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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2G, 1869.
The Governor and the Treasurer.
We print to-day the report of the majority of
the committee appointed by the Legislature to
investigate the charges made by N. L. Angier
against Rufus B. Bullock, Govemor-of Georgia,
that he unlawfully used and misapplied certain
funds belonging to the State of Georgia. This
report, as will be seen, tries to exonerate the
Governor, and is at least willing to say that he
intended no wrong.
But on Thursday the Legislature received
and adopted the report of the minority, which
sustains the charges of the Treasurer. In a
previous article we wrote under the impression
that the Governor had made out a successful
showing, and expressed gratification at the re
sult, for wo confess that we would take no pleas
ure in seeing a man holding the high office of
Governor of Georgia, convicted of such a grave
■offense. No one ever held that office against
whom the slightest suspicion of this character
•ever rested.
We must take the State Capitol back to Mil-
ledgeville. The people have this point irrevo
cably determined in their minds, and impatiently
•wait the opportunity to act accordingly. It was
wisely located at an honest country village, free
from corrupting influences, and taken from
thence against their consent Time has indeed
proven that its removal was a great mistake.
Nine-tenths of the people of Georgia are un
willing to pay one dollar to erect new buildings
at any other point whatever. Not one good
reason can be assigned for its removal.
The City of Atlanta agreed to furnish the Leg
islature with a suitable building in which to hold
its sessions. It must settle the account with the
"Messrs. Kimball. The State does not, nor never
did, owe them one cent. ”
The Burning of the African Church.
Tho destruction of tho African Methodist
Church night before last, and the self-evident
fact that it was the result of a long quarrel be
tween two factions of it, surprises no one here.
The right of possession has been in dispute for
months past. If we understand the case right,
the church was built before the war, chiefly by
the white members and congregation of the
Methodist Church South, and the right to hold
service in the building given the colored mem
bers of that denomination. Soon after the close
of the war, H. M. Turner, a member of the
Northern Methodist Church, somehow managed
to take possession of it Being a half politician
and half preacher, he harangued his congrega
tion accordingly, and soon disgusted the Demo
cratic portion of the members, who went to
work to oust him from the concern. His ser
mons were not much else than radical stump
speeches, like Beecher’s. When a preacher
commences dabbling in politics, he ought to
hand in his chips as a minister of the gospel
Tho two no more mix than oil and water, or
jackdaws and peacocks. The effort to take the
Southern colored Methodists of this city over to
that political organization, the Northern Metho
dist Church, has .proved a failure, as did the
effort to get possession of this property without
paying for it. The edifice having been built
wholly by Southern Methodists, Turner had no
more right in it than he has in any other church
in this city.
On last Monday the Sheriff locked it up, and
on Thursday delivered the keys and the build
ing over to the other party. Thursday night
they held their first meeting and a few hours af
terwards it was burned to the ground. While
the house was burning the followers of Turner
all round were heard to express great gratifica
tion.
Here is a vindictive spirit of the most repre
hensible character. Religious fanaticism could
scarcely go farther than this. It is a case de
serving the most rigid and searching investiga
tion by the Mayor and police. The track of an
incendiary is never quite covered up. We have
often heard that the quarrel would result in the
burning of the house, and sure enough it has.
’JVliat Should Georgia do ?
In reply to the Savannah Republican as to
what Georgia should do, we will say that the
letter of the gentleman from Washington,
published a few days since, referred especially
to Gen. Grant’s endorsement, as it were, of
Hon. Nelson Tift’s dispatch to Hon. E. G. Cab-
incss and others as to the propriety of the Leg
islature referring the question of eligibility of
negroes to office to tqe Supreme Court, and that
we supposed the act referred to by the corres
pondent. The Legislature adopted the resolu
tion and the Governor vetoed it.
It remains for the future to determine wheth
er it will be passed over the veto. Considering
the whole connection we do not suppose the
correspondent referred to re-seating the negroes
in the Legislature.
The Radical Row at Atlanta.
From all accounts the Radical row at Atlanta,
Thursday night, was a very disgraceful affair.
Bard and Bryant were endeavoring to hold a
peaceable meeting, but the hall was taken pos
session of by rowdies and they seem to have
been bullied out of it, and the resolutions which
they intended to protest against re-adopted. But
“the Democrats say that Bard is entitled to a
showing and shall have it.” This is perfectly
right. We hope our friends in Atlanta will see
to it that he has a fair fight. This is a free
country.
We copy an account of it from the New Era.
Lost Confederate Soldiers—Information
Wanted.—C. W. Arthur, of the First Missis
sippi Regiment, Forrest’s Cavalry, was captured
and last heard of at Camp Douglas. D. S.
Arthur, Valentine’s Battery, was last heard of
on Sullivan’s Island. Should this meet the eye
of either one of them, or any person knowing
their fate, or present whereabouts, their aged
mother would be very thankful for such infor
mation. Address, Mary Arthur,’ care of Mr.
Hargraves, Brandon, Miss.
«2T By giving this one insertion editors of
newspapers will merit the gratitude of a grief
stricken mother.
The Position of Georgia.—Since the Elect-
oral vote of Georgia was received and counted
by Congress, the Radicals themselves are sorely
puzzled to determine the status of Georgia.
The New York Tribune says:
“ Tho judgment of the Reconstruction Com
mittee is still against the admission of the Geor
gia Representatives until the State shall have
more fully complied with the reconstruction
acts; although, in the minds of many, the fact
that Georgia has been allowed to vote for Presi
dent seems to carry with it an acknowledge
ment of her right to representation in Con
gress.”
Such would be the decision in any court of
justice. We hope the farce will cease.
We learn from the Columbus Sun that a big
nigger baptizing came off at Augusta a few
days ago. The bonks of the river were slip
pery and many darkies were baptized who were
not candidates for the ceremony. The preacher
who officiated pulled off his boots before wading
in, and an enterprising colored “brudder,
pious, of course, stole them.
«. similar case occurred in Crawford county a
few months ago. The colored preacher pulled
off his coat, vest and pants, in order to keep
them from getting wet, and while officiating in
tho water they were appropriated by a member
of the congregation on the bank. The disoon-
solate minister was left to make his way home
jn this plight, a distance of seven or eight miles.
The Southern Press Convention.
Editorial Oorretpondencc of the Telegraph.]
On the Road, Feb. 17, 1869.
Your correspondent is toddling along on tho
Mobile and Montgomery Railroad for Mobile,
to represent the Telegraph in the Press Con
vention. We were due in Mobile at ten this
morning, and shall reach there, God willing, at
ten to-night, the reason, whereof, will hereafter
appear.
On board are Col Gardner, of the Constitu
tionalist, De Wolf, of the Sun, Screws, of the
Montgomery Advertiser, and several other del
egates—among them two from North Carolina.
Yes, Tar River is represented by a fresh, florid
and handsome yonth, as was every raised on
whortleberries and red herrings. Large num
bers of delegates have already gone on and
shall bring np the rear.
I said we were due at ten o’clock this mom'
ing, but like many other persons and things due,
we shall not come to time. Thirty-five miles
south of Montgomery we met a freight train off
the track, and had to wait for the np train from
Mobile. When that came, at five o’clock this
morning, a transfer of passsengers and baggage
took place. The scene of this operation was
an Alabama river swamp—the weather rainy—
the mud rich and glutinous. I am authorized
to say that seventy-five tons to the acre of this
mud spread over the surface of our Georgia
uplands would help them to bring cotton—yea,
verily.
It is written “curse not the bridge which
crosses you safely,” and therefore I shall 6ay
nothing to the discredit of the Mobile and
Montgomeiy Railroad, but perhaps if its iron
track maintained a more exact parallel within
itself, and with the horizon, it would be better.
Failing in this, the passenger in his seat pre
sents often a horrible imitation of a poor rider
on a hard trotting horse, and the result of at
tempting to write under such circumstances you
behold.
Upon consultation among the Faculty last
night, it was agreed that a sleeping car and a
horizontal position were best to meet the case;
man proposes and God disposes. I went to
sleep on the jump and awoke when still. The
rest of them vice versa, and awoke declaring
they had never passed a quieter night of travel!
I have been told that the soil of this road pre
sents unusual difficulties in maintaining a prop
er alignment Yours, C.
SECOND LETTER.
On the Road, Feb. 17, 1869.
After twenty-five hours fast becoming the sea
son, at Evergreen I consecrated five eggs, a bis
cuit and two cups of coffee to the noble work
of internal improvement, consequently I feel
better. Did I say anything against that road?
I ask its pardon. The scenery on the Mobile
and Montgomery track, for the first 100 miles,
may be likened onto that thrilling passage of
the Georgia Central through the Oconee swamps.
The lower end of the road, for sixty miles,
leads through rolling pine barrens, abundant in
dwarf pines and sterility. Everything is excess
ively moist. The conductor says it has rained
every day for weeks.
The hand of man hath made few improve
ments visible from the railway, and these gener
ally tell of by-gone eras. Now and then a strag
gling and dilapidated village—a clearing grown
over with tall yellow broomsedge—a cabin more
or less dilapidated, and many of them tenanfc-
. Now and then, however, we pass a cosy
cot, and a new fence, or piles of freshly split
rails, but improvement comes for short of coun
terbalancing decay. The country is evidently
retrograding, and quite a movement for Texas
is reported.
A good deal of kine stock is to be seen in the
woods all along, but never a hog. One solitary
porker in a pen was all I saw of the species
from Montgomery to Tensas. The war between
Sambo and the' swine has been proseented to
the point of extermination.
The pine lands all along the route are as poor
as the Georgia barrens, and not worth consider
ing, except for timber and area. There are
millions of acres of such lands cultivated in the
South which do not pay for the labor at any
reasonable valuation. Bnt I suppose they
might make a fair return, both in com and cot
ton, if planted on the check plan with a good
shovel full of compost to each hill.
The Alabamians, it seems to me, are far less
hopeful than we in Georgia. Their ideas of the
cotton fnture are that the crop must fall off an
nually until it amounts to little or nothing.
They say we shall never again see a crop of two
million five hundred thousand bales, and your
correspondent’s ideas of white labor production
from the sinews of the sturdy sons of the soil
are pronounced visionary. Cotton must go out
with the negro, and the negro, as an effective
farm laborer, they say is going out with this
generation. The boys go to school—learn to
play marbles and seven-np, and despise the ho
as honestly and heartily as the white lads of their
own age. Bnt all this looks to me as visionary
as my ideas do to them. The auri sacra fames
will assert itself, and money will bring the cot
ton.
The Montgomery and Mobile Railway breaks
short off at a point on the Mobile Bay called
Tensas, from which point a steamer ferries the
passengers over to the city, a distance of twenty-
two miles. We are now waiting at the gulf
terminus, and it will be five hours before we
reach the city. C.
Mobile, Ala., February 18, 1869.
We have approached Mobile very cautiously
and gradually. Time from Montgomery thirty
hours. Reasons for part of the delay have al
ready been assigned, and the remainder thereof
I will now explain:
In consequence of an obstruction on the Rail
road wo got to Tensas four o’clock yesterday
evening, instead of eight in the morning, when
due. The road instead of terminating at some
point on the Bay as I ignorantly wrote, abuts on
the Tensas river. Reaching the wharf and
steamer, so dense a fog obscured the horizon
that we could not go on until about twelve o’clock,
midnight; when the mist lifted and we resumed
our journey, reaching Mobile at two o’clock thin
morning, and woke up the slumbers of the Bat
tle House with the clamors of a score of be
nighted travelers.
The morning is a bright one. Mobile looks
fresh and lively in the glad sunshine, and is
more of a city than the dim memory pictures
of fifteen years agone have painted it. From
the heavy freighting business done by the rail
road steamer, I suppose that trade must be
pretty brisk at this time. Immense quAtitiea
of flour, meat, fertilizers, and miscellaneous
goods of all descriptions are daily shipped off
into the interior by tho Mobile and Montgomery
Railway; bnt this, after all, must be but a nar
row trade channel compared with that by the
rivers.
I find the Convention located in the hall of
the Chamber of Commerce. The city has been
immensely kind to the press, and, from the array
of choice wines, liquors, cigars, etc., to be seen
in the anterooms, I think the Board of Trade
deems the principal business of the Convention
to be to have a good time generally. I am in
formed that abont thirty to forty editors are in
attendance, and the proposition upon which they
are divided is, whether to wind up and dissolve
or renew the active business operations of the
association, as an organization for collecting and
disseminating news by the wires. 0.
James Gordon Bennett has given $10,000 to
the Herald Club, oomposed of attaches of that
office, to be used in the event of sickness or dis
ability.
THE BUIXOCK-AXGIER AFFAIR.
Majority Rejport of the Investigating
Committee.
Mr. Speaker: The Committee on Finance
have bad under consideration the charges pre
ferred by N. It. Angier, Treasurer, against His
Excellency, Gov. Bullock, touching certain finan
cial transactions, involving the interests of the
State, on which they would make the following
report:
The report of Treasurer Angier to the House
on the 24th nit, which is appended hereto, and
for convenience of reference we shall hereafter
designate as No. 1, was, as we understand, a
simple statement of facts, called out by the res
olution of Mr. Harper, with a charge that §35,-
000 had been drawn by Gov. Bullock, on bis
own draft, from the Fourth National Bank, the
purpose and use of which the Treasurer had
been purposely kept in ignorance of by Gov.
Bullock.
The response of Gov. Bullock to the report,
also, hereto appended and marked No. 2, was
immediately sent to the Committee, and in a
general way informed ns, that the .thirty-five
thousand dollars drawn by him, as set forth in
the Treasurer’s report, had been used in heat
ing, lighting and furnishing the capital for the
use of the Legislature, and in consequence of
the absence “of the Treasurer from his post, at
a time when his duty expressly required it, a
full exhibit could not, and was therefore, not
made to the General Assembly, with the Gov
ernor’s message. ” The whole tenor of the Gov
ernor’s communication to the Committee showed
an unpleasant state of feeling existing between
the Executive and the Treasurer, with which
your Committee think they have nothing to
do.
For the purpose of getting a clearer and fuller
development of the facts growing out of the
drawing and use of the thirty-five thousand dol
lars, your sub-committee addressed to his Excel
lency, Governor Bullock, a few interrogatories,
and also, enclosed to Treasurer Angier the Gov
ernor’s communication to the Committee, and
founded thereon a few interrogatories to him.
They responded immediately to the inquiries of , » , „ .
the Committee, and Governor Bollock gave a J an ^ y° n should make an appropriation to pay
much more satisfactory account of the affair I toe bills. I have had the public square graded
than we had before received. From it we learn enclosed with a substantial new fence, but
that the Messrs. Kimball had been advanced I eost to the State is insignificant. We are
thirty-one thousand dollars, for the purpose of satisfied that many other instances of Executive
lighting, heating and furnishing the capitol, and expenditures unauthorized by appropriations,
used in carrying out my contract for the Vir
ginia salt, I offered the Treasurer of the West
ern and Atlantic Bailroad to advance to the
Commissary General sufficient funds to meet the
necessity; and it being necessary that the money
be refunded to bim to enable him to keep his
accounts correctly. For this purpose, I recom
mend the appropriation of one hundred toousanf
dollars, to be used in the purchase of salt,
refunded to the Treasury of the State when,
salt is sold.” S
In the year 1854, during the fearful egfdeuHc
which raged in the city of Savannah, “
V. Johnson addressed, as Governor 4 " toe State,
a letter of condolence and symp&my to the Mayor
of that city, and offered, in kehalf of the State,
any assistance which might be needed, or that
the Mayor might indicate; and afterwards, as
we are credibly informed, sent twenty-five thou
sand dollars belonging to the State. A copy of
which letter is hereto attached, marked No. 9. _
The message of Ex-Gov. H. V. Johnson, in
1857, contains the following language : ‘“The
last General Assembly appropriated §7500 for
repairing the State House, and §5000 for repair
ing the Executive Mansion. Finding these sums
inadequate, and that it would be almost lost to
the State without the use of a larger sum, I did
not hesitate to draw upon the contingent fund
for the deficit. By so doing, the repairs, as far
as they go, are substantial and tho pnblic bnild-
~p are in a fair condition.
‘The aggregate sum apppropriated was $12,-
500—the amount expended §15,391 81. The
vouchers for the various sums paid out are filed
in the Executive office, subject to your inspec
tion. It should be observed that a part of the
expenditure is not properly chargeable to re
pairs. In November, 1855, the stables, car
riage house, bathing room and poultry house
attached to the mansion yard, were consumed
by fire. These had to be supplied by new
buildings, so that not more than §3000 have
been expended in repairs proper to the Execu-
tive building. No appropriation will be re
quired to pay the excess of cost of repairs over
and above the appropriation. Considerable
new furniture for the Mansion, the Legislative
Halls, and the several Executive departments
was indispensable. This I have purchased,
with a copy of vouchers, and that the balance
of four thousand dollars is in cash, and in cash
items authorized bylaw, to be cancelled by war
rants whenever the Treasurer is placed in prop
er relation to the department”
The Treasurer’s reply gave us no other in
formation about the matter, but contained an
intimation that the seventeen thousand dollars
charged to the State in the money column had
been improperly used by Governor Bullock.
This suspicion we find, on examination, to be
perfectly groundless. We have hereto, for the
information of the Committee and House, on
this and other subjects, appended to the Treas
urer’s reply, marked No. 3, and the Governor’s
also, marked No. 4.
At the point of the investigation, the Com
mittee could have closed itslabores, as the end
of its appointment had been attained, bnt your
Committee believed that neither the House or
the people of Georgia would be satisfied with
the investigation to stop, until the whole matter,
and kindred questions growing out of it, had
been probed to the bottom. The Committee,
therefore, sent for H. I Kimball, who, as will be
seen by reference to the Governor’s reply to the
Committee, had given on the 11th January, to
the Governor, a receipt for thirty-one thousand
dollars, which sum had been advanced to him
by the Governor, to heat, light and famish the
CapitoL To him your Committee propounded
a series of questions, which, under oath, he has
answered fully, and by the clear and intelligent
maimer in which he has done it, greatly aided
the Committee in coming to the conclnsion
which it subsequently arrived at.
In Mr. Kimball’s answers to tho Committee,
we leam that in the contract made by him with
the city, he had only agreed to furnish the build
ing, and that in the plainest maimer, and that
the heating, lighting and furnishing was not a
part of his contract, and this statement is doubly
confirmed and made certain by the exhibition
of his contract, plans and specifications append
ed to his answers, and the further fact that in his
negotiations with the City Council to fit and furn
ish the Opera House building for the use of the
State bnilding for the use of the State, he had
prepared another, and different and more com
plete plan, including the heating, lighting, and
for a higher rent, which plan was rejected by
Mr. Richard Peters, Chairman of the Building
Committee of the Atlanta City Council on the
ground that the rent was more than the City
Council was able to pay, and that the contract
of the Conncil with tho State did not reqnire
tham to furnish the apparatus for heating and
lighting the building.
It also appears from Mr. Kimball’s testimony,
that as early as September of last year, while
the Legislature was in session, he brought to
the attention of the Building Committee of the
Senate and House, the importance of his know
ing in what manner the State designated to heat
the building, and was informed by them that a
resolution in regard to the matter had been of
fered by them and tabled. Acting under this
information, and under the belief and impres
sion that the Legislature did not intend to go to
the expense of heating the bnilding with steam,
he went forward and carried up a large number
of flues throughout the building at very consid
erable cost and inconvenience, so that stoves,
grates, or any other means of heating might be
used.
This plan of heating was afterwards changed,
according to Mr. Kimball’s opinion, upon the
statements and pledges made by the President
of the Senate and influential members of the
House and Senate, composing tho Railroad
Committee, in a conversation with Mr. Kimball
and State House officers on this snbject, which
he (Mr. Kimball) communicated to the Gover
nor. Upon the statement of these facts to Gov
ernor Bullock—of the promises and pledges—
Governor Bullock, after great hesitation and
doubt, reluctantly consented to adopt the pro
posed plan of heating, lighting and furnishing
the building, and advanced him abont seventy
or seventy-five per cent of the entire cost; that
there is now due and unpaid abont eighteen or
nineteen thousand dollars.
The answers of Mr. Kimball, to which special
attention is called, with the contract, plan and
specification are hereto attached, and marked
The committee next called npon the Mayor
and City Conncil of Atlanta, and inquired of
them what construction they put npon the con
tract made by the city with the Constitutional
Convention, and also with the Legislature, and
received the following evasive answer, marked
No. 6, and hereto attached: The committee
have taken the trouble to look into these con
tracts, and while we think the one made by the
city with the Constitutional Convention is broad
enough to cover everything—as the city agreed
to furnish suitable buildings for the Legislature
free of all cost to the State—the subsequent one
made with the Legislature, with the accompany
ing plans and specifications, does not go far
enough, in a strict construction, to require the
city to heat and light the building under the
modem, expensive mode of heating by steam,
or furnish the present extravagant and expensive
burners for lighting with gas.
We think, npon a fair consideration of these
should be cited, bnt for the purpose of this re
port, we deem those already cited to be suffi
cient In paragraph 64 of Irwin’s Code, among
other enumerations of the Governor’s power,
we find the following: “He shall have general
supervision over all property of the State, with
power to make all necessary regulations for the
protection thereof, when not otherwise provided
for.”
It is under this broad power, we apprehend,
that former Governors have frequently, in the
preservation of the public property, assumed
the right and necessity of making repairs on
Public buildings, bnt we are unable to find the
power in this clause to authorize the purchase
of new furniture, either for the Leislative Halls
or the Executive Mansion, by the Governor,
without first having an appropriation for that
express purpose by the Legislature. Yet we
find that Ex-Govemor H. V. Johnson did it,
and was sustained by the Legislature. In fact,
nothing at the time was said abont it.
The power to make all necessary regulations
for the protection of the public buildings, does
not and cannot give the power to purchase or
enlarge, bnt simply the power to repair, and
then only under circumstances when the repairs
would be immediately necessary to protect and
preserve the property. But it is said by Ex-
Gov. Brown, in his reply to the Committee, and
asserted by others, that cases may arise when a
generous people will allow the Executive of a
great State a wide discretion, and sustain him
in acts drawn out in great emergencies, when
he has honestly and faithfully done what at the
time seemed imperatively necessary.
This we concede to be true, and that an
emergency like the one alluded to by Governor
Brown, in 1862, when, during the war, the peo
ple were actually starving for salt, or the case
when Governor Johnson nobly and generously
stepped forward to aid a portion of our State,
terror-stricken by disease, and suffering under
their bereavements for tho necessities of life—
the people approved of these acts, and we trust
that the time never will come in Georgia when
its people will be so dead or callous to the cries
of suffering humanity as not to approve of such
acts, and sustain the Executive of the State in
their performances.
The case nnder the consideration has no
similitude or analogy to these, and therefore
cannot be sustained for the same reasons or on
the same grounds. Was there an emergency
which made it imperatively necessary for the
Governor to advance, out of the money belong
ing to the State, thirty-five thousand dollars ? If
there was no such emergency, was the advance
necessary for the protection of the property of
the State ?
When we feel strongly disposed, from the
high regard and great respect always due to the
Executive of our State, to look with indulgence
upon, and forbearance from, anything like a
censorious or partizan criticism of his acts; yet
a sense of duty to the law and obligation to those
we represent require us to hold him strictly and
rigidly responsible. If he err, we should be re
creant to toe trust confided in us did we not tell
bim so in such language and manner as to pre
vent the recurrence of his errors. We do not
say that Gov. Bullock has been gnilty of any
thing criminal or of bad faith, but, on toe con
trary, we believe his intentions were pure, and
wliat he did was in good faith, believing at toe
time it was for toe best interest and welfare of
toe State, yet we think be acted witoont author
ity of law. Hence we propose to examine his
acts and try them by the same test that the
highest and lowest citizen is tried—toe law and
too evidence.
The evidence show? conclusively that it was
well known, while the Legislature was in session
last summer, that, under toe contract with toe
City Council of Atlanta, toe City Council did
not intend and did not fH-nk it was required,for
toe city to go to toe expense of heating and
lighting or furnishing toe Capitol bnilding with
any other apparatus than what was then on
hand and in the possession of toe State. For
this reason Mr. Tweedy, Chairman of the House
Bnilding Committee, introduced a resolution, at
toe heel of last session, to authorize the Govern
or to purchase a heating and lighting apparatus
for the new Capitol Mr. Price moved to amend
by saying that toe Governor be authorized to pay
only for gas and fuel The original resolution
was voted down. This was done under toe im
pression and toe firm belief of the members that
toe City Council of Atlanta were to furnish ev
erything to the State free of expense for ten
years. If it was known at that time by toe Gov
ernor that toe City Conncil refused, and toe ex
pense had to be incurred by the State to heat
and light toe Capitol was it not his duty to have
called toe attention of toe House to this subject ?
Ii toe testimony of Mr. Kimball is true, was not
toe Governor apprized of toe fact that toe City
Council refused to pay for it ?
Was it not the duty of Governor Bullock, if
he believed toe City Council of Atlanta re
sponsible for toe expense necessary to prepare
toe Opera House for too assembling of the
Legislature, to have called upon the City Coun
cil to provide for toe expenditure ? And was
not the City Council the sole judge of the mode,
manner and style of heating and lighting toe
contracts, it was toe intention of toe contracting! Opera House? Could not the Opera House
parties to heat toe honse by toe old and more I have been heated, lighted and furnished with
common mode of stoves and grates, and light '■ toe flues, grates and stoves, which Mr Kimball
with chandeliers; and as the old Capitol at Mil-i commenced to prepare for, and lighted with
ledgeville was amply supplied with furniture, no ! chandeliers; and would not toe old furniture
great additional expense would be needed, and, j have been sufficient until toe Legislature had
old Capitol at Mill edge ville, and received toe
annexed communication, marked No. 7, in re
ply. We also attach a fidler and more complete
statement in regard to this matter from toe Su
perintendent of Public "Works.
We addressed Ex-Govemor Joseph E. Brown,
and inquired as to toe comses other Governors
had pursued whenever an emergency arose,
during a recess of toe Legislature, requiring toe
exercise of_ that extraordinary power vested in
toe Execntive, to use toe State money when no
firing the war—in 1862—of toe
purchase of salt iu Virginia, he says that “there
are cases when tho Governor may properly as
sume such responsibilities, but that it should al
ways be done cautiously and in perfect good
faith, as it is done on the personal responsibility
of the Governor, if the Legislature refuses to
make the appropriation, which refusal would be
unreasonable and unjust to toe Executive is sat
isfied that the expenditure was reasonable, and
was justified by toe emergency.” The reply of
Ex-Govemor Brown is hereto appended, and
marked No. 8.
We fonnd in toe annual message of Ex-Gov.
Brown, to toe Legislature in 1862, the following
statements to that body of the discretion he bad
seen proper to exercise in toe use of public
money under the then existing emergency: “As
it could be, and was iu preparation to be heated
with grates and stoves, and lighted with chan
deliers, and the old furniture would have been
sufficient, where was the emergency which re
quired the exercise of the extraordinary power
by toe Governor? Was there any urgent ne
cessity similar to toe cases cited by Ex-Gov.
Brown, or the one when Ex-Gov. Johnson ad
vanced twenty-five thousand dollars to the city
of Savannah?
The fact that toe Opera House did not belong
to toe State, but was the property of a private
citizen, relieved Governor Bullock from any ne
cessity of advancing any money for its protec
tion or repairs, or for furnishing any aid to its
improvement by toe way of apparatus to heat,
light or furnish it, and hence there was no leg.d
necessity for toe advance which had existed with
other Governors.
We cannot say in the language of ex-Govemor
Brown to us, “ that we are satisfied that toe ex
penditure was reasonable and was justified by
he emergency.” Neither can we say, after a
full consideration of all the facts, that there was
any .very urgent necessity which required it.
We are aware that the assurances made by
toe Railroad Committee, had much to do in in
fluencing the action of the Governor, and this
fact, if it be true, coming os it does from such'
a responsible, respectable source, in our minds,
to a great extent exonerates the Governor. We
in*, but, satis*d as we are. of the integrity of
the Govern‘'’i ar ® stm billing to repose m him
° Irfco^kision, therefore, npon a full consider
ratio* of oil the facts and circumstances with
fluence brought to bear upon us, the ms-
of the Committee having so decided, we
_ jfuse to make any recommendation whether
toe State shall assume the payment, or the City
Council of Atlanta shall be responsible, except
we recommecd, to prevent a similar occurrence
hereafter, toe Judiciary Committee be instruct
ed to prepare a bill to define more clearly toe
duties of toe Governor and Treasurer, and give
toe Treasurer toe exclusive power of negotiating
State bonds, by and with toe consent of toe Gov
ernor.
We apprehend that toe Treasurer, when a
warrant is properly drawn by the Governor and
approved and entered by toe Comptroller Gene
ral, has no right to go behind too warrant to
look into its legality.
The warrant, if within toe amount appropri
ated, is his security. The contingent fund is
placed in toe Governor’s hands to be used as he
tiiinkq proper, and th8 Treasurer has no right
to question his use or application of that fnnd.
The Governor in his communication to ns,
charges toe Treasurer with a refusal to pay his
warrants, with captiousness and a want of prop
er respect and courtesy to toe Executive Depart
ment.
We have not been able to look fully into these
charges and see whether they are well grounded
or not, but if found to be true, we feel com
pelled to disapprove of toe Treasurer’s con
duct. Iu order for toe business of toe State to
move on there should be a good official under
standing and perfect harmony among all toe
officers of toe different departments, for if there
is not such a relation, one with toe other, disor
der and confusion must ensue.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
W. H. F. Hall, Chairman F. C.
(Note.—On Thursday the Legislature received
toe report of toe minority, and adopted it by a
vote of yeas 86, nays 37. We will publish it as
soon as received.—Eds. Telegraph.
purchase from said pioprietors; what either toe
MINORITY REPORT OP FINANCE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Speaker: The undersigned, members of
the Finance Committee, would respectfully sub
mit toe following report upon toe matter dis
closed to the House, by report of the State
Treasurer, on toe 24th ultimo, in response to a
resolution adopted by this House.
A careful analysis of the mass of testimony
which has been before ns developes toe follow
ing state of facts:
That his Excellency, Gov. Bnllock, checked
upon the Fourth National Bank of the city of
New York for amounts as follows:
On 29to October, 1868 $17,000 09
On 3d December. 1868 8,000 00
On 12to December, 1808 10,000 00
Amounting in the aggregate to toe sum
total of $35,000 00
These amounts were charged np to State ac
count, and expended by his Excellency, without
toe authority of law. The said amount did not
go into toe Treasury, and was not drawn there
from, in toe usual way, npon executive warrant;
that until toe 9th of January, 1809, toe Treas
urer had no notification or intimation of toe fact
that said amounts had been so drawn and ap
propriated, though ample time and frequent op
portunities for such notification had transpired;
that toe first intimation of toe transaction which
reached toe Treasurer was in toe statement of
toe bank account of toe State, which reached
him on the 9to of January, 1869. In this con
nection we would call attention to the fact, that
toe Governor did not, in his annual message to
toe Legislature, and has not since, officially and
directly communicated to toe Legislature toe
facts connected with this transaction. Nor has
he attempted to explain directly to toe General
Assembly toe manner in which, and too purpose
for which, such unauthorized expenditure was
made.
2d. That his Excellency explains to the Fi
nance Committee, and through said committee
to toe Legislature, that said sum of §35,000 was
expended as follows:
“To C. '.I. Kimball & Co., 29 Broad street,
New l’ork $15,000 00
To H. J. Kimball 6,000 00
To Draft to H. J. Kimball 10,000 00
Total $31,000 00
The balance of four thousand dollars is in
cash, and in cash items, authorized by law, to
bo cancelled by warrant, whenever the Treasu
rer is placed in proper relation to this (toe Ex
ecutive Department.”
3d. That toe Messrs. Kimball have run up
au account against the State of Georgia, for
items as follows. »
For heating toe State Department $15,000 00
For lighting toe two Legislative Halls.... 1,800 00
For freight and putting up lighting appa
ratus 250 00
For gas fixtures 6,500 00
For desks, tables, chairs, inkstands, spit
toons, etc 10.00000
For carpeting and matting 6,000 00
For painting, upholstering, setting up fur
niture, vault, counters, shelves, pigeon
holes, book-cases, etc 6,500 00
For packing, carting and freight not here
tofore included 4,200 00
Total $50,750 00
And that toe §31,000 00 above named has
been applied in part payment of said account,
leaving toe sum of §19,000 00 yet due and un
paid.
4tli- That no itemized accounts, or bill of par
ticulars, have been presented to the committee,
showing how tho above stated aggregate, round
amounts have been made up. Hence, neither
toe committee nor toe House can form any re
liable opinion as to toe reasonableness of toe
charges made; that the whole of the heating
apparatus is a fixture belonging to toe building,
and toe same is true of toe gas pipes ; and that,
while either the city of Atlanta, or the State
might be charged reasonable rent or hire for
these things, they certainly cannot be expected
to purchase them; that xnnch of toe painting
was necessary for the preservation of the
building, and was not necessitated by the
adaptation of the bnilding to State House
purposes; that it has not been made evi
dent to us that toe furniture of the old
Capitol, now lying idle and likely to become
wholly worthless, conld not have been made
available for the present temporary Capitol;
that we are of toe opinion that by far the larger
portion of said old furniture could have been
made serviceable for many yeare to come, and
was of a character suitable for State House
purposes. It is evident to us that this Legisla
ture, at its last session, distinctly refused to au
thorize toe Governor to purchase a heating and
lighting apparatus for the temporary Capitol,
and that his Excellency acted in direct violation
of toe known will of the Legislature.
5th. That there are three parties interested iu
this matter—the proprietors of toe Opera build
ing, as lessors; toe city of Atlanta, as lessee;
and the State, as occnpant nnder said lessee.
"What toe lessors were to fnmish depends npon
toe contract of leasing. "What toe lessee was
to furnish depends npon toe contract between
the State and toe city of Atlanta. We submit
that for onr present purpose it does not now be
come necessayto construe either of said con
tracts. Suffice it to say that neither the State
nor toe city contemplated toe heating and light
ing of toe temporary capitol, in toe extravagant
mode adopted, and the Governor was fully ap
prised of this fact It is equally evident to us
that neither the State nor the city contemplated
toe purchase of an entire new outfit of costly
furniture for the temporary capitol. This toe
Governor must also bare known; and it is a fact
too plain to be dispnted that an outlay of §60,-
000, in fitting up a building which is to be used
for State House purposes for ten years only, nn
der all the circumstances, was simply reckless
extravagance.
6to. The course pursued by His Excelleny is,
in our opinion, not only without authority, bnt
is also without precedent, so far as we are ad
vised.
The direction of ex-Gov. Brown to his Com
missary General to apply §100,000 to the pur
chase of salt—said amount to be replaced by the
proceeds of the sale of the salt—during a time of
war, when the people were suffering for that
commodity, is certainty no precedent The same
is true of an advance of §25,000 to toe city of
Savannah by ex-Gov. Johnson, when that city
was invaded by pestilence audits people were
suffering for food and medical aid.
The fact that ex-Govemor Johnson expended
less than §3000 in excess of an appropriation
which had been made for a specific purpose,
and communicated the fact to the Legislature
upon its assembling, accompanied by the proper
vouchers, and asking an appropriation to cover
the excess so expended, cannot be insisted upon
as a precedent. No emergency existed which
demanded of Governor Bullock this extraordi
nary departure from law and the usual custom
of toe Executive of State.
7th. We are wholly unable to state what arti
cles purchased were necessary, and what was
the cost of such necessary articles. We cannot
now state what either the State or city ought to
ent or hire from the proprietors of the Opera
uilding, and what toe State or city ought to
State or city onght, in good faith, to pay for;
and, in the present state of toe case, it is utterly
impossible to arrive at any reliable conclusion
in regard to these matters.
Under this state of facts, we remark, first,
That Treasurer Angier did nothing more than
his duty, when the aforesaid irregularities were
brought to his knowledge, in investigating fully
the manner in which the money had been
drawn, and in ascertaining, if possible, what
disposition had been made of it—and in ascer
taining precisely to what extent theunautoorized
proceeding had gone, with a view to his own
protection as a bonded officer, and toe protec
tion of his sureties, and toe preservation of toe
funds of toe State. His course was commenda
ble, and for it he is entitled to our thanks.
Second. That toe Treasurer, when called up
on by the Honse for information touching tius
unauthorized course of his Excellency, did bat
his duly in communicating to toe House imme
diately, and witoont consultation with his Excel
lency, such facts as were in his possession, and
in his report to toe House, there is displayed no
ill feeling or captions opposition to his Excel
lency. The report is simple, succinct, intelligi
ble, and responsive to the resolution.
Third. That no misunderstanding between his
Excellency and toe Treasurer, nor toe absence
of toe Treasurer from toe city, nor any other
reason which has been assigned by his Excel
lency or his apologists, satisfactorily explains
too failure of his Excellency to notify the Gen
eral Assembly, at toe earliest practicable mo
ment, that ho had drawn money upon toe ac
count of toe State, and appropriated it, without
authority of law, and to explain upon what
emergency said unauthorized expenditure was
msde, submitting at toe same time vouchers iu
detail in full explanation of that expenditure.
Such prompt and full explanation was due to toe
Legislature and the people cf the State.
Fourth. Until toe Legislature shall have been
officially and directly advised of toe amounts
expended, and for what said amounts were ex
pended, and what necessity for such expenditure
existed, accompanied by original bills and other
vouchers, we cannot say what portion of such
expenditure ought to be paid—or whether c^y or
State ought to pay it. When it is made evident
that the State ought, iu good faith, to pay any
portion of such amount as his Excellency has
seen fit to check out of toe Fourth Natipnal
Bank, and pay over to toe Messrs. Kimball—
and an appropriation is asked to cover said
amount, it will be ample time to consider toe
propriety of making such appropriation.
Fifth. In our opinion, the facts herein set
forth, develop toe necessity for further legisla
tion, for toe security of toe Treasury. We there'
fore recommend: ,
1st That no appropriation be now made to
cover the §50,000, expended as aforesaid, or
any part thereof.
2d. That toe accompanying bills, which we
beg leave now to introduce, be passed.
A.S. Fowler,
G. S. Carpenter,
Wsl B. Gray,
John Higdon,
C. C. Cleghobn,
John Long,
O. G. Spares,
H. C. Kellogg.
licitor and the accused may select either pannel
rtf tilo Tr.—. A.— A_. iL. -n .
The Jury Law.
An Act to carry into effect the Second Clanse of
the Thirteenth Section of the Fifth Article of
toe Constitution.
Section 1. Be it enacted by toe Senate and
Honse of Representatives of the State of Geor
gia in General Assembly met and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the same, That it
shall be toe duty of toe Ordinary in each coun
ty in this State, together with toe Clerk of toe
Superior Court and three Commissioners, ap
pointed for each county by toe presiding Judge
of toe Superior Court, removable at his pleas
ure, to meet at toe Court-honse on the first
Monday in June, biennially, whose duty it shall
be to select from the book of the Receiver of
Tax Returns “upright and intelligent persons”
to serve as Jurors, and to make out tickets, with
toe names of the persons so selected, which said
tickets shall be put iu a box to be provided at
the public expense; which said box shall have
two apartments, marked number one and two,
and which shall be locked np and sealed by toe
Judge, and placed in the care of the Clerk, and
the key in the care of toe Sheriff, and no Grand
nor Petit Jury shall be drawn but in toe pres
ence of toe Judge, in open Court. Nor shall
any person, on any pretense whatever, open
said box, or alter toe names placed therein; and
any person so offending, npon conviction of toe
same, shall be punished by fine and imprison
ment in the common jail of the county, at toe
discretion of the Court.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That toe Judges
of toe Superior Courts, at the close of each
Term, in open Court, shall unlock said box and
break the seal, and cause to be drawn from
apartment No. i not less than eighteen nor more
than twenty-three names, to serve as Grand Ju
rors at toe next Term of toe Court. After which
said Judge shall proceed to draw out of the same
apartment thirty-six names, to serve as Petit
Jurors for toe trial of civil and criminal cases;
all of which names so drawn out as aforesaid
shall be deposited in apartment No. 2; and
when all toe names shall have been drawn out of
apartment No. 1, then toe drawing shall com
mence from apartment No. 2, and toe tickets be
returned to No. 1, and so on alternately: and no
name, so deposited as aforesaid in said box,
shall, on ony pretense whatever, be thrown out
of said box, except when it is satisfactorily
shown to toe Judge that the Juror is dead, re-
moved out of toe county, or otherwise disqual
ified by law.
Sec. 3. Be it farther enacted, That whenever,
from any cause, toe Jndge shall fail to draw
Juries as provided in this act, it shall be toe
duty of toe Ordinary of toe county in which
such failure may have occurred, together with
the Commissioners and Clerk of said county, to
meet at toe court-house at least twenty days
previous to the next ensuing Term of toe Court,
whether such Term be a regular or adjourned
Term, and then and there draw Grand and Pitit
Jurors to serve at that Term, all of which shall
bo duly entered by said Clerk on the minutes of
toe Court and signed by toe Ordinary.
Sec. 4. Be it also enacted, That within thirty
days after said Jurors shall have been drawn by
a Judge of toe Superior Court, and within five
days after they may have been drawn by toe
Ordinary and Commissioners, as herein pro
vided, the Clerk of toe Superior Court shall is
sue and deliver to toe sheriff, or his deputy, a
precept containing toe names of toe persons
drawn as Grand Jurors; and, upon toe receipt
of said precept, toe sheriff, or his deputy, shall
cause toe persons whose names are therein writ
ten to be served personally, or by leaving toe
summons at their most notorious places of resi
dence, at least ten days prior to toe term of toe
Court the Jurors were drawn to attend.
Seo. 5. Be it also enacted, That a Grand Jnry
shall consist of not less than eighteen nor more
than twenty-three persons, and that toe duties of
a Grand Jnry shall be confined to such matters
and things as by toe laws and statutes of this
State a Grand Jury are required to perform.
Sec. 6. Be it also enacted, That toe Judges of
Superior Court in this State, at each term, shall
from toe Petit Jurors have made up two pannels
of twelve jurors each, which shall be known and
distinguished as pannels number one and two;
all equity cases, collateral issues, and issuable
pleas, etc., in said Courts, shall be tried by one
or toe other of said pannels, provided toe par
ties can agree upon a pannel to try the same.
Bnt in toe event the parties cannot agree upon
a pannel then it shall be toe duty of toe Clerk
to famish toe parties or their attorneys with a
list of both pannels, from which said list the
parties or their attorneys may strike alternately,
until there shall be but twelve left, which shall
constitute toe Special Jury to try the case. In
all cases toe plaintiff shall have toe first strike.
Each paanel of the Petit Jury shall take the
oath prescribed for special juries in section 3855
of toe new Code; and Grand Jurors shall take
toe oath contained in section 3S47 of the same
Code; Provided, That toe Jndge may in his dis
cretion have special juries drawn from the Grand
Jury in the manner heretofore prescribed by law
for the purpose of trying issues in civil cases.
Sec. 7. Beit also enacted, That if any person
shall be drawn as a juror, and duly summoned
to appear as such at court; or if any person
shall be summoned as a Tales Juror, and shall
neglect or refuse to appear; or if any juror
shall absent himself without leave of the Court, a profitable business when they won ~, o0 r
then and in that event it Bhall be lawful for toe money. Our veins are generally larg^rj^.^
Court to fine such persons in a sum of not more
than forty dollars.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That when from
challenge or from any other cause, there is not
a sufficient number of persons in attendance to
complete toe pannal of Grand Jurors, or either
E annel of Petit Jurors, toe Court may order the
heriff or his deputy to summon persons quali-
1 fled as hereinbefore required, sufficient to com
plete the panneL And when toe Sheriff or his
deputy is disqualified to summon talesmen as
aforesaid, than they may be sommonld by the
Coroner, or such other persons as toe Court may
appoint. : ’
Sec. 9. Be it also enacted, That on the trial bo able to put it in operation. xarggCS-
of criminal offenses, leas than felonies, the So- I remain yours, etc., **
of toe Petit Jury to try the case. But uTtta
event toe Solicitor and the accused cannot agree
upon a pannel then toe Court shall have »
pannel made np of the twenty-four Petit Jutots
in attendance, of which the accused «>H1 have
toe right to challenge seven peremptorily and
toe State five. The remaining twelve «hnVi ,
stitute the Jury.
Sec. 10. Be it also enacted, That when anv
person shall stand indicted lor any offense
which, upon conviction, may subject him to the
punishment of death, or to imprisonment in the
Penitentiary, it shall be toe duty of toe Court to
have impanneled forty-eight Jurors, twenty-fonr
of whom shall be taken from toe two pannels of
Petit Jurors, from which to select the'jury for
the trial of such offense, and in the event the
jury cannot be mads up of said pannel of forty-
eight, the Court shall continue to furnish pan!
nels "consisting of such number of Jurors as the
Court in its discretion may think proper, until i
Jury is obtained. ’ a
Sec. 11. Be it also enacted, That, on the re.
visalof toe jury box, as provided in this act it
shall be toe duty of toe Clerk to make out a list
of all toe names in toe box—toe same to be al.
phabetically arranged—and to place said list or
file in his office, which said list ahull he - certi
fied by the Ordinary, Commissioners and Clerk
to contain all the names placed in toe jury bos!
Sec. 12. Be it also enacted, That the Ordina
ry, Clerk of toe Superior Courts, and three
Commissioners in the different counties in this
State, shall meet at toe Court-house within
thirty days after toe passage of this act, to or-
ganize jury boxes according to the provisions
of this act; and that toe jury boxes in this
State shall be revised, as herein provided, on
toe first Monday in June, 1870, and ever there
after biennially on toe first Monday in June.
Sec. 13. Be it also enacted, That after the
Jury Boxes shall have been organized as pro.
vided in toe previous section of this act, the
Ordinaries ana toe Commissioners in their re
spective counties shall immediately proceed to
toaw Grand and Petit Jurors to serve at the
next term of toe Superior Court; which Jurors
shall be summoned as provided in thi3 Act—til
of which shall be duly entered by the Clerk on
toe minutes of his Court, and signed by the Or-
dinary.
Sec. 13. Be it also enacted, That the Compen
sation of Grand and Petit Jurors shall be one
dollar for each and every day they may serve.
Sec. 15. Be it also enacted, That an act to
authorize the holding of the Superior Courts of
this State at toe ensuing Fall Term and to pro-
vide Juries therefor, approved April 27, 1868,
be and toe ssme is hereby continued iu force
until Juries can be drawn under this Act: and
all Juries now drawn shall be considered and are
hereby declared legal
Sec. 16. This Act shall go into effect from
and immediately after its passage.
Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That for the
purpose of supplying juries for the several su
perior and city courts in this State, which are
now suspended for toe want of proper juries:
and for those whose times of holding may occur
before toe provisions of this Act can be made
available, that the respective Judges of said
Courts, or toe Ordinaries of toe respective
counties, together with the Clerk of said Court,
and the Sheriff of toe county, be and they are
hereby authorized from the jurors whose names
are now in toe Grand and Petit Jury Boxes of
said Courts, (toe said boxes to be consolidated,
so as make no classes.) to draw such Grand and
Petit Jurors as may be necessary to serve as a
Grand Inquest, and for the trial of all causes,
civil and criminal, in accordance with the
Constitution and existing laws of this State,
and all such tales jurors as may be necessary
from time to time to complete said juries; and
that the venire be made returnable to toe ap
proaching term of the said Court, or to such
day of toe term as toe Judge may direct, pro
vided that each regular juror so drawn shall be
summoned at least two days before toe term of
said Court, or toe day appointed by toe Judge:
and that all verdicts and other acts done by
such jurors shall be lawful and regular to ail
intents and purposes: provided that this sec
tion shall not be construed to be in conflict with
toe fifteenth (15) section; and toe Judges of
said Courts, in their discretion, may avail them
selves of toe provisions of qjther of the said
sections. And be it further provided that the
provisions of this section shall not be of force
for toe holding of any Court whose term may
commence after toe first of June next.
Sec. 18. All laws and parts of laws conflicting
with this Act are hereby repealed.
W. P. Price,
Speaker pro. tem. Honse of Bep.
M. A. Hardin, Clerk of House of Rep.
% Benjamin Conley,
President of Semite.
E. A. Marshall, Secretary of Senate.
Approved, February 15,1869.
Rufus B. Bullock, Governor.
Office of Secrebaby of State, >
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 18, 1869.)
I hereby certify that toe foregoing is a tree
and correct copy of the original Act on file in
this office.
Given under my hand and seal of office.
David G. Cotting,
Secretary of State.
Gold Mining iu Northeastern Georgia.
From the Atlanta Cemtitution.1
Dahlonega, Ga., February 15, 1869.
Messsrs Editors: Having observed toe great
interest manifested by you in the development
of the resources of our State, I have thought
that a brief account of toe Gold Mining opera
tions of this section might be interesting to some
of your many readers. "
The Gold Mining interest of this section is a
much more extensive business than many, even
as near as your city, are apprised of, and when
I tell you that the compames in this, and in
White county, represent several millions, that
it will be new and surprising to many of you
readers.
The names of toe companies in this county
are the Yahoola and Cane Creek Hydraulic
Hose. The Wood, toe Georgia Gold, the Ches-
tatee Flaming and Mining, toe Dahlonega lik
ing, the Etowah and Battle Branch; toe Anti-
cafola Mining, and Moore & Harris Quartz Mil
etc. Those in White are..toe Lewis & Sprague,
the Nacoochee Hydraulic Hose, and Logan 4
Asbury’s Mill. Besides these, there were two
companies chartered at toe last session of the
Legislature, the Nacoochee Valley, and th«
Hannay Mining Companies, covering extensive
and very valuable properties, that wm be in op
eration during toe spring or early summer, h>
these, except Moore & Hams and Logan & An
bury's Mill, are owned and operated by North
ern capitalists, and as before stated, represent
several millions of dollars. _
Besides, there are quite a number of indin-'
ual companies composed of from three to sis
men each, working the deposits on toe rivers,
creeks and branches, “ on their own hook,’ **
the miners say, making from one to fourpeM?
weights to toe hand per day.
Just at this time there is less activity m tnc
larger operatives than usual, owing to the iac -
of several having suspended for the winter, att*
some others taking toe advantage of the season
to enlarge and repair toe works for a more riS"
orons campaign on the opening of spring. Sev
eral however, are in frill blast; producing
satisfactory results. _
The quartz mills in this section axe the 1J "
hoola, with twenty stamps, the Hamilton, twen
ty-four stamps, toe Georgia Gold, forty stamps-
Annicalola, eight stamps, toe Lewis
Sprague, twenty-four stamps, Logan ana A»n-
ley, eight stamps, and Moore and Harris, i® 3 -
stamps. All these, except toe two last, are i
the latest and most approved styles, with an
modem improvements. ,
Thus far the greatest fact developed inregaw
to mining here is toe unprecedented cheap 31
with which they are worked, and when I assn®*
that some of our mines where water is use®, *
raising and crushing their quartz at forty ct
per ton, it will be very surprising, if ?? •
discredited, by those who had only Rocky Mo
fain and California experience, where toe a V,
age for toe same work is about seventeen-
larsper ton. This alone will enabJe ns wn
mining shall become a legitimate business,
wholly disconnected from stock jobbing,
make it both extensive and profitable. ^
veins are not so rich as those of Col® ^
California, yet the cheapness and abundance T
labor, fuel and provisions, toe climate aBdin*£.
aOiat mi vantages, will enable us to ^
money. Our veins are generally
ores much less refractory than those of toe
and rarely have any other waUrng than ^
slate, which enables ns to use the sto ^
hose-pipe to get out our ores, which is 0®“°
no other mining oountiy in the worn-
In this preliminary sketch. I hare been,
only to enumerate toe several mines so* gj
worked, and to glance at some ^t**®?^* 1
our idle mmes wiu mo ■“wg-—mjb*
worked, and the United States
erected at such a cost that the Goreram*®
