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About The Expositor. (Waynesboro, GA.) 1870-187? | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1873)
THE EXPOSITOR WAYNESBORO’, GkA.. 1. Jt. FROST, S A. GRAY, *. F. LAWSON, S. A. CORKKfI. Frost, Lawson, Corker k Gray, PBOPKIETORS. Independent—Not Neutral! THURSDAY, JUNE 5. 1873. How TO DISCOURAUE DUELlNG.—Civ ilixation, says the Clrcago Tribune, has yet some work before it in this country, when two men can deliberately, in presence of witnesses, and under the delusion that tncy arc doing an hono rable act, stand at ten paces apart and shoot each other to death. This is what the two young Virginians did who fought a duel near Richmond, a short while since, tho cause of which was a difference between them ooncarning somo young lady. It was thought the experiences of the war had blotted out with blood the falso notion of chivalry that formerly prevailed South of Mason and Dixou’a line. If the war had failed in any mannor to eradicate those ideas, it was thought that intimate relations with the carpet-baggers would havo completed the work. As both these ageneies seemed to have failed to break down the duello as an institution, it is time that the law should step in and punish the survivors, whether principals or seconds, in a manner that will dis courage dueling in tho future. Tiik Modocs Before the War.— The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin pub lishes a letter from Mr. Elijah Steele,a lawyer in Yrcka, in which tho Modocs are partially described as they were before the outbreak of the late f roublos. Twenty-throe years ago they were a numorous and powerful tribe, and those who are left are not ronegades. They were not, as has been asserted, in tho habit of lounging about Yreka, but went thither twice a year to trade furs and goose feathers for supplios of pro visions and clothing, and thus provided themselves well. Their credit was good with the merchants of Yreka, who trus ted them from fall to spring. They were however, always requested to camp out of town. Captain Jack, who was always their spokesman, never drank any liquor, and invariably pun ished any of the tribe for any wrong doing, whether they were drunk or Bober. They are according to Mr. Steele, a superior race of Indians in intellect and physical devclopemcut, and they aro resolved to die rather than yield. In Captain Jack’s own words: To die by bullets does not hurt inaah; starve to death on reservation hart a heap. How to Setllb the Indian Ques tion. —The trouble that we have had with the Modoos brings to mind a plan for settling the Indian question, which a frontiersman once imparted : “If I wm the Gover’ment,” said he, “I’d buy lots of barrels of whisky, and lots o’ big knives, and I’d put ’em out somewhat in the West, an’ invito every devlish redskin in the hull land to what they call a oonf rence. After they’d got thar I’d knock in the heads o’ the barrels, and scatter tho knives all round loose, so they’d be handy. Then I’d go away and leave the lujuna to themselves. Of course they’d taket he whiskey and the knives, and beforesuudown thar wouldu’t be more than one redskin left, and then I’d go and knock his brains out afore he coull do any more damage. That, air’s, the only reel way to settle the In jun question. I’ve been among ’em, an’ I know. Plenty of whiskey an’ long knives ’ll fix ’em out, an’ nothing else will.” Washington, May 28.—A letter from a prominent English journalist to a friend in this city, states that the re cent remarkable article in the Edinburgh Review, upon Cooke’s life of General! Lee, was written by Colonel Chesney, of the British army, to the gentleman of the same name who is distinguished as the author of the “Battle of Dorking” in Blackwood’s Magazine. The same letter says that Gen. CushiDg’s attack on Lord Cockburn fell quite flat on the English side of the Atlantic. The pros perity of England is described us won derful, and money as more abundant thao at any former period. ; —•— m Why ie a mean grocer like a high-way robber? Because belies in wait. THE BONDS. LETTER FROM JOHN K. WART. Tho boud question comes to the front again. Tho Atlanta Constitution pub lishes the following letter from John E. Ward, of Now York, to I)r. West moreland, of Atlanta: No. 01 Wall StrIET, ) New York, May 23, 1873. $ My Dear Sir: My delay in reply ing to your kiud noto of April 2d has not arisen from of interest in its subject matter. You have very correctly stated that “the bond question now before the peo ple of Georgia is environed with doubts and difficulties which demand wide ex perienceand great deliberation to solve.’ Although my contribution may be but a mite, if that can bo of any service to my native State it will bo most cheer fully made. Tho probiein to bo solved is to ascer tain the “true indebtedness of tho State.” No one questions tho ability of Georgia to meet that indebtedness whatever it may b°, and her h'story illustrates tho willingness of her people at any and every cost to meet her just obligations. The cry of “repudiation” should terrors for a State that has been tfue to every compact savo when compelled by a force she could not control. Nor should the clamor of “ruined credit” in any manner affect her legislation. That her credit has been temporarily affected is undoubted ly true; but when we remember the constant and earnest efforts which have been made to depreciate and destroy it, and thus force her iuto an assumption of debts never acknowledged by her, the surprise is that so little has been effected. The money changers of Wall street and of Europe are too wise not to understand and appreciate the true value of securities when offered to them; they arc too selfish to refuse long the purchase of such securities for the bene fit of their neighbors at a loss to them selves. Any combination for this pur pose must be very short-loved, exposed as it is to the constant temptations of self-interest to terminate it. Georgia will, I am sure, be governed by a much higher motive than some of the holders of these bonds Lave preseuted to her for the purpose of extorting payment. She has a right to ask that every legal defence’ which could liavo been avail able to a private person should bo used iu her behalf. As she cannot bo sued before the courts, her honor requires that she should bo strictly scrupulous not to refuse tho payment of any obli gation which would be recoguized and euforced between individuals in a court of law or equity. It seems to mo that by the application of a few plain and acknowledged principles of law to tho facts of this case, Georgia may ascer tain what, if any, portion of those bonds Ought to be paid. That most of thorn woro illegally issued, that almost all of them were fraudulently put is circulation, must be conceded by every fair-minded mau who has given any at-entiou to tho evidence. It is alleged that there are of these bonds two classos of holders : First. Parties who have'received them with a full knowledge of all the facts connected witli their illegal issue; and, second, those who hold them for a full and valuable consideration without no tice. For tho first class of holders, no plausible argument can be offered, and the State should carefully scrutinize all propositions offered for settlement to sec that no “compromise” confound ing the just with tho unjust, any pay ment whatever is made to that class of meu who have aided and abetted her pseudo rulers in this effort to pillage and plunder her. More caro is requir ed iu examining tho pretensions of those who claim to bo purchasers with out notice, and for a full and valuable consideration. There should be a com bination of the elements of full and valuable consideration and of the “want of notice;” and by the “want of notice” I mean not only the absence of any positive notice of the fraud, but that there should have been nothing in the nature of the securities taken which eould have excited tho suspicions of a reasonable man. Avery large, I think much the largest portion of these bonds are what are known as “endorsed — i. e., they are bonds of different railroads that were to have been built, endorsed by tho State. Assuming that the par ties holding these bonds could not be required to understand tho constitution and the laws of the State, in direct vio lation of which most of thorn were is sued, can it be credited for a moment that they were taken without any in; quiryas to the condition of their prin cipal or whether it had any existence at all or not? Tho holders of theso bonds claim that they hold thorn either for supplies furnished for the building of the roads in the nature of iron, etc., or for cash advanced to build the roads or as bona fide purchasers Does any man in Wall street or Europo furnish iron or supplies to build a railroad without ascertaining at least something ns to its existence and locality, the number of miles constructed, oto. ? Docs any banker in Europe or America advance money upon a railroad security indorsed or uniudorsed by a State with out some inquiry by himself or his agents as to the condition of tho road, the security of which he is taking ? If he docs he is guilty of such carelessness as to deprivo him of all right against an indorser whose indorsement has been fraudulently obtained. Vigilantibu t non d-ormientibus jura snbveniunt. Tho pay ment of an indorsement fraudulently ob tained canuot be claimed by one who had the means of ascertaining the fraud and failed to do so only through his own gross or wilful negligence. In relation to the bonds in which the Stuto is principal and not indorser, if they aro signed and tested by the pro per officials of the State, it may well be that some of them are in the hands of bona fide holders without either actual or constructive notice, because those aro formal acknowledgments of an in debtedness on the part of tho State to tho bearer thereof, without anything on their face to excite the suspicions of a reasonable man. Evon here, however, the question would still remain, did the holder give or pay for them a valuablo and adequato consideration ? An ad mitted badge of fraud is the obtaining securities or goods for a consideration grossly inadequate to tlioir value. At the time that these bonds were put in circulation, the credit of the State of Georgia was better than that of any other Southern State—so good that her bonds should almost have commanded par. If it shall be ascertained that if any of the holders of these bonds have paid for them or advanced ripon them sums of money, entirely inadequate to the amount of bonds which they hold, it would taint the transaction with fraud and justify the State in refusing to pay them. Tho burthen of pro ofisj think, upon the holders of these bonds to show that they have paid for them a full and valuable consideration. My opinion is that tho State should give them an op portunity of proving this, how or in what manner the wisdom of the Ligis lature can determine. Upon tho pay ment to every holder who can furnish such proof, and only to those, of tho principal and interest of their debt, tho State will have discharged every obli gation demanded by the most rigid rule of law or the most sensitive honor. Very truly, your friend, John E. Ward. To Dr. W. F. Westmoreland, Atlan ta, Ga. ls the Neouo Race Becoming Ex tinct ?—A gentleman, whom casual circumstances induced to make some calculations on the subject, informs us that mortality among the negroes in this vicinity,*as compared with that of the white population, is disproportionate as to awaken some interesting physio logical speculations. Since the colored people established a grave yard of thoir own, it has been rapidly filling up, aud it is evident that the freedom, which so-called philanthropists in the North invested with so many charms for negro auditors, is, to say the least of it, prov ing fatal to the poor creatures upon whom it was so rashly conferred. No cpidomic—no prevaling disease fs the cause of this mortality—it appears to result from physical retrogression alone, superinduced, no doubt, by change of habits, want of former comforts, and utter disregard of those laws of health, which white masters invariably enforced among their slaves. It appears, from what may be oalled a pretty correct estimate, that ten negroes are dying to one white person, which fact of itself is calculated to arouse the inquiry : “Is not tho race gradually becoming ex tinct?”—Fayetteville ( Term.) F.vprcss. The bloom of youth will fade away, the brightness of tho eye will grow dim with age, but a miserable Corn will not pass away. How Kellogg Proposes to Murder the Citizens of Louisiana—Blood and Extermination. A Now Orleans Herald reporter waited upon Mr. Kellogg and asked him what he intended to do in the fu ture, when quoth the King : “I am going to uso force , sir, and show the pooplc of this country what I can do. in the first p’-ice, I aiu going to orgattizo, and mu now organ izing, a company of one hundred men, armed with rifles, and splendidly equipped. These I will send into the lied river country as soon as possible, and kill the last d—d tnau that opposes my government,” llcportor—But, Mr. Kellogg, how can you do that ? Mr. Kellogg—l will show them how [ can do it. I have got an appropria tion of one hundred thousand dollars to back me, and tho very merchants who are on your side purchase my warrants for cash. You bettor believe they do, because they make mouey out of it. Reporter—Well, Mr. Kellogg, if you have so much money, why do you fix up jobs to obtain possession of it from the Treasurer ? Mr. Kellogg (excitedly)—l dou’t do it, I don’t. And listeu : Do you go and tell those friends of your’s iu Graut par ish, and anywhere else, that oppose me, t' at I won’t stand it; and if they con tinue their tax resisting and riots, I will make them leave the country. I know what sort of men there are in the Red river country, and in a few weeks will have a boat armed, and hang every man I find with a shot-gun aud revolver, and clean them out. By G—d, I will— mark me ! Reporter—But, Mr. Kellogg, dou’t • ou know that the gentlemen under Sheriff Nash were a legal posse, and were suppressing a riot; and, besides, there were only 125 men to 250 ne groes, and did you suppose they would quietly submit while your men were en gaged in the oeeupation of cutting throats ? Mr. Kellogg—By G—d, sir, they would run the last one of them. They can’t shoot ata decent white uuu—only at a negro. Reporter—Mr. Kellogg, if you were ever in the Federal army and met any Louisiana troops in line of battle you know very v\pll which way they ran. Dou't you suppose the e same men are up’there now ? Mr. Kellogg—Yes, but they would run. My moil are all Northern soldiers, and they will fight, and they will shoot and kill the last otto of you Red river tax resisting cut-throats. In two weeks you will see. SPREAD OF THE MANIA. Wo have almost despaired of South western and Middle Georgia on tho provision question, bit we did hope that North Georgia would not swing from her safe anchorage of plenty of corn and wheat, with cotton us an inci dent only, in her agricultural business. But it seems that the cotton mania has seized that people, also. They are just as crazy as the folks drw.t bore, and a disastrous season this year will land them just where the latter are—at tho foot of the ladder and with a.heavy load of debt as an accompanimeut to their re-ascentiou. The Cartersville Standard Sf depress says a ride through the rich Etowah Valley showed onjy about fifteen acres in wAieat, and a woful diminution in tho c3rn area; but cotton to the right, cotton to the left, cotton everywhere and all around. What monstrous foliy ! It seems that the farmers of Georgia have just made up their mind to sntkc everything ou this one crop, and estab lish perpetually their craneries in the West. Of course—as they very often reply to impertinent newspaper suggestions—they know thcro business best, but can they point to a similar state of affairs anywhere else under the sun ? Do tho farmers of Europe, or any other country, put all their eggs in one frail basket aftor this fashion? Give a fatfeire of the cotton crop this seasou in upper Georgia, with short wheat and corn crops, where in the name of common sense is the money to come from to pay their heavy bills for fertil izers and keep tho pot a boiling until they can make another crop Sf Mess. ♦ ♦ The weather is getting warm euough to permit female neighbors to lean over tho fence and talk about the peo ple across tho way, An Indian Ag&iit PI otographel * A congressman by the name of Shiu bono or Shanks thus photographs to life an Indian Claim Agmit. It is nearly a life size picture. Shanks must have been ono in time himself: .“An Indian claim agent is unlike most other people. He is generally bankrupt in morals, religiou, and poli ties. He will muke unconscionable de mands for tho most imaginary services; will make any kind ot representation to tho Indians against the character of his own people and Government that in his judgement will overreach hisclients; will magnify his own importance and . traduce others; will impudently claim an exclusive knowledge of public re cords that are really known to every one; will threaten others in order to carry his point; will accept pay on both sides of his case, and the last and best pay is the best servod. lie will buy or sell, corrupt or bo corrupted, which ever promises the most money to him. lie will attaok any other of the same class of operatives if not permit ted to share in the spoils. He will marry a squaw and become an Indian to secure an influence among them, and will abandon his victim and children if necessary for grip, lie will abandon American citizenship for that of a band of Indians, solely to divide their prop erty with them. In short, if there is anything an Indian agent will not do it ‘is that he will not treat his clients, the Indians, honestly.” How SIIOUI.D JuHYMEN B PAID ? Judge Strozier, of the Albany Circuit ) answered this question as follows at the last session of Court: “The taxes of the State are raised for revenue, and the idea of taxing the people for jury purposes, etc., is an in novation upon former usage and is an expense to the county by taxation which I do not think legitimate, and as a sub stitute upon tho principal of right and just ice the parties who use juries should bo compelled to pay them and .not be charged to the public, who have no in terest in the civil matters of issue be tween the parties. Parties who use the county officers, such as clerk-: and tiicr iff-t. and who require extra service of those officers other than their regular duties, ahd for which no compensation is allowed, should be tax'd with the cost of such exfri services, and not the public taxed who have no interest in the matter. This is justice.” New Advertisements. DISSOL XT T I 6 3ST?" rpHK PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EX- J. JSTIXU between Ashton &- Glisson, Attor neys at Law, U this day dissolved by mutual con sent. Either or both, a. occasion, jnnj- require, will wind up Ihi unfinished business of the firm. Eoeh will I'oiitinue to practice his profession in the Courts of iho Augusta end Middle iSvisutis, nml til tho U. 8. District and Clreuit Courts at Kavannnli; giving special attention to matters in Bankruptcy. JOHN I*. ASIiTOX, HOMKit O. GIJIBSON, .luno 1, 1873—j-lm 33 Y notice. VI. I, PERSON’S AERECTED BY THE RE CENT decisions of tbe Supreme Court of tlie United States, declaring the laws of Georgia as to Slave Debts, Homostead, Exemptions ind Tax Af fidavit*, to he uncoastitutlonil, ean lie fully protect ed against them by the Bankrupt Laws of Congress. Having recently paid much attention to these laws, aud the practise in Courts of Bankruptcy, I am pre pared, and c,an procure discharges from all old debts, and secure to Debtors the benefits of an. KXKMPTIONS RfCOOMIZED BV THE LAWS OF CEOROIA, in' 1870 As tc debts made sines .lan. 1, 1860, tbo law is tld-: If the bankrupt can pay 50 percent, on the dollar of these, he Will be entirely discharged from them; if not, th'cy continue subsisting debts against him, to lie paid hereafter, should he ever become able; hut do not prevent him from going into bankruptcy, as above stated. JOHN D. ASHTON, jes-lm Attorney at Law. OTICEI! Twill close my looks on thf. first (lay of July. All persons not making a re. turn of their taxable property will be double t.ixod. I will be at the following places for tho purpose of receiving Tax Returns, on the follow iug days: 74th district, 16th Juno, 1873. 75th district. 17th Juno, 1873. #4lst district, 18th Jane, 1873. 63d district, 19th June, 1873. 64th district, 20th June, 1873. 68th district, 21st June, 1873. 66th district, 23d Juno, 1873. 67th district. 24th June, 1873. 65th district, 25th June, 1873, 69th district, 26tU June, 1873. 72d district, 27th Juno, 1873. 71st district, 28th .June, 1873. 60th 4 62d districts, 30th J une, 1873 Justices of the Peace and Notarys Public aro required to furnish mo with a list ot Tax-payers in their respective Districts, and will please meet me at tbo tirno and plaoo designated. J. W. GRUBBS, May 30, 1873—jc5-4w Tax Reciver B. C. G EORGIA BURKE COUNTY— vT Whereas , Edward Young (person of cal) applies to tho Court of Ordinary of said oounty for letters of administration upon tbe estate of Charles Young, p. o 0., late of said county, de ceased : These are, therefore, to cite and ad monish all persons interested to be and appear at my office on, or before, the FIRST MON DAY TN JULY NEXT, to show cause (if any they oan) why said letiers should not be granted to said applicant. Given under my hand and official signature, at Waynesboro’, this Junp 2d, joB-4w _ E. F. LAWSON, Ordinary, Georgia, burke county— Whereas, It.is represented to the Ordi nary that the estate of J. W. 11. Godbeo, late of said county, deooasod, is unrepresented, and that it is necossary that administration upon said es tato should bo had : These, are, therefore, to cite u*d admoaish all persons interested to be and appear at iny office on, or befuro, the FIRST MONDAY IN JULY NEXT, to show cause (if any they can) why administration de bonis non upon said ostato should not be vosted in the Clork of the Superior Court, as roquired by law. Given undor my hand and official signature, at Waynesboro’, this Juno 2d, 1873. jes-4w E. F LAWSON, Ordinary. New Advertisements. Grand Jury Presentments. MAY TERM, 1873. BURKE SUPE’R COURT. We,the Grand Jurors, sworn for the May Term, 1873, of Burke Sapericr Court, do hereby make the following PKKSKNTMKNTH! By appropriate committees, we have ex amined into the atlUirs of the county. We have examined the Jail, and find that it needs a general overhauling, it being in an unsafe condition. Wa recommend that the leaks in the Court, Houi and Clerk’s office be at ouca attended to ; the Coutt House, we are glad to see, is now in good con dition, except the leaks, and we recommend! that the Slieritf will not allow it to be used, for any purpose, in which it will he abused; we find that the Records in the Ordinary a and Clerk's offices, are all kept in neat aud good style, and the tiles of office papers are properly placed; we would respectfully call attention to the Record of bonds fur parties licensed to sell spirituous liquors ; wo find the hoods of parties licensed to, sell, in severnl instances, with only the names of the licensed parties signed to it, and several with minors and other irrespon sible bon Ismail; we lind the county finan ces to bo in a very complicated condition. The tax digest for 1872,f0r county purpose* calls for $21,954,21 Tax Collector paid Trease lrr, $12,800- Tax Collector p’d Rover. 896. Am’ts cart ’d for and. $12,090 $21.954,2d Amount of | roperty Re lieved by Ordinary $12,880 Tax ou the same, 381,40 Balance due the county by Tax Collector $8,876,84 We have found from Examination of Judge 11. H. Perry’s report, that the county has sustained a loss of $174,53, bv'errors made by the former Tax Receiver, and we recommend that the County Attorney or proper autlu ritv, proceed to collect tho same out of his bond. We have examined the Coumy Trasure r ’s books and find them neatly kept, and amounts correctly added up, and books correctly balanced, as far as it was in our power to ascertain. ll© reports the finances as follows : Ree and from all sources, $13,358,15 P’d out as pr books \& 11 13,488,6 3 Bal. due County Treas’er, 80,48 We further find from examination that the present indebtedness is ns follows, Registered Bonds, $20.000,01' “ Bridge Claims, 3,500,00 “ Jail Claims, • 500.0n Other Regist’d Claims.- 2,000,00 Total liidcbterßiess $26,000,0 l To meet this indeMness we recommend that the proper authorities, levy a tax of one liu .dred per cent, on the state tax, which is as much as the law will sustain,and that those ere liters, who pieter it, will maintain ns the Ordinary or proper author ity to levy a 1 iittoual tax to pay off their claims. We have advised with the present Tax Receiver, and rj-jotiim mr that lv take oo return for land, at less linn five dollars per acre for all oak and hickory, four dollars for mixed, and three dollars for pine lands. If all the ciii -.en* of the e u i’y will fur this year acquiesce in t 1 is recomnn n lation, we believe the incemi m taxes this year will he about ten thousand dollars. Amlif the judgment debts are paid as above, recom mended, the county will get nearly, if n >t altogether out of debt. We recommend that the law in regard to the regulating of Weights am Measures, he enforced by the proper authority of the county. We find that the law in regard t> the establishment of a County Court for this county, as it now stands, will not prove beneficial to us. In regard to roads and bridges, we have to report loads in had condition in the fol lowing districts of which the names below mentioned are Commissioners, 60th and 62i and District —Wesley Jones, U W Banks, and G A Ward 61st—G 0 Warnock, E A Perkins, and J D Terry 65th—0 G Tarver, Theodore Daniel, and V S Carswell, also, a now bridge is wanted across Brier creek.at Farmer’s bridge 70th—F W Godbee, R H Cates, J N Ap plewhite 74th—J M McCullers, H IV Jones, and R II Burton The Magistrates of the 60th, and 62d, 615t,63d, 64th, and 71st dis’ts, have handed in their books for our inspection, and have been found to have been kept in a correct manner. Tho Magistrates from the remaining dis tricts have failed to bring up their books as the law requires. We find that W J & R A Ilatoher, have paid their license fee for retailing spiritious liquors, tu> twenty’ five dollars to the Ordinary, and the county has not received the credit for tho same. —- We respectfully suggest that he be to pay over the same to the Treasurer at once, and receive the censue of this body, for not having done so before. We rev commend thit the Clerk and Sheriff be. paid the sum of live dollars each, per day, for extra compensation, and ihat their deyr uties, and baliffs of the Court, be paid two dollars each, perday. We return our thanks to His Honor Judge Wm Gibson, for his usual courtesy extended to our body; And to Davenport Jackson Esq., for his uniform politeness and attention. We recormned lastly that these presentments bp published iu tbe Waynesboro’ Expositor , Francis A Jones, Foramap,, J B Duke, Jno D Coot, E Attaway, Jos A Shewmake, R Steiner, L Jenkins, A P Lambeth, J T Roberson, J M Whitfield, J D Munnerlyn, W T Wimberlv, W L McNorrill, J W Rbeney, J W Moseley, T Jones, J W Bell, TJ Burton, J H McKenzie, AHPenrow, Edward Master. Georgia, burke county-- . Whereas, Hbnrv C 7 hasa|pHoq to mo for letters of guardianship of tho person and property of Mary O. Saxon, a minor : 1 boss aro, therefore, to oito and admonish all persons interested to be and appear at my office on, or before, tho FIRST MONDAY IN JULI NEXJ 1 , to show cause, (if any, they can) wny said letters should not bo granted Givon under my hand and official signature, at Waynesboro’, this Juno 2d, 1873. j#Mw E F. I.AWS9N Ordinary’
