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RATES OF SLBSt RIPTIOX. hie copy one year. - - - * * * | Mm* eopv six month-, - - - l oe (me copy three month-, - - - CLUB R \TES. Live copies one year, - - - - ?J? *5 Ten copies cm** year, - - - *-.* Vjj t wenty copies one year, - - - -? Fiftv i opii-one year, - >0 00 To he paid for invnrriably in advance. \ll orders for the paper must la* addressed to THE FREE PRESS. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 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, I 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. nylB _ 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 VOLUME I. I. 11 EKKF.E 8888 MM M M A A NX \ I. HE B B M M MM A A X N X LUKBBMVIM M A A X N X 1. II K B B V 4 M MM A A X X X r. HE B B M M M M A A X X X L II EFFFK 8888 M MM M AAAAAA X X X I. UK B B vi M M A A X X X I. II F. B B M M A A X X N I. II E B B M M A AX X N I. HE B B Vi M A A N XX LLLII U EEEfcfc 8888 A1 M A AN NX A X D A X D A X D 888888 RRRRRB 000000 BB B RR R 0000000 BB B RR K GO OO BB B RR R OO OO BB B RR R OO OO 888888 RRRRRR OO OO BB B RR R OO OO BB B RR K OO OO BB B RR R OO OO BB B ICR K 0000000 888888 KR R 000000 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 ! . O I • SAVE YOUR MONEY ! o 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 ! | i * o 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 '■ ■ ■ : •: • ( ■“■ t* I • ;-| tIJ i • 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. ’• RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will Is* inserted it tin* rat,- <4 One Dollar tier inch for the tlrst insertion, amt Fifty Gents for each additional insertion. (ONTILUT BATES. One inch, 1 month. $2 50; ft month-. s•'.; 6 mouths, $7 50; 1 year, $lO. Fourth column, l month. $7 7*o; 3 months sls; 0 months, $25; 1 year. S4O. Half columns, 1 month, sls; 3 mouth-, v*.: ti months, S4O; 1 year, $tK). One column, Imm 1 1. $25; 5? months. S4O; 6 months, $00; 1 year, $ 100. Address all orders to Vue Fit l: r. Ft: ess . 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.