Georgia Historic Newspapers

    OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
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PATRICK WALNH, Associate Editor
AUGUSTA. C.A :
H KltV KB[)A V MIIRMMi, FEBRUARY 3.
Municipal Election.—On the 18th,
the following gentlemen were elected to
serve in Covington for the year 1809:
James M. Page, Mayor. Councilmen :
R. K. Wood, J. II Andeison. 0. H.
Tucker, J. M. Levy, T. J. Shepherd, J.
I’. Harris.
Hardware.—We take pleasure in call
ing the attention of merchants, planters
and farmers to the advertisement of
M hsrs. Hart k Cos., hardware merchants,
Charleston, S. C. This is an old and re
sponsible house, and we, therefore, com
mend it to our readers.
Change of Schedule.— A change has
been made in the schedule of the Columbia
fi Augusta Railroad, by which the trains
arrive at Grauiteville at 5:03 P. M. Pas
sengers can then take the 4 o'clock train
(;ti the South Carolina Railroad and go to
Aiken, where they will meet the through
train to New York, which arrives in Au
gusta at 9:30 P. M.
Dougherty's Hotel, Greensboro’,
GA.—This Hotel is most convenient to the
depot and business part of tbe town.
Porters always on band to convey pas
sengers and baggage. Fare as good as
could be desired, and terms reasonable.
Robinson’s Champion Circus.—James
Robinson’s Champion Circus is wending
its way in this direction. Robinson will
be remembered as tbe great champion
bare-back rider who, in former years, per
formed in this and other Southern cities.
This company is represented as being
first class. Due notice will be given of his
approach hero.
A New Railroad Project.— A Bill
has been introduced in the Legislature of
South Carolina to charter the Augusta and
Manchester Railroad Company, for the
construction of a Railway from Manches
ter to Hamburg, with the right to build
branches to Columbia. The line from
Aiken to Manchester being feasible at
small cost. If this road, which scorns to
be desired by our Wilmington friends, is
built, it will add another road to Augusta,
developing this city as a great Railroad
centre. Tbe more roads the better. Let
us have free communications, bringing
free trade.
Vick’h Illustrated Catalogue and
Floral Guide. —We have received aoopy
of this work from the publisher, Mr.
James Vicks, importer of choice flowers
and vegetable seeds, Rochester, New
York. It contains much valuablo informa
tion to floriculturists and amateur gardi
ners, and will be found of great assistance,
giving, as it does, full and explicit direc
tions for the culture of flowers and vegeta
bles. Mr. Vick has a rare assortment of
garden and flower seeds, a description of
which will be found in the Catalogue. A
copy of the Catalogue and Guide will be
sent to all who desire it, for ten cents, by
addressing as above.
The Blue Ridge Railroad.—The
Anderson Intelligencer , of Thursday, an
nounces the return of Gonoral Harrison,
tbe President of the Blue Ridge Railroad.
The Intelligencer says: "Gen. Harrison
speaks hopefully of tho prospect for an
early resumption of the work It is con
lidontly expected that tho portion of the
road from Walhalk to Clayton will bo let
to coutract by the first of May. A bill is
now before the North Carolina Legislature
for aid to the extent of one million of dol
lars, and the friends of the enterprise there
are sanguine a» to its success."
Identification of a Swindler.—The
Atlanta papers state that persons have
irrivud there who have identified the man
Perkins, alias Grant, arrested by Captain
Edward Murphy on the 28th ult., as the
man who made a run on the First National
Hank of Charleston in November, 1867,
and on a Savannah bank in March, 1868,
for one thousand dollars, and on a Kansas
City hank for three thousand dollars.
Casey's Farmers’ Road.—Wo learn
that the Committee have secured sub
scriptions to tho amount of thirty thousand
dollars, for building this road, in Elbert
county, and are greatly encouraged, expect
ing to increase this amount to a much great
er sum before the day appointed to make a
report. Meetings have been oalled, on
the first Tuesday in February, for the
counties of Lincoln and Columbia. The
citizens of these counties seem to be
earnestly at work. Our correspondent in
Hart can make a note of this and he and
his Iriends govern themselves accordingly.
Southern Rice.—The Savannah Daily
Advertiser of Friday states that a ship
ment of three hundred tierces of Carolina
rioe has taken place at that port by steam
er for Liverpool, being tbe first to Europe
of any moment from the South since the
war.
Amount of Gold Deposited at
United States Mints. —The director of
the mint reports the following table of de
posits of domestic gold refined at Uuited
States mint and branches from 1804 to
1567, inclusive:
No. of Total Annual
Date. Years. Amounts. Average.
1804 to 1827....4 110,IKK) 4,500
IS2S to 1837. .10 5,063,000 506,000
183S to 1547...10 7.635,000 763,000
1848 to 1857...10 415.557,000 41,555,000
1858 to 1567...10 271,690,000 27,690,000
Naval Cadets fkom the South.—
The House of Representatives on Thurs
day passed the bill authorising and direct
ing the Secretary of the Navy to make the
appointment of midshipmen to the Naval
Academy ou or before the 4th of March
next from any State in which the election
of members to the Forty-first Congress
does not take place previous to the Ist of
July, 1869. on the nomination of members
of the House from the States represented
in the present Congress, provided no sueh
appointments shall be made from any
State sot by law entitled to representation
during 1869
Uneasiness in India.—The Montreal
commences an editorial with the
subjoined statement:
“Private letters from India inform us
that there is very great uneasiness felt in
all, particularly in military, circles as to
the movements of Russia. On our North
ern frontiers our garrisons are being in
creased, and the hill tribes, with whom al
most constant petty skirmishes are beiDg
had, are more narrowly watched. Re
ports, too, as in the days previous to the
grand mutiny, are frequent among the
native troops. We have it on the authori
ty of the Colonel of a battalion of Affghan
cavalry that these reports are finding
amongst his men a very strange, though
undefined belief, and all point to an early
strugglc betweeu the British and the Rus
sians among the mountains and defiles of
Cabul. We are not surprised that such
measures should be felt now, more than at
any other time, though for more than
forty years the progress of Russian con
quest, ever advancing toward our Indian
possessions, has been a cau«e of deepest
solitude to successive governments, both
in Loudon and Calcutta. Little ground
now remains to be traversed from Bokha
ra, before which her advanced corps have
already appeared, and the frontier ot our
Indian Umpire, and there is uothing to
impede her advance an hour when she
gooses to give the order to march.
Important Decision.
It will be seen, by reference to our
special telegram from Atlanta, that the
Supreme Court decided, yesterday, the
Relief Law of the last Legislature Con
stitutional and binding. From this de
cision Judge Warner gives a dissenting
opinion.
We are glad that this question has been
finally settled. The people know now up
on what they must depend and we incline
to tbe opinion that settlements outside of
tbe Court House will be the order of the
day in all old cases.
Bullock his own Treasurer—Appropri
ates $3.i,000 out of the Treasury.
Mr. N. L. Angier, our State Treasurer,
tells, with naixfte truly refreshing,how our
great C. 0. D. fulfills both the functions
of Governor and discharges the responsible
duties of State Treasurer.
* In response to a resolution of inquiry from
the House of Representatives, the
Treasurer makes a straight forward re
port, which we published in our last
issue, exposing the “ Governor’s ”
appropriations. According to Mr.
Angier, bonds were hypothecated (a
favorite financial manoeuvre of our C. 0.
Lb, as illustrated by our city management,
his Railroad career and Kaolin financiering
—we say nothing of him as an expert in
Express matters, for that was his political
recommendation, because it is ouf of our
reach) at New Fork.
This hypothecation, in the first instance,
was made by the Treasurer and our C. 0.
D., under contract with the Fourth Na
tional Rank of New York. The several
amount of bonds arc as follows, to-wit:
September 21st. 1868 $150,000
October (ith, 1808 60,000
November 17th, 1868 600,000
Total SBIO,OOO
The first two mentioned amounts of the
bonds thus hypothecated were, we pre
sume, the transfer mortgage bonds| au
thorized by the previous Legislature and
signed by Governor Jenkins (for reasons
that will appear in the sequel). Accord
ing to contract, the Fourth National Bank
advanced (but upon what terms nor at
what rate of interest does not appear) the
following sums that were paid into the
Treasury, to wit:
October 6 40,000
November 9 25,000
November 12 25,000
November 15 100,000
Devein bor 7 25,000
December 12 25,000
December 20 25,000
Total $105,000
The sales reported to the Treasurer as
in the bank account, were as follows :
1868 Dec. 14 $40,000@92J 37,150 00
1868 “ 16 10,000" “ 9,287 50
1868 “ 17 10,000 “ “ 9.287 50
1368 “ 19 4,000 “ “ 3,715 00
1869 Jan. 0 31,000@92$ 28,752 50
1860 “ 11 20,000 @904 18,025 00
18 9 “ 15 50,000@89} 44,025 00
1869 *• 16 74,000 •• “ 60,045 00
$216,887 50
From these sales there was realized for
thu State Treasury the net sum of $216,-
880.69.
The bank disbursements were asfollows:
Paid into the Treasury $165,000
“ “ Interest Coupons 130,000
Total $295,000
On the 22d ot December, 1868, the
Treasurer, "supposing a considerable
amount of the new seven per cent, bonds ”
(signed Itufus B. Bullock, Governor,
David G. Cotting, Secretary of State, and
N. L. Angier, Treasurer,) had been sold,
asks for a complete statement. On the
9th of January the Treasurer receives a
letter advising that none of the new bonds
had been sold—“it being considered ad
visable not to do so in consultation between
our (the bank’s) President and Governor
Bullock, it bemg considered by many that
the Legislature authorizing these was an il
legal body ; and, also, an acoount current
showing that the Bank “ took credit for a
large amount" which the Treasurer knew
nothing about. Mr. Angier “not knowing
how to account for these credits,” and we
suppose thereby a little bewildered as to
making up his own account, immediately
started for New York to seek an explana
tion. Upon arrival, Mr. Angier finds that
Gov. Bullock had drawn drafts to
tho amount of thirty five thousand
DOLLARS, WHICH AMOUNTS NEVER HAD
BEEN PAID INTO THE TREASURY NOR RE
PORTED to the Treasurer by Gov. Bul- j
lock. The Treasurer reports copies of
drafts. Rut this is not all the difficulty
which the Treasurer finds in the account
current. In addition to the eight hundred
and ten thousand dollars of State bonds the
Treasurer finds the Bank in possession of
"two notes,” given by Governor Bullock
for the sum of ($570,000) five hundred and
seventy thousand dollars. These Mr. An
gier charitably supposes "were given as
security for money advanced and to be ad
vanced to meet the interest on the public
debt.” Security for what? The State
bonds were in the hands of the Bank. The
contract bad been signed, sealed and de
livered. Builock'u notes gave no security
for anything, but they would serve to es
timate the amount upon which interest
was to be paid. The unaccounted for
THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, the
Treasurer ought to have known was for
the Governor’s Charity Fund at Wash
ington City. Cash on Delivery is the Ex
press motto if not a legislative formula. If
Mr. Angier’s (a Radical of the strictest sect)
statement is correct, and we have not the
slightest reason to doubt it, is it not
high time that other than existing checks
and guards should be interposed between
the so-called Governor and the available
I funds of the Treasury ? How long is such
Reconstruc ion to go on ?
But what has the “Governor” done
with the money ? The copy Mr. Angier
furnishes of the third draft indicates the
direction in part. On the 12th December,
"R. B. Bullock, Governor,” gives a draft
for ten thousand dollars on the Fourth
National Bank to the order of H. J. Kim
ball & Cos. This draft seems to have been
more formally drawn than two preceding
ones, for it is attested by “Eugene Davis,
Secretary Executive Department.” Mr.
Kimball, we believe, is the party whom
our Atlanta exchanges, some few day s
since, awarded high honor for the exquisite
manner in which the “Kimball Opera
House'' has been reconstructed into a first,
class State House, «ith all the modern
conveniences, providing pictorial diversions
and all the requisites for loyal
legislation, with rooms to rent. Rumor
has it that the bulk of the
Governor’s private appropriation has
gone into this “Reconstruction ,” the
Washington city Charity fund.disbursed in
the Bullock-Blodgett movement requiring
only some five or six thousand dollars.
The draft in favor of H. S. Kimball & Cos.,
which Mr. Angier's straighforward report
furnishes, justifies thisrumorand provokes
the inquiry, how much is the Governor’s
interest in the “Kimball Opera House
Legislative Halls,” or why these ad
vances ?
There is much more of this matter, evi
dently, undeveloped. The original report
of the Treasurer has mys'eriously disap
peared from the Clerk s desk of the House
of Representatives. Fortunately, Mr.
Angier had retained a copy of this report,
fcy this the public are enlightened as to
j 2 ur “ Cash On Delivery” Governor's
financial operations.
Personal.— We noticed in attendance
at the Superior Court on Tuesday Hoc. B.
H. Hill, ot Athens, Hon. H. V. Johnson,
of Jefforsou, Hon. E. H. Pottle, of War
renton, and Judge William Schley, of Sa
vannah.
From the first to the twenty-first of
January, inclusive, there were 4,145 mules
brought to Atlanta. Prices ranged from
slls to $220 per head, wholesale.
Comptroller’s Report.
The report of the Comptroller General,
Mr. Madison Bell, covers the period ex
tending from August 11th, 1868, to Janu
ary Ist, 1869. Within that period the
receipts of the Treasury were as follows:
From general tax of
1867 $ 9,677 32
From Convention tax
of 1868 12,942 50
From Western <Sc At
lantic RailroaT).
August $20,000
September.. 25,000
October 25,000
November.. 25,000 95,000 00
From tax on Railr’ds
1867 1,161 52
From tax on liquors
■1867 19 62
From tax on liquors
1868 1,466 18
From tax on wild
lands 1867 63 53
From Temporary-
Loan.
September. .$ 100,000
October 40,000
November.. 100,000
December... 75,000 315,000 00
From lax on Insur
ance Companies 4,407 73
From tax on Circus’
and Shows 3,171 41
From tax on Hanks
1867 68 04
From Insolvent lax
List 1867 146 25
From Captain C. F.
Rock well, ad v’ need
to officers of State 1,350 00
Amount turned over
by Prov. Treasurer
Rockwell 103,179 37
Total $547,653 42
DISBURSEMENTS.
Civil establishment. 26,469 83
Contingent Fund.... 9,543 05
Printing Fund 14,211 04
Special Appropria
tions 121,183 94
Over—pa yme nt s
general tax, 1867.. 159 91
O ver-p a y in e n t s
Convention tax... 129 00
legislative pay -rolls, session 1868.
Senate 67,109 00
House 192,152 00 259,261 QD
Total amount paid
out by tho Treas
urer $130,957 77
The balance reported as in the Treasury
od Jan. Ist, 1869, is.. $116,695 65
The Comptroller reports as paid
into the Treasury by W. A.
Railroad net earnings for
month of December 25,000 00
Bullock’s defalcations as report
ed by A! r. Treasurer Angier,
in special report 35,000 00
Total $176,695 65
Treasury balance, as far as heard from,
which should be in the Treasury, but not
shown by the Comptroller’s report, is,
therefore, one hundred and seventy-six
thousand six hundred and ninety-five
65-100 dollars.
In the opening of his report the Comp
troller says that he "is required by the
Code to report annually to the Governor,
showing in his report, an account current
from his books between the Treasurer and
the State, of all receipts and payments,
including amounts paid on the drafts of
the President and Speaker, as reported to
him by the Treasurer, and exhibiting, also,
in said report various other specified items
of information connected with his office.”
Among the “various other items referred
to by the Comptroller—the Code requires
that he "countersigns all warrants upon
the Treasury drawn by the Governor;”
and it is made imperative upon him that
he shall report annually “A statement of
the condition of the public debt of the State ,
the amount of interest paid, and the fund
from, which paid. ’ ’
The public will fail to discover any state
ment of the Public Debt. The Comp
troller says: “Under existing circum
stances it is impossible for me to comply
with this requisite, and the reasons will be
apparent when the Treasurer's Report on
the subject shall have been received. ’ ’
This paragraph is sufficient to show that
the Comptroller has had no part in “the
Governor’s” appropriations, and did not
draw any warrant authorizing the pay
ments to 11. L. Kimball & Cos. for the Re
construction of Kimball's Opera House.
All such disbursements, to be legal, should
pass through his office, and receive his
signature. Rut it seems Bullock waived
the formalities of such legal requirements.
We are glad to see that the Comptroller
has not been particeps criminis in "the
Governor’s” raid upon the Treasury.
Mr. Bell has otherwise given us a very
interesting report. We propose to recur
again to it, and to avail ourselves of some
of the interesting statistics he has fur
nished.
The Virginia Movement-General Grant
and the Carpet-Baggers.
The Richmond B’Aii7, of 20th inst., con
tains the following as the telegraphic report
of the chief of carpet-baggers in Wash
ington to the “loyal” of Richmond :
".47/ is lost! Grant has joined the
Committee of Nine ! Wells. ’ ’
This dispatch is significant. All the
evils in the South grow out of the
manoeuvres of 'he carpet-bag politicians,
that oveirun the country, to carry out
their schemes of plunder. If General
Grant will simply, in every instance, probe
the disturbances and difficulties to the I
bottom, he will soon find that the first \
step to carry out his avowed policy of
complete restoration and reconstruction, j
as embodied in his famous campaign
phrase, “Let us have peace,” will be to j
get rid of'thecarpet-baggersand their allies, j
and put a stop to the plundering schemes \
by which they oppress the people. All of !
these schemes are covered by raising a hue I
and cry about “Loyalty,” and the dangers !
that encompass “loyal men here.” Our
apt Little Perjurer, we see, has sworn be- i
fore the Committee at Washington that he
was compelled to fly from the State on the
day of the election to save his life. It is
true, sincemaking this oath, he has return
ed to the city, and traversed the streets as
free from molestation or disturbance as any
body. Nobody seemed to regard him. and
certainly no one offered him violence, or
even menace, ofany kind whatsoever. So
far from being afraid, the “Little Perjur
er,” on the contrary, boasted upon our
streets that military rule would be soon re
stored, and he would be back again in office
“to regulate the affairs of the city.”
Again, we learn that Governor Bullock
said in Washington that, unless Congress
passed new laws remitting the State to
military government, with himself as Pro
visional Governor, backed by the army
and navy of the United States, he should
not return to Georgia. Our C. 0. D.,
however, has returned, and throws up to
the Legislature his .Washington influence
and Congressional interference. Blod
gett's hauls upon the city treasury of Au
gusta for “Charity” and “Blodgett’s Se
gars” have been such as to alarm all the
municipal tax payers. Bullock has already
been exposed by Mr. Treasurer Angier in
appropriating thirty-five thousand dollars
from the State Treasury.
It is high time that all this “bosh
about loyalty,” which is only intended to
cover plundering schemes, should cease,
and a demand be made for honesty. If Gen.
Grant expects to carryout his peace policy,
let him discard and discountenance these
carpet-baggers and sustain honest men
j (there are a few Republicans for this pur
pose, but no Radicals), and not ally himself
with plunderers. It is high time that
honesty should be made the first test for
office-holding. Demand loyalty afterward,
if it is necessary, but honesty first.
The dispatch from the Whig, whieh we
have quoted above, gives us some hope that
the first step taken by the incoming ad
ministration will be in this direction, and
that honesty first, and loyalty afterward,
will be the touchstone which will deter
mine fitness for office in the administra
tion of the promised peace policy.
The Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company, of Columbus, will declare a divi
dend ot $lO to sl2 a share on or before
March Ist.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 3, »869
Bullock and the State Money.
The special dispatches from Atlanta to
the Chronicle 4 Sentinel gives a clear
account of Bullock’s misappropriation of
the people’s money, as evidenced by the
testimony of Mr. Angier, State Treasurer.
With the facts and information furnish
ed by the Treasurer of Bullock’s corruption
there is but one course left for the Legis
lature, and that U to impeach Bullock and
subject him to the severest penalty
which the law inflicts. If guilty of the
charges of which he is accused by the
Treasurer, Bullock should be sent to the
Penitentiary for life.
Annual Report of the Officers of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
Mr. E. Hulbert favors us with the an
nual report of the Officers of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, for the fiseal year
ending 30th September, 1868. Mr. Hul
bert’s report covers the whole year, not
withstanding the fact he and many of his
subordinates have occupied their positions
for only two months of the time.
Ttie gross receipts have been $943,607 24
The working expenses $655,239 51
Extraordinary “ 22,047 01 677,257 12
Net proceeds $266,320 12
Ratio of working expeuses to receipts,
70 per cent.
For the purpose of affording a fair com
parison we bring forward the report of
1867:
Receipts $1,273,191 35
Working expeuses $685,462 22
Extraordinary “ 413,865 90
Claims prior to 1566 40,613 31 1,142,075 53
Net proceeds $131,115 82
Ratio of working expenses to receipts
53 83-100, or fifty-four per cent, nearly.
The ratio of working expenses and re
ceipts of the Georgia Railroad in 186S was
51 per cent , in 1867 55 per cent.
In justification of this large ratio of
working expenses to receipts, it is due to
Mr. Hulbert to state that the business of
the year has decreased over 331 per cent,
from that of the year previous. Never
theless, the working expenses remain
about the same. The extraordinary ex
penses have been greatly decreased.
We confess to great disappointment in
reading this report as to what is promised
as future revenue. After reading carefully
his report, done up in italics and small
CAPS, we have come to the conclusion
that the State may expect but little
revenue to lighten the burthens of taxation
during the ensuing year, and the Superin
tendent is still full of Reconstruction and
requires the whole of the net revenue to
reconstruct the road. In fact, it is
almost no road at all, despite Maj.
Campbell’s exhibit of the immense
traffic which passed over the road the year
previous, and the general expectation that
the net revenue of this road would iu
future pay the annual interest of the State
debt.
What Our Legislature Is Costing Us.
The Comptroller’s report affords the
opportunity for the people to learn what
our Legislature is costing us. The Legis
lative pay roll for the session of 1868 show
that there has been disbursed for pay of
members of the Senate, officers, &c., and
mileage, sixty-seven thousand one hun
dred and nine dollars, ($67,109); for pay
of members, officers, &e., and mileage,
one hundred and ninety-two thousand
one hundred and fifty- two dollars, ($192,-
152). These sums make a total of $259,-
261), two hundred and fifty-nine thousand
two hundred and sixty-one dollars, dis
bursed by the Treasurer, on warrants
issued by the Speaker of the He use and
President of the Senate during the period
—defined by the period—August 11, 1868,
to January Ist, 1869, or the first half of
the session of the Legislature. In addi
tion to this sum we find the following items :
to Committee on W. & A. Railroad $4,-
107 00 ; to various Committees $1,750 ; to
Retrenchment Committee $2,735 25 ; for
services of Railroad Committee $2,475;
making the sum total paid to members of
the Legislature of two hundred and
seventy thousand three hundred and twen
ty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents.
The average pay of Representatives for
about three months, has been about eleven
hundred dollars ; Senators fifteen hundred
dollars. Ths fixed rate of pay, we be
lieve, is nine dollars per day, and twenty
cents mileage each way.
A comparison is made between the
amount of taxes paid into tho Treasury by
the several counties and the amount paid
to the Senators and Representatives; some
interesting facts are disclosed. Take, for
example, the county of Echols —the|amount
paid into the Treasury of the State is
given at $697; number of voters, 204;
amount paid the representative for three
months’ work, or half the session, $1,075.
The representative actually absorbs in
three months, the whole sum of the taxes
paid by the county into tbe State Treasury
and about sixty-five per cent, additional.
The Hon. Member from Echols is put in
the pleasant position which' enables him not
only to carry back to bis county all the money
levied upon the county for taxes, but a
handsome per centage besides. The num
ber of such counties, it.is true, Knot large,
not numbering more than seven or eight.
But with a continuance of the pay of nine
dollars per day and twenty ceDts mileage
each way and unlimited sessions, we may
expect to see this number greatly increase
edand "Legislating” erected into a pro
fessional pursuit. The extravagant pay
which) this "Reconstructing” Legislature
has voted each of their members, we are
glad to see, has awakened some compunc
tions among the recipients of these bene
fits. Mr. W. A. Price, of Lumpkin has
lifted his voice against it, and furnishes us
with further information touching this sub
ject, of which we avail ourselves: "The
State of Georgia pays a higher per diem to
her members than any other State in or
out of the Union, if I except the State of i
California! The New England States pay j
the smallest amounts. For instance, !
Maine pays a salary to members of only
one hundred and fifty dollars per annum,
New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecti
cut, three dollars per day; whilst Rhode ,
Island pays but one dollar each per day to :
the Speaker of the House , and to the j
members. Such drafts our State Treasury |
could more readily sustain at present. Penn
sylvania, of all the Northern States, pays a
larger sum to members. They receive a sala
ry, and when the session or sessions are
lenghthy and protracted, as they some
times are, to six months, they have been
known to vote themselves as much as one
thousand dollars per anoum. New York
pays but three dollars per day. New Jer
sey but three dollars, and half that sum
after forty days. Maryland pays five
dollars ; Virginia six dollars; South Caro
lina, under negro and Radical rule, pays
only six dollars. Our neighbor, Tennes
see, pays four dollars in gold—less than
six dollars in currency ; Alabama six dol
lars ; Kentucky five dollars.
The wealthy States of Missouri, Indiana,
Ohio and Minnesota pay but five dollars ;
whilst lowa, Illinois, Kansas and Michi
gan pay but three dollars, Wisconsin
three dollars and fifty cents. In some of
these States the per diem is reduced to
one-half the amounts stated, where the
sessions are prolonged beyond forty days.
On the subject of clerks and mileage Mr.
Price says: “Illinois, after Georgia, per
haps employs more clerks than any
otter State, thirteen in the Senate,
eighteen in the House. Missouri employs
seventeen clerks in both houses. New
York nine, six in Assembly, three in Sen
ate. The highest sum paid to chief clerks
after Georgia, is paid by A irginia, being
seven dollars per day. The highest num
ber of clerks employed during this session of
our State Legislature, at any one time was:
Senate, 25 ; Rouse, 25 ; costing in the ag
gregate $45,552. The State of Georgia
pays the highest amruntfor mileage to mem
bers except Alabama, which,l believe,is the
same as received by members of the Geor
gia Legislature. Most of the States pay
twenty cents a mile —the Western States
generally, paying but ten cents; Rhode
Island eight cents.”
It remains to be seen what action, if
any, our Legislature will take w this
matter. It calls for some action. Four
fifths of the total receipts of lait year,
received into the Treasury (including three
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars of
borrowed money), and the Legislative pay
rolls alone for three months aucunted to
more than the receipts from taxation by
nearly fifty thousand dollars.
How the Tax-Paxers are Difrauded.
The people of Georgia are being de
frauded enormously under the “C. 0. D.”
regime. The following extracts from the
report of the “ Committee an Retrench
ment’ ’ lets the light in upon shuge swindle.
Certainly some parties shou/d be held re
sponsible for this extravagance, and the
Committee owe it to the people to “name
their men” and place tfe responsibility
where it belongs. We quite:
The Committee also Eceived another
report from the Treasurcr/rom which they
learn that there was paid during the last
session of the Legislature,which, it is true,
was an unusually long one, ior clerical
service, the sum of $15,252. Os this
amount $19,639 were piid the Secretary
of the Senate and his subordinates ; $20,-
387 were paid the Clerk of the House of
Representatives and his subordinates, and
$5,326 were paid forclerts of committees.
Your Committee has no means of com
paring the expenditires in this particular
with similar expaiditures of previous
Legislatures; but we insist that the amount
thus expended is extravagant, and should
be greatly reduced in future. We there
fore offer the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is ;he opinion of this
Committee that boih the Senate and the
House of Representatives pay about twice
as much for clerical services as is demand
ed, and that we recomnend in future that
no committee of either Souse be allowed a
clerk, except the Finatce and Judiciary
Committees, and that the pay of said
clerks bo not more thar $5 per day. We
further recommend tint each House con
fine its clerical force strctly within the re
quirements of the Constitution and of the
Code.
We further recomnend that Pages,
Guards, Assistant Doo 1 Keepers and As
sistant Messengers bi dispensed with
entirely —all of them bang innovations up
on ancient usage, anc the expense at
tendant upon the same; being a burden
upon our impoverished treasury, and in
consistent with an economical expeaditure
of the public money.
The contingent expenses of tho two
Houses a» the late sesiion were unusual,
extraordinary and in the highest degree
extravagant. Retrenchment in this par
ticular is imperatively jemanded. Neither
the public service nor the comfort or con
venience of members requires such heavy
appropriations of money, and we recom
mend that the pro ter officer, in each
House, be notified, in advance, that the
most rigid economy wll be insisted upon.
We further reeommmd that all bills for
contingencies made foi either House shall
be audited weekly by he Chairman of the
Finance Committee of each House before
beiDg paid.
Our attention has alio been called to the
large quantity of stitionery distributed
during the last sessionof the General As
sembly. We reeommmd that the Mes
senger of each House >e required to keep
an account of the statonery furnished to
each officer and membet, with a view that
said accounts may bt examined by the
Finance Committee whoever desired.
We recommend, a; a measure of re
trenchment, reform, ind economy, that
members in future apfly themselves dili
gently to the business o' the country, with
a view of shortening tin sessions, and thus
save a large amount in he way of clerical
hire and per diem of menbers.
A Rough Joke on he “Little Per
jurer.”—Senator Joaua Hill, we under
stand, recently perpetnted in Washington
the following cruel jae at the expense of
the Little Perjurer: It seems that the
latter had been givinj reasons, under oath,
to the Reconstructira Committee why
Georgia should be pu back under military
government; and, anong other things, said
that he was forced tcleave Augusta on the
day of the municipal dection else he would
have been murdered. Shortly after this a
prominent Radical lenator on this com
mittee met Senator Ell, and after relating
to him Mr. Blodgett’aestimony,asked him,
as a Georgian and od acquainted with the
state of feeling in hiiState, if it was true.
Mr. Hill replied the, “he believed there
was an ordinance in free in Augusta which
directed that at certin periods of the year
all clogs found in thetreet without a muz
zle should be shot that during those
months, and only lien would Mr. Blod
gett’s life be iu danpr in that city. ’ ’
The Newton Fatory Destroyed by
Fire.—A correspodent of the Atlanta
Intelligencer, in Ccington, on the 23d in
stant, writes that ae “Newton Factory,
situated on the Aiova river, in Newton
county, about tweta miles from Covington,
was destroyed by ire Saturday morning
about 2 o’clock, lone of the building or
machinery was savd. The fire took place
in the cotton roof. Its origin was un
known. Understad the factory was cov
ered partially by icurance, although I can
not ascertain the amount or company.
The Factory was mown as the ‘Phillips
Factory,’ and l nderstand, was largely
owned by W. R. hillips, of Atlanta. The
loss is a severe owto the county as many
persons are throw out of employment.”
Columbus Maufacturing Company.
—The Sun says tis Company now pro
poses to increat its machinery, and
has opened boos of subscription for
shares. Gen. RH. Chilton, President,
and Mr. J. R. Clbp, Superintendent, will
give all informatin. This Company, on
their property, amle and a half from
Columlus, own tie Dost superior witer
power in the world kt a very small cost,
this power can b nade to run nearly
1,500,000 spindles, ;n a distance of one
mile, the river has i ill of 121 feet, and a
natural waste or taitoay 50 feet wide and
20 feet deep with rot walls, runs near the
Georgia shore the elire distance.
Southern Secubties inNew York.—
The Hercdd, of Suiiy, reports :
Southern securin'e were irregular and
dull. The follovii? were the closing
quotations :—Temesee, ex-coupon, G7@
68 ; Tennessee, mw 67? @6B ; Virginia,
ex-coupon, 58@5$ Virginia, registered
stock, 50@50); \irrinia, new, 621(5,63 ;
Georgia sixes, 82fg83i ; Georgia sevens,
924@93 ; North Carolina, ex-coupon,
641 @64 j ; North (aroiina, new, 621(5
624; Louisiana ikes, 76i;_ Louisiana
levee six per eet, 72 ; Louisiana levee
eights, 88£@89; Labama eights, 931(5
94 ; Alabama fivq 66@67 ; Booth Caro
lina six per cent, 1@72 ; South Caroliaa,
new, 691(5,71 ; Qy of Memphis, 531@
54 ; Mobile and shio, sterling, 62@64 ;
Mobile and Ohio,merest, 52@54.
American Aoiculturist.— We have
received the Febrxry number of this fa
vorite agrieultun monthly. It is one of
the best publishein this country, and is
always filled withflsefui and practical in
formation. Eacbomber contains several
fine engravings, eiouted in the best man
ner. After beinjmee tried it cannot be
dispensed with, ad its cheapness places it
in the reach ofall. Subscription only
$1 50 a year. Published by Orange
Judd & Cos., 245 (roadway, New York.
Pomeroy’s D<ocrai.— This new pa
per has a wondertl circulation. In nearly
every town in tfe country the democrats
and workingmen fe getting up clubs for
it. It is the sharpest paper pub
lished, and walk Into Congress and the
Bondholders regNlicsa of results. The
paper has over Qy thousand subscribers
in the State ofNf Y ork alone. Send for
sample copies, udeh are sent free, and
see it for yourdves. Address M. M.
Pomeroy, Printty Rouse Square 3 New
York City. d&wl
Railroad Meeting in Columbia.
Proceedings of a railroad meeting, held
at Luke’s Store, District No. 3, on the 21st
day of January, 1869, for the purpose of
taking some action in relation to the build
ing of a wooden railway from Augusta
through Columbia, Lincoln, Elbert,
Hart, Rabun, and across to tbe Flat
Woods of Carolina. On motion of Dr. H.
R. Casey, A. J. Avery was called to the
Chair, and R. J. Blount requested to act
as Secretary. Dr. Casey then exp ained the
object of the meeting, and submitted the
following preamble and resolutions :
"There is a tide in the affairs of men
which, taken at its flood, leads on to for
tune ” There is also an ebb, and the
people of the South have been exposed to
this low tide, or ebb, for 10, these several j
years. The flowing and ebbing of the !
ocean tides are regulated and governed by
the immutable laws of the Great Jehovah.
The one follows the other in regular and
certain succession. These are God’s
handywork ! ! “Manl proposes, but God
disposes.” The affairs of men, the tides
ot fortune are of human origin, and under
the dictation and direction of minds, finite
and prone to err. “Let there be light,
and there was light” !! was the word
which came from the lips of God on the
first day of the creation. Since that time
there have been perio'ds in the history of
the world when darkness was upon the
earth, and a pall was over the moral uni
verse. I speak not of Solar darkness,
but of mental eclipses, when the human
intellect was in tliraldam, and men ceased
to think for themselves, while their minds
were but -the—passive receptacles of the
thoughts of a few, when Aristotle
was everything, and reason nothing.
But when the human intellect was freed
from restraint, it sprang forth with an
elasticity which has not yet ceased to act.
The human mind is restless and grasping
and ever in search of enterprise and new
fields of labor. The Great Southern
Heart beats responsive to the dictates of
honor, manhood and the Great Southern
mind would fain reclaim its once proud but
note lost or crushedp restige. But the
heavy hand of exaction and cruelty has
been and is now laid ungloved upon South
ern enterprise and energy, and the great
Southern mind lies a fallen star but bril
leant in the dust. But we fain would in
dulge the hope that the South has passed
through the saddest, most fiery part of this
cruel ordeal. We have faith in the pleas
ant omen—“ there is a good time coming
for the South ;’’ Northern capital, North
ern enterprise are now making their way
South and we may hope that, erelong, the
now desolated and abandoned places will
again “bloom and blossom as the rose.”
"There is life in the old Land yet,” but
we have to change and accomodate our
selves to the new order of things; "old
things have passed away—behold all things
are new.” The old system of planting on
a large scale, with fenc o s miles upon miles
in length, enclosing hundreds of acres,
with slaves who came at our beck, went at
our bidding, must give way to small farms,
with free labor, not quite so reliable. We
must draw in our fences, lessen the num
ber of acres and try “to make two blades
grow where one only grew before.” We
must economise in every particular—and
as this is styled the “ age of progress," we
must enter the list and become contestants
for the prize in the race for gain; but in
order to win, we must lessen our ex
penditures and husband all our re
sources. The Planter, far removed
from his market-town, debarred the facili
ty of rail or water communication; having
to rely solely on his wagon and team— over
bad roads , finds in this item a very heavy
tax, and the worst incident to the delivery
of his produce at market, while it lessens
the net income, detracts from tho value of
the animals, and materially interferes with
the early preparation of the soil for the re
ception of the seed. To avoid this, Rail
roads should be built wherever and when
ever practicable. In the present impover
ished condition of our people we cannot,
nor do we propose to build a first class
Railroad. Creeping before walking is the
law of Nature. It is proposed to build a
wooden Railway from Augusta through
Columbia, Lincoln, Elbert, Franklin, and
across to the Carolina side,reaching as far
out into the interior as circumstances and
trade may justify. We do not expect to
build this road aided with money alone fur
nished by the planting oommunity. We
shall apply to the State for aid. And this
aid we may reasonably expect. Annually
our people have responded to the Tax
Gatherer, and small have been the favors
we have ever asked in return. The City
of Augusta, her merchants, the Dorr
Mine, and the Elbert Factory expecting
quid pro quo, will give a helping hand.
But we mult first show a willingness our
selves to come up to the good work. Those
who would be assisted, must first help
themselves. To tho skeptic and tbe doubt
ing, to these, if any there be who will not
act because they say the thing is impossi-"
ble, and will not or oannot succeed, I will
only point them to Georgia’s nolle monu
ment—the State Road.Vi hen that was first
agitated in the halls of legislation, there
were those who hooted at the idea, and threw
every obstacle in the way of its progress.
“What!” said they, “build a railroad
through that mountainous region, over river,
innumerable mountains up whose steeps a
spider can scarce crawl?” “Why the idea
is Utopean, it must not be thought of for a
moment.” But, fortunately for the State,
and particularly fortunate for Cherokee,
Georgia, in that Legislature, there was the
pure gifted A. 11. Stephens; that noble
Roman Chas. J. Jenkins; the great finan
cier, George W. Crawford; the practical
working and sound man, Andrew J. Mil
ler; and other statesmen, who were deter
mined that the work should be put through,
and they had the proud satisfaction to see
their efforts crowned with success; and
that Road has been for some time, and is
to-day, more than a gold mine to the State
Napoleon once said there was no such word
in the French language as impossible.
Then let us, too, act upon this theory—go
to work with a hearty good will and,
with hope eternal in the breast, let us
“look out for the engine when the whistle
blows. ’ ’ Therefore, be it—
Resolved , That we, a portion of the citi
zens of Columbia, interested in this Road,
hereby pledge our credit and earnest sup
port to the contemplated Road; and that
we will give to the Company, when formed
and desired, the right of way through our
lands.
Resolved , That we hereby request our
members to the Legislature to ask “State
aid.” And now that we have put the ball
in motion we ask of the citizens of Lincoln,
Elbert, Franklin, Hart and Rabun their
co-operation.
Resolved , That these proceedings be
published in the Chronicle & Sentinel,
Constitutionalist and Edgefield Advertiser.
The resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed and meeting adjourned to meet at Ap
pling on the first Tuesday in February.
A. J. Avery, Chair’n.
R. J. Blount, Sec’y.
Excitement Among Cotton Clalm
ants. —A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Washington on
Wednesday last, says :
“Judge Hale, the special counsel for the
Treasury Department in cotton cases be
fore the Court of Claims, to-day offered
an objection to certain testimony, which
has created quite a sensation here, and
which will, if sustained, deeply affect cer
tain banking houses in New Y ork, who are
the reai owners of much of the cotton for
which payment is claimed. The objection
is to the testimony of parties who sold as
well as to that of those who bought cotton
during the war, when such testimony is
offered to prove ownership at the time of
seizure by Simeon Draper and other agents
of the Treasury Department. Should this
objection be sustained by the Court, some
four millions of dollars’ worth of claims
will be ruled out of Court, as proof of sale
and purchase by buyer and seller is, in
almost every case, the only proof of owner
ship that claimants’ counsel have to pro
duce. Duncan, Sherman &Cos., and other
New York houses, originally represented
in these cases of Clarence Seward, and
Mr. Evarts, now Attorney-General, would
be large losers, it is said, as they have ad
vanced much money on these claims.”
Georgll —Our Georgia correspondent,
in the letter we published yesterday, gave
what, in spite of all drawbacks, we must
regard as, on the whole, an encouraging
picture of the prospects in that State. The
cotton crop is good; the relations between
whites and the negroes friendly, the former
paying promptly on all contracts for work,
and the latter being satisfied with the results
of their labor. “In no part of the world,”
says our correspondent, “is the correspond
ing class of laborers as prosperous, in a ma
terial sense, as these negroes.— New York
Times.
The above statement is undoubtedly true,
and is a significant comment upon the fact
that this State went against carpet-baggers
by so heavy a majority. For this it is pro
posed to punish the State and remit it to
the territorial condition.— Nat. Intel.
Georgia Sixes closed at 82 to 84, and
Sevens at 92+ to 93, in New York, on
Thursday.
FROM WASHINGTON.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE Jb SENTINEL.
Washington, Jan. 21,1868.
Yesterday the House passed a bill pro
! viding for the removal of political dis
abilities from about one hundred parties,
mostly from Virginia ; but including in
the list one from Twiggs county, of your
State, namely: E. S. Griffin. Farnsworth,
who introduced the bill, stated that the
parties were vouched lor by Republicans,
which he evidently considers sure evidence
ot loyalty. Some of the names were rec
i ommended by members of Congress,
j though but few. There is yet a large
! number of names that the Committee
have not yet acted upon, includingseveral
j from Georgia.
This bill caused some discussion, in the
course of which it was mentioned by Mr.
Farnsworth that all the parties had pe
titioned for themsolves, and while, in an
swer to inquiry from another member, he
stated that it was not absolutely necessary
that every man desiring to have his disa
bilities removed, should petition for him
self, yet it was regarded by the Recon
struction Committee as better evidence of
a man’s loyalty and disposition to accept
the situation if he comes and asks for re
lief than if he stands upon his dignity.
Some of the members were opposed to the
passage of the bill —one representative
making the remark that if the Committee
should report daily a number of names,
and the gentleman having charge of the
subject move the previous question (as
Farnsworth did in this instance), the
House, knowing nothing about the cases,
might as well make a clean sweep of it,
and extend amnesty to every one, including
Jeff Davis, Raphael Semmesand John C
Breckinridge.
The bill passed, however, by a vote of
98 to 30, and others of similar.character,
more formidable in tbe number of names
petitioning for the removal of their politi
cal disabilities, are expected to be reported
from the Committee in a very short time.
The publication in the Washington cor
• respondence of the New York Times of a
statement,in effect, that an order was issued
when Grant was in command of the Federal
army before Vicksburg, directing General
Banks to supersede him (which was re
fused by the latter), and the additional
statement published this morning in the
dispatches of Mr. Warden, the Presi
dent’s Private Secretary, who, from
his position at the Executive Mansion,
has fairer opportunites than otherwise to
gain access to secret archives, that Stanton
was the party who issued the order to
Banks, creates considerable excitement
here, and has had the effect of having
many of those parties who had prepared
slates for Grant’s Cabinet with Stanton’s
name upon them, hastily erase that por
tion of their inscriptions.
. But for the fact that Vicksburg fell
while Banks was hesitating and protesting
against executing the order Grant would
have been superseded by someone else,
and retired like McClellan, or else sent)like
Pope to the plains and Banks would have
been court-martialed and probably dis
missed.
While Cabinet speculations are still the
order of the day, this “rumor,” if it is to
be called such, pales the star of Stanton,
which was said to have been discovered in
the horizon of the State Department under
the next administration, and in due pro
portion brightens that of Banks, whose
position as Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, combined with
what, if the article referred to is correct in
every particular, cannot but be regarded
as a heroic self-sacrifice in defence of his
opinion of General Grant’s superior mili
tary abilities when the two were co-ope
rating at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, is
cited as an evidence that his appointment
to that important Cabinet office will surely
receive favorable consideration from Gen.
urant.
The President elect has put a stop to
the inauguration ball proceedings, by
writing a letter to the Secrrtary of the
National Union Republican Committee,
stating that if his choice is considered the
ball will be dispensed with, and accord
ingly the baU will be dispensed with.
Ever since his election General Grant has
avoided public receptions of all kinds, to
the disgust and mortification of a party of
officious office-seekers who desire to thrust
their reverence and admiration upon him.
In all cases he has flanked them, and, as
he was determined not to go to the ball
anyhow, he thought best to give a gentte
hint to that effect, and possibly prevent
any demonstration of a jubilant character
on the fourth of March next. J. C.
Washington, January 23.
Did Stanton order Banks to relieve
Grant, continues a subject of comment
and speculation here, and the hornets nest
aroused by the publication of that asser
tion, has not yet subsided. Let Banks
speak, and the falsity of the charge will be
immediately shown.
The number of visitors at the White
House begin to grow small by degreos and
beautifully less. The time servers who
hovered around the Executive office are
scattered to the four quarters, and those
who now await audiences with the Presi
dent, can be counted beyond the suspicion
of endeavoring to attorn selfish ends.
There are many who cherish respect and ad
miration tor the great man, who is soon to
be Governor of Tennessee or United States
Senator from the State after his present
term expires, Andrew Johnson the patriotic;
and sound statesman, has years of useful
ness still before him, and his clarion voice,
in strong advocacy of the right in national
politics, will yet again be heard in the
field of American statesmanship.
The Virginia Conference Committee are
still earnestly at work, with strong hopes
of early success. The Radical backbone
in Congress is relaxing its stiffness and
their conservatism is shedding its influ
ence even in the camp of the enemy. The
extremists insist that Virginia mutt
guarantee safety to Republicans in their
midst; that is, the carpet-baggers and
negroes must be allowed to disfranchise the
entire white population of the State.
Congress will think otherwise when it
comes to the vote, and the State will be
admitted on the basis of “ universal
suffrage and universal amnesty.” Grant
wants this to be the ca-e, and Congress
will not go beyond his views, notwithstand
ing the difficulty of repealing the Tenure
of-Office Bill.
Butlerexplodes some “humbug” notions
about the reconstruction of Virginia. He
is anxious that the landed estate be di
vided up, and that no man shall have more
than ten acres, and expresses himself, in
private conversation, as entertaining the
same views relative to Georgia.
Boutwell, of Massachusetts made a two
hours’ speech in the House to-uay on the
dogma of universal suffrage, excepting
women and educated people in the South
—those disfranchised ones. He said the
Republican party must move forward on
the great question of suffrage, and sub
stantially that the North must adopt
This the Northern States will never do,
judging from the past indications in that
particular. J. C.
From the Macon Telegraph, 21 et.
The Railroad War The Injunction
Against the Brunswick Railroad.
We have heretofore stated that Wm. B.
Hodgson, John L. Mustian and John E.
Jones, through their Attorneys, DeGraf
fenried, Lyon and Irwin, had applied to
Judge Cole for an injunction restraining
the Brunswick Railroad from carrying out
its contract with Dabney, Morgan & Cos.
This application was made on Friday, and
Judge Cole endorsed it as follows :
In Chambers, January 16, 1869.
“Read and sanctioned. Let the State’s
writ of subpoena and injunction issue. Let
the State’s writ of fifty thousand dollars,
enjoining and restraining the defendants
as prayed. And let such other proceed
ings be had as are usual in equity- And it
is ordered that complainants give injunc
tion bond, with security, in the sum of
fifty thousand dollars.
“I will hear argument on ten days’ no
tice, or at whatever time may be agreed on,
why this injunction should not be dis
solved. C. B. Cole, Judge, S. C.”
The principal grounds upon which these
legal proceedings are based seems to be
tbit the conditions upon which the State
granted aid to the road have been violated
in the contract made with Dabney, Mor
gan <fc Cos., to complete it.
On the 3d day of December, 1866, the
Legislature of Georgia passed an act:
That his Excellency the Governor be,
and he is hereby authorized to place the
endorsement of the State of Georgia upon
the bonds of the Macon & Brunswick Rail
road Company, which said Company may
issue to the amount often thousand dollars
per mile for as many miles of said road as
are now completed, and the like amount
per mile for every additional ten miles, as
the same may be completed and placed in
running order, on the following terms and
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 5.
conditions, to-wit: Before any such en
dorsement shall be made, the Governor
shall be satisfied that as much of the road
as the said endorsement shall be applied
for, is really finished and in com
plete running order, and that the said road
is free from all liens and mortgages, or
other incumbrances which may, in any
manner, endanger the security of the State;
and, upon the further condition and ex
press understanding that the endorsement
of said bonds, when thus made, shall not
only vest the title to all property of every
kind which may be purchased with said
bonds in this State until all the bonds so
endorsed shall be paid; but the said en
dorsement shall be, and is hereby under
stood to operate as a prior lien or mortgage
on all property of the company, to be en
forced as hereinafter provided for.
“I# the event of any bond or bonds en
dorsed by the State, as provided in the first
section of this act, or in the interest due
thereon, shall not be paid by said Railroad
Company at maturity, or when due, it
shall bo the duty of the Governor, upon :
information of such default by any holder
of said bond or bonds, to seize and take ;
possession of all the property of said Rail- j
road Company, and apply the earnipgs of
said road to the extinguishment of said !
bond or bonds or coupons, and shall sell ,
the said road and its equipments and other
property belonging to said company, in |
such manner, and at such time, as in his
judgement may best subserve the interest ;
of all concerned.”
Thenextday, the 4th of December, 1566, !
that body adopted the following- resolu
tions :
"That said Company shall not sell ordis- j
pose of the bonds thus indorsed by his Ex
cellency for more than ten per cent, dis- |
count, and the endorsement of the State I
upon the bonds of said Company shall not ]
exceed one million of dollars, until an
amount of capital equal to the additional j
endorsement shall be bona jide subscribed j
and paid into said Company.
“That inorder more fully to secure the j
payment of the bonds of said Railroad
Company, it shall be the duty of said Com- I
pany to set apart annually two per cent, of I
the amount endorsed fur as a sinking fund,
which shall bo invested in State bonds, and
deposited with the Governor, to be held in
trust for said Company, and which shall !
be applied exclusively to the payment of I
the bonds of said Company.”
The orators deny that the two per cent, i
of the amount endorsed for has been set i
apart by the Com pany, and allege that the
conditions of this State aid have been vio
lated, as follows:
“Your orators further show that is this
enactment, and with a full knowledge of
‘the terms and conditions imposed thereby
and therein, and without any further or
additional subscription to the capital stock
of said Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Company tothat previously subscribed,paid
in and invested in the building of said road
and its equipment, and which the bonds of
the company previously issued, endorsed
by the State, and negotiated as hereinbe
fore set forth and stated, fully represented
and covered, the said railroad company en
tered into an agreement with the follow- j
ib 6 persons and firms : your orators being |
ignorant and unable to give the names of
the different individuals composing the j
different firms-.—George B. Morgan, of i
the city of Boston and State of Massa- j
chusetts ; and Dabney, Morgan & Cos., M.
R. Jessup & Cos., S L M. Barlow, Mor- !
ris Ketchum, 1). Willis Jam vs, James It
Jessup, Foster & Thompson, J. S. Morgan
&Cos., James Godwin L. P. Minturn &
Cos., J. Milbank, W. It. Garrison, W. 11.
Hays and Wm. H. Gray, all residents
in the State of New York and
the city of New York, in which it was
stipulated by said persons and firms
that they would finish said rail
road, equip and put it in complete
running order, according to the
original design of the charter thereof;
and, in consideration therefor, the com
pany agreed to issue its bonds and caase
the same to be endorsed by the State of
Georgia, under the power conferred by
the aforesaid acts and resolutions of the
Legislature of said State, at the rate of
ten thousand dollars per mile, as each ten
miles of said road should be finished by
said company, and to be delivered to said
persons as part payment for their said
work, so agreed to be done by them at the
nominal rate of ninety cents on the dollar,
and so on, until the whole work was finish
ed ; and then the said railroad company
was to transfer to said persons, as a further
and additional payment of said work so
agreed to be done by said persons, one
million five hundred thousand dollars of
the stock of said company, which said
railroad company then and there guaran
teed and contracted should pay eight per
cent, divideods annually, and to be prefer
red to all other stock in said com pany,and,
also, one million dollars of the unendorsed
bonds of said company.”
And they further charge that “the said
Company did not, in fact, receive as much
as ninety cents on the dollar for the bonds
actually transferred, as aforesaid, in law
ful money of the United States, nor agree
to receive as much as ninety cents on the
dollar on the bonds agroed to be trans
ferred.”
That “the same were hawked about the
various markets by said Railroad Compa
ny, and tho holders thereto, after such
transfer, at a much less sum, and at prices
ranging from sixty to eighty five cents on
the dollar, and in no instance was as much
as ninety cents on the dollar, in cash or its
equivalent, realized ; all of which was in
violation of the terms and conditions on
which said aid was given, and on which
the bonds so endorsed were received by
the said Company, and to the injury of
the State of Georgia and of your orators,
and all other citizens and tax-payers there
of.”
We have endeavored, as well as we
could, to give the general reader, in the
above extracts, an idea of this railroad
muddle. The next step will be the hear
ing ot the counsel and the examination of
witnesses before Judge Cole, who wili set
the day after hearing the other side. Un
less voluntarily dropped the case will be
carried before the Supreme Court, which
will involve months of delay.
The publio, of course, perfectly under
stand the animus of these proceedings.
They spring out of the injunction granted
in the Savannah and Gulfßailroad case,
the Southwestern making the move for the
purpose of breaking down the one by the
suggestion of the other.
Hold them to the Bond.—lt took the
Radicals of the North nearly three years
to make Georgia adopt a constitutional
amendment forever repudiating “any debt
or obligation incurred in aid of insurrec
tion or rebellion against the United States. ’ ’
The said constitutional amendment pro
hibits either the United States or any
State to “assume to pay” any such debt.
And yet we find the Legislature of Geor
gia entertaining a proposition to pay a Con
necticut firm for manufacturing Sharpe’s
rifles for Gov. Brown in 1860 1 Repudiate
it at once, we say, as all debts to South
ern men, contracted either directly or in
directly, in aid of or during the rebellion,
have been repudiated.— Columbus Eng.
The Savannah, Griffin & North
Alabama Railroad.—We are glad to
learn that the prospects of this road are
indqed very flattering. The committee ap
pointed to see the stockholders who have
paid in the full amount of their stock, and
those also who have paid only a portion of
the amount subscribed, and to ascertain
what they were willing to do, have met
with unexpected success.
There are some few, however, we learn,
who claim the full amount for the “right
of-way” through their lands. This is
“self-suicide.” It would be better that
they should give this right, for if the road
is built every man’s land through which it
passes, or lying near it, would increase in
value three-fold. So let such parties come
up and say to the committee, we are willing
to give you this right through our land, or
are willing to accept what you offer.—
Griffin Star.
Coming to Light.—Tho Chronicle a
Sentinel is engaged in unearthing the
stealings of Foster Blodgcit while Mayor
of Augusta. The Radical apples did swim
majestically at the puhlio expense. How
Blodgett can keep out of the penitentiary,
to say nothing of hanging, is not very ob
vious. —Savannah Republican.
Mining in Geobgla.— This business in
upper Georgia does not appear to be brisk
or flourishing just now, according to the
reports of the Dahlonega Signal. It says
thatoperations are generally at a stand,
awaiting the move of Northern capitalists,
and that these are mostly inactive; that
the Chestatee Company has suspended,
and the Wood mine is working but little,
if any. About twenty-five hands are at
work at Ive’s mill, one mile east of Dah
lonega, with great success; and small com
panies, composed of two to five in a group,
are working about on the branches, making
from fifty cents to two dollars per day to
the hand, and more often fifty cents than
two dollars. So numerous are these little
parties, that the Signal believes the Dah
lonega merchants are buying more gold
now than they did when all the companies
were in successful operation. (But we
presume that the big companies did not
sell their gold dust to the merchants.) —
Sri van nah, New.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM ATLANTA.
Proceedings of the Legislature.
SPECIAL TELEOBAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE CHRONICLE A SENTINEL.
Muscogee Circuit Bill Lost—Macon and
Brunswick Railroad Bonds—State En
dorsement— Georgia and Reconstruction
—Bill to Organize the Military Institute
Penitentiary Convicts— Gold and Sil
ver Tax—The State Department— C. O.
D. Doing an Extensive Business—The
Central Railroad and State aid to
Railroads-
J Atlanta, January 25, p. in.—ln the
Senate the bill to create the Muscogee Cir
| cuit was lost.
The House resolutions, relative to the
State’s endorsement of the Macon and
| Brunswick Railroad bonds, caused au aui
! mated discussion, which was participated
jin by Messrs. Wooteu and Smith. Mr.
Wooten spoke against the resolutions and
Mr. Smith, of the 7th District, spoke in
favor. Without taking a vote the Senate
adjourned. Mr. Wooten having the floor.
In the House, Mr. Williams, of Morgan,
introduced resolutions saving that Georgia
had carried out the 14th Article of the Con
stitutional Amendment,as she understood
it, aud that Georgia acknowledged Congress
the supreme power, and would obey the
laws made thereunder.
Mr. Madison, of Lincoln, introduced a
bill to let out the Job-Printing by con
tract.
Mr. Barman, of Stewart, introduced a
bill to reorganize the Military Institute,
and make it also an Agricultural College,
and locate the same iu the old Capitol
building at Milledgeville.
Mr. Carpenter, of Pierce, introduce a
resolution to examine into the treatment
of Penitentiary convicts by Raiiroad con
tractors. Also, a bill to relieve securities
from liability if proceedings are not com
menced against principals twelve months
from date.
Mr. Perkins, of Cherokee, introduced a
bill to compel parties to give in, lor tax
ation,gold and silver at value in currency.
There is a rumoi, very generally credit
ed, which says the postage paid by (he
State Department since July last is seven
teen hundred dollars. A resolution was
adopted inquiring into it.
A charge was made in the Seuato that
the Central Raiiroad will file an injunction
against all railroads aided by the State en
dorsement W. G.
Proceedings of the Legislature—The Ma
con and Brunswick Road—Bradley
I Again—Debate on the Removal of Disa
bilities—lnvestigating Committee—The
J Executive Swindle —The Supreme Court,
<Scc., &c.
Atlanta, January 26, p. m.—Upon the
meeting of the Senate this morning Sena
tor Wooten, from the eleventh District, re
sumed his speech in opposition to the res
olution recently passed by the House of
Representatives, approving the action of
the Macon & Brunswick Raiiroad Com
pany in the sale of their bonds, which
were endorsed by the State. At the con
clusion of his oration the resolution was
put upon its passage, and the Senator’s
arguments seem to have been of but little
avail, as it was adopted by a vote of twen
ty-six ayes to ten nays.
A letter was received here to-day, by a
prominent member of the Senate, from
the great “ Wauhoo,” Aaron Alpeoria
Bradley. The letter has not yetbeen made
public; but it is known that it contains a
protest against his expulsion, setting forth
that the Senate’s action in the matter was
illegal, and asking that it be reconsidered.
A bill was to-day introduced in the Senate
to explain the act passed at the last session
in regard to the suppression oflotteries in
Georgia.
In the Houseof Representatives it was
proposed that Mr. Line’s resolution,
praying Congress to remove the political
disabilities of all the citizens of the State,
should be referred to a Special Committee
ot Seven, one member to be from each
Congressional District, and a warm debate
upon the proposition ensued.
Mr. Bryant proposed that the resolution
bo made the special order for Thursday
next, saying that delays were dangerous.
He had information that, if taken at all,
action on this matter should be taken at
once, otherwise he feared it would be too
late to accomplish any beneficial result.
Congress would itself act soon and would
act harshly. He was favorable to the reso
lutions with some few amendments.
Mr. Lane was willing to take up and act
on the resolutions now and was also wil
ling to make them the special order for
next Thursday, as Mr. Bryant desired.
Mr. Scott said that similar resolutions
to these had been adopted almost unani
mously at the late session of the Legisla
ture, and he asked Bryant how Congress
had received those resolutions. Hb, for
his own part, could see no good reason for
continually annoying Congress with the
matter. He presumed Congress would, in
its own time, remove the political disa
bilities of all Georgians. He was opposed
to multiplying committees, and moved to
refer the resolutions to the Commitlteo on
the State of the Republic.
Mr. Bryant moved to amend by saying
that this committee should report on
Thursday.
Mr. Scott objected.
Mr. Bryant said that further delays on
the part of the Legislature was construed
into a desire to do nothing. He was afraid
that this course would cause Congress to
act harshly. Two parties were here, both
extremists. 110 was called an extremist,
but lie was fir conciliation when no
principle was involved, and believed de
lay would make Congress place tho State
under a military dictatorship.
On Mr. Price’s motion, tho whole sub
ject was postponed indelinitely.
Mr. Crawford moved to appoint a Com
mittee to visit Washington. It was not
taken up.
Mr. Price introduced a resolution to ap
point a committee to visit Warren and
Taliaferro counties and report what action
was necessary on the part of the Legis
lature, to prevent further outrages by
lawless persons in said counties.
Mr. Barclay opposed it—his own county,
Mclntosh, had suffered a year from in
ability to enforce the laws; that whenever
whites violated the law it was enforced;
blacks were the only ones in liis county
who violated the law with impunity.
Mr. Rice opposed sending a committee
to any of the counties, especially to
Columbia.
Mr. Crawford favored tho resolution,
which was finally withdrawn.
Rich developments are eagerly looked
for relative to the imbroglio with the .State
Treasurer; bonds have been sold and the
money for them not put in the 'Preasum/
The Supreme Court to-day decided the
Relief Law Constitutional. Judge War
ner dissenting from the rest ot the Court.
W. G.
TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Congressional.
SENATE.
Washington, January 25, p. m.—Ed
munds, in reporting amendments to the
House Bill repealing the Tenure-of-Oftice
Bill, moved it be indefinitely postponed.
After a struggle for precedence of busi
ness, Sherman’s Currency Bill was post
poned by 21 to 30.
The Pacific Railroad was then discussed
to adjournment.
HOUSE.
Among the bills under the regular call,
was the appointing ofacomrnittee of seven
to investigate election irregularities in
South Carolina; appropriation for improve
ment ot the Savannah river ; several rail
road and removal ot disability bills.
By Cooley, for better protection of loyal
men in the South.
By Prince, of Georgia, incorporating the
Southern Express Company.
Thesuffrage amendments were ;>oßtpon
edto Wednesday and the Deuver Railroad
resumed ; it was referred to the Committee
on Public Lauds, which is equivalent to
killing it. Adjourned.
From Cuba.
Havana, January 27, noon.—Many
prominent Cuban families, apprehensive
of further bloodshed, are preparing to em
igrate.
A man armed with a dagger, attempted
to ent-r Dulce’s apartments, but was ar
rested.