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VOL. II The Quitman Reporter IS PUBLISHED EVER? THURSDAY BY r r. A. IIA IX, I’uoprlotol*. TKBMB: One Year $2 00 Six Months 1 Three Months 00 All subscriptions must bn paid invariably f ii adrance no discrimination in favor of anybody. Thu p iper will be stopped in nil instances at the expiration o f die time paid for, unless •subscriptions are previously renewed. JtATES OF ADVERTISING. A lvertisoments inserted at the rate of SI.OO per square one inch for first inser tion. and 75 cents for each subsequent in sertion. All advertisements should be marked for ii specified time, otherwise they will be charged under the rule of so much for the first insertion, and so much for each subse quent insertion. Marriages, Obituaries and Tributes of Re spect. wiil be charged same rates as ordinary ; advertisements. A liberal discount will be allowed , merchants for yearly advertisements. I VJIJSX HILLS ARE DCE. All bills for advertising in this paper are due on the first appearance of the advertise ment, except when otherwise arranged by contract, and will be presented when the money is needed. THE TREASURY TROUBLES. What Capt Jones has to Say. Tin: late trf,asurer’s reply to gov ernor SMITH —CONFLICTING STATE MENTS —SEVERE STRICTURES THE COMP YF DEEPENS —THE FUN GROWS FAST AND FURIOUS. To the People of Georgia : It is with some reluctance that I make response to that portion of the Governor’s message in which de tailed reference is made to the trans actions of myself as late Treasurer, and I do so now in deference to the request of my friends, and to meet at the threshold the sugffonteil, rather than declared, imputation upon my conduct as a public officer. If I have postponed a response un til now, it was not owing to my want of material to vindicate myself, but rather arising from my natural detes tation of the. practice of appealing to the public prejudices through the press, and gorging, public opinion with oOe-sided statements in advance of a full and manly hearing upon the merits. I may, too, have placed some rcli a nee not. onlv in my own conscious ness of right, but on my past public record as mi old public servant, whose guard over nearly half a million of public funds in 18(18, not even bayo nets threatened into surrendering, and who could as honestly say as any man in (Teorgia to my enemies . “ (Jonlempsd Catnlina glarliti * non per linoveant tans,” I despised the bayo nets of Catiline nor will I now fear rours. Ilis Excellency omits in his roes- : Bnjje to say that at his own special mid persistent request I assumed the ; duties of the office almost immedi ately after my election, in the midst of a legislative session and in a sea of confusion. He also omits to say that when I assumed the duties of the position, the credit of tlm State j of Georgia was weak and fluttering! in the markets. Georgia bonds ac j knowledged by the State, bearing 0 ; tier cent, interest, was selling at 60 cents ; and 7 per cent, bonds at 70 cents ; and even at these prices the sales were slow and purchasers timid. When, by edict of 15th day of No vember last, I was removed, the cred it, of the State under my administra tion had been elevated, and our six per cents were near par, sevens called for dollar for dollar, and the eights commanded a handsome premium. These facts his Excellency omitted to lint, before the people. But I lay them down, as facts strong and stub born, to meet some of the insinuating assaults made upon the aduiimstra- tion of the late Treasurer. His Excellency, with commendable candor, admits that, in the latter part of the,vear 1874, I obtained warrants in my favor for the amount of alleged payments of bonds which had been previously redeemed by Henry Clews Ji Cos., nnd by my predecessor, and gives in detail the amount of the bonds alleged to have been redeemed bv Mr. Clews. But the Governor omits to state how, when or where any notice was ever brought, home to the late Treasurer of the number, character, denomination or identity ot these bonds, or any evidence that they were paid. The law of 18 1 4, prescri bing the duties of the late treasurer, was explicit that the bonds to bo is sued under the act were to pay all past due bonds and interest. How con'd I know that any particular past, due bond was not to be paid? Ifhis Ex cellency knew it, he was certainly act ing in strange inconsistency with his professions not to have given the Treasurer not.ee of the fact, and if he did not know, why overwhelm the Treasurer with assaults upon his in telligence and his integrity for not possessing more knowledge than himself? Why enter upon argument to show that an Executive warrant for those payments was still liable to be ooened against the treasurer on Liu settlement with the State, and at the same time confess that this hap pened when no cloud of suspicion rested upon the transaction. In de velopments of what transpired a year after in theexamination of Mr. Clews’ books, these bonds were for the first time ascertained, and I am held up as paying money out improperly upon bonds previously redeemed, when it is confessed by the facts, I knew noth ing of what bonds were alleged to have been redeemed, and to say the least, was certainly as ignorant in the promises as his Excellency states that I cannot give the names of the par ties, and that I have no written entry or memorandum throwing light upon the subject, and I profess to bo unable '.o recall any fact which would serve as a clue to the persons who presented the bonds for payment. Adding with a seeming climax of doubt upon the subject that “h : s possession of them seems to be the only evidence within his knowledge showing that he re deemed them.” After the recitation of facts by his excellency and in which ho might have added that Messrs Clews A Cos. claimed an amount duo them of the State, and refused to let the bonds get out of their possession even for the inspection of the Gover- nor, and what the Governor presents by them selling them, and buying them in, even at the small sum stated by his Excellency of $18,525, a reason able presumption would arise in any fair mind that the possession of these bonds by the late Treasurer was the most complete, not undoubted and most conclusive evidence that he had paid them, and possession of them would “seem to he,” to any unpreju diced man, proof strong as Holy Writ, for to suppose Clews A Cos. made them a present to the Treasurer would he too foolish to assert as a fact, and too fanciful for a child’s speculation. His Excellency with great gravity presents that in addi tion to the principal the Treasurer! claims to have paid interest accruing ; after maturity, and states, “this a!- j legod payment of interest is not veri fied by proper vouchers,” etc. I ufor tnnately for the Governor’s memory, the net of 1873, created the Nutting bonds to pay “all past due bonds and j interest." When the Treasurer pro- j sented the past due bond its very possession verified with the highest and most authentic attestation that the interest due thereon had been paid. Ittfwould boa violation of all reasonable presumption to say that the holder of a past due bond, enti tled by Hie law to interest, gave pos nonoioti of tlie bumf to the Treasurer without receiving what ibe law granted. And in every sense of pre sumptive justice, the Treasurer, when he presented the past due bond, was, entitled to the belief of every fair minded man that he got possession of it by paying what, the law declared was due upon it. Any other pre sumption would be a farce. His Excellency again refers to some bonds redeemed during the term of 1 mv predecessor, which he says Mr. ! Angior states he brought from New’ York and placed in the vaults of the Treasury. He says no entry of the j redemption was made oil the records j of the Treasury ; that the Treasurer; went out, of office shortly afterwards, j j etc. In his statement of the matter | the Governor says that my predeees- 1 sor failed to take any receipt showing the delivery of these bonds to his suc cessor. Now the mode of presenting this matter is ingeniously offensive to i mf >. It implies without asserting that the bonds were delivered to me, : and the fact of there being no receipt i was ft failure of proper caution ut.- ! tribntable to his so soon leaving of- ficc. His Excellency does say I de ny receiving them, but adds as weak ening mv denial that “he (meaning, myself) does not remember from; whom they were redeemed, nor door; he recall any circumstance from which the fact of their redemption by him self can be ascertained, and 1m also claims that he paid interest on them.” His Excellency strangely omits to present the facts of this matter with the light held over both sides. But we propose to meet that which more especially attacks the verity and in tegrity of ourselves. There are many'more iu Georgia who have had .lose intimacy with tl ela'e Treasurer for many years, and who will believe us when we say that any insinuation east upon our honor in this matter, come from whatever source it may, we repeal with all the earnestness of our nature as not only unjust but cnluminous. In reading over the message of his Excellency on the question of coupons, the Governor s presumptions are even more elabor ately unreasonable than his statement of facts are out of place, fie says after the year 1808 the State paid the interest on her old bonds. The people of Georgia are not unaware of the fact that the State has not been regularly paying the interest on her bonded debt. It would be a tedious exhaustion of facts to prove this, and as a matter of pure presumption, on! of thirty thousand coupons a year of various denominations, running since 1868, Is it natural that four or five hundred Gi mPf have been scattering ly neglected, or that some cancelled in New York and sonm at tlm Treas ury, some in envelopes and some in bulk that the punch should not in ovory instance, with mathematical precision, make its puncture in the exact location where his Excellency may have deemed it best, to make the mark upon a dead paper, worthless after the punch went through it as the mark of its cancellation. QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, FEBIIUARY 3, 1870. The small amount gathered from the mass of coupons paid, referred to in the message, bears too strongly in favor of the whole to need any tres pass on the public, with the apologies of explanation. The overridden en tries of a. former Treasurer, in pencil, by second entries made by himself, arising from what all know as the difficulty of distinguishing the cou pons of old bonds, many of which ap pear in duplicate and triplicate of numbers, and which fell into place by one letter placed in a hurry oil or over another, exhibits in its very statement the intention which gov erened the act, for if desire existed to commit fraud, the opportunity of do ing so would have invited a rubbing out of the letter, and not the placing of one with the other, leaving both as the indexes of what had been done. His Excellency, however, makes a serious ocjection when coupons to the amount of $93,570 are swept out of my vouchers, and it. is declared to be within the personal knowledge of the Governor that a large amount of the bonds upon which they matured was not disposed of until after maturity j of the coupon for the semi-annual in terest. A brief glance at the law of 1873 will call to memory the labors of the Finance Committee. Before it ! came into existence $900,000 was de manded by the public exigence to take up overdue bonds and coupons' and pay interests maturing. The finale of conferences upon the subject, culminated in the Nutting bill, or dering the issue of $1,200,000 of eight per cent, lion-taxable bonds. Ti e | best hopes of all did not in the then depressed state of our acknowledged liabilities look for more than the \ $900,000 as the result of the sale of i $1,200,000 of bonds, and if they had j : been placed in the hands of brokers , at the time, ninety cents would have been the highest market, and this warn'd have been reduced by the com- j • missions and espouses ; in fact, many know' that it was prophesied that they would not bring oil the market the ; 75 cents necessary to raise the $909,- 000. Inspired with confidence in the patriotic purpose of our own people, j I determined to shun the‘Wall street I ! jobbers, and appeal to them. The np- j . plications came in too slowly for : present and pressing uses and I per-; suaded the hanks at Atlanta to buy] some $200,000. From then until late I in the Fall they went off gradually at par; the old bonds were presented for exchange; had interest paid on them at their own rale to the Isi of April l li/. I except m a Tew ::: nances, and the new bonds dating from that day were given in exchange with all j the coupons attached. To keep the bonds at par, I sold with the coupons attached. I let none who cam/' to buy go off with the money. The State needed the money, and I did not let a maturing coupon prevent the sale. The bonds were kept nom inally at par, and it was as w ise nr- : proper to keep the price where I did. j The first, decline would soon have | : been followed by others, and that ! these coupons should have been paid | subsequently, neither invites the ob | jection made, or justifies the presump j lion so unreasonably invoked. Time prevents my further examina j tioji of the message of his Excellency, and, ns lam notified through same the some which I have lar.r. o 1 a; r at ! deni of the causes and charges against me, the public press, that suits have | been instituted against myself and i securities, I will not detail through | ! the same source my defenses and i dication, but leave to the Courts the I adjudication of my acts as late Treas urer, assuring my friends, whose con fidence in mv official integrity has not been shaken, that I am amply . able to show a record before which I the Governor’s attenuated presump ! lions will be as feathers in the fire. Respectfully, -John Jones, Late Treasurer. Adam Grium, of Jefferson, Wis consin, is one of the largest honey raisers in the world. Ills apiary consists of 1.15S colonies which pro duced 26,910 pounds of honey last j year. Think of that ye Georgia far-, iiners. If men gro v rich by the cul ture of bees in a climate which re quires these valuable little workers to be closely housed nearly if not quite half the months in the year, and the utmost care to be exerted to keep them alive at all during the winter, how profitable they would be if properly cultivated in Georgia, where the climate is so mild the year round as scarcely to prevent the working of bees even in winter. AVe hope our farmers will encourage their wives and children to engage more extensively in this pleasant and re munerative industry. W lion han dled by kind and intelligent bands bees become perfectly barnrle. s, and there is no necessity to ever destroy them to procure the honey. Water is essential to them and should bo convenient. — Farmer'x Friend. . >m • A smart looking boy about 12 years old, called in a Detroit book store yesterday and Haiti liis mother wanted some cards. The clerk supposed lie meant playing cards, and accordingly | wrapped up a pack. The boy came back in the course of j half an hour, tiling the cards down, and said : “Mother don’t want that kind— she’s got five or six packs in the house now. Mho wants some with marked bucks, so she can deal lone hands and warm it to dad.”— Free 1 ’rest. (Correspondence of t!i" boston Journal.) A CURE FOR FOLLY. ONE OF THE ROMANCES IN REAL METRO POLITAN LIFE —A HUSBAND RECLAIMED. A lady about fifty years of age, the wife of a well-known New York mer chant, was invited by a distinguished physician to call at his office at 11 o’clock on a given day. Sho w'ent down and found the doctor with her husband. He was the physician of the family. Ho informed her that ho had a very disagreeable duty to perform. It was that her husband was entirely alienated from her, and would live with her no more. He would provide for her, give her a comfortable home and maintenance, and with that she must be content. The blow felled her to the floor. She was taken homo a maniac, and woek9 passed before she recovered her rea- j sou. Her home was broken up, and , she moved into the new quarters pro- j vided for her. It was evident that j the husband had formed an attach ment to another woman. }Te bought the house that he proposed to give her, and furnished it elegantly from saloon to attic, lie promised to give | her a bill of sale of all the personal effectn in the mansion. The man lavished on this woman heavy sums of money. He bought her the best silks and satins, sable furs, and sacks, ami footed nil the bills she rail up at ; Stewart’s. She passed as a rich widow j from Virginia, received letters from pretended relatives about a fortune she was coining into by and by, and with these papers secured large sums of money. The merchant drew heav ily on this firm, and was threatened with bankruptcy. Getting an inkling of what was go ing on, the wife consulted a detec tive. Ho mlvised her to commence a suit against her husband., which she refused to do. “I don’t want money,” she said. “I want my husband. If ho could know what I know, the charm would be broken, and he would return to his homo a penitent man.” The detective visited the house and had an interview with the woman, and secured one of the best rooms for a lodger. That lodger was the detective’s own man, who was to gather up the little Lie’s that would ai'pcar in the management of the concern. He visited the merchant in his store, and made an appointment, to vl.lo myt with him the .next.chiv slipni jive nnles, to look ut a tine coupe horse, which he was desirous of pur chasing for his female companion. Instead of finding the horse, he was brought face to face with his wife, whom he had not scon for months. The interview could not be averted. The black record of the woman’s ohurach r and crime was laid before him. He saw how his money went, and what sort of an establishment he was supporting, and how he was the laughing stock of his associates. His infatuation ended, and be resolved to return to town, denounce the woman and forsake her. He proposed to get nacK a.,, m-onerty that the woman claimed as her own. \ imp; scheme was laid that turned out to n n nin ja on t success. The woman wauten a few hundred dollars for her sister, to be paid through her sister’s husband. She wanted a set of diamonds for Christmas and a coupe for lady’s day at New Year’s. A note was dis- patched, under direction of the de-; i tootives, asking her to meet her friend ; : itt a wUI-kuown try sting-place the j next day at 11, t. decide upon those; I gifts desired. She was to remain) j f r om 11 to 1, in ease business should ; : detain tlm merchant. Promptly on i i l ime she left in her coach, and had j hardly turned the corner before wag-1 j oris drove up, and in an hour the j j house was stripped from the base-1 j meat to the upper story. Pictures, ! vases, statuary, damask curtains, sil- j ver, wines, all disa]ipeaied. At 2 I o’clock the woman of the mansion ! drove up. The colored woman wrung j her hands in despair, the shield oi i the detective having kept her quiet. ; He ordered the woman off the steps ; and turned the key, oaying, as lie j walked away: “Don't annoy that.] man ; don’t go near his store; write him no notes. If you do I will arrest you for your past crimes and send you to the island.” The merchant, and his wife are now living cosily in their old homestead. Pn.MOKAitT Consumption. —Professor Hosier, of Germany, is now successful ly treating phthisis or pulmonary consumption, by making an incision through the wall of Hie chest and drawing off the pus with a syringe, and afterwards washing out the ulcers with weak carbolic acid. No difficulty appears to have been experienced in' the operation, and the con dition of the patient was im proved, the cough becoming less troublesome,anil the febrile symptoms apparently moderate. One point, at least., is regarded as settled —and if is certainly one of great importance so far as could lie by a few experiments of this character, namely, that the local treatment of pulmonary eivitios is undoubtedly practicable, and that the lung is really nr r 1 h Grant o! ex ternal inferfi rouce than has been generally believed. The r of car bolic acid are rapidly extending, and it bids fair to become one of the most valuable articles of the materia medic;;. It appears to be speedy death to dis cus, and genus and fungi u growths. A Pair ol‘ Suomi's. He Turned Out Ohl .Man Bullard ami then Turned in Himself. [Virginia (Nev.) KuterprisA ] After the fire old mini Bullard found lodgings on South <’. street. Ho is a I huge, fat, good-natured, and very en tertaining man. The proprietor of the lodging house was much pleased ' with Bullard, and laughed at his jokes the first evening of his arrival at his ! place till tears ran down his cheek. The men who were to be Bullard’s room mates also thought well of him | —that evening. The next morning, I however, they went to the landlord ' and told him that he must find some other place for Mr. Bullard, as he was I such a terrific snorer they couldn’t j | stand him. The landlord’s rooms were all ocen- J pied, and he had no place for Ballard j but just where he was. The com- j plaining lodgers left, and in two or ; three days two other men were put ■ into the vacant bed. Bullard made ! short work of them; one night let I them out. The landlord sought an j interview .with Bullard, and lemon- j strafed. Bullard stoutly asserted that j he did not snore—had never been ; known to snore. The landlord found | men to take the beds, but again Bui- | lard Jfclcaueil them out iu a single j night. j Growing desperate, the landlord i again went to Bullard. Ho told him he must either leave the house or pav rent for all the beds in the room—sls j per month. Bullard said a bargain was a bargain, he had r“ ; - 1 $ 1 "’ f° 1 ’ his bed, and In* -mended keeping it, until his month was up, and he didn’t propone to pay for beds he had no : use for; he didn’t .snore, and the man i who asserted to the contrary was a ! liar and a horse thief. The landlord; felt very much depressed after this last interview with Bullard, as lie saw ho was determined not to be removed from his quarters. A morning or two ! after, asßullavd's landlord was going I down town, ho saw standing in the . door a brother lodging house man. “Thank heaven, lie’s gone!” said ! the man, as B illard’s landlord came up. “Thank heaven, I’m rid of him ! at last !” “Rid of whom ?” “Why, of the Liig fat man yon seci yonder waddling down the ut/a-ot.” “What of him T’ “Enough of him ! Ho drove near- j ly every man out of my house Wore i ’•A" l ' *'• “’i, . v wouldn't stop in the' same block with snortin'" Fills- ’ taffian por poise, sir.” D “lie’s a good one. is he ?” “A good one i lie’s a perfect res- : ror! He's more different kinds of a j snorer than any man I ever heard, and . every time he changes his key it is for I the worse. While I laid him here crowds were gathering in front of the] house nightly, wondering what was I the mutter within, and tiie police j can ci'.i one night, tl.i iking someone ' was being murdered. My dog ran j away, and all the cats left the house, j S ; vl" i “And the roan you pointed out to is this snorer V" “Yes, sir, he is.” “Good day,sir!” and Bullard's land- j iv>rd hastened down the street. The next morning, with the first I peep of day, Bullard rushed into the j presence ot tne lamiiuni. “What are you trying to play on me ?” cried he. ‘ I never slept a wink all night. Of all the infernal noises J I ever heard, that man in my room got | off the worst. Is he going to stay there ?” “Stay ?of course he is. Haiu’t he j got the bed iVn* a month ? “Then I leave!” anil Dullard was as good as his word. An hour afterward, the man who j had ontstod Bullard arose and wad- I died serenely into the presence of the ! landlord. “You’ve cleaned him out,” said the j landlord. “Yon raised him; he’s gone I for good !” and the landlord rubbed liis hands gleefully. “Now,” contin ued the landlord, “I’ll give you a good square breakfast and then you can i go.” “Go,” said the fat man; “not much 11 don’t. Didn’t, you say last evening I in the presence of Bullard and a half | dozens others, that I was to stay here a month ?” “But that, yon know, was only to —” “I know nothing of the kind, and T shall stay here! lam human, I must have some place in which to repese.” The landlord is now trying to got some man to set up some kind of ma chine in his house that will roust, this i snoror, who has the whole place to j himself, except a small room in the i corner of tlm third story, where lie 1 and liis wife spend their nights in a miserable way. There is a sect in Scotland calling themselves Christum Israelites, who claim to have received a revelation from God that they are descendants of Israel, whom the Lord is thus gather- 1 ing from among the nations, accor- j ding to His promise by His prophets. They keep sixth-day night, and also the hour from 10 to 11 a. m. of first day as sacred lime, by special revelation. They practice circumcision, and will not use mixed clothing, food and seed. As Lavender, the other day at dinner, gazed intently into lr.s ) 1 lie, hero untried! “Only a woman’s hair ! It's very sentimental, no doubt, bill j sotfiehow it gets away with my p - i-- Miscollnnoous Advertisements. W. E. BARNES, PRACTICAL JEWELER AND DEALER IN • b raw ra Wj ra, y, CLOCKS, COLD AND SILVER, WATCHES, GOLD AND SILVER CHAINS, GOLD RINGS, LADIES’ SETS, LOCIvETS, N E( Tv LAC MS, RR A CELETS, GOLD TOOTH PICKS, GOLD PENS, PENCILS, SLEEVE BUTTONS, S'J’l D BUTTONS, HANDKERCHIEF RINGS, WATCH KEYS, GOLD SPECTACLES, EY E (i! ASSES, WALKING CAN S 1 L V E E W A R E, i CASTORS, ICE PITCHERS, * SYRUP PITCHERS. BUTTER DISHES, CUPS A GOBLETS, VASILS. KNIVES ,£)FORKS, SALT CELLARS, Ac., i Has just received his Full and AVinter Stock, embracing everythin" to bo found in a First-Glass Jewelry Establishment. I have a general assortment of Pistols, Cartridges, Game Bags Shot Belts, Powder Flasks, Amuniliou, Ac., at prices cheaper than ever offered in this market before. i osim; r O n audio. l :, ( forks, Jowolry, Onus ami Pistols clone with neatness and dispatch, and satisfaction guaranteed. Quitman, Ga., September 7th, 1875. \r BAIIXES. Bin BKOOI Ci >X TIVT 'V Manufacturing Association! Having rcfi.lttc il their Mill with r. -.v machinery. ; i now ready to manufacture wool into Jeans anti -Plains lor Cash or on shares. < 'Otton ""Vni’Eifsj* Hewisi’ TSarefial, 'a c3i e ai I l-opc .in<l Twine 711 LC l :oP i ‘■ex I■< • cv b ivuj > vvj .v J flvj pfvlv_ v* ’• All freight %. Wool sent over the A. k G. Ih R. to be curd oil will be paid here, and added to cost of carding. Goods Exdianged for Cotton or Woo!. jzSt Dealers r.re respect!ally invited to c all and examine our goods, ib' Wool Carded at 10 cents per Pound. Sept. 2i!-tf If. .1! GIGGS, I > ItFSI!)EXT. W* & i!§ sr r 1 fa 4 111 i o rin ou ii n 5 WHOLESA LE PRODUCE MERCHANT, MACON, GA. Corn, llacoii, 'I sa£gg;'iii££9 Ties, Collbe, 1! fil'd, Salt, I ® £<*c, I dme, Tobacco, ETC., ETC., ETC. TERMS CASH:! „ , irtr W. -V. HUMA Sept. IG-tf. I'TIWITUKK. ITitMTI sir. a. 11. MILLER, A-J SUCCESSOR TO S. 3IILLKU’, 109 anti 171 Ilroßtfliton street, SAVANNAH, GA. citeaPFon ('Asu. no credii. Miinufnclti’ os Sofas, Mattrasses, ALt* A ’cuo Styles Furniture always on hand and arriving. Particular attention given to packing goods. Cash orders or orders through Far - tors solicited and given immediate attention. 28-3 m Tl would inform ike citizens of South t v \\\ ;t Georgia that we have opened in Savannah a first class aS?" ews Depot —AND — Lit er ary Emporium, An<l will always keep a Fupplv.of Th<Lboat and latest Newspapers, Magazines, Novels Ac., both Domestic an^Foreign. Subscription received for any paper in America. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. Address, JAS. A. DOYLE & BKO., [ 27-Gin] S-* —iuh, Ga. No. 10.