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OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED At THlj
tIRST SESSION Os TIIE FORTY THIRD
CONGRESS.
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ING'.
jdKNT.RAi. NATI'RE —No. 45.]
I A \ ACT ia reference to the operations
■ts the shipping Commissioners’ act. approv-
Bad June seventh, eighteen hundred and
■e.ventytwo.
I Be it enacted by the Senate and Ilotise
Hepresenftgites of the United States ts
Hdiwriort in Congress assembled , That
tme of the provisions of an act entitled
•■An act to authorize the appointment of
Slipping commissioners by the several cir
cuit courts of the United States to super
intend the shipping and discin'rgo of saa
«i'*u engaged in merchant ships belonging
!«the I'nitod States, and for the further
yroiection of seamen 'shall to sail
>r Meant vessels engaged in the coastwise
-aie except the coast wise trade between
lie Atlantic and Pacific coasts, or in the
tie going trade, t ouching at foreign ports
irotherwise, or in the trade between the
I nitod States and the British North
American possessions, or in any case whore
tt"* I*3’ custom or agroment entitled
to participate in the profile or result of a
or voyage.
Approved. June 9.1874.
[General nature —Xo. 43.]
AN APT making appropriations for the
» "'ul.ir ami diplomatic service of the
Government for the year ending June thir
eighteen hundred und seventy five,
and for other purposes.
I R* it enacted by the Settafe and House
' f 11-yreseniatires of the United States of
in Congress assembled, That the
h-.iowing sums be.and the same are hereby
for the service of the fiscal
pending Jane thirtieth, eighteen hnn-
Lr seventy-five, out of any money in
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
“ r d«e objects hereyiafter expressed
Made:
h'r s ilanes of envoys extraordinary and
jp >t *’rs plenipotentiary to Great Britain,
and Russia, at seventeen
• h usand five hundred dollars each, seven
th thousand dollars.
r N, ' ar ies of envoys extraordinary and
'"*rs plenijK)tentiary to Spain,Austria
rzz- ■!. Mexico. Japan, China, and Italy.at
U ‘'e thousand dollars each, eighty-four
Rewind dollars.
* or **laiies of envoys extraordinary
c,lt| isters plenipotentiary to Chili and
' rr «. at ten thousand dollars each, twenty
1 -asand dollars.
t ’r ministers resident at Portugal.Swit
’ land. Greece. Belgium, Netherlands,
j “ark. Sweden and Norway, Turkey,
•'-■‘Uvr. Colombia. Bolivia, Venezuela,
4,r '*i:o Islands, and the Argentine Re
at seven thousand five hundred dol
*va hundred and live thousand
wmar*.
" r minister resident accredited toGua
t osta Rica. Honduras. Salvador,
. ■ S, ' cara gua. to reside at the place that
‘ ~ v 'ideiit may select in any one of the
* ’* te ' nan *«and, as by act making appropria
v f°r the consular and. diplomatic ser
-0|? approved Mav twenty-second,eighteen
■ ‘**u and seventy-two. ten thousand
'•oliars.
" r minister resident at Uruguay, also
- edited to Paraguay, ten thousand dol
t . ,
" r ,n| nister resident and consul-general
tyti, seveu thousand five hundred dob
tars.
ro, nister resident and consul-general
heria. four thousand dollars.
, r °harges d’affaires ad interim and d«-
rfomatic officers abroad, forty thousand
~r salanes to secretaries to legations
** Uuidon, Paris, Berlin .and Saiut Peters-
two thousand six hundred and
’’‘Hjt.v-five dollars eacb.teu thousand five
i!Jr "ired dollars. And the {Secretary of
is authorized to allow and pay to
<ke secretary of legation andhto tkesecoud
ot legation and to the messenger
us the legation in Paris, from the moneys
°’llvoted at the legation for the transmis
sion of consular invoices, an amount not
to - n-ewj in the aggregate six hundred dbl-
lara in any one year, to be divided and dis
tributed as the Secretary of State may di-
I rect, provided that the surplus receipts are
' sufficient for that purpose.
For salary of secretary to legation at
Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For secretaries to legations at Austria,
Brazil, Italy. Mexico, and Spain, at one
thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine
thousand dollars.
For second secretary to legations at
Great Britian, France, and Germany, at
two thousand dollars each, six thousand
dollars.
For secretary to legation (acting also as
interpreter) at China, five thousand dol
lars. ■ . -
For salary of the interpreter to legation
in Turkey, three thousand dollars.
‘For the interpreter to the legation at
Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable Robert C. Schenck, minister
to Great Britain, to employ a private
amanuensis, according to joint resolution
approved January eleventh, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-one, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign in
tercourse proper and all the missions abroad
one hutidredred thousand dollars.
For consuls-generol, consuls, vice-con
suls, commercial agents, and thirteen con
sular clerks, three hundred and sixty-four
thousand five hundred dollars; and the
bonds which consular officers who are not
compensated by salaries are required by
the thirteenth section of the act of August
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fitty-six,
to enter into shall hereafter be made with
such sureties as the Secretary of State
shall approve.
That Schedules B and 0 in section three
of the act entitled i‘An act to regulate the
diplomatic and consular systems of the
United States,” approved August eigh
teenth,eighteen hundred and fifty six,shall,
from and after the first day of July next,
read as follows:
Schedule B.
The agent and consul-general at Cairo
shall be entitled to compensation for his
services at the rate of four thousand dol
lars per annum.
'The consuls-general at Calcutta and
Shanghai shall each be entitled to com
pensation for their services at the rate of
five thousand dollars per annum.
'The consul-general at Melbourne shall
be entitled to compensation for his servi
ces at the rate of four thousand five hun
dred dollars phr ’annum.
'The consuls-general at Kanagawa, Mon
treal, and Berlin shall each be entitled to
compensation for their services at the rate
of four thousand dollars per annum. •
'The consuls-general at Vienna, Frank
fort. Rome, and Constantinople shall each
be entitled to compensation for their ser
vices at the rate of three thousand dollars
per annum.
The consuls-geneval at Saint Petersburg
and Mexico shall eacli be entitled to com
pensation lor their services at the rate of
two thousand dollars per annum.
The consul at Liverpool shall be entitled
to compensation for Ins services at the
rate of six thousand dollars per annum.
The following consulates shall be divid
ed into seven classes, to be known, respec
tively. as classes one. two, three, four, five,
six. and seven, and she consuls at such
consulates shall each be entitled to com
pensation for their services per annum at
tiie rates respectively Specified herein, to
wit:
Class one, four thousand dollars.
Class two, three thousand five hundred
dollars. -
Class three, three thousand dollars.
(’lass four, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
Class five, two thousand dollars.
Class six, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
Class seven, one thousand dollars.
Class I.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Hong-Kong.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Honolulu.
Class 11.
CHINA.
Fowchow.Hankow.Canton, Amoy, Cllin-
Kiang. Tieu-Tsin, Ningpo, Swatow.
PERU.
t
Class 111.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Manchester, Glasgow, .Bradford, Deme
rara.
FRENCH DOMINIONS.
Havre.
SPANISH DOMINIONS.
Matanzas.
£AJ?£ABY STATES.
Tripoli, Tunis, Tangiers.
JAPAN.
Nagasaki, Osako. and Hiogo.
MEXICO.
Vera Cnu.
SIAM.
Bangkok.
UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.
Panama. Colom (Aspinwall.)
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
Bueues Ayres.
cttiu.
Valparaiso.
Class iv.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Birmingham, Sheffield,Belfast,Singapore
Tuustall.
FRENCH DOMINIONS.
Marseilles. Lyons, Bordeaux.
SPANISH DOMINIONS.
Trinidad de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba.
BELGIUM.
Antwerp, Brussels.
DANISH DOMINIONS.
Saint Thomas.
GERMANY.
Hamburg, Bremen, Dresden.
ja?an.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1874.
Hakodadh
Glass V,
GREAT BRITAIN.
Leeds, Southam, Dundee, Leith, Cork,
Dubliu, Toronto, Hamilton, .Coaticook,
| Halifax, Laint John’s, (New Brunswick,
Kingston. (Jamaica,) Nassau.fNew Provi
dence,) Turk’s Islands, Cardiff, Port Louis,
(Mauritius.)
RUSSIA.
C dessa, Amoor River.
SPANISH DOMINIONS.
San Juan. (Porto Rico.)
PORTUGAL.
A4sbou.
if her-. .. ,
'O-’'. DOMINION OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Rotterdam.
Sonneberg, Nuremberg, Barme& Cfrem
pitz, Leipsic, Aix-la-ClfapeHe.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Trieste, Prague.
SWITZERLAND.
Basle, Zurich.
TURKISI DOMINIONS.
Smyrna. Beirut.
MADAGASCAR.
Tamatave.
MEXICO.
Acapulco, Matamoras.
BRAZIL.
Pernambuco.
URUGUAY. !
Montevideo. j
Class VI.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Bristol, New Castle, Aukland, Gibraltar
Malta, Cape Town, Saint Helena, Gode
rich, (Canada West,) Kingston, (Canada.)
Psescott, Port Sarnia, Windsor, (Canada
AVest,) Quebec, Saint John’s (Canada
East,) Pietou, Charlottetown, (Prince Ed
ward Island,) Winnipeg, barbadoes,Bermu
da. Port Stanley, Mahe, (Seychelles,) Fort
Erie, Clifton.
FRENCH DOMINIONS.
Nantes, Nice, La Rochelle, Algiers.
Martinique.
SPANISH DOMINIONS.
Cadiz, Malaga, Barcelona, Port Mahon,
Valencia.
PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS.
Fayal, (Azores,) Oporto, Funchal.
BELGIUM.
Venders and Liege.
DOMINIONS OF TIIE NETHERLANDS.
Amsterdam.
DANISH DOMINIONS.
Santa < ruz, Copenhagen.
GERMANY.
Mannheim. Munich,*Stuttgart.
SWITZERLAND.
Geneva.
ITALY.
Genoa, Leghorn. Florence, Palermo,
Messina, Naples.
TURKISH DOMINIONS.
Jerusalem, Port Said.
MEXICO:
Tampico.
VENEZUELA.
Laguayra.
BRAZIL-
Ealiia.
SAN DOMINGO.
San Domingo.
SCHEDULE 0.
Class VII.
GREAT BRITAIN.
ceylon, Gaspe, Basin, Windsor, '(Nova
Scotia.)
GERMANY.
Stettin.
iiaYti.
cape Ilaytien.
UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.
Sabanilla.
[ECUADOR.
Guyaquil.
NETHERLANDS.
Batavia-
BRAZIL.
Maranham, Para. Rio Grande de Sul.
HONDURAS.
Omoa and Truxillo.
TURKISH DOMINIONS.
cuprus. Bucharest.
MEXICO.
Guaymas.
MUSCAT.
Zanzibar.
PORTUGUESE, DOMINIONS.
Santiago, (cape Verde Islands.)
SOCIETY ISLANDS.
Tahiti.
CHILI.
Talcaliuano
FRIEIIDLY AVD NAVIGATORS ISLANDS.
Apia.
FEJEE ISLANDS.
Ovalau.
ITALY.
Venice, Milas.
COMEERCIAL AGENCIES.
Schedule b. —Madagascar, San Juan
del Norte.
Sec 2. That there shall be allowed for
the hire of clerks, when actually expended
therefor, as follows: To the consul-general
at Havana and consul at Liverpool, each a
sum not exceeding the rate of three thou
sand dollars for any one year; and to the
cctosuls-general of London, Paris, and
Shanhai. each a sum not exceeding the
rate of two thousand dollars for any one
year: to the consuls-general at Berlin, Vi
enna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the
consuls at Hamburg,Bremen :Le:psic,Lyons
Tranches ter. Beirut, Belfast. Birmingham,
Bradford, chemnitz. Sheffield. Sonneberg,
Dresden. Havre, Mcrseilles, Faya!, Nurem
berg, Leith, Naples, Stuttgart, and Tun
stall. each a sum not exceeding fifteen hun
dred dollars foi any one year.
Sec. 3. That the President shall be, and
is hereby, authorized to appoint interpre
ters to the consulates of Shanghai, Tien
Tsiu, Fowchow, and Kanagawa, and to al
low them salaries not to exceed, in either
case, the rate of two tliousaud dollars a
year; and to appolbt interpreters to the
consulates at Hankow. Amoy, canton, and
Houg-Koug, and to allow them salaries not
to exceed, in either oase, the rate of seven
honored and fifty dollars a year; and also
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNION AS BESTOEED.
, to allow, at his discretion, a sum not ex
| ceeding the rate of five hundred doliaas
i for any one year to one consu ate m
china or Japan, respectively, uot herein
named, for expenses of interpretation; aud
that section’six of the act entitled “An act
to regulate ihe diplomatic and consular
systems of the United States,” approved
August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and
fifty-six, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3, That the l Secretary of State
shall, as soon as practicable, establish and
determine the amount of time
actually uecessary%#.ake the transit be
tween each diplobifcsfe and consular post
and the? city of Washington, and vice versa,
and shall make the same public, lie may
also, from time to time, revise his decision
in this r^pect; butyph each case the de
cision is J t& SMjflrtanner made public.
And the allowance fift time actually and
necessarily occupied each diplomatic and
consular officer who may be entitled to
such allowance shall in ,no case exceed that
for the time thus established aud deter
mined, with the addition of the time usually
occupied by the shortest and most direct
mode of conveyance from Washington to
the place of residence in the United Stal es
of such officer.
Sec, 5. That from and after the first
day of Julj next, the annual salary of con
i sular clerks who shall have remained con
tinuously in service as such for the period
of five years and upward shall be oue thou
sand two hundred dollars.
Sec. G. That any vice-consul who may
be temporarily acting as consul during the
absence of such consul may receive com
pensation. notwithstanding that he is uot
a citizen of the United States.
For loss by exchange on the above,
forty-eight thousand dollars.
For repaying to the Government of
Brazil, money erroneously claimed by and
paid to the United States, fifty-seven
thousand five hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.
For interpreters to the consulates in
china, Japan, and Siam, including loss by
exchange, five thousand seven hundred
dollars.
For marshals for the consular courts in
Japan and china, Siam, and Tuikey, in
cluding loss by exchange, seven thousand
seven hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign in
tercourse propper, and of all the missions
abroad, such as stationery, book-cases,arms
of the United States, seals, presses, and
flags, freight, postage, and other necessary
miscellaneous matters, including loss by
exchange, one hundred and thirty-one*
thousand eight hundred and,fifty dollars.
For interpreters. gGWtts. tint! ether ex
ponses at the consulates at Constantinople.
Smyrna, ( andia, Cairn, Jerusalem, and
Beirut, in the Turkish Dominions, three
thousand dollars.
For payment of consular officers not
citizens of the United States, ten thousand
dollars.
For salaries and expenses of the United
States and Spanish Claims Commission,
namely : For-Commissioner, five thousand
dollars ; for counsel, five thousand dollars ;
for secretary, nine hundred and twelve dol
lars and fifty cents ; for messenger, three
hundred dollars; and for rent, fuel, and ice,
three thousand seven hundred and eighty
seven dollars and fifty cents ; making, in all,
the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses of United
States and Mexican Claims Commission :
For Commissioner, four thousand five
hundred dollars ; for agent, four thousand
dollars ; for secretary, two thousand five
hundred dollars; for umpire, three thousand
dollars ; legal assistant to agent, three
thousand dollars; two translators, at one
thousand five hundred dollars each ; two
clerks, at one tie usand four hundred dol
lars each; one messenger, six hundred Hol
lars; one assistamt messenger, three hund
red dollars; and for contingent expenses,
•five thousand dollars; making, in all. the
sum of twenty-eight thousand seven hund
red dollars.
Survey of boundary between the Uni
ted States and British possessions: For
expenses of the commission appointed un
der act approved March nineteenth, eigh
teen hundred and seventy-two,for the pur
pose of surveying and marking the bounda
ry between the territory of the
United States and the possessions of Great
Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the
summit of the Rocky Mountains, to be
available immediately on the passage of
this act, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For rent of prisons for American con
victs in Siam and Turkey, and for wages
of keepers of the including loss by
exchange. four thousand dollars.
For rent of prisson for American con
victs in china, one thousand five hundred,
dollars.
For wages of keepers, care of offenders,
and expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For bringing home from foreign coun
tries persons charged with crimes and ex
penses incidental thereto, including loss
by exchange, five thousand dollars.
For relief and protection of American
seamen in foreign countries, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For expenses of acknowledging the serv
ices of masters and crews of foreign ves
sels in rescuing American citizens from
shipwreck, five thousand dollars.
To meet tlie necessary execution of the
neutrality act, to be expended under the
d’rection of the President pursuant to the
third section of the act of congress of May
first, eighteen hundred and ten. entitled
“au act fixing the compensation of minis
ters and consuls residing on the coast of
Barbary. and for other purposes, twenty
thousand dollars.
For annual proportion of the expenses
of cape Spartel light, on the coast of Mo
rocco, two hundred and eighty five dollars
For allowance to widows or heirs of de
ceased diplomatic and consular officers for
the time that would be necessarily occu-
pied in making the transit from the post}
of duty of the deceased to his residence to>
his resiueuce in the United States, five
thousand dollars.
For rent of court-house and jail, with
grounds appurtenant, in Yeddo, or such
other place as the United States Minister
in Japan may designate, five thousand dol
lars.
Tc pay the sums awarded to British
subjects for such claims as are enumerated
in article twelve of the treaty of May
eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
which have been allowed by the commis -
sion appointed under that article in the
manner preserved by the following articles
to the seventeenth inclusive, one miliiou
nine hundred and twenty-nine thousand
eight hundred and nineteen dollars.
Approved. June 11. 1874.
[Resolution of general nature — No. 3.]:
JOINT RESOLUTION providing for
the termination of the treaty between the
United States and His Majesty the King
of the Belgians, concluded at Washington.
July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight.
YY hereas, it is provided by the seven
teenth article of the treaty between the
United States of American^the one part,
and His Majesty the King of the Belgians,
on the other part, concluded at Washing
ton on the seventeenth day of July anno
Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-eight
that “the present treaty shall be in force
during ten years from the dote of the ex
change of the ratifications, and until the
expiration of twelve months after either of
the high contracting parties shall have an
nounced to the other its intention to ter
minate the operation thereof, each party
reserving to itself the rignt of making such
declaration to the other at the end of the
ten j ears above mentioned, and it is agreed
that, after the expiration of the twelve
months prolongation accorded on both
sides, this treaty and its stipulations shall
cease to be in force;" and
Whereas, it is no longer for the interest
of the United continue the said
treaty, in iorce: Therefore,
Resolved by die Senate aud House of
Representatives of the United Slates of
America in Congress assembled , That no j
tice be given of the termination o! said i
treaty according to the provisions of the
said seventeenth article thereof fur such
termination, and the President of the
L uited States is hereby authorized to
communicate such notice to the Govern
ment of the Kingdom ot Belgium.
Approved, June 17. 1874.
better from Washington.
‘ ~ IYaSHLSGT ON.l). U. '
July. 20th 1874.
The amount received thus far by the re
demption agency of the Treasury of nation
al bank note circulation to be exchanged
for legal tenders aggregates $3,226,208.
The United States Treasurer has deci
ded that national banks will be per
mitted to makegood amounts charged to
the five per cent, fund expense of remitting
legal tender notes from the treasurer’s of
fice in return for the banks redeemed, and
for the return of legal tenders uy the banks
to make good the five per cent. fund. He
has also decided that National banks may
remit notes in sums of one thousand dol
lars, or an even multiple thereof for their
credit are account of the five per cent, de
posit required by the act of June 20th, ’74.
Secretary Bristow, has addressed a cir
cular letter to collectors of customs, call
ing their attention to section 15 of an act
to arneud the customs revenue laws and
to repeal moieties approved June 22d,
1874. The instructions contained in the
circular have received the approval of the
Attorney General.
The new Solicitor of the Treasury rec- i
amends that the entire secret service of
the department be abolished, and the office
in New Fork closed, and that the whole
present force employed in the secret ser
vice division be discharged, and all records
of the office be brought to the Treasury for
a full examination. He thinks that the
Government is not receiving an adequate
return for the large sums it expends upon
this force.
The Secretary of the Navy has issued
an order requiring increased economy in
every branch of expenditures as indispen
sably necessary.
The Navy department will not order
north this summer the vessels now in the
Gulf of Mexico and cruising in the waters
adjacent to the VVest Indies.
Giro Vans, the Japanese charged affairs
has signed the articles to carry into oper
ation the postal treaty recently concluded
between Japan and the United States
and which goes into effect January Ist,
1875.
The ratification of the postal treaty be
tween the United States and France were
exchanged on Friday between M. liarthold
the French minister and the Postmaster
General, 'i bis treaty will go into opera
tion on the Ist of August.
During the first four days of last week
the General Post Office Department issu
ed to postmasters over $1,000,000 worth
of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, aud
postal cards, which is said to be the
largest issue of similar articles ever made
by the department in a single week.
The Third Assistant Postmaster Gener
al reports that 138,815.500 stamped envel
opes were furnished to postmasters during
the fiscal year which ended June 30th
1874. agaiust 117,215,850 during the pre
ceding year.
During the quarter which ended on the
30th of June last 22.172.500 postal cards
were shipped to fill requisitions, leaving on
hand, at that date, at the manufactory,
6,619,829 fiuished and 529,992 unfinished
cards.
During the fiscal year which ended June
30th. 1873. 2,202.000 registered package
envelopes were issued to postmasters by
the Post Office Department. This increase
is owing- to tha redaction of the fee for r?g-
istering letters from fifteen to eight cents,
and to the great care the Department is
bestowing on the registered letter system.
It is estimated that not less than G,090 000
of registered letters will be transmitted
during the current fiscal year.
A number of citizens of southern Colo
rado and New Mexico have petitioned
General Sherman for protection against
hostile Indians. This region of country is
one hundred urles a little west of south
from Fort Lyon and tiie Arkansas river;
and about one hundred miles north of east
of Fort Union, New Mexico, and is said
to be one of the finest pastoral countries
in the world.
On the 13th instant the District Com
missioners were paid by the Treasury de
partment $230,000 to pay the interest on
mixed securities of the District held by
Messrs. Morton, Bliss & Go., of New York
city. j
The Judges of the court of commission- j
era ot the Alabama claims will according .
to present arrangements, meet in this city
on the 22d of this month to consider the
initiatory questions of a plan of operations,
and an order of business. They will oc
cupy rooms in the Department of justice
building and expect to be in working con
dition early in August.
Tiie minister of Foreign Affairs of Ja
pan Ims written a letter to the lion. John
A. Bingham, American minister resident
in that country, staling that Japan will
participate in the ceutenial anniversary to
be held in Philadelphia.
In consequence of the distraction of the
post office by the Chicago fire the Gov
ernment loses about $40,000.
Secretaries Fish. Bristow, and Belknap
have returned to Washington.
General Gordon, of Georgia, d< nies that
he has ever had any communication with
General Grant as to party organization, or
the programme of the past, present or fu
ture.
The weather is quite comfortable to-day
the thermometer ranging from 80 to 85.
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We make no apology for crowding our
columns to-day, with the letter of Mr. H.
I I Kimball in his own defense; nor shall we
undertake to add anything by way of
strengthening his personal vindication.
Our people know him well, and they have
the spirit and liberality to read his letter
■ without prejudice and judge his conduct
1 without malice. Those who knew him
best, and were most intimate with him
during his marvelous and brilliant career
as President and owner of the Brunswick
& Albany Railroad, never doubted his fi
delity to the enterprise, of his es-imes-fr'pur
pose to carry out, in trood faith, all the
great measures for the State's advance
ment in which he gave such wonderful
mental and physical exertion. They be-
lieved then in the sincerity of his profes
sion and the honesty of his efforts to succeed
and but few of them have yielded to the>
pressure of manufactured public opinion,
or joined in the avalanche of falsehood and
vituperation so mercilessly impelled
against him by his personal enemies and
the enemies of this Railroad.
Hundreds in this* section Df the State,
and particularly all along the great high
way Mr. Kimball labored so hard to com
plete, never lost confidence in his integri
ty. and are to-day warmly attached to him.
and would gladly welcome him back as a
substantial physical force and the genius
of enterprise.
They believed he exerted to the utmost
all his unsurpassed energy and financial
ability, to avert the terrible disasters
that overwhelmed his enterprises and
wrecked his fortunes; and they believe, too
that his fall-was fairly ana legitimately
traceable to circumstances beyond all hu
man control, and causes wholly foreign to
dishonest practices.
Mr. Kimballs defense is a plain,
straight-forward, manly document. He
confronts his accusers with a knightly
bearing.—his visor up and his front blaz
oned with the defiance of conscious recti
tude and invincible truth. He lays bare
the fallacies and absurdities of the charges
preferred against him, and scatters to the
winds the vile trash of his calumnators.
To all fair minds his vindication should
and will be accepted as complete and final,
or as a challenge, to judicial battle, worthy
the prowess and dignity of the gallantest
gladiator that ever entered the arena. He
throws the guantlet in the face of the
Chronicle k Sentinel , and demands a rec
ognition of the truth of his defense, or a
wager of battle in the courts for final ar
bitrement. What more will the honest
people of Georgia ask? What more would
a brave and magnanimous enemy demand.''
Mr. Kimball, we understand, is now in
Georgia to test, fairly and squarely, the
people's voice as to his future citizenship
among them: and to devote the best ener
gies of his remaining years to the moral
anti material progress of Georgia and her
interests, if she so eleets. He can proba
bly command more capital for Georgia s
development, than all the elements of his
opposition combined: and once in the field
of labor and enterprise, would doubtless
supply sustenance to more honest laborers
than can be found among the employes,
relations and friends of all the news papers
and petty politicians that abuse him.
We endorse fully the editorial remarks
of the Atlanta Herald, published else
where. and add that this field is now open
for Mr. Kimball s active intellect and pro
gressive genius; and that Southern aud
| Southwestern Georgia wiil give him a §ea
erous support aud a vigous endorsement,
in any effort he may make towards regain
ing the high position of which he was
robbed by the fates, and the friendships of
which he was deprived by the unlucky tarn
of t*-e wheel of fortune.
We ask for Mr. Kimball's letter.® calm,
dispassionate, unprejudiced reading; and
the balance we leave to the readers a own
impartial jaJgwtuoai. —-Albaay dfatas-
[Terms, Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
Massachusetts in Congress.
r J he Utica Herald makes some perti
nent remarks in reference to the changes
probable in the next delegation frotni Mas
sachusetts to Congress. According to
I tho Herald, if Massachusetts had. been
' able- to keep her delegations unchanged it*
the two houses she would long have pre
served her control. But Sumner is dead,
W ilson is Vice President, and, bow that
a of tho present members ini
the House will not return, “the sceptre is
departing form her.” “No matter," any®
the editor, “who are the successors, her
power in the two houses is crippled for tho
the next Congress, and probably for year®
to come-, perhaps forever. Furthermore,
Massachusetts has no fresh Wests to coo
tribute to legislation. “Other States
crowd to> the front. New York and Cali
fornia represent the commerce of the two
oceans. New England has so for estab
lished her manufactures as to see rivals
and not allies in the communities where
new furnaces and new factories are arising.
Agriculture has its chief seat beside tho
I Mississippi and its tributaries, but the
j harvests of New York are richer in the
aggregate than those of any other State.
The change in her Congressional delega
tion will bring freshmen to accept the new
situation. They will not feel the strange
ness of Massachtsetts no longer in the
fore-front, ller voice will continue po
tent. but no longer controlling. The
great Middle States and those of the Mis
issippi Valley have interests in common,
and in them are the impetus of growth and
the consciousnnss of enduring sway. Our
debt to Massachusetts is vast, in the gen
eration just closing as well as in onr earli
est years. Obviously the time is begin
ning for other States to lead in council
and to givo character t-o our statutes and
to their application.”
The dominance of Massachusetts began
when the Southern States seceded. For
a long time legislation was under the in
fluence of Virginia and the Carolinas, and
that small but resolute body of able, reck
less and gifted men who succeeded Cal-
houn. . All the important committees—
those which shape legislation and control
the business of the country—were in tho
hands of Davis and Hunter, Mason. Ben
jamin and Slidell, and their colleagues.
Seward and Sumner, Wilson and Chase
sat in a despised minority. Secession re
moved as in a flash the whole Southern
delegation. In an instant New England
came to the front, and as Her representa
tives had been many years in public life
they had the fitness for assuming control
of the business ofthe country. This came
more trom their experience and acumen
than from tmy p*>«4*»unance of
New Eew England interests in the-Union.
Since 1861 the country has been ruled in
the interest of New England; for, in addi
tion to the representatives from her own
States, a great many Western members
and Senators, not to speak of the carpet
baggers. who now represent the despair
and misery of the South, are of New Eng
land birth and types of New England ideas.
Asa general thing we do not complain of
the manner in which these shrewd men
have done their work. Their policy has
been narrow and selfish at times, opposed
to a inexation, maniiest destiny and other
ideas that are traditional since the time of
Jefferson; but it has been exact, conserva
tive policy, willing to light and spend mon
ey for the Union when it was in danger,
anxious since the close of the war to re
deem our finances and put thegovernment
credit upon a sound footing. We owe to
New England inlluence that we are not
'Trosy drifting about on a sea of inconverti
ble currency, repudiation and inflation,and
but for Massachusetts, as__represented by
jvir. sumner, we should most likely have
St. Domingo on our hands, with a Custer
expedition against Cabral or Baez. to
“Tut as the editor of the Herald, speaking
from the amplest experience, and with
great justice says, other States crowd to
the front. Agriculture mustj be heard,
and agriculture reigns in the valley of the
Mississippi. Commerce demands audi
ence, and commerce finds her seat in Chi
cago San Framuseo and New York. Cot
ton rapidly resumes its royal sway, no less
royal because its subjects are free blacks
who will work, rather than slaveholding
whites who did not labor themselves nor
induce the best labor from their slaves,
i’ennsylvania, Virginia and Missouri have
mining interests of incredible magnitude
which grow more and more into the wealth
arul industry of the country. The ideas of
future legislation must be governed by the
wants and hopes of these- interests, and
not by the political theories of New Eng
land.
Empire moves westward. The next gen
erat ion of legislators will be governed by
the West. So far as New York is con
cerned, her interests are so national, her
prosperity is so largely depetdent upon
cotton and corn, upon iron ami coal and
gold, that whoever reigns must in some re
spects be her vassal.— N. Y. Herald,
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suaxj&xss.
Plants growing in the open ground and
fully exposed to the open sun. are frequent
ly reinined by the very means taken to save
them —by watering in hot, dry weather,
Generally, merely the surface of the ground
is wet, and the moisture soon evaporate*
leaving the soil dry and hard—almost im
pervious to air as well as to the dews. Put
this is not the only, nor the greatest evil
which results from the ordinary slight wa
ter ng» which pants get. The temporary,
superficial mqgpure causes the roots toseek
the surface. wnere iu the intervals between
the waterings, the heat and drought destroy
them: and the plants become ttuutod or die
outright. 'I he remedy lies iu a morethour
ough irrigation, and in a different mode of
applying the water. In case of young tr« of
and large herbaceous plants, the l*>t way
is carefully to scrape away the soil around
them to the depth of au inch or t wp. form
in" a shallow basin into which sufficient
waiter should lie poured to moisten well the
ground as deeply and as widely M the roots
extend. When the water has soaked iu. the
drv earth should be returned, which will
prevent a speed* evaporation, *nd among
small plant* that cannot be treated in this
way make holes widi an iron rod or« sharp?
eiied slake, several in dies In depth, and fill
them with water, which will thus reach the
deepest roots.—iT-
NO. 5.