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THE FEDERAL UNION.
Corner oj Hancock and Wilkinton Streets.)
Wednesday Morning, February 14, 1872'
rwci,* 8*n I St LIKEI.V TO HATS
MIS HANDS Fl'Mi.
There has long been a strong sus
picion resting in the minds of many
people that Gen. Grant, when he found
that other means were likely to fail
of re-electing him President, would
plunge the country into a foreign war
rather than fail. His object in doing
this would be threefold. It would
give an excuse for increasing the mili
tary power of the country—of giving
fat jobs and contracts to his iriends—
of raisingand disbursing immense sums
of money; all of which would help to
strengthen the power of the adminis
tration and oppress the people. This
he believes would enable him to re
elect himself. But in order to bring
about all of these desired results the
administration has been a little too
anxious to pick up a war, and instead
of one. we are now threatened with four
or five at the same time.
By means of defrauding and cheat
ing the Indians, Gen. Parker and other
Indian agents have involved us in an
Indian war all along our southwestern
frontier. Our Yankee smugglers are
likely to involve us in a war with
Spain. Gan. Grant and Mr. Fish have
got up a difficulty with Russia on a
point of etiquette; and our commission
ers whilst pretending to settle our dif
ficulties with Britain, have got them
into such a snarl that no one can untie
the knot, and it may have to be cut
by the sword.
Here we have the Indians scalping
our defenseless settlers on the frontier;
the Canadians and blue noses snub
bing and insulting our fishermen on
the North ; the Spaniards chasing and
boarding our shipping in the West In
dies ; the Russian bear growling and
showing his teeth ; and John Bull paw
ing and shaking his horns and ready to
gore us in a moment if we don’t come
to terms. But how can we come to
terms? Have nor Senators Chandler
and Sumner insulted and defied Johu
Bull in the open Senate, and are they
not part of administration ?
It is true we might plead in mitiga
tion that Sumner was crazy and Chand
ler was drunk, and that they were not
in earnest, and only wanted to make a
little capital for the Radicals at the
next election. But John Bull is a mat
ter of fact old gentleman, and don’t
relish any such jokes. It would not
do for us to own up the truth, and ac
knowledge that all of this bluster was
just to help re-elect Gen. Grant Presi
dent. This would probably prevent
any war, but it would also derange
and break up the Radical programme
of electing a military dictator. Un
der all of the circumstances we do not
see how we are to get out of all of
these quarrels in which the Radicals
have involved the country without a
fight, and if we get into a fight with
four or five nations at once, it will be
a serious business. Then will those
valiant champions who have set the
world at defiance have a chance to
show their prowess. Then will Bill
Nye and Zach Chandler, and Charles
Sumner have a chance to make good
their boasted patriotism. But will
they do it; will they volunteer to
shoulder the musket and march against
those enemies they have defied, or will
they come and fling their ill-gotten
gains into the treasury they have plun
dered ? Neither of them will be ready
to make any sacrifice for their country
when the hour of trial comes. Much
sooner may we look for those who
have been reviled and abused as rebels
and traitors to come forward and offer
their lives for their country. Much
sooner should we look for Breckinridge
and Joe Johnson and Beauregard to
sacrifice themselves on the altar of
their country, than any of those win
dy, boasting heroes who are only va
liant at a distance from danger, and
love th«ir country only for what they
can make out of her misfortunes. If
by Radical blundering, or by their in
tentions, the country is involved in a
foreign war, we have no doubt the
South will do her full share of the
fighting. They will fight for the coun
try, not for the Radical party.
Wben Yankee insolence and pride
Have angered all the world beside—
When fear and want at once pervade,
Can we refuse to give them aid,
And not sustain through blood aud thunder
These rascals gorged with Southern plunder.
The New Supreme Court Judge.
—Gov. Smith has appointed Wm. W.
Montgomery, Esq., of Augusta, to a
position on the Supreme Bench of the
State, to fill the vacancy caused by
Judge Warner’s promotion to the of
fice of Chief Justice of that tribunal.
Mr. M. is the law partner of Hon.
HerscheL-V. Johnson, and will, if the
latter’s disabilities are removed by
July, give place at that time to him.
At least that seems to be the generally
received opinion.— Telegraph.
GREAT JAIL DELIVEKV IN ATLAN
TA.
“ One by one the thieves are caught,
Nine at a time they all escape."
At any other place except Atlanta
it would seem strange that nine crimi
nals should escape from jail in open
daylight through the front door, and
HOW ABU THU illlGUI'V FAIiLKK.
A year ago the name of II. I- Kim
ball in Atlanta could stand against the
world; now none are so low as to do
liim reverence. People in Atlanta
once almost worshipped Kimball;
they used his name to conjure with ;
without breaking the jail; but in At' j they believed that by calling upon him
lanta they do things different from j they could get anything they asked
other places. Jo Fry was in that jail, j for. He gave them their Opera House,
their Fair grounds, their race track,
their H. I. Kimball Hotel. In short
he made Atlanta what it is. If that is
any credit it is his, and now the un
grateful people of Atlanta want to
obliterate his name from their sight,
and extinguish all recollections of him
from their memories. In the Atlanta
sun of the 8th instant, after reading
the fact that the H. I. Kimball Hotel
had been sold by the Sheriff for a little
over SI5,000, we find these awful
words:
“ Now let those iron letters, ‘‘The H. I. Kimball
House," which stand in bold relief upon the lintel of
the main porch nf the building, be hewn off. Let that
block of marble, high up in the wall of the State
House, with large sculptured letters in relief—"Kim
ball's Opei a House’’— be takeu out and the cavity fill
ed up with bricks. Let ns wipe out the last vestige of
the out-cropping vanity, egotism, asaumacy, and
swelled-up importance of H. I. Kimball. He was
bloated with a high estimate of his own greatness—a
characteristic seldom exhibited by men who are truly
great.”
Mr. Andy McMctb, an old an much esteemed eitixen
(ft Tnouiaa county, died on the 1th inet.
and it was necessary for the peace and
comfort of many of the elite of Atlanta
that Jo should be got out and be sent
out of the country. And why ? Be
cause Jo had been Blodgett’s confiden
tial Clerk and knew many of the se
crets of Blodgett’s swindling opera
tions, and it was feared that when Joe
was brought up on the stand to testify
in some of the cases now pending that
he would tell too much—a great deal
too much—and implicate some of the
citizens of Atlanta who live in fine
houses, supposed to have been built
out of the earnings of the State Road.
It was necessary then for the peace
and comfort of those honorable citizens
that Jo should get out of jail and go
off, so that his testimony would not
come out in Court against them. But
how was this to be effected ? Just as
regular as clock work. It seems the
prisoners were locked up in cells, and a
strong guard placed around the jail;
whilst this was the case the prisoners
could not escape, so when the jailor
came to visit the jail in the morning
he dismissed the watch and let the
prisoners come ort from their cells
into the hall. He then locked the front
door and went across the street to his
breakfast, leaving the prisoners in the
hall. The jailor seemed to know what
he was about, and so did the prisoners,
for he had not been gone more than
two minutes before the alarm was
given “ the prisoners are escaping.”
VVe think the prisoners should have
waited a little longer for the sake of
appearances, but they did not. They
had a key to open the front door, and
they opened it and went out. The
most natural thing in the world, the
jailor got back in time to see the last
of the nine dodging round the corner.
But Jo Fry had escaped, that was
enough for the quiet of some of the
good citizens of Atlanta. The police
run after the escaped prisoners, but did
not happen to get them. They search
ed several of the obscure houses in At
lanta for Jo Fry. This was very fool
ish in the police; if they really wanted
to find Fry they should have searched
some of the fine houses. It was only
those who lived in fine houses and had
got rich on public plunder, that had
any interest in concealing Fry. But
we suspect the police knew what they
were about. The Atlanta Sun seems
to think that gold or silver foil had
something to do in Fry’s escape. We
think Fry is yet concealed about At
lanta. Those who fear his testimony
will be afraid to send him off for fear
he will come back again. He has been
sent off twice before, but soon came
back again. Atlanta is the only place
where Fry is of any consequence, and
he likes to be where he is of some
consequence ; but we don’t think his
friends in Atlanta will ever permit him
to testify against the State Road pris
oners. It would be too dangerous to
Atlanta for that to be allowed.
GEORGIA AGKICI'LTIRE AND ITS
ISPROTiniXT.
A few days since, in that fine agri
cultural paper “ The Plantation,” we
noticed a letter from General Colquitt,
Col. Yancey, and other distinguished
private citizens, inviting the Rev.
Charles W. Howard to visit on their
behalf and of others who will contrib
ute the small sum of twenty dollars
each (simply to defray the expenses
of the trip and a residence of a few
months) England, with a view to col
lect information by observation and
otherwise, of the modes of the culture
of the grains and grasses, and of hus
bandry in general of that prosperous
and toiling people.
The cultivated intellect of Mr. How
ard—his long and watchful experience
in many of the diversified subjects
which fall naturally within the duties
and interests of tha farmer—his de
votion to Georgia his native State, and
his enthusiastic perseverance and in
telligence in trying to advance all the
great industrial activities which alone
can give us a higher civilization, mark
him as a gentleman not only highly but
peculiarly qualified for the proposed
mission.
Georgia should be thoroughly de
veloped, and toward doing this we
should ascertain and use the improve
ments of other quarters of the world.
Let our people exert themselves,
and prove as they could easily do, that
with such a variety of climate, soil,
productions, health, proximity to
markets, facility in reaching them, and
such astounding cheapness of lands,
that there is no spot oil the globe
where limited means, united with in
dustry, can secure a more desirable home.
Will not oar readers exeit them
selves by contribution, at once, to carry
out this agricultural movement.
Now was there ever anything more
cruel, more ungrateful than that the
man who a little more than a year
B. OKATZ BROWS.
He speaks to the Liberal Republicans—
The Grant Scheme Shown Up—“A
Despotism in the Party a Despotism in
the Sation" — Views on “Southern
Outrages''—Democratic Alliance.
ago was worshipped as the guardian
angel of Atlanta, and his name held in UD jt_ e themselves with this new action
At the meeting of the Liberal Re
publican Convention of the 24th Jan
uary, loud calls were made for Gover
nor B. Gratz Brown, who finally rose
in his seat and made a brief but poin
ted speech, every word of which is as
telling as true. We regret space does
not permit us to reproduce entire
these able utterances of the great Mis
sourian ; but we append such extracts
as show beyoud cavil where he stands
to-day From them will be &een his
views upon the our great questions
that to-day absorb the attention of ev
ery Southerner. Governor Brown
speaks for no section and for no party;
only for the country and for the cause
of Right and Justice. But we prefer
to let him speak for himself as follows:
Let me say, Mr. President, that I
am not often given to doubts or hesi
tancy in political action ; but, sir. if
doubts did crowd upon my mind now,
and if any hesitancy operated within
my breast, when I look abroad over
this assembly and see here, there, and
almost everywhere, remnants of the
old guard of freedom, ready to-day to
reverence, is now driven into exile, 1 0 f deliverance, I would have all my
and it is now proposed to expunge his' doubts dissipated. [Cheers.]
name from the houses which he built 1 *
for that ungrateiul people. If the
name of the Hotel is to be changed,
we think it should bear the name
which Mr- Toombs has given it. “ Our
House," as it was built with the peo-
Mr. President, the resolutions that
have been presented to you embody
very fully and very forcibly the out
lines of those reforms which we labor
to accomplish. They cover many
branches of the control of the Govern-
ple’s money. But the name of Kim-j meat. They embrace the civil ser-
ball’s Opera House can never be chang
ed. Everything about it is associated
with Kimball and Bullock.
“ You may bieak, you may shatter the vase if you wiil
Hut the scent of the roses wiil hang round it still/*
Another Clew to Bullock’s Fi
nances.—It seems whilst Bullock was
acting Governor he deposited money,
both for himself and for the State, in
the National Bank of Atlanta. Kim
ball also had an account in the same
Bank
in that Bank $122,950 50 in favor of
the State, but the cashier says Bullock,
had overdrawn on his private account
over $50,000, and Kimball had over
drawn about $35,000. So the cashier
charged Bullock’s private indebted
ness to the State. Bullock wrote to
Conley about this money deposited in
the Bank and Conley drew a check for
it, but the Bank refused to pay it.
When Gov. Smith came luto office lie
found correspondence between Bullock
aud Conley on that subject, and imme-
vice, the revenue, and all the workings
of national machinery ; and they go
further, sir, and strike at the very
heart of that which must be the cen
tral figure and point of attack in this
great fight of the future ; that is, the
centralization of the National Govern
ment over all local freedom. It is
there that you have got to confront
your foe ; it is there that it is intrench
ed ; it is there that it is surrounded
with all the appliances of military
support ; it is from that quarter that
When Bullock went off he left >t ls disseminating ideas that are de
moralizing the public thought of the
country, and teaching it to rely, not
upon the people, not upon their own
local, State, or other associations for
protection, but upon the simple be
hest ®f a national central power and
central authority.
Day by day the firm foundations of
your constitutional forms of govern
ment are being insidiously sapped, un
der one excuse or another : now to
control elections, now to suppress an
alleged disorder ; and thus under the
guise of maintaining the liberties of
some, there is being prepared that fa
tal lethargy of local independence and
Judge of the Supreme Court.—
VVe learn that the Governor has ap
pointed W. W. Montgomery of Au
gusta to fill the place on the bench,
made vacant by the appointment of
Warner Chief Justice. Wa have no
personal acquaintance with Mr. Mont
gomery but learn from a townsman
who is well acquainted with him that
he it a gentleman of much legal learn
iDg and firmness. It is understood that
the appointment is only until the
meeting of the Legislature.
——
At a sale in Savannah on Tuesday last 50 shares
of Savannah Bank and Trost Company stock
brought par; 40 shares of Centra! Railroad stock
at $107 per share; 20 shares of Southwestern at 90.
Upwards of forty men have been dischared from
employ of the Atlantic and Gulf Road since
the first of the month, and the prospect is that
still more will be thrown out of employment.
early one hundred uien have been discharged
trom the Central Railroad during the season.
—Mi tot. °
diately had ail attachment against the j self-government which hut smooths
the way for the slavery of all. The
assumption and continued exercise by
the General Government of powers
largely self-asserted in time of war,
never dreamed of heretpfore in timeof
peace, the military marshaling of all
its functions into the control of a sin
gle will, and the fierce partisanship
which accords to that will almost give
an immunity from challenge, are sigus
of the time too plain to he misunder
stood—signs full of peril to the liber
ties of the people- The prolongation
of a despotic control over all those sec
tions that had surrendered and ac
quiesced in the settlements of the war,
rather for political than patriotic ends;
the refusal of such policies of amnes
ty and general suffrage as would have
restored peace and self-government;
gave ominous shadowing to many of
the friends of real freedom of what
was contemplated. And the enor
mous stretches of executive power no
less thau its ruthless exercise, to mas
ter other communities elsewhere, by
the power of patronage, have not serv
ed to lighten up the picture.
Now, sir, for one, I am certainly
free to say that I do not fear that the
liberties of this nation, in the preseut
instance and hour, will be wrested
from them by the will of any individu
al man, however powerful he may be;
but I do fear that if this is permitted
to go on, this demoralization of pub
lic sentiment, this teaching of the peo
ple to acquiesce in, and consent to in
fractions of the national constitution
in violation of the rights of communi
ties ; this dominion of the national au
thority of all election control through
its hirelings of office and its party ma
chinery, that you pave the way for a:i
incipient despotism that may some day
give you a bloody account of itself.
Mr. President, I am no alarmist;—
but when so many of those who have
been the most steadfast friends of
freedom in this nation express their
grave apprehension at what is trans
piring. is it not time that we sliouid
engage in some serious effort to bring
our government back to ttiose limita
tions of powers which have, been
found so essential to the safe ordering
of any free society. And I may add
another thought, which is this : that
as a believer in individual liberty, in
the right of free speech, in the value
of the widest discussion of national
politics, I cannot but feel additional
misgivings in the practices of those
who assume to conduct the national
government in the name of freedom,
yet evidence such dire and sinister in
tolerance against all who may question
the wisdom of their action. They
who would erect a despotism within
the party, will not be loth to erect a
despotism within the nation, if only
public thought can be once sufficient
ly demoralized and subdued. And
agian, [cheers], for one, I do not feel
disposed to stand idly by and see this
ostracism of the bravest and the strong
est in the battles of the past, go for
ward without any organized resis
tance. Must we signify only acqui-
esence, whilst so many, many of those
who are held in honor, are thrust
aside by the regime that controls at
the seat of government.
Have we not seen already the effect
of this power in the natiou since the
bank and all of the assets of the Bank
placed in charge of the Sheriff to await
the trial.
Forney Thinks Grant’s Chances
Gloomy.—The Tribune’s Washington
correspondent under date of Tuesday
writes as follows :
Col. Forney, of Philadelphia, is in
the city to-day on private business.—
In conversation lie speaks very des-
pondingly of Grant’s chances of re-
nomination, and doubts very much if
Philadelphia even will support him.—
Other reports from other States are to
the effect that Grant stock is declin
ing everywhere, and all that is now
necessary for his defeat is a concentra
tion of the Independent Republicans
on some strong honest man-
Tlie Savannah News nf Friday, has this item :
Last evening, while Dr Stone, the Deputy Collec
tor of Customs for this port, was escorting the wife of
Captain Colesberry ofthe Revenue entter Nausemond,
to th< wharf wl eie the steamer Sau Antonio was lying
on which vessel the lady was about to take passage
for Brunswick, he fell into the river Mrs. Colesberrv,
with great presmee of mind, reached over the edge of
the w harf and the tide being high, succeeded in grasp
ing Dr. Stone by the hand, at the same time giving the
alarm, and attracting the attention ot Mr. Henry Max
well, the engineerof the San Autonio, who promptly
came to the rescue aud assisted in getting Dr. Stone
out of the treacherous river. To the cool and intrepid
conduct of the indy the rescued gentleman probably
owes his life, aud her conduct deserves more than a
passing notice.
The schooner Olive, from Orient. Long Island, with
a cargo of 210 tons of guano consigned to F. W. Sims
& Co. of Savannah, went ashore oil the oyster bed be
low Tybee, Thursday morning.
The Telegraph and Messenger of the 8lh instant
gays ground was broken on Wednesday for the
new building* of the Mercer University. An in
teresting ar d eloquent address was delivered by
Hon. D. E Butlei, President of the Board of
Trustees, after which the ceretneuies were gone
through with, a few members of the Board of
Trustees, the Faculty, and students of the Uni
versity, taking part therein. After having waited
go long, the public will be glad to learn that the
work has now fairly beguu, and will be rapidly
pushed to completion.
The Warrenton Clipper learns from a private let
ter that there is every probability that the compa
ny with which ex Governor H. V. Johnson i* asso
ciated, will recover their claims for cotton tax.
Parti: s who have delayed handing in their claim*
should give them in at once.
Trnn*ramin|[ (he L'aniplexiae.—The trails'
formations produced by Hagan's Magnolia Balm are
quite as astonishing ns ary scene on the stage of a
theatre. That famous beautifior, transmutes a sallow,
peek)'looking complexion, into one in which the lilly
and the rose vie for admiration, aud impart* tq a dry,
harsh skin, the softness of perfect lovelinea*. Tan
and freckles, which country air and sunlight are pretty
sure to produce, in spite of parasols and sundowns, are
completely obliterated by it; while it has a perfectly
magical effect in banishing undue redness, blotches
aud pimples from the skin When the lady who has
used it to remedy her complexional detects looks in
the mirror, she is equally astonished and gratified at
the improvements in her appeal atice. Every blemish
has disappeared: her neek, arms and bosom, now rival
in whiteness the snowy collar which encircles her
throat, her cheek mantles with a peach-like bloom, aud
she is rdudy to invoke a blessing on the inventor of
the article which has wrought such a delightful trans
formation.
If you desire rosy cheeks aud a complexion fair and
free trom Pimples. Blotches and E'uptious, purify
your blood by taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Disoovery.
A Vast Never kefere Supplied.
In the South where Liver Complaint and Bilious dis
eases prevail to so great an extent there has long been
felt the need of a medicine that would act specifically
aud promptly on the Liver, restoring it to it* normal
functions, and at the same time be safe from after ef
fects, and yet so simple that it might be used by any
one. It is now admitted by all that DR. TUTT’S
VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS supplies this want.
They are now prescribed by the moat eminent Phy
sicians throughout the whole South.
Augusta, November 8,1869.
Dr-W.H. Tutt:
Dear Sir—That you deserve the thanks af the pub
lic for the introduction of your Vegetable Liver Pills,
no one wbo has ever taken them will deny. I consid
er them a blessing to suffering humanity. I have
used them in my own case and in my family for some
time with the greatest success. Their action is gentle
but certain, producing no griping nor requiring any
change of diet. That they will find their way to every
part of the country, I have no doubt. I cordially com
mend them to the afflicted.
Yours, etc.,
W. C. HEWITT, Proprietor Globe Hotel.
Dr Tull's Hair Dye in the Beni ia tee.
advent of West Point to Washington
City ? [Cheers.] Have we not re
cognized how the military service has
supplanted the civil service ? Have
we n it seen the whole body of the
civil list turned into a body of person
al retainers? Have we not seen the
Senate of the United States dominated
by a single executive order ? Have
we not seen the Mouse of Representa
tives placed upon the pension list ?—
[Loud cheers.] Have we not seen all
parts in the machinery of the Govern
ment so corrupted that the question is
not with the people—whom will you
choose but who is it permitted you to
choose, and yet be called Republicans?
Do we not remember the edict that
went forth in the State of Missouri a
little more than one year ago, direct
from the White House, with the sig
nificant remark, “Show this to Easton,
Smith and Newcomb ?” [Loud
cheering.] Have we not seen the
leading representative of one great el
ement of our population, and certainly
of a great element of Republican
strength—I allude to our German fel
low-citizens, who have but a single
representative in the Senate of the
United States—have we not seen him
when he presented his card at the door
of the Executive office—and it might
be presumed that one charged with so
much responsibility had weighty mat
ters to present—have it returned to
him with him the words, “not in,”
[cheers] whilst Chandler, Cameron,
Sherman, Morton and Drake were
flitting in and out the side doors like
scene shifters in a theatre ? [Cheers ]
It is not uecessary that I should go
on with this long list of martyrdoms
that have been perpetrated in the
name of freedom by those who arro
gate to themselves the right to repre
sent and be the Republican party of
this nation. But let me tell you, gen-
glemen, that strong as the President
is—(against whom personally it is the
fashion to charge all this) and I am of
those who believe him to be a strong,
brave, and self-willed man—that there
are stronger intellects behind him who
have more potent influences than any
that he wields ; and it is with those
likewise that you will have to make
your fight for the control ot this nation
into other aud better courses. It is
they who mould these policies ; and
you will find that this issue that is to
be joined is not to be a personal issue
against a single individual, but it is to
be fought squarely and to final con
summation against the whole element
that surrounds and sustains him.
Mr. President, it is not my purpose
to go into any general discussion of
the various matters that have been
presented by your resolutions; but
there is one to which I feel that it is
appropriate that I should allude here
at this time. I refer to what is known
as the suspension of the great writ of
right; the habeas corpus, that guaran
tees your liberty aud mine, at the
beck and will of a single individual,
on the plea that perhaps somewhere
else somebody may commit a crime.
Now, I say, that more unconstitution
al and atrocious legislation, designed,
as I have reason to apprehend, rather
for partisan than for patriotic pur
poses, was never perpetrated under
this Government. (Cheers.] I d©
not justify those wrongs that are gen
erally committed under the name of
Ku-Kiux. I think that all invasion of
law should be put down. I think that
peace aud order should be maintained
in every community; but, sir, there
are other aud better modes of sustain
ing peace and order in such civil so
ciety as ours; and the refusal to adopt
them, and the swift resort to these
harsh and dangerous expedients of sub
jecting everything to military terror
ism, is but another illustration of that
shrouded danger that is brooding in
our midst. And here the question
may be fairly propounded—what con
struction is to be placed upon tins fail
ure, for six long years, to accomplish
any reconciliation of the torn com
munities of the 8outh with the general
order and harmony of our self-regu
lating republican system ? Those who
are in entire antagonism to Republi
caiiism, point to that fact, and allege
tiiat there has been design, under the
process of piilage and misrule, involv
ing so much of bankruptcy, to force
new disorders for the purpose of hav
ing an excuse to maintain a partisan
domination there. Whilst I may not
concur in such belief, certainly as to
the intent of a large majority of Re
publican law-makers, yet I would call
your thoughtful attention to the re
sult of an elaborate inquiry recently
made by a commission, under Congres
sional authority, into the Ku-Klux
outrages at the Ciouth.
It is said that this commission which
has recently passed through the South
ern States investigating these grave
charges, has come back burdened with
volume after volume of evidence,
thousands and thousands of pages set
ting forth this wrong, that wrong and
the other. Granting all fairness to
that investigation,assuming the wrongs
which they represent is true, I ask
you, does it not establish to your sat
isfaction, and that ot all sincere re
flecting Republicans, that an adminis
tration which came into power pro
claiming peace, aud which for years
has had all the appliances of this na-
tion under its hand, and yet at the
end of that time puts upon your table
volumes of what it calls accumulated
outrages, that that administration is
not fit to be entrusted with power any
longer ? [Cheers.] * * #
One other word and I have done.
Some of our friends seem to indulge
in very great timidity about what is
known as the Democratic party. I
participate in no such apprehensions.
It they shall deem it wise to sustain
our action, I am tree, for one, to wel
come them all to the work of regen
eration. Let us have them with us.
I shall be truly glad ot the co-opera
tion of ail the antagonistic elements
of this nation who oppose preseut
abuses, aud are zealously iu favor of
these reforms; .and I shall not be
afraid that my orthodoxy will be im
peached or tarnished by any such as
sociation. [Cheers.] And I will add
furthermore, sir, that if in that crown
ing victory we shall be able to assure
this nation that that great Democratic
party, which has occupied such a con
spicuous positiou in the anuals of our
country, has come forward honestly
and acquiesced in the settlement of
the war, and has addressed itself to
the great problems of the future, with
a view of their solution, then I shall
say that each and every man who as
sists in bringing about that result will
be entitled to the honor and gratitude
of his country.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Aa ■■tmaliai Lsllsr front Ike Srbaal r»»-
■iui<Hr—The Law ia Regard la Pablic
Schaals.
From the Atlanta Constitution.]
Permit me, through your columrs,
tojgive briefly as possible, certain infor
mation, first, to those interested in
in Public Schools to be inaugurated
for the year 1872, and second, to those
who have rendered services, as school
officers, the past year, and are still
unpaid.
1. As to the schools for the present
year. Under the amended school law,
no school can be established in any
county till the fall term of the Superi
or Court for that county. The only
school officers for the county,
under the law, will be the County
Board, to be composed of five free
holders, and the County Commissioner,
chosen by them either trom their own
number, or from the citizens of the
county. The Grand Jury, at the first
session after the passage of the law,
section 16th, is to choose this Board;
and it is made the duty of the Board,
section 19th, to “make an estimate of
the amount necessary, in addition to
what will be received trom the State,
to carry on said schools for at least six
months in the year, which estimate
shall be placed before the Grand Jury
at its next session, and said Grand Jury
may, if they approve said estimate, au
thorize the Ordinary or County Com
missioner in such county to levy a
county tax sufficient to raise the requir
ed sum.” Thus it is clear no county
tax can be levied till the fall term of
the caurt, and section 30th provides
that, “in case the Board of Education
of any county shall fail to make the
necessary provisions for continuing the
schools in operation the length of time
herein required, (six months, or, in the
Case of ambulatory schools, three
months—Com ) Such graded or high
schools, and primary schools, as the
case may be, shall not be entitled to
any portion ot the school fund arising
from the State tax during the next
succeeding school year or subsequent
school years until the establishment ot
such school or schools, but such fund
shall remain in the treasury of the
State of Georgia.” This last quota
tion seems to establish it as the policy
of the law to pay over to no county
her pro rato part of the State fund,
till the constitutional authorities levy
the necessary county tax. It is clear,
then, that no schools can be establish
ed till the second term of the court,
and not then without the grand jury
shall authorize the levy of the necessa
ry county tax. I would, therefore,
recommend teachers to open private
schools upon their own terms for the
first half of the year.
2* As to the compensation for ser
vices rendered by teachers and others
the past year. It will be seen from
the copy of the law, which has been
generally distributed among the school
officers, that section 4 of the act, ap
proved 20th January, 1872, authoriz
es the Governor to draw his warrant
on the Treasurer in favor of the State
School Commissioner for the sum ot
three hundred thousand dollars, to be
paid out of the funds then in the
Treasury, appropriated by law, to the
public school system, and if said fund
is insufficient to pay the debt now due
to the officers and teachers of public
schools, section 5 provides that the
amount shall be raised by a sale of
bonds now in the Treasury ef the
State under act of July 16, 1S70. It
is impossible for me to tell when this
money will be ready for distribution
for several reasons.
In the first place, there is great un
certainty as to what is due the school
fund, and it is impossible to ascertain,
at present, what portion af this is now
in the Treasury.
2. A proviso to the section in refer
ence to the sale of bonds says that
they shall not be sold at rates injuri
ous to the credit of the State, to be
left to the discretion of the Governor.
3. Another proviso requires the
money to be distributed in the propor
tion of the children of each county en
titled to the privileges of the public
schools, and there are thirty counties
in the State that have not made full
returns as to the number of children
thus entitled.
Just as soon as the necessary steps
can be taken to realize the money in a
manner which shall accord with the
provisions of the law, it will be done,
and the parties interest shall receive
the proper official notice from this de
partment.
Gustavus J. Orr,
State School Commissioner.
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