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GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 8:45, a. m. and 8:15, p. m.
Leaves Atlanta at 6:30, a. m. and 10:00 p. in.
Arrives in Augusta at 3:45, p. m. and 7, a.m.
Arrives in Atlanta at 5:40. p.m. and 6:05, a.m.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 10:45, a. m.
Leaves Macon at 0:30, a. m.
Arrives at Augusta 2 :00, p. m.
Arrives at Macon at 6:40, p. ni.
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:05, a. m. and 8:05, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4 00 p. m. and 6, a.m.
CHAKLOTT E COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Leav es Augusta at 7:45, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
Arrives in Augusta at 8 :G5, p.m. and 8:45, a.m
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta 7:00 a. m.
Arrives at'Augusta 6 :45 p. m.
Arrives at Port Royal.. ' 3:15 p. m.
Leaves Port Royal 10:00 a. m.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 8:20 a.m. and 6, p. m.
Arrives in 5. p. m. and 7:50, a. m.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1874.
WHY DID KIMBALL RETURN?
A Highly Important Paper—Kimball
Declared to be Untruthful, In
competent and Unworthy—The
Great Bond Manipulator in a New
Role—More Frauds Contemplated—
The Next Move of the Discomfited
Bond Ring to Secure the Payment
of the Repudiated Bonds—A Warn
ing to the People of Georgia.
Atlanta, ( la., July 30, 1874.
Editor of the Constitutionalist:
The people of this city and of the
State are not alive to the significance
and importance of H. I. Kimball’s re
turn to Georgia. What is he here for?
This question is often asked, and no
one seems to be able to give a satis
factory answer. lie has made no pub
lic announcement of his views and in
tentions, and if he has stated them to
any one privately it has not passed out
of the circle in which it is intended to
be confined.
Mr. Kimball is
A SHAMEFUL FAILURE
as a business man. In everything he
has undertaken he has failed. He has
gone through the bankrupt courts too
many times for one of his ago to lay
any claim to competency as a business
man, or even to honest dealing. He is
nc t a success, except that he has more
extensively defrauded other peoplo
without laying himself liable to punish
ment for it than any other man that
ever was in Georgia. In this, he is, so
far, a success.
Quite a number of persons in this
city have signed a petition asking the
Secretary of the Treasury to appoint
Mr. Kimball to supervise the building
of
THE CUSTOM HOUSE.
The great bulk of those who have
signed it, are unthinking, unintelligent
people. Those who try to give a reason
for it, say they are willing for Kimball
to spend money among us—they care
not how much—and think he will scat
ter it like the leaves of Auturnip (What
a recommendation !) Hut very few, in
deed, of those who are able to reflect—
to think intelligibly—to form good
judgment, and give substantial reasons
for any act, would be willing to pro
claim to the world the reasons which
actuated them in signing that paper.
Every mao, of this class, has an inter
ested motive, which prompted him.
None but a fool would sign such a
paper belle ring Kimball to be honest
and capable, as the paper states he is.
Every sensible man in Georgia who is
in any way posted, believes Kimball to
be dishonest. Yesterday a young law
yer of this city, who was once in his
employ, (who had signed that paper)
when candidly appealed to, candidly
said he believed Kimball to be strictly
honest, but added, ‘“I have no doubt
he bribed the Georgia Legislature to se
cure the passage of such measures as
he wished, tojfurther his enterprises.”
A lawyer, regularly at the bar, avowing
his belief in the honesty of a briber!
What will be the next wonder ?
SOME PREVIOUS HISTORY.
The very few items of the history of
his career in the West, before he came
to Atlanta, which have met my eye,
are anything but creditable.
He came here as agent of the Pull
man sleeping cars, to introduce them
on Southern"railroads. Those high in
authority in that company have said
that his transactions were unbusiness
like, and some of them irregular and
unauthorized. He put his own name—
“ Pullman, Kimball & Ramsay ” —on
the ears without authority, as I am told
and believe. He very much deranged and
seriously embarrassed the business
by his foolish and unauthorized acts,
prompted by his vanity, self-import
ance and unlawful ambition, if not by
worse motives, and if not characterized
by worse acts than mere irregularities.
This is the substance of my informa
tion, upon what I regard as reliable
authority.
He found Bullock and the scalawag
and carpet-bag elements, who had pos
session of the" State government, to be
just such tools as he could handle to
advantage in promoting huge enter
prises, and he turned his attention
wholly to the biggest operations,
UNBUSIN ESSLIKE.
He began, and continued to carry on
to the time of his smash-up, his big
developments in Georgia, upon such
plans and with such means as no safe,
prudent, business man ever adopted or
followed. It is a mockery and a sinful
uso of words for those petitioners to
recommend him as a skillful business
man. He’s no such thing. He’s wild,
unsafe and irregular in all his transac
tions. He’s a reckless and an unscru
pulous adventurer, and no safe, intelli
gent man will seriously recommend
him for any purpose except to ruin
somebody.
WAYS THAT ARE DARK.
The men wivo have gotten up this
petition—who have circulated and pro
cured signatures to it—the men who
have managed the affair—have selfish
designs, and are actuated by improper
■motives, which they would not williugly
declare publicly—no more than Kim
ball would now publicly proclaim the
true object of his return to Georgia.
What is he after? He has given out
that he is desirous of seeing Atlanta
*tud the State of Georgia prosper. He
mt flailn Constitutionalist
has harped upon the idea that we need
foreign capital to build up manufacto
ries, &c., and further intimated that he
can still bring fabulous sums of money
into our midst to be expended In this
way, if the people will encourage him ;
and in his late so-called defense, pub
lished in nearly all the papers in Geor
gia, he boasts of the millions of foreign
capital which he has heretofore brought
into the State and e xpended among our
people, which never cost us one dime.
TOO THIN.
It is strange to me that someone
tloes not strip the thin veil of sophis
try and falsehood from this most in
sidious and untruthful letter. It does
seem to me that the commonest intel
lect on earth ought to comprehend
that he never bi ought one cent of
money into Georgia which he did not
leave us in debt for. Some men very
greatly bettered their financial condi
tion in the very questionable way of
gathering up his “scatterings,” thereby
assisting in seriously damaging the
people generally. Some of these same
men, for what they have received or
for what they hope to receive in the
same way, or from the dividing out of
some big plundering scheme, have the
unblushing effrontery to gravely and
publicly endorse 11. I. Kimball as an
honest man and a good business man.
Such an insult to common sense de
serves something more than mere con
tempt or severe reproof, or even public
scorn. It deserves ostracism in social
life and in business, till such counte
nances of rascality pick up their duds
and decamp.
A DELUSION AND A SNARE.
And just here I beg to make a few
remarks upon the general subject of
bringing in immigrants, labor and for
eign capital. Whenever any of these
are brought in by any unnatural or un
usual effort, it is a damage and not a
benefit to the community. Every dol
lar brought in by the use of means to
induce it to come, when it would not
have flowed in naturally, as water seek
ing its level, is a costly operation. The
community goes in debt for every such
dollar, and pays the most exorbitant
interest to the most unscrupulous Shy
lock. Money that flows in of its own
accord is a healthy accretion; but when
we offer extraordinary inducements we
are exactly in tl e condition of a mer
chant who is hopelessly involved, and
who borrows me ney at ruinous rates
to eke out his business a little longer.
I might enlarge upon this subject, but
I will only add that the people of this
city and of Geoigia, are now paying a
crushing interest upon every dollar of
money that 11. I Kimball ever expend
ed among us, ai.d wo will yet cry out,
in agony, under the heavy burden of
paying off the principal of this useless
villainous debt; for it has done our
people no good. Atlanta has greatly
suffered, and will suffer much more for
many years, for the high riot which
Kimball held among us.
To this general statement I make
this exception: that we do not owe
anything for the unlawful, fraudulent
swindling bonds which were issued by
the Kimball-B lllock ring. We have
repudiated then,; and
HERE IS what’s THE MATTER !
This is the sciret of Kimball's return .'
The people who hold these bonds want
us to recognize and to pay them.
Kimball wants us to pay them, and
that is what he is here for ! The prin
cipal movers in this big petition are to
have a slice of these fraudulent bonds,
or something so, and they have gotten
up this list of signatures solely for the
endorsement which Kimball and the
bond ring will claim for it, and the aid
it will give them in approaching the
Legislature. They care not how much
the public suffer, so they prosper. The
mechanics who expect to get work from
Kimball’s enterprises care less about
how the money with which they are
paid for their work is obtained, than
they should. They ought to reflect
that themselves and their children and
children’s children will bo made to toil
and groan and sweat and bleed in per
petual poverty on account of it-
While a few of them expect a share
in the plunder, and on this account are
engineering Kimball into favor, other
clever men have signed that paper and
otherwise encouraged him in the belief
that through his efforts and their
favorable words several large cotton
factories and other manufacturing en
terprises will be built up in Atlanta
without delay. He has made the im
pression that he can control and induce
immense sums of money to come here,
and numbers of heedless people, seem
ing to forget what wicked things he has
done in the past—seeming to forget the
very unfavoroble opinion they entertain
of him down deep in their own hearts,
accept these insinuations of his as
gospel truth ; and to further such a
desirable work, put their names to a
paper, saying that Kimball is honest
and capable, while tlieir own con
sciences tell them that he is dishonest
and a scandalous failure—the most in
competent and unworthy of all men.
RUINOUS TO ATLANTA.
The men who are thus shamelessly
endorsing Kimball and helping him in
his nefarious schemes are inflicting
deadly damage on Atlanta. Go where
you will in Georgia, you will find that
Atlanta has vigorous and determined
enemies. Why is this? It never was
so till the Radical plundering ring
made this city its headquarters. Before
that there was not a particle of jeal
ousy against us anywhere—not even in
Macon or Augusta. A considerable
portion of the public press of Georgia
teems with detraction of Atlanta and
abuse of her people. This shameful
effort to make Kimball respectable will
add many tens of thousands to the list
of Atlanta’s enemies, and not make for
us a single friend—not one! The good
men—those who have no wicked mo
tive moving them thereto—who have
put thejr names on that paper (which
is to be a standing stigma upon their
reputation and thejr posterity, like the
name of Tory) had better think seri
ously about this matter. Thoy will be
sick of it thousands of times before
they hear the last of it.
Kimball came down here last Febru
ary, had numbers of “good people” to
“ shake his hand and a few parties
interested in his future operations ten
dered him a banquet. The papers
spoke favorably of his boldness in
coming right hero and facing the
music!
Ho came again in July and published
a long letter—a tissue of falsehood and
false insinuations —which tho papers
have copied widely and which Kimball
has scattered by thousands far more
widely. Many have commented favor
ably, and
THE HERALD,
of this city, has aggressively assumed
his special championship. The Herald,
with its own resources, is not strong
enough to carry such a load as Kimball
and his rascalities. The people of Geor
gia will cease to patronize it. They
A.TJGTJSILY, GLY., SUnSTDJAY MORNING. AUGUST 2. 1874.
will hate the Herald and hate Atlanta.
The usual supplies of a well conducted
paper will be curtailed very much, if it
does not break down —if it carries the
odious load and survives, it will not re
quire much wisdom to tell where the
supplies of strength and muscle come
from. The Herald is damaging and
disgracing Atlanta. Our own people
will soon see that and cast it out of
their premises in great numbers! That
paper is now the champion of Kimball
and L. N. Trammell, the great Georgia
lobbyist, and B. H. Hill, the great
Georgia acrobat. How long will it be
before it is openly advocating
THE PAYMENT OF THE FRAUDULENT REPUDI
ATED BONDS?
We tell the people to look out. The
time was when that paper would not
have been the special defender of such
characters ; but it is, of late, under a
different regime.
The holders of those repudiated
bonds have several times applied to the
Legislature to have it recognize, vali
date, and force the honest, hard-work
ing masses to pay those bonds. Heavy
pressure has been brought to bear. —
Some of the papers in the State were
subsidized, either to advocate, or re
frain from coudemning the measure,
and some prominent lawyers, for the
sake of fat fees, have advocated, argu
ed and lobbied ; and a
PROFESSIONAL FEMALE LOBBYIST
was brought here for the purpose. It
didn’t succeed —though the measure
made such headway—silenced so much
previous opposition and actually gain
ed so many supporters from unexpect
ed quarters, that it was really alarm
ing to honest men. The scathing de
nounciations and exposures of one
newspaper in this city—the Sun —which
are understood to have appeared
through the instrumentality of Mr. J.
Henly Smith, then the assistant editor,
were conceded to be effective in scotch
ing the measure ; indeed, I have been
told that Mr. Kimball, when he sur
reptitiously hastened out of Georgia,
said, just before leaving, that it was
the Sun, more than anything else,
which had ruined him, and made it
prudent for him to leave.
THE TRIAL OF INTEGRITY.
The holders of those worthless bonds
are not done trying to induce the Geor
gia Legislature to grind a heavy tax
out ; f us and our children for fifty
years, to pay those bonds. They in
tend to proceed next time with such
measures as none but those composed
of the purest, sternest integrity can
withstand; nay, it will be calculated
not only to deceive, but to capture and
carry away “tho very elect,” as willing
captives to sin and shame. I cannot
tell your readers by authority what are
the full features of their programme,
for I am not in the confidence of this
ring, but I have found out a few things,
and my instinct points out a few others,
and I think I can plainly see the out
croppings of tho plan ; and unless this
paper, or something else, shall, cause a
change of tactics, I think I can draw a
tolerably accuratofbutline of the whole
design. It is something like this :
A PROBABLE PROGRMME.
All previous efforts have been una
vailing. In tlio next effort the bond
ring forces must bo doubled and
trebled and quadrupled, and made so
numerous, so strong, so overpowering
as to insure complete success. The
Legislature must be captured and led
captive, to perform the villainous job
at their bidding.
PUTTING ON AIRS.
Kimball comes back after years of
disgraceful skulking. He puts on a
bold front —asks investigation and ar
rest. (He has nothing to lose if he
should be condemned, instead of being
acquitted); therefore he puts a chip on
his hat and walks tho highways asking
if any man is bold enough to knock it
off. Everybody, however, knows what
a skunk he is, and nobody sees any
uso in trying to kill him, as no one
suspects that he will try to go to rob
bing hen roosts any more. He goes to
see the Governor, and goes out and
tells and publishes to the world false
hoods, as to the character of that in
terview. The papers say he is courage
ous, and some of them say, “surely
this man is innocent; see how he
stalks adroad ami defies all his ac
cusers ?” An impulsive generous heart
ed unsuspecting man, who don’t know
the real facts, catching up the refrain,
exclaims, “ Surely he is innocent /” “ In
nocent /” responds a serpent beneath
the grass ; “ Innocent /” repeats a hun
dred airy tongues, and the undiscern
ing man is completely captured. The
gallant and impetuous.
808 ALSTON
attended the Kimball banquet last Feb
ruary, and at once committed the Her
ald to his defense; and now Bob is a
candidate for Congress, expecting the
farmer and Granger influence to nomi
nate and elect him, and does not seem
to know that the farmers and Grangers
are the very people who don’t want to
be taxed to pay the fraudulent bonds
which were issued and placed in other
hands at the instigation and through
the manipulation of H. I. Kimball.
He’ll find out, by waiting, whether that
inconsiderate act has done him good
or harm.
The fear of arrest seems to be over,
and now a grand move on the chess
board is made. The big petition is
gotten up asking his appointment to
supervise the building of the Custom
House. The object of this is to claim
it as a popular indorsement of Kimball’s
integrity. It is intended to be used as
a claim by him and the bond ring, and
those retained in that interest, that the
people don’t believe he is a rogue, but
that they do believe he is honest, and
has never defrauded us, directly nor
indirectly, out of one cent. That is the
claim which will be made for it, and
those who have signed it cannot deny
it, or go back on their record.
NOW SEE THE EFFECT.
Kimball is endorsed by many of the
so-called best men in Georgia as honest,
and they declare that lie has done no
wrong—has been guilty of no fraud.
Those repudiated bonds wore issued at
his special request; he manipulated the
matter, and says he sold them. If
there is nothing wrong in what he did ;
if his transactions were all righteous,
then it js just that we should pay
those bonds, and we have committed a
grievous wrong in repudiating them.
Thug the roadway is being opened
and paved, step by step, for the suc
cessful assault upon the integrity of the
Georgia Legislature.
WHAT NEXT?
Kimball, it is said, has now gone to
New York, and it is significantly hinted
that lie will coipe back loaded down
with —
Ist. Evidence to disprove the serious
charges made against him by the Bond
Committee.
2d. An abundance of substantial
backing in the way of cash to build up
the biggest manufacturing enterprises
in Atlanta.
Now, the bond ring are able to spend
A MILLION OR TWO OF DOLLARS
to secure the payment of the repudia
ted bonds, and they can well afford to
stake Kimball—the most successful
manipulator of Legislatures, and who
understands the work of corruption
better than any one else—to any ex
tent. They can furnish him with mo
ney enough to build a factory or two
(supplemented by what his aiders and
dupes in this city will contribute).
After a while a cotton mill will be fin
ished and work commenced, and six
hundred of the idle vagabond children
of Atlanta will be claimed to have been
put to work. The “ institution ” will
be opened with shouts, a grand ban
quet, and music from the post band ;
and Kimball, having gone up success
ively from one step of popularity to
another, will be toasted and feted by
many of our best men ; and he’ll make
a speech of swelling triumph, claiming
to be our great benefactor, and be
greeted with applause by the thought
less everywhere.
When he reaches this high pinnacle
of triumphant fame, the bond ring can
well afford to stake him with money
enough to buy the Kimball House a
month or two before the Legislature
assembles. Here he can gather.the
members and feed them and liquor
them free, or entertain and caress them
in his own way, till they are thoroughly
corrupted and will pass an act to pay
the repudiated bonds.
Reader, this is the picture. How do
you like its looks ? I tell you, Kimball
is after putting his hand into your
pockets and robbing you of your money.
The payment of the repudiated bonds
is the ultimate prize upon which his
eye is fixed, and he is the tool, the in
strument in the hands of the bond ring.
I said Kimball had made and pub
lished a false report about
HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE GOVERNOR.
I say this—not by authority of the
Governor, for I am not sufficiently in
timate with him to claim such distinc
tion—l say it on my own responsibility,
for this reason : That the Governor
has the evidence—the facts —in his
office, showing conclusively that if he
said to Kimball what Kimball says he
did, he deliberately stated what he
himself knew to be untrue. I therefore
assume to say that Kimball and not
Governor Smith has spoken falsely. I
don’t believe the Governor is that sort
of a man, but'l do believe that Kimball
is. I sec that some of the papers think
it is the duty of the Governor to con
tradict Kimball’s statements, if they
are untrue. I do not think so. He
should not undignify himself with an
issue of veracity with one situated as
Kimball is. The facts are on file in the
Governor’s office, and are accessible to
the public. Any one can see what they
are, and I am sure the Governor never
told Kimball anything contrary to those
facts, for no one knows them better
than he.
The position in which Kimball trios
to place
IION. LINTON STEPHENS,
as his vindicator or apologist, in any
sense or any degree whatever, is equally
false, with that of Governor Smith.
That eminently able and just man was
employed by the Governor to prosecute
offenders against the State. He told
Gov. Smith and others that he had
failed to find any evidence on which he
could base a criminal charge against
Kimball—that is all. It is proper to
say that he did not have before him
all the facts which were afterwards de
veloped by committees of the Legisla
ture, nor were they then accessible to
him. Much of this has come to light
since his death. It is false that Judge
Stephens ever utterod a word exculpa
tory of Kimball’s conduct, or that he
believed him to be honest, or that any
thing he ever said was presented in
such a garish light as to seem to put
in a plea for Kimball’s known rascali
ties. He was' thoroughly satisfied of
the great “developer’s” baseness and
dishonesty and did not hesitate to ex
press that conviction on proper occa
sions. Smith never said of Judgo
Stephens what Kimball says he did.
Kimball is a slanderer of the dead and
has no regard for truth further than
simple prudence dictates.
One of the People.
[Atlanta. News.
H. I. KIMBALL’S INNOCENCE.
An Autlioratative Statement from
Gov. Smith.
We are authorized by Gov. Smith to
say that H. I. Kimball’s statement of
the interview he had with the Gover
nor last Winter is incorrect. The sub
ject of Kimball’s moral guilt was not
alluded to during the interview. No
opinion was expressed by the Gover
nor in reference to Kimball’s guilt un
der the laws of the State. Kimball did
not intimate that he desired the Gover
nor’s opinion upon these subjects, and,
consequently, the latter gave no opin
ion whatever.
The fact that there was no criminal
prosecution pending in the courts
against Kimball was referred to. This
fact, the Governor supposed, was as
well known to Kimball as to himself.
What was said, in the conversation
grew out of this fact: Kimball pre
tended that he had remained away
from Georgia so long because he was
apprehensive of danger from party ex
citement. The Governor knew, and
stated to Iviinball, that there was no
ground for such apprehension. In im
mediate connection with this, the fact
that there was no criminal prosecution
against Kimball was referred. The
fact that tho investigations #f Judge
Stephens had not resulted in finding
evidence to support criminal proceed
ings against Kimball rendered it im
possible that the latter had staid away
to avoid a trial.
There could have been no trial with
out an indictment. Kimball must have
known this, and it was not probable
that he was ignorant either as to the
abilities of Judge Stephens, or the
efforts he had made to ferret out the
truth, It was theso considerations
which led the Governor to allude to
Judge Stephens, and to the fact
that tho latter had found no
evidence to sustain a crimi
nal prosecution against Kimball.
The Governor was not prepared to say,
or intimate, that Kimball was innocent
of what had been alleged against him.
He has never been officially called on
to decide any question with reference
to Kimball’s guilt or innocence. He
has never relieved Kimball from any
charge against him, nor the
opinion that he ought to be relieved.
Ho would have no power to relieve
Kimball except by the exercise of Ex
ecutive clemency. No application for
this has been made. The Governor
has quite a decided opinion upon the
question of Kimball’s guilt or innocence
drawn from evidence on file in the office
of the Executive Department. That
opinion was not expressed to Mr, Kim-
ball because it was not asked for by
him. The Governor does not see how
the public interest would be subserved
by his now expressing that opinion in
advance of any official reason therefor.
The same evidence upon which the
bond committee made their report
against Kimball, and upon which the
Governor’s own opinion is predicated,
and upon which he supposes the late
publications in the News were based,
is still on file in the office of the Execu
tive deparment, and open to public in
spection.
1 Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.
UNION POINT.
The Veterans in Council--A Glorious
Dinner--Fitting Toasts and Elo
quent Responses—A Letter from
A. H. Stephens—Thanks and Ad
j ournment—Prominent Visitors—A
Charming Entertainment--A Cor
respondent Slinging His Foot—The
Inevitable Pipe.
Union Point, 31st July, 1874.
There was au omission in our letter
of yesterday which we desire to supply
in this. It was stated that Col. Snead’s
address came immediately after the
speech of welcome by Capt. D. N. San
ders. This was not the ease. Capt.
Sanders was responded to by Capt.
W. D. Luckie, now of the Governor’s
Guards, Atlanta, formerly private
Luckie, of Cos. K., Third Georgia, and
then came Col. Snead’s address, which
was listened to with close attention
throughout. After it, the barbecue
dinner, to which the “veterans” marched
in column, with Col. Snead at their
head, and never, I ween, did they
charge more gallantly or thin out more
rapidly the serried hosts oi' the enemy
on the tented field than they charged
upon and thinned out the vast quanti
ties of beef, shoat,. mutton, turkey,
chicken, well baked bread, delicious
cake, &c., &c., piled in lavish profusion
upon the many long tables by the gen
erous citizens of this good old
county. It would have done you
good to see” some six or eight old
soldiers attacking a huge wooden tray
—many times the usual size—filled
with hash. Thoy went at it in real war
fashion. The tray was soon emptied
and the “veterans” filled.
We cannot more effectually convey a
proper conception of the tempting na
ture of the bounteous feast spread by
tho generous citizens of this vicinity
than by relating tho simple fact that
our traveling companion, Col. H. Clay
Stevenson, of the Chronicle and Senti
nel, was induced to put aside his pipe
for a half hour and devote his undivided
attention for that space of time to an
enormous dish, piled up and running
over with a little of everything good,
which the occasion afforded. You
should have seen tho Colonel, with a
pone of bread in one hand and a hunk
of meat in the other. He manipulates
them with a graceful abandon secoud
only to that with which ho wields the
pen of “Jean Valjean,” or “Auglo-Cher
okee.” It is estimated that about 2,000
persons were at the dinner, includ
ing about 700 ladies.
After dinner came the toasts. They
were given in the following order :
Ist. General Lee. Responded to by
Capt. Corker.
2d. Third Georgia Regiment—the
first regiment from this State to report
for duty on Virginian soil. Responded
to by Capt, Andrews.
3d. Gen. A. R. Wright, first com
mander of the Third Georgia. This
toast was to have been responded to
by Lieut. Bell. Ho was absent, and
Maj. Joseph B. Cumming, of Augusta,
responded to it.
4th. Col. Claiborne Snead, last com
mander of tho Third Georgia. Re
sponded to by Capt. D. N. Sanders. In
tho course of his remarks, bearing as
they did upon the gallant regiment
commanded-last by Col, Snead, and its
couuection with the Army of Northern
Virginia, Capt. S. said he would take
occasion to deny the assertion not long
since publicly made by a prominent
citizen of our own State, that the de
feat of that army was due more to de
sertions from its own ranks than to
the bullets, prowess, or numbers of its
enemy. In contrast with this assertion,
Capt. S. read an extract from a North
ern writer, which said that the Army of
Northern Virginia for four long years
carried its cause on its bayonets, op
posing a constant front to tho mighty
concentration of power brought against
it; and, overcome at last by superior
force—with tattered uniforms and
bright muskets—vital in all its parts,
died only with annihilation. Capt. S.
then proposed the Army of Northern
Virginia, and called upon Col. Snead to
bear testimony against the injurious
and untrue charge made against that
army of which Lee was the commander
and "the Third Georgia proud to be a
part.
Col. Snead answered very briefly,
saying, in the course of his remarks,
that, without calling any names, he
would assert that this charge, that the
defeat of the Confederate cause was
due to the wholesale desertions from
the army, did not come from one who
wore the grey, and shared the perils of
the field and camp. He then called
upon Maj. Cumming, who was in the
Western Army, to make fitting re
sponse to Capt. Sanders’ remarks.
Maj. Cumming did respond most apt
ly and eloquently, declaring that the
man, whoever he was, who said that
the Confederate soldiers—the soldiers
of Lee and Johnston—of Jackson and
Gordon, and Hardee and Cleburne—
were overcome because of the deser
tion of their own numbers, perpetrated
a calumny upon those gallant, self
sacrificing men who, the Northern wri
ter truthfully said, for four long years
opposed a constant Uont to the death
dealing missiles of the foe, and laid
down their “ bright muskets ” at the
last only with the annihilation of the
armies to which they belonged. With
Col. Snead, he was sure that such a
slander never came from one who wore
“ the tattered uniform ” or bore one of
the “ bright muskets.”
Of Gen. Wright, Maj. Cumming spoke
as one who knew him well, and so
knowing, could not but love him. He
told of his early struggles with adverse
fortunes, “ breaking tho stubborn
glebe” by day and studying hard by
the tallow dip at night, meeting obsta
cles but to face and overcome them
with stout heart and st’ardy blow, ever
pressing onward and upward until at
the last, just as tho crown was placed
within his reach—had, indeed, been
awarded him by an admiring constitu
ency—the grave, “ dark, stern, all piti
less,” claimed him for its own, and
snatched to its bosom the battle
bronzed hero who had led the old
Third Georgia on many a bloody bat
tle-field, but had never charged their
final defeat to desertion from their
ranks.
The allusion to Gen. Wright’s elec
tion to Congress and the inscrutable
visitation of Providence which per
mitted him not to illustrate his coun
try in council as he had in battle, and
brought sorrow to so many hearts,
naturally caused the speaker’s thoughts
to turn to him who had been called to
fill the place to which the lamented
dead had been elected, the Hod. Alex
ander H. Stephens, the pure man, and
the wiso and incorruptible statesman,
whose presence here to-day had been
so much hoped for, and whose absence,
from physical infirmity, was so much
deplored. The speaker paid an elo
quent tribute to the purity of charac
ter and the true, unselfish statesman
ship of Mr. Stephens, to which every
heart in the assembled multitude that
knows that grand old man throbbed a
proud affirmative response.
The sixth regular toast—Stonewall
Jackson, the Lion of the Yalley—w T as
responded to, in dashing, eloquent
style, by Capt. James W. Matthews, one
of the cleverest and most gallant gen
tlemen alive.
7th. Jefferson Davis—The gnarled
oak may break but never bends. Re
sponded to by Maj. Jones.
Bth. Our Hero Dead. Responded to
by Maj. Sidney Herbert, of the Federal
army during the war. Maj. Herbert
made a most appropriate response, a
part of which was the reading of the
following poem, written by Prof.
Fletcher J. Cowart:
“ OUE HEROIC SOUTHERN DEAD.”
Harp of the Southland, though thy strings
are broken,
AEd silence decks thee with her cypress
wreath,
Yet give to me one low funereal token,
A wail for the brave hearts now stilled in
death.
How can we see the pall of silence settle
O’er names whose lustre should be ever
bright—
The heroes stricken in the storm of battle.
Struggling for home, for kindred, and
the right.
0 let their deeds in deathless song and story
Be cherished always with a mournful
pride;
Let unborn millions swell the strain of
glory—
How hard they struggled and how nobly
died.
In far Virginia many a one is lying,
Old Georgia’s hills are white with bleach
ing bones;
And cold the sea’s unresting wavos are
sighing
Above the bier of loved and noble ones.
Shall the sad breezes of the pitying heaven
Around their low graves be the only dirge?
And to the sea’s dead shall no rites be given
Except the thunder of the ocean surge ?
Shall we, for whom they suffered, bled and
perished,
Oblivion’s mantle o’er their memory throw?
Nor hold their deeds and treasures
proudly cherished ?
Nor pay the debt of honor that we owe ?
No! it shall be our sacred duty,
Upon their names with honors duo to
wait;
To yearly deck their graves with floral
beauty,
While tongue and pen rehearse their
tragic fate.
9tli. Our Battle Flag.—Carried in
triumph through every important en
gagement of the historic Army of
Northern Virginia, it was never touch
ed by the hands of the enemy. Re
sponded to by Lieut. A. R. Winn.
“The Noble Women of Georgia,” in
formally given, was responded to by
every heart in the crowd.
Perhaps no more telling speech was
delivered on the occasion than that of
Sergt. Cyrus B. Barrow, of Company D,
from Morgan county.^
Capt. D. N. Sanders read the follow
ing letter :
Liberty Hall, Crawfordville, Ga., j
31st July, 1874. \
Capt. I). N. Sanders, Union Point, Ga.:
My Dear Sir : Your telegram of last
night was duly received, but I deeply
regret to say that I cannot be with
you to-day, the condition of my health
forbids the undertaking.
Hoping that you all may have a
pleasant time in your reunion, and
with best wishes for all of the “ Old
Third ” assembled, singly and collect
ively, and with an earnest desire for
the welfare and prosperity of all the
pooplo of our good old beloved Com
monwealth of Georgia, as well as for
the peace, harmony and prosperity of
the people of all the States of the
Union, I remain,
Yours truly,
Alexander H. Stephens.
Letters were also read from Sergeant
Rollin A. Stanley, Cos. F, John D. Car
ter, city editor of the Savannah Adver
tiser- Republican, who was connected
with the regiment, and Dr. John T.
Killey, of Suffolk, Va., surgeon of the
regiment.
’Twas about 3 or 4 o’clock in the af
ternoon, when the meeting was declared
adjourned, after having voted thanks
to the citizens of Union Point and
Greene county—the ladies especially—
for their unremitting kindness and
hospitality, and to the Georgia and
Central Railroads for favors conferred.
And thus has passed into history the
first reunion of the living members of
the regiment, to be known henceforth—
a permanent organization—as the “Vet
eran Survivors of the Third Georgia
Regiment,” whose design is to gather
up and perpetuate the records and in
cidents of the war connected with the
regiment, and to meet annually to keep
up old friendships and recall old inci
dents. The occasion is historic, andjno
better place for it than Union Point, we
are loth to believe, could have been se
lected. The citizens in and around the
place have sustained their reputation
for hospitality and courtesy at home
as nobly as the old Third, with their
“tattered uniforms and bright mus
kets,,’ illustrated “our good old beloved
Commonwealth” in the field.
We are specially indebted, and here
by acknowledge our obligations to
Messrs. R. G. and L. D. Carlton, and
Col. J. B. Hart, and every member of
their families. A single thought seem
ed to animate them all—that was the
comfort and pleasure of their guests.
To that end their every action seemed
directed, and their success was com
plete.
We could not say more were we to
fill a column. Our thanks are also due
to Mr. Sidney Herbert, of the Colum
bus Enquire*', for his constant and suc
cessful endeavors to contribute to our
welfare while hore. Many visitors of
note from abroad are here, among
them Rev. Dr. Loviok Pierce, Gen.
Thomas, of Oxford, brigade command
er in the Confederate Army ; Judge
Win. Gibson, of Augusta; Col. D. E.
Butlei-, Col. J. B. Walker and Judge
Win. Woods, of Madison ; Col. E. M.
Ruckor, of Elbert; Judge Geo. F. Bris
tow, of Taliaferro; Hon, C. M. Heard,
of Greensboro ; Col. John C. Reed, of
Lexington ; Col. J. Clarence Stephens,
of the Crawfordville Gazette, and oth
ers whose names do not now occur to
me. Col. Snead is accompanied by his
wife, and Misses Clanton and McLaws,
of Augusta. Mr. and Mra.S. H. Sibley, of
Augusta, are here, at the house of Coi
Hart, Mrs. S.’s father, to whom Sergt.
Barrow alluded' in his speech when he
said that Union Point had a rnaJi who.
is “all H(e)art,”
In this connection, we must not omit
to mention one of the most charming
entertainments of the week, which was
the presentation, Thursday evening, of
Bulwer’s fine play, “ The Lady of
Lyons,” and the very amusing farce,
“Loan of a Lover,” by the Union Point
Dramatic Club. In “ The Lady of
Lyons,” Miss Emma Hart, a sister of
Mrs. Sibley, personated “ Pauline,” and
we can truthfully say we have never
seen the character more superbly rep
resented.
We have seen this play on the At
lanta boards, and our pronounced de
cision is that, as we saw it there, it was
inferior to the performance hero Thurs
day evening. We cannot speak of the
farce, as we were compelled to leave
before it was acted.
The ball to-night is the grand finale
of the two days’ festivities. As I write,
twinkling feet are dancing, while the
“twinkling stars are laughing, love.”
Now, don’t get scared; we are not
going to say one word about “ mar
riage bells,” or “ soft eyes looking love
to eyes which spake again,” and “ fair
women and brave men.” No, nothing
of the sort. For all that, and doubt
less much more, see the next number
of Col. J. Clarence Stephens’ paper,
the Crawfordville Gazette.
P. S. Col. H. Clay Stevenson has suc
cumbed to the inspiration of the hour.
He has organized an old Kentucky
break-down, and is now in the very
midst of it, slinging his foot in the
most approved old-fashioned style. It
would astonish you to see the reckless
enthusiasm with which the Colonel has
entered into the reigning sport of the
evening. He is perspiring profusely,
has laid aside his pipe, (but his tobacco
pouch is hanging from his button-hole
and flying about as wildly as his heels,)
and is even now threatening to throw
off his coat. We are a little uneasy,
and are watching him closely. We
have sent for a blanket in which to
wrap him as soon as he falls. You may
be sure he is not going to quit while he
can stand. O.
IBiinner of Light.
A Warning from One Beyond the
Grave.
About three miles southeast of the
city of Schenectady the highway is in
tersected by the New York Central
Railroad. At this point an aged cou
ple, Mr. and Mrs. W., well known to all
the citizzns, returning home from an
evening drive, were struck and in
stantly killed by the train due in Sche
nectady at 6 p. in.
At ten minutes past five o’clc clc a
lady in the city, Mrs. C., of a highly
nervous organization, and intimately
acquainted with tho unfortunate cou
ple, answered a ring at the front door
of her house, heard by both her hus
band and sister. She found standing
at her door an elderly lady whom she
had never before seen, dressed in the
fashion of years long since gone by.—
The stranger said nothing, when the
lady of tho house opened the conver
sation by observing:
“ I do not know you ; do you wish
anything?”
“ Nor I you,” replied the old lady.
“ Send down to the 6 o’clock train ; the
bodies of Mr. and Mrs. W. will be upon
it.”
The old lady then walked off. Mrs.
C. immediately told her husband, who
was in the house, and asked him to go
down to the depot, which was not at
any great distance. He, however, ridi
culed his wife and her nervous appre
hensions ; but being again urged, went
down to tho depot to find that tho
train had not yet arrived, and no report
of any accident. He returned home at
s:4o—even yet before the accident—to
laugh at his wife and her fears. The
train arrived a little late, and in a few
minutes a messenger rushed up
to say that the dead bodies of
the old couple were on the train, and
to request Mr. C. to come down, which
lie did, and helped them off. The mes
senger was sent up to Mr. C. in conse
quence of his first visit and inquiries.
There were no means of telegraphic
communication with the place where
the accidont happened. Afterward, in
describing the appearance of the lady
to a sister ot Mrs. W., she recognized it
as once as a faithful portrayal of her
mother, who hid been dead many
years.
A Minister Whips His Wife for
Breaking the Sabbath.—The Presby
tery of Chesapeake met in Baltimore
Wednesday to try the case of Rev, H.
E. C. Baskerville, of Baurel, charged
with whipping his wife. The specifi
cations are, that, one Sunday a short
time since, the reverend gentleman, who
is the provider for the household, hav
ing failed to procure anything for
breakfast except bread and butter, was
surprised to find some eggs on the
table, and being informed by his wife,
in response to an inquiry, that she had
borrowed them from a neighbor, told
her he would “ teach her how to break
the Sabbath,” and did so by slapping
her jaws—one of the slaps striking her
on the eye and “ blacking ” that orb
into which he had so often fondly
gazed.— Alexandria Gazette.
Alexander Hamilton. —Freely ad
mitting that he had strayed from
the path of duty, and had griev
ously sinned as a father and husband
under the wiles and seducing arts of a
voluptuous woman, he indignantly re
pelled all aspersions upon his honor as
a public official aud gentleman. For
his sin, of which he had deeply repent
ed, he asked the indulgence of his fel
low-citizens, but if he had permitted
himself to be misled by any arts or in
fluence to a betrayal of the high trust
confided to him, he should feel that he
had no right to ask their forgiveness
or indulgence.— New Orleans Picayune.
A Hartford man has circumvented
the tax-gatherers by building his house
on Little River, where he is rearing a
family of several ohildren. His domi
cile is a good two-story establishment,
with chimney, veranda, and everything
complete. It is said that he actually
adopted the plan to avoid taxation.
After the prosecuting attorney had
heaped vituperation upon the poor
prisoner without counsel, the judge
asked him if ho had anything to say
for himself. “Your honor,” replied the
prisoner, “I ask for a postponement for
eighteen days, in order that I may find
a blackguard to answer that one there.”
A physician, on presenting his bill to
the executor of the estate of a de
ceased patient, asked: “Do you wish
to have my bills sworn to ?” “ No,” re
plied the executor ; “ the death of the
deceased is enough to prove that you
attended him professionally.”
Smith has done this in honor of the
lady he has just taken out of her weeds:
The gleam of her eye was bright,
The gleam of her gold was brighter;
The first was a beautiful sight,
The second a beautiful sighter,
.New Series—Vol. 2. ]N"o. 182
[For tho Constitutionalist.
In Memoriam
Sallib A. Bulkley, wrecked on the “ Ville
du Havre ” November 22d, 1878.
“ Conduct them in safety to tho haven
whore they would be.”— Prayer for those at
sea.
See in tho House of God his people bend,
Hear to tho Throne of Grace their prayers
ascend;
“Safe to the haven, Lord, where they
would be,”
Lead Thou our dear ones o’er Thy mighty
sea.
We sped the fair ship on her way with
prayer,
We placed our darling in God’s gracious
care;
And did He answer?—hush, rash heart!
be still!
Dare not to Question—’twas His holy will.
“ We trusted them to God,” we say, and still
Trust not beyond our sight—question His
will,
His love, His care. Did he not love her, all
Whose life was hifi with God?” who at His
call
Lifted her fair, young face, her radiant
brow—
Meet for the diadem which crowns it now—
Heavenward, and with true heart, and un
dismayed,
Saw God in all, and so, was not afraid ?
Loved He not her, who in that awful hour
Bore glorious witness to His mighty power?
Who, with all earth to lose, thought
heaven gain,
And, smiling, saw the crown beyond the
pain ?
He hoard the prayer—answered its truest;
sense,
With loving caie for her, He took her hence,
From what of evil days to come, what care
and woe,
From what of sorrow, we can never know.
We only know that in her early youth,
Loved beyond measure, full of grace and
truth,
“Safe to tho haven where she fain would
be,”
God led her through tho pathway of His sea.
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