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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 12. 1877.
Ipstilg jgnqnirtr.
tOl.tlM HIM. UA.I
TUESDAY JUNE 12, 1877.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION!
AND MORE THAN
TWICE THE LARGEST
AGGREGATE CIRCULATION I
John Lobd, not jot 30 yearn of age, ia
th* editor of the New York limes. He
ia a Sootobman from Glasgow.
To-day ia the time for action. Lot not
a friend to the measure tail to east his
ballot to-day for the Convention.
Gan. Graft is just now the most con-
spionous existing illustration of the prov
erb, "Nothing suooeeds like success. ”
Senator Gordon's brother in-law, J.
G. Payne, is e oandidato for Sergeent-Bt-
Arms of tho House of Uepresentstives.
Gbo. Wm. Curtis declines the English
mission, and James Russell Lowell and
Wayne MacVeagh have both declined
leading positions abroad.
Secretary Evabts, Friday,signed Hon.
Roaooe Oonkling's passports for Enrope,
and would probably not grieve if he
wonld atay there altogether.
Tbs Tribunt of Tuesday says "peaohes
from Georgia are sold in the frnlt stores
at twsnty-flve oonta each, or one dollar to
one dollar and a quarter per dosen."
Fbom Chattahoochee County. — We
hear on most exoelloDt authority that in
his speech in Cnsseta, on Satnrday, Major
Moees devoted most of his severity on
Mr. Peabody. For all that Mr. Peabody
will be elected.
Col. Valentine Baser, the Eegliih of
ficer whose affair with Mins Dickinson in
the railway carriage will be remembered,
has finally settled himself in the Turkish
•ervioe as commander of the gen de'arm-
trie, with the rank of Brigadier General.
J. B. Syphax, onoe a slave of the Ar
lington estate, and raoently a member of
the Virginia Legislature, advooetes the
election of General W. U. F. Lee for
Governor. Syphax believes in blood and
family, and thinks ‘‘Rooney” is “one of
ns.”
8ncn Repnbliosns as Hon. Joshua Hill,
Judge James Johnson, Col. R. L. Mott,
Postmaster W. U. Johnson, Mr. George
Hnngerford, Mr. Locke, and others, favor
a convention. The opponents are Conloy,
Bryant, Bollook, and people of that
■tripe. Can Republican oolored men
donbt whose lead to follow ?
The Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home
is in disgrace. It is now discovered that
the State has long boon swindled by those
In charge of the Home. Maggie Wallaoe,
who claims to have been lad eatray while
an inmate, hai made some serious ootu-
plaints against those who have had the
oere of thp institution sinoo its early or
ganisation.
Capt. Howoate has raised a good part
Of Ihe $8,000 necessary for tho prelimi
nary atapa of his Arotio exploring propo
sition, End will doubtless seonro the re
mainder in a few days. If he does so he
will start North some time in Angust,
His friends seem entirely confident that
he will succeed in his effort to get an ap
propriation from Congross.
John Mobbisbxt has telegraphed to Mr.
Harper that be will give a $8,000 pursi,
three mile heats, to be ran f or at Bsratogs
in Jnno, July or August, provided bo will
enter his horse Ton Broeok against Tom
Oohillrae or any other horso. If no
horses are Entered to ran against Ten
Broeok, Morrissey will pay $1,500 it Ten
Broeok will walk over the oonrse.
G»kat preparations are making in
Louisville for the oomiug mnsioal festival
of the North Amerioen Haengerbund, which
istoopeu July !*, and continue for one
week. There will be a ohorus of 1,200
voioee, assisted by an orchestra of 100
men, and the soloists will be Mme. Pap-
penheim, Mias lteinman, Miss Louiso
Rollwagen and Mr. Frank Rommorlz.
Spencer of Alabama has retired to the
Black Hills, whenoe he sends us through
his friends a most doleful wail. He thinks
of resigning his Beat in theSonato because
he no longer reoeivos the consideration
doe him os a Southern Ropublioau. He
cannot take care of the opprossed negro
properly withont recognition ; he haH lost
money in the South, and yearns for pri
vate life. The Tribune says, then by all
means resign, Mr. Speneer. It will be
the one aot in your oareer whioh the
oonntry will thank yon for.
The proteotionists of tho East think
they esn gain votes from the South by on-
oonraging cotton manufacturing in the
Southern States, bat they ought to under
stand that tho people of tho South, like
the people of the West, know that there
ia no Barer way of building np ipannfao-
ing in their seotion than by abolishing
the protective tariff. When the margin
of profit is ent down the manufacturer
will neeessarily be oompelled to take his
■killed labor to the point where his
prodnota can be made cheapest.
The grand estate of the family of Le
nolr (a Hngenot family whioh came from
North Carolina) is in London county,
Tennessee. The estate has been kept well
together in a body of 2,500 acres, and is
• grand sight lo the agriculturist. The
property is oarefully and snooernfally
managed. Daring the war Burnside’s
eoaunand fonnd its way to the Lenoir ea-
tate,end the General remarked to old Mr.
Lenoir that he admired the property, and
bad been thinking of proposing to trade
for it. The old gentleman said he might
swap it for Rhode Island if the Genera
would give boot enough.
Abusers of Russian literatnre will be
pleased with this scrap of poetry written
by Alexis upon hia departure from New
York:
“Ow.t. Jollltirai* Ad
Bind tooklovov mloldad I
Ow»u m«rricovivf biu—
1 v«t»|M»uta UGwful pilovtin t
Uaiuaurri tulevtuui row,
But luudlguiilifcu Jingo vow,
rbatur kiibwtr uiUMtavjutoii
Uot«U gru|iliitufi'to|AO|«."
TICK CONVENTION.
Tba argument is exhausted. To-day
the people decide by ballot whether or not
there shall be bald a Convention to reme
dy the grow defeots of the organic law of
our State. Every friend of the meeeore
ehonld be on bend and labor earnestly to
eee that enooeaa crown their efforts. The
bolding of e Convention is endorsed by
every leeding Demoeret in Georgia. The
nominees are all men of tho firet-olasi
and standing. Surely Georgians oan
trust their most honored men. They oan-
not believe they will prove false to them
selves, people and State. We do not
think it possible to defeat the Conven
tion, bnt if it is, the Repnblieens will
raise e howl of .joy end gratnlation
through the Mnd. They will bail it as e
triumph of Radicalism. They wilt
boast that the Empire State of
the South baa again yielded to Radio aU
ism, and the carpet-baggar has one#
more a lease on power in Georgia. They
will brag that Georgians, by their own
notion, have voted themselves and their
dead “rebels" and “traitors" for snob they
are ealled in the present Constitution
framed by Radicals when 20,000 of onr
leading oitiEana were disfranchised. Dem
ocrats, will yon stand this 7 Will yon
allow anoh a stigma to rest on yonrselvaa
and people? Are yon willing to
have the heroea of the lost
oanae—the men who wore the grey
and fonght, and bled, and died for
ns called “rebels” in yonr own Constitu
tion ? Heaven forbid I It behoves every
trno lover of Georgia, every men prond
of his State, who desirea her greatness or
prosperity, no matter whether he be Re
publican or Demoorat, white or blaok, to
rally to the polls to-dsy and vote for a
Convention. Vote for the creation of
pare laws, and just and eoonomioal gov
ernment. The rights of all are to be per
fected. Georgia expaots every man to
day to do his dnty. Vole for Convention,
atjd see that frionds vote the same way.
The New York Timet, the leading Re
publican journal in the United States,and
by far the ablest edited opposes a Con veil
lion in Georgia. In its last issue it has
this upon the eonrse of this paper :
The eleotion on the Constitutional Con
vention question in Georgis, will be held
next Tuesday. Of oourae the intolerant
Columbus Enquirer favors it. It nays t
“Conley, Bryant, and Akorman have all
published their edict* against it. Will the
white people of Geogia heed their advice
in preference to that of Toombs, Jenkins,
Gordon, Smith, Oolqltt, Bnehanan, Reese,
Hill, and sooros of others who have been
trusted and are trno ?”
We again ask Georgians whose lead they
will follow ?
THE LIVE ROVTHEHR DEHOb
RACY.
GENERA I, KEY THINKS THE WUIO TARTY A*
DEAD AS BUTLEB’s VT>IT«»HB.
Special Dispatch to the World.]
Warrington, Jnne 0. — Postmaater-
Gouerul Key rotnrned to Washington
yesterday from hia trip throngh the South
with the Postal Commission. He has
rnado several speeches in North Carolina,
Tenues ee ana Georgia, and conversed
with qnile a large .number of leading
men on the political situation in tba
South. It is understood that ho saw
nono of that disaffection among the
Democrats of those States whioh is occa
sionally reported in Washington and finds
its way into the Administration news
papers. On the contrary, he fonnd
that tho Democrats were united as
of old, and indisposed to form any alli-
anoe for the support of the Presideet in a
policy toward the South whioh had beau
forced upon him by the action of the
House iu refusing to appropriate money
to maintain troopa in Louisiana and South
Carolina. As for any revival of the Whig
party, the qneBtion was hardly mooted
exoept to follow a disonssion regarding
internal improvements in the Sonth, ana
even then it was considered as dead as the
epitaphs from whioh General Butler pro
posed to reorult it. Mr. Key himself does
not Rpeak quite as pointedly, but letters
from Georgia and his own State reoeivad
here to-day give this as the result of
his mission, whioh after all was a setni-
political one under the guise of offioial
business •
■ACVItSH AND HUTEEK.
TUB HON. WAYNE MAOVBAOH TO OBNEBAL
1IUTLBB—RHOnT, SHABP AND INOISIYE—A
WABNINO TO YOUNO MEN.
PurifcDBLrHiA, June 6.—Gen. B.
Butler, Washington, D. C.: I fear yon
have overworked yonr inventive facul
ties, for yonr long and labored letter of
to-day shows signs of failing power, and
will go far to destroy that reputation for
effeotivo aonrrilily which >ou have so se
dulously fostered. The issne between
yon and me was of yonr own seeking, and
is so plain that you oannot obscure it by
any arnonnt of misrepresentation, how
ever irrelevant and vulgar. You delib
erately wrote and published concerning
me some sheer falsehoods, without a par
tide of foundation for any one of them.
Thereupon I promptly put you on the
national pillory with a vary legible state
ment of your offenses upon your fore
head. As you have endured your punish
ment for an entire week, and now
virtually oonfeaa that every statement
made by yon was untrue, 1 have no objec
tion to your getting down, but you must
not anpposo I plaoed you there in resent
ment only. My obief purpose waa to ex
hibit yon as a warning to young men, by
showing them that in spite of great ability
and energy you bad beoome the leper of
our politios by reason of the general oon-
viotiou that yon habitually disregard the
eighth and ninth oemmaudmenta. That
purpose has been fully answered by the
comments of the eountry upon yonr char
acter, and I have no further interest in
the matter. I will not even taka the
trouble to deny any new falsehood you
may think it to your advantage to invent
about me, for thoae who know me will
not believe anything you say against me,
and those who know you, of ooursa will
not believe anything you sav against any
body. Wayne MaoVeaqh.
The New Orleasa Fnstons hawse.
New Orleans, June 9.—Twenty-nine
employees were to-day dismissed from
the Custom-house, inoludiug eight olerks,
one messenger, nine laborers, one fore
man, one carpenter, four day and five
night inspectors. Collector King ad
dressed a letter to the Chamber of Corn-
met oe, saying it has been reported to the
Treasury Department at Washington that
the business of the New Orleans Custom
house has been organised on an extrava
gant scale, and that in some raapeota U
is oppressive to importers. The Oolleotor
has heard that do oomplaints have been
made mi far by importing merchants of
this city, and writes for suggestions of
changes in the existing regulations for
the improvement of the aervioe and infor*
i nation of irregularities if any are known.
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY.
iruturu AT OUBBSTA BY CAPT.i
LITTLE, MB. rONTAlHK
AMD MAJ. MOB BA.
LITTLE ANNIHILATES MOSES—LITTLE CON
VINCES ALL—MATOS MOSES’ CHAEOES
FULL! AND AMPLY REPUTED AND TURNED
TO NAUOHT—PEOPLE TO VOTE LOB IN-
ORAM, PEABODY AND LITTLE.
Cuss eta, Ga., June 9, 1877.
Mean. Editors: Your ex-Solicitor,
W. A. Little, was introduced to-day at
the hour of 11 o’clook to the eitizens of
this community as the “pride of Mnsoo-
gee” by Lee MoLester, Esq., for the pur
pose of addressing us upon tho subject of
e Constitutional Convention.
It ia too lata now for this communica
tion to have any influenoe whatever upon
the voters of this Senatorial distriot.
Therefore, the arguments of the three
speakers will not be given in fall. It
were a vain, idle, fatile and a detractive
task to report Mr. Little’s speech as it
was delivered—as it fell from his capa-
oiona month. This faolal, lingual and
dental cavity extends like an overseer's
wages, from (j)ear to (y)sar ; end I tell
yon, Messrs. Editors, it did open from
ear to ear, and it did go from ear to ear
and from heart to heart. There seemed
to be invisible wires attaohed to
his galvanic battery, and the shook—the
onrrent seemed to be oommunioeted
to every one. Every subject waa mag
netized and folly brought under the in
fluenoe of the speaker. I would be glad
to desortbe the orator's looks—bis ap
pearance, if I oonld. We, who heard
him hate to-day, oan understand what
your correspondent is trying to do; but I
fear your city readers—not even bis
wife—yes, his own dear wife, oould not
oomprebend the gentleman while ploading
for bis cause. He certainly did not look
upon it as the “Lost Cause.” He, in
deed, it a fine looking man while advo
cating a I little ease. To survey him
upon ordinary oooasions you oannot tell
mnob about the young man. He is not
very propossessing, bnt has a great deal
of the suaviter in modo when he is at
tending to Little matters. Then, and not
until then, his eyos will flash and roll—
now and then asBnming a’ semi-lunar
form, at other times entirely globular and
Promethean-like—emitting sparks of wit
and repartee—bis bands and arms uplit-
ed prayfully—onoe and a while upon tip-
too—oomingjdown liko an avalanoho upon
a good understanding with such force
and power as to completely demol'ih his
adversary, and oat.'y oonviotion to every
one. He handles momentous anbjeots
with ease, and never discards the minu
tin, for be oertainly loves Little tMngs,
Ha ia a strange and wonderful man.
There ia a peculiar taet about Mm—n
kind of a twist that will astonish and oom'
mend (be admiration even of his oppo
nents. They oan never steal a marob
upon him. He is Argns-eyed, and keeps
one eye open all the time to watoh
around.
He had been speaking about fifteen
minutes when Major Mosea and Mr. Fon
taioe, of your city, came in. These two
gentlemen put some very close questions
to him in regard to the “High Commis
sion. ’,' He would answer them as fast or
they oould propound them under tremen
dous ohearing of his audienoe. Uo was
most emphatically fortunate right here.
Ho spoke nearly three hours.
Mr. Fontaine followed him in a apeeoh
of two. This youog gentleman acquit
ted himself well,end oouvinoed his hearers
that a large stream can flow from a little
Fountain. He made good impresaious
upou the people, as a reflnd and patriotio
gentleman, but I don't think he made
many votea. He was too late coming out.
The High Commission was too fast. If
elected to the Convention, he will mrke a
good doiegate. He said that was his first
effort in speaking—that be did not know
bow to make a speech. With a little
praotioo in pleading agaiuat high com
missions, he will make a first-rate orator.
He does not like high commissions, and
no doubt, if elected to the Convention, he
will vole for a Little per diem for the
sessions. Mr. Fontaine made some
frionds here. There are too rnsuy here
who are fond of a porter aa a drink in the
absence of bourbon, and they are oxooed-
ingly fond of the little white pea with a
body. We are now rnnning on “pease"
they are actually good.
Hpeekiug of the Littla white pea with a
body, briDga to mind John Peabody, Esq ,
of your oily. We all regrot very muoh
that he was not here. His pease were
thoroughly boiled, but not too much so to
be palatable to the voter*. I think the
people will gnlp them down and oxoloim,
dum edimvs, edamus! !
Ho is a gentleman of floe legal loeming.
His most violent onemies admit this. He
has wqn for himself a most enviable posi
tion |at the bar by attending to his own
business, and to the interest of his clients.
Ho is a man of irreproaohable character.
If elected as a delegate to the Convention,
he will ooasider the wants of the people
at large, end will not represent the inter
est of n olique. He is too honest for this,
unless you call the people of Georgia a
olique.
He ia a bold and independent man. Ho
belongs to no one; and I am of tbe opin -
ion that if any man, or set of men expeot
to use him in the Convention fer advo
cating and supporting measures that will
benefit a few to the detriment of the
many, suoh men will be disappointed.
Wo must measure a bias's merits by hia
suooess in life in this ease. He is a hard
student, and this day is the artifioer of
hia own fortune. Your correspondent
would take the liberty of saying that we
will have tbe best talent of the State in
the Convention, and be sinoerely believes
that Mr. Peabody will listen lo the ooun-
eels of hit seniors, end will do whet be
honestly thinks is beat and proper for the
people st large. If eleoted, he will have
no superiors and but vary few equals.
After 'dinner Major Moees addressed the
people. He gave ua a moat exoellent
speech, and at the same time the beat
kind of reasons why we should have e
Convention. Every voter present admired
this part of his speeoh. He did all of
this in a plain and oollcquial style; but
when be reached Ike High Commission,
as it is called, he ohtnged bis “basa of
operations,” and daalt out hia thunder
bolts of eloquence with terrible effeet
apparently, until Mr. Little delivered the
last fire; the Major's fortifications then
i wed in. Notwithstanding be smote the
rook with power, he didn't strike (le.
The people here believe that the eigh
teen gentlemen were lnfinenoed by the
beet and purest of motives in aooepting
the commission—that it was done by all
parties concerned for peace end harmony
—for (he protection of Ohettahooohee end
Marion in having their own delegates in
the convention—to show ns of Chstta-
hooohee and Marion that they did not
want every delegate from Coinmbns. We
did not at first think and believe this, but
we do now. We will vote for the ticket
Maj. Mosea asked Mr. Little to explain
it. He did it by aaying the six eame be
fore tbe people of their own aooord—that
tbe; had the right to say who should ruu.
This reply brought down the bouse.
Everything passed off well. We had a
glorious time of it. We were truly glad
that these three gentlemen eame down
among us, and taught us so many things
of whioh we were so ignoarnt.
After the (peaking, tbe Major and Mr.
Fontaine left for Marion.
Mr. Little seemed to work hard for bis
ticket. He was very polite to everybody
—knew everybody, and wanted to be kin
to everybody. I saw him when he left
the hotel, Maj. Moses and Mr. Fontaine
left first. Yonr ex-8olioltor, the last time
I saw him, was driving down broad street
of Cossets bowing toe very ono as he passed
along—with that famous blue blowing in
the breeze in “bold relief,"notfar behind
tbe Major and Mr. Fontaine.
Gas aoted like be waa on trail of some
thing. When he was Solicitor he ought
to have made a good one, for he knows
how to solicit for the Little tioket.
The speaking began in brotherly love,
and so ended the day. The most of ns
are now happy beeanse we have had a re
freshing shower. Send us some more
speakers. The occasion was enjoyable.
A Little Porter and Pease.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Mr. John Goetz, of Maoon, died Sat
urday.
—Nine hundred and sixty-eight aeros of
land, in Wilkinson county, sold, last
Tnosday, for $1,272 92.
—Rev. N. A. Bailey, of Qnitman, is
writing a series of artieles against tbe
Yonng Men’s Ohristtsu Associations.
, —The Atlanta Independent endorses
Senator Hill tor the vacant place on the
bench of the Supreme Court of tbe United
States.
—Mr. Jones, of Bloodwortb, killed a
hawk last week with a shot gnu without a
look. He exploded tbe oap by striking it
with his knife and the hawk was killed.
—Jndge A. E. Tarver of Twiggs oonnty,
sold 11,500 pounds of wool last week to
Mr. Wiley Woodbridgo, of SavaDnnb, at
27t oonta per pound. Dr. J. M. Buohan,
of Dodge oonnty, sold, last woek, 2,450
ponuds for 2(iJ cents per pound.
—Jno. E. Bryant has located in Atlanta
for tho present, and the notorious Bishop
Gilbert Haven is also there. Just think
of it—Bryant, Haven, Bullock, ba 1 wolln,
muddy water, dnaty afreets, and lagor
beer only five cents a glass,
—Telegraph and Messenger: Mr. John
D. lloss reoeived yesterday, from the Pat
ent Oflloe, at Washington, tho papors to
protect his invention of a new Railroad
oar conpling. Several roads have agreed
to adapt it to their oars, and in all proba
bility it will soon oome into goneral use.
—“My Mother's Daughter,"an intenBo-
ly interesting story from the pen of Mrs.
Ophelia Nishet Raid, of Eatonton, Ga ,
will be oommenced in the Savannah
Weekly Netos of June 20th, 1877. The
price of the Weekly News is only $1.00
for six months, or $2.00 per year, postage
paid.
—There was a grand ball at the Mark
ham Honse, Atlanta, on Wedneaday night,
a sort of “blue" and “gray" affair, com
plimentary to Misa Vedder, of Washing
ton, D. O., danghtor of Paymaster Ved
der, of Gen. ltnger’B staff. Star Bpangled
banners and gay uniforms prevailed.
Attorney General Ely and Hon. Henry
Hillyer were among the managere.
—Telegraph and Messenger: The Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad olaima to have
brought more baoon from the West than
lost year. The same may be true of the
Maoon and Weatern. Yet the sbipmenta
from Baltimore and other points have
been enongh less to plaoe the demand for
GeorgUjfar below that of last year, and
the reoeipts of oom from the West have
not been more than one-half than that of
any previoaa year.
ALABAMA NEWS.
—William Lipsoomb, of Etowah coun
ty, lost bis lifd a few days sinee by de-
sounding into a well where there was for 1
air.
—Stato money is now selling at 90 oents
in Montgomery. It oosts more to liny it
ut the banks, bnt will not bring more to
the goller than above stated.
—Rev. G. H. W. Petrie, of Montgom
ery, was eleoted by the General Assembly
last year as one of the delegates to the
Pau-Presbyterian Oonneil, whioh meets
in Edinburgh next mouth. It is more
than probable that he will go.
—Montgomery Advertiser : Last Tues
day and Wednesday Montgomery was
honored with the presenoe of a couple of
enterprising young men, who proposed,
for a nominal sum, to fill a huge album
with tbe advertisement of whatsoever
basinets man was indisoreet enongh to
forsako tbe “beaten path of prosperity,"
i. e. the newspaper. The aforesaid young
men stopped at the Exchange, and pos
sessed between them a valise. Deposit
ing this artiole they, on Monday, started
ont to canvass. They snooeeded in gath
ering in a dozen or so cards and proceed
ed to embellish their “albnm” and eolleot
the amounts dne. Leaving their grip
sack, forgetting their board bill bnt hang
ing on to tbe album, they, on Thursday
or Friday last, “skipped the village,” and
rumor saith they now rest their weary
limbs at the Rankin House, in Colnmbne,
Ga. The amounts are too small to go to
the trouble of a requisition, but we hope
onr Georgia exchanges will pass 'em
around.
EX-COV. SMITH’S REPLY
The number of Opium aud Morphia
eaters in this coantry alone, wonld equal
in size an immense army. To what ex
tent the desire waa ingrafted in these un
fortunates by the early administratior of
the deadly poisons named, it is not diffi
cult to conceive. Dr. Bull's Bsby Syrup
is the remedy for the diseases of Baby
hood, eontaina nothing injurious to the
weakest infant and is absolutely safe
under all oiroumatanoee. Price twenty-
five oents.
Killed bp m Ulrrai aider.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.)
Cincinnati, June 11.— Chas. Thomp
son, private watchman at Woods' theatre,
was Rbot and mortally wounded to-night
by Jonny Wilson, bareback rider, former
ly with Robinson’s eirena. Wilson es
caped.
A lot of Toilet Soaps, Gelatine and
Flavoring Extracts, for sale cheap, at
If Maoon'a Dauo Store.
Those Fifteen Dollar Yaebt and Flan
nel Sails at Thornton A Aoae'a are su
perb. . ap29 tf
He Make* Explanation* of Certain
Matter* Referred to by Gen.
Qarlington.
Atlanta, Ga., Jnne 9, 1877.
His Excellency, A. B. Colquitt, Atlanta,
Ga. :
Sib—It was stated in my letter of the
29th nit. that I should not reply to any
communication touching the payment of
the $30,000 to Messrs. Alston and G*a-
lingtou, unless the same appeared over
yonr own signature. I shell depart from
the line thus prescribed for myself, how
ever, so far as tbe oommunioation pub
lished in the Constitution of, the 8d lust.,
over tbe name of A. C. Qarlington, is
eonoerned. I shall do this beeanse I am
informed that said oommnnioation was
prepared after a full eonanltatioh between
yonrself, Gen. Garlington, and other
friends of yours. It may be taken, there
fore, as your own reply to my open letter
of the 29th ult., and so considering it, I
shall prooeed to give it the attention
which each a oommnnioation from yonr
Excellency seems to demand at my hands.
In panning this ooarm, it may not be
amiss to say that no disoonrtesy is intend
ed Gen. Garlington. With him I have
no controversy, and no one, so far aa I
know, hna fonnd serious fault with him
foracotpting the large fee which yon
were in snob a hurry to pay. Indeed, I
should not have opened any correspond
ence with yonrself, bnt for your efforts to
place the responsibility for the payment
of the fee upon my shoulders.
Just in this connection, I ms; be per
mitted to say that, thna far, I have failed
to find a single individual or newspaper
that justifies yonr course in this matter.
Now and then a feeble attempt at a de
fense is made, but it is invariably oonpled
with an expression of regret that you
manifested suoh unbecoming baste, or
that you did uoteall all the witnesses—those
for as well as those against tbe State—or
that the matter bad not been referred to
the oonrte, or to the Legislature. The faot
that the only witnesses called, so far as
the public knows, were interested parties,
personal friends of yonr own, aod one if
not both holding positions by yonr ap-
pointment, seems to have rendered.it im
possible for any true friend of yours—
even Judge Jackson himself—to approve
of yonr course. And here, let me remark,
that it is no wonder that the laying of
Job should have occurred to the mind of
the amiable and peace-loving Jndge when
he was preparing that “unanimous’’ letter
of his in yonr behalf. Though it was
charitably intended to help you out of the
ditch, I fear its only effeot has been to
hurt both yon and himself.
Gen. Garlington gives with great fall
ness of statement, his own remembrance
of theoiroumstanoes attending the making
of the alleged contract. He had already
given bis version of the affair, in his
sworn affidavit plaoed on file in the Exeo-
ntive office. My lost letter contains a
full and particular answer and denial of
the main foots sot forth in that affidavit,
and I have nothing to add here on this
partionlnr snbjoot.
The General seemB to think that tbe
oandnot of the agents would have been
very absnrd if they had made the oon-
traot, as I remember it. Would they have
surrendered a certain fixed rate of 12j
per cent, on the amount collected, for the
purpose of obtaining an uncertain Bad un
fixed rate, whioh might he redaoed to lit
tle or nothing? Oertainly not; nor oould
such have been tbe effeot of the oontract
as stated by me. It was not the intention
that the rate of compensation fixed by the
Bullock contract should be diminished.
That rate, tbe parties were in any event
to be entitled lo reoeive. But >nnder the
now oontract they might olaim that tbe
rate ought to be increased. Then the
amount of the increase allowed was to be
fixed with references to' the servioes ren
dered and the entire amount oolleoted on
the claim. It was tho increase above the
rate of tho Bullock contract only, that
was to be in any manner effected by the
new oontract. This appears olearl; in
the very extract from my letter, whioh
tbe General presents. And thus easily is
tho reductio ad absurdam so ponderonsly
stated by him, met and disposed of.
Next in order comes the written instru
ment made by Ool. Bangb, marked “No.
1" in General Garlington’s letter. That
instrument, it appears, wss executed in
Deoember, 1878, and, os tbe General
states, only a few days before Ool. Baugh's
death. The General farther thinks that
the statements it oontaina ara equivalent
to “dying declarations.” If ao, than the
Colonel was in extremis when the instru
ment waa executed. Ool. Bangb I knew
well aDd esteemed very highly. For
many months before hie death he waa a
helpless paralytic. I visited him some six
weeks before he died, and fonnd him
greatly enfeebled in both body and mind.
Although he oonld then understand simple
propositions, I thought his mind present
ed fully as mueh evidence of deoay aa his
body. What mast have been his mental
condition, when he made this “dying de
claration ?" On the very verge of dissolu
tion, and with his powers both of body
and of mind almost entirely dead already.
How desperate mast your condition be
when you feel forced to resort to sneh an
argument to sustain your offioial oon-
duot ?
This instrument, it should be remem
bered, waa one in whioh the publio had
no interest whatever. The State was not
a party to it, and it waa in all respeots
private in its nature. Ool. Alston says he
showed it to me, and that I prononneed
the reoilals it contained oorreot. This
statement was disposed of in my last let
ter, and there I am content to leave it.
General Garlington says that the doom
ment was by me “read and filed in th*
records of tbe exeontive department, with
out a single accompanying word of pro
test, explanation or dissent, expressed or
implied.” Upon this statement he bnilda
an argument whioh he evidently oonsiders
overwhelming. Bnt if the statement it
self is inoorreat, what is the argument
worth ? I have already stated that I did
not read the paper, qr even know of its
existenoe nntil furnished with a copy of
it, at the exeenlive office, a short time
sinoe. Did I “file it in the reoords of tbe
Executive Department” aa Gan. Garling-
ton charges ? If yon will tarn to the affi
davit of Col. Alston, marked “No. 2," in
Gen. Garlington’a latter, yon will find
that tbe Colonel, in deposing in raferenpe
to this identical paper, swear* that he
himself had it filed in the Exeontive
offioe, where it has sinoe remained. He
does not pretend that any proper author!
ty for the filing had been given. It is not
my purpose to assail Ihe motives of any
one. I intend merely to let the faota
speak for themselves. Bnt here waa a
paper which belonged to private parties.
The State had no interest whatever in its
preservation. It was not a record of the
Exeoutiva Department, and had no has!
ness to be plaoed among the reoords.
One of its owners, however, did have it
placed there, bnt withont lawful authori
ty. Why this aet on the part of tha own
er of the paper ? Let the foots answer.
It was sought soon after the dooument
was executed to abow that the Governor
had made a oontraot to pay or allow lo
Ool. Alston and other* a named rata of
compensation tor aervioaa to be rendered
to the State in a certain matter. Th* pre
tended oontraot for aervioe* wm vary fol
ly set fonrth among the reeitals eontetnad
iu the private paper mentioned. If that
paper ehonld be found on record, it wonld
be presumed, in the aheap** of proof to
the contrary, that it had beast plaoed th*r*
by authority. It wonld beoome, a* Gen.
Garlington says, a standing witneM that
the Governor himself had placed it there
Y> preserve the evidence of Ihe oontraot
mentioned in tbe recital. 'And sure
enough, when the question of tha pre
tended contract ia tailed, this very recital
ia reliad’on as evidence to show that the
contract had bean made: and it is assert
ed that tha Governor himself had plaoed
the writing on file, and that be must have
dona so aa proof of th* alleged oontraot.
I-eonelnde what I have to say on this
particular point by stating in terms that I
did not place said paper on file myself, or
order it to be done by any other person.
Ool. Alston admits, under oath, that he
had it filed, and says it haf sinoe remained
on file In the exeontive offioe. He knows
how and why it wm plaoed there; I do
not Yon are vary weloome to all yon
take by tbe General's argument, on the
subject of the filling of the Bangh docu
ment.
Next in order for consideration is the
statement the General presents in refer
ence to the “unsigned memorandum”—
that historio document whioh is,doubtless,
as important in yonr estimation aa was
the deoeased dustman’s will, in the eyes
of Mr. Silas Wegg. I shall not follow
the General tbrongt) the devious history
be relates, of the many attempts made
both before and after I left the exeontive
offioe, to obtain my signature to that re
markable paper. If he has done nothing
else, he has at laMt snooeeded in convinc
ing the pnblio -that he need beooming
diligence in the premises; and that, under
bia exemplary persistence, tbe matter of
the “unsigned memorandum” was made
a perpetual nightmare, from whioh I
oonld scarcely find any esoape, either in
or ont of offioe.
This paper was htnded to me by Gen.
Garlington a faw days only before I went
ont of office. I did not then read it, as
Messrs. Alston and Garlington seem to
think, bnt laid it oh a table in the private
offiae tor fatare examination. The sub
ject to whioh the paper referred was
mentioned when it was handed to me,
bnt nothing waa said whioh led me to
snspeot that the oontraot was not therein
oorreotly set forth. If fonnd to be oor
reot, I wonld not have felt the least ob
jection to signing it. This mnoh I gave
the General to understand, and of oonrse,
I regret that, owing to the incessant pres
sure upon me, I fonnd no time to give to
completing the oontraot before I left the
executive offioe. Bat the General ia mis
taken in thinking that I aver said or in
tended to say to him or to any one else,
that the paper wm correct. I oonld not
have ao intended, beeanse I bad not in
any way aoqnired a special knowledge of
its oontents.
But this paper, it ia alleged, was also
filed by me. It ia stated that there is an
tontry on the baekof it in the bandwriting
of my minute clerk. Now, yon know
very well that this clerk remained in the
same capaoity with yon, for some months
after your accession to offioe, and that tho
entry could have been made after yon
Came in as easily sb before I went ont.
The entry amounts to nothing, bnt that it
wsb made under yonr Administration, is
Very dear from the following faots :
The table on which tho paper was laid
was cleared off on tbe evening before the
day of year inauguration, preparatory to
taming tlio offioe over to yon. Scores of
papers, some valuable, and many worth
less, that had been aoonmnlating for a
great while, were removed from this to
another room. The “memorandum” went
with the rest, of oonrse. Bnt few, if any,
of these papors oonld have been examin
ed and filed before yon oame in. There
was little or no work done in the offioe on
the day of yonr inauguration; and it is
almost morally oertain, therefore, that
the “memorandam” was filed, if filed at
all, after yon took charge of the Exeoutive
offioe. Be that aa it may, however, it is
very certain that tbe paper was never
completed, was never an office paper, and
hught not, therefore, to have been placed
On file by anybody.
J Tbe General had interviews with me
n several occasions after I went ont of
ffioe on tha subject of the “memoran
dum." He is mistaken in thinking that I
proposed, after I left the exeontive offioe,
to sign it It waa intended that it should
receive the “offioial sanction'' of the Gov
ernor; and it is hardly probable that I
proposed to attempt to give it that sanc
tion after Iliad oeased to be legally com
petent to do so.
I reoeived letters from the General on
tbe snbjeot of the “memorandum,” and
suppose he has given correct copies of
them. I bad a conversation with him in
the oorridor at the oapitol, as he states. I
told hint that I had, aa he knew oeased to
bold tbe office of Governor, and that it
would, therefore, not be proper for me to
eign tny paper in reference to hie oon
traot for fees. That it wonld do him no
flood and wonld plaoe me in a false posi
tion. He said he Waa afraid my feelings
were hurt by his writing to me on the
snbjeot. That he had also been in cor
respondence with G*n. H. R. Jaokson,
and waa apprehensive’ that the matter
■bight beoome involved in complications.
I suggested to him that Ool. Alston and
himself could very easily arranfle the bus
iness with yonrself. He asked me if I
would give him a written etatement to
lit; before yoU; and in this connection it
waa, that I Mid I eonld not volunteer to hold
Any oommnnioation with yon on the sub-
jeot; bat that if yon desired me to do so,
And would send me c note to that effeot,
I Wonld give yon any information in my
possession in referenee to tills, or any
Other matter. The same offer wm repeat
ed to the Ganeral, in a subsequent inter
view, held at his instance, after the bill
had been peased by Congress, authorizing
the payment of the olaim.
, I shall not follow the General through
the long argument he submits for tba
purpose of showing that the agents were
entitled to their fees. He makes the very
pest case possible under the faots pre
sented. Bnt yet bow far short does he
some of proving that yonr conduct was
blamslaes in this affair. Admitting for
argument's sake all that is claimed for
yon ; admit that the oontraot waa snob as
yon pretend, and that it waa binding on
the State, yet it no where appears, so far
as I have seen that tbe money was col
lected either by Alston or Garlington, or
that it was oolleoted in oonseqnenoe of
any effort on their parte. To show who
really oolleoted the olaim from Congress,
I beg to oalt yonr attention to the follow
ing extraot from a oommnnioation whioh
appeared in tha “DaKalb oonnty News"
of the 26th nit., over the signature of
“Another Citisen,” and supposed to have
been written by Colonel Alston himself .-
“8o far aa General Gordon's reoent
achievements for tha praoiioal good
of the »people are concerned,
'Citizen's' labored effort at detrac
tion can not lessen the public ap
preciation of their value. ” It is a feet
that Gordon wm the leeding instrument
in getting the recognition of Georgia’s
claim against tha government, end that
he has sinoe been constantly working ami
has charge of the movement to get tha
$200,000 of money. Tho oontraote made
by Governera Bnllook and Smith with
certain lawyers and agents for tbe oolleo-
tion of the olaim oonld not be revoked
ao far as to deprive them of compensa
tion for their servioes in preparing and
kee ping the com before Congress.’
“Now here ia rlohnees,” as Mr. Sqneera
would have said. .General Gordon waa
“the leading instrument” and had
“eherge of the movement to get the
$200,000 in money." It ia even gently
hinted that there had bean an effort
somewhere to revoke “the contracts of
Governor BoUock and Smith with certain
lawyers and agents for the eoileotion of
Urn olaim,” bat that it oonld not be don*
so far aa to deprive them of compensation
for their servioes in “preparing and keep,
ing the ease before Congress." For all
else, however, their oanlraota had been
revoked, ft wonld seem. They “had pre
pared and kept the ossa before Congress,"
and were entitlad to compensation for
that only. General Gordon, it appears
hid done all tbe Mat. And anoh is th*
testimony of on* of the men, m it is ban
lieved, to whom yon paid $16,000 ont of
the treasury for collecting tbe claim.
The attempt made to shield yon under
preoedenta established in the oase of At
torney General Hammond, In tbe last ad
ministration, ia surpassingly weak. Thar*
is no similarity between the ouea. The
Attorney General retained the compensa
tion allowed him by a special law ont of
the money oolleoted by him. Yon took
money ont of the Treasury and paid it to
Messrs. Alston' and Garlington. He, as
an attorney at law, had a special Ren on
the money of his olient in hia bands, to
pay his fees and oonta. Messrs. Alston
and Garlington were only lobbyists, or
agents, in this esse, and had ho special
lien by law on any fand whatever. Then
besides, no money ever earn* into their
hands, bnt, as before remarked, yon paid
them from tbe general funds of tha 8tate
in tho Treasury.
Yon drew the money to pay them ont
of tbe Treasury withont leaning your war
rant therefor. The law requires that,
exoept in oases where it is otherwise pro
vided, money shall ba drawn from tha
Treasury on the warrant of the Governor.
The Constitution of the Slate inhibits the
paying of money from the Treasury un
less by appropriation of law. There waa
no appropriation by law to pay Messrs.
Alston and Garlington.
All these charges were made in my last
letter, and notwithstanding tha elaborate
defense yon have set up, throngh Gen.
Garlington, yon do not venture to deny
them. They may be considered as es
tablished by yonr own taeit oonfassion.
It may not be amiss to state here that
Ool. Bangh was employed as an agent for
th* collection of tbe claim by ex-Gov.
Bnllook, that subsequently, Gen. Garl-
ington, his law partner, became interest
ed in the same, and that after the eleotion
of Gen. Gordon to tbe Senate, Col. Als
ton was brought into it by Ool. Bangh.
It was at a very late period that Messrs.
Jackson, Lawton & Besainger were em
ployed also by Ool. Bangh.
And now, sir, I take my leave of yon,
expressing the hope that yott may always
hereafter feel that yonr highest obliga
tion is to the commonwealth, and not to
yonr personal friends and favorites; and
that by laboring to serve the State faith
fully in yonr great office, yon may lay a
solid foundation for yonr onr fntnre pros
perity and happiness, in tho confidence
and affeotions of the people. I am, sir,
yours very respectfully.
* James M. Smith.
A CARD!
T O all who are sufforlag from the errors and
lndlsoretions of youth, Nervous Weakness,
Early I)ocay, Loss or Manhood, ho-—I will send
a reoipe that will oure you, Free of Charge.
This groat remedy was discovered by a mis
sionary in South Amerloa. Send a self-
addressed envelope to the
Rev. J08EPH T. INMAN,
A PLEASANT HOHE FOR SALE
AT AUCTION.
T HE BRIUK DWELLING bow occupied
by Rev. Mr. lion helm, situated on tbe west
side of Troup, between Tyomas and Baldwin
alroets, There are live large rooms, ten feet
nail and piazza; brick kitchen and frame ser
vant’s house of two rooms; exoellent well and
good garden ; an alley (fifteen feet wide), run
ning through from Troup to Jackson street.
Price low; terms oash. if not disposed of by
Tuesday next (June loth), this property will
be sold without reserve, by
O. 8. HARRISON, Auctioneer, •
At Abbott A Newsom’s corner, at lit o’clock
a. M. John Blaokuar, Agent,
: jeia tf Mias Pauline Adams.
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AMUSEMENTS.
S PRINGER'S OPERA HOUSE.
GREAT SUMMER ATTRACTION.
Wednesday Night, th. 20th or June, 1877.
Tho Wai.laok Thbatbioal Tripoloodb
Troupe! Universally pronounoed by Press
aud Publio as the Finest and Most Versatile
Artists that have traveled South sinoe the
war. The Wallaeks have just oompleted a
season of noarlv tour months In the city or Mo
bile, Ala., where they were visited by 30,000
delighted epeotators, meeting with greater
success and encouragement than any profes
sionals that have played there for yeers. The
Company, though numorioally small, gives an
entertainment equal to a dosen aotors, being
all Artists of Undeniable Ability, and Stars of
no ordinary merit, oomposed of Fannlo Wel-
lack, tho highly girted Prime Donna, Musi-
oian and Aotress; Watty Wallack, Monologlat,
Comedian, Vocalist and Protean Artist; J. A.
Rider, Old Man Delineator, Comlo Singer and
Versatile Actor. To commence with the Mu
sical Comedy, compressed for the perfermanoea
of the Wallaeks, entitled “Perfection.” or
“The Irish Heiress.” Followed by Watty
Wallaok in the Sensation of the Age, as per
formed by him in New York with Immense
suooess, entitled “The Flying Portrait Gal
lery." ohanging with lightning rapidity 20
time. In as many minutes. To be followed by
a Miscellaneous Character Concert. To- con
clude with the Protean Alterpleoe, arranged
expressly (or the Wallaeks, entitled “Tortur
ing Tame Turtles." Doors open at half-past 7;
Performance commencing at 8 o’clook. Sum
mer Prices of Admission, 60 oents. Children
under 13, 26 oents.. Greet Wallaok Matinee
Friday Afternoon, commencing at 8 o'clock
precisely. Doors open at 3:30. Admission 26
cents; Children under 12, io oents.
. . OHAS. ABBOTT, Manager.
tUl<) 8t
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For the Constitutional Coi
ventlon.
Kvaf 1 ” We are authorised to snnoui
** mb. FRANCIS FONTAINE es
candidate for the Constitutional Convent
from the 2«th Senatorial Distriot.
jn6 dfcwt
To th© Voters of tho 24th
Senatorial District.
fcjgf* It having been decided that nomi
nation of candidates (whioh I favored)
should not be mode, I respectfully submit my
name for your futtrsge as a candidate ror tbe
Constitutional Convention.
WM.A. LITTLE.
May 33d, 1877.my34 dfcwto
For Delegate to the Consti
tutional Convention.
r-F Musoogee county having decided to
make no nominations, wo ar* author
ised to announoe the name of PORTER IN
GRAM as a CAHDIDATB POS THE COESTITU-
TIOHAL C0H VEKTIOK.
MUSCOGEE,
MARION,
my33 tU]013 CHATTAHOOCHEE.
For the Convention.
I respectfully announce myself to
the people of Musoogee, Marlon and
Chattahoochee counties aa a Candidate for th*
Convention.
my34 d&wte JOHN PEABODY.
WOOD! WOOD!! VOOD!!!
ADDRESS ORDERS FOR
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