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any three of the said members shall be held
as the true cash value,and the said Trustees
shall take the shares at such value for the
Association and pay for the same within
ten days thereafter or authorise the trans
fer to the vendee first rejected.
Fourth. The property and effects of this ;
Association are committed to the charge or
custody, whether property in possession, :
things in action or securities, shall be in
the eiclusive possession of the Trustees.
Fifth. Meetings of shareholders shall be
held upon the call of the Board of Trustees
or at the request of three-fourths of the j
capital stock, after ten days’ notice, and |
not ntliprviflp
Sixth. The affairs and interests of this
Association may be closed up, and its busi
ness suspended or stopped by an unani
mous vote of a full Board or by a vote of
three-fourths of the stock.
In witness whereof, the said original as- j
soeiates and parties to these articles of i
agreement, have hereunto set their hands
and seals in duplicate with the number of
shares subscribed for set apposite their
respective names.
Foster Blodgett,
J Bowles,
K B Bullock,
J E Bryant,
Benj. Conley,
D G Cotttno,
E H Pcohe,
C H Prince,
B F Hall,
J M Kice.
l[“C.”l
PROPERTY OF THE GEORGIA PRINTING
COMPANY NOW IN OFFICE OF THE
PRESS:
S Printing Presses,
5 Imposing Stones,
Newspaper and Job Type, all in the
office,
Complete Binding Tools and Binding
materials.
Ruling Machine,
Cutting Machine,
The Newspaper Paper,
Book Baker,
Card Paper,
Flat Paper,
Calendared Paper.
Glazed Paper,
The office and binding furniture, mate
rial, tools, paper, etc., in said office.
f iOHK’g ASBWKK TO THE BI'SY B’s
RICH EXPOSURES,
THE KINO BCRBTED AND THE RINGERS
AFTER THE SPOILS.
State of Georgia, I
Richmond County, j
The answer of E. H. Pughe, Respond
ent, to tho Bill of complaint of Foster
Blodgett, Benjamin Conley and other
complainants. _
The respondent auswering says: That
in July, 1867, this respondent, and for
some time previous to that period, had
been c'ugaged in printing, publishing and
book-binding on his own account, in
the city of Augusta, Goorgia, where his
industry and enterprise had succeeded in
building up a prosperous business in those
lines. He had in use at that time, in tho
transaction of said business, in its various
departments, and as his own property, the
printing presses,imposing stones,newspaper
and job type, and other apparatus and im
plements of such business, which are now
claimed by complainants, except so far as
their claim applies to similar property be
longing to the Loyal Georgian , a news
paper also published at that time in the
city of Augusta. The property of said
Loyal Georgian at that time, and now in
cluded in said claims of complainants con
sisted and consists of one printing press
worth about $1,200, and type and other
material worth about SBOO.
BULLOCK Sl CO. WANT AN ORGAN.
In Haul month of July tho complainants
(with the exception of Brayton,. who
was not at that time associated with the
other complainants) being members of a
political party just then organized in Geor
gia, and having in several conferences
agreed upon a division of such offices in the
gift of that party as they wished to havo,
desired to own and control a newspaper
wherewith to forward their schemes; and
in this view approached this respondent,
who in addition to other business carried
on by him, published a daily newspaper
called the Press.
AND PROMISE MOUNTAINS AND MARVELS
TO PUGHE.
To induce this respondent to make an
arrangement by which bis office and news
paper should be used as complainants de
sired, many representations of the pecunia
ry advantages to rosult to this respondent
wore made to him. Among other things
the complainants Bryant anu Prince repre
sented to this respondent that thore was
due the Loyal Georgian by the United
States Government for printing the laws
the sum of $1,200, which claim was to be
come the property of the proposed Com
pany. They further stated that the publi
cation of the laws of the United States was
to bo transferred to the paper to be pub
lished by tho new Association, and the price
oi' such publication was to be $4 per page
instead of $2 as previously Complainant
Bowles assured this respondent that he
had already engaged several hundred
shares of tbe stock of the proposed Com
pany to be purchased by various persons.
BOWLES PROMISES GEORGIA RAILROAD
PATRONAGE.
110 also told this respondent that a per
son of influence in the Georgia Railroad &
Hanking Company had agreed to take live
shares of the stoek and that ho (Bowles)
could bring the large and valuable patron
age of said Railroad Company in printing
and stationery to the Company of which
he sought to indueo this respondent to be
come a member, lie also undertook to
lighten the expense of the enterprise by
paying the board in Augusta of the editor,
the complainant, Cotting. The complain
ant, liice, assured this respondent that he
knew of a great many advertisements
which would bo profitable to the proposed
paper, which he could get simply by ask
ing for them, and which he would procure.
THE GAY DECEIVER, BOLLOCK.
All of complainants, but especially com
plainant Bullock, persuaded this respond
ent that the stock ot the Company would
bo very valuable, and Bullock represented
to him that $25,000 of surplus stock re
maining after the division of 750 shares
among complainants and this respondent,
would bo sold for cash and out of the pro
ceeds this respondent was to be paid for
(ho presses, type, tools and materials then
in his offioe and proposed to be used in the
ucw Association.
THE HJNNOI'ENT UENGLISHMAN HACCEPTS
THE HOFFER.
And this respondent would show that
listening to theso representations, trusting
to their truthfulness, and believing that
the persons who made them, proposed
simply and in good faith to outer into an
advantageous bugiucss arrangement, con
sented to associate with complainants for
that purpose; and it is true, as alleged in
complainants’ bill that articles ot associa
tion were drawn up by complainant, Bul
lock, and signed bv complainants, with the
exception of complainant Brayton, by B.
F. Hall and this respondent. Said pro
posed association being intended to be in
the nature of a close corporation, the first
Board of Directors or Trustees, as is usual
in such cases, were named in the articles
themselves and the eomplaiuants, Bullock,
Blodgett Bowles, Bryant, Conley,
Cotting and this respondent were the per
sons so designated. To this extent the al
legation in complainant’s bill that said
named eomplaiuants and this respondent
“were chosen Trustees,” is true; but such
allegation is not true in thesenae that these
Trustees were chosen on any formal organ
ization of the Company.
THE LOYAL GEORGIAN.
Answering so much of complainants'
bill as alleges that the tools, stock and ma
terial of the Loyal Georgian was a part of
the property of the Georgia Panting
Company, respondent says that said Loyal
Georgian was a weekly newspaper, pub
lished in the city of Augusta, by Benjamin
F. Hall and the complainants, except Bray
ton. Said newspaper was in a languishing
condition, wholly unable to sustain itself,
or to answer the purposes of complainants
in having a newspaper —said Loyal Gear
gian having a very small circulation. Such
tools, stock and material as belonged to its
office were transferred to the proposed place
of business of the Georgia Printing Com
pany. Respondent is informed, and be
lieves, that said Loyal Georgian newspa
per was owned by a joint stock company,
composed principally of negroes, and that
there never was any action taken by any
authorized body of said stockholders, trans
lerring their property to the Georgia
Printing Company. In view of these
tacts respondent can neither positively as
sent to or deny the allegation in complain
ants’ bill that the stock, tools and mate
rial of the Loyal Georgian were, at the
outset, the property of the Georgia
Printing Company; but for the reasons
above slated, as weil as because respond
ent holds, as hereinafter explained, that
.-aid Georgia Printing Company never ex
isted, he believes that said tools, stock and
materia! never were the property of said
pretended Georgia Printing Company.
Said tools, stock and material are now,
however, in the office of this respondent,
he sets up no claim to them as his own ab
solute property, and holds them subject
only to the adjustment of hisclaims against
those parties, by whom said stoek, tools
and material are claimed.
PUGHS REPUDIATES THE PARTNERSHIP.
Respondent answering to so much of
eouiplainauts’ Bill as alleges that the
presses, type, printing and binding tools,
stock and material of the office and bind
ery connected with the Daily Pees newß
p-tiier, says he is not aware what period of
lituc is meant by the expression "at the
ouua,” but be utterly denies- (hat said
property was at any time or has ever bcetf
the property of any Georgia Printing
Company. Said property was purchased
by respondent in 1865 from one J. T-
Pater-on and continued to be respondent’s
until conveyed by him to a trustee for the
benefit of his wife and child by deed dated
Jan 14th, 1868. From the time of said
purchase to the date of said alienation to
a trustee, respondent has not in any way
parted with any of his right, title, or in
terest therein. This respondent admits
that the transfer of said property to the
Georgia Printing Company was contem
plated by complainants and this respond
ent, but he never, for a moment, expected
to give up this valuable property without
consideration. The stock of the Company
was to be divided into 1,000 shares of the
par value of SIOO each. Os these it was
understood that 750 were to be distributed
arooDg the original stockholders and 250
A TRAP SET FOR SUCKERS.
shares were to be sold outside the Company
to raise money, and out of the proceeds of
the sale of this surplus stock, respondent
was to be paid for the property appertain
ing to the Daily Press newspaper, which
property was assessed at $12,000. He
was assured of this in reply to his question,
How he was to be paid for his office ? by
complainants, Bullock and Blodgett,
who also promised him that the surplus
stock should be speedily sold, and the re
quisite amount of money raised. If it is
claimed by complainants that 200 shares
of stock assigned to this respondent were
in consideration of the transfer oi his office
and property of the Prist to the Georgia
Printing Company, he denies the truth
of such allegation, and says that stock was
issued to the members of such proposed
Company without reference to any sub
scription of money or property to such pro
posed Company, and generally without any
consideration whatever. Indeed, there
never was aDy assessment upon the stock
holders or one cent paid into the Company
by any one as a stockholder.
BULLOCK k CO.’S ARITHMETIC.
The stock was not received in payment
of respondent’s property, nor was it in
tended by respondent or pretended by
complainants to be so received. It was not
issued upon any fixed basis and according
to the amount paid in by the person to
whom it was issued. Thus 550 shares in
the aggregate were issued to complainants,
but these stockholders put nothing into the
Company, except so far as they may have
transferred to it the property of the Loyal
Georgian • Said property of the Loyal
Georgian, including the hereinbefore men
tioned claim on the Government for print
ing valued at $1,200, but worth only in
fact about $225, was assessed at $6,000.
The property of the Daily Press, owned by
this respondent, was assessed at $12,000,
yet to him were issued only 200 shares of
stock. If stock had been issued on the
basis of money or property subscribed to
the proposed Company, this respondent
should have received SUO shares, and com
plainants, as owners of the Loyal Geor
gian, should Have taken only 200 shares.
But in truth and in fact, the stock was not
issued on such basis, or on any ascertained
basis, hut the parties really controlling, to
wit: Bryant, Blodgett, Bullock, Conley
and Prince never having regarded the
scheme as a purely or primarily a busi
ness enterprise, but as the means of for
warding their political designs, distributed
the stock loosely, upon no system what
ever.
bullock’s generosity.
Indeed, from time to time Bullock would
take upon himself to send scrip for the
stock to persons in position, whom he
wished to influence, without receiving any
pecuniary consideration for the same, as
for instance 10 shares to E. M- Hulbert as
shown by said Bullock’s letter hereunto
annexed, maiked exhibit “A,” with leave
of reference prayed ; 10 shares to D. H.
Wilcox and 10 to D, 11. Vanßuren, as
shown by the stock book of the Georgia
Printing Company— the last two named,
however, declined to become recipients of
his bounty. Respondent submits that said
Bullock by said dealings with the stock,
s, owed not only that he eared nothing tor
tile r cilia: ions of the proposed Company,
but ulvythai he did not regard said shares
as rcaliy the representatives of property.
PUGHE CHARGES FRAUD ON THE BUSY B.’S.
But if it is still claimed that these shares
are really shares in the capital of the
Company, and that this respondent parted
with his property in the Daily Press in
consideration of 200 of said shares, then
this respondent says that a fraud was
practiced upon him by the complainants
in this: that complainants upon property
contributed by them, assessed at only
$6,000,.t00k for themselves 550 shares of
the stock, while upon property assessed at
$12,000, emtributeu by this respondent,
they allowed to him only 200 shares, thus
making their own stock cost them between,
10 and i 1 cents in the dollar, and respond
ent’s stock to cost him 60 cents in the
dollar. This comparative post of stock is
without reference, also, to the very val
uable contributions made to the Associa
tion in the gord will of his printing, bind
ery and stationery business, and in the es
tablished circulation of his paper. That it
was the purpose irud intention of the com
plainants to perpetrate this fraud upon re
spondent is made manifest by a paper in
complainant Bullock’s handwriting (a copy
of which marked B, is annexed with leave
of referenoe prayed) prepared for the in
spection and guidance of himself and the
other complainants (except complainant
Brayton) and meant to be kept from the
knowledge of this respondent, but foi
tunatoly by accident coming into possession
of this respondent, and now held by him.
And respondent says that even if it had
been his purpose to part with his property
in consideration of 200 shares of -took,
which, however, he wholly deniqa, to be
issued fairly to him as to other stockhold
ers, this fraudulent valuation of the stock
to his great injury could not have been the
consideration by whieh complainants ac
quired any title.
THE BUSY b’s GO BACK ON PUGHE.
Further answering, this respondent says
that the inducements offered to him and
urged upon him to get him to join the
complainants in their proposed business
and to give them the benefit of an exten
sive custom then enjoyed by respondent in
the sort of business contemplated were
willful misrepresentations and have all
failed.
NO SALARY.
Not one dollar of the salary of $3,000
which was to have been respondent’s, as
Business Manager, was ever paid.
NO GOVERNMENT PAP.
The sum represented to be $1,200 by
Bryant and Prince, and to be due by the
Government for printing was, in fact, only
$452, and this small sum was reduced to
one-half on account of the errors of the
uianagers of the Loyal Georgians publish
ing matter which tire Government did not
undertake to pay for.
NO GEORGIA R. R. PATRONAGE.
Complainant, Bowles, never sold the
stock which he had represented he had en
gaged, nor did he bring to the office the
patronage of the Georgia Railroad, which
he had undertaken to do. The increased
price of printing the public laws, which
complainants, Bryant and Prince, pretend
ed to have secured, was never obtained.
NO ADVERTISEMENTS.
Complainant, Rice, never procured any
of the many profitable advertisements
which he pretended to control. He sent
to tho office only two or three, and in these
two or three instances the advertisers re
pudiated his agency, and the advertise
men's were never paid for.
NO SUCKERS BITE.
None of the stock which all of the oorn
plainants, but especially Bullock, assured
this respondent would be speedily sold,
was ever disposed of. So that respondent
received nothing for changing the publica
tion of bis flourishing paper, the Press,
and giving up his prosperous business, but
the disappointments brought about by the
misrepresentations of the complainants.
And respondent says that not only was no
transfer of his property, not only was a
fraud practiced upon him in the distribu
tion of stoek, but also ho was made the
victim of false and deceitful representa
tions. Further, answering all parts of
complainants' bill wherein they claim the
property of the Daily Press newspaper as
belonging to the Georgia Printing Com
pany, this respondent says that complain
ants never set up any such claim till the
tiiiDg of this bill of complaint. On the
contrary, they have most, if not all of
them, expressly, or impliedly, admitted
that such was not the faet.
THE ATLANTA COUNCIL.
Thus, in July, 1868, in a meeting in At
lanta. in which were present complainants,
Bu'l vk, Blodgett, Bryant, Cotting and
tuU respondent, said named complainants
essayed to induce this respondent to con
sent to have the Georgia Printing Com
pany incorporated, a consent which would
have been wholly immaterial—this re
spondent being in a minority of one—if it
had not been recognized, as it was in that
meeting, that nothing had ever been done
to divest him of the ownership and control
of the office. Upon failure to obtain the
consent of respondent, who expressly with
held his oonsent because complainant had
failed to pay for his office and make good
the losses incurred in the business, the
scheme of incorporation, though greatly
desired by oom plain ants.- was abandoned.
As long ago as 10th December, 1867,
respondent, in a letter (a copy of which
marked “C” is annexed, with leave of ref
erence prayed), asserted* to complainant
Cotting, then in communication with the
rest of complainants, his right to stop the
publication of the National Republican,
which assertion was acquiesced in.
bullock’s and blodgett's confessions.
■ln New York, in December, 1868, com
plainant Blodgett told this respondent that
he considered the Georgia Pinting Com
pany as no Company at all ; that the pur
pose for which the organization was origin
ally intended had been obtained , that
was primarily a political machine, intend
ed for the purpose of forwarding the
schemes of the complainants in obtaining
political offices ; that that object had been
reached in every case except his own ;
that he considered the Company at an end,
and if the respondent thought the shares
worth anything respondent was welcome
to his. Complainant Bullock has, on sev
eral occasions, made en irely similar state
ments to this respondent. In Washington
city, December, 1868, respondent told com
plainants Bullock and Blodgett that he
intended to discon-inue the publication of
the Rational Republican, and his right to
do so and control the paper as his own
was not questioned; said Bullock and
Blodgett only advising this respondent jo
“hold on,” saying that “all would be
right.
DESERTION OF THE TOO CONFIDING PCOHE
BY HIS BETRAYERS.
When, in pursuance of his previously
declared purpose, respondent did stop pub
lishing the National Republican , in Janu
ary, 1869, complainants took no action to
have the publication renewed, as naturally
they would have done, had they considered
they had any rights in the premises; but,
on the contrary, complainant Bullock
showed unmistakeably that he considered
he had no pecuniary interest in the -office
of said paper, by procuring the removal of
the public printing, from which much
profit was to be derived, from said paper to
the American Union at Macon. He had
previously given evidence of his views of
the ownership of the paper by telling this
respondent to have the bills of such print
ing as was ordered by said Bullock, made
out in the name of this respondent indi
vidually, and not as Business Manager of
the Georgia Printing Company. So, also,
the complainant Bryant showed he consid
ered the Georgia Printing Company had
no real existence as a business arrange
ment, from which the members were to de
rive pecuniary profit, both by giving to an
other office the printing which, as Chair
man of the Executive Committee of the
Republican party in Georgia, he controlled
during the Summer of 1868, amounting to
about SI,OOO, and by procuring the State
printing to be done also at another office,
and becoming a partner with said office in
such printing—ali of which printing would
have been very profitable to the office in
which now he pretends to have been all the
time pecuniarily interested.
THE DIVISION OF THE SPOILS.
Again, when after the various confer
ences. it was agreed among complainants
that Bullock, Blodgett, Cooley and Prince
should have the nominations respectively
of Governor, United States Senator, Presi
dent of the State Senate and member of
Congress, thousands of copies of the Na
tional Republican and Loyal Georgian
were circulated throughout the State
gratuitously—a course from which no pecu
niary profit could or was expected. to re
sult to the company. So great a drain
was this gratuitous circulation upon the
business of the Company, that whereas,
for the circulation of the National Repub
lican as were subscribed for, 20 quires of
paner were sufficient, ;it required 80
quires to supply this gratuitous circula
tion. Respondent admits that business
was commenced in August, 1867, and for
some months thereaiter carried on in the
name of the Georgia Printing Company.
In pursuance ol that business, the Nation
al Republican was published iu the name
of the Georgia Printing Company. Books
were opened in its name, and bill heads
printed with its name upon. them. This
was done as far as respondent was con
cerned, in the expectation thatthe engage
ments of compl inants with him would be
carried out —that is to say, among other
things he would be paid $12,000 for his
office, receive $3,000 for his salary, and
that other engagements of complainants
Hould be fulfilled. When delays occurred
in the performance of these engagements,
restondent, at first, remonstrated, when
further delays intervened he protested,
and finally, when it became evident that
nothing would be done by complainants,
that they continued to use respondent and
his property for their own purposes, and
without compensation to him, he discon
tinued, as is charged in the bill, the use of
tho name of the Georgia Printing Com
pany on the bill heads issued from his
office, aud on the National Republican
newspaper, stopped the publication of said
paper and of the Loyal Georgian, and re
sumed complete control of his property.
BOWLES AS MANAGER OF THE FINANCES.
It is true, as alleged in complainants’
bill, that complainant Bowles was the
Treasurer of the proposed Company. The
transaction of the financial business of the
Company by said Bowies was indeed “lit
tle” as alleged in complainants’ bill. The
only funds,to the bestof the knowledge, in
formation and belief of this respondent
that Bowles ever received were SIOO from
one T. T. Wright as a subscription for 20
copies of the Daily National Republican.
Os this sum one half was spent by Bowles
as it is admitted in his letter of August
27th, 1867, to complainant Blodgett (a
copy of which marked “D.” is annexed),
and the other half was paid over to this
respondent as Business Manager. With
this performance commenced and ended
the career of Bowles as Treasurer and
“Manager of the Financial Business” of
the Georgia Printing Company.
TIIE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWEEDI.E-DUM
AND TWEEDLE-DEE.
Answering the allegation iu complain
ants’ bill that this respondent for several
months after the business began represent
ed it as prosperous, this respondent says
•that such allegation is true to this extent,
to-wit, that he represented there was much
business being done at the office. This
statement was entirely true, and indeed
there was no reason why the business
should not have, been prosperous, except
that so much of the work and material was
thrown away lor [political purposes, all of
the complainants being aspirants for office
and using the office of the newspaper to do
electioneering work and never paying for
the same.
GOVE .NOR, IS IT LARCENY AFTER A TRUST
DELEGATED ?
Further answering this allegation re
spondent says when he spoke of the pros
perity of the business he had in mind
amongother things the printing donefortbe
Constitutional Convention which assembled
in Atlanta December, 1867, which printing
failed to furnish remuneration, only because
complainant Bullock having persuaded this
respondent to let him have the receipted
bills for said printing, which had been ap
proved by the proper officer of the Conven
tion, viz : Hon. A. L. Harriss, for the pur
pose of collecting the same, has never ac
counted for the same. This fund amounted
to about $9,600, and is more than sufficient
to pay off all liabilities incurred by the
Georgia Printing Company to third per
sons. Answering the allegation in com
plainants' bill that this respondent, abusing
his offioe of Business Manager, involved
the Company in debt, this respondent says
that while the business was conducted un
der the circumstances hereinbefore men
tioned, he did contract some debts in the
! course of (he same, to-wit: a debt to the
Bath Paper Mill Company, evidenced by
i two promissory notes signed by this re
; spondeot as Business Manager, one for
$1,040 43, and the other for $1,040 42.
j Ho utterly denies the rest of the allegation
I that he had means to pay the same from
moneys justly belonging to the Georgia
\ Printing Company. He further says that
1 there has never been a time when there
was a balance ot funds due the Company,
no money having been provided by com
plainants to carry on the business, and the
money used being lunds loaned by two or
three ot complainants, aDd by the individ
| ual credit of this respondent attempting to
i sustain the business io the expectation that
complainants would perform their under
takings, and the Company be really formed.
" A RADICAL PAPER A LOSING BUSINESS.
So far from there being money of the
Company to pay indebtedness, the losses
of the business up to December, 1868-
amounted to about SIB,OOO, which losses
have thus far fallen almost exclusively on
this respondent.
PUGHE DENIES THE SOFT IMPEACHMENT.
Responding to complainants’ allegation
that with the funds of the Company this
respondent paid his individual debts, he
utterly denies the same, and repeats what
he has hereinbefore said, that there never
has been a time when the balance has not
been in his favor. Responding to the alle
gation in the bill that with ftmds of the
Company this respondent paid the whole
rent of the house in which the business
was carried on, and the lights and fuel of
the same, though occupied, in part, by his
own family, this respondent denies that
funds of the Company were used in this
way, and again asserts that the business
being carried on with respondent's prop
erty" and by his labors and credit, the
original scheme for a company never hav
ing been carried out, the Company had
neither funds or existence. Respondent
simply occupied the house which he had
previously occupied, paying the rent and
meeting the expenses as previously, ready
to form the Company [and transfer the prop
erty whenever complainants should comply
with their engagements and for some time
expecting that result; and that nnder these
circumstances there could be no funds ac
cruing to tae Company from the business.
As to the allegation in complainants’ bill
that he got money from some of the com
plainants under pretence that it was neces
sary to pay off the hands, when in fact
there was money of the Company in his
possession sufficient for the purpose, re
spondent admits that he did obtain money
from some of the complainants; he ob
tained it for the purpose stated. Tbe
money was furnished him on his individu
al due bill, which the leading complain
ants still hold. The business of the office
would have been amply sufficient to pay off
the hands, meet all the expenses
and leave a handsome profit for
those interested, but the enormous
consumption of material in distributing
thousands of unpaid copies of the Repub
lican and other documents for political pur
pose*, reduced respondent to the necessity
of obtaining money from eotnplaiuants or
stop the business of the office, aud they ou
their part were willing to lend the money,
seeing that otherwise the powerful assist
ance afforded by the office in forwarding
their schemes would be lost, and such
were able did lend some money. Respond
ent totally denies that there was money
in his possession belonging to the Company
and sufficient for the purpose, and he takes
this occasion, as he will improve all appo
site occasions tojrepeat and reiterate, that
the business was carried on by his personal
efforts, with his property aDd upon his
credit; that the only difference in such
business after the signing of the articles of
association was, that for a time thereaf
ter respondent carried it on in the expec
tation that complainants would make good
their engagements, and a Company be in
fact formed. From time to time while
this expectation lasted, he obtained money
from some of the complainants with a
view to sustain the business till they should
raise funds, as they had undertaken to do
to cariy it on. He has, ever smee the
failure of the complainants to form the
Company, regarded these sums as loans,
whieh, in law and equity, they are (ac
counts hereunto annexed, marked E, F, G,
B, I, J, K and L,) show the balance of
indebtedness between respective com
plainants and this respondent.
BULLOCK MUST DISGORGE TIIE CONVENTION
MONEY.
He is and at all times, has been ready to
adjust these accounts with complainants
on equitable terms whenever complainant
Bullock will account for the $9,600 due
for Convention Printing as hereinbefore
stated and he and all other complainants
respond for work ordered by them and
done for their benefit.
GREGORY AS A BOOK-KEEPER.
Respondent admits that money was re
ceived lor work done in several instances
and no proper entries made of the re
ceipt ; bat he says that this was entirely
the fault of the book-keeper, one O. F.
Gregory, who was so incompetent, by his
own admission,thatrespondent was obliged,
eventually, to discharge him. When the
failure of the book-keeper to charge the
receipts, as aforesaid, was discovered by
respondent he censured said book-keeper
and had the proper entries made. Re
spondent admits that while hisex; ectation
lasted that complaiuants would go on and
form a Company according to their
articles of association, the money
coming into the office was credit
ed to such proposed Company and
and was deposited to its credit in Bank.
But when it became apparent that the
Company was not to be put in a condition
to carry on business; that it had no money;
that all the money received and acquired was
by respondent’s labor and the employment
of respondent’s property, and was iu
equity his, he kept his bank account ac
cordingly.
THE STOCKHOLDERS’ NAMES MUST BE KEPT
SECRET.
It is true, as alleged, that respondent
tried for a time to conceal the names of the
stockholders from the book-keeper, but he
did this at the request of the complainant
Bullock, who gave as his reason for the
request that Gregory had no discretion
and would talk too much. It is true, as
alleged, that in March, 1868, respondent
denied the existence of the Company ;
complainants, Bullock and Blodgett, have,
also, -from time to time, done the
same thing. Respondent still denies
its existence and says that the undertaking
of the complainants having wholly failed,
the Company has, in fact, never existed so
as to give complainants aDy rights as
against this respondent. Respondent be
lieves that the name of the Georgia Print
ing Company was never cm the sign over
the door of the offioe. If it ever was it is
true,as alleged, that respondent replaced his
own name in its stead and that for reasons
hereinafter set forth at largo. It is also
true,as alleged,that resp indent put hisown
name on the hill heads in place of that of
the Georgia Printing Company and ceas
ed to insert tho name of the Georgia Print
ing Company in the National Republican
newspaper, as the publisher thereof—and
that, too, for the reasons hereinbefore fully
stated. This respondent admits that there
are debts due by the Georgia Printing
Company, whieh, as to third persons giv
ing it credit, had suffirient existence to
make it liable to them. The debts are the
two notes to the Bath Paper Mills Com
pany. This respondent is ready to pay
said notes.
BULLOCK AND THE $9,600 AGAIN.
He has delayed doing so, proposing to
use that purpose a portion of the
$9,600 due for Convention printing, which
as hereinbefore stated complainant Bullock
ought long ago’ to have paid over.
THE ALLEGED FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE.
Answering so, much of complainants’ bill
as relates to the deed oi Robert Mcllwaine,
trustee, dated January 14th, 1868, respond
ent denies each and all the al’egations
which seek to impute fraud to’him in that
transaction. The property conveyed, he
claimed bona fide as his own, and that for
the reasons hereinbefore stated. This re
spondent owed no debts at the time qf said
conveyance, certainly none to complainants.
He utterly denies the alleged secrecy of
said transaction, The instrument was
made with as much publicity as usually ac
companies the execution of deeds on Jan
uary 14th, 1868, and 15 days thereafter
spread on the records of the county in
the place, and months earlier
than the time prescribed by law. Answer
ing so much of complainants’ bill as relates
to the alleged difficulty of obtaining a state
ment of the accounts of the Company,
respondent says that for a long time, re
garding the business, for the reasons here
inbefore stated as his own, ho did refuse
to allow any interference with its manage
ment or inspection of its accounts. This
he did from no unwillingness to have com
plainants know ali they desired, but as de
nying all right of the complainants in the
premises. Having, however, been aed
vised that by a written permission in th
nature of a protest, he could reserve all his
rights, while allowing complainants for
their satisfaction to examine the books, he
adopted that course and served such writ
ten protest upon thorn (a copy of protest
annexed) when their appointee, D. Porier,
and respondent’s book-keeper, W. R.
Schirmer, entered upon such examination.
Respondent totally denies that he snatch
ed away the books aud balance sheet, or
•prevented the completion of the latter.
He did, however, refuse any copy of the
balance sheet to be kept for complainants,
conceiving that complainants had no right
whatever to such copy. Further answer
ing, respondent says that the accounts
hereunto appended marked show the
indebtedness of and to complainants re
spectively. The condensed statement
hereunto annexed and marked “N,’’shows
the losses incurred in the business, to-wit:
the sum of $18,566 52. This respondent,
admitting that he did originally as
sociate with complainants for the
purpose of carrying on a printing,
binding and publishing business, being in
duced thereto by the persuasions of com
plainants and the belief that they intend
ed to carry on a legitimate business in
those lines, totally denies that such Asso
ciation ever weDt into effect to such an ex
tent as to give complainants any rights by
virtue thereof over the property ot re
spondent. Nothing was ever done except
the preparation and signing the articles of
association.
A POLITICAL CABAL.
No steps were taken to perfect it ; no
books of subscription were opened; no
money was paid in by the stockholders; no
property was transferred to the Company.
Its organization as a business association
stopped with the signing of the articles
and it became, what its real projectors in
tended it ali along to be, a mere political
club, or cabal, for the promotion of the
designs of the complainants on the offices
of their political party, and in this interest
arid for this purpose it was carried on to
tne great pecuniary lossof this respondent.
As long as respondent tolerated this use of
his office and property, no claims thereto
were pretended to them, nor was there any
concern on the part of complainants touch
ing the legitimate business, though it was
well known that the course pursued, while
promoting their political designs, was,
financially, ruinous. It was only when re
spondent refused longer to lend himself
and his property to the political agitations
of complainants and declined publishing
batches of papers sent to the office of the
paper by complainant Bullock and pur
porting to be narrations of outrages upon
Union men in Georgia, that complainants
commenced the assertion ot pretended
claims with a view to breaking up respond
ent’s business. Still no steps were taken
to press these claims till a suit was brought
against the Georgia Printing Company on
the two notes to the BathPapcr Mills
Company, hereinbefore mentioned, return
bale to the June term, 1869, of Richmond
Superior Court, when the Bill was filed,
with a view, among other things, of mak
ink it appear that property which belonged
to respondent, either individually or as
Trustee of his wife and child, is owned by
the Georgia Printing Company, and there
fore liable, iu the first instance, before the
individual property, of complainants to any
judgment, which might be recovered in
said suit, respondent further answering
says that after the discovery of the flagrant
frauds perpetrated upon him in the distri
bution of the stock of the Georgia Print
ing Company, a fraud which would have
been ruinous to him but for its detection
before a transfer of his property to the
Company, and aftey all the promises and
representations of complainants failed of
fulfillment, he steadily refused to make
such transfer. The property claimed by
complainants never ceased to be respond
ent’s till he parted with it to a Trustee as
aforesaid, and the present bill, enjoining
his use of the same, is proseeuted with a 1
wrongful and fraudulent intent to obtain
said property, and in a spirit of revenge
against respondent. And this respondent
denies all .manner of unlawful combina
tion, &c.
Barnes and Cummings, Respondent’s
Solicitors.
Sworn to before J. C. C. Black, Notary
Public, and signed by E. H. Pughe.
// T “ A ” ]
// HULBERT TAKES STOCK.
// Southern Express Company, j
Express Forwarders, Augusta, >•
August 4th, 1867. J
Dear Hulbert '. —Enclosed I hand you a
certificate for ten shares in our Printing
Company. It is not liable to any assess
ment ■ nd if you and other of our friends
will give us Government work we will make
it pay 10 per cent, without much trouble.
Any job work that you wish done send the
copy down to E. H. Pughe by. Express and
it will be promptly returned and in A 1
shape. I enclose you a private note from
Judge Cotting, which shows better than
any argument what the feeling is.
Yours, Bullock.
[ңӥ1 '//
BULLOCK S ARITHMETIC. /
Os the 55,000 stock there will be 71 or
$32,083 25 for Bowles & Cos., and 51 or
$22,91 ' 65 for Bryant & Cos.
That is by Bowles & Cos. and Bryant &
Cos. dividing 6,000 at 3,500 and 2,500.
And *o avoid fractions let Bryant & Cos.
have 230 shares and Bowles & Cos. 320
shares.
Bowles & Cos.
divide $32,000
Blodgett 2 7 9,143
Bowles, 11—7, 6,857
Bullock, 11—7, 6,557
Hall, 1-7, 4,571 50
Conley, 1 7, 4,571 50—5320 OOSliar’s
Bryant & Cos., 230 00 “
Pughe, 200 00 “■
Association, 250 00 “
SIOO,OOO 00
Os the $3,500 which Howies & Cos. pay
Bryant & Cos.,
Blodgett pays : SI,OOO
Bowles “ 750
Bullock “ 750
Hall “ 500
Conley “ 500
$3,500
Making the shares in the new Association
cost us $lO 90 per share, or 10 9-10 on the
dollar.
j“C.”]
Pugiie to the Secretary of State, j
December 10, 1807- j ,
Friend Cotting -. Not a word has been
received yet iu reply to tuy note of last
week, addressed to Colonel Bullock re
garding the financial matters of this office.
In the letter I urged the necessity of im
mediate relief, stating that notes were in
Bank, and that I have had to assume
nearly S9OO within the past week, which
money I am individually responsible for. I
further stated that unless I was relieved
from this pressure, I should be com
pelled to stop the paper. Neither Colo
nel Bullock or Mr. Blodgett called
to see me when in thejeity with reference
to the matter, which I think very hard of.
When the Association was first spoken of
it was agreed that a working capital of at
least $20,000 should be raised at once as a
set off to my office, before a regular trans
fer would be made, which has never beon
done. Not a dollar have I yet seen, with
the exception of some money from Col.
Bullock, Mr. Blodgett and Conley, and a
loan from New Yoik. I am harrassed
worse now than ever before, as there are
so many debts due but not collectable.
Under all these circumstances, and with
out taking into eontideration tho fact of
my not drawing my salary, losing the in
terest of my investment since August last,
and destroying the business of my office
and store —I say that I shall positively
cease publishing the National Republican
and Loyal Georgian after Tuesday, 31st
December instant, unless permanent and
substantial means (without any ri.-k on my
part) are raised to carry on the office, until
better times shall dawn upon our city.
This course, however unpieasant it may
be, I must do to protect myself, as after
that date I will resume the business as of
old. You will please read this' letter to
those interested now in x\t!anta.
Yours, very truly,
E. H. Pugiie.
BOWLES IN SEARCH OF A DOLLAR.
L“D.”J
Washington, D. C., 24th Aug., 1867.
My Dear Sir: Inclosed 1 send you
ehecK on Mr. Craig for SSO, the amount
expended by me at the time of
leaving for the North of the SIOO
received of Wright. I am sorry I
did not leave the amount with you or Mr.
Pughe. 1 clearly forgot the uecessity lor
so doing. I learn with much regret that I
was expected to raise money before leaving
Georgia for the purpose of paying for cer
tain papers, etc- I promised Mr. Pughe
to see you end try if we could borrow SSOO.
When I did see you in speaking of ifioney
matters, you stated how hard up you
were, and I did not mention the matter in
particular. I have been here since Wed
nesday waiting for the return of Mr. Tul
lock, who is absent in N. H., on a visit.
1 found it impossible to do anything in
N. Y. without Mr. Tulloek’s assistance, as
he controls every dollar that can poss'bly
be ooverted into Southern political matters.
Even my friend who had promised to take
SSOO of our stock, has turned the amount
over to the Congressional Committee as he
was urged to do by eentlemen who believe
Jiat to be the only, and certainly the best
channel of aiding the great reconstruction
in the South. I should have written you
sooner, but I have been expecting Tullock
back every day, and desired to write you
something definite. Please let me hear
from you and have m'y Republican sent
me heTe lor a short time. Stamp the in
closed, and take receipt of Pughe when
you turn the check over.
Yours truly,
J. Bowles.
Hod, Foster Blodgett, Augusta, Ga.
P. S.--I hope to be able to do some
thing as soon as I can see Tullock. I shall
go to Philadelphia and N. Y. as soon as he
arrives here; will write you again soon.
Then follows an account “E” against
Bryant for election tickets, hand-bills, etc.,
furnished during the Spring campaign of
1868, amounting to $717 25 ; one against
Prince “F” for $8 75; one against Brav
ton “G” for S2O; one against Conley “H”
which showed a balance of $517 due the
latter; one against Bullock “I,” whieh
showed a balance of $3,419 due the latter;
one against Rice “J” for S3O; one against
Bowles “K” for $138; one against
Blodgett “L” for $677 45.
Messrs. C. H. Prince and J. M. Rice
having for themselves, and as representing
others, applied for permission to examine
the books kept at my offioe, they are per
mitted to do so with the distinct under
standing that I recognize no right on their
part or on the part of thc43 whom they
represent to make snch examination; but
they are allowed to do so that they may
ascertain the losses incurred in the publi
cation of the Daily National Republican ,
Weekly Loyal Georgian, certain printing,
etc., with a view to propositions which I
have invited, in reference to the payment
of such losses. E- 11. Poghe.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF THE GEORGIA
PRINTING COMPANY.
Amount paid out for expense
account for the year ending
August 1, 1868 $26,680 74
Amount paid out for stock ac
count for the year ending
August 1, 1868 12,625 76
Amount due and considered as
lost 12,580 67
Making total $51,987 17
Advertisement ac
count is credited
with $20,442 1 4
Job account is
credited with... 23,030 91
Subscription ac
count to Nat.
Republican is
credited with... 1,771 55
Subscription ac
count to Loyal
Georgian is
credited with... 193 55
Advertising in
Loyal Georgian 237 75
Making a total 0f.545,675 90
Showirg, as per
balanee, a loss of 6,311 27
, $51,987 17 $51,987 17
Amount ofloss as above brought
down... ...$ 6,311 27
To which must be added, in
a general settlement, the losses
arising from publishing the
National Republican and the
Weekly Loyal Georgian, not
contained in this account.
The National Re
publican bad
debts $ 841 75
The National Re
publican 72 2
reams of paper. 4,332 00
The Loyal Gear- *
gian bad debts.. 192 00
Th e Loyal Geor
gian, 72 reams
us paper 468 00
Received of J- E.
Bryant- 168 00
Received for com
position 240 00—$ 6,241 75
Showing a cost of. $12,553 01
The liabilities on August 1, 1868, are :
Due Southern Ex
press Companys 73.3 53
Dueß. B. Bnllock 2.269 00
Kne F. Blodgett. 639 00
neD. G. Cotting 646 03
Due E. H. Pughe 2,411 77
Due B. Conley 517 00
Due bills payable. 2,104 35
Loan account 2,150 00
Making a total of $11,391 6$
To pay which
there are con
sidered good ac
counts $ 5,378 18
Showing a deficiency of. $ 0,013 50
And adding the loss of above 12,553 02
Making a total deficit 0f..... 418,566 52
(iiivonicif & JYuttncl.
W KD.NJKSIHY MoKNlNtt. AVGUST 11.
The Tt'nnessce Election.
The election news from Tennessee, pub
lished this morning, conveys the gratifying
intelligence that the Conservative party
has carried the State by an overwhelming
majority. Thus one by one the Southern
States are falling into line under the glo
rious banner ot Democracy. Radicalism
has been killed in Tennessee,and the thou
sands of white meD, heretofore disfran-'
chised and outraged in all their rights of
person and property, will be relieved from
the infamous tyranny of Radical misrule.
It is highly probable that Andrew John
son willbesent to the United States Senate.
President Grant, and his administration
and the Radical warty will find in the ex-
President a powerful opponent, and the
South, let us hope, au earnest and effective
advocate. Differing widely and radically
from Mr. Johnson in the past, we believe
that the people oi Tennessee will subserve
not only their ovrn interests but the inter
ests of the whole South by sending him to
the Senate, With all-his faults—and he
has many of them to answer so hates
the party in power with an undying, un
compromising hatred. Andrew Johnson
is still a strong man and he will work un
ceasingly and effectively, we believe, for
the overthrow of that party which still
wars upon the South. And in this he will
work good for the Southern people. It
will be an act of contrition and a partial
reparation for the wrongs which he inflict
ed upon our section as well as for the
many other grievous acts of his past polit
ical- life.
Immigration.
In giving publicity to the communica
tion on the subject of foreign immigration,
we do nqt wish to be understood as en
dorsing the writer’s views. Our columns
are always open to the discussion of ques
tions of importance to the material inter
ests of the State when such discussions are
conducted with propriety and moderation.
The views of “Georgia” are strongly
presented, and discussed with more than
ordinary ability. We should be pleased
to have the opposite views of the subject
discussed by some of its ablest advocates.
Our columns are open for a reply. Thor
ough discussion will enable our people to
make a wise decision:
Foreign Labor.
Sparta, July 28th.
Editors Chronicle Sentinel:
For some time past, our people have been
greatly exercised on the question of “for
eign labor.” It has not been my privilege
to read one of the many communications
teat have been written on the subject, so
that I am unable to say what has been the
range of the discussion. Doubtless, the
range of it has been as broad as the Conti
nent, for Americans show their independ
ence of thought and freedom of speech in
nothing so unmistakeably as in their bitter
opposition to being held to “the text.” It
1 do likewise, “let him that is without sin
cast the first stone.”
It is needless to enter upon a statement
of what constituted our system of labor be
fore the gentle, benevolent, kind-hearted
Yankee had waged his war of love and
pluuder. Everybody knows in what it
consisted —so fully has it been explained
and defended by the saintly Broivnlow—
so earnestly and truthfully, in the New
England sense of that word, has it been as
sailed by that lovely old creature, Mrs.
Stowe. Like every other institution, it
had its advantages and disadvantages.
There were advantages in it to the negro
as well as to the white man —though we
purpose now dealing only with its effects
on the latter. Above all other advan
tages, outweighing and burying out of
sight every disadvantage, was the grand,
distinctive character which it gave to our
people. It separated us from the rest of
the world by barriers that its mongrel races
could ( not or would not cross. Purer,
nobler, more refined specimens of the Cau
casian race could be found nowhere else—i
not even in Boston, the Mecca of “grand
ideas,” ‘strong-minded women,” and
universal humbug. Abolition ethnologists
of the Sumner stripe might sneer at the
declaration, but their very cowering was
confession of its truth. When the' train
bands of that gigantic proscription, before
which that of'Lylla aud Marius becomes
insignificant, feliuponus for constitutional,
plundering purposes, these characteristics
were grandly illustrated. They will be as
grandly aud truthfully recorded, for, thank
Heaven ! the historical muse has not done
himself the discredit of taking up his
abode, solely, with the Pollard family of
historians. The war deprived us of ne
groes, as property, but it did not deprive
us of them as laborers. It merely lessened
our responsibility to them, while it in
creased their dependence upon us. We
are just as essentially an agricultural peo
ple now as wo were before. Butler and
Hunter had filled their trunks, and the
war had, therefore, been declared a success.
Our climate is just the same now that, it
was then, so far as I havA been able to dis
cover, and demands the same kind of
labor. The negro is the same' except that,
with a decreased S'alary, lie has to support
art increased burden, growing out of his
dignity as a freeman—a subject of the
intensest satisfaction to himself and the
Bolivars that liberated him, and one call
ing fora “non-intervention” on our part,
so strict, that eveu Douglas himself would
approve of it. We used to say before the
war that the negro was made for the ex
press purpose of raising cotton—that white
labor could not be relied on for the success
ful cultivation of a sun-plant —that when
you abolished the negro, you would
abolish the cotton field. Did we mean it?
Or was it albjsimply a little contemptible
special pleading for the institution of
slavery ? I think we meant it, and spoke
the truth when we said it. But some of
our citizens have found out that negro
labor will pot do for the sun-plant, and
they have discovered the labor that will
exactly do. This is the second discovery
of any importance that has been made
since the war, and it is like unto the first.
The first was, that Europe, or Mexico, or
China, or Honduras were the only places
on the habitabieglobefit for Southern men.
The second is that the South is the best
place on earth for Europeans, Mexicans,
Chineseand,South Americans. Messrs. Edi
tors, I am for war against the prevalance of
I both these opinions. The .zeal of those
who advocated the former of these theo
ries did Dot survive their rations. The
latter class is somewhat more sturdy; but
instead of advancing the doctrine we ought
to build up other countries by leaving our
; own, hold out the belief that the wasto
! places of the South can only be made
| fruitful by flooding it with a people whose
only title to the gratitude ol their country
lis in having left it. How are people who
cannot build up their own country to re
hibilitate ours ? How are they to add to
the material resources of our country who
emigrate to it with the express knowledge
that thereby they cheapen labor ? What
do European laborers know of our system
of farming ? Where did they learn how
to cultivate cotton ? Are there to be
schools of instruction for the purpose of
teaching these emigrants how to raise cot
ton cheaper than negroes?—how not to
chop up the wrong stalk, and how not to
pull the bolls before they open ? Or is the
Legislature—blessings on its wisdom 1 to
pass “An At, entitled an Act to enable
the aforesaid emigrants to know how to
raise cotton with as much ekiil as the
aforesaid negroes?” 1 am sure both the
patriotism and ability ot that body emi
nently fit them for some such Legislative
triumph as this ? People who have not
the means upon which to settle in Georgia,
would certainly add nothing to its wealth
by being brought over by others. And lam
foolish enough to think that people who get
along so badly in their native land as to
be willing to leave it at another man's ex
pense, would do well nowhere else. If
the South needs emigrants, it needs those
who will bring capital with them. Those
who are paupers at home, will be paupers
here. "Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus
istis. '’ If this policy is carried out then it
may be truly said that every jail delivny
in Europe gives birth to an American citi
zen. Arc the ignorant, opium-eating
Chinese any better ? Is there any better
reason why the doors should be thrown
open to the pagan hordes of Asia, with all
their disgusting idolatries and shameful !
national characteristics? It could only !
bring calamity upon us. You say “it I
would cheapen labor,” Take care lest in
your zeal to “cheapen labor” you adopt
means that, in the end, will “cheapen” the
character and taint ihe blood of you peo
ple. Take care lest in your eagerness to
“cheapen labor” you “cheapen” the very
product from which you thought to realize
a foitune. In my opinion this will inevit
ably be the case. And were it uot so, j
Heaven help us ! "if we have already be
come so grossly material as to be willing to j
sacrifice every political, every social, every j
religious consideration, the safety of our \
families, and the proud individuality of
our people, for the intensely earthy object j
of having a great deal of work done for
very poor pay ! For one, I enter my pro
test against this policy, which, in less than
ton years, will prepare us for that Millenni- j
um of political privileges which Mexico i
has been so long enjoying. When the
mingled hordes of Europe and Asia have
poured in upon you, and ignorance, idola
try, hatred, lawlessness, lust, are all blend
ed into the national character, and anarchy
scorns all law but that of the sword; when
the wise tremble aud the timid fly, it will
be but poor consolation to you to know that
you have “cheapened labor,” but that it
was at the expense of blood ! We have
stood the shameless iniquity of Yankee
bayonets, because we felt it was fate; but
let us resist and drive back this loathsome
tide that is flowing in upon us from the
political lazar-houses of Europe and Asia.
If we be fated to bear that too, then we are
a doomed people. Georgia.
OUR ATHENS CORRESPONDENCE.
UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA.
Commencement at the University— The
Junior Exhibition —Address by Hon.
David W. Lewis —Splendid Oration of
Mr. Jlarriss—Distinguished Arrivals,
etc., etc.
Athens, August 3d, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
The commencement exercises of the
University of Georgia are still progressing;
but to-morrow will witness their conclu
sion. On yesterday my letter contained an
account of the annual exhibition of the
Sophomore class of the University; on to
day the Juniors held full sway at the
Chapel of the institution, the scene of so
many literary triumphs and defeats. In
the Junior class was said to be contained
some of the best talent of the University,
and it was generally expected that its ex
hibition would give us a rich literary treat.
The exercises, too, of this class would be
entirely different from those of its prede
cessor on yesterday. The speeches of the
Sophomores were selected ; the orations of
the Juniors would be original. The young
men who would, speak were the most
talented of their class, and had the honor
of a speaker’s place conferred upon them
either by the Faculty of the University or
by their fellow-students ot the two literary
societies, four of the eight orators having
been selected by the Professors, as a re
ward for the scholarship, aud the two hav
ing been chosen by both the Demosthenean
and Phi Kappa societies
When.the hour arrived for the exercises
to begin, the large chapel was filled to
overflowing with the parents, relatives,
friends and acquaintances of the speakers.
After opening the exhibition with prayer,
the speeches were delivered in the follow
ing order:
MUSIC.
PRAYER.
MUSIC.
W C Becks, (P K S Orator) Griffin.
Conservatism.
A S Campbell, P K S (Excused, )Augusta.
MUSIC.
Washington Dessau, D S Macon.
Modern Diplomacy.
J M Goss, (DaOrator) LaGrange.
It's not how long we live, but how!
MUSIC.
N E Harris, P K S (Excused.)
Jonesborough, Tenn.
W B Hill, (D S Orator) Macon.
The Mission of the Young Men of the
South.
MUSIC.
R H Johnston, Jr (PKS Orator. )Griffin.
Fact and Sentiment.
J B B Smith, DS Atlanta,
We Might Have Been.
MUSIC.
Honorable Mention.
The following gentlemen deserve honor
able mention:
C L Bartlett, 1 W B Kill,
J D Hammond, | A F Trimble.
MUSIC.
BENEDICTION.
Your correspondent regrets that it is
impossible to give to these young orators
and their orations, each the extended no
tice to which they are justly entitled. All
of the speakers were, evidently, young
men of great ability and acquitted them
selves, on what must have been a most try
ing occasion, in such a manner as to con
clusively show that the judgment of their
instructors and college-mates had not been
at fault nor their confidence in their talent
at all misplaced. Where all were so ex
cellent it may seem inyiduous to dis
errmate, but i cannot refrain from - making
especial mention of the very masterly ad
dress of Mr. W. C. Beeks, of Griffin, on
the subject of “Conservatism” aod the
speech of Mr. W. B. Hill,- of Macon, on
“The Mission of the Young Men of the
South.” The last named address was re
plete with sarcasm and humor and was
pronounced, by every one who heard it,
to be decidedly the best “hit” of the pres
ent Commencement. The opening sen
tences of Mr. Hill’s speech were sharp,
sarcastic thrusts aimed at his class and
college-mates. Ho said that he would
not, like his predecessors, bore his au
dience with any political harangue -any
labored disquisition on the state of the
country. He was very confident that these
beardless statesmen of the University,
whose field of action had hitherto been
confined to the hall of their debating
society, were fully able to discern the
storm-clouds which overhung the country
and to direct the veteran politicians of the
day how to avert the coming misfortune
and save the Republic ; but he himself felt
somewhat more of diffdence than did these
youthful prodigies and he would not en
croach upon their chosen domain. Leav
ing his class-mates, the yoang orator’s next
and most vigorou ■ blow was aimed at the
“dnndies”—the hawk-tail coated, fault
lessly cravatted darling, who wore pants so
right they had to be drawn on with boot
hooks, whose countenance was radiant with
innocent imbecility and whose perfumed
locks were parted in the middle. He next
turned his attention to the amours of the
students and gave some rich accounts of
student’s courtships, with their hopes and
fears, together with recitations of poetry
mostly used by them on such occasions.
These finished,Mr. Hill gave asound, com
mon sense and manly speech on ihe duties
of Southern young men of the present day.
His speech was well received throughout
and was loudly applauded by his audience.
On this evening at half-past 4 o’clock the
Chapel was again filled—this time to hear
the address to be delivered to the Society of
Alumni of the University, by Hon. David
\V. Lewis, of Hancock county, the well
known Secretary of the State Agricultural
| Society. The speech was an eminently
! practical and exceeding humorous dis
course, and was received with great ap
plause, while bis many humorous sallies
kept his audience almost convulsed with
laughter. Alluding to the advantages
which the student of the present day en
joyed over the collegian of thirty years
ago, he said there was the same difference
between them that there was “between
Walker’s dictionary abridged and Web
ter’s dictionary illustrated,” —that if sev
eral of the gentlemen around him—one of
whom had i eeu Governor, another a Judge
of the Supreme Court, and a third a
member of Congress—had had these ad- ;
vantages, there was no telling to what
position they would have arisen ; he
thought that they would have “either :
stopped the course of the Oconee river, or
else sets its waves on fire.” This is but a
faint specimen of what the speech really
was; no pen, save that of a stenographer,
could do justice to the address.
On last n : ght at half past eight o’clock,
Mr. N. E. Harriss, of Tennessee, deliver
ed the annual address to the Phi Kappa
Society of the University. His subject
was the word of Alex. Dumas’ hero, the
Count of Monte Cristo; “Wait and
Hope.” The address was one that
will never be forgotten by those who
had the good fortune to hear it
delivered. It was a masterpiece of sound,
close and convincing logic; faultless and
polished rhetorie, and burning eloquence.
The orator, with a great and cultivated in
tellect, united with a Ijeautifnlly modu
lated voice, perfect gesticulation, and an
easy and graceful delivery—and possessing
this rare combination of gifts, gifts found
only in genius, the specoh of Mr. Harris ;
and its effect may be imagined. I do not ’
feel competent to pass upon the merits of ;
the oration, but I give you, instead, the
criticism upon it pronounced by a gentle
man who is certainly a most excellent judge
in such matters—that of Senator H. V.
M. Millar, who, by his eloquence, long
since gained the soubriquet ot the “De
mosthenes of the Mountains.” Said Sen
ator Miller, after the speech had been de
livered, “it was the finest dVation I have
ever heard fall from the lips of a College
student.” I have been informed that Mr.
Harris is a protege of Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens, who is having him educated.
To-morrow is the gala day of the Com
mencement —the day on which the exhibi
tion of the graduating clas3 takes place —
and a great deal of pleasure is expected on
the occasion.
Among the recent distinguished arrivals
I noticed the Hon. Robert Toombs, of
Wilkes. Gen. John R. Gordon, of Atlanta,
and ex-Gov. Gill Shorter, of Alabama.
H. G. W.
Several prominent members of Congress
recently in Washington have expressed
themselves in favor c<' collecting tho in
come tax on Government bonds held in
Europe to be deducted on presentation of
the coupons at the Treasury. They assert
that it would be jus l to holders here who
pay the tax, while foreigners have thus far
escaped it. A bill has already been pre
pared for this purpose, and will be intro
duced immediately on the meeting of the
next session of Congress,
OUR ATHENS UORRKsroNDENUK.
University of Georgia.
Commencement Exercises The Senior
Exhibition — Gala day of the Week—
An Immense Crowd Present The
Speeches by the Graduating Class t- The
First Honor Men—Delivering of Diplo
mas, etc., etc.
Athens, August 4,1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
On this afternoon the commencement
exercises of the University of Georgia were
brought to a conclusion after having lasted,
without intermission, for four days. To
day was set apart for the exhibition of the
Senior graduating class of the Univer
sity and was really commencement day
proper. It was expected that it would
prove to be the gala-day of the week as
such had been the case on all other previ
ous similar occasions.
In ante-bellum times before the relations
existing between the white master and his
negro servant had been severed by the
cruel touch of Federal bayonets, com
mencement day in Clarke county was cele
brated by all classes ouly less than the
universal festival Christmas. On that day
every planter and slave owner in Clarke
county gave holiday to all ot his servants;
and, dressed in their finest clothes, bearing,
hearts light with happiness, the slave with
his sable spouse and offspring repaired to
Athens, the University town. In the town
some large and deserted lot would be found
and occupied by the pleasure seekers.
Booths would be erected on the ground
and from them rude refreshments served.
Later in the day the inevitable negro musi
cian would make his appearance od tli
scene armed with au old and greasy violin,
and to the music of this the throng would
dauce upon the green-sward carpet spread
beneath the shadowing trees. Old resi
dents of Athens tell me that often have
they seen from four to five thousand ne
groes iq the town on commencement day.
Nor were the blacks the only ones who en
joyed this annual festival. On that day
there also came to town in throngs from
the country, the farmers and their families
eager to witness the exercises at the chapel
and to see the crowds of visitors from all
parts of the South who were wont to be
present on such occasions like these. In
short, to compare very great to very small
things, what the Carnival was to Rome
commencement day was to Athens.
Since the war all has been changed in
this respect, and, indeed, for the first two
or three years after the surrender, com
mencement. day came and passed away as
quietly as thuugh all its former glories had
been forgotten in the general gloom and
desolation which overspread the country.
Better times, however, have begun to
dawn upon the State, and commencement
day will soon be celebrated with all the
pomp aud splendor which marked its ad
vent years ago. To-day the citizens tell
me that the attendance is larger than it
has been before in nearly ten years. In
my former letters I have written of the
immense crowd of visitors present; to-day
their numbers were trebled by arrivals
from the surrounding country. Early this
morning an immense crowd of negroes and
whites began to pour into the streets of
our modern Athens, until the part of the
town surrounding the chapel was tilled to
overflowing. In the main street the peo
ple were so thickly gathered that the
thoroughfare was rendered almost impas
sable. At the first sound of the chapel
bell the spectators began to hurry toward
the campus aud enter the -chapel; the
people from the country, the residents of
the business part of the town, the visitors
from abroad and the inhabitants of “Cobb
ham” —the Fifth- Avenue of Athens —
mingled together, an undistinguishable
throng of eager sight-seers. The chapel,
though a large building was soon filled to
suffocation, and when the time arrived for
the exercises to begin there was not an
available inch of spice either iu the main
body of the house or in the galleries.
At eleven o'clock there entered a pro
cession consisting of the Trustees of the
University, its Faculty and distinguished
guests; the whole headed by the High
Sheriff of the-county, who, bearing before
him a drawn sword, marshalled the party
to the platform. Among other prominent
men wo noticed in the procession Rt. Rev.
Jno, W. Beckwith, Bishop of the Dio
cese of Georgia. Hon. Robert Toombs, of
Wilkes, and Gen. John B. Gordon, of
Atlanta. The exercises of the day were
opened with prayer by th*c Rev. Mr. Wil
son, if Atlanta, and the performances pro
ceeded iu the following order :
H B Van Epps, DS (2nd Honor) Atlanta.
Greek Salutatory.
MUSIC.
FM Allen, PKS.. ....Burke Go.
Obliquities of Gen ius.
B W Barrow, Orator of Dam. Society,
Athens. •
Mantalina and Solomcn.
MUSIC.
W B Bonhell, Orator P K S Macon.
Struggles of Genius. ,
H II Cabaniss, Orator D S Forsyth.
Individuality of Character.
MUSIC.
C A Collier, D S Atlanta.
Shakspeare's Brutus.
W M Finley, Orator PK S...Montg’y, Ala.
“ Our Doubts are Traitors."
MUSIC-
J T White, D S (3d Honor) Forsyth.
Ihe Bastile.
II B Van Epps, DS (2d Honor)...Atlanta.
Austerity.
S Barnett, PKS (Excused).Washington.
MUSIC.
W S Bean, PKS (Ist Honor)... Augusta.
Impulses of the Age.
[ Valedictory to lrustees and Faculty.)
W R Hammond, D S (Ist Honor)Atlanta.
Valedictory to Audience.
MUSIC.
M Guyton, D S (Ist Honor)...Laurens Co
s to Class.
The Greek salutatory by Mr. Van Epps I
am unable tociiticise, as no Greek.scholar
was present in the reporter’s gallery when
it was delivered ; but I am convinced that
it was something very fine, for the gentle
men and ladies in the audience loudly ap
plauded, and I have no doubt that thoy
thoroughly understood what thoy were
about. All of the succeeding orators, of
course, covered themselves with g'ory, as
have all other orators on similar occasions.
Commencement audiences are not disposed
to be very critical or fastidious, and each
speaker was certain to be kindly received,
loudly api laudedand moderately sprinkled
with bouquets. No speaker was there who
did not have some lady friends in the au
dience, and when he had thundered his
last invective at Wroug, wept his last tear
over the grave of Right, and made his
parting bow to the spectators,while 'heap
plause was at its height and the brass band
was in full blast, there would come flying
through the air and alight at the speaker’s
feet tiny nosegays—perhaps only a scarlet
rose bud set in green geranium leaves—
bound with the s nallest piece of snowy
satin ribbon imaginable, from the end of
which fluttered a scrap of card with the
words “oomph oients of Matilda Jane
case might be. And sometimes, too, there'
fell by the speaker, aloDg with these floraj
offerings, a wreath of laurel, which, the
sender thought, his brow was worthy to be
decked.
One of the speeches of to-day we can
i not refrain from noticing, both on account
I ofits own intrinsic merit and a little in
cident said to have been connected with
its name —the speech was “Mantalini and
Solomon” by B. W. Barrow. The speaker
who spoke upon the vanity of human
wishes and endeavors, took originally as
the name of his composition the sentence
which Dickens put into the mouth of one
of his heroes—Mantalmi—that “Li'e was
but a demned horrid grind. ” When the
manuscript was submitted to the examina
tion of the venerable Chancellor of she
University, he objected to th? title, be
cause, he said, of its profanity. Forced to
make a change iu its name, the author at
last christened it “Mantalini and Solo
mon,” with which name it was printed up
on the programme. The speech itself, was
one of the best delivered during the day ;
but its effect was somewhat marred by the
weak voice of the speaker. Commencing
with the quaint phrase of the unhappy
Mantalini and the mournful “vanity,
vanity, ail is vanity.” Os the Jewish King,
Mr. Barrow went on to show the folly of
the pride and ambition of the children of
men in struggling for wealth or fame,
which, when achieved, will turn to bitter
ashes in their grasp. It was a fino effort
and well received.
The speech, however, of the day, was
the one on “Austerity” by Mr. VanEpps,
of Atlanta. The subject was a singular one,
but the speaker made it perfectly plain
before he finished. He contended that the
greatest and most successful of men as well
as the greatest aud most powerful of na
tions were those where a certain quantity
of severity and austerity were found im
planted in the individual or national char
acter. It was certainly a masterly effort;
the thoughts beautifully conceived and as
beautifully expressed In addition to al
most perfect gesticulation and delivery,
the speaker possessed a finely modulated
voice of almost silvery sweetness. Nor
was the oration listened to by an audience
unappreciative; when the speaker had
finished, the house shook with the ap“
plause, and flowers fell upon the stage as
thickly as leaves in V'alambrosa,
Another fine speech was delivered by Mr.
Tinley, of Montgomery, “Our Doubts are
Traitors.”
There was one fact in connection with
the many speeches which I have heard de
livered at this Universty which has very
forcibly impressed me; 1 allude to the
magnitude and jaw-ln ,*al.
words employed in College orasL- „ ‘
word combats have always had a ,e' i.lkr
fascination for me and here I mo-t ow
that there has been no Jack of this
favorite amusement, It is wonderful' too
he courage shown by the human com
mit 3 tbeSe , stru^ los - Day after day
the ol , t , he Reporters' galleiy of
auife 6 f" and n een , yC T" men - P a 'e
mention fr T h . ard . ft »dy and cot,fine
h fni’lin!v h w ,eak quivering voices and trem
§ * -S, desperately with the
longest and toughest demons that eve^
between th^n'a Jaw ', b {£ ak > g might from
Struggle dV I “rto \ ebSter -n r i ' ValkCi '
... I *;L S*~JS
giants (philologieally) So i zo( j t | la iabieTt
monsters of the Di varies and kurlwi
not by tens or hundreds, but by thousand-’
D; t dain; m<lZeJ tnou -' r|l admiring audience.
D.sdaimng an encounter with werds of
two o r three syllables, they utsbed upon
toemcn mere worthy of the r -teel-t
- o! lr °m five to ten syiia
•■*-*«*
When the speeches had h finished
. the degrees were-Einferred u;
Bachelor
- b l DM Allen, Richmond
Barksdale, Barnett; Sam ili - y\ V
ington; B Barrow, A. h . - T\V V*,—'
Shreveport, La; W S Bear.’ 4 U , t " .y :
E Bird, Athens; W B Bor. veil M -con- \
J Bussey, Columbus II Iff abaui s
syth; 0 A Collier, A Junta; J M Edward..
Crawford; G H Esie , Columbus; \V M
flinley, Montgomery, Ala; W 1!
Oglethorpe; M Gut tun, Laurens Cos, G-.r
5V RUammoud, Atlanta; E S Harrison'
Thomson; B H Hid, Athens; 0 C Iliii’
Atlanta; A C He. / , Marion,Ala; RTHuli’,
New Orleans. L:; S Jordan, Washington
County; H H'Linton, Athens; Tli Lym.s,
| w 1? "’ A 1 Mclntyre, Thomasvillc; II (i
Mclntyre, Thomast he; O E Mitchell,
Atlanta, S S si urn. eh, Columbu.y E V
Bancsvilh- i J C McMichael,
MonticeHo; V H Parsons, Washington
Cos, J D Rambo, B o,bridge; J j, Robert -
sou Greenville.; F J Spain, Quitmat;
Emory Speer, tffms; B G Swanson
LaGrange; H B Van Kp,-. Atlanta; J W
J T Whom (vr-yth; .1
t VV lmbish, LaGrange; 11 *\ Woodruff,
Gduotbus; A C Young, Cotutubu.-.
Ihe Degree of Bachelor of Science wu
conferred upon T. W. Young, ol' Lowndes
Cos, Ga.
Ihe Degree of Bachelor o! Law as eon
lerred upon J E Donals n, A B, Bain
Mcdesk y, A B. Athens; I’
W Meldrim, A B, Savanna’,; B Whitfield,
Madison.
The Degree of Civil Engineer was eon
lerred upon W Thomas, A B, Athens,
Ga.
After the speaking and conferring of de
grees, the names of those who hud receiv
ed distinction in their e’a.-s wre read, anil
the names of the students also who had
won the the title of profitient. by diiigrnt
study in any one department of the College.
Ihe following is the list of those who have
gained distinction and those ho have re
ceived the title of proficient:
Students admitted to the Sophomore Class,
having completed the studies of the Fresh
man Class.
M H Carmichael, Ala; C E Harmon,
Monroe co; Ga; R N Smith, Fairburn, G;;
J A C Walters, Albany, Ga.
Students admitted to the Sophomore Class,
having completed, with distinction, the
studies of the Freshman Class.
8 B Adams, Savannah, Ga; R J Will
ingham, South Carolina.
Stltdeiils admitted to the Junior Class,
having completed the studies of the S<>-
phomore Class:
II H Huggins, Athens, Ga; W 11
Hughes, Laurens Cos, Ga; J Hurt, Ala;
J G Johnson, Sou’h Carolina; P H Moll,
Athens, Ga; G G Randall, Cobb Cos, Ga;
E G Simmons, Macon Cos, Ga; W D
Sparks, Athens, Ga; J J Swan, White
Plains, Ga; W L Walt hi >ur, Savannah,
Ga; A G Ware, Athens, Ga.
Students admitted to the. Junior Class,
having completed, with distinction, the
studies of the Sophomore Class :
H J Atisley, Augusta, Ga; \\ r T Arm
stead, Lexington, Ga; J A Barclay, Ma
con, Ga; E H Briggs, Columbus, Ga; J L
Brookes, So Ou; T J Chappell, Columbus,
Ga; T H Cunningham. 8 (';■ R II Gcetoh
ius, Columbus, Ga; J L Hardeman, Ma
con, Ga; G A Howard, Valdosta, Ga; Y\ r
11 C Loyd, Fairmount, Ga; VV II Meil,
Athens, Ga; A A Murphy, Pike co, Ga;
T C Newton, Jackson on, Ga; J E Yonge,
Fla; P K Yctnge, Fla; E C Newton, Juek
son’ co, Ga.
Students admitted to the. Senior Class,
having completed the studies of the Junior
Class;
WA. Broughton, Madison, Ga; R W
Hardwick, Washington co, Ga; E A Haw
kins, Sumter co, Ga; J Hutchings, Polk
co, Ga; D M Hughes, Twiggs co, Ga; W
M Jackson, Augusta, Ga; W 8 McCarty,
Jackson eo, Ga; R T McMulkn, Macon
co, Ga; S Phinizy, Athens, Ga; J VV Rob
son, Washington co. Ga; II C Rooney,
Columbia co, Ga; J H Roquemore, Ala;
N M Solomon, Macon, Ga; M D 0 1
Summerlin, Macon co, Ga; J W Waddell,
Cobb co, Ga; A T Woo tward, Griffin,
Ga; R b Wooifolk, Houston co, Ga.
Students admitted to the Senior Class,
having completed with Distinction, the
studies of the Junior Class.
C L Bartiet. Jasper eo, Ga; W C
Beeks, Griffin, Ga ; < > A Bull, LiGrang .
Ga ; A S Campbell, Augusta. Ga ; VV’
Dessau, Macon, Ga ; D B Fitzgerald,
Florence, Ga ; J M Goss, Trout) eo. Ga ;
J D Hammond, At'anta, Ga; N E Harris,
Tennessee; It A Hemphill. Vthens, Ga;
W B Hill, Macon; Ga; J T Hutchinson,
Jasper co, Ga ; W E Jac -on, Athens,
Ga ; R H Johnson, Griffin, Ga ; T J
Jones, Hogansville, Ga ; C A Key, Jonc .--
boro, Ga ; E C Long, At hem,, Ga; J A
Morris, Jonesboro, Ga ; J - hive. Ogle
thorpe eo, Ga ; J B B Sin
Ga: J B Strong, Troup - - Ga; A F
Trimble, Hogansville, Ga.
CERTIFICATE OP PROFICIENCY.
Students in the. Elective Department, who
Complete Satisfactorily the Course of
Study in any one Department, are
Awarded with the Title of Proficient.
I. Geology. —T W Young, Valdosta,
Ga.
11. Mathematic:. —T t’v Young, Val
dosta, Ga; VV VV iY.imm.il, Harris county,
Ga; G W Vines, Alabama.
111. Chemistry. —T V/ Young, Valdos
ta, Ga.
IV. Mental Philosophy. —T W Young,
Valdosta, Ga.
V. Natural Philosophy. W Young,
Valdosta, Ga; VV VV Trammell, . a.ris
county, Ga. GVV Vino:, Alabama.
VI. Astronomy. —T VV Youri r, Val
do-ta, Ga.
VII. Rhetoric —T W Young Va'iL -.‘u
Ga.
This close-] the Cos .. exbi
cises.
After the close of toe ex.-re s-a the
Board of Trustees L-ld an i
unanimously adopted re e-i vhieii
were offered by G- .acral 'i 0,b., ~..
ive ofthegrief ot the b.) : ~f
Gen. Howell Cobb. J- . •ii n.:
the Board also made an in,;,, r an! onunt---
in the undergra-fua l o cun, - -aving it
optional with lilt* tuie-jt il -r tw > years’
study to take up such a tnc. may
desire. ,
At a lat« hour this or , : ing ho Board
of Trustees adjoin: nod, ... , • ~
tiesmet in their respo, -.t ...... They
were addressed by ex ! ,j. (jj|(
Shorter in the Phi Kapp n■; by Gene
rals Toombs aud Gordon • (be Demo. •
thenean
The University appears be in a flour
ishing condition, aud we ere gratified ah
being able to announce its prosperity, for
every Georgian must feel Tut it is move
than desepved. For many years pas; it
has been the college in which most of thi
young men of Georgia have received t heir
educations, and some of the most di -in
guisbed men in the South, statesmen,
lawyers, and divines have won their !ir-,
laurels within its wails. We are also glad
to see the stand which the students from
Augusta are taking. Mr. VV. S. Bean,
the first hononnan, is from this place, and
is said to have stood higher in his cla-ses
than any other student who ever attended
the University except Gen. T. R. K. Cobb.
l c, u)ost premising vtudent, we believe, ol
the Senior class, is Mr. A. S. Campbell, oJ
--.ugusta, arid the winnor of the first n.elal
in the Sophrnore class at the present jlo
mencement was Mr, I, T. Heard, of the
same city. j{ q \y.
| Hose;s Conferred by tue Uiver
i “ITY Op Georgia.—The Board of Trus
tees of the Un'v'rsity of Georgia have
elected Mr. i.
we Hon. Howell Col :, u-co.. •• They
elected Mr. F. A. Lipscombe adjunct Pro
■ fessor of Ancient Languages, and con
| ferred the degrees of L. L. D. on Dr. Louis
| D. Ford, and Dr. Louis A. Dugas, both of
i Augusta, and the degree of A. M. on J. T.
! Glenn, Esq., of Atlanta.
! Twenty thousand lonian sympathizers
| m: rched in possession in Limevick, Ireland,
j on Monday, and afterward held a meedng
and adopted resolutions demanding of
! Mr. Gladstone tha release of the rernain
| ing Fenian prisoners. Everything was
j conducted in the most orderly manner,
and no disturbance took place.
Columbus and West Point Rail
road. —The Columbus Committee ap
pointed to visit Atlanta in connection with •
the Columbus and We.-t Point Road, re
port to the Columbus City Council, that
the conference in Atlanta, encouraged
their hopes but little, that this road will
be speedily built if built at all. Terms
were partially agreed upon that the At
lanta and West Railroad should subscribe
MOO,(XX), and the city of Columbus $250,-
000. —Columbia Sun,