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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 14, 1872.
THE DAILY SUN
Wednesday, February 7, 1872.
A Movement in the Right Df-
' rectiou.
We see, by a correspondence between
several gentlemen of position in the State
and Rev. Charles W. Howard, of The
Plantation, that efforts aro making to in
duce him to undertake an agency in Eu
rope in behalf of our agricultural indus
tries.
The enterpiae is based upon the prin
ciple of private association. The funds
necessary to defray the expenses of the
Commissioner are to be raised by indi
vidual subscription. This is mucb more
according to our liking than for the State
to engage in such business—and hope
that success, with coirespondingbenefits,
may result from this new movement.
The correspondence we publish in our
issue of to-day. A. H. 8.
JAIL' DELIVERY.
.Toscjih Fry Escaped.
OVEU $100,000 OF STATE FUNDS
DISCOVERED.
Georgia National Bank Attached !
ITS ASSETS UNDER SEAX AND UNDER
GUARD!
BULLOCK TELLS A TALE!
At an early hour yesterday morning
the city was thrown into a whirl of ex
citement by the report that Joe Fry, in
company with eignt other prisoners, had
escaped jail. The following is an ac
count of the delivery as it is believed to
be:
Early yesterday morning, as was bis
custom, Jailor Bonnell released the priso
ners from their dungeons and cells, and
permitted them to collect in the
nail of the jail, where they
could breathe fresh air. The jail had
been under strong guard all night, and
Mr. Bonnell had just relieved the watch
himself. Having secured the iron door,
he stepped across the street to his break
fast. He had not been absent more than
two minutes before he heard from a boy
stationed near the jail, the alarm, “pris
oners escaping! prisoners escaping!”
Hastening back, he reached the door
jnst as the last of nine prisoners was
disappearing some hundred yards distant,
fleeing precipitately in the direction of
the Cemetery.
In attempting to secure the door
against the escape of any other prison
ers, he discovered a false key on the in
side of the door, with which they had
unlocked the door.
The alarm was immediately raised;
policemen and detectives were dispatched
in double haste to scour the country, and
search the city. Policeman Queen,
Hutchins, and Ballenger, were specially
instructed to make every effort that in
genuity could suggest to capture Frv;
but tho entire squad returned yesterday
afternoon without discovering any trace
of Fry, or any of tho escaped
prisoners. They searched and ransacked
almost every obscure house in the east
ern portion of the city, and reconnoi-
tered the couutry far beyond the corpo
rate limits. Fry, in company with two
persons, was seen about 8 o’clock yester
day morning, passing the cemetery, but
the negro who saw him, could not recog
nize his companions.
The escaped prisoners are Joseph Fry,
charged with being implicated in the
State Bond frauds; Geo. L. Gist and Wm.
Gist, convicted of cheating and swindling
at the last term of the Superior Court,
(the confidence imposters who passed
counterfeit nr. cm y on an t migrn); A. J.
Wells and Kichard Hagan, illicit dis
tillers; Geo. Coleman (col.) misdemeanor,
aud Warren Lewis and Clark Trimble,
charged with larceny.
The key with which the prisoners ef
fected their escape is of iron, was evi
dently manufactured at a blacksmith
shop in this city very recently, and was,
beyond doubt, made with a view to re
leasing one, if not all of the nine prison
ers. It Lad been finished with a file, and
gave evidence of having been tried and
fitted time and again before it reached
the proper shape. Some persons who
saw the key soon after it was taken from
the door, say that particles of tin foil
were clinging to it. From this circum
stance, some persons suppose that an im-
E ression, either of the lock or key, had
een taken in tin foil, os a model for
making a duplicate key.
There are many conjectures concern
ing the means of the escape; and among
them all, the most popular, and, indeed,
almost unanimous verdict,* is that Fry
and some of his prison associates have
outside accomplices—many of whom
have been more solicitous for Fry’s es
cape than he himself—fearing his testi
mony in the approaching trials; that in
stead of tin foil, gold and silver foil are
tiie secret of their escape, and that Fry
is now within the city, under the pro
tecting and jealous care of some of his
friends (?) or that he has been hastened
beyond the limits of the State.
It is certain that this scheme for es
cape has been fermenting for some time.
It is quite impossible to designate any of
the accomplices. Elliott, who was oon-
victed of attempting to murder Clarke,
and has since been in jail, had made all
arrangements for escape, having directed
his wife to pack his valise and make all
necessary preparations for flight.
Renewed efforts will be made this
morning for the apprehension of the
prisoners.
It is highly probable that their escape
has been premeditated, that there are
persons in and ont of the city, who -have
connived at their delivery and release,that
assistance in servants and money has
been furnished them, that private con
veyances and relays of the same have
been provided, and that this shrewd
scheme, has with the most wonderful
concert of action, been eminently suc
cessful. However, neither courage, in
genuity, nor fortitude should be spared
to recover them. Detectives were never
so much needed. Let the city and conn
try be entirely swept.
If Mr. Jones, or the officers of his
bank knew or believed, or had any rea
son to believe that the $122,959.59 left
on deposit by Bullock, Delonging to the
State, and with this knowledge, belief or
suspicion, transferred the same to the
private account of Bullock, in order to
save what he owed the Bank, is it not
larceny after trust delegated? It seems
to us that it is. It is certainly appropri
ating to their own use that which they
knew was not their own—if they knew it
i° f l'o_the State’s money.
This is a penitentiary offense.
. ~~ Brilliant but not largo” is tho way
they describe the crowd that danced at
tendance on Col. G. D. Alexis, in Mem
phis. It is apparent that only the
■Avacnc'ie editorial staff was present.
Scarcely had the excitement caused by
the escape and "flight of State prisoners
subsided yesterday, before the city was
again excited by the announcement that
the Georgia National Bank, of this city,
had been attached by the State, as secu
rity for State funds deposited with it by
Bullock, and which the officers refused
to refund.
While Bullock was acting as Governor
of Georgia, he deposited money, both
for himself and the Stafe, with the Geor
gia National Bank, keeping with the
Bank an account current and a special
account, respectively, for himself and the
State. This special (State) account he
left, with other State effects, with his
successor, Conley, and when Conley re
tired he also left it in the Executive Of
fice, where it was discovered by Governor
Smith. This account book shows a bal
ance in favor of the State of $122,959 59.
Together with this account-book were
discovered
THE CORRESPONDENCE
between Bullock and the Cashier of the
Bank, as well as a private letter from
Bnllock to Conley in reference to this
deposit of personal and State funds with
the Georgia National Bank, the sub
stance of which we give below:
THE cashier’s LETTER TO BULLOCK.
Soon after Bullock’s abdication and
flight from Georgia, Mr. E. L. Jones,
Cashier of the Bank, addressed him a
letter containing an explanation of their
mutual account.
In this letter Mr. Jones states that
Bullock had overdrawn on his account
cun-cut $50,448 40; that Mr. H. I. Kim
ball bad also overdrawn on his account
current $35,000, and that the Bank had
in its possession a draft in favor of
Messrs. Shorb and Lawton, indorsed by
Bullock, for $2,609 50; that he (Mr.
Jones, Cashier,) had consolidated these
accounts, aggregating $88,057 90, and
charged them to his Special Account of
$122,959 59, which he feigned was an in
dividual account, but which was, in reali
ty, a State account. This letter was da
ted Atlanta, October 31, 1871.
bullock’s reply.
Bullock, in a letter dated New York,
November 11, 1871, addressed Mr. Jones
in answer to his letter, and expressed
great surprise at the Cashier’s disposition
of the three accounts specified, and
his trust and belief that he had
not thus disposed of them deliberately
and premeditately, but without a proper
understanding of the accounts, special
and current, existing between them. He
stated that for his over-drawal of $50,-
448.40, and for the account of Shorb
and Lawton, he alone and individually
was responsible; that Mr. Kimball alone
was responsible for the $35,000 overdrawn
by him, and that the Bank had no right
nor semblance of authority for drawing
on the State fund of $122,959 59 for re
imbursement ?of these private accounts,
Bullock concluded by stating that he and
Kimball were responsible for their own
liabilities, and expressed much surprise
that the Bank should be so bereft of hon
or and sagacity as to proceed to reim
burse their own losses in a way that would
cause the public to suspect that it, Kim
ball and he, were in a conspiracy to em
bezzle the State’s money.
bullock’s LETTER TO CONLEY.
On the 13th of November, two days
following, Bullock wrote an autograph
letter to acting Governor Conley, en
closing a copy of his letter to Jones, ad
vising him of the state of the accounts,
in which he said that his letter to Jones
covered all, except that it failed to express
his indignation at the action of the hank.—
He further affirmed that not one cent of
the State’s money had ever been placed
to his credit.
GOV. CONLEY
npon this information and authority, on
the 11th January, drew a check on the
Georgia National Bank for the amonnt
deposited as specified in Bullock’s special
(State) account, viz: $122,959.59, which
was presented-and protested for non-pay
ment. The Bank replied: “We have no
accounts by which we can recognize Gov.
Conley’s order.” Here the matter rest
ed until Gov. Smith took his seat.
One l»y One They Full.
"L*«f by leaf the roee* fell;
Drop by drop the spring runs dry."
Development succeeds development,
and step by step the great schemes of
the Robber Band are unfolded, i When
all is made known, the public will be
astounded by the most startling nlans cf
villains which have disgraced the age in
which we live.
We will not undertake to say to what
extent the Georgia National Bank and
its officers and stock-holders are partners
in the swindling schemes of the Clews-
Kimball-Bnllock-Blodgett Ring; the
courts of the country will develope this;
but we do not hesitate to express tie opin-
ion, frprn the lights before us by the oc
currences of yesterday, and also from
what we bave long been informed of and
believed, that this institution, like Clews
& Company’s Bank, was complicated
with, conniving at, aiding, abetting, ap-
pioving and profiting by, the irregulari
ties, peculations and frauds of the Bond
Ring, and plundering gang who have
been gnawing at the vitals of our body
politic for several years.
No doubt its career is at an end. We
should not be surprised if its depositors
lose their money. It has wound up with
a sudden and startling collapse. It will
not surprise ns, if Henry Clews and
Company have a similar termination of
their financial career.
Development succeeds development.
Startlings things are yet to be unearthed.
Men of fair standing hitherto are yet to
fall under the heavy stroke of the aveng
ing sWord of Justice. Let her blows fall
thick and heavy. Let offenders be cut
down. The way of the transgressor is
hard, and-the wages of sin is death. So
mote it be.
THE SUIT.
Upon this information, Dr. C. L. Red-
wine, of this city, made affidavit, which
was the foundation for the attachment.
The State, with Treasurer Angier as
security, gave a bond of $250,000, to
indemnify the bank for all damages that
may accrue from the issuing of the at
tachment and the prosecution of the
suit-, which has been instituted against it
This bond is signed by Gov. Smith.
THE ASSETS OF THE BANK
have been placed in the vaults, which have
been sealed and placed under the care
and guard of Capt. Whit. Anderson,
Deputy Sheriff. Counsel for State, Judge
Linton Stephens, Col. W. W. Montgom
ery,SoL Gen. Glenn. Counsel for defense,
L. E. Bleckley.
II. I. Kimball Haase 8®ld.
Yesterday the Kimball House was sold
by the Sheriff at public outcry before the
Court House door, under a Builder’s lien
for purchase money, and for State, coun
ty and city taxes. Dr. Joseph Thomp
son was the purchaser, paying $15,010
The State, county and city taxes amonnt
to $9,090, and the builders’ lien $6,000.
Dr. Thompson is liable for about $54,000
of purchase money also, making his out
lay aggregate about $69,000. Consider
ing that the building cost about $600,000
this may be considered, at first thought,
a handsome speculation. The building
is mortgaged for $200,000, and of course
it will require mnch litigation to release
it of this incumbrance, and possibly
some time and embarrassment to secure
perfect titles.
The builders lien was in favor of J,
Peck .& Co., Olive, Hall & Co., and Hea-
ly, Berry & Co. Mr. B. H. Hill, counsel
for Dr. Thompson, paid the $15,010 to
the Sheriff, and secured the titles to the
property.
— Tilton expresses the opinion that
“Fisk is bulling the brimstone market
down below.” But let not Tilton be
troubled, enough will be left for him,
but will not the demand he lively when
he gets there! The price will go a-kit
ing, sure.
E. F. Blodgett Becomes Patriotic (?)
He Charges a Respectable man with
Defrauding the State, and Causes his
Arrest.—Yesterday Ed. F. Blodgett,
who now is under bonds on four warrants
against him, charging him with cheating
and swindling the State to the tune of
considerably over twenty thousand dol
lars, preferred a charge against A. J.
Orme, charging him with defrauding
the State out of $115, and had him ar
rested. He gave bond for his appearance
at court.
This step is pronounced an outrage by
the community. Mr. Orme has been
furnishing the State Road and other
Railroads with supplies, as agent of a
large St. Louis manufacturing establish
ment, for years. He regularly supplied
the Road through Blodgett’s administra
tion, as he had before. His ; interest in
fRia business is, and always has been, his
commission on sales.
Once, in his absence, Joe Fry, who
was in the Purchasing Agent’s depart
ment (E. F. Blodgett) pretended to make
purchase of supplies, and when Mr.
Orme returned, paid over to him $115 as
commission on sales, due to him. Joe
explained the matter very particularly,
which satisfied Mr. Orme that he was hon
estly entitled to the $115, whereupon lie
put the money in his pocket.
A short time ago he was summoned,
and appeared and testified before the
State Road Committee. He carefully
examined all the papers to which his
name was forged, as we noticed in our re
port of the evidence in the Blodgett
committal a few days ago. He ascer
tained clearly that the State had never
received the gcods in the pretended
transaction upon which the $115 was
based. He therefore promptly tendered
and returned that amonnt to the State.
The Committee and the Solicitor Gen
eral cf this Circuit, when the matter was
before them, probed it to the bottom,
and thoroughly satisfied themselves that
Mr. Orme was entirely innocent iu the
matter; hence they exonerated him. It
remained for*E. F. Blodgett, with four
heavy warrants and serious charges
against him, to become zealous in de
fense of the injured people of Georgia,
and to have a gentleman arrested on a'
charge which others have failed to find,
The idea that a man of the standing
and connections of A. J. Orme would
enter into a scheme to defraud the State
out of the pitiful sum of one hundred and
fifteen dollars is most preposterous and
absurd.
Recorder’s Court—P. P. P.—If any
curious reader of the Recorder’s Court
wants to fathom the mystery of the recon
dite hieroglyphics that head this article,
he can satisfy his cariosity by—reading
The Sun to-morrow morning. They are
all shrouded in mysticism, and the little
insight that we have gained into them
has been obtained by the significant ad
umbration from His Honor’s pen yester
day, as he wrote some frightful sentence
in Iris Mystic Book.
JEREMIAH FEBRYWINKLE
is the shrewdest driver of express wagons
in the city. It is a violation oi the Or
dinance to drive these express vehicles
without the number attached to them.
A policeman failing to discover any num
ber on Mr. P’s. express, accosted him
thus:
“Mr. Jeremiah Perrywinkle, why have
you no number on your express ?”
“Faith and be golly,” said Jerry,
"where a bit is .the use, when any sensi
ble man can see the express is a number
one?”
We are requested to announce that the
policeman’s funeral takes place to-day at
12 o’clock, Mr. Jeremiah Perrywinkle,
hearse-driver.
AT,-FT ALEXIS
asked permission to call again this morn
ing. His Honor graciously granted the
request, with instructions to extend a
cordial invitation to all his friends. Alexis
is a German cousin of the Duke Alexis,
and we admonish all who wish to breathe
the breath of Despotic Royally, to come
to His Honor’s reception this morning
with—$5 and costs.
ARABELLA ARIBOLA,
came to His Honor seeking relief from-
well she employed Patrick Fitzgibbon, as
counsel, who made the following pa
thetic appeal in behalf of his fair client
“’Tis ead to see that lovely form.
Angelic, half divine,
Weighed down with cotton, stuffed with tow,
And corded round with twine!
’Tis sad to see that angel girl,
Just made to be embraced,-
With fifteen daily journals all
A-tugping at her waist,
Enough to break the very back
Of the stoutest long-eared baste.”
His Honor instructed Pat to relieve her
of her burden, which he did “in three
shakes of a pig’s tail.”
— “We are all very human,” exclaims
the Memphis Avalanche. Indeed,there
is a deal more of human nature in Tnnn
than is -usually attributed to him; hence,
it becomes all the easier to oveilook the
many failures of the Avalanche, and to
hope it will be found in the lists, “armed
Cap-a-pie” when “comes the tug of war.”
SUN-STROKES.
m — Those “Alabama claims” bid fair to
be well worked.
Bergh objects to horse-clipping.
Some fellow will clip an ass one of these
days in the person of Bergh.
— Bishop Simpson subscribed fifty
dollars to the Alexis ball in New York.
He ought to be “churched” for it.
— New Hampshire votes March 12.
The Granite Democrats expect to beat
the Seneca Radicals.
— “The Reign of Roguery” consti
tutes the heading of a leader in the Bos
ton Post. There has been a perfect rain
of rogues down here.
— A correspondent wants to know
; what Passivism means.” It means,
here’s my neck—please do me the honor
to twist it.”
—The Historian will please get-ready
to write the name of4he immortal Robe
son just above the names of Paul Jones
and Raphael Semmes.
— Robeson is again counting his “pop
guns.” He will begin to rub them up if
those Englishmen don’t begin to sing low
very soon.
If England knew what a savage
fighter Robeson is, she would pay those
indirect damages at once, and be glad to
get off so easy.
— A Frenchman has invented a new
“non-explosive.” It is warranted to kill
so quickly as jiot to bum until life is
thoroughly extinct.
— Robeson is now reading those belig-
erent dispatches from England, and
longs for the day to come when, with
one of his “pop-guns,” he can lift the
whole British Navy from the face of the
deep.
— The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
Colfax would make a good Presidential
candidate. It is singular how evenly
great minds run together. Colfax enter
tains an opinion identical with that of
the Commercial.
—A letter to the Treasury from an
anonymous correspondent at New York,
sent one hundred dollars, “due the Gov
ernment, the result of self-examination.”
Now, if Grant and the office-holders
under him, would only have a little “self-
examination,” the Government could
call in more bonds, and have money to
loan besides. ■ ■
— The following is a specimen of West
ern legislative eloquence:
“He who thinks that truth floats alone
in tlie.sluggish bay of disinterestedness
is a pseudo philosopher. It is found in
every stream which drains the great wa
ter-shed of human transactions, which
lies between the giant hills of error and
the mighty ocean of eternal truth; it
gleams in the crystal fountains of filial
love; it glimmers on the placid stream of
friendship; it winds in the meandering
river of sexual affection; it floats on the
under-current of the muddy waters of
prejudice; it sparkles on the fiery waves
of passion; it dashes over the waterfall of
selfishness, and though tom to pieces in
its descent down the cataract of personal
safety, its broken fragments crystalize
themselves in the basin below, and
through all these avenues, and over all
these obstacles it floats on to the limit
less ocean of all-pervading truth.”
The New York Herald, whilom the
open'advocate of Empire in this country,
has recently assumed the position of chief
adviser of the Democracy of the Union.
Read the following from one of its late
Ex Cathedra bulletins:
This approaching Democratic Con
gressional caucus, therefore, will have the
important question first to consider of
the reorganization of the party. In this
matter what can this caucus do? It can
do nothing better than to agree upon a
resolution inviting Mr. Belmont and his
National Committee to issue a call for
a National Democratic Convention at an
early day, for the single purpose of a re
organization of the party on a new plat
form, adapted to the new order of things
established with the Fifteenth Amend
ment. This is necessary in order to har
monize the Northern and Southern De
mocracy. As matters now stand between
the two sections there is more danger of
a bolting Democratic faction in the South
than there is of a bolting Republican fac
tion in the North. The threatening at
titude af Alexander H. Stephens and his
unreconstructed Southern old liners de
serves more the attention of the Northern
Democratic leaders than the wrath of Mr.
Sumner, the bitterness of Mr. Greeley,
or the vengeance of Mr. Schurz against
General Grant.”
There are two things the Herald man
may give himself no concern about. One
is, the bolting of Mr. Stephens from
Democratic, constitutional principles
and the other is his ever following the
Herald or any other leader in the adop
tion of the doctrines of Imperialism.
Mailing a Desert and ('ailing it |
Peace.
The Union (S. C.) Times, of the 26th
ult, says:
“A large number of citizens from the
nine persecuted counties of this State are
emigrating to the States of Georgia, Tex
as and Arkansas. Scarcely a train passes
that does not carry a number of white
families away, but there is a greater exo
dus of colored people than whites. On
our way to Columbia few weeks ago, we
found in the cars of the Spartanburg and
Union road not less than twenty able-
bodied colored men, some with their
families, who were on their way to the
West, and they told us that a numbor of
other colored people were preparing to
leave, while a great many more would
like to go if they had the means.”
: -A
Pretty Good.
The best feature of the times is that
even the negroes are spewing out the
carpet-baggers. Here is what a South
Carolina negro named Delaney has to say
to Governor Scott. It is short, pointed,
forcible and suggestive:
To His Excellency, JR. K. Scott, Governor
of South Carolina:
Sir: I have the honor herewith to re
sign my position as Aid-de-Camp, with
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, on your
Staff. Facts the most palpable have de
veloped themselves to such an extent that
■ cannot, with respect to myself, and
justice to tho cause of my race and the
people in general, longer continue the
relation without a compromise of princi
ple. I have the honor to be, sir, your
most obedient servant,
M. R. Delaney.”
GEORGIA MATTERS.
The Savannah News of Monday says:
The steamship Seminole, which reached
this port from Boston yesterday, brought
with other passengers, sixteen persons,
including women and children, who call
themselves Israelites, and are on their
way to the vicinity of Augusta, to join
other persons whom we mentioned two
weeks ago as having arived here and were
about to form a settlement in the interi
or of the State. These people recog
nize Saturday as the day proper for wor
ship, and maintain that our preceding
reference to their religion and purposes
was unjust. They are used to work, aud
have purchased a large tract of land
which they propose to cultivate. The
party left on the 7 o’clock train fo Au
gusta last night.
A negro woman “littered” Griffin
with three girl babies Monday morning.
The Spalding Superior Court assem
bled Monday.
Savannah and Griffin looked at that
aurora borealis Sunday night.
. Eighteen whites and fifty-four negroes
duplicated in Savannah during the month
of January.
The Griffin Jfewss&ys the store of Mrs.
M. A. Hightower & Co. was entered Sat
urday night and robbed of $100 in cur
rency, and $50 in gold.
That Gunn of the Macon Telegraph
goes of about a “pound party” that re
cently came off at Reynolds. The
modus operandiis “somehow so:” Anum
her of gentlemen meet together and
agree to carry each a pound of some
thing to eat to the house of some neigh
bor on a certain evening, and invitations
are issued to the ladies. They carry each
a pound of whatever they may choose—
meats of any kind, candies, nuts, cakes,
etc., and thus the supper is gotten up
with but little expense to any one person.
WASHINGTON.
Correspondence.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 28,1871.
Rev. C. W. Howard—Dear Sir: The
undersigned, feeling deeply the want of
capital in the development of the natu
ral resources of Georgia, and believing,
from your lpiowledge of the State, that a
representation by you, in European cir
cles, of the favorable opportunities for
investments in Georgia, would attract the
attention of capitalists and thus greatly
benefit our impoverished State, beg to
enquire whether yon would be willing, if
the necessary funds were provided, to go
to Europe on the mission which we have
suggested?
It is our opinion that one hundred gen
tlemen can be found in Georgia who
would be willing to contribute twenty
dollars each for such a purpose, it being
understood that you would endeavor to
negotiate the sale of such farms, wild
lands, water-powers or mineral interests
as might be placed in your hands by these
gentlemen for sale.
Such a mission would be valuable, not
only to individuals, but to Georgia at
large, as it would give you an opportuni
ty to correct the misrepresentations of
Northern emigrant agents, by correctly
representing our social and political con
dition, and the advantages of our soil,
climate and products.
An early answer will oblige,
Yours truly,
R. A. Alston,
Ben. C. Yancy,
W. S. Walker,
A. H. Colquitt,
Geo. W. Adair,
J. H. James,
Richard Peters,
H. A. Tarver.
Atlanta, January 28, 1872.
Gentlemen: I beg to say in reply to
your communication, that I will cheer
fully undertake the mission to Europe
which you propose, provided the requi
site amount of $2,000 can be raised. I
should be prepared to start during the
month of April, or the first of May next.
As it will require some time to arrange
the preliminaries, immediate measures
should be taken.
Besides tho points suggested in your
letter, I should feel it to be my duty,
diligently and patiently to inquire into
the details of European Agriculture,
wages, form of labor contracts, leases,
rotation of crops, taxes, laws affectiug
Agriculture, and especially how it is that
European farmers, with a climate less
favorable than our own, and with prices
of products greater than our own, and
with no one crop capable of paying so
high a return .per acre as cotton, under
high farming, can live and make money
from land worth $500 per acre. These
details I should expect to lay before the
public weekly, by letters in “The Planta
tion."
It would be absolutely necessary that
persons associated for this purpose, who
place property in my hands for sale,
should put a reasonable price upon
famish maps or other full description,
statement as to health, yield per acre, if
plantations or farms, proximity to towns
or railroads; and these statements should
be properly attested and verified. The
possibility of purchasers being misled
should be placed beyond all doubt.
± ersons not inclined to sell their lands
and not yet having sufficient means to
work them to advantage, might desire to
obtain partners in Europe, who would
furnish capital and labor. The terms of
such partnerships should be distinctly
specified, and the amount of capital and
labor required.
It would also be in my power to pur
chase live stock for the gentlemen com
posing this association, at much less than
ordinary cost, when bought from fancy
dealers. For instance, the beautiful and
thorough bred yearling Ayrshires that I
brought over form Scotland some years
since, cost me there $35 each. Freight
is to be added. There may have been
changes in prices since that time.
I should enter npon such work, gentle
men, with great interest and ardor. We
must find out how people are managing
who live and are accumulating money,
who never owned any slaves. It is true
we need men, hut we need money more
than men. If we had the money, we
could get the men. By selling a portion
of ouv lands we not only obtain the
necessary capital, hut we introduce a
laboring population, against whom no
prejudice exists, and who come to us
with habits of thrift and subordination.
With the hope of hearing at an early
period, that the requisite sum has been
raised, I am
Very respectfully yourob’t servant,
O. W. Howard.
Col. R. A. Alston,
Col. B. C. Yancey,
Gen. W. S. Walker,
Gen. A. H. Colquitt,
George W. Adair, Esq.,
Hon. J. H. James,
Richard Peters, Esq.,
H, A. Tarver, Esq.
Washington City, D. C., 1
Friday, Feb. 2d, 1872. [
Eilitors Sun: On Monday last, the Su
preme Court declared what is known as
the “Drake Amendment” unconstitu
tional. This is a very important decis
ion—especially to a certain class of cot
ton claimants. The “Drake Amendment”
i.-ii l , v?as backed, on an appropriation
bill about two years ago, at the instance
of the present Secretary of the Treasury-
declared that all persons who had taken
the oath of amnesty, in accordance with
the Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln
did not thereby obtain a status for the re
clamation of private property through
the Court of Claims, but that said oath
was an evidence of disloyalty. The Court
of Claims decided the amendment uncon
stitutional aud of no effect; whereupon
the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury at
once appealed to the Supreme Court
the case being argued in May, 1871, and
on Monday, January 19th, 1872 the
Chief Justice delivered the opinion of
the Court, affirming the decision of the
Court below, and denying the authority
of Congress to nullify any proclamation
of the President of the United States
Many large cotton cases have been ar
rested from judgments in the Court of
Claims by the action of the Secretary of
tho Treasury m appealing to the Su
preme Court; but now, as the Court has
made its decision, such cases will rapidlv
proceed to a finality. e J
Mr. G. B. Lamar, of Savannah, and
quite a number of other claimants of that
city, have been estopped by this “Drake
Amendment, but tardy justice has at
last come to their relief, and it is more
than probable that before many moons a
reluctant and intensely bitter Secretary
of the Treasury will be called upon to
refund to numerous impoverished Geor-
the_ proceeds of property illegally
withheld for the last six years
The Supreme Court has also made an-
“fPorimt ruling, greatly to
the disgust of the Secretary of the Treasu
ry. Last July m strict accordance with
an act of Congress, the Kentucky
war claim for $o25,000, was certified to
n y -f h !cw neral ,? f the ^es of the
United States, adjudicated by the Secre-
taiy of War, and the account passed by
toe proper accounting officers of the
Treasury. The draft was drawn, and
when presented to Secretary Boutwell
for his signature, he deliberately put it
m his pocket and positively refused pay
ment. Arguments were made before him
by able counsel, but the Secretary pe
remptorily refused payment. His ob
jections were based upon the merest sub
terfuges and the flimsiest of technicali
ties.
The Governor of Kentucky asked the
oupreme Court to issue a mandamus for
toe collection of the money. The Court
passed a. Rule, calling on Mr. Boutwell
to show cause why a mandamus should
not be issued against him for refusing to
obey or execute an act of Congress. °
Kentucky is a Democratic State, and
to pay a halt million of dollars to the en
emies of Radicalism, on the eve of a
Jrresidential election, is, doubtless, in the
opinion of Secretary Boutwell, an evi
dence that the “unrepentant spirit of re
bellion is yet unsubdued" „
•ii" more such decisions, and a bill
will be offered to abolish the Supreme
Court—or at least curtail its jurisdiction
over Southern war-claims, and cotton
cases. Nothing is improbable or too
monstrous for the Radical party to do.
1ms party is ready to adopt any plan, or
attempt the execution of any scheme,
which promises a further lease of
power. Therefore, let the country be not
surprised at anything. At the present
time they are only taking counsel of their
fears.
jP 01 ^ ^ os ^ ua Hill has introduced a bill
for dividing the State of Georgia into
three Judicial Districts, and organizing
and establishing an additional District
United States, with Cir-
®“ 1 “ 9? ^ P owers and jurisdiction.”
^ r ’ Whitely—the member from toe
Second District—has, also, introduced a
I 5 . 1 ! 1 • ^ provide an additional Dis-
, ge ’ Strict Attorney, and
..Marshal f°r the State of Georgia, and
for other purposes.”
A third bill has been sent to the
House Committee on the Judiciary, by
Hon. John Erskine, which proposes to
create a second Circuit of the United
ot&tes for tli© State of Georgia.
What other bills are prepared or in
embryo for the purpose of making soft
places for discarded Radicals in the State
of Georgia, and other Southern States,
has not transpired; but rest assured they
are legionary.
For the peace, good order and gen
eral welfare of the people of Georgia, the
fewer'the Federal office holders in their
midst, the better it will be for the inter-
ests of society and for their children’s
children. Oh, that the time may soon
arrive when each and every State shall
be allowed to manage and control its af
fairs in every particular without the aid
or issistance of Federal officials.
The Census Report, under the manage
ment of General Walker, of Massachu
setts, will soon be printed and ready for
distribution. The poor South — as
usual—is most outrageously swindled
in this census report. The State
of Georgia for example, is reported to
have a population a fraction over eleven
hundred thousand, when in fact an honest
report of her population could not fall
short of one and a half millions. To il
lustrate, the official numbers of the cities
of Georgia are as follows:
Savannah, 28,235-; Atlanta, 21,789;
Augusta, 15,389; Macon, 10,810; Colum
bus, 7,401; Rome, 2,748.
So much for Radical Marshals and
their subordinates in reporting the pop
ulation of the Southern States. By this
swindle, the South will - loose about
twenty-five members of Congress, and
this was the object of perpetrating the
swindle.
Amnesty to the South is a sickly plant
aud of slow growth on Capitol Hill. Gov.
H. V. Johnson and Hon. Thomas Harde
man, have heen forgiven by the House,
but the Senate intends to probate them
for a season.
Banquo of Castle Grey.
: —*-•-«
Conley’s Greed.—Conley, while ac
ting as Governor, tried to get that $122,-
000, ont of the Georgia National Bank;
but he tried ho further, it seems, than
drawing a check and contenting himself
with its protest. He took no further
step to secure it, and did not even expose
the matter. If he could have obtained
it quietly, he would, no doubt,have spent
it as he did sc much of the people’s
money, foolishly, wantonly and wickedly.
It was left for Governor Smith to discover.