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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
S VOLUME m.i
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 14.
Another Appointment by Bnllocfe.
IV. A. Burnside has been appointed Or
dinary of Lumpkin county, vice Jacob
Deck resigned. Approved by General
Terry. n
XW The New York Herald, of June 1st,
says:
“III* understood that Hr. Charles P.
Kimball, of Portland, will be the next
Democratic candidate for United States
Senator from Maine.”
This U a brother of H. I. Kimball, of this
city.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 14,1870.
{NUMBER 13
tion to resent insnlt; tramples on the weak,
and cowers cowardly before the strong.
It tarns its dirty pen .and wags its filthy
tongue against the reputation of innocent
women, when it can do so with impunity;
and its most valorous crusade is against
- Yankee school-marms.” Its highest ex
ploit is to proclaim through the newspa
pers, to the universal public, that it is go
ing to violate the law by fighting a duel,
and then to proclaim that the quarrel is
ended “ by the interposition of friends ”
Now this is bully—and was probably sug
gested by a desire on the part of the writer
to be himself socially obtracised, that be
may record bis name among that band of
“ poor persecuted loyal men ” whose politi
cal salvation depends upon the prolonga
tion of the terms of office of Gov. Bullock
and his Radical Legislature.
Chivalry, take notice 1 Shoddy wants to
ty The bayonet is the Logic of the Bad- j be socially snubbed! It b&s boldly entered
ical party in Georgia.
tar The Radical party of Georgia claims
through its organ to be descended from the
old Federal party!
nr Old John Adams, the Federalist, re
commended the passage of the Alien and
Sedition Laws. He could not sustain bis
principles by logic. Hence, be resorted to
force. - | ^
gy The Old Federal party, whenever
opportunity olTcrcd, resorted tq, physical
force to obtain and retain power. The
Radical party of Georgia claims that force
settles finally and forever great moral and
political principles!
rsrriie Republican party which elected
Hr. Lincoln President claimed to advocate
the principles of tba Jeffersonian Republi
cans, who defeated the old Monarchical cen
tralizing party of Adams the Elder. The
Radical party of Georgia claims to be the
Simon pure descendant of tho old 11 Blue
Lijtht” Hartford Convention Federalists!
Tlie Lunatic Asylum.
No class of our affilcted fellow beings
aremorccntltledtoourcare and sympathy
than the insane. It Is notoriously true
that the present accommodations in the
State Asylum arc not adequate to accom
modate all the Lunatics entitled to treat
ment there. Tho rich as well as the
pauper patients of this class can only
be successfully treated in well regulated
Asylums.
Tho enlargement of the present Asylum
at MillcdgevUle, or the erecting of another
one. Is an urgent necessity that appeals to
the heart or every right-minded and be
nevolent man and woman tn the State.
No makeshifts or temporizing should be
permitted to divert attention from the in
telligent performance of the duty of the
people of the State to provide well for the
treatment of the insane.
The proposition to convert the Old State
House at MilledgevUlc may, or may not he
a wise one. The Architecture of Lnnatlc
Asylums should be adapted to the uses to
which they are to be appropriated. Can
the State House be economically used In the
way suggested? Every intelligent mcdl
cal man, who lias given the subject of In
sanity careful consideration, will answer
tills question In the negative.
Lunatic Asylums shonld be located with
reference to salubrity and an abundant
supply of water. They ought to be in the
country, and a farm of greater or less ex
tent attached. Every apartment and ap
purtenance, in or about them, should be
constructed with reference to tho conven
ience, comfort and humane care of the in-
There should be no log-rolling, or finess
ing, or trickery In regard to the Increase
of accommodations for the insane. As
large a State as Georgia ought to have two
or more Asylums for tho insane. Ken
tucky has two, and they are model institu
tions. Let the hnmanc who are properly
posted upon this subject cast about them,
and allow humanity to triumph over sel
fish considerations.
A new Asylum should he erected. The
old one should be liberally sustained, and-
if oced be, all modern improvements and
appliances made and furnished it.
It is not prudent, nor'hnmanc, nor even
economical, to have more than four or five
hundred patients in any one Hospital for
the insane. If it require* a dozen such in
stitutions the people of Georgia are able,
and will be willing to erect them, when
ever a necessity therefor is fairly demon
strated. w
An Excellent Law.—The Legislature
of Pennsylvania passed, recently, tho fol
lowing excellent law for tho protection of
deserted wives. It provides;
ejection 1. That whenever any husband,
Atom drunkenness, profligacy or other
•came ivliafsocver, shall for two successive
wears do-'ert his wifo or neglect or refuse to
dive with-her and provide for her, sho shall,
ms to every species of property, whether
weal, pcrionnU-oV mixed, owned by and bo-
Hoofta to bar. have all tho rights and
(privilegesof a femme sole, to purchase or
awll and convey the same as If sho were sole
mod unmarried. .
Section 2. That It shall be lawful for any
Yur,'M woman, as aforesaid, to sue and be
sued in her own name upon all such con
tracts asalbresaid, heretofore made or to bo
made, and to sue in her own name her hus
band to recover the possession of her real
estate, or the value thereof, as If she were
sole and unmarried.
Its protest against the respectability of
Southern chivalry, and in the name of
“Yankee School marras” of Mrs. Congress
man Whittemore’s ilk, It says to the poor
chivalry whose spirit It has utterly broken,
Shoo Fly 1 don’t bother me.” No pistols,
colfee, etc,are needed. “It feels like—it
feels like a (rising) morning star.”
Watch the National Banks.
Until the Radical party got into power,
Imperialism was never openly advocated
In this country. Under tho patronage of
the corrupt money-lenders of New York, a
newspaper, advocating openly a change in
the form of the Government, had a short
lived existence a year or two since. It was
entitled the Imperialist, and intended to
create the Impression that the defeated
people of the South favored imperialism.
As soon as the hearts of the Northern peo
ple were so flred as to prepare them for
Congressional usurpation, It ceased to be.
The end was accomplished. The people
were deceived, and the corrupting and cor
rupt National Bank system is still in exis
tence.
0T When, after the battle of Waterloo,
the Bourbon Dynasty was restored, was
the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings
eternally settled ?
When the armies of the Confederate
States surrendered, were the monarchical,
tyrannical principles of tho old Federal
party eternally established ? Did the people
of free America resign their right of
thought, because there had been a four
years’ war?
The Radical organ,of this city, intimates
that the bayonet decided the two last ques
tions, and answered them in the affirmative.
It glories in tbo revival of the old Federal
party, and exhibits much joy at Its resur
rection 1
TIio Typos Endorse Woman’s
Itights.
The International Typographical Union,
now in Convention at Cincinnati, elected
Miss Augusta Lewis, of New York, Record
ing and Corresponding Secretary. When
Miss Lewis was placed in nomination, she
sought to decline the honor, hut the Union
would not listen to declination, and she was
accordingly elected by acclamation, in the
midst of considerable enthusiasm. One
delegate desired a ballot for his aid. It
bad been so long since he bad voted for
woman, that he did not want to lose an op
portunity on this occasion.
Spirit of tho Radical Organ.
The Allen and Sedition Act found some
of its earliest and ablest advocates among
those who bad opposed the Constitution
[And the Centralists of tiie present day
trample upon that very Constitution.]
Tho same is true of 1860. The “ right of
secession” was predicated upon Mr. Cal
houn’s theory of primary allegiance to the
' of the Federal Government!
session of facts which would “sign, seal
and deliver” the official condemnation of
every man on the State Road, from Super
intendent down to track-raiser. The In
vestigating Committee evidently thought
be knew something, and consequently
called him up to “ say his lesson.” His ex
amination, the result of which was pub
lished in the San yesterday morning,
proved die whole matter, as far as that pa
per was concerned, to have been one of
“great cry and little wool.” He knew of
some men who were mulcted of ¥5 each for
subscriptions to the New Era and got mad
about it, and stated also that he had been
in the habit of riding over the road for sev
eral years, and that the road seems to be in
a better condition now than it was last
year. That isall.
“And still they gazed and still the wonder grew.
How one small head could carry all they knew.”
As Colonel Avery has left the city on
a trip for the benefit of bis health, and can
not now speak for himself, it is justly dne
to him that some notice of the above should
be taken in the columns of The Constitu-
TIOX.
It Is not to be supposed that he was ad
mitted into the secrets of any of the rings,
which are believed by thousands of the
people to have been preying upon the pub
lic treasury of the State of Georgia. His
known opposition to them forbade their
emissaries to approach him even in the most
indirect way. Hence, as an honest man,
he could not and did not swear to what was
personally nnknown to him.
If uogenerous inferences delight the
managers of the Sun, the public can wish
them “mighty joy,” under the surmises
rife in thccommunity as to the significance
of a visit of the Hon. Ephraim Tweedy to
their editorial sanctum, as announced in
their issue of yesterday, coupled with the
appearance of an advertisement headed
Executive Department of the State of
Georgia,” and tho peculiar animus of the
paragraph above quoted from their “New
Light” in Atlanta journalism—so very
much like that of an attack upon the man
aging editor of The Constitution, which
appeared in the Radical organ of the same
date, as to give rise to the suspicion that
both articles emanated from the same
source.
The Constitution is not receiving ad
vertising patronage from a Governor who
is making a criminal struggle to prolong
his power beyond the term prescribed by
the organic law, which he has sworn to
support.
WTo encourage immigration the Radi
cal party in Georgia manufacture stories of
Ku-Klux outrages. Perhaps they wish
only to encourage the immigration of Cos
sacks and Italian banditti. .
How tbe Radical Party Encourages
Free Education iu Atlanta.
The question of the prolongation of the
term of office of Governor Bullock and his
Legislature has for a time defeated tbe es
tablishment of public schools in Atlanta;
forbad it not been for the Imbroglio thus
created in Congress, the General Assembly
would early in the year have so amended
the city charter as to enable the Council
to make the necessary appropriations to
erect school-houses. 'V
Do Gustibus Non, Etc.
The Radical organ in this city often de
claims against what it calls ostracism for
political opinion. In Us issue of Sunday
morning, under tho tltlo of “ Chivalry,
Ancient and Modern,” It attempts to cari
cature the chivalry of the South.
Perhaps this article was not intended
for the Southern reader. If it was, there
is certainly a want of discretion in pub
lishing it. Its patrons at the South cannot
•be expected to be delighted with it. They
■•may be amused by it, because it indicates
.* wonderful “diarrha>a of words with
great constipation or ideas,” conditions so
•contradictory as to be extremely ludicrous,
•were it not that each is suggestive of un
pleasant odors.
Taking its cue from the New York
Tribune, which ridiculed a party of Vir
ginians, that to gratify some of their North
ern friends visited New York and held
Tournament (so-called.) it enters into
dissertation upon the Chivalry of the mid
dle ages; professes to underrate its bu
manizing influence, and then uses the fol
lowing language;
But wc have a modern “chivalry ” which
nocs the ancient in all but its few virtues.
The new-fangled article has all its proto
type’s meanness, vanity and blood-thirsty
Vindictiveness, aU Its disposition to tyran
ny without its power, but none of its
honor, none of its truth, none of iu flonr-
ie«v and little of iu courage. It robs by
sunder bOtcr men than Itself of their
characters; it murders when assassination
is a safe operation; it lies, and is fear
fully Indigent when told that it lies.
It oppresses aU whom U daw to op
press;insults any who are Wt * i**J-
Commnnicated.]
Cassville, Ga., Jane 3,1870.
Editors Constitution: Below find resalt of the
Grand BaffleheM in Cnssviile, Juno 1st. We give
the nnmbers of the fortnnato throwers in each ar-
tide raffled. The Managing Agents have bech
requested by a largo number of ticket holders not
publish their names II they were so fortunate
throw valuable prizes, and consequently, we
refuse to publish any nnlcss by consent of the
parties obtaining said property. Names and ad
dress of the fortunate one can bo had by writing
to tbe Managing Agent, enclosing stamp:
State, instead of
[Suppose It was. Does it follow that the
failure of the movement wrought a forfeit
ure of the rights of the States under the
Constitution ?]
Semmes, Sparrow, Benjamin, Clay, Sed
don and others of the State Bights school
of 1SG0, became Consolidationists in 1SG3—
some by open proclamation, others by ac
quiescence. -And, to-day, among those
who have most to say in opposition to that
theory of government held by Washington,
and promulgated by Hamilton and the old
Federalists. . , .
[A bare assertion! in keeping with the
habit of certain people, who manufacture
to order reports of Ku-klux outrages.]
Is paramount allegiance still an unset
tled question ? If so, why did they all swear
paramount allegiances to the Federal Gov
ernment after the surrender? Was it
through craven fear that they swore thus?
Such an hypothesis would be an insult to
the brave men who periled their lives on a
hundred battle-fields, in behalf of the theo
ry they espoused.
[Coes the paramount allegiance to the
Federal Government imply an abandon'
mentof tho tight of thought? Or was
ever contemplated by a majority of the
people of tbo United States at any period
of their history before, during or since the
War of the States to establish a Central
Empirc,under the control either of a mon
arch or an usurping Congress?]
Men usually run from one extreme to
another.
[As, for instance, many men, who fought
against the Southern Confederacy to'pre
serve the Constitution, now trample upon
end disregard it.]
If that means “Centralization,” as Dem
ocrats say it docs.
[Who ever said that the paramount sov
ereignty of tho Federal Government means
Centralization?]
They have nevertheless sworn to abide
itl
(They have and will keep tl^elr plighted
faith. But Centralists, “ Blue Light ” Fed
enlists and Imperialists take oaths to sup
port Constitutions, and whenever opportu
nity offers violate them that they may pro
long their terms of offlce.1
The Amenities of the Press.
Many men occupying tbe editorial tri
pod seem to thick it necessary, to give
spice or point to the columns of a newspa
per, that they should “ pitch Into” tbe per
sonal record of a contemporary editor.
This, too, is often done In face of the almost
universal disgust which the public feel,
when the columns of the paper they pay
for are presumed to be devoted to subjects
of general interest.
Every editor of a newspaper in the land
is in the habit of publishing items of news
on hearsay evidence. No honest man will
swear before a court or investigating com.
mittec that he knows facts or circumstances
to be true of which be is not personally
cognizant.
Colonel Avery, the managing editor of
The Constitution, was called before the
Bailroad Investigating Committee on the
7th instant, and bis evidence is the subject
of the following comment by the Daily
Sun, of this city, in its issue of yesterday:
One who b&s been a reader of The Con
stitution for some montin past would very
naturally have coma to the conclusion that
«|se editor of that paper was in pos-
SONG.
BY J. K. LOWELL.
O, moonlight deep and tender,
A year and more agone,
Yonr mist of golden splendor
Ronml my betrothal shone!
O, elm leaves dark and dewy.
The very same ye seem,
Tho low wind trembles through yc,
Ye murmur in my dream,
O, river, dim with distance.
Flow thus forever by.
Apart of my existence
Within yonr hears doth lie!
O. stars, ye saw our meeting.
Two beings and one sonl.
' Two hearts 60 madly beating
To mingle and be whole.
O, happy night, deliver
Her kisses back to me.
Or keep them all, and give her
A blissful dream of me. V -
A u SHOO FLY” EXCELSIOR.
Of all the parodies of Longfellow’s “ Ex
celsior,’’’ this, by Hans Breitmann, is not
the worst:
Dcr efening clouds was seddling fasd,
AS ayoang man (trough dcr Ullage bassed,
Shkading along mid der shdorm and hail,
Mit dese \ords tied on bis ooad dail:
•* Shoo, fly/*
" Oh 1 don’t go snch a night like dose,”
His mnddergries. “ You will get froze;
Dat John Krosd dot will nib your ear.”
He only said so mit a shnecr:
*• Shoo, fly.”^
care a cent,
As he viped dat shnow of his left car.
Dem vofds vas herd sdili shdrong und glear—
. ••Hhnn. flv »•
3,611, . _ — - .
Kinabrcw. Bartow county, Ga; Furniture, 16.819
- ~ 30,,iWI. Orleans Farish,La.:
~ Fanny * Mention.
■Fanny Fern gives this as her experience:
I used to believe in school friendship.
That delusion ended when Arabella Trip
let told mutual friends that I was years and
years her senior, knowing what a terrible
fib she told.
I used to suffer pangs of anger because
bf woes of beggars. Sinco that I have
seen ono unstrap bis leg.in an area, and
run off gaily on two legs of his own.
Another threw a loaf of bread in the gut
ter, and I saw a third who had all day been
yelling, “ Please assist the blind,” carefully
examining his collection of ten-cent
stamps by the light of a friendly apple-
woman’s candle.
I used to put tbe greatest faith in lovers’
vows. Now, I do not believe a man means
anything be says to a woman, unless It is
something disagreeable.
I .used to believe in faithful servants.
Since then I have hired girls from intelli-
g encc offices, and lost all my handkerchiefs
ut one.
I used to believe In beauty. Since then
I have seen a bewitching belle take off half
her hair, all her teeth, the best of her com
plexion, two pounds of cotton batting and
a corset.
A Learned Second Wife.—An honest
farmer in the State of Pennsylvania mar
ried a miss from a fashionable boarding
school, for bis second wife. He was struck
dumb with her eloquence, and gaped with
wonder at his wife’s learning. “ You may,”
said he, “bore a hole through the solid
earth, and chuck in a millstone, and she’ll
tell you to a shavin’ bow long tbe stone
will be goin clean through! She has learnt
kemistry and cockneyology, and talks a
heap about oxhides and comical affinities.
1 used for to think It was the air I sucked
in every time that I expired; howsomed-
ever, she tellcd me that she knowed bet
ter—she tolled me that I had been sucking
in two kinds of gin;-ox gin and high gin.
Dear, me! I’m a tumble down tetotal man,
and yet have been drinking ox gin and
high gin all my life! ”
Sylvester EnaRaon.—Sylvester Pha
raoh, King of the once powerful tribe of
Montauk Indians, died on Long Island on
Saturday, in the sixtieth year of his age.
He has been affected for som etime with
pleurisy, and was notconsidered until lately
dangerous. Of this tribe there now re
main but twelve persons, divided into
four families. The royal mantle now falls
upon Elisha Pharaoh, but some reasons are
supposed to exist which will determine
him not to accept It. If so, David L. Pha
raoh will become king of the tribe.
Lot la Calhoun. 6J. .
Blooded Mare, 29,949. Albcrmale county, Va.,
Marble lop Bureau. 3.603, Ala; Buggy and Har
ness. 10.06': Twelve ono-acre town lots, numbers
361.1519.GST7.3.153,4,919, S.75*. 4,838, ISO. 4,913,0,807,
6111. 4,949; Twelve Gold Watches, Nos. 11,118,
ails! 13.101, SO.803. 22,937.15.910.16,131,13,961,9,923,
<4«96, SIS. 4.901; Four Double-barreled Bird Guns,
Eos 4,912, 4911. 13,311. 14.466; Six sewing Ma
chines] NOS. 8,460. 20,115,13 31i, 9,341,18,125,22.237;
Sixteen Lots of Corn, 25 buibcla each. Nos. 10,281,
5.106.17.111,4,671.393.399.413,1,233.13,401, 582,3,161,
-56.6.404. 4.873. Ml. 22J89.
Ono Hundred 1U0 pounds sacks Flour. 5 sacks
etch. Nos. 12.880 7.828, 5,321.673, 6.885.2 979,0,506,
285 5.746,19.829.9,573.4 88J.7,7t3,7,733. 4,188,21.912,
,993,18,609,6,732,1,499.
Sixty Lots Bacon. 100 pounds each Nos. 10.644,
19.161, 19.821, 10,643. 19,823, 10.919, 19.844. 10 682,
14,924,10.918,23,567,19,933 11,851.19,812.14,801.14.880.
et.713,10,853. lll.ssi, 19.810. 19,865. 19.932.11.923. 14.-
926.10.732.23.756.23.7*1. 23,750, 23,740, 23157.10,811,
11.419.19,776,10,778,23.SSS, 23,938, 19 896. 23.813.10-
67S.21.811. 23,799. 10'J91. 16,092. 3 822.14,931.1.1,906,
8.731.15.761 10,921, 15760, 15112. 19180. 19.734,10,-
857,10,862,10.105,10.707.10,749.23191.15.768.
Two No 1 MUch COWS, Nos. 11.932,3.613
Twelve Silver Watches, Nos. 14.911.10.182.14 843,
14,910,15.199,23,806, 19,611,23.896, 10,409,14,878, 19, -
17). 19,188.
Cook Stove, No. 19,171; Office Stove, No. 15,877;
Twenty-four pair Catrskin Boots. Nos. 741,21.103.
26,624,17)291.22 973,19,671.12.450 1.875,13 976,18.379,
13,151,19.479.2.905,20,581,13 684,10.996,7,845,22 253,
2.6S7.22,193,21.763.17,853.19,601,10,523.
Twelve half acre town lots were left out, and
tickets to the value or said lots were left out also
We hereby certify, that we, whose names are
slow annexed, were the disinterested Mansg
ofsaid Baffle, and that everything was carricai
to tho letter that was proposed bv the Msnagi
Agents. Everything passed off pleasantly s
harmoniously. Of tho large number present,
expressed themselves perfectly satlsQed, and tbo
fairest thing of the kind they ever witnessed.
A. J. Bewfobd,
G.L Irick,
M. L. 1ULL4XS,
WX ALLEN,-
II. W Kuubbew,
T. L. Matthias,
TIio Beauties of the 15th Amend
ment Enforcement Bill.
The Chicago Times thus paints the de
lightful picture of the future:
The proposed enforcement bill of tbe
Congressional Conference Committee is a
fine thing—for tbe African. It so hedges
that divinity about, that, if he „does not
henceforth occupy the postof honor on all
occasions, it will be because he will not
avail himself of all the privileges which
this bill will afford him. It provides seven
ty-five things which may be done to a nig
ger, and one hundred and fifty things which
can’t be done to a nigger. TospellAfrican
with two “g’s”is a penal offense. Not to
sit by a nigger at a table, or at a theater, or
in a street-car, is punishable. To make
faces at him is actionable; to refuse to give
him half your bed is a crime; to decline to
marry bis sister is a penal offense; to re
fuse bim your aunt makes you liable to
prosecution in a Federal court. In fine,
Congress is trying to do with tbe African
what it has often tried to do with tbe cur
rency—to legislate it up to par. We fancy
tbe result will be tbe same in both cases.
To Keep Rose Buds.—As the season of
rose buds is close at band, it may be inter
esting to many of our readers to know bow
they keep them in Germany fresh into the
water. They first cover the end of tbe re
cently-cut stem with wax, and then place
each one in a closed paper cap or cone, so
that the leaves do not touch the paper. The
cap is then coated with glue, to exclude
air, dust, and moisture, and, when dry, is
stood up in a drawer in a cool place. When
wanted for use, the bud is taken out of the
cap and placed in water, after cutting off
the cud, when it will bloom in a few hours.
An Interesting Exposition.—There is
to be held at Indianapolis, on August 2d,
an exposition of the Woolen Manufac
turers’ Association of the West and South.
This is the third exhibition of the series,
and efforts are being made to make it the
be3t. The objects to be exhibited are
“textile fabrics, stapicsof fabrics, material
used in manufaturing and machinery em
ployed, comprising everything natural or
artificial directly contributing to the man
ufacture of wool, cotton, silk and flax.”
®”The“ Leabhar ne Uuidri,” an ancient
Irish collection of writings, will shortly
appear in fac simile. The proof sheets are
being revised at the Royal Irish Academy.
The book, which takes its name from hav
ing been originally written upon the skin
of a red calf, is of very early date; and was
preserved at the Abbey of Clonmacnoise.
The numerous glosses which it contains
render it of considerable philosophical
value.
The Alabama Ku-Klux.—The Grecncs-
boro Beacon learns that fourteen negroes,
charged with the horrible crimes of mur
der, robbery and arson, perpetrated some
three weeks ago, at Burton’s Hill, Greene
county, have been arrested. One of tbe
guilty parties turned State’s evidence.
The negro who shot Markham is said to
have escaped.
Some More Questions.
Editors Constitution: As a citizen and a
tax-payer of Georgia. I demand of tbe
committee, charged with the investigation
into the management of tiie Western and
Atlantic Railroad, that the following ques
tions be put to Mr. Fatty Harris, or Foster
Blodgett, or who ever is responsible for the
management of the road, viz: 1st. “Are
there nota number of persons who have
been recently employed on said road and
received salaries trom the treasury thereof,
who have been suspended since the ap
pointment of the Investigating Commit
tee?” 2d. “ What was tho cause of their
6uspensio!i22—3rd. “Were they or not
promised a return to their offices as soon as
the investigation is over?” 4th. “ Have or
not their salaries been continued during
their suspension ?”
Now, Mr. Editor, if the committee is after
truth they will not refuse to do this, for I do
distinctly, boldly charge that there is at
least one person (and I have facts and fig
ures to sust&rn the charge) who has been
thus suspended, has been promised a re-’
torn to duty as soon as the investigation is
over, and jjjose salary continues during
his suspei^ftAn.
Let the^westions be asked tiie officers of
the road, iM if answered in the negative,
the facts 'jo sustain the’ charge are at the
service of ■ he committee. Asa tax-payer
and citizen* sf Georgia, and thereby a part
owner of fife Western and Atlantic Rail
road, I ch. ge corruption on the part of the
managers of the road in this matter. Here
is an issue. Will the committee do their
duty and ferret it out?
I am reliably informed a number of per
sons have been suspended in the same man
ner in Atlanta and all along the line of the
Road.
Let this matter be sifted to the bottom;
let tiie Committee send for the agents of
the various depots, and put them on oath,
and if I am not vastly mistaken, facts will
be discovered which will be hard to white
wash. “ J U3T1CE.”
|®“ The tendency in Harvard College
seems to be to mako tiio studies more and
more “elective” every year. The pro'
grammc*f»r 1S70,18717 and 1872. of the up
per clasEoJlias already been mado out, and
with some important changes those of the
senior year are wholly elective, and the
compulsory studies of tho juniors and
sophomores are few. The courses in Greek,
philosophvw.ind history have been im-
iroved. Zoology and paleontology has
>een added to the under-graduate depart
ment. Tho summer vacation has been in
creased, and the winter vacation has been
shortened.
1ST The Presbyterian Church at Lancas
ter, Ohio, have adopted the free seat sys
tern with entire unanimity.
Tiio Massacre ot Israelites iu Rou-
* mania.
The horrible massacre of inoffensive
Jcwsby.tbe native Christians of Boumania,
a province of Turkey in the South of Eh
rope, is thus- described in an extract from
a recent letter from that province. Tbe
affair has aroused the indignation of the
entire civilized world, and the inhuman
batchers will doubtless receive a punish
merit commensurate with their fearful
crimes:
On Sunday last, by a preconcerted signal,
the Christian populace rose, and tbe fearful
work of butchery was inaugurated. At an
early hour the houses of all Jews were in
vaded, and those of tbe occupants who wore
unable to escape were massacred in cold
blood. The fleeing Israelites were pur
sued thiQiu';’. the town by an armed mob,
and niiircl^JJ 1 wherever caught. Men,
women, anaffnildreh were ruthlessly slain
Tho fury of the populace, inflamed with
religious bigotry, only exhausted itself for
want of victims.
In all the principal towns the fearful
work of butchery prevailed, and thousands
of men. women, and children, of tho un
fortunate class were butchered in cold
blood. The work of slaughter still goes on
in the interior, and nothing has yet been
beard of any movement by the authorties
to suppress it. The reigning Prince is ab.
sent from tbe province, and advantage was
taken of this to complete the total exter
mination of all Jews irom tbe province.
Prince Charles is hurrying home, and en
ergetic measures will be at once taken by
tbe Sultan to suppress this religious
emeute. Meanwhile the fury of tbe mob
continues unabated, finding fresh victims
to glut its insatiate fury.
gaining for the votes of its own members,
and had, as stated in this correspondence
of Friday last; offered bonds indorsed by
the State of Georgia to a Senator for his
vote against the Bingham amendment.
On motion of Mr. Edmunds, the Judiciary
Committee has been authorized to examine
into the matter. There is understood to be
ample evidence to convict Bullock of at
tempted bribery.”
A—I am.
Q—State upon what yon based that state
ment?
A—Upon a paragraph taken from the
Washington correspondence of the Rich
mond Dispatch of some days previous.
Bv Mr. Stewart:
Q—Who is that correspondent?
A—I do not know positively. The Rich
mond Dispatch contained this statement
from its correspondent: “ Railroad bonds
endorsed by the State of Georgia have been
offered to secure votes against theBingham
amendment to the Georgia bill. In one in
stance this can be proved. The Senator
who was to have been influenced has de
clared his intention to vote for tho amend
ment, and the party proposing the trade
was promptly exposed by the friends of the
amoniimon? **
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Congressional Matters—The In
come Tax Bill—Bullock and His
Myrmidons—The Correspondent
of the Baltimore Gazette—Pub
lic Opinion Concerning Bullock
and his “Ring”—The Bullock as
a Witness—The Georgia Ques
tlon.
t£f It is not generally known, bnt tbe
last lines that Frank Forrester ever wrote
were toe following: “ Rest is for the dead—
and peace and happiness immortal! For
those who remain behind tbe weariness of
memory, toe loneliness of regret, toe
yearning for the untimely lost, which will
not pass away until lile itself shall have
passed through the darkness of toe grave
into the light of immortality.”
Judge J. Lamberto, of Rome, Geor
gia, has made 2,700 couples happy in his
life time. The Judge, it appears, was a
bachelor until a few days ago. when an
estimable yonng lady named Miss Lang
ston appeared and captured him.
t3T A letter from Europe mentions a
rumor in diplomatic circles that the King
of Prussia aims at being crowned Empe
ror of North Germany, and that Louis
Napoleon is fretting nnder toe unstable
tenure of his office, and anxious to create
a diversion, meditates a move on Belgium
or on the Rhine for toe purpose of check
ing Prussian ambitibn.
The Howard Investigation.
The correspondent of toe Baltimore Ga
zette, writing from Wasbington, under date
of June5to, says:
Wood-Howanl investigation will be re
sumed on Tuesday next. Yesterday it was
shown that about $130,000 had been ex
pended for rations in tbe State of Florida,
which the agents of toe bureau had sold,
putting the proceeds in their own pockets.
On Friday it was proved thatGeneral How
ard had loaned to the American Missiona
ry Society $240,000 without any authority
by law. South Carolina affairs are next
to be investigated, where it is said that be
tween three and tour thousand of toe Bu
reau funds were expended to secure the
election ol the present Governor of the
State, who was then Assistant Commis
sioner of the Bureau.
I57“A swarm of ants took up their abode
in a man’s ear jn California toe other day.
We Amend.—The Atlanta Constitu
tion publishes a long list of questions
which it is suggested shall be put to wit
nesses who appear in the pending investi-
S ition into the management of toe State
oad. We beg leave to offer an amend
ment, to toe following effect, to-wit:
Who paid the expenses of toe Halbert
press excursion, including cars, wines, ci
gars. barbers, sardines, etc?
By what warrant and authority of law
were toe said expenses paid ?
The same questions may be asked in re
lation to toe Louisville Convention excur
sion, and the excursion after toe invited
guests of the State Fair.
Let us have the amounts, with the re
ceipts and vouchers; but above all, toe
clause of tbe Code which warrants such
expenditures.
And while on the subject, will not toe
committee ascertain the exact cost ot that
special car Halbert had built for himself?
Columbus Sun.
Special Corrcspon-’cnco Atlanta Constitution.)
Washington, June 1,1870.
Congress has not been particularly live
ly-thus far this week. Monday, neither
House was in session, having adjourned
over on account of memorial day.
Yesterday toe Senate was in executive
session all the afternoon on the reciproci
ty treaty with the Sandwich Islands. An
evening session was held, bnt nothing of in
terest transpired.. To-day the Senate met
again in executive session on tho Sandwich
Island treaty and finally rejected it.
The House yesterday gave Mr. Lynch’s
bill, for toe protection of New England
shipbuilders, its quietus, and then took up
Schenck’s tax bill. Quite a spicy personal
debate followed. To-day tiie House was
engaged on toe tax bill. The tax on
matches was stricken out and then put on
again. Thc.income tax was reached, and
several members made speeches in opposi
tion to it, but before reaching a vote tbe
House adjourned. Astrong lobby is work
ing against its continuation,
Governor Bullock, in the letter he re
cently addressed to Congress, took occasion
to say:
“ A correspondcntof the Baltimore Ga
zette, who nad made a direct statement In
his correspondence published in that pa
per, charging me with bargaining for the
votes of Senators, being sworn and exam
ined, states that he had no knowledge on
toe subject whatever, except irom a news
paper dispatch which lie saw in a Rich
mond paper. In reply xo the direct inqui
ry if he could give any information or
knowledge that would put the committee
upon the track of any facts going to show
that improper means had been used, bis
answer was: No, sir; I do not think J
could.”
The Macon American Union, taking its
cue from toe carpet-bagger’s impudent
manifesto, quoted toe above remarks in re
lation to the contemplated removal of the
Associated Press Agent at Atlanta. -
“The correspondent of toe Baltimore
Gazette, from whom the Democratic press
are so greedy to copy, and who recom
mends this change ot agent, was before
the committee which investigated charges
of bribery against Governor Builock, and
was asked to give information that would
lead to the discovery of the facts stated in
his letters, when the poor fool bad to break
right down and say he knew nothing about
it.”
It is better to be a “fool” than a “knave,”
and not bring a Radical, tbo correspondent
of tbe Gazette did not “lielike adog,”as
did the Radicals who were before this
committee. Neither did be “ back down.”
Here is toe official report of what he did
say, in full:
Charles A. Filsbury sworn and ex
amined.
By toe Chairman:
Qnestion—What is your business iu
Washington ?
Answer—I am correspondent of toe Bal
timore Gazette.
Q—Are you the writer of tliourticle in
the Baltimore Gazette of the 19th of April,
amendment.”
By the Chairman;
Q—On thntetatementyou based yonr let
ter to the Baltimore Gazette, containing
the extract which I have read ?
A—Upon that and a paragraph in the
Evening Star of this city to the effect that
bonds had been offered to two Senators or
relatives of Senators. I do not recollect
exactly the tenor of-the article.
Q—Have you that article?
A—No, sir.
Q—Had you any other basis for this ar
ticle in the Baltimore Gazette than you
have stated ?
A—Nothing more than that, except that
it has been a general subject of comment
here that Bullock was lobbying, and I sup
posed he would buy anybody he could,
Q—What makes you suppose that?
A—From bis own character.
Q—Do you know any fact going to show
that he has used or offered to use means to
influence votes?
A—No. I do. not know it of my own
personal knowledge. I have no acquaint
ance whatever with him.
Q—Have you heard of his having used
means in any direction other than from
these newspaper reports?
A—Only these reports and £»neral state
ments made at various times.
Q—Have you any knowledge, from in
formation or otherwise, of means being
used by anybody in respect to the Georgia
question ?.
A—No, sir, I have not, otherwise-than by
distributing pamphlets and such things as
that.
Q—Have you from information any
knowledge which you could give that
would put the committee upon toe trace of
any facts going to show that any means
have been used in respect to this matter?
A—No, sir, I do not think 1 could.
There was no packing done here. Sev
eral days before the investigation was
commenced, and before the paragraph ap
peared In the Gazette, April 19, the para
graph from the Richmond Dispatch was
quoted in the Gazette’s Washington corres
pondence. Long before that time—yes,
from Bullock’s first appearance in Washing
ton—rumors were current of his lobbying
operations. They were toe subjectof com
mon and general conversations. No one
doubted tbeir truth. Senntors charged
Bullock from their places in the Senate
with openly and disgracefully lobbying
upon tiie floor. But even were this not so,
too report of tiie committee, and more
than all, toe evidence taken before the
committee, fully sustain all that has been
'said and written about the operations of
the Bullock ring in Washington. Even wit-
witnesses who prejudice themselves to save
toe.guilty parties richly- merited punish
ment, did not wholly succeed In concealing
the truth. The result is'before tiie coun
try ; and if Bullock & Co. are not in the
Deuitcntiary it is because they have been
more fortunate than others less criminal.
BULLOCK A SLOW WITNESS.
Every one has heard ol “slow wit
nesses.” It would be difficult to find a
slower witness than was Bufus B. Bul
lock on the I7th of May, 1870, as he ap
peared before tbe Senate Judiciary Com
mittee. A tortoise would have been a race
horse compared with Bullock on the oc
casion. His memory was bad, too. Poor
creatnre! he couldn’t recollect how many
Averys ho knew, or what their initials
were. In fact, if he is to be believed when
under oath, he knew just nothing at all.
He knew some colored members of the
Georgia Legislature were coming here, but
he didn’tknow under what circumstances;
thought they were moved to come by the
interest they felt in the measure pending
here. Again—“ I do not know that I can
say that I know of any dispatches sent to
have them come. Dispatches were sent
from here. I sent dispatches toonr friends
in Atlanta.” Under Mr. Edmunds’ skill
ful cross-questioning, it was finally ex
torted from Bullock that tie summoned
these colored members of the Georgia
Legislature here for the purpose of using
their influence against the Bingham
Amendment, and that he advanced to them
$1,400. for which be took no notes. Here
is more richness.
Q—Do you know Lewis Porter?
A—l do not know anybody of the name
of Porter whom l can imagine has been be
fore the committee. I think toe only per
son in Washington I know by tiie name of
Porter are General and Admiral Porter. I
have been introduced to a thousand people
in Washington thatl would not remember
the names of. Whoever toe Mr. Porter
may bo that you speak of, he may have
been introduced to me, and I might know
him if I should sec bis face, and perhaps
shake hands with him if he came up to me;
but I do not know anybody of the name
whom I can recall, except Admiral Porter
and General Porter.
Porter, it will be recollected, swore to
meeting and talking with the Averys in
Bullock’s room, at Willard’s hotel
THE GEOBtiK QUESTION
Is in statu quo, Mr. Bingham having ap
parently abandoned bis intention- of forc
ing a report from toe Reconstruction Com
mittee.
A special meeting of tots'committee is
called for to-morrow, when it iB proposed
to dispose of both Georgia and Tennessee,
but it would not be safe to bet that any
thing will be done.
Tbo opinion that Georgia will go over
for this session seems to be gaining ground.
Abgus.
of too paper offered as testimony, etc., Mr.
T. was permitted to read from his manu
script. in relation to the above stated mat
ters, as follows:
Presuming that Dr. Angler, toe State
Treasurer, desired me to testify as to
the ordinary expenditures of toe State in
peace times, in the matters mentioned in
his letter, and as the war commenced in
IS62, and closed hut a short time before my
last official term closed, I have only exam
ined my reports for the expenditures of tiie
State, given below, in the matters alluded
to, for the first five years of my official ser
vice, or from 1850 to 1860, inclusive:
oil and candles.
The amount paid ont for oil and candles, etc.,
wore, in
Jg« $15 35
1S37 .
1SSS 1(1 74
Hg 14 80
I860 9815
ADDED B? THE EDITOR.
1806—by Jenkins.. $ 49
1867— “ “ 50 00
1868— six months by Bullock 5145
1869— by Bullock 1,157 05
WOOD.
Tbo amount paid fbr wood was. In
1856 (296 65
15B..
1858..../.,
1869
1850
( Was ill session, when, both Governor Jen
kins and myself coming to tho conclusion
that two Secretaries of the Executive Dei
"X^rtment were amply sufficient to attend
votly and expeditiously to the duties
I retired on the 30th of April;
;L)r ..Vns drew under this 2d section lili
u?n?ranMn <»YOr for toil 50, and aS
SflMmnlr ' ,ne months thereafter hb
retaries, of course he i. nf
In 1S00, for the first tin.*
kind ever was done.so far tu,
discover, the Legislature i n0 2£j a«
the following section in toe (klv™ 1
propriation Act of that year, viz:
“Sec. 7. That in all cases where the Cs";*
eral Assembly directs the performance X
any service or labor for which no provis
ion is made for compensation, tiie Gover
nor is hereby authorized to draw his war
rants on the Treasury for such sum or sti ms
as in his judgment may be just compcnsa-
This section was no doubt intended also
to relievo too Governor’s Contingent Fund,
as services before ordered by tiie Legisla
ture and which were not provided for by
special legislation by such Legislature, had
before been paid for out of the Contingent
Fund, when toe parties doing the servien
did not care to wait for the action of tho
next convening Legislature. But notwith
standing this section was incorporated in
every General Appropriation Act from
I860 to 1S65; yet, so far as I can discover or
believe, Governor Brown never drew Rny
warrants under its authority. In lStiii,
this section was amended, (no doubt in my
opinion by some ono who wanted more re
pairs and fixtures than had been proposed
or voted for in the Committee for toe Suite
State House,) so far as to authorize too
Governor, besides drawing on the treasury
for “service” or “labor,” ordered by toe
preceding Legislature, where payment was
not provided, etc., to also draw upon ton
treasury for any “service” or "labor,”
which, iu his own opinion, might be rc-
, 180 61
. 443 77
. 229 00
.254 68
ADDED BY THE EDITOR.
lBG6-by Jenkins $ 4
1861—“ 3
1868-six months by Bullock
lS69-coal, etc 1,586 40
POSTAGE.
Amounts paid out for all stato House officers for
postage, were, in
1856 $ 526 63
1857.. 829 23
1853 996 60
1859 1,008 77
1860 973 93
ADDED BY THE EDITOR.
1866—By Jenkins .$ 67199
1869 1,995 61
STATIONERY.
Amounts paid out for stationery were, In
1866 .....$1,44214
1857 1,400 00
1858 .'
1859...;. 222 04
1861 1,475 16
ADDED BY Tnz EDITOR.
lSOO-1'.y Jenkins $3,261 37
lS67-By Jenkins 282 61
1868— 6 months by Bullock 1,281 13
1869- by Bollock.... .... 5.582 49
TO DEFRAY INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT.
Under the items of “to defray incidental
expenses of the Executive Department,”
- lor Contingent Fund to pay small ac
counts,” “Executive Contingent Fund,"
and “lor payment of small accounts against
the Executive Department,” I find that
the amounts paid out were, in
1856 $ 1 96
1857
1858. 3*63
1859 20100
1860 370 00
ADDED BY THE EDITOR.
1866- By Jenkins S 82 00
1867- Ily Jenkins 248 80
1863-6 months by Bullock BO 00
1869— by Bullock .11,450 00
All the above items were paid outol toe
Contingent Fund, which was, in 1856,
$15,000; 1857, $12,000; 1S53, $14,000; 1859,
$16,000, and in I860, $16,030. The Captain
of and the State House Guard was paid by
special appropriation In each general
appropriation act. In 1856 they were
paid altogether. $1.18d 25, and in 1857,
1858.1859,1S60. $1,200 eacli year.
I cannot find in nty report more than
one hundred dollars paid by the Governors
as a reward for the arrest of fugitives
charged with murder or any other crime.
nor do I believe a larger reward was of
fered by any Governor while I was in of
fice. The rewards were-paid out of the Con
tingent Fond.
ADVERTISEMENTS IN NEWSPAPERS BY THE
GOVERNOR.
Amounts paid for advertising and print
ing done by other newspapers than that of
toe State Printer were, in
1856 ; $ 493
1857 2.209
18*. J.JS
1869. 992
ADDED BY THE EDITOR.
1866 by Jenkins
186n - “
1868 G months by Bollock
The Bullock-Angier Committee-
Statement of ex-ComptrolIer Pe
terson Thvreatt.
Peterson Thweatt, Esq., the former Comp
troller General of the State, from 1855 to
1865, having been summoned to appear be
fore the Bullock-Angier Committee, reach
ed Atlanta a lew days since, and has been
before the committee for two days. Pre
vious to his being summoned, Dr. Angier,
toe State Treasurer, notified Mr. Thweatt
that he desired to have him appear as a
witness, and to testify in relation to the
practice of the different Governors, as to
drawing warrants, etc., and he further
asked Mr. Thweatt to “ examine his reports
while Comptroller General and to ascertain,
as far as he could, how and in what manner
the accounts for printing have been paid
by former Governors. Also the nccounts
for legal services, rewards. State House
guard, wood, lights, stationery, postage, in
cidental expenses of the Executive Depart
ment; the amount of advertising done by
former Governors in other papers than
that ot the public printer—bow they were
paid and tiie precedents for the expendi
tures of Governor Bullock under the 2d,
7th and 23d sections of the Acts of 1868 and
1869.”
Mr. Thweatt being sworn, and Dr. An
gier having asked him to testify in relation
to all of these matters, at once Mr. T.
stated, -that for the purpose of accuracy,
and that he might testify upon these mat
ters more intelligibly and satisfactorily to
the committee than he could verbally, he
had reduced'the results of his examina-
containing toe following paragraph: “Ku-1 tions, etc^ to writing, which he asked to be
mors of Bul.ock’a lobby schemes have at permitted to read to the committee, and
last reached the car of the Senate. It is a that they would take it as his sworn testi-
little singular this body should have been mony in the matters alluded to. Without
so long finding out that Bullock was bar- 1 committing itself as to their acceptance
....$ 401
.... 2339
.... 14,984
1869 : 27,191
It may be proper here to remark that in
1857 and 1858 about $2,000 of the above was
laid out for advertising amendments to the
< Constitution ordered by Into to be published
for six months.
In compliance, further, with the request
contained in the State Treasurer's letter of
the 5th instant, I have to say that I have
examined my reports, and find that, up to
1863, ali printing accounts, of every char
acter, were paid out of the Printing Fund.
But by the 1043d section of the Revised
Code, which section went into operation in
1863, Governor Brown conceived that he
was prohibited from drawing upon the
Printing Fund for 1863 to pay tor advertis
ing in papers others than that of toe State
Printer,and while lie continued to pay said
accounts out of the Printing Fund for 1862.
until said fund reverted to the Treasury on
the 1st of May, 1863; yet hedid not pay any
of the said accounts out of the Printing
Fund of 1S63,1864, and 1865, but paid them
out of toe Contingent Fund. All accounts
of every character due the public printer
he paid ont of the Printing Funds for 1863,
1864, and 1885.
As to the claims or accounts for legal
services, so far as I can discover from rny
reports, they were either paid out of the
Contingent Fund, or by warrants on the
Treasury authorized by special legislative
acts, stipulating the amount of toe fees,
etc.
When the Governors employed an at
torney or attorneys on their own motion,
they either paid him or them out of the
Contingent Fund, or the matter was re
ferred to the Legislature for that body to
vote money to pay toe same.
For the five years as stated above, from
1856 to I860, the only instances my reports
show in which the Governors cm. -
any counsel for any purpose was when in
1857 Governor H. V. Johnson employed
toe Hon. Linton Stephens and O. C. Gib
son as attorneys for the State, to defend
tbe rights of Georgia in tbe United States
Supreme Court in relation to the boundary
line between Georgia and Alabama. When
the Hon. Linton Stephens went on the
Supreme Court Bench, Governer Brown
appointed toe Uon.C. J. McDonald to suc
ceed him. In 1S59 and I860 Governor
Brown paid Messrs. Stephens and Mc
Donald each $500 out of the Contingent
Fund, an-1 the Legislature afterwards ap
propriated $1,000 additional to each,
(Messrs. Stephens and McDonald.) and
$1,590 to O. C. Gibson, as their fee in the
matter. Also, in 1S59, Doyal & Campbell
were employed by the Governor to assist
the Attorney General in forfeiting the
charter of the Exchange Bank of Griffin,
and paid $100 for their Ice outof the Con
tingent Fund. For 1857 I And that W. It.
McLaws. A'torncy General, was paid $G00
outof the Contingent Fund in toe case in
toe Supreme Court of Thompson & Lyon
vs. the State. But I find no other pay
ment for legal service in these years, ex
cept tiie usual $30 and $5!) cases then al
lowed by law, and now allowed by the
Code, to he paid to the Solicitor General
fur extra services where certain cases are
taken up to the Superior Court, etc., etc.,
and these were paid out of toe Contingent
Fund, until the Legislature passed
special act to have them paid otherwise.
As to the 2d and 22d or 23d sections of
the acts of 1S6S and 1869,1 have to say
that there were no snch sections in any ol
the Appropriation acts while I was In of
fice. Nor before, so far as I know or be
lieve.
The 2d section in toe act of 1868 and 1869
I drew up myself in 1866, while an assis
tant in the Executive office, and got tbe
Finance Committee in the House to incor
porate it into the Appropriation act of
1866. Governor Jenkins having expressed
to me a desire to have my services as an
assistant in toe Executive Department, in
the early part of 1866, paid far by a special
appropriation, rather than pay it out of the
Contingent Fund, and not knowing how
long I might be employed by toe Governor,
this 2d section was drawn up by me in the
language it is, to cover i! warrant for my
services.
I remained in the Executive office as an
assistant for three months and twenty-one
days, iqost qf which time the Legislature
Asylums, etc. Under this section. Gov
ernor Jenkins drew, in 1S66, $7,412 19 to
carry out the provisions of an act of tho
preceding Legislature, organizing too
chain gang, and for which no appropria
tion to pay expenses had been made.
In 1S6S, the 7tU section of I860 (more lim
ited than tho 7th section in the Act of 1S-395
was re-enacted. But in 1S69, either through
carelessness or for a purpose, I find that a
section called the 23d section in the Comp
troller's report, and of a different charac
ter, in my opinion, from the former sec
tions, was incorporated In the General Ap-
iropriation Act .of 1869, and it is as fol-
ows:
Section 22d or 23d. “That in all cases
where the performance of any * service’ or
‘labor’ is required by law, lor which no
irovlslon is made for compensation, the.
governor is hereby authorized to draw his
warrants upon the Treasurer for such sum
or sums as in his judgment may be just
compensation.”
In relation to the precedent for tills sec
tion, it is proper to look to and ascertain
whetBer the present practice, under this
23d section, has any precedent in tho for
mer financial practices of the State.
Now, whether there Is such a precedent
or not depends on what tho present prac
tice Is under said section. If the construc
tion of that section and the practice under
it are only to give the power to the Gov
ernor to draw warrants on tho Treasury
for “services or labor "directed to be per
formed by the preceding legislature, and
provision for the payment of which was
accidentally omitted, and if it only in
tended additionally that the Governor
should draw money from Die Treasury for
tho “preservation of the public property,”
if, in his opinion, service or labor in
that matter was necessary, etc- then,
there is precedent iu tiro net of 1S66 for
both of these contingencies. But, if
S is is centcndcd for by some) un-
er ono or two sections of the Code, tiio
purport of which U the Governor is to
look to and provide r*r the general
interests of the State, said 23d section or
the act of 1S69 gives power to tho Gov
ernor to employ whom mid ns many per
sons as ho pleases, and for wint purpose lie
pleases, and make what contracts he
pleases, and, without llm supervision or
control of the I-cgislature. or nny
other powor, draw warrants on tiro Treas
ury to pay tiie same, then I have no
hesitation whatever in saying that
no such power or anything like it lias over
before been given to any Governor of
Georgia, and In my opinion no such power
ought to be given to any ono man over the
public money. But whether or not nny
such power has been given, it is evident
that Governor Bullock thinks lie lias sorno
such-power, for, under these sections of
1863 and 1869, ho appears to have drawn
warrants of “all sorts and sizes” of “ every
variety and character,” amounting (as a)>-
pcars (Torn the Comptroller’s Report for
1868) from too 28th of August, 1868, to the
30th of November, 1868, to $47,780 13, and
(according to Treasurer Angler’s “ charges
and specifications against Governor Bul
lock,” uow before toe Committee,) from
tbe 1st of January. 1SG9, to tliclSth of May,
1870. S1S5.000 additionally—making In all,
$232,7S0 13 in about twenty-one months.
In view, then, of the. fact that previous
to i860 toe various Governors had no dis
cretionary fund whatever to draw war-
cretionary fund whatever to draw war
rants on theTreasury to pay for the services
or labor ordered by the General Assembly,
or for toe “public” good, other than
that of too Contingent Fund, which
ranged from $10,000 to $1G,000 per year.
In view of tho fact, that although Gover
nor Brown had from 1SG0 tn 1805, (when
ho went out of office,) power, under tho
seventh section, the same as that in the Act
of 1868, to draw upon tho Treasury to pay
for "service” or “labor” ordered by eacli
preceding Legislature, when no provision
was made by said Legislature for payment,
yet be declined to exercise that power, hut
drew for all contingencies on tiro Contin
gent Fund. In view of tiie fact that,
although having similar power. Governor
Jenkins drew but $7,412 19, the amount
necessary to carry out an act of the pre
ceding Legislature, when no provision for
payment was made. And in view of
tbe fact that, by virtue of a section not
so extended as toe seventh section of toe
Act of1866, in one case, and ofanotiicrscc-
tionjof a more equivocal though supposed
to be of a more extended character in tiro
other case, Governor Bullock lias drawn
an extraordinary large amount on toe same
(over $232,000 within 21 months)—the le
gality of many of these warrants having
been questioned, and the same having been
rejected by thcStatc Treasurer, as contrary
to law, while the legality of many others
even paid by the Treasurer, arc doubted or
denied by others. I trust, Mr. Chairman,
Chat I may be pardoned for licreexprc.-sing
tho opinion (in which I hope you and your
committee will unanimously concur)
that the best thing the present and all lu-
ture Legislatures can do for tiro economy
and welfare of tiie State is to drop from all
their future Appropriation Acts, the 2nd.
7th, 22d and 23d sections of toe Acts «r
1868 and 1SG9, and repeal all sections of tiro
Code, (if there be any) giving any similar
power to the Governor, and bring back our
State financial practice to what it was in
I860, or before the war, which was to give
the Governors only tho Contingent Fund
to pay omissionsof provision for“scrvice ”
of “labor” ordered by too General Assem
bly or as a discretionary fund, for the “pub
lic good, ” which fund in 1S60, was $16,000,
and was then considered abundant.
And, Mr. Chairman, if your committee
should make a record of this testimony of
mine I would most respectfully ask that
this suggestion in relation to the 2d,
7th, 22d or 23d section of the Acts
of 1868 and 1869, be recorded witli my other
testimony, as my most solemn and deliber
ate judgment against toe further continu
ance of those pernicious sections in auy
future Appropriation Act.
I ask this because I have admitted in my
testimony, here given, that I originated or
drew up one of them (tiro 2d section) and
had It Incorporated in the Act of 1866, and
now that I am convinced that it was a
wrong precedent, I wish toe recantation of
it to go with the admission of its author
ship.
In collecting and stating toe foregoing
facts, I have tried to be careful and recom
mit no error. I may have failed in my
purpose. Preferring, if I have committed
any error, that it may be corrected, rather
than a wrong statement should stand. I
I have brought with me from Millcdgeville
a bound copy of all my reports, that I will
cheerfully loan to the committee, that thev
may examine the same for themselves, if
they think proper.
Mr. Thweatt having concluded Ills man
uscript, and having offered it to tiro com
mittee as a portion of his testimony, on mo
tion of Senator Nunnaily, the committee
declined to accept or let it be entered on
the Journal, but proceeded to ask Mr.
Thweatt separate questions as to most of
what is contained in the, atiovc. lie was
also asked and answered other ini|>ortnnt
questions in relation to other matter., some
of whreh may hereafter be alluded to.