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Vi . T. WOFFORD. J. M. NEEL.
WOFFORD A NEEL,
A r'Fc> RNT B YH-A i- I A. AV.
( VRTERSVII.LE, GA.
j uly 18. _
.JOHN L. MOON,
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dl c r v oit iv b: v-yv r v -i, aw.;
Oliiee at the tore of I*, 1,. Moon A Son, East
Main Street.
( ARTEHSYILLE, GA.
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R \V. MI P.PHFY,
AT r F ORN BV-A T- I > -A. AV ,
< VRTERSVILLE, GA.
OJ Hi I (up tairs) in the hriek building, cor
uer of Main & Erwin streets. julyls.
.1. a. P. IKSB,
A 1' r O R N E Y ■ AT-I< A W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
v \/ ILL prßeliee in all the courts of Bartow
\\ and adjoining counties. Prompt atteu
tiou given to all business entrusted to his cave.
<ltlicc in Bank Block over the post ollice.
lul y 18.
~P, fll\U AM. A. M. EOUTK.
GRAHAM & FOOTE,
A’l'TO 11NEY T S-AT-LA AV.
< ARTERSVIT.LE, GA.
Practice in all the courts of Bartow county, the
uperior Courts of North-west Georgia, and tin*
supreme Courts at Atlanta.
office west side public Square, up-stairs over
V\ . W. Rich A Co’S. Store, second door south of
Postoflice. j uly 18.
ROBERT B. TiIPPXi
ATTO if IST B Y - A T -LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFI K Ein the Court House. Will practice in
all the t omes except Bartow C riminal Court.
< olloetions promptly made. julplß.
r. W. MILNER. .1- w. HARRIS, JK.
MILNER & HARRIS,
ATTO R V B YS-AT-LAW,
( AItTERSVJLLE, GA.
Office (ID Wi -t Mam Streot. jnlylS
Die. ,1. DICKSON SMITH,
Practicing Pliysiciaii and Surgeon,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE AT ST. JAMES HOTEL.
inly 18.
JOHN T. OWEN ,
AT
Hn vi’o .V Co’s Driija: Store.
\ t TILL sell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
\V Spectacles, silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can
he nought auvwhere. Warranted to prove as
represented. 'All work done hv me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. inly 18.
Chas. 11. WillinssTrairi,
STENOGRAPHIC LAW REPORTER,
[ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.]
r M AKE A ( LEAN RECORD OF CASES,
I hiking down the testimony entire; also, ob
jections of attorneys, ridings of the court, and
the charge of the "court, without stopping the
witness or otherwise delaying the Judicial pro- I
ceeedings. Charges very reasonable and satis- |
faction guaranteed.
TRAVELER'S UUJM
Hast Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia R.B.
“RENNESAW ROUTE.”
NCHKIRLE-.HUMMER OF 1878.
I .pave * artersvilh i m
'Leave Dalton 0:30 pm
Leave Knoxville 10:48pm i
Leave Bristol - - - - 4:48 am \
Leave Washington City 10:00 pm
A rrive at New York City 7:00 a m
ftr# r THROUGH PULLMAN CARS to PHILADELPHIA.
Quickosi Times
liowesi Rates.
Dalton to Washington City, 28 Hours.
Dalton to New York, 37 Hours.
TRAINS DAILY FROM DALTON.
This is the only line reaching-the watering
places of F.nst Tennessee ami Virginia, and the
.pin kest and host line to Washington City, Bal
timore, Philadelphia, New York and New Eng
land cities.
For further information apply to
IT. ir. M ARM A DUKE,
southern Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
.I AS. K. OGDEN,
t ieneral Ticket Agent, Knoxville, Tenn.
R. s. RUSUTON,
Agent. Dalton, Ga.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following passenger schedule took effect
July 14th, 1878:
NIHHT PASAEKOER—I P.
Leave Atlanta 2:15 pm
l ,enve < artersvillo 4:09 p m
Leave Kingston 4:86 pm
Leave Dalton 6:13 pm
Arrive nt ( hattanooga 8:10 p in
NIOHT PASSENtIER DOWN.
Leave t hattanooga 5:00 pm
Leave Dalton 6:47 pm
Leave Kingston 8:10 pm
ljoavo Cartersville 8:42 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 10:40 p m
PAY PASSENGER —UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:10 a m
Leave Cartersville 7:18a m
Leave Kingston 7:48 a m
Leave Dalton 9:26 am
\ rrive at < hattanooga 11KIO ain
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave ( hattanooga 6:15 am
i.eave Dalton 8:15 am
Leave Kingston fir-.w a m
f,eave Cartersville 10:18 am
Arrive at Atlanta • 12:10 p m
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Jane 10, 1878, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
except ed):
DOING WEST. Arrive. Leave.
Cartersville ...... 1:30 pm
stilesboro 2:15 pm 2:20 pm
Taylorsville 2:45 pm 3:00 pm
Roekmart 4:00 pm
GOING EAST.
Roekmart . 6:00 am
Taylorsville 7:00 a m 7:15 a m
Stilesboro 7:40 a m 7:45 a m
Cartersville B:3sam
During the present session of Bartow Su
perior Court, and until further notice, the tram
will leave Cartersville at'4:lon m.
WILLIAM M.\eß \E, Snp’t.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On ami after Monday, November 30th, the fol
lowing schedule will l>e run by the Steamer
MAGNOLIA:
Leave Rome Monday 9am
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday a m
Leave Gadsden Tuesday H p m
Arrive at Rome Wednesday t p m
Leave Rome Thursday ....... )J a 1,1
Arrive at Gadsden Friday * m
Leave Gadsden Fridav t p m
Arrive at Rome Saturday 0 P m
.1. M. I.LLKITT GenM SupT.
' ROME R AII.ROAI> C;GMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this
Road will run as follows:
HAY TRAIN' —EVERY DAY.
l eave Rome iSiiLi ? n ni
Arrive at Rome in
S ATI' RD AY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
Leave Rome J* ™
Arrive at Ronie_ ; _ l __ J __ : __ : __ : _^_^ MM^|^^l t
““couch house,
(Kingston, Georgia.)
rum large and comfortable
I House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. The
Caviling public will find good, plinu accommo
dations Parties wishing hoard through the
summer will llnd Kingston one ot the healthiest
•m l quietest localities io Upper Georgia. I hree
ill four families can get comfortable rooms m
view of trains. Term* vcrt^easopuhle.^^Y
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X> ow ii with Hier li Prices !
EVERYBODY SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF THIS SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO BUY
THE MOST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO DRY GOODS A N I CLOI IIIAG BUYERS !
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SAVE YOUR MONEY !
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M. LIEBMAN & BRO., THE LEADERS OF LOW FRiCES,
In Cartersville, GJ-eorgia,
igp* Have Conctedod to sell their entire stock AT COST for the next THIRTY DAYS Vi make room for they Fall Stock.
UNAPPROACHABLE BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS !
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CALL EARLY AND SECURE THE BIGGEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED INI THIS CITY
Nt. LIEBMAN & BRG.,
Cartersville, Georgia, July 18, im - WEST MAIN STREET.
CALL AROUND BEFORE PURCHASING
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ELSEWHERE AND BE CONVINCED THAT
SUCH BARGAINS HAVE NEVER BEEN
OFFFERED IN THIS MARKET BEFORE.
The King of Lo w Prices !
nri-itr cruertr dd tree
A 1 IH/ Ju luH/11/ 1
OARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA,.THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST it MW.
A t'JiOG story. /
Many reap ago the frogs held ft con
sultation jflPffif jumping into u well, Le
eunse the *f -itunuer had dried up tin*
lakes uid ponds and they were very
thirsty, (we for going in in*tauter ;
another said in was easy enough,
but gettinr&M was the trouble.” O! says
another, tliere plenty of water down
there, just get to the place, that is all that
is neeessarV.” * An <*ld, caution- frog,
who had experience, said; cannot
come into yourppinion for my life, for
should the dry up liere too, Oli!
how Hhoiiim g’ f nut again.”
Tn Bullock slime the lobby ponds were
very flush.- Any toad could make a
living. Little fellows that could not
raise a respectable croak at home trav
eled down U Mlanta, and they would
come back in ajt'ew weeks and lix up
ponds uniGGpiantations that putted up
their little b<\ ips until they could sing
double bass vjth any bull-frog in tin*
land. __ f
Time wow* >i —the immigration pond
went dry—the law-book pond went dry
—tin* opera Muse pond went dry—the
railroad lake* w ent dry—the State Road
lease inarsludried up, and tin* frogs met
at a little dry hillock called Ringgold and
held a eonsaliitlon.
One said, ue will go to Washington
instanter. Another said ‘’Be careful, old
Felton will find you out if you do.” Up
spoke a little sun-dried road, “just bent
him by r fairmeans or foul, and we w ill
then own the pond. • Ah !” said the old
sage inotner toad, “maybe they’ll get a
new eonsfitaithm lip there, and dry up
the lobby ppnds tlien what shall you
do?” Some foolish frogs tire still croak
ing and the"people are watching. Look
before you leap!
JVJHrE LETTER'S (IfA HA C TER, IS THE
>■ sfa TE ft aAnI. EA SE.
With tlk* private character of Judge
Lester, we have nothing to do. It may
be exceptional}’ good or otherwise, but
of that we say nothing. His public and
professional character belongs to the peo
ple who eWyfed him, and whom he serv
ed, Ife js charged with profes
sional loh^Vlst— a man v>ko h ser
vices to othersy to infinence- the official con
duct of our representatives in the Legisla
ture. This he admits in one instance, and
the high price his service seem to com
mand, is proof of his particular ability
He boldly says he would do the same thing
again. We think he would, and we infer
he has done so often before. Some of us
have been witnesses in a court, and the
character of a man is established by his
Ijencral ■ It, G w,m<,6eit,s nn-w
- in fpiestlon, hiit
when he is emphatic in hi.s avowal of a
certain act, and boldly Proclaims it is right,
he must take the consequences. If his
mental and moral obliquity can call a
thing right, that the constitution of his
State sets down as a penal offense, he is,
perhaps, to be pitied as well as blamed.
Such a man on the judicial bench, is not
prepared to dispense exact jifttiee to all,
the new constitution being witness.
The executive committee in 1574, forc
ed the nomination Of Col. Trammell up
on an unwilling i*eop|e. The plain far
mers of the seventh could not take him,
for the reason above stated. Xow that
another lobbyist is forced upon us, we
have no reason to take him. We seek
honesty and fair dealings first, then abil
ity, and then experience. We must de
cide in a well tried man, W. H. Felton.
SOME QUESTIOHS TO WHICH AESWEItS
ARE DESIRED.
Won’t, somebody ask Judge Lester how
much Gov. Brown paid him in 1870, to
put the State road lease through ? He
says he was much in favor of it. He says
it was right in 1.87& to rake a lobby fee.
He could not think it wrong in 1870.
Will somebody ask Judge Lester how
much he paid for the office of Judge—or
did he pay for it by canvassing the State
the year lie fore ?
. There is a current report that a gentle
man in Bartow county was told he could
lie made Judge of this circuit if he would
pay SSOO.
Will Judge Lester also rell us why
Weil petitioned the legislature in No
vember, 1871. for pay —to compensate
him his losses as commissioner of immi
gration ?
Where was the rest of the SIO,OOO that
Lester says he left in the treasury ? How
was it Weil came out minus ? Was the
J udge a silent partner in Weil’s petition ?
How much did Weil leant to bring one
emigrant to Georgia soil.
Will Judge Lester tell us how he felt,
sheltered behind cloaks and shawls, in
the town of Cartersville, when he was
waiting in the convention to see Young’s
failure and his success as the nominee r
Some of us thought he looked aheap, but
how did he ffd ?
Will Judge Lester toll U why he want
ed to see Gov, Bullock so badly before
he left the Executive office and went
North ? Why did he write that letter,
and sign it, “your friend,” G. N. Lester.
Since the late attempted assasination of
the German Emperor there have been 503
arrests of persons for insulting the Em
peror; 521 have lieen convicted and sen
tenced* to terms aggregating 811 years.
Five of the accused committed suicide be
fore trial,
r——
A Philadelphian claims to have invent
ed an aurophone, a sort of carbon tele
phone in miniature, which transmits
sound from the orifice of the ear to the
tympanum, thus enabling a large class
of the deaf to hear.
One hundred and thirty-four new
of fever and twenty deaths reported in
New Orleans in tiie past twenty-four
hours. In Memphis, three deaths and
nine uew cases are repotted.
THE STATIC GOLD BONDS.
Col. tft-M. K. Wiresii’s Reply io Col. L,. N.
Trammell.
Dalton. G a., Aug. 10. 1878.
Editor Free /*•*, ('artersritte, tin.:
Dear sir— An article in your pn|H*r signed
‘‘Bill Ai |i, Jr.,” having l*en taa<lo Uie iretese
im a very . niutaUn artack on me hv L. Nr
‘i’raiuuiell in the Express of Bth tilt., 1 resjx*et
t’nlly request that you will allow -|>aee for my
reply herewith euelo. ed.
\our-, ete.. Hen. F. Green.
eOKUKSCOX OKNCK.
Office of The t vutersvili.e Kxpress,]
Carters vi LLE. ga., vug. 12, 1878. )
Mr it . E. tireen, Daltor ,, Get,.'
DEAR STB—Your letter of the 10th iu*t., togeth
er with your eoiumuniealkm in reply to oue
signed L. N. Trammell and published in the AV
pres* of last week, was handed me by Col. F. M.
Ford this afternoon. In reply I will say that I
will cheerfully publish your article upon the same
terms accorded Col. Trammell; that is, one-half
our usual rates, five cents per line, in advance.
Your article w ill make a 1 suit siv hundred and
fifty lines printed matter, making $32.50, thirty
two 50-100 dollars. Awaiting your reply, I am,
very respectfully. Fr ank I*. Gray.
Dalton, G a., Aug. 13, 1878.
Mr. Frank /*. Gray, Publisher Cartersville Ex
press, Cartersritte, (fa.:
MR—Yours of yesterday ’silate, postmarked to
day, is just received hj this evening’s mail. It
admission that you charged Col. Trammell, and
were paid by him, “one-half your usual rates,
live cents ju*r line in advance,” for publishing his
libel on me, and your proposition to accord to me
the same terms, in publishing my reply, are cer
tainly most extraordinary developments, and
would be in any country, where the “judicial er
mine” is respected and the administration of
justice anything but a farce and a fraud.
Your publication of Trammell’s libel was both
a criminal otfeiiff and a civil wrong. The high
wayman says. • u Ybnr money or Tour
life.” You, as the publisher of a newspai>er
in tin* 7th congressional district of Georgia, say:
‘•Your money or yourreputtaion.” 1 am told that
you are a lawyer. If so, this —your admission
and proposition lire a strong commentary on
your appreciation of tin* “judicial ermine” and
tho administration of justice in this judicial dis
trict.
You shall not have my money and thus make
profit by breaking the criminal and civil laws;
hut l demand the publication of my reply as the
only atonement you can now make for the crimi
nal offense and civil wrong you have committed.
Yours, etc., Ben. K. Green.
01*1 NION OF JUDGE J. S. BLACK.
Judge J. S. Black, in the North Amer
ican Itevine for July, 1877, describes the
condition of the Southern States since the
war, Including Georgia in 18G:i and 1870.
He speaks first of the ’’carpet-baggers,"
and then say s :
“These, (the carget-baggers) combining with a
few treacherous “scallawags” and some leading
negroes, to serve as decoys for the rest, and back
ed by the power of the general government, be
came the strongest body of thieves that ever pil
laged a people. Their moral grade was far low
er, and yet they were much more powerful, than
the robber hands that infested Germany after the
close of the thirty years’ war. They swarmed
over all the states from the Potomac to the Gulf,
and settled in hordes, not with intent to remain
• i.„r wwij to feed on the substance of a
pros irate ami ifcfehertess people. jThev took
whatever came vyoi.;,.
themselves into all private corporations, assumed
the functions of all offices, including the courts
of justice, and in many places they even “run
the churches.”
On the 17th of October, 1870, an act
was passed by that. Legislature ol Geor
gia, which we arc now told was n “Dem
ocratic legislature,”, in aid of the Bruns
wick & Albany R. R. Go.; which act
provided for the issue of $1,880,000 of State
gold bonds in exchange for worthless
second mortgage bonds of that company.
That act was suppressed in the volume ot
Georgia Laws for 1870, “compiled and
published by authority.” It ihe object
of its suppression WH*> UOt to keep Ihe
taxpayers of Georgia in ignorance ot tin*
monstrous fraud and robbery attempted
to le practieed on them by it, I can im
agine no oilier.
The following is the testimony of
Charles L. Frost, President of the B. &
A. R. R, Cos,, before the bond eomrnittee,
of 187*2:
TUF FIiOSI TESTIMON Y.
Charles L. Frost, being sworn testified as fol
lows ;
1 was induced to go into the Brunswick
Albany Railroad and to become its President at
the instance of my friends who (were) former
owners of the road, and by. Mr. J. E. Conant,
who married my ward. I went into the compa
ny and accepted.the presidency with the distinct
understanding that I would not receive a dollar
of salary until I could make the road a success.
I went to work in good faith as president of the
road, giving it my time free of charge, with the
determination to push the work through to com
pletion, hut in no particular to violate the law.
When my connection with the road ceased in
December, 1870, we had completed 109 miles, and
not one bond bad lieen endorsed or issued to the
road in excess of the work.
The company had nothing whatever to do with
the passage of the act of October 17th, 1870. 1
was opposed to the bill, and so was Wells and
other members of the company. The whole pro
ject of getting the second bill through the Legis
lature was the work of the contractors, J. E. Uo
nant & Cos. The bill was drawn up by W. L.
Avery, one of the contractors, and shown to me
in the fall before it was submitted to the Legisla
ture. Application was made to the company to
get the company to petition the legislature to
pass the hill, but the company refused.
Under the contract with J. E. Conant & Cos.
they were to receive our second mortgage bonds
at ten thousand dollars per mile in part payment
for their work, and it was the contractors who
conceived the idea of getting the State to give
them gold lionds in lieu of the second mortgage
bonds.
When the bill passed ami the company was j
asked to accept it, we absolutely refused to have j
anything to with it nntil they fully in- i
demnified ns against any damages or claims
of the state, or any person, because
of the same. The idemnitv was given, fttul the
board of directors, for the accommodation of the
contractors, accepted the act of October. Some
time after the act passed, I, as president of the
company, was applied to by the contractors for
the purpose of exchanging the second mortgage
bonds of the road for the State gold bonds. fu
ller the act, the President alone could make the
exchange, and 1 went to tfcorgia for that
purpose.
At the time I went to Georgia, soon after the
passage of the act and just before my resignation.
I found 100 miles of the road were completed, and
that the contractors were entitled to one million
of our second mortgage l>onds. And they desired
this million exchanged for eight hundred thous
and of the State bonds. On reaching Atlanta I
was informed bv iVfr. Kimball that the eight
hundred thousand Georgia gold lxinds would be
signed up that dav by the Governor, and would
It© delivered. The million of second mortgage
bonds which 1 held were not in consecutive num
bers, and I refused to take only so much of the
SBOO,OOO as eorres|K>nded with the second mort
gages held bv me and which were consecutively
numbered. I had in consecutive numbers only
t>ss second mortgage Iwmds, the balance of the
million, to-wit: 345, were in the hands of parties,
with whom they had been hypothecated by the
contractors, anti as I had not the bonds to sur
render to the state, i only received from the
State 524 bonds in exchange’ for the 855 second
mortgages.
The Governor was willing to deliver the entire
800,000, irrespective of numbers, aud Kimball ut g
i *d me to do so, but I refused, saying to the Gov
ernor that he had no right to issue them except
i in consecutive number's, ami only so fast as the
work was done, I turned over these State gold
bonds to the par-ties entitled to them under the
law, 1 mean the parties who held the second
I mortgage Imnds of corresponding number.-.
■Some days after my return, Kimball proeured
(he gold Itonds for the balanee of the 800,000, and
Isolds also in excess of the work. Thi was done
' without a surrender of the second mortgage
j iNHtds, as -onje of them are now held I>\ the per
sons, who owned them at the time 1 was in Goor
| gia. making the exchange. and who were absent
? imtt New Vorlt at the timer lien, -..(her,
Messrs. Budge, Sehieff & t 0., and Jtenry Wells
; & Cos., still own $162,000 of seeotid mortgages, for
whieh they should have had the gold tionds re
ceived bv Kimball.
*|AVhen I was in Georgia making this exchange
ihe four gentlemen called at my room, two of
whom l understood were the Mr. Trammells.j
i [This sentence was originally written: the two
Mr. Trammells and one or two other gentlemen
J called on me.) They notified me that they had a
I claim on Kimball lor forty-six thousand, seven
j hundred and tlVty dollars, for services rendered
| in getting through the Legislature the ad of Ifth
October, 1870 and that 1 should not leave the
Mate with these gold Imnds until 1 settled their
claim. 1 replied that 1 had nothing to do with
them, never having employed them, and 1 would
have nothing to do with it. i told them ai the
time, that if they would satisfy me that they had
a claim on the company for theirsorviees t w ould
have it settled. Before 1 left i turned over to
!!• I. Kimball as one of the contractors, us second
mortgage bonds nos. from 1001 to luos inclusive,
which he used to pay these men either by sales,
hypothecation, exchange or otherwise]
The act of the Legislature giving aid to out
road was erroneously dated, and two hundred
bonds of the state were issued, indorsed by the
state and sold, hearing an erroneous date, before
the error wa discovered. 1 . : .. V.
signed an 1 endorsed a iil.c minis- | H n<is.
hearing tin- uinu- muiiiih'is, who h vverc micmh-d
as a corrected Isttid. and w irit which the cn-o
ueously dated lauuls were to betaken up. These
two hundred bonds had I teen sold in Europe and
were out of my reach. I placed these duplicate
bonds (nos 1,501 to 1700 inclusive) in my safe,
where tln-y now remain, the order of
ilte paftfiC iMfing theUm.L waring an erro
neous date, or the action of the Legislature, i
refused to give up these bonds to 11. f. Kimball,
my successor, who demanded them, lteeause, he
said, they were the property of the company. 1
also held in my possession at the time of my res
ignation two hundred uneudorsed bonds of the
company, and held them hack for two reasons,
tfrst, because the road bad not l*eeu correctly sur
veyed so as to authorize the issue up to the nuin
i*erw, and liecanse Kimball ow ed me some money,
which 1 was endeavoring to collect from him
When I refused to surrender these bonds Kim
ball had duplicates printed, but they were never
executed and endorsed, as Kimball lied the coun
try before they were completed. These dupli
cate bonds are now in the hands of A. L. Whi
tou, who refuses to deliver them, as he has a
claim against I[, 1. Iyimhall. for rent. (Inter
lined: 1 make this statement to explain the re
ported over-issue of 1 tom! 8.)
My stay with tin* road as President, for the
last few months ot mv time was exeeedinly un
pleasant on account of the attempted outrageously
'legal ad ft of the contractors. They , were con
stantly endeavoring to take some advantage of
the State and the company, and I had, to watch
them. When If. 1. Kimball Isniglit out 4. E.
Conant and the two Avery’s he had a controlling
stock. I saw he intended to have the control,-
and so soon as 1 could have the company papers
hearing my name as President taken i.i, I in
tended to resign, hut did so. (This probably
should read “did not.) (interlined: Kimball hall
me voted out Imth as President and as director.)
llenrv ( lews w as treasurer oT the road during
mine and KimbaU’B administration. When
Kimball fled the country, 1 was again elected
President of the company, which orth-e f now
Sworn to and stihscrihed Is-tore the comiintuhv
April 20, 1872. Titos. L. SskaTi.
Commissioner for Georgia in New York.
State op Georgia, \
OKI-'ICE OF THE SKCHETAKV OF ST A. E, /
Atlanta, February 21. 1877. >
I hereby certify that the foregoing eleven pages
of manuscript matter hereto attached, is a cor
rect copy from the original of tile in this oflice
of the testimonv of Charles L. Frost liefore tin*
bond committee. Given under mv hand and seal
or office. N.C. Barnett.
Secretary of Mate.
j Seal |
The friend who obtained for me from
the Secretary of State, lion. X. C. Har
nett, a certified copy of Frost’s testimo
ny, writes me as follows:
send yon the entire testimony of
Charles L. Frost lie fore the committee.
You will readily see what was left out
in printing and copying by the commit
lee, as it is marked in this copy. 1 have
it marked exactly as it is on Ihe original.
In the passage marked, “the four gentle
men called, etc.,” the interlining is done
in a different hand, in different ink and
seems to !>e much fresher. The pencil
marks are as they appear on the original.”
“Bill Arp, Jr.,” in the Free Press, of
July 25th, was not fully posted, either as
to the enormity of the fraud or the
amount contemplated by the act of Octo
ber 17, 1870’ lie assumes the amount to
have been only SBOO,OOO, with 7 per cent,
interest for twenty years, making in all
only $1,020,000 at simple interest. The
act was suppressed in the published vol
ume of Georgia laws for 1870, as was also
that part of Frost’s testimony which
showed Trammell’s connection with the
fraud. Sinee the publication of Tram
mell's characteristic onslaught on me, 1
have made a hurried hut careful exami
nation of the printed Senate journal for
1870, part 3, and can find no reference to
to the act of October 17, 1870, in the in
dex nor in the body of that journal from
page 439, Oct. 10, 1870, to page 500, Oct.
18th, both inclusive, l have riot been
able to get access to a copy of the House
journal for October, 1870. Some time
since, having made many efforts to pro
cure a copy of the bond committee’s re
port of 1872, by purchase or loan from
individuals, I applied through a friend
for the loan of an office copy from some
one of the departments of the State gov
ernment. The reply was as follows:
“There is nor an obtainable copy of the
rep >rt of the bond committee of 1872.
They have mysteriously disappeared, and
many have thought that the bond men
bought them up. Even the office copies
about are gone. There are probably pri
vate individuals who have copies, if they
could be found.”
1 find, however, from Gov. Conley’s
message, of Jan. iith, 1872, (see House
journal, page 20, or Senate journal, page
19,) that the amount of State gold bonds
authorized to lx* issued under the act of
-October 17th, 1870, was $1,880,000, and
the amount actually issued was $1,800,.
000, instead of SBOO,OOO only, as Bill Arp,
Jr., supposed In his article in Thk Free
Press, of July 25th. These State gold
bonds bore interest at 7 percent., paya
ble semi-annually on the first days of
June aud Decemofr. and had twenty-five
years to run from Dec. 1, 1809. Tims
the amount of which that act was intend
ed to rob the tax-payers of Georgia was,
at simple interest, $5,170,000, instead of
$1,920,000 only, as Bill Arp, Jr., sup
posed. But eouqsiunding the interest
annually, the roblxny contemplated hv
Kimball Cos., and their retained man,
Trammell, would have amounted in 25
years to $10,177,912; compounded semi
annually, to very much more.
In answer to Frost’s direct, positive
and evidently truthful testimony that
Trammell claimed $40,750, due by
Kimball, “for’services rendered in get
*Thi paragraph is marked on the original in
jeag pencil, as follow?: “Take this out in copy
ing. “I’ake this out. ’•
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One Dollar tier inch for the tlrst insertion, amt
Fifty Gents for each additional insertion.
(ONTILUT BATES.
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mouths, $7 50; 1 year, $lO. Fourth column, l
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S4O. Half columns, 1 month, sls; 3 mouth-, v*.:
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$25; 5? months. S4O; 6 months, $00; 1 year, $ 100.
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NUMBER 6.
I ting through llte Legislature the art of
I Or toiler 17, 187b,’ Trammell'- chief n
i lianpe is lo dodge that question, a-siime
i me to he liill Arp, Jr., ami raise amuh.-t
I question, viz : one a- to in v private chav
! aeter anti credibility. What have they
to do with this matter? 1 tHtl not origi
nsfethenlmrge against him. lam not hi •
accuser, as he falsely pretends. lam mu
the witness against him, nor did I even
hear of it’(living absent from the state
until long alter Trammel) had confess,-,t
ld< guilt by withdrawing from the m-,-
with Dr. Felton in IS7I, from fear that
I if he nid not this suppressed testimony
[ of Frost would Im* made ptthlie!
If anything had lteen wanting toe-iah
; iish conclusively the truth of Frost's fe--
I timonv, Trammell himself furnishes it
I by his article attacking me in rhel’ar
| tersvilie Express, of the Bth insr.
1. He produces a contract between
himself and the B. A. A. 11. R. Cos., by
V\ r . L. Avery, attorney, dated Nov. t
l8(h, by w hieh, in consideration of a fee
of ss,duo, he undertook (or, as he puts ir,
was “ retained") to “defeat any legisla
tion detrimental to the interest of tin*
B. i* A. It. K. Cos.” What does this
contract prove? lh>es it prove rhat he
did not lobby through the subsequent act
of Oet. 17, 1870, or that he did not claim
s4(>,7s<> tor services in getting lhat a-t
ttirough the Legislature, a- testithat In
Frost? Not at all. On the contrary it
proves that for nearly a year liefore the
passage of that act, he was i t■ the employ
of W. L. Avery, one of the contractors,
as a lobbyist , and it is a strong corrobo
rating circumstance which leaves no
room to doubt the. truth of Frost’s sup
pressed testimony, or the falsity of Tram
mell’s “lately” made denials.
2. He produces the testimony of H. [.
Kimball, one of Ids employers and ac
complices. He says “Mr. Kimball
swears,” but U very careful to suppress
all clue as to o'hen and where this swear
ing was done. At the time of Frost’s
testimony, April 20, 1872, Kimball had
“tied the country.” We are, therefore,
left to infer that this testimony was given
“lately,” and since Trammell's with
drawal from the race with Dr. Felton in
1874. If Trammell had ii then, and
thought he could rely on ii, as he doe
now, why did In* not stand Ids ground
ami produce Kimball’s testimony then I
Why did his friends then and since try to
defend him on the ground chat that act
was passed liefore he took his seat as a
inendier of the Legislature, ami that
there was nothing wrong, lie Iwdng a
lawyer, in taking a fee for aiding to rob
the tax-payers of Georgia of over $10,000,-
000, of principal and interest, by an un
constitutional, null and void act of that
“Democratic” Legislature ?
An analysis of Kimball’s testimony
establishes the truth of Frost’s, D-yotid
doubt or question. He begins by saving *
“I have not the time to procure the unde
niable proof, whieh 1 am positive is still
in existence, of tin* fact that Col. L. N.
Trammell was not employed by me, etc.,
etc.” Here is yet another ciresunstanre
which show’s that ibis testimony was fix
ed up "lately.” When it had lieen ar
ranged between Trammell ;md Kimball
that they should say that the v s4(*,7aO
claimed by Trammell was not for lobby
ing services, ns Xrammeli tohl Frosf, but
&>r son*** protest w hich lieen re
turned, a very 100- flit*” indeed must
h.i , hweefonw&ia , *> >.
taut a matter, cowl not remeiftlier ffl!
whom the drafts were drawn ! More
over, the State gold bonds were nor ex
changeable for protested drafts, but for
second mortgage bonds only !
Voters of the Seventh district! Tax
payers of Georgia ! 'Phis is not a ques
tion of veracity between me and Mr.
Trammell, but it is a question of veracity
between Charles L. Frost, on one side,
and Trammell and Kimball on the other.
There are many reasons for believing
Frost and for not believing Trammell ami
Kimball, which 1 have not now time to
write or space to publish. Bui there are
a few which to my mind are conclusive.
()1‘ $1,880,000 of Stale bonds Frost only re
ceived .">24 or $524,000, got 1,270
or $1,270,000. Frost was not the bene
lieiary of those he received. He only re
ceived them officially, as President ot
the railroad company, and reluctantly, to
turn them over to Kimball and his asso
ciates, or others, to w hom Kimball A < o.
had negotiated the 2nd mortgage txuuls,
for w hich the law made the State gold
bonds exchangeable. Frost, as President
of the company, was placed in a position
where he had either to accept the act a>
passed at the request and for the lie ictir
of Kimball A Cos., or say to the Legisla
ture and Governor of Georgia: “Gentle
men, you are unconstitutionally and il
legally robbing the tax-payers of your
State of over $H),000,000.” Frost had no
conceivable motive for misrepresenting
the grounds on whieh Trammell claimed
$40,750. Trammell and Kimball had
every conceivable motive for trying n>
shield and protect each other, early and
“ lately." Tax-payers of Georgia - ? w hom
will you believe? Frost? or Trammell
and Kimball?
in desperate cases men will resort to
desperate remedies. In his desperation
Trammell makes his witness, Kimball,
go a little too far. He gets Kimball to
testify that he handed Trammell a copy
of the bill, that Trammell w as opposed to
it, refused to accept a fee andeven threat
ened to annul the contract w hich he had
previously made, to look after the in
terests of the Brunswick & Albany Rail-
road company.” Then Trammell knew
of the hill and understood its character
before it passed. Why did he not, for
once in his life, consider himself “re
tained” to “look after the Interests” of
the tax-payers, and to “defeat any legis
lation detrimental” to their interest?
Why was this sudden spasm of virtue, if
it ever occurred, as Kimball says,
short-lived? Will he say lie was only a
lobby member of that legislature, and
therefore under no obligation to interfere
to prevent this outrage ? Then who and
where was the representative from Whit
field county? Anyone voice raised in
denunciation of the fraud in or out of
the Legislature, would have defeated it.
But by Trammell’s own witness it ap
pears that he, being retained to look after
the interest of the contractors nt the
Brunswick <fc Albany Railroad Cos., ar
least.quietly acquiesced in, w hen he knew
of, and by a word could have defeated,
tills infamous attempt at gigantic roblxuv
of the people of Georgia.
Not to occupy too much of your space
in one issue, L reserve further reply to
Mr. Trammell’s libel on my private char
acter for another rime.
Bk>:. E. Gres \.
I*. S. —TrainmeU now asserts that
Frost’s statement “ices not made hefon
the committee. ' Thomas L. Snead, Com
missioner for Georgia in New York, ami
Hon. X. C. Bornett, Secretary of State.
Ixith certify officially that it was sworn
to and subscrilted “before” the committee.
If Trammell’s assertion lx* true, then
Messrs. Snead and Barnett have both cer
tified officially to a falsehood. Reader,
in this issue of veracity, between Tram
mell on one side and your New York
Commissioner and Secretary of State on
the other, which will you believe?
Bex E. Ghkkv.
Dalton, Ga., August 10, 1878.