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TIE A.TLMTA STODAY HERALD.
VOL. II—NO. 9.
ATLANTA, GA.. SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1873.
WHOLE NO. 317
BUTLER.
A SMART OLD SCAMP.
I to .loot him, and who shall stand between the
I representative* and the people 1 (Cries of
| “Boiler!” “Batler!”) No man can stand
and say to the people, “Yon shall vote for tbis
man, or yon shall vote for the other." There
is another question comiDg, aa to whether
General Grant shall he elected for a third
time.
SPLENDID CHANCES FOB GRANT.
1 have no opinion to express, bnt one thing
I tell everybody is, that if the people want
j General Grant for a third, fourth, fifth, sixth
One of the liveliest campaigns ever made or seventh term, they will^ have him. (Ap-
Opening Shot of the Mufcaehn
setts Campaign.
A RARE STUMP SPEECH.
in the United States is just opening in Massa
chusetts. A host ot Radical politicans,
headed by Iloar and Washburne, are charging
on Ben Bntler, who is aspiring to the Gover
norship. Ben is himself a hard hitter, and
comes back in a horrible manner. We pub
lish extracts from bis opening speech. It will
do to take along:
butler's opening volley.
The following is the substance of the ad
dress:
Mr. President, Fellow Citizens, Ladies and
Gentlemen—I first desire to thank yon lor
the cordial greeting here to-night after the
very delightful stream of calumny that has
been poured upon me. It shows that the
hearts of the people are true to those who are
true to them. (Applause.) Your represen
tative in Congreas bes been kind enough to
say that he has given me a text for my speech.
Pardon me; the text comes from father back.
I ask leave to read to you the first scurrilous
newspaper attack I ever received alter I went
into the service of my country. It is as trne
as many, nay, most others; bnt it is a con
venient one, because I can contradict it and
bring proof of its lalsity on the spot. It
is dated May 22, 1861, when Mr. Boar,
of Worcester, was safely at home.
(Laughter and applause.) It pur
ports to be taken from the New Orleans Pica
yune, and begins in these words: “ Ail of the
Massachusetts troops now in Washington are
niggers, with the exception of a few. Gen.
Butler, in command, is a native of Liberia.
Our readers will remember old Ben, the bar
ber, who emigrated to Liberia. Geo- Butler
is his sod." (Laughter.)
This I have the means of showing was un
true. (Cheers.)
The next newspaper publication that vety
considerably concerned me was in 1862, also
emanating from a distinguished enemy of
mine—a former friend—and ran thus:
Now, therefore, I, Jellerson Davis, Presi
dent of the Confederate States of America.
The General proceeded to read the procla
mation declaring him a tellon and an outlaw,
and authorizing his immediate execution it
captured. After that he read another procla
mation offering $10,000 reward tor bis cap
ture and delivery to the Confederate authori
ties. Did anybody ever offer half as much as
that for Mr. Hoar's head ? [Laughter. ]
Now, I am going to say something of inter
est to the ladies who have done me the favor
of being present A daughter of South Caro
lina writes to the Charleston Courier saying :
“I propose to spin the threads to make the
cord to execute tne order, and my daughter
asks that she msy be allowed to adjust it
around his neck.” So you see, my friends,
the abuse came early. Yet started by the
enemies of my country, it has been re-echoed
by mine until the air is lull of it I do not
know that
THEY WOULD HANG ME NOW,
if they coutff, but if they can daatroy that
which I value more than life, the honest, hon
orable position I hold in the hearts of my
countrymen, they may then take the worth
less life which the enemies of my country
tailed to take, either in the war or since. (Ap
plause. ) Now, then, do not let these gentle
men who have made these calumnies suppose
that I am likely to be deterred from doing
what I think is right because of their quipa
and pellets. No, my friends, no! I am told
by Mr. Hoar that my life has been a failure.
Be it so, he it so; bnt thank God there is one
thing cannot be said, that I did not try to do
my best, and if 1 failed was not it better than
to stay at home and try to do nothing? (Loud
applause.) The man has not lived yet who
says I did not try to do my best, and if I failed
it was because I conld do no more, God help
me. I wish that he bad given me the power,
the talent, the ability, the streugtb to do
more. I did what I could, and I am only
sorry I could do no more.
Another of the objections of your represen
tative to me was that in 1864
I OUTBLAC XOUARDID A MOB IN NEW IOEE.
Here U a paper signed by one hundred of the
first merchants in New York. Perhaps yon
will remember some of the names when I
read them: Hamilton Fish, G. W. Morgan,
Daniel Headly, John M. Williams, and
William Arnold Bntler, and a hundred others
Let ns see what they sey, because I didn't ask
them for this testimonial any more than I did
Mr. Hoar. (Laughter.) He then read this
testimonial, also thanking him for his services
to the country. Another step farther. In
1804, by the command of President Lincoln,
and at the argent request of Secretary
Stanton, I was sent to New York at the
time that the whole Hfe of the nation hung
trembling ria the balance as to whether we
should be able to go on at that time. Mc
Clellan was is the field for President; a mob
had burned aa orphan asylum at New York,
and mnithr»d soldiers, and the question was
whether ft* > would not seize the city and
carry it bf ataba, so that then coo Id be no
legal election, or so that the whole vote
might be Coasted for McClellan. 1 wes sent
there with a small command, and the result
waswbat yon know: no orphan asylum was
burned white I was there; no mao, woman or
child wee murdered while I wae there ; no dis
order or riot was had while I was there.
(Applause.) No! New York bod for the
fifst time, and almost for the last up to this
time, a fair and just election;
sod the city was carried for Lincoln,
sad the country eared from bloodshed
and civil war. (Applause.) For that man,
not unknown to fame, Henry Ward Beecher,
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at a levee given by
the citizens of ftew York in my honor, nom
inated me for President of the United States.
This is the occurrence which Mr. Hoar, in bis
letter, refers to ae oar-blackguarding a New
IMlmob. (Loud and renewed applause.)
But I forgot—I am quarrelsome. Whet has
happened in this Commonwealth in the last
six months? J came home from Congress,
where I did my duty as I understood it, and
I did not go there to do it as anybody else un
dentood it—and some of my friends chose to
invite me to a dinner. I did not refuse to
go, as I did when the New York mer
chants invited me, 'for then I said : “ I
cannot go. My soldiers are in the field and
in the trenehes, and their general, although
he is at home, shall not be found feasting,
while they are starving." But I thought I
had a right to attend ttist dinner in Boston.
Only a few gentlemen were there, and some
body there was kind Enough to speak to me
about being Governor, and somebody made a
toast Well, as 1 had got a notion in my own
mind that I was cheated out of it two yean
before this (all—(applause)—I thought it was
possible somebodv else Slight want to be
Governor. Bnt all in the world that I said
was that if the good people of Massachusetts
want to rote for me for Governor I should not
object Now they sey. “Oh, he's going to
seize the Governorship. ” How can it be seiz
ed from the people? Whv do they trouble
themselves ? No man can Le elected Govern
or or anything else unless the people choose
plause.) Why does Mr. Hoar find it neces
sary to go down to Hamilton Hail so that
people may not vote for the wrong man ? Do
not the people know as much about it as Mr.
Hoar? People of Worcester, are you under
guardianship? (A voice, “No we are not”
I trust not They forget thst last year the
Republican party were in a doath straggle
with all the elements opposed to it and then
General Butler was patted on the back, and
was a good fellow, and was to go here
to make a speech to the people and theie
make a speech to the people—to
Michigan, to Indiana to Pennsylvania
—and sustain the Republican party.
And I went and the result you have heard.
Now Mr. Hoar will go and do it all himself.
(Laughter.) But in all this did I quarrel with
Mr. Hoar ? No; but I simply went on about
my business, until my honored and lamented
friend, Chief Justice Chapman, died, and
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
A Conclusion of the Investigation Benched.
A -lumber of
Irregular it tea
Discovered.
Sevenl Officers Discharged for Misconduct.
asserted that he lost in Washington City,
was $3,500. He afterwards appropriated, it
is also said, a check for about fifteen hundred
dollars belonging to the company, which he
gave as security for a sum of money borrowed,
according to his statement, to pay back the
amount alleged to have been lost in Washing
ton. It was also discovered, by an examina
tion of the books of Messrs. Bignon & Crump,
auctioneers, that the General Freight Agent
had received from that firm $600 for unclaim
ed freight sold. Of this $600, only a very
SMALL SUM WAS BETUBNED
the interlude after his death there was a Chief I United States Government The money
Justice to be made, and a Hamilton Hall
meeting became necessary. Wbat happened
then ? Did I quarrel with the gentleman (Mr.
Hoar) ? By no means; bnt there one of them
called me by an opprobions name—that of a
criminal now having his trial in England—
and said they would have no Tichbome claim
ant for Governor. Ob, what a quarrelsome
man that Benjamin F. Butler is. Therefore
I have stood all the newspaper abuse, because
with great respect to these reporting gen
tlemen below me, I have got quite indiffer
ent and used to it. (Laughter.) I have to
endure it at the same time that I have to en
dure the smell of Mi’ler’s River when I go up
on the Lowell Railroad, (laughter and ap
plause); but I can’t help it When, however,
there came from these men an attack on me
for what they ch^se to call the back pay grab
—the salary steal—I thought it wus time to
speak, and I did speak, and I stated then ex
actly the truth, did I not with one exception,
about yonr representative, and that was when
I said he took his money and put it where he
thought it would do the most good. That
was not true. If be must give it to his con
stituents why not divide it fairly? Why give
to five town8 only almost $5,0U0, and these
live towns were out of the county of Worces
ter. (Laughter.) But I made no objection,
and I make no objection. I have said
that every man had a right to do what
he liked with bis money. Some men want
ed to buy glory with it. He wanted to.
I WANTED TO BUY BUTCHEB’s MEATS
Angaata Chronicle end Sentinel.
In the course of the conversation Judge j
King mentioned that the present official sys- the company. When charged with this,
tern of the road was instituted about thirty I Rhodes said it had been paid out for the
years ago by J. Edgar Thompson, then Chief! company, but not being able to produce the
Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, but he i receipts, he obtained the sum missing on this
had been convinced for some time past that I account and paid it over to the company,
it did not do for the present day. That sys-1 Th e amounts of the other defalcations we un-
tem was made ! derstond, however, the General Freight Agent
fob UDKEir men, 1 has never returned.
And not (or the present demoralized slate of 5"™'
society. Men now reqnired more checks J?«s referred the whole matter to Co E. W.
- Cole, the General Superintendent, with power
to act.
Col. Cole took prompt and decided action
in the premises. After a careful examination
—a sort of court-martial being held in the
Superintendent's office at the Georgia
Railroad depot—he discharged the Road
Master, P. W. Printup; the Supervisor,
J. S. Shipley; and the General Freight
Agent, R. L. Rhodes. It is also understood
that the entire force in the Road Master’s arid
Supervisor’s Departments has been dismissed,
and that new men will be appointed. Colonel
Cole, before his departure lor Atlauta, yester
day, appointed Mr. Newnan Hicks, Road
Master, and Mr. Thomas C. Hendry, Super
visor. The position of General Freight Agent
has not yet been filled.
A great deal of credit is dneto Mr. Carlton
Hillyer, the Anditor of the road, for his sa
gacity and energy in ferreting out the defalca
tions and irregularities. He has worked with
coolness and care in the matter, and his re
ports are described as being very fall and
able doenments. Ths investigation could not
have been confided to better hands.
npon their conduct than they did in those
days. There was no doubt bnt that there were
irregularities iu the official conduct of several
prominent employees of the road, bnt from
wbat he had heard, rumor had greatly exag
gerated the matter. Ho mentioned as one of
the irregularities that abont three years ago
Mr. R. L. Rhodes, General Freight Agent,
went on to Washington City as special agent
•o settle a claim of the company against the
hich he obtained npon that claim, he
asserted, about a month since—alter the ir
regularities were discovered—that he lost in
Washington,
After the interview with Judge King, the
reporter called upon CoL E. W. Cole, the
General Superintendent. Col. Cole was pre
paring to leave for Atlanta by the 2:15 truiu,
and said thst it would be impossible for him
to give any particulars of the investigation iu
the short space of time before the departure
of the train. He stated, however, that sever
al officials of the road against whom charges
of misconduct had been proven by the in
vestigation, would be discharged and others
appointed in their stead. He would leave a
list of the parties discharged and the new
From the Aogunta CouatitutionaliBt.
The most prominent officials of the road
The next most prominent official charged
with having his bands tainted with these
peculations and misappropriation of money
which should have gone into the treasury
of the company was R. W. Rhodes, Gen
eral Freight Agent of the road at this point
for the past three years, and for the past
thirteen or fonrteeu years connected with
the road in various official capacities. To
the better understanding of the charges
against Mr. Rhodes, it is necessary to
state that in bis official capacity he bad
control of what is known as “lost
freight" which accumulated at this point.
Frequently when owners presented their
claims to the road for freight loot in transpor
tation, such claims were promptly paid, the
missing freight becoming the property of the
road whenever it turned up. Mr. Rhodes was
charged with converting this freight from time
to time to his own nse, and with the appro
priation of the proceeds of its sale. He
was also charged (so says rumor) with
having retained in his possession con
siderable amonnts of money collected
through him from the Qnartermaster's De
partment of the United States Government
for transportation of troops. The loss to the
road through these irregularities we have
heard placed at $7,000 to $8,000.
It is reported that Mr. Printup has turned
over his entire private property to the road,
to make good Sts losses by him. To what
extent this rumor is true, we are not at present
definitely advised.
appointees, which the reporter conld obtain ■ named in connection with these peculations
at the office of Superintendent S. K. Johnson, was P. W. Printup, Road Master, who has
with mine, and lor that he comes ont and
calis me a number of hard names, accuses me
of being a failure and now of “being quarrel
some.” (Uproarious laughter.) All because,
having made an attack on me, I choose to
answer back. I call on Mr. Hoar to witness,
he has been in Congress with me, and I defy
him to deny that he never knew me to begin
a personal attack on aoy man in Congress,
until I was first attacked, nor did any other
of my colleagues. And another thing they
never knew is this—they never knew me to
give op a Matas* until tha other aid* said
they were sorry. (Renewed lafighter.) Now,
that beiDg the condition of things,
the question is, in what have I done
wrong ? Wherein am I any worse a man than
I was a year ago, when the stream of calumny
was not upon me, when I was the petted fa
vorite of the Republican party, for I have a
right to say as much, at least, if patting hard
work on me, and slobbering me with praise
is any evidence. What have I done ? Why,
they say I took my back salary. Nay, more,
I engineered the bill through the Hoase.
Well, I did.all I conld, after I began it, os I
generally do and always mean to do. It was
brought up in my committee without my
knowledge or consent. I at first voted against
it in committee, the question being on the sal
ary of the President; bnt on ascertaining
that relatively the salary of the President was
not more than a fourth of Washington’s salary
was I withdrew my objection and agreed to
support the bill, and every member of the
Committee of the Judiciary agreed with me.
The qnestion was, who was to present the
bill to the Hoose ? Most of the other mem
bers excused themselves, as they were going
oat ot Congress; and knowing that I some
times achieved success—that I was not alwsys
failure—[laughter]—they wished that I
should presentIt. I consented to do so, and
pressid tt through ss a matter of goad faith
to my committee. I believed in it then and
I believe, in it now. In Washington’s times
Determined to obtain fnlier particnlars
than be bad received so far, the reporter re
newed his efforts. He had previously ascer
tained that the principal
PARTIES IMPLICATED
in the defalcations were R. L. Rhodes, Gen
eral Freight Agent; P. W. Printup, Road
Master; and J. S. Shipley, Supervisor. Other
supervisors and employees In the Road Mas
ter’s Department, it was said, had a “finger
in the pie.” Iinmor placed the amount of the
defalcations at a very high figure.
Finally the following abstract of the
auditok’s reports
was ^obtained from one of the Directors. Mr.
Carlton Hillyer, the able and efficient Audit
or, first made his reports to Suderintendent
Johnson, and they were afterwards submitted
to the Directors at their recent meeting. Both
the reports are lengthy and full.
ROAD master’s DEPARTMENT.
The report in reference to the Road Mas
ter's Department shows that the price of wood
has increased in six years from 51 to 9 7-10
cents per mile run. The price of wood has
West Point, August 8,1873.
Dr. J. Bradfield, Atlanta:
Dear Sir—Please ship ns another half gross
of yonr Female Regulator, on the same terms
as the last. As we have been keeping it ever
since you first commenced to muke it, it may
be of interest to yon to know bow it stands
here at yonr old home. It gives ns pleasure
to say that it bos given satisfaction in almost
every case, (and in no case has it ever done
barm) and as an evidence of this, our sales
have steadily increased every year, until now
it is a standard preparation, and onr stock
wonld not be complete without it You have
our best wishes tor your success with it, and
trast it may be a source of profit to yon, ns :
Sherman as Caesar.
New York Herald Interview with “Mack-"
Reporter—Are the President and General
Sherman on friendly terms?
Mr. McCallogh—I do not think they are
on terms of more than formal friendship, and
have not been since General Rollins, as
Secretary of War, refnsed to allow General
Sherman to ran the War Department
Sherman is essentially an egotist, and be
lieves himself to be the hero of the rebel
lion, while every friend of General Grant
knows that it took all his military genius to
cover up Sherman’s blunders. There was
some family trouble between Sherman and
Fred- Grant on the visit to Europe together
which resulted in the latter parting company
with the former before the journey was half
over, and the two great Generals have never
been on terms of cordial intimacy since. I
suppose you know that Mrs. Grant had to go
to Sherman to get a staff appointment for
Fred. It would have looked better had Sher
man given the appointment unasked; bat I
am doubtful if General Sherman would have
granted that favor to the wife of the Presi
dent
Reporter—Do yon think Sherman would
like to enact the role of Ccesar himself?
Mr. McCallogh—I think he would; but he
would have no chance unless after a long
struggle, in which he would come out head
of the army. It is not likely, for the reason
tliAt should a long straggle ensae between
this country and the people, Sherman would
not be at the head of the army. In fact
Sherman, without Grant's backing, would
play a small part in any revolution.
Reporter—Wbat part would Sheridan take
in a conflict for empire?
Mr. McCallogh—^Sheridan would support
the powers that be. He would obey every
order given to him, and would do his best for
Uiose who held authority to direct him. Sher
idan has no political ambition, and would be
only desirous to make the best showing for
the forces under his command. He is a mere
soldier and nothing else, believing in the
power of the sword and the virtue of blood
and iron.
been identified with the road foi thirty j’ears, to many in our place,
filling responsible positions, and, so iar as Yours very respectfully,
we are advised, without the slightest suspi- i Cbawfobd & Henderson.
cion previously ol his integrity and perfect |
fair dealing. Upon him rumor charged (for
we do not profess to speak strictly by the
card) the use of the road in his official capac
ity to advance hia private fortune,
by the transportation of grain
and other supplies necessary to run
his plantation. As Road Master he had lull
control of the matter ot supplying the lumber,
timber, cross ties and wood necessary for the
use of the road. His accounts for the pur
chase of the supplies necessarily came under
the notice of the Auditor. The accounts for
lumber, as furnished to the Auditor’s office,
are reported to have been startlingly in excess
of the amount which eould be traced to con
sumption for road purposes. After funds had
been placed in his hands with which to pay
for cross ties purchased for the road, it is
alleged that claims were made against the
Mr. W. Bradford’s magnificent folio of the
Arctic regions is said to be the most com
pletely illustrated record of Polai landscape
which has yet appeared. The London Times
says that its one hundred and twenty admira
bly executed photographs bring the ice-world
more vividly before us than all our profusely
embellished literature of Arctic travel. For
his successive painting expeditions north
wards Mr. Bradford first chartered a sailing
ship, then a steamer, the Panther, of about
300 tons, in which he pushed as far in the di
rection of Smith’s Sound as Melville Bay. Dr.
Hayes, the well known Arctic traveler, was
among the companions of Mr. Bradford’s last
trip, and has published a pleasant journal of
it. Mr. Bradford had with him a strong staff
— of very skillful photographers, who took their
road for payment for those identical pur- ( notes with camera and chemicals, while Mr.
The Denver News thus summarizes the
know it has been the means of doing good | ^ork ot railroad building in Colorado the
present season: Denver and Boulder Valley,
15 miles; Colorado Central, 200 miles; Kan
sas Pacific, 55 miles; Denver, South Park and
Pacific, 30 miles, making a total of about 355
miles of track, which will be completed in
Colorado in 1873, saying nothing of the grad
ing, surveys, ate., which will be accomplished
preparatory for the work of 1874.
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dent's house at Philadelphia worked for fifty
cents a day, when I undertook to hire a man to
go to Washington sad superintend the building
of a house, and he wanted $8 per day, and
tea hours a day at that. Such has been tha
advance in wage*, and yon workmen who want
year wages raised must let na all go np to
gether. Tbs sooner you let na hare ours
Wised we will raise yours. It ia a capitalist's
cry, this keeping wages down, became the
aapitahata want to keep yon down; for the
oapitaliaU own all the newspapers—all that
are worth owning. (Laughter.) Again ths
question was, how waa this pay to be raisad?
sod we said at once if it was right for the
next Congress to have it raised, it is right for
this Cougresr, We bad been there and dona
our duty. We bad had an extra Motion, and
if it w.a right to raise the pay for the next
Congress it was right, we thought, to raise it
for that. ^
After a very lengthy defense of the salary
increase, and many personal retorts npon bis
assailants, Gen. Batler referred to the prohib
itory law. All the people in tbis Common
wealth, as I understand it, want tbis law en
forced impartially and firmly, so that wc can
understand if it is a law, or only the mockery
of a law. The law never was enforced in Bos
ton except in the Butler wards in the city, a
few days ago, at the opening of this cam
paign. Tbis is mere’)- making sport of the
law, and you will hear before many days lon
ger that it is meant to be kept on the statote
book, bot to be enforced only against the
poor, letting the rich go free. It is meant to
crash the poor woman with her jog, and let
the man who sells it by the puneneon and
hogshead go. (Applause.)
NOW I HAVE NOTHING TO TAKE BACK
from that, and they need not send any in
sane men to question me on the subject. There
sre enough of mad men in the hospital now.
(Langhter.) 1 say. and take care you do not
tell anybody ol it, that if I have the power,
that power shall be used to enforce that law
everywhere, to the great and small alike, so
that the Commonwealth shall ascertain jut
what sort of a law it is, and if it will do good,
and the people of the Commonwealth see that
ita enforcement does good, they will sustain
it and keep it there to the end of all time,
and there will be an end to the question.
And if they don't believe it to be good when
they have seen it enforoed they will give us
another and better one that shall forward the
good cause of temperance as all men desire.
(Prolonged applause.) He then referred to tbe
growing expenditures of the State, into wblcb
they conld never get an investigation while
the State Hones wae in its present hands.
chases. Other irregularities in his accounts j Bradford "took bhf in his sketch-book or on
F . K were reported, resalting in a loss to the road canvas. Tho result is a record of the Arctic
been ran up by favoritism and other opera-1 of severaljthousandsof dollars—placed at from J regions, both photographic and pictorial, un-
tions with relatives and friends of the Road i 396,000 to $180,000. equalled for completeness and exactitude.
Master and ^Supervisor. A large amount
of lumber-Juts been used for private pur
poses—for houses, barns, etc. A large quan
tity of freight has been hauled free for the pri
vate nse of the Road Master and Supervisor.
Wood has been cut off the company's land
and sold, without returning proceeds. The
Supervisor has acted as agent for a well
known firm in Atlauta, and carried a large
ftmount of groceries to be retailed to the em
ployees without paying the Georgia Railroad
any freight. The Road Master and Supernisor
each had several hands who were paid by the
company, bnt attended exclusively to the pri
vate work of these officers. Tbe amount paid
for stock killed last year was about $12,000,
while the amount returned to the company
for sale of beef, hides and tallow, was only
about $200. The pay roll in 1867 averaged
$17,000, but in 1873 it had risen to $34,000.
The Road Master has a mill at Union Point,
built at the expense of the company, but
operated
FOB HIS PRIVATE ADVANTAGE.
Tbe Georgia Railroad carpenters and mate
rial were employed in bnilding a fish trap at
Yellow river for tbe beads of the roadway
Department. Tbe Supervisor filled every
offioe in his gift with his relations and friends.
They formed a sort of ring to control the wood
and cross-tie business. Tbe Georgia Railroad
owns over 5,000 acres of land, valued at $130,-
000. The timber from this land has been
used in various ways for tbe private ad
vantage of the roadway officers ; in some
inulanoea the land was even bought at a very
small figure from tbe company. In bis report
Mr. Hillyer allows the Road Master some
dwffit for system and accuracy in the manage
meat of his business, and the same for the
Supervisors, but too many years of nninter.
rupted control has led them into the assump
tion of privileges which from mere habit they
grew to claim as their right
THE GENERAL FREIGHT AGENT.
The Auditor's report and accompanying
evidence sho-s that the General Freight
Agent Mr. B. L, Rhodes, seemed to have en
deavored inten . mally to throw freight matters
into confusion, t j that there might be a large
amount of nnclaimed goods. The General
Freight Agent would pay the claims for those
goods when presented and afterwards sell the
goods, making no returns of the proceeds.
This system he regalarly carried out, greatly
to the annoyance of the merchants, and oc
casioning great loss to the company. He
rendered himself popular with some by grant
ing improper favors and receiving presents.
Mr. Hillyer, in tbe report, gives a full list
of all tbe payments which he has been able
to discover of proceeds from sale of un
claimed freight, paid by parties in tbis city to
the General Freight Agent Upon being
questioned by Col. Cole, Mr. Rhodes was un
able to give any satisfactory explanation
whatever.
On one occasion the Auditor took out of the
Geoeral Freight.Agent's bands the extra depot
pay roll, without apprising him of the tact
until after the pay roll was made out In
this way he detected the General Freight
Agent in entering fictitious names, so as to
Craw the corresponding amount of money.
A VERT LARGE ITEM OF DEFALCATION
Georgia farmers appear to have heeded the
counsel so often given to planters in the cot
ton States, to grow their own corn. This
year 1,720,169 acres were planted in cotton,
and 1,791,468 acres in corn, showing a differ
ence in favor of the latter, and there are be
sides over ODe million acaes planted with
other crops.
Among tbe passengers from Europe by the
steamship Egypt was Mr. Mark Smith, who
returns to fill some engagements in tbis coun
try. His stay will be bnt brief, as he returns
in November, to be present at the operatio de
bat of bis daughter, Kate, which is to occur
in Milan in December.
“ Skin-Out City ” is a thriving precinct in
the Pennsylvania oil region.
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to light, and has been acknowledged by the
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The irregnlarities commenced throe or four j
years ago, and have continued almost nninter- {
raptediy until the commencement of the re-,
cent investigation. The total amount of the
defalcations we were unable to obtain. It
must be seen, however, from the above ab
stract of the Auditor's reports, that the total
amount cannot be a very email one. It is
said that the amount obtained bv Mr. Rhodes
from the claim against the United States
Government, about three years ago and which
after the deficiency wee discovered and
the investigation # was proceeding,
ebont a month since, , he
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