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T|1 1 \ I , A V'r A ^T^v, route, and was not intended to
1 - / V • iJn ,> I A i - * | b*> imported diree‘ 1 »r us, but for
another road as already sta.ed, and was
UOV’R BROWN UPON MR. mil
ere.Hv.l in getting n to Atlanta. Mr.
Scofield’s proposition was to sell to me
The Coe I ai»«J Iron Question M -neap as I could g*t imported English
UdscuH^ed. | bar. aud I paid him $70 per
o. A lie exact cost of import-
log and delivering it at Atlanta,
,.t the time, in case, would have been
*" $C8 90 per ton. Mr. Scodeld’a own re-
•>tiii i-eiptH and our record books show exactly
i hi what be received and show that I charged
y r the Company witu not one cent more
* 1 than I paid him. His statements and
his insinuations, by which he intends to
Editors Su/i
a new*-paper c
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interview b»;
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Aguis ScoJ- Id, 1 resident oi the AtLu- . m 81 |j U iuicmg t D.y wmcn ue luieuus to
ta ltullmg Mill, with a note published t>y convey to the pubhc the idea that I
Mr. Scofield in asutaequent issue, uiakc* charged the Company nine hundred dol
lars more. I pronounce willfully aud ma
liciously false ou his part, aud I am
fully sustained by the records of the Coui-
it pr per, I think, thu: I shoulu give to
the ptibb a utateiu :nt ef the tacts rela
tive to the basinet relations between pauy in this denunciation ot his state
Mr. he ) . 1 and no Western and At- merit, which is without *ue shadow or
luntie RjiJrosd. pretext of fouiidatio.i. Under the rules
,. ... . i Lid practice oi this Companyuotadol-
At the hrsr. rcguiir u' etmg of the lea-J lar I8 < j rdWI1 f rom treasury until I
sees, when tl-e p -fajaneut organization imve signed the warrant, as President,
of c:c comp.-m; Was compl-ted, it was
found that a large quantity of irou must
nect ssarily be purchased aud laid down
upon the road very soon. And it was
pr posed by Mr. Walters, a preminert
lessee, seconded by Mr. Thomas A. Scott,
that two thousand tons of English rail
be laid down upuu the road, and that we
3ell the old rail to be taken up.
I, ns president of the company, op
posed this policy with all my might, sta
ting to the Board that Mr. Scofield's mill
was locatrd in Atlanta, that it was a home
institution, and gave us a large treight,
and that f thought it would be unjust for
u i tor in e to patronize it. To this it
w d that much of the irou which
hi- I ’ r lied 'or the road, during Gov.
Balloon's administration, was almost
wortlih-s, and that WO could not afford
to oav fir such irou. After considerable
di.-cu- i ii upon the subject, I was sns-
tu iied by n small mijority of the Board,
and left free to conti act with Mr. Sco
field.
1 sent for him and stated the facts to
him. He expressed a great deal of
gratitude, and told me he was ruined if
he did not pet the patronage of the
liord. At that time Mr. Wadley wouid
not pitrou'Ze him, and he said he was
getting bat a feeble patronage from the
other Roads, and that he was mainly de
pendent upon me. I told him I could
sustain l.im as long as he made us a fiist
rate quality of iron, but no longer, as I
would bo overpowered by the opposition
to him in the board of directors when
ever his irou proved unsatisfactory.
He admitted that he had made some
very bad iron for the State, but seemed
to think that there was some excuse for
that, as it was made for the Suite, under
a political administration, but said it had
turned o :t to be bad policy, as the bad
character of his iron had nearly ruined
him; bat he was now determined to re
deem his character by making good iron.
I told him I knew he could make good
irou, ns I was iniormed that there was
some iron still on the road made by him
while I was Governor, prior to the war ;
and that this had been one of the strong
points which I had used in his behalf.
I then made a contract with Mr. Sco
field, to reroll for us old bars to be taken
from the track, at a price then agreed on,
and ho stated, at that time and not a
snort time siuc°, as lie is made to say. in
his interview with the Herald, that he
would give a guaranty that it shou'd
stand as well as the best Englisn ran, or
he would repay $5 per ton ii it were de
fective.
1 told him it was imporf ant that he put
at least twenty-five per cent, of new pig
iron, of a superior quality, m the rail as
cap, or I knew it would not last. He
agreed with me and promised that he
would do so. Since that time Mr. Sco
field has rolled all the iron
— — taken np
loui our track, until tl*e late shipment u " w “ pxiu'ipm uiuiuuuj, >uu mas
of one hundred tons to Chattanooga; and i f was this, tuat he was not patting 25
I bare taught from hi n, from time to i per cent of new iron upon the cap of the
tl IIW' r*cn 1 t? r. illr.il <•> A.. A! 11 m . • ** ** L^ A —. — — *■— . x i . x . • *■ a
for the amount, which lies n the office <>i
the Treasurer as his protection, for pav
ing it out; and there is always annexe 1
to the warrant the account, note, oi
draft upon which the money is drawn,
aud the books are,' therefore, obliged tc
show just how much the Company is
charged f. r every lot of iron or other
things purchased of Mr. Scofield,
How natural it is for a man who k >\\s
that he woula steal if lie had the chanc ,
to co elude t tat everybody does &ieai,
who, he 6uppc»es Sias the opporttmi. v.
But I am not in the >. ltu.ition Mr. S o
field was when under the late political
administration, he rolled a quantity of
very bad iron for the State, and was ac
cused of having rendered bills, and re
ceived pay from the public treasury for
a great deal more thau he delivered
Aud when the investigating committe
got after him, by some mishap, hud bis
books stolen, and submitted to the arrest
of himself and the imprisonment of a
member of his family, because he
did cot produce them. My books
are kept by honest, up n gut,
competent men. They show ex
actly what this Company
charged for the 200 tons of iron, and for
every other article. Tney are in their
proper place, and Mr. Scofield is at lib
erty to examine them if he wishes to try
to sustain his false and malicious charges.
Attar my return from Cuba I resumed
the duties of my office, the 1st of Feb
ruary last, and some time daring that
mouth, in passing from the car shed to
tbe depot, I noticed oar track hands
laying down new rail, fr ,m Scofield’s
mills on our track, between those two
points. About the middle of April, in
passing, I discovered that the caps of the
rail were giving way, aud that some of
them were becoming very much worn and
would, iu a very short time, require to be
replaced by other rail. This only con
firmed the statements that had already
been mads to me, as to the defective and
almost worthless character of tne ra.1
that Mr. Scofield was patting off upon
me. A few days afterwards, Mr. Sco
field came to my office, and was making
a statement to me about some coal, which
he had received from the mine in which
I am interested, in which he Btated that
Ue did not think it was quite as good as
the Sewanee caul, and desired to continue
to mix the Sewanee with it, and aske 1
me, if he conld still get ca’s to go to
Sewanee. I told him ne could. At the
close of tha interview, I mentioned the
subject of the new rails that had been
down only about two months upon the
track, being worn out, and asked him if
he would be kind enongh to walk down
with me and look at them. He did so.
Ou seeing them, he made several excuses,
ana promised to look into the matter
and let me know where the mistake
occurred. I told him I thought I under
stood the principal difficulty, aud that
time, newly rolled iron to fill up for the
w ste on the old rail. Indeed I have
pui chased from him all we got except, no
Hundred tons of English iron, which was
purchased by Mr. Walters, and one or two
small iota purebused from the other rail
road companies iu payment of debts due
us u here we could not get the money.
I supposed that the iron was being
roiled according to contract, and that I
was getting good iron; aud as every rail
road man knows that new- bar ought to
last longer than a year or two, I baJ not
expected that the i|eug’li of time for tne
test, since the date of the lease, had been
sufficient to enable me to determine how
faithfully Mr. Scofield waa carrying out
•his contract. *
But e tiring the past year I was mortified
when I was informed by the officer of
the road iu charge of that departmfi.r,
that many of Mr. Scofield’s new , s
along the track were giving nun.*!.!
tn«t it waa necessary to re l»ce witn
other new ones. As I nmi sust V;r.
Scofield so earnestly ata . ULrg- i i
was unwilling to believe that be uad'de
rail, as he had contracted to do—indeed
that I had information, which I con
sidered very reliable, tnat he was not
doing so. He said, rather evasively, that
be was putting the best Tennessee pig
iron upon the caps, and making them as
good as they could be made. I replied:
*'If this is tne ucst Tennessee pig irou
you can gel, I fear 1 am as uufortuuate
it* getting Tennessee iron from you as
you are in getting Georgia coal from
me.’’ Mr. Scofield rmiled, and said it
seemed so. And this is the only allnsion
or expression i ever made to him about
our coal in connection with his lion. And
fils statement that I sent for him, and
told him that as my coal diu not suit his
fu.nace, nis iron did not sun my railroad,
is uttarly groundless and without a snadow
of foundation.
After Mr. Scofield bad the interview
with me, on inspecting tb>- ml, he re
turned to bis mills, aud afterwaids ad
dressed me a note, as he stat. s iu his
publication, informing me that rhe rail
was tuo best that he e. utd cnRr. There
ras, therefore, uo promise ev.u that
. • ii ,. : " js i tuereiore, uo promise ev.u mat l
eeive^. me iu nhequumy of rail inruished, ! was to get rail, in the future, that wouid
aud ;Uter urcinsr mun i__. ... _ . * , . ..
aud after urging upon him to carry out
Lis oontract in good faith, and comolain-
mg of the bad reports I got of tue rail,
aud receiving his promise that his rails
thouid be as good as any in the United
State,, I continued to patronize him,
at.d be repeatedly expressed to
tue his graritude in strong terms
and told me that I had saved
him from bankruptcy, as he must neces-
..nh have gone under, in his own phras**,
n 1 had not taken him up
last more than two months and a half
from his mills. I .then consulted with
one or two directors of the company,
and it was thought best to send
one hundred tons to Chattanooga,
and have it rolled there, where they make
iron, as 1 am informed by the rail
road men of Tennessee, that is wearing
very finely indeed. It was not our pur
pose however to withdraw our patronage
entirely, or to any considerable extent,
from Mr. Scofield, if he would give ns
A _ ^ ; j l J iaA * kJbUiicia, 11 llo WUUiil glvo U8
n % fi bcoUexu Las corrected v in the J evidence that he would make us a rail
n , In’ i! »i ^ statement out in his that we could rely on. But the purpose
• dollar a m tor ^ ^ tuat ^7® me was to show him that we were not obliged
fn tta -n ,° r ll t 0 ro f¥''» 1 “ ake to patronize him, as there was another
; A. uei fusion to that sobject. But, | mill at the other end of the road, and
i u reference to the t wo hundred tons that
be refers to, i make this statement:
\i hen u a Lad roiled up, till it was neces-
. .iry t o buy a hundred tons to snpplv the
i OI l ^ e ltu h ^ took, as above
„uundred tons of English iron
1 ^ “-Iters, of a lot imported by
ro 1 ad aQ J landed at Wil-
L ludpliL * ^ J*k° took abont two
hundred tons irom Mr. Scofield, agreeing
co* t'tXS
aew ra ll from England the
most direct route through Savannah or
tbe hnadred t°o» from
Mr. Walters was not imported througn
the most direct route, but landed at Wb
E2£“* tbe « d road freight from wt
wonni°| U 40 A tlaQta was greater than it
mjre «F*»**™ route than the uJSj
thereby convince him that it was his in
terest to carry out his contract and make
os good rails, and not attempt to put
upon us a rail that was scarcely worth
laying down. Doabtless the true diffi
cnlty is this: Mr. Scofield made a con
tract, as he informed me, with the gen
tlemen in Chattanooga who own the
mills and own extensive furnaces where
they make pig iron for the delivery,
from t'me to time, of a large quantity of
Pig iron. He bought it when the price
was low, and by the great and rapid
n8o in the pries in iron he probably
cleared twenty or thirty thousand dol
lars cn the contract. And it has been his
purpose to stretch this iron over the
caps of as large a quantity of rail as pos
sible, as he gets it, as stated in his publi
cation at some ten dollars a ton lees than
be can now buy old car wheels and scrap.
But, if he should buy new pig iron of
the same quality, at the present prioe,
suffici ent to carry cut in good faith his
contract, and put a new cap on the rail,
it will cost him a great deal higher pri<*e to
make new rails as they ought to be K*i
and to that extent dimimsh bis profile.
And here has been my trouble, iu r-tVr-
ence to the rail. I have good re son j
to believe that in many instances in Uai j
not unde the cap of new iron upon tlit j
rail more than a quarter of ao inch tbi.-t;
Wnen that is wort through, snd the soft
iron is reached, the rail is at once
mashed and made defective and m safe.
It costs between foul aud five thou
sand dol'ars a mile to take np old ires
and reroll i», aud p»y for fish bar, re-
rolliug, and patting back upon the track.
Now any common sense m*.n, or honest
citizen, who will lcok at some of our rai
which has been but three monttis upon
the track, will see that it would be im
possible for us to ran the road, and meet
our expenses, if we shoulu conticue to
patronize Mr. Scofield, and he should
continue to make us such rail as some wo
have received from him.
Now a few words on the coal question.
Mr. Scofie d has referred to my interest
iu the Do le Coal Company, aud has
mentioned au inteiview wh*ch he says hi
had with Mr. Born, of which I know
nothing. I had a conversation with Mr.
Scofield myself, however, aoout the coat,
when I was about taking the lease, and
he told me he had worked it before the
war, and never wo’ ked better coal, and
his statement then Lad much >o do with
my decision to inter into the
lease of the mine. I have nev
er, in any instanc-, “sent for”
an I urged Mr. Scotn-n u» purchase the
• oalin which I am interest rd. Hecameto
uir- t however, repeatedly, bt-iure I was
. ca-ly to ship, ana ask-.i when our coal
would be r«-ady, and t-xoreased an anxious
dt su e to nave it. I told him when it was
ready I would let him have whatever coal
no needed, as I ex^-eted to give the
preference to Atlanta iL idersaud to Geor
gians for two reasons ; one was I prefer
red to patronize our ot> u people, and the
other was that the W. & A. R. K Co., of
which I am president, po s its freight on
every car loaa th«t comes into Georgia,
while it gets no freight i u my coal if I
sell it to consumers elsewhere. I heard no
complaint of the coal, tor a ume, uutn I
was informed Mr. Scofield had renewed
a contract with Sewanee. He then came
aud made the complaint to which I have
allude l above, aud inquired whether he
could still get cars to send to Sewanee.
I told him lie could, and I heard no more
irum him, till I received a note irom
him, ou the 8tli day of May, to which I re
plied, which correspondence (with other
certificates pertinent to the issue) is here
to appended, aud shows that I promptly
granted his requ-st. I at once issued
orders to the Master of Transportation
to see thaf he got the four cars a day
that he asked for. This is the only com
pl tint he his made to me, that he did
not get coal as promptly as h desired it.
Audi am informed, by the Master of
Transportation, that ou three or four oc
casions, during the la»r, three months, he
uas come and requested that no more
cars be sent to Sewanee for him until
lurcher order. This Mr. Scofield will
uot deny, aud if he denies it, I will prove
it bv mure than one witness.
A reference to our bo >ks will show
that since the first of January, Mr. Sco
field has received 402 cars. Of these he
got 100 from the Dade mines; oue from
.-Etna, and one from Vulcan mines, and
300 from Sewinee. It has always been
my purpose to furnish him all tue cars
he needed, and he has nevr-r made a com
plaint to me that he needed cars, at any
time, that I have not ordered them to be
promptly furnished.
His trne difficulty is this: He
has not always had “iron enough
to keep his mill constantly running,
and heroes not wish to he out of the nse
ot his money by laying in a supply of
coal in advance of the time of using it.
Con iequently when he has no iron
in the mill for the time, he comes to the
master of transportation and requests
that no moie cars be sent for him to the
mines. Then, when he gets in some
iron—no matter how great the press of
business on the road may be—he ex
pects the coal to be famished to him
promptly as fast as he can burn it. I
believe all prudent and thnlty iron men
make it a rale to keep a supply fora con-
ideraole period ahead, to avoid accidents
and mishaps. If Mr. Schofield will act
on tnis ruL- he will never have any diffi
culty about coal. Aud it is due to candor
to state another fact that there is some
question whether I can justify. Such
was my anxiety to sustain Mr. ScofDld
that I issued au order first of Juue last
authorizing the refunding to him of one
dollar a car load on all coal shipped to
his mill— which was uot done for others—
making a difference of a dullai a load in
bis favor; and ue has regularly charged
it np, and in settlements wil l the road
bad it deducted and allowed him when
he came to pay his accounts. 1 could
only justify this difference iu his favor,
oe the ground that be was a manufactu
rer an l a lar,,e snipper, and, as I thought,
eufitbd to some rtduction, and I there
fore agrerd to r.fund liirn lint ene dollar
per car load. If it had been my purpose
to break him down, I would liaraJj U.. u
made this difference in his favor, wnico
has continued np to tne present time, us
oar books and his receipts will show,
and he received from the first of J une,
the date of the order, to the 18th of
April $1,055, which was refunded to him
under this order, and was that much al
lowed him that was not allowed other
shippers.
Still another point is necessary, to a
candid statement of the whole case.
State Road cars that bring Mr. Scofield’s
coal from Sewanee have to travel Irom
Chattanooga to Cowan, beyond the Cum
berland mountain, and then 20 miles
over a rough mountain road, to get to
the mines to be loaded, to come to his
mid. It was formerly agreed between
CoL Cole and myself; that the Nashville
and Chattanooga road wcnld put in its
quoto of cars, for this trade, po that the
State Road wcaJd not have the entire bur
den. Bat Col. Cole foand it necessary
in supplying his local customers, to with
draw his coal cars, entirely from the At
lanta business, which would have justi
fied me in withdrawing ours, ai_.d I did
so, generally as to others, except Mr.
Scofield. Bat I have continned to per
mit them to go to Sewanee, to bring coal
to Scofield, as the figures atav« show,
since my own mine was opened, anu to
an extent very largely in excess of the
number he has received from the mine in
which I am interested.
Mr. Sootield attempts to settle npon
the pubhc mind the impression, that
there was an understanding between me
and the proprietor of the Chattanooga
mills, that I wool ! get our iron rolled
there, if he would take my ooaL This is
untrue. Tuere was never any allusion
made to the sabj ct of ray coal in my ne-
Mitiutiom- with tue officer* of the Chatta-
uoog i nulls. Up to a very late period
we u»v>#<it--clined to let them have our
coal, on tbe gr niud that it was needed
by persona iu • iwoigia, to wuom we gave
tue oreferinee, and we are now furnish
ing them but three or four car loads a
daT. Ant in reference to the coal, I
may here remark tna Mr. ScofieM is the
only gentleman who has made any seri
ous complaint, of it. All the otner agree
that it is an excellent aitivJe.
With this statement o* the fac*s in the
case I have the public to judge whether
Mr Scofield haBbeenan injured man, or
whether, like the viper in the fable, he
has attempted to sting tbe bosom tnat
warmed him into life, and to injure the
friend who sustained his business, when
it would otherwise have sunk into bank
ruptcy.
Iu reference to the misunderstand
ing between Gen’l McRea, the
Superintendent of the road, and
myself, I do not wish to trouble the
public, at present, further than to say
that the distorted accounts given in the
Herald are unjust to us both, and un
funded. There were two gentlemen
present at the interview between us, who
are familiar with all the facts, and know
that no belligerent, threatening, or ,n-
sultmg expressions were used by
either of us towards the other on
tnat occasion, nor have any such
occurred on any otuer occasion. When
the matter has reached a point, if it
suould do so in the future, where the
public are afi'ected by our misunderstand
ing, or wnere auy public interest is to be
served by it, the whole facts will be fur-
uisued you fur publication, when I shall
be content to abide the decisions of a
just pub'ic sentiment on my conduct iu
tue matter. Should it never reach that
p .inf, I see no good reason for troubling
the public with it.
As the W, & a. R. R. Company is a
corooraiion acting under the laws of the
S'ate, just as the Georgia, or Central, or
any otuer railroad company, the peop*e
are no more interested iu our futernal
Hffiirs, or mi&uuderstandiugs, so long as
we meet our public obligations, than
fcuey are in the affairs of auy other com
pany, in the State.
M may be asked why I do uot address
my communication to the Herald, where
the false charges wnich I am noticing,
were published. My reply is that I pre
fer to be heard through the columns of
newspapers, known generally to tne
public, and which are conducted honora
bly, aud upon principles which allow no
effort to levy blackmail. Last winter,
the Herald made lepeated attack' upon
me, and failing to attract attention,
finally tendered me the use of its col
umns, for defense, and asked a reply to
ceitain interrogatories propounded by
it. I prepared aud sent in a replv, and
before it was published the proprietors
sent me a bill lor setting up my commu
nication, iu reply to their own interroga
tories. I refused to pav tLe bill, on tue
ground tuat I uad asked no space in their
columns, but had only sent my iepl.y at
their solicitation. Aud I requested them
to return it to me if they did not wish to
pu »lish it. Failing iu their effort to re
ceive compensation for publishing au in
vited response to their own assaults they
laid it before their readers, and got oft
as best they could by complaining of its
length.
I have not understood the true char
acter of honorable journalism, if it tole
rates the publication of false and mall
ei ms attacKS on private oharacter or offi
cial conduct for the purpose of getting
pay for laying before the public the trnth
in detense ?
It is bat just to Col. Alston,
one of the proprietors of the Herald,
that I should here state that I was in
formed he disapproved of the course of
his colleagues in sending in tfie bill for
Dablishing the reply solicited by them.
As to the vanity, egotism,
venality, scurrility and general
impertinence of the journal in
question, the public do not need thaf I
shall speak. I have lived long enough
to Bee the atb mpted rise and crusning
fall of several like enterprises which have
been set on foot to make money, by ma
ligning private character and pandering
to the lowest tastes aud unseat passions of
the worst class of people. But a just
public sentiment and an elevated moral
tone, Boon consign such effort to its prop
er position when it is weigned in the bal
ance and found wanting.
Yours, very re«p9ctfully, etc.,
Joseph E. Bbown.
CORBESPONDENCE BETWEEN MB. SCOFIELD
AND GOVERNOR BBOWN.
Atlanta, Ga., May 8 oh, 1873.
Hon. Joseph E. Brovin,
President W. c£ .1. Railroad:
Dear Sir—We have uot enough coal
'oiastuutil Saturd ty in our yard, and
have been 'uori lor the last three or four
months, and nave been obliged to stop,
when wo hail iron to roll, for the want of
coal twice.
“Once during this time we were obliged
to buy coal from Parsons it Born, in tfie
piiy, to keep lunnicg. Last montu we
called on Mr. ,VMker for four cars per
day, to be sent to Sewanee mines, and
were assured by both Mr. Walker and
Mr. Mills that the cars would be sent as
ordered.
“Mr. S. C. Warner, manager of the
Sewanee mines, has telegraphed us that
the cars did not reach him fast enongh
to fill our orders, and we have reported
that fact to Mr. Walker.
“On our order for one hundred cars
for last month from Sewanee mines, we
received but 73 cars, while on onr order
of 5U cars from Dade mines, be received
56 cars. We are now short, on last
month’s order, 27 cars Sewanee coal,
which we need to keep our mill lunning
| this week.
“On the order to Sewanee mines for
1 this month, of four cars per day. we Lave
j received invoices of bat two cars per day,
and none at all fiom tue Dade mines.
“As we are entirely dependet on your
j road for our supply of coal, we wish to
know positively if we can depend on the
four cars per day being sent to
Sewanee mines regularly. The rea
son why we are particular to have
some definite arrangement made now, is,
I expect to go North for my health, in a
short time, te be absent for several weeks,
and want to know what 1 can depend on,
before leaving.
Yonrs, reapectively,
L. Scofield, Prest.
Yonr early reply will mach oblige.
“W. A A. R. U. C., Pbes’t Office, i
Atlanta, Ga. May 8th, 1873. j
Mr. L. Scofied, Pres't, etc., Atlanta, Ga:
Dear Sib —I have received yonr 1 tter
of this date, aud iu r^ply state that I am
KKV. w. u. Jlo« Ku
sorry to hear you have had any diffi
culty abont getting yonr coal supply. I
will do a'l I can to have itahipped to you Some Weeks ago there ai.ii, i
regnla'ly. The reason you have got none The Sux an article unon Vl ‘ , ^
from Dade county this week, is, that onr n f 1 on tae char-
engine is broken down, andr we will not ‘ “
be able to comment e shipping before
Saturday, or probably Monday, when we
will send yon some as rapidly as possible.
I will direct that four ears per day ta
listed to you at Sewanee, as jou requtst. | of any person without
lam, very truly, etc.,
Jsoefh E. Brown, Pres’t. | _ ~ ~ "* wr =d»u*u in that
acter ol this gentleman which *
very much regretted to see i a J
columns at the time, because w e u »
utterly opposed to the condemnation
, r.. ., _ a hearing
Ui the facts of the case stated
Western and Atlantic R. R. Co., ) j article we knew nothing. (j ur
Master of Transportation’s Office, t j aonal acquaintance with \fr \r ^
Atlanta, Ga., January 17th, 1873. f L. 4 n / , M ° reau
I hereby certify that Mr. Louis Seo- ^ ns g e taral character
field has come to me at least four times know very little, and of hit nun
terial character still less. But Z
one’s character, however high or lon-
should ever be assailed by giving cur
rency to bare rumors or reports, and
we deem it nothing but an act ot j Us .
tice to Mr. Moreau now to give our
to
1
; within the last three months, and has di-
| rt-cted me to send no more t ars from the
j W. A. R. R. to Sewanee coal mines-till
j lurti ei order irom him, as ho hat 1 a enp-
j ply and wis ted no more vt piesent.
E. B. Walker,
Master of Transput tation.
Atlanta, Ga., May 17th, 1873.
My office is in the room occupied by readers a letter from Elder .
Mr. Walker. Master of Transportation, our neighbor the Her ill i ■ *
and I certify that l have heart! Mr. Sco-: ° U ,,e, S llbor » the Herald, winch Wll
field give the a; ove order to Mr. Walker
at least four tuuts within the last three
months, anil, upon Mr. Scofield’s order,
Mr. Walker lias telegraphed to Chatta
nooga to send uo more cars to S'wauet-
for Scofield until turther orders. As
telegraph o pci a tor, I hav? sent the dis
patches iu accordance with Mr. Scofield’s
orders. Ohas. Beardslex.
Westers and Atlantic Railroad Co ,
Treasurer’s- Office.
Atlanta, Ga., May 17th, 1873.
A. U.
be found below
From the Atlanta Hera.d.]
'ASDERsvir.LE, Mar 10 IS73
Your notice that W. C. llore«i. m
company with Dr. Roberts, on.- of the
elders of the Christum Chuutn m
del sviUe, had demanded of m>, a a State
Evangelist, an mvesMgat.on of the • re-
puris ’ circulated, damaging to uis repu
tation as a Christian gentleman, aud that
: I uad appointed a commission f„r tuat
purpose to sit in Sander&ville ou the 9th
Sir—Iu reply to your inquiry of this ! mstuut, makes the following statemeut
date, as to the , rice paid the Set field I Recess try:
Rolling Mill Company, for new iron
purchased in the fall of 1871, I have to
Mate that upon refemug to the bills of
sa d company, I find that during the
month of September. 1871, (including
oue Dill of October 5, 1871,) this company
purenased of the Scofield Rolling Mill
Company, i.uarJy 200 tons of new iron,
aud that the price charged for it, is $70
per long ton. This bill, i-s now appears,
was oertitied 10, as beiug corret, by al.
H. Dooly, Supervisor, and approved bv
the late Auditor, Judge Cabaniss. The
warrant was signed by Judge Cabaniss,
aud approved oy “ouiself. The Scofield
Rolling Mill Company were paid the full
amount of said warrant, as appearb by
ttie receipt of the President and Treas-
uier of said company now on file in this
office. No other sum has ever been paid,
on account tf said irou, either directly
or indirectly, to any person or persons.
Iu answer to that portion of your letter,
asking the price paid said Rolling mill
Company, for re-rolled iron, I have to
state that in April, 1873, the price was
raised to §37.50 per ton, and said price
was continued up to, and including De
cember 31, 1872. During January, 1873.
said mill re-rolled one bill of about 26
tons, at $36 per ton. All other bills from
that time to date have been at $36 50
per ton, which was received and receipt
ed for by said Roiling Mill Co., as ap
pears by the records now on file in this
office. No other amount has been paid
eitner directly or indirectly, by this com
pany, to any person or persons, for or ol
account of said rerolled iron.
I am, very respectfully, etc.,
W. C. Morrill, Tr asursr.
Hon. Joseph E. Brown, Pres’t, etc.
'o., )
: Keeper, V
1, 1873. )
W. & A. R. K. Co,
Office General Book
Atlanta, Ga. , May 17 ;
I hereby certify that I have examined
the above statement of amounts paid for
new ami rerolled iron, and find that all
sums paid for iron reroded by tbe Sco
field Rolling Mill Co. for this company,
aud all new iron purchased from said
Rolling Mill Co,, have been paid to said
Rolling Mill Co. and receipted for by its
agents, as appears by the records of file
in the offices of this company. And no
other person has received any sum of
money, from this company, on account
of said iron. Owen Ltnch,
General Book Keeper.
W. & A. R. R. Co., Co*. Dep’t., j
Office Supervisor, V
Atlanta, Ga., May 17th, 1873. )
Joseph E. B^own, Esq., President W.
& A. R. R. Co—Dear Sib—In reply to
your inquiry, 1 state that I have had t'
take up some iron rolled oy Mr. Scofield
for the W. &A- R. R. Co., six months
from the time it was laid down. I nave
taken np quite a quantity of the iron
rolled by him since the lease, and pat
new rails in its place. His ir .n now
made is much inferior to the irou made
by him prior to the war, some of which
is still ou the road. It has w^ru better
than the 100 tons of English bar, pur
chased by Mr. Walters, some of which
gave way within thr e mouths. Putth®
company has purchased two otb* r small
lots in payment of debtb, one irom the
A. & C. R. R. Co. and the other from
the Cherokee Railroad Company, and
tne iron made by Mr. Scofield, tor thi6
company, does not compare wiih either
of those lots. They are ail, I h-Mt-ve,
Pennsylvania iron, aud are quite supe
rior to Mr. Scofield’s. I thins th > irou
made by Mr. Scofield, lor tuo iess< es,
would not wear, on an average, ou the
State Road, with its present tonage,
over four years.
Respectfully tc.,
M. H. Dooly,
Supervisor.
Atlanta, May 17th, 1873,
Gov. Joseph E. Brown—Dear Sir: As
I have stateu to you verbally I have read
bince my arrival in this city, I learn
that the.churches to which Mr. Moreau
had been preaching, seeing and hearing
these ‘reports,’ had, previous to my ap
pointment, themselves appointed a meet
ing amt ordered Moreau to appear befois
them to answer said charges. It is but
justice to Moreau to add that lie request
ed the eharches to aefer all actiou in his
case uutil after the sitting of my commis
sion; but they telt that it the reports
were true they wer« the paities princi
pally aggrieved, aud determined that
Mo.eau should appear aud auswer before
them. They iutended aud did send
del. gates to represeat them belore the
commission, but haviDg ulready tried the
case I considered them disqualified to
sit in a new trial. I am constnuued to
regard these proceedings as irregular,
but as the churches are entirely sa istied,
aud have, upm testimony deemed by
them sufficient, acquitted Moreau aud
reinstated him as their pastor, : shall not
si ek to change their action nor disturb
their judgment. I know the men well
w ho acted in this matter, and am sure
they are utterly ineapadle of engaging
in a mere white washing process, hut what
they did was what they believed nest,
aud in their judgment lully sustained by
the testimony.
1 shall cherisu the hope that Mr. Mo
reau, oy an eutire consecration of bis
life to God, and tbe devotion of his fine
abiliti s to the cause of truth, will justify
the confidence so generously bestowed.
Fur tue reason that I ,'ound Mr. Morgan
had been tried and reinstated, and was
serving the churches as their pastor, pos
sessing their entire confidence, 1 deemed
it unnecessary to fiave him put upon his
defense. Respectfully,
Ihos. M. Harris.
Freight Dlacrlmi.iutIona on Itailroaili.
Hou. John P. King, President of tne
Georgia Road, iu h,s report rt ad before
the stockholders of that corporation who
were assembled in Augusta on Wednes
day, takes advantage of the occasion to
give a timely little essay on tbe subject
of through rates aud freight discrimina
tions. He starts out by stating a fact
that is not generally known by those who
are in the habit of discussing the matter
—namely, that discriminations in freight,
of which complaint is so often made, is,
as ;a general thing, made on e.clra busi
ness. That Is to bay,a railroad will invite
business, which would naturally choose
other convenient routes, by offering
to tran tpi rt it at rates somewhat
lower than the average. The rates
for this extra business is kept
down oy competition from other
poiuis, aud competing rates continue
to be cnarged because none other
will retaiu tLe business or auy share of
it. If this character of freight can be
made to pay auy profit, it enables the
road to relieve local rates to that extent
'1 nis is the phiiuouphy of railroad man
agement. Tue present diilt of public
opinion however 10 to put this delicate
nusmess at .ho mercy of blundering
Legislatures, tne members of which have
no adequate conception of the science of
railroad management. We saould be sorry
to see an a vkward experiment made, as
well for the sake of the railroads as for
tne people thtm^tlvis. Our railroad in
terests are inse ar*bjj blended with our
commercial prosperity, aud a b ow at one
is a oluw ut the Oilier.
Judge K ug disposes of the various
compluiuts -n oi criaiiuations with the
following suggestive illustration: “A--
lanta compl ins 01 a lower pro rata to
M aeon. N-. w how is Ailauta injured by
a reuuction of freights trom St. Louis to
Macon ? A cheap price of provisions iu
Macon is what she wishes to at old, be
cause she a ms to supply the same field
of consumption that Macon supplies.
The lines from Atlanta to St. Louis and
Louisville charge all they can get at Ma
con, uecause they there meet competi-
Mr. Scofield’s statements in' the Herald, j “on with supplies by w iy of Montgomery
in reference to the quality of the Castle 1 Rhd Columbus. How m Atlanta ->ea
Bock coal, or the coal of the mines ! tedb y d «vmg ad supplied for Macon <en-
which you are working, widi others, as around her . lhe same rem *
lessee, a-.d I »tate that I was present aud j be mu ‘- e lu Terence tc.the com
heard a conversation between you and P ium,s 01 r ? °r „ r f fP tl ie
Mr, Sccfield, in which he told you as an Luariestou at d Savanna . o
encouragement to go lorward with the ; lOW ratus , e n ‘ ,
busmessT that he expected to take the | ™aia fall back iota the old channel, and
most of his coal from you, as he had used r cach our beapurt owns y y
the coal and it was the best he had ever mo f e a ? d the costing trade The pr^
worked anywhere. ! cl P lti of low . r “ tea . oa throu S h , bUi5l “ e f
Very truly, &o.,
Jas. H. Callaway
may be, and sometimes is carried too far,
but within proper limits it furnishes no
just cause of complaint, and with the
great mass of consumers is an unmitiga
ted blessing to the cauntry. A change
of this policy would be necessarily fM*
lowed by a general advance 01 local
ratts.”—Savannah JSews.
No Moke Akms.—As frequent ap
plications are being made to the Gov
ernor for permission to form military
companies throughout the State, aud
to be supplied with arms, we are ?u-
thorized to state that all the arms dis
tributed to Georgia have either been
furnished to companies already or
ganized, or are promised. As arms
are distributed'but once a year by the A dispaten from Naw Orleans says:
Federal Government to the States, the l^xao Funionists’ state Convention of peo-
Governor will not be able to supply jpie, to protest against the Kellogg a ad,
more beloi’e the month of July. | minis.ration, to oe 4 |held here iu June
Wr. William Moore, of Greens
county, father of Dr. Moore, ot Lnion
Poiut, died at his residence on the 8th
use., at tue age of 78 years.