the supposi
tion,) to reduce the price of labor, by in
creasing (lie number of laborers, would be
C3klea.nliAa:gs
Showing tie Age and Body of ihe Times.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe will address
a Woman’s Rights Convention at New-
port next week—"her first appearauce on
any stage” of that description.
A Convention is to be held in Cincinna
ti, on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept
15th and 16th, tor the purpose of organic,
ing a State Woman's Suffrage Association
for Ohio.
MILLEDGEVILLE:
Tuesday, September 7, 1869.
mines of Alabama. Twenty t-ons of
splendid irou is rolled out daily,and work
men pronounce it superior to the best Eu-
| ropean. Iu view of these few facts, the
| question will naturally arise, why should
[ Georgia exhume her ore, smelt it and ship
it elsewhere, when she has certainly capi
Cousinutum itself.
“This Constitution and the laws of
the Uuiiefl Sl.ttes made in pursuance
thereof, and all treaties made or which
shall be made, under the authority of
ivernor was willing to ! hands ; and tor every violation ot this sec a j specimens, gathered in a few miles of
!S the amounts paid that j don/he is liable to the State for the sum of. lb(j Et owa b, and mostly at the Southern
• npV General ilie Gnv- I fi ye hundred dollars as a penalty, ora . „ , ,, 4 ,, „ , .
i n »tl-rv nf,W,W forWo.™ of „l»r,. if ..id forfeiture will term,ou. of tbe \an \\ ert It. R„ or wliat
itn a salary of three thou , A' , „„ n . rn u v tl,« Polk Slate
. . > is ! .u „ 1 1 ■ t 1 j i 11 t i • • ! pav the penalty incurred. 1
tales, snail tie the supreme : sand six hundred dollars for his services • 1 - r J
the Judges in as Attorney for the Slate Road. ! Mr. Angier acknowledges service io
bound thereby, I The Governor drew a warrant for ; the writ against him, and is out in an ex-
anything in the constitution or laws ~ot ! nearly one thousand dollars solely’ for i planation of his conduct to the people of
auv State if, the contrary notwilhsiand- 1 lighting Kimball’s Opera House during the State, which we publish in another col-
the United
law ot the land; ant
every Stale shall be
iug.” — A it. \ J.
Thr dt cision of 1 he Re«
versed.
The Clerk will please
opinion to Mr. Register Hesseltine.
./«/(/ 2T, 1S(59.
Filed August 3d, 1S69. -
j the last session of the General Assem-
ister is re- j blv, while the building during that
j time was not occupied s?.r times, after
certify this J dark for State purposes; and he is now,
?e of a
in the
luring the Summer months, drawing
his warrants for the same thing, at the
rate of sixty dollars per month, while the
building is not occupied at night for
State official business. The public can
judge whether it is to reward his ad
herents or advance his individual inter
est in the building, by accommodating
restaurants, billiard saloons, Ac.
He is paving under a pretence as a
guard of Executive Mansion, at Mil-
lake some I l e(, geville, one hundred and twenty dollars
disclosures to the public heretofore un-i/f month > when responsible parties in
‘ S that city proposed to take special care
"lielore allowing my name lo he used i f lhe buil.Iing and grounds solely fur
as a candidate for ihe office of State '^ e u3 ® 0 l he grounds.
Treasurer, knowing the salary was nol! , H ‘ : >’ a , 3 mnltl P ll «^ °, ffices anl1 clerk -
an adequate compensation in view ol ! *■>*1* "" kno " " •» lke law ’ <®. opi**"
To ilie People of Georgia.
The jiublicity given to a ca
malignant attempt at persecution
sha|je of the most malicious prosecution,
by t tie individual styled the Chief Mag
istrate of Georgia, against the Treas
urer, forces that officer to respond in
a sia'ement of fids, ant
uma and call attention thereto.
As Mr. Angier has refunded the money
or placed it to the credit of the State, we
confess we do not see tho necessity of a
prosecution, unless it is to vindicate the
is more generally knowujas the Polk Slate
1 Quarry road. It only required but a glauce
j to detect, that through these rniuute par
ticles gathered carelessly, nature speaks in
tones of encouragement to all who will en
ergot i c al ly seek her hidden but untold
treasures, in this garden sjiot of Georgia.
Yonr correspondent could not help but
being excited over a peculiar specimen of
stone, for building purposes, susceptible of
a liigb degree of polish, tho same bccom-
majesty of the law, from jiure love of the j
, , . . . j. I ing hardened by exposure, and was pro
law, and not for personal pique or ina>- D J r
vidual dislike. If Gov. Bullock can make
it clear that it was a great regard for the
law that has induced him to become pros
ecutor, he certainly deserves credit ; but
if it can he proven that he was without . ,
. , , . . . .I- c j where it is plentiful, a material easily
the shadow of law, used the public hinds | . . r , ,
nounced to be an exact representation in
every respect of marble. This substance
is only found imbeded near the edges of
the slate formation, and the architect can
readily perceiv# in the beautiful quarries
himself, he may catch a Tartar in his
prosecution of the Treasurer, and the
whole thing rebound to his serious hurt.
\Ve are impressed with one tact, and
that is: if the seat of Government had re
mained at Milledgeville, the reckless ex
travagance that has attended the Opera
till miruuuu. iivuuuu in * iv. v/i I.! I • n w
the heavy responsibility of receiving and anc , es ’ ,hat .^ e ma y [ )urc n‘'ise influence j House as a Capitol building from first to
1 * 'and reward time-servers. '- - - * • ~
disbursing nearly two million dollars per
annum, giving bond in sutn o( two hun
dred thousand dollars, and performing
labors of office, l consulted legal au-
lhot ilv, and was advised that both by
law and custom, the Treasirer was
entitled to the interest accruing upon
temporary deposits. Acting under that
advice, 1 allowed my name to go be
fore the General Assembly as a candi
date for .State Treasurer, and was duly
elected. After my election, having no
secure
last, woi|ld have been saved to the State.
But three months ago, a sheet then \ qq ie promise was, that tbe State should be
sailing him ‘the man Bullock, but a t no expense, and behold, near sixty thou-
ca
now his home organ, was in the most
straightened circumstances, unable to
pav even its type setters, and borrow
ing money from every one it could.
This same sheet is now at high tide,
with a full flowing hand. The Stale
Road can probably tell where the mon
ey comes from.
He lias exercised the pardoning pow-
place in the Treasurer’s office j er until Courts anti juries have nothing
to keep the funds of the Slate, I assum-j to encourage them in the prosecution
ed the risk of depositing the same in the of crime. Instead of striving to allay
Georgia National Bank, at the same | bitter animosities, and promote peace
lime entering into an arragernent with and prosperity, as the Chief Executive
said bank, by which I was to be allow
ed a small per cent, on the daily bal
ances ol the funds required for imme
diate use, all the funds on hand at that
time being of this character, and even
having to resort to temporary loans, and
my own credit and individual funds to
meet the heavy demands, the General
Assembly being in session, and the
Slate greatly in arrears. As I assum
ed the risk of depositing, (events hav
ing since transpired which proved it
no small one,) 1 thought I was clearly
entitled to the little ben»-fits accruing
of a great State, it has been and is his
effort to stir up hatred and strife, that
he may get a firm hold on Georgia, by
which to exercise his usurpations and
tyranny on all who will not become his
adherents and accomplices in mischief,
which is the principal cause of the un
settled stale of pubic affairs in Georgia.
Had it been the good fortune of Geor
gia to have a wise, honest and just Ex
ecutive, the General Government would
not at this date have cause to complain
of disloyally in her borders.
This is lhe man, with all hiscorrup-
on the temporary deposits, which, for : tions, squandering the Stale’s funds by
the period of nearly six months, thousands in his tfwn interest, in viola-
amounted to the small sum ot three hun- tion of law, with mind so perverted
dred and thirty six doilars and .ten cents that it seems lo be h.s pleasure to
(33b 10.) By a strict coi struciion of shield and regard iniquity, and punish
honesty and virtue, who has the super
lative littleness to commence a vexatious
malicious prosecution against an official
tne law, doubts having arisen whether
the Treasurer was entitled lo said in
terest. I paid the same into the Treas
uiv, previous to any knowledge that
because be dares tell the truth and act
was being prosecuted, although leading ! honestly, and he finds plenty to join him
hi the cry, “crucify him !” crucify
him! who can get their hands into the
lawyers and the be.-i commercial and
financial men of ihe Legislature gave il
as their judgment that the Treasurer
Was entitled to it.
In contrast lo this pitiful amount re
ceived by the Treasurer, but since paid
into the Treasury, that officer will pre
sent to the ptftdic a few instances of
tbe illegal uses of the State funds by
the Executive for his own benefit. On
the 21st November, 186S, when the
Stale had sufficient funds on hand to
meet all reasonable expenses, (having
on the day previous drawn twenty five
thousand dollars ($25,000,) the Cashier
oflhe Georgia National Bank present
ed the Governor’s draft ori the Tempo
rary Loans for twenty-five thousand dol
lars ($25,000) more, and voluntarily
State Treasury through Executive jiat
rouage. Thus, bv his reckless extrav
agance and inroads upon the Treasury,
does lie find willing accomplices, and
forces poor Georgia to furnish the dag
ger to cut her own throat.
Amid all these villainous efforts to
crush a faithful officer, who has had
nothing to conceal, and whose crime is
iu not being a tool for corrupt purposes,
and who has been toITI that he “could
have made one hundred thousand dol
lars by running with Bullock,” and that
he “was a fool for not doing it,’’ but
preferred honesty and an approving
conscience to dishonest gain, who has
trieil to stem tbe tide of venalitv ar.d
expense
sand dollars has been taken from the
Treasury to pay for its occupation ! Treas
urer Angier would not Lave had tbe temp
tation or excuse ta put the funds iu a safe
place, for the vault in the Capitol building
in Milledgeville, is safe beyond doubt.—
This whole Capitol question has been a
gigantic swindle and cheat from first to
last, and if the people of the State are wise,
will, at the first opportune moment, again
make Milledgeville the Capital.
We regret that Mr. Augier has laid
himself liable to prosecution, but as be has
placed the interest to the credit of the
State, we do not see that there is any in
dictmeut of force against him, and tbe
less expense the State incurs iu the mat
ter, the better for all parties interested',
certainly for the State. The virtue of the
section iu the Code above recited, has
been vindicated, and we would advise his
Excellency to squash tbe iudictraent for
his own good and the good of the State.
Stop any further expeuse.
Wo call attention to the Present
ments of the Grand Jury of Baldwin coun
ty. It will be seen that they have stepped
out of the common channel of local affairs
and pays their lespects to the Executive
of tho State, in reflecting upon his too free
use of the pardoning power, and tho ex
penditure of the public funds for printing
purposes. They also have a word to say
about the Seat of Government. We are
happy to believe that iu the course of a
lew years, two or three at furthest, that
all the evils justly complained of, will find
a corrective iu a new order of tbiugs.
There is a philosophy that teaches us
that there is no evil so great but good may
come Iroin it. And we are to-day realiz
ing the sad truth, iu its widest aud deep
est sense, not only in State, but Federal
affairs. The unconstitutional measures of
a radical Cougress, the utter disregard
of written .obligations; tbe contempt in
which Constitntional restrictions are held ;
the assumption of power by those in au
thority, all point siguificantly to a reform
when reason, justice and right shall again
resume its wonted sway.
moulded to his taste and design
Specimens of iron ore were exhibited,
which yields in a majority of instances 90
per cent of pure metal. This, I am in
formed, is found in abundance through a
belt extending at intervals of 75 miles,and
is the beginning of tbe formation called tbe
“iron belt of Georgia.”
It is Dot uecessary for me to say that cap
ital is all that is wanting to have at our
command, for hundreds of years, a materi
al so much needed, and it need not he em
ployed more than one hundred miles from
Atlanta. The specimens of slate were
magnificent, and we had here shown us
the fine texture for roofiug purposes, aud
we wandered in memory back to our
school boy days, as we gazed upon the
polished frame, and could not but help
seizing the rounded peucil, aud with a
huge flourish we wrote in largo letters,
"Southern Recorder.” The Rail Road
now iu construction spoken of, will tend
in a great measure to find a market tbro’-
out the South for the mineral wealth of
this rich section.
Before our departure, the hospitalitie s
of the city of Chattanooga were extended
by the authorities, through Mr. T. Fort, jr
our former fellow townsman, aud we im
mediately took steam for the latter place.
One objection is always prevalent among
novices in passing through tunnels ou
Rail Roads—one of whom I am which—
and that is darkness. The engineer took
particular pains to pass through one of
these institutions above Dalton. His idea
no doubt from moviug so slowly thro’ this
aperture was to furnish a good data by
which we could form au estimate of tbe
mineral resources of that locality. It was
excessively dark-, in fact exquisitly so.—
Cries of "strike a light 1” "no distinction
ou account of color” "good by boys” were
heard, whilst one disconsolate editor de
clared it was his firm conviction that the
"comet had struck, beseeching his fellows
to meet him in & better world,” tbe indi
vidual alluded to above, is said to be one,
Fitcb, of the Griffin Star.
Arriving at Chattanooga, we fonnd
every hotel crowded to its utmost, aud iu
consequence, the sleeping coaches of the
Messrs. Kimball’s, two in number, was
made the recepticle iu which our jaded
bodies could rest during tbe night.
A trip np tbe Tennessee to tbe celebrat
ed iron works adjacent to that stream,was
deemed not advisable on account of the
low stage of the water, but this much we
learned from wise heads, that they were
the finest of the kind in the United States.
We regret that we Qould not get full and
dear. If then this would be the result of
competition, arising from an increase of
laborers, (capital remaining tbe same,) aud
if tbe present amount of labor is sufficient:
for tbe capital now in use, we must conclude
that it will be to our interest for John Chi
; naman to remain at home, for by employ- |
! ing him we would have a surplus of labor, i
j thereby increasing an unnecessary ex
pense, aud, as you know, it is an estab- j
tal sufficient to develop all, at least a ! iished principle, that where a given result j
greater portion of the resources of wealth, '* achieved, it should be done at the
i rI1I 4 . , iir least possible expense. Asterisk said some-
1 lie enterprise and energy nevertheless of • r , . .. r . , ,
j ‘ . bJ tlnug about “our having more lands than
these gentlemen is commendable, aud we we could cultivate,” thereby intimating
bespeak for tbein a liberal share of the • that we should bring the Chinese here to
patronage so well deserved. assist in cultivating them. This assertion
Whilst on the way to the coal fields I ] c , uts th ? t! ? r ? at °f bis ar g ument d / awn from
| , . , . „ , , ; the ptinciple of competition, for, as we
learn that a scheme is on foot by the have afieady shown, where capita! and ,a-
knowiug ones, to annex Hamilton county ,-bor are increased in equal proportion, there 1
to the State of Georgia, the majority of ! can be no competition, aud hence there was
| the citizens favoring the project. The 1 no necessity for us to attempt an answer j
. .to his position. In reply to the remark
main point is, that by this means we get . .. r , , ,
\. J ° j that “we have more land than we can cul-
i entire control of the State Road. An ; tivate,” we would say, that we can cult is i
j amusing discussion was the consequence, j rate as much as our interests require to be j
! between the newly elected candidate Mr. \ cultivated. Me base this assertion upon j
James, and Col. V. A Gaskill, aided by ^ Principle before stated viz: that where ,
; rr , „ „ t • i ^ , ... i a given result is to be achieved, it should
, T. lort, Esq. It la due Mr. Gaskill to say, , bg done whh the !eagt postt : lbie expense; j
I that he is heart and soul in for the trans- ! and from this same principle we deduce j
fer, and if he should be the means of ex- the following argument against Chinese j
tending our protectorate over such a wealthy i Immigration. 1 he "given result is a cer-, ■
, . . , , „ . ! tain amount of cotton, (so much as the
! country, ho is entitled to all praise. Mr. ,, . . . -\ , ... ,
| J r world expects at our hands) and "the least i
James although emphatically a Senter possible expense” is the smallest amount :
man, is diametrically opposed to the leg- i ot labor aud capital that is uecessary to j
i islature taking any action. The invinci- ■ pr n duce this cotton. Now, since we have
j hie Fitch made a lengthy and highly en- i ,abor and Ia ” d t0 accomplish "the
. I given result, or, at least, lo approximate;
j tertainmg speech, in which he very mod, tb ; 8 as neiHy as scund po]icy would dic ,
| cstly informed the gentlemen, that he | tate, it would be an unnecessary waste of;
; would rather see no fight about the matter, i labor aud of capital to employ more labor- ;
i he was a compromise man, had belonged i ers . and cultivate more laud in order to a- j
, , ttt, , , , - j cbieve this same result ; for it is cerfainlv
i to btokes cavalry, VV heeler 8 cavalry and , - . _ ,
, J - I bad economy to employ fifteen men to do !
j °A'0r cavalry, did not believe in war, j tba t which ten men can perform. It may j
hence he joined the cavalry ; therefore, I be urged that, by increasing the number i
! be proposed to carry out tbe instructions \ °I laborers and cultivating more land, pro !
/ n i i . .. , i ductiveuess will be increased and more
of Gov. Bullock and buy tbe county, he 4 , , „ T .
; J . * cotton will be made. We answer that,!
had the money then, and if they did not i whilst this is true, il is not at all to our in- ■
j believe him, just step into the hotel and J terest; for thus more than “the required a- !
wait until became, and he would prove it. j mount” of cotton would be produced and i
j The county has not been paid for up to | as tb ° supply would be greater than the
, T T , . demand, the price would fall. 1 his might
j this date. In my next, I shall give you a j do> if the price of every thing else would
! description of the /Etna Coal Fields, the | f a H j n proportion,and we could also in some j
trip down tiie Coosa from Rome, also a 1 manner, be remunerated for tbe extra cost ,
tour over the Selma and Rome Rail Road, i production ; but since snch would not j
T D W ' be tbe resu ^’ we bo ^ d tbat ' s best to em *
m * * ploy do more labor and capital than is '
^Communicated.] absolutely necessary to produce "tbe re- |
| , r 7T-J-, J • .1 1 . • quired amouut” of cotton, anAthus obtain
/ Mr. Editor :—\Y e noticed in the last is i
j . j the very highest price that tnrS article can
sue of your paper an article by * on Chi-1 command. If the cotton which we now ;
! nese Immigration, which purported to be i make, with our present number of labor- !
ers, will bring 25 or 30 cents per pound, 1
it would be very poor policy to so increase
tbe number of laborers as to make more
cotton than is necessary, and thereby re
duce its price to 10 or 15 cents per pound.
This, in accordance with the principle e-
uunciated, would bo the result of Chinese
Immigration, and therefore we want no
Chinese here. They would not make the
Negro work any better than he does; aud
if they’ could supply his place, (which they
cannot do) he would still be here, either
to starve or steal. We all know what be
an answer to “the views of Mr. David Dick
sou, of Hancock, on the same subject.”—
We do not think that it is an answer to
said views, nor do we think that any one
who entertains similar views to those of
Mr. Dickson would be induced to change
them, or. that any unprejudiced person
would be inclined to favor Chinese Immi
gration from having read the above-men
tioned article. For the author has done
| little more than told (what every one ,, . „ . . . .
. , , r rv i • ,, - would do. Our position, in fine, is this:
i knows ’) that Mr ’ Dick son is well posted LaW being increasedt aud the amoant of
ou all agricultural subjects, and is a model j capital remaining the same, the price ol
farmer, without attemptiug to refute the cotton will not be materially affected, but,
argument which Mr. D. has offered against tbe nu . mber consumers being increased
Chinese Immigration, and he, himself, on
ly adduces one argument iu favor of it,
since all that he says on the subject may
be reduced to tbe following statement :
Labor is scarce and tbe price of labor is
high ; by increasing the number of labor-
the price of the necessaries of life will rise,
and all classes suffer tbe consequences.
Labor and capital being increased in e-
qual proportion, tbe price of labor will not
be materially affected, but, by increased
productiveness, the price of cotton will
fall, (tbe demand remaining the same) and
thus the interests of the South will be in'
ers tbe piice will be reduced, and thus jured to the extent of this reduced price,
persons who cannot now "afford to employ : in addition to the extra cost of production,
separate servants fur each of all their do
mestic departments,” would be enabled to
do so, &c. This would be tbe legitimate
result of competition among laborers, sup
posing that tbe demand for labor remaius
the same; and this must be supposed, iu
order to make tho argument mean any
thing. For if, with the increase of labor,
the capital to which it is to be applied is
aRo increased, there will be no competi
tion among laborers, since tbe relation of
capital to labor will remain the same as
it was before; aud tbe only difference will
be, that, by increased production, the price
of the article produced will be reduced.
Is this what we of the South desire ? We
think not. It might be, if onr former in
stitutions were restored, onr altars of liber
ty rebuilt, our "fallen braves” called back
to earth, our losses by fire and sword re
paid, our necks set free from tho yoke of
oppression, and, in fine, if we were once
more the great, happy aud prosperous peo
ple that we were in "days of yore;” for ! ot her function of a Legislature, if the oath
! i. e. the unnecessary “wear and tare” of
’ land, stock, &c., iu producing more cotton
than our present wants demand.
Respectfully, C. DICKSON.
Oxford, Ga., Aug. 24, 1869.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington. September 3.—Tbe Vir- j
giuia perplexity has been solved. Canby
will very shortly proclaim the election.—
The Legislature meets on the fourth Mon
day afterwards. Tbe test oath is not ex
acted, bnt the Legislature forbidden all
action beyond what the law makes prelim
inary to tbe State’s recognition by Con
gress—as the ratification of the fifteenth
amendment. This action iuvolves the in
stallation of the Lieutenant Governor, as
the State Senate is incomplete. Walker’s
installation is a necessary corallary.
Rawlins was very ill last night, but is
somewhat better this tfiorning.
The following is the conclusion of Sec
retary Hoar’s instructions to Gen. Canby :
"The Legislature shall not pass any act
or resolve, or undertake to assume any
then we might afford to be generous and
furnish the world wifh our produce at ex
ceedingly small prices. But when we look
at the present down-trodden condition of
the South and consider the fact that, dur
ing the late unequal struggle through
which we passed, the nations of Europe
sympathized not with us, and, instead of
has not been required of its members, and
that no officer elected uuder the new Con
stitution, can enter upon the duties of his
office without taking the oath, while tiie
Military Government continues.
Very respectfnlly,
(Sigued) E. R. HOAR.
Attorney-General.”
Richmond, Va., Sept. 4.—Gen. Canby
will issue a proclamation for tbe election
New corn is being brought to market at
Bainbridge, and is selling at Si 00 m>r
bushel. F
Commissioner Delano refuses to recon
sider bis decision on tbe Brokers’ Tax/
which will add $S,500,000 to the national
income.
A mail steamship which has reached
San Fraucisco from China, brings later
news, some distinguished passeugers, eight
hundred and fifty Chinese laborers, with
hundreds of valuable packages of tea and
silk.
There are strong indications that steps
are soon to be taken in Tennessee looking
to the calling together of a Convention of
the people in that State, for the purpose
of revising the reconstructed Constitution.
The Reign of Terror.—A French jour
nal has receutly argued that the revolu
tion of 17S9 was not directed principally
against the higher orders, and gives the
following statistics on the subject: Nobles
executed, 1.27S; women of tbe same class,
750; total, 2.02S. Nuns, 350; priests, 2,-
028; total, 2,485. Females of the labor
ing class, 1.467 ; commoners of all descrip
tions, 13,633; total, 15,100. Women of
the people killed in La Vendee, 15.000:
children, 22,000 ; total, 37,000. At Nan
tes the number of Carrier’s victims was
32,000, of whom tbe nobles and clergy
formed only a very small proportion, viz:
Nobles, drowued. 1,400; priests shot,300;
drowned, 460. Recapitulation—Common
ers or working classes, S2.000 ; priests and
nobles, 6,673.
An English paper reports the invention
of a "surgical luxury,” beside which ether
is a mere bagatel. It is a kpifo which cuts
so rapidly that the patient has not time
to feel it.
A complete revolution in weaving is
prophesied from the introduction ot a meth
od by which the woof is carried through
the chain in a curve instead of at a right
angle. A variety iu the pattern, both in
shade and markings, can be attained in
this way, of which the old process is whol
ly incapable. This new process is adopt
ed to fabrics of any kind, and can be used
both for weaving by hand and with power
looms.
The court dress of Paraguay is red sit-
in, and the ladies wear enormous gold
combs, blit, it is said, they all go bare-
r ’JO
foot.
Rev. W. J. Wootten has been appointed
by the United States Treasury Depart
ment to take charge of tbe Branch Mint
Building at Dahlonega.
The Macon Telegraph of Saturday
says: Not one in twenty of the plants
from tho coneties of Central and South
western Georgia, with whom we havecou- I
versed during the last week, gave us any- I
thing like a favorable report of their cot- I
ton crop. All were the rustiest set ot I
planters we ever saw, and say the rust is I
ruining their cotton.
Tax Rate for 1869.—Governor Bullock j
has ordered the Comptroller General to I
assess a tax of four-tenths of one per cent J
for State purposes this year.
Le po tai, the celebrated Chinese phy- I
sician, of California, has some 700 patients,
aud an income of 87,000 per week.
Commodore Vanderbilt married a daugb- 1
ter of R. L. Crawford, of Alabama.
A small live turtle, properly directed, E
passed through Toledo in a mail bag the [
other day, with a postage stamp on its
tail.
A New York swell bought the largest |
diamond in the country of a Saratoga je*'- ,
eler the other day’ for 811,500.
A rich man who died lately at Inde- I
pendence, Missouri, left ten dollars each to I
his two sons who are working on a farm at I
twenty dollars a month, and the rest of I
his property, worth more than half a mil' |-
lion of dollars, to a married niece.
Canby is satrap in Virginia, and is a
candidate for United States Senator fron -
that State. Ames is satrap in Mississippi- I
and candidate for Senator. Reyuold* is I
satrap in Texas, and candidate for Sens- 1
tor. Would it not be decent for Mr. Brant I
to suspend tbe functions of these genne- .1
men until after tbe Senatorial elections 1
The Labor Congress at Philadeiph' 4 I
adopted a resolution denouncing tbe tai- II
nese coolie trade, but favoring the protec- It
tion of voluntary emigrants.
The crop prospects iu East Tennessee l>
are said to be gloomy. In some localities R
the corn crop is past redemption.
According to Catherine E. Beecher. sa v - M
the New York Express, there are 30.00- Bj
women in New Y’ork, working from 1-^ B
15 hours a day, at wages not exceeding-^ I
cents a day.
The dome of the Iuvalides at Paris - |
at last completed, aud presents a niagm 1 -' /j
cent appearance, sparkling with gold. •
was gilded for the first time by Louis XI
for the second time by the first Napole •
in 1806. and now for the third time tf
Louis Napoleon.
Tbe New York Sun gives some iuter- j
eating facts about the famous Forrest -
vorce suit. It seems that Mrs. Forrest h* 5
received but 84,000 out of the $60,000 *
imony paid by Mr. Forrest. The rest
been absorbed in costs and counsel te<-^
Mr. O’Connor, of course, takiug the F “
share. Another illustration of the u»p‘
itablencss of litigation.
Queen Victoria has set the style ij>_^
vor of riding habits as short as the or “ iU ^ r
ry walking dress, but geared on the 1D “
side exactly to fit the conformation
saddle, and so heavily shotted as net
rise.
It is reported that Justice R. C. Grist'
the United States Supreme Court, * Ill r
sign early this fall. He is 75 ^
age, and has become physically enteef “