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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Chronicle & JentiueL
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A Ua inn IDS Kecord.
V’e t-urr'-nder much of our space this
morning for the publication of the plead
in:. -in the ca-: of Bullock, Blodgett &
Cos. r.v. K. 11. Pughe. We shall also
present Pughe’s answer, and if we can
possibly do so, will try and publish some
of the affidavits which have been filed in
Court in support of the bill and of the
answer.
We spent a short time in the Court
room Wednesday duringthetrial of thecase
—of which a full report will be found in
our local columns —and after an experience
of nearly a quarter of a century in court
houses and the conduct of legal proceedings,
we have no hesitancy in declaring that
we have never witnessed a trial in which so
much rascality, so much double dealing,
and so much false swearing was exhibited.
Indeed, we doubt if the annals of the j
courts of this whole country will show a j
case of half the dishonesty, rascality and i
perjury which this affair has developed.
We have not tiyne for further comments
at this time. When our readers see the I
whole of the pleadings, they will be satis- i
fied that our judgment is not only not j
harsh, but absolutely flattering.
The Kelipsc of the bun.
Thirty-five years ago there was a total !
eclipse of the sun, visible in the middle and
south era portions of this State. There will \
be a total eclipse on Saturday next, visible
in Charlotte and Raleigh, N. (!. There i
will be, according to astronomical calcula
tions, another total eclipse, visible in any !
part of the I cited States, during tiie pres
ent century.
In view of the novelty, no less than its
grandeur, many icrsoua in this city are
quite anxious to witness the eclipse on
Saturday. To afford cheap facilities for
the gratification of this laudable curiosity,
we suggest that a party can be made up
to join an excursion to .'harlotte on Eritlay
night if the officials of that road will run
an extra train and take persons there and
back for one fare, returning on Sunday
morning.
What say you, gentlemen of the Colum
bia & Charlotte Road, shall wo have the
excursion ? If the Company agiee to take
parties lbr a single fare, lot it ho known
to day and wo believe a large crowd will
take “chances” for the trip.
Columbia County.
Contrary to an invariable rule of this
office, not to publish anything without a
responsible name, wc lay before our read
ers the following reported action of the
people of Columbia, at Appling, day be
fore yesterday. In the coby sent us no
names appear as officers of the meeting,
and wo regret to find that not a single
name of any citizen of the county any
where appears in the whole proceedings.
This was doubtless an oversight, but it
will certainly be commented upon as rather
singular to say the least of it.
As wc felt confident from the first they
would do, the meeting in fit terms con
demns and denounces the slayers of the
ni gro prisoners, and tenders the assistance
of the people of the county in ferrotingout
the lawless perpetrators of this hideous
crime.
We loam from a citizen of the county
that Dr. 11. It. Casey was President of the
meeting, and that it was composed of a :
urge number of the most respectablo and
influential citizens of tho county :
PUBLIC MEETING IN APPLING.
At. a meeting of the citizens of Columbia j
county, held at Appling, tho first Tuesday |
in August, tho following expression of j
opinion was entertained and published :
Ist, We are a law-abiding people.
2d. We hold ourselves amenable to those ;
law as expounded by the civil tribunals, i
and consider tho Courts competent and j
ready to have those law-vindicated.
:!d. That while wn hold ourselves re
sponsible for the acts of our own citizens
we are cot willing to have blame attached
to us for t he acts of outsiders.
tth. That the Coroner’s inquest held
over the dead bodies of tbe negroes recent
ly taken out of jail and murdered show that
the parties committing this outrago were
strangers in our midst and from what we
ean learn we do not believe they were
citizens of tho State.
sth. That these parties did not come in
the garb of the famous Ku-klux Klnn, bat
in open di fiance of law and of tho lew resi
dents o( Appling, perpetrated this deed.
litb. That wo lament thisact and will aid
the eivil authorities,if necessary,in their ef
forts to bring injustice the unknown parties.
But while we thus put upon record our
condemnation of this outlawry, we feel that
the ends of justice could better be obtained
and this spirit of lawlessness stopped if he
whtj exercises the assumed powers of the
Executive of the State would not so ol’teu
intervene, by the exercise of tho pardoning
power, in defeating the essence of crim
inal jurisdiction.
So long as Radicalism constitutes, in the
eye of Mr. Bullock, a shield against the
criminal sentences of our Courts we may
expect these mobs to take the law in their
own hands.
Rrsolvnl, That a copy of those resolu
tions bo served upon the Captain of tho
garrison stationed at this place and that a
copy be furnished the Chronicle & Sen-
UNKI and Constitutionalist.
Signed by the President and counter
signed by the Secretary-
Kroin Washington, Wilkes Count}.
A correspondent from Washington,
Wilkes county, informs us that there is not
a word of truth in the report that the
people, or any part of them, ever made any
threats against tli« Assistant Assessor, or
in any way interfered with hitp in thetraus
aeta nos l.is business. Our correspondent
fuvtl . ■ ores us that the good people of
W ilk - are among the most peaceable and
law abiding in the State and that the best
of feeling exists between the whites and
blacks, who are getting along harmonious
ly and very satisfactorily.
Korney,in his two papers (both daily),has
made a hue and cry over what —a lie
manufactured out of whole cloth, for the
people of Wilkes have aeither threatened
nor resisted the Assessor, nor refused to
pay their taxes.
The detachment of United States troops
is stationed in \\ ashiugton. They have
not interfered with the citizens in any way,
and although Mr. Korney assured his read
ers several days since that there was great
danger of a collision between the Ku-klux
and the military, no “unpleasantness” has
occurred. The military has looked in vain
lor thi- myst- ri ns organization, but up to
the time of ur correspondent’s writing
had tailed to discover their encampment.
Patience, forbearance and obedience to
the laws wlli relieve the State from politi
cal uncertainties.
Very Important Decision.
The S (’ urt, in the case of Bat
tle r.<. - • i. Warren, has decided
that "An ordinary judgment for money,
“entoied up in April, IS6I, upon which no
‘‘execution was sued out within seven
“years from the data of the judgment, or
“upon which execution, if sued out, no
“entry has been made tor seven consecu
tive years, is a dormant judgment, not
“withstanding the acts suspending the
“Statute of Limitations and enacting stay
“laws passed in 1860, and at different pe
“rieus since that time."
In another case, between the same par
ties, the questions of dormant judgments
and Statute of Limitations is fully consid
ered, and elaborate opinions written out by
all three of the Judges. Chief Justice
Brown and Justice McCay concur—Judge
Warner disseuts. We will try and print
the decision in full to-morrow or next day.
Brigham Young’s proposition is a legis
lative “stunner." lie proposes to confine
one woman, if every member of
Congress wi'l do the same thing.
The Columbia Outrage.
We learn, upon what we consider relia
ble authority, that the parties who gpened
the Jail at Appling, and committed the
barbarous outrage upon the two negroes
confined there, were Dot citizens of Colum
bia county.
The Jailor, who is well acquainted with
the people of Columbia, failed to recognize
a single person in the crowd, although
they wore no masks or other means to
disguise themselves. He is well satisfied
that none of them were citizens of the
county.
W e arc glad to be able to make this
statement, as it relieves our Columbia
county friends from the just odium which
attaches to the perpetrators of this cow
ardly and cruel act. It is due, however,
to the good Dame and credit of the county
that vigorous efforts be made to discover
the real parties, and when discovered that
the law be fully vindicated.
The Tennessee Election.
The Tribune and the Time* are quite dis
satisfied with Boutwell’s letter to Stokes.
They both insist that the Stokes and tbe
Senter parties are true Republicans, and
that the Administration is not yet strong
enough to cast off so strong a party as that
which supports Senter.
j Ihe truth is, that these sagacious jour
nals already see that the election of Senter
by an overwhelming majority is a foregone
conclusion, and they do not wish to have
his election claimed as a Conservative or
Democratic victory, in the face of the near
approaching elections in Pennsylvania and
j Ohio. They and the more thoughtful of
I their party in the North are anxious to keep
1 fj n such terms with the Senter party that
they may claim their success as a victory of
the Radical party. There is much force in
this idea, but the mau who found the hole
in tbe sky “can’t see it.”
Hard on Greeley.
Judge J)ent adheres to his determina
tion to accept the nomination of the Mis
sissippi Conservatives for Governor of that
State. He will not bo governed by any
other than his own inclinations in this
matter. \V hen he originally consented to
i allow the use of his name ho did so under
the belief that his candidacy would be the
means of restoring peace to the State and
the State to the Union. Since then he has
been confirmed in his position by seeing
“that the great leading exponent of the
Republican party in the United States, the
New York Tribune, jsustains his platform
of universal* amnesty and universal suf
frage, and he will, therefore, stand firmly
by the party in Mississippi who have re
quested him to be their candid ite. ”
This is hard on Greeley. For, although ■
it is true, as stated by Judge Dent, that
Greeley has been, for the last twenty-four
months, clamoring in his paper for univer
sal suffrage and universal amnesty, he has
managed on all occasions to advise his par
ty friends to refuse to act upon this dogma
whenever the question has been sprung in
the Southern States. Judge Dent has now
taken the old reprobate at his word, and
insists that this trite dogma shall have a
practical enforcement in the caso of Mis
sissippi. Greeley is opposed to the can
didacy of Dent. He thinks that, like the
oanvsssof Walker in Virginia, and Senter
in Tennessee, it ’will injure the Radical j
party. Dent replies to this opposition of |
the Tribune by quoting the universal am- j
nesty and suffrage cry which Greeley has {
made so well known throughout the entire j
country. Verily, this is the "unkindest
cut of all."
Os Course.
Boast Butler writes a long letter to a
Virginia carpet-bagger, in which he insists
that under the requirements of the Reoon-
the test oath must be ad
ministered to the members elect of the Vir
ginia Legislature. This absolute require
ment can, he says, only be dispensed with
by act of Congress.
The Beast’s chief—tbe man who got off
the famous bottle story on the hero of Dutch
Gap—has committed himself to another
theory. General Grant long since decided
that the Reconstruction Acts do not re
quire the test oath to be taken. Who is
right-—Grant or Butler ? Who runs the
machine, called tbe Federal Government
—Grant or Butler ? Whose views will be
enforced in the organization of the Virginia
Legislature-Grant’s or Butler’s? We
shall see.
fiend the Military.
A riot occurred last Thursday morning
on the steamer Dubuque at or near Rock
Island, on the upper Mississippi, between
a few white raftsmen and the negro deck
hands, in which five or six negroes were
beaten to death or thrown into the river
and drowned. The affair grow out of an
insult offered by one of the blacks to the
raftsmen, which led to a general fight be
tween the two classes.
The telegraph Fails to inform us whether
Hiram Ulysses dispatched a force of blue
jackets with rifles and bayonets to protect
the loil blacks and enforce the laws. As
tho disorder occurred in a free State of
course he did—not.
Love's Pap.
There have been enrolled over one hun
dred negro applicants for apprenticeship
in the Government Printing Office in
Washington since the decision of the Chief
of the Bureau in their favor. Os this
.large number only nine were needed in the
office. Cuffee is an apt scholar —a strictly
imitative animal—and ho soon found that
Government pap was good for blacks as
well as whites. In fact, lie loves pap as
I strongly and yearns after it as ardently as
j your regular simon pure carpet-bagger.
Important Decision In a Hank Case.
During the present session of the Supe
rior Court of Muscogee county, the ease of
Wilcox, assignee of the Bauk of Columbus,
I vs. the Justices of the Inferior Court el
als., was argued before Judge Johnson,
who, by conseut of counsel, was authorized
to hear and determine upon the facts as
well as the law of the case. After full ar
\ gumeut the J udge rendered a decision on
all the points raised, one of which is of
such a character as to be of considerable
interest to a large class of our readers. We,
therefore, give it in full, in the language es
j the learned Judge:
2d. It is contended that the Stockhold
ers, who have presented bills, being per
sonally liable to a certain extent by the
: Charter for the redemption of the bills,
and having purchased the bills presented
in order to' discharge that liability, ought
not to be allowed to share in the distribu
tion of the fund. It is admitted in argu
ment that the stockholders may legally
and properly purchase bills on other per-
I sons who are not stockholders, but the
purchase in this case having been made
! under the circumstances and for the object
i before stated, the bills thereby became ex
tinguished in the hands of the stockhold
ers. and no longer cons itute a debt against
| the Bauk. In my opinion the stockhold
ers had a right to purchase bills, and in so
doing they violated no law, and that the
object sought to be accomplished : that is,
to defend themselves against their statu
! tory liability, can in no wise affect their
rights as bill-holders, that the bills have
not been extragutsuad and are subsisting
legal detts against the Bank.
How it Works.— General Seho'leld, of
Massachusetts, in a private letter, says
that if the liquor law is carried out to the
end as it has been begun, tbe Germans in
Boston, who have as an almost universal
thing heretofore voted the Republi
can ticket, will change front and stand
like a wall of adamant against the party.
Cotton Factors.—Attention is direct
ed to the card of Messrs. J. J. Pearce,
Butler A Cos. in this morning’s paper.
They will devote their personal attention
j to the storage and sale of cotton and other
| produce, and will make the usual cash ad
vances.
Hon. Isaac Toucey.
The death of this distinguished states
man and lawyer, which took place at his
residence in Hartford, Connecticut, on
Friday morning last, removes from among
us one of the few remaining patriots and
statesmen whose lives and public services
illumined and gave renown to the earlier
and better half of the present century.
Mr. Toucey was born in Newtown, Fair
field county, Connecticut, on tbe 'sth of
November, 1796, and was consequently
nearly seventy-three years of age.
He received a liberal education, and ear
ly in life was admitted to tbe Bar in Hart
ford, where he soon took a high rank in the
profession, and for many years stood at th#
head of the Bar of his State. In 1822 he
was appointed State Attorney for the city
and county of Hartford, which position be
held until the year 1835. He was elected
and served two terms in Congress, repre
senting the first district in the 24th and
25th Congress. In 1842 he was appointed
State Attorney and held that office for two
years. In 1846 he was elected Governor
of" the State, and in 1848 he was appointed
by Mr. Polk Attorney General of the
United States and retained his position in
the Cabinet until the close of Mr. Polk’s
administration, in 1849.
In 1850 Mr. Toucey was elected to the
State Senate, and in 1852 was chosen
Representative from Hartford in the
State Legislature. In the latter year he
was elected to the United States Senate
and served until 1857. fle was selected by
Mr. Buchanan as a member of his Cabinet
in 1857 and accepting the Portfolio of the
Navy, served in that capacity until the
close of Buchanan’s administration, in
1861, since which time he has tilled no
public office.
Soon after the commencement of the
war serious charges were made by the
party then in power against Governor
Toucey,.alleging that while Secretary of
the Navy during the last few months of
Mr. Buchanan’s administration he had
scattered the Navy all over the world, so as
to further the- prospects of the seceding
States. He was summoned to Washing
ton to appear before an investigating com
mittee of Congress, of which the notorious
John P. Hale was Chairman. In the
course of that investigation he proved the
charges against him to be false in every
particular and showed, from the records of
his Department, that during the Fall and
Winter before the Southern States seceded
the home squadron was larger, better mann
ed and equipped than it had ever been since
the close of the war of 1812—15, and that
he had called upon Congress for appropri
ations lbr the building of a class of vessels
specially designed for coast service.
Governor Toucey was, during his whole
life,a consistent and unflinching Democrat,
and when the war began, although he did
not believe in 1 Constitutional Secession,”
he steadfastly reiu.-oJ any affiliation with
the so-called Republican party. He op
posed all the unconstitutional acts of the
Federal Government during the war and in
dignantly denounced all that class of uncon
stitutional legislation which the Radicals
sought to justify as “war measures” de
manded by the condition of the country in
order to save the Union.
As we said in the opening of this brief
sketch Governor Toucey's death leaves be
hind but few of the master spirits whose
wisdom and transcendant abilities marked
tbe period in which lie was an actor and
honored participant—Clay and Calhoun and
Webster and Wright, Berrien, Polk, Buch
anan, Cass, Dallas, Van Buren, Benton,
Seymour, Woodbury and Adams—this
was the bright galaxy of American states
men which adorned our coansels when
Governor Toucey entered public life, and
whose lives and deeds constitute the proud
est trophies of our Federal Republican
Government. It is not too much to say
that the subject of this brief sketch was
worthy of the association with these great
and good men.
The Chinese Labor Question:
Some of out people ii Louisiana, Ten
nesse and other States, who are so enthu
siastic in advocating Chinese immigration,
would do well to turn this serious problem
over in their minds before rushing head
long into a movement which may be
fraught with disaster to their best interests.
Their fitness for laborers in our cotton,
tobaceo, sugar and rioe fields is taken for
granted, but we have no idea that the
Chinaman, if imported, will prove himself
half as effective or profitable as the Afri
can. There are grave and weighty objec
tions to Chinese immigration. They are
represented as being barbarous, filthy,
mean, treacherous, lazy and dishonest
characteristics not at all to be desired in
the laboring classes.
On the other hand a great deal has been
said in the presses in favor of the Chinese,
ot their industry, honesty, sobriety and
fitness for the South. But this question,
like others, has two sides to it, and we
now propose to give the other. A writer
in the New York Evening Post , who has
been discussing this matter, decides
against the Celestials and shows them up in
no]very favorable light. He claims that
the experience in California does
not furnish an adequate criterion by
which to judge of their usefulness in South
ern fields. He says they do very well
there where they are by steam within easy
reach of their homes, and where they are
governed by societies by which they are
protected in case of sickness or want. But
taken into the interior of the country, and
bound down to work for a mere pittance,
he says they would become lazy and bur
densome. In California, when their time
is out, they are nearly always without
means, and if they cannot return home be
come an intolerable nuisance. He gives
an account of the Sandwich Island ex
perience, which is not without its lesson.
He says :
“About 1852,Mr. Pierce Graves brought
two ship-loads of Chinese coolies to the
Sandwich Islands. They were, if my
memory serves me, picked up at Swatow.
and were to receive two dollars and a half
per month and a regularly stimulated
amount of rice. In five years they wtre
to be free. Mr. Graves, having previously
entered into an arrangement with a num
ber of planters on the island, brought on
, about four hundred coolies ; and for their
passages, including his own commission,
he received SIOO per head. From the
first, these men stated that they had been
deceived ; that they were engaged but for
one year, and that they were to have five
dollars per month and a free passage home
I if they elected to return at the expiration
: of their period of service. They never
worked willingly ; they gambled all night,
and consequently were ine ipable of work
ing well the next day. They were great
thieves and scamps generally. They never
: learned to speak English, but picked up a
J few words of the native language, and con
sequently made poor house servants.
They took great offeDce if scolded ; and if
as.-aulted, would tie knives to long poles
and attack their overseers. They seemed
!to have no tear of death. They filled the
prisons and (ffiain-gangs ; and a number
j of them were hanged for murder."
I This certainly looks very badly for the
I honesty and industry of John Chinaman,
and the following ‘from an eye-witness is
still worse. Tee San Francisco Herald
gives the following picture of domestic
felicity :
“There were lately three t thousand
Chinese in one house in thiil
—the old Globe HoteL The Hotel
is rented by Dr. Low Ci Jab, a
Chinaman, and it is supposed he has never
less than 2,000 persons lodging in it at one
time. Men, women and children, are hud
dled together without regard to sex, and
as many as ten or twelve perhaps different
families are to be found in one room. From
the filthy, smoky condition of the house,
the continual accumulation of foul air. and
the dreadtul stench arising from the yard,
which is directly in the centre of the build
ing. the wonder is that its occupants have
not become, before this, fit subjects for the
< coroner’s jury.
The Herald complains of the character
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1569.
[ of the Chinese, and of the attempts of
American demagogues to make politicians
of them:
j There is a great feeling of indignation
! in this community at the uuer disregard
not only of decency, but of all our law.-,
recently exhibited by the Chinese. It is
, horrible to reflect that politicians are. pur
suing a course that renders i. even possible
for these creatures to obtain a shale in our
Government —perhaps a controlling inter
est in our elections. For a long time past
they have exhibited a peaceful, almost a
submissive spirit, rarely committing any
graver offence than pilfering exposed
trifles; but suddenly they have changed
their conduct, and for months past the
| courts have been burthened with investi
gations of their crimes—investigations that
come to naught; for these people have no
regard for the sanctity of an oath, and per
jure themselves by wholesale. They have
introduced into our Christian city all the
barbarous practices of their native land ;
they do Dot hesitate to hatch conspiracies,
abduct and assassinate, and what is worse,
they employ an organized band of bravos to
slay their enemies or rivals, and guage the
reward according to the punishment that
may be inflicted upon them. A China
man can be hired to assassinate, even with
the death penalty staring him in the face,
and ean coolly stipulate for the price of his j
neck to be paid to his relatives in ease he
is hung.
Strikes.
Everybody and every class of people
seem to be on a strike in that most Godly
city of Gotham.
Here we have the tailors, the brick
masons, the bell makers, the plate print
ers, the pianoforte makers, the hoopskirt
makers—all striking in the same week.
Can Greeley explain as clearly the
reasons for these continuous strikes in his
own city, as he proves that high tariffs
produce low prices; that a tax of forty
dollars a ton on iron makes that article
cheeper to the consumer, 'and how a heavy
tax on coffee, sugar and salt benefits the
laboring classes of the country?
But, seriously, these strikes are becom
ing too common. The injury done to so
ciety no less than that sustained by em
ployers, demands that suitable legislation
should be enacted to suppress them altogeth
er. Happily for us in the South these dis
graceful affairs are of seldom occurrence.
Our higher type of civilization-our superior
organization of society—our just and
equitable laws will, we hope, long secure
us against such occurrences here.
University of Georgia.
The Annual Commencement—An Im
mense Crowd Present—The Hotel Ac
modations— Commencement Sermon-
Approaching Festivities, etc., etc.
Athens, August 1, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The annual commencement of the Uni
versity of Georgia commenced on Sunday
morning last at Athens. For the past few
years this time-honored institution has been
rapidly growing in favor with the parents
of Southern young men, and its annual
commencement has been of more than or
dinary interest. The University, under
its present able management, has achieved
so high a reputation that students from
all parts of the Southern States are enter
ed in its colleges to enjoy the benefit of
the numerous learned gentlemen and com
petent teachers who compose its corps of
instructors. At the last two commence
ments of the University, the parents and
friends of these students, together with a
large number of outsiders, drawn thither
by curiosity, have attended the. exercises
and, by their presence, greatly increased
the interest of the occasion. Owing to the
large number of students in atcendanoe up
on and the flourishing condition of tbe
University during the past twelve months,
it was expected that a larger number than
usual of strangers would be present to
witness the impressive ceremonies which
denote the termination of the Academic
year; but no one had any idea that so
many people would attend as are found as
sembled here to-day in the town.
From every city in the State, and
from most of the counties, there
has arrived an unprecedentedly large dele
gation of visitors—the hotel is filled
to suffocation, and yet the cry is still they
come.
From your own city, Augusta, especial
ly has an unusually large number of per
sons come to Athens within the past few
days. On last Saturday morning, before
tbe train on the Georgia Railroad had
started, it was soon filled to its utmost
capacity by Commencement visitors and
another large coa h had to bo added to the
regular train to supply the demand for
transportation. At Union Point, where
the Athens Branch road commences, the
visitors from Atlanta, Macon and that sec
tion of country were found in equally
strong force, and the two combined consti
tuted the largest number of passengers
that has come to Athens on a similar oc
casion, even within the memory of the
“oldest inhabitant.” On Sunday morning
many more from both up and down the road
reached this place; and on to-morrow
(Monday) morning additional heavy re
inforcements are expected.
It is almost needless to say that the hotel
accommodations of this ancient University
town have proved to be wholly insufficient
for the emergency and private houses are
In demand. The principal.—nay, we be
lieve, the only—hotel of Athens is crowded
at the present moment to such an extent
that it is almost unendurable, and yet its
managers speak of receiving more guests
to-morrow. The building, though a large
one, was long since occupied by fully- as
many guests as it was possible to accom
modate with any regard to comfort, and is
now packed from basement to garret with
unfortunate human beings who have been
compelled to seek a habitation within its
walls. Nearly every room —not even ex
cluding the attic —is filled with
bedsteads of the most primitive
structure, ranging in number from three
to fourteen. When your Reporter arrived
here, at daylight on Sunday morning, he
was told by the clerk that he would have
to be crowded a little, as the hotel was
pretty full of visitors. What was meant
by the expression “crowding a little,”
your reporter realized more fully when he
was ushered into a deserted store-room,
fitted up as a sleeping apartment, under
the recent pressure, in which he found
seven beds, arranged in rows as if in a hos
pital, with twelve persons as their occu
pants—each bed being furnished with one
mattress, one coarse cotton sheet, and a
piece ot faded calico resembling a barber’-
apron ! A second hotel is certainly need
ed here, at least during commencemen
week, for, despite the efforts of the pro’
prietor of the present one, it is utterly im
possible for so large a crowd to be properly
accommodated.
This morning, a little after nine, the
people commenced going to the chapel of
the University to hear the commencement
sermon, which was to be delivered at half
past ten o’clock. The street leading to the
campus was soon thronged with handsome
ly dressed ladies and gentlemen, on their
way to the chapel, while a large number of
handsome equipages dashed down the
thoroughfare and delivered their freight
at the gate of the campus. The chapel,
ere the hour for the opening of the exer
cises, was crowded to its utmost capacity,
and many persons were unable to gain ad- ,
mittance. A large majority of this au
dicnce, too, was composed of ladies, as the
sterner sex generally retired and gave their
seats to the former. On the high platform,
in front of the spectators, were seated the
Rev. Mr. Waddell, who was to deliver
the commencement sermon, the Chan
cellor and Professors of the University
of Georgia, and the Trustees of that
institution. The speaker is an
uncle of the Professor of the same name,
in this University, and at the present time
holds the light position of Chancellor of
the University of Mississippi. He is a
man of great talent and culture, and le
livered a most highly polished and impres
sive address —an address said by competent
judges, who heard it, to have been one of
the finest ever delivered on such an occa
sion. On to-morrow (Monday) morning
the Sophmores deliver their speeches and
on the evening of the same day, Colonel
Richard M. Johnston, of Baltimore,
formerly of Georgia, delivers the annual
literary address before the Phi Kappa
Society.
Three large entertaimhents are an
nounced for this week—a fancy party at
Mrs. Franklin's, a large ball at- the resi
dence of Hon. B. H. Hill, and a blow-out
at the hotel, the Newton House.
H. G. W.
An exchange says the prospect is dark
in the South. It is a neat euphemism for
negro suffrage.— Boston Pott,
1 out ATHENS fOBUESPO.NDE.NCE.
—
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
Commaicemen t Exercises lmmense
Crowd i^Attendance —The Preliminary
Arrangements The Exercises The
Young Orators Acquit themselves Credit
ably— Col. Johnston’s Oration —Speech
i of B. 11. Ilill, Jr., etc.
Athens, August 3d, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
In a former letter your correspondent
endeavored to convey some faint idea of
the immense crowd from all parts of the
country which,the commencement exer
| cises of the University of Georgia
! have attracted -to this place. On this
I morning the number of guests was still
: farther augmented by the arrival of tbe
night train on the “Athens branch,”
which brought many passengers, and
among them several from Augusta.
It was announced on the programme
that at half-past tea o’clock this morning
the exercises of the day were to be inaugu
rated by the declamation of the Sopho
mores in the College Chapel. Accordingly
by nine o’clock the streets were filled with
ladies and gentlemen hastening to secure
j eligible seats in the building^for hearing
! the performances. Venerable 1 pater and
; mater famiiias, accompanied, perhaps, by
a grown up daughter or two, were seen
liesurely wending their way to the scene of
the defined triumphs of the hope of the
house, Sophomorie Billy or Bobby. Now
they would see Itim reap the fruits of
those many studfoiG vigils and burnings of
the mid-night lamp, of which the darling
I boy had so eloquently written when ap
plying to the “paternal” fora double Xto
buy “ books and things.” They have
seen since t heir arrival here that Bobby is
looking pale and emaciated, and this fact
confirms the truth of his letters, for they
indignantly scout the idea that billiards and
“things,” or night visits to the young
ladies have anything to do with the sallow
face and inflamed eyes of their darling.
Along the streets, too, step with lordly
air the high-heeled, downy moustached,
small-caned, lofty beavered at and dandidly
dressed Collegians, escorting the many
beautiful young ladies who are here to the
chapel, or else stand they on the corner to
see the girls’ ankles as they alight from
the carriages in front of the campus.
At half-past ten o’clock the chapel was
full. The audience, composed principally
of young ladies, contained more of beauty
than your reporter hits ever seen before
congregated within the four walls of a
building; and I am proud to say that
Augusta was ably represented on this oc
casion-some of her fairest daughters be
ing present. At the heur appointed. Rev.
Dr. Lipscomb, Chancellor of the Universi
ty, entered the building followed by the
Trustees of the University, and the gentle
men who constitute the Faculty of the in
stitution. .The procession marched up the
ais'e and took their seats upon the plat
form—the Trustees sitting on the right and
left, and the Professors in the centre. The
deelaimers took seats just in front of the
platform. On one side of the platform
was curtained off a small room, furnished
with a looking-glass and bench, in which
each contestant gave his coat and hair the
last parting brush, as his name was called
by the venerable Chancellor. In the gal
lery was stationed a Brass Band, which
had been brought from Atlanta for the
occasion. As soon as the procession had
been seated, and a short prayer offer
ed by Rev. Mr. Waddell, of Mississippi,
tho Band treated the audience to a prelim
inary flourish from their instruments, and
the speaking began—the Chancellor an
nouncing first the name of Mr. H. C. Ans
ley, of Augusta—his subject being the
“Impeachment of Warren Hastings.”
The exercises then proceeded in the follow
ing order:
1. L. Brookes, D S, Barnwell Disk, S. C.
National Monument to Washington.
MUSIC.
T. 11. Cunningham, PK S, Anderson,S C.
Catalines Defiance.
R H Goetcliius, D S Columbus.
Hayne's Reply to' Webster.
MUSIC,
IT-Heard, Jr, P K S Augusta
Invective Against Corry.
MUSIC.
G A Howell, P K S Valdosta.
Address in Behalf of the Greeks.
J Hurt, D S Huntsville, Ala.
Pitt's Reply to Walpole.
MUSIC. .
PIIMell, Jr, PKS. Athens.
Irish Aliens.
A A Murphey, D 8 Barnesville.
Chatham on the American War.
MUSIC.
G G Randell. P K 8 Aeworth.
Verres. Denounced.
E G Simmons, D S Macon.
Right of England to Tax America.
MUSIC.
G W Warren, P|K S Louisville.
Mississippi Contested Election.
P K Yonge, P K S Pensacola, Fla.
Hamilcar to Hannibal.
’ihe speeches were all well delivered and
showed that the speakers, besides possess
ing very fair oratorical powers, had prepar
ed themselves with great care for the oc
casion. Especially was this the case with
Messrs. Heard, of Augusta, Goetchius, of
Columbus, and Warren, of Louisville.
These young men, with fine delivery, good
voices, plenty of animation and freedom
from that timidity which mars the best
efforts of so maDy young orators, made
speeches as fine as your Reporter ever
listened to on similar occasions. Their
want of timidity, however, did not cause
them to incline toward the opposite ex
treme, as is often the ease. There was ex
hibited by them no unnecessary ranting, no
“tearing a-passion to tatters,” no forced
emphasis placed on insignificant words;
but an easy, natural and graceful delivery;
a clearness of pronunciation; a correctness
of emphasis; a “sui’ing the action to the
word” which will give them high rank as
orators should* they ever, in afterlife, enter
the pulpit, the forum or the Senate. As
each young orator made his parting bow
he was sure to receive a round of applause
from his admiring comrades, while a show
erof bouquets attested the appreciation of
fairer friends among the audience.
There was one amusing feature of the
performance which your Reporter cannot
refrain from chronicling. As we have be
fore stated, on the right of the platform
which the deelaimers occupied were seated
j several grave and reverend seignors—Trus-
| tees of the University. As will have been
I seen by the programme nearly all of the
I speeches were of the “ fiery invective ”
I order—the style for which most collegians
| have a great partiality. In their har
angues their gestures must be directed at
someone, and the most convenient person
age for this purpose was a gray-haired,
benevolent-looking Trustee seated on their
! right. The manner in which this gentle
man was abused was frightful to contem
plate; he was impeached and held up to
| public scorn as the Tyrant of British
1 India; he was insulted and defied by the
rebel Cataline ; scarified as the “Gentle
man from Massachusetts,” by the fiery
| Hayne ; prosecuted by Cicero as the villian
Verres ; denounced in unmeasured terms
by Henry Grattan ; twitted with ignorance
and ridiculed by William Pitt on no less
than three separate occasions; and rebuk
ed and lectured in burning words by the
I eloquent and impassioned Shicl, for mak
■ ing some idle remark about “Irish Aliens.”
The ma'ignei gentleman, however, bore
this flood of vituperation with the greatest
equanimity and no difficulty occurred as
might have been expected. At the con
clnsion of the speeches the audience was
I dismissed until four an I a-half o’clock,
when the two medals were to be given to
j the successful speakers aod Colonel R. M.
Johnston would deliver an address to the
I Phi Kappa Society.
At the appointed hour a fuli hall was as
i sembled and the Phi. Kappa Society
marched in procession into the Chapel,
I headed by the Chancellor, the Professors
and Trustees and the orator of the day.
In the procession were borne two handsome
sik pennons with the emblems of the
I Society embroidered upon them. After
entering, the Trustees and Faculty resumed
their old positions while the members of
j the Society occupied seats prepared for
I them in front of the platform. After pray
er by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, the orator of
the day, Colooel R. M. Johnston, was in
truduced by the Chancellor. It would be
impossible to give anything like a report of
, the speech of this gentleman in an article
as brief as the present and I shall not at
tempt it; but content myself with a few
general remarks on the address. The
speech has beeD discussed a good deal here
since its delivery and from every one who
heard it does it receive the highest encomi
ums. It was, infact, just what might have
been expected from a gentleman of
Colonel Johnston’s talents and cultiva
tion. The selection of a subject proved
a most happy one —* The Dead of Geor
gia.” It was conceived in the best taste,
and delivered, though read, in the most
effective manner, it was a highly finish
ed classical oration—constituting itself a
perfect model ofits kind by the exceeding
beauty and purity of the language in it
throughout. The speaker gave a brief
but interesting biography of the many
great men whom Georgia has produced,
from Walton and Gwinnett, down to Fran
cis Bartow and the lamented Cobb. His
allusion to the “Great Chief Justice,”
Joseph Henry Lumpkin, and the young
statesman and gallant soldier, Thomas R.
R. Cobb, were graceful and touching in (he
extreme, and were received by the audience
with thunders of applause-
At the conclusion of his address,* Col.
Johnston read to the Sophomores, who
had declaimed in the morning, the report
of the committee, which had been appoint
ed to award the two medals. The Com
mitted reported that it had decided
Mr. I. T. Heard, Jr., of Augusta, to be
entitled to the first medal ; but that it had
been unable to determine which one of the
three deelaimers—Messrs. Warren, Hurt
or Simmons should receive the second, and
recommended that these three cast lots for
the medal. This was done, and Mr. Sim
mons, of Macon, proved to be the lucky
student winning the prize.
At eight o’clock last night, the Chapel
was again filled for the third time during
the twenty-four hours—on this occasion to
hear the speech of Mr. B. H. Hill,‘Jr., one
of the graduating class of the present year,
to the DemostheneaD Society. Mr. Hill’s
subject was “The Civilization of the South,
Past, Present and Future.” The speech
was well written, carefully prepared, and
finely delivered. Mr. Hill, at the com
mencement of his career in life, has nobly
won his spurs as an orator, and upon the
shoulders of the son seems to be descend
ing the mantle of an illustrious father.
Among those present at the exercises to
day, I noticed Hon. B. H. Hill, of Athens;
Hon. H. V. M. Miller, United States Sen
ator, of Rome ; lion. Iverson L. Harriss,
Ex-Judge of the Supreme Court, of Mil
ledgeville ; Gen. I’. M. B. Young, Repre
sentative in Congress from the Seventh
District, of Atlanta; and Rev. Mr. Wad
dell, Chancellor of the University of Geor
gia. On to-morrow Hon. Robert Toombs
is expected. H. G. W.
Letter from Putnaui County.
Katonton, Ga., Julj*2Bth, 1869.
Editors Chronicle A Sentinel:
By an accident, some says, by a want of
proper business enterprise others would
suggest, we have been long kept away from
direct business relations with the people of
Augusta. We contend that it has beeu
from no want of inclination o# our part,
and refer to the history of the past fifty
years to exhibit our good feeling toward
■the business men and clever people of your
representative city. Let the causes be
what they may the people of Putnam,
Jasper, Baldwin and Morgan can see no
reason why they should continue to ope
rate so much to their disadvantage, and
why they should longer be denied tho bene
fit of u direct railroad connection with the
city of Augusta. The question is now be
ing ireely disoussed, and there is no doubt
whatever but that a road conueoting
Eatonton with tho Georgia Railroad at
Madison will bebuih by the people,without a
dollar of “State aid,” if the Georgia Road
will adopt the road and let its stockholders
have the same advantages as accrue to the
stockholders of the Georgia Railrc ad. The
advantages of such a road to your city are
not conjectural, but made readily to a sumo
the form of estimates based upon products
annually produced in this productive s c
tion. With your permission, Messrs.
Editors, I will set these forth in a future
communication, and ask that your many
readers, who are interested, will attentive
ly consider the question as to whether the
Georgia Road should give the guarantee
we ask, viz : that stock in our Branch
road should be considered upon the same
footing as stock in the Georgia lload. All
we want is this guarantee and the road
will be built without a ghosffrom the halls
of our prodigal Legislature coming to dis
turb the dreams of any one in the shape of
“State aid.” Putnam
The llepWzlbah High School.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The commencement exorcises of this
school commenced on July the 25th, and
continued four days. The sermon was
preached by Rev. Dr. Landrum, of Savan
nah, who preached a good sermon—appro
priate—and delivered with effect. I did
not rdach Brothersvi’lc until Monday, so I
did not have the pleasure of hearing the
distinguished Divine.
On Monday, the 28th, began the exam
ination of the pupils before a large and in
telligent audience. The small girls and
boys were examined on this day. The ex
amination was of the most thorough and
trying character, and yet the girls and
boys proved themselves to be perfectly
familiar with the books upon which they
were examined. The same class entertain
ed the audience in the evening, the girls
by reading and the boys by dictionary, all
of whom did much credit to themselves
and their learned instructors.
On Tuesday the higher classes were ex
amined. It was surprising to see how,the
young ladies and gentlemen demonstrated,
with so much ease, tlio most difficult
propositions in plain and spherical trige
nometry and cqpic rectious, and how they
read and parsed in any portion of the
Latin and Greek books upon which they
were examined. The examination was a
very thorough and impartial one, conduct
ed in every instance by competent scholars
not connected with the school, whenever
the Principal or Assistant eonld get theta
to act as an examining eommittee, evinc
ing thereby a willingness on the part of
the teaohnrs for a fair test of proficiency
and advancement of the scholars. I might
mention several classes separately, but it
would be too prolix; suffice it to say that
the examination, as a whole, did credit to
all parties. The reading of the young
ladies and declamation of the young men
of the higher classes was excellent.
The prizes for reading were awarded to
Misses Dora Gresham and Fannie Malone.
Where all do so well it would seem invid
ious to single out one or two and leave? the
others unnoticed, and, as two has already
been noticed, I cannot forbear mentioning
the name of Alice Fryer, who read,
“What are we Girls to do?” “Avery
serious question,” as the Principal said
wfien he announced the subject. Asa
large portion of the audience were inter
ested in the answer, of course Miss Fryer
had good order and acquitted herself ad
mirably.
• The young men spoke with emphasis
and distinct enunciation, many of whom
exhibited traits which, if properly culti
vated, will elevate them at some day to a
rank among the orators of Georgia. The
prizes for superior declamation was award
ed to Alexander Carswell and Fred. J.
Rheney.
The entertainments given by the puflKs,
consisting of-ainging, charades, &c., under
the management of Miss Collins, added
much to the interest of the occasion. The
young ladies appeared on the stage with
their sweet smiles aod cheerful faces, many
of whom “seemed horned for no other pur
pose but to win hearts.”
Besides the performances of the pupils
there were other literary treats. An in
teresting and instructive lecture was read
by Prof. S. P. Sanford, of Mercer Univer
sity, on Tuesday night. The subject: “Al
manacs” —a very common subject even to
the common people, yet the manner in
which the Prof, treated it was well worth
the attention of the learned. Hoping to
see it in print soon I defer saying more
about it.
On Wednesday after the exercises of the
school, Colonel David E. Butler, of Madi
son, Ga., was introduced to the audience.
He addressed them eloquently. He had
no written address prepared but spoke
almost impromptu; he made no attempt to
soothe the ears and please the fancy of his
hearers by rounded sentences and imagina
tive flights, but earnestly presented the
facts in a plain, practical manner.
After the benediction the crowd dispers
ed to enjoy the hospital'! y so kindly ex
tended by the good people of Brotherville-
Now what can we say es the Hepzibah
High School? The teachers, Revs. W- L.
Kilpatriek aod W. H. Davis, are gentle
men of fine manners, of most engaging ap
pearances, fine scholars and teachers. Rev.
Mr. Kilpatriek, whose profound scholar
ship has long since been acknowledged by
his contemporaries fnd whose reputation
as a kind and successful teacher has extend
ed beyond the limits of the State, is well
worthy of the high position which he fills.
This school was established just before
the war, and was intended to be a perma
nent school. A pleasant little town has
Bprung up around it, the inhabitants of
which are deeply impressed with the
importance of educating their children.
Provided with a beautiful and com
modious edifice, possessing the ad
vantages of a very favorable location, re-
mote influences of dissipation and vice, it is
destined,if prdperly managed, to be an honor
to the founders, an ornament to the cim
munity and a nursery to foster and develope
the intellectual and moral faculties of the
youth of the country. In conclusion, I
will say that the above school is composed
of both sexes and that 98 pupils have been
iu attendance during the last term. It has
been the general opinion that mixed schools
would not prosper, but thus far the Ileph
zibah High School has hurled this idea to
the ground and stamped falsehood upon us
face. The zeal and pride which actuates
and inspires the girls to surpass and excel
the boys in perfect recitations, and withal
the boys to eclipse the girls, is an argu
ment powerful enough to convince even
the most incredulous that a mixed school
is not only equal, but superior to those
where the scholars are of the same sex.
If parents or guardian's desire to place
those who are entrusted to their care for
educating at a school in a beautiful town
far away from vice and temptation and sur
rounded by an intelligent, temperate and
moral community, let them give Hephzi
bah High School a trial.
Respectfully, Ernest.
OIK MACON LETTER.
FURTHER DEVELOPEMENTS OF
THE TURNER FORGERY CASK
Swayze Implicated ami Suspected of
Other Offences Agaiust the Laws.
The Reason Why Turner Was Discharged.
Tlie Dismissal of Officer McNeil.
CROP PROPECTS IN SOUTHWESTERN GEOR
GIA, 4C , AC., 4C.
Macon, Ga., August 2, 1869.
Chronicle Si Sentinel:
I promised you in my letter of the 27th
ult. that I would let your readers into a
little more of the secret history of the
Turner affair, and explain why it was that
the arrest and examination was so long
and so improperly delayed.
It will be recollected that when the
woman Harris was recalled to Atlanta
while in charge of Lieutenant Purcell, of
your police, on her way to Augusta for
examination she made a full and ex
plicit confession, in which she most posi
tively and unequivocaly implicated TurneJ
as the party from whom she obtained the
forged bills of the First National Bank of
New Jersey. The reason of this recall of
Marian Harris to Atlanta for examination
there, has neyer been accounted for. I
think that I ean explain it fully.
On the Friday afternoon that Lieut.
Purcell left Atlanta with' Harris it beoame
known to a low persons in the ring that
she had or would complicate Turner, on
her examination in Augusta. Bullock and
other friends of Turner determined to get
Harris out of Purcell’s possession forth*
purpose of influencing her to keep silent as
to Turner. This could be best accom
plished by having her brought Lack to At
lanta. Able counsel were employed and
some manipulations of United States of
ficials practiced and the result w as an order
by telegraph from the Acting U, 8. Mar
shal directed to Purcell at Union Point, on
the Georgia Railroad, directing him to re
turn immediately with his prisoner to At
lanta. When tho train reached Union
Point at 12 o’clock Friday night Purcell
found the telegram there, ordering him to
return. This he did. On the same night
notice was given by telegraph to Turner,
then in Macon, to go immediately to At
lanta and see the woman Harris. To de
ceive Purcell, TimMurpbyand others.who
were really anxious to have justice done
and the woman and Turner committed,
they were informed that Turner had been
arrested, and that he and the woman Har
ris would be examined and committed on
Monday.
In the meantime other United States
officials were placed in charge of Harris
and the process of manipulation began.
Sharp lawyers were taken to her in the
interest of Turner, and free arid full com
munication was allowed between them and
Harris. What was said and done at these
repeated interviews and consultations can
be readily divined by the results which fol
lowed.
The sham investigation was had and
Harris discharged on straw bail for $1,500.
Turner returned to Macon fully secure that
the storm had passed.
The arrest and examination of Harris
brought other-parties on the scene. An
official of the Treasury Department was
closely watching the proceedings, and be
came fully satisfied that both Harris and
Turner were legally guilty, and at his in
stance Harris was again arrested and com
mitted. He had made other discoveries
which were important, and which re
quired his presence, for some days, in Ma
oon.
Several months since some of the genu
ine plates in the Treasury Department at
Washington had been stolen. These were
the plates used for the printing of the
twenty-five cent and fifty cent postal cur
rency. As your readers are aware, the
signatures to these notes are engraved
with the balance of the note. The pos
session of the genuine plates would enable
the party having them to strike off real
genuine currency, in every respect exactly
like that issued by the Treasury Depart
ment. When these plates were stolen a
reward of ten thousand dollars was offered
by the Government for their recovery.
Suspicion fell at the time upon the horde
of carpet-baggers and scalawags then in
Washington from the South, urging fur
ther proscriptive measures against this
section. Detectives Were set to work, and
while pursuing the trail the arrest of Har
ris occurred. Developments growing out
of her trial led to the belief that Turner,
Swayze, and other Georgia Radicals were
the guilty parties. Efforts were redoubled
to secure the “plates.” It was soon dis
covered that a large quantity of new cur
rency of the 25 and 50 cent denomination
had been put in circulation during the
Spriug and early Summer in Macon. To
this city thesi detectives came imme
diately.
For the purpose of concealing their ob
ject and movements, it was necessary that
Turner’s fears should be quieted and that
the woman Harris should be closely con
fined and deprived of communica:ion with
outsiders and particularly with Turner
and Swayze, Blodgett and ethers .of the
Ring. Very soon evidence was obtained
which satisfied this officer that the“plates”
were in Maco» and had been used here.
A number of the bills issued here were
discovered, and hopes at one time indulged
that the place of secretion of the plates
fouud out. A large quantity of this cur
rency had been put in circulation by Swayze.
It was thought that the plates were worked
in his office and a trap had been set to
catch him and which promised success-
Just then Marian'Harris was again dis
charged from custody and the arrest of
Turner could no longer be delayed. The
matter was precipitated by this improper
discharge ot Harris, who, under the influ
ence, if not the positive directions of Bul
lock and Blodgett, was thus set free.
In the meantime Swayze had become
alarmed lest Turner should turn State’s
evidence against him, and to head Turner
off took sides in the prosecution against
the latter. He, doubtless, calculating that
if T. should blow it on him after he had
arrayed himself against Turner that his
story would be attributed to a spirit of re
venge and fall harmless to the ground.
I have the best reason for believing that
the postoffice and the Treasury departments
at Washington were satisfied of the guilt of
both Turner and Swayze, and that other
leading Radicals in the State known as the
Blodgett ring, were as deep in the mnd
as Turner and Swayze were in the mire.
The effect upon the Radical party of a con
viction of its most trusted leaders in this
State would have been terribly damaging.
Such a catastrophe would ruin the party in
the entire South and bring it into disgrace
in the North and West. Hence it was de
termined to relieve Turner and stop the in
vestigation against Swayze. To more sure
ly effect the latter purpose the detective
McNeil who was working up the case was
summarily dismissed from office. And it
is said and generally believed here that if
Commissioner Morrell bad withstood the
pressure brought to bear in Turner’s
favor and bound him over for trial he, too,
would have lost his place.
I could give you further and fuller par
ticulars but have not now time or space
to do so. I may resume subject in a
future letter if you desire it.
The reports received here from the crops
in Southwestern Georgia have been very
encouraging up to the commencement of
the present protracted spell of rainy, damp
weather. The continued rains of the last
ten or fifteen days have caused the plant
to shed more or less of its fruit, and grave
fears are entertained that the continued
moisture of the atmosphere will rapidly
develop the caterpillar. In some sections
rust has appeared, and on many planta
tions tbe crop has been seriously injured by
if. This is particularly true of the light
gray lands. The damage already done the
crop is serious, and if the rain continues
1 will be very disastrous,
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 32
The weather here has been quite cool
for several days. A large number of our
people are absent seeking health and pleas
ure at the different places of popular re
sort. Business is, nevertheless, quite
brisk, and our merchants are anticipating
a good Fall trade. Quis.
A
THE GEORGIA PRINTING COMPANY.
BLODGETT-BULLOCK VERSION.
RICH EXPOSURES,
THE RING BURSTED AND THE RINGERS
AFTER THE SPOILS. .
In the Superior Court Wednesday, Judge
William Gibson presiding, the injunction
case of Bullock, Blodgett, Conley and
others against E. 11. Pughe, Proprietor
of the Daily Press printing office of this
city, was called up. As we have alluded to
the progress of the case elsewhere and tfe
disposition of it before the Court so far, wc
print, in full, the bill of injunction :
Georgia, 7
Richmond County, j
To the Hon■ William Gibson , <£•<;.,
humbly complaining, show unto your
Honor your orators, Benjamin Conley,
Foster Blodgett, B- B. Bullock, John
Bowles, John E. Bryant, C. H. Prince, J.
M. Rice, D. G. Cotting, E. M. Bravton,
that on the day of July, 1867, E. H,
Pughe, then and now of said county, B. F,
Hall and your orators, Conley, Blodgett,
Bullock, Bowles, Bryant, Prince, Rice and
Cotting, formed an association in the city
of Augusta under the name of the
“GEORGIA PRINTING COMPANY,”
for the purpose of carrying on the business of
printing, binding, publishing, dealing in
printed matter and printing material and all
similar business, the terms of which Associ
ation will appearfrom written articles signed
by said parties, a copy of which is hereto
attached,marked “A,” which your orators
pray may be taken as a part of this bill,
with leave to refer thereto as often as may
be necessary. Afterward, to-wit: on the
27th June, 1868, the said Hall withdrew
from the Association and his interest, in it
became the property of your orator, Bray
ton. By the terms of Association the
business was to be controlled by a Board of
seven Trustees, who were to appoint a
Business Manager. Accordingly, your
orators, Blodgett, Bowles, Bryant, Bul
lock, Cotting, Conley and the said Pughe,
were chosen Trustees, and the said Pughe
was appointed Business Manager. At the
outset the property of the Association con
sisted of the presses, types, and other
printing and binding tools, stock and ma
terial of the office and bindery connected
with the Daily Press, a newspaper which
had been published in Augusta, and of the
tools, stock, and material of the Loyal
Georgian another newspaper published
in the same city. With this property and
with such stock and material as was pur
chased from time to time with the means of
the Association, the business contemplated
in the articles of association was carried
on in the city of Augusta from about the
Ist August, 1867. A daily newspaper
called the National Republican was pub
lished from that date until Ist January,
1869. A weekly newipaper called the
Loyal Georgian was published until near
ly the same time. A large amount ol job
printing, book-bindiDg, and other similar
business was done. At first a little of tho
financial business of the concern was
transacted by your orator Bowles who had
been appointed Treasurer ;
|PUGHE USURPS THE MANAGEMENT.]
but the said Pughe, in his character of
Business Manager, soon absorbed the ac
tual control of the business. The other
Trustees had confidence in his business
capacity, and were, themselves, often ab
sent from Augusta, and, therefore, suffer
ed him to go on in the business without
exercising that supervision which was re
quired of them in ‘ the articles. Ho em
ployed assistants, purchased material,
stock, printing and binding implements
and machinery, paid and received money
and kept accounts, which he pretended
were full. For several months after the
business was commenced, he constantly
represented it as prosperous. About Ist
January, 1868, he assured some of your
orators that the concern Rad already clear
ed SII,OOO beyond expenses. By these
representations your orators were lulled in
to the belief that the said Pughe was man
aging the business with skill and honesty,
i hey abstained from any keen scrutiny
into the business, and gave only a slight
attention to it, supposing that their inter
ests were safe in his hands. But they
have discovered that from an early stage
of the business he was faithless to his en
gagements with them, and was taking ad
vantage of their generous confidence to de
fraud them of their just rights.
AND ABUSES THEIR “GENEROUS CONFI
DENCE.”
Abusmg his office of Business Manager
he involved tbe Association in debts, which
are yet unpaid, though he has had in his
hands ample means to pay them from mo
neys justly , belonging to the Company.
With the funds of the Company he paid
his individual debts, among others a debt
to Joseph Walker for paper and interest
on a debt to Harmon Rowley. With funds
of the Company he paid the whole rent of
the building in which the business was car
ried on, though more than one half of the
building was used for his family residence
and for a store carried on by his wife.
With the funds of the Company he paid
for the gas and fuel used in the whole
building, comprising what was used solely
by himself and his family. He employed
in his individual business persons who were
in the employment and pay of the Com
pany. On several occasions ho got money
from some of your orators, under the pre
tence that it was needed to pay off the
hands, when, in fact, there was money of
the Company in his possession sufficient
for the purpose. He received money for
the work done by the Company, for whioh
he never charged himself on the book*.
After the first lew weeks of the business
he caused the bank account of the Com
pany to be kept in his individual name in
order to prevent identification of the mo
neys of the Company and ascertainment
of their amount. He instructed the
book-keeper of the Company to give no
information tq the members about the
business, and endeavored to conceal from
the book-keeper who the members were.
In March, 1868, he denied the existence
of the Company, and spoke oftho property
and business as being solely his own; but
as he continued afterward to make con
tracts and do the business in the name of
the Company, those of your orators who
heard him, thought it to be a thoughtless
and petulant remark, made for the purpose
of more effectual oontrol over persons em
ployed in the business. Afterward, to
wit, about Ist June, 1868, the said Pughe
substituted his name for that of the Com
pany upon the sign over the door of the
office. About the same time he put his
own name on the bill heads in place of
the Company, and ceased to insert the
name of the Company as publisher of the
National Republican.
THE EYES OF BULLOCK 4 CO. OPENED.
Your orators, through inattention to
these -charges at the time, now see that
they were made in pursuance of a fraudu
lent scheme to possess himself of the joint
property, and to exclude them from their
interest in it. But they were not fully
convinced of his purposes until on the Ist
January, 1869, he discontinued the publi
cation of the National Republican and
commenced the publication, in his own
name, of anothfer paper called the Press,
first as a daily paper and afterward as a
weekly, which change was made without
the consent or approbation of your orators,
cr of any of them, and without consulta
tion with them, though the implements,
types and material of the Company have
been, and still are, used to issue the Press.
The conduct of said Pughe has induced
your orators to apply for relief to this
Honorable Court and as grounds for its ac
tion in the premises, they submit tho fol
lowing statement in addition to those
hereinbefore made.
The property of the Company at the
commencement of the business consisted of
presses, types, imposing stones, paper,
binding tools and all other implements,
machinery and material ol a printing office
and bindery. Additions were made to
this from time to time by purchases with
the money or credit of the Company, so
that the whole property of the Company
at the time when the said Pughe discarded
the name of the Company in the business,
about Ist June, 1868, was worth, at least,
$25,000 exclusive of debts due to it. Os
this property the said Pughe had had the
exclusive use and enjoyment from that
date up to tne present lime, worth
dollars per month, besides what he has
consumed of the stock and material, worth
dollars. The said property is owned
among the members of the Association,
to-wit: There being in all 750 shares, there
belong to your orator Conley, 43 shares ;
Bryant, 43 ; Prince, 43 ; Brayton, 43 ;
Bullock, 64) ; Rice, 67 ; Blodgett, 86 ;
Bowles, 160) ; and to Pughe, 200—total,
750. There are debts outstanding against
the Company, the aniouDt of which they
are unable to state for want of access to
the books. They know of large sums due
to individual members of the Association
and of two notes to tbs Bath Paper Mills
company given by Pughe, as Business
Manager, dated March 25th, 1868, one
sl*o3o 43-100 and the other for sl,-
030 42-100, on which notes suit has
been brought in the Superior Court of
Richmond county to June Term, 1869.
There are some debts due to the Company,
but your orators cannot state the amount
for want of access to the books.
A FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE CHARGED.
1 our orators further show that the said
E. H. Pughe, in order more effectually to
defraud orators, and to escape from the
liability of the debts of the Company, on
the 14th January, 1868, made a secret
conveyance of all his property to his wife,
Eliza Pughe, and her child, through one
K. L. Mellvaine as her trustee, whose
trusteeship was soon transferred to the
said Pughe himself. In this conveyance
the before described property of the Com
pany is expressly included, except th> part
which had come from the Loyal Georgian.
Besides the intention manifest on the face
of t he conveyance to defraud your orators
by disposing of their property, it has the
effect of making the said Pughe entirely
insolvent, unless his creditors can succeed
in reaching the conveyed property A
copy of said conveyance taken from the
records of deeds in the office of the Clerk
of Richmond Superior Court is hereto an
nexed, marked “B,” with leave of refer
ence’prayed. They further show that the
conduct of the said Pughe has long since
effected a practical dissolution of the Asso
ciation; that they and he cannot co-operate
for the common good; that the interest of
all parties require that the concern be
formally closed and settled up. Your ora
tors further show that they have made re
peated efforts to ascertain the con
dition of the business of the Compa
ny, and have been always thwarted
in t heir efforts by the said Pughe. He has
refused to let them examine the books, ex
cept at one time in the latter part of 1868,
when lie consented that an examination
might be made by David Porter, selected
by your orators, and W. li. Schirmer, se
lected by himself. When Messrs. Porter
and Schirmer had completed their exami
nation and were about to add up their bal
ance sheet, the said Pughe snatched away
tbe books and balance sheet and thus pre
vented the finishing of the work. Your
orators further show that an examination
of the books is necessary to enable them to
assert their claims with sufficient fullness.
They also show that tbe property of tbe
Company is unsafe in the hands ofthg said
Pughe; that he is using it for his private
purposes, wearing out and consuming it,
and has no visible property out of which
they can get indemnity, except what is con
veyed to his wife as hereinbefore shown.
A statement of the property of the Com
pany, now in his hands, is hn-eto attached,
marked “B,”
AN INJUNCTION PRAYED,
with reference prayed. All the afore
mentioned acts of the said Pughe are
contrary to equity and tend to wrong
and oppression of your orators; and foras
much as they can have adequate relief ouly
in a Court, of Equity. To the end, there
fore, that the affairs of the said Associa
tion may be closed and the Association may
be formally dissolved; that a full and accu
rate account of the business may be taken;
'li it the books of the Company be pro
diced and placed in the custody of some
pioper person and be accessible to your
orators; that the property of the
concern may be sold and the proceeds
applied, first to the payment of the debts
of the Association, and then (if any be
left) be distributed among the members
according to their respective interests;
that a receiver may be appointed by your
Honor to take possession of and sell the
property, to collect the debts due to, and
pay tbe debts due by the Association, to
take and hold the books subject to the in
spection of all the parties iu interest; that
the said Pughe may be compelled to pay
your orators whatever upon a full account
ing shall appear to be due them from him
upon the matters of the Association, and
for the use of the joint property both in
dividually and as trustee of his wife ; that
lie may be restrained from possessing or
using or in any manner interfering of the
concern herein described. And tliat your
orators may have such other and further
relief as the nature of their case may re
quire and to the Court shall seem meet.
May it please your Honor to grant unto
your orators the State’s writ of injunction
directed to the said E. H. Pughe, indi
vidually and as Trustee for his wife Eliza
Pughe, restraining him from using, pos
sessing or in any manner interfering with
the property of the said Association herein
described ; also, that a process appointing
a Receiver to take possession of and sell
the -aid property,to collect the debts due to
and to pay the debts due by the said As
- ; to take and hold the hooks of
the Association subject to the inspection of
your orators and the said Pughe and their
counsel; and also that the State’s writ of
subpoena be issued, &c.
Amos T. Akerman, Sol. for Compl’ts.
“A.”— ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE
GEORGIA PRINTING COMPANY.
These Presents witness : That we, Foster
Blodgett. John Bowles, U B Bullock, J E
Bryant, D G Gotting, Benj Conley, B F
Hall, E H Pughe, C II Prince, J M Rice,
for ourselves, our associates and successors,
have associated for the purpose of carrying
on the business of printing, binding, pub
lishing and dealing in printed matter and
material, and all business similar in kind
to that above described in conformity with
the agreements and other conditions herein
contained, and for the purpose of enabling
us to carry on the business more advantage
ously to the public, and more satisfactorily
to ourselves, other persons, or corporations
or companies, who shall contribute to the
joint property of this Association, or shall
be admitted toacquiro interest in the busi
ness of this Association, shall be admitted
to participate according to the stipulations
herein contained. In relation to the
premises it is provided and agreed in form
and manner following, viz :
First, The property of this Association
shail be divided into 1,000 shares of the
nominal value of SIOO each, and of the
1,000 shares, 750 shall be divided among
these original associates au they may here
or hereafter subscribe for, and 250 shares
shall be held in trust by the trustees for
the interest and be used or disposed of for
the benefit of this association. The shares
shall f>e represented by proper certificates,
stating among other things the number
of shares which the holder thereof is en
titled to; that the holder thereof is entitled
to all the benefits and subject to all the
obligations of an original signer of these
articles of association, resting on the num
ber of shares represented by such certifi
cate. The certificate shall be properly
authenticated by the signatures of the
President and Secretary of the Association,
and the association shall not be liable on
any certificate not properly issued. The
Secretary shall register every certificate
and the number of shares represented
thereby, and take proper receipts therefor
at the time of issue.
Second. The name of the Association
shall be the Georgia Printing Company,,
and shall continue for fourteen years from
July Ist, 1867, unless sooner dissolved by
law in accordance with the provisions of
these artiolos. The business of this Associa
tion may be carried on at tbe option and
discretion of tho Board of Trustees in the
name of suoh person or persons as are now
or may be established and shall be con
ducted, managed or controlled by a Hoard
of I rusteos, composed of seven persons,
shareholders in this Association, who shall
have supreme control of the management
of the property and business of this Asso
ciation, and shall have full power to do
all needful acts and things necessary for
tho maintenance of its organization, the
protection of its interests and the proper
conduct of its business; and, the first
Board of Trustees shall consist of the fol
lowing named persons: Foster Blodgett,
R B Bullock, J E Bryant, John Bowles,
E if Pugbe, B Conley and 1) G Getting,
Who shall hold their office until their suc
cessors are elected by tho shareholders.
This Board shall have power to fill any
vacancy in their number which may occur
from resignation or by death, and it shail
be their duty to appoi at a Secretary and
Treasurer, a Business Manager and such
other officials and agents as may be neces
sary, and to fix their compensation. At
the first meeting the Board shall elect one
of their number President, who shall be
President of the Association and of this
Board. A majority of the Board shall con
stitute a quorum and a majority present
shall decide.
Third. No person, firm or corporation,
entitled to any shares in this Association
shall transfer his, her or their interest, in
whole or in part, by a transfer on the
books of this Association, in person or by
proxy, to any person, firm or corporation,
unless approved by not less than four of the
Trustees. In case upon the proposed sale
or transfer of any shares, no four Trustees
shall approve of the proposed vendee be
coming the owner of said shares, the owner
may transfer said shares assessed by the
President and other members of the B >ard
under oath, and the value agreed upoa by