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""I , iost titling tho terms of the tgfS tho necessary papers to be esCi i1o verify the statements and made by affidavits or such ^HJStv^he'ljentral Railroad and K^^ofoSorgin: the Southwes- aTt°* Uw J: nf Oeorcia; the Brunswick iC0 E&ComjmSr, of Georgia; the ^Ktanoog' 1 Railroad Company; [ - r "" : V !rj:l Mountain Railroad Com- Ul^^l.patovft'ueof which exceeds fc 2L®Uar.s free from all liabilities E*® -eared to offer for yonr approval in yonr judgment may be afofesaffi act, and to enter into J»7 ^th its provisions. : is accepted and the lease [fa hereby agreed among ourselves resulting from said lease shall twenty-three (23) shares, and i h-reto shall own and be entitled ^^ewept as follows: Joseph E. m one share and one-half a share; rJ °* .vail own one share and one- - C f £■Thomas Allen will own one-half Alexander H. Stephens will own /a» of one share, and Andrew J. mite one-half of one share. persons horein-before men- fi,j e citizens and residents of been such for five years, and -•'Tuition represent a majority of the m rzZ in the lease which they propose t0 rive Georgians- control of the i* : " witness our hands this twenty-fourth ^fe r,A ‘ ^ ' Joseth E. Beown, V. Kerns®. ALEX. H. Stephens, Cntr,;:.. Ben. Mat, -^j ie —'W'eekly Telegraph and. Journal & Messenger. r-S. Haiti c» B. JOHSSTOS, I rjgjT.GaiST, Q. Motnmii t 35 sC*ins 0S > SsS. Deuso, SrvJ. White, I r,.T. WliTEES, jjsxisA Scott, E- WAITZFELDER, Hanibal I. Kimball, E. W. Cole, John P. Kino, Thos. Allen, Geo. Cook, IL B. Plant, Kichabd Petebs, \Vm. B. Dixsmobe. I r-UTI or EAOEOAD PRESIDENTS, OF VALUE OF or CONSENT TO BECOME SECDMTT IJHwemowscompant. Mi of Georgia, County of Fulton. •• Nison euna JohnP. King, President of 'fton-ij Kailroad and Bankmg Company of |r_Y md who is authorizied to act as agent irZTcompiny; William B. Johnson, Direc- Ifffatbe Central Railroad and Banking Com- l.- r md who is authorized to act as agent for Id Company; William S. Holt, President of |Ssmiliv«tem Railroad Company of Georgia, I2«baii*nthorizedtoact as agent for said l£M(sy: Andrew J. White, President of the |Zi»d Western Railroad Company of said | to ndwbo is authorized to act as agent for IaiCompany; and said-John P. King, Presd- Ifelis!authorized to act as ngent, also, for IfeWmtaanil West Point Railroad Company JfsBState, and Edmund W. Cole, President | jfleN’tsbrille and Chattanooga Kailroad Com- Ijsyrftte State of* Tennessee, who all being | § si am, do depose and say, that the said I bind Companies represented by them, re- I rank bare consented to become seenrities (fetfe “Western and Atlantic Railroad Com- C ' ,’on the bond to be given by them in the of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, a c- ladingto the provisions of an act of the Legis- I ace of said State of Georgia, approved on the ISSday of October, 1870, and that said eoaa- C h “are worth at least two millions of dol lar all and every liability,” and aro worth I ctbe aggregate at least “eight millions of dol- Itafiaaaid State of Georgia; and with the I .-it Iliilroad Companies in and out of the ate, which propose to become sureties on said I tod, an in fact worth over sixteen millions Klin dear of all liabilities. John P. King. W. B. Johnston. Wsi. S. Holt. ■A. J. "White. E. W. Cole. | inm to sad subs crib-' rt before me this ilihdiy of Decem ber, 1S70. "H. K. McOat, Ikige Supreme Comt aroivrror members of bbown’s company of INDIVIDUAL WEALTH. Stott of Georgia, County of. Fulton. Ia person came E. Brown, Benjamin H. Hill, hla P. King, Richard Peters, William S. Holt, Kiim B. Johnston, John T. Grant, Hannibal I Kimball, William C. Morrill, Edmund W. We. George Cook and Henry B. Plant, who, berg duly sworn, do depose and say, that they, it deponents and their associates, to-wit: iK A. Nutting, Simon Cameron, John S. &m, William T. Walters, Thomas A. Scott, bit*- J. White, Benjamin May, Ezekiel fri&lder, Thomas Allen, Alexander H. fattens and William B. Dinsmore, have made ■imposition in writing, to the Governor of Esrgia, for the lease of the Western and At- E&Bailroad, pursuant to his published notice, Biting proposals for the lease of said Road, brirtno of an Act of the General Assembly of id State, approved October 24, 1870, and », in compliance with the requisites of said let said deponents do mako oath that they are ruth as follows, to-wit: Joseph E. Brown, ke mm of one hundred thousand dollars; the aid Benjamin H. Hill, the sum of ono hundred tsasind dollars; John P. King, the sum of trs hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Richaid fans, the snm of one hundred thousand dol- ks; William 8. Holt, tho snm of eighty thon- «d dollars; William B. Johnston, the sum of ■•hundred thousand dollars; John T. Grant, jbsum of one hundred thousand dollars; ■taaiba] L Kimball, the snm of one hundred k'Ownd dollars; William C. Moftill, the snm tight thousand dollars; Edmnnd W. Cole, hi asm of seventy-five thousand dollars; “j»rge Cook, the snm of ono hnndred thousand and Henry B. Plant, the snm of ono ~hi’td thousand dollars, and with, as well as Whoot, their associates aforesaid, are worth, athe aggregate, “at least five hundred thou- •hd dollars over and above all debts and lia- of every character.” And deponents mako this affidavit in compli- !P* with the requisition of the act aforesaid, “it the game may be considered by the Gov- J® 0 ' first and before action upon the proposi- “® to lease said road. r'S’aE. Beown, Benj. EL Hill, 2®-” Kino, Richabd Petebs, j “ s -Holt, W. B. Johnston, •ohs T. Gbant, Hanibal I. Kimball, Omunu W. Cole, William C. Moeeill, ( '»sgeCook, H. B. Plant, oworn to and subscribed before me, this 27th «7 of December, 1870. H. K. McCay, Judge Supreme Court ^IDEXT WHITE, of THE MACON AND WESTEBN heURoiD, WON X ENDORSE FOB THE DOBBINS COJCPjISy, r.„ Atlanta, Ga., December 27,1870. ‘'^Batfency Governor IL D. Bullock ; inas ^ m ~l arrived in this city this morning, of m j 9 t>eeQ iufoimed by Mr. Johnson, one t.r “* tt . c * ors i that some persons in Atlanta, hi - S r. Dt - in a to leaso the Western and At- to , JC Hoilroad, and have tendered the Macon etj. ' estcrn Railroad Company as endorser, jij.** oa ce, say to you, that I am President of Wad, and tho tender referred to is without j^jjonty either from mo or my Board of Di- *» Board of Directors have authorized me to •»!) 6 for 8,10,1 P art ies as I may be willing , '“ a °we for; and I am willing to endorse for ioid k ny W,11C,1 unites aU the connecting harmonizing conflicting interests, and ^the°Stu th ° fienen ^ interests of the people Respectfully, yonr obedient servant, A. J; White, President. **• OF THE Sorrn-WESTEBN EAILBOAD, •'NDojara FOB JTIE DOBBINS COMPANY. ■ ,, ... .'tlauis, H.'-cemb'.-: 20,- liTu. ^ k'cccilsneg, Jlufut It. Bullock, Gov- jJ" f hear a rumor in the city, that some l (nar “ e * not known) havo applied to 100 State Road, under the late act of the » > and tendered the South-Western as surety. avoid mistakes, J take the liberty of in- you thatl" ate the President of said »siaf and havo the authority to tender jKrjaaa as surety, and, in the exercise of that the 1 fa<* tendered it as such surety, on of h, n “ of a company organized with a view i 0 r~® OI uzing the interest of all tho connect- fawofit? an ^ 4,108 promoting the genoral wel- Jj. 01 ‘he public. No other person or persons 5ot J^Rwity to tendor said road as security, ®trt f l “ at com P aD y tender itself for use, ex- *11 tliA 1 a com P an y organized in harmony with Vp^. Conneclin H roa fl 3 i above mentioned. ™ rtspectfully, your obedient servant, Wm, S. Holt, President. W. B. JOHNSTON, AGENT OF CENTRAL BlTTun^p WON T ENDORSE FOB DOBBrNS* COMPANY. Atlanta, December 2G, 1870. ^ Excellency Rufus B. BuUock, Governor of Georgia— Sib : I am informed by rumor on the streets, that some number of persons (not known tome) have made to yonr Exoellency a proposition to lease the Western and Atlantic Railroad and have tendered the Central Railroad and Banking Company as surety on the bond required by the act authorizing the lease. I feel it my duty to inform you that I am the accredited agent of the company; that I have joined with others in tendering this road as surety for a company, in which all the railroad interests of the State are equally guarded—a result all think for the best interests of the State—and the Central railroad will not become security on the bond of any other company, and that any tender of that company as surety for any persons seeking to lease the road, other than those representing all the road equality, is without authority. Very respectfully, your obd’t servant, W. B. Johnston. P- 8.—I will add.that I am also a Director in the Macon and Western Railroad Company, and know the action of that company in the prem ises, and the statements above are also true of that company. . W. B. Johnston. GO VEEN OB BULLOCK NOTIFIES THE D&BBINS COMPA NY THAT ITS SECUBITY REPUDIATES EC. Executive Department,) State of Georgia, ■ l Atlanta, Ga., Dec., 25, 1870.) M. G. Bobbins, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.— Dear Sib : In taking np tbin morning for consideration papers in connection with propo sals to lease the Western and Atlantic Railroad, as provided in anactapprovedOotober24 t 1870, I find a bid from yourself and associates, in which yon offer as security upon the bond re quired by said act, “the Central Railroad and Hanking Company, of Georgia; the Southwes tern Railroad Company, the Macon and Wes tern Railroad,” and other connections. 1 also find, among my papers in-this connection, let ters addressed to me by Mr. W. B. John ston, who says, that under date of the 26th instant, among other things, that he hears, by rumors on the street, that some number of per sons, not associated with him, have made a proposition to lease the Western and Atlantio Railroad, and tendering the Central Railroad and Banking Company as security, and that he (Mr. Johnson) is the accredited agent of that company, and as snch has already given the pledge of that company as seonrity for parties with whom ho is associated. He makes a simi lar statement in regard to the Macon and West ern Railroad, signing himself one of the direct ors of that company. In addition to that, I have a similar communication with, in general terms, a similar statement from Mr. William 8. Holt, President of the Southwestern Railroad. I feel it my duty to present these facts to you, and ask that yourself and associates will make such amendments to your offer of security on the bond as may bo necessary to enable me to entertain it. I trust that this may be done at once. The bearer will writ for yonr response. Very respectfully, Rufus B. Bullock. THE DOBBIN3 COMPANY OFFER TO GIVE OTHER SECURITY. Office of Georgia Loan ) and Trust Company, > . Atlanta, Ga., December 27, 1870.) To His Excellency It. B. Bullock— Dear Sir : Tours in relation to the bond re quired to be given for the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, received. We are fully prepared to give the bond satisfactory to you. If the railroads refuse, we can and will satisfy you by personal security. I beg that you do not refuse our bid on account of the bond, as we aro perfectly able to satisfy yon. Respectfully, eto. M. G. Dobbins,- for the Company. THE DOBBINS COMPANY ASK FOB TIME TO GIVE SECURITY. Atlanta, Ga., December 27, 187a To IBs Excellency Rufus B. Bullock, Governor ot Georgia— Governor : In reply to your favor of this date, to M. G. Dobbins, Esq., with regard to security, we have to state, that we have the as surances from tho highest authority that we can give the security offered in our bid, and believe we can give it. But besides this, we offer your Excellency personal security of residents in Georgia worth over eight millions of dollars, and pledge ourselves to mako this security satisfac tory to your Excellency, so that*the security shall not be even doubtful, as provided for in the act. We aro willing that the. lease should bo awarded to us upon condition that we give Each security within a reasonable time. M. G. Dobbins, Wm. B. Dobbins, Henry Banes, A. A. Wyly, Wm. McNaught, James M. Ball, V. R. Tommy, John R. Wallace, B. F. Wyly, S. B. Host, W. L. Abbott, James Ormond, L. L. Abbott, Thomas Scrub chin, P. & G. T. Dodd & Co. A. Leyden, T. J. Hightower & Co., Jno. M. Harwell, A. K. Seago. WHY THE DOBBINS COMPANY OFFERED THE CENTRAL AND MACON AND WESTEBN RAILROAD AS BE* CUBITT. The annexed letter from CoL Wm. M. Wad- loy, President of the Centrnl Railroad and Banking Company, dated 10th December, 1870, to a member of our company, has not been re voked or changed iD any particular. The rea son wo mentioned tho Macon and Western Rail road as ono of our securities, was from a private conversation between myself and A. J. White, Esq., President of tho road. Central Railroad Bank, ) Savannah, Ga., December 19, 1870.) To A. K. Seago. Esq.; Dear Sib—I have your favor of the 14th inst., for which I am much obliged. I have never sought to obtain exclusive con trol of the State Road; nor do I think either line from Atlanta, ought to have such control. But we are ready to join the Georgia Road to lease it, or give the required guarantee for a satisfactory private company. Very respectfully, William M. Wadley, President. official statement of the governor that he ACCEPTS THE BID OF THE BBOtfk COMPANY. Executive Department,) Atlanta, Ga., December 27, 1870.) Whereas, In conformity with an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved October 24, 1870, entitled “an act to authorize the lease of the Western and Atlantio Railroad, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” and in pur suance of notice to the public given by the Governor of said State, and dated “Atlanta, Ga., October 26, 1870,” inviting written pro posals to bo made on or before the 25th day of December, 1870, for the lease of said road under said act, the following named persons, to-wit: John P.,King, Joseph E. Brown, Benjamin H. Hill, Alexander H. Stephens, Andrew J. White, Edmnnd W. Cole, William B. Johnston, William S. Hart, Charles A. Nutting, John T. Grant, William C. Morrill, Thomas A. Scott, William T. Walters, John S. Delano, Simon Cameron, Hanibal L Kimball, Riohard Peters, George Cook, Henry B. Plant, Benjamin May, Ezekiel Waitzfclder, Thomas Allen and Wm. B. Dins more, havo, according to the terms of said road, and which is in the words, and begins as follows, to-wit: . 'And whereas, Said persons so proposing to become such lessees, have filed an affidavit in writing, qualifying “thtt they are worth at least five hundred thousand dollars over and above all debts and liabilities of every character,” and have shown that they are in fact worth greatly more than said sum. Whereas, The sureties proposed to be given by said persons, have, by their authorized agents, qualified in terms of said act, that they are worth “at least two millions of dollars over I i.’l aad every liabilities; and are, in fact, worth more than eight millions of dollars in the State of Georgia, and with their associates as such sureties, in and out of tho State, aro worth more than sixteen millions of dollars over all and every liability; and Whereas, The Governor of said State, in view of the requirements of said act of the Legislature, that he shall loase to no company, who tenders security that is even doubtfu., and that ho shall see to it carefully in taking the bond, that said requirements of said act are folly complied with, has carefully eonridered all propositions to lease said road inade in compli ance with said act, and said publio notice, Mia ha3 fully satisfied himself, after considering the character of the proposed leasees and their un doubted responsibility and ability to carry out the terms of said lease, and to respond to all damages to which they may, at any time, be come liable under said lease, and in view of the further fact that the sureties tendered are un questionably good for largely more than the amount of the bond required by said act, and do, r.lso, harmonize cocflieting difficulties whieh might arise between any and all railroads con necting with said Western and Atlantio Bril- road, and secures fair, equal and impartial management and justice to all, and it, also, appearing that the terms of said act have all been complied with, and the statement in arid proposition all shown to be true: Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Gover nor of said State, do agree to lease said road with all its property and appurtenances, to said persons, upon the terms and conditions embraced in said act, and in arid proposition, and it is ac cordingly hereby ordered that said proposition made by said parties be,.and it is hereby ac- C6pt6du And it is further ordered, that the names of said persons assigned to arid position be, and are hereby entered, with said proposition, on the minutes of the Executive Department, as persons proposing to take said lease; and, from the date of this entry, they be and beoome a body corporate and politic, for the term of twenty years, under the name and style of “The W estern and Atlantio Railroad Company,” with all the powers, privileges, rights and liabilities prescribed by said aot; and it is farther ordered, that a deed of lease be prepared without delay, and exeouted in conformity with arid aot and agreement, and that said oompany do immedi ately file the bond, in conformity with said act, in the Executive Department, and that there upon said deed be delivered to said oompany, or their agent; and that tho said company, upon such delivery, be and are authorized to take possession of said property. Given under my hand and the seal of the Executive Department, at the [l. 8.J Capitol, in Atlanta, this the 27th day of December, A. D., 1870. Rufus B. Bullock. By the Governor: A. C. Cobson, Secretary Executive Department. THE BOND FOB EIGHT MILLIONS GIVEN BY THE BROWN COMPANY. State of Georgia : Be it known, that the undersigned, “The Western and Atlantio Railroad Company” as principal, which is composed of John P. King, Joseph E. Brown, Benjamin H. Hill, Alexander H. Stephens, Andrew J. White, Edmund W. Cole, William "B. Johnston, William S. Holt, Charles A. Nutting, John T. Grant, William 0. Morrill, Thomas A. Scott, William T. Walters, John S. Delano, Simon Cameron, Hannibal L Kimball, Richard Peters, George Cook, Henry B. Plant, Benjamin May, Ezekiel Waitzfelder, Thomas Allen, and William B. Dinsmore, as lessees and stockholders, and the Georgia Rail road and Banking Company, the Southwestern Railroad Company, the. Macon and Western Railroad Company, the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company, the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, the Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company of the State of Georgia, the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company of the Stato of Tennessee, and the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company of the State of Missouri, as sureties, acknowledge that they are held and firmly bound unto Rufus B. Bullock, Governor of the Stato of Georgia,, and to his successors in office, in the full sum of eight millions of dollars. And for the true and faithful payment of said sum, the said prinoipri and sureties do jointly and severally bind them selves forever, firmly, by these presents. Witness the official signatures of the duly ac credited officers and agents of the said several railroad companies, this the 27th day of Decem ber, A. D., 1870. The condition of this bond is such, that whereas, the said “Western and Atlantic Rail road Company,” principal, in consideration of the leaso of the Western and Atlantio Railroad, a-d its property and appurtenances for twenty years, in compliance with the terms of an aot entitled, “An act to authorize the lease of the Western and Atlantio Railroad, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” approved Octo ber 24, 1870, have agreed to make prompt pay ment into the Treasury of the State, for the use of the State, of the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars at the end of each month until the expi ration, or termination, or forfeiture of said lease; and also, to return the road and its ap purtenances at the expiration, termination or forfeiture of said lease, in as good condition as it was in when received by said company from the State under said lease. Now, therefore, if the said Western and Atlantic Railroad Compa ny principal shall, well and truly make said pay ments and return said road and appurtenances, as required by said act and said agreement thereunder, or in dcfanlt thereof by said prin cipal, the said sureties shall so pay and return for their principal aforesaid, then this bond shall be void, c’se it shall remain in full force. Joseph E. Brown, President of the Western and Atlantio Railroad, Com pany pro tem. John P. King, President Georgia Rail road and Banking Company. John P. King, President Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company. W. B. Johnston, Agent Central Rail road and Banking Company. W. S. Holt, President Southwestern Railroad Company. E. W. Cole, President Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company. George H. Hazlehnrat, President Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company. H. L Kimball, President Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company. A. J. White, President Macon and Western Railroad Oompany. Thomas Allen, President St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company. [l. s ] [l. s.] [l. f.] [L.S.] [L.S.] [l. a] [L. 8.] [L.S] Cl. a] [l. a] THE DEED OF LEASE TO THE BROWN COMPANY. Know all men by these presents, that the fol lowing named persons have been accepted by the Governor of Georgia os the lessees of the Western and Atlantio Railroad, under an aot of the General Assembly of said State, approved October, 24, A. D. 1870, and as snch lessees have, by tho order of tho Governor of said State, dated the 27th of December, A. D. 1870, duly and properly entered upon the minutes of the Execntivo Department, and by virtue of the provision of the act aforesaid, become a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the “Western and Atlantio Railroad Com pany,” to wit: John P. King, of Augusta, Ga.; Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga.; Benjamin H. Hill of Athens, Ga.; William S. Holt, of Macon, Ga.; Andrew J. White, of Macon, Ga.; John T. Grant, of Walton county, Ga.; William C. Mor rill, of Macon, Ga.; Charles A. Natting, of Ma con, Ga.; Simon Cameron, of Harrisburg, Pa.; John S. Delano, of Mount Vernon, O.; Wm. T. Writers, of Baltimore, Md.; Thomas A. Scott, of Philadelphia, Penn.; Hanibal I. Kimball, of Atlanta, Ga.; Edmund W. Cole, of Nashville, Tenn.; Richmond Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia; George Cook, of New Haven, Connectiont; H. B. Plant, of Augusta, Georgia; Benjamin May, of Columbus, Ga.; Ezekiel Waitzfelder,. of New York City; Thomas Allen, of St. Louis, Mo.; and William B. Dinsmore, of New York. Therefore, I, Rnfus B. Bollock, Governor of the State of Georgia, fay virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of the General Assembly of Georgia, do hereby grant, convey and lease to the Western and At lantic Railroad Company, composed of the per sons whose names mo herein given and to their successors, representations, heirs, or assigns the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which is the property of the State of Georgia, together with all its houses, workshops, depots, rolling stock and appurtenances of every character for the fall term of twenty years from this date, to have and to hold the same to the said company, and the individuals composing tho same hereinbefore named, and their successors, representatives, assignees or heirs amply, freely and completely, without let or hindrance, until the full expira tion of arid twenty years, in tho following pro portions of interest, to-wit: each of said lessees being entitled to one of twenty-three shares, into which the property hereby leased has been divided by their proposition to lease the same, and which proposition was accepted by the Govemor-of Georgia before the names of said lessees were entered on the minutes of the Ex ecutive Department of said Stato, except as fol ic" :: - Joseph E. Brown is entitled to ono share and one-half of a share; Hannibal L Kimball is en titled to one share and one-half of one share; Thomas Allen is entitled only to one-half of ono share; Alexander IL Stephens is entitled to only one-half of one share; Simon Cameron is entitled to one share and one-half of one share; and Andrew J. White is entitled only to one half of one rixarc. Tho Western and Atlantic Railroad Company, composed of the persona herein mentioned, wlio represent the several interests herein de scribed, covenants and agrees for itself, its successors, representatives and assignees to pay into the Treasury of the State of Georgia for the use of the State, monthly, and at the end of each month, a rental of twenty-five thousand dollars during the oontinnanoe of this lease. Also, to return said road and its appurte nances at the expiration, termination or for feiture of this lease, in as good condition as it was in when received by said oompany from said State under this lease. This lease is given and accepted under all the provisions, grants and conditions prescribed by the aot of the General Assembly of Georgia entitled “An Act to authorize the lease of the Western and At lantic Railroad, and for .other purposes therein mentioned,” approved October the 24th, A. D,, 1870, and hereinafter referred to. Given under my hand and the ' j Great Seal of the State, at the capi- Jj, j (Mia Atlanta, this twenty-seventh ) ' ’ C day of December, in the year of our * Lord, Eighteen Hnndred and Seven ty, and of the Independence of tiie United States of America, the Ninety-fifth. Rufub B. Bullock. By the Governor: David G. Cothno, Seo’y of State. GOVERNOR BULLOCK Trr.TJt THE DOBBBrNS COM PANY WHY HE DECIDES AGAINST IT. Executive Department,) State of Georgia, > Atlanta, Ga., December 28,1870.) M. G. Bobbins, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.— ‘ Dear Sir : Referring to yonr second commu nication of the 27th instant, handed to Hie the same morning by Messrs. Seago and McNaught, in which yourself and associates seek to amend your proposal for the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, by the reassertion of your belief that you can give, as security, the Macon and Western Railroad, the Central Railroad and Banking Company, the Southwestern Railroad, etc., and proposing, if that fails, to obtain per sonal security, together with the suggestion that, “We are willing that the lease should be awarded to us upon condition that we give snch security within a reasonable time,” I have the honor to say that, on the 26th day of Ootober of this year, I gave publio notice that, among other things, “for the purpose of carrying out this act, proposals will be received until and in cluding the 25th day of December next, and must be addressed to the Governor of the State of Georgia, at Atlanta, and marked on the wrapper, ‘Proposal to lease the Western and Atlantio Railroad, in accordance with an aot ap proved Ootober 24, 1870.’ The proposals must state in fall the name and residence of the par ties writing to make the proposition, the amount that each of the parties therein named are worth over and above their debts and' liabilities, to gether with a full description of the character of the security which will be offered to com plete the bond.” It will be observed that this publio notice was given for the purpose of carrying out the act of the Legislature, and that it thereby, to a cer tain extent, becomes a contract between the State and snch persons as may aot under it, and.make proposals; and that the proposals, must be considered when made in accordance with the advertisement. The proposal made by yourself and associates describes the character of seenrity which will be offered to complete the bond, by referring to the several railroads heretofore mentioned. But at the same time I receive proposals from other parties, describing the same security together with certificates from the proper officers of these railroad com panies, certifying that their roads oould not be used as seenrity for any other proposal except that mode by themselves and associates. To this your attention was invited by my note of the 27th, and on receipt of your first note in reply you having failed to make an explanation of the misunderstanding in relation to the secu rity, a proposal which complied; in every par ticular, with the law ; and with the publio no tice, was accepted. A proposal from yourself and associates, all of whom are citizens of Atlanta, as compared with a proposa Ifrom persons and interests from this nd several sections of the State, would leave me no alternative but the favorable con sideration of a proposal representing the great est number of interests. While I have an ear nest desire to forward tho prosperity of this growing and enterprising city, I am not for getful of the fact that the Western and Atlantio Railroad is the property of all the people of the State, and that both the letter and the spirit of the act, authorizing the lease of that property, would render it impossible for me to accept a proposal which would, in effect, confine the use fulness of the property to the sole benefit of this city. In the proposal which has been ac cepted, all of railroad and business interests connecting with the line of the Western and At lantic Railroad in this State, together with a proper representation from this, and other prin cipal cities of the State, have been harmonized. In accepting snch a proposal as this last named, even if the proposal made by yourself and asso ciates had carried with it a description of se curity as required by the act and by the pnblic notice, I should be satisfied that my action was in accordance with the letter and spirit of the act, and in harmony with tho best interest of tho State, and tho judgment of the tax payers throughout the Slate. This reply to yonr supplemental letter Is un necessary, and bnt for the high character of yourself and associates, wonld not have been written. Mr. Seago, however, having pressed the matter verbally, I desire to say stiU further, that there are other points to be considered in determining thisqnestion. My published notice, heretofore referred to, gave you, and all others desiring to bid for the lease, an equal opportu nity. For a period of two months you, and all others interested, were publicly notified of the terms of the act of the General Assembly, and of the requisites necessary to secure the con sideration of a bid in determining between the different persons or companies snbmittingpropo- sitiens. And you were distinctly informed that a full description of the character'd the seenrity offered to complete the bond must accompany the bid, and that proposals wonld he received until andinclading the 25th day of December, then next. In case of conflicting interests be tween different bidders, it was my duty, under this notice, to consider snch bids only as com plied with its terms, and were submitted within the time limited. Yonr proposition appeared upon its face to be a compliance, bnt before I came to decide the bids, I received, as already stated, undoubted assuranoes of the highest authority that you could not give the security tendered. And a3 the time for bidding had passed, I probably transcended the bounds of propriety and justice, and gave the parties in terested in the other bid jnst cause of com plaint, when I gave you permission to amend yonr bid. This I did with an earnest desire to do justice to alL But you will observe that I did not extend the time indefinitely, bnt re quired yon to make the amendment at once; this yon ntterly failed to do. It is true, you say in yonr reply, as alroady stated, that yon offer personal seenrity of residents of Georgia worth over eight millions of dollars, and pledge yourselves to make this security satisfactory. Bat of tchat personal security, or of what resi dents in Georgia, I am not folly informed; nor do you specify any particular kind or quantity of property upon which you will give the State a mortgage or lien as seenrity. You have, therefore, wholly failed even in yonr amended proposition to comply with the terms of my publication inviting bids. B at you say you are willing that the lease should be awarded to you upon condition that you give snch security within a reasonable time. Yon were invited to make no sucb bid, nor bad I given any assu rance that any such bid would be accepted. You were invited to present yonr bid by the 25th day of this present month, or daring that day. I will not say that you trifled with the Executive Department, in submitting a propo sition and tendering security whioh you oould not give, bnt I may safely say that you tendered it without knowing that all the Railroad Compa nies would stand for yon. "When invited to amend yonr bid at once, you failed to do so by designating or desoribinganysecurity whatever, which it was in your power to offer. Under these circumstance I feel that I should be trifling with the publio interest wereT to re ject a proposition made by a company of un doubted reliability, tendering security of un questionable sufficiency and solvenoy, who have complied in every particular with the law and the pnblic notice given by the Executive, and accept yonr proposal based upon yonr promise to give security within a reasonable time in fu ture. Yon might again have failed as you have already done in the first instance. In that case, tho campany which submitted a prop wition ac companied by sufficient security, would no long er have been bound, and I wonld have been left to commence de novo and ask other bids from companies able to comply with tho torms of the statute. In conclusion, I will only remark that the law authorized me to lease the Road at any time af ter its passage, to a company complying with all of its terms, for a snm not lean than twonty- fivo thousand dollars per month. It was neither made my duty to give publio notice, nor to ac cept tho*highest bid, unless other things were equal. I gave the notioe for the purpose of call ing the attention of such companies to the sub ject as were able and ready to comply with the requisitions of the law. The company to whom I have leased the Road harmonizes all conflict ing interests which might arise between differ ent portions of the railroad system of the State. You will, therefore, agree that I have fully com plied with both the letter and spirit of the law, and have no donbt that my action is best for the whole people of the Stato, and I maybe oon- tent to abide their verdiot apon the transection. I am, very respectfully, etc., Rufus B. Bullock. THE DOBBINS OOMPANY COME BACK HEAVILY AX TEE GOVERNOR, DEFEND THEIR CAUSE, AND DEMAND THE ROAD, ■ d Atlanta, Ga., January 4,1871. To Mis Excellency, Rufus B. Bullock, Govern or of Georgia— Sot: Your communication of the 28th ultimo was received on yesterday, in whioh you state we seek to amend our proposal for the lease of the Western and Atlantio Railroad by reassert ing in onr letter of the 27th ult., that we can give as seenrity eertain railroads whioh we had named in connection with onr proposal, and by proposing if that fail, to obtain personal secu rity, together with the suggestion that “ we are willing that the lease should be awarded to ns upon condition that we give snoh seenrity with in a reasonable time.” Yon then proceed to state that your publio notice extending from Ootober 26 to December 25,1870, given for the purpose of carrying oat the act of.the Legis lature became, to a certain.extent, a contract between the State and bidders for said road, and that failure to comply with that contract shuts out the parties, so failing, from having their bids considered in the leasing of said road; and that we did so fail in this; that we named railroads as seenrity that you had the highest authority for behoving we could not command, and afterward failed when notified by yonr note of the 27th nit., of this fact, to make an explanation of. what you are pleased to term a misunderstanding in relation to the secu rity; leaving yon no alternative bnt to accept another proposal whioh complied in every par ticular with the law and with the publio notice. You object, argumentatively, to our company because it is composed exclusively of citizens of Atlanta, flelicitating yourself in the mean time upon having found a company which har monized the railroads and business interests of the whole State to such an extent that notwith standing yonr partiality for our growing city, you feel sure you will have the approval of the tax-payers in aooepting their bid to the exclu sion of curs, even were there no trouble about our security. You seem to have no doubt that the acceptance of the other bid is in harmony with the letter and spirit of the act authorizing the road to be leased. Yon declare yonr long letter wholly unnecessary, exoept to show respect for those addressed. Mr. Seago is given special consideration, in consequenoe of his having pressed the matter verbally; is shown .the equal and fair oppor tunity given by the publio notice, wherein we, and everybody else, were distinctly told to des cribe particularly the security that might be offered, and to have onr proposal submitted be fore the close of the 25th day of December, 1870; “to consider such bids only as complied with the publio notice, and that ours, while it seemed on its face, entitled to consideration, was utterly deficient, in the matter of seonrity, as you had certified to you by agents of the very companies offered by us. You seem to fear you have given reason for the other bid ders to complain of injustice on your part in allowing us to amend: calling particular at tention to the evidence of yonr fears at the time, as shown by the fact that you directed us to amend at once; whieh, yon say we ntterly failed to do. Yon admit that we offered personal se curity worth over eight millions of dollars ($8,- 000,000;) but yon allege that we failed to name persons willing to go on onr bond, or the prop erty on which we proposed to give a lien; en deavoring to supply this deficiency by express ing our willingness to have the lease awarded to us upon condition that we Rive such security within a reasonable time. Yon inform us that you asked for no such, and barely refrain from charging ns with trifling; saying plainly, and with emphasis, that we offered seenrity that we knew not that we could command. To reject the bid, whioh you have accepted, for onrs, with its local character and fatal defects, you would consider trifling, on your part, with the pnblic interest; in as much as seeing we had failed once, we might fail again, thereby causing you to begin anew, and perhaps, ntterly fail to lease the road. You conclude that you have been over generous to ns in giving ns an opportunity to make a bid at all, seeing the act authorizing you to lease the road, allowed you to lease it without giving any public notice whatever, and without leasing it to the highest bidder nnleas other things are equal. You have no donbt that we will agree with yonr Excellenoy, that you have observed the law in letter and spirit, and have done the best for the State; that yon may be content to abide the verdie of the pnblic in the premises. In reply, I have the honor for myself and as sociates, to state that in order to fully under stand this whole subject, it is necessary to keep in sight the substantial fact that the company which I have the honor to represent in this cor respondence. and of which I am an humble mem ber, made two bids for the "Western and Atlan tic Railroad—one for thixty-fonr thousand five hnndred ($34,500) dollars per month during the whole term of twenty years, the extent of tho lease; the other a sliding bid, commencing with twenty-six thousand ($26,000) dollars per month, and so increasing as to make the average per month, for the twenty years, amount to the sum of thirty-six thousand five'.hundred ($36,- 500) dollars. The bid which yon accepted wasfor twenty-five thousand ($25,000)dollars per month, to be uniform throughout the term of the lease. Taking onr lowest bid, there is a difference in onr favor of nine thousand five hundred ($9,500) dollars per month, or of one hnndred and four teen thousand ($114,000) dollars per annum, or of two million two hundred and eighty thousand (2,280,000) dollars for the 20 years, not to count interest, which, at 7 per cent, wonld be one million five hnndred and ninety-six thousand dollars ($1,596,000), swelling the aggregate dif ference to the neat little sum of three million eight hnndred and seventy-six thousand dollars ($3,876,000. Under our highest bid the aggre gate difference wonld have been four million four hnndred and eighty-eight thousand dollars ($4,488,000.) Upon reflection, will your Exoel lency pretend to weigh the inconvenience of commencing de novo, in case we should have failed to give the required security, added to the trifling expense of ro-advertising, of the in creased advantage of $3,876,000, or of $4,488,- 000, which the State wonld have obtained by the aoceptanoe of onr bid? Your Excellenoy well knows that the road would, in no wise, have been an entire loss to the State, even had no lease been finally effected by “trifling” with it. It is well known that it is no uncommon achieve ment for the road to earn $25,000 per month, the sum offered by the accepted bid, even when in the hands of the State. It strikes the minds of ns all as very remarkable that yon should have preferred the bid you did, in view of the differ ence in the items of money as shown, as well as in view of the fact'that you declared, without hesitation, in the presence of two members of onr company, whose intelligence and standing are of the highest, that you had no donbt of onr ability to give the bond with the required seenrity; that any oompany obtaining the road could give the security. You do us the honor to speak of the high character of the gentlemen composing our company; at the same time you dishonor us before the world in flatly declaring that we have been guilty of false representa tions, in the fact that we pretended to control security which you say we could not. You must have found, by this time, that gentlemen of high oharacter are capable of very low and unworthy conduct. Your Excellenoy is aware that you took care not to allow us an opportu nity to prove the truth of our assertion in re gard to our ability to give the security named. We have never doubted our ability to give for seonrity the identical property which we de soribed in connection with our bid. At the same time we protest that the law did not au thorize you to demand a description of the secu rity at the hands of the bidders; least of all, to reject a bid upon the presumption of failure to give security, before yon had given the bid ders an opportunity to test their ability. We, nevertheless, challenge your Excellenoy to test our ability, even now, and, failing, let ours be the shame of making false pretenses— yours, the honor of having forseen onr du plicity in proposing that which we could not oonsuaur ate. Your Excellency should not have bcon unmindful of the fact, that tho railroada consenting to beoome seenrity for either com pany, did so because of certain positive advan tages which they expected to gain thereby, or to prevent the injury that might result from other roads becoming such security to tho exclu sion of themselves; that the amount paid by the company secured is of no consequence to the roads going it» security; but that tho good will of such company is worth a vast deal to connecting roads ; so that nothing is more na tural than for such connecting roads to strive tor snoh good-will, or at least to be on an equal footing with each other in the favor of snch oompany. - Being thus indifferent as to the amount paid by .the lessees, whose security they propose to become, when a balanoe of interests had already been effected, as in the oase of our rivals, roads wonld be easily moved, by large stockholders and directors, with the bright prospect of a large fortune to be realized by means of their commotion, also with the new Western and Atlantic Railroad Oompany, to throw obstacles in the way of another com pany whose snocess might, some how, seri ously unsettle their already well balanced in terest In this case high officials of snch Roads, in order to make sure of the <ia«ai«g prize, now almost in their grasp, jeopardized only by the rivalry of another oompany, might presume, however foreign to the wish or knowledge of a majority of their fellow-stock holders, to even oertify that their roads would not go security but for their own oompany. Snoh an aot would not be more reprehensible than to deprive the State of five millinna of dol lars, Charged with the high dnty of gnarding the publio interest, these considerations should not have escaped yonr mind; for then it would not have been in the power of greed to form a combination whereby the State loses five mil lions of dollars. You certainly should have ab stained from whispering into the ears of the chief oonspirators, by “rumors on the streets,” information by'means of which they oould so rob our State, for it will not be presumed that these railroad officials betook themselves to certi fying our inability to give security unless they had heard by “rumor on the streets” of our making a higher bid than that in which they themselves were interested. It will not be believed, that the fact, that we had offered the highest bid submitted to your Exoellency, went out from members of our oompany. It was certainly not rumored on the streets by any of us. We were careful not to give our rivals that advantage over us; audwe feel that geeat injustice has been done ns in the fact that the nature of our bid was heard by “rumor on the streets.” It would have been but justioe to us, if rival bidders must know before the lease is awarded, the nature of our bids, and be entitled thereby, clandestinely to thwart our arrangements for security, to be al lowed a day at least to get other seourity in lieu of that, of whieh the rumor heard on the street had deprived us. You seem yourself, to have had at least, a vague conception of the justioe of our having some compensation for the wrong we had suffered from some quarter, unknown to us, except by “rumor on the streets.” If you did not mean to trifle with us, when you gave us notice to amend “at once;” otherwise, why call upon us to amend? Justice at this point, would have allowed us reasonable time to amend our bid. No one knew better than yourself that new security could not be gotten up and fully described “at once.” No one knew better than you, how great an outrage the vast ring who had been put in possession our secrets, were bent on committing not against us, bnt against the whole people of Georgia. Against a combination so powerful, possessed of onr secret, which were no less sacredly our own than important for the public interest, your Excellenoy alone could prevail Had you per mitted no ‘humor on the street” to be heard against us, but kept yourself at equipoise between us and that well certified ring armed as we were with the right, to-day, the poor of our impoverished State would not be con tributing the four millions of dollars which have been so easily pocketed by men already rolling in wealth. Think of the ignorance that this amount of money judiciously ap plied under our common school system wonld dispel. The rioh men who compose the zing need no exeontive aid. They are capitalists of onr State. They are men whose intellects have moulded the policy of our State affairs. They, of all men, needed all the hard earnings of our impoverished people—the means that should have been all voted to the ed ucation of our poor—including those so recently released from bondage. Yon refer to the liberty allowed yon by aot of the Legislature in leasing the road. It is tine you are allowed little liber ty in the premises. "Why suchlibertywas given, we, with certainty, know not. It is not permit ted us to know what the draftsman had in his inind when he drew the bill, which finally be came the law under which you aot in this mat ter. He may have been forming a ring to bid for the road. His plan may have all been ar ranged. That same draftsman may form part of the identical ring now in possession of the road. These things we oannot know. We may be assured, however, that the Legislature in tended the liberty given you by the aoi, to be used for the good of the people, and notfor the benefit of a ring. Had no limit been fixed at all you would have been bound under the gen eral obligation of yonr dnty to the State to lease to the highest bidder—“other things being equal.” All men aot upon that principle of common sense. If yon place your cast-off gar ments in the hands of an auctioneer, to sell for yon, it never occurs to you to instruct him to sell them to the highest bidder. Truly, he would not think of doing otherwise. The quar termaster at our military barracks, sold the re fuse accoutrements and old tent-poles to the highest bidder, and would doubtless be consid ered as derelict in dnty, did he act differently. It was presumed yon wonld act upon the same principle by whioh men are generally governed, when acting for themselves or others. Yon cer tainly would not protond that you »»o permitted to act otherwise in leasing the roadin question. It wonld generally be supposed that you were placed, by the freedom given you by the act, un der increased obligation to see the interest of the State protected. You were given discretion be cause you were presumed to be discreet You evidently so understood your duty, for you claim to have acted for the best interests of the State, and that you were justified in leasing to whom yon did, no matter how good our seenrity, or how particularly described. You base this claim on the fact that onr company is wholly made up of citizens of Atlanta, inferring hence that all the benefits arising from the lease of the road will be confined to the city. You even go so far as to express your devotion to the interests of Atlanta; so that nothing but your obligation to the whole State, oould in fluence yon to an act that might lesson its de velopment in the years to come. Your Excel lency never made a greater mistake than to suppose that the benefits of the road in our hands .would be confined to this city. Be • tho residence of the present lessees here, there and everywhere over the State as at this time, what assurance have yap. that they will not all move to Atlanta as soon as their div idends from the Western and Atlantio Railroad will justify them all retiring from active busi ness life, and enable them to support that otium cum dignitate that comes up to their ideas ot city life. How do you see so far into the future as to know that the members of our company not residing in Atlanta, hereafter called hence to the exercise of their skill as railroaders, ac quired by bard labor, endeavoring to save them selves harmless under the hard bargains which on, doubtless, think would have been theirs, lad the lease been awarded to them, may not find themselves- actually engaged in carrying on the business of those very roads that yon seem so happy in having on the bond recently approved by your Exoellency? Who can say hat the present lessees will not give placo to their assigns, who may reside in this city in less than five years. Had we been awarded the lease, who knows but the shrewd men connected with the railroads, the interests of which you have so beautifully harmonized, might not, by means of their wealth and by their appreciation of the importance of that same harmony for which the State now pays so dearly, have bough- all our interests, and thus diversified the intert ests connected with the State Road? But it never occurred to ns that you were charged with the task of harmonizing railroad interests in the State. It was for you to see that the people, the whole people, received no wrong by your action. This you utterly failed to do. Sup pose the Macon and Western, and the Central Railroad Banking Oompany, had beoome one of the securities, and suppose, moreover, that, by reason of such cleverness on their part (supos- ing we had the road,)a few oar-loada of freight had been sent over their lines, in preference to the Georgia Road, and others—how would the people thereby be injured ? The roads thus fa vored might have received a few dollars, which, otherwise, would have found their way into the coffers of other roads. No one can tell how, in such case, the people would have been harm ed, especially with four millions of dollars added to their fortunes, in the way of diminished taxes. To avoid, however, the appearance of injury to even railroad companies, in the way above in dicated, it wonld havo been well to have had it rumored on the streets that the learo would be awarded to one oompany until the other bid should be raised above ours; aad that the rail roads not named among our securities had bet ter propose to join with the others, to go on onr bond, to prevent injury to their business. The harmony now attained at such heavy ex pense, oould have been thus reached at much less cost to tho Stato. Tho only question for your Excellency to consider, was who offered the highest bid, with amplo seourity to pay the money promised. It is a question of dollars and cents; and as such every citizen, whether rich or poor, railroader or farmer, Governor or governed, is interested in having the road leased for as much money as possible. The people of Atlanta alone, are likely to be in jured by a oompany paying the highest rent for the road; for it might beoome necessary, in order to make the road pay in such case, to show this city fewer favors, than a oompany paying less rent could afford to do. So your objections to our oompany, on aooount of ita being confined to this city, is wholly without foroe; nay, the argument you claim for the other company, as against ours, is all with US. The benefits from our leasing the road, so far from being local in its beneficial effects would have been felt in every household, whether rich or poor, throughout the length and breadth of the State. Oar bid was submitted to your Exoellanoy be fore the close of December 25, 1870. Though the accredited agent of the Central Railroad and Basking Company had, on the 20th ult, al ready given the pledge of that oompany’« secu rity for parties with whom said agent was as sociated, and the same person had, as of the Macon and Western Railroad Company, made a similar statement in reward to the latter road, I assert that we had the highest authority for offering both of said roads for security.— Your Excellenoy seems to have been somewhat confused by the artifice of an interested agent aad director. "What possible hindrance oould there be in the way of these roads to prevent them from proposing to go security for both eom- panies, for but one of said companies oould ob tain the lease, and but one ooula oall on them to fulfill their promise in case of a successful bid. There ooula have been no possible conflict here. The highest officials on such roads, as wcDasthe stockholders thereof, would have been ready to support us in our bid, bad we been successful just as we first assured your Excellenoy. We were informed that such Roads would be ample security. The securities required by the act of the Legislature are required to justify in the sum of two millions of dollars, and everybody knows that said roads aro ample for the pur pose. Your Excellency will agree with us, that we could have given the security offered had you awarded us the lease. But sir, we deny your right to decide our in ability to command the seourity named by us until" we had failed. We had shown your Ex- oellenoy that our oompany possessed ample property, free from debt and incumbrance of any sort, to make good any loss the State might have sustained by reason of onr failure to com ply with the terms upon whieh the lease was awarded. Had we failed, your Excellenoy had but to sue us to reoover the damages sustained by the State at our hands. Weafi understood that we would be held responsible for damages in oase of pur failure. We would have called on your Exoellency, had we felt that we needed yonr assistance to save us from such conse quences. By your exoessive zeal in our behalf, you have done us a great wrong—you have wronged the State whose interests yon had been set to guard. Against this wrong I protest, in the name of myself and associates, and in the name of the defrauded citizens of Georgia. We now de mand the possession of said road as our legal right. And we notify your Excellenoy that wa will exhaust all lawful means to obtain our rights in the premises. Very respectfully, M. G. Dobbins. Krjrznnowski in Washington. We see by the Herald specials from' Wash ington, last Tuesday, that the late Inspector of Elections, in Bibb oonnty has reached there in breathless terror and foil of trouble. Pint, about his personal and official perils in Savan nah, there is this muoh: Threats Against a Revenue Offices in Sa vannah.—Colonel Krjzanowski, Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the States of Georgia and Florida, who has just arrived here from Savan nah, reports that he was recently notified by the Mayor of that city that his life was unsafe while he remained in Savannah. It appears that this officer has rendered himself particnlarly obnox ious to the enemies of the adcunistration on aooount of the fearless and efficient maimer in whioh he discharged his duties in prosoenting parties guilty of violations of the revenue laws and in breaking up illicit distilleries through out the State. The notification from the Mayor to the Colonel that his life was threatened, did not astonish Colonel Kryzanowsbi, for he had previously received intimations to that effect, and had of It.to been in the habit of going about folly armed for any emergency. The Mayor, however, for the good name of the oity, prompt ly tendered him a guard of policemen for his personal protection, while the oolored men of the city of Savannah volunteered to be his es cort wherever he chose to go in his superviso rial district. The information, it is alleged, was given to the Mayor through Democratic sources, and upon learning of the threats made against Colonel Kryzanowski, prominent merchants of Savannah came forward and offered to enter In to bonds in the sum of $300,000 for his safe conduct While in Georgia. We have not a doubt of the falsity of the whole of this story, but the Savannah papers oan 'deal with.it. That Colonel Screven sent any such notification it is impossible to believe. The next dispatch is Kryzanowski on the election. The slippery Pole got things a good deal mixed when he speaks about the Third State Senatorial Distriot for the 1st Con gressional District. If Joshua Hill knows about any “threats of violenoe,” we hope he will oon* descend to particulars. How the Election was Carried in Geor gia—Ballot Boxes Stolen by Ku Kuxes.— Colonel Kryzanowski, in oompany with Collect or Robb; of the port of Savannah, had an in terview with the President to-day, when the por litioal condition of affairs in that State was the subjeet of conversation. Prominent Republi cans, direct from Georgia, allege that frauds, without number, were perpetrated at the recent election, and the evidence to thin effect has been accumulated and will be plaoed in the hands of the Judiciary Committee of the Sen ate. Especially is this true, it is stated, in the Third State Senatorial district, where the noto- rious colored man, Bradley, was, as is alleged, hired by the Democrats to run on an indepen dent Republican ticket for the purpose of de feating the regular Republican candidate, and giving the distriot to the Democrats. The elec tion in this district will be oontested, as well as in other districts, where, it Is said, t the Kit Klnxes stole the ballot boxes and prevented a fair count being made of the ballots deposited. It is understood that Joshua Hill, Senator elect from Georgia, under the first reconstruction measure, concurs in the course pursued by the protesting Republicans, believing that, through threats of violenoe in many prooinots, a fair vote was not obtained. Tbe Herald on Re-Reconstruction The Herald, whioh of lata has been a blatant bepraiser of Grant and his Administration, in cluding that odious San Domingo job, suddenly veers round now, as if conscious of a grand mis take, and falls to on the opposite tack. It sums up the Southern situation and Grant’s blunders connected therewith, as follows, in its issue of Sunday last: Hero we are led to ask what the position of the administration is. From onr independent and impartial standpoint we are bound to say that both it and its party have lost ground. This is evident when we look at the popularity of the President when he entered the white House in March, 1869, and the overwhelming strength of the Republicans both in Congress and in the several Stato governments, and compare their situation then with what it is now. They bad absolute power over the question of reconstruct ing the South, and strained every effort to make that section radical republican. They believed they had, and might have had, perhaps, the sympathy and support of the negroes, who owed their liberty and franchises principally to the Republicans; and this new voting element is a very powerful one in the South. But the admin istration and Us party overreached themselves. They were too illiberal, vindictive and restrictive. A generous and forgiving polioy, looking to the early restoration and harmony of the South, and making political reconstruction subservi ent to that, would have secured the support both of the negroes and a large part of the white population. Bat the white people, and many of the negroes, have become alienated from the Republican party through the illiberal policy pursued towards the South, and through the disgust which carpet-bag and scalawag pro teges of the Government have inspired. As a consequence, we see most of the Southern States have become Demooratic, and that there is a prospect of all becoming so. Tbe adminis tration and the dominant party feel keenly this defection. Indeed, it is whispered in Washing ton that the Republicans are so disappointed that they contemplate reconstructing the Sou ill over again. But we oannot believe they will do anything so outrageous and dangerous, lor it would ntterly ruin them. They Save failed in the South, and must suffer the penalty of their mistaken policy. A Washington special to the New York Times of Wednesday, says the Senate Judiciary Com mittee will report in favor of seating Messrs. Will and MiH*> as Senators from Georgta, aad such is the general opinion at Washington. "■ - j? * ►
