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THE
DAILY J^UN
..August 28.
AdMrtitement* alicayi found
V» rtm Pag*: uxal andButincu Notices
on Fourth Page.
CITY AFFAIRS.
A meeting of Omar de Lion Common
itrj is called for this evening.
Menas.—A valuable pair for sole, by
2t A. K Skago.
Nearly all of the schools in the city
will resame exercises this morning.
Mastsrtsg.
It ys* want any buildings plastered,
ysl an J. O. Thrower. He is a very
superior workman in his line—thorough
ly reliable and energetic. See his card.
The 8600 given by the Council Friday
night, will pat the association nearly, if
not quits out pf debt Over two thousand
bodies have been reinterred in the ceme
tery. The notion of the Council is en
dorsed by the citizens.
Ofltlktrpe Vnlrfruity.
Oglethorpe is oiT^oUege. It is At
lanta's Institution.
It's next.term cpm-
ia October. Res
hhhmmft oneof thi'healthioet cities
n the world; and we intend to make Og
lethorpeqaael thabea* uaHegea. It is
under tSe >bla (npatintendenoy of Dr.
Wills,assisted by a saperiorFacnlty. Take
it into consideration.
Ooaotml m. Kffty tmltk.
This eminent man—profound scholar,
«-1 ■ t V l iap'ikril -fiarnt. Is Obaaselor
of ths Univetvity of Nashville the adver
tisement of whioh appears in this morn
ing*s Bo*. Schools sf engineering, satin
tectore, etc., are open to students. The
ihlllhuy organisation is adopted for dis-
efphne and physical training. Two
hundred and seventy-three students ma
triculated last session. Y . v Ji,
rnnml
(Jen. Robert Toombs is expected to
arrive in a few days. His visit is per
The Corrttpondtnct Between Col. Fur
row and MnJ. McOallu.
Imps in connection with tho State Road
Hhodey Huhnts takes ehaaga of the
local columns of the Mne Jim this
Mr. A. Pope, the general agent of the
Orest Coast Line, is in the city.
Dr. Louis Ormo lias returned (row a
visit near West Point His liotflth is im
proved.
Governor Bullock arrived yesterday on
the ir. x. State Road train.
Mr. H. I. Kimball sailed on the ICth
for Europe.
OoL A. D. Nunnally and lady, of Grif
fin, registered at the Kimball House last
night
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Thomas, of Ope
lika, are in the city, and ore spending a
day or so at the Kimball.
An Inquiry.
We respectfully ask if it is according
to law for the Ordinary of the county, in
the cases nhoro prisoners are sentenced
by the District Court (Judge Lawrence)
“ to work on the city or town streets or
county roads," to put them to building
the new jail, or such liko service ? The
law once allowed such offenders to be sen
tenced “ to work in a chain-gang on the
public works;" but, if we roooilect right
ly, ag Act was passed in October, 1870,
striking thia provision from the law and
declaring that chain-gangs should be no
longer tolerated in Georgia ns a punish
moot for misdemeanors.
Wo understand that Judge Lawrence's
sentences in all casos are about as follows;
“That the prisoner, A. B., do pay the
fine of dollars, or in default thereof
lie put to,work on the city or town streets
or county roods, subject to tho order of
the Ordinary of county, for tho
ten* of —months”—or wonjs to that
effect
If this be the law, and this tho sen
tence, an they striety complied with
when those so oonvicted and sentenced
are placed under the control of the con
tractors for building the jail, or any other
public work, except on tho streets of the
city or the roods of the oounty T
We respectfully make the inquiry.
The Governor returned to the city
yesterday morning after an absence of a
month or more.
He has returned at a critical juncture,
and various am ths oonjeoturea as to
what wilt be Ua oourse in regard to the
iuvustfgsaiee now going on, and the
ngresaMBt sntssed into nnusmulag the
wutody of ths Rail Road Books and
papan
Boms psedist that he will at onoe order
them back into the possession of Blod
gelt; and allcga that they contain evi
dence oflbq O over nock complicity with,
« connivance at, the fronds and rob
beries alleged, and will taka aoms stops to
prevent them from being scrutinised,
nod that he will repudiate the agreement
of Ooiooei Farrow, and take the beaks
tad papers oet of the hands of Meatra.
tat
i to heet of evi
s that ha is guilty; would give ground
lor
himself in thia way.
Other ganfctafc* RUdff and fascia*
AhMi are too numewoes to albsde to. As
Bs Excellency did not sendtori urdcom-
anrieateto usaMst vks— tier she i we
rrfcainlreupubiwluag them.
Those who have boldly, aud in the far o
of difficulties und discouragements that
but few would like to encounter, under
taken the mighty work of detecting flic
guilty parties und exposing the frauds,
forgeries, corruptions and thefts, which are
believed to have lxxui carried on in con
nection with the State Itoad under tl.
Radical administration of Capt. Foster
Blodgett, were resolved, at all hazanh,
and at whatever oo3t, to prevent the rec
ords thereof from failing into bis hands,
with no one to watch them but himself
and those whom the iieople'geueraUysus.
pect and behove to be complicated with
whatever of wrong doing may finally be
established.
In the order of Blodgett, which we
published on Saturday, removing
MoOalla, Hotchkiss and I. P. Harris,
upon the pretended (or real) order
of Governor Bullock; tho subsequent
“order" of Major Hargrove to Captain
Tim Mnrpby, to take charge of the
rooms and not allow any one to enter
them without authority; and tho still
subsequent, vorbally confused iiitlruc-
lioiu of Captain Blodgett, transferring the
whole matter to Attorney Gonerul Fur
row, requiring him to bring up tho “un
finished business" and inretligale “the
gut conduct of certain parsons hereto
fore oouneeted with the road;" in all this,
we say, them wss a mmUance of lawful
authority on tho port of Blodgett and
his friends; for ha hod the so-oallsd or
der of the Governor, (remember, that
Bullock was, at the date of said order,
ontoide of the State, and bis authority to
it under ouch circumstances was,
and ia, questioned;) while the friends of
the people, in their action, bad nothing
loans tain them but a consciousness of
oorrect motives, and a determination
that no opportunity should be given to
any one hereafter, cover up any pil
fering tracks that may bavo been mado.
See how "conscienoo doth make cow
aide of ns all I" and how a man who bos
occupied a high place, where great pub-
Bo frauds aae believed to have been per
petrated, and who ia generally believed
to.have been cognizant of, il.not in com
plicity with, them; and who, if not ao
tually guilty in either of theso respects,
ought to have known of and prevented
any snob frauds and robberies, if they
warn perpetrated; and if not perpetrated,
oagbt, at least, to have so managed the
important trust in bis bands as to bavo
satisfied the country, and saved himsel f
from the pnblie odium now rosting upon
him—an bo |made to quail, and surren
der what ho claims as his legal rights,
before tho high indiguution of a virtuous
publio sentiment!
Whether Capt. Blodgett be guilty or
innocent of the charges which tho
pnblie mind entertains ogaiust him;
whether bis effort on Friday to get
the exclusive posessiou for himself
and those of liko ilk, of the books
and papers, was with a good or evil in
tention—no matter wbieb—that attempt
has tho appearance of a last desperate
effort—a dying kick, an expiring gasp
in tho vain struggle once more to put
himself in a position of importance and
assume an attitude of some consequence
before tho publio at this juncture. That
dying kick icat a dead failure! It did not
put him on his feet again! He is down,
and thore ho will remain (if he is not
lent to lower dopths), unless the public,
after a thorough investigation, shull come
to the conclusion that ho ought not to be
kept down, and shall oome to bis relief
and kelp him up! This will be doue if
they find he deserves it; if not, bo might
well submit without n struggle, for
there is, in suoh cose, ho salvation for
him. If it ia clearly ascertained and
proven that hia skirts are clear and his J
hands cloan, none will more cheerfully
oomo to bis relief than Tun Bun; but
until this proof is fnruisbod to the peo
ple, ho must lio iu the mud; and ho might
as woll take it patiently.
This much by way of introduction to
what we intended to say of tho rorres-
pondeneo between Colonel Furrow und
Major McCslIa, which we now prococd to
do
Wo commond its spirit. It is highly
creditable to both of them. It evinces,
on tho part of cock, au earnest desire and
determination to make searching inves
tigations at onoe, and to bring to a spoedy
oooonnt all delinquents and all pecula
tors | and forgers, if |snch are found.
We have not tho slightest doubt of the
good faith of both these gentlemen
Major McCalls has heretofore shown this,
by having warrants issued |and procuring
the arrest of five or six parties. We ore
aware that ho performed this, from a high
senso of public duty, after failing to in
duce Captain Blodgett to take the some
steps, and perform this work himself.
Colonel Farrow we have known for years;
and notwithstanding we have had no
Sympathy with his political views, we
have confidence in his integrity of
purpose, end rest- contented that he
will vigorously press the work upon which
he has entered, sparing neither friend nor
foe, political or otherwise, who may bo
found to have offended. Thia is our
opinion of OoL Fanow, which we do not
lrceitate to express; and we shall enter
tain it till some reason for changing it is
furnished. We are aware that soma of
anr readers will differ With us on this
point, because he bos been connected
with Bollock's Radical and justly odious
administration. We respectfully ask all
“I Was Very Glad of It."
THE STATE ROAD BOOKS;
Captain Blodgett, cx-Superintendcnt
of the State Itoad, who has boon unhec The Struggle for their “•Possess-
eaauriiy “prolonging” hia term, in Lis
letter to the Editor of the Eru, which wo
publish this morning in Tun Sun, makes
allusion to a conversation, which ho Bays
took place between himself and Major Me
Calls, in relation to the report of the latte r
having paid into tho State Treasury a
certain sum of money, and says he told
McCalla that he was “eery glad of it. 1 '
GLAD!! Ye Hcftmis, listen! Foster
131odgett “glad,” that a little money has
at last been paid into the State Treasury,
by a State Road ojjicinl!
If this little mite, paid iuto the Treas
ury, at this late day, and under such
circumstances, has so rejoiced his
heart, why did he not mako'himsclf more
than twelve times as glad at the end of
every month during the past year by
paying into tho State Treasury more than
twelve times an much (which he could
easily have done from the earnings of the
Itoad) as that small amount of < *rettita*
tion money!” If less than $4,000 of
“restitution money** going"into the State
Treasury now, has made his soul “glad,”
would not tho payment of $50,000 or
over into the Treasury every month, from
the In/it ivy ite earnings of the Road, have,
kept him supremely happy, and in ec
static pleasures, all that time?
No doubt he would now be ghul and
rejoice if ho hail done so. No doubt he
would give the world if he conld recall
the post.
But opportunities once lost are gone
forercr\ They can Dever be recalled; and
let all who are exposed to temptation, or
who have opportunities to involve their
honor in tho hope of gain, remember
that tho path of stern, unbending recti
tude is the only safe one !
You must not toy or dally with sin, nor
stop to consider its tempting Allurements;
if you do, you are already more than half
lost; and ten to one your loss is irre
trievable. Woo to the mau that is tempt
ed and yields up his honor!
But to stop moralizing: It seems that
Capt. Blodgett was deeply conoerned and
exceedingly anxious to have that money
deposited in the Btatc Treasury lest he
might he arrested! Ah, arrested 1 What
virtue there is iu the fear oX arrest, und
in being arrested! Did Foster Blodgett
have any of the money which has come
into his hands (or into tho hands of those
under him, which is the some thing)
sinco tho lease of tho State Itoad, depos
ited in the StAte Treasury, or manifest
any anxiety or desire or disposition to do
so? The feur of arrest was not then be
fore his eyes! but this time it was!
It seems that Isaac F. Harris and B,
W. Wrcnn never manifested any sort of
disposition to settle up tho balances in
their hands, till they were arrested; and
we have been informed that they even
denied, on several occasions, that they
owed anything to the State. How this
is wo do not know; but it seems that
there is virtuo iu being arrested, and in
the fear of arrest.
More Arrriti.
Yesterday oificor Kendrick returned
to this city bringing with him Mr.
James Mullins, whom ho arrested some
where below Macon, and Mr. W. It. D.
Millar, of Savannah, arrested in that city.
Both are charged with complicity in the
State Itoad frauds and peculations, and,
wo understand, will have a hearing before
Judge Hopkins this morning at the City
Hall.
Mr. Millar is accompanied by his wife,
and is stopping at the Kimball House.
Both ho and Mullins are iu tho custody
of the oflloers.
AKHKHT OF UKOUOE 8. COBB.
iou v —The Genera! Bookkeep
er and uie Attorney-General—
A Highly Interest!lit; and Cour
teous Discussion—A Satisfac
tory Tern i nation.
Important Correspondence.
In our last it^ue we stated that the
question as to who should have charge
and hold immediate possession of the
books and papers belonging to the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, was
a matter of serious consideration and
negotiation all day on Friday, and
that they were guarded by a posse of
policemen on Friday night
The final solution of the matter in
all its details, however, was not reach
ed till »Saturday—all of which the
following correspondence fully ex
plains:
Atlanta, August 25, 1871.
To the Hon. Henry P. Farrow, Attorney
(General: Sir—As my right to the custody
of the l)Ooks and papers connected with
the State Itoad, left over at the time said
road was lc;osed, is disputed, I now oiler,
iu your presence, to turn over said books
and papers to the Comptroller-General
but 1 respectfully decline to surrender
them to Hon. Foster Blodgett, or to any
person designated by him.
Please state if it will satisfy your claims
upon the lxioks and papers for me to
moke the disposition above indicated.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) Chas. P. McCalla.
Atlanta, Ga., August 25, 1871.
Sir: Your proposition to tarn over all
the books ana papers of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, alluded to by you,
cannot bo acoepted for tho reason that I
consider it my dnty, under the laws of
Georgia and instructions this day receiv
ed, to ascertain from those books and
papers, as speedily os possible, who are
in default, and the amount of their de
fault ; and farther, who have now in their
possession any money or property of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, whether
fraudnlently or otherwise, and cause
proper demand to be made of them for
settlement, and, in cose of failure to set
tle them, have proper statement of the
sum thus withheld mado to the Comptrol
ler General that he may issue his execu
tion as the law directs, and thus bring
them to a settlement in tho most sum
mary manner. With a view to thos
placing these matters in such shape that
tho Comptroller can issuo his execution
and bring these parties, no matter who
they may be, to a speedy settlement, I
wish to place all the books and papers
under the immediate control of Judge
Collier, or any other citizen of like unim
peachable character, and have them fur
nished with such aid as will enable them
to speedily furnish me a oomplcte state
ment of every defalcation or fraud.
During the meauwhile you or any other
citizens desiring, Bhall have free access to
those books and papers in the presence
of Judge Hummock, Dr. ltedwine, Judge
Collier, or such other like citizen os
might be selected, and only in their pres
ence ; I and all other persons heretofore
connected with tho road being under the
same restrictions, and in the meanwhile
every facility shall bo afforded to ascer
tain fraud aod bring parties now, or here
after, arrested to justice, whether they be
high or low in station.
Very respectfully,
Henry P. Farrow,
Attorney W. & A. It. It.
Chas. P- McCalla, Atlanta, Go.
execution is to bo free from any judicial, heard, and urged him to deposit the nity of practicing wlmt thoy had learnt,
interference whatever. Thus, the Code money with Dr. Angier immediately.— I 'There is one thing, however, which
direct* that all these agents or appointees j Next morning, Thursday the 24th. I rea 1 your children at times retain, and that is
of tho Superintendent shall be brought j in The Daily Sun, that McCalla had de- j u feeble, sickly body, because their young,
WM “ ‘ amhthereis noth- posited the amount of $3,950 with the delicate frames were not able to endure
by him to a settlement, am
ing in the law leasing the rood which
eon ilicts therewith. It may be said that a
suflicient time has already elapsed for all
these settlements to have been made; bat
with that question I nave nothing to do.
My connection with the matter com
menced yesterclay, and I will pursue t!*c
law vigorously.
While 1 regret to know thut J ha'
been eomi>elled, from a m.-.n.se of duty, to
take issue with bis Excellency, the Gov
ernor, and the Superintendent on some
questions, and oppose them with all the
power and influence I possessed, even to a
rupture of pleasant relations; yet, so
long as his Excellcucv, Governor It. B.
Bullock, remains the Chief Magistrate of
Georgia he shall have from me all the re
spect and support to which his official
position entitles him. And believing
that the law makes it the doty of Hon.
Foster Blodgett, Superintendent of the
Western and Atlantic liailrood, to bring
all his subordinate appointees to a set
tlement, I shall respect him as such, and
faithfully discharge any and all duties
which may devolve upon me as the attor
ney of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road.
I have entered upon this dnty untram
melled by any private instructions or re
strictions by either tho Governor or Su
perintendent, and I trust they both know
mo well enough to know thut iu the dis
charge of my duty I will screen no man.
I have had an interview with Dr. Ked-
wiue, and am inclined to think 1 will be
able to procure his services, und if so, you
will l>e informed when wo are ready to
opcu the books and papers, and will be
invited to be present, either iu person or
by attorney.
With the highest personal respect,
I am, &c., Henry P. Farrow,
Attorney W. & A. R. R.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 2G, 1871.
Hon. H. P. Farrow, Attorney General:
Sir—In answer to your communication
of this date I would say that I am satis
fied with the selection of Dr. C. L. Red-
wine, O. C. Hammock and John Collier
as the proper custodians of the books
and papers of tbe Western A Atlantic
Railroad.
While I disagree with you as to the
autl^prity by which you claim tho right
to prosecute claims to full settlement,
nevertheless, I am more than willing to
waive all points at issue and agree that
these gentlemen shall at once take charge
of all books and papers of said road.
With respect,
I am your obedient servant,
Chas. P. McCalla,
General Book-keeper.
Atlanta, Ga., August- 2b, 1871.
Messrs. C. L. Red wine, C. C. Hammock
and E. E. R<arson, Atlanta, Go.—
Gentlemen: I herewith hand you a cor
respondence which you will pleuse give a
careful perusal, as it is my wish to pro
cure your seivices, as citizens in whom
the entire community have implicit con
fidence, to take charge of the bookstand
* '■ Ttail
Atlanta, August 25, 1871.
Col. Farrow: Without committing my
self to anything you may hold touching
your rights or duties in reference to
making collections, I consider your prop
osition as to the custody of the books and
tho terms of access to them not imfuir,
and therefore accept the same.
It is indifferent to mo which of tho
throe gentlemen you nofpo is selected.
Please designate any one of thorn for
yourself.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) Chas. P. McCalla.
More of I In- Kiprm* HoMiriy, nttil wit at
tHIUC Of If
ik8 to impend their judgment til) they
■It
MUom arrises will be held at the
Fin* Baptist Ohnreh oretj night thia
week at 8:10 o'clock, by Bar. K. W. War
4am, and at S o’aiook in tha evening.
— f poet office baa been eetabliahed at
plaaa, and Miaa E. P. Strickland haa
4uen appointed to take charge
I
Tlio book* and patera arc iu the hauda
uf hotnxl hud reapouaible men—in whom
the people h,re ffie atmoat confidence;
whatever ia dqpe under their direc
tion the country will ho satisfied with—
no matter what that may be. Such ia
our judgment and such ia the feeling of
every respectable man in thia community.
Our readers will remember that about
two or three months since the safe of tho
Express Company iu thia city was robbed
of a considerable amount of money.
Several arrests were made of tho em
ployees of the Company, but nothing ever
carno of the investigations instituted at
that time. At tho time of tho robbery,
Goorgo S. Cobb was the money clerk at
tho office, but was not arrested. Subse
quently, at tho session of tho Superior
Court, ho was indicted for cheating and
swindling, aud placed under n bond for
his appearance at the next term of that
Court.
The evidence upon which this ia.
dictment was predicated, consisted in the
statement that, os money clerk, he made
overcharges, collected the same, and pat
the money in his ow n pocket. For iu
stance: A package coming from West
Foint, upon which the tariff was fifty
oouts, he would enter it ns seventy-five
cents or a dollar, whou the consignee
paid tho chargee, etc., he put the over-
plus iu his own pocket,
Tho story goes, that about tho time of
the big robbery here, he took sides with
parties who were arrested upon suspi
cion, and mode himself objectionable, if
not suspieious, with those who were em
powered to ferret out the robbery. Any
way, he resigned his offioo as clerk, and
quit the sorvicc of tho company. Then
oome tho Superior Court, and his indict
ment upon the charges preferred.
Since that time Mr. Cobb has been in
aud about this city and was here last
Tuesday. The telegraphio news of his
arrest published in the city papers of
yesterday morning was indeed news to
hia friends, who expressed great surprise
at it
It is supposed that tho arrest iu New
York on Saturday was upon a charge of
complicity of the safe robbery. Tha
only news wo are able to give in relation
to the afiur amounts in Baba tones to the
above statement
The exercises of tha Atlanta Catholic
Mala School will be resumed this mor
ning at tha old stand on Broad Street
We understand that a oompany has
been formed for the purpose of erecting
another ioe manufactory, with a capital
of 832,000. Volney Donning will leave
ia a few days for the purpose of contract
ing for the machinery.
Atlanta, Ga., August 26, 1871.
Sir: I am glad to learn from your note
of yesterday evening in response to mine,
declining to consent to a projrositiou sub
mitted by you, that you consider the
course which I intend pursuing “ not un
fair,” and it is perhaps highly proper for
mo to inform you at onoo, in response to
your declaration, that you do not wish to
lx> understood as committing yourself to
imy theory I may hold as to my duties
aud lights in the jiremLses, that it is im
material with me whether yon so commit
yourself or not. Under the Code of
Georgia tho duties and powers of the
Superintendent of tno Western and At
lantic Railroad are most clearly defined,
and cannot bo misunderstood. The law
leasing tho said road superseded or re
pealed so much of the Code relating to
the rights, powers mid duties of the Su
perintendent as were in conflict with said
law; mid all other sections of the Code
relating to his rights, powers and duties
stand unropealed mid of fiffi force. The
law leasing tho rood passed the road itself
ont of his possession, liud relieved him of all
duties in connection therewith. It further
passed all financial settlements between
this road and all connecting roads out of
hia hands aud placed them iu the bauds
of tho oompany leasing the road. It
further passed out of his hands all settle
ments to bo made with parties holding
liquidated demands against the road ex
isting at tho time of the lease, whether
dne or to become due, and placed the
same in the hands of his Excellency, the
Governor, who ia authorized to draw his
warrant for the same. It furthermore
passed out of his hands all settlements to
be made with parties holding unliqui
dated demands against the road, existing
at the time of the lease, and plaoed the
same in the hands of a Board of Com
missioners named in the law itaelf,
whose dnty it ia to pass on the same.
Bnt nowhere in that law or all otfier
laws is there a sentenoe, a clause, or a
word, relieving him of the duty of bring
ing all his subordinate appointees and
agents to a settlement; and unless there
is some law relieving him of those duties
under the Code, it u still hia right and
imperative duty to bring them to a set
tlement It is not to bo presumed that
the General Assembly intendod to turn
all these agents free and at liberty to
keep all they lpul on hand at the time
the lease was perfeeted. Rat, upon the
contrary, the General Assembly was eon-
tent to leave them to be brought to set
tlement as the Code direote; and placed
nothing in law tearing the rood to con
flict with those sections of the Code.
The remedy prescribed in the Code is a
summary one. It is the dnty of the
Superintendent to aaoertain the amount
dne the road from them and demand
settlement. If they refuse it is his duty
to make a complete statement of the same
to the Comptroller General, whereupon he
is required to iasne bin execution as against
n defaulting Tax Collector, which
papers of the Western k Atlantic
nad, and one or the other of yon, or all
jointly, supervise personally the bringing
up of nil the books, and supervise porson-
ully all investigation of said books and
papers made with a view to ascertaining
any and all frauds perpetrated by any
parties, whomsoever, in the affairs of the
Western A- Atlantic Railroad. It is not
my desire to ask any labor of you farther
than to bo present and see thut the duty
is correctly performed by competent
book-keepers whom I will furnish you,
assuring you that I will not employ any
clerk for this duty under yoursupervisiou
who is in any particular objectionable to
either of you. It is my desire that no
man, whomsoever, shall be permitted to
handle any book or paper except under
the eye of one or the othor of you, but
that you permit any citizen to exercise
the right the law gives him to see tho
same under your eye. For this impor
tant dnty I will see that you will be prop
erly compensated. Hoping you will con
sent to perform this duty
I remain, very respectfully, Ac.,
Henuy P. Farbow,
Attorney W. & A. It. R.
Foster Blodgett's Say So.
We iinil the following in the Era
of yesterday, and lay it Wore our
readers that they may see what Capt.
Blodgett has to say for himself:
Atlanta. August 26, 1871.
K<iUor Kin—Deau Sir: In a conver
sation with C. 1’. McCalla on Thursday
morning, ho said to me that he had been
advised to remove his office and the books
if the Western and Atlantic Railroad
from the Capitol Building to some other
part of tho city, and nlso said that tin
same parties did not think he was acting
“square,” for the reason that his room
and mine were adjoining, etc. I told him
that the rooms for the books, etc., Inal
been provided by the Governor, and that
all tlie iiooks had been kept safely, aud 1
would liot consent to their removal with
out ordors from tho Governor. McCalla
seemed to agree to this. As I had been
quite unwell for several days, I called on
Dr. Ormo, who gave mo medicine, and
advised mo to go home and go to bed,
which I did about 10) o’clock a. ji.—
About 6 V. M. iufonnation was brought
me that McCalla intendod to remove the
Inxiks of tho State Road from the build
ing belonging to tho State to some pri
vate office. As tho books had been safe
ly kept where thoy were since the last of
December, 1870, over seven months, and
knowing no good renson for their remov
al, I instructed CoL A. L. Harris to con:
suit immediately with tho attorney for
the Western aud Atlantic Railroad tut to
the best course to bo taken by me. Tho
consultation resulted in tho ordors issued
by mc.^1 requested Colouel H. P. Far
row, the Attomov-Uenora], to let it be
known that wc did uot desire to socrete
the lxioks, or any of them, nud thut they
would bp oixm for examination or inspec
tion of any citizen; but that I did not
think they should bo taken away ami
controlled by C. P. McCalla tuid a small
coterie of persons.
Now I desire to say a word in relation
to the money received from Alexander,
being paid into the lianda of tbe State
Treasurer: On the 16th of this month,
in a conversation with Major George
Hillyer, I asked him if it might not tie
important to have tho identioal money
reoeived by McCalla from Alexander at
the time theso cases were presented to
tbs Superior Court, and if, in his judg
ment, it would not be advisable for Mc-
Calla to make a special deposit iu some
Bank. Maj. Hillyer replied that be
thought my suggestion a good one, but
that it would be hotter to have the money
dapoaited with the State Treasurer. 1
immediately saw McCalla; told him of
thia conversation with M>j. Hillyer, and
told him to put the money in the envel
ope, endorse hia name on it. and deporit
it with State Treasurer. I inquired sev
eral times of McCalla if he had deposited
tho money, and ho answered, no. On
Wednesday, 23d instant, I was told on
the street that both McCalla and myself
would be arrested if that money was not
plaood in the hands of the Htato Trous
er. I went at once to room 45,' Capitol
Building, and told McCalla what I had
State Treasurer. So when I raw McCalla
about ten o’clock that morning, I said
t<j him that I saw by The Buy Lhat ho had
deposited the Alexander money with Dr.
Angier, that I was very glad of it, for lie
would certainly have been arrested if it
had not been done. He said be lmd paid
it over and had Dr. Augier .s receipt. 1
had requested a friend to see Dr. Angier
und find out the amount of money paid
over to him by McCalhu This gentleman
reported to me that he saw Dr. Angier at
three o’clock r. m. of Thursday the 24th
inst., five hours after McCalla told me
that he lmd AngieFs receipt, aud that at
that time no money luid been paid ! Nor
did I know that the money was turned
over until after the order was published
removing McCalla.
The above is a statement of facts as
they occurred, and yet newspapers say
that I removed McCalla because he paid
over this money, whou it was ordered to
be doue by me. I do uot believe it
would now be iu tho hands of Dr. Angier
but for McCulla’s fear of Iveing arrested.
The clurge that I desired to retain the
books for the purpose of mutilation, al
teration or secretion, is perfectly ridicu
lous; for, in either event, I would be the
party to suffer, and would justly incur
the execration of the whole community.
I will also add thut I have been ever
willing to ussist iu any way in exposing
fraud in this matter, and in bringing
guilty parties to justice; and I have not
hesituted to give uny information or to
voluntarily give any papers or books that
have been uslo d for by those whom I
believed were honestly endeavoring to
expose crime, but I have not, aud will
Hot assist in any persecution, either for
political or pecuniary considerations.
There are some other facts that will
appear at the proper time, that will be
astounding to the public, but os the
whole matter will be judicially investi
gated, I think it best to say us little as
possible, and I would not have written
this but for the reason thut the facts and
my motives have been so terribly dis
torted and misconstrued.
Very respectfully,
Foster Blodgett,
Sup’t W. & A. R. R.
Anxious to Help, and Volunteers
his Services.
The Era of yesterday morning con
tains the following letter:
Atlanta, Ga., August 17, 1871.
Maj. Geo. Hillyer—Dear Sir: I drop
you this to say that in any investigation
which you may desire to make in relation
to fraud on the W. & A. R. R., or before
the Commission of which you are a mem
ber, I will cheerfully co-operate with you
to have the guilty parties exposed und
brought to justice, und have the money
restored to the State that has been stolen.
I told Judge Walker so yesterday, so I
hope if I can be of any assistance you
will let mo know. I have not in any way
concealed what I knew, but have told the
Governor and others, and have acted as I
thought best for the interest of tlio State
and for tho promotion of justice. Jf you
should need my services, or if you desire
to learn all that I have found out in theso
matters, name a place of meeting and I
will tell you all aud assist you to tbe best
of my ability, so far as I know, in bring
ing tho parties up, and in any other way
that you may, in your judgment as a
lawyer, think right and proper. No one
regrets this thing more than I do ; but
wrong has been doue, and I will go as far
os any one in exposing it and punishing
those implicated. Please let me know if
I ean iu uny way assist in tho matter.
Yours truly, Foster Blodgett.
THE GERMAN LANGUAGE.
To tl»*> Citizens of Atlantu.
Fellow' Citizens: From .the advertise
ment which appears in another column,
it will be seen that I am about to reopen
my English aud German school. It will
be my great object to pay special atten
tion to those branches which prepare
tbe scholar for a life that shall bo practi
cal in the true sense of that term. I
shall take the course which every teacher
that deserves tho approval of his patrons
must take. I shall not bo satisfied to
storo the memory of my pupils with a
certain amount of knowledge, but I shall
endeavor to fill them with a lovo of study
which will not suffer them to rest in any
thing they may have already attained,
which will urge them on to overcome
every difficulty they may have to en
counter, and which will not let them
rest till they have arrived at least to some
degree of eminence iu tho pursuit to
which they are especially devoted. There
is one point, however, dear American
friends, to which I desiro to direct your
attention more especially; it is the op
portunity which this school offers to
your children to obtain a thorough
knowledge of tho German language.
That language may be to your children
tho key, by tho means of which they ob
tain access to treasures of which they can
now hardly form au idea. Your daught
ers will tako delight in acquiring it, for
our language is, liko themselves, not
the mental exertion to which they were
subjected. The beautiful spring of their
lives had been turned to them iuto the
scorcliiLg heat of summer. In Germany,
you will admit that there is also thorough
instruction given. But the teacher works
with the children iu school; he does not
suffer them to do all the work by them-
stlves aUiomc. I have often seen good,
industrious scholars who, though ever ixo
well inclined, were unable to do tho les
sons they hud received by themselves at
home. Look at the list of branches
taught in our schools, reading, writing,
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigo
nometry, book-keeping, surveying, civil
engineering, zoology, etymology,astrono
my, botany, physiology, psychology, geo
graphy, history, drawing, composition,
Greek, Latin and French. What more
can be expected ? I k PRr one say that is
an excellent school, and to that ray chil
dren shall go 1 Besides, the teacher
whips them occasionally to fill them with
the proper respect; and why not? But
wlmt. the final vr-Mi<lt V r IW»«
hat is the final result V The children
learn a little of all that I have enumera
ted, and at last know nothing. The
beautiful time is lost as well us your
money, and the whipping hus also availed
nothing. I do insist on discix>liue and
order in my school, and I know how to
make my scholars respect me without
having constant recourse to whipping. I
have endeavored to place myself in strong
sympathy with them, and to treat them
in a manner that will win their love, aud
through love secure their obedience.
And though my scholars in the course of
one short year do uot learn something of
everything, what they do learn they learn,
I trust, thoroughly. During my resi
dence in this city I have instructed schol
ars 11, 12 and 13 years of age, who for
many years had gone to school, and who
yet did not know how much i and j wus.
These tilings arc sad, indeed, but true.
My motto is: Eilu mil Welle; “lusteu
slowly;” lrnm bnt little at a time, but
lenni that little well. Tills is the banner
which I have chosen for my life us a
teacher. Gather urouml this banner,
dear friends, aud help me to establish a
good institution, tho blessing of which
shall not only bo felt in our Gate City,
but shall reach distant regions.
B. A. Bonxbeim.
A Visit to Wenopa Temple Cold Water
Templars.
(Vo enjoyed a very pleasant vUit at
this thriving institution yesterday, and
were surprised to see with what precision
the meeting was oondneted, each mem
ber seeming to understand that the suc
cess of the enterprise depended on him.
Wo were impressed with the initiatory
ceremony. We were shown by illustrations
and lectures tho various stages that load
a man to the drnnkard’s grave, from the
boy sacking cider out of a barrel through
a straw, until in a fit of frenzy, the boy
(now become a man) has committed mur
der and is hung, then to the solitary
cemetery. The warning of the different
officers to the candidates, together with
the cncouragemenas to do right, oro in-
dellibly impressed upon our mind. The
greatest feature of this institution is, it
is entirely conducted by children, the
presiding officer being only fourteen
years old.
Wcnona Temple has bcon orgauizod
just ono year, and has 275 members.—
Tho Cold Water Temple is destined to
fill the same position to tho great Tem
perance Reform that the Sabbath Schools
do the Church. The leaders of this lit
tle institution ore men and women who
are devoting their time to temperance.
To-night their annual celebration will
bo held at the Skating Rink, when an
attractive programme will be presented,
to which tuft public are invited.
Ixociil und. HukI liPKH NotlfCft
-Dr.
L. H. Bradfield, the manufacturer of
Brudfield’s Female Regulator is in tiie
city, is just in receipt of a letter from
Germany, of which tho following is a
correct translation—tho original of
which is iu Dr. Bradficld'a possession
and ran ho seen by any ono who desires
it. Verily tho medicine is acquiring a
reputation as wide as that of civilization.
The following is tho translation:
NonTUEnN Province of Hanover, (
German Empire, August 7th, 1871. j
Jh\ Brailfidil.—Dear Sir : From ono of
my friends I liayo learned your address,
and from him have received a few bottles
of your celebrated Female Regulator,
and its excellent properties for curing
certain diseases of the fair sex Lave been
coinuiuuicated to me. I have had au
opportunity of trying your medicine in
my own Cf" mily with tho most satisfac
tory success, and I hasten to express to
- —- y , you my warmest thanks for tho happy
wanting m delicacy aud richness of beau- effect produced by your medicine. Not
ty, and they will think themselves well I „„i„ J , . ,
rewarded for their labor iu acquiring it n J lu ni J owu family, but also in
other families this side of the Atlantic
huve the same happy results been cffec-
ocquiring
by tho magnificent literature which
it contains. To your sons, with their
quick intellect and their practical sense,
our language will be as a spade by the
means of which they will open a mine
from which they will bring forth uu-
measnred treasures of knowledge; and
as for yourselves, a knowledge of the
German language will bo the means of
drawing you nearer to your German
friends, because it will give you new light
concerning their tine character, and of
establishing new relations between you
and them, which cannot but bo advanta
geous to both. Though strongly inolined
to be practical iu ail the relations of life,
the course you pursue in regard to tho
German language does not prove you so.
You frequently send your children to so-
called High Schools, where, besides tbe
common branches, Greek. Latin, and
French, and other modern languages, arc
taught tho Utter generally by natives of
the United States. Yet is evident that
a modern language ean only be taught
correctly and thoroughly by a native of
the country in which tho language is
spoken. An American professor, howev
er well he may be acquainted with a for
eign language, cannot import to the pupil
so intimate a knowledge of the genius of
that language, or even of its pronuncia
tion, as a native of the country in which
tbe language is spoken is likely to do.—
Thos is the captain of a vessel at perfect
ease while on the high sea, bnt when be
approaches tho shore, lie gives the direc
tion of his ship to the pilot, w ho is fa
miliar with the approaches to a safe har
bor iu the country to which his course is
directed.
I do not undervalue the acquisition of
knowledge in any department of science
or literature, but if your children ure uot
intended for professional life, tho acqui
sition of Greek ana Latin, and even of
French, is in most instances a loss to
them. ^ How much have they retained in
after life of what they learnt in their
schools of Greek, Latin and French’—
Nothing, became they had no opportu-
ted, until now the last bottle has been
used np, and I can no longer supply
those who have made demands for the
medicine. I wish very much to procure
a new supply, and therefore address you
to respectfolly ask of you whether you
have an ageucy for your medicine on
this continent, and if not, to send men
few dozeft bottles per North German
Lloyd Steamer. For tho amount yon
may draw on mo through Messrs O.
McKuy and Co., Rankers in Bremen,
or if you prefer it, I (will send you the
amount of the hill iu advance. Awaiting
yoqr reply, I am yours respectfully,
G. V. Frankknuubu.
Crif" Great Baroainr,—For sale—two
flint-class Engines. Apply to Porter &
Butler, Machinists.
Atlanta, Aug. 22-d6t
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kpi- Nougat de Marseilles, at Block's
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Sf “Alexander H. Stephenson the
Study of tlie Law.” This is tho titlo of
a 16 page pamphlet, being the substance
of a Lecture to a class of Liberty Hall
law students. It is printed aud now
really for sale at The Atlanta Hu* office.
It is one among tbe ablest and profonnd-
eat productions that ever emenated frorq
Mr. Stephans’ pen, and ia deeply inter
esting and instructive, not only to law
yers, bat to all classes and professions
Price—single cojiy 15 cents, 50 oopies
85.00. Address J. Hsrlt Smith,
Manager Be* office, Atlanta, Ga.
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